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The return of The Den with Ray, Zig zag & Dustin

  • 23-09-2020 10:42am
    #1
    Double O Seven
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    The den is returning November 6th @ 6:30pm on RTE One.


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  • #2
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,360 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Ray D'arcy can go shi1te, it's Dempsey's Den or nothing!


  • #3
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,518 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Wonder if Ray will give out a lengthy “sigh” every 5 minutes, then try get a guest on who’s suffered through some form of horrible tragedy.

    The tide is turning…



  • #4
    ranto_boy
    Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭ranto_boy


    Imagine being an adult and actually watching that. But I've no doubt it'll be a hit. The same lot who love The Toy Show "ironically" will be on it in their droves. And Tiny Toons reboot isn't far off either.


  • #5
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Double O Seven wrote: »
    The den is returning November 6th @ 6:30pm on RTE One.

    Great. So Wanderly Wagon should be next. Or would Pavee Point object?


  • #6
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Wonder if Ray will give out a lengthy “sigh” every 5 minutes, then try get a guest on who’s suffered through some form of horrible tragedy.
    I just hope that he comments on the fact that he's taller than both Zig and Zag...


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  • #7
    CardBordWindow
    Registered Users Posts: 3,191 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    ranto_boy wrote: »
    ......... And Tiny Toons reboot isn't far off either.
    :eek: WHEN??


    :D


  • #8
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,685 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    I always remember one Halloween in the 80s watching it and Ian used to read out jokes, he started one going "Ok Sean from Ballincolling sent this in, why did the Ethiopian..." and then moved on to the next joke. Ethiopian jokes were popular then due to millions of them starving in a famine at the time. I always wondered how it even got that far from the production team, they must have just opened the letters there and then without screening them first.


  • #9
    paleoperson
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    They better have Draw with Don with some new material. I'm getting tired of having the same old repertoire all these years with all these ****ing owls.


  • #10
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,837 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    I always remember one Halloween in the 80s watching it and Ian used to read out jokes, he started one going "Ok Sean from Ballincolling sent this in, why did the Ethiopian..." and then moved on to the next joke. Ethiopian jokes were popular then due to millions of them starving in a famine at the time. I always wondered how it even got that far from the production team, they must have just opened the letters there and then without screening them first.

    you also got a lot of "11" year olds writing in with dodgy confirmation photos from the 70's

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  • #11
    Tzardine
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  • #12
    Double O Seven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭Double O Seven


    Dustin is as stale as last weeks bread, I cringe when he comes on


  • #13
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Will Podge and Rodge be disguising themselves and coming in with some evil plan?
    I loved how when he appeared at first Podge would only come to life and talk to Zig when they were alone, really creepy stuff like threatening him and the others wouldn't believe Zig, they thought he was going mad.
    Or the time he pretended to be the health officer and closed down the lad's burger operation.


  • #14
    paleoperson
    Registered Users Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭paleoperson


    And throw Ted in, hopefully he'll finally get the better of Ray.


  • #15
    Agent Coulson
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    Bring back Emma as well.


  • #16
    neris
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    smacks of desperation from RTE.


  • #17
    Atlantic Dawn
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    M


    Is Ray not returning to Saturday night TV?


  • #18
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    neris wrote: »
    smacks of desperation from RTE.

    It's the best idea they've had in years.


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
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    ranto_boy wrote: »
    Imagine being an adult and actually watching that. But I've no doubt it'll be a hit. The same lot who love The Toy Show "ironically" will be on it in their droves. And Tiny Toons reboot isn't far off either.

    Yep. Expect lots of references to Bosco, Cadet Red Lemonade and Italia 90. Gas stuff altogether.


  • #20
    Double O Seven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭Double O Seven


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Is Ray not returning to Saturday night TV?
    He'd hardly be working 7 days a week


  • #21
    Thelonious Monk
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    Remember they used to have some kind of streetwise Dublin youngfella on? Whotf was he?


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  • #22
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Remember they used to have some kind of streetwise Dublin youngfella on? Whotf was he?
    Kevo or something? Or am I thinking of something else? I was a bit too old for The Den but saw bits of it.


  • #23
    For Forks Sake
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Wonder if Ray will give out a lengthy “sigh” every 5 minutes, then try get a guest on who’s suffered through some form of horrible tragedy.

    He'll recommend a life of porridge and jogging to Zig and Zag, who will then proceed to box the head off the tedious dullard.


  • #24
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,745 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Kevo or something? Or am I thinking of something else? I was a bit too old for The Den but saw bits of it.

    Strangely enough the first result on Google is this thread
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//showthread.php?t=2055742922


  • #25
    JupiterKid
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    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    He'll recommend a diet of porridge and jogging to Zig and Zag, who will then proceed to box the head off the tedious dullard.


    I'm thinking that Fortycoats and Jo Maxi* won't be far behind...


    *my claim to televisual fame: I was on Jo Maxi in 1989 aged 14 for about 20 seconds with a few classmates from school, asked about my views of Dublin's modern office buildings. :D

    Was never a fan of Bosco - behind the sweet innocent smile was a cocaine addled narcissistic bully...


  • #26
    HalloweenJack
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    Didn't Ray Darcy say he'd leave the country if Enda Kenny got voted in? And he never did, did he?

    Sounds like RTE have someone with the right level of maturity to host a kids show there.


  • #27
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    D'Arcy will find some way to suck the fun out of this.


  • #28
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,707 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Forced fun reboot. Guaranteed shıte.

    It was of its time.


  • #29
    paleoperson
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    ranto_boy wrote: »
    Imagine being an adult and actually watching that. But I've no doubt it'll be a hit. The same lot who love The Toy Show "ironically" will be on it in their droves. And Tiny Toons reboot isn't far off either.

    Nah the Toy Show is very different, a lot of adults enjoy it because of their kids. I would never watch the Toy Show.

    I'll watch this for a laugh but I probably won't hang around. Not sure why you have a hostility about people who'll tune in.


  • #30
    Yurt2
    Registered Users Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    Double O Seven wrote: »
    Dustin is as stale as last weeks bread, I cringe when he comes on

    Dustin was never funny. At least the people voicing Zig and Zag had a bit of a clever subversive humour to them. Dustin was always a tedious take-off of a working class Dublin cheeky chappy and exhibited a cheap mean streak sense of humour, poking fun of people with very little charm.

    I think I recall the guy that did Dustin was a relative / mate of one of the Zig and Zag guys and he was handed a job no questions in time-honoured RTE fashion


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  • #31
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,924 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Is a 56yr old grumpy man the best choice of frontman for this?


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