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March 3, 2006 at 4:04 pm

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General Lighting

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I reckon if they did this again for a modern time…

Del boy would be a big time drug dealer and perhaps a pimp (but agonising over the morality of it, being henpecked by dominatrixes and whinging about competition from Eastern Europe)

his robin reliant would have those blue LEDs and UV tubes on it..

Rodney would be a k-head, him, Trigger and the lad in the Two Tone suit (can’t remember his name) would be running illegal raves and pirates

They’d have a SE Asian friend who claimed to live with his family but was growing loads of skunk in his flat…

And the first episode would be them all visting Grandad in the OAP wing of Belmarsh because he’s blasted a rudeboy who tried to rob them with his old wartime Enfield service revolver!
March 3, 2006 at 4:13 pm

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Thought of approaching a broadcaster with this idea GL? 😉

The two tone suit guy was Micky Pearce btw.
March 3, 2006 at 4:15 pm

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Acidfairy

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Excellent GL i’d watch that for sure….:bigsmile:
March 3, 2006 at 4:31 pm

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Acidfairy wrote:

Excellent GL i’d watch that for sure….:bigsmile:

I suppose it makes a change from Scots programmes which always seem to centre around crime and decay… (Taggart, Rab C Nesbit etc)

Do you remember “Looking after Jo-Jo?” One of my favourite series from Scotland (ISTR BBC Scotland classing it as a “Scots language” programme, and having to look some of the dialogue up on the Internet in order to understand it!”

Although they clearly didn’t intend it to be a comedy I always thought that had a lot of dark humour in it (and a surprising moral twist at the end) and an excellent soundtrack as well..

“Ma heid is wrecked…”
March 3, 2006 at 4:34 pm

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Acidfairy

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Yeah I remember that one.. with Bobby Carlyle

Rab C is excellent I love it, me an my sis were watching videos of it the other night it cheered me up no end… They used to play recordings of it through a piped video link in the compound i lived in in saudi think us scots were the only ones who got it.. we offered to translate for the others…lol

The pub in it the two ways is actually a 5 mins walk from where i live just now.. even though Rab C was set in Govan an i live on the other side of the river?? go figure
March 3, 2006 at 4:44 pm

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Acidfairy wrote:

Yeah I remember that one.. with Bobby Carlyle

Rab C is excellent I love it, me an my sis were watching videos of it the other night it cheered me up no end… They used to play recordings of it through a piped video link in the compound i lived in in saudi think us scots were the only ones who got it.. we offered to translate for the others…lol
The pub in it the two ways is actually a 5 mins walk from where i live just now.. even though Rab C was set in Govan an i live on the other side of the river?? go figure

ISTR reading somewhere that when Rab C’s stage show was in England there was a screen behind him with subtitles 🙂

as for incorrect locations, its fairly common for TV companies to do this to save travel costs (its usually the nearest location to where the production unit is based) and even to write for “generic impressions of an area”.

Only Fools and Horses was set in Peckham (SE London) but the tower blocks used are in Acton, West London, conveniently near to the BBC OB/Location Resources base also in Acton… its normally only a few people from the actual areas who notice these things and everyone else (particularly in foreign countries) just gets a generic impression of a part of Britain…
March 3, 2006 at 4:53 pm

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They totally hit it on the head with Rab C though Govan is not the nicest area of Glasgow shall we say… lol and Rab C is pretty much stereotypical of most of the people in the area.. although not all dressed in string vests…:bigsmile:

I remember a cracker when i was working in a hotel in glasgow, we pronounce govan “Guvan” and this woman came into the hotel and asked ” excuse me do you know if there is an employment service in Govan” she pronounced it Go – van

In Glasgow and most of scotland the job centre is known as “the brew”

My mate turned to me and said in a broad glaswegian accent ” Here Seonaid is there a Brew in Govan?” We both fell about laughing as the un employment level in Govan is one of the highest in glasgow and the way the woman asked just cracked me up…

I replied Aye i should think so but be prepared to queue….

Sorry you probably had to be there….
March 3, 2006 at 5:36 pm

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i remember a christmas special of Rab C where he gets locked up on christmas eve

it was a 45 minute monologue where he talks to the bloke in the bunk above him about how crappy his life is

at the end he gets let out, que shot cuts back to the cell, where the other guy has hung himself

the only logical response to Rab’s take on the world

i thought it was very funny, but i know a few people who just didn’t get it
March 3, 2006 at 5:46 pm

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globalloon

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just remembered, i met that fat scots comic turned actor who played a psychologist that helped the cops in a ’90’s TV series

i met him on a train in amsterdam and said “hello, are you ***?”

he said “f*ck off you c*nt”

i felt so pleased to have spoken to him. he was sitting opposite me for a 2 hour journey, in silence after that

he was a sweaty man and no mistake
March 3, 2006 at 6:13 pm

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General Lighting

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globalloon wrote:

just remembered, i met that fat scots comic turned actor who played a psychologist that helped the cops in a ’90’s TV series

i met him on a train in amsterdam and said “hello, are you ***?”

he said “f*ck off you c*nt”

i felt so pleased to have spoken to him. he was sitting opposite me for a 2 hour journey, in silence after that

he was a sweaty man and no mistake

IIRC the chaps name is Robbie Coltrane – probably easily confusable with a real life Rab C Nesbitt…
March 3, 2006 at 7:08 pm

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Acidfairy

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Robbie Coltrane and the series was Cracker….

He was also in Nun’s on the run another classic movie….:bigsmile:
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