At 08:50 AM 11/7/97 +1100, you wrote: >Roger wrote: > >>While reminising about long lost ABC afternoon >>programing does any one remember You Can't do >>that on Television? > >This is the extent of my memory on that subject. It would have been on in >Australia between about 1987 and 1990 I think, and had a bunch of Canadian >kids doing sketches at home, in the studio, at Biff's Burgers etc. >Whenever someone mentioned the word water they got a bucket of water tipped >on them, and a bucket of slime if they said "I don't know", so they were >lots of plans to trick each other into slipping up. They used to have "the >opposite sketches" in each show, where the opposite of things in real life >happened - Biff's Burgers were edible, kids ordered the parents around and >so on. The other bit I remember was a recurring sketch of a firing squad, >where the commander would go "Ready...Aim..." and be interrupted by the kid >who was to be shot. The kid would then trick the commander into wandering >into the line of fire before saying "Fire" and getting shot. I was really >impressed at the number of different ways they had of doing this (I would >guess there would have been 50 or more). > Because I grew up in Canada, I was subjected to a daily dose of "You Can't do that on Television". I liked it at the time but now that I think back, it was quite disterbing. Just another example of crap TV that my country seems compelled to produce! ~Sky. > >-- > T H E P R E S S G A N G M A I L I N G L I S T > By default, pressing 'reply' will send mail back to the list, not > to the author of the message you're replying to. > To unsubscribe, mail "unsubscribe" to "pressgang-request@lists.yoyo.org" > -- T H E P R E S S G A N G M A I L I N G L I S T By default, pressing 'reply' will send mail back to the list, not to the author of the message you're replying to. To unsubscribe, mail "unsubscribe" to "pressgang-request@lists.yoyo.org" |