Jonathan Ricks (jc_ricks@postoffice.utas.edu.au)
Fri, 7 Nov 1997 08:50:14 +1100 (EST)
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).
Anyway, there's some more of my vague, off topic memories on another old
kids TV show :)
Cheers,
Jonathan Ricks
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