the best television programme ever

[emef]

i`m watching this programme on channel4 (uk)
called "my new best friend" and it is so funny.
basically to win £10,000 the poor stooge has to pretend that this complete psycho is his best friend from way back , and over the course of the weekend this best friend is put in amongst the stooges other friends and basically acts like a lunatic.
ad break over, part 2 is on cya

watch it, it kills

[TEC-HO]

This program is hilarious, its about time C4 started producing good late night TV again. 4later - vids – bits, they were the good old days.

[wheezer]

what, this thread isn't about a-team?

[FiST]

Originally posted by wheezer
what, this thread isn't about a-team?

i thought it was gonna be about mc guyver.

[V Knid esq]

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Mmmm.... McGuyver

[grobelaar]

Yeah c'mon emef, u can't serioulsy nominate some Reality TV programme -

i reckon these things are all scripted and acted by out of work RADA students any way..

..and even if it isn't, what sort of people are going to apply to go on a reality tv programme? out of work RADA students.

A-team gets my vote... I wanna know when they're gonna do a big budget hollywood movie...

OK maybe MASH, that really was quality too...

[emef]

Originally posted by grobelaar
Yeah c'mon emef, u can't serioulsy nominate some Reality TV programme -



i didn`t nominate it, i`m not the baftas you know

i dont care how they arrived at the end result... scripted or not
it made me piss myself (nearly)
my particular taste is no yardstick of quality but i think its a cracking (sur)reality programme.

[grobelaar]

fair point... i did kinda realise that when I hit the button to post it, but then thought - what the fuck I like being bitchy, 'specially on a bank holiday...

[emef]

haha and i think i had my worzel gummidge argumentative head on too :)

[marcel]

Originally posted by FiST


i thought it was gonna be about mc guyver.
'Thank you for saving our village Senor MacGyver'
'Don't thank me, thank the moon's gravitational pull.'

[Loz]

Originally posted by grobelaar
OK maybe MASH, that really was quality too...

[bank holiday argumentative face on]

the film pisses all over the tv series

[jamyna]

my new best friend, yeah pretty fucked up. i saw one episode with the "gay counsellor" and another with the "new age-er" and i think its the same actor, but the contestant's real as i understand it. shit-funny nonetheless. loved the bit where he kept the poor bloke awake with a "choose your own adventure" story.

[schlongfingers]

Originally posted by jamyna
loved the bit where he kept the poor bloke awake with a "choose your own adventure" story.

That bit tickled me as well

Contestant - "Just FUCK OFF, I've got football in the moring"

Best Friend - "There's no need to shout, you could have gone to sleep half an hour ago if you'd followed the Elf's advice!"

:D

[emef]

i`m probably wrong but i reckon the guy who plays the annoying new best friend looks like one of the blokes out of cyderdelic.
does anyone know if it is him, it bloody looks like him.
quality act... cyderdelic

[Lady E]

it is the bloke from cyderdelic

i went to college with the other main bloke from cyderdelic a guy called barry castagnola. we did government and politics and english alevels together, he's a quality bloke and always was very funny and a talented actor

i think my new best friend is excellent - the one with stevie was the best, but i love it!

[jamyna]

oh yeah so it is, only saw that once but i remember it being good... thats it emma, stevie. he made that bloke "come out" in front of his sister, he looked totally gutted when she said she wasn't surprised to find out!

[emef]

yeah that was really funny, being made to come out and non of your friends are surprised, at all... haha

[wheezer]

A-team gets my vote... I wanna know when they're gonna do a big budget hollywood movie...

rumors have been floating around for some time - what scares me though is who are they gonna have to act these parts?

something tells me that hollywood would be totally happy with dangling some gold chains around samuel l. jackson's neck and coloring george clooney's hair white - I love it when a plan comes together my foot!

basically I feel like this is gonna be godzilla all over again... oh well, one can dream!

[bitch one]

father ted maybe

[old skool]

When the A-Team first started I'm pretty sure the first pilot episode was about 90 mins long .... does that not constitute being a movie of sorts ..?

[Hazell]

...and still available to buy on VHS? You betcha!!! :D

[wheezer]

old skool: the pilot, "mexican slayride" which still had somebody else as face, was a double episode, about 42 minutes long each. there was a couple more double episodes during a-teams run, one per season, and season 5 actually kicked off with a very dramatic triple episode

[old skool]

@Wheezer,

If you had a plan, it would deffo come together.

Your knowledge of the A-Team is proper bo I tell thee ....

I remember when Murdock got shot ...I'm pretty sure I shed a tear but my drug befuddled mind has made that memory quite hazey ...

[wheezer]

my life is just very sad, is all.

do you mean the one on the 747 when b.a. can't move out of fear of flying and murdock gets temporarily blinded?

[old skool]

Errr ...I dunno ... I'm pretty sure I remember him sort of lying on a bunk or summat in a room half-dying and BA getting all upset and they have this heart to heart and kiss ...well maybe not kiss ...

[emef]

Originally posted by old skool
When the A-Team first started I'm pretty sure the first pilot episode was about 90 mins long .... does that not constitute being a movie of sorts ..?

ahhh that reminds me.

the 1980`s "made for tv movie"
these are legendary in my household.
mostly consigned to channel 5 afternoons now, i cant get enough of the american MFTVM... shocking family viewing.

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by wheezer


rumors have been floating around for some time - what scares me though is who are they gonna have to act these parts?

something tells me that hollywood would be totally happy with dangling some gold chains around samuel l. jackson's neck and coloring george clooney's hair white - I love it when a plan comes together my foot!

basically I feel like this is gonna be godzilla all over again... oh well, one can dream!

Done this before, my fantasy a-team list has to be...

Bruce Willis - The Colonel
George Clooney - The Face Man
Jim Carey - Howling Mad Murdoch
Ving Rhames - BA Baracus

Sadly seeing as the fist 3 total at least $75M in wages, its unlikely to happen...

[emef]

cool... i could see that line up working if it ever got made.

[wheezer]

ditto, although they could of course always get back dwight schulz (murdock) and mr.t, dirk benedict (face) however has not aged very well I'm afraid...

[wheezer]

ah I checked my episodes, old skool the episode in question is "curtain call", kind of a lame flashback episode though

[Loz]

My Dream A-Team lineup -

Face - Kevin Spacey (he can do just the right amount of smarm)
Murdoch - Brad Pitt (remember 12 monkeys?)
Colonel - George Clooney (so the obvious choice)
BA - Craig David (I bedded her on the Wednesday, foo)

[Hazell]

Originally posted by wheezer
ditto, although they could of course always get back dwight schulz (murdock) and mr.t, dirk benedict (face) however has not aged very well I'm afraid...

On the contrary...

http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/tracycruise03.html

Fuuuuuck.. What IS this world we live in????

[Mirsha]

Originally posted by wheezer


rumors have been floating around for some time - what scares me though is who are they gonna have to act these parts?

something tells me that hollywood would be totally happy with dangling some gold chains around samuel l. jackson's neck and coloring george clooney's hair white - I love it when a plan comes together my foot!

This idea is worthy of a topc of it's own.

[wheezer]

haha hazell, those were the precise pictures I was thinking of when I made my statement!

[bitch one]

the only episode that really sticks in my mind is the one where they made a cabbage gun. they shot the bad guys with cabbages. if only real soldiers used weapons like that, wars would be a lot more fun.

[Hazell]

...And if that don't get 'em there's always a strawberry milkshake assult! lol

[wheezer]

the cabbage episode is brilliant, several good moments in it aside from the cabbage gun, like when a farmer cons face into trading his designer shoes for the farming machine that was subsequently turned into the cabbage gun... excellent episode!

[Lady E]

i wish i could see the boy george episode again.


re: my new best friend. what was so funny about the 'coming out' scene was how chuffed the girl was to be getting the news first, and then being able to say she wasnt surprised, thinking this showed her fabulous instinct.

how wrong she was...that was a classic girl reaction.

[wheezer]

there seems to be a real fixation with brighton people and the a-team boy george episode, had to show that one to ibi as well, twice I think lol