Gogglebox S03E08 25/04/2014 Testicle Clip

IDK I just thought this would be a good name for the thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f12CE9Q6AoU

the narrator of Gogglebox is writer of (and actor in) the Royle Family which was a sitcom about people sitting around watching telly and being Northern

Which person one from the RF? The main old dude?

There's one Christmas ep of that where the daughters husband has to defrost the turkey in the bath that kind of killed me.

Gogglebox is a BAFTA-award winning British observational documentary, which has aired on Channel 4 since 7 March 2013. The show features recurring British couples, families and friends sitting in their living rooms watching weekly British television shows.
this sounds amazing

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:04 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

where the mum said that she had pics of the dad dressed as a woman or w/evs
and he made the tiniest, most minuscule eye movement to glance at his sister
spoke VOLUMES

― kinder, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:05 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gr80 it sounds like shite but is absolutely the best

― kinder, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:05 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I resisted it for weeks before becoming drawn in by its mysteries
like who's that tiny guy on the sofa between "Alison Steadman character" & husband

― kinder, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:07 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was being sincere!!

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like i had this exact idea for a tv show 10 years ago

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aha!
it does sound like shite though

― kinder, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:18 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think i would love it.

― estela, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:25 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha, wasn't there a Monty Python sketch like this?

― pplains, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:37 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gogglebox is the most depressing thing. My girlfriend puts it on and I have to leave the room.

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:38 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is an incredible show. i've only seen 2 episodes but i fully, fully understand why it has been so successful.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:40 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So basically you're watching people on tv watch tv?

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:48 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it sounds sort of like an extended version of eyeball kicks' post with his desultory complaints included and we would get to see his girlfriend's facial expression after he leaves the room etc.

― estela, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:56 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why do we not have this show in america

i want to watch 50-something emptynesters watch The Voice right now

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:58 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would watch the shit out of this.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:04 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it sounds sort of like an extended version of eyeball kicks' post with his desultory complaints included and we would get to see his girlfriend's facial expression after he leaves the room etc.

Yeah, that's exactly it! It is harrowing.

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:04 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are little mysteries woven in, like there's this one kid on the couch who has literally never said a single thing over like two season. and how the jackass gentleman drunk has not managed to totally alienate his wife. etc

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:10 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds very raymond carver

― bnw, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:14 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it does. i like small stories with sparse plots very much.

― estela, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:18 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's something incredibly affirming about it, it's hard to explain

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:19 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm picturing errol morris's first two films

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:30 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are loads of youtubes of it
the posh guy's face moves of its own accord

― kinder, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:44 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw if you watch it please can we not have another thread about british accents cheers

― kinder, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:44 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

righty o

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:45 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

german ones are fine

― kinder, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:46 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Gogglebox is so much better than most shows on TV, it cd've been done so wrong but somehow they got it just right

― Kevin from Blechgium (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:53 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait are there german people on it too

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:55 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's a german biker dad
omg I just discovered that Silent Jay isn't even one of them, he's the boyfriend of the german guy's daughter/stepdaughter

― kinder, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:57 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

somebody's husband is German he either makes baffled comments about how messed up the UK is or subtle affirmations about how great Germany is

― Kevin from Blechgium (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:58 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah Jay is the boyfriend, have often wondered if that means he walks around in them shorts

― Kevin from Blechgium (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:58 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me and my sister have a running speculation about the mysterious world of Jay when this is on

― Kevin from Blechgium (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:59 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do we have a thread for this?

we should have a thread for this

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:59 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OK I AM WATCHING A CLIP WHERE THERE WATCHING A MAN WITH A GIGANTIC BALL.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:59 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THEY SHOWED THE BALL

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:00 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the vicar is the most ilx one on there but I don't think she's anyone's favourite

― kinder, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:01 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf I can't view that clip 'in my country'

― kinder, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:01 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Found the German guy. Apparently he thinks *his* balls are big.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:02 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kinder: S03E08 25/04/2014 Testicle Clip - maybe google that and you can watch it on the actual channels site?

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:02 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I made a thread Gogglebox S03E08 25/04/2014 Testicle Clip

― 龜, Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:04 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Attn Americans: when the gay dude says "I'll never be able to eat a faggot again" he means a meatball. In this context that could prove particularly confusing.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:05 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Am I the only one watching this?? I'm dying at the posh people's relief "Isn't that nice, all over now" and the lady telling her kid he had huge balls at birth (not uncommon iirc).

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:07 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(xp ENBB: It's our Denise! (Caroline Aherne))

Oh! I love her from The Fast Show. :) "Been around the world and I can't find my baybeh. Baybeh is American for boyfriend."

oh hang on, sometimes Dave does it

Yeah I think the balls one was a guy narrator.

So how long do they have a Gogglebox spin off where they film people watching Gogglebox?

actually i feel like i haven't characterized the gentleman drunk properly; his wife and he are of a piece, really, and they're very good foils for each other

Oh my god I think we've posted about the giant testicle guy before on ILX

the two drunks are surprisingly warm and funny sometimes

can i just say giant testicle guy is dead now so respect, please

xps (on the posh drunks)

yeah they're nicely balanced, & touchingly affectionate when it really comes down to it.

Oh my god one of the girls has the exact same voice as the Britisher who I witnessed put ketchup on her prawn and rocket pizza

RIP big balls man

I am going to lunch and then I am going to watch this show all afternoon.

The drunk gentleman is p hot for an older man tbh.

I wonder if this show has helped the love life of the boy who had very big balls as a baby

Apparently they're called Steph and Dom and they live in a 17 bedroom house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e8RdFC1iJI

One of the guys is like a British Jeff Garlin

which girl 龜?

I just watched a clip of the poshos trying to discern which fridge something (some kind of booze NO DOUBT) was in: "the one in OUR kitchen! The *big* fridge in our kitchen!"

That happened (sort of) when they had the people on Gogglebox watching Gogglebox get a BAFTA.

German guy is almost Tuomas-esque at times, if he doesn't understand he just goes "this is not how things are in Germany".

My favourites are the vicar (or more specifically the permanently half out of shot dog and the vicar's religious print skirts), Steph & Dom (the posh drunk couple) and the Indian guy with his sons (who are funny guys).

Best moment this series: Steph is watching Sport Relief and there is the story of an old guy whose wife had Alzheimer's and didn't know who he was before she died. He starts crying and despite fighting it Steph soon is too. Dom consoles her: "That'll be me one day."

Maybe you need the context for some of these, but:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10682968/Gogglebox-2014-the-funniest-quotes-of-the-series.html

German guy is almost Tuomas-esque at times, if he doesn't understand he just goes "this is not how things are in Germany".

xp to kinder The brunette http://i.imgur.com/KXldSP7.png

I love the Siddiquis so much

I was getting a little bit tired of it by the end of this series, but still better than most stuff (loved the final scenes: found the acknowledgment of its own success touching, + some Jay)

I'm fascinated by the mechanics of it. The producers must give orders on what to watch, but are the sessions arranged and timed, with tapes? Or are cameras always there? (if so, do they have mad spare footage of eg June actually showing Leon her knicks?)

http://i.imgur.com/KTbhXao.png

Me irl

a squalling monster in pink romper suit to your left.

I've never seen this show but a lot of ppl I know talk about it a lot & I have enjoyed it in that manner

there needs to be an american version of this

but US reality TV has a huge aversion to plotlessness. it sucks.

Steph & Dom have a B&B rather than a giant house. Someone from I think DiS stayed there earlier this year.

The Geordie daughter (Scarlett?) is another favourite - she spent the whole of the Evan Davies show from E1 complaining that the telly was trying to make out that people from the North were thick, then spent the rest of the series demonstrating why people might think that anyone from the North was thick. Watching BGT when she said the magician was "basically Jesus" then refused to accept what he was doing was a trick and not ACTUAL MAGIC was all-time.

The family in the bigger picture above, despite the fact that the father (and therefore the kids) clearly fail Not One Drop are the big UKIP voters in the show, solely for immigration/race reasons.

This kinda reminds me of the other UK tv show that I really like, An Idiot Abroad

Not really.

I mean, obviously, it could remind you of it but they're not similar at all.

Well you see the guy on an Idiot Abroad has a British accent and so do these fellas on the show

On the British National Party’s Party Political Broadcast:

“Well, I’m sold.” – Sid

second funniest bit of the series

funniest bit was whoever sincerely asked which one was the guide during the visually impaired skiing at the winter Paralympics - don't think it was Kate. seriously choked with laughter for 5 mins

I love An Idiot Abroad but feel pretty bad for Karl sometimes because Ricky can be so mean!

OK wait Steph and Dom are kind of hilarious.

also best dog

Wait - I just got to the immigration stuff. I am v conflicted now.

"Steph used to work for NATO, Dom like shooting pheasants."

In this montage thing she asks if he's ever been to Iceland and then says she's never been there in this strange why and i was like wait - why don't they know this about each other? Then I realized they probably m meant the store.

an idiot abroad seems kinda racist from the two eps or so i watched??

Yeah a lot of it can be very culturally insensitive

If you only laugh at Karl tho you'll be fine

he's pretending to be a moron and yeah it's pretty racist

the best are the indian fam with the dad and the glasses son who comes round occasionally

after a couple series it becomes p tiresome to watch and i cant watch it week in week out anymore, just catch the occasional one now

Scrotal skin heals incredibly well

:/

"I'm just playing the devil's avocado"

!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsQrCY3wSt8

i would probably enjoy this show

George (the middle one here:)
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/14/article-2580905-1C2FB09C00000578-591_634x346.jpg

is on UK 'celeb' Big Brother - with Gary Busey

alert alert
Silent Jay now has short hair :(

two of ILX's biggest loves, Gogglebox and Noel Gallagher, are currently being combined in a 'celebrity gogglebox' charity special which I have not yet watched

Gallagher surprisingly untosserish

Jay got a great rmde moment in

watching it in HD makes me IA that the clips are so badly compressed

ah yeah haha just saw that Jay bit
Can picture him going full skippy to 'Happy' in secret

satisfying confirmation that he really is a pompous wanker
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30530736

So this family have to drop out (a shame, but that's showbiz), but the bloke with the boarding house makes a programme about how Nigel Farage drops down to say hello to them.

Mind you, tedium or what?

that guy is always a huge douche but I'll kind of miss the kids

Yeah, the kids seemed fairly right on. Would like to see a clip of them giving him shit for it.

I doubt they would because they never gave the mother shit for all the anti-immigrant and once or twice pro-UKIP stuff she's come out with in the past.

Also the Steph and Dom chat show isn't about Farage popping in, it's a deliberate act by C4 to give them a programme.

In the last series Steph said about him that he was a horrid racist wanker but despite yourself you could see him being entertaining if you spent the evening with him. That might be the genesis for the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V5Bfvh6wxs

Good luck, Britannia.

saw it the other week, it's so cute how stiff they are when called on to speak directly to camera

who are the new ones in this series?

"eccentric" older posh couple from down south somewhere, she's got a chair that matches their wallpaper for some reason. remind me of the couple from Nuts in May 30 years on.

think there's another new but boring group this season, can't remember right now. haven't watched this week's yet.

There's a younger middle-class family with two kids aged about 8. The mother explains a lot of stuff to the children. The dad doesn't say much.

Some twenty-ish lads from Reading. Dense.

Family from Manchester with 3000 dogs, all called Dave.

those last 2 have been around for a couple of seasons now, as have the 2 friends who are filmed in a caravan park near Hull

You're right, the only really new ones this series are the older couple from near Bath somewhere, she sits in a big chair and he perches on a stool at the side, look like hippy drop outs turned respectable Tories.

I think they have an awful lot of books too.

they are amazing, him in particular.

The "Younger, middle class family" are hella posh, but I don't think they have been in more than one show.

my da fucking loves gogglebox btw

Have noticed that advertising exectutives seem to have woken up to the idea, at last, that plebs like watching fellow, real life, plebs - so let's use plebs to sell stuff.

RIP Leon, he was a good old lad.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/dec/23/leon-bernicoff-gogglebox-favourite-dies-aged-83

aw

wouldn’t have guessed he was 83!

whaat???? fuck :(

thank god the siddiquis are okay

i kinda want them to adopt me

one of a newish pair (brother and sister) is in this advert and I dare say being an actor doesn't preclude you from being on gogglebox although... is he an actor in the Talk Talk advert? or on gogglebox or both?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO2vV9DeQ00

there's a few of those Talk Talk ads i think, with some of the regulars in them

also love the Siddiqis, tho i don't really watch the show any more, got burned out on those long set piece bits where everybody's watching some shitty drama and reacting to it

oh, there is? the sister isn't in the advert though.

i might have imagined it? there's some shorter talking heads ones that look like clips from the show i think

i think i'm remembering that myself now.

I don't watch it much myself. I hate Giles and Mary and they get a lot of screentime. I like the two in the caravan thing.