gimme a diff'rent my three IL* affair bunch. or, leave it to hanle y (a quinn-ewing production)

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recast the ile regulars as sitcom characters past and present! probably been done before! don't care! i need cheering up! fun for all! wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!

so far (some reasons will seem obvious, some less so):

ally - marcia brady mark s - uncle charlie ronan - eddie haskel anthony - mr. french

("greenspun," of course, = charlie. which of course makes us all the angels. score one for us. [although i doubt i can feather what's left of my hair.])

― jess, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

html formatting can lick deez nuts. (but this did get it into new answers. so, um, licking recanted.)

― jess, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know who Eddie Haskel is, but I'll take a chance and thank you for the comparison.

― Ronan, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just googled his name. *Now* I know. You could have done worse than that to me I suppose......

― Ronan, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hanle y - arnold; tom - willis; ally - what's her face; DG - Mr White Fella.

― Geoff, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark S- The Fonz
Pinefox- Mr C
Suzy- Mrs C
Tom- Al
Kodanshi- Potsy
Ronan- Ralph Malph
Anthony- Richie
Jess- Chachi
Nathalie- Joanie
Kate & Ally- Girls on the back of Fonz's motorbike
Hanle y- Suzi Quatro

Whether these are completely arbitrary, you may decide for yourself.

Oh, and apologies if any of the names are spelt wrong, I'm not that much of a Happy Days afficionado..

― emil.y, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WHatchyou talkin about Geoff! Isnt it odd that many such child actors became criminals later?

― Pennysong Hanle y, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OOOOH bugger no bike ride for me. This spins me back in a retro loop where my mom was sitting on the bike with a guy I HAD A MAJOR crush on. BAH!

― nathalie, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh good GAWD I just realize I have to appear in a spin off series with Scott Baio. Eck!

― nathalie, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

actually, no, you have to appear in a spin off series with me! muwhahahahah...take that, career! ;)

― jess, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've never seen Happy Daze in my life, so I'm not sure whether I should punch you or not, Emily.

― kate, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well i am the goody two shoes, which is so not right

― anthony, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kate and Ally as the pink ladies!!!! Yes!!! I can see it. You should cast in Hollywood!

― porch monkey, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want to be Alan Bennett doing an Alan Bennett monologue. So there!

― jel, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wanna be Rerun. Except I'm not fat, Black, and can't dance that well.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Or, better still, What's Happening ILE!!: Me=Raj (more of a resemblance than Rerun)
Dan Perry=Rerun (of course)
Ned=Dwayne (gotta cast him somewhere)
Ally=Dee (so obvious it needs no explanation)
nathalie=Shirley
Kate=Mama
Hanle y=that annoying little white kid in Season Four with the crush on Dee

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Could somebody maybe do this with a sitcom that I've actually seen so I know whether to punch them or not? Didn't we have one where we figured out who would be whom in the Good Life?

― kate, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Came back from EB's party more depressed and cross than I went, which was NOT the point: within a minute of firing up ILE, am laffing like a pomo bonobo...

Me as the Fonz is silly enuff — Hey!!! — esp. given who my wuvly Leather Tusadero is: but Suzy and the pinefox as mr and mrs C is utterly inspired...

― mark s, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good Life?

Tom & Barbara = Pete & Emma

Margo & Jerry = Suzy & Momus

Robin would appear as a controversial neighbour every so often.

This isn't following the original scripts. It's an update.

― Nick, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whilst being aware that I am being DELIBERATELY PROVOKED I will rise to it anyway and say that I am not playing Pete's wife not for no- one. And I am especially not being Felicity Kendal with her dungarees and moon face and hippy tree hugging crap.

― Emma, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Felicity Kendal = goddess as every fule no. What right-thinking woman would object to such a comparison?

― Sam, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Goddess maybe but not in a Sex Goddess type way, more in a mumsy way. I think I was mainly objecting to being married to Pete. But I will do it if Nick would like to be our goat.

― Emma, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and she was rear of the year several times in the seventies and eighties. Do they still do that? and who are the mystical they in this case? who decides rear of the year?

― cabbage, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Last two rears of years I can recall were Ulrika Johnson and Racquel off Coronation St (Sarah Lancashire). Racquel off Coronation St was much more dignified in the subsequent photo shoots.

― Nick, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rear of the board anyone?

― Tom, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think this year's was Claire Sweeney (thanks to Sleb Big Bruvva) and Tracy Shaw (Corrie Crimper Maxine) was quite recent too.

As I am the board's FK I am clearly Rear of the Board.

― Emma, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't ever say I don't give you anything...

Ten last women voted Rear of the Year:

1Actress Claire Sweeney (2001)
2 Actress Jane Danson
3 TV presenter Denise Van Outen
4 TV smiler Carol Smillie
5 Model Melinda Messenger
6 Actress Tracy Shaw
7 Model Mandy Smith
8 Actress Sarah Lancashire
9 TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson
10 Royal Marina Ogilvy

Also...
29 May 2001
PM has top bottom
TONY Blair has the sexiest backside in politics. It won the hearts of more than half of the 1,000 women surveyed in the run-up to tomorrow's Rear of the Year awards. William Hague's bottom polled just 20 per cent and Charles Kennedy's 23 per cent.

― Nick, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what about the ile neighbours? or home and away?

― Geoff, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rear of the board 1978

― mark s, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It would appear that being a soap actress significantly improves your chances of being voted RotY. Who will be next? Charity Dingle? Jacqui Dixon? Kat Slater? What do they judge it on? Pertness? Roundness? This has aroused my curiosity....

― Emma, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rear of the board is surely Ally. Her arse even has its own thread.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The annual honour, which recognises male and female celebrities deemed to own the year's shapliest seats, has previously gone to stars as diverse as Hi-De-Hi's Su Pollard and 70s rocker Suzy Quatro.
"I'm really flattered. I've always enjoyed touching my bum," said Van Outen after picking up her award at a ceremony in London.

- From the BBC report of the 1999 award.

Organisation behind Rear Of The Year remains shadowy. Back then at least it was sponsored by Cellasene, the cellulite-busting drug. No indication on the criteria or voting procedures.

― Nick, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Latest update: It's run by a man called Tony Edwards who, it would appear, takes upon himself the task of setting the nation's bum agenda.

― Nick, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Damn you for Googling quicker than me.

― Emma, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you guys are great, and I want that man's job.

― cabbage, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Controversial attack on Rear of the Year

― Nick, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry, had wrong thing in clipboard - this is the attack.

― Nick, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can set yourself up as an unofficial rival, whilst looking for more stuff on the Official version I stumbled on an unofficial site just featuring lots of pictures of girls' arses in jeans (not sure if they were aware they were being photographed......). Do you think you can opt out of the RotY if you fear it may destroy your credibility, like Gorillaz & the Mercury Prize?

― Emma, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes my arse has way more credibility than Gorillaz

― Ronan, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suspect this happens 'behind the scenes' on a regular basis, which is why we get left with dodgy soap stars.

RoTY = RoWR?

― Nick, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The ILE Boat:

Captain Stubing - Mark S. Julie - Suzy Gopher - DG Doc - Nick Dastoor Isaac - Ned Vicky - Ally Charo - Hanle y

And the rest of the ILE'ers could make appearances each week as guest stars and get into all sorts of "wacky" situations.

― Nicole, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i wanna be ceasar romero.

― jess, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am MORTIFIED that Ned beat me out for Isaac.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I are not understanding Nicole's post, someone explain, please?

― DG, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's the Love Boat. Incidentally, DG, I have met your son, Charlie Grandy. Swell kid.

p.s. :...( and no gifts either.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mr C = ??

RotY decisions: dumb.

Nick D as Dreamy goat: ??

― the pinefox, Monday, 24 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

Well, since this thread has been brought to my attention, how about...an all-drag production of Absolutely Fabulous?

Featuring Ned as Edina and Dan as Patsy, of course.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you kidding? KATE ST. as Patsy!

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 00:24 (twenty-three years ago)

That would be for the straight production. I said drag, dearies, D-R-A-G!

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 00:28 (twenty-three years ago)

You skank ho, DB. Dan and I work as a team or NOT AT ALL. Also -- 'drag' implies male actors, you FOOLISH CHILD, as J. Lu has just noted.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

(Slight clarification: "drag" here can mean female actors in male roles.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 00:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Now that is true. Kate St. as a man *playing* Patsy would be astounding!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I would like to be Bubble, but I'd fail the audition.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 01:09 (twenty-three years ago)

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