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Saw it on Saturday Night, bbc2.

Umm, it's brilliant.

Its like 'Phoenix Nights' in its humour.

The date on the end says 2002. Was this a regional only series then (Scotland)?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

It was - it's done by the two blokes from Chewing the Fat which I also believe was run for a few series in Scotland before being networked.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Absolutely classic. I wish i'd recorded it. They were the best sketches in 'Chewin' the Fat' anyway, it's a great 'sit' and the acting is brilliant too. The incomprehensibility factor isn't too high thankfully, that always ruined Rab C. for me.

― pete s, Monday, 19 January 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw this, I laughed more than I expected to!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

why is it on Saturday night?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

More! More! It's the best thing on telly at the mo.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 January 2004 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Their Deliverance style adventure on the river was splendid, although it's a shame they didn't film the totally awesome bit where the Kelvin scoops through the valley between Queen Margaret Dr and Kelvinbridge.

I can't believe the Metro's TV reviewer hates this yet likes the dire, witless and soulless Catherine Tate show.

― Stew (stew s), Monday, 3 July 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

I should add that the episode's greatest moment was Jack catching the postie trying to put a non-delivery card through the door cos he couldn't be arsed carrying it from the depot.
It's great when Still Game does these power to the people moments.
It's funny cos it's true!
I've got a vinyl copy of Tusk probably being returned to the sender now cos I haven't been able to get through to the Victoria Rd PO to get them to redeliver.

― Stew (stew s), Monday, 3 July 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

Jack catching the postie trying to put a non-delivery card through the door cos he couldn't be arsed carrying it from the depot.

I've done this as well. Bastards.

Madchen asked once and was told it is "policy" just to take the cards out.

― stet (stet), Monday, 3 July 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

In fact, the lazy-bastard postie was the same one who rings my buzzer every morning to get in, so he *knows* I'm in.

― stet (stet), Monday, 3 July 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

Jack catching the postie trying to put a non-delivery card through the door cos he couldn't be arsed carrying it from the depot.

at least you get the card. my postie just leaves all my mail that's too big to go through my letterbox at byres road post office and expects me to psychically know it's there. i then get charged 50p per item for the privilege.

the totally awesome bit where the Kelvin scoops through the valley between Queen Margaret Dr and Kelvinbridge.

which is the view from my window - awesome indeed.

still game rocks!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 3 July 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Lucky you Stirmonster. Although I've defected to the Southside (Stevie Jackson is a near neighbour, so it's clearly a neighbourhood of rock. Well, indie pop at least) that has to be my favourite bit of the west end. I was heading from Great Western Rd to a friend's in Clouston St the other week, and cutting through the bit by the river, just before the BBC, I discovered this amazing public garden with loads of cool wooden painted things and nice paving. Then there's the battered remains of that wooden tiger thing that was briefly in Kelvingrove. It's one of the few bits of the West End that retains that mystery and boho magic.

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

I know Chris the Postie! (well I used to, when I was a boho WestEnder, but I haven't seen him for about seven years). Eagle-eyed twee kids may recognise him as the guy from the "Century of Fakers" video. His ned accent is rubbish.

I love Still Game. I laughed out loud so much at the "oh, that's right, you can't say it was here, because I'M NOT HERE" bit, and I hardly ever laugh out loud at comedy programmes on the telly. Naveed hasn't had a real laugh-out-loud moment yet, but several phrases from Still Game still pepper conversations round our house, and I'm sure some more are still out there.

"haw, oot yer wanking chariot" and "haw, Isa, I'm listening to my iPod" are particular favourites. When we were in Glasgow on Saturday, much hilarity was had at the Royal Concert Hall big screen.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Naveed hasn't had a real laugh-out-loud moment yet

...this series, I mean. Nothing pish-yourself-laughing quotable, anyway.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Naveed calling his wife an arsehole while handing her a box of chocolates and flowers for her birthday was remarkably tender and sweet.

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it was nice, wasn't it?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

(it's like life round our house, except I'm Naveed and Neil is Meena)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

btw, Jack catching the postie trying to put a non-delivery card through the door cos he couldn't be arsed carrying it from the depot

actually, it was Victor. Jack = Ford Kiernan.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

I discovered this amazing public garden with loads of cool wooden painted things and nice paving

hey, i discovered that while drunk once. i've got photos of me there eating a kebab. somewhere.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I *love* walking along the Kelvin. We should totally make like the twee kids and have a picnic! (sinister ploy for circumventing crappy drinking laws: put vodka in your bottles of Ribena)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

aye stew, the remains of the tiger is at the end of my street. i hope you get your 'tusk' album eventually as it's ace.

how many episodes into this series are we? i've only seen two.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Three, I think (The whisky distillery trip/Winston at the bookies first week, Bobby's porn film/decorating Isa's flat one last week, then this week's Deliverance one)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

thanks. i'll head over to uk nova and try and get the distillery trip one.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Kewl! I've got Tusk on CD actually, but I realised I need it on vinyl to get the unedited version of Sara. Seeing as it's one of the most gorgeous songs ever, it's criminal they cut it to fit the album on one CD.
Actually, it was thanks to the Optimo Hogmanay comp of a couple of years ago that I first heard the song Tusk. I initially misread the track listing and thought it was the Sun City Girls track, which makes some kind of sense I suppose. I was staggered that this spooky eastern european tinged piece of psych folk/sousa band madness was the Mac! I love how it's simultaneously way further out and far catchier than anything many freak folk darlings have come up with.
I still listen to that mix, it's a beaut.

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

i'm delighted to be responsible for introducing it to someone. it still amazes me that 'tusk' got to no. 6 in the singles chart. mind you, 'sara' should have got to no. 1 but if iirc it stiffed.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

last night's - the "hardest pub" episode - was touched by genius. although the moment that made me laugh hardest was a fleeting mention in the bookies of a horse called "canton express" :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

We had a powercut about ten minutes in last night and it didn't come back on for nearly two hours. Have to wait until Friday now. Boo!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

it is well worth waiting for. the little bit at the very end, after the credits, is absolutely fucking joyous.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

That episode was great! J&V putting the swords down is genius.

― stet (stet), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

ha, i'm laughing at the thought of it.

really, still game is up there with father ted and blackadder for me.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 14 July 2006 06:15 (nineteen years ago)

GOD DAMN, the bastard video chopped off the last bit after the titles of this week's (the one with the wedding/winston leaving). what happened?

it just gets better and better. this series is truly spirit-lifting.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Watch it on friday. It was quite funny.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, a timely reminder to set my video for tomorrow night's episode (I was haring down the A9 on Monday to get back home in time, but bank holiday drivers were conspiring against me).

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

aw, go on. tell us what happened!

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'll tell you tomorrow. Or probably Saturday, as I'm taping it because I intend to be in a pub tomorrow, so don't intend to watch it until Saturday. I would tell you now, but I haven't seen it yet.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

I would tell you but I'd spoil it for those who haven't seen it.
What email addy do you use and i'll tell you that way.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, if people care about avoiding spoilers, they shouldn't be clicking on a thread about a TV programme three days after it aired.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

b-b-but you haven't seen it, ailsa! we're just thinking of you :)

kerr: try the "webmail" link. or just use the BTinternet address; it still works fine. it's usually full of demands for cash from, umm, BT.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

Look, I don't care. Would I be on this thread if I did?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 July 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Winston is on the bus, and meets someone else going where he is. The word puppies still haunts me.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

But then he wakes up on the bus doesn't he?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

oh, i'm tantalised. i shall tape it tomorrow. or something.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 20 July 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

this show is really superb. so assured.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 July 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

We're subtitling it! Thank God we've got scripts this time round.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 21 July 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

HELP! I arsed up taping it last night. Do any of you nice people have a tape/copy I could borrow? Is it t0rr3ntable anywhere?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 22 July 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

you use REAL TAPE? coo. all i've got is a big hard disk thing. and i've deleted it anyway :(

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 22 July 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I am a LUDDITE.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 22 July 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

at home with ailsa:

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― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

at home with ailsa:

http://www.cedmagic.com/history/betamax-sl-7200-1976.jpg

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

TITS, i thought i'd managed to stop the italics one getting through. in fairness, it's early :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 22 July 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 27 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Please leave in the words "clackerbag".

― Stew (stew s), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

yes! and "walloper".

i really like the show but i'm v surprised that people are liking this series.

really? wow; i think this is the best it's been. it's confident, cocky and funny as fuck. best moment in the entire series, for me, was the bit in the "hardest pub" episode when they were all doing their set-pieces for the camera (drinking a yard of ale, putting a condom over their heads etc) but really, the whole thing's been fantastic. ach well. to each ...

yes, stew, i think it was greenock or gourock too, but i don't know that bit of the world well.

as for winston's torrent of abuse: anyone get the feeling it was ad-libbed? everybody seemed on the verge of cracking up; it was almost TOO perfect.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

bizarre. i thought it sounded a bit tired /desperate/

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

something else.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

The town was Saltcoats. Which is where I'm from. Heh.

Michael: How do you mean rein in the dialect? Are you at the BBC?

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm reviewing the subtitles. When we did them for S1 we had no scripts and were floundering, basically. We created a list of acceptable dialect words (with consistent spellings, usage, etc), trying to get the right balance between regional colour and something that could be read quickly by a non-Scot. The client seemed to think we'd done an OK job.

This time round we got the scripts (which are heavy with dialect with barely a "proper" English spelling in sight), and I lobbied for rendering the subs verbatim, to give the hard-of-hearing viewer the same experience as the hearing audience. But I was overruled - it'll be a dog's dinner somewhere between the semi-standard English of S1 and the rich dialect of the S5 scripts.

(Can a moderator de-index this thread, please?)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

I posted before it had finished. Some of the shots were Largs. I think these are the first few ones that have gone in so much for the pathos, but my memory's shit so perhaps not. It was a good attempt.

xpost: nice one, though that's a damn shame.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

I think these are the first few ones that have gone in so much for the pathos, but my memory's shit so perhaps not.

There was one, with Jack's daughter, a few series back - she came over from Canada, or was thinking of emigrating there, and was trying to get him to go too. That was totally pathos-laden, and very well done too, I seem to remember. I think the Sylvester McCoy one was quite touching as well.

*makes mental note to get copies of all episodes ever*

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

my mum a couple of series' i can burn copies of. cant promise it will be soon but i'll give you a shout if i do, ailsa.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, thanks. I have one series, somewhere, that someone copied for me, but I don't know which series it is (quite possibly series 3) and I can't find it. One of my friends has the first three series somewhere, but he has lent them to so many people that he has no idea who has it. But I'm on the waiting list.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

This show is in English? I have been to Scotland about 5 times, never had any problem with the language and now I have tried to watch the first episode twice and most of it may as well as be in Chinese. I just grabbed 5 seasons worth of shows too :), uhm maybe I need to grab the dvd's, do they have subtitles? I seriously have watched the first episode twice now, turned it off when they got to the pub, because it wasn't in English. Those kids outside the liquor store, not one word I understood :(.

― svend (svend), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

What's a liquor store?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

I have been to Scotland about 5 times

... and have not yet spoken to a Scottish person in all the times I was there

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

There's Scotland and there's Glasgow. Svend might have only visited Orkney or Arran or something.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Or, more likely, Edinburgh, so my original post applies

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Those kids outside the liquor store, not one word I understood :(.

if i remember that episode rightly, pretty much all they did was punch winston's nephew in the testicles and call him a "pie".

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

One of my friends has the first three series somewhere, but he has lent them to so many people that he has no idea who has it.

I have a nagging feeling this is me.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 08:55 (nineteen years ago)

Still Game? Still here...

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

aldo, I wasn't specifically referring to you, I meant one of my other real-life, not-from-round-here friends. Have you got them all too?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

On Episode 503 now, still don't understand about 10 percent of it, but it is really great.

Is there some photo of the cast without makeup? Are those ears real?

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best laugh?

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― svend (svend), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

woops too big.

― svend (svend), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Young's ears are real.

http://www.fishingontv.com/images/parrot_Paul.JPG

Victor and Jack

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Isa

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/upload/260705nisa1.jpg

Naveed (on the left - others are his brother, who was on Meet the Magoons, and Daniela Nardini)

http://www.baftascotland.co.uk/images/DSC_0041.JPG

I can't find a decent picture of Paul Riley who plays Winston, but he's a young chap as well.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

sanjeev kohli (naveed) is also a qualified doctor: he studied medicine with mrs fiendish's sister.

there, that's your dull and utterly useless fact for the day, fellow ILX0rs.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you. I don't know any of these people, but I did see the guy wearing a turban on a show about comedy in London I think, so it is nice to see their real faces. Two more shows to go before I finish them all. On of the funniest British sitcoms I have ever seen.

― svend (svend), Thursday, 28 September 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

The actress who plays Isa is now also "Granny Murray", the Miss Hoolie-equivalent and central figure on CBeebies' new "Balamory"-substitute "Me Too".

"Miss Hoolie", of course = Julie Wilson Nimmo = "Mrs Hemphill"

― Harthill Services (Neil Willett), Thursday, 28 September 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

i loathe that guy Hardeep Kohli so much i was going to start a thread about him the other day.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

No comments on the latest series that's just ended? Last nights episode was great.

― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 24 August 2007 08:16 (eighteen years ago)

We've been talking about it on the rolling comedy thread, a bit.

― ailsa, Friday, 24 August 2007 09:47 (eighteen years ago)

shut et yew spookeh betch

― blueski, Friday, 24 August 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

This always looks like a load of bollocks to me - never bothered to watch it.

But wait....is Daniela N in it? I didn't know that! Or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

― Dr.C, Friday, 24 August 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

No, she isn't. She's just at a party with one of the cast members upthread.

It's getting slightly more bollocks as it continues, but some parts of the first two or three series are marvellous.

― ailsa, Friday, 24 August 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, I see. Ta! Thought it was a bit unlikely, but you never know. She ought to do something once in a while.

― Dr.C, Friday, 24 August 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

this show is GOLD. i just watched the blackout episode. hahahaha

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 24 August 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

Some of these don't work. Most do.

You aint seen me right?

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/1/2061

― onimo, Friday, 24 August 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

haven't seen the final one yet; will catch it on sunday (or whenever the repeat is). it's been okay, this series, but not a patch on what it was at its best.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 24 August 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

the gambler guy with the gray face and the flat cap is my favorite character i think. is his name winston? the episode about him and his ill-fated bets was epic.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 25 August 2007 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

Victor's eyes are sort of freaky are they contacts?

The part with the cribs was great.

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vs.
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― svend, Saturday, 25 August 2007 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

that episode was unexpectedly moving, for a few moments.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 27 August 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

It was great. And Victor saying to jean at the steps to heaven "back aff ya spooky bitch" was pure comedy gold.

― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 27 August 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

yeh, the whole stairway-to-heaven thing was absolutely fantastic.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 27 August 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

One of the very best moments in still game (scottish comedy?) ever i think.

― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 27 August 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't really see the point of him going thru the whole 'oh no i might die' + NDE thing just for him to be OK in the end. not that killing him off would've been necessarily better (certainly not for a light-hearted comedy series).

― blueski, Monday, 27 August 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

I miss it being on.

― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 30 August 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Good wee compilation of the pub banter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5-z4iMBFZA

― Smiley panda mixed moniker (7,4) (onimo), Sunday, 14 November 2010 00:23 (fifteen years ago)

five years pass...

Brand new series starts tonight on BBC1 at 9.30pm. So glad to have it back after all these years.

― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 7 October 2016 19:15 (nine years ago)

haha that was great.

― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 7 October 2016 21:02 (nine years ago)

Friday's episode was one of the best they've done. The Pete the Jakey stuff was really touching and the rest of it was hilarious.

― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 16 October 2016 17:29 (nine years ago)

Yeah, I caught up on it this morning and really enjoyed both episodes.

― michaellambert, Sunday, 16 October 2016 17:44 (nine years ago)

Isa's impression of Meena had me totally buckled.

― ailsa, Sunday, 16 October 2016 18:56 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

the 1st ep in the new series was great.

Who is being killed off next week? My moneys on Auld Eric but I hope not as he's one of my faves.

Wont be surprised if whoever it is stays as a ghost though at all

hoping its methadone mick tbh

― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Monday, 12 March 2018 19:42 (seven years ago)

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