The Mighty Boosh TV programme

> was much better than it appeared to be

huh?

> however search out previous threads on the subject

there isn't much and all of it's on threads dedicated to other programs (i'm not an animal, for instance)

i enjoyed it, i think. bits of it were a bit forced (the shakespeare) and the song went on too long. will set the tivo for it and see how it goes (there seems to be a lack of interesting things to watch these days, pre-christmas lull i guess.)

theres something about bb3 that really galls me, i cant wait till they pull the plug on it.

by this I mean I put it on to half ignore whilst doing cooking or ironigor something and ended up glued and chuckling.

howard's voice is identical to that of Tim from Spaced.

i find it drags a bit, BUT only by a couple of minutes so the bit's they'd have to cut out to accommodate the adverts would tighten things up.

song was better this week. liked the glam rock snowsuit and the polar bear. and the icerink script editor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/wednesday/rams/2330.ram

was another episode on bbc2 last week after months of nothing. and was late rather than the (dreadful) 7 o'clock slot. 'Mutants'. 'I want to be remembered for the things i've said', 'what, "where's my green trousers?"?'

Have no fear . . . .

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-26324/The_Mighty_Boosh/

Series 1 of the Mighty Boosh DVD is to be released on DVD in the autumn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/

"I span the genres. I'm a genre spanner"
"No, you're just a spanner"

"Don't listen to this hippy shit. Remember you're a punk. Think of Johnny Thunders!"

guys you HAVE to go watch episode two on bbc.co.uk

it's the wierdest/best thing i've seen this year.

And it features Razorlight in the desert looking for 'the new sound'.

For the first twenty minutes or so, Episode Two is the

GREATEST

THING

EVER.

Interestingly, Howard Moon's production technique is quite similar to Michael Jones's.

is it my imagination or is that the girls from robots in disguise?

i miss the zooniverse, i miss the way bob fossil can't remember the names of the creatures and has to describe them.

i also have trouble watching an entire episode in one sitting because it's generally a good bit denser than anything else i watch, there's much more going on.

http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/ebbcdvd1553

I have seen the extras. So ner.

I love zookeepers, me.

As for the online version...I can't do it. It's very good but everything is so much funnier when I'm sitting next to Pam on the couch. Newsnight, World's Wildest Police Videos, Midsomer Murders...

Maybe I can DOWNLOAD the radio versions...

I hope they are better than IT STICKS OUT HALF A MILE.

You could do it at work, Mike. Man of your status.

‘you cut me open I'm made of blackjacks’
‘come on, vince, everyone knows you’re made of fruit salads’

Flight of the Conchords did alright in the US didn't it? Boosh very much appeals to the same demographic, I think.

People I introduce to it either LOVE it in all caps or just don't understand. I'm not really sure.

But I still haven't seen Flight Of the Conchords (in spite of moving to New Zealand in a few months and being completely pumped about anything NZ) so I don't know the parallels.

snuff box not out on DVD :(

waiting patiently for nathan barley series 2

snuff box doesn't seem better than man stroke woman (altho i kinda like that)

man stroke woman actually did the "i have a boyfriend" joke, i noticed

however, man stroke woman is strictly about relationships, while snuff box is about.... uhhh?

I don't think that the Boosh has been shown on TV here yet but the DVDs are available in U.S. format now.

man stroke woman is strictly about relationships

mostly but not entirely - unless those perfume counter girls are a couple

I like The Mighty Boosh just fine, but the writing on Flight of the Conchords is way sharper and subtler.

I don't think that the Boosh has been shown on TV here yet but the DVDs are available in U.S. format now.

no. BBC america has played the mighty boosh on occasion. the DVDs are NOT available in NTSC format. unless you can prove otherwise.

Half watching The Mighty Boosh Live on BBC3 right now, and it's annoying me quite a bit. And I like the telly show.

Christ, they just can't resist breaking the fourth wall in a very smug and lazy way like every couple of minutes. It's a very sloppy live show.

i think that's all written, though

electro boy redux, this is somewhat tremendous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w_p4h92akA

this show is fucking fantastic

hahahaha

Friend of mine just wrote me on facebook to let me know it is on adult swim right now so I take it that's where you're watching it? I don't know what season/episode they're showing but the Nanageddon episode is the best imo.

I overdosed on it a few years ago and had to take a break but have been watching it again recently and when it's good it's fucking excellent.

Oh shit - he just told me that it is the nanageddon episode! :D

Kirk, is it true you are an erotic adventurer of the most depraved kind?
Yes.

Seriously falling in love with this show. I guess I'm a bit late?

I have all three seasons on DVD and have been rewatching season 3. Last night I watched the ep where they discuss playing Tusk in it's entirety at a party. It's top notch. Also in season one this exchange between Naboo and Bainbridge slays me:

Bainbridge- "Naboo are you in a shamanic trance?"
Naboo - "No im just listening to Fleetwood Mac"
Bainbridge - "Ahhh. Rumors?"
Naboo - "Tusk"
Bainbridge - *gives Naboo the gas face*

weird, nanageddon was on either dave or ukgold the other night (i forget which channel it was)

I'm guessing its rating well on Adult Swim since they recently moved its Friday timeslot to one hour earlier.. It was on at 1AM, and now the play 2 episodes, one at 12AM and one at 12:30AM..

Of all things, it's bumping The Office, which was on at 12AM, and now is aired at 1AM (with Look Around You at 1:45... probably my favorite 2-hour block of TV at the moment..)

am getting into this. have the boxset and watched nanageddon and the episode with old gregg last night. old gregg is the freakiest thing i may ever have seen on tv.

Saw the dvd of "The Bunny and the Bull" advertised on TV last night, by the director of Boosh. Looked very Booshy, never heard of it before. Any ideas?

not heard of it, but i suspect it's just a straight hardcore movie.

It's about a mentally ill man who retreats into a Boosh-like dreamworld apparently. It would send my whimsy meter off the scale I think, though I've not seen it.

Fielding plays various other characters in the television show including: Tony Harrison, a small pink head with tentacles and member of the shaman council; The Hitcher, a cockney hitch-hiker with a polo mint for an eye, who enjoys "cutting people up"; Spider Dijon, a bongoist in Rudi's band; and Old Gregg, a transsexual merman obsessed with Bailey's Irish Cream and water-colours, who is infatuated with Howard and claims to possess 'The Funk', a living creature about the size of a medicine ball, but covered in purple teats

i can do no more to convert you

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/7939609/man-nearly-killed-as-eel-swims-in-bottom

would prefer the cockney urine tbqh

Noel Fielding Comedy whatver - shit and possibly a bit racist or somehow classic?

Didn't notice anything particularly racist myself, but I've seen maybe two and a half episodes and it's sort of okay. Not everything works, but I'm kind of glad he's been given to chance to go all-out surreal on us. Yes there are a few "watch out he's made of zebras" moments, but I did find myself giggling at some of the absurdity. Closest thing it reminds me of is the Adult Swim animation Perfect Hair Forever. I'm anticipating being alone in quite liking it, and quite okay with it actually

listen idk if we ever asked this, i mean vmnic if not, but the spirit of jazz is blackface right?

Rudi in priest and the beast definitely is

is there any argument defending it at all that can still acknowledge it to be so

Nope. They wouldn’t do it today, I hope, but the show is unrelentingly white with the exception of Ayoade / Saboo.

I darent watch this again. I'm sure it must have aged very terribly

It’s still hilarious - my daughters and I watch it all about once a year (and call out the blackface and occasional sexism)

Just watched all of this again and the last two or three episodes have slipped my mind in the years since broadcast / first dvd release. whatever happened to noel fielding? 8)

(this thread is a trip back in time btw)

Is he strictly a light entertainment guy now? His post-Boosh solo show was just a level too far and not all that funny

he's absolutely fucking detestable! One thing I've noticed is his sister has taken the Derek Acorah role on Most Haunted. Haven't watched that in donkey's years. That was much funnier than anything Noel ever did.

i don't think she's his sister...

she is

I'm not offering any links to prove it because I cannot be arsed, but I'm 1000% certain they are siblings

They're siblings in the same way Tommy and Henry Cooper were.

so they are siblings then!

KORREKT

About 965,000 results (0.50 seconds)

you would have to torture me by making me watch this show to get me to admit they aren't actually siblings

Janet Fielding is the other sister

Henry Fielding at the top of the family tree

his real parents both have imdb pages consisting of... appearances on his shows.

Surely Fenella Fielding has more credits than that.

With the caveat that I never found the blackface elements anything other than cringe, I fucking love this show still and think the whole cast are hilarious. It’s aged the best of any of my past major favourites (shout out to Smack the Pony which still kills).