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i think they should remake the odd couple with ethan and momus living in an east village apartment, momus would speak only in images and ethan would spout bile into a byzantine vase which momus would then display in a stockholm installation. beanie sigel would provide the theme, which would be "fuck y'all tamagotchis (cute robot mix)"

momus would bring back visually oriented groupies from other countries that were aesthetically superior in an exoticized oriental type style, but, when momus would go off to make some sort of fennel drink with a neon umbrella flashing unknowable symbols, ethan would fuck the groupies (solo-artisties?) first, and then surprise them with his only rock record (check the guys track record).

each episode would spiral close to artifice/realness related emnity before the space brothers remembered their mutual dislike of the badly dentistried brutish londoners with their hated of everything other than pie'n'mash and punch ups, and would reunite in a takako minekawa medley of prefuse 73 hits, charming the ghetto and the lofts alike

who else should have a lovely sitcom?

― gareth, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete and I earlier this year tried to recreate the classic Likely Lads episode where they try not to find out the football scores, when we went up to Edinburgh to meet Alex T on the last night of Big Brother 2. Actually it was really easy not to find it out, so the amount of comedy "Dont look!" and eye-covering was limited. I was Rodney Bewes and he was James Bolam, obviously. There wasn't really any analogue for Alex T.

It is unsurprisingly easy to recast the lives of several London posters in sitcom format - an unfunny low-budget BBC one from the late 70s admittedly. Even unto the Christmas specials and films (twice the length, half the gags).

― Tom, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For example?

― Peter Mills, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

geoff = victor meldrew; gale = mrs meldrew
(sorry my brane = not functioning as i cannot recall name of this VERY EXTREMELY FAMOUS SITCOM)

my two dads w. maria, anthony and ronan

we got it made w. duane and nicole

― mark s, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

just dastooring.

(this thread is already more interesting, owing to gareth's post alone.)

― jess, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

er, maybe you're being sarcastic, but it's one foot in the grave unless I've gone mad

― Sam, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Saying I would be in We Got it Made must be payback for the Captain Stubing comment, I now realize.

But would I be one of the girlfriends or the dippy maid? This is urgent and key.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One Foot In The Grave. We've done the 'who would play you in the ile movie' or something before, innit? I can't remember cos I wasn't fully interwebbed up at that point, until Stevie T mentioned something about FRENCH AND SAUNDERS chiz chiz.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Father Ted.

John and Mary from the shop-Pete and Emma

Ted-N.

Dougal-Graham

Jack-Dave Q

Bishop Brennan-help me.

Mrs Doyle-more help needed.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ronan would be the young rebel priest who liked Oasis.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Father Damo?

"tellim to FUCK OFF".

― Ronan, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i. not sardonic: genuine fuddlement (don't get old sam, it's irritating)
ii. i have also forgotten who the characters in we got i made were: you are surely the cheeky maid nicole

― mark s, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete and Emma are pretty much cursed to be any couple in any sitcom really regardless of similarity.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In this week's episode Father N. has to kick Bishop Greenspun up the server.

― Tom, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why do people keep calling me N.?

― N., Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bishop brennnan = xstatic peace heh

― mark s, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete = Steptoe, Emma = Son

― Tim, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mrs Doyle = Mrs Gale. Come on Ronan this is easy.

― Tom, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, that does about say it all. Hm, can I be the priest who entered the singalong contest as Ziggy Stardust?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Come on Ronan this is easy

I thought I did well. I'm not happy that XSP is Len Brennan. Ned is clearly the Bishop who ran off to become a hippy.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am so gonna punch you when I see you next Tim. Having said that the uncanny resemblance between Pete and Steptoe is, well, uncanny.

How about Pete = Rigsby and I = Miss Jones?

― Emma, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Or how about Pete = Roobarb, Emma = Custard?

― Tim, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That would make Keith Alan though!

Non-Emma-based couple. Pete = Ted Bovis, Ronan = Spike.

― Tom, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

n. = rick
sarah = vyvyan
tim hopkins = neil
kodanshi = mike
DG = Jerzy Balowski

― mark s, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"the camp comic" it says.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

heh, the young ones. well actually rickyT = Rik and i = Neil as rickyT gets worked up over things (though admittedly does not write poetry for the "kids") and i am a hippy (though admittedly i like socks). Sarah can still be Vyvyan if she wants though, despite that meaning that she would just like bring everything down, man. and then smash it all to bits.

― katie, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How comes I'm Jerzy Balowski, eh?

― DG, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

YOU! ARE! A! VIRGIN!

― Vyvyan, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah, i wondered that, he is, like, an essex boy or something?

― gareth, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd do soaps but I only watch them if theres nothing else on. Brookside tends to be the best in terms of sheer lunacy in plot.

As Graham said yesterday, DG=Jimmy Corkhill.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't watch Brookside --> I am paranoid about this Jimmy Corkhill thing.

― DG, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

founder/moderator = interweb equiv of landlord obv

― mark s, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

momus would speak only in images and ethan would spout bile into a byzantine vase which momus would then display in a stockholm installation

Uncannily accurate. I just got invited to do audio workshops at the International Midnight Sun Film Festival in Finland this summer, so if Ethan can supply me with bile in a recognised audio format I will exhibit it there.

momus would bring back visually oriented groupies from other countries that were aesthetically superior in an exoticized oriental type style, but, when momus would go off to make some sort of fennel drink with a neon umbrella flashing unknowable symbols, ethan would fuck the groupies (solo-artisties?) first

[Snarls, growls, snaps dangerously like threatened dog with bone]

It is unsurprisingly easy to recast the lives of several London posters in sitcom format - an unfunny low-budget BBC one from the late 70s admittedly.

Just think how expensive my soap opera would be! They'd have to have film units in New York, Tokyo, London and Paris and the wilds of Lapland! And the ratings would be close to zero! Hurrah!

― Momus, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, it could be a be a bit like Alias: all exotic locations and costume changes. Except that you would need someone/thing to fite against.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anyway, I don't want to be Jerzy, I want to be Vyvyan. Before anyone says anything about FatNick, he's fast approaching the end of his Sociology A-level, so I think that makes him Rik really.

― DG, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i want doesn't get

― xstatic s, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hippy.

― N., Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned is clearly the Bishop who ran off to become a hippy.

LIES. I am filled with hippie hate. My hair may be Neil's, but not my attitude. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

I think a series of Bottom needs to be made, featuring Jess and Alex in NYC in the key roles. Obviously, there will be much violence, possibly featuring frying pans, fridge doors and gonads in electric sockets. I'm not sure I know who should play who.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 28 December 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

should i be offended?

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 29 December 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

no take it as a compliment.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 29 December 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.conart.com/bizkit1.jpg

― OMGWTF, Monday, 29 December 2003 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I assume Jess as Richie and Alex as Eddie, right?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 December 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I was actually thinking the other way round. I envisage Jess sellotaping Alex to a door while buggering off to the pub.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 December 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

As long as they both get raped by cats in that one episode, it's all good.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 December 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

can I be Dave Hedgehog?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 29 December 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Aja Explains All

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 December 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

With Ally as Fergus.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 29 December 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Nemtusak, Martha Bayne, and I already work together in a colorful cube warren populated by wisecracking alcoholics, people who wear pajamas to work (actually I'm typing this in my long underwear), and the comic-fodder likes of Jonathan Rosenbaum... talk about low budget productions, all you'd have to do is stick in a few hidden cameras and hire about forty assistants to bleep out the FCC-banned language and pixillate everyone's internet porn...

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 29 December 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

REVIVE!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 8 February 2004 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://nardwuar.com/vs/paul_cook/panther.gif

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 8 February 2004 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Most disappointing album purchase ever!

― may pang (maypang), Sunday, 8 February 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

" the classic Likely Lads episode where they try not to find out the football scores "

thats a brilliant idea for a sitcom
(not as good as gareth's,granted)
i spend my life trying to avoid football scores cause i'm always in college during champions league matches

― robin (robin), Sunday, 8 February 2004 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

eisbar, what the hell is your obsession with reviving ethan threads? seriously.. why?

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 8 February 2004 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not as if anyone else revives all your "nader votes = idiots" or "HA HA LOOK AT PILL-ADDICTED FAT FUCK GET HIS DUE RESERVES"

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 8 February 2004 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"DESERVES"

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 8 February 2004 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

But seriously, it seems like you revive these threads just like a little kid who shakes his little plastic jar of bugs he caught in the backyard to see if they will fight and maim each other again.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 8 February 2004 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

gee, seeing as it was ONE WHOLE FUCKING ETHAN/TRIFE THREAD that i revived, i think that FOUR posts about what a jackass i supposedly am is a bit much. i also LOVE this whole ILX thing where people so strenuously object to certain threads, or certain threads being revived ... so logically they POST in the threads that offend them so much thereby assuring that they don't just die.

this place REALLY pisses me off sometimes.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 8 February 2004 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

besides, why don't you let trife do his own dirty work?

fuck this shit already.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 8 February 2004 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 8 February 2004 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i think prefuse 73 was a big mistake on my part in the original pilot episode. it was wide of the mark, i think if i had chosen a more appropriate act for that part of the show, then the network might have taken up my idea for a series. i can only apologise to all those concerned

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 8 February 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 8 February 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

haha - yes, prefuse 73 representing for the ghetto is a bit 'off' (thank god for test screenings!)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 8 February 2004 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

sophistighetto

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 8 February 2004 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, there's the title for my next essay! 'Sophistighetto', right next to 'Identilego'! Thanks, Stevem!

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 8 February 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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