Muffin The Mule
Astoundingly, it’s not a criminal offence!
It’s a sick, sad world, I tell you
Antediluvian children’s TV programmes (broadcast long before I was born) aside, however
… in the four short years that it ran (1994 to 1997), The Fast Show ¹
… introduced so many character and catchphrases into the wider public consciousness that even today, nearly a quarter of a century after it ended, some of them are still in use by people barely old enough to have ever even seen the source material — referring to the weather as ‘scorchio’, for instance … or even comparing things to “making love to a beautiful woman.”
Be all that as it may though, you’ll recall my mentioning the children’s TV programme for adults that was that national institution The Magic Roundabout — and, if you don’t, what the hell have you been doing with your time!? (I don’t write this stuff for the sake of my health, you know!)
Similarly, there was another one from a really really long time ago, Flower Pot Men, rebooted in the 2000s, that introduced … Fast Show-like … a ‘word’ and concept to the national consciousness that remains to this day:
… and even without reference to the Flower Pot Men having been made in decades since, is still not an altogether uncommon reply in various circumstances — derived from Ben saying “Flobabdobabdobabdobabdob”, and Bill replying with “If you loved me, you’d swallow that.”
A bit tasteless perhaps, I grant you, but … let’s face it
… you love it, you slags.
[UPDATE]
Hahahahaha … what did I tell you?
“Surely by-elections are like making love to a beautiful woman?”
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¹ Don’t watch the Last Fast Show Ever (or anything from it) until you’ve watched a lot of the other material though — and I do mean a lot; there are too many in-jokes based upon them subverting the previous characters, their situations and catchphrases that you just won’t get. Also, for similar reasons, leave You Ain’t Seen These, Right! until after the others as well.
² Holy crap: https://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0507/spiderman3.html
Just how screwed up do you need to be to believe that?
(I mean … as much as anything else, you can easily look things up and learn that it can’t be true simply because Spiderman considerably predates the ‘popularisation’ of AIDS in the 1980s)
Or is it just a US thing rather than specifically religious?
