Ode To Press Gang

This is the best show ever! I've been reliving my childhood on a loop for the last 3 months. This is such a clever show for a little British kid's programme. Steven Moffatt has since then sold his soul by writing 'Couplings' which has never equalled Press Gang's wit and vibrancy. This show also launched the careers of quite a few cast members: Julia Sawalha (later seen as Saffy in Absolutely Fabulous, as well as in Jonathon Creek and as the lead voice in Chicken Run). Dexter Fletcher (who went on to Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels....using his OWN voice, not the slightly-off American one) and Gabrielle Anwar (who was the woman whose scent it was in Scent of A Woman as well as that really bad movie The Concierge with Michael J Fox).

This show reminds me of when I was a kid and how obsessed I was with this. I wasn't much younger than some of the kids in it and so it came at a pretty good time for me. It was nice to watch a kid's show with a little bit more intelligence. I'm surprised I didn't become a journalist after watching it. I loved Spike (I used to think he was so adorable - now he just appears to have been a cute kid with funny lips doing a rather half-assed American accent) and the dialogue he got to spew. Lynda reminded me of myself - rather bossy and short-tempered - which is probably why I liked the show. He he....

My favourite episodes are:

The one where Spike is trapped under the collapsed building

The one on "Crazy Stuff", the TV show where Spike 'surprises'

Lynda. I remember Holly being able to quote this in high school.

The one with the crazed hostage taker in the clown's mask

(that one was a two parter)

The one where Lynda gets locked in a vault.

And I've got Edgy addicted to it too. :) He doesn't want to admit it though. He he.

Nicky's List of Movie Scenes that are FULLY SIK! Part 2

Continuing on from my last movie scene post....

1. There's this scene in The Truth about Cats and Dogs when Janeanne Garofalo and Uma Thurman are talking while walking down the street and Janeanne Garofalo goes "I don't expect you to understand this....You burp and guys think it's adorable; you puke and they line up to hold your hair back" and Uma Thurman says "I can tell you for a FACT that that's not true". And just as she says that, a guy rides past, gets distracted by Uma Thurman, tries to impress her by one-wheeling his bike and almost hits a car. It's a CACK. :)

2. The opening 20 minutes or so from Speed is one of the most tense movie moments I've ever experienced. I get rather claustrophobic so the mere thought of an elevator dropping is terrifying to me. The whole bit where it keeps dropping inch by inch as they are trying to get the people out had me on the edge of my seat....I know I know, it's pathetic. :)

3. The worst line ever spoken in a recent movie (I'm not saying it's the worst ever because I think Plan 9 From Outer Space takes that accolade) HAS to be the one spoken by Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. It's one of his first lines in the movie (if not the first) and it is "This is English courage" in the twangiest American accent imaginable. Every time I hear it, I cringe. It's really funny....you should check it out.

4. The scene in Star Wars when the storm trooper hits his head. Need I say more?

5. The accolades for the best line in a movie for me has to go to Cher as Alexandra Medford in The Witches of Eastwick. It's spoken to Jack Nicholson and goes like this:

"I think....no, I am positive, that you are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life. You know, in the short time that we've been together, you have displayed every loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensive, vulgar, insensititive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humour and you smell. You're not even interesting enough to make me sick...."

OUCH!!!! :)