The Day Today: Attitudes Night

[vibrohm]

HOLY FUCK ITS ALL REAL

[ghostfires]

home office adviser, George Clinton

[badhead]

today they could have a show like "them next door". but it would be ironic, and boundary pushing. That that would make it ok.

[AllMyFriends]

in the credits for the televised hanging... "Home Office Advisor: George Clinton" :D

[peterpeterxxo]

bbc2 had retro nights, they had one in 1992 called tv hell..two of progs on were first episode of triangle and also ep of mainly for men. oh almost forgot chris morris... legend.

[TURBODORK2]

them next door

[joebstarsurfer]

kiddy Stare insane parents tee hee.

[MegaQuenten]

@guyboxerdog: I'm willing to bet that the mob saw the 'kiddystare' clip, because i've watched this show thousands of times from multiple sources and I've never seen that bit before. Strange stuff.

[TURBODORK2]

fancy lady , well fancy that

[VickyDuncalf]

"a cup of sugar for my lunch"

[PuissantAlgernon]

Is that groupie the woman who plays Liz in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace?

[SlowJoman]

@PuissantAlgernon No, it ain't

[Guedingen]

The genius of it is the way he catches perfectly the broadasting quality of the various eras.

[willscomix]

Them Next Door = Love Thy Neighbour

[VickyDuncalf]

TARA, YER SHITTER

[flaxonx3]

The Steve Coogan bit was a pisstake of that LSD episode of Panorama or whatever current affairs programme from 1967 where some public school reporter experiments with acid.

[FourMilesToRome]

@flaxonx3 You are correct about that reference but the details are (WikiP) - Christopher Paget Mayhew was a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament (MP).In 1955, Mayhew took part in an experiment that was intended to form a Panorama special for BBC TV that was never broadcast. In this, under the guidance of his friend, Dr Humphry Osmond, Mayhew ingested 400 mg of mescaline hydrochloride and allowed himself to be filmed for the duration of the trip.

[shaftsbury94]

@flaxonx3 it was an mp called christopher mayhew, the shamen wrote a song called christopher mayhew says.

[LordLionelBond]

T'rah you shitters.

[jimjams91]

The only thing which confused me about this is that 'Kiddystare' is meant to be 1983, but both the fashion and the video quality suggest early 90s. Other than that this is gold!

[filmnet]

@jimjams91 The video quality seems correct for 1983. The fashion does look a little bit out, but no big deal.

[bonnie43uk]

I think it's absolutly terrible they actually showed this kind of stuff in the 1950's etc. And they say modern television is bad.

I am really shocked at this.

[cthulhu11111111]

@bonnie43uk

it used to be even worse - when the BBC first started airing the hanging you got to see everything, and I mean everything. but the public furor over that led to them relocating it to studio B12 and cutting out the lights just before the drop

[glennptfc]

@cthulhu11111111 They also cut the Christmas Day hanging presented by the Queen too.

[markdr123]

I love the way he says "intense joy"...Coogan is so good.

[kayozz13]

I love the way the 'groupie' is only half in shot.

[caturn88]

kiddystare

[Thraxwhirl]

Ta-ra yer shitter.

One of my all time favourite lines. :)

[farnium]

FANCY LADY!

[FieryBiscuits]

@farnium Fancy that!

[CanardDeChien]

@FieryBiscuits

I know there is a tradition of just repeating a line that tickles most, and I was about to follow it but you stole my line :)

This show was genius. I think it will be discovered in about 10 years in some sort of vague unspecified by me renaissance that will happen then.

[cthulhu11111111]

i think kiddystare is a reference to an actual show think it was called pedokids or something

[TimmyTickle]

@cthulhu11111111: Minipops?

[cthulhu11111111]

@TimmyTickle

yep that's the one, thanks

[johnnyvicious2]

Creativity and intelligence. 

[zionravescene]

THERE'S THE HANGING.

[vanpablo79]

@zionravescene well done!

[antbubb]

"I'm being falated by a young girl known as a groupie...it's an interesting feeling and er, certainly quite relaxing..."

[JVbin]

"This weekend BBC 2 celebrates changing attitudes in the last 35 years of television in Attitudes Night."

Christopher Morris & Co. got the way newscasters speak absolutely spot-on, you really can't stress that enough. It's scary how close to the real thing it is. It's only when you have a guy in the 60s talking about having his cock sucked when you realise "OK, this is bollocks." On the other hand though I could easily see "Them Next Door" having been a genuine sitcom. XD

[jonno52]

The Day Today at its very best. Being sixty now, I saw a lot of that kind of TV way back (not KiddyStare, but the rest is horribly accurate in parts). Unbelievable when you look back at it. Thanks for posting! (got the series on video but VCR machine's packed up. Bah.)

[badhead]

@jonno52 Kiddystare is a referance to the eary 80s show "mini pops".

[ma049]

Well fancy that.

[pme96]

The funniest part of one the funniest satires ever. I could watch this a thousand times and not get bored. Tara ya shitter!

[thepod96]

Being the *geek* I am, just thought I'd point out that the BBC2 ident shown on the monitor at the beginning is 'Glass' which was dropped in 1993, and this was broadcast in 1994. Then again this was broadcast in January 1994, so they could have mistaken for it still being on air.

[ManoNegraCG]

Tarah ye shitter! :))))

[Guedingen]

Genius, many thanks.

[Webbula]

"Fancy lady".

[jchaaaaapz]

and..YES YES! ITS A GOOD CLEAN DROP!!!! HAHAHA!!! I literally pissed myself with laughter!!

[melvert33]

Here you are you big hairy cock.Tara ya shitter!!

[JoeyPencils]

brilliant stuff

[raahead]

there's the hanging well done, well done.

[antbubb]

Funniest part is when Coogans character says "I am being fellated", the way he says it is funny :D

[guyboxerdog]

How they got away with "Kiddystare" is amazing. Imagine if the "Angry for the sake of it" mob saw that.

[MS1983RDG]

It's a piss take of sorts of the Channel Four show MiniPops that went out in the early 80's.

[normalAlyankovich]

there was an actual program on channel 4 that was like that, called kidsplay or something...they dressed kids up as popstars in make up and stuff

[zebra55]

All of the shows in this are a comedy take on real shows. The Steve Coogan one is based on a documentary in the 60s where the reporter took LSD and then described how it made him feel. It's probably on here somewhere. The Kiddystare I am sure is a direct pisstake of a very early channel 4 show called 'Teeny Pops' which was very strange. In it you had kids aged maybe 4-7 years old dressed as pop stars doing renditions of the latest chart hits. Really was odd.

[beastatlay]

@zebra55

The "reporter" was MP (!) Christopher Mayhew, later Baron Mayhew, and it was mescaline, not acid. Oh, and "Kiddystare" was based on Channel 4's Minipops - "very strange" is about right. Fucking horrible, really.

[Sunlight70]

@guyboxerdog "Angry For The Sake Of It" Mob... Like it! 

[DidloDurante]

@guyboxerdog KiddyStare is satire at the expense of channel 4's "Mini Pops". Very few people actually watch things & become offended...what usually happens is that the Daily Mail or a n other tabloid chooses to make something of a show like "Brass Eye", then the public jump on the bandwagon. See the Brand/Ross affair...only 2 people complained originally.

[guyboxerdog]

@DidloDurante Oh yeah. I am not saying its right butI would expect it. I remeber reading the Mail the week after Paedogeddon. The irony truly came full circle!

As far as "Manuelgate" I posted avidly in Russels defence and remember reading some of the comments from the Scandalous tour.

It, was truly one of the lowest points of UK culture and current affairs. Also, the Peter DOherty Kate Moss debacle. Whatever you think of them, the press destroyed a loving relationship. I loathe the 'bloids.

[raadytits]

tarra, ya shitter.

[googlejoint]

"Fancy lady? Fancy that!"

[Emoreallysucks]

"I'm being...fellated."

[mykegrimes]

Frampton Row is indeed genius!

[KaitainCPS]

Frampton Row makes me laugh every time, without fail.

[artvandelay1]

Obviously 'Attitudes Night' would be shunted over to BBC4 these days.....

[jazzx251]

@artvandelay1

Except for "Kiddie Stare" - it would be sold to ITV and renamed "Toddlers Got Talent"