The Day Today - Pool Supervisor

[ChrisB12Many]

They hire someone to be at the pool 24 hours a day? In 17 years of word puzzles, one incident of a pigeon breaking in and on another occasion an illicit party. Oh yes, and one death despite his presence. Now that's real value for the money they pay this guy!

[CaptainFeltcher]

OMG! been looking for this clip for years! Praise the internet!

[HolyFrell]

No one died... no one died... no one died... no one died... Is this where RTD gets his Torchwood plot lines from?

[Cruithne3753]

@HolyFrell Heh! I was also reminded of this when I saw the trailer for the new series!

[stu1701E]

@HolyFrell Exactly! Yes, I too think of this every time I see the opening sequence.

[DoctorBoosh]

I bloody love this!

Can't believe that it's 17 years old.

Anyone ever heard England World Cup winner Martin Peters speak?

It's EXACTLY like this. :-D

[oDubnobasswithmyhead]

THIS MAN SEEMS PARTICULARLY distutrbed in 197ninnnnnnnnnnnnnne no one died, he 's a bacon for def

[tiziano300]

"engaged in a particularly tricky word puzzle"...epic humour

[allegramente5000]

the sense of boredom in the man's voice is all too tangible.

[Malevax]

The picture at 1:03 is two women sitting in an office (I assume it's an office because there are filing cabinets). The previous comment about editing is probably correct.

[blackjackbarnet]

@Malevax ...it's a quick flash of another scene from the Day Today, a spoof soap opera called "The Bureau" set in a Bureau De Change.... good spot though, I wouldn't have clocked it

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[sparkyinbath]

The pigeon story is awesome,

'We called the bird specialists. They removed it in the morning'

[baggyboy7879]

This is colossal

[tomdissonance]

"This totally sounds like something form a Mighty Boosh performance! XD" yeh except 10 yrs earlier and about 12x funnier

[JamesBrett2008]

pidgeons love faffing

[Reienroute]

This totally sounds like something form a Mighty Boosh performance! XD

[radram1]

Pure, pure genius. Steve Coogan's non-Partridge finest hour?

[MrHolmesyJnr]

1980..... someone died

[boscombefun]

genius!

[shitamerica1]

Governments think 30 years ahead. You don't even know what the prize is.

[0586730O2]

no one died.............;0)

[col2269wf]

40 people breaking in. HAH

[jessjames1000]

joan rivers protest songs!!!!!

[desertmix]

You misheard, he said "Joan Baez".

[boscombefun]

@jessjames1000

joan rivers singing protest songs, now that would be worth hearing - ha ha. ;)

[gerrad1973]

@boscombefun Joan BAEZ.....she was a protest singer in the 60's/......lol

[boscombefun]

@gerrad1973 - yeah i know - why are you telling me that?

[mrcakey]

"I mean I could go on". Genius.

[peterboroughpete]

can anyone tell me what the hidden picture is that flashes at 1:03?my computer is to slow to catch it.

[deejayedwards]

Its just bad editing, thats all. The original sequence on 'The Day Today' is made up of several scenes that cut between the pool supervisor and some other pool scenes, you just simply caught a glimpse of the beginning of those other scenes that have been cut out (but not quite)... good eye though...

[dinbych1984]

Absolute Legend! Really funny because there really are those people out in the British public!

[ignigknogt]

this whole video is hilarious but one part bothers me. can someone tell me what he says at 0:26 ? sounds like fucking about? but im sure he means flapping about.

[fourplusseven]

faffing

[justmightbeokay]

"Faffing about"

[Razieluk]

It's "faffing about".

[Mankind081]

Faffing.

[brckshaw]

Noone died....

Class

[rulesandwisdom]

Is that Armando interviewing at 1.32?

[psychicSnow]

yep

[patlfdunn101]

Its so fucking real! I work nights once in a blue moon, and there are people out there just like this, who work nights constantly. Freaks!

[NoFuckingJoke]

Nah at 1:04 its just a scene from abother sketch. Thought that myself tho!

[hipnova]

Yeah you're right. If you watch the full clip "A day at the swimming pool," which is on here too, you can see that the uploader pieced this together from a couple different clips.

[MozTS]

- The Bush Administration.

[lespommesdelune]

The Day Today: slamming the wasps from the pure apple of truth

[MaxSafeheaD]

Whats that subliminal image at 1:04?

[markdr123]

A predecessor to "Grade is a cunt" perhaps? Can't freezeframe it, anyone know what it is

[MaxSafeheaD]

It's really bugging me now!

[markdr123]

Ok, managed to get a screenshot using Media Player Classic, it's nothing of any great consequence though unless I'm missing something!

Apparently I can't post the link but it's at tinurl [dot] com [slash] 7umud2

[markdr123]

Correction, tinyurl [dot] com [slash] 7umud2

[MaxSafeheaD]

0_o ... random!

[SuspenduAuGaffa]

It looks like Rebecca Front and Doon Mackichan, probably from another segment of "The Pool". God knows what it's doing there though. I don't remember it being on the DVD.

[geenius545]

no one died... genius!

[djwedgewood]

I know what it's like when you're engaged in a particularly tricky word puzzle...

[Asto121]

LMAO

[watdoejebigtime]

southparkstuff

[thearcticwombats]

although some time I did go and take showers

[Lotiolenti]

"I mean I could go on"

"No."

LOL!

[L0K3]

paraded around singing a joan baez protest song

[jarzhinio]

Steve Cogan's characterisation and Armando ianucci / Peter Bayman's creativity = timeless humour

[19adam87]

The Day Today is genius, Chris Morris is genious, 90s satire, spoof and parody was genious, but most of all Steve Coogan is a genious!

[Rach3321]

can you get "the pool" in a dvd box set or anything?

reply asap please

[dalgetty]

On amazon - The Day Today Complete BBC Series 1994

[desertmix]

Love it!

[mummyfunster]

Keith Mandemant - absolutely brilliant. Two incidents in 18 years - a pigeon and a death. Hilarious!

[channel537]

Fantastic, I love this sketch. Surely it would be a prohibited activity for a pool security guard to parade around in a woman's swimming costume singing a Joan Baez protest song. The vision of that will stay with me forever.

[scrumpyjackflash]

let the safety attendants have some rights you FASCIST!

[nice06guy]

I AM GAY

[irncru]

yea we all heard it

[bigposhsod]

In 1975 no-one died In 1976 no-one died In 1977 no-one died In 1978 no-one died In 1979 no-one died In 1980 ..Someone Died!

[PaulMJohnson]

I tried to put that on my performance objectives at work. For the safety objective, I get top score if no-one dies, I get a lower score if someone dies!!!

[dermotdevlin]

Steve Coogan's greatest moment in my eyes!

[Additivesfree]

Excelent!