John Byrne's Tutti Frutti: Postman Pat in Gaelic

A classic scene from this 1980s TV series, starring Robbie Coltrane.
Here three of the band engage in Byrne's skillfully overlapping dialogues while watching Postman Pat in Gaelic

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• tutti
• frutti
• robbie
• coltrane
• emma
• thompson
• john
• byrne

[MrNotabigot]

great show.only ever seen it once.please rpt bbb.

[luckytile]

Hi, I put this on when it wasn't avaialable, copied from an old VHS tape. However, it's not available on DVD, and just as good as I remember it.

[mickbolton1]

My favourite scene from my favourite programme. Vincent's face from 2.00 to 2.12 is priceless, and his casual 'if you want your face put in aye' when Fud asks if he can change the channel is a phrase my wife and I have quoted at each other in similar situations for the past 20 odd years. Thanks for posting - I've got the DVD but I'll be sending these clips to friends in an attempt to win new converts!

[luckytile]

Great how the phrases still have their magic after all these years. "Only two weeks til we hit Methil" was my favourite.

[bomi18]

Och-aye!!! LOL Funny and very hard to understand!!!

[luckytile]

You realise some was in Gaelic? :-) Even I don't understand that, as it's only spoken by a few people in the Highlands and a lot of poeple at the BBC who make a living out of minority broadcasting!

[tj4234]

@luckytile Tbh, knowing how Gaelic speakers are (being one myself)... it wouldn't surprise me if there were more than double the amount of people who can understand or speak Gaelic than there is on the census results.

I mean, BBC Radio Nan Gaidhlig gets more listeners than BBC Radio 1

[MegaLegomaster1000]

My mum was in gaelic postman pat! :)

[FoolOfGods]

@luckytile I think you'll find that there are thousands of Gaelic speakers in the provinces of Nova Scotia, Labrador and Newfoundland, Canada ... Where huge numbers of clan and sept members were 'cleared' to from the Highlands and Islands during the 19th century ... reports of the death of Gaelic are greatly exaggerated .. Tutti Fruitti remains a classic, thank you for uploading this 'belter'!

[TheNewStoryteller]

nice one it makes me remined of johnson and friends but have you herd that i've made thomas and tugs and some scene of a pixelcix game on the first episode of thomas and tugs and sunshine's tv time the part where they watch ivor the engine and some scene of sunshine playing a harp and some postman pat tune for intro's and ending hope you enjoy them from thenewstoryteller name chris rush.

[daibhidhseumas]

hahahah - i wonder which programme in the series this was?

[MrNotabigot]

Hi,Thanks.will buy dvd.Thanks.