Coronation Street anyone?

[Karl]

I don't really watch any soaps, but SWMO is partial to a bit of Corrie.

Mary says to Norris as they sit in her Campervan - "I often lie in bed stroking my Moo Moo until I fall asleep". Absolute classic. (Moo Moo is her cuddly toy, I think - I was too busy laughing to hear her explanation). Funniest thing i've seen on the telly for a long time.

Quality.

Cheers

Karl

 

[mailee]

Now that is usually the closest I get to any soaps, hearing it from the other end of the room while I am on the computer. Got to admit that would have made me fall off my seat laughing. :lol:

 

[head clansman]

Hi

She frighten the life out of this fine specimen of manhood with just a kiss on the cheek , i cant imagine if she did get her real moo moo out what he would have done , i could not stop laughing at him, bloody great woos in fact i have great difficulty in finding words to describe him, as a man he make me cringe. hc

 

[Grinding One]

When women over here put on a Moo Moo its to hide the food under :lol:

 

[RogerS]

OK - can't remember watching any soaps..at least not intentionally..but the overwhelming impression is one of plotlines and characterisations that are continually confrontational and so hardly surprising that the masses think that this is the right way to behave as opposed to sitting down and having a quiet discussion and trying to see the other persons' point of view.

Ban soaps! And that includes The Archers. :wink:

Now if I could only locate who that miserable eejit was having that bloody all-night party then I could go round and 'ave words wiv 'im.

 

[woodbloke]

Ban soaps! And that includes The Archers. :wink:

I agree, all soaps, all reality and all sport...but the Archers? That's treason init?..in a different day and age you'd have been hung, drawn and quartered for even thinking that Rog :lol: - Rob

 

[newt]

Trouble is Rob if you ban all that you are only left with Panorama and the news, and if you watched that all the time you would soon lose the will to live.

 

[wizer]

Ban TV

I don't remember the last time I saw something on there that was worth my time.

 

[DangerousDave]

...i cant imagine if she did get her real moo moo out what he would have done...

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[BradNaylor]

OK - can't remember watching any soaps..at least not intentionally..but the overwhelming impression is one of plotlines and characterisations that are continually confrontational and so hardly surprising that the masses think that this is the right way to behave as opposed to sitting down and having a quiet discussion and trying to see the other persons' point of view.

Ban soaps! And that includes The Archers. :wink:

But surely all drama involves a degree of confontation. I don't remember Shakespeare or Dickens being filled with characters all sitting around being nice to each other.

I like Coronation Street. There is a strong vein of humour running through it and the writers are excellent; frequently having fun as in Karl's example.

East Enders however, is unremittingly dull, humourless, and gloomy. The inept writers seem to think that crap actors shouting at each other amounts to interesting drama. It doesn't.

The one that puzzles me is Emmerdale Farm. It purports to be set in a Yorkshire village - yet most of the characters seem to be Londoners. Not second home owners, either.

The Archers?

My day revolves around The Archers. If you are ever going to catch me using a hand tool it will be between 2.00 and 2.15. Machinery and power tools are banned.

Tragically, I tend also to listen to it at 7.05 in the bath with a beer.

And I never miss the omnibus on a Sunday....

Cheers
Sad Brad

 

[Doctor]

The one which puzzles me is coronation street, real life my arse, I'm not stupid, where are all the cotton mills, how come they all have indoor toilets and when you look at the street its perfectly clean now all us southerners know that Northern towns have poo running in the gutters with little street urchins playing in it.
Some of the families have 1 or 2 children, yet I know from reading books that most of the women up there have at least 15.
The corner shop seems to sell magazines and a selection of food, surely very few northerners can read and all of them eat black pudding 4 times a day.
Totally unrealistic, I bet if you met these characters in real life they wouldn't even smell, we all know they smell of wee.

 

[woodbloke]

What irritates me beyond belief about these so called 'soaps' that are supposed :roll: to represent a slice of real life is the fact that they don't...they're just concerned with mundane drivel and inconsequential tittle-tattle. When the Boxing Day tsunami hit a few years ago, did anyone ever see a collection bucket on the bar of the Old Vic, was it even mentioned? Have the two conflicts that the UK has been involved in over severial years ever had an airing? A bit closer to home...MP's expenses or the Recession? Probably not - Rob

 

[BradNaylor]

I don't think that soaps are supposed to represent a slice of real life at all. They are simply pieces of entrtainment.

Some work. Some don't.

 

[MikeG.]

Ban TV
I don't remember the last time I saw something on there that was worth my time.

Attenborough?
Big Cat Diary?
Scrapheap Challenge occasionally.......
Live at the Apollo?

All these channels, and that list is about all I watch (reminds me of some Pink Floyd lyrics..........."thirteen channels of sh*t on the TV to choose from").

But chucking the TV out because of the 95% that is pure rubbish would leave me pining for at least the first 2 on my list.......baby and bathwater and all that.

Besides, wouldn't banning TV seriously affect your income Tom?!!

Mike

 

[woodbloke]

I don't think that soaps are supposed to represent a slice of real life at all. They are simply pieces of entrtainment.

Some work. Some don't.

I can think of better ways to be entertained Brad :wink: - Rob

 

[wizer]

Besides, wouldn't banning TV seriously affect your income Tom?!!

:lol:

Very true. I think I've become so cynical about TV since I've worked so close to it. Nothing fools me with these dumbed down programmes.

TBH I find BGD and SHC really quite mundane nowadays. Yes there are some fantastic wildlife docu's, but there's not much that's new under the sun, is there? I tend to just tune out of whatever garbage wifey is staring at.

 

[StevieB]

I have to agree that soaps in particular are inane drivel for the non-thinking masses. They compete to have the most 'shocking' storylines or intrigue and seem to deal mainly with infidelity, violence and alcohol. Ever noticed how almost every soap has a pub as a central theme - Eastenders, Corrie and Emmerdale certainly do. Its a very sad outlook for the UK if soaps mirror real life. The alternative, that real life mimics soaps, is even more depressing - that what goes on in most soaps should be thought of as acceptable or even normal is enough to make me want to weep sometimes.

Its not that I dislike TV as a medium, there are some great programmes at times - I often stop to watch QI or Have I got News For You, and sport and some factual docs will usually keep me entertained. Its the programmes made that seem to be targeted at the slack jawed bug eyed non-thinking great unwashed that I consider to be a waste of life. Be honest now - if your Missus said she wanted you to go on Jerry Springer or the UK equivalent as she had a 'surprise' for you, would you accept :shock:

And don't get me started on the licence fee!

And calm......

Steve.

 

[BradNaylor]

Ever noticed how almost every soap has a pub as a central theme - Eastenders, Corrie and Emmerdale certainly do.

They also all have a cafe - you wonder sometimes if anyone in Walford or Wetherfield owns a kettle or a toaster. Certainly no-one in Walford would appear to have a washing machine!

Obviously the pub and cafe are simply devices to assemble lots of characters in one place at once, thereby enabling several storylines to be advanced simultaneously. In real life these days, everyone just sits in their own living rooms watching telly; hardly condusive to the most interesting of plots and interaction.

Television has most certainly replaced religion as the opium of the masses, however.

Double Corrie tonight!

:lol:

Brad

 

[Jenx]

Ever noticed how almost every soap has a pub as a central theme - Eastenders, Corrie and Emmerdale certainly do.

And an astonishing ability for everyone to work their way through everyone else, making the 'beast with two backs'...

And as for those 'Aussie' versions of the same theme... :roll:

Try 'Hollyoaks' with the sound off ....
( in the same way anyone with ears should watch a Beyonce Knowles video :lol: :lol: )

 

[newt]

Brad has a point, several folk have said that the soaps do not represent real life which is true, would it be any more entertaining if was accurate, just think about it, oh dear.