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The Two Ronnies Fan Thread
Ben_Fisher1
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This thread is for true blue fans of this comedy duo, It is for fans to discuss their favourite series, and sketches, of the show which ran from April 1971 to December 1987.
My favourite series is Series 5, this contained 'Fork Handles' 'The Phantom Raspberry Blower' and the Char - women singing with the orchestra, BUT that's just the start. It probably has the highest number of great sketches like, 'Dr Death' 'Rhyming Train Journey' ' Mixed up drinks' 'cockney rhyming church service' and 'nuts m'lord'. I think this series was the Ronnies at their peak of creativity. But what are your favourite series and sketches? post away.:)
My favourite series is Series 5, this contained 'Fork Handles' 'The Phantom Raspberry Blower' and the Char - women singing with the orchestra, BUT that's just the start. It probably has the highest number of great sketches like, 'Dr Death' 'Rhyming Train Journey' ' Mixed up drinks' 'cockney rhyming church service' and 'nuts m'lord'. I think this series was the Ronnies at their peak of creativity. But what are your favourite series and sketches? post away.:)
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"Fork Handles" has to be amongst the "classic" sketches of British comedy....
Thanks, as much as I love 'Fork Handles' i don't think it's my fave, I like the Mastermind, and crossed lines ones better,AND have you seen the Dr Death one? it's perfection. Ronnie C goes to RB as the doctor only to find that everything he comes into contact with dies
The Circus Tumblers- 'See the big parade hip,hip, hip hooray, some turns wer'e afraid can't be here today, Bert List contortionist got knotted and retired, and Roderick Ball, the cannon ball got fired'
The Fox Hunters- 'Hooray, hooray for meadows in may, up in astride and we're well away, and give us a filly that won't say nay, i hope I can stay the course':D
The church choir 'Are organist is Mr Keys a man of many troubles, there's water in his pipes and he's forever blowing bubbles, his bellows they are real antiques, his pump is full of squirts and squeaks, he sits among the peas and leaks, hurrah the harvest':D
haha yes Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige were the regular singer on the show in the 1980s
you have taste mate. RB 'I bet he bites people doesn't he?' RC 'and coxes pippins'
I agree Barbara much better singer. Brilliant show.
The Aldershot Brass Ensemble - 'As soon as we both finish 'ere, why don't we have a meal round a Chinese? Or else I should go off me nut. Cause me stomach thinks me throat's been cut'
But most of the serials were mediocre imo. the last serial 'Band of Slaves' from 1981 was the worst, just terrible. I prefer the short films they did in the 80s like 'The Admirable Brighton' and 'The teddy bear who knew too much' which was a parody of Agatha Christie. I also loved 'The Village Smith' where Ronnie C plays a man stitched up by his secretary in a remote village where Ronnie B plays all the parts lol
That was piggy malone and Charley Farley,they were in about four or five of the serials. The last one 'Band of Slaves was the worst.
yes that was great. How about the Japanese theatre company? 'In the Kamikazee theatre it's classical Japenese RB I play gods and mountains RC I play hillocks and Bonzai trees'
Aside from the classics I do remember a sketch based around Squash -or Squish I think Ronnie B called it-after thrashing Ronnie C despite wearing a suit and seemingly not knowing anything about it. That made me laugh.
I agree that some elements got samey, especially Ronnie B's spokesperson monologues, which I find tedious, but when you look at the shows now they are still very satisfying. Yes a bit sexist, and probably seen as racist too. However they parodied EVERYONE including their own nationalities, so I don't see them as racist. I will always see them as two old friends, who I have loved since childhood.:)
S V F X
F U N E M N X?
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SILLY COW
I grew up in Chipping Norton (this was in the days before the media got obsessed with naming a mythical 'set' after the town - most of the names in this so-called 'set' don't live anywhere near the town, but that's another issue!) so saw Ronnie B around town a lot when he retired to help Joy with her shop. The first time I saw him in real life (having always thought of him as 'the tall one' on tv) I was amazed at how short he was, relatively speaking!
But a more quiet and unassuming man you'd be hard pressed to meet - nothing 'starry' about him at all. He kept himself to himself, walked and shopped around the town and no one bothered him who lived there. My grandfather was the town's butcher, and we used to joke he was more like Arkwright than Arkwright was! When The Sun did their 'sting' on him he gave me a 'thank you for your support' note and an autographed photo, which I've got tucked away in my box of 'things from my childhood days'.
We'd always watched the Two Ronnies when I was growing up, and as other posters have said, so many funny sketches and songs which still hold up now.
I watched their edition of 'The Interviews' on Gold when it was on recently - when it got to Ronnie B's untimely death I had a tear in my eye because he was a loss to comedy in this country.
Possible inspiration for the Not the Nine o Clock News "Swedish Chemist Shop" sketch? ;-)
What a lovely post. Thanks for sharing
Wonder who Ronnie C rates?
Na it wasent that one. I remember one when I was younger where they stood next to a wooden fence that looked like a farm.
Wasn't The Worm that turned was it? although they weren't detectives in that.
Loved the Round of Drinks sketch.
Wasn't those 2 country bumpkins/tramps was it? Those quickie sketches shot on OB Videotape, while the rest of the show was Studio VT or filmed on location.