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Following the thread on where you are from, has your town ever been laughed at in a tv show?

Salbates was saying she lived in Worksop, made famous in Maid Marian and Her Merry Men as home to nutters and mud eaters.

The town I moved to had a gameshow named after it two years ago :o
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 7,734
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    union_jak wrote:
    Following the thread on where you are from, has your town ever been laughed at in a tv show?

    I was born and lived the first 14 years of my life in Liverpool, so definitely yes! :D
  • SystemSystem Posts: 2,096,970
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    I would'nt say laughed at, but TWIN TOWN made it looked like we were all joyriding, drug taking, rugby player's......great film though boyo
  • union_jakunion_jak Posts: 4,835
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    Lazlo_St_Pierre wrote:
    I was born and lived the first 14 years of my life in Liverpool, so definitely yes! :D
    Funnily enough, the only thing that comes into my mind right now is Harry Enfield.
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    COYS wrote:
    I would'nt say laughed at, but TWIN TOWN made it looked like we were all joyriding, drug taking, rugby player's......great film though boyo


    that's exactly what I was about to type until you beat me to it!
  • SystemSystem Posts: 2,096,970
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    tigerlilyxxxxx wrote:
    that's exactly what I was about to type until you beat me to it!
    great minds think alike

    EDIT - and our birthdays are the same...spooky stuff :eek:
  • PamelaLPamelaL Posts: 67,688
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    I don't think Kidderminster has ever been on TV, unless the Safari Park is being advertised. :)
  • ScottishWoodyScottishWoody Posts: 23,241
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    Well my hometown featured on A Place By The Sea once, and the couple were shocked at how low the house cost, shame they didnt know about the areas reputation :D:p, we've also been on that digging programme before, where they dig an area for land to find old stuff, cant remember whats it called, extreme archaeology or something lol
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    COYS wrote:
    I would'nt say laughed at, but TWIN TOWN made it looked like we were all joyriding, drug taking, rugby player's......great film though boyo


    Pretty Shitty City, I say! ;)
  • SystemSystem Posts: 2,096,970
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    Plum Bob wrote:
    Pretty Shitty City, I say! ;)

    It is, but some would say take the pretty part out
  • union_jakunion_jak Posts: 4,835
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    PamelaL wrote:
    I don't think Kidderminster has ever been on TV, unless the Safari Park is being advertised. :)
    Strangely enough, Kidderminster was mentioned on Maid Marian, the comedy I said about in the first post!
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    Originally Posted by Lazlo_St_Pierre
    I was born and lived the first 14 years of my life in Liverpool, so definitely yes!
    Funnily enough, the only thing that comes into my mind right now is Harry Enfield.

    The Liver Birds & Bread
  • union_jakunion_jak Posts: 4,835
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    aliasjones wrote:
    The Liver Birds & Bread
    I've heard of them, but I'm too young to have seen them :)
  • PamelaLPamelaL Posts: 67,688
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    union_jak wrote:
    Strangely enough, Kidderminster was mentioned on Maid Marian, the comedy I said about in the first post!

    Yay!!! :D
  • SchismSchism Posts: 2,601
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    union_jak wrote:
    Funnily enough, the only thing that comes into my mind right now is Harry Enfield.

    Brookside did more damage to liverpool's rep (as if it needed it) imo. Cilla Black pretty much killed it.
  • snoopy33snoopy33 Posts: 1,218
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    Peter Kay goes on about my town - Chorley
    Also mentioned a few times in Corrie.
  • lemoncurdlemoncurd Posts: 57,778
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    Not sure Bolton has ever been Parodied, other than in Phoenix Nights.
  • union_jakunion_jak Posts: 4,835
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    lemoncurd wrote:
    Not sure Bolton has ever been Parodied, other than in Phoenix Nights.
    Vernon Kay comes from Bolton, and the Bo Selecta version of him says "Bol-Ton" quite a lot. Do people say "Bol-Ton" to you at all?
  • lemoncurdlemoncurd Posts: 57,778
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    union_jak wrote:
    Vernon Kay comes from Bolton, and the Bo Selecta version of him says "Bol-Ton" quite a lot. Do people say "Bol-Ton" to you at all?

    All the time! :D

    Actually, Bolton has more than its fair share of famous alumni that do get parodied or self-parody.....Sarah Cox, Sir Ian McKellen, Stu `Stewpot' Francis, Vernon Kay, Peter Kay (no relation) and Paddy McGuinness....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolton#Famous_people_from_Bolton
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    aliasjones wrote:
    The Liver Birds & Bread

    First one before I was born, but have seen the repeats... disgraceful how in one ep, Bill Kenwright plays a rabid Liverpool fan! :eek:

    Second one was quite cool at the time, except for the fact that at least three of the family were Mancs putting on scouse accents (not altogether convincingly, yes you Billy Boswell!) and another was from Birkenhead.
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    union_jak wrote:
    Following the thread on where you are from, has your town ever been laughed at in a tv show?

    Salbates was saying she lived in Worksop, made famous in Maid Marian and Her Merry Men as home to nutters and mud eaters.

    The town I moved to had a gameshow named after it two years ago :o


    Not yet...............I'm sure it will be :eek:
  • twingletwingle Posts: 19,322
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    Oh yeh my home time has been parodied loads on TV

    Cracker, City Lights, Rab C Nesbitt and loads others. of Course glasgow is nothing like the tv shows!

    Anyway i now live in a posh place which has not been parodied on tv although lots of tv stars live here- maybe that is why!!
  • SalbatesSalbates Posts: 2,259
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    union_jak wrote:
    Following the thread on where you are from, has your town ever been laughed at in a tv show?

    Salbates was saying she lived in Worksop, made famous in Maid Marian and Her Merry Men as home to nutters and mud eaters.

    The town I moved to had a gameshow named after it two years ago :o

    That's me :D

    Plenty of mud eaters here lol

    :)
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 61,282
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    twingle wrote:
    Oh yeh my home time has been parodied loads on TV

    Cracker, City Lights, Rab C Nesbitt and loads others. of Course glasgow is nothing like the tv shows!

    Anyway i now live in a posh place which has not been parodied on tv although lots of tv stars live here- maybe that is why!!


    Glasgow is a fab city.........:D
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 7,734
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    twingle wrote:
    Oh yeh my home time has been parodied loads on TV

    Cracker,

    Although the lead character was presumably a Glaswegian, wasn't it set in Manchester?
    Probly you mean Taggart, which is certainly my image of Glasgow... 'Sarge, there's bin a mudd-dah'. ;)
  • diablodiablo Posts: 8,300
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    Blackpool was shown as a jolly, fun-filled place in the tv series Funland. :rolleyes:
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