Hi
Yeah intersting question.. I think to attract the viewers they use it
to get higher ratings. But there is definatly a humiliation factor.
They used a gunge tank on live and kicking and noel house party
sometimes gunging unsuspecting members of the studio audience.
On live and kicking, kids got gunged in their normal clothes. I met a girl
who was on the show once and she told me that she didn't like the experience one bit and got teased at school for months.
So what do all of you tv expert think about the subject.
thanks
Hi
Yeah intersting question.. I think to attract the viewers they use it
to get higher ratings. But there is definatly a humiliation factor.
They used a gunge tank on live and kicking and noel house party.
Which they used to get DLT. A great moment in television history. What ever did happen to DLT?
Someone explaned gunge ages ago, I think they wanted something more exciting than water (which was also dangerous because it could of got into the lighting etc) but they wanted it safe enother for kids (obviously!) and - well, they came up with gunge!
I also recall in my childhood watching a CITV programme which involved Chris Tarrant pouring some coloured goo into the contestants oversized yellow wellies.I don't think it was tiswas, that was chris's other messy show..
Anyone remember this? (must've been well over 14 years ago, I'm 28 now)
DLT was a talentless, arrogant individual who somehow managed to get a prime spot boradcasting on Radio 1 and therefore often appeared as host of Top of the Pops.
His name was Dave Lee Travis but he also liked to be known as The Hairy Cornflake (he had a beard and presented the breakfast show at one time - clever, eh?)
My biggest memory of him was at a Radio 1 roadshow many years ago in Aberdeen - Radio 1 were worried as Northsound had just started up and were trouncing Radio 1 in the ratings.
Anyway, they had this very high profile roadshow featuring most of their popular DJs at the time. I'll never forget seeing a little boy rushing up to DLt to get his autograph, only to be brushed aside as DLT marched straight to the stage so he could take the microphone (and it wasn't actuallt his show which was being broadcast at the time!) Fortunately, his colleagues took the time to speak to their fans and sign a few piccies!
Ronnie Barker did a wicked imitation of him - Dav Lav Trellis or something, I think
DLT was a talentless, arrogant individual who somehow managed to get a prime spot boradcasting on Radio 1 and therefore often appeared as host of Top of the Pops.
The weekend starts here. Or, at least it would do if it wasn' t for the fact it was Monday! Never mind.
Fun House was amazing. Always wanted to beon that show (and have hair to rival that of Pat Sharpe!)
Oh i hated Pat Sharpe's hair!! I don't kow what it was about Fun House it was just very entertaining when i was a kid. I never really liked stuff like that, i never liked "get your own back" or any of that rubbish. Its strange that i only like Fun House. :rolleyes:
I suppose some gunge is fine as it's part of the mix. As I said in anotehr thread would like to see more classic series shown on CBBC but that can be countrbalanced by some of the gunge ones (GYOB, D &D). I feel around the mid 90s there was a tendancy for every programme (esp quiz shows for kids) to have gunge, it faded for while but is now back but not quite to the same excess as mid 90s.
Are there any current Citv programmes with gunge at the moment (excluding MoM)? It seems to be mainly GYOB Dick and Dom. Is GYOB still going?
Not sure about GYOB. I think CiTV are trying to get a more teenage auidence these days and moving away from the childish gunge game show and head for more - errr- slick type of gameshow! Like Jungle Run!
Funny this should come up because whilst buying some cotton buds the other day, the question popped into my head - 'What exactly is gunge?' from which followed, 'Who makes gunge?' and i then imagined the problems tv shows might have sourcing gunge and how the conversation of placing an order for gunge might go.
It must be a very specialised industry - it can't be made to a mass level. Perhaps the markets boils down to individual 'gunge-runners'.
Oh i hated Pat Sharpe's hair!! I don't kow what it was about Fun House it was just very entertaining when i was a kid. I never really liked stuff like that, i never liked "get your own back" or any of that rubbish. Its strange that i only like Fun House. :rolleyes:
Was it to do with the incompetent kids on the go karts, when you knew you could do better?
And the mullet is the way forward! Or is it backwards? Depends which way you are looking!
Oh i hated Pat Sharpe's hair!! I don't kow what it was about Fun House it was just very entertaining when i was a kid. I never really liked stuff like that, i never liked "get your own back" or any of that rubbish. Its strange that i only like Fun House. :rolleyes:
Always thought Pat Sharpe was an A-Grade wuss for running away like a chicken when the gunge was about to happen in case his precious mullet got one gram's worth of gunge on it.....
Nope, for me, there was, and still is, only one presenter that got my respect for staying there and getting his hands dirty and his fair share of the gunge, shaving foam and the like; that's Peter Simon who used to present Double Dare (spawned from the American version) as part of Going Live. He alone is the God of Gunge!
If anyone's interested, one ingredient of the gunge (Double Dare style) was cornflower, which apparently was the thickening agent.... that's the one fact that has stuck in my mind since Phillip Schofield filmed a 'behind the scenes' look at Double Dare in 1988.... Oh, and the only time Pat Sharpe ever saw the slime was when he got totally gunged..... on Double Dare!
Have you ever seen Pat Sharpe achieve 'totally gunged' levels like Peter Simon did in this pic?
The other CBBC show which featured gunge heavily (infact the whole show revolved around it) was Run the Risk. Every game in that had gunge in it - and in every show Peter Simon would end up in the pool of gunge, I bet he hates the stuff now.
As previously said, it was very much a late '80s - mid '90s thing when every kids gameshow used it.
At least Fun House didn't use it too much and it was only in the first part of the show. The best parts of the show (Karts and finale in the Fun House) were gunge free.
Fun House was the only gameshow I wanted to go on but I missed it by a year - I was in 3rd year when our school was up for it and the contestants were picked from 2nd years. And to make things worse the two (randomly picked) people were crap.
Always thought Pat Sharpe was an A-Grade wuss for running away like a chicken when the gunge was about to happen in case his precious mullet got one gram's worth of gunge on it.....
Nope, for me, there was, and still is, only one presenter that got my respect for staying there and getting his hands dirty and his fair share of the gunge, shaving foam and the like; that's Peter Simon who used to present Double Dare (spawned from the American version) as part of Going Live. He alone is the God of Gunge!
If anyone's interested, one ingredient of the gunge (Double Dare style) was cornflower, which apparently was the thickening agent.... that's the one fact that has stuck in my mind since Phillip Schofield filmed a 'behind the scenes' look at Double Dare in 1988.... Oh, and the only time Pat Sharpe ever saw the slime was when he got totally gunged..... on Double Dare!
Have you ever seen Pat Sharpe achieve 'totally gunged' levels like Peter Simon did in this pic?
1. Natrasol is used as the thickener for gunge.
2. No E in Sharp
3. Peter Simon adored the stuff, and would deliberately slip in it so he could land all over it. That's my impression, anyway. He was hilarious, though.
Lol i hate to be on a gameshow like that i would get really embarrased and i would probably get teased at school for ages after the show. I'd hate it. Would you?
It would be cool in the right circumstances, I mean, I'd dread to be gunged for no apparent reason at some random point during the day, but say if I were to appear on a gameshow that gave me a good change of being gunged I'd be ready for it. Then I suppose anyone would be...
I remember hearing once that gunge starts to stink after being hot studio lights all day! Thinking back most of the kids on these shows getting covered in gunge were about 8 or 9, seens a bit mashochistic to do that to kids that age!
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Yeah intersting question.. I think to attract the viewers they use it
to get higher ratings. But there is definatly a humiliation factor.
They used a gunge tank on live and kicking and noel house party
sometimes gunging unsuspecting members of the studio audience.
On live and kicking, kids got gunged in their normal clothes. I met a girl
who was on the show once and she told me that she didn't like the experience one bit and got teased at school for months.
So what do all of you tv expert think about the subject.
thanks
thanks
Anyone remember this? (must've been well over 14 years ago, I'm 28 now)
DLT was a talentless, arrogant individual who somehow managed to get a prime spot boradcasting on Radio 1 and therefore often appeared as host of Top of the Pops.
His name was Dave Lee Travis but he also liked to be known as The Hairy Cornflake (he had a beard and presented the breakfast show at one time - clever, eh?)
My biggest memory of him was at a Radio 1 roadshow many years ago in Aberdeen - Radio 1 were worried as Northsound had just started up and were trouncing Radio 1 in the ratings.
Anyway, they had this very high profile roadshow featuring most of their popular DJs at the time. I'll never forget seeing a little boy rushing up to DLt to get his autograph, only to be brushed aside as DLT marched straight to the stage so he could take the microphone (and it wasn't actuallt his show which was being broadcast at the time!) Fortunately, his colleagues took the time to speak to their fans and sign a few piccies!
Ronnie Barker did a wicked imitation of him - Dav Lav Trellis or something, I think
apart from fun house. lol. Bring back Fun house!!!
Fun House was amazing. Always wanted to beon that show (and have hair to rival that of Pat Sharpe!)
Oh i hated Pat Sharpe's hair!! I don't kow what it was about Fun House it was just very entertaining when i was a kid. I never really liked stuff like that, i never liked "get your own back" or any of that rubbish. Its strange that i only like Fun House. :rolleyes:
Are there any current Citv programmes with gunge at the moment (excluding MoM)? It seems to be mainly GYOB Dick and Dom. Is GYOB still going?
It must be a very specialised industry - it can't be made to a mass level. Perhaps the markets boils down to individual 'gunge-runners'.
jack
And the mullet is the way forward! Or is it backwards? Depends which way you are looking!
Is that anything to do with her belly button. (You'd probably have to understand my mind to go there - and, believe me, you don't want to!)
Nope, for me, there was, and still is, only one presenter that got my respect for staying there and getting his hands dirty and his fair share of the gunge, shaving foam and the like; that's Peter Simon who used to present Double Dare (spawned from the American version) as part of Going Live. He alone is the God of Gunge!
If anyone's interested, one ingredient of the gunge (Double Dare style) was cornflower, which apparently was the thickening agent.... that's the one fact that has stuck in my mind since Phillip Schofield filmed a 'behind the scenes' look at Double Dare in 1988.... Oh, and the only time Pat Sharpe ever saw the slime was when he got totally gunged..... on Double Dare!
Have you ever seen Pat Sharpe achieve 'totally gunged' levels like Peter Simon did in this pic?
http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/joeyddfan/ukdoubledare3.jpe
As previously said, it was very much a late '80s - mid '90s thing when every kids gameshow used it.
At least Fun House didn't use it too much and it was only in the first part of the show. The best parts of the show (Karts and finale in the Fun House) were gunge free.
Fun House was the only gameshow I wanted to go on but I missed it by a year - I was in 3rd year when our school was up for it and the contestants were picked from 2nd years.
2. No E in Sharp
3. Peter Simon adored the stuff, and would deliberately slip in it so he could land all over it. That's my impression, anyway. He was hilarious, though.