Cultural references the ‘young uns’ don’t get

[Peculiar23]

Called someone at work ‘Victor Meldruw’ and got looked at blankly. God, I’m old
Anyone else ??!!!

"Is it on the trolley? Can you point at it?"

I bloody love Round the Horne. I quote it so often it’s become part of my idiolect.

”Many times…many many times…”

”It’s yer actual French.”

”Ooh, he’s bold!”

“They don’t like it up ‘em”
“Interesting…..but stupid”
”Look that up in your Funk and Wagnell!”
”Don’t mention the war”

Perfick
Oh Miss Diane

As a child I hated the character Benny on Crossroads no idea why.

Can't say I hated him, he was just there. Hated Sarah-Jane's slimy husband.

Also hated the slimy man in Howard's Way, the one that Jan worked for and went off with.

Time for bed Zebedee

Loved a bit of Magic roundabout 😁

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm reminded of when I was 16 and an office junior in a big shipping office - at lunchtime I had to cover when the telephonist went for lunch. It was one of those dolls-eye thingies with cords that you had to plug here and there.

We had to make calls to ports overseas, including New York, which I found very exciting. I used to amuse myself by dialling random NYC numbers and have a chat with whoever answered the phone! 😀

Colleague (Irish, 30s) didnt know who Michael Palin is, nor did he know what Monty Python was.
It aged me.

My dopey cousin and his mates were portrayed in a 999 reconstruction once - they’d gone for a walk on a beach in Somerset and got cut off by the tide. The coastguard had to rescue them from the cliffs 🙄

Play it again Sam

who’s looking at you kid (not sure where that was from or if it’s even right)

come on down, the price is right doo doo doo doo

and the 321 fingers

😬

Evenin' all

Dame Celia Molestrangler

Rambling Syd Rumpo

She who must be obeyed

I used to spend ages trying to do the 321 fingers
Also Rubik’s cube - a lad in my school was on the news for being able to do it so quickly, we all took our cubes into school for him to solve !

@Peculiar23 the only way I could do the rubiks cube was to change all the stickers!!! 😂😂

You’re terrible, Muriel!

See, I think of that one as hip pop culture reference…but no. No, it’s not.

[...] Uncle Bulgaria!
He can remember the days when he wasn't behind the times,

The first "pop concert" I went to was the Wombles when I was about 6.
Remember-member-member what a Womble-omble-omble you are!

No Luton Airport.

Of course! Thank you, i really ought to have known that one

There's certain words/phrases that whenever I see them written down I hear them in my mind in a particular accent - this is definitely one of those!

Me too!
And it was so obvious because they'd go back on wonky, but no I really completed it honest!

Javelin through the neck is my enduring memory of that show 🤢.

Also a pp mentioned people winning speedboats on Bullseye but IIRC those winners always lived in places like landlocked Wolverhampton!