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IAmKerplunk · 03/12/2025 11:57

BobbyShaftoWentToSeeSilverBucklesOnHisKnee · 03/12/2025 11:49

In the early 90s there was a programme called The Word and they had a segment where ordinary people did outlandish things to get on TV for a few minutes.

Some of the things they did included young guys snogging women in their 70s and 80s, drinking beer through sweaty socks and I think I remember someone drinking their own vomit once too 🤢

Didn’t Keith lemons programme do similar (can’t remember the name) where they would have ordinary women in their 70s topless or snogging younger men?

Velveletteslonleylonelygirlami · 03/12/2025 11:57

I'd do anything to get on TV
Comment after committing some hideous act.

RampantIvy · 03/12/2025 11:57

BobbyShaftoWentToSeeSilverBucklesOnHisKnee · 03/12/2025 11:49

In the early 90s there was a programme called The Word and they had a segment where ordinary people did outlandish things to get on TV for a few minutes.

Some of the things they did included young guys snogging women in their 70s and 80s, drinking beer through sweaty socks and I think I remember someone drinking their own vomit once too 🤢

You have just reminded me that I remember watching Eurotrash on Friday evenings in the 1990s.

Tomatocutwithazigzagedge · 03/12/2025 12:15

Showing the contest Kinga on Big Brother doing things with a wine bottle.

Velveletteslonleylonelygirlami · 03/12/2025 12:39

RampantIvy · 03/12/2025 11:57

You have just reminded me that I remember watching Eurotrash on Friday evenings in the 1990s.

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That was a seriously fucked up programme .
Do you remember the guy that was dressed as a penguin that was on most weeks.

RampantIvy · 03/12/2025 13:09

Velveletteslonleylonelygirlami · 03/12/2025 12:39

That was a seriously fucked up programme .
Do you remember the guy that was dressed as a penguin that was on most weeks.

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I don't. It certainly was weird though, and something you watched after coming back from the pub.

Velveletteslonleylonelygirlami · 03/12/2025 13:12

RampantIvy · 03/12/2025 13:09

I don't. It certainly was weird though, and something you watched after coming back from the pub.

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Or in my case naughty substances E,LSD ,speed.

JaneJeffer · 03/12/2025 13:32

What was the thing with the chefs called that used to be on after the pub?

AmyDuPlantier · 03/12/2025 13:33

The entire genre of getting people to eat animal parts etc live on tv is a fucking travesty for all humanity.

idrinkandiknowthings · 03/12/2025 13:38

What immediately sprang to mind was the sight of George Galloway dressed as a cat and pretending to lap milk from Rula Lenska's hands in Celebrity Big Brother. Nauseating.

IAmKerplunk · 03/12/2025 13:39

idrinkandiknowthings · 03/12/2025 13:38

What immediately sprang to mind was the sight of George Galloway dressed as a cat and pretending to lap milk from Rula Lenska's hands in Celebrity Big Brother. Nauseating.

Thank you for that reminder - I thought I had successfully scrubbed that from my brain for ever more! 🤮

ConnieHeart · 03/12/2025 14:03

BobbyShaftoWentToSeeSilverBucklesOnHisKnee · 03/12/2025 11:49

In the early 90s there was a programme called The Word and they had a segment where ordinary people did outlandish things to get on TV for a few minutes.

Some of the things they did included young guys snogging women in their 70s and 80s, drinking beer through sweaty socks and I think I remember someone drinking their own vomit once too 🤢

There was a guy licking a woman's sweaty armpit too

WatchThisGladys · 03/12/2025 14:24

A programme called something like, "What happens in Sunny Beach stays in Sunny Beach" (except obviously it didn't, because it was shown on UK TV).

I'd never seen it before, but just happened to turn over to it as a bloke who was celebrating his 25th birthday put a firework up his backside, then his mate lit it for him. He jumped and rolled around a bit and afterwards, one of his mates remarked that he'd literally ripped himself a new one. But not wanting to miss his "birthday shots", he borrowed sanitary towels from one of his female friends to line his pants, then headed out to a bar. He planned to drink 25 shots, but after only six or seven, he admitted that he needed to go to hospital.

As this young man was explaining what had happened, the look on the Bulgarian doctor's face was priceless. "Well, it was my birthday... so I put a firework up my arse".

The doctor later said that when it was his birthday, he liked some good wine and maybe some cake. "Not putting fireworks up holes".

Tarkan · 03/12/2025 14:24

I once found a fan-based Wiki for Hollyoaks that had sections on each character’s page for how many murders or attempted murders they’d been a part of. Now I haven’t watched Hollyoaks since I was a teenager but I definitely don’t remember there being so much murder back in the day.

Hortesne · 03/12/2025 14:36

JaneJeffer · 03/12/2025 13:32

What was the thing with the chefs called that used to be on after the pub?

Get Stuffed?

But they weren't chefs, they were students making things like toasted cornflake and tuna sandwiches without a sandwich toaster.

RampantIvy · 03/12/2025 14:45

Does anyone remember Clive James showing the Japanses endurance tests on TV? I can't remember the name of the programme, but it was seriously weird.

Politicians247UnderwearExtinguishingService · 03/12/2025 14:54

BobbyShaftoWentToSeeSilverBucklesOnHisKnee · 03/12/2025 11:49

In the early 90s there was a programme called The Word and they had a segment where ordinary people did outlandish things to get on TV for a few minutes.

Some of the things they did included young guys snogging women in their 70s and 80s, drinking beer through sweaty socks and I think I remember someone drinking their own vomit once too 🤢

Ooh, they had some seriously disgusting things in that segment. The French-kissing much older people was one thing; but some of the other stuff really had me struggling not to throw up.

Aside from that, wasn't it on The Word where L7 were performing, and the lead singer just got her fanny out for no apparent reason?

Politicians247UnderwearExtinguishingService · 03/12/2025 14:57

RampantIvy · 03/12/2025 14:45

Does anyone remember Clive James showing the Japanses endurance tests on TV? I can't remember the name of the programme, but it was seriously weird.

Ooh, I used to love Clive James!

I always remember the time in his regular New Year's Eve show where he awarded his 'Woman of the Year' prize to 'Yasmin' Arafat - I can't remember the context, but everybody found it hilariously absurd; much simpler times back then!

nightmarepickle2025 · 03/12/2025 15:00

The episode of This Morning when viagra first came out where they fed it to three men with ED, sent them off to a hotel room for an hour, then brought them back to the studio to ask if it had worked for any of them.

Velveletteslonleylonelygirlami · 03/12/2025 15:52

WatchThisGladys · 03/12/2025 14:24

A programme called something like, "What happens in Sunny Beach stays in Sunny Beach" (except obviously it didn't, because it was shown on UK TV).

I'd never seen it before, but just happened to turn over to it as a bloke who was celebrating his 25th birthday put a firework up his backside, then his mate lit it for him. He jumped and rolled around a bit and afterwards, one of his mates remarked that he'd literally ripped himself a new one. But not wanting to miss his "birthday shots", he borrowed sanitary towels from one of his female friends to line his pants, then headed out to a bar. He planned to drink 25 shots, but after only six or seven, he admitted that he needed to go to hospital.

As this young man was explaining what had happened, the look on the Bulgarian doctor's face was priceless. "Well, it was my birthday... so I put a firework up my arse".

The doctor later said that when it was his birthday, he liked some good wine and maybe some cake. "Not putting fireworks up holes".

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Could it have been jackass with Johnny Knoxville,Steve o,wee man ?

JaneJeffer · 03/12/2025 16:12

Hortesne · 03/12/2025 14:36

Get Stuffed?

But they weren't chefs, they were students making things like toasted cornflake and tuna sandwiches without a sandwich toaster.

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Yes that was it. They had the mystery chefs as well as the students 😆 aah 90’s tv

Most desperate thing a tv show has done for ratings?

Hortesne · 03/12/2025 17:43

I didn't realise they were actual chefs!

JaneJeffer · 03/12/2025 18:08

Hortesne · 03/12/2025 17:43

I didn't realise they were actual chefs!

Their chef credentials were questionable 😄

Yerdug · 03/12/2025 18:27

Keith Chegwin. Naked

AquaForce · 03/12/2025 18:29

Florencesndzebedee · 01/12/2025 21:58

Surely Naked Attraction?

There's nothing more surreal than a bloke being asked which fanny lips he likes best. Half crouched, peering at them, sucking the air through his teeth like a plumber sizing up a job for a quote.

The shower/grower discussion about five dicks dangling below the as yet unrevealed torso is a close second.

Grim 😳