Still Game & Best Bits

[philpy]

4 minutes ago, DA Baracus said:

 

 

It's an absolutely brilliant episode!

" Did ye no hear what happened to Gary glitter??"

[Craig fae the Vale]

I love that lift episode.  Perfect way to end Hogmanay. 

Managed to talk my (American) wife into starting the series. She's never seen any of it, and I've not seen the old ones in ages. Should be a good watch. Hoping she's been over here long enough to get it.

[IrishBhoy]

1 minute ago, Craig the Hunter said:

I love that lift episode.  Perfect way to end Hogmanay. 

Managed to talk my (American) wife into starting the series. She's never seen any of it, and I've not seen the old ones in ages. Should be a good watch. Hoping she's been over here long enough to get it.

There’s a guy from New York, never set foot in Scotland, who has a YouTube channel reacting to British TV shows. He watched Still Game from the beginning, and you could see for the first 5 or 6 episodes he was missing a lot of the jokes that relied on ‘Scottish patter’ etc. Once he got in to it he was getting all the jokes and the bits of slang that you maybe need your ear tuned to slightly. Hopefully she enjoys it, it deserves more of an international audience because it really is an excellent show. 
 

Back before Netflix was a thing I gave the boxset to a boy I worked with from Newcastle and he loved it. Got all his friends into it too. I think once you manage to pick the accent and the slang up, each episodes story lines are so well written that it can travel well. There is episodes where you can be roaring laughing one minute, then holding back a tear the next. Doubt there will be a better Scottish comedy show in my lifetime that beats those first 6 series’. 

[Arch Stanton]

Back in 2015 I worked in a call centre. The campaign was the UK Treasury's Pensionwise scheme.

80 of us went through the training at Erskine and then sat eagerly waiting to unleash our rehearsed script....

Except the Tories hadn't bothered with a website, an advertising campaign or even a phone number so no one could contact us. For 2 weeks we all sat there playing hangman and stop the bus on our whiteboards . At the start of the 3rd week someone asked if the big screens were capable of showing DVDs and, since Teleperformance had obviously been tipped the wink that the current situation was for the foreseeable, they agreed as long as the DVD was "acceptable".

Cue someone bringing in the Still Game box set (no shite series 7-9 back then) and it being played on repeat on all the big screens for the next couple of weeks before it all went tits up.

Came in handy a couple of years ago when I won a £50 Belhaven voucher in a SG  pub quiz.

Edited January 1, 2021 by Arch Stanton

[Raidernation]

I started watching series 7.
It’s awful!
Too many “new” young kids, I don’t care about Mick or Ferguson and even the auld tins seem to have changed for the worst.

[LoonsYouthTeam]

I started watching series 7.
It’s awful!
Too many “new” young kids, I don’t care about Mick or Ferguson and even the auld tins seem to have changed for the worst.

If you don't like series 7 wait until you get to series 8!

[Ron Aldo]

If you don't like series 7 wait until you get to series 8!

I could watch series 1-6 over and over again. From series 7 onwards I watched them when they were first shown and haven't watched them since.

[Arch Stanton]

13 hours ago, Raidernation said:

I started watching series 7.
It’s awful!
Too many “new” young kids, I don’t care about Mick or Ferguson and even the auld tins seem to have changed for the worst.

The redhead that Fergie fancies is a wid. Her shop scene was filmed in the west end of Paisley.

[19QOS19]

I started watching series 7.
It’s awful!
Too many “new” young kids, I don’t care about Mick or Ferguson and even the auld tins seem to have changed for the worst.

I could watch series 1-6 over and over again. From series 7 onwards I watched them when they were first shown and haven't watched them since.

Watch them again. Taking out MM scenes, they aren't actually that bad the second time around.

[IrishBhoy]

Watched ‘Fresh Lick’ last night, as it was an episode I hadn’t seen for a while, and I knew it was a good one. The scenes from them discovering the leak in shower onwards always have me laughing. It’s like a Laurel and Hardy sketch, as one calamity leads into another, and another. When it shows the bathroom tiles all ripped off the wall as they tried to fix the leaking shower head  one of the best scenes from Still Game imo. 

[John Lambies Doos]

Watched ‘Fresh Lick’ last night, as it was an episode I hadn’t seen for a while, and I knew it was a good one. The scenes from them discovering the leak in shower onwards always have me laughing. It’s like a Laurel and Hardy sketch, as one calamity leads into another, and another. When it shows the bathroom tiles all ripped off the wall as they tried to fix the leaking shower head [emoji38] one of the best scenes from Still Game imo. 

Yeh, brilliant episode. However after Victor puts the pies in the oven, most of the day has passed in other scenes before the pies actually burn.

[IrishBhoy]

4 hours ago, John Lambies Doos said:

10 hours ago, IrishBhoy said:

Watched ‘Fresh Lick’ last night, as it was an episode I hadn’t seen for a while, and I knew it was a good one. The scenes from them discovering the leak in shower onwards always have me laughing. It’s like a Laurel and Hardy sketch, as one calamity leads into another, and another. When it shows the bathroom tiles all ripped off the wall as they tried to fix the leaking shower head  one of the best scenes from Still Game imo. 

Yeh, brilliant episode. However after Victor puts the pies in the oven, most of the day has passed in other scenes before the pies actually burn.

I noticed that.  At the start of the same episode Winston asks to tag along with Shug when he goes to do his shift at the department store. It’s quite obviously night time as this scene is being played out, and Shug asks Bobby for 2 cans of fusilier and leaves the pub, with Winston following behind. Jack and Victor then appear at the DIY store during the day, at the same time as Tam watches Bobbys porno tape and realises what it is. After that we then see Shug and Winston arrive at the department store, and that’s when Tam phones asking for Winston to come and see the tape. So a full day, at least, has passed between the time Winston follows Shug out the pub, and when they actually arrive at the department store. 
 

I love spotting things like that, I enjoy pointing out continuity errors to people I’m watching TV with. Spotting stuff like actors facial expressions changing as the separate scenes are edited in to place, or seeing someone who has a jacket zipped up from one angle, and then zipped down from another angle, gives me great pleasure. The people I’m watching with don’t usually appreciate me pausing the show and pointing it out to them though.
 

‘Friends’ is excellent for this, so many continuity errors. 

Edited January 30, 2021 by IrishBhoy

[19QOS19]

I've watched Still Game that much that I notice there are a lot of these kind of inconsistencies. I expect the producers don't care as it's only sadcases like me (us) who notice such things.

One of my favourite Still Game snippets is when Jack and Victor are talking about how their house is in order now and how Jack would welcome The Reaper. When they get the dialogue bang on like that it's superb entertainment.

[IrishBhoy]

53 minutes ago, 19QOS19 said:

I've watched Still Game that much that I notice there are a lot of these kind of inconsistencies. I expect the producers don't care as it's only sadcases like me (us) who notice such things.

One of my favourite Still Game snippets is when Jack and Victor are talking about how their house is in order now and how Jack would welcome The Reaper. When they get the dialogue bang on like that it's superb entertainment.

Yeah it’s definitely not something I would hold against them, doesn’t take anything away from my enjoyment of the show. I think my brain is heightened to these sort of inconsistencies in TV programmes, as it seems yours is too. I’m always on the look out for them  One of the worst errors is Victor calling Craiglang, ‘Craigbank’ in the 4th episode of Season 1. I’m aware they probably didn’t film the episodes in order but you would have thought the name of the fictional scheme they were from would have been set in stone from the outset  

People I watch TV with regularly ask how I’ve managed to notice certain things, like continuity errors etc. They aren’t impressed by it, they usually follow it up by asking why I’ve noticed it. As I said, an episode of Friends has numerous examples of this sort of thing; furniture in different places, extras standing in the background from one angle, then in another place entirely seconds later. There’s a scene in Monica’s flat where Joey walks in wearing a white t-shirt, and as the camera pans in on him it changes to red, pans out to the white again, pans back in to red.
 

Absolutely meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but it’s something I will always look for. 
 

 

Edited January 30, 2021 by IrishBhoy

[Arch Stanton]

45 minutes ago, IrishBhoy said:

People I watch TV with regularly ask how I’ve managed to notice certain things, like continuity errors etc. They aren’t impressed by it, they usually follow it up by asking why I’ve noticed it. As I said, an episode of Friends has numerous examples of this sort of thing; furniture in different places, extras standing in the background from one angle, then in another place entirely seconds later. There’s a scene in Monica’s flat where Joey walks in wearing a white t-shirt, and as the camera pans in on him it changes to red, pans out to the white again, pans back in to red.
 

Absolutely meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but it’s something I will always look for. 

When Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman she was always wearing high-heeled boots yet when her stand-in was running after baddies or performing stunts it was always flatties. Obviously for operational reasons but a lack of continuity nonetheless.

As someone who was going through puberty at the time that was really important!

Edited January 30, 2021 by Arch Stanton

[19QOS19]

Yeah it’s definitely not something I would hold against them, doesn’t take anything away from my enjoyment of the show. I think my brain is heightened to these sort of inconsistencies in TV programmes, as it seems yours is too. I’m always on the look out for them [emoji38] One of the worst errors is Victor calling Craiglang, ‘Craigbank’ in the 4th episode of Season 1. I’m aware they probably didn’t film the episodes in order but you would have thought the name of the fictional scheme they were from would have been set in stone from the outset  
People I watch TV with regularly ask how I’ve managed to notice certain things, like continuity errors etc. They aren’t impressed by it, they usually follow it up by asking why I’ve noticed it. As I said, an episode of Friends has numerous examples of this sort of thing; furniture in different places, extras standing in the background from one angle, then in another place entirely seconds later. There’s a scene in Monica’s flat where Joey walks in wearing a white t-shirt, and as the camera pans in on him it changes to red, pans out to the white again, pans back in to red.
 
Absolutely meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but it’s something I will always look for. 
 
 

I'm kind of glad I'm not the only saddo who's bad for this [emoji38] It's so bad that when I pause the tele now my Mrs doesn't ask why, she just says "*sigh* what have you noticed now?".

[Miguel Sanchez]

Would the magnet Winston puts on his electricity meter work in real life?

[BFTD]

1 hour ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

Would the magnet Winston puts on his electricity meter work in real life?

No, but a powerful enough elecromagnet would f**k the hard drive in your PC.

Anything you'd like to confess?

[DrewDon]

Who marches round the corner immaculately dressed but Dicky Farnborough, holding a bottle of port and shouting at the top of his lungs, 'WHERE'S THE BLOODY PARTAAAY?!'.

[Miguel Sanchez]

That's no skin, that's rind.