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"What has happened to Saturday morning tele?"

Over the years I have slowly watched Saturday morning tele lose it's charm and appeal. It started off in the eighties. I fondly remember sitting there, watching Denver the Last Dinosaur, Rude Dog and the Dweebs and Motormouth with Green Gilbert. Then came Going Live - Philip Schofield and Sarah Greene rocked! And they both went on to become stables of after school watching - Philip in his broom cupboard and Sarah Greene doing Newsround. Christ man, she even did Ghostwatch! Those were real Saturday morning celebs. Pat Sharp even had his super-mullet when he was hosting Motormouth.

Now it's a sorry state of affairs. Ant & Dec were mildy amusing on SM:TV, but only because they were clueless and mucked up all the time. Now they have losers from Hollyoaks and Big Brother and Cat Deeley. BBC1 aren't much better either. That 'band' who do the theme tune and the phone number jingle must really think they rock. Only someone who's so full of themselves could do that without cringing. Whatever happened to renegade phoneins where people caned Mat Bianco and Five Star? Those were the days. Now all the calls are screened properly, just to make sure they won't say bad things about Blue or Westlife.

I wish I had stayed in bed this morning and not had the misfortune of seeing batty-boy Brian (of Big Brother fame) sitting on his back, lifting his legs in the air and having someone in sound effects make a farting noise. Oh how fuuny Brian, seeing your fudge tunnel, knowing what's been up there and hearing noises come from it - I'm sure the children (and their parents) wanted to see that. Then there's Cat Deeley's smutty little innuendos at Finn.

One thing that did make me laugh was the 'Britney Spears Karaoke' on the Saturday Morning Show. Somehow a little boy with a really deep voice managed to get in the final. This is gonna be great, he dances and everything. "Sometimes I run, sometmes I hide" *makes fan motion over face to simulate hiding*. It was great, really made me laugh - but it wasn't intended. The final's on 30th March, everyone vote for him please.

THE NEWS. BBC news website and Ananova.

monkey_man wrote:
> And now Finn has got the sack from CD:UK. Yes!

how do you know?

Yeah, there was a mutt-catcher called Hermann and he had a dog, which I think was called Rock.

Hang on.

False alarm, don't think thats it.
Damn lying robot

http://www.musicrobot.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?terms =rude+dog&class=name&mode=diffnames

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"Bad to the bone"

Oh yes!

Rude dog! Wahahaha.

I remember that. It had the coolest sound track. He had a cool car didn't he? Or am I mixed up here!

I'll be damned if I can remember the dweebs names though

GH - he's off to find the Rude dog sound track midi

The Raccoons! Burt Raccoon, Cyril Sneer, Cedric - I remember it all. But can you name all of Rude Dog's Dweebs? I'll start - Kaboose.

Going live with Gordon the Gopher. It ruled all.

Denver the dinosaur! Genius!
Then there was that Racoon one where the evil pink dude had a tap for a nose

And now Finn has got the sack from CD:UK. Yes!

I too saw that boy on the Saturday show

lol at your comments on 'batty boy' Brian