Anyone remember Pob?

[SarahLee]

We were talking about 80s Kids' TV today at work.
Does anyone else remember the freaky puppet who used to spit all over the TV screen in the opening credits?

Just been having a look on YouTube and it's much, much weirder than I remember . . .

 

[viv1969]

YES!!!
Weirdest puppet ever.

 

[SarahLee]

I can't believe that we actually used to watch it!

To be fair, I thought it was weird at the time . . . but watching Toyah Willcox rub toast on her face I've just reassessed my definition of the word 'weird'.

 

[viv1969]

He used to spit at the screen!!

 

[SarahLee]

He used to spit at the screen!!

PMSL - and then write his name in it!

 

[Cobra]

That's nothing I've ever come across TBH
And something's should just remain a "Mysthtery"

 

[viv1969]

That's nothing I've ever come across TBH
And something's should just remain a "Mysthtery"

Still thearching for a clue?

 

[Tigger.ufo]

What about TISWAS?

...Bob Carolgees and Spit the dog...

...and Cough the cat.

 

[Cobra]

Ah yes Spit the dog, real classy that one

 

[Cartus]

TISWAS - Today is Saturday, Watch and Suffer! Can't remember it at all, I bet Chris Tarrant can't either.

Spit the Dog was a classic that I remember like yesterday but I don't remember Cough the Cat at all.

 

[LASTOLITE]

Blimey - blast from the past...As a kid I hated it....magic roundabout was more my bag.....so I am told, although that springy thing used to confuse me....

 

[TCR4x4]

Loved Pob!!

 

[Yves Geza]

At work today, a problem elicited the line from my sales manager "Anything can happen in the next half hour!" which we both recognised!

What actually happened in the next half hour was that we agreed that although we remembered Stingray, we were just a bit too young to remember much about either Fireball XL5 or Supercar!

 

[Nikon_Nick]

More of a Metal Mickey / Rentaghost fan myself.

 

[viv1969]

More of a Metal Mickey / Rentaghost fan myself.

I had to google Metal Mickey!
Rentaghost is being made into a film with Ben Stiller apparently.

 

[Nikon_Nick]

Rentaghost is being made into a film with Ben Stiller apparently.

...are you shi**ing me?

 

[Cobra]

At work today, a problem elicited the line from my sales manager "Anything can happen in the next half hour!" which we both recognised!
What actually happened in the next half hour was that we agreed that although we remembered Stingray, we were just a bit too young to remember much about either Fireball XL5 or Supercar!

I just about rememeber Fireball XL5 but not supercar.
Ah yes Stingray and that hot little Aqua marina (Is that wrong? )

More of a Metal Mickey / Rentaghost fan myself.

Metel Mickey

No one seems ever to remember Patsy Kensit (about the same era IIRC)
Playing "Luna" though.

 

[Nikon_Nick]

I just about rememeber Fireball XL5 but not supercar.
Ah yes Stingray and that hot little Aqua marina (Is that wrong? )


Metel Mickey

No one seems ever to remember Patsy Kensit (about the same era IIRC)
Playing "Luna" though.

Mmmm Patsy Kensit ...




...when she was younger obviously. Not now though :meh: :indifferent:

 

[Cobra]

Mmmm Patsy Kensit ...
...when she was younger obviously. Not now though :meh: :indifferent:

Born in '68. doesn't seem to have aged as well as some, does she?

Lethal Weapon II nakid in the water
(Its OK she wasn't really dead, just acting )

 

[Nikon_Nick]

Born in '68. doesn't seem to have aged as well as some, does she?

Lethal Weapon II nakid in the water
(Its OK she wasn't really dead, just acting )

I was thinking more when she was still alive actually

 

[viv1969]

...are you shi**ing me?

I s*** you not

 

[dinners]

Hartley Hare used to freak me out.

 

[beyond the blue]

I can remember when hardly anybody had a tele.

 

[Brendan Mulachy]

Born in '68. doesn't seem to have aged as well as some, does she?

Lethal Weapon II nakid in the water
(Its OK she wasn't really dead, just acting )

i watched it the other night im sure she had clothes on...maybe wishfull thinking on your part there lol

 

[Cobra]

i watched it the other night im sure she had clothes on...maybe wishfull thinking on your part there lol

b****r!
I've not seen it in awhile TBH,
I thought she was at least topless though?

 

[Brendan Mulachy]

just watched the clip of it on sky catchup....deffo dressed

 

[Cobra]

just watched the clip of it on sky catchup....deffo dressed

Double b****r!
Must be wishful thinking then

 

[norters]

Loved Pob. There was a lad in my class in school called Paul O'Brien and his nickname was Pob. Didn't the dirty little b****r used to spit on the camera lens?

 

[SarahLee]

Didn't the dirty little b****r used to spit on the camera lens?

 

[norters]

I have to admit when I saw the title of the thread I got too excited and had to reply without reading it! I noticed that someone else had already pointed it out He was a proper dirty rat wasn't he?! I'm sure this used to be on alongside one called Five Children and It. That was another mental one.

 

[SarahLee]

What the hell were they thinking?

I can't remember Five Children and It - off to try to find it now to see if it rings any bells.

 

[norters]

It was nuts. Loads of Victorian kids find a dirty little gollum thing in a sandpit and it becomes their best mate. I hope I'm not imagining it.

 

[SarahLee]

I'd love to tell you that you were imagining it, but seems that it was real.
Looking at the pictures 'dirty little gollum thing' sums it up perfectly - but I'm sure I wouldn't have forgotten it if I'd seen it.

 

[Gremlin]

Double b****r!
Must be wishful thinking then

Fully clothed on The Chase now, so won't interest you

 

[SarahLee]

Although I suspect that even if they were interested, they might be a bit slow and are now going to get Esther Rantzen instead

 

[Gremlin]

PMSL Sarah

 

[Cobra]

Fully clothed on The Chase now, so won't interest you

Who's chasing her

 

[Gremlin]

Who's chasing her

The Sinner Man

 

[Cobra]

The Sinner Man

Yeah OK if you say so
:meh: :indifferent: