Please tell me this was a joke episode for adults that didn’t get aired in the children’s time slot?
http://www.keenaschips.co.uk/index.php?page=articles/misc_rainbow
It didn’t get aired. I heard the writers got the sack after that, although most of the stuff around it is bordering on urban legend.
My guess - it was a spoof show that was genuinely filmed, but never aired. There’s a very mundane reason for this: the clip’s far too short to be a broadcast programme.
There used to be a great tradition among BBC employees of making christmas compilation tapes, which were then distributed through the industry grapevine. They were mostly made of out-takes but also included a few purpose made spoofs such as this. It is a tribute to the high regard these tapes were held in that an ITV programme made a spoof for a BBC joke. This particular clip was on the same tape as Sue Lawley (a sober news reporter for those not familiar) issuing the most filthy tirade of bad language imaginable - bliss!!
Sadly these tapes are no longer made because of the popularity of out-take shows and the re-structuring of the BBC into internal markets. Suitable clips are now a valuable commodity and so jealously guarded.
If you get the opportunity do watch one of these tapes. They are hilarious and much better than the broadcast bloopers.
Thanks for that guys.
What about that programme with ‘Seaman Stains’ and a few others - do you have any more information about that? Was that a spoof too?
See what snopes said.
You talk of Captain Pugwash, one of his crew Seaman Stains and Roger the Cabin Boy.
This is real.
They appeared to be cutouts with real mouth superimposed in the right place.
Very surreal.
I used to watch it as a kid.
Many, many moons ago.
Interestingly that image on the snopes page is NOT the same image that I recall from the original show.
It’s still Pugwash though. The picture on the page looks to me like it comes from his earlier incarnation as a comic strip, when he did look a little more seedy. The artwork and character designs were tidied up a little for the TV series (probably to make them more appealing, but I imagine that much of the artwork was done by animators, rather than John Ryan himself). Click on the link at the bottom of that snopes page for an image from the TV series.
No, it’s not. It’s a myth.
I’m backing up *Futile the rude names In Captain Pugwash are an Urban Legend.
Agree - all UL’s - apart from the name ***Pugwash * ** oddly enough.
I am assured by a rapantly homosexual Brighton resident acquaitance that pugwash is UK gay slang for a male on male blow-job.
Now this could be wrong, or the slang could have followed the TV show which after all is very old now but thought I would share for what it is worth…
Any comments?
I believe the slang term pugwash did arise after the show, possibly as a result of the (common misconception of) sexual innuendo in it.
The consensus via Google confirms the quote in Snopes, that ‘pugwash’ meaning (not necessarily gay) oral sex is of Australian origin.
I feel so enlightened - SDMB achieving its goals.