I’ve recently been watching some old “Grange Hill” episodes on You Tube. The stuff from the 1980′s was definitely the classic period. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve enjoyed the delights of Zammo shooting up in the back room of the amusements and Gonch running his toast bar under the very nose of Mrs McCluskey.
In fact, I can’t stop laughing at the “Gonch’s Toast Bar” episode. In particular at the young kid who, whilst Gonch is surrounded by hungry youths in the playground, repeatedly asks “Got any cheese?” in the most ridiculous high pitched voice for about five minutes. He’s shot down in flames eventually by Gonch who replies “Don’t do cheese”.
I feel sorry for the actor. That may have been his only ever acting role. I can picture him in nightclubs in the early 1990′s, trying to pull girls with the chat up line “I used to be in Grange Hill”.
“Oh, so who did you play then?”
“Well, I was the guy who ask Gonch if he had any cheese.”
At this point she’s already copping off with his mate. Poor sod. That kind of fame isn’t worth having. It’s like being the first person voted off Big Brother. You’re part of it but at the same time you are not. An impostor. In his case, an impostor with a squeaky voice.
On the subject of funny voices, we discovered last night that if Sam is slightly upset about something, speaking to him in a Mr T voice seems to work wonders. A quick “I ain’t getting in no plane fool” and he’s rolling about laughing. Funny how it is.
on Oct 2nd, 2008 at 10:59 am
Yep, I always think that when you see some poor sod on TV dressed as a jalapeno in a Subway advert – can you imagine having to put that on your CV? Or worse, being the guy dressed up as a Whopper handing out balloons outside Burger King, clearly thinking “Just kill me now.”