Treasure Hunt
In my gigantic list of horrible stuff to cover on here, I'd always planned on hitting 3-2-1, but I snoozed and losed, and Limmy beat me to it. S...
2021-02-07 00:01:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Stuart Millard posts
The Accursed 90s – Endurance UK
Before British television became uniformly embarrassing, home audiences had to ring second-hand cringe-laughs from the clip shows of Clive James and Chri...
2021-01-18 00:02:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe Larry Grayson Show
Larry Grayson is another performer who exists in my mind, and perhaps in modern pop culture, more defined by other people's impressions of him than his a...
2021-01-08 00:01:35 +0000 UTC View PostJim Davidson’s Adult Pantos: Closing the Cursed Trilogy
As this is the final post of 2020, without wishing to come across all 'Bill Murray at the end of Scrooged,' I'm afraid I must drop some unironic earnesty, and sincerely thank you all for sticking with me through this Hell-year. I hope i'v...
2020-12-22 00:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostAn Accursed 90's Christmas
It somehow feels dirty letting the horrible 90s get their lager and spunk-covered hands on Christmas, but I regret to inform you there were at least ten ...
2020-12-12 00:17:49 +0000 UTC View PostYou Are Haunted - Episode 5
Christmas special.
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The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show
In the history books of light entertainment, the name Mike Yarwood is invoked almost entirely as an example of being massively famous and successful befo...
2020-12-02 00:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostNoel's Christmas Presents
With my distressing fixation on Edmonds, Noel's Christmas Presents is one of those suggestions that comes up a lot, and I almost went t...
2020-11-22 00:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostRunaround at Christmas
As a little behind the curtain goss, I had intended to cover Mike Reid's adult panto, Pussy in Boots this year, but then something else came alo...
2020-11-12 00:07:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Uri Geller's Cursed
Ah, Uri Geller. For a man so spectacularly up my alley, at the exact convergence point of naff paranormalism and television kooks, it was inevitable we'd...
2020-10-22 23:07:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael Jackson's Ghosts
A recent story in the Hollywood Reporter about Bryan Singer's toxic sets on the X-Men movies opened with a brief anecdote, meant to dem...
2020-10-12 23:01:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dukes of Hazzard & CHiPS - Science Fiction Double Feature
Is it Halloween already? Like your most annoying Facebook friend from school's birthday, our greatest festival now takes up a full month. It seems ...
2020-10-02 23:06:30 +0000 UTC View PostAnd There's More...
In digging around weird old shit off the telly, I spend half my time falling off the end of the pier down various light entertainment wormholes. On...
2020-09-22 23:01:28 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Post: The Time I Didn't Meet a Gnome
This is about a teacher I had at the age of eight, but as he's not consented to be written about on here, to protect his privacy, I'm going t...
2020-09-20 12:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Show
Lasting two series from 1976-77, ITV's Our Show was the Bugsy Malone of television, the very Our of the title a metaphor...
2020-09-02 23:04:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Accursed 90s: The Girlie Show
As a frequent stablemate on lists of Britain's worst ever television, The Girlie Show was essentially sold as 2020-08-23 23:01:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Owt Good On, Mam? – The Three L's
In trawling through the worst of pop culture, I always want to give my beloved Patrons their money's worth, but often come across something w...
2020-08-13 23:01:30 +0000 UTC View PostWacaday
Wacaday's something which crops up a lot in suggestions, but like much of the stuff I cover, very little footage has survived. In this cas...
2020-08-03 23:04:05 +0000 UTC View PostYou Are Haunted - Episode 4
Travellers and guests.
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Bill & Ted: The Series
As 1990 was the era of the animated spin-off, it's a given that Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure landed a Hanna-Barbera cartoon. More ...
2020-07-24 23:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cannon and Ball Project: Episode I
A few quick notes:
- I've been wanting to get into video essays as $3 content for a while, and this felt like a good way in.
- I know you're specifically paying for written work, so some of you may not be super into yet another site pi...
2020-07-14 23:02:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe Mystery of The Upper Hand
If you've been reading my work regularly over the last few years, you'll recall I've a specific bar for things which ran a really long time while s...
2020-07-04 23:01:22 +0000 UTC View PostNaked Jungle
Without question, Channel 5's nude gameshow, Naked Jungle, is one of the most infamous programs ever broadcast. You'll find it cited at or...
2020-06-24 23:01:30 +0000 UTC View PostGamesMaster II: The Wrestling
Growing up a wrestling fan in early 90's Britain, you had to take what you could get. Nowadays, you'd have to retire to free up enough hours for th...
2020-06-14 23:02:14 +0000 UTC View Post