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There's a company called Dragon Removal, in Sydney. Just in case you ever have any pesky dragons hanging around your place, scorching your garden, eating all your flowers, leaving a mess, and making a nuisance of themselves.

Also, I love YouTube. I found the original performance of Paul McDermott and Fiona Horne singing Shut up, Kiss Me, from 1998? I think it was '98. I also found the Piece o' Piss Peace Opus featuring Human Nature, which I taped and then accidentally taped over, much to my despair at the time.

I love that people are uploading all these things I remember watching as a teenager.

Now I'm just waiting for someone to post episodes of JJJ's Captain Pants radio serial. If you didn't listen to it, it was basically a bunch of comedians, doing a bizarre story script live, which means they left in all the mistakes! It was cry-with-laughter funny, a little embarassing when we listened to it on our walkmans on the train to school in the mornings. The only thing I remember about it was that it was set on a ship, I think, and somehow Satan got tied to the mast, or something, and I remember Paul McDermott's character taunting: "Satan is a wanker, Satan is a wanker, Satan is a wanker." And then there was something about a potato famine. I don't even know. I just remember Mikey getting all gleeful: "We can finally do that joke about 'the peasants are revolting'!"

The radio show at the time was done by Mikey Robbins, Stephen Abbott (aka The Sandman or "Sandy"), Jen (the sensible one trying the keep the rest of them in line), and Paul McDermott dropped by at least once a week, and they all voiced several characters in Captain Pants.

I found a few more quotes online from other episodes:



Episode 1

TIFFANY: Oh mama, mama, how shall we make it to Portsmith now?
LADY HIRSUTE: Well, well, my dear, we catch a ride with the next couch. I'm sure that any young gentleman would stop and give a pretty maiden and her mother a ride and when I say a ride I mean a oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...
TIFFANY: Yes, Mother, I think I know what you mean.
LADY HIRSUTE: ... Oh, Baby.
TIFFANY: But aren't you forgetting we're disguised as men. I mean who is going to pick up... a quiet carriage approaches.
MIKEY: A quiet carriage approaches. Oh, umm... I gotta do the carriage.
PAUL: You know what would really help?
MIKEY: What?
PAUL: Some punctuation!
MIKEY: I'm doing the carriage.
TIFFANY: Quiet, quiet! A carriage approaches!
[clip, clop sound effect of horses]
MIKEY: (to Jen) It's your line next.
JEN: Oh yeah, it is too.
TIFFANY: Would you be going to Portsmith now?

NARRATOR: Well, it looks like the Hirsutes' are Portsmith-bound. And what of the new God Twinkle? Has it gone to his head to find out... Has it gone to his head?
SANDY: Oh Christ!
NARRATOR: Punctuation! To find out, tune in next week...
SANDY: Stupid Narrator!
NARRATOR: For the continuing salty adventures of Captain Pants.



Episode 8

TIFFANY is about to be sacrificed in the story, and Julie McCrossin steps into the script.
JULIE: now look here sisters I want you to know that the women of the village are dead against this sacrifice.
I'm sorry, poor choice of words. Dead. I mean they're dead anyway...
PAUL out of character: oh good on you, Julie.
JULIE: I want to be Lady Hirsute. I'm tremendously hairy and 20 kilos overweight, but no, I'm going to go back to this charming priestess that we regarded as an ongoing signifier of the patriarchy that plagues this island which is why we voted almost unanimously and that's good enough. Well everyone except Hilda but that's a long story, to liberate you and also pledge our support to the wharfies with their ongoing struggle with Patrick's.
JEN: It doesn't say that in the script.
JULIE: Does in mine!



Episode 9 (24th April 98)

*pffit* [blow dart noise]
TWINKLE: did you see that, that dam blow gun... [Paul stops to speak out of character] What happened to my voice?
[laughter]
TWINKLE: ... I must have been shot in the neck. Hey you, native, hey, 'scuse me. You could have someone's dive eye out with that ass... [Paul, out of character] Oh bloody hell, I've lost it completely.
[laughter]
[Paul tries again…]
TWINKLE: ... Hey you, native, you could have someone's eye out with that... dart. Dart.

TWINKLE: sir when we did when we weighed (made) that really vary (very) cruel decision [Paul stuffing up his line] that not all of us could make it [laughing]
[laughter]
TWINKLE: ... sir when did we make that cruel decision that not all of us could make it
PAUL: [sort of in and out of character] Theres no question makes there, is there?
[laughter]
MIKEY: [out of character] Well that doesn't explain you stuffing up the first half of the sentence.
PAUL: [in and out of character] Well, it's you know, it's lower case 's' Sir, there is no beginning, there's no comma, there's no question mark. I'll read it again. I'll try to make sense of it.
MIKEY: [out of character] Ok, go for it.
PAUL: [in and out of character] I'll put in my own grammar. "Sir, when did we make the cruel decision, that not all of us could make it?"



Episode 10

TWINKLE: Oh he's spraying...
Jen: That's my line.
Mikey: That's Tiffany's line
Paul: Oh sorry.
TIFFANY: Oh he's spraying comes... crumbs everywhere...
Paul: Oh well get it right, if your going to claim the line, get it right.
Jen: I can do it.
TIFFANY: He's spraying crumbs everywhere. Let's eat.



And then there was the Weather Game, the rules of which were: they were given a topic, and after the day's weather for each city was read out they had to have one answer ready.



Topic: Things you find in a shed.
Paul: Come on. Let's go for a more interesting topic than that.
Jen: Give me one.
Paul: The greatest moments of sadness in our lives.
Mikey: It's a real up, up, up one. Ok, things you find in a shed.
Sandy: What's the fallback [topic]?
Fallback: Fallback is religious leaders.
Mikey: When's the fallback come in?
Jen: No fallback 'til Hobart.
Yelling: NO FALLBACK 'TIL HOBART?

Jen: Townsville... [insert weather here]
Sandy: Shovel.
Mikey: Stack of girlie mags.
Paul: Rusty saw.

Jen: Brisbane...
Sandy: Mower
Mikey: Petrol for the mower
Paul: Old smelly bits of leather.
Jen: I don't like this topic. You were right Paul.

Jen: Newcastle...
Sandy: Nails
[Paul laughing]
Paul: This is dead. This topic's dead. Let's keep going! I think if we keep pushing we may get somewhere with it. But we can't just give up.
Mikey: Treasure. Pirates treasure that was captured and put in the shed.
Paul: When you're a 6-year-old anything can be in the shed.
Jen: Anything could be treasure.
Paul: Rusty bike - not a whole bike either, just most of a bike.
Sandy: Gee, everything's rusty in your shed.
Paul: It's a rusty shed. It's a shitty shed.

Jen: Sydney...
Sandy: Body
Jen: Alive or dead body?
Sandy: Dead.
Jen: See, you can put anything in the shed.
Sandy: Exactly.
Jen: You could have bloody Princess Di in a shed.
Sandy: I am treating this topic with distain.
Mikey: The leather strap for dad to hit you with when you're naughty.
Paul: I'm going to go with the other topic. When I walked through the glass door and cut myself to pieces and almost died.
Jen: If anyone wants to pick up the great sad moments in our lives.
Mikey: Ok. Great sad moments in our lives. OK fine. This has never happened before...
Jen: We've changed mid-stream.
Mikey: ... which means we have to go back to the top of the page.
Paul: Aww no! No, we're half-way through!
Jen: Saddest moments in our life.
Mikey: Start again. Jeez, we're killing them off aren't we!

Jen: Townsville...
Sandy: When a cracker went off in my eye...
Jen: You might want to just leave that story in two parts, Sandy.
Mikey: When my dog, Rusty, went to heaven.
Paul: [with great sadness] When my little dog, Blacky, bit my grandmother's leg and was put down.

Jen: Brisbane...
Sandy: I was temporarily blinded from the cracker that went off in my eye.
Jen: Oh you're going to do it in three parts.
Sandy: Maybe four.
[Jen laughs]
Mikey: When I was in sixth class I was in a crowded library... I had a little fart and the fart ran down my leg and everyone pointed at me and laughed and I cried.
Sandy: That's sad.
Jen: That's terrible. Hey Supie can you just run in there into the library and just get the crime cd for me please? Sorry, just a little bit of business on air. You know, in the ultra lounge series.
Paul: Oh don't worry about my sadness though! Supie's got to get something, don't worry about my sadness.
Jen: [still telling Supie about where to get the cd]
Paul: I can't believe it. I'm revealing some aspect of my life and...
Jen: Sorry, go on.
Paul: The time I was on the school bus and a kid looked at me and said he didn't like the look of me and got a pencil and just shoved it in my forehead.
[Jen laughing]
[Mikey laughing]
Paul: That's horrible.

Jen: Newcastle...
Sandy: When I was... umm... temporarily blinded in the backyard after the cracker went off in my eye, I ran straight into the clothesline.
[Paul laughing hysterically]
Mikey: When mum reversed the Morris Minor over the cat.
Jen: You have a lot of dead animals in your life, haven't you?
Mikey: Oh the carcasses. It was like the killing fields, our backyard.
Paul: When I accidently sprayed Peebeau over my goldfish
[Jen and Mikey laugh]

Jen: Sydney...
Sandy: And after I'd run into the clothesline, I split my head open.
[Jen, Mikey, Paul laughing]
Mikey: When I was told by my choir teacher that I should just mime.
Paul: Going down the hill on the billycart but got out of control and then ran into a rockery.

Jen: Canberra...
Sandy: Then I was kept in hospital with two patches over both my eyes.
Jen: I think you're embellishing now.
Sandy: No, no, I spent 5 days in hospital and I was lying in the hospital bed and the boy next to me had plaster on his hands, and right through the bloody night he kept saying 'Get the brick off my stomach! Get the brick off my stomach!'

Jen: Hobart-
Mikey: You went straight from Sandy to Hobart. You didn't feel our sadness.
Jen: I was looking at you though. I want your sadness. Sorry, continue.
Mikey: The year Mum gave me a photocopy of a gift for christmas.
Paul: The year I fell off the shed. We were having sort of chestnut fights and it was on a shed and I fell off.
Mikey: Chestnut fights. Is that what you call it in your family.
Paul: Well.. you know...

Jen: Hobart...
Jen: Come on, quick grief is good grief.
Sandy: The morning they took the patches off both my eyes and only one was working.
Jen: Oh, that is a sad story. That story is over now for me. Ok. Move on.
Mikey: The time I went to casualty because I thought I was having a heart attack and the doctor told me I had pinched a nerve in my neck.
Paul: The time I went to casualty because about three days previously I'd been playing barefoot football in a park with some friends and when I went to hospital they said 'This infection is months old!'
Sandy: And it was on your face!

Jen: Adelaide...
Sandy: On the way home from the hospital that day, Dad hit a guy on a bike.
Jen: Haha, did he?
Sandy: Yes.
[Jen laughs]
Jen: Last Guy Falkes you had, I guess.
Mikey: When Nana went to heaven.
Paul: This wasn't sadness for me, but it was a bit of sadness at the time. Um... when my little brother... we turned a corner in the car and he fell out.
Mikey: HA! Sorry.

Jen: Perth...
Sandy: When I took off my reserves jumper in football and dislocated my shoulder.
Mikey: [laughs] Sorry... that's the saddest.
Jen: That's the biggest loser story in history.
Mikey: When I got bitten by a tree spider and it swelled up and my father laughed.
Paul: When a Christmas Beetle flew into my eye and caused it to swell.

Jen: Darwin...
Sandy: When metho dribbled down my back and onto my anus.
Paul: What?
[Jen laughs]
Paul: Who's metho?
Sandy: I was getting a massage.
Mikey: The fifth time I sprained my ankle in one year.
Paul: I have no other sadness in my life. I think that's about it.
Jen: Religious leaders please.
Paul: Oh... ahh... Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Jen: Alice Springs...
Sandy: Pope.
Mikey: First time I got dumped.
Jen: In the surf or in a romance?
Mikey: By a lady. In the surf strangely enough.
Jen: Dumped twice.
Mikey: I was a double dumper.

Jen: Melbourne-
Paul: Hey. Oi.
Jen: Sorry.
Paul: Itola.

Jen: Melbourne...
Sandy: Manix (?)
Mikey: The first day of Autumn.
Paul: When I lost my big toe.
Jen: The first day of autumn is what category?
Mikey: The sadness.
Sandy: It's the end of summer.
Mikey: When you lost your big toe?
Paul: Yeah.
Mikey: Bullshit.
Paul: It's not something I talk about.
Jen: You've got a big toe
Paul: Have I?
Jen: Did you loose your big toe?
Sandy: Yeah they stuck it on the middle of his face.
[Jen laughs]
Paul: Hey, back off. Back off.
Sandy: I used the face twice in that sequence. Sorry Paul.
Paul: Back off.
Sandy: I'm sorry.
Paul: It's not gone well this morning.
Jen: Well, it's over now.
Paul: That was sad... Let's go have a...
Jen: Do you want to start again?!?
Paul: No, I think we should go now and...
Mikey: Let's have a pie.
Paul: Let's have a pie and talk out the sadness.
Sandy: Good listening at all?
Jen: Probably not at all.
Sandy: No, don't think so.
Jen: If you did stick with us, then we appreciate it.
Mikey: If I were my dog I'd shoot me



Needless to say it made it very hard to listen for the weather for your city because you'd inevitably pay more attention to the game.

Also, yes, you can say "shit" on Australian radio.

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