{"id":11051,"date":"2018-08-22T17:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11051"},"modified":"2018-08-22T17:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:53:47","slug":"who-loves-you-and-who-do-you-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11051","title":{"rendered":"Who loves you and who do you love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Dave Benson-Phillips as it turns out.<\/p>\n<p>I was doing some Youtube diving the other night going into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCLy1-mmtWdzqZmqVSH79HoA\">the channel that had that <strong>Price Is Right<\/strong> episode<\/a> the other day (lots of good stuff on it btw)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11047\">that we talked about<\/a> and rather brilliantly it had this, a piece of music I was kind of fascinated by as a teen.<\/p>\n<p><Center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b7odiF9okXg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the rather fabulous end theme for peak era <strong>Get Your Own Back<\/strong>, which was also used as clock music for some of the games at the time, the show&#8217;s early foray into the arena-style after it left the fairground set. It sounds like it was written by Harold Faltermayer of <em>The Running Man<\/em> and <em>Axel F<\/em> fame, and it sounds completely out of kilter for a light-hearted kids <strong>It&#8217;s a Knockout<\/strong> style show. The music for <em>Squeal On The Wheel<\/em> feels <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RV07r_mCcs8?t=10m16s\">especially doom-laden<\/a>, and I kind of dig it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it wasn&#8217;t written by Harold Faltermayer, it was written by the musician and comic Steve Brown, who is probably best known for playing band-leader Glen Ponder in <em>Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge\u00a0<\/em>in the early 90s.<\/p>\n<p><em>GYOB<\/em> went through a couple of variations on its decade-plus long run and has TWO golden periods. No, not the fine-but-unnecessary Lisa Brockwell years (let&#8217;s be clear here, it was always going to be Big Dave&#8217;s show). Not the era of the Forfeit Furnace where they tried to go large on the fairground set, but when the show first moved from a 15 minute show to a 25 minute one and the very last series where the adult (the Chump) was the one earning the points to avoid the gunge with the kid (the Challenger) trying to stop them (for the latter two-thirds of the run the kid would try and earn the points whilst the grown-up would try and obstruct or undo the work under a handicap). They added a new big round &#8211; <em>It&#8217;s Puzzle Time<\/em>, which had a clever twist with the kids swapping teams to try and help the\u00a0<em>other<\/em> adult earn as many points as possible &#8211; and a couple of bonus games where the kids could reduce their adult&#8217;s score. It all felt quite well thought out and fun, and I think the Brain Box round and it&#8217;s mangle was missed.<\/p>\n<p><Center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NPpl4hEARnM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This series was also the last time we saw the original and best Gunk Dunk game where the adult had to answer questions against the clock with obvious answers that all started with a certain letter but none of their answers were allowed to begin with the letter. I&#8217;m surprised this has never been reversioned in some capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway it&#8217;s quite sad watching DBP scrabble about in the internet wilderness these days, if Pat Sharp can can still dine out on a haircut he&#8217;s not actually had for 25 years, is there really no room for Uncle Dave on CBBC? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Dave Benson-Phillips as it turns out. I was doing some Youtube diving the other night going into the channel that had that Price Is Right episode the other day (lots of good stuff on it btw)\u00a0that we talked about and rather brilliantly it had this, a piece of music I was kind of fascinated\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=11051\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2Sf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}