{"id":6434,"date":"2012-11-02T14:32:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2012-11-02T14:41:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T14:41:03","slug":"dont-forget-your-australian-toothbrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6434","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Forget Your Australian Toothbrush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So obviously it&#8217;s the 30th anniversary of Channel 4 today, and we&#8217;ve been following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvcream.co.uk\/?p=31167\">TV Cream&#8217;s retrospective<\/a>. It includes a full episode of DFYT from the first series.<\/p>\n<p>But doing some digging there&#8217;s also an episode (in six parts) of the Australian show, hosted by comic Tim Ferguson:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mNCDXSlEou4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And do you know what? Once you get over the slight sense of the Uncanny Valley, it&#8217;s really watchable. They&#8217;ve very obviously lifted a lot of the ideas and mannerisms and even clothes from the original UK show &#8211; Tim Ferguson is effectively Chris Evans if he looked and sounded a bit more like Alexander Armstrong &#8211; but there&#8217;s just enough localised stuff to keep it interesting. For some reaosn, it went out on Nine live on Tuesday nights (Tuesday!) and was repeated on Saturday mornings.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us were trying to work out on Twitter if Bet on Your Budgie (part four I think) was something we did in the UK or was an Aussie original idea. I have access to lots of series two <em>Toothbrush<\/em>, but series one is a bit more difficult to research. Anyone?<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s no examples of the throw-things-out-your-windows game on Youtube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So obviously it&#8217;s the 30th anniversary of Channel 4 today, and we&#8217;ve been following TV Cream&#8217;s retrospective. It includes a full episode of DFYT from the first series. But doing some digging there&#8217;s also an episode (in six parts) of the Australian show, hosted by comic Tim Ferguson: &nbsp; And do you know what? Once\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6434\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6434","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-1FM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","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=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}