{"id":9460,"date":"2016-09-01T15:57:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9460"},"modified":"2016-09-01T15:57:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:57:40","slug":"some-crystal-maze-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9460","title":{"rendered":"Some Crystal Maze sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So with comic and actor Stephen Merchant announced as the host of the one-off revival (a name incidentally we probably wouldn&#8217;t have considered, but on reveal pretty much immediately thought &#8220;yes that&#8217;s quite good&#8221;) I thought it would be fun to look at some parody as the show is ripe for that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest\u00a0one would probably be the Punt and Dennis &#8220;making a cup of tea&#8221; game:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gudjzy3E91Q\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Tony Robinson wrote a spoof into an episode of kids show <em>Maid Marian and Her Merry Men<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=332\">Here&#8217;s actually the entire script<\/a>, but here&#8217;s the relevant video.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LGzYCkki8Es\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish frequently did take-offs of popular TV shows with Star Wars models for their TV show. &#8220;The pony trekking holiday in Ullswater will be mine!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4MNnWL9YzjE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My personal favourite is <em>The Crystal Muck<\/em> from <strong>Dick &#8216;n&#8217; Dom In Da Bungalow<\/strong>, one of many gameshow-based endgames they played out. Dave Chapman giving it everything, &#8220;CORRUGATED IRON and PIPING.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zQSR7P9gmDY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Finally the most recent and probably the best observed, this from <em>Cardinal Burns<\/em> a few years ago:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aQqyZ-cOeo4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So with comic and actor Stephen Merchant announced as the host of the one-off revival (a name incidentally we probably wouldn&#8217;t have considered, but on reveal pretty much immediately thought &#8220;yes that&#8217;s quite good&#8221;) I thought it would be fun to look at some parody as the show is ripe for that sort of thing.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9460\">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-9460","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-2sA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460","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=9460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}