Watch out, Beadle s (not) about.

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Does anybody else refer to half a pint as a 'Beadle pint'?

falsedog wrote:"Beadle's About" actually had some really penetrating explorations of the human condition; the sort of Milgram - like mind experiments you aren't allowed to do anymore.

One I remember vividly involved a guy delivering something to a household that turned out to be a small religious sect. They were amazed to see him and dragged him inside, where he saw a picture of himself made into a shrine. He made efforts to protest but then quickly seemed to relax into the role of being worshipped.

Many other very clever set ups hard to dismiss as childish pranks. Beadle had a small hand in many of the later copycat "pranks" programmes and his signature ingenuity overshadowed his piss poor imitators


Please tell me this was intentional...

Watch out, Beadle s (not) about.

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Earwicker wrote:Why is Jeremy Beadle on the cover of all the papers today?

I mean someone's died - how sad - but come on, He was Jeremy fucking Beadle!

It's not like he found a cure for cancer or created great art or anything.

He rotted minds.

I can only hope the Doctor who told him he had Pneumonia just couldn't resist the obvious - though rather dark - practical joke he could have played.

That'd learn im.




Oh and lay off Bob Monkhouse.


What?

Ok, anyone dying is pretty easy to dismiss as being over-exposed if it's featured in the media. Don't worry, it won't be in the papers tomorrow.

For many people like myself who grew up in the 80s, Beadle was a fucking hero, because he was a kinda strange looking man who made 'old people' (i.e. adults) get their just desserts. When you're 10 years old, seeing a bunch of uptight adults having the joke truly on them was absolute fucking gold. Hands down. On a weekly basis.

Beadle was on our side, dammit.
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