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ludojudoposts · 1 year

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Random Raffles Reference - The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer

#random raffles reference #the smell of reeves and mortimer #1993 #vic reeves #bob mortimer #screencaps #screengrabs #my edits

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graaaaceeliz · 1 year

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Watching the Smell of Reeves and Mortimer and I'm pretty much crying

#the smell of reeves and mortimer

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dynamoe · 4 months

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Billy Quizboy as the rabbit-toothed guitarist DAVE HILL of glam rock band SLADE— sporter of the worst bangs in rock n' roll history*— circa their 1973 Christmas #2 Merry Christmas Everybody**, which was covered as the annual Venture Bros holiday song this year by Pete White, Master Billy Quizboy, his mom and her lovers (the elderly superhero polycule).

→ hear the cover on KenPlume's youtube → go to the Billy Quizboy & Pete White index

(I know with the orange hair/eyepatch he looks like Ziggy Stardust— the Quizboy:Slade ratio is a delicate balance.)

Merriest Twelfth Day of Christmas to you, to Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer and to Slade and anyone else still reading who gives a shit.

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Slade is more of a British thing, really. They had a ton of British hits in the 1970s as a glam rock band, but didn't break into the US until the 1980s (when they replaced Ozzy Osborne at the Reading Festival) with Cum on Feel the Noize, pivoting to be more hard rock/metal.

Noddy Holder was more of the “face” of Slade (head to toe plaid, mutton chops, tophat covered in mirrors). I suspect the all-plaid outfit on Col. Gentleman in the Vbros cover art is a take on Noddy's look... or he ignored the brief and dressed as one of Scotland's own Bay City Rollers. Slade suffered from a lesser case of Cheap Trick syndrome, where every member dressed like they were in a different band. Dave dressed full spaceman-- face glitter, every variety of metallic fabric available (lurex, glitter knit, vinyl, lamé) in shades of silver. The other guitarist whose name I won't look up wore a red lurex suit (I guess that would be Pete's outfit in their cover band) which he had to keep replacing because he sweated so much on stage the fibers literally melted (one of the suits was preserved by the V&A on an episode of Secrets of the Museum)... No one cares about the drummer.

The only reason I know anything about Slade — I'm no rock trivia geek, I’m a comedy nerd — Slade was a constant punchline in 1990s Brit Comedy. Noddy appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks in the LaMar era. 1993 sketch show The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer had a recurring mini-sitcom “Slade in Residence” (the band living in a suburban home together, wearing their stage costumes, eating nothing but cup-of-soup, obsessing over monster truck rallies and— the key to their appeal to Vic and Bob, I imagine— whining in thick Black Country accents.)

Billy is my Covid muse and if he stars in the annual Christmas cover (he had only sung before on 2006's VentureAid; read poems on their take on the Beatles Fan Club records), it's not like I CAN'T draw something despite saying I was done with this shit. I promised you guys a *technically* Christmas Billy drawing and I *technically* delivered.

Now I'm gonna switch to drawing characters I own so I can finally make some money. Godblessuseveryone. ___

*Dave Hill was just being a futuristic spaceman, those micro-bangs were the hottness on all the skater girls of the late 1990s. I even had 'em.

**Having the #1 song at Christmas is a big deal in the UK (as you may remember from the Bill Nighy segments from Love Actually) and the 1973 slug match between Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody and the eventual winner Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday looms large in music trivia, to the degree that I was sure Astrobot Go was going to release a cover a day later of some other (more fan-favored) characters doing their version of Wizzard to rain on Billy et. al’s parade.

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So which character dons the beard and harlequin eye facepaint to be the guy from Wizzard? Probably Hank, right?

→ go to the Billy Quizboy & Pete White index → Nobody'sSweetheart on Instagram

#billy quizboy #Slade #christmas #merry christmas everybody #1973 #cover band #cosplay #illustrator #illustration #venture bros #venture brothers #vbros #dave hill #slade in residence #glam #Explaining Slade to zoomers

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punk-chicken-radio · 8 months

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the smell of reeves and mortimer - food and drink

-ax and TOS

I had originally titled this alcoholic playlist as ‘booze fut baby’ and when @loveaxiomatic saw it she said ‘wtf does that mean?’…..so here’s the explanation…..TOS

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wonkyelk · 1 year

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Thanks to @salchat for tagging me on the ask game. Eight shows to get to know you better - this was very tough, but fun. I left out Stargate Atlantis because I think that’s a given to anyone following me (but safe to say it holds a very high place in my list).

[image ID: eight pictorial representations of formative tv shows as follows: bonkers children’s animation Willo the Wisp; YA comedy drama series Press Gang; Scifi sitcom Red Dwarf; surreal comedy sketch show The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer; comedy classic Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Canadian comedy Newsradio; ridiculous comedy game show Taskmaster; the 2016 live action version of The Tick. End ID]

No pressure tags @cassiope25,@hero-in-waiting, @gingerpolyglot, @trainofcommand and anyone who sees this and thinks it might be fun.

#Tv shows #ask game

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zippocreed501 · 2 years

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The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer - Slade

#vic and bob #slade #its friday people #comedy #cuppa soup rock #Youtube

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fuzzysparrow · 2 years

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Which British comedian released his autobiography titled 'Little Me' in 2017?

On 3rd October 2017, Matt Lucas (born 1974) released his autobiography 'Little Me', which tells the story of his life from A-Z, with each chapter headed with a different letter. The letter B, for instance, is 'Baldy' and discusses his struggle with alopecia, which caused him to lose his hair as a child. Similarly, the letter G is "Gay", which involved his sexuality, and T is 'TARDIS' because he starred in the British science fiction show 'Doctor Who'.

Matthew "Matt" Richard Lucas is a British actor, comedian, and writer best known for 'Little Britain', a comedy sketch written and performed with his comedy partner, David Walliams. His autobiography reveals the difficulties Lucas had in starting his career as a comedian and all the successes he has had since.

Before becoming famous for 'Little Britain', Lucas featured regularly in 'The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer' and 'Shooting Stars', in which he dressed up as a giant baby called George Dawes. Later in his career, he starred as both Tweedledee and Tweedledum in Tim Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland' (2010) and Thénardier in the 25th Anniversary Concerts of the musical 'Les Misérables'. In the United States, he is better known for his role in 'Bridesmaids' (2011) in which he played Gil, the brother of Brynn (Rebel Wilson).

Shortly before the publication of his book, Lucas was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Bristol, where he had briefly studied in the 1990s before dropping out to become a comedian.

#Trivia #Matt Lucas

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cultfaction · 3 years

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Trevor Peacock passes away aged 89 years old

It is Cult Faction’s sad duty to announce that Trevor Peacock has passed away at the age of 89 years old. Sadly he was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2009 and in 2013 was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. His family announced the sad news in a statement: “Trevor Peacock, actor, writer and song-writer, died aged 89 on the morning of March 8th from a dementia-related illness.” Peacock was…