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100 greatest BCG moments.

If Channel 4 ever did a hundred greatest BCG moments, what would you talk about in your segment?

FRED SUNSHINE:
I remember when I started a 100 greatest moments thread, It didn't really make much sense and slipped off the front page very quickly, but you could do that sort of thing back then, and no'one would bat an eyelid.
Once we all discovered the real identity of 'you know who' then things changed very quickly.
Do I miss the old days? In a word - yes & no, the BCG had a certain charm back then but we can never go back, none of us can ever go back.
*starts to cry & gestures for the camera to be turned off*

NIL PUTTERS:
Ha! Yeah. BCG. Well, BSG back then. Seems funny now but I thought zooo was a man back then; and Aaron.

Quote: Fred Sunshine @ July 22 2009, 9:29 PM BST

Once we all discovered the real identity of 'you know who' then things changed very quickly.

NIL PUTTERS:
Ohhh yeah, I remember him. What. A. Cock.

And who'd have thought Chip would have gone on to murder all those people?! Well, most of use actually.

VOICE OFF CAMERA:
What about Tim?

NIL PUTTERS:
Tim? Tim who?

VOICE OFF CAMERA:
Walker.

NIL PUTTERS:
That lying shit!? You know he actually believes he came up with the idea for BSG? That guy has problems. I mean... AOL!!

I remember when I first had the idea for the BCG, or BSG as I orginally called it. I was sitting in the VIP bar at the Bristol Hippodrome at the time. Just me, Kenny Lynch, Duncan Norvelle and Twiggy. As we were sipping our Bloody Marys, it came to me in a flash! A site devoted to British situation comedy! It seems obvious now... Of course, I had to invent the internet first. Luckily I had been working on just such a development with Bobby Crush, during whatever free time we had whilst touring in No Sex Please We're Unicellular Bacteria. The rest, of course, is history...

I still cry myself to sleep over the great war with Chortle, all those young comics dead. For what? Did we learn anything?

I also remember when we discovered we had a real troll, I've never associated comedy with having legs bitten off before.

Bussell? Well, of course, he never married... We didn't think much of it at the time...

Oh yeah I remember when Sooty, or Sir Sooty as he is now, had the battle with the Troll, Yes he lost his legs, but once he became radio active & grew his legs back then there was only ever going to be one winner - Comedy.
Shame about all those skyscrapers though.

Did anyone finish the 10,000 page sitcom about cement in critique?

I remember that Stephen Birch one, bit of a whizz at the old wordplay but I clicked on his profile and he's no Brad Pitt I can tell you. Poor sod's dead now and on his headstone it reads. 'Stephen Birch - a race for fadio.'

Nigel Kelly didn't he write sketches so short and briliant he became able to move faster than the speed of light? I always thought he'd be a superhero, instead...

Nigel Kelly didn't he write sketches so short and briliant he became able to move faster than the speed of light? I always thought he'd be a superhero, instead...

Having young Aaron hauled off to The Hague for 3 years did put a very big strain on the BCG community. It all worked out for the best though. We found this excellent spelling and grammar program to automatically correct the posts...

Quote: sootyj @ July 22 2009, 10:02 PM BST

Nigel Kelly didn't he write sketches so short and briliant he became able to move faster than the speed of light? I always thought he'd be a superhero, instead...

Is this turning into Blankety Blank now?

Oh yes The Aaron5000, of course I remember.
Never a comma out of place, If only it hadn't malfunctioned.
Good job Sooty was still radioactive at the time, otherwise who knows what may have happened.

Fred Sunshine? How we laughed when we found out who he really was, then we cried...

I personally regret what happened over the 'Coming Of Age Series 14' thread. In my defence I never actually used the word "eviscerate".

Yeah a lot of people said he (Sooty) post too much, but most of them were just double posts.

Dave Chapman... There's a name from the past. Everyone thought he was just an old bastard, but he was actually a highly talented method actor. Like wot Clive Dunn was.

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