Bah, I've only just noticed that Chapter 2 of this is slightly out of sync, which is incredibly annoying and I'm not actually sure what's happened there so... Soz.
No worries mate. I forgot how mindless this was. Love 'Build Yourself a Word', and of course 'Magic, Magic E'. Seriously, you are doing some admirable work to make this dross entertaining. As always, Funny as Funk 😅
Preface - great video and I love your work. This is pure nightmare fuel for me though. Takes me right back to the grim 80s and miners strike for some reason (must have been watching it at the same time I guess?). Chain smoking neighbours constantly talking about Scargil etc. For some reason I feel sick to the pits of my stomach with this one. I think this is the only video I have ever seen that has triggered me in some way. I have liked and am already subscribed. Keep up the good work. But god damn, this video sent me some place. Think I’ll go play treasure island dizzy for a while.
The biggest disappointment that came to me as a kid was when the Travel Sweet Tins had needles and thread instead of those powdery boiled pieces of goodness. What I never understood was my nan never ate sweets so where did they go?
Not gunna lie, that "Magic E's" song went HARD, synched SO well with the animation They must've known the connotations that "Magi E's" has in relation to drug culture and stealthily sneaked it in there!
@@jonathananderson9769 haha, fortunately we had RTS' commentary to entertain. Dread to think the emotional stress he had to do to get through all these episodes and edit it all together!
Ah,,,I'm so glad my year at school was just too old to have to sit through this one. I think we had the best of Look & Read: The Boy From Space, Dark Towers, Badger Girl and Fairground.
Random fact where spuggy lives. He lives in the Byker Wall and although a massive eyesore is a listed building. The lovely red door in that brilliant red is actually a colour only painted for the Byker wall. Yup even the Byker wall has its own listed paint and can only be maintained in that certain shade. Yeah told you it was random.
I remember that mr wordsworth character. That series looked dire, well done for watching it all. I recognised the dad, he was one of the blokes in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
When I was a kid, once a week someone would have to run across school and wheel back "THE TELLY" so we could spend a whole lesson watching Geordie Racer... BLISS!!! (and teachers complain they aren't paid enough...)
Haha yeah, hey 'member THE PHONE? (also the local pub and doctor etc) - those were the days (as long as you weren't getting diddled by a TV star of course)!
@@RoseTintedSpectrum Dark Towers first, please boss! There’s a genuine plot in that one and - I think - Christopher Biggins as a hard man villain. That can’t be right, surely?
I love the escalation of the thieves' crimes... precious jewels... priceless artworks... the contents of the tills at a parochial Northern rec centre. Truly the heist of the century. Just think how many 10p bottles of luridly-coloured Panda Pop that place must sell of a weekend. I genuinely loved this when I was a kid, even though I grew up in East Anglia and could probably only understand about one in three words that came out of Spuggie's mouth.
Wasn't the rec centre where everyone went to pay their entry fees to be in the Great North Run? In the bizarre world of Geordie Racer, it would make perfect sense for the race organisers to leave massive bundles of cash lying around completely unattended during the race.
Legitimately love these educational recaps. It reminds me of the big black tvs being wheeled into the classroom and the buzz of excitement from classmates. If I was sitting on a tiny green plastic chair I’d be right back there! Thank you, so very funny and such a blast from the past! I’ll pray for your sanity!
Well that brought me back to being ushered into the staff room with the rest of the class to watch the big TV hid behind two doors. Dark Towers and Badger Girl next.
Started this thinking it was something I had never seen before. Until that red robot popped up and then I was smacked by a memory overload! It always reminded me of the Henry Vacuum Cleaner as a kid.
I've spent over 35 years until now not knowing whether I actually watched this in school or just saw something on TV at home and then made the rest up in my head, as even now I'm not sure if it's all the same show. I can't believe I even remembered the real name of the show and things like the magic e song.😮
I saw this at school too 😂😂 our teacher bought in a stottie for us to try omg memories...but also your commentary got me crying with laughter... brilliant 🤣
I don't remember this show, thankfully, but hate-watched 'Beeker Grurve' for a while as a kid, also with a character called Spuggy, and debuting Ant and Deck, the moss piglets of broadcast television... stick yer license lol :D
Finally got around to watching all this in one go. So many boring school memories coming back. I wonder now why the class got so excited when the big TV & VHS player got wheeled in. Still had a laugh thanks to you mate.👍
Bloody hell , this brings back memories. I remember magic E and wordy. I'm sure after the episode, we had to answer questions on a sheet about the show. So much of this show now looks well dodgy and that's not including the DJ. Epic commentary as always. Glad your back with us RTS!
Ah... memories. Every week down to the library and the primary teacher would roll out the TV and we'd watch this. It actually created a mandella effect for me when Ant got blinded in Byker Grove. I could've sworn he said "Spuggy I cannae see mon"
I have a distinct memory of pissing against a tree in the late 80s and singing "weeeee magic e". I studied French for 9 years and remember nothing, the power of a catchy song
As a person of Geordie descent, Geordie Racer is very similar to my parent's childhood stories. The greatest discrepancy is the lack of casual violence, swearing and cigarette smoking, while eating stotties by a bin.
It's pretty much accurate. I grew up as the soft southern cousin who could barely understand his own relatives at Christmas. Go 20mi north of Newcastle and it's almost entirely unintelligible. As in they use entirely different words.
@RoseTintedSpectrum Seems Gorwen's power to incessantly shout peoples names over and over again has the power to transcend time, space and even dimensions!
Does anyone else remember the safety videos we had to watch, one particular terrifying safety video i remember was "Never rest in peace" a farm safety video involving kids losing limbs and drowning and the ghost of a dead farmer accused of murdering children. Scared the life out of me and my classmates
i watched a few episodes of this at school , but due to the amount of twagging i did i never did figure out if spuggy was a lad , a lass, some sort of strange sort of sexless clone. The magic E certainly had its time in the 90s
When I was little, all I knew of geordies was the comic strip in the Dandy: 'The Jocks and The Geordies'. Thanks to their school uniforms and plummy dialogue, I assumed a 'geordie' was a posh, english public school boy, compared to the scottish underclass represented by the jocks. Then I watched Geordie Racer on the school's big TV, and I thank it for enlightening me - they were _all_ grubby plebs. 32:20 I don't know exactly why, but that sound effect made me laugh until I almost choked. 😂
I did the Great North Run last year, with torrential rain in the final mile. Dunno who suffered more, me doing that, or you battling through this for our benefit 😂 Oh, and bonus points for “jazz mags”
I really hated this show as a child, and back then I was full of joy, whimsy and wonder. Now i'm a grumpy old man and I can say child me was right to hate this. Thanks for reminding me.
Oh how I prayed for those Thursday mornings in 1988 in the West Midlands when we would go into the "AV" room in primary school, (essentially a dark closet with a TV on wheels and tiered seating which I'm almost definitely misremembering as stacked up tables with a bit of carpet for us to sit on) and watch Geordie Racer just to get out of the grim and grey 80s mind (and body) prison that was education 😂 Who were these strange people from this far off land? Why did they speak like that? Could man and beast be so connected as to solve crime? What the FK was a stottie? What the FK was on the TOP of a stottie!? Why was that old wizard still trying to peddle drugs to brummies? Hadn't we all said a big resounding yes to the letter H?? 😂 Seriously it's mental and hilariously brilliant that you've done this 😂❤
Missed out on Geordie Racer when I was at school; my lot were subjected to Badger Girl instead. Pretty sure it still had the same sodding songs in, though!
I think the dad in this was the manager in Jossy’s Giants. That would be a fun one to make a video about and Byker Grove. My grandparents lived next door to “Fraser” from Byker Grove in Chester-le-Street in the late 90s 🤣
Yeah, I'm Cumbrian so I know the term Spuggy but I don't quite get why they call HIM Spuggy. He loves pigeons. It'd be like calling a runner "Hurdle boy"
Superb. Only other look and read I can remember was badger girl, but I suspect that was older, and somehow even worse than geordie racer. Probably didn’t even have a banging theme tune.
For so-called "educational" series' (such as this and Through The Dragon's Eye), they made a very successful effort at actively decreasing my attention span. The way my mind processed it (subconsciously at the time), was "this programme is meant to be for comparatively mentally diminished young schoolchildren - therefore, *_I_* have to adopt a mentally diminished young schoolchild mindset". In other words, treat me as "lesser" than what I'm capable of understanding already (based on comprehensive television coverage I've spent years watching already), and I'll have to fit myself in to thinking that way you indicate I should be thinking. I simply don't remember watching this series *AT ALL,* though I very clearly remember TTDE. I *_thought_* leading up to the very end of the last episode, that there was going to be another series, but it seems as though it ALL got conveniently wrapped up in one short sitting very, very quickly. As for the criminals, I thought it was *_Scousers_* who were generally more notorious for raids and robberies, not *_Geordies!_* Were they being sensitive to the reputation of their Liverpudlian brethren or something?? Speaking of cultural sensitivities, it only occurred to me RIGHT before the whole thing finished, that the main character bore a very strong resemblance to Nick Griffin, former leader of the BNP. The only character in this I felt any affinity towards was the dog, however the obviously "BBC child's education"-overtones of the series, made appreciation of this fact very difficult. Would I watch this through *_properly,_* like I stomached TTDE?? Not on your life! And what on Earth are "stotties"?? It would've been genuinely interesting to find out *_anyway,_* but why couldn't they just eat NORMAL food that we recognise, such as fish and chips, chicken, cottage pie etc. - just, everyday stuff, and not try to be "clever" or awkward with foods that people are going to feel ridiculous for asking what on Earth it is???! I noticed also that you didn't mention the BBC Micro - would that have been sacrilege or something on this channel?? A lot of PDF file references I've noticed here as well...very clever ones such as "Registered Offender". That *DID* make me laugh! 😂 To be fair, I did chuckle as well just like the DJ when Spuggy said that he'd basically raised no sponsorship money - I like the fact that they took time out of their day to intentionally show him *laughing* at Spuggy's misfortune. Very subtle "programming" of the mind to become unfeeling a**holes, perhaps?? I do like the Maritime themes in this show however - makes me think of Radio 4's "The Shipping Forecast" (which came out as a game on The ZX Spectrum earlier this year incidentally - it's on UA-cam if you're interested). I'm honestly being led to believe that these shows *also* are being produced to accommodate "slow" learners - that need the same song played over, and over, and over, and over, and *OVER* again - at the expense of those who "got it" the first time because they were actually *bothering* to listen, instead of busying themselves sticking chewing gum to the underside of their desks, or messing about with their classmates. I think a lot of our generations' schooling was needlessly subjected to this, and I'm sure a lot of the teachers weren't particularly happy about it either. Should really have learnt from home. 😔 Would've saved my mum between 4 and potentially *8* bus journeys a day for the first several years of primary "education", and made home life *infinitely* more qualitative.
This brings back childhood nightmares! I bloody hated this so much, but kicking k (by the wizard) despite my best efforts, still lives on rent free in my head. I HAD managed to forget about Wordy though, until now! Damn Wordy is annoying!
Bah, I've only just noticed that Chapter 2 of this is slightly out of sync, which is incredibly annoying and I'm not actually sure what's happened there so... Soz.
Please do a Sammy's Super T-Shirt episode.
Someone needs sacking for that error.
@TKMRacer28 it's me. It's always me.
No worries mate. I forgot how mindless this was. Love 'Build Yourself a Word', and of course 'Magic, Magic E'. Seriously, you are doing some admirable work to make this dross entertaining. As always, Funny as Funk 😅
Preface - great video and I love your work.
This is pure nightmare fuel for me though. Takes me right back to the grim 80s and miners strike for some reason (must have been watching it at the same time I guess?).
Chain smoking neighbours constantly talking about Scargil etc.
For some reason I feel sick to the pits of my stomach with this one. I think this is the only video I have ever seen that has triggered me in some way.
I have liked and am already subscribed. Keep up the good work. But god damn, this video sent me some place.
Think I’ll go play treasure island dizzy for a while.
The memories of a bloomin freezing tv room at school, a massive box of a TV on a stand with a noisy VCR and a teacher who had no idea how to work it.
Also the TV speakers would go all funny if it went too loud
100% the same memory unlocked mate thanks 😂😂
lol yeah, and those minute-long countdowns before school tv programmes, talk about hyping it up :D
And the teacher would for ever stop the tape to ask bloody stupid questions
@@TheRealBigDan why did we have to sit on the floor too?
Teaching kids about magic e's when the 90s where just around the corner
0:35 You just know it's fiction, because those biscuit tins contain nothing but sewing equipment.
😂😂😂
The biggest disappointment that came to me as a kid was when the Travel Sweet Tins had needles and thread instead of those powdery boiled pieces of goodness. What I never understood was my nan never ate sweets so where did they go?
We had a magic E wizard at school. He used to hang round the back of the bike sheds with the smokers, in prison now.
Honestly as a school kids aged 6 or 7 getting a tv show set in your home city of Newcastle was mind blowing
ooh Biker.
Not gunna lie, that "Magic E's" song went HARD, synched SO well with the animation
They must've known the connotations that "Magi E's" has in relation to drug culture and stealthily sneaked it in there!
This unlocked some deeply buried childhood memories of extreme boredom.
Childhood trauma you mean.
The false hope that the TV trolley came out and you didn't have to sit through assembly or maths, and then this comes on.
I even got bored watching this video!
@@jonathananderson9769 haha, fortunately we had RTS' commentary to entertain. Dread to think the emotional stress he had to do to get through all these episodes and edit it all together!
True - I got to the start of episode 8 and had to stop too much Geordie R*pist on Magic e for me
Mate through the Dragons eye now Geordie racer. I am forever in your debt. Pure class
@dominicpayne4393 wait... there's a dragons eye?!
My girlfriends dad is a Geordie, anything newcastle related I can get her to watch. It's time boys, rosetinted date night 😂.
She's loving it 👍🏼
Ah,,,I'm so glad my year at school was just too old to have to sit through this one.
I think we had the best of Look & Read: The Boy From Space, Dark Towers, Badger Girl and Fairground.
Ah, UA-cam suggested something worth watching as last, maybe my friday night is saved after all...
Same, mate. 👍
Wordy looks like a South Park character who slept on scrabble.
You my friend are a genius and have just cured something that may have lay dormant in a forty three year old man. I love you. Said it. Live it.
Random fact where spuggy lives. He lives in the Byker Wall and although a massive eyesore is a listed building. The lovely red door in that brilliant red is actually a colour only painted for the Byker wall. Yup even the Byker wall has its own listed paint and can only be maintained in that certain shade. Yeah told you it was random.
Top fact!
You don’t go to the byker wall on your own either 😮
@@TheFettz especially on a night time.
"Haddaway..." Top notch as usual!
Baby don't hurt me
I remember that mr wordsworth character. That series looked dire, well done for watching it all. I recognised the dad, he was one of the blokes in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Yeah! He was young Nev. I’m rewatching that at the moment so Nev appearing suddenly was great.
He was in inspecter morse as well
Great to see you back mate after the youtube purge. Think you should celebrate by having a massive stottie man
That's actually Kevin Whatleys real life wife playing his wife in the show.
Worst Auf Wiedersehen Pet ever
When I was a kid, once a week someone would have to run across school and wheel back "THE TELLY" so we could spend a whole lesson watching Geordie Racer... BLISS!!!
(and teachers complain they aren't paid enough...)
Haha yeah, hey 'member THE PHONE? (also the local pub and doctor etc) - those were the days (as long as you weren't getting diddled by a TV star of course)!
"Mickey, you broadcast..."
"Yes?"
"So you're a..."
LOL, RTS is back & on form!
Aww haddaway. Also Spuggy moved to Wigan and went to become Peter Kay
What is love?
@@RoseTintedSpectrum en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love
I'm so glad you got your channel back. Sorry you had to put up with that undue stress, and thanks for this video!
"There are many dangers... but we'll risk the pigeons anyway as it's a laugh."
OH MY F'ING G i was not expecting this! god bless you and everyone who sails in you.
Requesting (Badger Girl) full season on YT
It's on the list along with Dark Tower
@@RoseTintedSpectrum Fuvkin boss tho.
@@RoseTintedSpectrum Dark Towers first, please boss! There’s a genuine plot in that one and - I think - Christopher Biggins as a hard man villain. That can’t be right, surely?
Mate, your content is bloody brilliant and your commentary and editing are comic genius.
Thank you for the laughs. Keep up the good work.
I love the escalation of the thieves' crimes... precious jewels... priceless artworks... the contents of the tills at a parochial Northern rec centre. Truly the heist of the century. Just think how many 10p bottles of luridly-coloured Panda Pop that place must sell of a weekend.
I genuinely loved this when I was a kid, even though I grew up in East Anglia and could probably only understand about one in three words that came out of Spuggie's mouth.
Wasn't the rec centre where everyone went to pay their entry fees to be in the Great North Run? In the bizarre world of Geordie Racer, it would make perfect sense for the race organisers to leave massive bundles of cash lying around completely unattended during the race.
Legitimately love these educational recaps. It reminds me of the big black tvs being wheeled into the classroom and the buzz of excitement from classmates. If I was sitting on a tiny green plastic chair I’d be right back there!
Thank you, so very funny and such a blast from the past! I’ll pray for your sanity!
Spuggy is another word for a bird not a stottie🙃
Well that brought me back to being ushered into the staff room with the rest of the class to watch the big TV hid behind two doors. Dark Towers and Badger Girl next.
Started this thinking it was something I had never seen before. Until that red robot popped up and then I was smacked by a memory overload! It always reminded me of the Henry Vacuum Cleaner as a kid.
boy they really went crazy on the midi
I've spent over 35 years until now not knowing whether I actually watched this in school or just saw something on TV at home and then made the rest up in my head, as even now I'm not sure if it's all the same show. I can't believe I even remembered the real name of the show and things like the magic e song.😮
Friday nights viewing sorted! Thanks mate. theses videos and the channel are awesome,keep up the good work brother 👏🏼👍🏼
We've gone from a noncey dragon to an actual nonce in just one children's series.
Such is life
I remember this being part of school TV as well as that Mexican maths mouse el humbre. I found out about pigeon racing that's for sure
4:26 "I followed my MAP I simply went ****" - cut to the nonce. Nicely done
I saw this at school too 😂😂 our teacher bought in a stottie for us to try omg memories...but also your commentary got me crying with laughter... brilliant 🤣
I don't remember this show, thankfully, but hate-watched 'Beeker Grurve' for a while as a kid, also with a character called Spuggy, and debuting Ant and Deck, the moss piglets of broadcast television... stick yer license lol :D
I don't know what a moss piglet is but I'm going to use it in a sentence today.
I was weirdly obsessed with this as a kid, I even had the novelisation - looking back I can’t really work out why.
Finally got around to watching all this in one go. So many boring school memories coming back. I wonder now why the class got so excited when the big TV & VHS player got wheeled in. Still had a laugh thanks to you mate.👍
The magic e song is still in my head all these years later.
Bloody hell , this brings back memories. I remember magic E and wordy. I'm sure after the episode, we had to answer questions on a sheet about the show. So much of this show now looks well dodgy and that's not including the DJ. Epic commentary as always. Glad your back with us RTS!
I never watched this program, but I watched this entire video - your video editing and narration is fking incredible! Amazing content ❤
Ah... memories.
Every week down to the library and the primary teacher would roll out the TV and we'd watch this.
It actually created a mandella effect for me when Ant got blinded in Byker Grove. I could've sworn he said "Spuggy I cannae see mon"
I think I remember watching this in school. Couldn't understand a word of it then, can't understand a word of it now!
I have a distinct memory of pissing against a tree in the late 80s and singing "weeeee magic e". I studied French for 9 years and remember nothing, the power of a catchy song
Brilliant vid mate, laughed so much. Thank you :)
As a person of Geordie descent, Geordie Racer is very similar to my parent's childhood stories.
The greatest discrepancy is the lack of casual violence, swearing and cigarette smoking, while eating stotties by a bin.
Finally I have an explanation of why that proxy magic e song is so burned into my brain!
I love you, my man. Just bloody exquisite.
I used to see the magic e wizard often at drum and bass nights. He certainly gets around
My brain refuses to accept this dialect, half the time I feel like they're making it up on the spot. It's so weird, I love it!
Howay man!
It's pretty much accurate. I grew up as the soft southern cousin who could barely understand his own relatives at Christmas. Go 20mi north of Newcastle and it's almost entirely unintelligible. As in they use entirely different words.
AMANDAAAAA!
@@Arkhan_The_Black Amaaaaaandaaaaaaa
@RoseTintedSpectrum Seems Gorwen's power to incessantly shout peoples names over and over again has the power to transcend time, space and even dimensions!
I’ll never forget how underwhelmed with this I was after watching the frankly terrifying Boy from space and Dark towers.
Made my friday, this. Thanks! Such a great channel. Do you remember Badger Girl?
@@craigchampagne7797 I do not, but it's on my list!
I remember it
Does anyone else remember the safety videos we had to watch, one particular terrifying safety video i remember was "Never rest in peace" a farm safety video involving kids losing limbs and drowning and the ghost of a dead farmer accused of murdering children.
Scared the life out of me and my classmates
The 'Build yourself a word' song ties in nicely with Auf Weidersehen Pet
And they said Gollum was groundbreaking technology.
Love this!!! Thank you! Dark Towers next?? 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
That Magic E song is EXACTLY how i remember it.
In Manchester in the 90’s we also had a ‘Magic E Wizard’ but I think he was up to other things.
A geordies best trousers, are the one they haven't shit in, yet.
@@bryanbridgwood6923 nice and tight, especially roond the arse
What about Geordie jeans?
@@RoseTintedSpectrum except when you need room for yeh farts t'flow aboot in, y'knaw like.
I did this at school and well... even as a child it was just awful... I remember the pure joy when it was finally over!
8:58 killed me for some reason, nearly choked on my bastard tea, thanks for that.
i watched a few episodes of this at school , but due to the amount of twagging i did i never did figure out if spuggy was a lad , a lass, some sort of strange sort of sexless clone.
The magic E certainly had its time in the 90s
You got me with the stairs scene 🤣
The game adaptation of this on the BBC was a masterpiece.
The Giant Hall is Seaton Delaval Hall and it was also in Supergran! It was the bad guys house in that
When I was little, all I knew of geordies was the comic strip in the Dandy: 'The Jocks and The Geordies'. Thanks to their school uniforms and plummy dialogue, I assumed a 'geordie' was a posh, english public school boy, compared to the scottish underclass represented by the jocks. Then I watched Geordie Racer on the school's big TV, and I thank it for enlightening me - they were _all_ grubby plebs.
32:20 I don't know exactly why, but that sound effect made me laugh until I almost choked. 😂
7:55 Fuck me, we have the same crockery! This is getting interesting... :D
oh my god your channel is back I haven't been so scared in my entire life
I did the Great North Run last year, with torrential rain in the final mile. Dunno who suffered more, me doing that, or you battling through this for our benefit 😂
Oh, and bonus points for “jazz mags”
This is perfect because my teacher never showed us the end! Now I can find out if Spunky solves the mystery!
29:28 I absolutely lost my shit. My god, dogs jumping all over me while I had a coughing fit.
“Stop juicing that pigeon you maniac”had me rolling
I still know the words to the theme tune to this day.
The masterful stairway loop!
As a 45 year old man , I appreciated this trip down memory lane 😂
So glad to see you do this, im sure wordy looks even creepier than i remember, lol
I really hated this show as a child, and back then I was full of joy, whimsy and wonder. Now i'm a grumpy old man and I can say child me was right to hate this. Thanks for reminding me.
Great video 😊 the editing and comedy was top notch. You must have the fortitude of a cast-iron bear to endure these shows 😅
Oh how I prayed for those Thursday mornings in 1988 in the West Midlands when we would go into the "AV" room in primary school, (essentially a dark closet with a TV on wheels and tiered seating which I'm almost definitely misremembering as stacked up tables with a bit of carpet for us to sit on) and watch Geordie Racer just to get out of the grim and grey 80s mind (and body) prison that was education 😂
Who were these strange people from this far off land? Why did they speak like that? Could man and beast be so connected as to solve crime? What the FK was a stottie? What the FK was on the TOP of a stottie!? Why was that old wizard still trying to peddle drugs to brummies? Hadn't we all said a big resounding yes to the letter H?? 😂
Seriously it's mental and hilariously brilliant that you've done this 😂❤
Missed out on Geordie Racer when I was at school; my lot were subjected to Badger Girl instead. Pretty sure it still had the same sodding songs in, though!
I think the dad in this was the manager in Jossy’s Giants. That would be a fun one to make a video about and Byker Grove. My grandparents lived next door to “Fraser” from Byker Grove in Chester-le-Street in the late 90s 🤣
Straight on this, thank you and howay
the rinsing is brilliant, not laughed so much in ages!
Also a Spuggy is a common sparrow, so hes a common garden geordie in every way
Yeah, I'm Cumbrian so I know the term Spuggy but I don't quite get why they call HIM Spuggy. He loves pigeons. It'd be like calling a runner "Hurdle boy"
I don't remember this one.
For me, Byker Grove was my first exposure to Northern kids. I remember wondering why they never went to school.
Oooh byker byker byker bykeeeer grove YEAH!
@@RoseTintedSpectrum ...and let us not forget PJ and Duncan's "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble!"
Got thrown out of a lesson for singing "shit becomes shite with me, magic magic e"
Through the dragons eye was more traumatising, though.
Brilliant video. I lost it at the Haddaway sound queue.
I'm here for these comments lol I cracked up when I first heard it
Get in! Friday night delight!
I divent expect this toneet like!
Mint!!
You only went and did it you mad bastard!!!
Hahaha i remember this! Even as a pre teen child it was obviously boring and dull! Thanks for another sad trip down memory lane!
How many muthaflippin flights of stairs are we gonna watch them climb?!?
Superb. Only other look and read I can remember was badger girl, but I suspect that was older, and somehow even worse than geordie racer. Probably didn’t even have a banging theme tune.
Cheers for the new content broski
For so-called "educational" series' (such as this and Through The Dragon's Eye), they made a very successful effort at actively decreasing my attention span.
The way my mind processed it (subconsciously at the time), was "this programme is meant to be for comparatively mentally diminished young schoolchildren - therefore, *_I_* have to adopt a mentally diminished young schoolchild mindset".
In other words, treat me as "lesser" than what I'm capable of understanding already (based on comprehensive television coverage I've spent years watching already), and I'll have to fit myself in to thinking that way you indicate I should be thinking.
I simply don't remember watching this series *AT ALL,* though I very clearly remember TTDE.
I *_thought_* leading up to the very end of the last episode, that there was going to be another series, but it seems as though it ALL got conveniently wrapped up in one short sitting very, very quickly.
As for the criminals, I thought it was *_Scousers_* who were generally more notorious for raids and robberies, not *_Geordies!_*
Were they being sensitive to the reputation of their Liverpudlian brethren or something??
Speaking of cultural sensitivities, it only occurred to me RIGHT before the whole thing finished, that the main character bore a very strong resemblance to Nick Griffin, former leader of the BNP.
The only character in this I felt any affinity towards was the dog, however the obviously "BBC child's education"-overtones of the series, made appreciation of this fact very difficult.
Would I watch this through *_properly,_* like I stomached TTDE??
Not on your life!
And what on Earth are "stotties"??
It would've been genuinely interesting to find out *_anyway,_* but why couldn't they just eat NORMAL food that we recognise, such as fish and chips, chicken, cottage pie etc. - just, everyday stuff, and not try to be "clever" or awkward with foods that people are going to feel ridiculous for asking what on Earth it is???!
I noticed also that you didn't mention the BBC Micro - would that have been sacrilege or something on this channel??
A lot of PDF file references I've noticed here as well...very clever ones such as "Registered Offender". That *DID* make me laugh! 😂
To be fair, I did chuckle as well just like the DJ when Spuggy said that he'd basically raised no sponsorship money - I like the fact that they took time out of their day to intentionally show him *laughing* at Spuggy's misfortune.
Very subtle "programming" of the mind to become unfeeling a**holes, perhaps??
I do like the Maritime themes in this show however - makes me think of Radio 4's "The Shipping Forecast" (which came out as a game on The ZX Spectrum earlier this year incidentally - it's on UA-cam if you're interested).
I'm honestly being led to believe that these shows *also* are being produced to accommodate "slow" learners - that need the same song played over, and over, and over, and over, and *OVER* again - at the expense of those who "got it" the first time because they were actually *bothering* to listen, instead of busying themselves sticking chewing gum to the underside of their desks, or messing about with their classmates.
I think a lot of our generations' schooling was needlessly subjected to this, and I'm sure a lot of the teachers weren't particularly happy about it either.
Should really have learnt from home. 😔
Would've saved my mum between 4 and potentially *8* bus journeys a day for the first several years of primary "education", and made home life *infinitely* more qualitative.
This brings back childhood nightmares! I bloody hated this so much, but kicking k (by the wizard) despite my best efforts, still lives on rent free in my head. I HAD managed to forget about Wordy though, until now! Damn Wordy is annoying!