Ffizz News Posted by John Hoare on 21st May 2005, 14:57 http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/f/ffizz_1299001139.shtml http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/ffizz/ I’ve never even *heard* about this – but it interests me because it’s Fegen/Norriss. Does anyone remember it? Was it any good?
Don’t have a posting account so I’m hijacking this thread. Doctor who 2 minutes ago….. Mauve Alert?? For smegs sake, Russell.
Russell didn’t write that ep – it was Steve Moffatt. It’s a pretty obvious joke anyway – I doubt it was a Dwarf reference.
Wasn’t particularly suggesting it was a dwarf reference, especially seen as it’s from Mr Moffatt. I doubt any off them have to be honest. Just the fact it’s the same joke! I can’t say I agree the joke is an obvious one though. Any joke could in a way be desribed as obvious once someone has come up with it. But i’s not like every sci-fi comedy ever has done the same gag. Are Blue Alerts a common thing? Only a “mauve” alert gag doesn’t really work unless a blue alert is a well known thing (if it is I’m ignorant of it) Whose the alert specialist round here?
Once you start doing alert jokes, it’s a fairly obvious one to come up with. Especially as “mauve” is an amusing word anyway. Admittedly, alert jokes are fairly rare… Anyway – brilliant ep.
Could be Russell’s gag though – it certainly seems more his style than Moffatt’s. The writer of ‘Dalek’ mentioned that Russell wrote the “Dump him somewhere beginning with S” joke in that one, for instance.
