Chuckle Brothers Thread

[Jawscvmcdia]

What is your favourite ChuckleVision episode and why?

Red Dwarf similarities:

*Both shows began production in 1987 and were filmed in New Broadcasting House, Manchester in the early years.

*Jem Whippey, a sound supervisor who worked on various Red Dwarf episodes, also worked on ChuckleVision in the early 1990s.

*Candida Julian-Jones, an associate producer throughout Red Dwarf Series 4, also produced the ChuckleVision Christmas special in 2008.

*Mark Stonehouse, an uncredited assistant art director for two episodes of Red Dwarf Series 1, also worked as a production designer on an episode of ChuckleVision from 1990.

*Mike Fallon, a property buyer during the first two series of Red Dwarf, worked on an episode of ChuckleVision from 1990.

*Ken Hawkins, a location manager throughout Red Dwarf Series 8, worked on two episodes of ChuckleVision in 2008.

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[bloodteller]

i haven’t seen ChuckleVision in ages but i remember watching the season of it where there’s a running story arc about them trying to protect/find a valuable ruby for some reason. i sort of enjoyed that a fair bit, so i guess that’s my favourite.

[flanl3]

*Both have an e in the name

[Paul Muller]

I like it when they say ‘to me, to you’.

[Ben Saunders]

There was a line in one episode to the effect of:
“We could be like that Doctor bloke!”
“Who?”
“That’s the one!”
*confused face*

And that is my most prevailing memory of Chucklevision

[Dave]

I like the one where they find out that their whole life has been an elaborate video game, and Paul is really a smelly old tramp while Barry is a fascist murderer.

[bloodteller]

i vaguely recall there being a character in ChuckleVision who you never saw called “Dan The Van” and i think that’s a pretty cool name to have tbh

[Dave]

Not as good a name as No Slacking.

[RickLee84]

If you watch very carefully, Starbug appears in an episode of ChuckleVision. Conversely, a reference to ChuckleVision was put in an episode of Red Dwarf but it’s very obscure and you have to know where to look for it.

[International Debris]

No Series VIII jokes yet? Amazing.

I loved ChuckleVision as a kid and am still genuinely fond of it in a nostalgic way. It started going weird near the end of its run, with time travel and all sorts of sci-fi and fantasy elements, but earlier on when it was just two blokes getting everything wrong it had a silly charm to it.

It’s also home to this genuinely excellent and surprising joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1rvod7ioqs

[Pete Part Three]

Hard to believe that Howard Goodall composed the theme tune too.

[bloodteller]

>It’s also home to this genuinely excellent and surprising joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1rvod7ioqs

haha, that was actually really funny. i laughed at that

[Dave]

ChuckleVision has always been one of those hidden-gem kids’ shows that are actually genuinely funny for all ages. It’s very well-performed with some great verbal and slapstick gags.

Kids TV is sometimes treated as a bit of a comedy ghetto but ChuckleVision deserves the same kind of acclaim that, say, Horrible Histories (rightly) gets.

[Jawscvmcdia]

>ChuckleVision deserves the same kind of acclaim that, say, Horrible Histories (rightly) gets.

To be fair, the brothers were awarded a Children’s BAFTA in 2008, which is quite prestigious in its own right IMO. Anyway, it’s hard to believe the series ran continually up until 2009 (and was repeated for a few years after). Here’s an episode from the final series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gANXylhBppY

[Lily]

Unpopular opinion, but I never liked Chucklevision much. The older brother always gave me the creeps in a Jimmy Saville kinda way.

[Captain No-Name]

This thread has just reminded me of this…

(I was half-expecting to find that I had dreamt this, but no, there it is on YouTube in real life)

[Jawscvmcdia]

>Unpopular opinion, but I never liked Chucklevision much. The older brother always gave me the creeps in a Jimmy Saville kinda way.

Maybe that’s why the BBC have stopped repeating it?

[Ben Saunders]

Nothing has come out against them if that’s what you’re inferring

[Jawscvmcdia]

>Nothing has come out against them if that’s what you’re inferring

Er….

Chuckle Brother sparks fury by sharing Britain First Facebook post – but denies he is member of controversial group

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/chuckle-brother-sparks-fury-sharing-7604585

What a dirty Chuckle

https://web.archive.org/web/20070223064947/https://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005192809,00.html

[Dave]

The Pearl Poll results can’t come quick enough.

[Ben Saunders]

That falls so far below the threshold of something coming out against him that I’m disappointed you made me waste my time reading about it

[Pete Part Three]

Have you learnt nothing about these threads?

[clem]

I like the episode set in Barry’s secret lemonade factory.

[Jawscvmcdia]

Bumping for obvious and sad reasons today…

[Jawscvmcdia]

Entertainer Barry Chuckle dies at 73
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45074955

[International Debris]

This has made me sadder than a celebrity death has for a long time. RIP Barry.

[cwickham]

There are episodes of both ChuckleVision and Red Dwarf called “Can of Worms”.

The ChuckleVision one is funnier.

[Dave]

Sad. Although some liked them ‘ironically’ in recent years, I always thought they were very solid comedy performers, who made kids laugh a lot. There was a lot of warmth there too.

And they were always happy to make themselves look stupid for a gag.

[bloodteller]

I don’t remember much of Chucklevision since I was a child when I saw the show, but that Postman Pat joke they did in one episode was absolutely hilarious.

[si]

And they were always happy to make themselves look stupid for a gag.

[Dave]

https://twitter.com/barry_chuckle/with_replies

[tombow]

I saw some photos of them touring nightclubs for uni students, they seemed to be having a whale of a time, cool old guys.

[cwickham]

Dona DiStefano was genuinely the floor manager for early episodes of ChuckleVision.

[Jawscvmcdia]

ChuckleVision’s final series is now available to watch on BBC iPlayer. The 21st series will be available to watch in tribute to the late Barry Chuckle.

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a863380/chucklevision-final-series-bbc-iplayer-tribute-barry-chuckle-death/

[Flap Jack]

Pretty cool that they did that. Shame they didn’t put up more episodes than 6, given that only Series 1-3 of Chucklevision are available commercially, but I’ll take it!

[International Debris]

I’d prefer some classic era stuff, series 3-10 era I suppose.

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