A new feature on WWM which will probably be binned after today for not getting much of a response. But it’s worth a shot.
So, today’s question is:
Who is the best Dad’s Army character, apart from Wilson and Mainwaring?
Please show your working – and berate anyone who disagrees with you.
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This question seems eerily familiar. As I told you in my e-mail, I’d plump for Walker. He was spivtastic.
I would have to say they are all great. Jonesy, Godfrey, Pikey, Frazier, Walker and all supporting characters and anybody who appeared in it. That was real proper family telly! They don’t make them like that anymore.
He was great, but a bit shallow for my tastes.
I’d pick Godfrey (as I also have already said).
I think we all know that if G fought W there’d be only one outcome – a blood-soaked victory for Godfrey.
Is that how you spell ‘Godfrey’?
Mikey – disqualified. YOU CAN’T HAVE EM ALL.
I want every single last one. !!!!!
(In German accent) I am making a list…NAME…
Don’t tell him Pike!
Never watched it. Well I saw bits of it a while back and was bored to tears.
Clive Dunn ruined that fucking show making it unwatchable
Ah, JQW – the folly of youth.
Aaaah, bless him
I remember when Television was all just fields, my mother used to take me up there when I was a little girl to buy a string of liquorice niggers for 2 bobs and crown halved. She worked her fingers to the bone she did, for him. Ooh he was a taskmaster
But of course it was a different world then, no blacks. I remember the first time I saw one of them. Dirty, they all are.
Miserable bastards. How can you be bored by Dad’s Army or think Dunn ruined it. You fudd-headed pigs! PIGS!
Dunn ‘ruined it’. I’ve never heard such horse-shit.
The man’s ignorant.
My great-grandad was in the home guard at frinton-on-sea in WWII, here’s a photo of ‘em. (He’s the one in the top middle with the big round hat):
Text Frinton-On-Sea Home Guard
Oops I put ‘text’ in there.
I’m not
Dunn’s a cunt of the first water
Your grandad gets about a bit doesn’t he, grandad this, grandad that
Clive Duns sung Grandad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEwlnByCJoM
I agree SH, Godfrey was the best!
Does anyone remember the episode where they worried about being old, so they asked their friend from the mortuary to make them look younger. Cue the hilarity as they used boot polish to blacken their hair, cotton wool to plumpen their cheeks and rouge to brighten theie complexion. Ho ho ho, how I laughed!
A fine set of fellows, John. Hitler would have thought twice about Operation Sea Lion seeing that little lot, I fancy.
That’s me great-grandad, ya nonce. Although he was also Lord Mayor of London like me grandad was. We gets about, our lot.
Clarry – That was the one where Mainwaring was in the wig and Wilson was strapped up in corsets. I loved the bit where Mainwaring asked Wilson if he’d noticed anything different about him, and, after a bit of humming and aahhhing, Wilson says, ‘Oh God, it’s not monkey glands, is it?” I first saw that when I was a kid and laughed my head off without having the faintest idea what Wilson meant.
Them’s just the officers anyway – the whole lot of them are here:
Entire Frinton-On-Sea Home Guard
Just you wait, I’ll turn this place into a tedious genealogy website yet.
Please don’t, John.
‘I’ll turn this place into a tedious genealogy website yet’
You’ve suceeded
I fucking hated Dads Army
Dad’s Army was great, Piqued. You probably hated it because nobody builds a poncey house or cooks fancy food in the show. I know you only like shit TV.
SHIT TV.
I’m told by everyone how ‘great’ Dad’s Army was
I don’t play by your rules, I walk alone yeah
DOWN WITH DADS (ARMY)
You don’t walk alone. You drink in a pub or stay at home watching Grand Designs and that arsehole Gordon Ramsey. Hardly the strapping adventurer cutting his own unique swathe through the jungle of conformity.
Grand Designs is on 6 times a year, 6 hours worth out of 8760
You do the math yeah
As for Gordon, I usually tape it so I can play with myself and rewind parts when there is a full body shot. I think he’s gorge
Gorge….Cheddar Gorge. wooooooah.
Is that Orange Cheddar?
Like I say, you go out drinking too. That’ll account for a few thousand of those non-conformist hours you spend a-walking on the wild side.
Face it, you watch pompous shit, and when you’re not doing that you’re a drunkard. What a master of your own destiny you are. Hats off to you for sticking to that singular path you’ve chosen (along with all those other unique souls doing the same thing as you).
Dad’s Army was great. GREAT.
I agree with NC on this, Piqued, but like you he got the spelling of Gordon’s surname wrong AGAIN…
I never get his name right.
Spelling? So what
I don’t play by your rules, I walk alone yeah
Napoleon, I hardly watch TV at all Holbycityeastenders boy
Napoleon, I can imagine you looking down all wet-eyed with the dregs of a bottle of wine in your hand saying that very, very softly
Holby City? Holby shitty, more like.
My writers are on strike.
You hardly watch TV at all? That’s because you go out drinking every day. And when you do watch telly, you watch pretentious waffle.
“Napoleon, I can imagine you looking down all wet-eyed with the dregs of a bottle of wine in your hand saying that very, very softly”
Sounds more like the sort of thing you’d do, seeing as it involves booze.
Quintessentially British comedy of the time. Good actors and the family could watch together.
Mind you ” It ain’t half hot mum ” wasn’t half as good.
He watches loads of telly. He’s a liar.
Yes, I’m burdened with a having a wide range of friends with which I like to socialise
‘with whom’ not ‘with which’.
Grammar’s dreadful in here today…
as opposed to…
Grammar? So what
I don’t play by your rules, I walk alone yeah
Though just doing some quick research, Croft and Perry reckon ” It ain’t half hot mum ” was their best collaboration.
All time best British comedy of all time by a country mile……..
“Fawlty Towers”.
Cor ‘ark at him – he’s like a stuck Green Day record.
Very unique, Piqued. So you go to the pub with your friends and drink, eh? Talk about not playing by the rules! He walks alone, a man in charge of his own destiny. A wanderer.
I’m off to have a bath – the bath of a shackled drone. You enjoy that unique office job of yours, Piqued. And have fun uniquely drinking in a pub with everyone else tonight, and tomorrow night, and on Sunday afternoon. And enjoy that unique motorcycle ride you’ll be taking. And all those unique meals you’ll stand alone eating. Etc.
(Not that I could possibly guess what a loose cannon such as y’self is going to be getting up to over the weekend, o’course. You sock it to ‘em, maverick.)
Something is either unique or it’s not, it can’t be ‘very’ unique can it?
Having a bath on Friday evening… Be nice to get out wouldn’t it? See some mates perhaps?
Mmmm?
I think something can be very unique.
It can’t no
Given that there are different unique things, (otherwise there would only one unique thing), there could be a scale of uniqueability.
I made that ‘unique’ point in my Apprentice blog, Piqued.
Good to see you’re paying attention.
There is only one unique in the context of its usage
Did you? On which side did you fall…
On the other hand maybe there is no such thing as unique otherwise it would self evidently be unique.
Tell me something which is unique???
You are
The eiffel tower.
There aren’t any other actual eiffel towers are there? douche.
There is a little one in Las Vegas
yes, but is it THE eiffel tower? DUN EIFFEL MADED IT? NO I TTHINKZ NOT SO I WINZORS.
Piqued:
‘[Michael]… used the grammatical clanger ‘very unique’. Either it is or it isn’t unique.’
Blackpool tower looks like it.
It’s not the Eiffel tower though is it? Because there’s only one of them.
SH, didn’t see that
WUV OO
Having second thoughts. Something is either unique or not.
Right well I’ve got an exam in a few days, so I’m off to the Medics’ union to drink a few pints of ‘revision’. Leffe ‘revision’.
Well then everything is unique, because there is only one of them.
You got there in the end then Mikey. Well done. Have a drink or coconut.
AWW I CANT BE MEAN.
*hugs Mikey*
*gets out cock*
How do you pronounce it “Leffe”? I reckon it’s 2 syllables.
no cos there are things what are mass produced or deliberate copies or allusions. and then there are fings what are originals or just very different one-offs.
if you’re Wallonian Belgian (French-speaking) then it’s one syllable (leff) but if you’re Flemish Belgian (Dutchy sort of thing-speaking) then it’s two syllables (leff-er)
and if you’re english it’s ‘leff-ee’ because otherwise you’re some linguist ponce.
I was using it in the same context one would use a statement such as ‘How very droll’. I wasn’t saying Piqued was even more unique than something else. Thanks for incorrectly correcting me though, Piqued. Nice to see you having a try.
And by the way. I was having a bath because I’m going out. Not very unique (oh, look!), I know. We can’t all play by our own rules.
I say the Flemish Belgian way.
What the hell are you blathering on about Napoleon? You sound like a teenager, on ACIDz
You’re an intolerable little fuckwit, Piqued. Now do you mind, I’m berating a Scotch baboon on my site.
JQW – ” there are fings what are originals or just very different one-offs”
You can have very different then???? It is either different or not.
I will accept scaleablity.
I suppose a man fucking a monkey is ‘different’, whereas a man in full plate armour attempting to mount a pride of lionesses one after the other could be described as ‘very different’.
That was a short bath – did you soil it within minutes of getting in the tub.
Nowt worse than rusty bathwater
Not so much of the ‘little’ shortarse
(see you later Sweetie, the Johnstons are coming this evening and it’s Alisons birthday on Monday. Oh, wear your red tie, don’t forget Alan’s cufflinks!! x)
Swineshead – It had to be. I’ve got some bloody American ringing me about some work at 5:30, then I’m off for a meal and the fucking theatre. It’s not even my birthday.
Piqued – Fuck you, you little turd.
i always had a soft spot for that really old quiet one.
Godfrey – good choice BM
Godfrey? He was great. They all were. That said, I never liked Hodges – though I suppose that was the point.
I liked the Scottish one. Frazier? He was a grim old fucker.
Fras/z (?) ier of course. We’re DOOOOOOOOOOOMED!
Isn’t it plain old ‘Fraser’?
Frazier’s a cross-dressing psychiatrist.
I though that was Frasier
You could be right, I don’t actually watch it. It looks shit. Is it shit?
Is
it?
It’s surprisingly entertaining. But I don’t watch it.
You know, I’ve never watched this programme. By the way, do you know who wrote this track I can’t name from the making-of documentary for Backdoor Firemen 8?
Walker. Britain won the war with moustaches like that.
Piqued, You sad man. If you can’t appreciate ‘Jonesy’, then you obviously “don’t like it up ‘em”.