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I miss unbounded silliness like this.

The set up, the jump, the look of embarrassment, the readjustment of clothing... Chaplin couldn't have done it better.


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At one stage in my life, that bird and its facial expressions were my favourite things in the whole world.

Textbook slapstick comedy.

Timeless.
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A mate sent me that a few days ago. I haven't stopped watching it since.

How Rod didn't cripple himself I'll never know - it's clearly not a "prop" freezer! :crylol:
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I echo p:m's comments. I haven't watched any of their clips in years, but they still look like absolute genius.
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The missus had an emu puppet at her mums house which we dug out when the kids were younger - early 2000s. They used to love it, as it could get away with far more than they could!!!

Throwing Brussels sprouts out of the Xmas veg was a favourite!!
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Up the Junction wrote: Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:27 am I miss unbounded silliness like this.
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Up the Junction wrote: Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:27 am I miss unbounded silliness like this.
Turned pretty dark in the end, though, eh, when Emu finally got the job done.
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dasnutnock3 wrote: Sat Sep 10, 2022 12:38 pm Turned pretty dark in the end, though, eh, when Emu finally got the job done.
That time that b*stard Emu snuck up on his roof & deliberately turned the tv aerial the wrong way round?...
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I remember at some Silver Jubilee celebrations (1977?) at my nans caravan in Yalding & Emu grabbed my mums arse, the dirty b*stard.

Another funny thing about that video is that frozen food was still a relative novelty. It's what some whole families survive on nowadays :lol:
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Samba wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 12:31 am That time that b*stard Emu snuck up on his roof & deliberately turned the tv aerial the wrong way round?...
Yup. Got away with it, an' all.
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i'd like to know, what was the potentially sensitive material was ?
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Rod Hull (and Emu) bought the historic, but at the time, dilapidated, Restoration House in Rochester, spent fortunes renovating it and went bust in the process I think

Poor bugger then fell of the roof of his bungalow when adjusting his tv aerial as mentioned above
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The genius of Half Man Half Biscuit back in the day :grin:

Rod Hull Is Alive – Why?

A doyen of topiary once told me
That one day he would like to grow a maze
It seemed to be quite logical
That this should be his wish
And with that, we both went our separate ways

They said you died at seven
Due to something in your head
I asked the Sister why
It wasn’t someone else instead

Tonight I’ll cry myself a bath of tears and ask the world,
“Why is Rod Hull alive – and getting paid as well?”

Heard a Palace Spokesman mention Sarah
Said she’d known the groins of Jacques Laffite
She’s well prepared to be a standard bearer
As pure as unproverbial driven sleet

Halfway up the Wrekin with an empty flask of tea
A fog descends and takes away my visibility
Yet in this Helen Keller state I’d still quite like to know
“Why is Rod Hull alive – and getting paid as well?”

And I wonder if they’ll bring back National Service and the birch
And I wonder but I doubt if they will ever bring back the Watney Cup

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That clip is brilliant. Loved Emu when I was a kid.
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Launched an assault on Michael Parkinson during an interview. Parkinson wasn't best pleased
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Would have liked to have seen him do an FA Cup draw!!
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I'm going to hell ...

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I wonder if there was only one Emu puppet, or if there were a bunch of them? Seems like quite a hard life.
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