h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Watched the show, heard the noise, as did the other two people in the room.

Laughed at show, agreed it was jolly good, turned tv off, went down pub and got sh*t-faced. Met other people in pub who said jolly good, what a laugh. Then the band came on and played so loudly most other conversation was made moot.

*NO ONE* mentioned the self styled 'shiny green poof' or funny noises. I think the thing lacking here is not a life, but possibly a sense of perspective.

it's only a ing show on the telly.

"I think the thing lacking here is not a life, but possibly a sense of perspective."

Thank you, Mrs. Tragula.

H.

"I think the thing lacking here is not a life, but possibly a sense of perspective."

I just think Graham Norton should be told off full stop.

Thats a different point altogether, and a possibly reasonable, though I kind of like the guy myself. He has a tendency to overstretch himself (five nights a week live telly) or just do drivel (Strictly Come Dancing - I mean, this is the sort of stuff that is at Patrick Kealty's level, and the BeeB appear to have a contractual obligation to put that buffoon on my screen at every possible opportunity...)

Norton's rendition of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' on Father Ted was an artistic triumph.

Once I worked out what was happening what amazed me was that there was no swearing.

Still it added to the mystery of the show for a little bit. "what are those strnage disembodided voices, will the Doctor be fighting plastic leprechauns"

Excellent. Gnomic Autons threatening the world from atop their plastic toadstools, reeling in unsuspecting victims with their little plastic fishing rods...

Although I think it would be more suited to Sylvester McCoy.

'Gnomic Autons'. What, Autons that bore their victims togetehr with irritating 'pithy' sayings?

Possibly.

Err, that should have read:

"'Gnomic Autons'. What, Autons that bore their victims to death with irritating 'pithy' sayings? "

<He has a tendency to overstretch himself (five nights a week live telly) or just do drivel (Strictly Come Dancing - I mean, this is the sort of stuff that is at Patrick Kealty's level, and the BeeB appear to have a contractual obligation to put that buffoon on my screen at every possible opportunity...)>

With the Beeb it is mroe that they poached him from C4 and then had nothing to stick him into. Isn't this the first major high-profile thing Norton has done on the Beeb.

And yes he can be annoying. Going to 5 nights week made me stop watching him but he does seem to know his limits and not take himself to seriously. I have a feeling the Beeb poached him as he is a ratings winner but then realised the type of fluffy, crude, brainless programmes he is good in does not really fit into the BBC1 Saturday night programmes. Even the Beeb has some standards.

It wasn't his fault that his voice was on Dr Who (I actually only noticed the applause and not his voice I was so wrapped up in the scene) so just give him a Chinese burn and a wedgie for being an accessory to the crime.

We need to call this thread 'lets garrot the sound person who screwed up.'

Does anyone think that Graham Norton used to be slightly funny before he gradually just turned into another Julian Clary?

I have no problem at all with the fact the two of them are gay, but a comedy routine that consists solely of being gay gets on my nerves.

Much as I dislike Norton, I have to admit that I didn't hear his intrusion into the show. After a bit of digging around, it turns out that this is because it didn't happen in Scotland. Because the Scotland v Italy match was due to kick off at 7.45 (immediately after Dr Who ended), Scottish viewers saw a different version to the rest of the UK, without any sneak previews of next week's episode which could potentially have cut into valuable football time (although as it happened, the match kicked off about 10 minutes late anyway). Therefore Scottish viewers saw an un-Nortoned version. Makes a change for us to get better treatment than the rest of the network, but there you go...

Traveller in Time also heard the BBC1 scotland version
"And I was about to go to get a hearing test as I did not hear anything strange during the basement scenes. (as I though I should having read post 16).
It could also have been as we had just arrived for minutes in the guesthouse. Big releave we had our own television without a football crowd in a common room. "

I heard it on BBC Scotland too, sans-Norton. That explaination also explains why so many posters have been talking about Daleks going up stairs, which I now guess was in the episode preview we didn't get.

No daleks in the preview, it was about the Earth blowing up 5 billion years in the future

OK... Then I'm still puzzled. I taped most of that night's BBC1 and saw no evidence of Daleks going up stairs, yet have seen numerous postings saying that they've now "proved" they can climb and fly...

The climbed stairs in Resurrection of the daleks (the Sylvester McCoy one), the doctor was locked in a cellar and the dalek followed him up the stairs it had some kind of lifting motor thing, well ok it was an orange light underneth it

Yup, I remember that. But people have been posting "...and now they can fly!" - I have yet to see any broadcast evidence of this. I was assuming it was something that had only been broadcast South of the border.

"But people have been posting '...and now they can fly!'"

Maybe they've got cobbles.

My mistake it was Remembrence of the Daleks, I knew they could climb stairs but nothing remotely like a dalek was seen in the preview