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

Hey there - Im quite new around these parts so in order to better familiarise myself with the place I've made it my business to go through all the different threads I find interesting on the 'ask the h2g2 community' bit. I noticed you asked a question in August 2001 about the name of a show with Matron Conniving Bitch in it and no-one replied Well, you probably dont much care any more but, it was called Let The Blood Run Free and what a fantasticly bizarre show it was!

Thanks, Oom Foofoo. I had forgotten all about that. For some reason, when they ran this show on Canadian television and it barely made it all the way past Detroit for me to watch it, they always billed it in the TV Guide as "Drop the Dead Donkey." I've seen episodes of that show later, something about newspaper reporters and editors? But for a while I was confused about whether "Let the Blood Run Free" was sort of a joke segment within "Drop the Dead Donkey."

Now where does the name "Oom Foofoo" come from? Did you make that up, or is that a reference to a tv show or something? I seem to recall a character on the "New Adventures of Mighty Mouse" calling one of his friends "Oom Foofoo" or something similar.

Thats really strange - the only similarities I can think of between the 2 shows is that they both have peculiar names. Drop The Dead Donkey was about a newsroom and it had its moments, but it had nothing like the sheer lunacy of LTBRF. Im one of those awful, annoying people that quotes stuff randomly and regularly regardless of whose company Im in and some of my stock phrases come from Let The Blood Run Free. The only person who gets the joke is my brother and thats probably only cos we shared a room for 18 years! Really enjoyed that show - especially Matron Conniving Bitch but also any time Ray Goode and Pam Sandwich kissed I was always close to soiling myself with laughter. Warren Cronkshonk the janitor guy used to make me feel kinda ill though. Im so glad I stumbled on your question - I was starting to think that myself and my brother were the only people to ever watch it (it was on at a rather ungodly hour here) and in situations such as that I start to wonder if it wasnt just an elaborate dream i had and then told him about.

My name comes from Eddie Murphy RAW. He was talking about marrying a woman so far removed from the American women that he'd have to find her in Africa, buck naked on a zebra, with bones through her nose, with a name like Oom Foofoo. I started using it on a messageboard ages ago where I had originally been using my own name and wanted to make people think it was someone completely different so I picked the name of someone who is my complete opposite - being that I am a white male who isnt imaginary. Thing is I made a lot of friends online under this name and now whenever I meet up with them I get called Oom and it just sounds weird when said out loud. Bet you wish you'd never asked now!