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This show makes me laugh out loud, I like virtually everyone on it, the casting is quite inspired! I love the fact that three different families can all sing along to the Doctor Who theme tune, it makes me imagine the whole country doing it - same with the GoggleBox cast's reaction to Sam Bailey songs on X Factor and icky bits in Embarassing Bodies... there must be millions have similar reactions?! :0
 
I think I saw Mr posho on local telly in the week. Does he run a house with a secret garden? If so he was flooded. Completely washed away. :(
 
You didn't miss much. I doubt I turned from my monitor to the telly more than three or four times. Collectively singing/humming (what do 'D's count as?) to the MOTD theme tune - all a bit Saturday night ITV gameshow...
 
yeah this show definitely has a shelf life and maybe its past it now. think some of them are just playing it up a bit now, half expecting ant and dec to jump out
actually now its getting a bit pish a celeb version is inevitable id say, might be a bit better or might be a lot worse
 
I can see that you might tire of it as a viewer. But from the point of view of someone who stumbled across it last night for the first time? Superb.
 
I hear it is very popular but I really don't understand why. Having said that I have not watched anything more than the trailers and a few channel hopping snippets. Maybe I don't get it because I don't watch any of the shows the people watch (or does that not make a difference?).
I know some people who make it and they say it is a massive ball ache to edit, though I really can't see why (considering the amount of people they have viewing clips etc). Apart from the editing, the main problem is telling/reminding the viewers that they are contracted to sit and watch the telly and make verbal comments.
 
I definitely enjoy the segments more if I've seen the show they're watching.

I think I might love a good celebrity version.
 
Caught this for the first time the other day- I facepalmed on behalf of Britain when neither of that couple could pronounce 'Physicist'.
 
DexterTCN said:
But when they do they invariably make comments, AS.
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I think you missed the point. The families on gogglebox are contracted to sit there and make comments.

The people on goggle box quite often don't watch that they are contracted to and if they do just sit there and don't say a word. They are contracted to do both, so are reprimanded when they don't.

Breathing is something that people just do, quite clearly from what I said in the previous post (and the sentence) this is not something that people do automatically, even if they are being paid to do so.
 
Stigmata said:
Caught this for the first time the other day- I facepalmed on behalf of Britain when neither of that couple could pronounce 'Physicist'.
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Yeah, what was that? I always held them among the smarter participants of the show...
Well, the older one anyway. The younger is a thick one all right.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
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I wonder how much they are paid...
Now, the silent boy must be not getting any money, and doesn't want to speak for free.
I feel a newly found respect for the git.
For all we know he might be the wittiest youth in the land, yet we'll never know:D
 
smorodina said:
I wonder how much they are paid...
Now, the silent boy must be not getting any money, and doesn't want to speak for free.
I feel a newly found respect for the git.
For all we know he might be the wittiest youth in the land, yet we'll never know:D
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Probably only expenses.
 
What are the expenses related to sitting in your own home watching your own TV?!

Or is that your point? :hmm:
 
If I was watching X Factor (and enjoying it) I would murder anyone singing along with all the songs. I don't know how they all put up with it, 'cos all the families seem to have one annoying bastard doing it.
 
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