Neighbours Quote Of The Week: 8th-12th Jan
When Will Griggs (below left) asked Frazer Yeats (below right) what was wrong with his 'not-a-date' with Rosie Cammeniti in tonight's episode, Frazer's answer stunned Wifey and myself beyond belief. As usual, we were taping it, and even after playing and re-playing the moment over and again well into the night, we are still speechless. Was this a "joke take" that accidentally made it through the editing process without being noticed, somehow? There was absolutely no way we could have misinterpretted his reply:
Will: "What's up?"
Frazer: "Three words: Paul f<BEEP>ing Robinson."
Yes I'm serious. Can anyone else vouch for this? Or perhaps tell us what we were mishearing? We simply can't believe it.
I don't care what gets said in tomorrow's episode - this quote wins "Quote of the Week" without contention.
UPDATE: 5:10pm on Friday, 12th January, 2007.
A phone call to Network Ten this afternoon revealed the following:
1) They have obviously received a lot of phone calls about this topic throughout the day, because;
2) They have already "checked the script and the closed captioning" for evidence of what the word spoken actually was;
3) They claim that the word found in both places is frickin';
4) The word used does not sound like frickin';
5) They must think we're stupid;
6) Upon further re-playing of the moment in question (with the volume up considerably loudly), a slight 'R' sound can actually be heard (although extremely briefly and after actor Ben Lawson holds the 'F' sound for a second and then races through the rest of the word angrily - and the rest of the word sounds more like it contains a 'U' vowel sound than an 'I' vowel sound);
7) The point remains that words which can even be mistaken for inappropriate language should not be airing at 6:30pm in a G-rated show; and finally ...
8) I can't believe I've become that grumpy old guy who rings up TV shows to complain about the F-word.
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posted by BEVIS @ 11:08 PM
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17 Comments:
we'll check our tape tonight and get back to you.
Thank you - I swear,* it's doing my head in.
* No pun intended.
three words:
You f[beep]ing tube.
tom
PS that mean YOU upload it for us!!
I couldn't even BEGIN to work out how to do that. VCR to Internet without any special hardware or software in between?
I ain't that smart!
ha ha ha ha... trust Benny Vegas to throw a cuss word in his script.
he's naughty like that.
now all he has to do is wear his punky brewster t-shirt on the show and my dares for him will be (almost) complete.
I'll let you know if I ever spot it, M_M.
:)
Please be sure to read the 'update' I've added to the bottom of this post, everyone.
yep. we were sure it was the f word as well. we replayed it several times and i even asked princess to tell us what she heard. she, however, said it WASN'T. she said it sounded like something else. but john and i were sure, exactly like you bevis, that it was the rude word.
oh and re 8. did you ring to complain or to enquire?
To enquire; but still.
I'm glad you have at least vindicated us for believing we heard what we thought we heard. Thank you.
As for the actual word spoken, I'd say someone's going to lose their job over this (not Ben Lawson, but probably an editor or writer or producer) ... although I hope it's either swept under the blanket with a "let's just be careful in future" attitude, or (at the most) a stern talking-to. I wouldn't want to think that someone actually got fired - especially as it (probably) wasn't the word it sounded like. I just hope my secret Neighbours crew member / occasional commenter isn't the one who gets blamed!
i reckon they made a mistake. i reckon it was a take where he did say the f word - it was LOUD and CLEAR. as he was being so emphatic at the time, and frustrated with paul's existence. to me there's no doubt it was said. but they have to cover their arses. sorry, can i say arse here? make it botties. um, absolutely a head will roll. m_m needs to ask her mate actually what it was he said. ACTUALLY he needs to come on here, anonymously of course, and make a statement.
what do you think?
all off the record of course.
re the statler and waldorf thing, john picked it up as i had no idea it was the name of the two old balcony dudes in the muppets. to me it's too much of a coincidence for it to appear in a neighbours script. i know you aren't a writer, but perhaps people read stuff here and put it in as a little coded joke?
how's wifey and sweetums? please say hi to them.
Well, to start with Wifey & Sweetums are doing very well; thank you for asking.
In relation to Statler & Waldorf, I wouldn't be presumptuous enough to think anyone from the Neighbours writing staff visits this humble blog (with the one possible exception of that dude I've referred to already - and even so, I haven't heard from him since before this TV blog was created), so I guess it's just a silly name they came up with that wasn't meant to meant anything. It wouldn't be a reference to ME! (But it's very kind of you to run with the theory!)
And as for the suggestion that Ben Lawson should anonymously drop in and put the whole discussion to rest, I'm all for it. I've listened to the tape about 50 times now (sad, I know), and I concede that he was trying to say "frickin'"(maybe it was the last of 30 takes and he was getting a little tired and careless with his words or something, you know?). I can tell that there's an R in there and it was MEANT to be "frickin'". (Have you played it back with the volume up as loud as you can bear it?) But Wifey is like you, MG - she strenuously denies that it's anything other than what we all first thought it was.
And so I daresay the debate will continue.
Oh, and yes - it's okay to say 'arses' here.
The saga continues!
I didn't see it, but could it possibly have been 'fracking'? This seems to be the pop culture version du jour, courtesy of a couple of american tv shows.
Quite possibly, Anonymous.
However, I must point out that if you follow the "saga continues" link provided in my previous comment (above), you can watch the much-heralded moment yourself (courtesy of YouTube and a kind-hearted bloke going by the auspicious name of 'TiVoAussie'), and you can make up your own mind.
Apparently the common concensus is that it's "fruckin'".
I don't get it. I'd heard about this ( saw the Green Guide letter) and came here to find out whether it was true. Got the YouTube clip... and don't understand how come there's a debate. It's obviously Freaking or Fricking. To my ears it's not even arguable... and I wanted to hear it.
Anyone have a physical or psychological explanation of how people are hearing no R sound in there?
To be fair, the Internet version makes the "FFFFFF" bit sound a lot more like "FFRRRR" than it did on TV. He doesn't actually hold the R; he holds the F, and then there's the slightest-of-slight Rs before he runs straight through the rest of the word ultra-quickly, ... and THAT'S what has caused the confusion.
Hi, This was aired today in Engalnd UK and I am sure there will be hundreds of complaints to the BBC as my wife and I obviously misheard too!
I heard this go out yesterday in the UK, have played it back several times, and it just IS the f-word... I phoned the BBC complaints line and was fobbed off with "I can assure you it's frikkin". I played the clip down the phone several times and challenged the operator to show how it could possible be Frikkin'. She said that the script says Frikkin'.... As far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter if the script said "bloomin'"; it's what the kids watching the show at teatime hear that counts, and neighbours is on straight after the kids' shows in the UK. Strikes me that the beeb have had months to get this sorted, and at least could have changed it between the first and 2nd showings of the day. Fobbing punters off with this lame "you're wrong, we're right" line is completely unacceptable.
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