Ram Ray

[davidn]

Conversation during the last hour before leaving work this Friday led us to the subject of television, and things like Inspector Morse versus David Caruso (who plays a sort of ginger-haired crime-busting Richard Whiteley on CSI).

I chose to show them a typical segment of UK Saturday morning television - this was a studio game which was actually a number of years past my own era, in which callers get a dwarf (who this week is dressed up as a cake for some reason) to run at a set of five doors, except four of them are nailed shut.

They said the same thing that everyone here always says when I talk about British children's programmes - that it's like something that they would have expected to see on Japanese television, or after taking a large quantity of drugs.

Comments

[xaq.livejournal.com]

So that's what "ginger" means! I always assumed it was more of a blondish-brown color. Thanks for clearing that up.

[davidn]

Well, if there's one person to ask about colour, I'm not it...!

[kibet.livejournal.com]

I am always thinking the US movie stars must think it is so weird when they come over and give interviews to talk shows in the UK.

[davidn]

There was an American television personality on Shooting Stars once... I forget who it was, but I remember his reaction at the end word for word - "I've been on some loony shows in my time, but this is definitely the one."