Remember how every show in the late 80s, early 90s involved someone getting "gunged". Was anyone here ever gunged? Was it fun? Was it toxic? Did it ever wash out?

by Scar200n

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  1. I have friends who do this semi-regularly for fun. Seriously.

  5. Probably the most late 90s/early 2000s photo I’ve ever seen.

  7. I need to preface the reason I know this. I sell chemicals to make paint. One of them is a rheology modifier (thickener). I was checking annual volumes and one company was buying crazy small amounts at silly prices. Alice followed the rabbit.

    There is a company called Party Party Hire that is in the business of … shall we say …special interest media productions. I’d wager the target audience were people who had awakenings watching shows like fun house or similar. There was a lot of gunging but by the looks of their site it is literally just that.

    My gf favourite was the dvds of women in jeans falling in fountains.

  8. Gunging on Ready Steady Cook?! My brain is a bit fried by this. Noel Edmonds and Dave Benson Phillips were the kings of gunge (honorary mention to Pat Sharp), not Ainsley. Is there nothing the man can’t do?

  9. This picture makes me feel kind of uncomfortable.

    The gungee looks like he’s enjoying it a bit too much.

  10. I was everywhere in the 90’s any idea why it died out ?

  11. I thought it was Get Your Own Back for a second… why the heck were they doing this on Ready Steady Cook?! 

  13. When I was at Uni I borrowed my flatmates computer, that’s how I found out he had a fetish for gunge, with folders of clips of TV presenters being gunged, like the one above, shudder… and why I didn’t use the big bowl in the kitchen ever again after seeing what he did with a bowl full of custard in his photo gallery. 

  15. Da Bungalow continued that tradition into the 2000s with Creamy Muck Muck ^TM . I think ‘Saturday Mash Up’ (the spiritual successor to Live and Kicking, SMTV etc) still does it today.

  17. Not gonna lie, I don’t remember the brown Teletubby… but I think he was my favourite. Always brought the custard chaos and questionable hygiene. 10/10 would watch again!

  18. This was like my worst nightmare when gunging was a thing. I just couldn’t believe that the people there wouldn’t be totally panicking and upset.

  20. Want the whole gunging thing thinly veiled sexual act? I remember American TV ‘exploding’ over young attractive female celebs regularly.

    The Olsen twins getting thickly bukaked, I mean gunged, together at an awards show sticks in my head for… reasons.

  21. Kids shows in the early 2010s still hadn’t really shook the gunge

  23. When you go looking for episodes of things like Get your Own Back and Noel’s House Party, you end up finding a lot of clips from channels which names suggest the channel owner REALLY likes gunging. Then you check the comments for a lot of it and regret your immediate decision to check the comments.

  25. “The iconic green slime of the Canadian television series You Can’t Do That on Television was developed by accident, according to producer Roger Price. The original idea had been to dump a barrel of food leftovers on a young boy chained in a dungeon, but before it could be used, the contents of the barrel had turned green with mold. The noxious mixture was dumped on the young boy anyway, and overnight the series had its trademark gag.”

    Erm…

  26. I had a dream that I was gunged once and after that I lowkey wanted to be gunged but never admitted it to anyone (until today)

  29. I can just hear him saying, “Give your meat a good ol’ rub”.

  32. I dated a girl who was into this sort of thing…it was harmless enough, but we had to shower, a lot. Sidenote: 55 gallons of Jelly are pretty hard to get rid of.

  35. Anyway it was a threat used on most kids tv programmes and sometimes charity tv events. Always looked like fun

  36. For my 18th birthday we took a bunch of tents to a field and got hammered, we managed to find the phone number for Dave Benson Philips from get your own back, so of course we rang him up at some point in the night to invite him to join us. He probably wasn’t thrilled by this but wished me a happy birthday and apologised for not being able to make it.

  37. Genuinely assumed this was an AI image. Ainsley Harriott gunging Robin Cook while Terry Wogan and some lady I’m too young to recognise is either the most 2001, or 2025, image I can imagine.

    (yes I know it’s not really RC but fuck it looks like him)

  39. The thing I associate with gunging more than anything is the siren that accompanied it during, I want to say…Noels House Party?

  40. Honestly all I can think is that it could have been worse because I remember one show where it was a cowpat that could be trapdoored onto your head

  42. Thank you for this picture, I’m going to use it for so many things

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