Quick impulse post tonight…:::— Who else needs reminding of this show from a few years back? Greatly inspired me as a yout

by qsxft99

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  1. Used to love watching this, I’ll always remember the one they built planes, like actual fucking aircraft and the expert took one for a test and was only supposed to fly a metre or so off the ground and he just fucked off into the stratosphere

  2. A show that could do with a relaunch for sure. Utterly bonkers and loved watching it.

  3. are the recordings of this downloadable anywhere? This shit was baller, I remember watching them as a kid, always looked forward to it.

  6. Been rewatching Red Dwarf so I was also recently thinking of Scrapheap Challenge, for obvious reasons. Also just discovered today that Time Team is alive and well, and broadcasting on YouTube being funded by Patreon.

  7. I was thunderstruck when I learned that it was largely staged (at about 10). 

  8. I always thought they missed a trick not calling Scrapheap Challenge “only tools and forces”

  10. This show was fucking awesome. I find it funny that both Kryten and Lister ended up hosting shows about anoraks making stuff in sheds. Something quite wholesome about it.

    Boys from the smegging Dwarf.

  11. I’ve met Robert Llywellyn and he’s a genuinely lovely chap.

  14. There’s also Tim Hunkin’s channel on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@timhunkin1/playlists. The Secret Life of Machines has a very similar feel to Scrapheap Challenge. His co-presenter, Rex Garrod, also appeared on Robot Wars. He’d do as little damage as possible to other teams’ robots and actually help them with repairs. The house robots on the other hand…

  15. Rokko’s Modern Life, a weird cartoon about a wallaby, his dog, Spunky, and his Cow best mate. Very strange, but not as strange as Ren and Stimpy. Not that was odd. Good, but odd.

  16. I’ll always remember that one episode where they built catapults and one of them literally just fell to pieces during the final challenge.

  19. Lisa Rogers awakened something in me.

    As did Phillipa Forrester and her leather trousers on Robot Wars

  20. I met Robert Llewellyn at a Christmas party about 20 years ago.

    Being a massive smeghead, I was totally starstruck, but he was very sweet about it and indulged me for a few minutes before tactically finishing his drink and going for a refill.

  21. I’m very excited for Zapheap, the upcoming reboot with Robert Llewelyn being joined by Colin Furze – a man who basically does Scrapheap Challenge in every video he makes (that isn’t a video of him digging secret tunnels underneath his house).

  22. https://preview.redd.it/jxs7x16639lf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=d2088b0d84c623216b8a0c8d35f1fbb284ce3e1a

    Another one of my personal favourites, not because the quality is particularly good, but because of the memories created and cultural impact as I moved through secondary school. Fonejacker (amongst other shows…see: little Britain, Ali G, and even have I got news for you, shaped a lot of my generations sense of humour. They will always have a place in my heart <3

  23. I wonder if Robert Llewellyn still harbours dreams of building a large geodesic dome.

  24. *Royte*… I’m gonna sign off before I post something that causes me anxiety in the morning; I’m sure some of you can relate!

    Please keep reminiscing about your favourite TV shows passed (or is it ‘past’ in this context? Someone inform me please.)

    Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you all can doze off for a few hours soon. I’m hoping tony hirst can lil me to sleep with how it’s made…

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