Comments on: Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 3, Week 5

By: Mark M

Mark M — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:35:04 +0000

Re 15: The difference between Psych and The Mentalist, I believe, is that the guy in Psych is pretending to be a psychic, whereas the Australian bloke in The Mentalist keeps telling people he’s got no powers, but they don’t always believe him. (A third series in the same broad vein is Life, where Damian Lewis’ character has these Zen insights that help him solve cases). One of my problems with The Mentalist is that a lot of the things he does might vaguely intrigue you if you were watching Derren Brown doing the same thing with random members of the public it in front of a live audience, but seeing one fictional character read another fictional character’s mind is kind of underwhelming…

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:53:48 +0000

pslash fiction

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:17:46 +0000

Of course Psych and The Mentalist team up to battle The Ghost Whispererer (The Ghost Twitterer)and Medium:FITE!

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:26:52 +0000

(seirugb qw;fm oy q)

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:26:24 +0000

why are these opportunities passed? topicality is the bunk anyway

(“one sane collective” = we recognise when things are actually timely, not when then the so-called global corporate media)

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:14:25 +0000

Other opportunities missed: Psych v The Mentalist. Why are there two tv shows about detectives who appear to be psychic but are just very observant?

By: logged out Tracer Hand

logged out Tracer Hand — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:20:22 +0000

I can’t believe we missed such an obvious opportunity to talk about ghost-written celebrity Twittering. But now that window has closed, perhaps forever.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:53:22 +0000

Breakin’, as documented many times on this site, was called Breakdance in the UK. Breakin’ 2 thus was Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo, which I have always though scanned better.

By: xyzzzz__

xyzzzz__ — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:43:02 +0000

So they’re being honest about their abilities on the ‘mike’ then — surely a likeable quality.

Funnily enough I got chatting about this show earlier this week. I found out there was no Grove and that wiki page just adds to the valuable knowledge gained.

By: Kat but logged out innit

Kat but logged out innit — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:44:17 +0000

I think the ‘psyche’ refers to the act of watching PJ&D wreck the mic, i.e. the viewer is so awestruck and bewildered by beholding their rhyming skillz that they are now psyche-ologically under PJ&D’s control.

By: a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît

a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:28:47 +0000

american schoolkids would love pj and duncan

By: Tracer Hand

Tracer Hand — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:27:44 +0000

If you’re going by the way American schoolkids wrote it on notebooks etc. when the word was actually au courant, the correct spelling is “SIKE”

By: a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît

a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:54:43 +0000

isn’t it “psych”? (i have a friend called psyche, and it’s said different)

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:39:58 +0000

It was mentioned. I refrained from adding “on which the ‘mericans KNOW NOTHING” re pj&d

By: Tracer Hand

Tracer Hand — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:23:42 +0000

I don’t remember if we mentioned this but “psyche!” is, as any fule kno, the same as saying “…not!” So if nothing else you have to give Ant & Dec props for admitting that they are not, in fact, wrecking the mic.

By: Kat but logged out innit

Kat but logged out innit — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:49:38 +0000

I must hereby protest at the on-air savaging received by poor PJ&D. It is a colossal TUNE.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:56:11 +0000

i was able to catch and restore the lost play counts :-)

BTW – i’ve noticed that since our last round of regular podcasts, that the proportion of people subscribing actually as a podcast has increased a lot. it used to be that a few ppl would download via podcast/rss and most of the plays would be an even split between downloads and in-line plays, now the ratios (in the first week or so) are (roughly) 1:1:2 inline:download:podcast.

By: Tracer Hand

Tracer Hand — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:53:40 +0000

I’ve replaced the orig. podcast with a higher-qual version (and reset the play counter, which was around 40 or so).

Thanks to Marianna for the excellent walking tour of Dickensian Southwark as we waited for the engineer to burn our CD for us! We went here among other places.

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:27:18 +0000

here is the famous architectural backdrop to PJ and Duncan: haha i have to report nothing was more excellent than the dismay on the faces of my two american-born co-lollards on their very first hearing of “ready to rhumble”!!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:38:34 +0000

May I just point out that seven point scales are accepted best practise for a lot of market researchers! (for reasons I was once taught but have long escaped me).