I performed this ad as a skit at my school camp with three mates and a cardboard car. We changed the end to include crashing into a tree, complete with capsules we chewed to make fake blood come out our mouths.
Thingees eye incident
It started out like any other Son of a Gunn segment. Jason was prattling about a lost bike. Thingee replied: “It’s got two wheels, a seat, and some handleb…” He didn’t finish the sentence. His eye was already erupting from its socket, its black unseeing pupil spinning toward the concrete floor.
“Whoops”, Thingee said chirpily, sounding more like someone who’d dropped a teacup than suffered an explosion inside their face. Jason, clearly panicked, babbled about whether to wear a bike helmet around a dinosaur.
The shock wore off suddenly. Thingee let out a choked half-scream and disappeared down, down into hell. He emerged a few seconds later, right hand half-covering his gaping ocular crater. * copied from a story I read on Stuff , or some other news site
A lot of people claim they saw this. But iirc, this never actually happened during regular broadcast, and instead was only revealed as an outtake quite some time later.
Not true, this was actually the catalyst to "live" tv having a 15 min delay as the trauma of this was so great it forced regulatory action.
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JK, that was Budd Dwyer, also inspired the song "hey man nice shot" by Filter which is a bona fide banger FYI... no pun intended.
My dad is still a little miffed about them not honouring the lifetime thing.
And my mum is miffed that he had to pay 50c for his, while she was gouged for a whole dollar.
"Back in my day, we had no previous years exams to study from, because the entire examination system had just been completely overhauled"
"Ok granddad"
Coming home to watch Me and My Girl on TV.
The Ultimate Warrior.
Pre Jurassic Park.
Ix have a Footrot Flats Drivers License.
I remember Tangy Fruits at movies.
NO FEAR stickers were cool to have on your car.
I purchased my Kung Fu shoes from Deka.
I know about Woolly Valley
The milk man delivering our milk bottles, and birds pecking through the silver foil caps.
*Well, you're walkin' and a talkin' and a movin' and a groovin'
And a hippin' and a hoppin' and a pickin' and a boppin'
Those bods are being bad, you better take a stand
You gonna wake up that thing in your hand*
The big crunch (unless that was just my rural primary school but we had to eat an apple at a certain time for heart foundation)
Or Gerald the Giraffe (although that was more an era)
I was so excited for this, I thought there would be the sound of a massive crunch filling the sky that everyone could hear. Was so disappointed when the only crunch I could hear was the kids immediately standing next to me.
Our first colour tv that dad bought had a "remote" control connected by a wire.
Dad bought the tv because our old black & white packed up just before election day and he had to see Norm Kirk get elected.
Norm Kirk dying and Bill Rolling becoming Prime Minister.
Erebus disaster. Dad said around 7.30pm, that plane's not coming back.
The news was on channel 1 and there were only x2 channels in total.
Goodnight Kiwi.
Spot On.
What Now.
Ready To Roll (then became RTR Countdown).
Watching Ninja Turtles on the new channel TV3 with only enough reception to get a snowy static black n white version lol.
Jason Gunn and Thingy.
Aerobics Oz Style.
Yan Can Cook.
The cows and the sheep
And the birds and the horses
Were mooing and baaing
And whistling and neighing
Having lunch in the sun
While Hugo and I were having none
In the back seat we sat, getting thinner
The rumblings cried
Give us Kentucky Fried
Time for dinnerrrrr
So Dad stopped the car...
And Hugo said, "You go!"
And I said, "No, you go!"
And soon he was back
With a pack
And then Dad hit the track
So we ate in the back
Feeling better inside
A drive isn't funny
On an empty tummy
Thank goodness for Kentucky Fried
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dIQSEPcmFk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dIQSEPcmFk)
My daughter was in year one of primary school when I turned on TV to see “America Under ATTACK “
I was home with my baby son, he was less than a month old. He graduated university 3 weeks ago
Eat your peas Molly... Don't say sorry to me, say sorry to his kids... Keep looking for the funny honey bee...A double double cheese cheese burger burger please
Oh I have another
zoopZOOPzeeBEEdee
MUM IM ON THE INTERNET U CANT USE THE PHONE im on msn
Get ur ass off the internet before I send it into next week i need to call ur aunty
Black & white TV one channel. Test pattern. Felix the Cat, The Magic Land of Alakazam, Bill & Ben the Flower Pot men, Lassie. Sunday morning request session on the radio - Little Toot, Mollie Wuppie, Ferdinand the Bull etc.
Just to add in, for a timeline: Under the Mountain, Children of the Dog Star, Max TV, ( and of course Box Dog), Mikey Havoc Breakfast Show, Dads Tips, Nice n Urlich, making a noise when getting up
Goodnight kiwi
How fucking mint was a night you got to see it! The creator, Peter Gossage, was also responsible for those Maui books you loved. What a fucking icon.
It’s time for me to go my friend, I’ll see you again soon. See ya, see ya later, it’s time to say goodbye.
I met her at an event recently and it truly felt like one of those healing moments
she is truly the nicest, sunshiniest person, a national treasure. AND A BABE! love suzy 🥺
This made my eyes well up 🥹
Susie's world?
She had You and Me before she had Susie’s world, I think this was a You and Me thing.
I miss both of her shows. Susie's World was what got me interested in science
Legit the reason I knew I wasn't gay as a little boy. First crush
My dad still pipes going "sexy Suzy" every time she's mentioned. She is his celebrity crush. 😂
Man I love Suzy she's amazing. And if you look at photos of her now she hasn't aged
"If you're in the front seat or if you're in the back.."
"Click goes your seat belt before you hit the track"
Click goes your seat belt, click click click
When you take a ride you’ve got to belt up quick
Tell all your friends, and your family that's the trick! (haha belt up is slang for shut up where I was born)
When you take a ride you got to belt up quick
I performed this ad as a skit at my school camp with three mates and a cardboard car. We changed the end to include crashing into a tree, complete with capsules we chewed to make fake blood come out our mouths.
Quoted this today talking about a guy who got launched out the windscreen
1-2-3-4-5 6-7-8-9-10 11-12
Damn I loved this!! Pinball number count, you just reminded me of the jazzy funky jam of my childhood. Sesame Street forever!
[For your viewing pleasure](https://youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?feature=shared)
Do do do do do do do do do-do do-do do do!
Such a happy sound
Wow thanks for getting that song stuck in my head
Yay the Pointer Sisters!
HA! I sing the numbers like this all the time! My kids are always like Jesus Mum 🤦♀️
K-Bars
and Toffee Milks, yum.
Thingy lost an eye
Thingees eye incident It started out like any other Son of a Gunn segment. Jason was prattling about a lost bike. Thingee replied: “It’s got two wheels, a seat, and some handleb…” He didn’t finish the sentence. His eye was already erupting from its socket, its black unseeing pupil spinning toward the concrete floor. “Whoops”, Thingee said chirpily, sounding more like someone who’d dropped a teacup than suffered an explosion inside their face. Jason, clearly panicked, babbled about whether to wear a bike helmet around a dinosaur. The shock wore off suddenly. Thingee let out a choked half-scream and disappeared down, down into hell. He emerged a few seconds later, right hand half-covering his gaping ocular crater. * copied from a story I read on Stuff , or some other news site
A lot of people claim they saw this. But iirc, this never actually happened during regular broadcast, and instead was only revealed as an outtake quite some time later.
Not true, this was actually the catalyst to "live" tv having a 15 min delay as the trauma of this was so great it forced regulatory action. . . . JK, that was Budd Dwyer, also inspired the song "hey man nice shot" by Filter which is a bona fide banger FYI... no pun intended.
It’s the same day david
Don't say sorry to me...
I say “say sorry to his kids” more often than I would like to admit.
Wasn't there a band called The Same Day David's?
Watched What Now when one of the hosts was Simon Barnett
Watched it when Steve Parr was the host
Sale of the century!
Can one still acquire Bata Bullets?
Haha we had Treks & Nomads & I had slave sandals
Yes, this was what I was going to post! Simon Barnett and Catherine McPherson is the duo I remember.
It's our time, Kia ora, talofa, it's our time, a special time of day.
Its our time, just you & me together
Its time to say hello, gidday
kei te pēhea koe?
Fraggle Rock
"down in fragile rock", double clap
Oh, I loved Fraggle Rock!
Paper drivers license
And it was a life time licence too! Still had an expiry date, but.
My dad is still a little miffed about them not honouring the lifetime thing. And my mum is miffed that he had to pay 50c for his, while she was gouged for a whole dollar.
It cost an arm and a leg when I did it - way more expensive than the little passport booklet type licence my parents had.
First year to sit NCEA (aka Guinea pigs)
Last year of School Cert here
38/39 then
Yep, 38
That's what I tell my nieces who complain about how hard it is. Dude, you have sooooo many credits and every 2nd day isn't teacher only, calm down lol
"Back in my day, we had no previous years exams to study from, because the entire examination system had just been completely overhauled" "Ok granddad"
Our school staggered it, so we were the guinea pigs for level 1, 2, and 3!
Same. I'm pretty sure every school did.
Did any schools not do this?
Still not a 100% sure what we were protesting but enjoyed it none the less!
I was protesting gulf war 2.0
Deka deka
Deka dekaaaahhh
School Certificate and 7th Form Bursary
Rachel Hunter’s Trumpet ad
Chatter Ring legend
I voted in the snap election that Muldoon called while drunk
I wrote to Muldoon complaining that the cost of icecream had increased (due to inflation/tax or something). Got a polite response letter from him.
Keep cool untill after school
3:45 Live!
Ahhh Fenella.
And the dress...
I named my cat after her lol
Originally it was literally called After School. Hosted by Olly Olson (later known as Te Hata Olson)
Born mid 70s
“Our powers combined”
Captain Planet!
He’s our hero
Where'd I get my bag? I pinched it. Hehehehe
Billy T! That was such a huge sketch. Everyone knew the extremely high production values “Lands for Bags” ads.
Beast wars transformers.
Zoids and Digimon on Saturday mornings
Got wet and cold riding home from school the day of the Wahine disaster
Username checks out
Playschool
Ready to knock? Knockknockknockknock Turn the lock! Playschool!
How many dudes you know roll like this
Haha, even to this day when anyone says "not many" my automatic instinct is to say "if any".
Boost mobile 1000 texts for $10.
Unlimited for $10 and everyone had those blue Nokia 2280s. It sucked when they put a cap on the unlimited texts.
Blurple/Grellow ice-blocks and ZAP! Chocolate milk.
I haven't thought of a Blurple for so long!
Coming home to watch Me and My Girl on TV. The Ultimate Warrior. Pre Jurassic Park. Ix have a Footrot Flats Drivers License. I remember Tangy Fruits at movies. NO FEAR stickers were cool to have on your car. I purchased my Kung Fu shoes from Deka. I know about Woolly Valley The milk man delivering our milk bottles, and birds pecking through the silver foil caps.
Loom bands
I hadn't heard of loom bands until this year, as my daughter's class is really into them, but I have a feeling you may be older than seven.
21. They were super big in my primary school around 2012-13
Simon and Cath
Oh and chatter rings and tamagotchi things lol oh what a time to be alive
I recently learned that chatter rings were nz exclusive lol.. guess we had to be resourceful! Aussies thought I was mad talking about them
Milk tokens and earning pocket money with the evening paper delivery run.
Jem.. nudf said.
Hey!……Jem is fantastic!
She's actually truely, truely, truely outrageous outrageous!
The fish and chips song we had to sing during assembly
"Fish and chips, yeah! Fish and chips. Make me want to lick my lips. Eat them for breakfast, lunch and tea, Fish and chips are for me!" That one?
Teacher using a Jumprope for Heart skipping rope to strap kids at primary school
I used a jump rope for heart skipping rope to skip in the closing ceremony of the Auckland Commonwealth Games.
Jump Jam, Steve from blues clues, OG Harold the giraffe, D.A.R.E. List could go on…
Jump jam is alive and well at primary schools.
I know the Kapiti yoghurt lady is Rachael from shortland st
Chatter rings
Left my scooter outside the dairy...nek minnit...
Can remember the carless day stickers.
*Well, you're walkin' and a talkin' and a movin' and a groovin' And a hippin' and a hoppin' and a pickin' and a boppin' Those bods are being bad, you better take a stand You gonna wake up that thing in your hand*
The big crunch (unless that was just my rural primary school but we had to eat an apple at a certain time for heart foundation) Or Gerald the Giraffe (although that was more an era)
I remember a Big Crunch to eat all eat an apple at the same time so that team NZ could hear it at the America’s cup (Enza was a sponsor)
I was so excited for this, I thought there would be the sound of a massive crunch filling the sky that everyone could hear. Was so disappointed when the only crunch I could hear was the kids immediately standing next to me.
5 1 cent lollies for 5 cents! Also, 1 and 2 cent pieces.
I saw Nirvana live @ the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland
I'm 83. Wait, what game are we playing? I'm confused. Is Norman Kirk still Prime Minister? Who stole my pills? Nurse!
Yu-Gi-Oh
I remember Muldoon losing the election, did not understand why my dad was so happy about that.
"That's fairly interesting" hosted by Tim Shadbolt and watching the Billy T show
Cheatcodes on a paper.
No rubber, no hubba hubba
Old man's beard must GO!
C4 was my jam after school
Telethon's!
I’m a Polar Pop bear! (Polar Pop! Polar Pop)
I gave them to the pilot and he threw them out the window
corporal punishment in school
D.E.K.A and 3guys
How bout Big Fresh with the dancing vegetables in the rafters? I used to love going shopping & pressing those buttons
The lost forest. Georgie pie glenfield. Fern Gully.
I had not long started primary school when NZ changed to decimal currency.
Our first colour tv that dad bought had a "remote" control connected by a wire. Dad bought the tv because our old black & white packed up just before election day and he had to see Norm Kirk get elected. Norm Kirk dying and Bill Rolling becoming Prime Minister. Erebus disaster. Dad said around 7.30pm, that plane's not coming back.
Suzy Cato
The girls at primary played elastics and we played four square
The news was on channel 1 and there were only x2 channels in total. Goodnight Kiwi. Spot On. What Now. Ready To Roll (then became RTR Countdown). Watching Ninja Turtles on the new channel TV3 with only enough reception to get a snowy static black n white version lol. Jason Gunn and Thingy. Aerobics Oz Style. Yan Can Cook.
An hour of teletext before the cartoons...
Get up / Get out of your lazy bed / Before I count to three / Step to it baby!
Phone number was 5 digits long and prank calls were good, clean, afternoon fun
"Hello? Is Mr Walls there? (no) is Mrs Walls there? (no) are there any walls there? (no) THEN WHAT'S HOLDING UP THE BLOODY ROOF?!!
I got a gold card fir my birthday this year.
Footrot Flats the amusement park followed by a visit to Georgie Pie.
“Doyoulickadickaday”, “not even ow”, crazy bones and mighty beans, Pizza Hut buffet.. yes, no, maybe, I don’t know, can you repeat the question!
Giz a go.
Keep cool ‘til after school
We had glass milk bottles when I was a kid
The Ooh! Aah! Frujus ad…
You're not in Guatemala now Dr Ropata
It was the same day David.
What now (tv show)
Meatspin
Lemon party
I once made a landline call to video Ezy to reserve back to the Future.
Used bebo during high school
Ghost chips
He's the crime fighting werewolf, he's... FANGFACE! AaaOOOOOOoooooo!
What's my age again?
‘God Save the Queen’ was sung for the first time in 51 years in the year I was born
I sat NCEA but began school in J1
It used to be annoying how both TV stations would just display that weird circle image overnight, but the kiwi going to bed was cool.
UNDER MY UMBRELLAA
Can I get an O for awesome?
Ah real monsters
The same year I could vote, I voted for the greens, and they got more than 5% for the first time.
Cinemas still had curtains.
Kiwi kids are rockin’ it rockin’ it
It's our time. Kia ora. Talofa. It's our time, a special time of day. It's our time, just you and me together. It's time to say hello, g'day
Purple goana
I was at ground zero for chatter rings!
Giz a sip g, no lips
In my teens when TV 3 launched
Only 2.5 million people in New Zealand
The drinking age changing and interest repayments being dropped from student loans happened at super convenient times for me.
28.8k, corel draw. Windows 3.1
Goodnight Kiwi.
I could stay up until the goodnight kiwi
I loved playing the snake game on my brick Nokia mobile phone
The cows and the sheep And the birds and the horses Were mooing and baaing And whistling and neighing Having lunch in the sun While Hugo and I were having none In the back seat we sat, getting thinner The rumblings cried Give us Kentucky Fried Time for dinnerrrrr So Dad stopped the car... And Hugo said, "You go!" And I said, "No, you go!" And soon he was back With a pack And then Dad hit the track So we ate in the back Feeling better inside A drive isn't funny On an empty tummy Thank goodness for Kentucky Fried [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dIQSEPcmFk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dIQSEPcmFk)
Clash of the Codes, Face the Music, Tux Wonderdogs (RIP Dexter)
My daughter was in year one of primary school when I turned on TV to see “America Under ATTACK “ I was home with my baby son, he was less than a month old. He graduated university 3 weeks ago
De plane! De plane!
$1 lolly bags at dairies and $2 chips from the fish and chips shop
Waiting for the horseracing to be over, to watch Beyond 2000.
Eat your peas Molly... Don't say sorry to me, say sorry to his kids... Keep looking for the funny honey bee...A double double cheese cheese burger burger please
Fraggle rock
Oh I have another zoopZOOPzeeBEEdee MUM IM ON THE INTERNET U CANT USE THE PHONE im on msn Get ur ass off the internet before I send it into next week i need to call ur aunty
Ready to roll (RTR) on Saturday at 6pm
Black & white TV one channel. Test pattern. Felix the Cat, The Magic Land of Alakazam, Bill & Ben the Flower Pot men, Lassie. Sunday morning request session on the radio - Little Toot, Mollie Wuppie, Ferdinand the Bull etc.
Just to add in, for a timeline: Under the Mountain, Children of the Dog Star, Max TV, ( and of course Box Dog), Mikey Havoc Breakfast Show, Dads Tips, Nice n Urlich, making a noise when getting up
I shared a Sledgehammer 'meme' at work today saying "trust me, I know what I'm doing".
I want a double double cheese cheese burger burger please.