3 men in another boat. 8.10pm New Years day.BBC2.

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Following on from the up the Thames adventure,three entrepid chaps endeavour to take a boat round the south coast of En-ger-land.The three chaps concerned are a Mr Jones( a welshman who owns the boat ) a Mr Mcgrath(bit scottish)and a Mr O,Brian (err... not sure).

Ps.This is followed on the TV by 3 morons and a sprinkling of D list celebs spouting drivel maquerading as entertainment aimed at overweight middleaged blokes who need jeans with 50" waists and have not needed to go to a hairdersser for a very long time..Enjoy. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
I remember watching Alan Aychbournes "UPSTREAM" way back when i was a kid so funny wish it was on again, they made one of them walk the plank and were so abusive to a woman, she was there slave, it was so funny, the old ones are the best!
 
Re: 2 men in another boat

Anyone remember Smith introducing Jones to his pocket cruiser for a wet weekend cruise?
The shout "Don't grab the stanchions" still echoes, and as for "Do you want to do Number Ones or Number Twos?" - hilarious!
 
I agree - my memories of the original don't inspire me to watch another dose of middleaged b listers trying ever so hard be amusing and ending up looking very childish. One for the 5 year olds. The gratuitous swearing was to make us all think it was adult humour. I'll probably watch it any way just cos its got boats in it - how sad is that!
 
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I agree - my memories of the original don't inspire me to watch another dose of middleaged b listers trying ever so hard be amusing and ending up looking very childish. One for the 5 year olds. The gratuitous swearing was to make us all think it was adult humour. I'll probably watch it any way just cos its got boats in it - how sad is that!

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I will prolly watch it in the hope that the producer/director told them that three men in a boat would have more entertainment value with less swearing.

I am pleased that someone else thought it was a little too much.
 
Inclined to agree about the swearing but Dara O'Brian in particular is a very funny man. Saw him live a couple of years ago and was convulsed with laughter throughout his act. Funnily enough, apart from the occasional "feck", he didn't swear at all.

Will definitely be watching, if only to covet Gryff Rhys Jones' classic Philip Rhodes lift keeler.... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
Cannot recall any complaints about the language when the programme was first shown and assuming that it was broadcast at an acceptable time in the evening,am going to guess that the three gentlemen concerned were using no more than the sort of anglo saxon expletives that come into play between 3 very old friends alone togther and when no ladies or children are around.
 
There was a certain amount of effing and blinding, but my problem with it was that it looked as if it was being done for effect, rather than in the normal course of events.

F*****g shame, really. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Remembering that the only complaints at the time came from Thames locals who whinged that it made them all look like a bunch of limp wristed over waged gin place owners unable to steer in a straight line instead of the bunch of hardy adventurous boating on a budget lock jockeys they actually are............surely not. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gifWhy some of them are fully prepared to go beyond the locks adjacent to their marina without proper planning or researching if any of the surrounding gastropubs can actually do a decent bottle of something properly chilled to go with lunch.
 
Three Men in Another Boat
Tue 1 Jan, 8:10 pm - 9:10 pm 60mins

The three Men are Griff Rhys Jones, Dara O'Briain and Rory McGrath, and the boat is Griff's very own 1950s yacht, Undina. Following the huge success of Three Men in a Boat in which they rowed up the Thames, this time they are being more ambitious - sailing from Tower Bridge to the Isle of Wight. Once there, they take place in a race against Undina's sister yacht. The problem is that although Griff is a keen sailor, Dara and Rory have never sailed before, and no one is quite sure if Griff has the patience to teach them.

In this first programme the sailing lessons don't go well. They soon run aground, nearly ram a Thames sailing barge, and end up in a storm in the channel. It doesn't look like they'll even make it to the Isle of Wight let alone win a race. By the time they get to Brighton, tempers are frayed. Dara and Rory soon realise that by selling Griff's cramped classic yacht they could buy three spacious and luxurious modern yachts.

Evidently the "aground" bit is somewhere in the swale.
 
Should be worth a least 100 posts on the interesting and seldom discussed subject of....... manky olde boats vs average white boats ....over on the "Why cant you all play nicely for once " raggie forum!
 
I wasn't at all impressed by Dara in the first one - I don't find him terribly funny and given the choice would rather not watch anything with him solo. However, the other two will no doubt balance his oafishness and it looks like something worth watching.
 
Absolutely cracking.Confirms ever single predudice have had against anything and everything involving sails.
Uncomfortable and wet are the first things that come to mind,feel sure there are one or two hundred others lurking around.
Even paying a fiver a gallon for mobo diesel makes sense now.
More tomorrow at 9PM.
 
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