Is it just me?

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Is it just me?

by RapunzelRapunzel @ 23.03.2006 – 22:41:57

I watched Grange Hill on Monday for the first time in about 15 years.

(This is definately the plus side to being a parent - you get to watch kids programmes guiltlessly, purely for research purposes you understand?)

Last I remember is that it used to be set at a scum school in central London where you 'just said no' and everyone beat each other up or were on drugs and all with a wonderful cockney (you gotta love that word) drawl. Not to forget that it was a training ground for future stars of Eastenders.

Yet as I gazed unbelievingly at my idiot box, everything had a sunny disposition about it AND (and this is the piece de resistance) THEY HAD LIVERPUDLIAN ACCENTS! WHAT?????!?!?! what is the world coming too? and how can these poor kids graduate to the higher stage of Albert Square? surely all their dreams will be shattered? But it wasn't just the kids, the caretakers and teachers all had a northern twang too.

sigh. Is nothing sacred? or is it just me and I dreamt the whole episode?
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- ajnspencer ^Pro
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- 23.03.2006 @ 22:51:43
I haven't dared go near Grange Hill for quite a while, I like to keep my fond rememberances how they are

See, it has to bright and cheery now, don't want to disturb the little kiddies with reality...
- - RapunzelRapunzel
  - 23.03.2006 @ 23:00:22
  get some kids and then watch it, (no one can take your memories) I have to know if it's just me! I'm going crazy here!
  - - ajnspencer ^Pro
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    - 23.03.2006 @ 23:11:13
    Lol, you make it sound like I should round them up off the street
    
    Having been a good boy and done my homework by checking out some sites it has changed a hell of a lot...
    
    I still to this day remember that Grange Hill taught me that you couldn't put fibreglass in someone's shirt after the Thunderhawk Witches did it to someone...
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  - - GoingSomewhere
    - 23.03.2006 @ 23:12:14
    Are you sure this is the only thing driving you crazy. Can't help with Grange Hill, btw. I have no idea what you're talking about.
    - - RapunzelRapunzel
      - 27.03.2006 @ 00:11:09
      well, now you come to mention it my mother drives me a little mad...
      - GoingSomewhere
        
        27.03.2006 @ 02:19:16
        
        That's what mothers are for ...
        
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    - 27.03.2006 @ 23:56:54
    It's weird, found something out that might interest you!
    
    Grange Hill is supposed to be in Liverpool! It's done by the same bloke who did Brookie and Hollyoaks...
    - - RapunzelRapunzel
      - 28.03.2006 @ 12:51:40
      NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! you mean all my life I've believed something that wasn't true?!?! my god! how am I ever going to get over this?!?!?
      
      actually come to think of it, it's Phil Redmond, isn't it? and I knew he did Hollyoaks and the like so really I knew all along but didn't know... oh dear my brain is hurting!
      - ajnspencer ^Pro
        
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        28.03.2006 @ 13:04:07
        
        I thought it was gritty London too, maybe it was and it was different... I dunno...
        
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- MagicalMysteryTour ^Pro
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- 26.03.2006 @ 00:01:41
Nowt wrong with bein a scouser like.... if we weren't so oppressed we'd rule the world
- - RapunzelRapunzel
  - 27.03.2006 @ 00:13:32
  no, i love the scousers like the next man, but grange hill was set in London (I'm 200 miles from London) and now the school seems to have been lifted up and sent 300 miles, mcklusky would never have let it happen in her dsy...
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- 28.03.2006 @ 13:51:43
Nothing is as you remember it as a kid sadly. Except Fireworks - they still amaze me.
- - RapunzelRapunzel
  - 28.03.2006 @ 17:41:35
  ain't that the truth?! and i love fireworks too.
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- Emsbabee ^Pro
- 01.04.2006 @ 14:49:53
It is set in London? Isn't it? Grange Hill is an actual place, I got very excited when I found it on a tube map. I agree that it's lost it's realism, the last time I watched it I think they were worrying about the lack of Riboflavin in the Yr 9 diet, rather than who was becoming a crack whore
- - RapunzelRapunzel
  - 04.04.2006 @ 14:43:55
  you see, i thought so too! but they all have these liverpudlian accents. It's all very confusing and yes, definately not as entertaining as it were in my day. we should partition the bbc 'we want more crack whore, we want more crack whore...' got a certain ring to it don't you think?
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