I've a friend from University that has a teeny tiny boat with the most engine he could find. Pretty sure it has more hp per foot than you will ever see. Daft sod. When you open it up it heads skywards like a breaching orka and then just skittles its way on the top of whatever blue wobbly bit it finds.
My Dad was on Bullseye when I was 6, now I'm 42 and the episode still repeats on challenge TV. The Bendy Bully disintegrated, but we still have the tankard.
The tankard was probably the best prize on the show, at least the longest lasting. Fair play to your old man, at least he doesn't have to dispose with an old caravan, or mouldy speedboat. All the best, geezer. 😀
Back then, it was the only working class TV show, normal working people, everything else was very middle class, but with Bullseye, it was people like you saw every day, worked alongside, and Jim talked to them like a friend, not talked down to them, Jim wanted them to be the stars, encouraged them to tell their little anecdotes , wonderful show, doubt we'll ever see a show like it again
When I was a student I worked as a night porter at a local hotel. Had to take Jim Bowen an early breakfast . Seeing him in his Y fronts smoking a woodbine and coughing his guts up at 5am is not a sight I'll ever forget ! Good tipper though !😂😂
Bullseye had a sizeable student following, in 1992 Jim Bowen was actually invited to speak at the Oxford Union. I think it's brilliant that such a niche piece of British culture is a part of your life story!
Jim Bowen: "Contestant number one, what's your name and where'd you come from?" Contestant No1: "Hello Jim. My name's Phil and I'm a miner from Northampton, but I was made redundant 2 years ago." Jim Bowen: "That's super Phil. Smashing, lovely stuff!" That actually happened.
I loved it when someone threw 3 darts for charity and they doubled it up. “ That’s £14 to your favourite charity “. Or two contestants who lived in different towns could win the top prize - a three piece suite!
Who needs a car when you can have a bendy Bully. Great, super, smashing. Jim Bowen was a total legend. So British he lived in a disused railway station that was converted to a house.
I remember the Robot toys and wanted one so bad when I was a kid! One of my favourite Jim phrases was when a contestant was answering and they'd say 'is it Shakespeare?' And he'd say 'are you asking me or telling me?'
I love that shaking your fist slightly in excitement is considered as being “too excited” by British standards 😛 …but as a Brit I can agree that he showed way too much excitement..
The thing I remember about this show is the daftly inappropriate prizes people used to win, e.g., a motor boat and trailer won by an aquaphobic person living in a small flat on the tenth floor, miles away from any kind of water, without a garage, garden or car park to keep it! Jim: Smashing! Great! Super! Just what you always wanted? Despondent contestant: Yep.
Jim did his stand up at my local bingo hall. My mum and nan took me to see him as we all loved Bully. It was the most pornographic comedy set I've ever heard, even today. To a room full of blue rinse. My mum and nan were stunned, shocked, and open mouthed all the way home.
@@Psmith-ek5hq Well, dear, if you paid attention to the thread,I was replying to what"TrickyDicky2006" had, immediately, written before me which was: " Was the same with the likes of Jim Davidson and Mike Reid "....
If you can find it (on a podcast I think), there is a hilarious story about two Irish men who appeared on the show. They finished last on the first round, and not thinking they were going to be on again literally drank the complementary bar dry. As it was the other two teams decided to stick with what they won, and yep the Irish blokes were asked to return even though they couldn't stand up straight. Story just gets funnier in the production team trying to get them sober so they can continue.
It'll sound better when she finally picks up a Kent dialect, it's not really English if you don't have an accent related to a place, not just a nation.
@@FormulaProg weird way to think, she was just imitating a generic English accent and doing pretty well in the fly imo. I was talking in general as in English people who seem to not have an accent. An "Internet accent" is not a thing, but we do get Americanisms mainly due to the Internet, I hate those, even more so when I find myself using them.
@@HalfdeadRider I said the way I think of it is an internet accent, Americanised is true but there's only a British internet accent that's just vague and dull. For American accents that is having the same affect in the states, you'll find less and less southern accents in the south because of kids who spend all day only Interacting with people online and the same for new England etc. I'm sure you've heard the accent I am talking about the "like, whatever" slurring of words accent with internet slang like fr and bruh thrown in. In the UK we have or had a ridiculous amount of distinguishable accents, each unique to not just people but culture and local traditions. That's something that's rapidly dying in society due to the internet, lack of real social mixing and immigration. You're fine to think it's just how people sound so who cares, I totally get that. But I find it sad and maybe it's because I'm born in Liverpool lived in Yorkshire for 20 years that my families accents are all common and broad as they come, but to us, they mean something. I can say things that only local folk understand and it's why we used to get along better before the web.
The list of names on the Wikipedia page are the professional/ semi professional dart players who were part of the 'Winning for Charity' feature, they had to throw three darts and whatever the score was, the professional darts player won that amount in cash for the winning contestants chosen charity.
Hi there, I've just watched your Bullseye blog and wanted to let you know that I was on Bullseye in 1986 and won all the prizes but I didn't gamble!! Enjoyed watching your blog, it brought back good memories 🙂 I am an older viewer and like watching your experiences of being in the UK I hope that you are enjoying being over here 🤩 From Trev
@@AdventuresAndNaps I like it when he interviews people and they are so boring. "So Dave, it says here you're a welder from Norwich, and you like to watch banger racing?"
The fact they feel they have to put it on as late as 11pm as though it’s strict adult viewing shows how ridiculous this country has gone with censorship. Just like with the lengthy lockdowns those on authority here take everything too far
@@cultfiction3865 it’s nothing to do with censorship, it’s because it’s a 40 year old game show! What time should a repeat of a 40 year old game show be on? There’s nothing to censor…
@@ShaunLevett I’m thinking more of the innuendo in his jokes and non PC jokes about contestants weight etc. Nothing bad about it but TV has gone too PC these days and they seem to censor things that don’t fit that narrative. For example Roald Dahl books. They are old and written for kids, yet recently there was an initiative in this country to alter some of his language since they didn’t think it was PC enough.
17:20 Tredegar in South Wales. 0 seconds ago "Where men are men and sheep are careful" The subtlest sheep shagging joke I've ever heard, well done, Jim!
I haven't lived in the UK for 25 years. Was well happy when I went back last year and this was on the telly. Having to watch what you could have one is priceless.
When I was younger I didn't get the concept of the ITV regions which Jim would refer to till a few years later. So you'd have Central, Granada, Anglia, Tyne Tees etc. I remember been gutted when it was cancelled. Tony Green the scorer died just a couple of weeks ago. Jim was also on Radio Lancashire.
Thanks Alana , what a great laugh that was ! It was a terrible programme in it's day but a touch of nostalgia . Jim Bowen was on the comedians which aired in the 70's . One of those people who could make you laugh without doing anything !
Over the years I’ve met countless celebrities, but back in 1992, I was lucky enough to meet Jim Bowen. What an absolute gentleman. He was so nice and genuinely loved people. We had a really nice chat and it’s one of my fondest memories R.I.P. Jim “BFH Bus Fair Home” Bowen. Love the channel and much respect.
Fond memories of watching Bullseye on a Sunday evening just before we had our tea. Yes, prizes were naff (speedboat... seriously!) but Jim Bowen made it fun to watch.
When I was growing up in the '80s, prizes on British game-shows were things that money could buy. At some point, that changed, and now the prizes are money. You can no longer win a car or a holiday (and not even a boat or a caravan); now you win cash. I don't know whether or not the prizes back then were donated to the shows as a form of advertising them, or bought by the production company to give away, but cash prizes that don't typically exceed a few thousand pounds are probably more convenient to transact and less of a drain on the budget. It felt more exciting when, if you could Play Your Cards Right, you would win an Austin Maestro; now, if you get some Pointless answers, you will win enough money to buy a share in a moped.
I have "binge watched" this after seeing your UK/USA chocolate taste test video. Both were good but this Bullseye episode was tremendous. I love the way you love some VERY British things...! It is impossible to watch one of your videos without smiling.
More like this please. Bullseye, use to watch this back in the early 90s, like at the Pub, as the land lady loved it, which meant we punters had to watch it no matter if the football was on or not.
8:32 We had those pans when I was a kid. (I think one of the best things about Bullseye is if you're British and 40+ you're almost guaranteed to have owned at least one of the prize board prizes in any given series. The nostalgia is built-in.)
Alanna, your justified amusement at these clips has just brightened my morning. Thanks so much, watching you watching them is even more hilarious than the show itself.
I used to watch bullseye at my nans every weekend along with greats like worzel gumage, blind date, dads army, surprise surprise, and the great Dame Edna Experience
Those speedboats they often used as prizes... anyone suspect that one of the producers used to have a sideline owning a speedboat business that went under and he had a storage unit full of them that he was desperate to get rid of? I mean how much use would the average contestant have for one unless they lived on Lake Windermere?
Alanna, please tell that there is a online version of Bullseye somewhere that we can play on Twitch stream one night, that would be absolutely hilarious particularly if you set the prizes. "In one, a missing bit of Lego that's just been found on the floor " "In two, an inflatable palm tree that has a leak in it." "And tonight's star prize, a leftover slice of Butlers Pizza". 😁😁😁
The people commenting don't realise money had twice the value it has today. Most people couldn't afford all those things for their home. Wages were like £70 per week, there was no minimum wage, you were lucky to be on £1.30 ph. I loved Bullseye and I did watch the reruns when you would've been watching. 👍 It's wholesome, family entertainment. Have you watched "It's a Knockout"? , it's like a 1970's Total Wipeout.
To put the cash prizes into perspective, when Bullseye first aired in 1981 my basic wage as a bus driver was about £50, so even £200 split between two losing contestants was well worth having!
My abiding memory of Bullseye was the eighties trope of showing large quantities (in terms of number of notes, not the denomination) of cash, here sticking it in pewter tankards. The sitcom Bread had a set piece of all the Boswells paying cash onto a collection plate before meals. And, of course, Harry Enfield's loadsamoney character.
I still love to watching Bullseye from time to time, people from my generation X/Millennial grew up watching this and some other awesome Saturday night shows. Try Big Break with Jim Davidson "I'm famed for my aim so you better put up a real good fight, I'm gonna be snookering you tonight".
I've seen your videos before, and youtube recommended again, and I'm glad. Bullseye was a classic. Britain is a master of making something good out of shite! haha This was a class show.
You won't have seen this one Alanna, but you NEED to check out the cringefest that was 3-2-1.... if you the prizes on Bullseye were bad, you ain't seen nothing yet!
Many fond memories of bullseye on a Sunday night, before my bath. Jim was s legend and the prizes were hilarious. Can't ask much more than that. Check out Peter Kaye's impressions of Jim and bullseye. Bloody hilarious!
Great channel .'Bullseye' British comedian Peter Kay grew up with these shows and often poked fun at them in his observational way. It is interesting as you see them today with the changes of society fashion etc. Often Peter Kay using that time warp and changes as fuel for his comedy.😎 Many years later I believe Peter Kay in 'Phoenix Nights' actually brought in the host of this show in act in his comedy show.
The HILARIOUS thing about this show was telling the Downhearted, Despondent and Disappointed contestants "This is what you WOULD have won" just to give them a kick when they were already down. lol NOW WATCH that "LAME" clip again, very SLOWLY, and that was hysterical with lines like "The Wife ?" "JUST a Housewife" as they, quickly, dismiss her and move on...there was gem after gem there "Keep them close to your chest" after the "ditties" comment, and the second woman hinted that there were other "things" should no longer do with a screw in her knee which is why Jim said, "You'll get us taken off the air"...
Jim Bowen said "the contestants all working together hadn't enough intelligence to light a light bulb. We were ashamed of it at first but later we just didn't care." Ian Dee.
Phoenix Nights is the funniest thing I have ever seen on TV, and ever will. "Family Fun Day" was a masterpiece. Peter Kay and Dave Spikey hit the Bull's Eye with it.
Very entertaining reactions as always! Bullseye brings back lots of memories growing-up in the 1980s, along with a plethora of comedy sketch programmes and other gameshows. Great days growing up. Who else is noticing Alanna's accent becoming more British-Canadian over each Adventures and Naps episode!
When they lost, they always seemed to wheel out the car. I noticed the couple who actually did win the car, Jim said to her “Sit in it” and directed her to the passenger seat rather than the driver’s seat. Subconscious sexism methinks.
He lived in the vale of Lune, beautiful piece of Lancashire.... btw Lancashire used to be a HUGE county...used to stretch from cheshire to cumberland (now cumbria).. google 3 shire stone. Love your channel btw x
You need to check out the comedian peter Kay’s routine on Bullseye who is also from Lancashire! All the best people are from Lancashire, you should know that by now!
Alanna, one of your most amusing videos yet....and that's saying a great deal. I've never seen Bull's Eye. I don't think I want to see it. And from your review, I don't think I've missed much. Better to watch Adventures & Naps any day!! 😅
i used to watch this at my grandmothers on a sunday evening , me and my uncle wold have our own sayings lol , brings back a lot of memories thank you for sharing
Love watching the old bullseye,IN 1 a set of fluffy towels IN 2 an empty box etc funny as ever , love yer big smile lass n keep enjoying the UKs banter respect fae Scotland
Nostalgia is at a dangerous level. Loved this show as a kid and still watch it to this day. The Bullseye fruit machine was brilliant too. I'm on the look out for one. Would make my house seem so classy haha.
That contestant said she was a punch operator, a metal punch in a factory, her accent may have masked it somewhat. I wonder what people will make of your RUclips videos in 50 years time, if we are still around, I won't be, maybe another 10, touch wood. I'm sitting in an identical Danish leather recliner with the footstool, showing its age a bit now but still comfortable. Great 70's Danish design and quality.
A punch operator was also someone who punched punch cards for computer data entry _ I use to do it and assumed that's what she was. Time was about right.
The speedboat ina. Driveway comment, I can understand this.. I love on a town called little hulton, in salford.Salford.. just up the road from me is a bright yellow half rotted speedboat in somebody's driveway.. definite bullseye winner
I always felt that Bullseye had such a solid format for the actual premise of the show. If open to being a bit unbalanced. Because the skill levels of the dart players could be so different. But that's the same on any 'normal' quiz show if you have clever people, and how you say er.. not so clever people on there.
Brilliant Alanna. This was my Sunday early evening TV viewing as a kid while having my egg or tuna sandwich!! You can't beat a bit of bully! I remember in the early 90s working for a supermarket franchise and getting sent to the village Jim Bowen lived in. He had a large house behind 2 electric gates each with the bully symbol on them!! 😅
Oh the camera loves you too Allana! ❤ I saw you fluttering your eyelids at the camera! If I was there I'd rush over and ask "Excuse me, Did you get dust in your eye?" Just rest your head on my arm and I'll pour some water in your eye. Talking of watery eyes... I went shopping in Onion Street in Aberdeen. It's pronounced Union Street but they should call it Onion Street coz the prices in the shops brings a tear to your eye! 😂😂
Here's what you could have won used to kill me. It was a brilliant concept. It should be brought back as it was with an appropriate host. There is a demand for it.
Jim - What do you do for a living?
Contestant - I'm unemployed Jim
Jim - Smashing!
what were you made unemployed from?
School at 13.
Smashing.
Oh Jim. What a legend
Hahaha
I grew up in Sheffield and as a child, if we ever saw a boat in someone's driveway then we'd say that they'd obviously been on Bullseye.
There's a boat builder on an industrial estate near Skipton, about 70 miles from the sea. Less stupidly there's a barge builder on the canal still.
I've a friend from University that has a teeny tiny boat with the most engine he could find. Pretty sure it has more hp per foot than you will ever see. Daft sod.
When you open it up it heads skywards like a breaching orka and then just skittles its way on the top of whatever blue wobbly bit it finds.
I've been to Sheffield. You can't have seen many speedboats.
the bullseye winners pray for a flood, they wanted a car
This comment is gold! Well done Peter Pan.
My Dad was on Bullseye when I was 6, now I'm 42 and the episode still repeats on challenge TV. The Bendy Bully disintegrated, but we still have the tankard.
The tankard was probably the best prize on the show, at least the longest lasting.
Fair play to your old man, at least he doesn't have to dispose with an old caravan, or mouldy speedboat.
All the best, geezer. 😀
Great, smashing, super.
Back then, it was the only working class TV show, normal working people, everything else was very middle class, but with Bullseye, it was people like you saw every day, worked alongside, and Jim talked to them like a friend, not talked down to them, Jim wanted them to be the stars, encouraged them to tell their little anecdotes , wonderful show, doubt we'll ever see a show like it again
Tbf watching this it’s a good representation of working class Britain. As a kid all the adults looked like this!
" iiiiiiiiin two, a life-time supply of Blu-Tac"
That show was famous . Win a speed boat while you live in a city tower block
There's a special shade of grey that has only ever been used for Jim's suits and Soviet apartment buildings.
Comment of the week! 🤣
When I was a student I worked as a night porter at a local hotel. Had to take Jim Bowen an early breakfast . Seeing him in his Y fronts smoking a woodbine and coughing his guts up at 5am is not a sight I'll ever forget ! Good tipper though !😂😂
Bullseye had a sizeable student following, in 1992 Jim Bowen was actually invited to speak at the Oxford Union.
I think it's brilliant that such a niche piece of British culture is a part of your life story!
Jim Bowen: "Contestant number one, what's your name and where'd you come from?"
Contestant No1: "Hello Jim. My name's Phil and I'm a miner from Northampton, but I was made redundant 2 years ago."
Jim Bowen: "That's super Phil. Smashing, lovely stuff!"
That actually happened.
Was Jim Bowen doing his best Cilla Black impression?
I recall Jim himself telling that story, and he said the contestant Phil replied "****"!
Ex-miner.
Im sure Peter Kaye's comedy routine introduced a new generation to Bullseye.
I loved it when someone threw 3 darts for charity and they doubled it up.
“ That’s £14 to your favourite charity “.
Or two contestants who lived in different towns could win the top prize - a three piece suite!
Who needs a car when you can have a bendy Bully. Great, super, smashing.
Jim Bowen was a total legend. So British he lived in a disused railway station that was converted to a house.
I remember the Robot toys and wanted one so bad when I was a kid!
One of my favourite Jim phrases was when a contestant was answering and they'd say 'is it Shakespeare?' And he'd say 'are you asking me or telling me?'
I love that shaking your fist slightly in excitement is considered as being “too excited” by British standards 😛
…but as a Brit I can agree that he showed way too much excitement..
The thing I remember about this show is the daftly inappropriate prizes people used to win, e.g., a motor boat and trailer won by an aquaphobic person living in a small flat on the tenth floor, miles away from any kind of water, without a garage, garden or car park to keep it!
Jim: Smashing! Great! Super! Just what you always wanted?
Despondent contestant: Yep.
Jim did his stand up at my local bingo hall. My mum and nan took me to see him as we all loved Bully.
It was the most pornographic comedy set I've ever heard, even today. To a room full of blue rinse.
My mum and nan were stunned, shocked, and open mouthed all the way home.
Ha Ha Ha:)
@@TrickyDicky2006 I saw Jim Davidson in The Duncow Pub off The Old Kent Road around 45 years ago:)
In a bad or good way?
@@Isleofskye The gentleman here is Jim Bowen, dear.
@@Psmith-ek5hq Well, dear, if you paid attention to the thread,I was replying to what"TrickyDicky2006" had, immediately, written before me which was: " Was the same with the likes of Jim Davidson and Mike Reid "....
You'll like Peter Kay's bullseye bit from his stand up
She will have already seen it. She repeats a lot of his jokes in this video
I came here to comment this as well.
If you can find it (on a podcast I think), there is a hilarious story about two Irish men who appeared on the show. They finished last on the first round, and not thinking they were going to be on again literally drank the complementary bar dry. As it was the other two teams decided to stick with what they won, and yep the Irish blokes were asked to return even though they couldn't stand up straight. Story just gets funnier in the production team trying to get them sober so they can continue.
It's on Jim Bowen's stand-up routine about Bullseye, which is on youtube somewhere.
@@MrDannyDetail That'll be where I've heard/seen it then
When you said “you can do it mate” was the best English accent you’ve ever uttered. 🎉
It'll sound better when she finally picks up a Kent dialect, it's not really English if you don't have an accent related to a place, not just a nation.
@@FormulaProg It is a generic English accent then, usually most people at least have a hint of their local accent even if they sound generic.
@@HalfdeadRider I would call that an internet accent. It's not localised it's generic and quite sad actually.
@@FormulaProg weird way to think, she was just imitating a generic English accent and doing pretty well in the fly imo.
I was talking in general as in English people who seem to not have an accent. An "Internet accent" is not a thing, but we do get Americanisms mainly due to the Internet, I hate those, even more so when I find myself using them.
@@HalfdeadRider I said the way I think of it is an internet accent, Americanised is true but there's only a British internet accent that's just vague and dull. For American accents that is having the same affect in the states, you'll find less and less southern accents in the south because of kids who spend all day only Interacting with people online and the same for new England etc. I'm sure you've heard the accent I am talking about the "like, whatever" slurring of words accent with internet slang like fr and bruh thrown in. In the UK we have or had a ridiculous amount of distinguishable accents, each unique to not just people but culture and local traditions. That's something that's rapidly dying in society due to the internet, lack of real social mixing and immigration. You're fine to think it's just how people sound so who cares, I totally get that. But I find it sad and maybe it's because I'm born in Liverpool lived in Yorkshire for 20 years that my families accents are all common and broad as they come, but to us, they mean something. I can say things that only local folk understand and it's why we used to get along better before the web.
Pub culture, darts and the pub quiz teams got together. = Bullseye.
The list of names on the Wikipedia page are the professional/ semi professional dart players who were part of the 'Winning for Charity' feature, they had to throw three darts and whatever the score was, the professional darts player won that amount in cash for the winning contestants chosen charity.
Hi there, I've just watched your Bullseye blog and wanted to let you know that I was on Bullseye in 1986 and won all the prizes but I didn't gamble!! Enjoyed watching your blog, it brought back good memories 🙂 I am an older viewer and like watching your experiences of being in the UK I hope that you are enjoying being over here 🤩
From Trev
One of your best videos! What memories of Sunday early evenings this provoked! Sadly, it also meant another week of school was staring us in the face.
Jim Bowen lived in a converted railway carriage near Lancaster. It's still there today.
I still watch Bullseye most evenings. 11PM on Challenge! I'm dying to win that nest of tables and crystal glasswear set.
😂
@@AdventuresAndNaps I like it when he interviews people and they are so boring. "So Dave, it says here you're a welder from Norwich, and you like to watch banger racing?"
The fact they feel they have to put it on as late as 11pm as though it’s strict adult viewing shows how ridiculous this country has gone with censorship. Just like with the lengthy lockdowns those on authority here take everything too far
@@cultfiction3865 it’s nothing to do with censorship, it’s because it’s a 40 year old game show! What time should a repeat of a 40 year old game show be on? There’s nothing to censor…
@@ShaunLevett I’m thinking more of the innuendo in his jokes and non PC jokes about contestants weight etc. Nothing bad about it but TV has gone too PC these days and they seem to censor things that don’t fit that narrative. For example Roald Dahl books. They are old and written for kids, yet recently there was an initiative in this country to alter some of his language since they didn’t think it was PC enough.
17:20
Tredegar in South Wales.
0 seconds ago
"Where men are men and sheep are careful"
The subtlest sheep shagging joke I've ever heard, well done, Jim!
Absolutely love you. Ur enthusiasm is infectious. It's so good to see a foreigner show love to our country instead of the millions of haters of the UK
I haven't lived in the UK for 25 years. Was well happy when I went back last year and this was on the telly. Having to watch what you could have one is priceless.
Watching old episodes of Bullseye is great, especially the price board section. In 1, a twin tub washing machine, in 2, a portable colour TV....
Prize, not price.
When I was younger I didn't get the concept of the ITV regions which Jim would refer to till a few years later. So you'd have Central, Granada, Anglia, Tyne Tees etc. I remember been gutted when it was cancelled. Tony Green the scorer died just a couple of weeks ago. Jim was also on Radio Lancashire.
Thanks Alana , what a great laugh that was ! It was a terrible programme in it's day but a touch of nostalgia .
Jim Bowen was on the comedians which aired in the 70's .
One of those people who could make you laugh without doing anything !
Over the years I’ve met countless celebrities, but back in 1992, I was lucky enough to meet Jim Bowen. What an absolute gentleman. He was so nice and genuinely loved people. We had a really nice chat and it’s one of my fondest memories R.I.P. Jim “BFH Bus Fair Home” Bowen. Love the channel and much respect.
Jim Bowen was a teacher before going into comedy.
Fond memories of watching Bullseye on a Sunday evening just before we had our tea. Yes, prizes were naff (speedboat... seriously!) but Jim Bowen made it fun to watch.
When I was growing up in the '80s, prizes on British game-shows were things that money could buy. At some point, that changed, and now the prizes are money. You can no longer win a car or a holiday (and not even a boat or a caravan); now you win cash. I don't know whether or not the prizes back then were donated to the shows as a form of advertising them, or bought by the production company to give away, but cash prizes that don't typically exceed a few thousand pounds are probably more convenient to transact and less of a drain on the budget. It felt more exciting when, if you could Play Your Cards Right, you would win an Austin Maestro; now, if you get some Pointless answers, you will win enough money to buy a share in a moped.
I have "binge watched" this after seeing your UK/USA chocolate taste test video. Both were good but this Bullseye episode was tremendous. I love the way you love some VERY British things...!
It is impossible to watch one of your videos without smiling.
Wow, that Bullseye was quite the show! What a riot.
Thank goodness for you. I will die happy for the knowledge you’ve given me. 😅
Did you notice Jim said to that Welsh contestant "Oh you're from Tredegar , where Men are Men and sheep are nervous" 😂
BAAAAAA !!
Velcro gloves and wellies are handed out at coming of age for a lad 😂
Men are men and sheep are careful.
I can not tell you how much I love your love of Bullseye. Just fantastic. Cracking video this 💙👊🏽🎯
More like this please.
Bullseye, use to watch this back in the early 90s, like at the Pub, as the land lady loved it, which meant we punters had to watch it no matter if the football was on or not.
8:32 We had those pans when I was a kid. (I think one of the best things about Bullseye is if you're British and 40+ you're almost guaranteed to have owned at least one of the prize board prizes in any given series. The nostalgia is built-in.)
Alanna, your justified amusement at these clips has just brightened my morning.
Thanks so much, watching you watching them is even more hilarious than the show itself.
I used to watch bullseye at my nans every weekend along with greats like worzel gumage, blind date, dads army, surprise surprise, and the great Dame Edna Experience
Those speedboats they often used as prizes... anyone suspect that one of the producers used to have a sideline owning a speedboat business that went under and he had a storage unit full of them that he was desperate to get rid of? I mean how much use would the average contestant have for one unless they lived on Lake Windermere?
You mean on the banks of Lake Windermere.
"We only own motorbikes, Jim". I've got a Bonneville - it's got some poke but it won't pull a trailer.
Do you know, your stuff is getting better and better. Your upbeat and enthusiastic presentation is captivating 😀
The age old question, how do you split the prizes 😂 I loved watching Bullseye back in the day and still watch the reruns now.
Alanna, please tell that there is a online version of Bullseye somewhere that we can play on Twitch stream one night, that would be absolutely hilarious particularly if you set the prizes. "In one, a missing bit of Lego that's just been found on the floor " "In two, an inflatable palm tree that has a leak in it." "And tonight's star prize, a leftover slice of Butlers Pizza". 😁😁😁
The people commenting don't realise money had twice the value it has today. Most people couldn't afford all those things for their home. Wages were like £70 per week, there was no minimum wage, you were lucky to be on £1.30 ph.
I loved Bullseye and I did watch the reruns when you would've been watching. 👍 It's wholesome, family entertainment.
Have you watched "It's a Knockout"? , it's like a 1970's Total Wipeout.
Great point, back then a Washing Machine or a TV cost 2-3 weeks wages, nowadays you can pick one up for less than a week's work on minimum wage.
Loved this reaction. More Bullseye reactions please!
To put the cash prizes into perspective, when Bullseye first aired in 1981 my basic wage as a bus driver was about £50, so even £200 split between two losing contestants was well worth having!
Great, smashing, super ! and heres what you could of won ! when they lost. And Tony Greens slacks (trousers/strides !)
Oooh i think this can be a new segment on your channel , Reacting / dissecting British TV shows :)
My abiding memory of Bullseye was the eighties trope of showing large quantities (in terms of number of notes, not the denomination) of cash, here sticking it in pewter tankards. The sitcom Bread had a set piece of all the Boswells paying cash onto a collection plate before meals. And, of course, Harry Enfield's loadsamoney character.
I still love to watching Bullseye from time to time, people from my generation X/Millennial grew up watching this and some other awesome Saturday night shows.
Try Big Break with Jim Davidson "I'm famed for my aim so you better put up a real good fight, I'm gonna be snookering you tonight".
I've seen your videos before, and youtube recommended again, and I'm glad. Bullseye was a classic. Britain is a master of making something good out of shite! haha This was a class show.
You won't have seen this one Alanna, but you NEED to check out the cringefest that was 3-2-1.... if you the prizes on Bullseye were bad, you ain't seen nothing yet!
That car looked like Mr. Weasley's flying car!!!!
Many fond memories of bullseye on a Sunday night, before my bath. Jim was s legend and the prizes were hilarious. Can't ask much more than that. Check out Peter Kaye's impressions of Jim and bullseye. Bloody hilarious!
Great channel .'Bullseye' British comedian Peter Kay grew up with these shows and often poked fun at them in his observational way. It is interesting as you see them today with the changes of society fashion etc. Often Peter Kay using that time warp and changes as fuel for his comedy.😎 Many years later I believe Peter Kay in 'Phoenix Nights' actually brought in the host of this show in act in his comedy show.
Used to love watching this when I was a kid
Smashing great 😅
Darts on tv aren't really a thing here in Canada. I think the sports channels aired darts as a time filler when they didn't have live sports.
The HILARIOUS thing about this show was telling the Downhearted, Despondent and Disappointed contestants "This is what you WOULD have won" just to give them a kick when they were already down. lol NOW WATCH that "LAME" clip again, very SLOWLY, and that was hysterical with lines like "The Wife ?" "JUST a Housewife" as they, quickly, dismiss her and move on...there was gem after gem there "Keep them close to your chest" after the "ditties" comment, and the second woman hinted that there were other "things" should no longer do with a screw in her knee which is why Jim said, "You'll get us taken off the air"...
Jim Bowen said "the contestants all working together hadn't enough intelligence to light a light bulb. We were ashamed of it at first but later we just didn't care." Ian Dee.
I still watch Bullseye on Challenge TV every once in while. I used to watch it all the time when I was younger. Great show.
we had entire comedy routines based on it
When that aired.. a 2000 pound fashion spree was a small fortune
Have you ever seen Phoenix nights? Jim Bowen was in an episode of that.
Phoenix Nights is the funniest thing I have ever seen on TV, and ever will.
"Family Fun Day" was a masterpiece. Peter Kay and Dave Spikey hit the Bull's Eye with it.
Although I do not remember the exact jokes I do remember watching once on youtube a Jim Bowen stand up comedy gig and remember it being funny.
Very entertaining reactions as always! Bullseye brings back lots of memories growing-up in the 1980s, along with a plethora of comedy sketch programmes and other gameshows. Great days growing up.
Who else is noticing Alanna's accent becoming more British-Canadian over each Adventures and Naps episode!
And now you need to watch Peter Kay's stand up comedy about this show. It's iconic British humour.
Super Smashing Great
When they lost, they always seemed to wheel out the car. I noticed the couple who actually did win the car, Jim said to her “Sit in it” and directed her to the passenger seat rather than the driver’s seat. Subconscious sexism methinks.
'Super, smashing, great'
I used to watch it at a mates house every Sunday evening after the pub.
He lived in the vale of Lune, beautiful piece of Lancashire.... btw Lancashire used to be a HUGE county...used to stretch from cheshire to cumberland (now cumbria).. google 3 shire stone. Love your channel btw x
ya know why I loved this? ... It was just YOU being so natural!
You need to check out the comedian peter Kay’s routine on Bullseye who is also from Lancashire! All the best people are from Lancashire, you should know that by now!
Jim guest starred in Peter Kay's 2nd series of Pheonix nights
What I like about Bully is that the questions aren't insultingly easy and the contestants aren't the dribbling morons we get on today's quiz shows.
You should watch snookering you tonight, similar but with Jim Davidson as host, it's a real English classic.
Alanna, one of your most amusing videos yet....and that's saying a great deal. I've never seen Bull's Eye. I don't think I want to see it. And from your review, I don't think I've missed much. Better to watch Adventures & Naps any day!! 😅
It's good, you'll grow to love Jim and Tony
i used to watch this at my grandmothers on a sunday evening , me and my uncle wold have our own sayings lol , brings back a lot of memories thank you for sharing
Love watching the old bullseye,IN 1 a set of fluffy towels IN 2 an empty box etc funny as ever , love yer big smile lass n keep enjoying the UKs banter respect fae Scotland
Nostalgia is at a dangerous level.
Loved this show as a kid and still watch it to this day.
The Bullseye fruit machine was brilliant too. I'm on the look out for one. Would make my house seem so classy haha.
Was not expecting that - Alanna helped through a tough time by binge-watching repeat episodes of Bullseye - love it!
Bullseye as therapy. Great idea force people to watch it and watch unemployment plummet!
This is your best reaction video 😂
That contestant said she was a punch operator, a metal punch in a factory, her accent may have masked it somewhat. I wonder what people will make of your RUclips videos in 50 years time, if we are still around, I won't be, maybe another 10, touch wood. I'm sitting in an identical Danish leather recliner with the footstool, showing its age a bit now but still comfortable. Great 70's Danish design and quality.
A punch operator was also someone who punched punch cards for computer data entry _ I use to do it and assumed that's what she was. Time was about right.
A video about a British game show that I've never heard of since I'm American? Sounds like I'm gonna learn today!😂
This one is WILD lol
Lol of course it is!
The speedboat ina. Driveway comment, I can understand this.. I love on a town called little hulton, in salford.Salford.. just up the road from me is a bright yellow half rotted speedboat in somebody's driveway.. definite bullseye winner
I always felt that Bullseye had such a solid format for the actual premise of the show. If open to being a bit unbalanced. Because the skill levels of the dart players could be so different. But that's the same on any 'normal' quiz show if you have clever people, and how you say er.. not so clever people on there.
If you goggle it, a serial killer was recognised because he appeared as a contestant on bullseye…
3-2-1 Dusty Bin, that is also a classic
That was super, smashing, great!
Now let’s have a look at what you cudda won 😂
I met Jim once , he was a lovely man .
Jim bowen was such a good comedy host very funny man
Great guy
Jim Bowen vs a serial killer. And I had that Walkman.. It was waterproof
Brilliant Alanna. This was my Sunday early evening TV viewing as a kid while having my egg or tuna sandwich!!
You can't beat a bit of bully!
I remember in the early 90s working for a supermarket franchise and getting sent to the village Jim Bowen lived in. He had a large house behind 2 electric gates each with the bully symbol on them!! 😅
Oh the camera loves you too Allana! ❤ I saw you fluttering your eyelids at the camera! If I was there I'd rush over and ask "Excuse me, Did you get dust in your eye?"
Just rest your head on my arm and I'll pour some water in your eye. Talking of watery eyes...
I went shopping in Onion Street in Aberdeen. It's pronounced Union Street but they should call it Onion Street coz the prices in the shops brings a tear to your eye! 😂😂
Here's what you could have won used to kill me.
It was a brilliant concept. It should be brought back as it was with an appropriate host. There is a demand for it.