I had the honor, at the tender age of 12, to meet the great man in person, Richard Wilson. He was a guest at an award ceremony I had been nominated for, and it was my great pleasure to shake his hand. I begged him at the time, to say his catchphrase for me. He politely informed me that he now only does it for large donations to charity. However, he made my day when he cupped his hands around my ear and half whispered it to me. Best moment ever. Long Live Victor.
I love the way that Margaret and Mrs Warboys instantly realise it's about Victor, but Victor himself doesn't until the song actually names him. Poor old Victor, he's abslutely oblivious to his own character. The way Margaret has that slowly dawning look of horror as she turns to face Victor, waiting for the inevitable moment when he finally twigs it's about him lol
you gotta love the fact it isn't a microphone recording, but a professional recording booth and a well constructed and thought out song parody and singing in harmony. all that effort for a simple joke😂.
I met Doreen Mantle on a charity event I was organising down in London back in 2000 and what a lovely lady. How many times they filmed this is anyones guess as a few were desperate to fall apart. 😂😂😂😂
The thing i note is that on completion the first thing Victor did was take out the tape and check the Record-Protect hole. Like he knew they would probably do something like that.
Victor Meldrew is Britain's elderly answer to Charlie Brown in that he's a polarising character: you either sympathise with him or you think he's a miserable git. There were times when I felt his treatment from other people was rather mean-spirited at times, but I can see why the mechanics came up with this "You suck" ditty. If someone was whinging to you no matter how many times you dealt with them, you'd probably want to do this.
I don't believe he is constantly miserable, it's that other people tend to antagonize him. Weird and insane things seen to occur around him all the time and he probably feels like the only sane person.
you can never get enough of our old victor meldew my bosses wife's mothers the female version of victor I call her Mrs meldew because all she dose is bleeding moan about everything
Guide me O thou great reedemer, pilgrim through this barren land, I am weak but thou art mighty, hold me with thy powerful hand, Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, feed me now and evermore, Feed me now and evermore.
Not ashamed to admit that I do this sort of thing all the time xD I take a song and then alter the lyrics to fit the situation lol. Good example with this song "There's this cat we can't stand any longer, always on the bloody purr. Every day I clean up with the hoover, she just bloody sheds more fur!"
