[ SECRET POST #2765 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2765 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Natalie Dormer]


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03.
[Punky Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye)]


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04.
[Interstella 55555]


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05.
[Longmire]


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06.
[Dracula Untold]


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07.
[Transformers Prime]


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08.
[Rik Mayall]


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09.
[Scarlett (Starcraft 2)]


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10.
[Orange is the New Black]













Notes:

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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[sabotabby]

I was completely gutted in a way that doesn't generally happen for me with celebrity deaths.

I'm Canadian, and I was really surprised how many other people not from the UK a) knew who he was, and b) were deeply, deeply upset. A lot of his stuff never aired in North America (I only saw The New Statesman this year), but Blackadder and Young Ones did.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Back in the day, there was a lot of videotape-sharing that took place by way of Usenet and snail-mail postal services. So it could have spread that way?

Source: I am very old.

[(Anonymous)]

Always nice to meet another person who remembers Usenet. *raises a toast*

[(Anonymous)]

Thirded.

[sabotabby]

Fourthed, actually. I don't think there's been a better way invented to communicate on the intertubes.

[sabotabby]

LOL. Well, that and syndication; I got about two channels growing up and one played a lot of BBC shows.

Also people moved and brought stuff with them. I originally saw Young Ones via VCR tapes that a friend mailed to me (also old), but much of the British TV I've seen has been from British people who moved here and introduced me to the shows they watched.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. Blackadder, The Young Ones, and also Comic Strip Presents aired in the U.S., but it was a very nice thing here, I think. But if you were an American into British comedy during the 80s, you very likely knew about Rik Mayall.

[(Anonymous)]

I was completely gutted in a way that doesn't generally happen for me with celebrity deaths.

Same - It was the first bit of news I'd seen when I woke up that day and I just started crying, and it just kept happening throughout the day without warning. I don't even cry like that when people I've known die.

[sabotabby]

Some of the images that people posted directly after killed me. There was one of Vyvyan at his grave that made me bawl.

[kamino_neko]

The New Statesman did air in North America, FTR, though I'm not sure how extensively - at least one PBS station (the one out of Rochester, NY) aired it in the mid-90s (probably not long after it's British run ended)...I caught it back then, because it starred Mayall (that it covered similar ground to Yes, (Prime) Minister, another show I loved, helped). Not (P)Rik's best work, but that's a pretty high bar to cross, anyway - how could it possibly beat The Young Ones or Blackadder? (Better than Drop Dead Fred, I think, but...that's not as high a bar.)

[(Anonymous)]

I was really devastated too, and I am a USAnian.