The Inaugural TV Cup - Round Five: Best Non Human Character

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Another hotly contested round has ended, as has Azzy's faith in his fellow man as Only Fools and Horses wins the best TV Programme of the 1980s. 

There were points for Mr T and Arnold Rimmer, Homer Simpson and Baldrick too, and Hero's pick of Bullseye has done enough to keep him with a little cushion in first place overall.

The results were as follows, the ones not given were all decided by our panel as score draws.

Marky – Only Fools and Horses - 12
Kenny – The A Team - 10
onlytreblewinners – Red Dwarf - 10
Adam D – The Simpsons - 7
ChequeredJersey – Blackadder Goes Forth - 6 
NickisBHAFC – Auf Wiedersen Pet - 5
Rowley – Boys from the Black Stuff - 4
Hulking Up – Quantum Leap - 4
Nakatomi Plaza – Knight Rider - 2
Hero – Bullseye - 2


This week you will be voting for your Favourite Non Human Character. Doctor Who and Gromit are two I have banned from this round, much to the chagrin of all involved (or the two people that picked them). As ever, remember you are voting for your TWO favourities. Tino got a weird pick because, well, you'll work it out.

Next round we move onto a round that will no doubt cause controversy. Round Six will be "Guilty Pleasure". Awkward isnt it? I want something that you are either embarrassed to watch, or at least you dont bring it up in conversation. I will do some judging on this, I want no "Well, it is a bit embarrassing watch Game of Thrones cos its old n that". You arent embarrassed, you are trying to win, and for that Tino hates you. 

Bear in mind that those voting will be looking for the same criteria, you want to pick something interesting but also a bit odd/frowned upon. If you are content watching TOWIE, Made in Chelsea, Britain's Got "Talent" or Rugby League then you may be an idiot but you could well win this round. TNA will be accepted but rightly booed out of the building.

Note: Rugby League will not be accepted as people are apparently proud of themselves for watching this nonsense. 

I went for Spike and Brian Griffin.

Another one whou could have been there was Salem the cat from Sabrina The Teenage Witch. That guy was cool as f*ck!!!

guildfordbat wrote:Honourable mention to Paddington but regard him far more as a figure of children's literature than tv.

I regard him as a figure of ridicule, with his stupid duffel coat that he wears in all weathers. It is about 400 degrees today and I bet that idiotic bear still has that coat on.

Shot 21 LCFC wrote:Another one whou could have been there was Salem the cat from Sabrina The Teenage Witch. That guy was cool as f*ck!!!

Good call, he was pretty funny. Although I'll admit he wasn't the reason I used to watch that...

Azzy Mahmood wrote:

My childhood was spent watching Button Moon, He-Man, Thundercats, Transformers, Knightmare, Run the Risk and Fun House. That's pretty much all I ever watched, I was an outdoorsy kid.

You can tell we're the same age!
I could probably add loads more to that list. I got home from school and religeously watched CBBC and CITV pretty much everyday!  

Haha yeah, I could probably add a couple more, but I was always playing football. It's a shame all those hours I put in on the green outside my house never paid off into actual talent, if I'd have known I was going to be a mediocre player I'd have stayed in and watched TV

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:I regard him as a figure of ridicule, with his stupid duffel coat that he wears in all weathers.  It is about 400 degrees today and I bet that idiotic bear still has that coat on.

If he took the coat off he would be Paddington Bare...

 

Azzy Mahmood wrote:

Shot 21 LCFC wrote:Another one whou could have been there was Salem the cat from Sabrina The Teenage Witch. That guy was cool as f*ck!!!

Good call, he was pretty funny. Although I'll admit he wasn't the reason I used to watch that...

Harvey?

Union Cane wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:I regard him as a figure of ridicule, with his stupid duffel coat that he wears in all weathers.  It is about 400 degrees today and I bet that idiotic bear still has that coat on.

If he took the coat off he would be Paddington Bare...

 

Good one Union.

There's a voice, keeps on calling me.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:Honourable mention to Paddington but regard him far more as a figure of children's literature than tv.

I regard him as a figure of ridicule, with his stupid duffel coat that he wears in all weathers.  It is about 400 degrees today and I bet that idiotic bear still has that coat on.

Tino - when like me, you've been to a cricket match in glorious weather (with a forecast for much more of the same) in just a T shirt, shorts and flip flops and then the heavens open for the entire morning, you'll realise - as I did - that Paddington wasn't such a mug after all!!

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:There's a voice, keeps on calling me.

 

guildfordbat wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:Honourable mention to Paddington but regard him far more as a figure of children's literature than tv.

I regard him as a figure of ridicule, with his stupid duffel coat that he wears in all weathers.  It is about 400 degrees today and I bet that idiotic bear still has that coat on.

Tino - when like me, you've been to a cricket match in glorious weather (with a forecast for much more of the same) in just a T shirt, shorts and flip flops and then the heavens open for the entire morning, you'll realise - as I did - that Paddington wasn't such a mug after all!!

GB, between you and I, I actually don't mind Paddington. I am trying to wind Galted up as it is one of the few pleasures I have left in life.

Don't tell him though.

Sent in my next round picks , but for me they aren't really guilty pleasures as i like them even if others frown upon them ( my wife leaves the room when i get control of the remote )

This round i have voted for Animal ( which is a great shout ) and Lassie ( the original non human  tv star along with Mr Ed )



others from my youth Champion the Wonder Horse , Rin Tin Tin , and Mork from Mork and Mindy

Union Cane wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:There's a voice, keeps on calling me.

 

Is it back in there? Good, because I can't get it out of mine either.

There's a voice that keeps on calling me
Down the road, that's where I'll always be.
Every stop I make, I make a new friend,
Can't stay for long, just turn around and I'm gone again

Could be a program about cottaging if you think about it.......

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:Honourable mention to Paddington but regard him far more as a figure of children's literature than tv.

I regard him as a figure of ridicule, with his stupid duffel coat that he wears in all weathers.  It is about 400 degrees today and I bet that idiotic bear still has that coat on.

Tino - when like me, you've been to a cricket match in glorious weather (with a forecast for much more of the same) in just a T shirt, shorts and flip flops and then the heavens open for the entire morning, you'll realise - as I did - that Paddington wasn't such a mug after all!!

GB, between you and I, I actually don't mind Paddington.  I am trying to wind Galted up as it is one of the few pleasures I have left in life.

Don't tell him though.

Not a word from me, Tino.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:Honourable mention to Paddington but regard him far more as a figure of children's literature than tv.

I regard him as a figure of ridicule, with his stupid duffel coat that he wears in all weathers.  It is about 400 degrees today and I bet that idiotic bear still has that coat on.

I cannot believe what I've just read. Of course he wears a coat, he'd look like a right t1t in his hat without wearing a coat & if he didn't wear his hat he'd have nowhere to keep his marmalade sandwiches.

I think I've got him.

And then I read the exchange between Tino & guildord & realise I've been made to look foolish.  Tino is starting to remind me of a small stone you get lodged in your Hi-Tech that cuts into your heel but cannot be removed as whatever animal you're running from would then catch up to you.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:I think I've got him.

Yep. I'll give you that, Tino. Galted might want to use one of his referrals to the third umpire but I doubt that it'll be overturned!

guildfordbat wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:I think I've got him.

Yep. I'll give you that, Tino. Galted might want to use one of his referrals to the third umpire but I doubt that it'll be overturned!

No chance. Hot spot and HawkEye both have him nailed.

Eddie!, Eddie!, Eddie! Come on..., that little dog tormented Frasier for 11 series', his comic validity in the series never tiring... Eddie!, Eddie!, Eddie! And he was REAL, this ought to be worth extra points, Bender isn't even as good as Muttley when it comes to animated genius.

barragan wrote:Eddie!, Eddie!, Eddie! Come on..., that little dog tormented Frasier for 11 series', his comic validity in the series never tiring... Eddie!, Eddie!, Eddie! And he was REAL, this ought to be worth extra points, Bender isn't even as good as Muttley when it comes to animated genius.

Someone mentioned earlier that Eddie's dead.

bender was never alive

barragan wrote:bender was never alive

Bender lives, he's that bit of evil in all of us, especially in my mate Wingrove.

Galted wrote:

barragan wrote:bender was never alive

Bender lives, he's that bit of evil in all of us, especially in my mate Wingrove.

 

Paddington bear is named after the greatest of all Stations near the greatest of all hospitals where all the best people were born (the new Prince, me ...) and came from Peru. Plus he had killer dress sense. Made of win

If he was born in Peru why did his parents name him after a West London train station? Or do they have a Paddington station out there as well?

ChequeredJersey wrote:Paddington bear is named after the greatest of all Stations near the greatest of all hospitals where all the best people were born (the new Prince, me ...) and came from Peru. Plus he had killer dress sense. Made of win

Killer dress sense? He looks like a cuddly little version of Liam Gallagher. That, old boy, is not made of win.

ChequeredJersey wrote:Paddington bear is named after the greatest of all Stations near the greatest of all hospitals where all the best people were born (the new Prince, me ...) and came from Peru. Plus he had killer dress sense. Made of win

Could not have summed it up more perfectly. I shall use the phrase "made of win" to annoy my colleagues as homage.

bender wishes he could be a dog like eddie

seanmichaels wrote:If he was born in Peru why did his parents name him after a West London train station? Or do they have a Paddington station out there as well?

His parents never named him "Paddington", the Brown family named him that after finding him at Paddington Station.  His name was probably Hernandez or Ramone or Cecil, something along those lines.

Galted wrote:  I shall use the phrase "made of win" to annoy my colleagues as homage.

It's already working pretty well on here.

Rowley wrote:

Galted wrote:  I shall use the phrase "made of win" to annoy my colleagues as homage.

It's already working pretty well on here.

"Made of win". LOL.

I work opposite the site where Paddington Bear's were first made. Made by Jeremy Clarkson's mum Shirley in Doncaster.

There you are then.

The Womble wrote:I work opposite the site where Paddington Bear's were first made. Made by Jeremy Clarkson's mum Shirley in Doncaster.

There you are then.

There's got to be an unanswerable QI question in there somewhere.

The Womble wrote:I work opposite the site where Paddington Bear's were first made. Made by Jeremy Clarkson's mum Shirley in Doncaster.

There you are then.

Hold on, I thought he was born in Peru not Jeremy Clarkson's less hairy sibling from Donny?

I was largely on the fence about Paddington but having realised Clarkson is in any way shape or form involved has sealed it for me. I now hate him.

I quite like Clarkson. Once nobbed one of his au pairs.

So everyone is in agreement then, Paddington is a bit of a t!t.

Shall we move on?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:So everyone is in agreement then, Paddington is a bit of a t!t.

Shall we move on?

I think you want to move on because you know the subject will eventually get to the fact that giant centipedes make up a good proportion of the Peruvian Bear's diet.

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:So everyone is in agreement then, Paddington is a bit of a t!t.

Shall we move on?

I think you want to move on because you know the subject will eventually get to the fact that giant centipedes make up a good proportion of the Peruvian Bear's diet.

Whatever, michaels. There is about as much chance of Paddington eating a Scolopendra gigantea as there is you actually sleeping with a female, let along Clarkson's au pair.

Due to prior committments I am dropping the voting bombshell that is Q off of Star Trek and running away for the rest of the afternoon.

Together with Animal.

I have voted on the basis that they would make the most awesome-est duo in the most ridiculous spin off ever created.

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Azzy Mahmood wrote:I'm 31 and I've never heard of Littlest Hobo.

We did this on the last thread.  But if you insist....

I am 35 and have heard of the Littlest Hobo.

Me too. This is geting spooky, Tina.

superflyweight wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Azzy Mahmood wrote:I'm 31 and I've never heard of Littlest Hobo.

We did this on the last thread.  But if you insist....

I am 35 and have heard of the Littlest Hobo.

Me too.  This is geting spooky, Tina.  

What is your opinion on Arthropods?

Rowley wrote:I was largely on the fence about Paddington but having realised Clarkson is in any way shape or form involved has sealed it for me. I now hate him.

That makes little sense Rowley. You hate a bear (possibly orphaned) because he was exploited by a Clarkson?

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:So everyone is in agreement then, Paddington is a bit of a t!t.

Shall we move on?

I think you want to move on because you know the subject will eventually get to the fact that giant centipedes make up a good proportion of the Peruvian Bear's diet.

Whatever, michaels.  There is about as much chance of Paddington eating a Scolopendra gigantea as there is you actually sleeping with a female, let along Clarkson's au pair.

Both are facts dear.

Besides the Giant Panda, the Spectacled Bear is perhaps the most herbivorous living bear species.[28] These bears also eat cultivated plants, such as sugarcane (Saccharum ssp.), honey (made by Apis ssp.), and corn (Zea mays), and have been known to travel above the tree line for berries and more ground-based bromeliads.[29] When food is abundant, such as large corn fields, up to nine individual bears have feed close by each other in a single vicinity. Animal prey is usually quite small, but these bears can prey on adult deer, llama (Lama glama) and domestic cattle (Bos primigenius taurus) and horses (Equus ferus caballus).[14][23][30] Animal prey has included rabbits, mice, other rodents, birds at the nest (especially ground-nesting birds like tinamous or lapwings (Vanellus ssp.)), arthropods, and carrion.[

seanmichaels wrote:I quite like Clarkson. Once nobbed one of his au pairs.

Was that before or after your daliance with Sonia from Eastenders?

No love being shown for Lassie  

come on people compared to the others dogs in this list Lassie is gorgeous and could bark in way humans could understand !!

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

superflyweight wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

Azzy Mahmood wrote:I'm 31 and I've never heard of Littlest Hobo.

We did this on the last thread.  But if you insist....

I am 35 and have heard of the Littlest Hobo.

Me too.  This is geting spooky, Tina.  

What is your opinion on Arthropods?

I feel for them, but Stephen Hawking has shown that they can still have a long life and be of some use to society provided they have access to the right medical care.

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:

seanmichaels wrote:

Mind the windows Tino. wrote:So everyone is in agreement then, Paddington is a bit of a t!t.

Shall we move on?

I think you want to move on because you know the subject will eventually get to the fact that giant centipedes make up a good proportion of the Peruvian Bear's diet.

Whatever, michaels.  There is about as much chance of Paddington eating a Scolopendra gigantea as there is you actually sleeping with a female, let along Clarkson's au pair.

Both are facts dear.

Besides the Giant Panda, the Spectacled Bear is perhaps the most herbivorous living bear species.[28] These bears also eat cultivated plants, such as sugarcane (Saccharum ssp.), honey (made by Apis ssp.), and corn (Zea mays), and have been known to travel above the tree line for berries and more ground-based bromeliads.[29] When food is abundant, such as large corn fields, up to nine individual bears have feed close by each other in a single vicinity. Animal prey is usually quite small, but these bears can prey on adult deer, llama (Lama glama) and domestic cattle (Bos primigenius taurus) and horses (Equus ferus caballus).[14][23][30] Animal prey has included rabbits, mice, other rodents, birds at the nest (especially ground-nesting birds like tinamous or lapwings (Vanellus ssp.)), arthropods, and carrion.[

No specific mention of centipedes. Arthropods include over a million different species.