Eurovision Rewatch: A Song For Europe 1981 (22:30 BST 17/04)

[Penelope]

WHY is he switching away at EVERY SCORE?!

 

[dmlaw]

Has Terry forgotten where he is? I didn't think he started doing that until at least the mid-90s.

 

[ButterTart]

Is this manly golf badinage not making you wish you weren't gay?

 

[Kala]

Terry was 42 here. Christ I feel OLD.

 

[lolly]

Loving these regional accents

 

[Soldi]

Is this manly golf badinage not making you wish you weren't gay?

It’s making me think what a night out with you would sound like

 

[Penelope]

God this is DREADFUL

 

[Penelope]

AT LEAST HE DIED 35 YEARS LATER

 

[Alla]

A Song for Europe had spokenpersons on screen 12 years before Eurovision.

 

[Kala]

So no televote?

In 1981? The first year they did that was not until 1988.

 

[COB]

Loving these regional accents

I thought RP was dead by this point!

 

[lolly]

little known fact: it was illegal to leave the house without a severe parting or a bubble perm in 1981

 

[Alla]

In 1981? The first year they did that was not until 1988.

We had televote in the early 70s preselections

(where they had to send postcards and the whole thing was running for weeks).

 

[ButterTart]

Why are we spending longer on the Terry n Palz comedy roadshow than we did on the fucking songs?

 

[COB]

Is this Pebble Mill?

 

[COB]

"The appealing children"

 

[Alla]

OMG the voting already!

 

[Lucille]

With the APPEALING CHILDREN!

 

[win_the_game]

In 1981? The first year they did that was not until 1988.

Hark at Alla criticising our national final! Spain had only just moved to COLOUR TELEVISION at the end of the 70s FFS.

 

[lolly]

the BEATY DON'T PANIC

 

[ButterTart]

'the appealing children'. Fuck me the BBC were SHAMELESS back in those days.

 

[dmlaw]

Why would you do the votes in performance order rather than ascending order? I'm starting to suspect that this programme was shoddily put together.

 

[ButterTart]

Remember Birmingham voted Brexit, so their scores basically mean fuck all.

 

[COB]

What the fuck!

 

[Alla]

810, they won already

 

[Penelope]

You do quite see Wogan's appeal at this stage

 

[dmlaw]

So racist and sexist, but at least he voted the right way.

 

[Soldi]

He’s a bit of a cunt isn’t he

 

[Alla]

Hark at Alla criticising our national final! Spain had only just moved to COLOUR TELEVISION at the end of the 70s FFS.

But OF COURSE, that's why I expected you to have televote and EVERYTHING given that you were years ahead

 

[ButterTart]

Why would you do the votes in performance order rather than ascending order? I'm starting to suspect that this programme was shoddily put together.

One of the songs has just scored 810 points in a single round, so I'd say your suspicions are entirely baseless.

 

[Suomi]

You do quite see Wogan's appeal at this stage

I was going to say, you need a certain DISPOSITION for this type of shambles to work

 

[Alla]

Why isn't Don't panic walking this?

 

[Suomi]

I bet that Liquid Gold singer is backstage fumigating

 

[COB]

It's a shame they don't seem to have a green room to cut to

 

[dmlaw]

Wikipedia suggests that Cheryl Baker later married one of the performers of song 4, and was engaged to a different one.

 

[Lucille]

I was going to say, you need a certain DISPOSITION for this type of shambles to work

Like one of PENELOPE'S threads.

 

[Lucille]

Wikipedia suggests that Cheryl Baker later married one of the performers of song 4, and was engaged to a different one.

SLAG

 

[Soldi]

Why isn't Don't panic walking this?

Because it was rigged when GEM got 810 points

 

[Penelope]

at A NAME AS FAMILIAR TO ME AS IT IS TO YOU

I'd ALMOST FORGIVE HIM THE 00s RACISM

 

[ButterTart]

I bet that Liquid Gold singer is backstage fumigating

She's so angry she can barely finish her plate of newborn children.