The phinal Philomena

March 1, 2015 • 4:15 pm

It’s with a heavy heart that I inform you that, after today’s post, we’ll have exhausted all of Philomena Cunk’s “Moments of Wonder” clips—and I don’t know if there will be any more. But reader Alex kindly called my attention the new posting on YouTube of the entire episode of “Weekly Wipe” from last Friday, and if you follow the time marks I’m about to give you, you can see Philomena in all her glory. The video is below.

For “Moments of Wonder” on “Medicine”, start at 25:31 and go to the end.

For Philomena and Barry Shitpeas’ analyses of the 2015 Oscars, start at 15:25 and stop at 19:41.

And yes, Monster Munch really exists. Has anyone tried it?
But take heart, there are other Cunk videos aboot, and we’ll have one from time to time. For example, here’s Philomena and Barry’s earlier review of the movie “Twelve Years a Slave” (from the beginning of the clip to 1:24).
And here’s some new jargon to be used here:
“Going full Cunk”: Irredeemably thick
“Cunked out”: The result of the action named above
“Cunk it up”: Act thicker than you are (Diane Morgan’s own term)

 

46 thoughts on “The phinal Philomena”

  1. The last weekly wipe (the how its from) is next Thursday so should be one more at least.

    1. There is still one more to go in the current series but its not on this week due to the Comic Relief programme being stripped across the week at 10pm on BBC2.

      1. I’m sure Brooker said, it was the last show, on Twitter

        You’ve made me doubt myself…

        1. The sixth show of the series is 12th March. The BBC website describes it thus:

          ‘Join Charlie Brooker, who will be reminiscing about some of the best bits of the latest series of Weekly Wipe, as well as surprising us all with quite a lot of new bits too. Just when you think it’s a repeat, a new thing will appear. Anything could happen.’

          So it may, or may not, contain more Philomena.

  2. We can combine Cunking with Saturday Night Live-

    “I’m going to… Cunk…you up!”

    Which can mean spreading the denseness.

  3. Monster Munch are a British staple and something that every Brit will be aware of. You can get them in beef flavour although the most common are the purple packs of pickled onion. I’d go as far as to say that pickled onion Monster Munch are a British institution. They are crunchy, “monster paw”-shaped corn snacks.

      1. “But listen to your cute Briddish accent. Sure you’re Briddish.”

        Can I add that whilst it’s very nice to be told that a received pronunciation English accent is cute, ‘a’ British accent obviously doesn’t exist. I like to think there’s an objective difference between the way Billy Connolly talks and Hugh Grant talks.

        1. I do love that an Engilishman saying “beer can” and a Jamaican saying “bacon” sound exactly the same.

          Is a Scottish accent considered “British”?

          1. In a Birmingham accent, (The Fox News, Muslim run city), you would say “cup of tea”, by saying “Kipper Tie”

          2. Delightful. All this accent talk has put me in the mood to watch the “Four Candles” sketch for the 100th time. “No. Four candles: ‘andles for forks.”

          3. That joke never really worked for me. Surely a Brummie pronunciation would be ‘kwpuh/koopuh-tay’?

        2. I understand what you mean, but you could say the same of English (Newcastle and London), Scottish, (Glasgow and Dundee), or Welsh, (Swansea and Amlych) accents. None of those sound at all similar

          I would say that if you have the accent from a region of Britain, then you have a British accent.

          I myself am Scottish, but was in the Army, then settled in the south of England, so now have what my friends call a “Heinz accent”… 57 varieties

          1. That was my point. All those accents are British accents too. In America, ‘British accent’ is often used as a synonym for ‘posh English accent’. It can get a bit irritating to have arguably the most sociolinguistically diverse nation on earth and its panoply of accents reduced to Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cummerbund’s cut-glass vowels.

    2. Monster Munch are fantastic, especially the pickled onion flavour. They were my favourite snack as a kid, not least because you got loads of them in each bag. Haven’t you noticed how much smaller the bags are these days though? I had a pack a few weeks ago and it was gone in three mouthfuls!

      1. Have you noticed how much bigger you are these days though? Could be a kind of psychological thing. I’ve gotten at least twice as big since I was half the size I am now.

      1. If it’s Morgana Robinson, she has a main role in a deeply odd/appalling BBC sitcom called House Of Fools, episodes of which can be found on YouTube. She also had her own C4 sketch show(which I didn’t see) and was in a celebrity impersonations show – she does some seriously good impersonations(mainly of fairly parochial British celebrities I think).

        I’ve been watching House Of Fools, as my comedy standards have recently dropped through the floor, and have been having strange feelings about the character she plays, who’s called Julie. She’s quite unique looking.

          1. Now Matt Berry is a genius. Douglas Reynholm in The IT Crowd is one of the greatest comedy characters ever. And he’s even written some decent music too.

            I do watch House Of Fools and it’s incredibly patchy, but there are some occasional brilliant bits in it. That’s Vic & Bob for you though…

          3. I’d put Reynholm only marginally ahead of Moss. Everybody loves Moss(they actually did a surreal American remake, which had one pilot episode(I think it’s on YT), and the only actor they kept was Moss. Everyone else was different. It was like something off the Twilight Zone).

          4. * the actor’s Richard Ayoade not Moss. If you see him on panel shows though they’re essentially one and the same so it’s no wonder I get the names mixed up.

          5. Reynhold plays/is the annoying boss. I love Moss, the nerdy black guy played by Richard Ayoade (who’s actually quite attractive), and
            Chris O’Dowd plays the other nerd.

          2. Being here is like being in PCC’s living room, so we don’t say things like that here while entertsining company. 🙂

          5. That’s IT!!!! That’s what I want to see in the 10,000th post: Jerry and Philomena together! Even if she’s just popped in for a quick visit!

  6. Monster Munch have been around as long as I can remember. Some people love them, but I always found them a bit too strongly flavoured. That said, I had a bag a few months ago for the first time in about 25 years. They were nice. Reminded me of being a kid again 🙂

  7. Monster Munch were a childhood staple if you grew up in the 70s or 80s. I wasn’t too keen on them but my brother was an addict!

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