Finger Blast From The Past: VHS Tapes

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Fingerblast, fingerblast. Oh. Fingerblast from the past. Fingerblast, fingerblast. Oh. Fingerblast from the past. It just gets worse, doesn't it? It does. It really does. It really does, but I'm here for the effort. Right, OK, this week, babes, I thought we could have a little finger blast at a VHS tape.

I was explaining this to the kids the other day because I occasionally drop into that stereotype of parent that I always said that I wasn't going to be. You know, you hear words that your parents used to say and you go, I'll never say that. I'm never going to be that person. I'm never going to be that parent. But I did. When I was a girl, when I was young, back in the day we didn't have Netflix.

Oh, we didn't have Disney. We didn't have fucking Nell. We didn't have all of them. It cost an absolute bloody fortune. We had our four channels that mostly just showed shit and neighbours twice a day. And... We couldn't just pause it when we wanted to leave the room and go for a wait. Oh, no, it was gone. You had to hold your wait and go in the commercial breaks. What's a commercial break, mummy? And then, of course, if we were going out. We had to set up the VHS.

to record it. And this blew their little minds that we were just these cave people that had these massive bricks that went into these special little slots underneath the TV. And that was how we lived our lives. Hey, but you know what? I don't know whether I've got like a bit of a weird fetish for a VHS. I just loved the feel of a VHS. You know what I mean? They felt...

Great. And then go to Blockbuster as well to pick up your VHS. Choose which one they wanted. On a Friday, go to Blockbuster. And the panic of the new film that you wanted to watch. And you saw they always put one on the front, didn't they?

which wasn't the one that you could take. It was the empty box. They were all empty, weren't they? But it was the picture, wasn't it, on the front. And then underneath that, there were like three or four of the actual boxes that you'd then have to take to the geeky film guy. at the front of the Blockbuster desk and he'd put it in for you. And you'd go with your mates, go and pick your film for Blockbuster, RIP, Blockbuster, you know.

I only got rid of my Blockbuster video card about five years ago. It was still in my purse. I used to love going into Blockbuster and choosing a film if I was having a sleepover. It was such a good part being like, right, what are we going to watch?

But did you find as well, like with VHSs, so we, whenever we go anywhere, Kit's got his little... et il y a des downloads sur Netflix mais il y a des trois que tu vois sur l'accurrence et je suis comme, oh bless him, il va avoir à regarder ça encore. But then I think that was my childhood. I think I had four VHSs that we just used to rotate. And I used to watch it over and over and over again. Can you remember what you had? So I don't actually specifically remember.

All the VHS's that we had in our house but I've got very vivid memories of the VHS tapes that I would watch at my nana's so when I would pull the sickie from school. And my dad was like, we're not just sitting around the house and he'd go and drop me off at my Nana's. It was on his way to work. And she had sister act. Nice. Cool running. Good. And three men and a baby.

Nice. And I would just, yeah, I mean, to be fair, what a trio. All probably highly inappropriate and have not aged well at all. But, oh my God, sister at 11, 11, 11. And where he goes, I follow, I follow, I follow. Just mega. Do you know what? I know it's controversial. I wasn't a fan of Sister Rat 2. No, didn't do it for me. Like Grease 2. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Never is.

What a pile of gash. I remember mine very vividly as well. So we had Alice in Wonderland. That was my only Disney film. I had Alice in Wonderland. I watched that for the first four years of my life. Then The Sound of Music. Now, with The Sound of Music, I don't think I ever managed to complete it in one sitting. It was such a long film. So long. I've never seen it. I've never seen it. I know. So if you need to watch it. And then Drop Dead Fred.

Oh, Drop Dead Fred. I'm like, that's quite an eclectic mix. I know, right? And I got really told off at school once because I'd been watching Drop Dead Fred and I got into an argument with someone and I said, I hope you die horribly because that's one of his lines from the movie. And I said...

parce que c'est le film. Et, oui, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, je m'ai eu, Do you remember American Tail with Fido, the mouse? No. And he's a little mouse and I think he gets separated from his family and he goes to America to make a new life.

Oh, that sounds nice. Yeah, they might have been from France and they get sold this dream about going to America and that there are no cats in America and there's this whole song and there are no cats in America and the streets are... of cheese and then I know

cats in America and of course they get to America and they're big fuck off cats in America and he was told but he's been separated from his family I think possibly on the ship on the way over to America yeah an American tale I hope this isn't one of those things that I've made up no that song is You've triggered a memory there with that song. There's a childhood memory that's just come off, yeah. Yeah. I used to also as well love going to different friends' houses to see what they had in there.

VHS collection. Oh, see their spread. Yeah. And maybe every now and then they would let you borrow one and you'd watch the same DVD. I remember my friend once letting me borrow Adam's Family Values and I must have watched that every single night for about three weeks because I had to watch it as many times as possible. ... ... ... ... ... where somebody has got a special list.

of knobheads who didn't rewind. It's going to come back to haunt them in later life. Blockbuster might have gone bust, but the memory in the list of who didn't rewind, oh, that lives on, doesn't it? I remember my dad, we'd get it on a Friday and we had to drop it off on a Sunday because if it was...

went over you would be charged. Oh, the fee, yeah. And if you hadn't watched it by like two o'clock on the Sunday, it was game over, missed a chance. Missed a chance, off it goes, back and you had to go and pop it in the little... Le petit box, c'est-ce qu'on l'aise ? Oui, plutôt que d'avoir une une fois pour une autre semaine. C'était une chance.

That's it. It's gone. It's a goner. Oh man, it was a different time, wasn't it? Imagine I go in the shops now. So do you remember how Netflix started though? Netflix started as an online blockbuster video basically, but with DVDs.

And you used to go online and pick what you wanted. And you'd get like three DVDs a month or something. But then you'd have to go out and send them back. I quite often forget that that's a thing. It was basically shoved Blockbuster Video out, didn't it? On Netflix. It did.

Oh, I tell you what, kids today don't know they're bloody born, do they? Personal favourite, one of my friends, another Lucy, had was Speed. Oh my God. Keanu. Oh. Sous-titrage ST' 501 It was peak Keanu 90s swoon hunk. Oh my god. Honestly, I'd go and watch that now. It's the kind of film that I would go and watch. You know when you just flick on a channel and a film's on 20-30 minutes through and you've seen it a million times before but it's the kind of film that I will see.

still sit and watch if ever it is on it is just perfection and with Sandra Bullock in it as well it's honestly I think it's possibly one of my favourite films question if you were Sandra Bullock and you

was starting to get in you and you wanted to get famous wouldn't you change your name everyone would remember me though wouldn't they but sure like everyone calls her Sandra Bullocks right only the people who don't like her bitch I just think like whenever I hear Sandra Bullock I just think of bollocks I actually just think of a bull. Do you? Your brain! I know, with my brain, I know. I just think of, I think of a bull.

And I'm also just very jealous of how she still looks so fucking amazing. And she's in her 50s. Just, she's super, chef's kiss to Sandy B. You make my world go round. You make my love come down. Miss Congeniality, another cracking DVD. Ah, that was awesome. To be fair, there was a real era, wasn't there, of films?

in the 90s moving forward to the early noughties that were just perfection in that genre and I tell you a film that I'd watched not that long ago that I'd never seen before it was The Proposal with Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock in it

And I couldn't believe I'd never seen it as a huge Ryan fan. Love the Reynolds. Love the Reynolds. I can't have a thing. So him and The Rock, there should just be categories when you go onto Netflix and it's like, what Ryan Reynolds film do you want to watch today? What Dwayne The Rock Johnson film?

films you want to watch today. You know you can do that, you just search their name and it brings up all the things. Yeah, but I want it, you know, like when it's, you know, top 10 films in the UK today, I want top 10 Ryan Reynolds films.

You want the category. I just want it laid out for me. So as soon as I go on, I can just go and click on it. So I was very surprised I hadn't seen this. But oh, it's brilliant. Oh, she's an older, and I think she must have been 40-something when she filmed this. So she's pegged as this kind of like...

older, bit of a tyrant in the office boss who, she's Canadian, is about to have a visa revoke so she needs to marry an American guy and her PA is Ryan Reynolds and he hates her and so she makes him marry her but then they fall in love and there's this amazing scene. où ils se sont venus de l'eau et il est en train de rentrer dans l'eau et ils se sont en train de rentrer et ils se sont en train de rentrer

Naked. Naked. Yeah, they stick together and then fall to the ground. Oh my God. What a great day in the office that must have been for Sandra Bullock. And to be fair, Ryan Reynolds for Sandra's banging in it. But yeah, if you've not seen it, the proposal is brilliant. Another chef's kiss to that. Women are peace builders. Women are humanitarians. Women are rights defenders.

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