Bring me horse... Posted Sun Oct 22 22:15:27 BST 2000 by 'Al'

A small 'The Day Today' triviapackage...

In episode 2 we see Chris Morris 'shooting up' as the end credits roll. On these credits is an entry: HORSES - Will Self. Was Chris trying to tell us something about Self's pharmaceutical practices? (This was before Self's drug use was common knowledge wasn't it?)


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Posted By TJ on Sun Oct 22 22:31:04 BST 2000:

"Of burning gold..."

Could be, although some of the other weird credits still remain a complete mystery.

"Hats: The Jeremy Bamber Hat Explosion" has always been a source of extreme puzzlement to me...


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Posted By 'Squidy' on Mon Oct 23 14:09:30 BST 2000:

On one of the Brass Eye's there's a credit "... and Will Self as Little Kenneth". Any ideas?


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Posted By 'Jon' on Mon Oct 23 14:17:28 BST 2000:

Self was on the rise then as a media whore so maybe he was just picked as a deserving target of ridicule. Which he was.

Maybe the Jeremy Bamber thing is an obscure reference to the details of the murder case that Bamber was put away for (and is still claiming his innocence over).

[Bamber was convicted for shooting his entire family at their country house, back in 1983]


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Posted By 'Steven' on Mon Oct 23 14:29:19 BST 2000:

And one of the first things on the first episode of Brass Eye is some cloaked drug dealer offering Morris smack and Morris replies "No thanks, I don't use.. a horse."


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Posted By 'Mike J' on Mon Oct 23 15:57:00 BST 2000:

>HORSES - Will Self. Was Chris trying to tell us something about Self's pharmaceutical practices?

Possibly, though ambiguously as wasn't that the episode featuring Partridge at the Races? I thought they might be giving credit to Self for penning such gems as Massive Bereavement and Zeineb Badawi's Forty Hotels...


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