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[venta]

Someone help me... please.

I've just had one of those moments where you're halfway through describing something, and suddenly realise that all who are listening are looking at you funny, in that "she's lost it" sort of way.

So: a children's TV programme/film, in which hordes of <something> chant "Increase the vat!" to encourage <someone> to add more nasty things to a vat of <substance>.

I thought it might have been Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which does include a vat of nasty goo, and my memory of <someone> (holding a bat to add to the vat) does look a bit like the evil dude in WFRR. Google has not yet been any help, and the blankness of my colleagues on the subject seems to have ruled WFRR out as a likely candidate.

Any ideas, anyone ?

(It came up because there was a conversation about VAT going on, I started chanting "increase the VAT!". Disappointingly, google just turns up lots of dull commentary on VAT-increase if you search for the phrase.)

Comments

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

Not WFRR, I'm pretty certain.

Sounds like any one of those kiddie gameshows where you get horribly messy and fall in vats of gunk, but I couldn't begin to tell you which one. If it's anything earlier than about 1985, or later than 1994, I wouldn't have been watching it. Does Google have anything useful under things like Crackerjack, Tiswas, Swap shop etc? Or, gods help us, Noel Edmonds House Party?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ye gods, I hope not. I think that the <something>s were cartoons, or puppets, or something, and that there weren't any humans involved, but this may be just my confusion with WFRR.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

It's not ringing any bells with game shows I've watched, and I'd like to think that I'd be able to identify this if it were. (A strange talent, but one that it's useful for a small number of people in a society to have. A very small number.)

In addition, Google cannot reveal even one hit for any of
"increase the vat" "game show"
"increase the vat" gameshow
"increase the vat" slime
"increase the vat" gunk
"increase the vat" gunge
"increase the vat" "get your own back"
...so I think you're OK.

Perhaps you dreamt it?