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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?

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Hmm. TV Cream doesn't show up anything useful...

[j4.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's WFRR, having done a couple of searches in the script... unfortunately I have no idea where it is from!

[diffrentcolours]

No idea about your vat, I just had to say "Mmm, Dubstar".

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

<looks at venta funny>

[augeas.livejournal.com]

That would be "Intensify the vat!" from an episode of "Dramarama" that had Patrick Troughton in it; something to do with the Grand Vamp and a broken window. No, don't ask.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Suddenly realise that all who are listening are looking at you funny, in that "she's lost it" sort of way

How's that different from the usual look?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_corpse_/]

WFRR has various scenes with a vat, but it's generally referred to as dip rather than 'the vat'.

Other than that, I am, as usual, of no value, whatsoever, other than as a great way of distributing, commas.

[narenek.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it wasn't one of those times when you got home to find that rather than kids TV you were being subjected to live coverage of the budget. The chant of "Increase the vat!" might have been an answer to some rhetorical question by Nigel Lawson on what he should do with Fuel Bills.