well that was fun to watch. :D now we know what broke you

I can certainly see how that inspired the Industrial Zone ambience! I'm not entirely sure what the first show I saw this sort of thing on was...

As for seeing furries under that, do you really have to ask?! I can think of plenty!

...Considering what else was on Motormouth, that terrified you?

Not, say, http://www.youtube.com/watch?featur.....uAMo0Ng#t=379s (Actually my favourite of the It's Torture segments, though no gunge in that one [Interestingly, that entire section doesn't contain the one you've mentioned before, iirc - The drowning in custard one])... Actually, between that and the slightly odd tradition of 'puppets that murder children as slapstick' thing (Bro and Bro being the obvious example there, but I think Zig and Zag occasionally vaporized an audience member on their Big Breakfast spinoff) there's something slightly odd about British kids television...

But, yeah, that is a glorious contraption, but I think all of the 'industrial/medieval' hybrid aesthetic the It's Torture stuff had was similarly glorious. Apart from the acid pit game, the hands that shove were rubbish, and I can definitely see how it inspired the aesthetic you went for with IZ.

I think my first gunge game, incidentally, was probably on Ghost Train. Either the weird 'search for the questions in the paddling pool of gunge with gunge filled water pistols being squirted at you' one or the one with the caterpillar.

On the subject of "puppets murdering kids for tv", Scratch and Sniff, the hyena reincarnations of Bro and Bro, had their own show, Den of Doom, which revolved around dropping losers into a big cauldron of green slime, as well.

Also, you are the first person I've met who remembers that game from Ghost Train, with the paddling pool! I always remember the gunge as being disappointingly watery, though...

D.F.

Dumped in a big cauldron of green slime with editing such that it was barely on camera, as I recall.

And, yeah, the main problem with 'water pistol' as a delivery method, is that it pretty much guarantees that the gunge will basically be coloured water.

That's awesome! Suitably ominous; the dirty industrial-esque environment; always using multiple colours of gunge for the clashing effect; and the occasional 'extra' deluge just when everyone thinks it's finished! I find, looking back on them, that I don't remember a lot of the Gunge 'Em In The Dungeon segments; they always seem vaguely familiar, but the games themselves are always new to me whenever I see them. I remember Motormouth being on... maybe I just didn't watch a lot of it at the time, or we were on the other channel, or something.

As for who to see under it... well, there are so many! It'd be fun to see Nyte and Isla go head-to-head, with the nozzle ping-ponging between the two of them as they try and make the other fail... but honestly, there are so many possibilities. :P

D.F.

Not familiar with the show, but that was interesting to see. Thanks for giving us a little insight onto your gunge fetish.

Oh man, though many kids' gameshows affected my ultimate fondness for WAM (especially when they occasionally involved rainwear, which even at that age was blossoming into my number one thang), It's Torture definitely had a hand in my taste for, er, more final conclusions to a scene

Oh, wow :) Can you elaborate on those... conclusions? It's really interesting that you enjoy rainwear so much, because in my mind it's the enemy of gunge scenes because of providing protection! There are so many fascinating fetishes around, some similar and some contradicting each other...