Another fantastic morning of television fun and mayhem!

Cindy's adventure was well worth the wait. She's a fantastic character, and I really enjoyed both getting to draw her and getting to read about her. Looking forward to so much more fun with her in the future!

Thank you so much :D I'm really glad people are enjoying her! She appeared as a sort of substitute for Gwen, someone she could easily... identify with for that story, but she really came to life on her own since then :)

Yay! You've returned with another story.

I loved the buildup for this one . . . it makes me realize how much I've missed your writing. Everything's so perfect from Cindy's nervous anticipation to the graphic description of her gunging (plus setting up her best friend for a bit of revenge at the end! Any chance of a sequel . . .)

Hope this isn't the only story you're working on at the moment. I'd love to read more from you!

Thank you - it's great to know that you and other people are still waiting after I've been away for so long :) It feels great to be writing again - I've got a couple of stories that have been hanging around for ages and I hope that I can finally finish them up and show people soon :)

I've thought of commissioning a picture for the revenge at the end - there are a couple of versions I'm thinking of, one more risque than the other!

I can't for the life of me remember which UK Saturday Morning kids show the "stop the snot" was from...was it Going Live? The only one I can recall in any detail is SMTV:Live, which didn't have any messy games as far as I can remember (I'm too old for Dick and Dom and Ministry Of Mayhem!)

I do distinctly remember thinking that the gunge was a little thin and watery compared to some of the stuff on Fun House and Noel's House Party!

Live and Kicking, I think. Second version of it (i.e. after Andi Peters and Emma Forbes left and they really should have completely overhauled the show with a new name and a new set in the same way they had done between Going Live, and Live and Kicking), rather than the first. Also after Trev and Simon had left by that point, so what was even the point at that point (And, yes, I know the leprechauns Sage and Onion were played by the same puppeteers as had played the wolves Bro and Bro on What's Up Doc?, but...) I don't think Going Live nor the first version of Live and Kicking had messy games.

Heh... you can remember more than me!

Maybe you can help me with something. I have a really hazy memory of a game set in something that looked like a soft play centre with loads of slides. The contestant would go to the mouth of each slide and be asked a question. If they got it wrong they slid down to the bottom to a messy fate. The further up they got, the bigger the prize, but the messier the consequences if they got it wrong. I have a feeling it was from the 8:15 from Manchester, but I'm not 100% sure.

As an aside, do you remember the gameshow Inside Out? I think it only ran for one series. They had gunge that foamed up on the final game.

Sounds like the one with a sort of snakes and ladders theme to it, question answerer and person on the board (With the exception of if the person on the board landed on the top of a slide). If we are thinking of the same thing (And I always have to look up the name of this one, it predates clear memories for me), then it's It's Tough At The Top, which was indeed within the 8:15 from Manchester, which I remember better for The Wetter The Better since I was forming more clear memories at that point (Though, literally, vague recollection of It's Tough At The Top, and actual memories of The Wetter The Better are the only things I remember of The 8:15 From Manchester)

And, yes, I do recall Inside Out. I thought it ran for two series *checks ukgameshows.com* - Yeah, 1999 to 2000, 30 episodes across two series...

Yes, that game sounds like 8:15 from Manchester... that was when I was still very young but I remember watching a trailer for it and seeing someone sliding down into a huge vat of gunge (which was probably a small paddling pool, but my mind exaggerated things at the time!) Dick and Dom and all of that were a bit after my time as well - but I was fascinated by the Thank You Desk from Ministry of Mayhem, which I don't think could possibly have been conceived by someone without a fetish.

I do remember Insides Out :) Specifically the last game where they had to run through the... throat? with gunge pouring down from the ceiling to collect the body parts. I don't remember foaming gunge, where was that? :D

In the last game where they went inside a giant body and collected organs... it only really started to foam up once the game was over though. I don't think any of the other games were messy.

Pump it Up was another one I enjoyed. I thought the gameplay was rather clever, especially how it all worked out in the final.

I really regret missing Pump It Up - I remember being aware it existed but didn't know it involved gunge :) All I know about it is that they had the obstacle course at the end with the pools... and a game where the team had to complete a pipe to gunge someone on the other team, or something?

There was one where two members of the tram sat below big pools of gunge on top of bellows, the other team would then try to inflate their bellows by completing a pipe, so yes :) The neat thing was each round the winning team removed an obstacle from their track in the final, giving them a technical advantage.

That's right, the 2000 series of Live and Kicking really was completely different (it had no puppet mascots in the final series at all!) But for just a year, I could wake up to watch girls of about my own age being gunged on Saturday mornings... I never realized how good I had it then :)

Going Live and earlier Live and Kickings had entire gunge game shows as part of them! Double Dare, then Clockwise, then Run the Risk... I've been trying to find episodes of Clockwise for ages because I blame it for most severely giving me this fascination, but nothing's turned up yet.

AFAIK, Run the Risk was made because we didn't pay any money to use Double Dare's name and format, so we just changed it enough to Nick didn't sue, which meant changing the name.

We got away with it with Fun House though, maybe because it wasn't nearly as successful as Double Dare.

*In the US, obviously here it was as it ran for a Decade.

Haha, yes :) Strange that our UK television took US shows and ran with them and just hoped the creators wouldn't notice(?) - but they really amplified them! It's weird to go back and look at early Double Dare and Fun House and see how simple they were compared to the elaborate gunge-spewing contraptions that came later...

Have you seen Twister? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSdbE5uxINs That was hastily put together as an obvious Fun House clone after it ended, it only lasted one series... but that game with the giant hoppers on the ceiling is just insane!

Indeed. They've been repeating early episodes of FH on Challenge (free to air gameshow channel), and there wasn't that much gunge in the early series. I think only when competing messy gameshows sprang up did FH knock it up a notch. It was fun growing up in the 90's watching CBBC and CITV try to out-mess each other (CITV was typically ahead though).

Always a pleasure to see you've written more stuff.

Thank you! It's nice to know that people are still watching me after that long a gap, I hadn't realized it had been over a year since I had posted a full story!

You did a wonderful job of making it feel like a Saturday morning program - top job! It's great to see Cindy come alive - somehow the way you've written her matches up with Susi's art of her really well, and makes her feel 'real'. :) I'd love to see more of her!

D.F.

Thank you so much :D That was definitely what I was going for, recalling the feeling of those magazine shows that seem to have disappeared in modern times. Susi did a fantastic job with Cindy, that drawing of her in the seat is pretty much exactly how I pictured her in my head. And she's definitely come alive recently - I'm already writing her into another story!

A triumphant return :3 Build-up, tension, the gunging itself, the follow-up... Truly, you are a master :3

Aah, thank you :D It's really wonderful to know that people enjoy the products of my imagination :)

Yet another amazing read! *wags*

Now I just need to build one of these tanks.... *schemes*

Ahaha, thank you - and I will look forward to your scheming immensely ;)

Another fun read, although I wish we'd got to see Madison getting gunged with her crush.

Thanks! Perhaps a follow-up can be arranged :D