Torchy the Battery Boy

My brain will never fully recover from viewing this.

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PS: do not confuse Torchy the Battery Boy with Bill Ward's Torchy.

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Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 26, 2011
Category: Puppets and Automatons | Sex Symbols | 1950s

Comments

Thanks Paul that is TRULY weird!
The boy that is!
The bombshell is HOT!
Hope you had a great Xmas

Posted by Tyrusguy on 12/26/11 at 01:36 PM

Pinocchio remake. But strange, yes.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 12/26/11 at 10:45 PM

Somehow I knew that Torchy - The Battery Boy was British before I even attempted to watch it. They've got/had an obsession with marionettes.

As for the other "Torchy" she may be hot but she'll never replace J.R. in my heart! Who, BTW, didn't make the "Hottest 100" list!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/27/11 at 12:58 AM

Before someone gets wize and starts cracking about "J.R." I thought I'd better post a picture so there's no confusion!
http://cdni.condenast.co.uk/452x610/a_c/15jessicarabbit_rex.jpg

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/27/11 at 01:00 AM

I wonder how many episodes it took before parents were secretly singing "Torture! Torture!"

Posted by Eoin on 02/10/12 at 01:36 AM

Yes - was exposed to this as a toddler,- they're still trying to find out what is wrong with my mind to this day.

Watched as an adult, the weirdest bit for me is the eye shadow on the poodle. Otherwise, it strikes me as peculiar that the kid is wearing almost bavarian costume. And again, he's the product of a virgin birth . . .

Btw, for weirdness, has anyone seen the moon sequence from the 1940's Baron Munchhausen film? Around about 1hr 33 mins in of the full version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvRxYZK5DSA&feature=related

Street of Crocodiles is good too, from the 80's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gIb0bTWj6w

Posted by Avenging_Angel on 07/19/12 at 12:23 AM

Morris dancing with attitude - perfectly normal behaviour in Bacup, Lancashire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNbGYRSsV8g&feature=related

Posted by Avenging_Angel on 07/19/12 at 12:45 AM

More odd morris dancing

Wolf's Head Morris: 'Mrs Widgery's Lodger', Chilham 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY_8_S5JbHM

Posted by Avenging_Angel on 07/19/12 at 01:02 AM

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