Compiling our Greatest Hits

Been having a fine time wallowing in messy nostalgia putting together clips for our forthcoming download store, Splosh!’s Greatest Hits. By popular demand this will feature some of our best sketches from our DVDs on download for the first time, previously unavailable back issues of the magazine in PDF form and out-takes and sketches that haven’t been seen before EVER! It has also provided a chance to look back at Splosh! stars from the past (like Karen above) and remember how differently sketches were made in those days.

Amongst the items on offer when we open will DEFINITELY be
a chance to download the very first Splosh! magazine in PDF,
Louise and Sammy-Jane’s famous food fight from Pretty Clumsy Woman (my directorial debut!),
The Making of Flanderella and a Messy Business with Louise, Luna, Sammy and Gilly,
And the best bits of Juicy Pairs.

It’s those I have been doing this week and what fun it’s been! I have many happy memories of Karen Partington and Amanda Hughes (above) doing Story Corner. The girls were exactly as they sound – Karen a scatterbrained blonde, Amanda posh and refined but also deeply sexual. They made the perfect pair (and that’s just Karen). Some wonderfully awful puns in it as well!

Then there’s the food-flinging french maids in Simply a Mess (starring Emma & Mud Donna above and below), my first ‘complete’ song! I had written short song parodies for WSM before (like Nobody Does It Wetter in WSM’ll Fix It’s James Bond piss-take), but this provided a chance to do the whole thing. Quite what the female session singer made of belting out lyrics like
“Put jam in my jugs and pour cream on my buns.
Fill my knickers with treacle and watch where it runs…”

I will never know. But amazingly the song stands the test of time, although the film of Emma and Mud Donna is spoiled slightly by Shaun (who edited it) playing with his new mixer a bit too much!

But it is hard to fault, even now, Jo Bache and Emma’s final party scene in Juicy Pairs, though Emma (above and below) seems to disagree!

Two great-lloking girls who obviously got on well having a fabulous time. It was shot the same day as all the linking material (where I spent several hours under a desk being glove puppet Randy the Rodent) which was a tricky shoot but as soon the mess came out , the girls were in their element.

And to prove it, a bit later we will also be putting up what happened after this sketch finished, when they carried on playing and cuddling regardless!

Going through the old videos shows there is loads and loads of excellent fun and funny material to bring you and we will be updating the Greatest Hits store for a long time to come. We can’t wait for it to open. I hope you feel the same.