{"id":1662,"date":"2025-06-08T15:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2025-06-08T16:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T16:02:15","slug":"idle-sunday-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/idle-sunday-weirdness\/","title":{"rendered":"Idle Sunday Weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sunday. I found myself watching an old VHS rip of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiswasonline.com\/\">TISWAS<\/a>, and immediately after it there was an episode of The Innes Book Of Records, containing this surreal Scottish take on the Bonzo&#8217;s Humanoid Boogie.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1uIV3fJovCA&amp;t=10m53s\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"240\" class=\"wp-image-1664\" style=\"width: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/humanoid.png\" alt=\"scotsman with a bolt through his neck\n\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/humanoid.png 1098w, https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/humanoid-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/humanoid-1024x703.png 1024w, https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/humanoid-768x527.png 768w, https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/humanoid-624x429.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole episode is some of the most bizarre TV I&#8217;ve ever seen, and out-weirds my few memories of the show. It seems so unlikely that there was ever a time the BBC would put astounding stuff like this on at 9pm. It also contains appearances from Viv Stanshall BTW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday. I found myself watching an old VHS rip of TISWAS, and immediately after it there was an episode of The Innes Book Of Records, containing this surreal Scottish take on the Bonzo&#8217;s Humanoid Boogie. The whole episode is some of the most bizarre TV I&#8217;ve ever seen, and out-weirds my few memories of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}