The Wackers Episode 2

Comedy

[@ollieburke1358]

Loved this as a kid growing up in Liverpool, I’m watching it now many years later.

[@dennisjeffs4239]

As far as sitcoms go back in the 70's The Wackers was pretty good. Sheila & Ken were actually married in real life, a good start for Cheggars too, a natural actor, a good laugh!!

[@scooby1235]

lovein' Cheggars - before Philbin turned him to the sauce

[@charliedrosario999]

Joe Gladwin he was all ways a treasure. You could tell he all ways looked as if he had been dug up 1906 - 1987

[@SMartypAntsPants]

I knew these two. Sheila was a lady, and Ken loved her to the end. Rest in peace both.

[@stevesman1]

Brilliant stuff - had almost forgotten this gem of a series!

[@pauldart8548]

stevesman1 it's a pile of Shyte

[@CHASCHARLTON]

+paul dart yeah that's why there was no series two, crock of crap

[@ether_lana3921]

''you might cop for a nipper''....hahaha those were the days

[@swanseamale47]

Blimey, I'd forgotten this series. I remember seeing it on TV. Thanks for sharing.

[@oldskertonion]

Funny good old 70s humour

[@davidcoleman6032]

Absolutely brilliant 👏!!!❤❤❤👍👍👍

[@andrewsmith74]

I don't know why this is hated and considered to be a particularly bad sitcom. I've watched loads of sitcoms, and this is above average. It's quite well-written and well-acted. This is much better than many other sitcoms about families, including According to Jim, Kevin Can Wait, Everybody Loves Raymond, Last Man Standing, Mrs Brown's Boys and Bread.

[@scooby1235]

i thought precursor to bread - the matriarch with the high standards trying to hold on to a way would family

[@dementednun1175]

All they do is shout

[@bfyrth]

because its about scousers, and they are boring and crimbos

[@malcolmlucas6627]

Mrs Brown's Boys was amateuristic to say the least. Just an excuse to mispronounce the F-word.

[@profmartin1967]

Just found out Ken Jones and Sheila Fay were married in real life.

[@hellooutthere8956]

Why is everyone being so crude abt this show. I think it is a lot better than some Brit comedies. Just me. But I like it. Hilaarious

[@russellmartinkenny5796]

Brilliant !

[@allanmiller6897]

Making sweet sensual love gets demoted to "am going home for a bit" haha.

[@rjmun580]

Ken Jones played Horrible Ives in Porridge among many other parts.

[@ACNC1]

That tony fella looks a bit like Alan Partridge

[@partridgep]

Thats great thank you.

[@amyblue8796]

was Wally ever young.

[@michael42158]

Wow. Alison Steadman as Bernadette..

[@simvrod]

Some great old slang

[@tiplady44]

Awesome fun lol

[@oldskoolfool141]

What are you up to Ives? This is Ives Mr Beale Horrible Ives Aren't you

[@theshameofthesun]

a child of its times

[@nikitanokia1249]

LAVE IT 😂😂😂😂😂😍🥰

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?

[@stephendines1936]

Cheggars

[@scooby1235]

15: 46 "Aye-up me dads 'er and i think he's K Lined" That's Special...

[@thedativecase9733]

I think the word was kaylied not K lined. Kayli was a kind of kid's sweet wasn't it? Like sherbert?

[@scooby1235]

@@thedativecase9733 I don't even remember writing that or what I meant!

[@phugoid]

So coarse :)

[@keithnaylor1981]

Alison Steadman of Abigail’s Party fame!

[@annpartoon5300]

picture jumped at the begining thought wheres the vertical hold no one under 60 will know

[@levi501ize]

aye on the old 405 lines.tv service.

[@allanmiller6897]

That monstrous concrete church yuk.

[@markjones4704]

Liverpool roman catholic cathedral i l have you know

[@thedativecase9733]

That's the R. Catholic cathedral - known locally as "paddy's wigwam" It's referenced in the song In My Liverpool Home: "If you want a Cathedral we've got one to spare..."

[@NicLuc]

It's like every Scouse stereotype rolled into one show. No wonder it didn't go down well 🙄

[@bsrtdsquard]

Can you tell it was written by a Mancunian? 😂

[@johnjohnston9610]

very funny,dont make them like that anymore.

[@dannygroom3327]

Thank fcuk for that...

[@gerardhand1954]

They must have learned from their mistake.

[@hellooutthere8956]

Do they drink real beer?

[@fretboardmaster70]

Bloody hell its Cheggars

[@partridgep]

Please post more episodes of the wackers.

[@davidbeckett3313]

They did,nt make any more , Thank God !!!!!!!

[@ZER0--]

They did make more.

[@ZER0--]

There are more episodes posted.

[@jrgboy]

There was only 6 episodes made..

[@neilmccarthy6912]

There was actually 7 made. its £7 on amazon

[@21macca21]

Decent this ... why was it cancelled at all

[@Mandrax1138]

I'm on episode 3 and it's not that bad, I don't see why people slated it so much. I do love old comedies though. A lot of people disliked shows like Bread, Selwyn Froggitt and Nearest and Dearest, but I loved them! The very first two series of Last of the Summer Wine were also good, they seemed to be a bit grittier and a little more adult than the later, more family friendly series.

[@bryanpartington3260]

I liked many of them except Bread, hated it and never understood the love for it, but the others u mentioned were great .

[@malcolmlucas6627]

Last of the Summer wine was absolute trash Ima. The only good thing to come from Roy Clarke was Open All Hours - now that would put most other sitcoms into a cocked hat.

[@17turnips]

I say bonjourno

[@Saviene3]

Ayy he could of suggested using a rubber johnny if she was worried about getting pregnant. and a paper sack for her face!

[@allanmiller6897]

Even the rubber Johnny was blindfolded before entry.

[@vernonjones3613]

I think Bernadette is played by Allison steadmam

[@spongebobsquaretits]

she is, she was nearly 30 too, she didnt look it

[@richardgoffin-lecar1951]

She is georgeous - then and now!

[@tolfan4438]

American question what does knackered mean

[@mr.giggles2188]

It means worn out, tired or broken.

[@thedativecase9733]

It can be rhyming-slanged to "Cream crackered" I heard an American lady use this word on QVC and it cracked me up. Bless her.

[@bettycrowe2200]

knackered is a bad word????

[@jrgboy]

When people say about themselves it it means they are worn out or very tired..

[@rodericksloan1255]

Gee Betty I feel Knackered.

[@nosmoking4933]

Apparently it can mean your tired after sex. I remember saying it years ago and my cousin laughed and said you can't say that.

[@simonjames3990]

Wally batty

[@kennethdrewary1094]

Scouse family, but dad with Yorkshire accent, hmmmm

[@1965MJW]

Yorkshire accent? You need your ears syringing mate. Ken Jones was born and raised in Liverpool..he died in bloody Prescot, that's how close he came to Yorkshire!

[@jacobpower7111]

Yorkshire?! As tha been drinking old duck?

[@doktoruzo]

@@jacobpower7111... I think he means the grandad. Quite plausible, there were/are lots of Yorkshire and Lancashire people in Liverpool

[@michaelgrace1298]

@@1965MJW grandad not dad

[@steventaylor3884]

Yorkshire is not far away

[@CastleArchon]

It's so weird to me. It's got some funny, but it almost feels like they are next door...

[@MikeWildePredator]

Grandad Whacker? Is That Wally Batty From Last Of The Summer Wine?

[@TheWacoKid1963]

That's him, Joe Gladwin

[@paulwild3676]

He was a Mancunian but I suppose with a Thames production, he was Northern lol.

[@brucebaldy]

the boy looks like Ozzy

[@king77703]

That's Cheggars aka Keith Chegwin.

[@tonyjohn1395]

I think this was ITVs scouse answer to Alf Garnet. I remember when it was on when I was a kid. Entertainment for peasants. Keith Chegwin and Alison Steadman though.

[@Scarey1933]

No CC. 😡

[@andrewsmith3344]

...Everton got beat!! 1970's ...nothing changes!!

[@gerardhand1954]

I used to like this when I was a kid. Looking at it now, it's shite.

[@PeteBurns-xv2fz]

It was totally spoilt by the mother who made the accent sound rougher and worse than it actually is...appaling the way she over accentuated every syllable and her acting was shite...with another actress it may have been better

[@harryseddon776]

Some bad acting. Most of them weren't even scoucers

[@davidbeckett3313]

steriotyping of livipudlians in this way is is totaly disrepecful , in the pub ,just before an operation ha!!!! this was a precurser of the boswells ,another piss take ,just not funny !!!!!!!!

[@strumbolli]

+david beckett Didn't you know? Nobody in Liverpool works and they all steal for a living, support Liverpool and call everyone la.

[@1965MJW]

The working classes are the same up and down the country, just with different accents, it's only the Toffs (who own and run everything) who want us all at each others throats! Divide and conquer...what we could do if we stood together against them!

[@goldensloth7]

exactly! it's the same everywhere...

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

@@strumbolli Calm down, calm down.

[@allanmiller6897]

Bread! Was the worst script and worse acting. The only reason for watching was the daughter but even that was impossible with an empty ball bag.

[@TheBerzerker666]

Sorry everybody but,i watched this as a child, and even then it was too boring and not funny at all, compare it to open all hours or the liver birds or even are you being served and the wackers is utter rubbish

[@antony3378]

The Wankers,apt name.