Features of The Podge and Rodge Show

This is a comprehensive list of features of the Irish television chatshow, The Podge and Rodge Show.

Season one

 * Below is a list of items that first featured in season one.

Sligozone.net
The first series may best be remembered for Podge and Rodge's lustful fascination with Áine Chambers who they discovered online at www.sligozone.net. Each week, the two would check up on her online and later she was invited onto the show as a guest. She partook in a Blind Date spoof. She ended up taking one of the brothers on a date, which was featured on the following week's episode, to the other brother's disgust. In the end though, they realised they had little in common and a second date became an impossibility.

Áine closed SligoZone.net on January 12 2007.

Rodge's Wrister Wreview
A feature introduced in the first series was Rodge's Wrister Wreview. It involved various items, such as books (including the autobiography of Jordan, Being Jordan), magazines and television shows receiving the expert opinion of Rodge. The items were rated on the Wrister Scale which resembled a large penis in various states of erection and flaccidity and was displayed on the side of the screen, usually in a position that Podge would find awkwardly within his personal space.

Season two

 * Below is a list of items that first featured in season two.

Ballydung Idol
Ballydung Idol featured spoofs of famous songs including "David Hasselhoff" (The Irish Hoff) performing "Jump in My Car" with "Pamela Anderson". Others to feature included the Singing Brickie, Richie Kavanagh, Bernard McHugh and Mary Harness (who performed Wuthering Heights). When the performance had reached a sufficient level of "crapiness" a squelchy fart sound erupted to halt proceedings. The level of "crap" was measured on a crapometer. The winner of Ballydung Idol was Richie Kavanagh, whose ode to Podge and Rodge managed a total of one minute and fifty-five seconds. He was presented with his "prize" at the end of the series and performed the winning song again. It contained such lyrics as: "Podge and Rodge on the telly at night, not afraid to tell you if they think you're shite."

Winning Streak
Winning Streak was a parody on the RTÉ produced gameshow of the same name. Lucy Kennedy invited streakers to film their exploits and send them into the show with extra points being awarded for things such as more daylight and public streaking.

Miss Ballydung
Miss Ballydung was a beauty contest of sorts; a cross between Miss World and The Rose of Tralee. It featured such beauties as Miss Muck, Miss Poledance Fitness and Miss Muff. Queen of the Land bottle-fed a lamb as Podge and Rodge made references to its imminent digestion by a hungry human. The final was held on the Monday 18 December 2006 episode, judged by The Rose of Tralee Catherine Feeney as well as that evening's guests Brendan Bowyer and Des Bishop. The winner was Miss Poledance Fitness (from Newry).

The Sex Toy Show
Episode fifteen of the second series, broadcast on 4 December 2006, was billed as The Sex-Toy Show, a reference to the popular annual Irish television tradition The Late Late Toy Show which had been broadcast three days earlier. Lucy and the boys were joined by a team of sexperts who unveiled some of the best selling sex-toys on the market. The guests were asked to demonstrate a number of adult toys which jokingly included an inflatable Pat Kenny. Patrick Kielty was surprised to find himself locked in a cage as the credits rolled. Following a number of complaints, an "apology" was issued on the following night's show.

Wank Mountain and Fucking
Podge and Rodge were delighted to discover some new places they would like to visit. In one episode whilst learning to use the internet, they came upon Wank, a mountain in Bavaria and the village of Fucking, near Salzburg in Austria.

Shitty Santas
Shitty Santas was a countdown of the five worst Irish santas featured on television through the years. Number one was Sean Moncrieff who was then interviewed by Podge and Rodge who dubbed him as "one of the six bald broadcasters of Ireland". (Dara Ó Briain, Mark Cagney, Ray Shah, and Anthony Murnane being the others.)

Online Celebometer
Brendan Bowyer, famous for his number one hit "The Hucklebuck", was entered on Podge and Rodge's online celebometer. They laughed as they were proved right; he was 73% Richie Kavanagh.

Feckin' Eejit of the Year Awards (FEEJITs)


On Bogmannay, Podge and Rodge handed out their very own Feckin' Eejit of the Year Awards (FEEJITs) to celebrate the great tradition of Irish Feckin' Eejitry. There were nine nominees chosen from the worlds of TV, entertainment, sport and politics. They were revealed individually at various points in the show, in the following order: Twink for her famous "zip up yer mickey" line, chef Richard Corrigan for moaning about the quality of chicken on The Late Late Show, jockey Paul O' Neill for being captured on camera headbutting his own horse City Affair after it failed to win a race, Johnny Logan for his "rap" of Hold Me Now, broadcaster Pat Kenny for the incident in which he was called a "piece of shit" live on air and U2 frontman Bono for his legal battle to win back his stetson and his trousers from his former stylist. The winner of the "prestigious" award was Late Late Show host Pat "Thank you very much for calling me a feckin arsehole" Kenny for "boring us to sleep every Friday night". (Podge)

Season three

 * Below is a list of items that first featured in season three.

The Celebrity Sheep Shagger Challenge
The Sheep Shagger Challenge is a celebrity game which features in the third season. It is played on Monday nights. It features Bernie the Sheep (a model as opposed to a real animal) who each week is ridden by a different celebrity. Comedian and actor Joe Rooney was the first to feature on the game and scored 19 seconds. After his experience he described himself as being "slightly aroused". George McMahon ["Mongo off Fair City"] scored a record 45 seconds in the second week of the challenge. He was followed by former Eurovision wannabe Joseph McCaul. McCaul managed 24 seconds after being told to "imagine it's your cousin".

ShamRock
ShamRock is a section which first featured in the third season. It sees tribute acts attempting to mimic some of the world's best known bands, always to comic effect. Examples of bands that have featured include Red Hot Chili Feckers and Atomic Chicken. The Chili Feckers received a total of 10, 10 and 2 leaving them top of the ShamRock chart. Atomic Chicken received 8, 7 and 1 (from Podge and Rodge "if there was a half, we'd have given you a half").

U2 tribute act Vertigo performed the song of the same name on Tuesday February 20, and received 10 from both of that evening's guests, Sheana Keane and Russell Grant. Podge and Rodge gave the band "a big fecking 2". In an obvious reference to Grant, "we wanted to give them 10, but Mercury was in retrogade".

At the end of the fifth episode Podge and Rodge revealed that they had been inundated with bands wanting to appear that they had to cancel some of the poorer ones. Some of the acts that were cancelled included The Police tribute act ("simply for lack of imagination") called The Gardaí and the she-male Mary Black.




 * ShamRock Scoreboard


 * * Score 1 and Score 2 indicate the points out of ten given by that evening's guests.
 * ** P&R Score indicates the points out of ten given by Podge and Rodge.

Gifted or Afflicted
This is a feature which sees a random "freak" pulled out out to display a unique talent. The audience must then decide if they are "gifted or afflicted". Acts to have featured thus far include a girl who can turn her eyelids inside out and a man who can swallow billiard balls and bank notes and regurgitate them. Of this man, Podge and Rodge said they believed he was "infected more like!".

The Ring Or The Finger
Podge and Rodge set out in the hope of finding The Podge & Rodge Show's Perfect Couple 2007 in this feature. "The Ring Or The Finger" was introduced in the fourth episode of the third season. It saw a random couple selected from the audience and subjected to a spinning wheel which would decide on the questions they would be asked. Previous to this they would have been subjected to scenarios on the streets of Ireland, whereby they would be placed in tricky situations that would test the boundaries of fidelity. If the other half guessed correctly what the outcome was they would gain a few hundred points, but if they guessed wrongly they would lose a few hundred points. The highest finishing couple on the leaderboard at the end of the season would be The Podge & Rodge Show's Perfect Couple 2007 and would receive a "special prize". Podge and Rodge have assured the audience that they will keep their word.

National and International Local News
This feature saw Podge and Rodge take on the roles of news anchors, sporting trendy spectacles and repeatedly uttering "thank you" to Lucy when finished. Podge, Rodge and Lucy covered stories with a mispelt heading or pun from the local newspapers around the country. Some of the big stories covered included an article entitled "Porno Rabbit comes to Donegal" from the Donegal Democrat, a mispelling of a film ("Smokin' Asss") by Bundoran multiplex, and the story from The Louth People that stated Louth people were "more intelligent". This was mocked because it did not appear in any other newspaper outside County Louth. "That story reported in Louth and obviously nowhere else", uttered Lucy scathingly. Rodge informed the viewers that Willy the Donkey was still missing in Ballinafad.