List of The Podge and Rodge Show episodes

This is a list of episodes of "The Podge and Rodge Show", with airdates and the relevant guests of the episode in question.

Season guest lists

Season One

:"*Jackass star Chris Pontius a.k.a. Party Boy and his band Scream for Me, who were touring Ireland in November 2007, made a special surprise appearance on the November 5 2007 show and performed their song "Karazy".

:"* There was no episode on Monday February 25 due to the Oscars being broadcast that evening."

:"* Series 3, Episode 35 broadcast on March 24th 2008 is the official 100th episode of The Podge & Rodge Show.

:Future guests in series 3:"David Gest, Ziggy"

Seasonal specials

Christmas special 2006

Podge and Rodge hosted a special show from Ballydung Manor on December 19, entitled "A Frightmare Before Christmas". It celebrated Christmas from their perspective, a reality where none of the intended guests turned up, and imaginary scenarios where the worst possible guests did. In reality Podge and Rodge and Lucy were left in the darkness of Ballydung Manor as the thunder raged outside, imagining their nightmare guests.

Lucy dreamed of interviewing June Rodgers and lo and behold a flashback occurred featuring June being interviewed by the two. In the "imaginary" interview they made fun of her name, suggesting it had hidden pornographic innuendos. At the end of the flashback, the studio was still empty, leading Lucy to fill time by showing a special report of her interviewing people on the streets and asking them such questions as "When do you empty your sack?".

Podge then revealed his nightmare guest would be George Murphy, and in his imaginary interview an old tape was unearthed of him embarrassing himself on "You're A Star". The interview was broken up by a return to reality whereby Podge had fallen asleep out of boredom.

In the second half of the show Lucy revealed the reason for the lack of guests; a plague of locusts was flocking towards the Ballydung bypass and Colin Farrell was being held up in a Moscow phone booth. Rodge's nightmare guest was revealed to be Shane MacGowan whom Rodge asked had he sold his soul to Satan. They showed him what he would look like if he had plastic surgery (including face liposuction and €3000 teeth) before comparing his new appearance to that of Christy Dignam. Podge and Rodge joined George Murphy to sing out the show with "The Irish Rover".

New Year's Eve special 2006

Podge and Rodge rang in 2007 on 31 December 2006/1 January 2007 in a special programme lasting over forty minutes instead of the usual thirty-minute format. The New Year's Eve show was called "Bogmanay" (a play on Hogmanay). It was broadcast on RTÉ Two from 11.30p.m.

On it the boys looked back at some of the highlights of their year. They also 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.

Guests included Edele and Keavy Lynch of B*Witched fame, Mary Black, Jason Donovan and Freddie Starr returned as the Ballydung Butler for the evening.

New Year's Eve special 2007

Such was the success of the original "Bogmanay", Podge and Rodge hosted a second "Bogmanay" to ring in 2008. It featured guests Miss Ireland, Blathnáid McKenna and boxer Frank Bruno as well as Mr. Gest who was unable to be interviewed as Lucy Kennedy, venturing into his dressing room, discovered he had turned into an ape. Instead a number of previously unseen clips which were not allowed to be shown before midnight were shown, including some in which Lucy Kennedy swore. A number of "Half- Arse Hero" awards were handed out, although none of the recipients (who included Steve Staunton) were present to accept them.

See also

* Features of The Podge and Rodge Show

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0805442/epcast Episodes at IMDb]

References