AMBUSH REWATCH: Riga 2003 (Sat 23 Oct, 20:00 BST)

[ButterTart]

! at how much of a DOOFUS Sertab is

She’s 73, she’s not as sharp as she used to be.

 

[Madíson]

Oh, this is Marlayne

 

[D5K]

Funny how Wogan stopped complaining about idiots voting for their neighbours

 

[D5K]

Icelande douze pointe

 

[Madíson]

bien sur!

 

[Kratz]

Love the delivery of these French votes

 

[Kratz]

Was the nadir of Wogan commentary?

 

[Penelope]

Was the nadir of Wogan commentary?

I have a faint sense 2008 was much, much worse

 

[Penelope]

The GAG of that seeming checkmate of a 10 for Belgium going straight into BELGIUM THEMSELVES VOTING!

 

[Madíson]

The audience booing their own country's votes.

 

[Kratz]

I have a faint sense 2008 was much, much worse

Yes. Well remembered and his last of course. He should have been relieved of the job after this one.

 

[Penelope]

That's THE BEEB FOR YOU

At least we'll LIKELY be spared Graham ever going full BITTER BETTY

 

[Penelope]

RADIANT young madame for Estonia here

 

[Saltwater]

It's Ines

 

[Kratz]

I forgot how almost out of it Turkey looked at this point.

 

[Penelope]

It's Ines

!!!!!!!

 

[Penelope]

Turkey THIRD and FIFTEEN POINTS BEHIND with three votes to go!

 

[Kratz]

Turkey THIRD and FIFTEEN POINTS BEHIND with three votes to go!

A thriller! I forgot about this!

 

[Kratz]

Oh SWOON

 

[Penelope]

NAR: whatever happened to Kattis?

 

[Penelope]

OT: !!!!!!! GLOBEN HAS BEEN RENAMED AVICII ARENA

 

[Penelope]

THAT 12 NOT GOING TO BELGIUM!

 

[D5K]

Why am I still nervous at these results?!

 

[Madíson]

 

[Penelope]

The way he wouldn't have been able to get away with showing off that paper in an era of HD TV

 

[Saltwater]

I used to be in love with him

 

[Penelope]

Really FAR too choosy to mewl about such things, but if ONLY it had been 12 to Turkey instead of 10

 

[Madíson]

The Official Moopy results:

ScoreWiz

scorewiz.eu

 

[Madíson]

Really FAR too choosy to mewl about such things, but if ONLY it had been 12 to Turkey instead of 10

Indeed. So close to perfection.

 

[Penelope]

Everyone back here for Liquid Eurovision 2003 at 23:15?

 

[Kratz]

Lol at Wogan’s ‘I think that’s the first time the UK has got zero’ and ‘I think that’s the first time Turkey has won’. A man who really didn’t have a clue.

 

[Penelope]

The Official Moopy results:

ScoreWiz

scorewiz.eu

WHAT a top six!

 

[Madíson]

Wogan happy to talk over the reprise. Prick.

 

[D5K]

I remember not being too fussed about Turkey during the contest, but really rooting for it during the voting because it wasn’t Belgium or Russia. How silly of me.

 

[D5K]

Sad to think we’ll never see a song win from fourth again.

 

[Madíson]

Is that the closest to a rap winner?

 

[Penelope]

Sad to think we’ll never see a song win from fourth again.

A real blessing it was drawn fourth in a sense - just imagine how much of a walkover it would've been performed in the last five!

 

[Madíson]

I like to believe that the running order effect matched exactly with the diaspora effect.

 

[Penelope]

Is that the closest to a rap winner?

Probably closer than Zitti e buoni.

 

[Kratz]

It’s time for a Claudia Beni DISCO!