August 20, 2006
FROM THE ADAM & JOE VAULTS
FINDING THE EASTER EGG ON THE ADAM & JOE DVD & THE CRYSTAL MAZE WITH STAR WARS FIGURES
Every now and again I’ll be in my studio quite late having had a couple of delicious beers and I’ll be unable to resist a self-indulgent trip down Adam & Joe memory lane. When that happens I reach for my copy of the Adam & Joe DVD and spend a few hours luxuriating in all the wonderful extra features that we packed into it so lovingly. For ages I tried to remember how to access the Easter Egg we put in there but I lost the piece of paper the DVD company sent us with the instructions for how to find it. Well last night, during a particularly long memory lane ramble I did it! I’d forgotten how crap it was but hey, that’s Easter Eggs for you. If you too find yourself very drunk and lonely one night, why not check it out and you can share in the disappointment.
Go to the first extras menu, move the hand graphic to Adam & Joe’s World Of Sound then press UP on your DVD remote. The hand disappears at which point you should press RIGHT, RIGHT, LEFT, LEFT, UP, RIGHT, RIGHT, LEFT, LEFT, UP. The right hand button on the little Etch-a-Sketch goes yellow! Press SELECT and you will hear two phone conversations with shop assistants from Harrods and Woolworths in Clapham High Street that we made just before we delivered the DVD in July 2004. If we’d had more time, we might have come up with something a little more exciting. If we ever get to do another one I swear it’ll be the absolute shiz.
As a consolation prize here’s a version of The Crystal Maze we did with Star Wars figures for a special called Adam & Joe’s Fourmative Years, which celebrated Channel 4’s 15th anniversary. It only ever went out the one time on 31st December 1997, just after our second series aired so it’s unlikely you will have seen it. I’ve just discovered that, unbelievably someone has made a note of the TX dates of all our shows here. That’s made a sad Old Dogs New Tricks voice over artist very happy. What a delightful multicoloured lavatory the internet is!