SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ON CORONATION STREET
Coronation Street, the rubbish soap opera about the tedious lives of poor people who live in the North of England, featured Sonic The Hedgehog in its episode broadcast on Sunday August 27. They were playing it on PC, so it might have been an illegal ROM.
Although, as someone from SEGA told us this was going to happen about five months ago, it looks like a cleverly worked PR trick. Because even though it’s a laughably bad pantomime of a show, Coronation Street is watched by about 12 million people. Stupid people who can’t afford games consoles and think chips count as vegetables, but it’s still quite a coup.
PLEASE NOTE:
We’re not becoming one of those sites that’s just a list of YouTube videos. Promise. It’s a coincidence. We probably won’t do another one of these for six months now. We’re also quite proud of this one as it required (a) finding the episode, (b) downloading the torrent, (c) editing the relevant chunk out of it, and (d) putting the clip on YouTube. This is the first new technical thing we’ve learned since getting a DVD player in 1999.
filed in Uncategorized on Sep.11, 2006
September 11th, 2006 on 1:41 pm
Yeah you stupid fucking kid, stop playing on the fuckign computer coz my electric tree is running low. Go out and vandalise peoples windows you little fucking bastard whilst i flaunt my fat tits in my dressing gown.
How disfuntional is that family.
September 11th, 2006 on 1:51 pm
How fucking stupid is that fat cow whom pulled out the lead?
Jesus Christ “you were on that internet again”.
Yeah, because you can only play games if you’re online.
You fat fucking sow, I hate you and your burger cheeks.
September 11th, 2006 on 3:03 pm
Please kill me.
September 11th, 2006 on 3:56 pm
Christ. Last time I saw Coronation Street was a few years ago, they’d already introduced one “special” character (that stupid bint whose name I can’t remember, Fizz or Frizz or.. Jizz or something) now it seems like there’s a whole family of them. I swear not all of Manchester is like that.
September 11th, 2006 on 4:14 pm
Perhaps it’s “Sonic Online”?
September 11th, 2006 on 4:43 pm
I saw an episode a few months ago. Gail’s son David had a 360 in his room. His mum threw out one of his games. The scene was all about how violent games warp the mind. They obviously didn’t want to use a real game in case of a lawsuit, so they made one up. It was called ‘Extreme Predjudice’ Laugh?….I nearly did. I’m not even embarassed that I know the charcter’s names. I admit that I sometimes (all the time) watch Corrie…..There’s only so many wanks you can have in a day so you have to pass the time elsewhere!
September 11th, 2006 on 4:50 pm
phorenzik, you’re cool and all, and you bake a mean yorkshire pud, but I hope you get diabetes and die now.
I really can’t believe you watch that shite.
September 11th, 2006 on 6:53 pm
It’s most likely that they were playing Sonic Mega collection on PC than anything else. Don’t you guys know anything?
September 11th, 2006 on 6:58 pm
mad props for actually being assed to do all that stuff you had to do to get the 10 second clip online.
September 11th, 2006 on 7:21 pm
So… if chips don’t count as vegetables, they count as what???
interesting question…… I know the answer is on wikipedia, but I’ll wait till someone else bothers
September 11th, 2006 on 8:52 pm
They counts as junk food, for fuck’s sake.
Chips are NOT vegetables, the same way that a hamburger is not an animal.
September 11th, 2006 on 9:22 pm
they were obviously using a rom, or else ‘mam’ wouldn’t have complained about the internet.
either that or she was just a typical mum and didn’t know wtf she was on about
September 11th, 2006 on 10:59 pm
I love how the logos on the monitor have been taped over EXTRA SUBTLE RED TAPE.
September 12th, 2006 on 1:13 am
chips are vegetables
they have to be, otherwise i’m going to die
September 12th, 2006 on 11:55 am
“Coronation Street” is an anagram of “Sonic onto retreat”.
And the word verification is ymtowiq, which is an anagram of “toy qwim”. So much worse.
September 12th, 2006 on 3:16 pm
I’m glad the guys at Corrie can get an Emulators to run in full screen at 60FPS AND without them being pixelated!
It took my months of college time piss balling about with the settings to get them to run like that.
September 12th, 2006 on 3:52 pm
Coro is rubbish. It’s ALL about Hollyoak.
September 12th, 2006 on 6:04 pm
This is obviously GameTap product placement.
September 12th, 2006 on 8:41 pm
Urgh! She was so fat and disgusting! And to top it off: She was fucking retarded!
Did you also realise she had to snort (like a PIG) halfway through her speech! Horrible.
And what the fuck is that guy on about “If we were as fast as Sonic there’ll be less accidents on the road.” Yeah because it’s the slow drivers that cause accidents. Dumbass. Not to mention that fat slut wanting his kid to go around smashing windows! Wow.
The only thing right about this was- I think..THINK they managed to get her to pull the right plug. Actually, you just know someone had to hide behind her (which isn’t hard) and pull the plug to hand to her.
September 12th, 2006 on 9:56 pm
The only reason a man should ever watch Corrie are:
(a) He has a girlfriend who watches it.
Obviously you are all outted as lonely masturbators.
And when I say “outted”, I actually mean “confirmed”.
September 13th, 2006 on 9:24 am
Even more embarassingly, my girlfriend only watches it because I do. It’s got fucking Fred Elliot in it for Christ’s sake though!……..I’ve just realised that isn’t a valid excuse…….what have I become?…….bring on the diabetes!
September 19th, 2006 on 4:33 pm
You don’t get this shit in ‘Neigbours’.
September 23rd, 2006 on 7:24 pm
Haha, what a retarded woman
January 15th, 2007 on 3:49 pm
Actually I think he say’s –
“Whoa, look at that hedgehog go, I tell you what if THEY were all as fast as Sonic there would be a lot fewer accidents on the road”
The logic is still fucking retarded as it presumes that there are a lot of of road accidents due to hedgehog s crossing the road slowly.
Or maybe when he says “accidents” he means dead hedgehogs in the road? Nah that would be far too logical for this piece of shit show!
April 11th, 2007 on 4:12 pm
As a die-hard Sonic fan, I respect the chavlings for being amazed by a good game rather than have the retarded script writers have them creaming over sims 2 or some shit like that. I also agree with anyone who watched that and thought “What a fat fucking cow. I hope her skin bleeds in the middle of the night”.
As an actor, I would like to say how fucking bad that woman is at acting – she must have looked at the front door three fucking times in anticipation for that feeble door knock. She’s just jealous that her boys have decent fucking lives, and pulled out the power in a childish fit. Then she’s too scared to answer the door herself in case the person who’s at the door takes one look at her and vomits profusely, screaming “What the fuck are you? Jesus fucking Christ! Fuck! Shitsticks! What created you? Is there a fucking God? Jesus fucking Christ! Shit! Oh fuckshits! How are you alive? Fuck!! Stop fucking existing you shitting freak of fucking nature! Fuck!”
…I really loathe that woman.