#jfsp 9

[captainclickycat]

So are those people who want more generally-pleasant low-conflict slice-of-life stories where the main characters are all extremely likeable familiar with John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Series 9? Have you heard the good word about Series 9?

[sassyll2l]

John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme series 9 transcripts are up!!

https://jfsp9.neocities.org/ Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Wilkos!

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

We don't have anything as… you know, the Wilkinsons are, in particular that middle family, the Wilkinsons and associated tribes are particularly fond of that sort of thing, the hat ripping and so on. So, we don't necessarily have things quite that marked, but we all have little, you know… Certainly my family, we all have odd little jokes and things we don't even know are jokes, things we just take for granted. Which is how i think of things like "half a glass" that Russ doesn't really know that's a family tradition, he certainly doesn't know where it comes from. But Walter said it to Jerry and Jerry said it to his kids and they also, it just became a thing that the family say when they are feeling tearful, and so that's instinctive in Russ when the bully approaches, you know, when he's feeling scared, just to blurt out "half glass", he's no idea why, so i'm sure there's things like that in my life, little catchphrases we all… yeah. In my family, if anyone describes something with lukewarm praise, especially with the phrase "quite nice" then whoever they're talking to will immediately go, "clean anyway", because of the famous occasion when apparently my auntie… my great auntie Phyllis went to visit my great auntie Brenda's new front room, which had just been done in new wallpaper and went, "Quite nice… clean anyway."

from John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Season 9 Zoom discussion with Q&A with John Finnemore (bless you lovely people for recording this and @musicalheart168 for telling me three years later because apparently i'm bad at youtubing. even if you still haven't seen it yourself. just this tiny one, come on)

btw i have totally appropriated quite nice... clean anyway

[timespanner]

Newt: There was a... misunderstanding.

Gally: Was there? Or an understanding?

Newt: No. A misunderstanding. I think perhaps the same misunderstanding you're making right now.

Gally: Oh! Then... I thought perhaps we shared a family failing.

Newt: Why have you asked--

Gally: Because after all, you know, you've never been much of a one for the girls.

Newt: No! Look. Since you-- since you insist upon asking me, Gally, I, I don't have the least use for the whole silly business.

Gally: Ah.

Newt: Leaves me entirely cold.

Gally: You've tried it then.

Newt: Never. And I never shall.

— John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, s09e06

[paperbulletsoftheforebrain]

I have to say, I really appreciate the song portion of season 9 of John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme. Especially in Russ’s case because who doesn’t have songs in their head that their parents/grandparents put there as a kid that you can’t get out or sometimes identify?!

For years, my mom would sing “Good Morning Starshine” at my sister and me in the mornings to get us moving. I had absolutely no idea where this came from until years later when I listened to Hair.

Told my mother and she said “Oh, where does that come from anyway?” She’d also had it in her head for years with no idea where she’d picked it up from! She thought it was Godspell (which fair enough, same time period, pretty close and yet so far apart.)

Other things I have in my head from her include: “There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.” “Sugar in the mornin, sugar in the evening, sugar at supper time.” “Slowly I turn, step by step.” “Down by the bay where the watermelons grow, back to my home I dare not go.”

[lothiriel84]

I mean, I don't think I'm ever going to write actual fanfic about it, but (spoilers for JFSP 9 under the cut)

I have been projecting my own aversion to having kids onto Uncle Newt so hard I cannot reconcile myself with the (equally valid) headcanon some people have of him regretting being unable to reveal himself/act like a father towards Vanessa.

It's not to say that I cannot see the appeal of him sacrificing his own happiness for Gally and Susanna's sake, and bearing it all with quiet dignity; but I have a mighty need for "absolutely against having kids and still a good person" representation, and if I were a better writer (and a much better understander of human nature) than I am, I absolutely would write something about it.

[outofcontextmonsterhunters]

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[sassyll2l]

Hello out there, all 20 or so of you who care about the 9th series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme! Does anyone know if there are series 9 transcripts anywhere? Because I don't want to leave this world, but it's only 3 hours long, and I can't write or draw. So maybe I will do transcripts? but only if no one else has done them. Someone let me know?