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* SeasonalRot: The show never recovered after Jamie and Zoe left. They were immediately followed by, em, Steve and Emma (both pretty forgettable). The show then ended the following year with a 4 strong team led by Katy Hill (more memorable, but for the wrong reasons).
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* SeasonalRot: The show never recovered after Jamie and Zoe left. They were immediately followed by, em, Steve and Emma (both pretty forgettable). The show then ended the following year with a 4 strong team led by Katy Hill (more memorable, but for the wrong reasons).
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* SaturdayMorningCartoon: This show would, as others did, ''dish'' them out. Among the most notable were ''{{WesternAnimation/Rugrats}}''.
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* SaturdayMorningCartoon: This show would, as others did, ''dish'' them out. Among the most notable were ''{{WesternAnimation/Rugrats}}''.''{{WesternAnimation/Rugrats}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''
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* DistaffCounterpart: Mr Onion was "swept down the plughole" when puppeteer John Eccleston was filming ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' and replaced with a female leprechaun named Shamrock. When Eccleston returned, all three leprechauns were in the show together.
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* {{Leprechaun}}: Replacing Ratz the CGI cat as the obligitory puppet mascots from the third season were two leprechauns named Mr Sage and Mr Onion. (Later three leprechauns including Shamrock.)
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Incarnation number four of the [[{{Creator/TheBBC}} BBC's]] history of Saturday morning shows ran for the bulk of TheNineties, hence why popular culture associates it with that decade. The format was give or take the same as that of ''Going Live!'' (even the name was a nod) - a "hot seat" which was a Q&A session for that week's guest(s), music performances, comedy sketches, games and all the others, just without that show's presenters. With a few tweaks, the show became so successful, it launched the careers of several of its major presenters (among them Zoë Ball, Jamie Theakston, Andi Peters and many others), many of which still have their careers properly [[IncrediblyLamePun live and kicking]] today, with the show itself effectively becoming the TropeCodifier for Saturday morning shows.
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Incarnation number four of the [[{{Creator/TheBBC}} BBC's]] history of Saturday morning shows ran for the bulk of TheNineties, hence why popular culture associates it with that decade. The format was give or take the same as that of ''Going Live!'' (even the name was a nod) - a "hot seat" which was a Q&A session for that week's guest(s), music performances, comedy sketches, games and all the others, just without that show's presenters. With a few tweaks, the show became so successful, it launched the careers of several of its major presenters (among them Zoë Ball, Creator/ZoeBall, Jamie Theakston, Andi Peters and many others), many of which still have their careers properly [[IncrediblyLamePun live and kicking]] today, with the show itself effectively becoming the TropeCodifier for Saturday morning shows.
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* FunWithAcronyms: The promotions would often come with a funky-designed 'MIMO', which stood for "miss it, miss out" - one of the show's most recognised catchphrases.
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* SaturdayMorningCartoon: Well where else could you go? Among the most notable were ''{{WesternAnimation/Rugrats}}''.
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* EarWorm: There's so many, it's not even funny.
** The InstrumentalThemeTune can become catchy ''very'' easily. And its short-lived rearrangement.
** The worst offender is all of the phone number jingles. The ''phone numbers...''
** The InstrumentalThemeTune can become catchy ''very'' easily. And its short-lived rearrangement.
** The worst offender is all of the phone number jingles. The ''phone numbers...''
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[[caption-width-right:350:Begin the weekend's opening ceremony.]]
->''"Missed it? Missed out."''
In the UK, ''Live & Kicking'' is '''the''' SaturdayMorningKidsShow. Even today, nearly twenty years after its last Saturday morning, it's often considered as the most well known out of all the Saturday morning shows. Of those who knew the days of Saturday mornings, ''Live & Kicking'' is right up at the top end with the likes of ''{{Series/Tiswas}}'' in popularity terms.
Indeed, ''Live & Kicking'' had the longest run of any Saturday morning show in the UK at an unprecedented ''eight'' years (or over 250 episodes; though this isn't counting the earlier and later episodes of ''Tiswas'' before that show went nationwide) between 1993 and 2001, so it's bound to be stored in the public consciousness a lot better than others.
Incarnation number four of the [[{{Creator/TheBBC}} BBC's]] history of Saturday morning shows ran for the bulk of TheNineties, hence why popular culture associates it with that decade. The format was give or take the same as that of ''Going Live!'' (even the name was a nod) - a "hot seat" which was a Q&A session for that week's guest(s), music performances, comedy sketches, games and all the others, just without that show's presenters. With a few tweaks, the show became so successful, it launched the careers of several of its major presenters (among them Zoë Ball, Jamie Theakston, Andi Peters and many others), many of which still have their careers properly [[IncrediblyLamePun live and kicking]] today, with the show itself effectively becoming the TropeCodifier for Saturday morning shows.
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!!Tropes associated with Live & Kicking include:
*TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: One sketch which involved Andi Peters and Emma Forbes entering a time machine, where they would each be transformed into what it predicted they would be like in the year 2016. Of course, that year's long gone and neither of them have really changed too much. Hell, Andi Peters was apparently going to be a {{Creator/Trevor McDonald}} style newsreader by then!
*CatchPhrase: There were a few, the most obvious being "miss it, miss out" and "the only way to start your weekend". That second one wasn't a lie.
*CrossOver: Mr. Blobby, straight out of ''[[{{Series/Noels House Party}} Noel's House Party]]''. Ironically, this resulted in his image transforming from being that of a parody of children's characters to ''actually being'' a children's character. [[GoneHorriblyRight Whoops.]]
*EarWorm: There's so many, it's not even funny.
**The InstrumentalThemeTune can become catchy ''very'' easily. And its short-lived rearrangement.
**The worst offender is all of the phone number jingles. The ''phone numbers...''
*SaturdayMorningCartoon: Well where else could you go? Among the most notable were ''{{WesternAnimation/Rugrats}}''.
*TheShowMustGoOn: Unlike the other Saturday morning shows at the time, this one wasn't made to regenerate whenever its presenters left. And it worked - in its eight year run, there were four batches of presenters. Twelve individuals in total, to be precise.
[[caption-width-right:350:Begin the weekend's opening ceremony.]]
->''"Missed it? Missed out."''
In the UK, ''Live & Kicking'' is '''the''' SaturdayMorningKidsShow. Even today, nearly twenty years after its last Saturday morning, it's often considered as the most well known out of all the Saturday morning shows. Of those who knew the days of Saturday mornings, ''Live & Kicking'' is right up at the top end with the likes of ''{{Series/Tiswas}}'' in popularity terms.
Indeed, ''Live & Kicking'' had the longest run of any Saturday morning show in the UK at an unprecedented ''eight'' years (or over 250 episodes; though this isn't counting the earlier and later episodes of ''Tiswas'' before that show went nationwide) between 1993 and 2001, so it's bound to be stored in the public consciousness a lot better than others.
Incarnation number four of the [[{{Creator/TheBBC}} BBC's]] history of Saturday morning shows ran for the bulk of TheNineties, hence why popular culture associates it with that decade. The format was give or take the same as that of ''Going Live!'' (even the name was a nod) - a "hot seat" which was a Q&A session for that week's guest(s), music performances, comedy sketches, games and all the others, just without that show's presenters. With a few tweaks, the show became so successful, it launched the careers of several of its major presenters (among them Zoë Ball, Jamie Theakston, Andi Peters and many others), many of which still have their careers properly [[IncrediblyLamePun live and kicking]] today, with the show itself effectively becoming the TropeCodifier for Saturday morning shows.
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!!Tropes associated with Live & Kicking include:
*TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: One sketch which involved Andi Peters and Emma Forbes entering a time machine, where they would each be transformed into what it predicted they would be like in the year 2016. Of course, that year's long gone and neither of them have really changed too much. Hell, Andi Peters was apparently going to be a {{Creator/Trevor McDonald}} style newsreader by then!
*CatchPhrase: There were a few, the most obvious being "miss it, miss out" and "the only way to start your weekend". That second one wasn't a lie.
*CrossOver: Mr. Blobby, straight out of ''[[{{Series/Noels House Party}} Noel's House Party]]''. Ironically, this resulted in his image transforming from being that of a parody of children's characters to ''actually being'' a children's character. [[GoneHorriblyRight Whoops.]]
*EarWorm: There's so many, it's not even funny.
**The InstrumentalThemeTune can become catchy ''very'' easily. And its short-lived rearrangement.
**The worst offender is all of the phone number jingles. The ''phone numbers...''
*SaturdayMorningCartoon: Well where else could you go? Among the most notable were ''{{WesternAnimation/Rugrats}}''.
*TheShowMustGoOn: Unlike the other Saturday morning shows at the time, this one wasn't made to regenerate whenever its presenters left. And it worked - in its eight year run, there were four batches of presenters. Twelve individuals in total, to be precise.
