We all love a well thought-out programme cover. Here are some that seemed like a good idea at the time….
With thanks to Miles McClagan and David Bell.
Incongruous scenarios
- microwave delivery
- feed the world
- stub it out
- park the bus
- drown your sorrows
- cool and the gang
- re-tyre the shirt
- in the swim
- afore ye go
- Gulf scheme
- flare players
- isn’t it ironic
- dressed as lamb
- best possible taste
- catalogue job
- through the glen
- gingerbread girls
- campaign map
- City slickers
- wine waiter
- Dennis menace
- Villa parka
- nasty bobble
- strip-o-Tran
- granite grannies
- because of ewe
- model professionals
- uncool Yule
- Stoke bloke
- scary Berry
- cracker pack
- carvery dinner
- Freudian slip
- secretary burden
- feathered friend
- family fun
- Ni-key-ta
- Wark on by
- dirty washing
- dance moves
- card trick
- Vale fail
- lovely fags
- gertcha
- bus fuss
- back track
- weird beard
- carbuncle
- sign language
- Bishop Brennan
- motorbikin’
- training session
- pen pal
- marketing ploy
- Notts Scots
- bubble trouble
- cake fake
- child support
- Rodney trotter
- ramalamadingdong
- clown academy
- Dr Death
- balloon festival
- snow joke
- strip club
- first team coach
- frankly Valley
- party spirit
- cuddly ploy
- ‘stile style
- Santa, maybe
- pair of Shorts
- tiger feat
- knife of Brian
- milk vote
- Planet Earth
- Hamman hug
- carry on abroad
- kit shocker
- money men
- milk men
- auto traders
- shock therapy
- jean genius
- casual culture
- plans for Nigel
- lotta bottle
- boot camp
- the big match
- Butcher’s hook
- light brigade
- dirty laundry
- beauty show
- pudding club
- rock opera
Soapboxes
- planning fail
- lunatic fringe
- where Seagulls dare
- vox pops
- final curtain
- final warning
Munsters United
- simian
- snarling
- deformed
- effete
- permed
- balletic
- New Romantic
- bizarre
- bleached
- bushy
- deranged
- sponsored
- twins
- adamant
- diggered
- crowd scene
- hair straightener
- rugged
- perm one
- Barrow boy
- cloned
- sideburns
- quiff
The art of the impossible
- prancing
- pack mentality
- cracker
- who knows
- tinribs
- Riverdance
- tableau
- barking
- fear and loathing
- who’s this bloke?
- Grinch
- domino effect
- happiness
- danse macabre
- insect nation
- gone fishing
- tangerine scream
- comic cut
- burning bright
- bull fright
- cherries stoned
- the worst Noel
- cartoon emotion
- pirate copy
- tiger feat
- fortune kooky
- Christmas shocking
- snow joke
- Power cut
- towel fail
- global catastrophe
- Melliefluous
- coaching session
- hive mind
- steel appeal
- shower power
- walking in the air
- stocking thriller
- chinny reckon
- oh deer
- frosty reception
- cheap shot
- insect repellent
- tell me Y
- festive spirit
- stone page
- rowdy behaviour
- Newman collage
- hoping Sesame
- bus crass
- bubble rap
- nuclear option
- mane event
- Yule be sorry
- cartoon emotion
- crowd scene
Design flaws
- processed
- big
- small
- unrealistic
- compressed
- messy
- mis-spelled
- jumbled
- stretched
- literal
- dotty
- printout
- collage
- linear
- confusing