Yep. I lived not to far away from my High School and would watch till 9 when it finished my favorite cartoon "Robotech" and run to make it in under 10 minutes. In a lot of ways, this show encouraged me to be fit. P.S, I was almost always late.
I was in the studio audience for Agro twice when I was a kid. I remember on one occasion between shoots Ranger Stacy was taking a goanna around the audience and letting us kids touch it, on her way back to the studio floor she noticed Jamie Dunn was looking at the monitors under the desk and not paying attention, she she snuck up and held the goanna right by his ear. He turned, saw it, yelled "HOLY SHIT!!" on a hot mic and bolted offstage, Agro going flying an coming to a rest by one of the cameramen. He came back out a few minutes later to a clapping audience, caught Agro who was tossed back by the cameraman, went under the desk, popped Agro up and said, through the puppet, "Kids, what the man under the desk just said was a very naughty word!"
I use to work at the reptile park and ranger stacey would come out sometimes when she was on Totally wild, she was a diva who could put agro's rudest comments to shame
@@UltimateSteevil ...that's some interesting kind of "HARASSMENT"...the owner of the "Love Purse" must have been very annoyed & frustrated from being bothered in such a way
I didn't get a lot of the jokes but my mum would be pissing herself at agro saying stuff to Anne Marie. I remember her saying a fairly often. "She's jumping around a bit, I think Argos touching her under the table"
I remember as a kid watching this show and seeing Agro and Anne-Marie with a tv monitor of themselves and Agro says "look!, there's a couple of wankers on the telly". So I know they got away with airing a lot of this. Especially the double entendres that went over kids heads.
I actually won a prize from this show when I was like 10 years old. I did a colouring in contest of Agro and sent it in, and won some drawing books and pencils and stickers and shit.... Agro Show was awesome!!!
Cheez TV had good hosts but by the time that started I was getting to that age where you're almost too cool for cartoons and are really hard to please, so I didn't much care for a fair amount of the stuff they had on. Agro though, right time of my life to pretty much be obsessed with. I think I've even still got that cassette tape of Agro singing that ode to Wally Lewis somewhere, lol.
David Seamans Bwahahaha!!! Don’t even have to watch it I remember it like it was yesterday! “Any boss who sacks a worker for not showing up today is a bum!” Hahaha
Playschool was good fun too. Benita Collings and John Hamblin were preparing Big Ted’s picnic lunch. Benita laid the table cloth, put down a plate and a knife. John looked down; then looked up at her and said: “I suppose a fork’s out of the question?” My son loved it that we could both watch one of his favourite TV shows together.
For another helping of Aussie outtakes from the same era, search "Peter Russell Clarke". As a child I knew him as an affable TV chef. Since youtube however...
It's worth pointing out that most of these are outtakes. Any time the puppeteer adlibbed a crude joke or swearing they cut it from the final edit before it went to air...so kids didn't learn too many new words before school, haha.
This was how we got our fix of TMNT and Sailor Moon as kids in the 90s, such a great show. They are outtakes but there was still some cheeky things that made it to air, Agro would constantly pinch her bum behind the table and she would scream and start laughing. Different times!
Sorry to disappoint but these are outtakes. None of it graced our sweet little innocent ears. Even if it had, as a kid growing up in outback Queensland in the 80's there was no swearword or rude joke Agro could possibly say that I hadn't heard a hundred times before anyway.
Kids and adults loved Agro. Back in the day when people had a sense of humour and weren’t offended by the simple things in life. What a great time it was live back then.
Nah, as soon as I get up I switch it over to cartoons, much to hubby's dismay. I don't need to know which celebrity ate what, or what politicians are screwing up.
Although that song at 2:17, I think that was made for a Christmas tape. Agro joking about 'the show getting the flick and Disney taking over' is eerily prescient!
Agro is such a legend, UberEats made an Aussie ad with him and some human wanker most of us have never heard of. Just picture that. The modern day human is a NOBODY compared to the 1980s PUPPET!
My favourite was when she asked "what do you do with it?", in reference to a girls doll/puppet, and he was like "I dunno, I guess I should just f*ck it, wadda ya reckn?" Edit; Pure Australian gold ;)
@@CulturePopChannel right?, I loved it as a kid when my parents and I laughed at agro during breaky just like everyone else did. Then I'd go build cubbies in the bush out of sticks with my mate's. Thank god that "borderline" humour like agro still existed and was tolerated back then. Kids were and are far more clever than their given credit for, they deserve to be treated like all other sentient beings, with honesty and respect, else they turn into little "Nark's" with no critical thinking capabilities whatsoever. That's no way to live.
O my god how have I missed this ,I didn't think a puppet could make me laugh so much ,and to think we had rod Hull and emu ,basil brush and garden the gopher, 🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧
I think a lot less. We grew up politically incorrect, watching Agro and plenty of stuff that would horrify people today, and we thrived on it. Now people are so offended by everything. There's no joy left in the world. Everything is offensive, including me 😂
@@smackpointgsps1476 🤣🤣I relish in offending people, got it down to an art form. And too many people r horrified by the dreads & way too many facial piercings- not my parents tho, back in the day we were free range kids,now helicopter parents have stepped in & made their kids way too precious
@@ClownTrip Who do you think you are defending huh? He's not even wrong but you can't help but snap back, and for who? For what? "no u r snoflak" eheh heh alright kiddo.
Agro and dickie knee are true Australian icons.
John Blackman maybe. Not the prick behind Agro
Don't forget Plucker Duck 👍🏿😂🇦🇺
Ozzy ostrich
“Ooooh ooooh Mr Summers….Mr Summers….” 😁
Haha, Dickie Knee. "Mr Somers, Mr Somers. Have you met my sister, Aphelia..."?
"The ratings go up"
Best response ever.
The show gets cancelled and Disney takes over! So relevant now 🤣
@@SABREX7 Yep, the most prescient comment ever :(
i liked the disney take over line aged like fine wine
@@ayderla789 for sure
@@SABREX7 Oath!
I've never been prouder to be Australian.
I am a qualified lesbian too
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It didnt. These are bloopers
@@PraetorianAU I know but it was good for a laugh anyway.
@@gypsy4659 I used to watch agro as a kid. They always had the best cartoons back then.
As an American, I approve of this puppet being an Aussie legend like you people are saying.
The best kids show in Australia
Up there with Hey Hey it’s Saturday.
Anywhere 👍
@@vectorequilibrium4493 yeah HH was on for nigh on to thirty years. Agro was a blow hard
Loved this show
If you were allowed to watch tele in the morning. Boo hoo. We weren't.
Throw me some Goodies, Monkey, Dr Who and i was sold.
Many of school buses were missed because of “Agros cartoon connection.” 🇦🇺
Agros cartoon connection was on Saturday mornings.
@@JasonBlack66 At one point it was on every weekday morning.
Yep. I lived not to far away from my High School and would watch till 9 when it finished my favorite cartoon "Robotech" and run to make it in under 10 minutes. In a lot of ways, this show encouraged me to be fit. P.S, I was almost always late.
@@JasonBlack66 sat Disney was on sat mornings
@@gutz1981 Dude Robotech was terrible compared to the og macross.
The day the dog ripped off Agros head and took it to its basket was so farkin funny
That was Rommel and Dunn's response "throw to the cartoon" was inspired. Should have included the "you ready for your internal" clip as well.
Aawww Yeah, I remember that, I was in stiches laughing..🤣
Best episode ever 😂
I felt bad for Agro
I remember that lmao
Don't be talking sh!t about Agro. He's a national treasure
I was in the studio audience for Agro twice when I was a kid. I remember on one occasion between shoots Ranger Stacy was taking a goanna around the audience and letting us kids touch it, on her way back to the studio floor she noticed Jamie Dunn was looking at the monitors under the desk and not paying attention, she she snuck up and held the goanna right by his ear. He turned, saw it, yelled "HOLY SHIT!!" on a hot mic and bolted offstage, Agro going flying an coming to a rest by one of the cameramen. He came back out a few minutes later to a clapping audience, caught Agro who was tossed back by the cameraman, went under the desk, popped Agro up and said, through the puppet, "Kids, what the man under the desk just said was a very naughty word!"
that's fuckin great 😂
I use to work at the reptile park and ranger stacey would come out sometimes when she was on Totally wild, she was a diva who could put agro's rudest comments to shame
I think he maintained some composure. I would have used another word altogether
@@anonymouse755 she wasn't really a ranger.
@@zapkvr actually yes she was. She worked with the Queensland parks and wild life as a ranger. You might need to double check your information
Agro was a legend, couldn't get away with this kind of humour nowadays
These are the outtakes, they were never broadcast.
"As his canon exploded into her love purse" HAHA
1:19 "You rub it and it comes"
because sexual harassment is funny.
@@UltimateSteevil ...that's some interesting kind of "HARASSMENT"...the owner of the "Love Purse" must have been very annoyed & frustrated from being bothered in such a way
You see when we were kids in the 80's living in Australia...we understood a joke. Agro was the best !
Being in the Army in the late 80s and early 90s this show was mandatory viewing on the bases. Jamie Dunn what a legend!
"What's the difference between an Echidna and a police car?
In a police car all the pricks are on the inside"
The joke actually works better if the punch line is - An Echidna has all the pricks on the outside
"Call the white truck! Bring me another dizzy blonde!"
Poor Ann-Maree! What she had to put up with!
I suspect that “poor” Ann-Maree was well-paid for her role in the show.
@@jonathansturm4163 yea, and got a whole bunch of D
I didn't get a lot of the jokes but my mum would be pissing herself at agro saying stuff to Anne Marie.
I remember her saying a fairly often.
"She's jumping around a bit, I think Argos touching her under the table"
@@albert3535ify your mum’s awesome 😂🤣
@@albert3535ify :. I bet a lot of Mums and Dads had to come up with creative answers for kids who "did not get the joke".
I cherish growing up in Australia in the 80s and 90s. Long live Agro! x
Amen
In a time where we could laugh and have fun…forreal
I'm sixty one. I laugh every day.
True that! Agro’s Cartoon Connection wouldn’t make it to the first ad break before being pulled off the air these days 😔
Nothing's stopping you knackers.
@@zapkvr There is a difference between laughing, and laughing at something funny.
I still have fun, sorry to hear you got old and boring.
Just to clarify, these are out-takes, behind the scenes fun that never aired.
@@alipalstralis5817 Literally all of these clips are from Cartoon Connection when he was hosting with Ann-Maree Biggar.
Perhaps, but what went to air was just as ribald.
Really? Because by my memory agro was filmed in front of a live audience. I remember cos I went to a few of them.
Yes that started to become clear around the halfway mark... 😄 🤣
I remember as a kid watching this show and seeing Agro and Anne-Marie with a tv monitor of themselves and Agro says "look!, there's a couple of wankers on the telly". So I know they got away with airing a lot of this. Especially the double entendres that went over kids heads.
Fun times. It's a shame we will never see this stuff made again.
Such a shame, it was a great era to be a kid, before everyone became so serious
@@CulturePopChannel
So precious, you mean….!
Could you imagine if this was on now???? All the woke mobs heads would explode!!
@@jfraserfisher it definitely would be a another sad victim of this pathetic cancel culture syndrome we’re moving into…..
I don't think we would want it made again, at least not like it was, with a convicted pedophile cop in it.
I actually won a prize from this show when I was like 10 years old. I did a colouring in contest of Agro and sent it in, and won some drawing books and pencils and stickers and shit.... Agro Show was awesome!!!
No shit. I entered that comp. Maybe there was loads of them I dunno but I entered one.
i won a bunch of he man stuff rom the barrel they used to draw out of :D
I rang in and answered one of the questions to their quiz and won a kick ass LEGO Technic set. I can still remember leaving the message.
I did as well!
Yeah I won a comp from them too. Chocolate hamper. I feel like 90s Aussie TV was much funnier. Just seemed to push boundaries and got away with it.
It was a lot of fun. Kids didn't understand most of it. Adults loved it
Smurfs, ninja turtles and agro's cartoon connection. This was a staple growing up.
Cheese tv?
He man amd sleletor - good times
Cheez TV had good hosts but by the time that started I was getting to that age where you're almost too cool for cartoons and are really hard to please, so I didn't much care for a fair amount of the stuff they had on.
Agro though, right time of my life to pretty much be obsessed with. I think I've even still got that cassette tape of Agro singing that ode to Wally Lewis somewhere, lol.
Anne Marie was absolutely gorgeous
Hell yeah. She was definitely one of my first crushes as a kid
She still is
@@aussiefirie I wonder what she's up to nowadays?
She turns 60 next year. She did look mighty fine in her thirties
She was such a good sport too.
RIP Australia. We used to be awesome
I watched Agro as a young adult before work. Best morning show ever.
"the show gets the flick and disney takes over"
imagine if they did tho
No, I cry just thinking about it.
Back when the world was normal... feel lucky to have lived through those times
@3:00 "As his cannon exploded into her love purse" lmfao!! Agro was a dirty bastard
Lmfaoooo the way you put it
The puppet master was busted for fiddling with Ann Marie under the table 😆
😂
@@ahighlyobnoxiousadult Yep. I was told the same thing by one of the show's crew members.
I loved watching Agro as a kid, and I turned out fuckin alright
That's subjective
@@PersonalityTurtle lmao
The Queen should give Agro a knight hood.
I am Irish but moved to Australia when I was 4 in 86, and I grew up in loveing this, absolute gold.
When the parents where more into the kids show than the kids 😂😂 Betcha most here was one of em 😂🤪
I was a kid when this was on, never remember the segments captivating my attention but then the adult humour would have totally gone over my head.
this was such a great time to be alive as an aussie.
So…she sounds both baked and like a child, and he’s just your average Queensland dad lying in a deck chair with a stubbie of fourex
Why is it called XXXX in Queensland?
Because they can't spell BEER!
@Rose Madder Karen alert.
@Paradis 74 Coopers is the beer of choice in SA. Dunno about Tassie
@Paradis 74 beer 🤣
@@Ozymandias83 Traditionally in Tassie it's Cascade if you live the south (ie Hobart) or Boags if you live in the North (ie Launceston).
When Agro said "That one's been distorted, that one's got hips," I thought HOLY SH!T!
Couldn't get away with saying that today 😂
Ann Maree was pretty skinny
OMFG that was my childhood but watching this again while I'm now a adult make me think "WTF was I watching when I was a kid??" 🤣🤣🤣
you were watching and developing a rounded sense of humour
My thoughts exactly. A crude ugly ass puppet & a bogan chick. What a waste of my childhood!!
Your post has me asking “what the fark do you watch now lol
Man they should put this on again, I have a whole other appreciation for Agro as an adult.
Not being Australian I have never seen this. I am laughing so much.
Awesome As a kid his head always reminds me of a burger.
Back when Australia had a sense of humour.
Where do you live dope?
Back when it wasn’t a crime to have a sense of humour
Our PM on America Cup win day. th-cam.com/video/s8mdHO2_Zo8/w-d-xo.html. Yep a lot of the humor is gone. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
David Seamans Bwahahaha!!! Don’t even have to watch it I remember it like it was yesterday! “Any boss who sacks a worker for not showing up today is a bum!” Hahaha
And you could buy a shotgun from Kmart.
Playschool was good fun too. Benita Collings and John Hamblin were preparing Big Ted’s picnic lunch. Benita laid the table cloth, put down a plate and a knife. John looked down; then looked up at her and said: “I suppose a fork’s out of the question?” My son loved it that we could both watch one of his favourite TV shows together.
John Hamblin was the best. I used to love watching Play School with my kids when they were little
@@wombatlittle1 I used to love watching Benita
@@jonathansturm4163 didn't Benita have a bit of a male fan club (not literally) back in the day?
@@wombatlittle1 Unofficially.
Romper room
Was another good one
With Mr Doo bee
American...first time ever seeing this! Friggin' R-rated Oscar the Grouch ! It's HILARIOUS ! 🤣
For another helping of Aussie outtakes from the same era, search "Peter Russell Clarke".
As a child I knew him as an affable TV chef. Since youtube however...
It's worth pointing out that most of these are outtakes. Any time the puppeteer adlibbed a crude joke or swearing they cut it from the final edit before it went to air...so kids didn't learn too many new words before school, haha.
This was how we got our fix of TMNT and Sailor Moon as kids in the 90s, such a great show. They are outtakes but there was still some cheeky things that made it to air, Agro would constantly pinch her bum behind the table and she would scream and start laughing. Different times!
Agro Marie used to play up under the table while they were on air we all knew it this is only the stuff they cut it was a laugh even as a kid
Sorry to disappoint but these are outtakes. None of it graced our sweet little innocent ears. Even if it had, as a kid growing up in outback Queensland in the 80's there was no swearword or rude joke Agro could possibly say that I hadn't heard a hundred times before anyway.
Kids and adults loved Agro.
Back in the day when people had a sense of humour and weren’t offended by the simple things in life.
What a great time it was live back then.
ah the memories from an 80s kid....better than the crap today!!!!!
I had to look it up because I used to watch it. It aired in the 90s bro , started in 89.
I used to watch this as a kid, most of these jokes went over my head. Parents must of loved it (especially the dads).
Wait, this was a kids show?
And I want it to come back, agro was awesome.
I grew up on that show and I loved Agro. A cultural icon.
I grew up watching this, it’s probably one of my favourite tv shows ever
I used to watch this as a kid
Didn't we all , While munching away on our Coco Pops while watching it LOL
@@martinkuliza hahaha yes!!
And we turned out just fine...
@@andreap9869
yes we did.......
well.... sort of LOL
I miss this show. I used to watch it every morning before school. The jokes went over my head as a kid 😂😂
How good is Australia 🙏🦘🙌🤣🙌
… Was
It passed away in the 90’s and it was on life support even by that stage
@@TheFykle sad but true..
We have gone from saying it as you see it to lets not hurt delusional feelings..
Real quick 🤦
Bringing back so many memories.
Thanks for the upload
My pleasure! Happy to take you on a trip down Memory Lane
Ahhhh those were the days.
We Sheilas gave as good as we got back then and everyone laughed their arses off.
And no one had a fuxxin problem with it... it was just cheeky fun. Life was better back then.
These days, everyone wakes up with Today, those days, we all woke up with Agro!
Only the lobotomised watch Australian morning shows.
Its the panacea to intellect and thought.
Excactly. A bunch of woke pc bullshit. I can’t stand it for even a few seconds.
Nah, as soon as I get up I switch it over to cartoons, much to hubby's dismay. I don't need to know which celebrity ate what, or what politicians are screwing up.
It still baffles me that you Australians got away with such a cheeky puppet!
I was about 24 -30 years old when this was on and I'd watch it for the agro bits - he was a fucking scream
Such an awesome show. Anne Marie was an absolute babe.
"Because it scares the fuck out of the dogs!"
I'm sure that would never have gone to air!
Ended up on the Christmas tape.
I used to watch this show as a kid and I even remember us kids saying the joke in Primary School.
@@Rolli6669 It was never aired on TV. It was part of the outtakes
It was live you dopes!
Although that song at 2:17, I think that was made for a Christmas tape.
Agro joking about 'the show getting the flick and Disney taking over' is eerily prescient!
The bungee jumping joke was the best one!
Was in love with ranger stacey.
Remember agro singing foxy lady to her.
Ranger Stacey's skin tight pants were the defining moment in the formation of my heterosexuality.
Awesome! A generation of kids grew up with a sense of humour :P
This is the best kids show ever. Why didnt we have this in South Africa when I was growing up.
We got Zet 🤣
I bloody loved that show as a kid 😂
I bet you also bloody loved Anne Marie as well mate 😉
@@NebraskaGonvilleJones
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I remember seeing this as a kid.My parents laughed more than I did. Now I see why 😁
I watched this when I was a kid and I'm starting to understand why I am the way I am. Thankyou Agro
Anne Marie was the perfect partner to Agro too .. absolutely loved this show and im so glad I grew up during this awesome time ❤
Bro I’m dead 😂, so glad to be Australian.
Oh my goodness. It's bringing back memories. I can't believe we watched this stuff.
I grew up watching this every morning in the 90's.
Loved this show back in the day. So good.
It was the best show to wake up to every morning
When I'm naughty Ann-Marie strangles me and gives me a smack?
Hmm....
"You're the one talking to a piece of carpet."
Best kids show! I used to watch this when I was little! I just remember Agro was real “naughty” but I found him funny! 😂
I used to watch it before school every morning and my generation has it all over todays! 1980 was a good year
Agro is such a legend, UberEats made an Aussie ad with him and some human wanker most of us have never heard of.
Just picture that. The modern day human is a NOBODY compared to the 1980s PUPPET!
Bringing back childhood memories- I used to love watching this show religiously in the mornings while getting ready for school ❤
My favourite was when she asked "what do you do with it?", in reference to a girls doll/puppet, and he was like "I dunno, I guess I should just f*ck it, wadda ya reckn?"
Edit; Pure Australian gold ;)
Haha miss those days!
@@CulturePopChannel right?, I loved it as a kid when my parents and I laughed at agro during breaky just like everyone else did. Then I'd go build cubbies in the bush out of sticks with my mate's. Thank god that "borderline" humour like agro still existed and was tolerated back then. Kids were and are far more clever than their given credit for, they deserve to be treated like all other sentient beings, with honesty and respect, else they turn into little "Nark's" with no critical thinking capabilities whatsoever. That's no way to live.
@@Jay-er2ik totally agree! The more you shelter kids from content like this, the more you prevent them development into broadminded adults
Omg i used to watch this as a kid, and I loved it, watching it now as an adult wow!! Hilarious, haven't times changed !!
Used to watch this before school. Good times back then.
I loved agro as a kid was the best kids show hands down
I miss the Agro cone at Wendy’s so bloody much!!
You could still get them well into the 2000s and most kids wouldn't have known who he was
I grew up watching this. Freaking awesome.
The kids shows in the 80s absolutely brilliant
O my god how have I missed this ,I didn't think a puppet could make me laugh so much ,and to think we had rod Hull and emu ,basil brush and garden the gopher, 🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧
Could you imagine how many people would need therapy if he were around today,lol
As someone who grew up watching this show, we are.
I grew up watching agro
Might make people toughen up a bit & not b such snowflakes
I think a lot less. We grew up politically incorrect, watching Agro and plenty of stuff that would horrify people today, and we thrived on it.
Now people are so offended by everything. There's no joy left in the world. Everything is offensive, including me 😂
@@smackpointgsps1476 🤣🤣I relish in offending people, got it down to an art form. And too many people r horrified by the dreads & way too many facial piercings- not my parents tho, back in the day we were free range kids,now helicopter parents have stepped in & made their kids way too precious
Man, I had a mad crush on Ann Marie.. this show was the highlight of my younger years.. The best kids show ever !
And we in the US had thought Dennis Miller's syndicated late-night talk show was edgy.
Haha and this was on around the same years as Dennis Miller
You had Triumph The Insult Comic Dog though, that was one of the fkn funniest things ever.
Not even close
I was around 9 years old when this came out.... Loved Agro and Ann Marie and damn, Ranger Stacey!!!!
I loved this show back in the 80's I was just talking about it a couple of weeks ago and how younger viewers didn't always get the humour.
I grew up on Agro. I loved The Cartoon Connection
Hey Hey, fucking what a hit of nostalgia
I grow up with this. Best show ever
Australian kids are now realising why their parents are so weird
More like why they are such soft snowflakes who are so easily offended while their parents are far more stable and resilient.
@@MrMOTUMan You seem sensitive. maybe you are the snowflake.
@@ClownTrip Who do you think you are defending huh? He's not even wrong but you can't help but snap back, and for who? For what?
"no u r snoflak"
eheh heh alright kiddo.
@@ClownTrip Seems that you're the sensitive one.
@@astrovarius543 i found another one
Agro was the best. He was so funny!!! I loved watching Agro when I was a kid. He still makes me laugh today.
Oh hey I remember watching this every morning back when they were running episodes of Sailor Moon on the show.
We watched Agro every day, always made us laugh 😂 kids shows and humour sure have changed since then….
I loved this when I was a kid
I used to watch it every day before school it was the best
LOL. as an ozzie i can say 100% grow up with this guy.
You mean Aussie?