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Ahhh...the good old days!! You'd be surprised what actuallly made it on air, majority of the jokes went over the younger kids head but certainly not the adults. My mum loved sitting and watching Agro with us, she got just as much enjoyment out of it as us kids. This is why us Aussies have such a good sense of humour, we grew up kids tv programs just like this. Agro is an Aussie National Treasure and still loved just as much now as he was then.
Colloquially, the word 'Agro' is Aussie slang for 'Aggressive': it suited the puppet because he was quite irreverent and grumpy. The puppeteer (under the table) was brilliant Australian humourist Jamie Dunn 🙂
I moved to Australia in 89 and this show was the BEST when I was a kid. It was the only kids show I liked to watch because of them and not just for the cartoons. You'd be surprised at how much made it on air for the kids back then. Not much was in the outtakes.
@@marieminshull1400 Have a good cry about it.. Into your pillow because no one else needs to hear it. We used to have a sense of humour in this country.
@@marieminshull1400 get a sense of humor for heavens sake... These secenes were not shown on tv for the kids... These scenes are for grown ups, who had senses of humor!!! WE all looked forward to the xmas outtakes...best laugh we ever had!!!! These days the drag queen shows in KINDERGARTENS ARE FAAAAAAAAAAR WORSE!!! Get with it lady!!! PORN IS NOW OUT IN THE OPEN FOR YOU CHILDREN!!!!
I am Aussie & this WAS children’s tv when we were kids. A lot went over our heads of course but it’s pretty cool to watch it again as an adult. Aaah the dirty little bugger 😂😂
My now 32 yr old son absolutely adored Agro, and so did I, but for very different reasons. He watches it now, and nearly wets his pants at what went straight over his head back then. This was when life and being P.C. wasn’t so,precious and they get away with so much. Hysterical show that still cracks me up. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm 33 and can attest to this. I always wondered why agro was also loved by so many adults when I was a kid back in the 90s, watching back now though I can see why. 👀🤣🤣🤣
There was a live audience sometimes. I took my niece and nephew to see him a couple of times. There was always lots of kids writing in telling Anne-Marie off for hitting Agro. Jamie Dunn also did adults only shows at various clubs around Brisbane with Agro the bath mat. Jamie was very quick with the double meaning quips and the shows were hilarious as he didn't have to keep it G rated. It is amazing how much actually made it to air on the cartoon show. It would never happen now.
Most of these were out takes, but there was a lot of jokes that walked the fine line that went to air, most of which went straight over the kids heads, Agro is a legend, best show on tv in the day
Every Saturday morning from 6am to 9am we had Agro's Cartoon Connection. Believe me I remember this show so well, not for the cartoons or the competitions but for Agro. I was not a kid in the '90's. I remember watching my young sister watch this show and she never picked up on even one of the foul tirades that Agro came out with. Aussie kids in the '90's were so innocent compared with todays kids. Agro was on morning tv for years and became an Aussie treasure. You would have loved this show as much as we all did. Watching your reactions to this video were priceless. Cheers
I'm 80 and we loved the show and yes went over kids heads..haven't seen it for yrs but thanks for reminding me and just had biggest laugh in long time..thank you...
Agro started on Boris Breakfast Club in the 80's as the puppet sidekick and got his own show in the late 80's. got to a stage where he was on the morning and afternoon kids shows and the weekend ones too.
I hate to raise the spectre of Constable Dave, here, but he was the friendly face of policing for Brissy kids and actually came to my school to deliver a "stranger-danger" talk to us. David Moore let us all down. Including Jamie Dunn (Agro).
The show was called Cartoon Connection. Kids would watch the show in the morning. The show lasted for 2 hours. Agro and his co-host had 3 or 4 10 minute segments. Intro's to cartoons were within the last 30 seconds of the segment. Most of what you saw did make to the screen. Aussies kids loved it, plus the kids already heard a lot of it from their own family members.
It definitely was our morning children tv! You would be surprised how much got thru to live air because being (80s) gen x and y kids, our parents were already at work and we had to get ourselves to school. Agro did swear and many of these types of scenes were definitely seen by us kids. I remember like crystal clarity . It was awesome and we would talk about it at school!
🎉 it was a morning show for kids .all kids knew agro was naughty .parents would be getting kids breakfast n ready for school .beep over the swear words but we knew what agro was up to
It was a children's show of a weekday, I used to watch it before going to school. Even though this was out takes, what made it onto TV was on the edge.
One of Agros best lines was when Ann Marie ask him what he was doing for the weekend and he replied, I'm going out rooting. It was hilarious. But when I replied the same answer to a barmaid in Tweed Heads, I got smacked fair across the face. He definately told it better than me. Lol.
Nowadays we have fakenews on every morning...maybe we should go back to aggros show! There is so much more filth n depravity these days, to make a never ending joke of all the weirdoes, demanding they be recognised!!!
He was the best! You have to watch more to fully appreciate the funniest character on T V and yes it was a children’s show. I actually miss Agro loved how he made fun of everything.
You guys in the UK would have loved that show. You have the same sense of humour as us Aussies. Well, we probably got that humour from the UK a few hundred years ago !
aggros cartoon connection was a morning show where they hosted bits between cartoons. most of these wouldn't have aired but aggro was a smart arse, told jokes and took the piss out of the sheilas on the show. adults watched it too because there was a huge amount of jokes with innuendo that just went over kids heads. the good luck troll and echidna joke wouldn't have been unusual on the actual show.
Neither would the cat on heat. Things like that went to air then… wouldn’t fly past the censors today because Australia has lost its sense of humour. 👎🙄
The gentleman is Jamie Dunn, a close friend to the film and TV production in Brisbane and one of the warmest hearts you'll find in Australia. Jamie, while at a radio gig would get together with his team to promote the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane. He and his team have raised millions of dollars for one of the most important hospitals in the Southern Hemisphere as it services the largest land mass including Papua and island territories surrounding Australia. He's a great Aussie larrakin, one of our finest, Paul Hogan etc...
This is a collection of bloopers that would have been used for the "Christmas Tape". Each year at the Channel 7 Brisbane Christmas party for the talent and crew, the editors would create a tape of bloopers to play. This came from one of those tapes. The show, Agros Cartoon Connection, was filmed in Brisbane and was basically just educational segments, promos for toys and funny skits which were played in between cartoons like TMNT. The show aired at 6am every weekday morning. The show was very much a G-rated children's show, and didn't have anything rude like this video shows, but the crew during filming had a tendency to muck around a lot, like you saw in the clips :P
I was in the audience for one episode of this show in 1984, Agro's Cartoon Connection. I was 6 i was there with my whole school, all 86 students and 2 teachers 😍
The Adult outages you saw were compiled to make a Christmas tape which was shown at the annual Christmas party for the network. There were many out takes from news to cooking and these tapes were under strict control not to be made public. I think it was that year which had the Duran Duran - Girls On Film X-Rated version and a Rugby team Canberra Raiders, doing a porn type milk commercial which was not made public at the time. Could not show that one on TH-cam now. André in Sydney
Many of the tv stations in Australia would do what were called "goof tapes" that were played at work Christmas parties and a lot of this type of footage was never meant for public viewing. Agro was also on Wombat. Both these shows originated in Brisbane, Queensland. Ann-Maree actually started in another kids' tv show in regional Queensland (SEQ), Scruffy the Dog Show (somehow that has slipped from her resume). The most outrageous goof tape I ever saw was one from Play School (absolutely hilarious). Brisbane had lots of unique children's shows, including Boris the Black Knight on the 1980/90ss. There was also Shirl's Neighbourhood where kids sent in their used bandaids.
This was a kids show. Argo was a funny, cranky puppet. The humour was great and he had a way of making jokes that adults and kids would laugh at for different reasons. Very clever. This particular clip you are showing, was the out takes and would never have been aired. I’m so glad I got to see this.
Used to love this show as a kid it was awesome!! Now it's still awesome because of these clips I didn't understand back then. I remember they came to Bribie island for something live and I got to go see it. It was funny because they said that agro liked eating cockroaches and stone's so the other kids in my street and my self were all collecting both. I took him a bag of rock I got off the side of the road 😊. Great memories back then. 🙂 Glad you got to watch this mate 👍🇦🇺
Yeah those were out-takes. It was called Agro's cartoon connection. The nostalgia. I remember looking forward to that show as a kid, and I watched it religiously every morning. It's a historical kids show from the 80's.
Jamie Dunn is an absolute legend I used to see him every morning at the BP Caboolture Southbound and he always said hello it was like relieving my childhood over again
Agro is very much loved here in Australia, used to put tv show on for kids but I would sit and watch it just to see what Agro did that day. It was an Australian morning kids show with cartoons etc but I can just about guarantee more adults were watching it then their kids because of the things Agro would say or do to the hosts/ guests. Was the BEST show, no complaints no politically correct crap like now, just good old fashioned fun and laughter!
I laughed so much watching this. I remember Agro. It was a children's show but most of the jokes were aimed at adults. A lot of those were out takes I think. Thankyou for this you brought back a lot of good memories.
Yeah you're right Matt, these are out takes from Agro & Anne-Marie hosting a kids afternoon cartoon show. The really rude stuff wasn't shown on the actual kid's show, they were saved for an adult late night show. The guy operating Agro (Jamie 'something' was incredibly funny & quick) and he would rile up his co-hosts terribly & it was hilarious. Agro was also aggressive/narky in the daily kids arvo show too...but the X rated stuff never went to air. A lot of it was done live though & often riske. The "over the kids' heads stuff" was a hoot. x Linda.
Yes - it WAS children's TV. Used to be on in the mornings. It used to go for a couple of hours and these segments were screened between cartoon shows like (say)Scooby Doo. There were lots of puppet-type characters on Aussie kids TV back then. Winky Dink, Ossie Ostrich and (until Agro came along) the rudest was probably Rock Wallaby (a bit like Basil Brush).
Agro is Australias answer to Basil brush and I love them both. The very best was when they were showing the kids how a sausage making machine works. I will never forget how hard I laughed. I actually fell out of my chair laughing aver Agro's comments.
I loved agro it was a kids show that won awards. Jamie Dunn was under the desk and agros voice. Most of what you had was out takes but he did get away with a lot because it went over most kids heads
The thing is Ranger Stacey has lasted through so many different kids programs. She's on totally wild which she became the lead but before that she was on all the channels educating kids. She was even on the abc while on two other channels tv shows. That was a rare privilege to have. As most companies at the time would only allow you to work for them.
Coincidentally, Ranger Stacy currently hosts the same radio show (breakfast slot) that Jamie Dunn (Agro) did a couple of years ago on the country station in Brisbane.
Agro also released an album of covers every year for atleast 4 years straight... they were always part of my Christmas presents. The real reason agro was taken off air... he dry humped one of the sponsors mascot... it was a puppet turkey (it was a horrible jelly drink)
Loved this show as a kid. Most of these were outtakes, but a lot what that went to air would make most people’s heads explode today, it wouldn’t last 5 seconds on TV
For our non-Australian friends. Agro was the puppet character on a kids TV show called 'Agros Cartoon Connection' that ran for 2-3hrs on weekday mornings. The clips are outtakes. Here is one for most people as it isn't widely known - the Agro puppet is a vintage 1978 Fisher-Price puppet of Animal from the Muppets. Agro is Animal Aussie cousin.
Yep, my mum would always watch Agro with us, she enjoyed it even more than us kids!! Generally the jokes went over most younger kids heads but certainly not adults.....the good old days!!
Agro's Cartoon Connection was a kid's TV show. They showed cartoons and reviewed all the latest toys. Agro was always cheeky and very naughty on the kid's show so of course, the kids loved him. Every now and then Jamie Dunn (Agros alter ego) couldn't restrain himself, and he would let fly with some very adult comments and jokes. He was a very funny man with a wicked sense of humor. Poor Ann-Maree would be the victim so she was constantly thumping Agro and Jamie. Thank heavens for pre-recorded TV. None of the Adult stuff went to air in the kid's time slot. It was all saved and was shown at an appropriate adult time slot and advertised as adult content. Like the collection of clips, you are watching now.
Agro! We loved Agro and Anne Marie as kids. The show was called Cartoon Connection, it was on every morning before school and I don't know anyone my age who didn't love it. Most of the jokes went right over our heads alot of the time, but kept our parents in stitches. Agro was sent parcels of pictures and crafts and handmade clothes and Anne Marie would read out the letters while Agro poked fun at everything he got. He was rude and obnoxious and hilariously funny. This was such a trip down memory lane, thank you 😂
My grandmother loved him, sent him a knitted jacket for winter and he praised it immensely before saying its perfect bedding for his chickens! I watched the episode with her the day the mail was opened and she could not stop laughing, it made her day, week, month!
These shows were aired on Saturday morning. In between the episodes of mayhem in the studio, they aired cartoons.The audience was a combination of kids, who didn't get a lot of the jokes but enjoyed the vibe, but were really there for the cartoons, and young people who were still awake and coming down after a loooooong Friday night out clubbing etc. Parents rarely saw this stuff, and no one much complained. It is surprising how much of this stuff actually made it to air.
Yes! We got to watch it every Saturday morning, when mum n dad were 'sleeping in' behind closed doors... now I understand Agros jokes AND why the door was closed every Saturday morning🤣🤣🤣
😢 I miss the 80's with fond recollection. We could laugh and no one was offended. People told jokes and those in earshot laughed. Good time, good times indeed. 😔 oh how the wold has changed. This brought a tear to my eye, both joy and sadness.
Kids cartoon show. My mate was a cameraman for channel 7 in Brisbane. We used to go hang out at the studio to watch filming of the show. Miss those years.
Agro was taken in the way it was meant. Risqué and fun with no malice. He would never play today. I remember watching so many shows when I was younger. Hilarious.
I grew up on this every weekend in Australia. So many fond memories and in a time when you could take the piss out of everything without a care in the world.
I loved Agro growing up, and alot of this made it to tv lol. Jamie Dunn who operates Agro had no filter lol, so all the co host got caught out sometimes, but Anne Maree copped most of it for sure lol
I also feel obliged to say Agro was the last in a long line of great humour on kids shows in Australia. Hey hey it's Saturday started off as a morning cartoon show and turned into legendary Saturday night programming.
Agro has me laughing in tears every time. I remember him well, his show aired on Channel 7 from 1990 to 1997, I was in my early 20's when it started so never got to experience him as a kid.
Whereas, channel 9 had Ossie Ostrich. He wasn't as rude as Agro, but did get the occasional rude bit off. Like the time Jackie MacDonald remarked on camera that she could smell fish, and Ossie told her "Then take smaller steps"
The show was called Agro's Cartoon Connection, and it was on weekday mornings from 1990 to 1997. It was a children's show that hosted cartoons in the morning before children went off to school.
Agro started off on the kids cartoon show, but it evolved, as you can see. There's a really funny one where he makes the poor girl gag repeatedly when he mentions seafood or something. Funny as. There's heaps on TH-cam. 😂
He started on a children's weekday afternoon show called Wombat and then went to Saturday morning cartoons with Agro's Cartoon Connection. Yes, he really did say a lot of sketchy stuff which earned him a lot of slaps from Anne-marie
This was a breakfast show for children that played cartoons it ran from 6am-9am Mondays through Fridays on Channel 7. This show was followed by The Book Place at 9am. On Channel 9 Here’s Humphrey would screen at 9am Monday’s through Fridays. On Saturday mornings from 7am Channel 7 had another children’s show called Saturday Disney.
I used to love "Agro's Cartoon Connection" back in the day. Some of those are likely out takes however the show was pretty loose with what it deemed acceptable with what was allowed on TV. I'm sure most of it went over the kids heads.
From Australia you bought back good memories loved that show so funny Agro and Marie so good together it was a children's show you wouldn't get away with that number now thank you for showing it .😅
I saw him live as a kid, Mr inuendo. He also bought me a bmx bike to replace the one I had stolen when I was in high school. Agro to the rescue on the rado... Jamie Dunn/Agro. Cheers for the bike mate.
This was one of the best children’s morning shows. These were outtakes that definitely didn’t make the show and went straight to the Christmas tape for the end of year staff party. Good old days when people could take a joke.
Aggro made many an appearance on Hey Hey it's Saturday, once a kids show which morphed into a Saturday night show. It was hilarious. I hadn't seen these kids show 'outtakes' before. TY ... it's good to have a laugh.
gold!! I lived in Australia in the late 80es early 90es.. i watched this before i walked to school in the morning...I remember the dog taking Agro .... i remember talking to my mate when we walked to school about it! lol.... no shows like this one now days...... Good times.
I loved watching Agro. Hungry Jacks released agro coffee mugs because he was so popular. It reminds me of John on Playschool back in the day…… the kids never picked up on his adult directed jokes either!! Australian television used to be so fun to watch!
Awesome job mate viewing Aggro , all Australians back when Aggro was aired on our tv,s know and loved the show , I’m glad you enjoyed it as well , it’s sad now these days so many restrictions on what you can and can’t say in case someone gets upset , get your friends in the uk there to have a look at Aggro , I’m sure they will love it like you did , loved your video buddy . 👍
Mention Aggro to anyone over 40 and you will see the misty eyes of fond memories. He got away with so much and nobody complained.
37 and agree fully 👌
I reckon Ann Marie complained a few times.
I am 36 and loved that show
Yep even saw the first ninja teenage mutant and brag lol
I’m 36 and loved watching it before school.
Ahhh...the good old days!! You'd be surprised what actuallly made it on air, majority of the jokes went over the younger kids head but certainly not the adults. My mum loved sitting and watching Agro with us, she got just as much enjoyment out of it as us kids. This is why us Aussies have such a good sense of humour, we grew up kids tv programs just like this. Agro is an Aussie National Treasure and still loved just as much now as he was then.
Like John Hamblin making Play School fun for parents with his cheeky adult behaviour that flew over kids' heads.
Yep I loved it 😂😂
It was called Argos cartoon connection and it was on Monday to Friday , it was a kids show .
@@kerriefleming6297 *Typo. His name was Agro. Full handle is Agro Vation.
It was a childrens show loved by small children lol
Colloquially, the word 'Agro' is Aussie slang for 'Aggressive': it suited the puppet because he was quite irreverent and grumpy.
The puppeteer (under the table) was brilliant Australian humourist Jamie Dunn 🙂
Would love to know what Jamie Dunn is doing now. Any info?
@@Eater956 If he was the UK he'd be doing 5 years the way the snowflakes have gone over here.
It was a real show for the kids but I think more adults were watching it. Only a few were out takes. 🤣🤣🤣 We still love Agro!
I moved to Australia in 89 and this show was the BEST when I was a kid. It was the only kids show I liked to watch because of them and not just for the cartoons.
You'd be surprised at how much made it on air for the kids back then. Not much was in the outtakes.
Terrible definitely shouldn't have been a kid show with Anne Marie
@@marieminshull1400 These are all outtakes so never went to live air. But some did LOL.
We used to be laid back...
@@marieminshull1400 Have a good cry about it.. Into your pillow because no one else needs to hear it.
We used to have a sense of humour in this country.
@@marieminshull1400 get a sense of humor for heavens sake...
These secenes were not shown on tv for the kids...
These scenes are for grown ups, who had senses of humor!!!
WE all looked forward to the xmas outtakes...best laugh we ever had!!!!
These days the drag queen shows in KINDERGARTENS ARE FAAAAAAAAAAR WORSE!!! Get with it lady!!! PORN IS NOW OUT IN THE OPEN FOR YOU CHILDREN!!!!
The humour went right over the kids’ heads!
Most of it did. But my memories of the show was Ann Marie always hitting agro and ranger Stacie getting flustered.
@@hopehigh3224 Ranger Stacey 😍
And Jill before that
I am Aussie & this WAS children’s tv when we were kids. A lot went over our heads of course but it’s pretty cool to watch it again as an adult. Aaah the dirty little bugger 😂😂
My now 32 yr old son absolutely adored Agro, and so did I, but for very different reasons. He watches it now, and nearly wets his pants at what went straight over his head back then. This was when life and being P.C. wasn’t so,precious and they get away with so much. Hysterical show that still cracks me up. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm 33 and can attest to this. I always wondered why agro was also loved by so many adults when I was a kid back in the 90s, watching back now though I can see why. 👀🤣🤣🤣
Just imagine, there was a time when most Australians had this kind of sense of humour.
They still do, I mean look at the politicians we elect !
@@colnuttall9035 well yeah, they are all a joke...
I dont have to imagine it .... I can remember it!! ... people had more mental fortitude back then out of necessity
I think most people still do... just that social media has given a voice for the vocal minority.
I still think like this…it must have been my upbringing!
There was a live audience sometimes. I took my niece and nephew to see him a couple of times. There was always lots of kids writing in telling Anne-Marie off for hitting Agro. Jamie Dunn also did adults only shows at various clubs around Brisbane with Agro the bath mat. Jamie was very quick with the double meaning quips and the shows were hilarious as he didn't have to keep it G rated. It is amazing how much actually made it to air on the cartoon show. It would never happen now.
i was going to say as a bit of context for the stuff in the video is the show was broadcast live
Most of these were out takes, but there was a lot of jokes that walked the fine line that went to air, most of which went straight over the kids heads, Agro is a legend, best show on tv in the day
It was also filmed in front of a live audience of school kids so the outtakes didnt really matter.
The amount of times he'd pinch her o the bum or somwhere and shrd 😳😳😳🙄🙄🙄 lololol and keep going. Legend lolol
I grew up with Agro. Loved him as a kid and loved him even more when I was old enough to understand the jokes.
Every Saturday morning from 6am to 9am we had Agro's Cartoon Connection. Believe me I remember this show so well, not for the cartoons or the competitions but for Agro. I was not a kid in the '90's. I remember watching my young sister watch this show and she never picked up on even one of the foul tirades that Agro came out with. Aussie kids in the '90's were so innocent compared with todays kids. Agro was on morning tv for years and became an Aussie treasure. You would have loved this show as much as we all did. Watching your reactions to this video were priceless. Cheers
He was on since the 80's when he was on Boris' Breakfast Club.
@@ShadowAussie Oh Yes. I remember now. I used to love watching these shows. So, so funny. Thank you for reminding me. Cheers
Late 80’s early 90’s. JamieDunn was a crack up.
It was programmed for kids. But the adults loved it. So did us kids as we got older.
I'm 80 and we loved the show and yes went over kids heads..haven't seen it for yrs but thanks for reminding me and just had biggest laugh in long time..thank you...
These shows were listed as childrens TV but it really a blessing to Adults to watch TV with the kids (who did not pick up on the show). Great stuff.
Agro started on Boris Breakfast Club in the 80's as the puppet sidekick and got his own show in the late 80's. got to a stage where he was on the morning and afternoon kids shows and the weekend ones too.
Damn, I had forgetton about Boris the Black Knight
@@bonolio me too. Boris Breakfast Club was a big highlight of the family trips to Brissy/Goldy. Think it was localised to the city area.
I hate to raise the spectre of Constable Dave, here, but he was the friendly face of policing for Brissy kids and actually came to my school to deliver a "stranger-danger" talk to us.
David Moore let us all down. Including Jamie Dunn (Agro).
The show was called Cartoon Connection. Kids would watch the show in the morning. The show lasted for 2 hours. Agro and his co-host had 3 or 4 10 minute segments. Intro's to cartoons were within the last 30 seconds of the segment. Most of what you saw did make to the screen.
Aussies kids loved it, plus the kids already heard a lot of it from their own family members.
Hahaha, never missed Agro's shows as a kid. Loved it 😂
It definitely was our morning children tv! You would be surprised how much got thru to live air because being (80s) gen x and y kids, our parents were already at work and we had to get ourselves to school. Agro did swear and many of these types of scenes were definitely seen by us kids. I remember like crystal clarity . It was awesome and we would talk about it at school!
It really was a family show. Parents and kids watched it together. What the grommets didn't get the parents sure did. 😂
🎉 it was a morning show for kids .all kids knew agro was naughty .parents would be getting kids breakfast n ready for school .beep over the swear words but we knew what agro was up to
Because of this show is why us Australians are like we are today
Our sense of humour was formed decades before this show and this why we Australians loved Agro so much.
It was a children's show of a weekday, I used to watch it before going to school. Even though this was out takes, what made it onto TV was on the edge.
The good old days of Aussie TV! Agro, Claude the Crow, Hey Hey it’s Saturday…..
I would love you to react to Fast Forward - in particular Lynne & Carmel - absolutely hilarious. Both these actors went on to be in Kath & Kym.
So glad that you appreciated Agro and the humour of the show. The humour of Australia and scotland must be so similar.
One of Agros best lines was when Ann Marie ask him what he was doing for the weekend and he replied, I'm going out rooting. It was hilarious. But when I replied the same answer to a barmaid in Tweed Heads, I got smacked fair across the face. He definately told it better than me. Lol.
Now you can see where Australians got there warped and somewhat dirty sense of humour 😂 this is what they raised us on!
I am crying with laughter, I can barely see the keyboard to type through the tears! I had forgotten about this show! absolutely loved it hahahahaha
I just turned 45 and Agros cartoon connection was a must see in the 80s early 90s. Morning tv before school. Loved it ❤
Nowadays we have fakenews on every morning...maybe we should go back to aggros show! There is so much more filth n depravity these days, to make a never ending joke of all the weirdoes, demanding they be recognised!!!
I remember too.
I'm 45 too.
He was the best! You have to watch more to fully appreciate the funniest character on T V and yes it was a children’s show. I actually miss Agro loved how he made fun of everything.
You guys in the UK would have loved that show. You have the same sense of humour as us Aussies. Well, we probably got that humour from the UK a few hundred years ago !
aggros cartoon connection was a morning show where they hosted bits between cartoons. most of these wouldn't have aired but aggro was a smart arse, told jokes and took the piss out of the sheilas on the show. adults watched it too because there was a huge amount of jokes with innuendo that just went over kids heads. the good luck troll and echidna joke wouldn't have been unusual on the actual show.
He started on Boris' Breakfast Club in the 80's young fella 😉
The dog stealing and humping the Agro puppet DEFINITELY went to air
Neither would the cat on heat.
Things like that went to air then… wouldn’t fly past the censors today because Australia has lost its sense of humour. 👎🙄
The gentleman is Jamie Dunn, a close friend to the film and TV production in Brisbane and one of the warmest hearts you'll find in Australia. Jamie, while at a radio gig would get together with his team to promote the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane. He and his team have raised millions of dollars for one of the most important hospitals in the Southern Hemisphere as it services the largest land mass including Papua and island territories surrounding Australia.
He's a great Aussie larrakin, one of our finest, Paul Hogan etc...
This is a collection of bloopers that would have been used for the "Christmas Tape". Each year at the Channel 7 Brisbane Christmas party for the talent and crew, the editors would create a tape of bloopers to play. This came from one of those tapes. The show, Agros Cartoon Connection, was filmed in Brisbane and was basically just educational segments, promos for toys and funny skits which were played in between cartoons like TMNT. The show aired at 6am every weekday morning. The show was very much a G-rated children's show, and didn't have anything rude like this video shows, but the crew during filming had a tendency to muck around a lot, like you saw in the clips :P
This is not all Christmas tape fodder, i remember more than a few when they aired.
Nope this is the stuff that went to air, some of it live!
...For the talent and crew? Surely the crew had talent!
I was in the audience for one episode of this show in 1984, Agro's Cartoon Connection. I was 6 i was there with my whole school, all 86 students and 2 teachers 😍
You never knew what was coming with Agro. Always the surprise/shock effect. Always made you laugh.
The Adult outages you saw were compiled to make a Christmas tape which was shown at the annual Christmas party for the network. There were many out takes from news to cooking and these tapes were under strict control not to be made public. I think it was that year which had the Duran Duran - Girls On Film X-Rated version and a Rugby team Canberra Raiders, doing a porn type milk commercial which was not made public at the time. Could not show that one on TH-cam now. André in Sydney
The soul mate of Dickie Knee.
And his brother Rod Knee, and his Dad Syd Knee.....😉🤣🤣🤣
Many of the tv stations in Australia would do what were called "goof tapes" that were played at work Christmas parties and a lot of this type of footage was never meant for public viewing. Agro was also on Wombat. Both these shows originated in Brisbane, Queensland. Ann-Maree actually started in another kids' tv show in regional Queensland (SEQ), Scruffy the Dog Show (somehow that has slipped from her resume). The most outrageous goof tape I ever saw was one from Play School (absolutely hilarious). Brisbane had lots of unique children's shows, including Boris the Black Knight on the 1980/90ss. There was also Shirl's Neighbourhood where kids sent in their used bandaids.
Yes Children's TV cartoons, stories, products, guests, made in Queensland! This must be outtakes, surely! 🧐 Very clever man! 😄👍
Agro's cartoon connection was a KIDS show, and by god was it the best kids show ever lmao!
Argos cartoon connection
This was in the morning between the cartoons …would go over the kids heads but the parents definitely got the dirty jokes 🤣
This was a kids show. Argo was a funny, cranky puppet. The humour was great and he had a way of making jokes that adults and kids would laugh at for different reasons. Very clever. This particular clip you are showing, was the out takes and would never have been aired. I’m so glad I got to see this.
Used to love this show as a kid it was awesome!!
Now it's still awesome because of these clips I didn't understand back then.
I remember they came to Bribie island for something live and I got to go see it. It was funny because they said that agro liked eating cockroaches and stone's so the other kids in my street and my self were all collecting both.
I took him a bag of rock I got off the side of the road 😊.
Great memories back then. 🙂
Glad you got to watch this mate 👍🇦🇺
Yeah those were out-takes. It was called Agro's cartoon connection. The nostalgia. I remember looking forward to that show as a kid, and I watched it religiously every morning. It's a historical kids show from the 80's.
Jamie Dunn is an absolute legend I used to see him every morning at the BP Caboolture Southbound and he always said hello it was like relieving my childhood over again
Agro is very much loved here in Australia, used to put tv show on for kids but I would sit and watch it just to see what Agro did that day. It was an Australian morning kids show with cartoons etc but I can just about guarantee more adults were watching it then their kids because of the things Agro would say or do to the hosts/ guests. Was the BEST show, no complaints no politically correct crap like now, just good old fashioned fun and laughter!
I grew up watching Agro, these adult takes are hilarious !!! Love Jamie Dunn, he is so funny.
I laughed so much watching this. I remember Agro. It was a children's show but most of the jokes were aimed at adults. A lot of those were out takes I think. Thankyou for this you brought back a lot of good memories.
Yeah you're right Matt, these are out takes from Agro & Anne-Marie hosting a kids afternoon cartoon show. The really rude stuff wasn't shown on the actual kid's show, they were saved for an adult late night show. The guy operating Agro (Jamie 'something' was incredibly funny & quick) and he would rile up his co-hosts terribly & it was hilarious. Agro was also aggressive/narky in the daily kids arvo show too...but the X rated stuff never went to air.
A lot of it was done live though & often riske. The "over the kids' heads stuff" was a hoot.
x Linda.
Jamie Dunn. He made Agro from an old bath mat and ping pong balls ❤
@@lonnie224 - Ah yes, thanks Lonnie. Haa about the bath mat & ping pong balls. I remember that being reported. Wotta cack!
x L
a lot of it did make it to air too, quite a bit was live tv.
@@lonnie224 I think the guy doing Agro died but I'm not sure.
@@sovietonion72 Jamie Dunn is still alive.
Yes - it WAS children's TV. Used to be on in the mornings. It used to go for a couple of hours and these segments were screened between cartoon shows like (say)Scooby Doo.
There were lots of puppet-type characters on Aussie kids TV back then. Winky Dink, Ossie Ostrich and (until Agro came along) the rudest was probably Rock Wallaby (a bit like Basil Brush).
Agro is Australias answer to Basil brush and I love them both. The very best was when they were showing the kids how a sausage making machine works. I will never forget how hard I laughed. I actually fell out of my chair laughing aver Agro's comments.
I loved agro it was a kids show that won awards. Jamie Dunn was under the desk and agros voice. Most of what you had was out takes but he did get away with a lot because it went over most kids heads
The thing is Ranger Stacey has lasted through so many different kids programs. She's on totally wild which she became the lead but before that she was on all the channels educating kids. She was even on the abc while on two other channels tv shows. That was a rare privilege to have. As most companies at the time would only allow you to work for them.
Coincidentally, Ranger Stacy currently hosts the same radio show (breakfast slot) that Jamie Dunn (Agro) did a couple of years ago on the country station in Brisbane.
I think she's DOCTOR Stacey these days
@@jamesperkins191 So what?
Agro also released an album of covers every year for atleast 4 years straight... they were always part of my Christmas presents.
The real reason agro was taken off air... he dry humped one of the sponsors mascot... it was a puppet turkey (it was a horrible jelly drink)
They also toured a live show as well. Not with Ann Marie but my dad had to get up on stage and kiss the Ann Marie stand in
Every morning before school, Aggo got you in a good mood. Anne Marie was the best host but I think she eventually reached her limit with it 😂
THAT was hilarious! I never saw it growing it, but the chemistry between her gentle sweetness and Agro's rough rhetoric is just golden!
Loved this show as a kid. Most of these were outtakes, but a lot what that went to air would make most people’s heads explode today, it wouldn’t last 5 seconds on TV
Love your reaction mate! I remember this show well growing up as a young kid in Australia. I forgot our non-PC he was....and I loved it!!!
For our non-Australian friends. Agro was the puppet character on a kids TV show called 'Agros Cartoon Connection' that ran for 2-3hrs on weekday mornings. The clips are outtakes. Here is one for most people as it isn't widely known - the Agro puppet is a vintage 1978 Fisher-Price puppet of Animal from the Muppets. Agro is Animal Aussie cousin.
Yep. On one hand, it was a total IP ripoff. On the other... Jamie Dunn made Agro all his own - and more to the better
I grew up watching this everyday, it wasn't an adults TV show but looking back at it, it definitely was innocent humour of the time back then.
Try putting Agro on today. I used to watch it with my kids, and parents were laughing more than the kids did.
Yep, my mum would always watch Agro with us, she enjoyed it even more than us kids!! Generally the jokes went over most younger kids heads but certainly not adults.....the good old days!!
I forgot just how hilarious those two were .I couldn't breathe Ive been laughing that hard.Well done,and your smile is adorable
Agro's Cartoon Connection was so funny. I remember watching it every day. They got away with so much that you couldn't do nowadays. I miss those days
Agro is a legend. These are outtakes. He was always pushing the boundaries. 😂
Agro's Cartoon Connection was a kid's TV show. They showed cartoons and reviewed all the latest toys. Agro was always cheeky and very naughty on the kid's show so of course, the kids loved him. Every now and then Jamie Dunn (Agros alter ego) couldn't restrain himself, and he would let fly with some very adult comments and jokes. He was a very funny man with a wicked sense of humor. Poor Ann-Maree would be the victim so she was constantly thumping Agro and Jamie. Thank heavens for pre-recorded TV. None of the Adult stuff went to air in the kid's time slot. It was all saved and was shown at an appropriate adult time slot and advertised as adult content. Like the collection of clips, you are watching now.
It's a children's show outtakes. My nephew was one of the cameramen
It’s a children’s show back in the 80s and 90s but I’d say a lot of it ended up on the cutting room floor, that’s for sure 😂😂🇦🇺🐨🐨🇦🇺
Agro! We loved Agro and Anne Marie as kids. The show was called Cartoon Connection, it was on every morning before school and I don't know anyone my age who didn't love it. Most of the jokes went right over our heads alot of the time, but kept our parents in stitches. Agro was sent parcels of pictures and crafts and handmade clothes and Anne Marie would read out the letters while Agro poked fun at everything he got. He was rude and obnoxious and hilariously funny.
This was such a trip down memory lane, thank you 😂
My grandmother loved him, sent him a knitted jacket for winter and he praised it immensely before saying its perfect bedding for his chickens! I watched the episode with her the day the mail was opened and she could not stop laughing, it made her day, week, month!
These shows were aired on Saturday morning. In between the episodes of mayhem in the studio, they aired cartoons.The audience was a combination of kids, who didn't get a lot of the jokes but enjoyed the vibe, but were really there for the cartoons, and young people who were still awake and coming down after a loooooong Friday night out clubbing etc. Parents rarely saw this stuff, and no one much complained. It is surprising how much of this stuff actually made it to air.
Yes! We got to watch it every Saturday morning, when mum n dad were 'sleeping in' behind closed doors... now I understand Agros jokes AND why the door was closed every Saturday morning🤣🤣🤣
I was a parent for this and loved it! My boys didn't know what I was laughing at😂
😢 I miss the 80's with fond recollection. We could laugh and no one was offended. People told jokes and those in earshot laughed. Good time, good times indeed. 😔 oh how the wold has changed. This brought a tear to my eye, both joy and sadness.
I hear you loud and clear! Back in the day when you called a spade a spade and you excepted a joke was a joke, where it made you laugh or not!
Kids cartoon show. My mate was a cameraman for channel 7 in Brisbane. We used to go hang out at the studio to watch filming of the show. Miss those years.
Agro was taken in the way it was meant. Risqué and fun with no malice. He would never play today. I remember watching so many shows when I was younger. Hilarious.
I grew up on this every weekend in Australia. So many fond memories and in a time when you could take the piss out of everything without a care in the world.
I loved Agro growing up, and alot of this made it to tv lol. Jamie Dunn who operates Agro had no filter lol, so all the co host got caught out sometimes, but Anne Maree copped most of it for sure lol
I also feel obliged to say Agro was the last in a long line of great humour on kids shows in Australia. Hey hey it's Saturday started off as a morning cartoon show and turned into legendary Saturday night programming.
Agro has me laughing in tears every time. I remember him well, his show aired on Channel 7 from 1990 to 1997, I was in my early 20's when it started so never got to experience him as a kid.
Whereas, channel 9 had Ossie Ostrich. He wasn't as rude as Agro, but did get the occasional rude bit off. Like the time Jackie MacDonald remarked on camera that she could smell fish, and Ossie told her "Then take smaller steps"
You must have grown up in the southern states because we were watching agro in Brisbane in the 80’s. He was Hilarious.
@@lonnie224 OMG, you're right, he was on Wombat from 1983 - 1989 after which he got his own show. Wow, now that brings back some memories.
The show was called Agro's Cartoon Connection, and it was on weekday mornings from 1990 to 1997. It was a children's show that hosted cartoons in the morning before children went off to school.
Agro started off on the kids cartoon show, but it evolved, as you can see. There's a really funny one where he makes the poor girl gag repeatedly when he mentions seafood or something. Funny as. There's heaps on TH-cam. 😂
Yes, this was Saturday morning tv back in the day 😆😆😆
He started on a children's weekday afternoon show called Wombat and then went to Saturday morning cartoons with Agro's Cartoon Connection. Yes, he really did say a lot of sketchy stuff which earned him a lot of slaps from Anne-marie
How I miss agro
He always gave Ann Marie hell, he was hilarious
The good old days 😂
This was a breakfast show for children that played cartoons it ran from 6am-9am Mondays through Fridays on Channel 7. This show was followed by The Book Place at 9am. On Channel 9 Here’s Humphrey would screen at 9am Monday’s through Fridays. On Saturday mornings from 7am Channel 7 had another children’s show called Saturday Disney.
I used to love "Agro's Cartoon Connection" back in the day. Some of those are likely out takes however the show was pretty loose with what it deemed acceptable with what was allowed on TV. I'm sure most of it went over the kids heads.
Ranger Stacey!!! The memories 😁
Argo was my up bringing, but rewatching it as an adult I loved him even more getting what he really meant ! 💞🇦🇺💞
From Australia you bought back good memories loved that show so funny Agro and Marie so good together it was a children's show you wouldn't get away with that number now thank you for showing it .😅
I miss the 90's kids programming kids are too soft today in Australia lol
Agro’s Cartoon Connection 🤪
Had tears from laughing hard enough back then, most of these clips didn’t appear, but always had everyone in stitches 😂🤘
Basically, the Aussie Basil Brush
I saw him live as a kid, Mr inuendo. He also bought me a bmx bike to replace the one I had stolen when I was in high school. Agro to the rescue on the rado... Jamie Dunn/Agro. Cheers for the bike mate.
Back when Australia still had its culture.
This was one of the best children’s morning shows. These were outtakes that definitely didn’t make the show and went straight to the Christmas tape for the end of year staff party. Good old days when people could take a joke.
Aggro made many an appearance on Hey Hey it's Saturday, once a kids show which morphed into a Saturday night show. It was hilarious. I hadn't seen these kids show 'outtakes' before. TY ... it's good to have a laugh.
Such great memories. Mornings on the holidays. This compilation is hilarious. Haha
gold!! I lived in Australia in the late 80es early 90es.. i watched this before i walked to school in the morning...I remember the dog taking Agro .... i remember talking to my mate when we walked to school about it! lol.... no shows like this one now days...... Good times.
I loved watching Agro. Hungry Jacks released agro coffee mugs because he was so popular.
It reminds me of John on Playschool back in the day…… the kids never picked up on his adult directed jokes either!! Australian television used to be so fun to watch!
Awesome job mate viewing Aggro , all Australians back when Aggro was aired on our tv,s know and loved the show , I’m glad you enjoyed it as well , it’s sad now these days so many restrictions on what you can and can’t say in case someone gets upset , get your friends in the uk there to have a look at Aggro , I’m sure they will love it like you did , loved your video buddy . 👍
My kids used to watch Agro & AnnMarie - the risque jokes & chats used to go right over their heads! I was always in fits of laughter! 😅😅