This Week’s Gogglebox Brought Some Of The Maddest Irish Traditions To A Whole New Generation

If you’re too young to remember when Irish TV used to finish up for the night with the national anthem and A Prayer At Bedtime then this week’s episode of Gogglebox would have filled you right in. Wait a minute… A Prayer At Bedtime? Podge And Rodge? A Scare At Bedtime? Literally just got that!

The show was an 80s and 90s special as older participants reminisced and younger ones gawked in amazement at some of the old Irish TV traditions such as the nation gathering for a bit of an aul pray before hitting the leaba.

As well as that, classic Irish moments from the era were put in the spotlight such as the iconic first Riverdance performance, the even more iconic Boyzone Late Late Show debut and, astonishingly since it was as recent as 1994, Housewife Of The Year hosted by Gay Byrne.

It’s fair to say that everyone on the show as well as those at home loved all the throwbacks even if they just cemented how feckin’ mad Ireland is as a nation…

Irish TV in the 90s was hilarious ???? #GoggleboxIRL pic.twitter.com/wngUjwt6sw

— Shane Brewster (@Irn_Brew) January 10, 2019

@heyadaithi your reaction to a prayer at bedtime in the 80/90’s had us in kinks of laughter. Brilliant look of disbelief ???? #GoggleboxIRL

— Hel Hop (@Helhop) January 10, 2019

I was so unaware that in the NINETIES on Irish tv RTE finished the day with “a bedtime prayer” and the national anthem, and that was that, I’m in the stitches #GoggleboxIRL

— Aoife (@CooneyAoife) January 10, 2019

Calor Housewife of the Year…. Never knew that was a thing!! #GoggleboxIRL

— Ronan O’Leary (@olayree) January 10, 2019

Jesus we were pure simple back in the 90s ???????? gay just thanked her for been a splendid housewife #nable #GoggleboxIRL

— eoghain fitzgerald (@eoghainfitz) January 9, 2019

This is the best #GoggleboxIRL ever on 80s and 90s TV ????

— Louise Stokes (@louleriedublin) January 10, 2019