Soupy Norman
| Soupy Norman | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Barry Murphy & Mark Doherty |
| Starring | Aneta Zając, Mateusz Janicki, Wojciech Dąbrowski, Andrzej Buszewicz, Ewa Skibińska, Aleksandra Zienkiewicz, Andrzej Pałkowski |
| Voices of | Sue Collins, Mark Doherty, Tara Flynn, Barry Murphy, Luke Murphy, . |
| Country of origin | Ireland (Poland) |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 10 mins |
| Release | |
| Original network | Radio Telefís Éireann |
| Original release | 24 May – 12 July 2007 (Special on 24 December 2007) |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Time Trumpet |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Soupy Norman is an eight-part Irish television programme broadcast by RTÉ. It aired weekly on Thursday nights at 23:05 on the RTÉ Two channel, in ten-minute segments. The series ran from 24 May to 12 July 2007 . The show is a comedic re-dubbing of the Polish soap opera Pierwsza miłość (First Love), which has been running on Polsat television since 2004.
The series is written and edited by Barry Murphy and Mark Doherty, with additional voices provided by Tara Flynn, Sue Collins, Luke Murphy and . Where the original soap opera dealt with a girl leaving her family behind to go to college, the re-dubbed version of the programme explores the culture shock of a dysfunctional Cork family in Dublin. The series' surreal humour led to a cult following, with its episodes being popular on YouTube.
A special episode entitled "The Late Late Soupy Norman Tribute" which featured dubbed clips from RTÉ's The Late Late Show as well as clips from previous episodes of Soupy Norman as well as including a new scene of the show. This was broadcast on Christmas Eve 2007.
A pilot sketch for the series initially aired on Armando Iannucci's show Time Trumpet on BBC 2, of which this show was a spin-off.
The main story of the show concerns Esther, a young girl from Buttevant, County Cork, who travels up to Dublin to study in college. There she encounters strong discrimination, for being a "culchie". She lives with Susan Costigan (or Gleeson, depending on the episode), described by Esther as "a woman with red hair", her daughter Kylie, her son Nathan (who becomes possessed by voices in the episode "Omen"), and her husband Declan. Kylie becomes Esther's friend, and they are seen stealing items (such as a dog) in the episode "Margarita".
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