[R94N]

In no particular order

Rants
Parody songs
Dave's photo shoot for that one magazine
Where Am I the first time around
Dom's 'Dad wants a fanny?'
The weird things Aled sometimes says unintentionally (generally)
The marathon show
Chris' leaving announcement
Messing with the BBC internal phone system
Probably any time they have done an outside broadcast somewhere

[MK Chris]

Marathon show
The inauguration of the opening link when the show moved from a 7.00 start to 6.30
Carrie at Wimbledon
Pay rant (on 22 September 2010 I may add - was listening in the delivery room of Milton Keynes Hospital two and a half hours after Reuben was born)
Dave's 'hill folk'
Rachel leaving
Carrie leaving
Say No to Wogan
The Aled Haydn Jones show
Radio 1's Established 1967 celebrations, which caused the weekly Golden Hour to start.

[DarroM]

In no particular order:

Marathon Show - A defining moment in the show's history and the fact over £2 million was raised in 48 hours was and still is astonishing! Listened to all it live bar 6-7 hours where I had to sleep after work and enjoyed it a lot especially the 2nd Grimshaw show & Kissy Sell Out!

Folkface Highlights at Big Weekend - Probably not a key moment but one of my personal favourites! Never fails to make me laugh with the way Dom & Dave etc lose it!

The rants - Never failed to entertain whenever Chris goes on a rant whether it is about pay, public transport, this forum etc. I know a few people want to forget the latter one especially but I just love the voice Chris puts on for it.

Leaving shows - Put these together since it changed the atmosphere of the show and was from one version of the show to another per se. Was sad when Carrie & Rachel left and listening to Carrie today shows how much I missed her on the show.

Table of Pain - again, a favourite moment because of Dom alone and the way he reacts to it is hilarious!

The unintentional double entendres/innuendos - Been so many of these since I started listening to the show in 09 and listening to older shows!

The Birthday Shows - Of the 5 I've listened to, 2010's was the first and still my favourite since it was done at his house and it was pretty unpredictable! Some liked this year's but I found it rather dull in comparison.

Features - CPC, Tedious, Ramble, Rob DJ Quiz etc. Some of them worked and ran for a very long time while others are infamous for how bad they were like King of Tickets, which I always heard brought up but did not know what it was until I listened to the 2004 shows and was just so silly! Plus, CPC first run was great when certain callers were thick and/or irritating and Chris would cut them off!

Dom's interviews & Chris's to a extent - some of these are funny for just how bad they went like Bruce Willis or the first Alan Sugar one. Smelly finger is an absolute classic. You can see a theme here with moments involving Dom, who is probably my favourite member of the team alongside Chris!

Carrie at Wimbledon needs no introduction!

Add an 11th that hasn't happened yet - the last hurrah!

[DarroM]

And how can I forget parodies but too any moments to mention. Bad Mood, Good Rhyme (Time), No Hair count as a few of my favourites that came from the Breakfast Show era!

[Nicola_Red]

Okay.

Marathon show
Introduction of the Golden Hour
Dave's curry deal
Dave in Now Magazine
Kilimanjaro
Red Nose Rally
Pay rant
Dave's Christmas Countdown raps
The leaving announcement
and of course, Tedious Link.

[Clarkehhh]

Marathon Show
Dave doing Dancing on Ice
The week leading up to Carlisle Big Weekend - mainly for Come to Daddy.
Folkface playing Glastonbury
The Olympic Torch
Kilimanjaro
The decision not to play Chris Brown
Pay rant
Golden Hour
Rob DJ's Monday Night Pub Quiz!

[dimtimjim]

The decision not to play Chris Brown

Good call, and a good decision by CM too.

[shabangabang]

Marathon Show - Clear winner
Red Nose Rally/Fund raising in general
Longest serving breakfast DJ
Pay Rant/Rants in general
Mt Kilimanjaro
Red Button - this show is much more than an audio broadcast
Chris/Sophie split - took 1-2 weeks off, changed his life
Ben Cooper becoming big boss - beginning of the end IMHO
Golden Hour
Parodies

[Clarkehhh]

The decision not to play Chris Brown

Good call, and a good decision by CM too.

I've always respected CM a million times more than I usually do when he's on air refused to play Chris Brown. No other DJ would dare.

[catherine]

Marathon show
I'm the meat
Daves curry deal
Carrie at Wimbledon
Pay rant
The show ending
Now magazine
Doms interview with cameron Diaz
Moyles swearing at the listener
Carrie/Rachael leaving

[a-moron]

Table of Pain in there anybody?

*Edit - Yup, it is.

[Termy]

1. Any of the Cheesy Songs and Jingles. I love singing along to these, so they are really important keeping me hooked into the show.
2. He Wakes Up The World. I memorised this song, because I loved it so much. Still know it all now.
3. Opening Song back in 2009, when you became longest running Breakfast Show. I was proud of the show for getting this achievement, even more so for lasting eight and a half years.
4. Argument over the lack of producing, and having no Toby LeRone clips. At the time, when it was on air live I was listening thinking "Is he really doing this? Surely this SHOULD be an off-air discussion?! Just move on!", then I twigged... Move on to what? It was all content, of course. He wasn't really arguing with Aled! Well, much anyway.
5. The Team singing along to many different songs. Back earlier in 2011, Chris Dave Dom and Tina all sung four popular songs (Well, Chris Dom and Tina did anyway). This was brilliant as I hadn't actually heard them sing on air properly before, so... fun.
6. Sam Moy singing "Total Eclipse". No comment. But I used this as my ringtone all of last year. It was hilarious being called.
7. Matt singing "Ooooooohhhh, bodyfooorrrrrmmmm!"
8. Access all Areas Week, especially the daily "Tour Song brackets" songs.
9. Dave's Official Euro 2012 Sweepstakes Draw
10. And of course... the leaving speech. The worst possible moment. D:


...Wow, this list was surprisingly easier to write than I thought. I thought I'd struggle to remember ten things, but I found myself remembering ten things extremely easily.

[JenL]

Marathon Show
First half hour with no songs
Carrie at Wimbledon
Camilla Ice
I'm the meat
Dave's Curry card
Chris's rants
Justin Lee Collins singing - and any other time someone sang (Kareoke, Tina, Sam for John Barrowman, etc)
Carrie & Rachel leaving
The show ending

[Evs]

Marathon Show
The birthday shows
The week in Carlisle
R1s 40th Birthday
Beating Tony Blackburn's record
Rallyoke
The week of theatre shows
Chris on X Factor
Dave on Dancing on Ice/Now Magazine
World Cup 2006

[kel]

The thing that changed the course of the show more than anything else was Rachel leaving. Before this the team dynamic was perfect, as you'd expect for a team that had been hand-picked. Following that, when Aled became producer by default, I've always thought the dynamic was wrong. It changed from a three blokes and two girls team to a four blokes and one girl team, yet still sounded much more girly and camp than before. Re-listening to the shows from 2004, and especially the afternoon shows, and there was something edgy and entertaining about every one of them, but after the change I think you can tell the difference, and there seemed to be much more standard breakfast show stuff, celebrity, trashy, gossip... lots of things they used to take the mick out of at the start, and even some of the trash was driven by the show toward the end. When was the last time Chris slagged off a celeb (apart from Chris Brown, and even that he had to do in an indirect manner)? The show even turned into what they seemed to want to avoid, with people bursting out laughing at unfunny jokes because they think they have to laugh. Perhaps it was him just mellowing in his getting older and he didn't want to upset his mate, or perhaps it was me not letting go of the old 'lad' demographic of the show and caring not a jot about the crap camp rubbish Aled wanted to introduce, but I'll always think a fresh and ideally female producer at that point would have resulted in a better last few years and would have continually pushed Moyles and Dave to keep working hard to write and create new material, rather than just treat it as a few hours behind a mic.

The Chris Moyles Show for me was made by Rachel trying to keep charge of her boys and I'll genuinely forever cherish the entertainment they gave.

Edit to avoid confusion: this is my number 1, and pick any other nine of the above for my others, because I suspect it's too late to be 'counted' now anyway. Boom.

[Nicola_Red]

I think you might have missed the idea of this thread.

[bwfcol]

The Marathon Shows
The Mountain/Uganda shows
Moving start of show to 6:30
Breaking the record of Tony Blackburn
Carrie/Rachel leaving
The pay rant
Carrie at Wimbledon
Beating U2 in download charts
The invention of the "night with TCMS"
Terry Wogan leaving R2 breakfast