Anyone want to come live in Sarah and Duck land?

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Buses that go under the sea
Haberdashery shops
The moon is so friendly
Rainbow too
And I love scarf lady and bag.
How do I get there?

Where are her parents?

I do have one niggle, they "adopt" a manatee. My (adopted) DCs were confused by this
But adopting an animal is a real thing. Like you can adopt a rhino at the zoo. "Sponsor" would be a more accurate word.

We have been watching a lot of Sarah and Duck, I find it relaxing and cute, and I'm not usually one for weirdness in cartoons.

I love the sound effects and music in it. Really beautiful and unusual!

Love Sarah and Duck, happily watch it when the kids aren’t in the room. It’s so gentle and imaginative. And there’s magic puffs you can fill your pillow with, and Christmas decorations grow

All I hear in my head is QUACK.

adopting an animal is a real thing.
They don't come and live in your house!
It's quite rare for this to be mentioned on TV and the BBC should try to be accurate, I think.

Where are her parents?

The narrator is her dad. He's referred to 'our house'. He goes everywhere with her.

My husband walks round saying
Sarah and duck
What the fuck

We are grandparents- children are not around during these mutterings

Quack

There is much laughter when we get the lady quack bang on!

I adore Sarah and Duck. I've been known to say hello like the shallots

Lady? Last!

My five year old asked if we can play Twang Ball.. sounds like a great idea to me

^adopting an animal is a real thing.
They don't come and live in your house!^

Buses don't go underwater either. Neither does the moon float down from the sky and chat to you in your garden. Bugs do not play tiny musical instruments and clouds are not made in a tower.

I can't help feeling that using S&D as a guide to the reality of life, any part of life, would be a mistake.

It's still true, however, that my children were confused by adopting a sea cow while they are NOT confused by buses going underwater.

Perhaps different things are going to confuse different people. Animals have a pseudo-human status in S&D that they do not in real life.

That sentient bread freaked me out, I was really stressed that Duck would eat it alive

Sarah and Duck world is better than this world.

I can't help feeling that using S&D as a guide to the reality of life, any part of life, would be a mistake.

Sadly true

I love the episode where the bugs play jazz, and Sarah goes through the hedge to a jazz festival with glowing lights. Simply magical.

It is very soothing. DD often wants to play Sarah & Duck, and I always have to be Duck. I spend a lot of time saying Quack. We also made lemon water once, but she didn’t like the taste!

Only if I can cuddle Roger Allam whilst there

We played twang ball in one of my Alevel lessons....
In my defence we had been doing a lesson on Replica theory and we were all a bit stir crazy...yes I had to show them the episode first.

Animals have a pseudo-human status in S&D that they do not in real life.
It is also confusing for them when zoos etc. say you can "adopt" an animal but the number of times we watch any given Sarah & Duck episode in a year is far greater than the number of times we go to the zoo.

I'm not quite sure why people defend the use of the phrase "adopt an animal" when people whose children are adopted say it's problematic?

We also made lemon water once, but she didn’t like the taste!
My DM puts lemon in her water and my DCs aged about 3 and 5 wanted lemon in their water all the time for a while, like a tiny pair of long term hotel residents demanding better service.

Sounds like the 'adoption vs sponsoring' argument is one to take up with real life zoos and conservation charities.

In S&D world, because (some) animals have a pseudo-human status, the idea that adopting an animal would result in it coming to live with you - like Duck himself - makes sense.

What does take a bit of working out is which animals (and baked goods) have what status.

We've made lemon water too, not just a squeeze but full-on citron presse, initially without sugar. DC was so determined to like it that it was drunk happily!