AIBU to think Cbeebies should either stop showing or recommission Come Outside?

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According to It's Wiki page it ran from 1993 to 1997 originally.

Everything is just so .... old looking!

toerags - I think it might have been!

Just looking at ds1's DVD collection - Clangers, Bagpuss, Flumps, Mr Ben, The Mr Men, Ivor The Engine, Trumpton...oh dear .

I've never seen the sewage one, I might have to set the recorder .

I haven't read the whole thread, but Pippin died didn't he

Dd's 3 & 4 love the sewerage one, we have it on VHS

Ph and wasn't it Pippins mum who in Woof? Think if was on itv about a boy who used to get an itchy nose and turn into a dog.

Nah, we think it's a great programme. One of the better ones in fact.

Am just watching the sewage one now on Youtube. Well I never...

I detested Hectors House! My niece (now 21) had a video of HH! Boring beyond words! What a silly Hector!!! AAAAAHHHHHH!!!

The seville Oranges one makes me giggle.

They obviously had to get Mr Seville Orange to wear Aunty Mabel's watch and dress because she couldn't (wouldn't?) go

The poo one....

Even DS2 who is notoriously daydreamy asks why she can't look after Pippin properly.
The one where she loses him on the building site traumatised him.

The dog on a stick plane shots are entertaining though i must admit

I was beginning to think i had imagined "woof" - phew!

The one with the oranges - where Auntie Mabel visits Seville is hilarious - you only see "her" from the back and it's obviously a quite poorly matched double in a wig. The pains they go to in order to only show her back...poor Auntie Mabel, they wouldn't even put her on an easyjet to spain

There are 39 episodes - there's a list here

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Come_Outside_episodes

Maaaaarmalade
Made from ripe Oranges
Growing in sunshine
Beneath skies that are blooooo

So how come they won't show the crisps one, but they are clearly spreading outdated medical advice in the marmalade episode (according to that wikipedia list!)

I suppose some of them are outdated now. Chip pans are virtually extinct, especially the ones which go on the hob. The recycling one is slightly inaccurate as I haven't used one of those bottle banks for years, but they do still exist (they don't make you separate the colours now though, I wonder why??)

And with the cuts to councils I doubt they'd be interested in a little old lady reporting a broken street lamp

The rest are okay though!

Come Outside is the only decent cbeebies programme there is imo

The rest are rapidly becoming totally inane at best and just bizarre at worst.

Justin's okay, but he doesn't appeal to the older kids.

I don't have cbeebies but if i did -Come Outside would be the first think i would plonk the weans in front of.

phew that's pricey

Oh no! dd sings the whole song! That naff old fashioned thing is priceless! I love it! It's so much better than heinous endless ads for plastic sh**e.

I'm sick of the GURNING cbeebies presenters all trying to outGurn each other with their keen clean wriggly boogying. Oh STOP particularly that tall dark haired guy he makes me want to throw myself under a bus.

Cbeebies isn't as good as it used to be. I can't wait 'till ds2 has lost interest in it.

Trouble is, cbbc is loads worse

Ah, I remember watching come outside when I was a young 'un. Both my dcs love pippin.

I've never understood why Auntie Mabel is an indeterminate age between 50 and 9000, but Granny Murray from Me Too! is only about thirty.

No bleedin' consistency.

I bet Autie Mabel knows a song about it.

Auntie Mabel is completely believable. I wish I'd had an auntie like her. She's well fab

Only saw this for the first time this week - I was fascinated to see how they make wellies, and having looked through this thread I can see we're going to have to watch it again to find out about the toothpaste stripes!

Oh, DS quite enjoyed it too...

OMG the poo one is on right now!

I was just about to say that - am now going to have the dc shouting 'poocakes' all day tsk.

Haha, I recorded it when I realised which one it was - DH didn't believe me when I told him about it after I saw it for the first time...