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Dispicable Drug References on CBeebies Show

157 replies

SeeNoBeebies · 03/02/2011 18:45

I know there has been a long culture of nudge nudge wink wink adult references in kids shows, but this is going WAY TOO FAR.

Just look at the "Spliff" mostion Zoomer makes to the Shop Keeper! Theyre not even disguising the reference well with the obvious "Cheese" = "Weed"

AIBU to lodge an official complaint? I've never made one before but I'm appauled that Liscence Fee Money is being spent on drug humour for kids.

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doughnutty · 03/02/2011 18:49

I think you should do it if it makes you feel better but, seriously, your kids won't understand the references (I hope Grin)

However, if you do I'd spellcheck it before you send it. Wink

ShinyMoonInAPurpleSky · 03/02/2011 18:51

I would me more concerned about the parents of any child that saw that and thought it was a reference to weed.

ShinyMoonInAPurpleSky · 03/02/2011 18:53

Oh and have you never heard of the naughty Rainbow episode...

SeeNoBeebies · 03/02/2011 18:54

That naughty rainbow episode is a semi myth, it was never broadcast. And it only surfacted about a decade after rainbow had ended.

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coldtits · 03/02/2011 18:54

Don't be fucking ridiculous.

YOU have decided it's about drugs because the characters are rastafarian. It's about cheese.

waitwhat · 03/02/2011 18:56

Perhaps turn off the tv for awhile...

SeeNoBeebies · 03/02/2011 19:06

This is typical Political correct BS. You're just all afraid of being accused of being racist if you agree. You really couldn't make it up!

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coldtits · 03/02/2011 19:10

You are being a racist twat. Get hold of the transcripts, and get some people with Surrey accents to read them. Oh! All of a sudden, it's about a crime fighting mouse who's hunting stolen cheese with help from his friends.

Not drugs.

BeerTricksPotter · 03/02/2011 19:11

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PeeringIntoTheWintryVoid · 03/02/2011 19:26

Oh do get a fucking grip. Hmm Does it really matter? The children aren't going to get the reference, are they.

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 03/02/2011 19:32
mayorofwhoville · 03/02/2011 19:37

A bit of a random side post but does anyone else think the tree from show me show me looks like a fanjo?

hobnobsaremyfavourite · 03/02/2011 19:38

Mayor I just spit wine all over my keyboard!!!

Rainydaze · 03/02/2011 19:41

Can anyone recommend any good re-hab clinics in the Cheltenham area? Do you have to be in a special catchment area? Do they have long waiting lists? DD's 2.5, but has seen Rastamouse twice now, so I don't think there's any harm planning ahead.

PandaNot · 03/02/2011 19:42

Seriously? Do you have nothing better to worry about? YABU

mayorofwhoville · 03/02/2011 19:42

Apologies for the slightly damp and sticky keyboard!

I can't watch that show now, partly because it is awful and partly because of the big scary looking fanjo looming in the background!

mumbar · 03/02/2011 19:42

Never noticed mayor, but you know we'll all be looking at the weekend Grin

wonka · 03/02/2011 19:43

I've had my boys rolling round the floor laughing at shake shake shake your peanut (Playhouse disney)
Please boys maybe don't sing that..
Why Mummy because it sounds like shake your penis... eh well YES!
Maybe I should complain too..
LOL
CHILL OUT!

mum295 · 03/02/2011 19:46

Yes, Mayor, glad it wasn't just me.

"More tea, vicar" in Postman Pat sets me off every time...

EricNorthmansMistress · 03/02/2011 19:48

Hahahahahahahahaha

I was all ready to be outraged at your racism, seeing spliff parallels in an innocent cheese quest, but he really does do a spliff motion! Unlike you OP I found it funny. No pre school child will be harmed or influenced by it. It's hilarious.

Grandhighpoohba · 03/02/2011 20:00

Never watched the Magic Roundabout then?

Ryoko · 03/02/2011 20:06

I was saying about this on facebook when people where laughing at it, get rid of the Rasta-isation language and read the script in the typical BBC toff voice work and it will just be about cheese.

It says why more about your stereotyping of dreads then it does the show itself.

(I'm sure the toffs use way more cheese then Rasta's do anyway).

TakeItOnTheChins · 03/02/2011 20:10

Oh FFS.

The Magic Roundabout wasn't full of drug references.

The Rainbow episode wasn't ever shown.

Captain Pugwash did NOT have a "Seaman Stains" and the cabin boy was called Tom, not Roger.

Does nobody ever actually CHECK urban legends??

cerealqueen · 03/02/2011 20:11

YANBU. I have a serious addiction to cheese which I have been trying to deal with for some time now and this just added to my horrific current withdrawal from the Wenslydale.

Ryoko · 03/02/2011 20:19

BAN THIS SICK FILTH! and Wallace and Gromit.

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