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Dispicable Drug References on CBeebies Show

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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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TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 04/02/2011 10:17

kenodi - That's the problem if you are one of there fuck knuckles blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2009/05/19/cbeebies-waybuloo-christian-response/

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 04/02/2011 10:28

oh FGS - not the bloody Waybullo thing again.

The director of that programme is a committed Christian. I can assure you he hasn't been excommunicated from his church - and he thinks blogs like those are mad

kenobi · 04/02/2011 10:28

Oh I seeeee... thanks for enlightening me Coalition. How BIZARRE.

So if you're this kind of christian, doing yoga or in anyway opening your mind to other cultural influences, however mild or benign, is EVIL.

DD was christened, we go to church and I really, really like Waybuloo. So there echurch.

kenobi · 04/02/2011 10:30

Sorry to bring it up again baroque, I was totally unaware there was any debate. Well for me anyway, it's been opened and closed in four posts!

LaWeaselMys · 04/02/2011 10:33

"Happiness is a superficial fleeting emotion?!"

That is an amazingly stupid attitude.

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 04/02/2011 10:34

sorry - kenobi - my post there came over a bit Angry - and I'm not Blush

But it has (and does still sometimes) come up for debate Grin (and I know the director personally - and his wife, and his absolutely gorgeous boys

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 04/02/2011 10:35

I think it shows that if you're looking to get offended you can always find something to offend you.

I, for instance, think that the portrayal of newsreaders as impartial, small-c conservative, authoritative, intellegent figures is very insulting to Ron Burgundy.

KnittedBreast · 04/02/2011 10:37

im not in the least bit bothered by drug references in childrens programmes. but there is the chance that as an older wiser adult you are picking things up with your worldy view that just arent seen by children?

drugs exist, lesson to kids, too much cheese will cause you problems!

GentleOtter · 04/02/2011 10:38

I wish Rastamouse could see Grandad in my Pocket sorted with a kilo of Wensleydale.

IvantaOuiOui · 04/02/2011 11:33

I'd like to see Rastamouse sort Maisie Mouse and Angelina Ballerina out with some...cheese. Bob the Builder used to have a range of crisps called Bob's Cheesy Toolbag. My son used to love them.

manicbmc · 04/02/2011 11:40

So, by some of these arguments am I to believe that Wallace and Grommit are really cheese dealers? Hmm

I think some people round here have waaaay too much time on their hands.

I leave a thread for a few hours to go cleaning and baking and there is a mass outbreak of stupidity! Grin

piratecat · 04/02/2011 11:42

pmsl otter

thanks tho op, i hadn't heard of Rastamouse before this thread.

It's great.

remember the cheese and wine parties in the 80's my mother used to go to, NOW i know the score Wink

LilyTheZombieKiller · 04/02/2011 11:57

Yeah but....

The Magic Roundabout is much improved by drug references, Rainbow was crap anyway and more fun has been had by 30-somethings gleefully (and wrongly) recounting tales of Seaman Staines and Roger The Cabin boy than any child had watching the damn program.

And Fraggle Rock was laden with racism, slave labour and drug references. Well, I thought so, other people just saw dancing puppets. :o

TyraG · 04/02/2011 14:06

Oh I'd sell one of my kids for a decent quesadilla. sigh Can I get any good Mexican cheese on the black market? If so can they throw in some homemade tortillas as well?

ThePosieParker · 04/02/2011 14:09

Why, btw, are our children being taught to speak Rastafarian? Is there any point?

TyraG · 04/02/2011 14:12

ThePosieParkerSo that when they go to Jamaica they know the proper etiquette for finding good ganja and lighting one up. I wonder if they ever show the clock on 4:20...things that make you go hmmmmmmmm.

manicbmc · 04/02/2011 14:12

And why not? When mine were little they watched Tots Tv and learned some French.

jeee · 04/02/2011 14:14

Is it true that there was an episode of Telly-tubbies featuring an enormous E falling from the sky? Later banned for the obvious drug reference? Or is this just another urban myth?

manicbmc · 04/02/2011 14:16

It wasn't out of the sky and it wasn't an E - I believe it was a giant wheel of cheese that fell out of TinkyWinky's handbag. Grin

jeee · 04/02/2011 14:18

Damn. I always enjoyed that story. But then I always thought Telly-tubbies was a post-apocalyptic allegory, of life after a nuclear apocalypse.

falsemessageoflethargy · 04/02/2011 14:19

Earlier on I thought someone had typed 'Big cock, Little cock'.

They hadnt though

TyraG · 04/02/2011 14:20

I bet it was swiss cheese, wasn't it? All those holes in the cheese, do they really thing they're pulling one over on us? We know what those holes are for, don't we ladies? Perverts trying to encourage sex with food. After all swiss cheese is a gateway drug for food sex. Bastards.

strandednomore · 04/02/2011 14:20

speak "rastafarianism" Confused Do you mean patois?

I must sky+ this Rastamouse - we lived in Kingston (Jamaica not on-Thames) for a few years and dd1 is very proud to have been "made" there so I'll be interested to see what they have done with it.

But don't we all remember the blue cat in the Magic Roundabout and his addiction to sugar? That gave me the heebie jeebies as a child....

strandednomore · 04/02/2011 14:21

Does Rastamouse get to eat patties as well or is it only cheese?

radiohelen · 04/02/2011 14:24

I hadn't noticed the "spliff motion"!!! God I just walk through the world with my eyes shut!

I do fancy a nice bit of oozing brie though. Maybe some dolcelatte...mmmmmmm a little le roule on a cracker. Grilled cheese sandwich made with Mrs Keens cheddar.

Does this mean me and the little one can't watch Cars now cos of the "organic fuel" the camper van brews in his teepee. That sounds like a crack den to me.