to think that whoever invented In the F***ING Night Garden...

[LeoTheLateBloomer]

...was on acid and should be shot?

(Not because he/she was on acid, just because it's so painfully dreadful)

[cottonreels]

I do like Derek Jacobis voice though.
HATE Zingzillas

[cleanteeth]

I like it :) I sit and turn mt brain off for half an hour.

HATE baby jake though, its trippy as fuck! annd show me show me. I.cant.stand.it!!!

[Meglet]

I've seen it every day for 4 years. Off the top of my very tired head (PFB's first day at school today) that's about 1,300 viewings.

And I'm still excited when the Wattingers come on!

[Tee2072]

I have spent days hours trying to figure out the familial relationships on Me Too.

And why does Granby Murray also look after a dog?

And why do the married people never touch each other?!?!?!

::and breathe::

[mrsravelstein]

i looked it up, "me too" it's called. hideous.

[shakey1500]

My theory is that the makers of the programme took a bunch of artists out on a bender, bought them pint upon pint of cider and black, chucked a few E's in then circa 3am gave them some crayons, a sheet of paper and told them to draw the first thing that came into their head.

Though the makers would have us think it "ahem..took YEARS of research to develop these "characters".

And if UpsyFlashMyKnickersAtTheDropOfAHatDaisy can sing then I'm the next prime minister.

[BuntyCollocks]

YABU.

Ombliboo, tombliboo, knock on the door ...

Lyrical genius.

[AmeliaSachs]

YABU. My DS, 16months, absolutly loves Waybuloo and ITNG. I think they're quite sweet really.

I hate Balamory (so does DS) but he likes the Tellytubbies and i cannot stand them.

[tethersend]

I love Balamory.

It's like the Wickerman for kids.

[SkipToTheEnd]

I don't like it but my son does. But I'm trying to wean him off it because it's caused some serious issues in our local shop.

DS cannot say Makka Pakka. Instead he says something that rhymes with wacky but that starts with the right letters (sorry, I cannot even type it!)

Our local shop is owned by a family of Asian descent. My DS is not softly spoken :(


I thought making sure Makka Pakka stayed at home might solve the issue but they stock the ITNG magazine :(

[JumpJockey]

Don't the Tombliboo children usually end up with the yummy food though? Eg the one where they tale their picnic in the pinky ponk and it all ends up mixed up on the tables, with mr and mrs pontipine getting the runny grobbles? Seems fair to me.

[Fuzzled]

DS just saw ITNG for the first time today.

Grabbed the remote and managed to flick onto one of the 900 channels on Sky.

Luckily we have disabled these in parental controls, but coincidence? Me thinks not!

[inmysparetime]

Is is just me or are the HaaHoos seriously menacing and creepy? If I turned round in a sunny woodland and saw one of those things I would jump out of my skin! It's like those creepy balloons in the prisoner.
And why has makkapakka got such a bad wind problem?
My kids don't watch it as they're 9 and 7 but I work in a day nursery so get it all day there for the foreseeable future. I agree about baby Jake though, trippy!

[Nowtspecial]

My daughter ( 4 ) used to scream if it was on, in sheer terror. Now she likes it, and used to take her David Cameron Iggle Piggle toy to bed, it sings that creepy song and everything. Shudder.

[pigletmania]

My dd 4.5 loves ITNG, she has dev delay, even she is starting to tire of it. I do like the music and Derek Jacobis calming voice. Yes Waybaloo is even worse than Teletubbies and ITNG put together. Its not fair though, that Mr&Mrs P get delicious food, whilst the children get runny grobbles, can't be right can it

[tallulah]

I love ITNG. Waybaloo tho is another matter. Why do they put Zingzillas on immediately after the Tweenies? It's the same programme essentially.

[arightoldbag]

bwahhhhhaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaa

wickerman for kids....

love In the Night Garden, HATE bloody Waybaloos and mad ZingZillas

favourite is Auntie Mabel and her spotty plane. 'specially when she tells you all about poo

[ThePathanKhansWoman]

tethers Balamory The Wicker Man for children.

I always thought there was something sinister about that place!.

[Panzee]

Fuzzled I'm sure your son was just searching for a regional news programme. :o

[Kalypso]

The perspective thing used to absolutely infuriate me. Now I am a changed woman due to a poster on Mumsnet, who on a previous ITNG thread offered her explanation of the constantly changing perspective.

This MNetter (I'm so sorry, but can't remember who it was) explained that the Night Garden is a sort of dreamlike, magical world that you go to when asleep. Therefore the rules of normal life (e.g. perspective) simply don't apply, just as they often don't in dreams.

Now whenever the shitty perspective issue rears its ugly head in an episode, I merely chant to myself, "It's okay, it's okay, it's dream world, a dream world."

[RedOnion]

There is hope people. It is called CBBC and it will come soon, hang in there, keep the faith and soon you to will be ogling watching handsome chaps dressed as vikings in horrible histories

[Sidge]

Oh I love ITNG. The music is ace and Makka Pakka has OCD. Upsy Daisy is a strumpet and Iggle Piggle is hallucinating in his little boat and isn't in the garden at all (have you seen Shutter Island?).

My girls have grown out of ITNG now and watch Nick Jr.

We now have hours of watching Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom (which is hilarious) and Blue's Clues (Kevin's cord trousers are entertainment of their own).

[mankymink]

When Upsy Daisy yells into that bloody megaphone I would quite like to slap her and not stop.

[GeekLove]

nowtspecial
it's true igglepiggle DOES look like David Cameron

[hester]

I like the dreaminess, the funny birds, Makka Pakka and the spooky Haa-Hoos. Really could live without Upsy Daisy (I've had bosses like her) and Iggle Piggle (had boyfriends like him).

But it's Waybuloo that really gets my goat. Who the hell likes it? Ghastly hippy rubbish; almost unwatchable.

And don't get me started on the Tweenies...