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)

GeekLove - it's true igglepiggle DOES look like David Cameron

I've said the same thing! I said "I don't like IgglePiggle. He looks likes like a giant blue penis on legs."

I hate ITNG. But I love the runny grobbles. Sometimes I say to LO "You're having runny grobbles for lunch today" and he shouts "No...delicious food!" in tones of outrage.

I remember telling my neice and nephew that PC Plum had arrested Miss Hoolie for fighting on the Balamory ferry and now she had an ASBO and had to be called Miss Hooligan.

I have always liked ITNG for its trippiness, but the theme makes me well up as well. Ever since I had this awful thought of it being the perfect music to play at a child's funeral...

Mind you, Waybuloo is absolutely vile and Zingzillas maddening - Space Pirates was infinitely better.

YABU.

Except when Upsy Daisy sings, the Tombliboos play that bloody piano and DS2 is running round like crazy just like the Ninky Nonk.

I made him an Oo cake for his second birthday. Thankfully, he's 5 now and onto more sophisticated things. Like Raa Raa!!!

Ooh I love it. DD doesn't like it anymore but I have it on for DS sometimes, it's really soothing and nice.

I think it's trippy yet brilliant! When everyone goes to bed my dd shouts night night and walks to the foot of the stairs. Opiate for babies!

It's the ball, the bloody non-Newtonian ball. Gah.

The perspective issues I can cope with. Cleary a magic transport system.

But not the ball.

i predicted the should be shot part... yanbu

I think YABVVVU. It is the most peaceful soothing show. 30 mins and nothing happens! Wonderful!

That bloody ball defies the natural laws of physics. And I was soooo hopeful - all 3 of my older dc had graduated to CBBC / Nickelodeon / Disney channel by the time ITNG started, so smugly I had gotten away with not having to suffer the acid-trippyness. Then I had DS3 after a 7y gap. I then insisted on no ITNG. Which was all well and good - except the older dc would put it on for him while I was washing up, and now he LOVES it. FFS.

And waybuloo is some SERIOUSLY weird shit...Does my bloody swede in, yet DS3 LOVES the orange one. Whose name I staunchly refuse to allow to settle in my brain.

What was wrong with Auntie Mabel and Pippin? Well, lets see - I can quote EVERY episode for starters...My Dbro (now 20yo) watched every episode and forced me to, My DD (now 13yo) watched it, as did DS1 AND DS2. I'm sure I've seen every episode of that bloody show at least 20 times.

But Baby Jake is funny - oggy oggy oggy, do do do, that's just what we love to do!

It's all a bit creepy, like Portmeirion in the Prisoner and both DP and I struggle with the inconsistency of scale.

But DD loves it, so we snuggle on the sofa and I have a doze while she tells them all to fall over / get up, before her bath time.

We've started to sing "the time has come to say goodnight, ..." song, too - not sure I can get on with the new version.

HoHo, the music at the end makes me well up as well. I have no idea why. Hormones?

I like it though. My DS loves it. But he is only small - another couple of years and I expect I'll be throwing his ITNG DVDs out the window.

I'm fond of the Tittifers. They're comical. The Pontipines and the Wottingers are boring.

The scariest thing is that my iphone's president text seems to know all of the above names?! Cahoots.

PREDICTIVE text. Gah.

I like it, actually I watch it with her, it has been two years now
the ones I really dislike is Balamory and Mr Bloom's nursery, especially the meet the veggies thing.............
some one out there likes the Barn Bunch more than their children? I think I am loosing the plot because I watch it while she runs away to do anything else

Actually - I am beginning to wonder why I do like ITNG, given that DS2 used to become totally distraught if any of the Pontipines were missing!

The orange one in Waybuloo, Yojojo, by the way - Horatio Caine gone even trippier.

Arrgh! Mr Bloom's nursery is thoroughly alarming. Come along kiddies, into the shed with Uncle Paedophile Mr Bloom... he wants to show you some puppies his courgette, it talks and everything.
Mind you, there are a couple of horrors I remember from DS' younger days that were even worse - the Shiny Show with those awful screaming puppets that wet themselves with joy over wooden spoons wrapped in tinfoil, something else shed-related featuring Pixie and Poxy and some more talking veg - can't remember what that was called. And the teeth-grinding condesecension-fest Boo.

I found the one with the OLLYBOYYYDOBDOB FLOWER rather lovely and moving (great music), but was very upset that Makkapakka was inexplicably left out of the experience.

Er, but it is a large pile of shite, yes, but it kind of grows on you like a pesky fungus, so I'll say YABU.

You'll miss Cbeebies when they get bigger - Ben 10 and zack and cody for starters!

I will not stand for any criticism of Mr Bloom. He is lurverly. Rude courgette joke here ;)

I think I got off lightly, Power Rangers was the most irritating programme my son loved to watch. That was like Shakespeare though compared to some of the inane rubbish that's put on TV for small children now!

PMSL at Wicker Man for kids.

OP, YABU. Anything with Derek Jacobi is ok by me. It's art, I tell you, ART!

Arf at 'Horatio Caine gone even trippier'.

SGB - How very DARE you. I had used enough mental floss to rid my brain of the torture that was the fucking shiny show. Now it's back there. Along with the equally irritating Boogie Beebies. Which I'm VERY glad they don't seem to show any more.

DS2 used to steal my tinfoil to wrap everything in so that he could collect 'shinies'.

They are all breasts. If you look at the tombliboo faces in profile, or Makka Pakka's bottom, or the front of the pinky ponk, or even the wheels of the ninky nonk. I have mentioned this several times before, and so hope that I do not appear wierdy and obsessive.

I quite like INTG. And 'Boom and his Beggies' as it is referred to in this house. When the peas sing everybody in the room has to stop what they are doing and sing 'eees!'. Over and over. Goddamn you Sky+!

lwfhinba - yes! Macca Pacca is basically a collection of nipples, isn't he?

Sure I read about a Marxist interpretation of peasant MP and nobleman Iggle Piggle here recently ...

The tittifers give me the creeps though. Especially the toucan.