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)

[IWishIWasAFrog]

No, Ed Milliband looks like Iggle Piggle! Look at his mouth when he speaks!

[Visitor57]

My DC hates the birds and was terrified of the toucan when she first started watching. We had to hide behind a cushion until they finished. She is still nervous of them. I love Humf, especially Uncle Hairy.

[solidgoldbrass]

I always thought MakkaPakka was a poo fetishist with a turd on his head, the Tombliboos live in a polysexual menage a trois, Upsy Daisy and Iggle Piggle are into dogging, and the Pontipines and the Wottingers are one of those weird inbred cults you get in the Appalachian mountains.

[tallulah]

Columbia yes the Power Rangers- remember it well.

[Insomnia11]

I watched it for about six months when it came out. Was obsessed with proving the existence of the Wottingers. A few years later the novelty has somewhat worn off but I think it's a charming programme.

[Voidka]

YABU
Its the only thing that gives me 5 minutes peace from DS.

[Maggie1973]

My DS doesn't watch it anymore but he used to love it. I didn't mind it, but my first thought when i first saw it was 'whoever thought of this must have been on drugs'.

[whackamole]

YABU. I love it.

[Balsam]

I got laughed at by my parent friends by referring to the white one as pac-a-mac. He is now known in our house as kag-in-a-bag.

[smilesy]

I am fairly new to Igglepiggle and co. When my first 2 DS were born, Teletubbies was just starting. However now have DS3 who loves the music. DS1 (now 16) and I spend many a happy evening debating ITNG. DS1 pointed out that if Illepiggle's boat is only as big as a child's hand then the Pontypines must be the size of sub-atomic particles. We all agree that we would rather ride the Pinky Ponk than the Ninky Nonk as the potential for throwing up is far less. I worry about Macca Pacca's trolley when he is on the Ninky Nonk as it is not secured in any way, surely contravening health and safety guidelines.

I am officially sad.

I do also wonder how Ragdoll progressed from Rosie and Jim to ITNG...

[UterusUterusGhali]

Oh, god, Mr Bloom.

The most chilling aspect is that the Vegies are unaware that one day MrB will eat them.

I love ITNG as it allows me time to make dinner. I put it on Iplayer or Sky+ when I really need a bit of time without DS2 hanging off my leg.
DS1 is three and has just noticed the scale thing and scoffs at it now.

[StellaNova]

DH interviewed one of the people behind ITNG, and I told him to moan about the scale because it drove me mad, and the bloke said it was all to do with children having no sense of perspective/ not caring about scale and playing with say a massive car and a tiny fire-engine and an Action Man and a Playmobil person altogether. Or something.

I used to like it - apart from the scale - but it's worn a bit thin now. DS1 is obsessed by Iconicles now for some reason. The one I can't stand is Green Balloon Club.

[ouryve]

By the way, given that we're a household with a lot of ASD in it, DH and I are agreed that Makka Pakka is one of the boys. My two become very concerned for him when his beautiful piles of stones are ruined. :)

[solidgoldbrass]

I have always described ITNG to childfree friends as 'You remember Tellytubbies?' (Everyone does because there was so much fuss about it at the time that everyone had a look at it at least once) 'OK, now imagine that the people who made it went away for ten years and took shitloads more drugs. That'll be In The Night Garden.'

[ouryve]

Stellanova - I really can't work out if i like iconicles or not. The presenter seems to be pushing me to the side of not. Usually, I can see beyond the persona and want to inspect Mr Bloom's prizewinning leek and squeeze his plums or just plain unsubtly shag Chris Corcoran behind the paint cupboard, for example, but Nat is just too young and wet behind the ears to make up for the shortcomings of the rest of the program.

DS1 gets scale, but DS2 doesn't. DS2 gets pissed off when he can't climb into his postman pat van.

[devonshiredumpling]

how come that none of the characters itng never get mrsa from being washed with the same sponge and soap and where do they all go to the toilet and why are none in urinary retention or constipated

[CardyMow]

SGB - you made me snort!!

[CardyMow]

I saw that Mr bloom thing today. Now THAT'S some fucked-up shit. Singing veg in a paedo's shed??!! Even 7mo DS3 pulled a face when it was on, and he's not the most discerning of viewers!

[SpidersAndVinegaroons]

No, Boom and his Beggies has nice songs. I often have to sing the la la la la la la one while walking down the street, like a look at DS's behest.