to dislike Mary Poppins, the sinister cow.

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Worst children's film ever.

Taking the children to see all and sundry, along with her ne'er do well mate with the funny accent.

Look into Julie Andrews eyes and see the axis of evil.

Fly a kite off.

Sorry GetOrf, the temptation was irresistible.

GetOrf, I love your thread title.

MissMogwi, I now have that song in my head - Hi, hi hi hi hi hicolorum, Hey hey hey, we're on our way-hey hey hey, Hey, hey hey we're on our way.

{Desperately trying to take someone else out with her.}

Not a horrible housekeeper, it was Mr. Grimes, who sent him up the chimney. The housekeeper was also in about 6 other parts of the film and made Mary Poppins look like, erm, Mary Poppins (so to speak!).

The scary telly in will o' the wisp was Evil Edna.

Seriously, why scare kids who are watching a cartoon on the TELLY by having the baddy be an evil TELLY called Evil Edna? As if the spooky Kenneth Williams charactee didn't terrify us enough.

What were they thinking?

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Best days of our lives eh mum?!

I can almost hear the creepy voices from Will O the Wisp. Watching it in our brown frontroom, with it's brown and orange carpet and brown sofa.

And after that was Crossroads.

Except on Sundays when it was Highway to Heaven and/or Bonanza, followed by Bullseye.

Groovy.

We had a vomit-swirl carpet as well.

Everything in the sitting room was brahn.

Until my gran had a Howards Way inspired design craze, and decorated everything in silver grey with black and maroon flashes, with a grey leather three piece suite and black ash furniture.

When I was at school in the 00s we had orange and brown textbooks. Our Physics teacher (who I had a raging crush on, he could play the guitar with his teeth) used to tell us quite proudly that everything in the 80s was orange and brown.

It was - everything. Even bloody cars.

My gran's walls were artexed and painted bitter chocolate brown. And that wasn't particluarly unusual.

Even our saucepans were brown.

The bathroom was a riot of 60s colour - with a turquiose bathroom suite and pink walls

I have reacted against this raciness by having my whole house painted white.

YANBU

She reminds me of my mental childless elderly aunt.

I'd love to pit Mary v my autistic DS just for one day. Actually that would be too cruel to her. An hour.

Hang on - WTAF is going on with this thread? I'm scrolling up and it's getting more and more mad.

I like swirly orange and brown though. With a little bit of lime green. Very "Graceland"

I thought orange and brown was 70s.

Oh no the orange and brownness continued into the 80s, believe me.

There is a photo of me at playschool in the early 80s with a brown cord pinafore, beige ribbed polo neck, taupe tights and conker brown lace ups, like something from the 30s.

I can never remember if it was 70s or 80s that he said, to be fair.

I so want to read the Mary Poppins books now...

Roald Dahl books are quite disturbing as well (but he is a genius and I loved them as a kid, especially The Witches). I remember reading a short story of his about a gardener or scientist or something who started to hear plants, and could hear them screaming as people cut the grass or pruned trees. Terrified me.

I love Mary Poppins and Sound of Music.

I must read Forever Leisl!

...real life escape from Nazi ... [/pedant]

Only saw MP once and it didn't capture my imagination at all. SOM on the other hand... may or may not have done a tour whilst in Salzburg and sung songs from the musical on the tour bus

i too wnt to read a mary poppins book Ja9

but then again i like all the films and programmes mentioned on this thread!

I've seen MP on stage. DD was less than impressed despite people tapdancing upside down around the edge of the stage.
All she wanted was a £22 umbrella.

Have to say I LOVE the Sound of Music. Was a bit shocked last year when foster d (14) told me she'd never seen it. I told her it was usually on tv over christmas and she looked at me with interest and said (deadly serious) "Oh on the music channels is it?"
MTVs version of the Sound of Music might be somwhat different from the original

I luff Bedknobs & Broomsticks! DH and I have already said that we want to buy a cast iron bed frame for our spare bedroom do that we can tell our as yet unborn offspring that it's the actual bed from the story

Does that make us lovely imaginative prospective parents or just evil?!

YABU. Efficient, firm but fair, with a collection of weird and intriguing possessions, mildly baffling sayings, and a slightly eyebrow-raising range of friends and acquaintances. She's my dream eccentric auntie.

i agree she is evil and i have never watched sound of music i can't

another evil witch is Doris Day, singing her way through films smiling sweetly to the camera but i am not fooled she gives me the creeps

Dick Van Dyke wasn't nice A friend of ours (sadly dead now) was one of the boys in Chitty Chitty bang bang and said DVD was in a foul mood one morning on set and kicked him off the steps hurting him Friend's parents were naturally v cross and made DVD apologise and be nice and apparently he was really horrible to friend in snide ways for the rest of filming. So there. Nasty 'merican .

even poor mary poppins cant escape mumsnet.

Not too troubled by Mary Poppins TBH, but DicK van Dyke (most excellent name) should be tried for crimes against humanity with that execrable accent.