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...to think In the Night Garden is a pile of shit?

71 replies

Red2011 · 04/12/2011 19:22

telly was on in the background and I've just seen how awful it is. No proper spoken word from any character, they all have stupid names and IMO seem rather mentally deficient.

And the sense of scale is all wrong.

And some of the names sound like perverse sexual practices.

OP posts:
SardineQueen · 04/12/2011 20:26

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Make it STOP

SardineQueen · 04/12/2011 20:27

It's his squeaky voice, it gets like fingernails on a blackboard.

I used to get up and dance when it was hot dog dance time... Oh how those heady days have gone

crashdoll · 04/12/2011 20:30

It's the Teletubbies that used to get me.

crashdoll · 04/12/2011 20:31

Eh oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaaaahhhhh!!!

mamalovebird · 04/12/2011 20:31

I saw the bloke who created ITNG on Breakfast once, and he's former speech therapist. Something to do with the repetition of the sounds they make developing speech etc etc. Since I watched that it is now deemed 'educational' and can therefore be watched on repeat without any guilt on my part :)

SunAndDucks · 04/12/2011 20:33

The Wattingers and the Pontipines don't get on, do they?

FrizzyFrazzled · 04/12/2011 20:36

Agree with JustifiedAncientOfMuMu and was going to say the same thing! My DS loves it and I think it is sweet. It teaches them about being kind, and friendship, etc - although to be honest I wouldnt mind if it didn't teach anything at all. Not everything has to be about learning, or be correctly spoken, or to scale. Some things are just lovely fantasy.

Backtobedlam · 04/12/2011 20:36

I haven't met the bloke but was going to say the same thing mamalovebird. Some speech therapists also reccomend teletubbies, so there must be some useful sounds in all that gobbildy gook

Tryharder · 04/12/2011 20:36

YABU except about the scale. It always bugs me that the characters are bigger than the ninky nonk one minute and then are able to climb into the damned thing the next.

chibi · 04/12/2011 20:39

it makes me contemplate mortality in a gentle kind of way - the solitary journey over water to a colour saturated dream garden

Jung would have loved it i think

Blatherskite · 04/12/2011 20:42

I hate it too. But then it's not aimed at me.

DD loves it. It gives me half an hour of moderate peace once a day (once I've tuned out DS's complaints because he's grown out of it and whines for Tom and Jerry) therefore it's the best thing on TV.

Armi · 04/12/2011 20:44

I'm an ITNG newcomer and I have to confess that I rather like the pontipines but could cheerfully thump UpsyDaisy. I'm still struggling to get the ninky-nonk and pinky-ponk straight but even I can see that MaccaPacca needs professional help.

PrettyCandlesAndTinselToo · 04/12/2011 20:45

Even though I think ITNG is a bit surreal and weird, I agree with bebemoojam

What is horrid, freaky and perverse is Waybuloos. Their nose-less faces with eyelashes growing out of their eyes - urgh! And the way they all drop whatever they're doing to obey the call of that sunchime, that reminds me of a film where the docile humans answer the call of a chime and go placidly to be eaten by the aggressive humans. (HG Wells' The Time Machine? Though I think there have been several films with that sort of theme.)

Mind you, I do like "baloooo". Wouldn't mind some baloooo myself.

pigletmania · 04/12/2011 20:48

Well its not meant to be for you is it! A lot of babies/toddlers like it and yes there is narration be Derek Jacobi included in it.

BarfTheHeraldAngelsHeave · 04/12/2011 20:48

DD loves it.

It teaches tolerance to people with large families who are on tag and that women can have men in their beds without anything untoward happening. The normalisation of OCD and the polyamoury is positively enlightened.

Micky Mouse Club House is americanised shit.

MarianneM · 04/12/2011 20:50

Never seen it as we don't have a TV but DD was given a book about it by a relative and OP, YADNBU! I cannot bring myself to read that tosh to her. And I thought it was just me, but there is something about it (makka pakka or whatever washing these random characters' faces) that suggests a weird sexual undertone Grin

baskingseals · 04/12/2011 20:50

god chibi i was about to post the same thing - it's crossing over the river

also think waybuloo is absolutely bloody awful, and their chimes are from ikea, i know because i had some.

MarianneM · 04/12/2011 20:51

Whatever happened to Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood or the Beatrix Potter stories - all absolute favourites with my DDs?

AnotherMincepie · 04/12/2011 20:53

That's not ITNG, that's X Factor :o

olibeansmummy · 04/12/2011 21:15

It's banned in my house!

tralalala · 04/12/2011 21:30

oh i love it, can amazingly still get my two older ones (4 and 6) dancing!

MrsWembley · 04/12/2011 21:38

There is definitely something dodgy going on between Iggle Piggle and Upsy Daisy...

And why does her skirt fart?

ThePathanKhansWitch · 04/12/2011 21:39

I loved ITNG, am slightly sad now my d has outgrown it.

I watched an interview with the producer/writer, she said she wanted to "create" somewhere safe,totally unthreatening for children, as reality for some kids was so far removed from safe.

She was a really lovely woman, when i watched the interview i was so moved by what she had to say, also a little sad that any young child would already need an 'escape' from their reality.

Sibling4 · 04/12/2011 21:47

So is the ninkynonk a bad thing? Because he says 'oh no, it's the ninkynonk' like it is. And if it is why?

I'm very confused by the whole thing Confused

DeWe · 04/12/2011 21:49

Whenever I've seen it (thankfully rarely) I always end up wondering what the writers took before they started to write it. Whatever it was I'm sure it wasn't legal. Xmas Grin