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Original poster

In my perceptions of the Pontypines and Wattingers?

48 replies

mrscog · 15/10/2013 19:45

So I was watching ITNG with DS this evening and I decided the following.

The Pontipines are the lovely neighbours who look after pets while you're on holiday, have a cheery chat over the fence, grow their own vegetables.

The Wattingers are the slightly racist Daily Mail BNP types (think Dursleys in Harry Potter) and they'd always say 'hello' but really be judging you left right and centre and think we should bring back the cane etc.

AIBU?

OP posts:
StanleyLambchop · 15/10/2013 19:57

Are they the ones who have a very lax attitude towards family planning?

Original poster
mrscog · 15/10/2013 19:58

Yes, both families are clearly using some kind of rhythm/withdrawal method.

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Handbagsonnhold · 15/10/2013 20:00

They don't seem to BBQ together much do they?!

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mrscog · 15/10/2013 20:04

Yes you see I think the Pontipines are probably too lax to organise one and the Wattingers too tight to pay for the ingredients despite being loaded.

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Chippednailvarnish · 15/10/2013 20:08

Maybe Mrs P is shagging Mr W and is actually concerned about the parentage of some of her brood.
That or they're swingers.

SquinkiesRule · 15/10/2013 20:10

I'm amazed that social services haven't got involved. They let the children ride on the roof of that bus/train thing the other week, not a car seat in sight. All those kids so few bedrooms.

Handbagsonnhold · 15/10/2013 20:10

Oh dear God! I knew that Pinky ponk was being used after hours for immoral purposes.....

Inclusionist · 15/10/2013 20:12

The pinkyponk is clearly a floating gin palace.

Gooeyhead · 15/10/2013 20:14

If Mrs P was shagging Mr W would their off-spring be purple?? Grin

openerofjars · 15/10/2013 20:15

Mr P hasn't got a clue, poor man, although Mrs W has noticed some red flags (and some green birds, giant trees and yellow flowers, but that's beside the point).

CackleCackle · 15/10/2013 20:15

YABU because they are the Wottingers.

ZombiesAteMyCunnyFunt · 15/10/2013 20:22

Oh is that who lives next door to the Pontipines?? I have never seen their next door neighbours!

Heartbrokenmum73 · 15/10/2013 20:35

No, we (DD and I) have always been creep-ed out by the Wattingers and their obsessive stalking of the Pontipines. They just follow the Pontipines around - that's their only purpose in the show!

But then, I don't much like the Pontipines either and it took me a very long to get over the fact that Iggle Piggle looks like a serial killer wearing a sack over his head with eyeholes cut out. I am over it, really, I am (shudder).

CackleCackle · 15/10/2013 20:52

I like The Wottingers because they are Leeds colours, Pontipines are Manchester United colours.

StanleyLambchop · 15/10/2013 20:54

Isn't it all just one long trip of the scriptwriters anyway? have you heard they are re-making the Clangers? I am actually unfeasibly excited by that!

bigredtractor · 15/10/2013 20:56

I actually think that the Pontypines are embarking on some sort of ethnic-cleansing pogrom against the Wattingers. They're starving them out by eating all the picnic, hide from them mercilessly in the garden and leave them behind on the ninky nonk.

The shits.

ScarletLady02 · 15/10/2013 21:01

What's hilarious is if I'd read this thread 2 months ago I'd have NO clue what you were all going on about...however now DD LOOOOOOOVES ITNG.

I get woken up by an Iggle Piggle and Upsy Daisy through the monitor every morning.

"Hello Upsy Daisy! Hello Iggle Piggle!"

FUCK OFF

NoIHaventHadTheBabyYet · 15/10/2013 21:02

They are not swingers. They dont have pampas grass outside their home.

mrspremise · 15/10/2013 21:04

And Cookie Monster is going to be on cBeebies, yay! but boo to Elmo, the ticklish twat

ScarletLady02 · 15/10/2013 21:07

They're not going to CGI the cookie monster or the clangers are they? I think I will cry if that happens.

StanleyLambchop · 15/10/2013 21:07

Oh wow I love the cookie monster. He is one dude who really knows how to enjoy food! Will Oscar the Grouch be joining him?

rumbleinthrjungle · 15/10/2013 21:56

Thank God I'm not the only one worried about them. Its the kind of tightly naice 'wave to the Wattingers' comment that makes me think they're not really on speaking terms at all. It's all rather Hyacinth Bucket.

But then the other day the Pontipine parents lost their children, shrugged and went home, and later on the children were fired down the chimney by a washing-line catapult. So that was all right then.

Mind you, it's no worse than the Teletubbies where some unseen deity just materialises random objects in their vicinity.

KissesBreakingWave · 16/10/2013 14:25

I always see the Pontypines and Wattingers as like those tiny little creatures - often insects, ants are most famous for it - that swarm over much larger creatures and in a million tiny bites skeletonise them in a matter of minutes.

It doesn't help that ITNG is on right as the morning's pills are giving out and just before it's time to take the evening ones...

stinkingbishop · 16/10/2013 14:29

This is how sad my life is. I've actually imagined a Pointless round, which is characters in ITNG. Obviously about 45% for Upsy Daisy and Iggle Piggle. The 3 lowest answers would be Haboos/Wottingers/Pontypine. With the Wottingers potentially pointless.

As am I...

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 16/10/2013 14:32

Never mind this, I didn't realise Mr Pontypines's moustache was removable!

Why do the Wattingers never get to go to bed? They must be very tired.