to ask for the definitive answer according to mumsnetters

[ollieplimsoles]

To this question: What is the most insufferable kids tv show of ALL TIME?

Me and dh both 90's kids, we were watching old clips on youtube last night of shows we watched as young kids (playdays, tots tv, fireman Sam, thomas the tank engine etc. ) and we began to think that some of them are extremely annoying as adults. We also watched a few from popular kids shows today.

In the run up for me has to be peppa pig and doc mstuffins...

The bloody Tweenies.

Thomas the tank engine is an asshole though. He never listens....

My kids are currently obsessed with him and his friends.

lights I still remember the original theme tune to Pokemon. I love it too, but ash should really be 30 by now...he was ten when he started on his journey in 1995.
(still have Pokemon red on my gameboy too)

Barney. I wish he'd go mad and eat people.
I also hate Tree-Foo-Tom. I think he's got a really annoying face, and I don't find any of the characters sympathetic. If pushed, I'd actually come down on the side of the evil mushroom characters. At least they see Tom's hypocrisy for what it is.
I also think Mike the Knight is sexist drivel. But dh keeps insisting it's a completely accurate representation of life in Medieval times. What do I know?

Hate hate hate Thomas the tank engine. Those that know (my 15 & 17 yr olds) report that he's even worse in his new incarnation.

There was a CBeebies (?) programme where the presenter used to gather a group of objects and then make a naff song about it. It was terrible. She couldn't sing. It was probably late 2000s. Can't think what it was called.

Boobah (humbah, zumbah, zing zing zingbah, jumbah, jingbah, Mr Man, Mrs Lady) Fuck me, it makes In the shite garden look positively tranquil.

Balamory is bad too (interestingly iPhone decreed 'bankruptcy' as an option). My juveniles still taunt me with the theme song. My response after 'wouldn't you like to know?) is always 'no. Piss off'.

Re Barney. My DS had is own version of the Barney song learnt at school.

I hate you, you hate me,
We're a crappy family,
With a gun against my head and dynamite in my paw,
No more purple dinosaur.

When I say learnt at school I mean in the playground, not taught by teachers.

Sorry Boohbah.
(although known as poohbah in our house).

also wasn't fond of the sodding shiny show.

Voices I hate: The annoying cah that voices Nanny plum and Miss Rabbit
Rockit and Bessie thora Bird in the fimbles
Shaun Hughes' Finbar in rubbadubbers

Justin Fletcher whilst annoying at least has his heart in the right place with something special and voices Timmy the lamb so gets a reprieve for now.

Barney, without question. Nothing anyone else has said comes even close to that fucking annoying purple dinosaur.

Sooty too. Miss Sue needed shooting.

Tweenies . I cannot be the only one who desperately wanted to slap that brat Bella to the far side of fuck . And then some.

And dont tell me Granny Murray wasn't on something either . No one , NO ONE is that fucking cheerful all the time .

Without the show you would not have had the brilliant Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker saying: What's the story in Bala-fucking-mory?!

Me Too - not a single character on that with a brain cell any redeeming features.

Granny Murray, postman bloody pat, the BBC news I am not a fucking child, stop speaking down to me and using patronising imagery and music

Oh and Dora the bleeding explorer.

Nor would I have had my dh talking back to Miss Hooley...
I know you don't I? What's your name? DAVE That's it...
We always worried about her lack of child protection whilst I marvelled at how many times she roped in other people to do Her Fucking Job.
Lazycah.

without doubt the fucking Tweenies.

banned in our house and the DC laugh at my dislike of them and try and sneak them on to wind me up.

The Tweenies make Dora, Peppa etc feel like lovely old chums.

I am inexplicably in love with the Backyardigans, though I can't find them atm.

Me Too (that was the Granny Murray programme).

Balamory. Bloody incompetent boobs the lot of them.

The new CGI Thomas.

Numberjacks

3rd and Bird is probably my very worst programme ever ever ever! God how Ioathe that utter utter shite! Please let me shoot Muffin.

Grampa in my pocket. Urgh a godawful shitty waste of airtime.

Topsy and FUCKING Tim. Aaaaaaargh!

What's with all the 'thank you mummy and dad' every 3 seconds, and calling everyone Mr and Mrs all the time.

Sadly DS loves it.

Rivercam was it Carrie and David's swap shop or something like that? I hated that.

And yes to grandpa in my pocket. Also Bodger and Badger and the Chuckle Brothers.

But still nothing comes close to that bastard Barney.

Muddlewitch - I'm with you but can I add that thing with the llamas who work in the dressing up shop with the man called something like Simon. Even the theme tune drives me
bonkers.

I love Balamory, but that might be because I have a relative who pops
up in the background like Captain
Scuttle :)

Andy Pandy. Setting the bar for annoyingness at a very high level from the start of children's TV.