To find Bing Bunny downright infuriating?

[BoopTheSnoot]

It's everything; their odd world where all the grown-ups seem to be plush toys with absolutely no explanation as to why.
The way Bing behaves like a total shit but all the plush toys find him adorable and charming.
The panda who insists on whipping his pants off all over the place.
DS loves it but the whole programme drives me insane! I'm aware that I should probably get out more

The speech thing is deliberate, according to the speech therapist who is named in the credits

twitter.com/speech_woman/status/432310475359911936

We have the books too, it really isn't clear if Flop is a character or Bing's toy, in one he gets lost under the bed and the narrator has to help Bing find him. It's totally baffling.
DD loves him, I had to knit a Bing and Flop last Christmas as the toys weren't available yet

DC3 loves it (he's watched seven episodes this evening while I've been sorting laundry). It's very gentle. And Flop won his Oscar this year, you know.

I don't like the fact Bing uses incorrect words and never gets corrected.

It's both pointless and confusing to correct children explicitly. Flop always implicitly corrects.

eg

B: Flop, I breaked it.
F: You broke it? Oh dear.

Children don't understand that you're correcting the form of what they say. They assume you're correcting the content.

eg

Child: I breaked it
Adult: No, you broke it.
Child: thinks I did breaked it. Why is Daddy saying I didn't?

We've got the Big Bing Book, which DS loves to look at with me and DH. I actually don't mind the book, it's got lots of educational bits and bobs in it and I can't hear the damn rabbit's annoying little voice
We also have the My Friend Bing which walks and talks, and quite frankly scares the shit out of me. Gah, hopefully it'll run out of steam in good time and go to the annals of history along with such monstrosities as Tikkabilla and Higgledy Piggledy House.

I'm always when people complain about Bing's behaviour and whinging. Do ANY OF YOU ACTUALLY HAVE A TODDLER?
I think he's spectacularly compliant. I don't recall Flop EVER having to carrying him out of Padget's shop kicking and screaming That can't just be my kids surely?!

My DD likes to narrate episodes of Bing, and 99% of the time the commentary is simply "Bing sad." That rabbit spends his whole life pouting.

Sula is my favourite, I like how she knows the proper names for all the flowers.

I don't recall Flop EVER having to carrying him out of Padget's shop kicking and screaming

Of course you don't. Bing is about 3 times as big as Flop. Flop carrying Bing is physically impossible.

Perhaps Flop is slipping some sort of sedatives into Bing's food to keep him more or less docile?

P.S. it's not just your kids. I've had to carry both mine out of places kicking and screaming on occasion.

Flop's definitely adding something to those carrotty bagels

My 20 month old DS recently lost it in Asda because I wouldn't let him pick up a bottle of wine from underneath the fish counter
So I'm no stranger to carrying a screaming toddler out of a shop. But that's my point- the way Bing behaves is handled so unrealistically. I'm fairly certain that Flop is on drugs.

I saw this on FB earlier.

theyruinyourlife.com/2016/03/03/an-open-letter-to-flop/

We went to see Bing and Flop at Golden Square today. The queue was over two hours long.

Can you imagine what toddlers are like after a two-hour snaking queue?

Oh MrsHathaway, plenty of for you, bet you'll need it after being among that all afternoon!

This happened after watching "Bing" the other day

Small one: "I'll be a dog and have a poo. You be Bing and step in the poo, Mummy!"
Me: "No!"

I am not a Bing thing

Fortunately Boop our toddler is gullible young enough to have been impressed enough by a look from about ten feet away when the queue snaked past the finish line, about forty minutes in. We decamped to Debenhams for and .

I've just knitted a Flop!

I want to slap the fur off him Hahaha! That cracked me up

I love Bing, but I'm fairly sure Flop is snorting crushed up aromatherapy candles. He is waaaaay too mellow, unrealistically so. He is Unflappable Flop.

I would personally love to be as calm as Flop, it would wonderful to be utterly unruffled by my two toddlers' frequently irritating behaviours, but alas I think I would have to inject valium into my eyeballs to ever be so relaxed.

I find the programme immensely soothing though, far more so than the likes of bratty Peppa Pig and that horrendous Baby Jake which my kids very unreasonably seem to love.

Mightywease that literally made me laugh out loud.
Chickenrunchicken I think I would need to be lobotomised to be as calm as Flop. Seriously, there has to be something going on there that dulls his ability to get irritated!

I agree that it would be lovely to be as calm as Flop. My DS though would walk all over him, I wish I didn't have to cajole him and physically remove him from situations (not all the time! But at crisis points like some shown in the show) but he (often) does not give a shit for reasonable Flop esque explanations. Like the one where he and Sula are in the shop and both want to buy the same toy. No way a calm approach would be enough to prevent my boy melting down in that kind of situation! Definitely agree that he is unrealistically compliant.

Octonauts annoys me too. It tries to put in scientific facts but blends them with utterly unrealistic stuff like octopuses driving (is that the right word?) submarines and cats in diving suits.

For some strange reason I always looked at it like they were all orphans and the toys were foster carers or a nanny, etc.

I would kill to handle situations like Flop. And I find Bing bearable for the most part (I would definitely not let him do half of what he does though!) but I enjoy how relaxed the show is (No gaudy, bright colours etc) and Flop's voice I find so easy on the ears.

Then again in the history of telly there will never be anything I hate more than Peppa fucking Pig. The little brat I've never seen her reprimanded once for things that I would flip my shit about. (Bashing mammy's computer being right up there). She's just so snotty and rude. Oh and In The Night Garden bloody hurts my ears with its plinking and plonking.

Therefore Bing is my "bearable" cartoon

We love Bing in our house. DS1 has ASD & loves the way they explain what's happened, how it makes them feel, why & how it can be resolved. He gets a bit over involved sometimes though & there are certain episodes I avoid now because they make him cry, even though he knows it will get resolved!

DS1 also behaves like Bing a lot of the time & I find I can channel Flop to a point after watching it & life actually is calmer, especially if I do everything "in a Amma voice". My accent is atrocious & sounds nothing like her but he seems to appreciate the effort!

Coco gives me the rage. I also avoid episodes with her in just because she makes me so angry!

DS2 seems to be coming out the other. side of his Bing phase now. I could put up with the cartoon, and we like the books. But I did find myself getting unreasonably jealous of just how bloody nice everything was. A really lovely house, garden and local area. Every thing is calm, neat and tidy. It often made me feel shit, as I lived in chaos, mess and couldn't cope with situations. But, I do have depression and I know that's not really the cartoon's fault. :) I'm quite glad that we're moving on from Bing.