To think Mrs Topsy and Tim

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is supremely annoying.

As are "the twins"

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The question that always bugged me is WHY is Tony called Tony Welch?! Why not just Tony? It annoys me every single time...

Nunn that was brilliant! I really hope you are a comedy writer, if not you should be!!

Sadly Topsy and Tim and their irritating mother Joy have moved into our house (in her imagination) . We get in the car "YOU CANT SIT THERE, THATS TOPSY'S SEAT" - we get to nursery "C'mon Topsy, we dont want to be late" she gets home "Topsy says she doesnt like this lunch, she wants crisps". And who drew on the walls with my mascara - Topsy of course. Tim is around, somewhere, but doesnt seem to do much.

I have told her before now that I will tell Joy to take them home if they continue to be rude, mess up my stuff or demand crisps with menace.

Found this a few weeks back

hurrahforgin.com/2016/09/20/topsy-and-tim-mummy-loses-the-plot/

Thanks all!

I'm trying to get my mostly comedic blog off the ground, but it's a Mossy Dog-eat-dog world out there.

If you are interested, I'm at my username .com

I must be channelling her to some extent, I realise embarrassingly.

Everyone, but everyone, in the street, the shops, the park knows my DS' name. Also my DD's name (and though my DS occasionally develops selective deafness and runs off, my DD is clingy).

I never have any idea what any other child in the park's name is. How do other parents get away without calling their child by their name every 3 seconds? I have no idea. Please share your secrets.

Today's episode my fave as filmed near us. So Dd able to scoff throughout at them having to get the bus from the optometrists to the play cafe (it's just across the road! What's the matter with you?!) plus at the end as mossie's illness revealed she screeches in delight "yes! It's dead Mossie next!"
Not sure my household is getting the earnest messages intended ....
Mum is a classic stepford mum .... something scary deffo going on behind the facade ....

Dying at "yes! It's dead mossie next!"

nun love flopsy and dim - when my dcs were young we called them tipsy and tom - dcs got so upset!!

In the books she is often looking cross or stressed at it all, though she doesn't say so, but that's been written out of the TV series.

nunnthewiser spot on, hilarious!

Mrs Twin was a Police officer on EE, she was just the same. until she got bumped off poor Tts

I find their friend Mr Rosen, who likes to watch them from his window, rather creepy.
The mum always looks a teeny tiny bit pissed off when he turns up at their house.
I also detect a bit of tension between the mum and her MIL (Grandma, who has Mossy. Incidentally, I consider that dog to be the best actor in the entire shower of shite that is Topsy and Tim).

I hate it when she comes out with her p effect voice saying twintabulous toptastic hahaah who really says that.

Also, why is it mummy and dad? Why not mummy and daddy, or mum and dad? I know it's the same in the books, but irrationally pisses me off every time anyway.

Also, one whole series seemed to be devoted to the very tedious process of conveyancing.

This programme gives me the utter rage. I often upset my toddler by muttering things like 'A dinner party the night before you move house? Who does that? Where will people sit? Did you really not pack the crockery already so you could eat that bloody trifle?' or 'Great Dominique, what the hell are they supposed to do with a tin of muffins when they are literally just about to walk out of their old house? They are only moving a few streets away, take the muffins to the new house!'
Mummy clearly spends large parts of the day drinking neat gin in the bathroom or screaming into a pillow, dreaming of the days when she talked to people with adult words and wore colours like red and purple. When she went to 'visit Granny Molly' she must have been in rehab, probably joined by Flop and Amma from Bing...

I watched one with my two year old DS (who adores T&T). They were babysitting Tony Welch while his mum was in labour.
And the mum took it upon herself to announce the birth of the baby, and his name, to both Tony and a load of other people. Clearly can't stand the thought of any attention being diverted from her magnolia paint husband and more-irritating-than-thrush twins.
Thunder stealing witch.

^^more irritaiting than thrush
laughed out loud at that totally spot on

I clicked on this thread in the hope it was slagging her off as I have an irrational dislike of the fictional woman.

You forgot she also goes jogging. On top of all the mumsy shit, she has time to go jogging!!

Ooh, I love this twintastic thread! "Brian and Joy" - clearly swingers! CLEARLY! And I too had wondered why we seemed to be stuck in a loop of never seeing the new baby. It was mentioned, then we lapsed into the Topsy timewarp again, doomed to replay Mossy's death for ever and ever. I love the fact that elements of it are still so 1960s/70s: children called "Tony Welch"; no qualms about hanging out with creepy Mr Rosen and his obsessive waving interest; trifle as dinner party pudding. And what happens after the trifle? Well, thanks to this thread, I now know...

And while we're here, I'd also add that the fact that they're meant to be four years old really boils my piss.
I've yet to come across a four year old with an almost full set of adult teeth in RL.
The first time I heard the mother say it was time to go to nursery, I choked on my coffee. They look closer to starting bloody senior school than reception!

Boop DH and I are waiting for Tim's voice to break.

The teeth thing really pisses me off. There is a whole episode where they go to the dentist, and he tells them that quite soon they will get their first wobbly tooth. I was practically yelling at the TV that they have a full set of adult teeth already!

I need to get out more. But it's DD's favourite program, much to my annoyance!