The size of the Ninky Nonk

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So I get that IN The Night Garden is just the delusional dreams of Iggle Pigglr whilst he dies of exposure and dehydration on his boat

BUT

one minute it's small enough to run up branches then its big enough for Iggle to get into the smallest bit at the back. When Iggle and Upsey are in the woods the trees look normal size so it can't be that its a huge train and the trees are even larger.

It plays with me head

The toddler doesn't care

OH and I used to take gets as to whether it would be the pinky ponk or the ninky nonk in the opening scene.

And I was very pleased with myself the day I learnt the Pontipines neighbours were called Wottingers and not "blue Pontipines".

The sizing of the ninky nonk drives me batty
Plus it has beautiful relaxing start - a baby going off to sleep, relaxing music then when the programme actually starts it's just fast and crazy and not relaxing at all

Although in our house we've since graduated to SpongeBob and that makes ITNG look like the Theory of Relativity.

😂😂.

Love this thread

This thread has made my night. I have also wondered the same things.

Magical, just magical ❤️

This actually reminds me. My MIL thinks Upsy Daisy is a, and I quote, "hussy" because she is constantly lifting her skirt up and ending up in Iggle Piggles bed.
It made me wonder if it is a guilty pleasure of hers and she watches it when the grandchildren aren't there as she doesn't have them that late...

This thread is ace.

smileeachday - any chance I can steal your comment for my next namechange please?

Its a long time since I had to watch it, but the music still makes me tearful, reminding me of post baby #7 hazy days.

It's because Iggle Piggle is a time lord, and the ninky nonk is his obviously!

Tardis, obviously 🙄

I miss the night garden days! (only a bit!)

at pontypines on benefits

DD love ITNG, in particular Iggle Piggle. I fucking despise the pinky ponk-not sure why though. It really irritates me.

I loved ITNG too. I used to try to draw maps of the Night Garden, working out where the Tombliboos house was in relation to the bridge, etc. But...you can't map it! The relative positions change from episode to episode. I'm starting to think it may not be filmed in a real garden after all...

Kraykray my MIL used to call upsy daisy a hussy too. Tbh, she used to get quite het up about the whole show, pretty much every time she came round when my kids watched it. It's a completely bonkers show that you just have to go with, otherwise it sends you mad! Love makka pakka and his stones, weird little guy!

Dream sequences - basically the writers be high AF

That whole programme played with my mind. I was so glad when the dc moved on to Peppa Pig. I wasn't glad for long though....

And what is going on with the Wattingers and Pontipines. Serious bedroom tax going on there.

I read something once about Mrs Pontipine and Mr Wattinger having an affair and she gets pregnant and has loads of purple babies!

camelfinger It's the same with the Tombliboos' house. Fairly small from the outside but massive on the inside
Dr Who fan, I'm down with TARDIS Tombliboos house

BastardGoDarShow. Is wiggle piggle dying in that boat?!
Makes sense to me. You never see him get in or out of the boat. He's not allowed to sleep there. The Ninky Nonk nonsense. Its a dream but he's alone in the middle of the ocean. Stranded far from land...

DH thinks the Hoo Haas are dark overlords

Me too, Mrs.W... I've never watched a children's TV programme. Not since I was a child, anyway!

So my theory is Upsey Daisy, whilst working in a club on a stage got pregnant with the triplets (tombliboos). She hid them in the weird green hill house then pretended to find them so she could look after them but still look vitreous. She's desperately flirting with Iggle for his money and the security for her and the kids but he's a manchild obsessed with the nodding red blanket. Makka is like the crazy uncle they keep in the cave and they make him wash everyone's faces to pay his way

Purple Wottipines!

Jacobi must be on the bones of his arse if he's narrating this...

I wonder if he sits there in the recording studio with his head in hands and an empty bottle of vodka yelling: 'I've played Hamlet, Richard 2, Propero in the sodding tempest, Macbeth and Claudius in I, Claudius, and i played opposite Olivier in the first production at the National.60 years later I'm narrating an infant's acid flashback. I've got more Tonys and Emmys than you can shake a stick at, but I'm reduced to narrating an infant's acid flashback. You wouldn't catch Rylance or McKellen anywhere near this crap'!

You wouldn't catch Rylance or McKellen anywhere near this crap'!

Oh, the irony!

And who is driving either of them?

Ninky Nonk every time as it must be terrifying when the Pinky Ponk ponks into a tree.

Hannah Hiles theory about Iggle Piggle's dying sailor delusion