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To wish a CBEEBIES character DEAD

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likeacrow · 12/03/2018 18:25

Bing: some kind of child rabbit with a weird old man sock puppet who follows him around as his full time carer. For the uninitiated, his escapades mainly involve him whinging and moaning about some shit like dropping an ice cream or finding a weird potato or wanting a plaster...
Surely THE most annoying TV character ever to be dreamt up. He's such a whiny little nobhead! Unfortunately my almost 1 year old bloody loves him. Sometimes it's the only way I can get her to eat her tea, by having this idiot on the tele.
He makes me feel genuine anger.
Give me Peppa any day of the week over this needy dickhead.
Anyone else...?

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norbert23 · 12/03/2018 22:24

Relieved that nobody wants to take out captain barnacle. Legend.

Dixiestampsagain · 12/03/2018 22:25

I was prepared to say yabu but fair play, Bing? YABcompletelyR. I’ve never made it through an episode. Thank the lord mine have moved on from CBeebies...although I’m not sure that ‘Sam and Cat’ or iCarly is an improvement..

KNain · 12/03/2018 22:28

I hate Bing but my DS (2) is obsessed.

My favourite bit though is the one where Bing doesn't get on the toilet train with all the others and then inevitably wets himself (how did Flop not see that coming?! Has he met Bing?)

And then when she had to clean up the mess and Bing says something like "I tried to hold it", Amma says "oh you tried did you?" in the most sarcastic voice ever. It's probably the only time one of the ineffective adults lets their guard down.

feellikeanalien · 12/03/2018 22:30

FlashThe Sloth. These are absolutely brilliant. I particularly like the one about Mummy's hangover.

ReanimatedSGB · 12/03/2018 22:36

Anyone remember the best show CBeebies ever aired - Space Pirates? I was so pissed off when they replaced it with the horrible Zingzillas with its wierd Ibiza beach bar take on kids' entertainment and its teethgritting sexism...

MillieMoodle · 12/03/2018 22:42

Cannot stand Bing. The worst bit is where he trips over in the intro bit and he and one of his twatty little friends say "Yah", "he's okaaay" in the most stuck up, precocious voices ever. Listen out for it next time, it'll make you want to smash the TV up before you even get to whatever's a "Bing thing" that day.

Don't understand Little Roy at all. Why have none of the family noticed that he's a cartoon?

Agree that Captain Barnacle is a legend. Quite like Go Jetters too Blush

BabloHoney · 12/03/2018 22:50

Also, why does Bing wear clothes and Flop doesn’t? Is Flop, like, some kind of weird naturist?

goose1964 · 12/03/2018 22:55

My grandson loves Bing, but he's only 1. I don't know if there's any children's character I would kill but have been advised to avoid Peppa pig

MiddleClassProblem · 12/03/2018 22:59

So I think the Bing theory is that children are more important in their own worlds that’s why they are bigger, more detailed and er... clothed? Which does make sense with the “It’s a Bing thing” it’s like when a kid shoes you what they just figured out to do like it’s the most amazing thing.

BlueEyedBengal · 12/03/2018 23:06

Mr tumbles bloody hate him. There said it I feel so much now!

LRDtheFeministDragon · 12/03/2018 23:14

I'm fine with Bing.

Mr Tumble/ Justin I could cheerfully murder. And WTF is that with speaking in a stupid voice? 'Yes children, here you can learn that children with disabilities need adults to talk to them like idiots.' Such a good message, I don't think.

Unfortunately DD loves him and would like to climb into the TV to stroke him.

Definitely want to kill Topsy and Tim. And the fucking Go Jetters. What are they for? What the fuck is the backstory/plot? There is none. All it is is a shitty geography lesson shoehorned into children's TV. Because the one thing three year olds really need to know is that there are circular rocks in Kazakhstan.

Ginnotginger · 12/03/2018 23:19

I loathe Baby Jake, well I suppose it's more fecking Isaac who narrates everything. In the Night Garden - just why, dear God why?
Bing, I have learned to ignore.
I would love to have Great Aunt Lizzie's house but those teacups would be smashed to smithereens.
I used to like Little Robots and QPootle5 but ended up watching them on my own as dgs wasn't impressed Blush

Forevertired19 · 12/03/2018 23:29

Bing. I HATE him. I hate he can't speak properly and I'm worried dd will pick up "I'm all germish flop!" or "I BROKEDED it Flop!"
Annoys me.
It pisses me off how everything never goes his way. Although the panda is one of the worst characters out there. An padget?! Wtf is she doing? He needs disciplining the most and she does fuck all but encourage it.
And don't get me started on coco. 😡 what a brat. I can never figure out if she's Charlie's mom or not. Is that odd? Why doss she cart him round then act like a child? Or have I not seen this weird peanut dad yet?

I just really hate bing OK? I prefer dd to watch Sarah and Duck

SignoraStronza · 12/03/2018 23:30

I loathe Bing and Flop, but whether I hear Flop's voice, my mind immediately wanders to Mark Rylance in that film "Intimacy", where what he put in Kerry Fox was certainly not a "Flop".
Wish I'd never seen that bloody film. All sorts of wrong. 😶

Forevertired19 · 12/03/2018 23:31

Oh, I second Mr tumble too.. Ugh!

PoohBearsHole · 12/03/2018 23:45

At least you still get CBEEBIES - we have moved on to the american pre-teen shit.

They all deserve to be nuked.

JessieMcJessie · 12/03/2018 23:57

My 18 month old has never seen Bing because, like many above, I hate that he doesn’t speak properly. We only watch CBeebies on iPlayer so I am hoping that he never learns of his existence. Do you reckon that’s possible? LOVE the Twirlywoos though, and Duggee.

Carouselfish · 13/03/2018 00:04

Hey Duggee is amazing!
Who the heck want their kids to watch My Little Pony though? Worst 'liketotallyomg' whiney awful American voices and all about shopping and other superficial crap.
PJ Masks is my current endurance test. Even my 2 year old says with a sigh, 'ugh, they saved the day AGAIN.'

Dixiestampsagain · 13/03/2018 00:07

PoohBearsHole I feel your pain...

Pavlova31 · 13/03/2018 00:18

Barnaby Bear. That whining voice and so smug.

SleepingStandingUp · 13/03/2018 00:20

Coco is def Charlie's sister, he's only a, baby.

We love Pablo, DS adores Yakka Dee, but currently surviving on DVD repeats of Dinosaur Train and frigging Diego!

Pando def needs punishing more than Bing.

Small Potatoes do indeed rock.

DioneTheDiabolist · 13/03/2018 00:22

Aw shit. I have all this ahead of me. Again. I really thought those days were behind me.

MiddleClassProblem · 13/03/2018 00:22

Grandpa in my pocket is annoying too but doesn’t seem to be on so much now. I never really pay attention but he always seems to be twatting about and getting someone else in trouble.

Lizzie48 · 13/03/2018 00:26

Lola from 'Charlie and Lola', a real spoiled brat!! Where are the parents?? Grin

SleepingStandingUp · 13/03/2018 00:27

Grandpa is a manipulative old codger. He makes himself small so he can interfere to make himself feel important, gets the kids lying to their parents then acts all old and feeble "sleeping" ask the time. I'd send him to a nursing home

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