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Bing is an odd family set-up right?

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HarrietKettleWasHere · 09/07/2018 13:49

Just watching Bing.

In today's episode, Bing did a Lenny from of Mice and Men and squished a helpless butterfly in his great big sausage fingers.

Flop, his main carer, is, inexplicably, a termite sort of creature, so couldn't bring the butterfly back to life, even though he has the lovely RSC voice of Mark Rylance. The miniature elephant thing placated the children with the idea of a funeral.

So all the children cried, and they buried the butterfly in the garden and lobbed a load of drawings into the hole.

'Butterflies. It's a Bing thing!'Confused

The episode the other week involved Mark Rylance as a termite popping to the shop for some carrots, which provoked a meltdown in Bing, as he was beside himself that Flop had left the house.

(Lighthearted. I am stuck indoors with a broken legged child. This is mostly new to me. But while we're at it how boring are Patchwork Pals?)

It might get more exciting, they keep plugging an advert for a dog that plays a guitar, and a woman in a pink jumper emblazoned with said dog's face twirling round for the joy of it.

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SleepingStandingUp · 10/07/2018 20:51

DS ADORES Mr Maker! I have no idea. He doesn't even really like crafts etc. But Mr M is his dude!

ThinkingCat · 10/07/2018 20:59

I thought this thread was going to be about Chandler Bing's parents............

bandthenjust · 10/07/2018 21:02

I seen Bing briefly earlier and thought 'thank fuc k I don't have to watch this shit' - kids tended to mock it if anything.
Program in general is bizarre - I thought his carer was his teddybear come to life Confused maybe not...
I always remember the episode where he nicks a lolly, then pretty much gets away with it cause after all, its a 'bing thing'

bandthenjust · 10/07/2018 21:03

Is it wrong that i thinm Mr Maker is kinda hot?

LRDtheFeministDragon · 10/07/2018 21:03

dwang - YY, I always wonder that about the 'duggie hug'! I mean, I know he is a dog, and I know it is innocent, but I am jaded.

Can we talk about the horror that is Biggleton?

WTF is that?

Why?

SleepingStandingUp · 10/07/2018 21:03

Just wash his hair before you have sex with him

Badgerthebodger · 10/07/2018 21:10

LRD Biggleton it’s so fucking weird!! What is even happening? Strange cardboard town populated by weirdly stereotypical versions of grown ups in jobs. Frankie the businesswoman always does me in in her neat little suit with a miniskirt and her ankle boots that she can’t walk in Confused

NoProbLlama78 · 10/07/2018 21:12

Biggleton is terrible. They either need to get kids who can act or change the kids around like a game show or something.
Its a rip off of kidzania. Amd eamon holmes!!! Argh!!!

DuggeesWoggle · 10/07/2018 21:41

2 year old DS has recently started saying 'rainybow' instead of rainbow which is straight from Bing. He could say it properly until recently. Angry. The whiny little rabbity bastard. (Bing not DS although he has his moments).

Biggleton is utter shite although I do love the newsreader girl, she's fab. And I try and get DS to do the biggle wiggle but he just looks at me like I've gone mad. He's probably right...

You can tell my favourite cbeebies program by my username - a-woof Grin

DuggeesWoggle · 10/07/2018 21:43

Sleeping please tell me you got the wrong thread Confused

KittyB52 · 10/07/2018 21:53

Oh god, Mr Maker - you can see his eyes screaming “I only came here to deliver the post! I’ve been trapped here for years!”

YES! Grin

I have grown to love Biggleton. I like the fact that it's not full of child ac-TORS (ugh) and that Eamonn Holmes sings in it. DD loves it, and does the Biggle wiggle.

The most annoying thing about the Duggee hug is the child's voice saying 'Aaaah....Duggee hug' when NONE of the character's mouths move. Considering the detail that goes into the animation usually...

bluebellsparklypants · 10/07/2018 22:26

Getoffthetableplease

Great finding (the rabbit hole was worth it!)

GlomOfNit · 10/07/2018 23:18

God I LOVE Flop. I want him to look after me and be all zen and shit. Grin

I won't ever hear a word against Bing - my autistic son loves the bloody creature and it's expanding his receptive vocabulary brilliantly.

AudiQ2 · 10/07/2018 23:41

We went to Bing Live! last week Confused

Yeah..., this:

Absolutely soul destroying

Bing is an odd family set-up right?
Bing is an odd family set-up right?
Gurdyhurdy · 10/07/2018 23:41

I always thought flop and the other 'carers' we're childminders/ nannies Hmm

Gurdyhurdy · 10/07/2018 23:42

*were

SleepingStandingUp · 11/07/2018 00:15

DuggeesWoggle I was replying to bandthenjust

The best thing on used to be Small Potatoes but I love Tinga Tinga Tales too.
At least Biggleton hasn't gone sexist

Nanny0gg · 11/07/2018 00:31

Biggleton is terrible. They either need to get kids who can act or change the kids around like a game show or something.
Its a rip off of kidzania. Amd eamon holmes!!! Argh!!!

Spot on.

And I never twigged that was Eamonn Holmes. The singing...

I like the Duggee hug. Takes me back to the days when children could hug their teachers.

Choccyhobnob · 11/07/2018 11:26

I have found my people!

Bing is a fucking liability. I want some of whatever Flop is on, how does he not lose his shit! Pando is an arsehole and Padget deserves the punishment of having to care for him - why didn't she make the little shit get off the swing?? I do like Sula and Amma though.

My main question is who decides which animals are pets and which are humanised? Why are dogs and cats small and can't speak but rabbits, pandas and elephants are all the same size and are main characters?

alligatorsmile · 11/07/2018 17:51

Killing wives. It's a king thing made me properly lol in the office.

Autopsy and Dim always unnerves me because I'm sure in the books they're tiny wee and in the TV programme they're strapping great creatures.

Best kid's programmes are Mr Bean and Grizzy and the Lemmings. Fact.

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