To think Andy is dealing in illegal artefacts

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I mean, it makes more sense.

He's at work, soemthing gets broken, him and Jen work out it can't be fixed, she mentions TIME, he disappears for a few hours and comes back with it.
I reckon he's involved in illegal Jurassic artefact trading, rather than the completely unfeasible notion of using him time travelling clock (I'm OK with this bit) to go back to the Jurassic period (I'm OK with this bit) and somehow jet pack across the frozen tundra or sail down the rapids on the boat (this is the bit I think is implausible)

I worried it'll bring the Natural History Museum into disrepute.

And poor Jen is so in love with him she'd never tell

I am certain that Hattie is also in on this time travel malarkey. Why else would she have a backpack filled with all the things you could need for prehistoric time travel. Also, why hasnt she worked out somebody else is using the clock! Surely it would click when you find the gizmo covered in dinosaur drool/dung.
Although dh believes shes a time lord and the clock is her tardis. Who knows...

Ive never been able to unsee that he looks like Fatima whitbread

I was idly watching it today, as you do, he has lovely hair.

Ive never been able to unsee that he looks like Fatima whitbread

OMG. it’s uncanny. You’ve just ruined Andy for me.

I miss Sid. He was the highlight of my day when my kids were CBeebies age.

For a second I thought you were talking about The Archers. How wrong I was!

What I can never get over is how Andy seems to forget he has access to a time machine. In every episode there is an exchange where he says something like:

“But Jen, we can’t just fix the plaster cast of the dinosaur footprint, as we don’t have the time. Time... Hey, I have an idea! Wait here Jen!”

Given he uses the clock, like, all the time, you would think he would remember that it is an option.

Also, every episode starts in the evening, as they are closing up the museum, and ends in the morning, as they are about to open for the day. This weirdly implies that Jen has been sitting around the gallery all night, waiting for Andy to return. Doesn’t she ever get curious as to what he is doing?

ASatisfying you've blown my mind with that, why didn't I think of that? Why doesn't Andy? In fact, since he KNEW the item he wanted was there 15 mins ago why doesn't he go back 15 mins and look after the item? Jesus Christ, this is ruined for me now.
Although if we're talking about Andy's Prehistoric Adventures why isn't the janitor guy sacked? It's ALWAYS him who bins/ destroys the artifact of great importance, why aren't they asking why this shit keeps happening and investigating that?

I'm worried about what might have happened to Hatty, did she get wise to the artifact smuggling? She just 'disappears' without explanation to be replaced by someone more gullible (Sorry Jen).

My main bug bare is when he replaced a model of a prehistoric fish with an actual fish, surely the museum would stink after a few days.

He is so very tall and therefore much better at nicking the artefacts to sell on illegally to fund his gambling habit.

Also, are there two programs with him?
Jurassic adventures, baby animals (all David A footage) , the biome one, then if you press the red button there's his raps and also some fitness things.

Not only is it RIGHT THERE but... WE STILL HAVE TUMBLE WEED!! no need to go back umptey tump million years and jeopardise the survival of egg eating dinosaurs, just get one off ebay!! pretty much summarised mine and DH's convo as I too yelled at Andy and Jen

He can't go back to 15 minutes ago because he doesn't control it. Seriously, you've watched the guy not be able to find a tumble weed, you really think he knows how to use the clock. It uses him!!

Yeah the working through the night thi G is weird. They're always nearly finished then the guy who mustn't speak buggers it up, Andy is gone til 9 am and Jen just Mumsnets for 12 hours in the baby name board for her and Andys imaginery kids

I’m either pissed or on mumsnet

I love this thread!

I can buy the travelling back in time part, but I really struggle when he uses a wet suit as a giant catapult to land in a geyser which then shoots him onto the back of a dinosaur...like that would ever happen

Exactly mummy, it's like they're seeing how far they can push us!!

What do you mean there's still tumbleweed? I want some, where will I find it? I'll keep it in the kitchen cupboard and just hurl it at DH whenever he blahs on about whatever shit he's found on Google today (he's off sick for a few months after an op and he's driving me MAD, it's tumbleweed or a smack over the head with a crutch).

Oh sorry, the app mustn't have loaded the extra page/s before my first post so I missed the where to find tumbleweed and the pp about the awful janitor. I'm off to ebay, tumbleweed here I come!!

This weirdly implies that Jen has been sitting around the gallery all night, waiting for Andy to return. Doesn’t she ever get curious as to what he is doing?

This is how men manage to lead double lives "I'm just off to find a dinosaur in my time machine, won't be long". It's like in that documentary about Rodney off of Only Fools and Horses, the one where he's got a time machine in his shop and he's having an affair in a nasty raincoat.

If DH had a time machine he'd definately use it for dinosaurs not sex and never both together

Mine would have to take his time machine apart to see how it works then add on some random "improvement". He's like that lunatic from back to the future.

Tbf some fine tuning on the timing WOULD help. Like 15 minutes ago instead of 4 billion years give or take a few hundred thousand

It annoys me there’s no concern about the butterfly effect. You can’t just go messing about transporting organic matter from another time period. It’s harder to get through Australian customs!

Oooh imagine if there had been microorganisms in the ice that once melted invaded our world!!

New series?