To want to nuke the night garden

[MadCreamLady]

I'm sorry, but i just can't take any more fecking iggle piggle and tombliboos and their mind destroying gobledegook. I only have to hear their out of tune piano playing in the background and i want to reach for the brandy!! It is utter utter shite!

I actually started a thread when it came out singing its praises but now i just loathe it, and my DD doesn't like it either. So, please mr BBC can we have it removed from the bedtime slot where i like to chill out with my DD and not have to listen to some sort of frantic jazz type music (you know, the sort with no melody/rhythm that makes my hair stand on end). Can't we just have an hour of charlie and lola instead - i heart charlie and lola.

Not only that, if you want to buy your child a scooter/bike/lunchbox/pjs/well, anything really - chances are it will have that blue little runt on it somewhere

yabu - its sweet

YANBU. So glad my dcs have grown out of it.

YANBU. Nuke the little fuckers from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.

Can we do Tellytubby land while we're at it?

YABU! It's a little bizarre but the more British TV progs the better I reckon. Hate all the american ones.

Having said this, that Upsy Daisy is sooo up herself. Does it ever occur to her that she's a shite singer and everyone might not want to hear it??

Tellytubby land is post apocalyptic anyway non? It's been nuked and this is what happened after.

My son's speech therapist told me that she hates it, especially, more than say, balamory or granny murray or the number jacks because there is NO proper speaking in it.

Still, my son loves it, and sits there mesmerised by it. Even though it's the one she told me not to let him watch if I'm letting watch tv at all. (I shamefully admitted that I did let him watch tv occassionally)

YANBU. Sooo boring and slow. Ds does not know of its existence

Liffey - what about all the stuff Brother Cadfael Derek Jacobi does?

My son doesn't watch that! Unless, am I being thick, does derek jacobi do voiceovers for children's tv programmes?!

Liffey, there is a narrator all the way through isn't there?
OP YABU, turn of the tv if it bothers you!

off even

oh yeah, you're right! So, I don't know why she hates it for that reason (no speech).

i'm a bit that your speech therapist said NO telly! REstrict it yes, but the SALT i spoke to said tht she is realistic and understands that TV is not all bad. But i still HATE the night garden, hate it hate it hate it.

my dd loves it but does my head in. At least the teletubbies spoke english.

Oh no, don't worry, she did say restrict it! not 'no tv at all ever'. I wouldn't be typing away here now if it weren't for tv!

Hmm do you think the fallout might reach Fimble Valley too? Rocket Rockitt I say!

I think YABU to want it removed but, as a mum who listens to it drone on it the background far too often, I have to agree that it is annoying!

YABU everyone knows ITNG is meant to occupy your kids for 30 whole minutes while you mumsnet get on with some important work!

SunmmerC - you misunderstand me, i don't want to remove it from the viewing list, i want to drop a nuclear bomb on it and anhialate the lot of em , well, apart from macca pacca, i can sort of relate to his OCDishness.

MadCreamLady - Ahhh...now I understand. In that case YADNBU as long as you allow me to dance a dance of joy in the ashes of that god-forsaken garden!!

YAB SO U!!!! DD and DH are addicted to it (great when I need to get things organised and dd is grumpy). DH does a great igglepiggle dance

Pudding your dd watches far too much telly, you should be doing more worthwhile things with her instead like potty training and teaching her another language. Japanese would stand her in far better stead than makka pakka nakka crappa and upsy poopoo. I would never let my dc watch telly unless it was BBC4

scifinerd - are you for real? In an ideal world, children would never watch telly. But this isn't an ideal world and sometimes things need to get done around the house and a grumpy baby crying makes it really difficult to do that.

To think that an actor held in such high regard is saying 'Icka acka nicka nakka micka macka moo' or whatever the hell it is. Does he get paid a lot to do that?

SummerC I know pudding and the amount of tv her daughter watches is shameful.

never let it be said that I could recite word for word every line of every Horrid henry, Brum and Higgeldy House and that they should be ejected into the ether with igglepiggle and co