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

Don't diss the Night Garden, it means that bedtime is nigh and the gin is in sight !

The Night Garden has terrifying power in our house. We happened to put it on entirely at random on the first epidode ever. DD1 was about 2. She cried everytime the characters went off screen, 'people! people!' and all the time the little one was sailing away in his boat and she knew it was getting to the end, and for half an hour afterwards. She then talked about it incessantly. So I girded my loins and we watched it again a couple of days later. Same thing, every cut to a new camera angle, new part of story, new characters. I couldn't cope with the angst and we didn't watch any telly at all for about six months!

naive question - are there really people inside all those costumes? And if so, how small is the one inside the makkapakka costume? (OBviously I know that the miniature things - pontypines, is it? - dont have people inside the costumes, I'm not quite that dim )

DH-ITNG guru, says they are all people. So is the Ninky Nonk

LMAO at this thread. My frustration with the Night Garden is that ds won't watch it.

I keep hearing that its hypnotic and young babies love it and he has never shown the slightest interest.

I have telly off most of the day when he is awake but put CBeebies on for Space Pirates at 5.30 because I like it and I also heart Charlie and Lola and would love to cuddle up with ds on the sofa and watch together.

He has other ideas.

Good for your ds, wasabi. Charlie and Lola are the devil's work. Allegedly.

I cannot bear Charlie and Lola. Ds1 likes it but I just lie and say it isn't on (and swiftly turn the tv off before he catches a glimpse of it).

I don't mind Charlie and Lola but have some ishoos with Peppa Pig and several more with Fifi and her flower friends, especially the other day when they had all the flowery types etc. all coming down a slide one after the other and kicking each other in the back as they piled up at the bottom - such a good example to set - NOT!