It seems every time I stick CBeebies on it's "The Large Family." Which is an utterly tedious, unfunny cartoon about a boring family in a boring town doing boring things. But they are all elephants. Why? Why are they elephants and not people?
"Arthur" is bad enough. I don't even know what sort of animal Arthur is supposed to be. He looks like nothing on God's earth. But at least all the families look different.
In "The Large Family" all the elephants look exactly the same except the three hairs on top of their heads are arranged in different ways. Even I have better things to do with my day than scrutinise elephants' haircuts FGS.
I appreciate that Beatrix Potter started all this with Peter Rabbit and his blue jacket and camomile tea. But at least he had some real rabbit issues in his life, like risking being put in a pie by Mr McGregor.
Why can't The Large Family face some real elephantine issues, instead of just the trials of babysitting or having the bath overflow?
Why not:
- drama as ivory poachers are spotted in town
- Mrs Large faces antenatal depression as her pregnancy enters its second year
- a plague of mice terrorise the family
- Mr Large goes to a clinic, worried that his penis is only two feet long