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New Fireman Sam is crap

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bubble99 · 14/04/2005 23:02

I mean, WTF! A huge disappointment when I saw it this morning. It used to be John Alderton doing all the voices. Pythonesque Dilys Price, Italianesque(?) Bella Lasagne and James and Sarah. It now has different voices for each character and has totally, IMO, lost it's charm.

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sacha3taylor · 14/04/2005 23:04

DS is 5 and keeps asking me what they have said - he doesn't understand them!

Likes the rescue helicopter though

marthamoo · 14/04/2005 23:06

You meana da Bella Lasagne, she a no a longer talka like-a dat-a?

Bearess · 14/04/2005 23:06

don't let ds hear you saying that bubble, he won't have a word said against it, although he calls it "pontypandy" instead of "FS" for some reason!

binkybetsy · 14/04/2005 23:07

What's the crackers hip/hop theme tune meant to be about!!

PuffTheMagicDragon · 14/04/2005 23:08

I know what you mean bubble, I loved the old one, but ds1 and 2 are crackers about the new one! Ds1 keeps asking me to sing "I Need A Hero" (complete with gravelly voice a la Bonnie Tyler) !

Dingle · 14/04/2005 23:10

Hi puff..she whispers...how's you sister doing? Well I hope.....

Willow2 · 14/04/2005 23:12

Short and to the point. I love thread titles like this.

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bubble99 · 14/04/2005 23:14

It's been so homogenised. Pontypandy was the kind of place where you'd get beaten up for wearing the wrong trousers and now it's a cosmopolitan hotspot. Too much too soon I say, they hadn't even got a cinema when I last looked, had to go to New Town and now it's like Sarf London. Absolutely shocking. I blame Blair.

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marthamoo · 14/04/2005 23:14

It has "I Need a Hero" as the theme tune?

No more putting on his coat and hat
Less than fifty seconds flat?

I can see I am going to have to watch it.

I don't like the new Postman Pat. But I didn't like the old one either.

PuffTheMagicDragon · 14/04/2005 23:15

Hi Dingle

Sis is so so - consultant now not convinced she has lupus, has had a lip biopsy to check for another form of connective tissue disorder....she's been waking up with her hands curled up like claws - unable to straighten them or her back and legs for about 2 hours . She feels v down as no one can get to the bottom of what's going on....

binkybetsy · 14/04/2005 23:18

They messed with the Noddy theme toon too! It's not right, our kids will be ridiculed in the pub when slightly older mates reminisce(?) about theme tunes and our kids start singing some revamped crap.
There could be pints spilled and everything with the embarrassment!

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bubble99 · 14/04/2005 23:18

Haven't heard Norman Price yet but I bet he's got an Eton accent now.

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PuffTheMagicDragon · 14/04/2005 23:19

marthamoo - "I Need A Hero" is cbeebies "lead in" song to the new series. The actual theme tune to Fireman Sam has been souped up too! I am shocked to the core, as I was when I saw the updated Andy Pandy - nothing like the "Watch With Mother" version of my childhood!

tortoiseshell · 14/04/2005 23:19

Can't bear it. Ds is obssessed by Fireman Sam so he couldn't wait for it to come on. All the characterisation has been lost, and it is just rubbish. Hate it hate it hate it.

Dingle · 14/04/2005 23:19

Sorry to interrupt the post, but I often think of her Puff (and you!) My mum is going through the wars ATM. I hope they get it sorted for you all.

I'll leave you to get back to Fireman Sam.

PuffTheMagicDragon · 14/04/2005 23:20

Thanks Dingle . Do hope things improve for your Mum too.

marthamoo · 14/04/2005 23:21

And Andy Pandy has his own house now - no more threesomes in the toy box with Teddy and Louby Lou.

binkybetsy · 14/04/2005 23:22

ooh er the old one sounds good. No wonder my mother remembers it fondly

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bubble99 · 14/04/2005 23:25

Well said, tortoiseshell. John Alderton always sounded as if he was slightly pissed during the recordings. Probably against health and safety laws now. I blame Blair.

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PuffTheMagicDragon · 14/04/2005 23:27

lol marthamoo re the threesomes !

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bubble99 · 14/04/2005 23:39

Is John Alderton still alive? I wonder why they didn't use him for the new series. Is anyone remotely interested?

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BigGayDad · 14/04/2005 23:51

I understand there is a new character being introduced. As far as I'm aware he's called Daffyd and is the only gay in Pontypandy

PuffTheMagicDragon · 14/04/2005 23:51

BGD

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bubble99 · 15/04/2005 00:05

BGD.A (very repressed) Station Officer Steele has already claimed that particular crown, I suspect.

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HappyDaddy · 15/04/2005 08:57

I thought yesterday's one about the girl having chickenpox so couldn't go to jamaica and her dad bringing the carnival to her was quite cool. Actually.

I need a hero.