New Fireman Sam is crap

[bubble99]

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.

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

Likes the rescue helicopter though

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

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!

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

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) !

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

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

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.

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.

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....

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!

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

lol marthamoo re the threesomes !

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

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

BGD

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

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.