Night Garden

[hogshead]

ok i'm perhaps being a bit slow off the mark here given this programme has been on for years but DS has only just discovered it.

And oh how DS loves it!

But what i dont get is how one minute the ninky nonk is smaller than Iggle Piggle and the next Iggle Piggle is riding the ninky nonk quite easily.

I know its not real but it totally disorientates me!

I read an interview with the makers of the programme who said they decided to not be bothered by the changes in perspective and just went with it.

Apparently it's quite a hard programme to make and put together, all the fiddly bits of animation (pontypines / wattingers )take ages to do.

We have now had 3 years of it and I'll be gutted the day my 2 grow out of it,

Thank god it's not just me. It drives me fucking insane. Everything else I can cope with. But not that.

How can they get into something that they nearly trod on 5 minutes previously?

DH says i take it too seriously! and yet DH constantly asks `why arent the Wottingers in the programme more'

the whole perspective thing acually made me think i needed new glasses

although i have to admit as childrens programmes go it is quite relaxing (but personally i still prefer Something Special and Timmy Time )

The Pontipines are a right bunch of cunts.

As well as what Meglet says - the programme makers did a lot of research into what little children like and how they perceive things and one thing they noticed was that little children have no sense of scale. So to them it's perfectly possible for the ninky nonk to be smaller than igglepiggle and yet he fits inside.

I like the fact that the programme totally captures a toddlers view of the world and I think that why they like it so much.

Me and 13m DD love ITNG as well. I find it very relaxing actually. I like the Pontipines and wish the Wottingers got more screen-time.

I think the pontipines are neglectful parents and should be reported.

Runny grobbles for the children , rasberries and cream for them.

leaving the children to get home by themselves.. shocking behaviour and 8 children all in one room.

My son loves ITNG and we're taking him to see the live show on Saturday morning at the O2.

Makka Pakka has a very hard life - lives in a cave, forced to clean everything. And he has awful haemorrhoids...

My DD has just discovered ITNG and sits and watches it intently and jumps up and down when upsy daisy comes on - she is 10 months! It is like baby hypnosis.

It bugged me for ages who the voice was then I saw it was Derek Jacobi - anyway is it bad that I have never noticed all the perspective is wrong?

Mine love this too, and the perspective always bugs me. Am a pedant.

On the Pontipine/Wattinger issue. I want to know how they ended up with 8 kids when they sleep in separate beds (DH says that this is why they now sleep in separate beds).

Are the Pontipines Amish? And if so, why do they travel in the Ninky-Nonk, given that Amish communities shun new technology including cars?

Happywheezer - please can you explain about 'ronny/runny grobbles'?! Ds (now nearly 4) has been uttering this strange phrase for a couple of years now and I've no idea what it means!

I'd just presumed that he'd made it up - where does it come from?

i am also glad that i had not imagined the ninky nonk/pinky ponk perspective issues. i like it and DD (7 months) seems to enjoy it. I am just a bit concerned about the amount of kissing that goes on between iggle piggle and upsy daisy... :o