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Me too - has the unthinkable happened ?

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Wheelybug · 07/01/2007 10:40

and they've made a second series ???

Some of the tunes to the songs seems to have changed so assume they have made a second series. This one as dreadful as the last.

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JackieNo · 07/01/2007 10:43

Ah now, call me a complete saddo, but I was just looking it up on Wikipedia and it looks as if the episodes may be the same, but the music has been changed, for some reason. I was actually looking to find the name of the town, as I kept hearing it as 'Ribbityping' and I was sure it couldn't be that.

BettySpaghetti · 07/01/2007 10:50

Did anyone else stumble upon a morning recently where they had 2 hrs solid of Me Too episodes on ! Why? If anyone had watched them all they would be a gibbering mess by now

JackieNo · 07/01/2007 10:51

Yes! Couldn't believe it. It just kept on coming.

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Wheelybug · 07/01/2007 10:51

how bizarre. Perhaps they should have just not shown it anymore instead

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lissielou · 07/01/2007 10:55

and replaced it with balamory or doodle do.

BettySpaghetti · 07/01/2007 11:18

Glad you can confirm that I didn't imagine it JackieNo -I thought we were stuck in some sort of Groundhog day!

adamadamum · 08/01/2007 00:18

Do you hate that programme? Me too! Sadly I have ended up seeing enough of it to learn it's Riversea Fingle - At first I thought it was Liberty Pingle...and how come granny Murray childminds both day and night? and dog minds? Is this the normal way childminders work?

TheArmadillo · 08/01/2007 00:21

The wierdest thing is the words to the songs are the same, it just seems like the tunes have changed.

A truly awful series getting more and more bizzare.

UnquietDad · 08/01/2007 09:44

Granny Murray even does the teacher bloke's sandwiches for him. Now that's above and beyond the call of childminding duty.

I think whatever shark remained has truly been jumped. It makes "Balamory" look like a work of Alan Plater-esque TV genius, doesn't it?

expatinscotland · 08/01/2007 09:47

As IF Lothian Buses are ever that clean - and they use Lothian Buses as Riversea Fingle by the sea my arse whatever.

Glasgow ain't by the sea, nor is Edinburgh, it's on a FIRTH, ffs.

At least they should get their damn story straight.

Cappuccino · 08/01/2007 09:52

I watched that for the first time the other day - dds love it. Am I right in my observation that the songs don't actually have a tune? Apart from the title song, could you actually hum one? It's just a load of notes strung together.

And as for Granny Murray - don't get me started. In her disabled-inaccessible basement house.

You at least saw Penny Pocket coming in and out of Balamory nursery, even if it didn't show quite how she managed the stairs

MerlinsBeard · 08/01/2007 09:55

i stumbled across what felt a whole day of me too the other day.well not me, ds1 was watching cbeebies lol. All i cold think of was WHAT THE F**K!!!!

Isn't it a mixture of places but "set" in scotland? The metrolink at the start looks very likemanchester, as does the train station and DP says somewhere is birmingham...and wher is the harlequin hospital??

Ther is no way i would send my children toanyone who says come away in...how confusing is that??

MerlinsBeard · 08/01/2007 09:55

must remember google toolbar has a spell check

JackieNo · 08/01/2007 09:57

I suspect they've learned the lessons of setting Balamory in an all-too-identifiable Tobermory, which is now apparently completely overrun with toddlers. This time they've included landmark buildings from all over tha place, so it's not tied in to any one town, I think.

JackieNo · 08/01/2007 09:58

Check out the Wikipedia link I put near the beginning of the thread - it identifies some of the buildings.

MerlinsBeard · 08/01/2007 09:59

they didn't really disguise Tobermory very well did they lol! Everytime they did a shot of the main street the tobermory chip shop was behind them!!

Cappuccino · 08/01/2007 09:59

isn't it a good thing that Tobermory is overrun with toddlers? it's a tourist economy

I went there pre-Balamory and it was nice but empty

IntergalacticWalrus · 08/01/2007 10:00

It's an appalling programme isn';t it? Granny Murray (who is too young to be a Granny) looks like she eats her mindees. The taxi woamn reminds me od Babs cabs from the Laugue of Gentlemen, and The bloke off the train (Raymond?) reminds me of Papa Lazaru when he's got his hat on. I am always expecting him to shout "Daaaaaaaaaaave" when Granny Murray opens the door.

The only one who can act is Claude

IntergalacticWalrus · 08/01/2007 10:01

and the new songs are even more shite than the old songs.

IntergalacticWalrus · 08/01/2007 10:02

(Although I'm glad they have changed them because I kept on singing "I'm in in in in in in a hurry...")

Cappuccino · 08/01/2007 10:03

that teacher is deffo a virgin

JackieNo · 08/01/2007 10:04

intergalacticwalrus. Apparently the woman who plays Granny Murray is 36.

And Cappuccino, I guess it might well be a good thing for Tobermory's tourist economy. We went there pre-Balamory, and as per your experience, it was pretty but not very busy. Mind you, having grown up in a town whose population increased about tenfold in the summer, I do have slightly mixed feelings about tourists.

IntergalacticWalrus · 08/01/2007 10:07

Tourists are a PITA sometimes (although, admittedly vital to our local econimy)

They all congregate in groups in the centre of town and don;t shift. They are here all bloody year too.

expatinscotland · 08/01/2007 10:09

I hate tourists.

Sorry, but I do.

'Oh, they bring in money.'

Yeah, I guess so.

But I still hate them.

IntergalacticWalrus · 08/01/2007 10:11

me too expat.