THE NIGHT GARDEN, IT'S THE NEW TELETUBBIES!

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Just watching the night garden for the first time and come to the conclusion it is the Teletubbies the 2000's! Upsy Daisy = Dipsy, the little one with the scooter is Po, and the blue on is Tinky Winky!

i too stumbled across this the other day. felt like a baby acid trip...

just remembered ds calls Makka - Pakka, Makka Cacca there is a lot of opportunity for comic misunderstanding with the names, as dh has already pointed out.

bobsmum - lol

I love it...seriously. It's like some sort of therapy. I love the way Upsydaisy's hair boings up, I love the way Igglepiggle throws himself on the floor, I adore the Pontypines and Derek Jacobi narrating (and singing hahahah!). What's not to like?

My two (2.11 and 4.8) are bored rigid by it.

Both DDs (3.7 and 4.9) are hooked, DD1 just finds it bizarre and therefore entertaining, DD2 just transfixed, she's already making up stories about macca pacca (sp?)

It's coming on veerrrrrry sooooooon

I've posted this (twice!) on another thread but thought you may like to know I've discovered who lives next door to the Pontipines. They're called the Wottingers .

Well I quite like it. It reminds me in some vague wierd can't put-finger-on-it way of something I liked when I was very small - or maybe something I made up (and I'm cough over 30 cough). Love the way everyone goes to sleep at the end.
DS quite likes it as well, calling out the character names. But on the whole he will look at CBeebies for a few minutes then return to his bricks or come and demand music instead.
Will join the Kill Granny Murray campaign if you'll join the Kill Big Cook Little Cook! - Aaargh, I hate those two prats! I hate the attitude towards food that f programme demonstrates. Let's start a rum9our that Big Cook uses Little COok as an anal dildo when the cameras stop rolling....

DS (2.2) is transfixed. He points at the screen, giggles and says "Is funny!". I can't see it myself (although yes, the sound of Derek Jacobi of all people reciting some of it is kind of amusing. But I doubt that's what DS is on about).

ok. DSs new word for today (18 months) was "ninnn nonk" - still giggling at Macca Pacca too...

Thank you, Treacletart! The identity of the blue people has been doing my head in!

My dd would be addicted to this if I let her, but it hasn't made her go quiet, if anything it has made her hyperactive. She bounces all over the sofa screaming 'macca pakka! macca pakka!' and won't calm down.

So I've banned it. Shame, because we used to like being all snuggly during the bedtime hour and now we'll have to find an ad-free alternative...

And yes, the swelling violin music makes me well up for some odd reason too!

madamez - you are so right about big cook little cook! Blimmin awful programme. I can't stand their constant fake laughing and Big Cook suffers from that "dead-eyed" look - he's so not into it. Also I can't believe the things they cook... the other day he was making caramelised sugar strands, ie boiling sugar in a pan then flicking it about with a spoon -erm I think not the most suitable idea for preschoolers?

I'm always amazed by how hugely cbeebies content varies - some shows are just amazingly good, sophisticated, briliantly acted and top quality (eg Charlie and Lola, Pingu, having top actors to do the bedtime story, and ITNG obviously) - others are just dire (Me too, BCLC, oh and Muffin the mule... gah)

I was totally horrified to see my dd1 6.5 transfixed, dd2 age 4 takes her cue from dd1. 30 minutes! I could only bear 3.

Now that they are supposed to be growing out of cbeebies (?!?! sort of!), what about cbbc? Every time I turn that on, it seems to have some rather violent poorly-drawn cartoon, or a teenaged "presenter" prattling on and on and on about nothing. Is that all 7+ year olds will watch? Mine hate it. Is there anything good on there at all?

yeh, yeh they should be doing something better than tv-but we have to eat, so I have to cook it sometimes without them tripping me up with my pans of boiling water. oops sorry my caramelised sugar strands.

More charlie and lola level, and top actors telling tales for older ones as well, eh?

my little one loves it that much cries when finished we have to record it to make sure she can watch it whenever she wanted.
seriously in love at first sight

Haven't read this thread but must say i f*in hate this programme. DD had seen it without me seeing it. Then i actually watched it with her, OMG, what a load of crap. What are people thinking. I now turn it off. Would rather let her watch Bear in the Big Blue House and I don't like the American stuff. Only because of the accent. She'd been watching Barney about a vet and now pronounces thinks in an American way

I must be a freak. I look forward to it, especially the pinky ponk. I like Derek Jacobi singing. 'Oh my name is Iggle Piggle, Iggle Piggle, Piggle Iggle, Iggle Piggle Iggle Woo!'
Did anyone see last night's when the Tomlivous appeared to play 'difficult jazz' for about half an hour?

Oh, I love In the Night Garden - it reminds me of the whacky song lyrics of my youth. I think Anne Wood mst be channelling Freddy Mercury!

I thought this was really bizarre when i first saw it but ds (2.5) loves it. Now I find myself strangely addicted to it. It has an alarmingly hypnotic feel to it. All the nodding and plinky plonky music which of course I can never get out of my head!!! I fear we'll have a generation of kids that as soon as that music plays will all start carrying out crimes a la village of the damned or something!!! What I'd love to know is how the hell someone comes up with that???

when i first saw this advertised i thought it was a pile of S**t mainly because of all the made up sounding words but unfortunatly i have crumbled after watching a couple of episodes my DS(2) watches it and he loves especially Macca Pacca...sadly am finding all the charachters (sorry cant spell today) quite likeable except the really little things that farts every time they move!

^Oh my name is Iggle Piggle
Iggle Iggle Iggle Iggle Piggle
Yes my name is Iggle Piggle
Iggle Piggle Iggle Piggle Iggle^

Bet the RADA trained, Shakespearean thesp Derek "I Claudius" Jacobi never thought he would end up singing about a daft great blue Wayne Rooney lookalike.

Counttoten - drugs. That's what it is, drugs.

my friend met someone who produced Balamory and is now responsible for the hell that is Granny Murray...apparently they did their best with a much reduced budget...I told her to tell him of the Granny Murray backlash...

"Will join the Kill Granny Murray campaign if you'll join the Kill Big Cook Little Cook! - Aaargh, I hate those two prats! I hate the attitude towards food that f** programme demonstrates."

Hear hear MadameZ.
There's room for a great programme for pre-schoolers about cooking but that is sooooo not it.

Big hit in this house too!!

I find myself transfixed with it as well, love the theme tune and find myself humming it throughout the day. Have tried to explain the programme concept to my work colleagues and they looked at me like I was loopy loop, (actually isn't that a name for one of the characters )... I do agree though, recreational drug use MUST have been involved at some point during the programmes inception...

Oh and why is it so bad to want a iggle piggle toy??