Come Outside....and learn about sewage??!

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OMG!

I know it's educational but please - 'can you see your poo Pippin?' - it beggars belief!

Hardly appropriate lunchtime viewing!

Well I think this episode is just as good as all the others, and believe me, I've seen all the others.

Ds started watching these when he was 2, and he still actually sits and watches them (now 5). He knows how to make bricks, crayons, knitting wool, Ribena, spiders (well not make them but ...), teapots, brushes, toothpaste, mend street lights, report a water leak, The list is endless. When our society finally breaks down the kids who watched Aunty Mabel and Pippin will be able to rebuild civilisation for us.

So there.

come on then - whose up for the 'snot' and 'vomit' episodes? - also natural bodily fluids - shouldn't we learn how snot is made and why it goes hard in your nose and then you have to pick it out - that should make a rip roaring programme - can't wait!

Hang on, I haven't seen the one about Brick, Crayons, Ribena or brushes.

I feel very deprived now

I like the one where they go to see how crisps are made.

I've never understood why she loads Pippin in to the plane, flies across the country, and when they arrive at the destination she nearly always says "You can't come in here, Pippin!" Meanwhile the poor security guard or receptionist has to be an unpaid babysitter while Auntie Mabel does a runner with her stolen goods.

Or even an unpaid DOGsitter...

Do you lot all mean .. it's not a REAL Pippin flying in the plane ..? We've got two of the videos and I didn't notice that.

carla
where did you get the videos and is it on dvd, my dd adores this programme and cries every time it ends even though she now knows that pippin will come back.
funny thread, my dh slags me every time about it being man in wig flying the play and get so annoyed with im for ruining my dd's perception of it - shes nearly 2!!!

I haven't read all of this but this is my personal favourite Come Outside episode. I was gutted when I switched the TV on the other day to find it was half-way through. Funnily enough my DS1 was asking loads of questions about toilets/sewage the other day and I thought if only he could see Come Outside with Pippin and the poo.

Hermykne, I looked into buying this a while ago and they sold it on the BBC webside, it was about £18.99 on VHS which put me off buying it at the time but am thinking about it again, educational for DS1!

Ohhhh, how did I miss this?

From the BBC flog shop, herme. Just let me check I haven't given our last one away before you order, though. Will have to be tomorrow. Remind me

I find it oddly fascinating - the one about marmalade sees the back of a stunt double auntie mabel talking to a spanish orange picker and then cuts to auntie mabel clearly in a studio somewhere pretending to be in Spain ...then the fakeymabel walks away really slowy - its hilarious honest. What about the one where she needs more apples because one in her fruit bowl is mouldy? She gets in the plane, and goes somewhere to pick some -is that the end of the story? is it hell! she goes to the apple packing factory, then off in a lorry to the wholesalers in Birmingham, waits for them to be bought by a shopkeeper, follows the shopkeeper back to his shop and buys them there...clearly, she's never heard of cutting out the middleman. How many nephews/nieces can one woman have? And how often has she lost Pippin and just gone home a little bit sad - If I had a performing dog I'd make a bit more of an effort to hang on to her. And what exactly does she do for a living? - she must have a packet somewhere to run her own airplane but the only time I've seen her do anything approaching work was give some sort of music lesson to some children in her front room - I need to get out more i know - Look up look down look all around la la la la

was that the one where pipin ate the jam tarts !
I would hardly call that a music lesson hitting pans and stuff.....wasn't that when she stole the chair?.....or was that the brush..lol
I used to watch chanel 5 in the mornings but have started tuning in to bb2 daily (after bear in the big blue house of course) to catch Aunty doing ther thing.
btw its not just aunty who talks about bodily functions.... Bear has talked about using the potty and I saw an episode of Pingu once where he wee'd all over the floor because he couldnt reach the toilet.........but thats a whole new thread there..................lol

My God, should I get cable???

HAve just come back from seeing a friend who banished TV from her home a couple of years ago. When she started her usual condemning about we mothers who let our children see TV, I told her her DDs may be missing some nice things like Come outside and she replied, "oh but I loved that one, the one about the sewage was fantastic!!! it was about 5 yrs ago". So probably it was not that bad after all.

Bye, bye, I'm off to write to Eureka Children's Museum to ask them to remove the transparent toilet before it shocks some mothers for teaching their children about sewage

I'm going in to help out in DD2 Reception class next Tuesday afternoon. I know that they watch some TV for the last 20 minutes of the day, and I know from previously helping in Rec. that they watch "Come Outside" sometimes.

I'm going to put in a special request to watch the "Sewage Episode"

The orange-picking episode was hilarious!

Dh has a theory that Auntie Mabel is in fact an ex-madam and only gets all these perks and freebies because her former clients are afraid that otherwise she'll tell their wives. Further 'proof' was in the episode when she talked about her 'friend' who had given her that big ring. (fnarr!)

Another of my "faves" is the Chip-pan fire and she gets herself locked in the cupboard!!

Anyone else who finds themselves trapped in the cupboard with a burning chip-pan would attempt to kick the door down/smash against it with something - but no, good old Auntie Mabel says "oh dear Pippin!!!"

LOL @ Coppertops DH - there may be some truth in that - they always seem "embarrassed" when she comes to chat to them {wonder why??}

treacletart, thanks for reminding me about the marmalade one, even more hammy than the usual Come Outside fare..

Are you really allowed to own a plane, simply park it in a field and take off to fly wherever you want?

She doesn't have any contact with any Air Traffic Control-type people does she? She could be flying on her way to a pencil-making factory and could come head-on with a Boeing 747 on its way to Gatwick

I bet they see her on the radar saying "there's that batty old woman with her dog again"

Love it so does DD - she used to cry her eyes out so much when each episode finished when she was little I even tried to get the BBC to send me a video of the whole series but they wouldn't!!

Think it is good the way it teaches kids to think about waste and recycling - DD always wants to come to the bottle bank now and put the bottles in the right containers!!

Mind you at the end of the sewage one I was quite disgusted to see Pippion had pooed on the floor only to be laughed at by DD and told that its a pretend one - Pippin would never never never poo on the floor!! (Yeah right!!)

And you know I never knew the dog on the plane was not real!!

It's on now..'Holes, holes, here and there, useful holes are everywhere'. If you say so Auntie!

Love it when she gets in the plane to head out on some adventure, and the view from behind appears to be a stuffed dog and a bloke in a ginger 'Auntie' style wig.

Well holes are useful if you are stupid enough to get yourself locked in a cuboard whilst your chip pan is on fire............lol

Yay for pippin the super dog.

You do realise that Pippin is quite likely "no longer wih us" given how old the programmes are...