Barnaby Bear.

[MrsSeanBean]

I never fail to be puzzled at the composure of Barnaby's fellow travellers.

Do none of the passers-by consider it even mildy amusing that a walking, talking bear is on the bus / checking in at the airport / sitting calmly on a park bench? They can't all be 'extras' surely?!

Is Barnaby 'pasted' onto a busy street scene afterwards using modern technology?

I was just watching that with the children! I said this was the olden days before the Euro.

I did see a few people with faces like this on Tara St platform as the Dart headed off to Bray.

Maybe it takes SO long to film that the passers by lose interest. I went to blinddddda date years ago, and it took so long to film, I was insane by the end. Wanted to escape, but turned out we were actually LOCKED in.

I was thinking this a while ago about the Tweenies

I don't know, that show is full of mysteries. I never fail to be puzzled at why a walking talking male bear has to be voiced by a 60-year-old Yorkshirewoman. Or whether "Dad" is a human (ie Becky's dad) or a really big mad-staring-eyed bear...

I think B's Dad is a bear too. THey sometimes show his 'paw'.

Ooh I've never seen the "paw" - obviously not a devoted enough fan

Barnaby's mum does the filming, she's supossed to be the one holding the camera, I've seen her paw.....

They were at the zoo once and the paw handed over an icecream. Or did I imagine that. False memory syndrome! I feel unsure now.

The oddest thing was when Barnaby went to Mexico City and even there no-one batted an eyelid!?!

You can see almost all Mr Bear when they are 'going on a ramble, a ramble, a ramble' I think, when they have the picnic and think they are being pursued by a scary hairy fairy or some such cobblers and it turns out to be Mr Bear improbably covered in a hay-stack.

In the fun fair episode Mrs Bear does the thing where you hit a pad with a hammer and ring a bell - she won a prize. And you can see almost all of her. that I know that.

Interesting. I have never seen either Mr or Mrs Bear. I assumed it was the camera(wo)man!

I'm sure it most often is. I can't imagine they actually make the poor cameraman dress up in a bear costume everytime, regardless of whether he's on screen or not...

Maybe they do, though. That would be pretty amusing.

When they were in Mexico, maybe the locals thought, Gringos, que esperas ey??