Is it me or on Cbeebies but are Cerrie and Alex...

[MovingOutOfBlighty]

... still a wee bit crap after all these months.

You don't have to talk really slowly to children.

And you can show a modicum of personality. Alex looks permenantly worried by life.

Am I wrong?

Cerrie and Alex are still a bit crap IMO, all Cerrie seems to do is say 'Aww, brilliant'

Lovely to have Chris and Pui back doing Show me Show me we missed them.

And Sid. I think about Sid sometimes. What lovely arms he has [swoon]

i think they are both guff still, and the contrast when Sid & Andy (or indeed Pui, Justin or Sarah Jane) come on is stark.

they are wet through, and their occasional attempts to inject some energy into their work quickly peter out.

I don't think Cerrie's married - I'm pretty sure she's a single mum. So Slubberdegullion there might be 'something' going on.

They both still have that rabbit stuck in the headlights look don't they? When will that go, do you think, after a couple of years?

Although, DD2 who is two adores Alex. She asks about him and stuff when I put her to bed, as if she's a bit worried about him.

Sid and Andy are my faves. I like the number raps.

I don't mind them so much, although they are bland. What annoys me more than anything is one of Cerrie's tops which she seems to wear fairly frequently, it has crochet all over it - dd has a similar affair and it's an absolute bastard to iron. I'm probably overthinking it though.

I think they're frighteningly bland, and whatever jokes/smalltalk they try to make doesn't work on my toddlers or me.

So they are crap.

Is Cerrie really a single mother? I always imagined she was still living with her parents in a pink-decorated childhood bedroom complete with dollshouse. And of course the ironing of the crochet top would not be a problem, her mum would be happy to do it.

I was just baffled about where they came from. Did I miss the bit where they all said goodbye to Chris and Pui and hello to Alex and Cerrie? It was like someone had stolen Chris and Pui. I read somewhere that they both have young children so perhaps Alex's look is more empathy than 'poor parents' - or extreme tiredness - but whatever it is I agree he does look rather concerned the whole time...

Oh and Justin and Sid and Andy and number raps.

I cannot stand Alex, his eyebrows really irritate me. And when Cerrie says, "Hello moon!" in that really surprised voice in the bedtime song it makes me want to kill things.

Luckily, ds is going through a DVD phase, and prefers to watch his Mr Men DVD endlessly, so I don't have to put up with it too often.

I bloody hate Cbeebeies, the lot of it. It's patronizing bollox. They talk to children like they are morons with zero attention span. Waybulloo makes me seethe and the presenters' mugging drives me to distraction.

We recently got DVDs of the Clangers for the DSs, and they are sooooo much more imaginative and brilliant than any of the rubbish that's on now: blue string pudding, a soup dragon who eats music, helicopters with twirling cheese propeller things, it's so brilliant. And they use long words without having to herald their arrival with a trumpet (yes, I'm looking at you Miss Pinky Dinky blahdy Doo).

RIP Oliver Postgate.

Waybulloo that is so weird
do the people who make these programmes, take acid?

The programmes might be more interesting if they did.

I like Waybuloo Ds stands in front of it doing the yoga positions!

BIWI researched waybuloo I think

I quite like it, the music is nice but it has zero plot.

I can watch children falling over any time.

Back to OP I do like Cerrie, she has oomph, but alex has the most bizarre expression I have ever seen. It's like he is under your shoe saying 'Oh oh please don't tread on me'

Oh yes, I think Cerrie is a single mum, her Dad looks after her daughter while she's filming. I looked her up on t'interweb because DS asked if she had lost her arm in an accident or been born without it. I don't know why all those people complained when she started on CBeebies, about her 'bringing up awkward questions'? WTF?

I like Cerrie, Chris and Pui, but Alex is very smug and furrowed brow-ish.

Agree Alex and Cerrie are too wet. They did do a bit of a comedy thing once that was funny, but generally find them patronising. Why oh why do we have to have the same recording of the goodnight song every single day? If they would just put ITNG on iplayer that would be good too

I love Sid and Andy.

Don't get how all of the presenters on milkshake are good but Beeb seems to find it difficult.

I have it on good authority that Alex is very similar in RL, very friendly and eager to please, bit like an anxious puppy.
Cerrie on the other hand, is a bit of a grumpy harridan.

I've developed quite the crush on Alex. I blame the summer song/hormones.

I hate the faked fill-in bits where they have a 'conversation' which ends up being only about what's going to be on later - like the kids are going to remember - that's really false.

The impro stuff is much better.

'crush'
'Alex'

same sentence

NOPE!

It's not you - they're both still rubbish (although I can put up with Cerrie more than Alex) ...I despise they way they look pleadingly into the camera when they do the bedtime song.

Agree with previous posters re: Number Raps - Fabulous

PregPhantomPlopper Seriously??? They must be some major hormones you've got going on!

"her Dad looks after her daughter while she's filming."

awwww! how sweet!

Nope they've both definitely grown on me since the Summer song, it makes me want to hug people, but again that's the hormones.