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WTF are cbeebies on about

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JackBauWooohooohoowaaer · 15/10/2009 09:13

I looked up the lyrics to the new cbeebies song as I couldn't understand them singing and DD was trying to sing along.

One, two, one, two, three, four.

Season of bliss and mellow fruitfulness,
Ripe and sun kissed in golden happiness.

Picking and storing,
Whilst summer is snoring,
Autumn has come.

Season of bliss and mellow fruitfulness,
Ripe and sun kissed in golden happiness.

Picking and storing,
Whilst summer is snoring,
Autumn has come.

Season of bliss and mellow fruitfulness,

Season of bliss and mellow fruitfulness.

(Brown leaves are falling down, down, down onto the ground)

What a pile of wank!

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PoisonToadstool · 15/10/2009 09:15

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Hassled · 15/10/2009 09:16

I'm past the CBeebies stage but it should be "Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness". If they're going to copy Keats they should at least get it right. Isn't a pre-schooler more likely to understand mist than bliss?

MrsBadger · 15/10/2009 09:16

surely season of mists and mellow fruitfulness?

we still have some old stuff in the dvr with the CBeebies 'spring' trailers on - kids running round in tailcoats conducting daffodils. That one was fab.

DorotheaPlentighoul · 15/10/2009 09:17

I don't mind it that much -- I mean it is quite crap, but DS really likes it and that usually takes the edge off my critical nature. I had assumed the "bliss" bit was "mists", like the Keats poem (of which I know only the first line). Why "bliss"?

To be fair though, they do have to churn out season songs again and again and it must be hard to keep coming up with them ...

DorotheaPlentighoul · 15/10/2009 09:18

Arrgh, don't mention the Green Balloon Club -- it's so awful.

(The first rule of Green Balloon Club, etc)

PuppyMonkey · 15/10/2009 09:24

Yes, autumn is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Bliss don't enter into it...

castille · 15/10/2009 09:28

I assumed it was mists too, and taught DS to sing it thus so at least he is getting it right!

And I'm so glad I'm not alone in hating the Green Balloon Club. All those nauseating stage school kids saying their lines in fake intonation

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JackBauWooohooohoowaaer · 15/10/2009 09:33

Weel exactly, season of BLISS? WTF? and DD1 is 3. She doesn't know what mellow fruitfulness is!

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TsarChasm · 15/10/2009 09:39

I don't think you needed to elaborate much beyond the thread title really OP.

That summed up Cbeebies neatly enough for me

We too have moved on from Cebeebies these days , but I never really understood about 90% of it when it used to be on.

DorotheaPlentighoul · 15/10/2009 13:07

Unfortunately I have a special dislike for the little blonde girl on GBC. I know it's wrong but I can't help it -- she's like a robot! I bet there were twenty other kids at the audition who were more charismatic but not as supposedly perfect-looking and therefore got turned down.

mrmump · 15/10/2009 20:49

I was gutted, I wanted last years bangra Autumn song. I'm sure there was a line in it that said "Tickle me nuts and cum". At least I'm 70% sure thats what it said!

Monadami · 16/10/2009 13:53

I'm glad you got the lyrics Jack, because I can never get all of what they're singing and I like to sing along for my Little One.

I don't like Cerrie either, I get the feeling, she doesn't really want to be there and is very robotic.

StealthPolarBear · 16/10/2009 13:56

i love this song and video clip!

mists surely, not bliss?

StealthPolarBear · 16/10/2009 15:05

DS loved the summer one too, he used to jump up and do the dance with the rain falling etc So they change each year? I was hoping they'd stay the same.

Firawla · 17/10/2009 09:44

why does everyone hate GBC? I quite like it well the songs anyway..
I also find the autumn song okay but the summer one was better

MavisGrind · 17/10/2009 09:53

I love the autumn song this year - ds1 always shouts out "your songs on mama" wherever we are when it comes on

mrmump - last years song is on the cebeebies website

Oh, and I totally agree, GBC is bloody awful!

MedusaHead · 17/10/2009 09:54

I love the autumn song. And I love the way they've coloured the film all orangey. It makes me nostalgic for my 70's childhood.

[MedusaHead wanders off to dig out her Wombles records]

hollyhobbie · 17/11/2009 19:33

Just can't beat the line "birds migrate, hedgehogs hibernate"... I've been singing it all year, and now there's this new drivel.

MrsJamin · 17/11/2009 19:47

I preferred the summer song. In those heady days of summer, my early pregnancy and early-waking-toddler-sleep-deprivation induced tears upon hearing it.

ChristmasMoon · 18/11/2009 14:34

I still ADORE the old autumn song Hollyhobbie, me and DS1 sang it every year and this year they have changed it you can still play it on Cbeebies website though so have played it to DS2 before they remove it.

ChristmasMoon · 18/11/2009 14:34

Tryingtobeorganisedthisyear · 19/11/2009 07:11

Is it not time for a winter song now though??

StealthPolarBear · 19/11/2009 07:36

yes, i was wondering when that would happen, will miss the autumn one though

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