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Vitally important question about Zingzillas. :o)

31 replies

MrsTittleMouse · 27/04/2010 20:57

I was watching this with DD1 today, and I noticed that while all the other monkeys/apes talk like teenagers, the drummer "Drum" talks like a 2-year old. Why is a 2-year old hanging out with a teenage band? Why not just make her a teenager too?

It's really bothering me! I was wondering if she had learning difficulties. Or whether it was a stupid in-joke about drummers (what do you call someone who hangs around with musicians? etc.).

Can anyone enlighten me?

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IMoveTheStars · 27/04/2010 20:59

What??

One of them is Sarah-Jane Honeywell. That's the extent of my knowledge wrt the farking Zingzillas.

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MrsTittleMouse · 27/04/2010 21:01

Sarah-Jane of Higgledy House fame?

I watch far too much cbeebies.

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grumpypants · 27/04/2010 21:02

DS is terrified of the Zingzillas. As am I.

wastingaway · 27/04/2010 21:05

I thought they were a range of ages, like Tweenies. Cos it's like the Tweenies.

grumpypants · 27/04/2010 21:09

www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/03_march/17/zingzillas.shtml Here is the press release but no ages. And had to endure their terrifying ness again.

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MrsTittleMouse · 27/04/2010 21:17

I looked at the cbeebies website, which said that she is "young at heart".

My grandmother says that she is young at heart!

It's just weird that all the others talk normally and she is the odd one out. It's not even that she talks like the target age child - my three-year old has been using proper sentences for ages. But Drum talks like the 1930s Hollywood savage "Drum play now" and all that kind of nonsense.

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ReshapeWhileDamp · 27/04/2010 21:52

They're bloody scary. Unfortunately DS has overcome his initial Zingzilla Phobia (he hated the stone heads) and is now addicted. I think, deep down, he knows it's the Tweenies really.

Hadn't noticed the toddler drummer, must watch more closely.

I mean, must turn off as soon as it airs...

IMoveTheStars · 27/04/2010 21:59

Yep, Sarah Jane of Higgledy House and Tikkabilla. and this horror (warning: prepare the brain bleach)

EsmeWeatherwax · 27/04/2010 22:04

Oh lord, she has merchandise! Good grief!

My three year old is currently addicted to Zingzillas, which makes me love it, because I get 15 minutes peace when its on!

ScreaminEagle · 28/04/2010 15:10

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wendylg · 12/05/2010 17:23

maybe drum is just stoned, like the bunny on the magic roundabout

GilesB · 08/06/2010 06:29

One of them is Iggle Piggle in a former life and like the Tweenies I strongly suspect another could be Mr Tumble as Justin seems to be in just about everything else on CBeebies.
Does the Beeb only have about 4 actors to make all it's shows??

TrinityTrinityTrinity · 08/06/2010 06:35

I cant stand zingzillas, luckily my kids are unimpressed too

the other thing I won allow on the telly is thomas the tank
I dont kknow why I just irrationally hate it

sethstarkaddersmum · 08/06/2010 09:44

my 3yo and 4yo love Zingzillas.
Even dh has said good things about some of the music.

In answer to the toddler talking question in the OP, my 4yo loves doing baby talk just for fun - she thinks it's hilarious (and started doing it all the time after Waybuloo appeared ). Maybe kids just like it?

Firawla · 08/06/2010 19:36

I always presumed she was supposed to be one of their little sister or something like that

FannyLogan · 08/06/2010 21:59

Yes she talks like a baby but can play the drums in a band

It has been preying on my mind as well......

GilesB · 09/06/2010 06:45

If you've met many drummers you'll know she's a classic example of the genre -- perhaps a little more sophisticated and adult than most. :-)

mrsflux · 16/06/2010 20:02

I've cracked it!

drum has a tail so is a monkey
the others- chimpanzee gorilla and orangutang are all apes (no tails and clues in their names)

drum is therefore not as advanced in evolutionary terms so I think that's why she talks and acts like a toddler

anyone got a better theory?

Ps I felt ridiculously smug when I explained that to dh!

ComradeDad · 24/08/2010 15:52

It took me a while to come around to this, dismissing it initially as a Tesco Value remake of Animal Kwackers. Daughter loves it to smithereens, though, and the presence of John Dankworth (RIP) and Cleo Laine in one of the shows finally redeemed the whole thing for me.

Dingle · 31/10/2010 12:52

LOL. I am in search of finding out what sort of "monkey" drum actually is! How sad!

bundlebelly · 31/10/2010 12:57

I find them creepy. I hate the age androgeny thing. Also, IgglePiggle. When he sings, he has a horrible creepy deep old man voice, yet he is a toddler type thing that has a blankets etc. Disturbing.

EvilAllenPoe · 31/10/2010 13:01

but igglepiggle doesn't sing - it's Derek Jacobi!

upsydaisy sings...

bundlebelly · 31/10/2010 13:03

when he goes. . . "my name is igglepi-gul,
igglepiggle iggelpigg oooo" or something like that. Freaks me out.

bundlebelly · 31/10/2010 13:04

yes, upsydaisy has the same voice I think.

EvilAllenPoe · 31/10/2010 13:05

..that is his introductory rhyme, read by The Storyteller.

he's the only character that diesn't say abything, except by shaking his bell or squeaking.