From the people that brought you Teletubbies, Pob, Rosie and Jim (childrens TV’s first Pikey family), Brum and Boobahs comes the latest in their line of totally trippy television shows for kids.
If you thought Teletubbies was perfect for relaxing with a spliff whilst the tales of the noo-noo and Tinky Winky puff you off to the tubbytronic-super dome in the purple hazed sky, then you have seen nothing yet. This really is “Class-A kids tv”.
It all starts with a little blue chap called Igglepiggle on his boat in the ocean. Igglepiggle looks kind of retarded with a potato for a head, a red comfort blanket in one hand and a rattle in the other. He drifts off to sleep and is transported to the Night Garden, where his friends live.
Upsy Daisy, the ethnic ragga-doll who is always dancing. She also has a bed tht runs away from her and she has to chase it around, whilst dancing.
The Tombliboos, who are three small baby creatures who make the Roswell alien look cuddly. There is a shot of The Tombliboos asleep that would make any hardened parent shiver with fright. They look like little hairless birds or something. Just plain odd!
Makka Pakka lives in a cave with his favorite stones, which he cuddes at night. He also pushes around something called the Og-Pog which carries his sponge which is used for cleaning the other creatures in the night garden.
The Pontipines and the Wottingers are families of tiny people that live in a tree. They are like little clothes peg people and move around in a stop-frame animation style reminicient of bagpuss. Each family has ten members, so we know what they have been doing in that tree all winter!
The most odd are The Haahoos, which are great big enourmous brightly coloured inflatable shapes that inhabit the Night Garden and can be seen leering in the background like scary clowns who are just seconds away from “getting stabby”.
Of course there is also the Ninky-Nonk, a small train made from oddly shaped houses which seems to be small one minute and then giant the next. Large enough for the creatures to go into and then out of, and then into again over and over. The Ninky-Nonk also has a fellow transport friend known as the Pinky Ponk which is an airship that farts and squelches as it drifts through the forest landscape.
I have failed to find some footage to share on here, but I will post some as soon as it appears on YouTube or somewhere like that. It really has to be seen to be believed.
Well, it's not a giant lizard slaying robot and its not a new religion.
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Arghh the flashbacks - it’s happening again.
p.s. pics need a little padding (Firefox on an XP PC)
Yeah - I know.
I did try to adjust the margins last night after posting the pics, but it was late and I was tired. Re-doing the template is something that is well overdue.
Holy crap.
And I thought The Tubbies were a float in the park!
I am still on the lookout for some footage!
Watch this space… man!
And I thought it was only me who’d noticed how weird this is. There’s a staggering amount of innuendo thrown in for good measure. My wonder is how Derek Jacobi got roped into it.
i’ve loved this programme from day 1. my daughter stops & sits down for the duration. no other programme can do that! t’is a mad prog tho.
Does anyone know what the little blue people are called - they are just like the red ones which are called the pontipines (I think!)
From the Wikipedia page:
The Pontipines (red) and Wottingers (blue) are two families (a mother and a father, plus four boys and four girls) of ten tiny creatures like peg dolls who live in adjacent semi-detached houses at the foot of a tree. The Pontipines all dress in a very similar fashion to each other, as do the Wottingers. Each family sleeps in one room, their beds next to each other in two rows of five
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