UnAmericans, do I need to own a tape of The Wombles. It is merely twee, or bizarrely so? It's cheap only $5.95.
I vote for ownership. My younger brother plots to take over the world with a womble army, so they have to have something going for them.
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billytea - Dec 10, 2002 11:55:38 am PST #783 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 10, 2002 11:57:56 am PST #784 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
We seemed to have reached an agreement. Hah! You dare not refrain from buying now!
Angus G - Dec 10, 2002 7:11:05 pm PST #785 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Put it this way, Hec--The Wombles are the marijuana of children's TV, just like Teletubbies are the ecstasy (and The Magic Roundabout was the LSD).
Holli - Dec 10, 2002 7:12:55 pm PST #786 of 9843
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Oh! Are they the four guys is brightly colored long-sleeved shirts who dress up like pirates and dance and sing? Beacuse I babysit for a kid who LOVES them.
Angus G - Dec 10, 2002 7:16:25 pm PST #787 of 9843
Roguish Laird
I think you may be thinking of Australia's own Wiggles, Holli. The Wombles was a British children's series from the 70's, about a bunch of, um, Wombles (big furry things), who lived on Wimbledon Common, and, um, made good use of the things that they found, and...it's kind of hard to explain.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 10, 2002 7:47:42 pm PST #788 of 9843
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Oh my God! I had a Wombles LP! I doubt my mom still has it though, all my records are gone except Mary Poppins.
Holli - Dec 10, 2002 8:15:30 pm PST #789 of 9843
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
I think you're right, Angus. Are the Wombles as strange and off-putting as the Wiggles?
billytea - Dec 10, 2002 8:21:21 pm PST #790 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I think you're right, Angus. Are the Wombles as strange and off-putting as the Wiggles?
Unless the Wombles had an 80s hit called "Wait Up" in a previous incarnation as The Cockroaches, I'm going to give the Wiggles the edge.
Holli - Dec 10, 2002 8:23:24 pm PST #791 of 9843
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
Don't do that until you've seen them dance.
Min - Dec 10, 2002 8:24:47 pm PST #792 of 9843
Is that Narrative Causality or Historical Imperative or just plain weird?
I like the Wiggles. And I'm not going to small font that, either!