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).
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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Angus G - Dec 10, 2002 7:11:05 pm PST #785 of 9843
Roguish Laird
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
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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!
billytea - Dec 10, 2002 8:26:03 pm PST #793 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.
Don't do that until you've seen them dance.
Wiggles? Or Wombles? Or Wiggles with Wombles?
...Wombles Wiggling? Wiggles returning to the Womb?
...Hey, has anyone read any of Hugh Cook's fantasy series? I just reread The Walrus and the Warwolf while on vacation. I'm pretty sure there's scope for another book.
Holli - Dec 10, 2002 8:28:18 pm PST #794 of 9843
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
The Wiggles brign many new and exciting things to the field of children's television, but dancing is not one of them. It's kinda... rudimentary.