In The Night Garden

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

the bit where one of them tucks themself in to a boat and goes sailing off somewhere creeps me out for some reason.

Are you kidding? that's the best bit. No word of a lie, I have to hold back an emotional tear at the begining and the end when Iggle Piggle is on the boat.

It's like he's entering the afterlife or some such shit. Then he greets all his simpleton friends who died year ago from a brain malfunction.

It's obvious from the end that it's actually a dream world but that's not as sad. The stupid bit is that when they go to sleep they should wake up but he's still in the boat. Maybe it's a different level of sleep, the night garden is like R.E.M.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Are you kidding? that's the best bit. No word of a lie, I have to hold back an emotional tear at the begining and the end when Iggle Piggle is on the boat.

It's like he's entering the afterlife or some such shit. Then he greets all his simpleton friends who died year ago from a brain malfunction.

It just find it inexplicably weird.
I llike your interpretation of it though, maybe this is something i can work through...

i think it's the baby thing too, you've got the baby lying there mesmerised by hand stroking, hushed voice over, then you see this thing in a boat adrift on an empty sea deconstructing his boat for warmth and comfort, when he lies down to rest the boat is sucked towards the horizon.
its amazing how long kids sit enthralled by it. sinister if you ask me

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Well, I'm getting into 64 zoo lane so I'm not so worried about it taking ITNGs place now.

oh i love 64 zoo lane. best song ever.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

oh i love 64 zoo lane. best song ever.

I gone off it now.

Charlie and Lola for the win.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

charlie and lola is just beautifully naive, i think i like that more than the boy
we are now getting into blue peter and raven. they are great. boy now thinks he's too grown up for cbeebies but i think he secretly misses it
nobody does children's tv like the bbc

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

charlie and lola is just beautifully naive, i think i like that more than the boy:

The music is pretty cool too.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yesterday I took my daughter to mother-care and suddenly she starts going mental, shouting, pointing, wide eyed. Up on a very high (unreachable) shelf, the other side of the shop (not even close) were some Makka Pakka toys. After we checked out some shoes, I thought I would take her to the toy area. She plonked herself in front of the 'in the night garden' section and refused to move. Bloody hell it was like child heroin, she even seemed to have withdrawal symptoms (when I withdrew her). She's only 16 months old.

I have now had to hide the mother-care catalogue because she keeps turning to the ITNG page and repeatedly pointing at iggle piggle, upsy daisy and makka pakka and then asking me to say their names. Over and over and over again.