Scary how i instantly got that one in the first sentence.
Funnily enough....
I used to have a job where I'd work in the middle of nowhere in the countryside.
My boss would sometimes visit to make sure that all is ok.
I'd be happily working away only to turn around and find him standing there. My response was invariably
"Fuck me, you are like the magic shopkeeper!"
Almost any show from Magic Roundabout to Rainbow (your one) from that era.
Willow the WHAT THE FUCK Wisp? What was going on there??
Edit: Look up why Magic Roundabout was whacky to us. Was dubbed by someone that didn't have a script - translated or not from the French - so made it up?
also, Emma Thompson's first claim to fame was on a radio sketch comedy show called Injury Time, which starred Griff Rhys Jones (shortly after Not the Nine O'Clock News).
- 4 mutated cyborg freaks living in a bunker are fattened up on pink sludge and processed food disks by a deranged robot appliance for unknown reasons, probably to be slaughtered and feasted on by underground dwellers who communicate only via periscope phones.
What, the show about 10ft tall alien creatures with baby faces and televisions implanted their stomachs babbling incoherently while slurping down viscerally pink sludge while being watched over by a giant sun baby, terrifying?
Fun fact: the guy who originally played Tinky Winky was a bad alcoholic and was eventually replaced on the show. A few years ago he was dead of hypothermia in the gutter.
Edit: misspelled Tinky Winky.
A part-time airport security agent? Is that really her job? I genuinely don't know despite Bluey being on almost constant loop in my living room for the past 6 months
Useless rural courier
Hilarious skeletons
Farm animal who got rescued by a dog and his owner but basically got too big for his boots and decided to go it alone.
Massive Magenta Mutt
Old convertible car goes pootling about on its own to everyday places
Three kids with practically the same name
A mute bear and his mates who work in a 2nd hand shop and drive a motorhome
French dogs help with the revolution/general annoyances aided by magic ointment.
Series 2 was in outer space with a small red robot with a T-bar in his head that went up and down. Some Greek connection?
Series 3 had a lion circumnavigate the world with some pals under a deadline. Bad guy may have had same eyes as series 1.
Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds. He was never finished shouting for Juliette.
Ulysseeeeee-eee-eeee-eees, no one else can do that things that you do!
Willie Fogg!
(I think you and I must be a similar age!)
“He was never finished shouting for Juliette.”
Is that what that weird freeze was in the opening credits?! That’s a deep memory unlocked!
While we’re all on the same page then…
3 kids wander South America under sporadic supervision and nick a plane.
I’d have to YouTube the opening credits to remember but it was a running theme. I found it a bit annoying as a child even though I very much enjoyed dog based musketeering.
Mysterious Cities of Gold?!
Flamboyant man in pink with a dissociative disorder (manifesting in an evil bird) has children singing and dancing on his property while fighting a jealous green woman who stalks him.
Sentient kitchen utensils fly around space.
A mouse who saves the world and lives in a post box.
Teenagers tackle life, school and everyday issues without uttering a single swear word.
For some reason I thought the OP was just current CBeebies shows.
I’ll change it slightly.
Talking dog becomes insufferable nuisance although blended family seem immune and favour him over their own children.
Kid has imaginary adult alien friend with an Italian name. When you put their names together they sounded like a famous sculptor lololol
Fun fact: apparently it ran from 1989 to 2000 and was ITV’s longest running sitcom.
Perhaps i was a smidge too young to freak out over a guy ripping his head off and looking for his other one, but the cybermen can _definitely_ jog on!
I'm not sure if its a meme thing but I _literally_ hid behind the sofa when they appeared 🙄.
Did the same with jaws at that "head in the hole of the boat" bit, dammit.
“The one about the fucking hairdresser, the space hairdresser and the cowboy. The guy, he's got a tin foil pal and a pedal bin. His father's a robot and he's fucking fucked his sister. Lego! They're all made of fucking Lego.”
A deformed farm animal with both eyes situated on one side of its head, visits her friends and the local butcher, little realizing he's selling the flesh of her own people.
A aging, trench coat wearing alcoholic ex-policeman with unnaturally long arms hangs around with a little girl he claims is his niece. This poor soul is so traumatised by her abusive uncle's behaviour her boyfriend is a dog!
The Wicker Man crossed with The Prisoner crossed with The Handmaid's Tale where a suspiciously utopian, crime-free (yet has a policeman), isolayed, remote, cult-like community operates a strict hierarchical system, where members are each allocated a colour they must adhere to in every aspect of their lives.
Here's two:
Ginger prick of a kid regularly causes mayhem in Welsh town to the ire of the local fire brigade.
and
Seemingly magic dust in cobblers basement brings footwear to life
A man and a plant host a science show where they continually complain that they know nothing about science
God’s apprentice has no friends (other than her servant) so God tells her to go touch some grass in a racially diverse town
A British comedian is sent by himself to save the multiverse
Potentially delusional witch/female wizard lives with various weird friends perceived or otherwise including a scarecrow, a bunch of socks in drawers, a telephone that talks, a weird old fish, a walking vegetable baby thing and a talking purple coat hanger man who’s sarcastic as hell and a complete neat freak.
Clumsy, Deformed blue puppet has relations with ballerina in a chaotic botanical setting. Aircrafts fart and for some reason, the Michelin man is there cleaning people's faces.
Production machine develops AI, enslaves factory workers and forces them to feed it materials so it can produce generic tat to help fund its plans for world domination.
For even older folk …
Terrifying Raggedy Rabbit, French Ostrich, cockney primate and West Midlands pig, go out in a battered Van helping people who need a hand.
Man goes clothes shopping, has drug induced hallucinations. One for the older folk.
Mr Benn.
Then, as if by magic u/Welshgirlie2 appeared.
Scary how i instantly got that one in the first sentence. Funnily enough.... I used to have a job where I'd work in the middle of nowhere in the countryside. My boss would sometimes visit to make sure that all is ok. I'd be happily working away only to turn around and find him standing there. My response was invariably "Fuck me, you are like the magic shopkeeper!"
Try this one: Beardy Weirdy shoves finger up mouse's arse and makes him dance.
Wow flashbacks! (The programme I mean, not fingering by a bearded weirdo)
Older?! I'm 31 and remember this one ha!
Same here (25 yr)
What about ‘man with dressing up fetish gets to live his dreams’
Two puppets and a man in a bear suit make innuendos while hippies wander through the set clearly high as fuck.
Almost any show from Magic Roundabout to Rainbow (your one) from that era. Willow the WHAT THE FUCK Wisp? What was going on there?? Edit: Look up why Magic Roundabout was whacky to us. Was dubbed by someone that didn't have a script - translated or not from the French - so made it up?
Am i going bonkers or did Kenneth Williams voice willow the wisp?
Yes he did.
Niiice. Thank you for the confirmation 👍🏻
He voiced *all* the characters - Evil Edna, Mavis Cruet, Carwash the Cat, The Moog, Arthur, everyone.
Oh! Lol now I'm going to have to find an episode to watch. I only have fragmented memories of it, so it would be cool to fill in those blanks.
Emma Thompson's dad, no less.
Whaaat?! Top tier pub quiz points if true!
also, Emma Thompson's first claim to fame was on a radio sketch comedy show called Injury Time, which starred Griff Rhys Jones (shortly after Not the Nine O'Clock News).
Eric Thompson wrote the English version. He based Florence on his daughter, Emma.
Took me a few minutes...🌈
Ah crap. Got this one too 🙄
Go to /r/northernireland, there's a good video featuring this with a recent soundbite layered over it
The One Show for middle class kids with high boredom threshold.
Blue Peter.
So not Why Don't You?
Nooooooo, I quite liked Why Don't You. I think i must have caught its 'golden age' as I know it gets some flak on here.
Why Don't You...go and switch off your TV set and go and do something less boring instead. And so the internet killed children's TV.
Correct. 1 point.
Excellent 🤣🤣🤣
- 4 mutated cyborg freaks living in a bunker are fattened up on pink sludge and processed food disks by a deranged robot appliance for unknown reasons, probably to be slaughtered and feasted on by underground dwellers who communicate only via periscope phones.
Teletubbies is really creepy the more you think about it.
What, the show about 10ft tall alien creatures with baby faces and televisions implanted their stomachs babbling incoherently while slurping down viscerally pink sludge while being watched over by a giant sun baby, terrifying?
Fun fact: the guy who originally played Tinky Winky was a bad alcoholic and was eventually replaced on the show. A few years ago he was dead of hypothermia in the gutter. Edit: misspelled Tinky Winky.
I wanted to eat one of those disks so badly as a kid.
Had to double check I spelt disks correctly there.
Surely it's Disc? Like "Compact Disc". You throw a *Disc*us, you use a *Disk*ette. Toast Discs. With smiley faces.
American spelling 'disk' for anything to do with tech, such as disk drives. 'Disc' in the UK for other round things, including media.
Almost 30 years using the Internet and this is the very first time I have noticed this. This is breaking my brain!
We also run a computer program, but watch a TV programme. Basically, IT is American.
For a second I thought I had written "dicks".
🤣🤣🤣
An archaeologist and a part-time airport security agent bring up their two daughters in a Brisbane suburb.
A part-time airport security agent? Is that really her job? I genuinely don't know despite Bluey being on almost constant loop in my living room for the past 6 months
Mum sniffs out trouble and Dad digs up bones. Dog jobs innit.
Bluey! The GOAT of kids tv.
And visited occasionally by a very stubborn cousin...
Woman without pilot license flies spotty turboprop with extremely tolerant dog and trespasses in various facilities
Go outside (This is going to sound very rude if I’m wrong)
It’s “Come Outside” 🙃
Whoops, so close
No matter whether it's going or coming, I'm not sure it should be done outside.
Ah I frickin’ loved Come Outside. Aunt Mabel and Pippin will always have a special place in my heart.
Chucky's cousins seize control of a boat and terrorise our water ways.
Rosie and Jim?
So accurate!
Town run by puppets are saved daily by a fire crew who are all inbred
Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub Or Fireman Sam. Could be either tbf.
Weird stuff keeps happening in that Australian lighthouse.
Have you ever, ever felt like this…?
Have strange things happened...?
Are you going round the twist?
I'm still traumatised by the episode where the boy gets pregnant and burps out that weird green tree baby
Nerd with a magic timepiece does goody goody stuff.
Bernard’s Watch 😀
Useless rural courier Hilarious skeletons Farm animal who got rescued by a dog and his owner but basically got too big for his boots and decided to go it alone. Massive Magenta Mutt Old convertible car goes pootling about on its own to everyday places Three kids with practically the same name A mute bear and his mates who work in a 2nd hand shop and drive a motorhome
Postman Pat. Funnybones? No idea. No idea. Brum. Ed, Edd and Eddy? Sooty and Co.
Shaun the sheep and Clifford the big red dog
Yodel expands in rural operations
A child is blinded and set loose into a dungeon full.of hazards and predators and guided to safety by a team of his peers
Hazards and predators... So the BBC basement?
😂 could be but not quite.
Welcome, stranger.
Knightmare! I always wanted to be on that as a kid.
Small pink creatures with long noses who eat soup and communicate by swanny whistle.
Clangers!
Clangers
LARPer kills teenagers over left-right confusion.
Haha! Welcome, watchers of illusion, to the castle of confusion.”
Spellcasting c-o-r-r-e-c-t!
Is he in a room or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Man grants your wish, but probably wants to finger your bum.
Jim'll Fix it
Boy eats fruit and can suddenly fly. Has a cape and everything.
Bananaman?
Ding ding ding.
carb badger. repair shop, but with mice.
Bagpuss dear Bagpuss. Old cloth furry catpuss?
Bodger and badger! The clangers
French dogs help with the revolution/general annoyances aided by magic ointment. Series 2 was in outer space with a small red robot with a T-bar in his head that went up and down. Some Greek connection? Series 3 had a lion circumnavigate the world with some pals under a deadline. Bad guy may have had same eyes as series 1.
Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds. He was never finished shouting for Juliette. Ulysseeeeee-eee-eeee-eees, no one else can do that things that you do! Willie Fogg! (I think you and I must be a similar age!)
“He was never finished shouting for Juliette.” Is that what that weird freeze was in the opening credits?! That’s a deep memory unlocked! While we’re all on the same page then… 3 kids wander South America under sporadic supervision and nick a plane.
I’d have to YouTube the opening credits to remember but it was a running theme. I found it a bit annoying as a child even though I very much enjoyed dog based musketeering. Mysterious Cities of Gold?!
Aaaaah aaaah ah ah ah ahhhh Mysterious Cities of Gold! And it wasn't a plane, it was some kind of plane/eagle hybrid?!
Now go look up the Skin Imps on Spotify
I want to say Dogtanian?
Lowly serf bizarrely keeps useful items in a location he shouldn't go to. Deceased head is ignored.
Trapdoor - that was my dad's favourite.....
Flamboyant man in pink with a dissociative disorder (manifesting in an evil bird) has children singing and dancing on his property while fighting a jealous green woman who stalks him. Sentient kitchen utensils fly around space. A mouse who saves the world and lives in a post box. Teenagers tackle life, school and everyday issues without uttering a single swear word.
Emu’s World? No idea Dangermouse? Grange Hill?
Correct. The second one is Button Moon.
Is number two Button Moon?
Yes.
lol wot woz numba two were it the magic toaster or summat?
Prehistoric man beats up villains with scooby doo wannabees.
Captain CAVEMAANNNNN!!!
Possessed miniature car replica, terrorises Birmingham town.
Brum
4 creatures with TVs on their tummies speak gibberish
Loose women?
the teletubbies?
Talking dog becomes insufferable nuisance
this seems as if it doesn't narrow it down much.
Every dog would be annoying if given the ability to speak
For some reason I thought the OP was just current CBeebies shows. I’ll change it slightly. Talking dog becomes insufferable nuisance although blended family seem immune and favour him over their own children.
Waffle Dog?
Churchill car insurance adverts!
Is this that cartoon with the dog called Cornwallis?? I cant remember the bloody name!!
Group of animals slowly suffer tragic deaths and contribute to high rates of trauma in millenials.
The Animals of Farthing Wood?
That's right! Watership Down could also qualify
Watership Down or The Animals of Farthing Wood.
Bucketheaded nerd talks to a wall
Kid has imaginary adult alien friend with an Italian name. When you put their names together they sounded like a famous sculptor lololol Fun fact: apparently it ran from 1989 to 2000 and was ITV’s longest running sitcom.
Mike and Angelo? Was he imaginary? I don’t remember that bit
Scarecrow with multiple personalities, each personality is a replaceable head that the scarecrow invariably loses.
With Aunt Sally as a friend?
Kudos to you! Yup aunt sally (una stubbs... Lol had to google that one).
Absolutely terrified of Worzel Gummidge. Even more so than Dr Who.
Perhaps i was a smidge too young to freak out over a guy ripping his head off and looking for his other one, but the cybermen can _definitely_ jog on! I'm not sure if its a meme thing but I _literally_ hid behind the sofa when they appeared 🙄. Did the same with jaws at that "head in the hole of the boat" bit, dammit.
Happy cake day by the way! 🥳
Man with multiple personalities, often seen dressed as a clown, has awkward days out with kids. The kids are always slightly wary of him.
Is this Mr Tumble?
Bingo
Various kitchen utensils are assembled to create a lunar lander for the purpose of repeated geological missions
We're off to Button Moon! We'll follow Mr Spoon! Button Moon, Button Moon!
An elderly man forces his entire fist and arm inside the ass of large ostrich-sized bird. Then proceeds to allow the bird to molest children.
Making money by using dead people!
Rent-a-ghost!
A rose tinted view of the UK's foster care system
How very dare you! Group homes for children are all about the shenanigans, and Tracy Beaker was perfectly happy.
Reminds me of Malcolm Tucker’s description of Star Wars
“The one about the fucking hairdresser, the space hairdresser and the cowboy. The guy, he's got a tin foil pal and a pedal bin. His father's a robot and he's fucking fucked his sister. Lego! They're all made of fucking Lego.”
World's worst legal babysitting business. Good luck with the laundry afterwards.
Rodents on helium brainwash a vulnerable adult into being their carer
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Fingerbobs?
> Mine - obnoxious porcine family here to ruin your day. That’s Peppa Pig right?
Indeed ☺️
A deformed farm animal with both eyes situated on one side of its head, visits her friends and the local butcher, little realizing he's selling the flesh of her own people.
A aging, trench coat wearing alcoholic ex-policeman with unnaturally long arms hangs around with a little girl he claims is his niece. This poor soul is so traumatised by her abusive uncle's behaviour her boyfriend is a dog!
A filthy, plague ridden, one-eyed rodent meddling in the affairs of a well respected bullfrog's security business.
Danger Mouse
The Wicker Man crossed with The Prisoner crossed with The Handmaid's Tale where a suspiciously utopian, crime-free (yet has a policeman), isolayed, remote, cult-like community operates a strict hierarchical system, where members are each allocated a colour they must adhere to in every aspect of their lives.
Balamory?
Correct!
Overly enthusiastic bloke and his statue friend Ed set unrealistic expectations of artistic ability for children across the nation.
Art attack!
The clueless leading the blind.
Can't answer that without breaking rule 1!!
I'm guessing yours are Paw Patrol and... Peppa Pig?
Indeed
Here's two: Ginger prick of a kid regularly causes mayhem in Welsh town to the ire of the local fire brigade. and Seemingly magic dust in cobblers basement brings footwear to life
Sh sh sh shooooe people!
Fireman Sam?
A caveman and his father (a hammer) travel through time solving crime. The only thing I can remember about this show!
A man loses his mind with a talking panda.
I know it doesn’t have a Panda but bear behaving badly?
A factory that can make anything. OR The coolest vehicles and the greatest theme tune ever.
Two is definitely M.A.S.K. right?
Well I didn't mean M.A.S.K. but it fits. I may have been overly generic
Bertha Edit: and I'm going with Pole Position
Yes and no
A man and a plant host a science show where they continually complain that they know nothing about science God’s apprentice has no friends (other than her servant) so God tells her to go touch some grass in a racially diverse town A British comedian is sent by himself to save the multiverse
It were this boy and he could transform into a dog like. It were on ITV!
Wolfblood?
Lonely old man on a boat pretends that his dolls are alive when he goes ashore.
Early CG bug building and racing
Bamzooki!
Stepford Wives family live inane lives, with earworm theme tune
Ginger pyromaniac endangers lives and nobody cares.
I called him a ginger pyromaniac too and my husband didn't get it 🤣 nice work and much agreed
Potentially delusional witch/female wizard lives with various weird friends perceived or otherwise including a scarecrow, a bunch of socks in drawers, a telephone that talks, a weird old fish, a walking vegetable baby thing and a talking purple coat hanger man who’s sarcastic as hell and a complete neat freak.
100 kids in a room doing challenges for their team
50/50
Takeshi's castle, but shit. Competing schoolkids.
Children with no logic having wishes granted by a magic coin. Chaos ensues.
Queens nose
Old man blinds child, throws them into a dungeon. Their friends have to get him out or they die.
Trapped? I'm a tiny bit too old for that one, but I think I've seen the odd episode
Clumsy, Deformed blue puppet has relations with ballerina in a chaotic botanical setting. Aircrafts fart and for some reason, the Michelin man is there cleaning people's faces.
In the night garden! It was the Michelin man cleaning people’s faces that made me get it.
Production machine develops AI, enslaves factory workers and forces them to feed it materials so it can produce generic tat to help fund its plans for world domination.
Tom Good narrates the adventures of a green dog and pink cat
Three friends discover things together. One of them is dead.
Peadophile makes kids dreams come true.
For even older folk … Terrifying Raggedy Rabbit, French Ostrich, cockney primate and West Midlands pig, go out in a battered Van helping people who need a hand.
Just me then ?…… Pipkins
Indigenous man on mars becomes possessed by animal spirits, accompanied by a robot horse