They don't make em like they used to

Remember the glory days of kids tv back when you were of an age to appreciate it more. Classics such as Sharky and George, Thundercats, Fireman Sam, Playdays but to name a few, graced our screens. Now these afore mentioned programmes were pretty normal. They were just cartoons, the characters spoke English and were mostly human. Yes there is Bagpuss and The Magic Roundabout that were weird, but I believe it was a glory time for kiddies programmes.

Now you look at children programmes and think, ‘what kind of drugs have the people that came up with this shit been taking?’ The normal cartoons where you have a hero like Captain Planet or Rude Dogg and his gang of Dweebs, are gone. They are replaced by Teletubbies and the things that are ‘In the Night Garden.’ Iggle Piggle I believe is a prominent character in that and is never in bed when he should be the bastard!!

I don’t think children’s tv shows and drug taking is that new. As I said before, the Magic Roundabout was extremely weird. That can only have been concocted by someone that is taking some kind of, at least, hallucinogenic. Where else could you find a reason for having a plasticine dog and all his mates that go round on a magic roundabout, the signs were there. No one in their right mind could surely come up with that? Yes a cartoon, an immature cartoon, where dogs, cats, monkeys, trees talk is one thing but some of the stuff that was said as well, looking back now as an adult and listening, it doesn’t take a genius to work out what was being insinuated.

Another example is Rainbow. A talking head with a Zip for a mouth, a Blue Hippo a normal man? Very strange. If you have not already seen it, please type rainbow into youtube and see what comes up. There is a superb episode where they are quite clearly talking about sex. If only that was shown, now that is an educational programme. (Let’s see how many people go and do that now).

How many people reading this would have seen the new crop of shows? I reckon most would have seen Teletubbies at some point. Where the creators thought that making a big round ball with eyes talk in what can only be described as jibber jabber. That’s not talking, fortunately the voice over is fluent in ‘tubby’ and can relate to the audience what is indeed being said. How many acid crazed binges do you reckon prompted the person that wrote that to come up with those wonderful and harmonised gargles?

Fast forward a few years and I am visiting my cousin. At the time he had a 2 year old boy. At bed time on went ‘In the Night Garden.’ I can honestly say I was unbelievably confused as to what was going on and who was talking. The only thing I did understand was that Iggle Piggle the shit would not go to bed!! I don’t have kids of my own yet so I am not up to date with a lot of the programmes that are on. I reckon though if I sought out the writers I would discover the same guys that grew the weed for Rory Breaker in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. They don’t make em like they used to. That is the thought for today, tune in tomorrow for something else. Laters