Children’s TV

Anyone else remember “The Poddington Peas”?

My Housemate's a Mermaid (Alice E. Bennett) Children, Children's TV, Humour, Television, Uncategorized , , ,

When it came to pre-school television viewing, life did not get much better for 4 year old me than sat in front of the TV watching The Poddington Peas.

And quite honestly, who could blame me? The theme song was an utter tune!

And the comments section speaks for itself:

Also, I didn’t realise that episodes had a duration of only 5 minutes and that there is an absolute goldmine of backdated episodes freely available on YouTube.

If you’ve never experienced the pure joy that is The Poddington Peas, then look no further than “The Vegetable Show”, which is an all time classic.

And if you’re still not getting the hype then…well, you’ve got The Poddington Peas theme tune stuck in your head now so… *blows raspberry”

**

Could you spare a dollar to support me? Donate here!

Alice’s Funding Page

**

Anyone Else Remember the Surreal “Sooty and Sweep” Episode with the Explosives?

My Housemate's a Mermaid (Alice E. Bennett) adult, British, Children, Children's TV, Humor, Humour, Television, Uncategorized, Young Professional , , , , ,

What does it say about me and my childhood that my favourite episode of any children’s TV show I ever watched as a kid centred around puppets throwing bombs at children and animals?

Yes, you heard me, bombs. As Soo the Panda light-heartedly jokes, they were the “Bun Disposal Squad”, so I suppose if you’re going to be really pedantic then you’d say they were joke exploding cream cakes. However I’ll let you watch the entire length of the episode and leave you to make your own minds up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFrZCPqqXKk

I think the worst bit is that I actually re-watched this episode at gone midnight one recent Saturday night. No, scratch that, the worst bit is that I STILL love this episode. The 1990s were are an interesting decade, almost naïve of what was to come. Man, I miss growing up then.

Perfectly acceptable viewing

Something it’s taken me twenty years to notice, mind…Matthew (the guy running the shop), he has a wedding ring and seemingly lives in the attached residences (with all the puppets, but let’s choose to overlook that). Where’s his wife/husband/other?

If that question hasn’t blown your minds a little then you need to seriously rethink how you conduct yourself. Weirdo.

Oh, hang about! I’ve just found my second favourite episode of anything ever, the episode of Sooty and Sweep where everyone starts sniffing suspicious substances to change their voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7gYbKFYEbY

Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, you’re all weirdos.

**