Goodness, another month goes by without a post on this blog. Anyway, I just thought I'd quickly bring you up to date with the viewing habits in our house.
Yesterday's Balamory threw up the interesting prospect of the Balamory Morris Dancing Society - about as likely as the Balamory Kurdish Community I mentioned a few posts back. It also featured our old friend Edie being sent to an oil rig to cheer the boys up - well if there's one woman for a job like that ("I can show you it all, come up and see me sometime") - all captured on video as always.
The Night Garden episode we saw this morning featured the Tombliboos riding on the Pinky Ponk desperately trying not to spill their juice. Eventually they did, of course, and needed Macca Pacca to blow them off with his Uff-Puff to get clean. No, it's too easy. I'll let you do your own jokes.
Meanwhile, 3rd and Bird, the poor man's Wonder Pets continues to bore us, and Boo! makes Dad want to launch bricks at the TV, however on the bright side, at least we got to see Smokey dragged up as Suzie from Balamory the other day and Pingu is back.
Showing posts with label balamory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label balamory. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Friday, 13 February 2009
Balamory Tackles The Weighty Political Issues
It's been a while since I posted about mine, DTE and DTY's telly-box habits. However, this morning DTE requested an old-school Balamory, instead of our current fave Super Why.
We were delighted to be treated to Edie's raunchy number "Come Up and See Me Sometime", but somewhat mystified to see the popular pre-school show diving into the weighty political topic of the existance or otherwise of the state of Kurdistan. Miss Hoolie took her Kurdish guests for a picnic in a thinly disguised Bellahouston Park, and we were 'treated' to Kurdish dancing. I might be wrong, but it looked suspiciously like the BBC had rounded up all the vaguely 'ethnic-looking' children from nearby and raided the fancy dress box, as none of them looked like they had ever encountered a Kurdish dance before and shuffled around looking embarrased. Still it looked like The Kurdish Camerons (maybe I misheard the name) enjoyed it and they immediately stopped missing their intellectual homeland. Good, good.
We were delighted to be treated to Edie's raunchy number "Come Up and See Me Sometime", but somewhat mystified to see the popular pre-school show diving into the weighty political topic of the existance or otherwise of the state of Kurdistan. Miss Hoolie took her Kurdish guests for a picnic in a thinly disguised Bellahouston Park, and we were 'treated' to Kurdish dancing. I might be wrong, but it looked suspiciously like the BBC had rounded up all the vaguely 'ethnic-looking' children from nearby and raided the fancy dress box, as none of them looked like they had ever encountered a Kurdish dance before and shuffled around looking embarrased. Still it looked like The Kurdish Camerons (maybe I misheard the name) enjoyed it and they immediately stopped missing their intellectual homeland. Good, good.
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Balamory Strikes Back
Well, in a deja vu type way, I'm back on Balamory with DTY. She seems to find it every bit as entertaining as her older sister did at that age. Gosh, it feels good to be back - I've missed it. Straight in with one of the later episodes, where Balamory's (somewhat unlikely) Kurdish community gets an airing. I was rewarded for my viewing with the innuendo packed Edie song. "Come up and see me sometime, and I can show you it all." Genius.
Meanwhile over on the cartoon epsiode lists I've been continuing to relive my own childhood by adding two very different cartoons: Transformers and DangerMouse. Ahh, the memories.
Meanwhile over on the cartoon epsiode lists I've been continuing to relive my own childhood by adding two very different cartoons: Transformers and DangerMouse. Ahh, the memories.
Monday, 17 September 2007
A Classic TV Morning
It's been a few hectic days since the last blog post. They included a TV ban (DTE's behaviour) and lots of running around. This morning however, we managed to sit down for a classic morning's viewing.
First of all, it was one of those rare occasions when we saw a Lazytown we haven't seen before. DTE was incredibly excited. This was about a Genie and was packed with classic Lazytown moments. It's rare for a second series episode to match the great stuff from series 1, however we really enjoyed this one. The song is set to be a favourite too.
Then, we had an all time classic Balamory. PC Plum got blown. No surprises there. On this occassion however, his hat flew away. Edie and Plummy had to go to the firestation (we're not sure which of them was more excited - Edie does have a bit of a fixation with fireman's poles after all) to ask the firemen to climb up a tree to get fore-mentioned hat. Everything needed for a great Balamory was there - farce, innuendo and ham-acting extras. Wonderful.
First of all, it was one of those rare occasions when we saw a Lazytown we haven't seen before. DTE was incredibly excited. This was about a Genie and was packed with classic Lazytown moments. It's rare for a second series episode to match the great stuff from series 1, however we really enjoyed this one. The song is set to be a favourite too.
Then, we had an all time classic Balamory. PC Plum got blown. No surprises there. On this occassion however, his hat flew away. Edie and Plummy had to go to the firestation (we're not sure which of them was more excited - Edie does have a bit of a fixation with fireman's poles after all) to ask the firemen to climb up a tree to get fore-mentioned hat. Everything needed for a great Balamory was there - farce, innuendo and ham-acting extras. Wonderful.
Wednesday, 29 August 2007
This Morning's TV
We're seeing the Balamory episodes from the Buki Akib as Josie Jump era at the moment on CBeebies. Her acting is somehow less irritating, now we're on our third lap through the episodes. Today, she was being a dangerously negligent babysitter. You know you're in bother if you have to ask Pocket and Sweet for child care advice.
Meanwhile, nice-but-dim super-hero, Sportacus was helping the children of Lazytown with their play day whilst, as ever, failing to spot a thinly disguised Robbie Rotten.
Meanwhile, nice-but-dim super-hero, Sportacus was helping the children of Lazytown with their play day whilst, as ever, failing to spot a thinly disguised Robbie Rotten.
Last Night's Viewing
DTE isn't badly addicted to TV. We never allow her to sit goggle-eyed in front of the box. However, we do watch three shows together each day. They're carefully selected to combine maximum positive experiences for DTE with enough for myself and TBH to snigger about. Namelly: Lazytown, Balamory and In The Night Garden.
DTE is a child of her generation. At two years and five months, she understands all the principles of Sky Plus. She is well aware that live TV can be paused, rewound and watched over again. This does lead to the odd disagreement, but fortunately we're able to solve most of them amicably.
Last night, we watched the episode of ITNG called 'Tombliboo Oo Gets Sloshed' (at least that's what it's known as in our house). Oo steals all the suspiciously cocktail-like Pinky Ponk Juice and spends the rest of the episode stumbling about, before feeling poorly. There's a lesson for Daddy somewhere.
DTE is a child of her generation. At two years and five months, she understands all the principles of Sky Plus. She is well aware that live TV can be paused, rewound and watched over again. This does lead to the odd disagreement, but fortunately we're able to solve most of them amicably.
Last night, we watched the episode of ITNG called 'Tombliboo Oo Gets Sloshed' (at least that's what it's known as in our house). Oo steals all the suspiciously cocktail-like Pinky Ponk Juice and spends the rest of the episode stumbling about, before feeling poorly. There's a lesson for Daddy somewhere.
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