We sit down for a spell to listen to George Cole reading a story about a kindly old magic-user. Wand-er if it'll be magic? That's witch-ful thinking! You try writing these...
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If you like the idea of cricketers being reimagined as rabbits, you should probably seek professional help. But oh boy, do we have the one extremely niche cartoon for you!
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We grew up in a time when someone could sew a squeaker into a sock and make a fortune from pretending it was entertaining. No wonder our generation hates everything now.
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Jeremy Beadle teaches kids about inventions and discoveries, while we think of some better things he could have been doing with his time, instead of making Eureka, which is what we're watching.
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We haven't heard of this, you probably haven't heard of this. All we know is there are Rock Lords in it. Let's all just get through it together as best we can.
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Remember when everyone thought Virtual Reality was brilliant, but it actually turned out to be a load of rubbish? Of course you do, it's still happening. Satire. Virtually Impossible is like Knightmare, but probably cost a lot more and looks a lot worse.
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Just so you're not disappointed, this isn't about Jimmy Tarbuck playing snooker, or installing doors and windows, or adding wooden structures around the edges of paintings, or setting up innocent people so they appear to have committed crimes.
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Ren and Stimpy were famously never drawn the same way twice. Teetime and Claudia also share this quality, but for a very different reason.
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Doris is a cat made from cut-out paper whose world is brought to horrifying life with the nightmarish screeching of 80s synthesizer music.
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Michael Barrymore reads words from a book whilst a puppet dogs attempts to draw the images conveyed by the words, in Sebastian the Incredible Drawing Dog. You could say they're pooling their resources, but I don't know why you would...
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Dappledown Farm straddles two different realities - one resembles the real world, the other is made up of painted sets and puppet animals. Briant Cant doesn't notice, because he's an omnipresent interdimensional being.
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Imagine if a Smurf and a Poddington Pea were able to breed. Go on, really imagine it with your imagination.
Urgh. That's disgusting.
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"Wait a minute," we hear you say, "you've already done Rainbow!" And we did, in episode 67. But that was the REAL Rainbow, whereas this is some horrible Wish.com-style reboot. Do people still talk about Wish.com? Or is this the Temu Rainbow?
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Back when TV screens were tiny, fuzzy and colourless, Andy Pandy was the king of horrible haunted wooden things on strings. Thankfully the toddlers of today would kick him to bits in a sugar-induced frenzy.
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"Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb!" The OG stop motion firefighters spring into action as we finally pay a visit to Trumpton, despite both assuming we'd already watched it.
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Is there a better way to welcome a new year than by watching a drunken butler trip over a tiger rug? Of course not, it's a tradition, so endure this one again and have a Happy New Year!
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It's Christmas, so we're gonna party like it's 1984, by hanging around in a cardboard windmill while a witch tries to capture a puppet.
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Clive Dunn had a number one hit single called Grandad in 1971, then made a TV show called Grandad without even using the song Grandad as the theme. And the show isn't even really about him being a Grandad.
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Kid 'n' Play were also known as the Fresh Force Crew. That sounds like a better name for a cartoon. Or a line of action figures. Or cleaning products.
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Rod Hull made loads of live action tv shows about living with an emu and being chased around by a witch, and when he was given the chance to write and star in a cartoon, he also made that about living with an emu and being chased around by a witch. Say what you like, that man knew his target audience.
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Bob Monkhouse hosts a classic boring gameshow based on Bingo, without the massive marker pens and angry pensioners. Although it was the eighties, so there's no way to know how old these contestants are.
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Most people in the UK have heard of Viz, the naughty sweary comic for adults. In the early 90s, there were a lot of cheap knockoffs, and Zit the comic produced an even cheaper VHS full of badly animated versions of their comic strips.
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The bloke who made Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley clearly wasn't satisfied with a legacy of beloved and timeless animations, so he made sure to create something horrifying and awful before the end of his career.
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Spike Milligan ad libs the narration for a cartoon about rats that his daughter came up with. I bet if we'd listened to this instead of talking all over it we might have actually enjoyed this.
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Time for another cartoon we assumed we'd already talked about, as we watch Roobarb and discover that one of us has always been fundamentally incorrect about this scribbly cartoon dog.
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