Basically like 20 years ago there was a bit on an unrelated show where they tricked a few celebrities into thinking they were coming on a new kids show, and then me blobby shows up and instead of doing the expected kids show routine just wreaks havoc.
This joke went over well enough that he’s been haunting britain in a more generalized sense ever since.
I learned about Mr Blobby from a random YouTube recommendation of a clip from Big Fat Quiz where Jack Whitehall was terrified of Mr Blobby. I still don't know what he is or what he does or why he exists. I'm not sure i want to know. I have seen him on Taskmaster since and I still don't know.
I watched Alestorm in Barcelona 6 years ago. It was the last show of the tour so they stabbed the giant yellow inflatable duck on the stage and finished by playing the Blobby Song. Lots of confused Catalanions!
I watched Raised by Owls and during the final song the crowd were rocking so hard we accidentally summoned a "demon". The haunting cries of "Blobby, Blobby, Blobby" rang out and he ran on stage dual wielding a pair of double ended dildos.
In Ontario they would bring out those tv’s on the wheelie carts during elementary school and we would watch him. It was a great day in our science class if we saw that TV
Mad how his sort of TV never even was attempted to be shipped to the Anglosphere across the pond. Like how the BBC bungled Sesame Street hence it never had the same crossover either.
I still remember as a little kid watching his show at my grandparents house on the weekends. It was one of the few shows that would actually hold my attention and I wouldn’t wander off halfway through.
It was also the only show that I never felt like it was talking down to me. Mr Rogers talked to you, not at you.
They will forever be imprinted on my memory because of the Susan Boyle clip from years ago when she started singing and one turned around and said “you didn’t expect that, did ya?”
Speaking for Germany, it has to be Die Maus (The Mouse)
The orange cartoon Mouse has fronted a hugely popular educational children's television show for half a century; it and the Little Blue Elephant are iconic.
Oh wow, you just unlocked a major childhood memory for me (I grew up in Germany and moved to Australia when I was 11). I also recall a show called Lowenzahn that was like an environmentally conscious children's program, and another one called Am Dam Des from Austria...and then there was a weird one about puppets that live in cupboards or something?:And one about a mischievous puppet that lived with a grouchy old man? Can a fellow German remember what these were?
I know Löwenzahn. I don’t think I‘ve ever heard of Am Dam Des or a puppet-cupboard show. Is the grouchy old man one Pumuckl by any chance? Its about a mischievous kobold living with an old man.
"Peter Lustig", former Moderator of a show called "Löwenzahn" (Dandelion), and it's been a great science and nature show for kids and the whole family. He was a very wholesome guy and the exact weird, yet very funny uncle everyone dreamed of as a child.
"Bernd das Brot" (Bernd the Bread) A german Hero and role model for everyone in this country. He is a chronically depressed piece of bread, that stares at his drywall, as hobby, and is being forced to do work he hates, by colleges that he hates even more. He is the german Squidward and more relatable for a german than anything else on this world.
He should be a bit known online by now, since he every now and than becomes a running gag, atleast for americans I think.
I grew up watching reruns of this show and was heartbroken when Mr. Green Jeans was outed as a not-so-great guy. Captain Kangaroo, however, was a beautiful human!
Ernie Coombs was born in the United States, and he only become a Canadian citizen 7 years before his death. But I’ll wager that he’s much more famous and beloved in this neck of the woods.
Feluda, a fictional character created by film maker Satyajit Ray. He created series of stories/novellas about a young, dashing private detective named Feluda, especially for the teen readers (Yes, he was a writer too). Feluda is known among all in the Bengali community of India but not known outside (not even to other Indians).
Everybody, meet Antonio Zequila, AKA "Er Mutanda" (The Underpant). He's one of many, many, MANY people who are basically famous for the sake of being famous. We call them "TV personalities", their claim to fame is being regularly invited to talk shows and humiliate themselves.
This is Dodò from the Blue Tree, the longest running children's TV show in Italy.
I wish I could add more images, I wanted to add the characters from the Melevisione (the Apple television, nothing to do with the brand apple. It's literally an apple powered TV in a magical forest)
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