There are few things that bring greater joy to a British person than trying to explain Mr Blobby to Americans.
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@croptopjin @reillypascal I feel I need to add, children LOVED Mr Blobby. He was supposed to be a joke, an obviously ridiculous and slightly sinister parody of kids’ TV mascots. Turns out kids fucking love “obviously ridiculous and slightly sinister”. Blobbymania at its height was massive. He was inescapable.
@astronomerritt @reillypascal I feel bad for their parents, Imagine having terrifying posters of Mr. Blobby in your child's bedroom.
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@reillypascal The thing to understand about Mr Blobby is that he is both a beloved figure of British TV for people of a certain age, and also, that he is utterly disturbing.
He was created as a fake children’s show character as a candid camera prank for a Saturday night TV show where he would interact with celebrities and behave unprofessionally, and from that he somehow ended up with a number one single and a theme park. He would often make cameos on other British TV shows, usually involving someone getting “gunged” (covered in slime).
He can only say his own name in a bizarrely distorted computerised voice.
We love him. And sometimes we hate him. But we cannot deny him. Mr Blobby is eternal.
@astronomerritt @reillypascal That is somehow the least creepy image of Mr Blobby
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@astronomerritt @reillypascal I feel bad for their parents, Imagine having terrifying posters of Mr. Blobby in your child's bedroom.
@croptopjin @reillypascal Right?? Nightmarish for the parents, honestly.
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@astronomerritt @reillypascal That is somehow the least creepy image of Mr Blobby
@simonbp @reillypascal Genuinely. There’s something truly unsettling about him.
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@reillypascal The thing to understand about Mr Blobby is that he is both a beloved figure of British TV for people of a certain age, and also, that he is utterly disturbing.
He was created as a fake children’s show character as a candid camera prank for a Saturday night TV show where he would interact with celebrities and behave unprofessionally, and from that he somehow ended up with a number one single and a theme park. He would often make cameos on other British TV shows, usually involving someone getting “gunged” (covered in slime).
He can only say his own name in a bizarrely distorted computerised voice.
We love him. And sometimes we hate him. But we cannot deny him. Mr Blobby is eternal.
@astronomerritt that's amazingly deranged lmao
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There are few things that bring greater joy to a British person than trying to explain Mr Blobby to Americans.
I half get it. We had (maybe still have?) Barney the Dinosaur. Less said about that, the better.
The true horror to me is that he has a child, or a spawn, or something, and HE BRED TRUE There will never be an escape from his dark rule.
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@simonbp @reillypascal Genuinely. There’s something truly unsettling about him.
@astronomerritt @simonbp oh, I would have loved him as a kid (and I do now!)
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I half get it. We had (maybe still have?) Barney the Dinosaur. Less said about that, the better.
The true horror to me is that he has a child, or a spawn, or something, and HE BRED TRUE There will never be an escape from his dark rule.
@NuclearOatmeal Barney is the exact opposite of Mr Blobby. Barney was supposed to be a beloved children’s character and was instead both irritating and disturbing to adults. Mr Blobby was created to be irritating and disturbing to adults and became a beloved children’s character
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@astronomerritt @simonbp oh, I would have loved him as a kid (and I do now!)
@reillypascal @simonbp We tend to be weirdly fond of him these days. He’s terrible but he’s ours.
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There are few things that bring greater joy to a British person than trying to explain Mr Blobby to Americans.
@astronomerritt What about cricket? Can you explain that one to an uncultured American? Or hurling. They were doing a lot of that when we were in Ireland last year.
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There are few things that bring greater joy to a British person than trying to explain Mr Blobby to Americans.
@astronomerritt The #1 Christmas song from 1993 is guaranteed to break brains on both sides of the pond.
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@astronomerritt What about cricket? Can you explain that one to an uncultured American? Or hurling. They were doing a lot of that when we were in Ireland last year.
@c_dan4th @astronomerritt Cricket is just baseball but the bat is flat, and all the fielding positions have ludicrous names like Fourth Slip and Silly Mid Off.
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There are few things that bring greater joy to a British person than trying to explain Mr Blobby to Americans.
@astronomerritt The Australian version is getting Americans to taste vegemite or hand pass an AFL ball
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@astronomerritt What about cricket? Can you explain that one to an uncultured American? Or hurling. They were doing a lot of that when we were in Ireland last year.
@c_dan4th Nobody can explain cricket. I think they make it up as they go along.
Hurling is just an excuse to attempt to murder a bunch of lads from the next county over.
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There are few things that bring greater joy to a British person than trying to explain Mr Blobby to Americans.
@astronomerritt a good warm-up exercise is to try to explain Noel Edmunds to Americans
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@astronomerritt a good warm-up exercise is to try to explain Noel Edmunds to Americans
@astronomerritt to his credit: Swap Shop was a genius idea, and an absolute must-watch.
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@astronomerritt to his credit: Swap Shop was a genius idea, and an absolute must-watch.
@masp @astronomerritt At some point during the Covid lockdowns the BBC released a bunch of wallpaper/backgrounds for use in Zoom calls. You can keep your Tardises and Only Fools sets, this one is still my favourite (although the 80s-era Weather Presenter board comes a close second).
