As a child growing up in the UK during the 90s, Jimmy’s is a unique form of hell.
I’ll be at VanCAF this weekend! Come see me at table K7 in the Gym!
As a child growing up in the UK during the 90s, Jimmy’s is a unique form of hell.
I’ll be at VanCAF this weekend! Come see me at table K7 in the Gym!
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*laughing for ten solid minutes*
What would have happened if the Four Horseman had been ‘persuaded’ to play the(1993 Christmas number one!) Mister Blobby song at Jim’s leaving bash?
Still laughing.
what did i just witness
> What would have happened if …
Umh … the U.S. under high alert as their radar stations track a Cruise JiMissile incoming under own wingpower at Mach WhatTheHell?
I absolutely love that Jim has lived through the Blobby experience, I used to be absolutely obsessed as a child.
Seeing mention of it in this comic is such an unexpected, but absolutely delightful surprise, thank you for the memories!
Noel Edmonds: bugbear. Alec Hyde WILL tell you but this time WE’VE GOT PROOF.
Nice, Doug as n interesting show alright. Skeeter was pretty well the early opposition to the grunge era of the time.
If the main group could be any DnD class and/or character what would they be?
Do Uncommmon/ Pygmy Reverse Gryphons exist?
PETE AND PETE FOREVER
YES! This was the bizarre show that most fundamentally encapsulated the sense of humor my father loved.
I mean…. the CBBC Aardvark wasn’t so bad.
But yeah we had some really weird slightly traumatic stuff. Animals of Farthing Wood included
Jim should count his blessings that he missed National Willy Fog Day.
Doug was a great show! My personal favorite will always be Hey, Arnold!
With access to the BBC, there were so many more options than THAT on kids TV in the 80s/90s. Plus, they were subjected to Cities of Gold and other such gems from Europe. I know a few Poms who grew up in Jims era, it seems odd he’s not mentioning all the good stuff they all rave about, only one weird parody of a kids show. Stop being so negative, Jimothy!
I guess if Jim had watched productions such as Cities of Gold, he likely would have travelled to a far more southern location in the Americas than he did travel. How could he possibly have missed out on all the kids stuff on the BBC?
Little Jimothy would have been around *six* when Mr Blobby was created. And believe me, when that pink and yellow SOD caught on as a national TV figure in its right, IT WAS EVERYWHERE. A symbol of the British love of pure trash. That’s the thousand-yard-stare of raw *trauma* that Jim’s giving off.
I was that oddball kid that preferred to watch stuff like Bill Nye the Science Guy and Magic School Buss.
There’s some fun ones that I remember from my early childhood.
“Mr Squiggle” is honestly an Australian Children TV series that I want more people to know about, since it is simultaneously so simple and so bizarre. It ran from 1959 to 1999. Not a cartoon, but closer than whatever Pete & Pete would have been.
Australia also got a whole bunch of things from all over, so long as it was in English. “Bump In The Night” honestly feels like it was inspired by some kid’s fever dream. “Soup Opera” still doesn’t make any sense to me whatsoever, but seeing fruit magically become things while still being recognizable as the original fruit is interesting in its own way. And “The Big Knights” was weird and funny.
I was, of course, avoiding answers I know should be known to anyone and everyone, such as The Magic School Bus, Pokemon & The Simpsons.
BLOBBY BLOBBY BLOBBY!
Two weeks later and little Jimothy’s face is still cracking me up.