L is for LSD and every other drug under the sun.
This is the Magic Roundabout's answer to The Da Vinci Code.
In the geekish mythology of children's television only the debate about whether Captain Pugwash had a character called Master Bates generates as much heat
@ecksmc 🧐I am confused
@carmahaz In the 36 years since it first appeared, the Magic Roundabout has been variously interpreted as a political satire, a psycho-sexual allegory, and a coded manifesto for the Sixties drug culture
The trouble was that few were sure enough, or ready to mention this at the time
and in UK it was a kids show shown in 6min episodes
@carmahaz IN the beginning was Zebulon, who figures fleetingly in Genesis (30:20) as the sixth son of Jacob and Leah, and about whom little is known other than that the Lord did not equip him with a spring. Centuries passed before Zebulon resurfaced in an obscure 1960s French children's television programme, which provided the basis for the BBC's Magic Roundabout
@carmahaz By then he had become Zebedee whose catch phrase was "Boing! Time for bed".
Only when the children had been thus dispatched could their parents turn to each other and ask: "Stone me, what was all that about?"
@carmahaz Millions of five-and-six-year-olds who watched it in the Sixties and Seventies have therefore grown up not knowing what it did to their heads
Why was Zebedee always telling Florence it was time for bed?
What was in those sugar lumps so hungrily scoffed by Dougal the big-haired sausage dog?
@carmahaz What does Zebedee represent? He appears at the beginning and the end of each episode, but not often in between, and then only if the others appear to need him. In this sense, he has been seen as the garden's "spirit god"
i could go on and on but lmao
it was only a cartoon after all
@carmahaz an original episode
dropped an h...
have...have you ever seen boohbah?
i skipped school one day (not infrequent) and my sister had left the tv on. and boohbah was on. and i...
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start at the timestamp... https://youtu.be/hHTTKqu_smA?t=257
for those not familiar with the magic roundabout
The Magic Roundabout: from A to Zebedee
What's in Dougal's sugar cubes, who would name a snail Brian and what's Kylie got to do with it?
As a film of the BBC classic arrives in cinemas, Adrian Turpin
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-magic-roundabout-from-a-to-zebedee-488744.html