Saturday, 3 October 2009

Timeless Chuckles

It's a Saturday afternoon and therefore the TV offerings are minimalistic, to say the least. So I flicked over to the CBBC Channel (of all things), and was lucky enough to see the timeless stylings of the Chuckle Brothers and ChuckleVision which was a staple of my childhood, firstly because it never changed and never needed to be updated.

"To me, To you" might be a bit "old" but really who cares, it doesn't need to be the high definition, laser shooting, head ache that kids TV now days it seems to be. The series has been going from 1987, thats 6 years longer than I've been on this earth, and has had 21 series so far. The characters never get old and the innocent fun is something that I hope that my kids would be able to enjoy when their young, well they are getting into their mid-60s and they probably wont be around then, sorry boys.


Afterwards, Arthur came on, ah... the memories, great TV and it's not GI Joe or Hannah Montana! Then Dennis the Menace (or as it is now known Dennis and Gnasher), but not who I know it, with some teen pop-rock/scene theme tune. Its alien, the actual cartoon isn't the same as well, it looks modern (and not in a good way) and not how I want to remember it, they seem to have grown up in the cartoon, why? Even though the simple concept hasn't changed, I'm bitter and definitely prefer the other version (its slightly growing on me).

I've just done research on the new and old series, and with out even knowing it, the old series only ran for 2 series (from 1996-1998) yet I remember it being on forever, only 26 episodes. And the new series that started this year will include 52 episodes just in the first. I must have watched those first episodes over and over again without releasing it... good times, when you could watch the same episode over and over again and not worry or care. Come to think about it all the episodes are based around the same storyline everytime, yep... thats a child's brain for you. Original Dennis:
 
New Dennis:

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