Alice loves Bing the lovable bunny and although its not one of the worst programmes that is shown on Cbeebies such as 'In the night garden' or 'The Teletubbies' I find the show quite bizarre and sure many of you do to, I get that it is a childrens TV show but there are just some things that don't make any sense for example:
1. What an earth are Flop, Amar and Paget? Are they teddy bears? Are they Bing, Zula and Pando's mum or dad? If they are then why are they half the size of Bing, Zula and Pando? If they are their parents then where is Bings mum and Zula and Pando's dad? Flop, Amar and Paget seem to be their parents but they never call them mum or dad so who knows!
2. Secondly why does Bing never talk properly? I understand that he is meant to be a small child possibly a toddler and hasn't learnt how to talk properly but it doesn't send out a good message to children when he is saying things like "decolorating" '"falled" and " stealed" because children will copy and start saying them too!
3. Everything is always a Bing thing, like baking its a bing thing, slides its a bing thing and fireworks its a bing thing. Now it doesn't take a genius to work out that all those things that Flop is claiming to be a 'Bing thing' were done many years before bing was even created!
4. Lets talk Pando. I mean whats up with Pando and why is he never wearing any trousers?! He takes them off anywhere he feels like, the other day he took them off in the middle of the park and his carer/mum/who ever the hell she is Paget didn't even question it and just picked them up of the floor! He even removes them in the title sequence. Not a great message you want to be portraying to kids that they can just strip off whenever they feel like!
5. When the title sequence starts we see Coco and Charlie outside Bings house with a teddy/dad/mum/whatever the hell they are who is red, they are on the phone and get in a car and just abandon Coco and Charlie and they are never to be seen again, I haven't seen them in any episodes. Quite often Coco and Charlie come round to Bings but the red teddy/mum/dad/whoever the hell it is never seems to make an appearance
6. Why has everything got a name in Bings house for example the hoover is called "voo voo" the picnic basket is called "wheelie" why can't it just be called a picnic basket and a hoover! Who knows, I guess calling them there actual name would make too much sense.
7. Something else that baffles me is that Bing, Coco, Charlie, Pando and Zula seem to be the only animals of that size in the whole town. The rest of the town seems to be populated with those weird walking teddies that seem to run everything in the town like the shop ETC... but then there is a cat called Arlo who seems to be a pet that lives outside the shop. Bing is a bunny so wouldn't he also be a pet but somehow he has the ability to walk and talk like a human?!?
8. No matter how many times you watch it Bing is really a quite badly behaved little bunny. He never listens in the first episode he doesn't listen to Flop and runs outside and gets frightened by the fireworks, he also pops ballonie when Flop told him not to jump on him like that. Bing also gets his book wet in the bath after being told books don't like baths. Bing is also impatient and walks in front of the swing and gets hit by Pando, he hits Zula when she takes Hoppity away from him. He also puts Zula's shoe down the toilet so she can't leave! Not the kind of message you want to send to your children!
Although Bing is a very obscure programme which sometimes gives out the wrong the message, I can't help but find myself singing sliding down the rainybow and saying "Its a bing thing" more often that not. I don't think I will ever understand the quirky and the weird things that goes on in Bing but Alice seems to love it and like I said before there are much worse things she could be watching on the TV!
Not understanding the weird shit that goes on in Bing... Its a Bing thing!
The Honest Mum
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