Talk:Round the Bend

If, as you suggest, Whitehouse described this show as "politically incorrect" (extremely unlikely, given the provenance of that phrase, Whitehouse's personality and methods, and the show itself, then you're going to need a citation. Whitehouse didn't care about celebrity impersonations or politics, she campaigned against smut and violence, almost exclusively.  -- GWO


 * Found a link in Google which is a site describing it as being removed for being politically incorrect, but of course the site is offline! : "Round The Bend : Puppet mayhem with Doc Croc. Eventually to be taken off by Mary Whitehouse for not being politically correct. Pah! ... "


 * Shame the site doesn't exist in google's cache either... however this seems to be a mirror of it:


 * A discussion site which mentions it being scrapped due to political incorrectness:   I guess this doesn't count as being a good source though.

I also remember an old issue of SFX mentioning it - which is where I first found out why it was scrapped.

By the way - in my edit summary I did actually say that it was deemed incorrect due to violent humour. Howie &#9742;  12:53, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Even if we accept that it was the violence and not the toilet-obsession, that's still not what most people would term political correctness. -- GWO

Star Wars
Surely ''The Son of, The Return of, The Revenge of.... The False Teeth From Beyond The Stars are parodies--at least in title of the first-made Star Wars'' trilogy?--PeadarMaguidhir 20:08, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Nevile Shute
Shute wrote a book called Round the Bend, the Nevile Shute page links to this page - yet this page is about a kids TV show and not about the book.


 * Three options then:
 * Point the interwiki away from this page, as it's obviously nothing to do with Nevile Shute (I don't have a clue who he even is).
 * Create a new article for the book if necessary.
 * Remove the interwiki link entirely from the Nevile Shute page.
 * It's not the problem of this article if a link from another article is pointing here erroneously. Howie  &#9742;  00:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps someone could add this... They also had a parody of the Care bears called the Couldn't care less bears..

i remember one of them was called 'haven't had a bath for a week bear'!!

this prog was hilarious, loved it when i was little!¬

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The one when Vince was up in space broadcasting his jokes to every radio, satellite and TV sation!!!. "What do hedgehogs like to eat with their cheese?, PRICKLED ONIONS!!!". "There was one in other programe that went "Which animal is the wettest?, RAIN-deer!!!". So bad they were hillarious!!!.

And Vince moaning in the satellite that he didn't want to go up into space, only for Doc to say things like "Tears of joy!", "Bless his cotton socks!, he can't believe his luck!"

Marcus Bowen 14:27, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

David Colemole
Although his name is obviously a play on fellow sportscaster David Coleman, I have to disagree that their voices sound anything like each other. Colemole's voice appears to me to be an impersonation of weatherman Ian McCaskill, who he also looks like. Beanhead McGinty 10:30, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

YouTube
Should it be mentioned that all of series 1 and 2 are now up on YouTube?

Marcus Bowen 17:59, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't know, but I'm definitly going to look for them tonight! It was one of my all-time favorite shows! The Kinslayer 12:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Teenage Mutant NINJA Toilets/Teddies?
I was aware you weren't allowed to say 'ninja' on British tv, hence HERO Turtles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk • contribs) 05:22, 11 August 2007


 * Nonesense. The word could and can be said, it was just that at that particular time including it in the title of an actual children's programme was giving it "undue prominence." Nick Cooper 09:34, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

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