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*PREVIEW* Britainology 35: Mr Blobby feat. Juliet Jacques

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Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

For this month's first Britainology, we're joined in studio by Juliet Jacques (@zinovievletter) to discuss the '90s phenomenon of Mr Blobby, the rotund pink robot who took Britain by storm, stayed relevant for 30 years, spawned a hit single, a number of failed theme parks, and the sheer bafflement of anyone not from this strange island. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/65149455 *SEE TRASHFUTURE LIVE ON 4/20* We're doing a make-up live show on 20 April in London now that we've recovered from covid (this time). Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trashfuture-live-podcast-tickets-303412654417 *MILO ALERT* Milo has shows coming up in London and Brighton. Learn more here! https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

Transcript

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0:00.0

I wanted to reassure Nate that Nate, you're not the only American who's ever attempted

0:05.3

to understand Mr. Blobby.

0:07.1

You're not alone here.

0:08.6

And I would like to read you this article from the New York Times in 1994.

0:15.0

There's just, there's a lot of perfect sentences in here.

0:18.2

And I'd just like them to just wash over us all.

0:21.1

Americans may ooh and are over Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

0:24.9

The British prefer Mr. Blobby.

0:27.3

Seven feet tall and shaped like a bowling pin, Mr. Blobby began his life as a doodle.

0:32.6

He was intended as a minor ephemeral character on a BBC show called Noel's House Party.

0:37.7

Now he enjoys all the perks and anxieties of a media superstar.

0:42.0

There are Blobby videos and Blobby mugs, blobby keychains and blobby dolls.

0:46.4

Blobby has a hit single appropriately titled Mr Blobby, which became Britain's number

0:50.5

one song during Christmas.

0:52.3

There are licensed Blobby impersonators who draw adoring crowds wherever they appear.

0:56.2

There are even blobby scandals.

0:58.1

The latest involves a six-year-old girl, an outraged father, and a squished blobby-shaped

1:02.4

birthday cake.

1:03.9

It's an impressive achievement for a character whose entire vocabulary consists of

1:07.7

blobby, blobby, blobby, blobby.

1:10.3

Mr. Blobby or Blobby to hisby Blobby Mr. Blobby

1:11.2

or Blobby to his

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