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🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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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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