#Basil Brush

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[shiftythrifting]

Second park of Hemswell Antiques finds from today

- Doll legs

- Obligatory beet poot friend

- Vintage Basil Brush. Charming and unnerving in equal measure

- (Not so much shifty but!) The very rare and desirable Camberwick Green collection Trumpton clock! I've only ever seen one more of these irl and if I could afford it I'd have bought it immediately

- Marilyn Monroe doll

- An old pub scoreboard like none I've ever seen before

- An amazing pig salt and pepper shaker set! Unfortunately it was very thin ceramic and too fragile to take home on a motorbike, so it was sadly left behind

[janewaykove]

Gwendoline Christie on The Graham Norton Show (2019) // embarrassing crush

Basil Brush.

[mintyscuriocabinet]

Psst. Hey. Fellow puppet enthusiasts of Tumblr.

This lil goober is so underrated, can we please get him the fandom he deserves? <3

(Including as many puppet related tags as possible so everyone can see this beautiful boi)

[diloph]

With Children In Need, I was hardly expecting to see a pair of Normal, Innocent Men...

Let alone... HIM...

[disabled-dragoon]

Anyone unfamiliar with the concept of the British pantomime needs to know a few things for the rest of this post to make sense:

It's like a big school play with a higher budget.

It's campy, comedic, slapstick and often musical.

They tend to tell a fairy tale or folklore story. I.e. Snow White, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Dick Whittington etc. etc.

They're big on audience participation. There's a lot of call and response chants, i.e. "Oh no I didn't" "OH YES YOU DID", "He's behind you!", "You fell over, you fell over, you fell over...." and so on. It's fun.

You can watch them year round but the big panto season is Christmas and the New Year. They're everywhere.

There's usually at least one man in drag. Probably playing an older woman. We call them Dames and they are a delight.

Young boy characters also tend to be played by young women.

Innuendo.

It's very common for a lot of well known, or C or D list British celebrities to be a part of the bigger ones, like soap stars, comedians, dancers, TV hosts. etc. etc.

Sometimes. This means the casting is just. Off the wall.

Now.

This, is Basil.

[ID: Close up photograph of a glove puppet. It is an orange fox in a green suit. The fox is smiling. /end]

Basil Brush.

Basil is a puppet. A glove puppet and a staple of children's TV since the 1960s. At one point he, still a puppet, even had his own talk/sketch show, and he'd get a lot of famous guests on here.

All of this is to say:

I recently learned that Basil Brush (THE PUPPET) regularly appears and stars in pantomimes across the country and I have not recovered from this information.

[murdermostace]

This is so sweet

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Basils Bracket !

Round 1 Poll 3

[jackbatchelor3]

Puppets take over the MasterChef kitchen 😂 Part 2 BBC Children In Need 2023

[puppetdaily]

Basil Brush from British television

[hehimhorror]

hello dear followers i have a question

[crayondrawlings]

Celebrating my return to tumblr with some Unproblematic British Celebrities!

[xxmissak]

He’s only half fictional.

[thecringefailintherye]

Thank you for following me! What did you like about my story?

While I don't rlly engage w Basil Brush outside of his apperances with other puppets, so I don't really know him that well, but you write him so sweet, love him. Love that silly ole fox. You write him so cute and wholesome! You're also just a super good writer and you clearly have a lot of love for the character which shows in the writing— which is always fun ! Might engage w more Basil centric content after reading ur stuff as he seems such a fun character

[pizzlepiss]

hey they let me back in here after inexplicably deleting my account but anyways you sure can put a lot of pictures of basil brush huh

[swimmingferret]

so i was watching The Chase and Basil Brush was there????