#The Wombles

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Sunday Brunch

Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer host the food and chat show, with guests, cookery and music

First shown: Sun 1 Dec 2024

Rick Astley chats about his memoir. Mark Gatiss tells us about this year's Ghost Story for Christmas. Plus: Holly Johnson, Phil Dunning, Alexandra Mardell, Twinnie and Lauren Mayberry.

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Orinoco sleeping with a plushie of himself is the definition of self love. Be more like Orinoco, y'all!

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ur music is 'underground'? you know whos REALLY underground? the wombles. of wimbledon common. stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

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Meet the Wombles

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, a variety of shows were produced that focused on the adventures of a group of little creatures that lived just out of reach of human society. The Smurfs was the big hit, but there was also The Snorks, The Monchhichis, and many more. However, there was one TV show of this nature that completely passed us by, at least in the United States.

The Wombles was a TV series from the United Kingdom focusing on a group of short, furry creatures living in Wimbledon Common, a park in southwest London. It was based on a book series created by Elisabeth Beresford. The most important thing about them was their environmental cred, as they picked up the trash that humans left behind and turned it into all sorts of Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions. It was quite popular in the UK, so much so, in fact, that the Wombles ended up getting their own movie:

The most bizarre turn the Wombles took, however, was when they actually became a bubblegum band, complete with this little novelty hit:

Sadly, the Wombles were never really noticed much in too many places outside of the UK. It's sort of a shame, because the US has been sleeping on such a great thing.

Recently, there's been news that a remake is in the works, along with a potential movie. I do hope that another movie gets made, and it's by the guys who did the Paddington movies. I also hope they get Jim Henson's Creature Shop to work on it. All in all, it's a fascinating thing that should be known to the world.

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mentally, i'm here

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Hey guys sorry i didn’t post yesterday regularly scheduled programming will now happen 👍 todays dog girl of the day is madame cholet from the wombles

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ROY WOOD / Wizzard & WOMBLES I Wish It Could Be A Wombling Merry Christmas Everyday

‘Two of the most famous Christmas singles have been spliced together to create a new song.Wizzard's 1973 hit I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday and 1974's Wombling Merry Christmas have spawned a new song.I Wish It Could Be A Wombling Merry Christmas Everyday is the brainchild of Roy Wood, of Wizzard, and Mike Batt, the man behind the Wombles' Mike Batt, who has described the song as a "very silly record"."The old days of silly, holly, Wombley Christmas songs seem to be numbered. The problem with Christmas songs with holly on and mentioning Christmas is that radio stations won't play them until two weeks before Christmas. "We have taken the two songs and made the silliest song ever by juggling the two bits together.The Wombles was one of the most popular children's programmes of the 1970s and the furry creatures lived in a burrow on Wimbledon common. The programme spawned 10 hit singles with the theme tune to the programme, The Wombling Song, reaching number four in the charts in 1974. The Wombles' Christmas song reached number two in the same year. Wizzard also enjoyed a number four placing with its famous festive song, much played in pubs and shopping centres at Christmas.'

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REMEMBER YOU'RE A WOMBLE

by salem woods

march 2024

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Earworm today is Wombles of Wimbledon FFS! Where do these come from? BTW not living in London when I was small, I'd never heard of Wimbledon Common, so I thought it meant Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we, as in there are lots of us 😂

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'With a face carved by the hands of Michelangelo himself, Cillian Murphy’s film presence seldom goes unneeded. The Irish actor isn’t Hollywood’s most recognizable leading man. He’s spent most of his career traversing from underrated role to underrated role, giving him an incredibly diverse filmography.

Now, as his titular role in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” garners critical acclaim, I wanted to take a look at some of his previous projects.

Red Eye (2005)

Starting off strong with this airplane-set thriller, “Red Eye” follows two strangers, Lisa Reisert, played by Rachel McAdams, and Jackson Rippner, played by Murphy, on a flight to Miami. Jackson’s charm entices Lisa at first, but things take an unexpected turn for the worst when his true intentions are revealed.

Murphy deserved an Academy Award solely for his sassy line delivery in one particular scene — if you know, you know. The fact that he served face doing it makes it so much better.

Watching the Detectives (2007)

This rom-com follows a film nerd and video rental store owner whose life is turned upside down when a manic pixie dream girl type, played by the incomparable Lucy Liu, shows him life can be just as exciting and unpredictable as the films he obsesses over.

Violet, Liu’s character, thrusts Neil, Murphy’s character, from crazy scenario to crazy scenario. For example, after the duo vandalize another local video store under Violet’s suggestion, she pranks Neil by getting two “detectives” to scare him into thinking he’s been caught.

Throughout the film, Violet tells Neil stories in which fact and fiction are hard to discern. One in particular includes a big, bald musician she once dated who stalks her. She ends up pulling another ruse on the now paranoid Neil, faking an abduction by this bald ex that leads to a violent resolution.

I hope this movie inspires film bros to go outside and experience the world beyond the screen — though, hopefully not to the same extent as Neil did.

Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

In this drama, our blue-eyed beauty plays a transgender woman named Patrick “Kitten” Braden. After her mother abandoned her on the steps of a priest’s home, she leaves her small town in Ireland for London in search of her mother and a freer place to fully live her trans identity.

Her journey through London finds her falling in love with the lead singer of a glam rock band and singing and dancing as a member of the children’s entertainment group, The Wombles. She becomes a magician’s assistant and is ultimately forced into prostitution where she narrowly escapes a violent attack by iconically spraying her assailant in the eyes with Chanel No. 5.

Murphy’s performance is striking and campy throughout as he buoys the hardships of the trans experience with Kitten’s whimsy and aversion to taking anything seriously.

The costuming is also absolutely scrumptious. From a certain leather ensemble to the myriad of furs, this is certainly Murphy’s most glamorous role to date.

In Time (2011)

This dystopian quasi-thriller takes place in a society where time is currency. Citizens are genetically-engineered to not age past 25, and when they do reach that age, they are given one more year to live. Time is exchanged from person to person and is stored in capsules; citizens can gain time by working, bartering, stealing or fighting for it.

Though the concept is interesting, the execution leaves much to be desired. Even though the cast is full of familiar faces: Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde, Johnny Galecki and Justin Timberlake — yes, it’s from that weird era where they tried to make Timberlake a movie star, it seems like everyone here forgot how to act.

With the exception of Murphy, of course. Here, he plays a so-called “Timekeeper,” a select group of individuals tasked with keeping the peace and investigating “time crimes.” Murphy portrays his character, Raymond Leon, with a cold suaveness and a certain sassiness that’s innate to Murphy. The leather jacket and dark, slicked back hair is just a cherry on top.'

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Minty Goes Up North! (4/4)

Sindy!!!

A wall of Action Man

A prop and a film crew jacket from the set of Doctor Who

Before I made my way home, I stopped for some food. I had no idea that Taytos looked like this in Northern Ireland!

And then after many hours, I arrived home! I bought a 2000 Polly Pocket playset and a 2001 McDonalds Womble plushie!

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Book Palace art sale offers huge range of original comic strip work

The Book Palace and Illustration Art Gallery is hosting a Giant Art Sale this month, offering large discounts on comic and illustration art

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