April 3, 2026

With this lovely cheesy introduction to “Pib and “Pog”, surely we can expect a gently comedic adventure for them both that extols the virtues of friendship and inter-reliance for the younger audience? Well, no, not really. Indeed it seems that these two “friends” have more in common with “Tom” and “Jerry” as they now engage in a series of escapades that parody the most sacred of children’s television characters - and sacrilegiously too! It’s as m… read the rest.

With this lovely cheesy introduction to “Pib and “Pog”, surely we can expect a gently comedic adventure for them both that extols the virtues of friendship and inter-reliance for the younger audience? Well, no, not really. Indeed it seems that these two “friends” have more in common with “Tom” and “Jerry” as they now engage in a series of escapades that parody the most sacred of children’s television characters - and sacrilegiously too! It’s as much the narration that works here - “oh look, it’s a bucket of concentrated sulphuric acid” that raises the smiles and it does in many ways hark back to the days of “Vision On” and Tony Hart’s groundbreaking claymations. I did love the ending and it did make me wonder what the “Tellytubbies” might have ended up as if “Po” and “Tinky Winky” had been given Kalashnikovs. Good fun.

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