"moist owlette" 🤣
Superbowl
For owls that are superb.
One of the better owl puns 😉
Funny -- yaffle is another name for the green woodpecker! Could also be named after the woodpecker in bagpuss, though
That green woodpecker is really neat looking! I'll have to check that out more!
Bagpuss looks vaguely familiar, but didn't look to be broadcast in America. I'll have to look at that too.
It could be named after the woodpecker though. Recent genetic sequencing has owls more closely related to woodpeckers and kingfishers rather than hawks.
Thanks for the new info!
Fun fact: professor yaffle was based off Bertrand Russell (yes, that one) after Oliver Postgate met him!
Holy heck, I'd never heard of Bertrand Russell either, but it looks like I could spend a very long time learning about him!
We end up touching on the wildest topics on here sometimes!
I liked the stop motion style of Bagpuss. The whole premise was nice for a kids' show. Of course I watched The Owls of Athens.
I did enjoy Yaffle, though I agreed with Madeleine's assessment of the tale.
I haven't seen that one before (or possibly have -- my memory is fuzzy!). I'm not overly surprised though that you found the episode about owls though haha.
Bagpuss was quite a charming show, and I think still holds up passably today.
I found it a charming reminder of shows from my own childhood. I'm only a little younger than Bagpuss and it looks like something early Nickelodeon would have ran for content.
Wikipedia still shows it pops up in modern culture from time to time. I'm a stop motion fan, so I still think it's great.