Yes, peas.
2May 10, 2008 by miki
A quick shoebox entry.
With the help of a new friend last night, I rediscovered some old 70’s cartoons of British persuasion that I used to love watching. And maybe, just maybe, they mighta had some influence on the stuff I do now… 
If you’re around my age and ever saw Romper Room back in the heyday, which my brother and I would catch at about 5AM or 6AM on the weekday mornings, you might have seen this one cartoon about a boy named Simon. Like with Newton’s Apple, the theme song for the show managed to stay with me and was the main reason I was able to recall it now:
Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings
Also, this one from darkest Peru:
Paddington Bear
I’m totally enamored with the sketched 2-D cutout world. Hooray for the days before the slickness of computer drawing. Both the show and book use to always get my mouth watering for marmalade (though we also found an advert with Paddington changing up his usual spread with Marmite… I sorta have to agree with the pigeon’s response to sampling the squeeze. :P)
A switch from Paddington to Poddington. This 80’s show I never saw, but I do love peas.. and this one cracks me up way too much to ignore. Especially Soap-Pea with his Harpo Marxist hair, Scottish accent, and bottle of Dew.
Poddington Peas
I don’t explain ‘em, I just like ‘em.
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Simon!
God I loved that shows when I was a kid. I remember it was on Pinwheel on Nickelodeon back when my dad figured out how to steal cable tv. However, whenever I tried to talk about it later in life, everyone only remembered the Mike Myers spoof on it from SNL… nobody even believed me that this was real. It got to the point where I almost thought I’d imagined the whole thing. thank you for this emancipating burst of nostalgia.
I also suffered from the marmalade effect, but I haven’t thought about it for years. Mmmm, I think I’ll have some now.
i used to sleep with a paddington teddy bear regularly. we had an understanding.