Incredibly watchable piece of entertainment I used to eat my breakfast too since there were tons of episodes and were always distracting without needing you to engage too much with them.
They didn't have some kind of message or lesson, they were just a brief bit of trippiness where we start with some vision of domestic bliss, then travel to Button Moon where there's always something interesting going on (but thankfully nothing very heavy or significant) and only then for some reason Mr Spoon decides to engage in some voyeurism through his telescope. Maybe it works better in space or maybe they have no privacy laws or something.
This second half allows the show to contain basically anything in addition to the familiar characters in its enchanting space back drop from A middle east scene to a witches pantry.
As is the case with a lot of these British kids shows from the '80s they manage a vintage charm way beyond their actual age suggests with an old school story book quality. The narrator is stolid and soothing with his clipped voice that we see less and less of in Modern Britain and how he interacts with the characters. There is also something ineffably eerie about the show. Perhaps it's how candid they are about all the strange things that just crop up or how these characters stick to a strange routine without any acknowledgement or the serene but direct tone.
I think they had some kind of mission statement to make as much of it as they could out of recycled items and this makes the whole thing a lot more soothing as you see nothing put to waste. The characters never being without a lovable (and occasionally disquieting) home made look and never appear lurid or garish. Not that I don't like garish sometimes but this just goes the other way and is refreshing for it.
I like Mr Spoon. I don't know how he isn't a lot more iconic than he is. I also like Tina T Spoon more than I would have expected. I really, really like her...
An excellent piece of ambient storytelling to help you unwind or wake up.
They didn't have some kind of message or lesson, they were just a brief bit of trippiness where we start with some vision of domestic bliss, then travel to Button Moon where there's always something interesting going on (but thankfully nothing very heavy or significant) and only then for some reason Mr Spoon decides to engage in some voyeurism through his telescope. Maybe it works better in space or maybe they have no privacy laws or something.
This second half allows the show to contain basically anything in addition to the familiar characters in its enchanting space back drop from A middle east scene to a witches pantry.
As is the case with a lot of these British kids shows from the '80s they manage a vintage charm way beyond their actual age suggests with an old school story book quality. The narrator is stolid and soothing with his clipped voice that we see less and less of in Modern Britain and how he interacts with the characters. There is also something ineffably eerie about the show. Perhaps it's how candid they are about all the strange things that just crop up or how these characters stick to a strange routine without any acknowledgement or the serene but direct tone.
I think they had some kind of mission statement to make as much of it as they could out of recycled items and this makes the whole thing a lot more soothing as you see nothing put to waste. The characters never being without a lovable (and occasionally disquieting) home made look and never appear lurid or garish. Not that I don't like garish sometimes but this just goes the other way and is refreshing for it.
I like Mr Spoon. I don't know how he isn't a lot more iconic than he is. I also like Tina T Spoon more than I would have expected. I really, really like her...
An excellent piece of ambient storytelling to help you unwind or wake up.