Watching 'In the Night Garden'

Just a few scattered thoughts:
1. The pinky-ponk is a dirigible behemothaur (see Iain M Banks' Look to Windward).
2. Macca Pacca is like an ideal 457 visa holder seen from Liberal party HQ  - he has the stones for comforters, toils cheerfully at almost worthless tasks like cleaning and arranging stones, lives in a hole, is very small and non-threatening , lacks elbows and (I suspect) proper bicamerality.
3. Sir Derek Jacobi.  I like to imagine that, true professional that he is, he insists on recording the introductory songs for each character for each episode, rather than it being the same copy. So much low quality nonsense.
4. Fairly strong gender types in Upsy-Daisy and Iggle-Piggle, compared to the Teletubbies, for example.  Upsy-Daisy can't stop communicating her emotional state, has a large vocab and a certain proprietary huffiness.  Iggle-piggle is robustly cheerful but has a single squeak for vocab and tends to collapse if he finds himself socially embarrassed.

Although it's much loved, the boy is developing a severe dependency and I may need to break Mythtv.

Peppa Pig, on the other hand, is lovely for all.  'The Noisy Night' episode is the whole contemporary tragicomedy of raising a newborn.