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	Roundabout way to a magical following

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Have you ever seen the <I>Magic Roundabout </I>film <I>Dougal and the Blue
Cat</I>? Look it up on YouTube. It’s all about a blue cat, wandering around
in the magic garden, trying to turn everything blue. It’s pretty weird. Also
check out that clip of <I>Rainbow</I>, which is full of puns about
“playing with your twanger” and “Jane’s lovely pair of maracas”. They
weren’t all like that, were they?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/kids_tv/article3176603.ece"><P>I
was supposed to be investigating what makes a children’s TV programme a
“cult classic” (as opposed to merely something fondly remembered) but it
isn’t easy.
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Although weirdness alone is not enough. After some consultation, the weirdest
example of children’s TV brought to my attention is a cartoon from the 1990s
entitled <I>Captain Planet Saves Belfast.</I> Google it, and watch the
hero convince an oddly accented assortment of Protestants and Catholics not
to detonate a nuclear bomb but to open an interfaith bakery instead. Weird,
yes. Cult, no.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/14BA3A6A-AD02-45F1-85E9-5758861BA9A0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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