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Friends Collectibles Set 2

41020 Hedgehog's Hideaway

 

Build a hideaway for the hedgehog, then take care of her online!

Rake up the leaves and build an awesome autumn burrow for the hedgehog. Cover the entrance with leaves when she's inside! Feed her the apple and put the pretty bow in her hair. Help make her the happiest hedgehog in Heartlake City! Take care of the hedgehog online at LEGO.com/friends and download more building inspiration. Combine with 41021 Poodle's Little Palace and 41022 Bunny's Hutch to create a bigger house or playground for all 3 animals with the building instructions available on LEGO.com/friends.

• Features hedgehog, autumn leaf pile, burrow, rake and an apple
• Rake the leaves to help the hedgehog burrow!
• Close the leaves over the hedgehog's burrow when she's inside!
• Feed the apple to the hedgehog!
• Take care of the hedgehog online, or find more building inspiration at LEGO.com/friends!
• Combine with 41021 Poodle's Little Palace and 41022 Bunny's Hutch to create a bigger house or playground for all 3 animals with the building instructions available on LEGO.com/friends
• LEGO® Friends pieces are fully compatible with all LEGO bricks
• Collect all of the LEGO Friends sets for a whole world of LEGO Friends fun!
• Measures over 1" (3cm) high, 1" (3cm) wide and 3" (9cm) long

I picked up all 3 sets in the 2nd series the other day. The three sets are all 5 bucks each and have different part counts. This set has the least number of pieces with 34 which makes them almost 15 cents each. Not the greatest value but there is that Hedgehog. If I got one on Bricklink it would cost me a couple of bucks plus shipping.  

I like many of the LEGO animals and I try to pickup new ones when they come out. One thing I have learned over the years is you can not count on anything coming out continiously. You know, other than bats, rats, spiders and scorpions. Three of those critters have appeared in over 50 sets, spiders in 86 of them. Only the 29 different styled horses have appeared in more sets. I've been liking the new animals that were created for the Collectible Minifigures theme more than the ones for the Friends theme. The latter are a bit too cute for the most part. I did like the Hedgehog, it's the least cute of the 2nd series. Take a look at the two hedgehogs above. The one on the left is the one from 41020 and the other appears in 3 other Friends sets. The hair is darker and the there are eyelashes. At least it creates some variety in the same animal. Parts wise the few parts are ok as they are. The dark red leaves are nice but two aren't going to go far. The pitchfork (being called a rake in the description above) and the apple are nice but there isn't much to exciting with the rest of the parts. I might want a second one but it's not high on the list to pick up. 

41021 Poodle's Little Palace

 

Build the perfect little kennel for the pretty poodle with a grooming table and dish with a bone, then go online to take care of her!

Create a kennel for the pretty poodle! Brush and primp her at the grooming table, then feed her a bone! Make her the prettiest poodle in Heartlake City! Take care of the poodle online at LEGO.com/friends and download more building inspiration. Combine with 41020 Hedgehog's Hideaway and 41022 Bunny's Hutch to create a bigger house or playground for all 3 animals with building instructions available on LEGO.com/friends.

• Features poodle, kennel, grooming table with brush and a tray with a bone
• Brush the poodle on the grooming table!
• Feed the poodle by putting a bone in her dish!
• Take care of the poodle online, or find more building inspiration at LEGO.com/friends!
• Combine with 41020 Hedgehog’s Hideaway and 41022 Bunny’s Hutch to create a bigger house or playground for all 3 animals with building instructions available on LEGO.com/friends.
• LEGO® Friends pieces are fully compatible with all LEGO bricks
• Collect all of the LEGO Friends sets for a whole world of LEGO Friends fun!
• Measures over 1" (5cm) high, 1" (3cm) wide and 3" (9cm) long

One of the worst of the lot. That poodle is way to cute. I can't see buying any more of this one. It's got the best piece count. The 46 parts average just about 11 cents each. There are a couple of the silverish 1x1 round plates, a hairbrush, a bone, 4 pink cheese slopes and a few other usable bits. Again nothing to exciting.

41022 Bunny's Hutch

 

Build a hutch for the bunny, then take care of her online!

Help the bunny by building a cute little hutch for her with a hinged roof! Watch her hop around on the balance beam then feed her a carrot! Place the pink bow in her hair and make her the best-loved bunny in Heartlake City! Take care of the bunny online at LEGO.com/friends and download more building inspiration. Combine with 41020 Hedgehog's Hideaway and 41021 Poodle's Little Palace to create a bigger house or playground for all 3 animals with building instructions available on LEGO.com/friends.

• Features bunny, hinged roof, balance beam, hair ribbon and carrot
• Hop around on the balance beam!
• Feed the bunny a carrot!
• Close the hutch's hinged roof!
• Take care of the bunny online, or find more building inspiration at LEGO.com/friends!
• Combine with 41020 Hedgehog's Hideaway and 41021 Poodle's Little Palace to create a bigger house or playground for all 3 animals with building instructions available on LEGO.com/friends.
• LEGO® Friends pieces are fully compatible with all LEGO bricks
• Collect all of the LEGO Friends sets for a whole world of LEGO Friends fun!
• Measures over 1" (4cm) high, 1" (4cm) wide and 2" (7cm) long

The bunny is pretty cute, almost two cute, but I got one anyway. I don't know that I would want another. I'd rather save that money for some of the new Castle sets. This set has 37 parts and that makes them about 14 cents each. The value is dependant on what you build. There's a carrot and 6 of the brick bricks in medium nougat. Always good to have more of those. The two medium nougat tiles with hinges on them might come in handy. I like that color and hope to have enough to build something nice some day. I'll sort the rest of the parts into my stock and put all the packaging up in the attic.

I did look at the alternate instructions that are on the LEGO site but they aren't that exciting. Best to part these sets out and make something you thought of.

Science Fiction Sunday 239

 

The Doc's Tardis is working again in the never ending saga from the BBC. The 61st serial has 4 parts and the first of them aired January 29 1972. We find the Doctor and Jo Grant on the planet Peladon. They find the somewhat primitive planet in the middle of negotiations to join the Galactic Federation. The Doctor and Jo are caught and brought to the King. David Troughton, son of the Second Doctor Patrick Troughton, plays the King. He's on the left of that picture with Grun, the king's champion, and Hepesh the High Priest. The King thinks the Doctor and Jo are the delegates from Earth. Of course the Doctor plays along. The High Priest has a secret agenda. He wants to keep the old ways and he'll kill to get his way. When the delagates are attacked they band together and try to figure out what's up. Eventually the Doctor dopes it out and after nearly dying several times he beats down the baddies, captures the legendary monster and saves the planet all. What a guy!

 

There are some nice models of the desolate planet. The poor Tardis falls off a cliff but the Doc and Jo have just stepped out. You'd think if the Tardis was as good as the Doctor is always claiming it would have some fancy named bit that would keep it from tipping over. Lucky it's indestructible and the fall isn't fatal for the ship. It's retrieved by the King's guards. The three other planets representatives come from Mars, Alpha Centauri and Arcturus. The Doctor is worried that the Martian Ice Warriors are evil and some planted evidence makes it seem so. Here's a couple of shots of the delegates.

 

That's Hepish, Jo, the alien from Alpha Centuri and the head of the Martian delegation. I read in the Wikipedia entry for the serial that the Alpha Centurian was thought to look to much like a penis with arms so they put a yellow cape on it. They have some nice sets for the palace and there's plenty of scenes done on film at Elstree Studios. The story is nice and compact and makes a change from the alien invasion theme. The dvd has the usual making-of featurettes, photo's and a commentary.

Friday Night Movies 430

 

Last week we sat down to watch the new Scream Factory BluRay of Lifeforce and the life went out of the power grid so we went home. This time the power stayed on and we watched the life being sucked out of one poor sap after another. I'd seen Lifeforce several times over the years, starting with the 1985 US theatrical release. The BluRay has both that 101 minute long version and the 116 minute original International release. It didn't do so well when it was released but over the years it's gotten a pretty good fan base. As I said I have watched it several times. We watched the International version which was previously released on DVD in 1998. The movie has been remastered and was released earlier this month on DVD and BluRay. It does look really nice. The screenplay was written by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby, directed by Tobe Hooper and John Dykstra did the special effects. The movie is based on Colin Wilson's 1976 book The Space Vampires.

Steve Railsback is the Colonel on a shuttle crew. They see a 150 mile long spaceship in the head of Halley's Comet. Of course they head on over to see what's up. The ship is damaged and inside they find some human size bat creatures floating in the airless ship. They find a chamber with three naked human shaped bodies in clear cases. There's one woman and two men. They manage to get her full uncovered body in many shots and a naked Mathilda May is one of the memorable things about movie. They obviously cover up the willies of the two male bodies. Steve orders the three cases to be taken aboard the shuttle for the trip back to Earth. The control room at the Space Research Center looses contact with them on the journey back. The shuttle enters an Earth orbit and a ship is launched to see what's up. Not much it appears. The inside of the shuttle is burnt and everyone is dead. An escape pod was deployed but they aren't certain who got out. All the trip tapes had been erased. The three naked bodies in the clear cases are still there, untouched. They are taken to the SRC.

 

That's Mathilda May on the left. She plays the naked lady in the movie. She's removed from her case and an autopsy is planned. During the night, while Mathilda is lying covered on the operating table, a guard leaves his post. Was he going to cop a feel, take a look, we'll never know. As he gets close Mathilda wakes up and sucks the life out of him. That's the guard up on the right after that soul sucking kiss. Wow, huh. If he doesn't get some other person's power he'll literally explode. That's how what the authorities call the plague after Mathilda gets out of the SRC. We learn more when Steve Railsback gets back to the Earth in the escape pod. He's pretty fucked up but after a shave he fills them in on what happened. Mathilda is really an alien that looks like the bat things in the 150 mile long ship. She had scanned him and created her image from his mind. Her looks would fool him into bring her onto his ship and take her to the Earth. Steve and Peter Firth follow Mathilda after she escapes. It's a tough job, Mathilda can change bodies, but lucky for them, Steve can telepathically link up with her. They think they have caught her inside Patrick Stewart but she gets away. The alien ship has come to Earth and when the plague starts the souls of the human's are sucked out of them and funnelled to the ship. It's an energy collector of a sort. The alien's have killed the whole populations on other worlds. What dicks, huh. Steve and Peter have figured out how to destroy the aliens. They race back into plague racked London to save the world.

If you haven't see it, and you like fun alien invasion stories, you might like Lifeforce. The effects are 80's effects but they're still pretty good. It had a fairly big budget, $25 million, and there was plenty of talent in front of the camera and behind. The script works well within it's own world and the characters are interesting. There's plenty of stuff going on, some weird and some sexual, it keeps your interest. I'll certainly recommend it to those that like stuff like this and I know I'll be watchin it again sometime in the future.

I can't say the same for Morons From Outer Space. I'd seen it back in the late 80's when it was on vhs tape. A few years ago I caught it again on cable. I couldn't remember much about it but in my defense it is pretty forgetable. Sperhauk got a copy of the dvd MFOS shares with Alien From LA for next to nothing. And that's too much, for either of those movies but there you go. It's another science fiction film from 1985 but it's not an alien invasion, not exactly. It's directed by Mike Hodges, who had directed Get Carter, Flash Gordon and The Terminal Man amongst other films. The movie was written by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones who were on the British TV show Not The Nine O'Clock News with Rowan Atkinson and Pamela Stephenson. Mel and Griff have parts in the movie. Mel is one of four aliens from the planet Blob. They're travelling about in a spaceship and wind up near Earth. They look exactly like humans and they sound just like they came from the British Isles. They're all pretty stupid on top of that. While Mel is on one part of the ship the really stupid one detaches the control pod part of the ship and crashes on the M1 in England.

 

They're hailed by the world, who don't seem to notice they are morons, and the trio get turned into rock star celebrities. They aren't very good at it, or anything really. Griff plays a reporter who becomes their manager. They make a lot of money and say a lot of stupid stuff. Mell gets a lift to the Earth but lands in the US. He has a much harder time surviving. No one believes he's an alien and the three famous aliens never mention him. Mel goes to see the alien trio in New York while they are onthei concert tour. They aren't happy to see Mel but they really selfish pricks for the most part. At the end of the big show the repoman comes to collect their space ship and the trio hitches a ride home. Mel is stranded on Earth but Griff, knowing he's an alien, is there to lend a hand.

Sadly the concept is better than the execution. There are jokes but they aren't that funny. It kind of pokes along but never gets too exciting. It scores a 4.2 on the IMDb and that's about right. It put two people to sleep while we were watching it so we know it's not too exciting. I made it though the movie for the third time. It's nothing to be proud of.

What I Read In April 2013

Not a good number of books this month but three of them were above average.

 

How To Train Your Dragon 9 How To Steal A Dragon's Sword by Cressida Cowell has my favorite Viking hero, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, save the world from the Dragon invasion. It's touch and go but he manages with the help of his pals Fishlegs and Kamikazi. There's a bunch of good villians and some dragons and some fighting and sneaking about. I've been enjoying this series a lot. It started a bit more lighthearted and over the 9 books it's gotten a bit darker. Not too dark, still a good bit of humor. Book 10 is out and 11 is due in a couple of months. Both are going on my library queue.

Darke - Septimus Heap 6 by Angie Sage has the castle nearly overtaken by some darke magic. Septimus, a wizard in training, joins his boss Marcia Overstrand, the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, in stopping it from taking over the whole city. Another good series that continues to entertain. I like the characters and the writing is good. The writing is clever and moves the story along pretty quickly. I'd recommend this series, there is a 7th, as well as Angie's Arminta Spookie series.

   

The Walton Boys And Gold In The Snow by Hal Burton is a Whitman book published in 1958. I like the Whitman books. When they were new they were illustrated hardcovers for under a buck. I had a lot of them when I was a kid. A lot of the Whitman books featured Disney characters. They have plenty of illustrations. Three teen brothers are off to the mountains for a vacation. They get mixed up in a mystery with a gold mine and some crooks. There's some small amount of danger, they get shot at, but the guys come through it all pretty much ok. Not a great book, readable, but I wouldn't keep it other than for it being one of those Whitman books I like so much. I got it and a couple of others in the series for a couple of bucks each. Once I get past some of the library books that have been coming in I will get around to those.

Flora's Dare by Ysabeau S Wilce is the second book in the trilogy and probably the best of the books this month. It's full title is: Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) and that pretty much sums up the novel. I really like Flora. She narrates the story and is an entertaining character. Even though she doesn't always think it though, she does get the job done. There's plenty of stuff going on and plenty of characters doing interesting things and plenty of places to do it in. There's magic. I'm glad that I didn't find this series when it started. The first book was 2007 and the second arrived a year later. The third came out 4 years later. I have it already and will pop it into my noggin soon.

The Second Circle Of Heck - Rapacia by Dale E Basye has Milton and Marlo sent to the second circle of heck where they destroy the place. I'm kind of liking the two main characters but I'm finding that the story drags on too long. There's plenty of stuff going on but sometimes it lingers on scenes and I find myself skimming some paragraphs. I have the 3rd book coming from the library and I hope it gets better. I'm glad I didn't buy this.

Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story

Since I had seen The Trip a couple of weeks ago I decided to put A Cock And Bull Story on my library queue just in case I got a chance to say cock in the library. I didn't. Both films are directed by Michael Winterbottom and the only other film of his I had seen was 24 Hour Party People. That's a movie about Tony Wilson, Factory Records and the Manchester music scene of the late 70's to the early 90's. The only band out of that scene I really liked was Joy Division. 24HPP was a pretty entertaining mix of reality and legend. Always go with the legend. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are in all three of those films. From the looks of it I don't think I would much like any of Winterbottom's other films so I'm not planning on seeing them. Triage for films, it's often needed, what with so little time in one's life. The novel Tristram Shandy is written by Laurence Sterne and it was first published in 1759. He couldn't get a publisher to put it out so he did it himself. The first volume of Tristram's life was a success and Sterne retired brom being a celergyman and settled into writing. He wrote 8 more volumes of Tristram's story and a second novel before he died of consumption in 1768. He was only 56 years old which wasn't too bad for the time.

The movie is one of those movies about making a movie that has the cast playing versions of themselves and characters from the script. Steve Coogan plays Tristram Shandy, his father Walter and the fictional version of himself. Rob plays Sir Walter Shandy and the fictional version of himself. The two of them open the movie in their makeup chairs and end the movie in theater seats jabbering on and on. Other actors, like Gillian Anderson, Stephen Fry, Dylan Moran and David Walliams, play themselves and one or two other parts in the production. The movie moves between scenes from the book to scenes from the script to scenes of a behind the camera nature. This all ties in with the metafictional aspect of the novel. "Metafiction" is the literary term describing fictional writing that self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in posing questions about the relationship between fiction and reality, usually using irony and self-reflection. This is discussed by Stephen Fry in the film and on one of the featurettes on the dvd. I wouldn't think the movie would appeal to everyone but I was happy to see it. I even watched all the extras and listened to the commentary.

Science Fiction Sunday 238

The Daleks are back in the 60th Doctor Who serial. The 4 parter first aired on January 1 1972. It's the first time that the Daleks had appeared in 5 years. Sadly there are only three of them in the show. In the opening episode there's an attack on a politician. The attacker disappears mid attack and the Brigadier is called in. He sends the Doctor and Jo Grant tags along. The politician has changed his mind and claims it was a nightmare. We know it's not true and the Doc is of the same mind. A soldier is attacked and a strange weapon found. The attackers are freedom fighters from the future that have come back in time to kill the politician that started the war that devastated the Earth and left the population vulnerable to the Dalek invasion. In the scuffle in the house Jo gets sent to the future. The Doctor gets hold of one of their time travel devices and follows. As soon as they get to the future the two are captured. Of course they escape. They even lure the Daleks and their henchmen back to the past and blow them up. The future is saved. It was an ok story, better than some, that's for sure. It wrapped up pretty well and had some ok characters. The final fight with the Daleks wasn't too hot and the BBC paid to have some modern CGI added to the serial. They put that on a second disc. They CGI in a few more Daleks and add a lot of laser blasts. In the original program when some one was shot they just fell down. Here the blasters actually blast the person, or alien, into pieces. In the original the Doctor blasts an alien henchman without being attacked. In the remastered version the alien shot first. There are the usual interviews and featurettes with the various creators. I enjoy watching those.

Kingdom Series 3

The 3rd and sadly final series of Kingdom first aired June 7 2009 and ran for 6 episodes. Stephen Fry is Peter Kingdom and in the first episode he's buried his brother Simon. His Aunt Auriel asks if they're sure it's him. Peter is sure and then it's back to work. His first case is trying to help a soldier get more compensation for his war wounds. Lyle, the trainee solicitor in last series, is now accredited and he's working on a sexual discrimination case. A woman wants to join the Blues and Royals but they won't let her. There are deeper underlying problems with both clients. Both lawyers rise to the occasion. A farmer has trouble with crop circles and Lyle meets a nice young woman. Peter invites the people from Aunt Auriel's retirement home to stay at his home/office while they sort out the problems with the sprinklers. It's bees. Beatrice sets up as sex phone line lady to make some cash. Lyle helps some druids get their lines layed. There's an episode that comments on the CCTV cameras that are cropping up around England. Lyle helps his mom with his twin brothers. They're always in trouble with the law for their eco-terroism. Peter has some health problems but he'll be ok. Then he finds ou that his father isn't his father. Oh bother, no more stories. All the episodes were pretty much done by the same people as the previous 2 series and they're still highly entertaining. Sadly the tighter budgets at ITV and the slight drop in average viewers meant the high cost show got the axe. I enjoyed all 3 of the series and would watch them again sometime.

Kingdom Series 2

The second series of Kingdom aired on ITV in January 2008 and there were 6 episodes. It seemed to be fairly popular, pulling about 5.6 million viewers a show but after the following season it was cut from ITV's line up for being costly to produce. I can see it. It's a great looking program. That's the title picture from the first episode. Each episode has some nice helicopter shots. Here's another screen cap from the opening of the second show. Pretty countryside, huh.

Peter Kingdom (Stephen Fry) is a lawyer in the fictional Norfolk town of Market Shipborough and his best advice is to keep out of the courts. He's got a receptionist, Gloria and a lawyer trainee, Lyle and a sister, Beatrice. Peter's caseload is fairly full and his clients have the usual kinds of problems. In the first episode he helps the local women's society save the local lighthouse and two of the members get over some troubles they had when they were young. Peter's dead brother Simon's baby turns up and Peter invites the mother and child to stay at his house. That tricky Simon turns up alive and that's causes some tension. Simon hides around the house, putting everyone in jeopardy for not turning him in. Simon is one of those guys that just doesn't ever get that the trouble he causes other people is his fault and that he should do something to fix it. Simon eventually gets arrested, and after being bailed out, he tells Peter he's going to work at Peter's law office. He says he needs the money but he has a bag full of cash that he didn't tell anyone about. He's kind of a dick. Simon also has an affair with the wife of the captain of the local cricket team and captures it on his cell phone. What did I tell you! Pretty much everything Simon does makes Peter's life miserable.

Beatrice turns out to be pregnant and you can guess how trying that is for everyone. Lyle has his share of fun cases. He's got two warring burger vans, Burger It and Burger Off, fighting over a spot on the road. He helps a couple get a house and finds a home for some cats. He goes with Peter to take on the US Air Force when a pilot left a local lady with one up the spout. Mariam Margoyles guests as an activist that Lyle helps out of a spot of bother. Peter spends a few days at Cambridge and helps the librarian. Lyle plays Miranda in The Tempest, that's being put on by the folks in the retirement home where Peter's aunt Auriel lives. Simon runs off with the bag of cash during a huge storm and it doesn't go well for him. I was sad for Peter. He loved his sad brother, even with the bother. That was pretty much the sad moment in the series. Most of it's still more lighthearted. Except the parts where you might want to punch that Simon or Beatrice. Glad I don't have any relatives like that.

Though occasionally sad the show has plenty of nice moments. Peter and Lyle develop a nice relationship and respect for each other. The scripts are good and the actors all do a great job. It's a pleasure to watch these shows. I wish they had gone on for more than the three series. On to that tomorrow. 

Kingdom Series 1

 

Stephen Fry was the reason I thought I would watch his 2007 tv series Kingdom. They had all three series at the library and not one person was asking for them but me. I found some of them on YouTube. I like these short British seasons with their 6-8 episodes. Kingdom ran three 6 episode series. It wasn't renewed in 2009 because it was costly to make and ITV was having budget cuts. I could see they spent some money on the show. It's all shot on location in Norfolk with four small towns filling in for the imaginary town of Market Shipborough. It's a nice looking countryside and there are plenty of interesting houses to look at. It's more a drama than I might want to watch but there's a good bit of comedy and some odd characters to make it more palatable. 

Stephen Fry is Peter Kingdom, a lawyer who lives and practices in Norfolk. The lady to the left is Peter's receptionist Gloria, who's played by Celia Imrie. The young man next to Stephen is Lyle, who's played by Karl Davies. He's a trainee solicitor at Peter's law office. He didn't go to a big name college and he was at the bottom of his class but Peter thinks he might have some potential. He does. The lady on the far right is Peter's sister Beatrice, who's played by Hermione Norris. She checks herself out of a mental hospital in the first episode and then moves herself right into Peter's house which also serves as his office. Beatrice is a big pain in the ass. Peter's brother Simon disappeared into the sea 6 months before, leaving behind a gambling debt which causes Peter some problems.

There's a variety of cases for Peter and Lyle to work on. A lady dies and her sons gets some big surprises. A fishing boat goes down and the insurance company won't pay off because the owner had some trouble years ago. A helicopter mom, at full rev, wants Peter to sue Oxford for not accepting her daughter. Another woman wants a divorce because her husband has suddenly become a transvestite. There's a running gag with an old lady Peter wants to avoid. It's a little melodramatic but it's balanced by some nice people doing the right things. I have the other two series to watch and will get to those this weekend. there's alink up at the top of the post to the first episode of the 1st series.

The Big Fat Quiz Of The 90's

I think this is probably the only tv show that I've seen that has a joke about Mr Blobby nailing one of the Teletubbies. You probably remember the Teletubbies but I'm guessing most people don't know who Mr Blobby is. I hadn't heard anything about him before seeing the first episode of the Vicar Of Dibley.

Geraldine: I've just been visiting my new parishioners. Frankly I think that they would have been less surprised if the new vicar was Mr Blobby.

Here's a picture of Mr Blobby as a guest on the show with host Jimmy Carr.

Jimmy is on the left and Mr Blobby is on the right. The panel is made up of mostly familiar faces but that's mostly because I've watched a whole decade worth of Qi over the last couple of months. I'm done watching the whole series now and I would sure recommend them for a bit of a laugh and some quite interesting bits of info. You can dig them up on YouTube if you want. I sure had a great time watching them. They turned out to be perfect to watch while I was building some LEGO projects. You know, you don't have to keep your eyes glued to the screen every second in case you miss something.

 

The three sets of panelists are Phil Jupitus & Alan Davies, Dara O'Briain & Claudia Winkleman, Jack Whitehall & Denise Van Outen. I have seen Phil, Alan, Jimmy and Dara on Qi a lot. Here Jimmy hosts the show and he asks the group a series of questions about the 1990's. There are points awarded for correct answers and the winner gets a trophy at the end of the show. Mr Blobby comes on at the end of the episode to ask the last three questions and chaos reigns. It was hilarious. The one thing I do like about the British tv networks is the freedom to swear without being bleeped. So, watch out for the swearing and dick jokes. If you like swearing and dick jokes, then this series is for you. The series started in 2004 and had an episode every year since. There was a special in 2007 and last year there were three specials that were decade related. Besides the show about the 90's there is one on the 80's and 00's. I'll have to go look for those, I have some more LEGO building to do.