In The Night Garden". Golden Bear Toys. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022 . Retrieved 3 February 2022. In any normal world this would herald a call to the police and the immediate descent of a dozen safeguarding specialists. Especially when you consider there's an adult male in a corduroy cat suit sleeping in a BED in a HOUSE at the bottom of the tree and her parents are probably frantic with worry. Now the ending is what really got me. For each episode, his friends play around for 25 mins or so. But, it's at the end that the narrator begins to tell everybody to 'go to sleep'. Unfortunately, Iggle Piggle is always seen to be awake at the end. Despite his best efforts to fall asleep, the narrator says "Its time to go". To me, this means its time for Iggle Piggle to leave the night garden and continue his days upon the boat, suffering on the never-ending sea. In the end, we see Iggle Piggle, still currently in the night garden, drifting the seas, as the sun begins to rise. Soon enough, Iggle Piggle will awake, awaiting the day when his life finally leaves him and he's able to be with his friends forever.

That was my friend Ashleigh’s immediate response when I asked her thoughts on In the Night Garden. I think it is fair to say she speaks for every single parent on the face of the Earth. Andrew Davenport stated in an interview with the Guardian that the key inspiration for the series was his own dream world as a child. This started coming into place in 2004 when Davenport created sketches for the characters of Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy and Makka Pakka. The series would go on to be publicly announced a year later, and filming would eventually start in early 2005. [5]The episodes end with the Tittifers singing their song, and then one character gets ready to go to sleep. At the same time, they hear a bedtime story, which is generated by the magical gazebo that sits at the centre of the Night Garden. This story is a summary of the plot of the episode, which was animated using Adobe Animate (then known as Adobe Flash when the show was in production). Sometimes the characters all dance together under the Gazebo. Then we see all the characters except for Igglepiggle going to sleep, while Igglepiggle delivers his goodbye sequence. Then the theme music plays as the Night Garden turns and retreats into the night sky and Igglepiggle is seen asleep on his boat as the end credits roll over. But is it really? There are lots of conspiracy theories out there about In the Night Garden and its hidden meaning.

Each episode starts with a shot of a night sky with the stars appearing, followed by a shot of a child in bed, while the narrator introduces the programme's episode. The scene then cuts to Igglepiggle, in his boat, getting ready to travel to the Night Garden whilst the theme music plays. The camera pans up to the night sky, followed by brightly coloured flowers. Then we see Igglepiggle going to the gazebo to meet his friends. After that, the title appears on a bush and either the Ninky Nonk or the Pinky Ponk appears. Bedtime really commands a child's entire day. Very often children don't have a proper sense of time. They live with the idea that, at any moment, someone could just take them from what they are doing and send them to bed. It can be a difficult moment: being suddenly alone. So In the Night Garden makes a metaphorical explanation for sleep, which is one of the only things in a child's life it can't be accompanied on. That's why you have the image of Iggle Piggle alone on a boat at the start, floating on a dark swelling ocean that's a metaphor for sleep."

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Another says Davenport created Iggle Piggle to look like former British prime minister David Cameron and it helped him win the general election in 2010. Brown, Jonathan; Robinson, Josie (18 April 2007). "In the Night Garden: Bedtime for Teletubbies". The Independent. Archived from the original on 12 December 2008 . Retrieved 11 January 2010.

Lane, Harriet (25 November 2007). "Night fever: How In The Night Garden became a TV fairytale". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712 . Retrieved 30 August 2023. The specials centre on a brand new character called the Zonk, who sends the characters off to the magical world of the ZonkeyZoney so they can relax in peace. The series is fully animated in 3D CGI animation, unlike the original series which was a mix of CGI, 2D animation and live-action. So what my theory is, is that Iggle Piggle is dying from dehydration and the events of each episode take place in his mind. As his boat floats about the ocean, the stars start turning into flowers and shit, and he imagines himself in this happy garden with his friends, who i'm not too sure ever existed in the first place. Maybe we should take a cue from Sir Derek Jacobi, the voice of In the Night Garden, who says worry from parents that their children are going to grow up with a vocabulary of Pinky Ponk and Ninky Nonk and Makka Pakka is all ”rather silly”. These may be silly words,” he told The Guardian, “but they are nice words: charming, attractive, fun words”.But not on CBeebies. Oh no. In this strange, drug-inspired reality the twisted individual in a cat suit is just giving the little girl a welcome chance to float around on bubbles made by an elephant seal who, inexplicably considering our weather, lives in the lake. But all those theories are, again, the work of grown ups. And subliminal readings of 14th century poetry aside, it still doesn’t explain what on earth In the Night Garden is all about and why children love it so God damn much. Angela’s children watching In The Night Garden Does that boat look like it has enough provisions to get him going wherever it is that he is going? He doesn't even have a second blanket, and uses his sail as one at night. In the spring of 2008, several new toys arrived, including roll-along characters, Talking Cuddly Makka Pakka, Ninky Nonk Pop-up tent and more. Hasbro won the 2008 "Best Licensed Toy or Game range" Licensing Award for their In The Night Garden... range. [13]

In the Night Garden...Live! started a first UK tour in July 2010. The show took place in an inflatable purpose-built show-dome. The show debuted and premiered in Liverpool and moved on to London, Glasgow and Birmingham. In the Night Garden...Live! has toured the United Kingdom every summer. [17] [18] ZinkyZonk Specials [ edit ] It’s also worth noting Night Garden creator Davenport has studied speech development and the play language he created highlights the sounds and word-parts typical of a toddler’s first attempts at talking). Then we have Bing, an intensely-annoying rabbit in dungarees who is four times the size of Flop, a walking beanbag who appears to have taken him hostage and spirited him to a town filled with exotic animals kidnapped from all over the world. Flop is voiced with sinister calm by Thomas Cromwell himself, Mark Rylance, a man who is no stranger to Shakespearean malice and always sounds One More Incident With The Toothpaste away from a stabbing.BBC - Press Office - CBeebies Autumn 2008 schedule". BBC. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019 . Retrieved 24 January 2019. My husband has conflicted feelings about the show, in that he is conflicted about which character and episode he hates the most. I don’t know how the show does it. Maybe I don’t want to know. There can be three screaming children and as soon as they hear the honking of the Ninky Nonk they turn into calm and peaceful angels, giggling hysterically and clapping their hands and twirling around and generally being gorgeous and happy and calm, lovely little cherubs. Jones, Catherine (26 March 2010). "In The Night Garden coming to Sefton Park this summer". liverpoolecho.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 February 2022 . Retrieved 26 March 2010. BBC – CBeebies Grownups – In the Night Garden". BBC. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010 . Retrieved 17 May 2010.