Mr Blobby: A CURSED British Icon

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  • Опубліковано 25 лис 2023
  • Yes this is real. Mr Blobby was a British television character, that somehow became one of the most popular sensations of the 90s. Complete with TV Shows, Music No 1s, and even multiple Theme Parks. What were we thinking....
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  • @Ethanial14
    @Ethanial14 2 місяці тому +338

    So...Who here's from The Magnus Protocol?

  • @BatteredWalrus
    @BatteredWalrus 6 місяців тому +1500

    When I was a kid I had nightmares of Mr Blobby running up to my bunk bed and having maggots pour out his eye holes and just breathing above me, none of his horrific noises, just breathing.... to say I had many terrible sleeps as a kid was an understatement

    • @leavemealone802
      @leavemealone802 6 місяців тому +110

      What the actual fu-?!

    • @EricGranata
      @EricGranata 6 місяців тому +75

      Jesus Christ!

    • @fae206
      @fae206 6 місяців тому +65

      I never had nightmare of Mr. Blooby but I used to have terrifying dreams of both Slappy the doll from Goosebumps but also a weird mix of The Demon Headmaster and Judge Doom (from Roger Rabbit)

    • @daretheclaw
      @daretheclaw 6 місяців тому +25

      WHAT THE FK LMAO

    • @jaqjynx
      @jaqjynx 6 місяців тому +27

      Are you sure you’re not suppressing a horrible memory?

  • @melodixmindset9605
    @melodixmindset9605 2 місяці тому +119

    Oh so this is what Mr Bonzo is based on. Glad to know they basically changed nothing for the character. I mean till the horror stuff. TMP is great

  • @snowboundmage
    @snowboundmage 6 місяців тому +952

    Knowing Mr Blobby started off as a parody of mascot characters makes a lot of his design make more sense.

    • @sglenny001
      @sglenny001 6 місяців тому +10

      Thought so

    • @Gidkog
      @Gidkog 6 місяців тому +38

      Honestly I just assumed that British cartoon characters were just…
      Like that

    • @SilentMaryKate
      @SilentMaryKate 6 місяців тому +6

      I didn't know that.

    • @pinkyblinders7352
      @pinkyblinders7352 5 місяців тому

      No it does not, that herpes abomination will never make sense

    • @jasinere35
      @jasinere35 5 місяців тому +3

      funny you should say that as i looked at the shape of him & his name itself which is another word used for something else, tbh not many have noticed that he's a giant walking pink spotty condom with arms & legs & the name blobby is what we use to nickname condoms instead of using its actual name so he probablys was another way of promoting safe s3x which may have been the intentions of his mascot charactor but they went about it in the wrong way turning him into something that just got in the way while trying to be funny at the same time & to top it off he was suppose to be a fad for the show but went way too far which made him famous

  • @Lexi_Zone
    @Lexi_Zone 6 місяців тому +581

    The thing about Mr. Blobby that people who didn't grow up in the 90s don't always realize is that he's _intentionally_ cursed. He was designed as a cursed parody of a character for children rather than being for children himself. Of course, all us kids loved him anyway for some fucking reason. I had a Mr. Blobby pencil topper.

    • @TheRatedOniChannel
      @TheRatedOniChannel 6 місяців тому +43

      There is something so... British in the humor of Mr Blobby being a parody, it is perfect, and for some reason it is charming.

    • @pinkyblinders7352
      @pinkyblinders7352 5 місяців тому +17

      Speak for yourself, i hated that thing. He had pervy vibes and looked like mouldy bubble gum.

    • @casanovafunkenstein5090
      @casanovafunkenstein5090 5 місяців тому +9

      Putting Blobby next to the kind of toys that are big with small children, I feel like it was ahead of its time.
      If Blobby had come out now he'd be seen as a rip off of a bunch of different mascot horror IPs
      Edit: forgot about the theme parks. It's one dead child away from being one of those games in real life

    • @chatteyj
      @chatteyj 5 місяців тому +10

      Exactly he was a parody, a piss take, he wasn't even meant to be around that long just a one time skit on some Noel edmonds show or something... buuuut people found him funny, so he was milked and milked until the laughs faded away.

    • @bigbobrossa8524
      @bigbobrossa8524 5 місяців тому +1

      I loved the Blobby hahaa

  • @tardisgirl1237
    @tardisgirl1237 2 місяці тому +154

    Who's here from The Magnus Protocol?

    • @azcdtixs
      @azcdtixs Місяць тому +8

      hello lgbtq community

    • @unclerobert7532
      @unclerobert7532 16 днів тому

      What is that?????

    • @tardisgirl1237
      @tardisgirl1237 16 днів тому +1

      @@unclerobert7532 a horror podcast, originally based of the iconic Magnus Archives. Protocol took inspiration from Mr. Blobby to create one of their villains

    • @SeeDoth
      @SeeDoth 2 дні тому

      Mee

  • @sqermygeco
    @sqermygeco 2 місяці тому +148

    thank you for this magnus protocol lore video

    • @bonicle7610
      @bonicle7610 2 місяці тому +13

      THANK YOU FOR BEING THE ONLY PERSON OTHER THAN ME WHO CAME FROM TMAGP I WAS GONNA BE SO SAD

    • @hrafnm28
      @hrafnm28 2 місяці тому +11

      omg I was expecting more comments like this hahaha. He's even more terrifying than I imagined 😭

    • @nanuqo2006
      @nanuqo2006 2 місяці тому +3

      @@hrafnm28 I would beat the ever-living shit out of Mr Blobby, Bonzo bro i'm sprinting

    • @Und3rWh3lm3d_
      @Und3rWh3lm3d_ Місяць тому +4

      I'm so glad someone else commented this. Mr.Bonzo makes so much more sense lol

    • @itsjidan4927
      @itsjidan4927 Місяць тому

      Did anyone listen to ep 12...

  • @luceh4001
    @luceh4001 2 місяці тому +68

    Holler to the Magnus Protocol Peeps.

  • @doodle1829
    @doodle1829 2 місяці тому +100

    Who else came here to learn more about the story of Mr. Bonzo from TMAGP?

  • @rita6355
    @rita6355 Місяць тому +47

    Mr bonzos on his way Mr bonzo wants to play with me

  • @theconqueringram5295
    @theconqueringram5295 6 місяців тому +230

    I have a friend who is obsessed with Kumamon, a Japanese mascot character known for causing mischief. Mr. Blobby is like the British Kumamon of the 90s. You know, The Banana Splits was a popular variety show from the 60s, but the characters were repurposed as a horror movie in 2019. They should do the same for Mr. Blobby.

    • @cartooncritique6625
      @cartooncritique6625 6 місяців тому +10

      That could be interesting. Mr. Blobby didn't like being shunned and forgotten, so now he's back...for revenge. 😈

    • @phoenixfirewing2483
      @phoenixfirewing2483 6 місяців тому

      Oh my god that actually sounds like a brilliant movie idea 😂😂😂

    • @azadalamiq
      @azadalamiq 6 місяців тому +4

      i loved the banana splits... that cheap shit horror movie did them dirty.

    • @FectoElfilin
      @FectoElfilin 6 місяців тому +1

      When you mentioned Kumamon, I thought you were talking about the Digimon character.

    • @ajc94
      @ajc94 6 місяців тому

      Omg I hate kumamon and the bastard is EVERYWHERE

  • @Maswartz226
    @Maswartz226 6 місяців тому +429

    I guarantee if they brought him back these days they'd make him a full on horror thing like Five Nights.

    • @Gentou
      @Gentou 6 місяців тому +35

      Look up Mr. Bonzo

    • @theotherther1
      @theotherther1 6 місяців тому +39

      He looks like he'd be a character in The Amazing Digital Circus.

    • @darrelsam419
      @darrelsam419 6 місяців тому +27

      That might be interesting. He already has the "cute children's media that is actually horrifying and gorey" mascot horror look to him.

    • @electrofonickitty823
      @electrofonickitty823 6 місяців тому +2

      I would pay to see it

    • @harleyhuther8385
      @harleyhuther8385 6 місяців тому

      And I’d play it so I can scare the hell out of myself

  • @123emilymason
    @123emilymason 6 місяців тому +625

    Mr blobby is easily a piece of nightmare fuel but it shows what happens when you let creativity get the better of you!

    • @p-__
      @p-__ 6 місяців тому +2

      My farts are better than Steve’s farts 💨

    • @jackporter2251
      @jackporter2251 6 місяців тому +4

      This is what DHIS was warnis us about...

    • @jaqjynx
      @jaqjynx 6 місяців тому +5

      It shows you what happens when LSD and a deadline get the better of you.

    • @Phantomphan613
      @Phantomphan613 6 місяців тому +8

      ​@@jaqjynxah yes. "It's weird, therefore drugs *must* be involved"

    • @osmanyousif7849
      @osmanyousif7849 6 місяців тому +2

      So like Barney the Dinosaur?

  • @1986kerrichinchilla
    @1986kerrichinchilla 6 місяців тому +74

    ine of my favorite memories of my dqad was him dressing up as blobby for a kids christmas party. a kid ran up to him and punched him square in the groin. Dad collapsed on to one of the pub benches. But bless that man he stayed in character and instead of swearing let out a pained ''blobby'' sound. Dads been gone 11 years and it still makes me laugh now

    • @Replicaate
      @Replicaate 6 місяців тому +10

      That's making me laugh now too, thanks for the story.

    • @jim4194
      @jim4194 5 місяців тому +4

      you had me laughing till I read the last bit and now im sad

    • @rehanchowdhury368
      @rehanchowdhury368 5 місяців тому +1

      Guess you didn't have any siblings after that

    • @1986kerrichinchilla
      @1986kerrichinchilla 5 місяців тому +1

      @@rehanchowdhury368 strangely enough. No i didnt hahaha

  • @jackbrigoli7452
    @jackbrigoli7452 6 місяців тому +169

    As a horror fan growing up, I loved Mr Blobby when I was a kid and I still love watching him to this day.

    • @PrototypeSpaceMonkey
      @PrototypeSpaceMonkey 6 місяців тому +17

      Same. There's just something inherently funny about these creepy and/or chaotic mascots. Kids do get the joke. At least I did. And I think it explains the popularity of characters like Freddy Fazbear, Huggy Wuggy or Chiitan and Gritty.

    • @jackbrigoli7452
      @jackbrigoli7452 6 місяців тому +5

      @@PrototypeSpaceMonkey I was thinking that too.

    • @satireisnotdead5804
      @satireisnotdead5804 6 місяців тому +7

      Bruh, there needs to be a Blobby horror-comedy.

    • @MerryLozza
      @MerryLozza 5 місяців тому +1

      🙋🏻‍♀️ me too 💯

    • @jackbrigoli7452
      @jackbrigoli7452 5 місяців тому

      @@satireisnotdead5804 Too right there does!

  • @am2382
    @am2382 6 місяців тому +526

    British cartoons aged really well.

    • @p-__
      @p-__ 6 місяців тому +4

      My farts are better than Steve’s farts 💨

    • @one-rifle0585
      @one-rifle0585 6 місяців тому

      @@p-__gay

    • @justaguyonyoutube4592
      @justaguyonyoutube4592 6 місяців тому

      @@p-__
      Actually, it’s my farts that are better than his.

    • @charlesplante
      @charlesplante 6 місяців тому +14

      Just as well as British teeth and the British occupation of Ireland! Bloody amazing really.

    • @samuraiturtle.2637
      @samuraiturtle.2637 6 місяців тому +16

      @@p-__you realize nobody is asking about your farts, right?

  • @eeveestar6826
    @eeveestar6826 6 місяців тому +155

    Blobby got locked out of the building in the puppet Master Chef skit in this year's Children in Need so it's safe to assume that everybody STILL hates Mr Blobby.

    • @MrDannyDetail
      @MrDannyDetail 6 місяців тому +1

      He also appears in the video for the Basil Brush christmas single "Boom! Boom! It's Christmas Again". My assumption would be that if he is always popping up in things like this then it's actually because he is still loved by an awful lot of people who grew up in the 90s.

    • @SilverSkyCloud
      @SilverSkyCloud 6 місяців тому +6

      If you think Mr bloody is nightmare fuel, then you should check out the numberjacks, my kids were all terrified of that damn spoon lol

    • @pissedinyourcornflakes2939
      @pissedinyourcornflakes2939 6 місяців тому

      ​@@SilverSkyCloudI still live in fear of that spoon.

    • @VantaDraws
      @VantaDraws 5 місяців тому

      @@SilverSkyCloudI always hated the puzzler

    • @Hi-Im-salad
      @Hi-Im-salad 5 місяців тому

      you know you’ve got a bad reputation when even pudsey wants you dead

  • @Hi-Im-salad
    @Hi-Im-salad 6 місяців тому +134

    fun fact: Mr Blobby’s front facing eyes heavily imply that his species are predators.
    this could mean that this horrific hellspawn could be above us on the food chain

    • @DailyCorvid
      @DailyCorvid 5 місяців тому +3

      He is actually a walking blancmange. He is a pudding, his eye position would move depending on gravity and angle of head lol.
      That is what he is supposed to be, a goopy pudding with legs.

    • @Hi-Im-salad
      @Hi-Im-salad 5 місяців тому +8

      @@DailyCorvid that doesn’t make it better

    • @DailyCorvid
      @DailyCorvid 5 місяців тому +5

      One does not simply "Make Blobby better" ;) He is meant to be cursed!

  • @azcdtixs
    @azcdtixs Місяць тому +16

    Jon sims, while i appreciate the lore video i dont absolutely need this to enter my recc page

  • @thomasscoffeecompany6243
    @thomasscoffeecompany6243 6 місяців тому +86

    As an Irish person we mostly get our entertainment from the UK and let me tell you this Mr blobby was the last thing you did to us

    • @chrishartley4553
      @chrishartley4553 5 місяців тому +11

      In hindsight it is very perverse we subjected you to a big pink potato.

    • @davidmccann9811
      @davidmccann9811 5 місяців тому +17

      The Irish got revenge with Mrs Brown's Boys.

    • @wayfaring_stranger1413
      @wayfaring_stranger1413 4 місяці тому +3

      Damn the Irish can never get a break

  • @darkninjafirefox
    @darkninjafirefox 6 місяців тому +246

    Im very glad to have not witnessed this creature as a child as i know i would have cried. But i must admit, that exploring that theme park does look fun

    • @Ghostgate611
      @Ghostgate611 6 місяців тому +12

      Sadly it's not around anymore and has been just rubble since the early 2000s

    • @jackbrigoli7452
      @jackbrigoli7452 6 місяців тому +8

      I did witness Mr Blobby as a child. And I'm bloody glad of it. He's nightmare fuel and, as a huge horror fan, I love him.

    • @tsm688
      @tsm688 6 місяців тому +2

      @@Ghostgate611 not even a park any more?

    • @Ghostgate611
      @Ghostgate611 6 місяців тому +4

      @@tsm688 nope just an empty construction site that's been there for almost 20 years

    • @valivali8104
      @valivali8104 6 місяців тому

      ​@@Ghostgate611 sounds still interesting to check out.

  • @masterseal0418
    @masterseal0418 6 місяців тому +346

    I shit you not, Mr. Blobby has his own song and gained the title of 'one of the worst songs of all time'. First heard of him via Blameitonjorge's Creepy Characters From Around The World(the many early channel videos I've watched as an impressionable kid). The UK also graced us with the Tweenies on CBeebies(until they got replaced by Bob the Builder, thank god until Mattel ruined the IP next to Thomas), but Mr. Blobby felt like some terrifying demon that should get killed by either the Ghostbusters, Tenacious D, Doomguy, Hellboy, Dante, or even Bayonetta, because everyone both in the UK and entire world hated this fucker.

    • @p-__
      @p-__ 6 місяців тому +2

      My farts are better than Steve’s farts 💨

    • @Jim-so3zm
      @Jim-so3zm 6 місяців тому +7

      The Tweenies was good

    • @Croz89
      @Croz89 6 місяців тому +4

      I've honestly heard a lot worse. It's up there with Black Lace, sure, but sometimes that's what you need for your ultimate cheese disco.

    • @Jonathan-Shadow
      @Jonathan-Shadow 6 місяців тому +5

      *YOU SHALL NOT PASS!*

    • @BriceGum138
      @BriceGum138 6 місяців тому +2

      It's a tie between Tenacious D or the Ghostbusters.

  • @somedudeonline4687
    @somedudeonline4687 Місяць тому +9

    Mr Bonzo’s on his way, he wants to stay, he wants to play!

  • @shadesofnier1
    @shadesofnier1 Місяць тому +11

    FINE UA-cam I'LL CHECK THIS VIDEO BECAUSE OF THE MR. BONZO EPISODES STOP RECOMMENDING IT

    • @azcdtixs
      @azcdtixs Місяць тому

      SAME WHAT IS CHESTER AND NORRIS DOUNG TO US

  • @James84800
    @James84800 6 місяців тому +175

    Guess I'm weird, I actually loved Mr Blobby as a kid, tbf I still find him hilarious 😂. Still amazes me the agileness of whoever had to wear that giant inflated suit there some parts where he legit heavily falls downstairs, jumps around, does splits and headbutting hard objects

    • @theonlybilge
      @theonlybilge 6 місяців тому +3

      The word would be "agility".

    • @retrogamelover2012
      @retrogamelover2012 6 місяців тому +6

      Guess I'm not the only one.

    • @michaelwhite2393
      @michaelwhite2393 6 місяців тому +5

      @James84800
      Totally agree with you, loved Blobby, thought he was funny as.

    • @theceoofcrackcocaineandamp5961
      @theceoofcrackcocaineandamp5961 6 місяців тому +3

      Is Mr Blobby the toughest man in the UK?

    • @James84800
      @James84800 6 місяців тому +1

      @theceoofcrackcocaineandamp5961 I mean that suit would probably soften the blows if he gets into a fight

  • @Replicaate
    @Replicaate 6 місяців тому +75

    My dad - who occasionally frequented the UK in the 90s to visit relatives+friends but never paid much mind to popular culture as he didn't live there - was convinced Blobby was the personification of STDs. As in he thought he was some kind of weird awareness mascot for VD, since he looked like a pox-bedeviled ding-dong. Honestly I thought so too forever, until we were both enlightened at a later date.

  • @RPGLover87
    @RPGLover87 6 місяців тому +29

    Blobby was kind of ahead of his time - he was the ultimate shitpost before the internet was even a thing. Also the Jack Whitehall and Dorothy from Eastenders skits worked because the former took Blobby back to his roots as a prank on Jack, and the latter was making fun of a recent plot point where one of Dot's old partners returned, the episode ends with her looking at her kitchen door and gasping "AH, You!" and in the TV Burp skit they recontextualise it as her reacting to Mr Blobby.

  • @ghostpad
    @ghostpad Місяць тому +19

    Okay yall know why I'm here. Roll call?

  • @WingedAsarath
    @WingedAsarath 6 місяців тому +41

    I was born in 1994 and apparently loved Mr Blobby as a kid. I even had a Mr Blobby cuddly toy. Now I think he belongs in the deepest pits of every hell imaginable.

    • @Eternus_transmogrifus49
      @Eternus_transmogrifus49 6 місяців тому +2

      And I bet the demons think that plush toy belongs up there with you. Even they would be terrified! 😂

  • @Ragetiger1
    @Ragetiger1 6 місяців тому +100

    GMod even has a Mr. Blobby skin to keep the horror alive. I forget which member of Yogscast had it for a little while before changing it, but yeah. . . she went a little nuts when she was using that skin. Nothing scarier than playing a round of TTT or prop hunt to see that Mr. Blobby was your teammate.

  • @obibraxton2232
    @obibraxton2232 6 місяців тому +18

    07:08 “To the nations horror, Mr Blobby was breeding” I’ve never laughed so loud 😂😂😂

  • @foxesofautumn
    @foxesofautumn 6 місяців тому +35

    Mr Blobby was more frighting to me than Daleks and Cybermen combined. He kinda still is.

    • @NetMoverSitan
      @NetMoverSitan 5 місяців тому +3

      The Doctor would be boned, if that space hobo encountered him.

  • @davebeat
    @davebeat 6 місяців тому +86

    Someone should make a Mr Blobby horror film or game set in the abandoned Blobbyland themepark.

    • @PrototypeSpaceMonkey
      @PrototypeSpaceMonkey 6 місяців тому +11

      And it would still be less scary than actual Mr Blobby

    • @stargazer31
      @stargazer31 5 місяців тому +2

      It's not a game, but there's a short film on UA-cam called "The Blobby Witch Project" which is kind of the same thing

    • @sashacampbell3513
      @sashacampbell3513 2 місяці тому +9

      The Magnus Protocol just did

  • @cammyboy011
    @cammyboy011 6 місяців тому +61

    Noel's Home Party on a Saturday night was compulsory viewing in our house as a kid! Watching Mr Bobby wrecking the place was endlessly hilarious to my 7 year old self. My wife, who is not from the UK, has no idea why I find it so funny 😂

    • @moncherixxx
      @moncherixxx 6 місяців тому +6

      Noel’s house party! Not home party!

    • @keychainere
      @keychainere 6 місяців тому +3

      Home party?! 😂

    • @cammyboy011
      @cammyboy011 6 місяців тому +2

      Damned auto correct 😆

    • @HUYI1
      @HUYI1 5 місяців тому +1

      it's called "house party" but yes i watched it every weekend too

  • @Croz89
    @Croz89 6 місяців тому +38

    Reflecting on it, I'm actually glad Mr. Blobby exists. Yes he's cheesy, bizarre and definitely creepy, but I think he fit well into the entertainment culture of Britain in the 90's, which was a bit weird going back on it. I mean, Noel's House Party itself seems a bit weird nowadays looking back at it, it was almost like Live & Kicking in the evening slot and without the cartoons, with the game show segments and gunge. To me he's a nostalgic reminder of just how batshit insane UK TV was from the early 90's to the mid 00's.
    Oh and FYI, blobby didn't really have a purpose built attraction at Pleasurewood Hills, they just used the theatre there (which is quite nice, made to look like a castle from the outside) and it was really kind of closer to a scaled down version of Noel's House Party as a live stage show (gunge tank for a preselected park guest and all). So Blobby was there, but it was more part of the show than anything else. I grew up near Norwich so did visit PH quite a few times in the 90's.

  • @sapphthesapphic4492
    @sapphthesapphic4492 6 місяців тому +26

    Me and my sister essentially grew up on BlobbyVision on VHS so I do have a kind of nostalgic love for him, but if you told me he was a legit demonic entity I would wholeheartedly believe it

  • @Moothedog0
    @Moothedog0 6 місяців тому +87

    A horrifying character usually only says one word

    • @p-__
      @p-__ 6 місяців тому

      My farts are better than Steve’s farts 💨

    • @leonie7754
      @leonie7754 6 місяців тому +7

      so he's a pokemon? A hideous mr-mime x jigglypuff gene splice gone wrong!

    • @Miners666
      @Miners666 5 місяців тому

      @@leonie7754OMG it all makes sense now.

  • @GuitarRocker2008
    @GuitarRocker2008 6 місяців тому +33

    I like to confuse American friends by telling them about growing up in England during Blobbymania and showing them the song.
    I also love the image of Meatloaf being told he lost in the UK to a Pink monstrosity talking gibberish just imagining the look on his face.

  • @jimmytheechidna
    @jimmytheechidna 6 місяців тому +24

    Mr blobby isn't the only unnerving character from a British show. There was a TV show called jigsaw that featured a character named Mr Noseybonk. He was played by human wearing an unsettling pale white mask with soulless eyes and a long nose. while he never said a word he was still creepy to look at.

    • @Eternus_transmogrifus49
      @Eternus_transmogrifus49 6 місяців тому +3

      Finally somebody mentions that absolute creep! I'm American, have never even seen the show and I still find him freaky!

    • @user-xh4ov1so1p
      @user-xh4ov1so1p 5 місяців тому +2

      The only jigsaw that I know brutally tortures people

    • @kieravermeal9127
      @kieravermeal9127 4 місяці тому +2

      ​@@user-xh4ov1so1p Bold of you to assume Mr Noseybonk wouldn't torture people

    • @KKHell
      @KKHell 7 днів тому +1

      yank here, vaugely heard of Noseybonk from Ashens and Blameitonjorge.

  • @kaitlyngarner740
    @kaitlyngarner740 6 місяців тому +9

    Honestly my favourite memory of Mr Blobby is when he was on Harry Hill's TV Burp when they did a parody skit of an Eastenders bit where he angrily destroys the kitchen, throws copious amounts of flour around before Harry Hill came up and hit him over the head with a frying pan (this scene is the first scene shown of Mr Blobby in this video). The skit is then followed by Harry Hill making Mr Blobby and an angry Eastenders character fight before the commercial

  • @duncanvisdavis1907
    @duncanvisdavis1907 6 місяців тому +116

    As an American, I can safely say that Mr. Blobby seems to be Britain's Barney the dinosaur.

    • @__FloweRy_
      @__FloweRy_ 6 місяців тому +43

      As an American I'm glad we had Barney, Blobby existed just to be a demonic little shit.

    • @duncanvisdavis1907
      @duncanvisdavis1907 6 місяців тому +5

      @@__FloweRy_ Or in steve's terms a infection.

    • @nickolaswilcox425
      @nickolaswilcox425 6 місяців тому +35

      at least barney was well meaning and wasnt offputting on purpose, some degree of care was put into the design

    • @duncanvisdavis1907
      @duncanvisdavis1907 6 місяців тому +6

      @@nickolaswilcox425 Yeah let me give you some straightforward advice never look at barney Up. His eyes look into your soul.

    • @darrelsam419
      @darrelsam419 6 місяців тому +12

      I was okay with Barney as a kid, but I know kids who ran from the room when Barney showed up on the TV. If this is what they saw Barney as, I can understand the fear now.

  • @safebox36
    @safebox36 6 місяців тому +31

    I absolutely loved this character as a kid and still do as an adult.
    I don't care if adults at the time hated him, he was more fun than things like Blue Peter.

    • @thomasjones6216
      @thomasjones6216 6 місяців тому +5

      Not saying a lot really, Blue Peter was dull as f**k
      Never got why it was popular
      At least Blobby was trying to be funny

    • @mooganify
      @mooganify 5 місяців тому

      For education reasons?

    • @thomasjones6216
      @thomasjones6216 5 місяців тому +1

      @@mooganify maybe, not really my cup of tea when I was a kid, they never seemed to do much teaching, I found the arts and crafts stuff on Art Attack and the history stuff on horrible histories much more fascinating
      If you want to grab a kids attention start with imagination- but that's just my opinion of course
      Remind me, what stuff did BP teach? I honestly just remember presenters talking at length...

    • @louiswilliamterminator2887
      @louiswilliamterminator2887 5 місяців тому

      Almost everything else was worse. There were only 3 or 4 channels, and little for each age range of children

    • @felixarbable
      @felixarbable 5 місяців тому

      I kinda think blue Peter was almost like aspirational TV, like certain parents wan​ted their kids to be the kind of well behaved kids who liked blue Peter. The only thing I really remember about it was organising a cake sale at school and I got a badge!
      @@thomasjones6216

  • @ceaseless_spiral_avatar
    @ceaseless_spiral_avatar Місяць тому +8

    🎶 Mr Bonzo’s on his way, he wants to stay, he wants to play with you 🎶

  • @Pupp3tCl0wn
    @Pupp3tCl0wn 6 місяців тому +10

    Keeping Up Appearances is one of my fav shows. I rewatched it many times nad because it always was so down to earth, seeing that pink monstrocity with theese characters is so uncanny

    • @smadcore
      @smadcore 5 місяців тому +2

      He broke the Royal Doulton with the hand-painted periwinkles!? Unforgivable.

  • @Amambivertednerdwhocantdraw
    @Amambivertednerdwhocantdraw 6 місяців тому +18

    I swear mr. Blobby is in like every parody spoof the BBC has made in the last 30yrs

  • @sirbilyardthe1st
    @sirbilyardthe1st 6 місяців тому +91

    The childhood slenderman...

  • @harperlovesjuice
    @harperlovesjuice Місяць тому +6

    thank you alexander j newall and jonny sims for amazing inspired character design

  • @edwardgamerx9061
    @edwardgamerx9061 6 місяців тому +4

    "And then there's Mr Blobby. . ."
    Terrified screams*
    One-Winged Angel intensifies.*

  • @slayjay5741
    @slayjay5741 6 місяців тому +43

    Whenever I see characters like Mr. Blobby, I think to myself, “How do people think of characters like this?”

    • @p-__
      @p-__ 6 місяців тому

      My farts are better than Steve’s farts 💨

    • @ares395
      @ares395 6 місяців тому +8

      I mean... not only was it 90s, it was 90s show business so you can imagine the sheer amount of illegal substances that were going around. Honestly, the way I imagine it is that someone spat out a chewed gum and was looking at it while on acid.

    • @theblackbaron4119
      @theblackbaron4119 6 місяців тому +6

      I'm pretty sure the creation of this character involved several narcotics. The writing team did a few lines and concluded:"What if we did a really weird pink polka dotted massive clown with demonic screams that just breaks stuff". An executive did another line and probably said: Yeah sounds like a great idea let's do it.

    • @urmom6701
      @urmom6701 6 місяців тому +2

      This was the 90's, pretty sure they used drugs most of the time when it came to inspiration.

    • @DrakeDarkHunter
      @DrakeDarkHunter 6 місяців тому +4

      It's really not that hard, the idea behind Mr. Blobby was to make a parody of children's mascots. And that meant that he had to be colourful, gaudy and obnoxious because kids love that kind of stuff. He was a blob so they didn't have to work to hard to make him look like anything in particular, and he made stupid noises because he was meant to be annoying. The point was to piss off the adults who would try and tolerate him because kids loved him.
      Just claiming "It was drugs lmao" buys into the BS idea that they are needed to be creative. You just need a idea of what you want to create first and what you want to accomplish. Mr. Blobby design is just "throw whatever makes him look stupid and ugly" as a design principal.

  • @zackman9230
    @zackman9230 6 місяців тому +15

    Mr Blobby's a being that even Daleks would be terrified of

    • @NetMoverSitan
      @NetMoverSitan 5 місяців тому +1

      Are their industrial egg whisks not effective?

    • @LewisWall-gz6tx
      @LewisWall-gz6tx 5 місяців тому +1

      Or a being that not even the power rangers could take down.

  • @mc.gemstone
    @mc.gemstone 5 місяців тому +5

    I was terrified by that pink bastard as a kid. I saw him once live on stage at Beaulieu, it started off fine as it was some boyband tribute act I can't remember what band exactly but it was pretty good from what I remember of it. However Mr Blobby appeared outta no where and I hid behind my mum in fear. I think that might of been the first time I saw him probably, as I was born waaay after blobby being a thing.
    Even so I'm weirdly fascinated by him and his history, it's one of those things that we will never get again ever. The whole thing being nothing but a perfect example of a time capsule of a much different time in UK pop culture.

  • @brianfeely902
    @brianfeely902 6 місяців тому +14

    Jack Whitehall freaking out on the Big Fat Quiz was legitimately one of the funniest moments of that show!

  • @harrisonallen651
    @harrisonallen651 6 місяців тому +25

    Mr Bean, Thomas, Wallace and Gromit and Paddington are the only characters you mentioned in the beginning that are well popular outside England apart from Blobby

    • @titangirl161
      @titangirl161 6 місяців тому +3

      Salad fingers is popular outside England to the lovers of the bizarre and surrealism such as myself

    • @Twinklethefox9022
      @Twinklethefox9022 5 місяців тому +1

      It took them a while but, they are finally airing the paddington cartoon

    • @ThePalaeontologist
      @ThePalaeontologist 5 місяців тому

      That's arguably not true though, is it? Shaun the Sheep, Basil Brush, Morph, Sooty & Sweep, Postman Pat, Bagpuss, Mr Benn, Bob the Builder, Peppa Pig, The Magic Roundabout, The Wombles, Camberwick Green, Winnie the Pooh, The Clangers, Fireman Sam, Chucklevision, Captain Pugwash, Pingu and Mr Men, are quite popular/were/achieved varying levels of success outside the UK. That is not an exhaustive list, by any means, either.
      Sure, some of those are nowhere near as successful as Mr Bean or Thomas the Tank/Thomas and Friends, but the thing is, Peppa Pig for example is arguably _even more successful_ than ALL of those you mentioned, combined. Peppa Pig genuinely is a brand worth billions, as low-key one of Britain's most successful TV franchise exports. And think of all the characters in Roald Dahl or the works of J.R.R Tolkien, popular with countless children, or JK Rowling for that matter. By online viewership and franchise engagement, Mr Bean will somehow still be doing great, with many tens of millions of views globally, but there are other ways of gauging success.
      Arguably, if something is culturally relevant enough to be memorable on some level, or reprinted and republished for new generations, then it is still something worthy of mentioning in terms of popularity, even if the cultural focus has shifted and even if the most people still don't know what it is. And 'popular outside England' can mean a lot of things (literally, anywhere that isn't England; including a lot of the Anglosphere with obvious reasons for having television company connections and contacts with the British television industry e.g. the Australian and Canadian television industry)
      It's why lots of British children TV shows from the 90's would mix up schedules with British cartoons but also international content from fellow broadcasters they were friendly with, sharing shows. For instance, on 'Dick & Dom in da Bungalow' you'd see anything from the Angry Beavers (USA), Yvon of the Yukon (Canada), The Cramp Twins (German-British-Canadian) and a range of other, often more experimental options on their segments. They'd do their pranks and 'bogies' thing, then run a cartoon before more weirdness ensued.
      Mr Men is obviously far past it's golden age in terms of it's place in the cultural zeitgeist, though having said that, it still sells millions of books worldwide, so is it a failure overseas? Not really. It has become very recognisable and it's also had the advantage, at this point, of about half a century of varying yet consistently good or very good recognition for being good children's TV and book content. It's pretty iconic in it's own right. But is it making Peppa Pig money? No. Popularity can mean a lot of things to be fair.

  • @DatDrawingKid011
    @DatDrawingKid011 6 місяців тому +15

    It’s weird how a character that was meant to parody merchandise able characters ended up becoming one.
    Edit: well darn he already said it.

    • @TeruteruBozusama
      @TeruteruBozusama 6 місяців тому +1

      Apparently Powerpuff Girls too..! And admittedly I don't have any PPG figures or plushies and only things with 2D art on it 😅

  • @Alizudo
    @Alizudo 5 місяців тому +2

    That he's *_intentionally_* unhinged and absurd, designed as a parody skit, makes his design make *_far_* more sense; and, I actually have a greater appreciation for it, now.

  • @fallinhalf3362
    @fallinhalf3362 Місяць тому +2

    I think it’s insanely funny how they just named every subsequent blobby product “Mr Blobby” it seems like something the character would actually do

  • @fruitlion8
    @fruitlion8 6 місяців тому +16

    You should never trust us British with musical taste. We put Mr Blobby at number one on the charts! And Bob the Builder too. :p

  • @Ryder-a-Blaze
    @Ryder-a-Blaze 6 місяців тому +13

    Mr Blobby looks like Patrick Star as a crazy pyshcopath

    • @higherground9888
      @higherground9888 6 місяців тому +3

      So basically just Patrick

    • @Xifihas
      @Xifihas 6 місяців тому +1

      Where do you think they got the idea for Patrick?

  • @ViralCog
    @ViralCog 6 місяців тому +2

    I like it when Blobby barged into Hyacinth Bucket’s residence

  • @asalways1504
    @asalways1504 6 місяців тому +5

    Mr. Blobby reminds me of one of Those stress reliever dolls , except from hell.

  • @1Dropboys
    @1Dropboys 6 місяців тому +5

    This terrified me as a kid, then I moved to America and have been here 20+ years, thanks for reminding me of this horror because I've been looking for it forever!

  • @adamcammack3534
    @adamcammack3534 6 місяців тому +3

    Harry Hills TV Burp was probably my introduction and best use as a running gag for Mr Blobby as a large deranged maniac turning up just to traumatise and fight people.

  • @AmieEss
    @AmieEss 6 місяців тому +3

    I remember a part in an episode of Noel's House Party where one of Blobby's eyes turns upside down during one of his skits and Noel starts turning his eyeball around. Pretty sure that scene was responsible for a dream I had about gluing eyes on to trees.

  • @alani.8784
    @alani.8784 5 місяців тому +3

    Despite not being from the UK, I first knew of this character through America's Funniest Home Videos. I believe the video itself was about a minute long. In it, a performer dressed as Mr. Blobby was being pushed away by children, along with being screamed at with possible phrases like "Get out!" At the end of the video, the performer finally left the room as all the children cheered in victory. I didn't know what the character's name was at the time, but in retrospect, I do not blame those kids for having such a reaction like that.

  • @safewordbysophie
    @safewordbysophie 5 місяців тому +3

    I was scared of everything as a kid but ironically, I loved Mr Blobby. He's the unhinged icon we deserve.

  • @MadLeon97
    @MadLeon97 6 місяців тому +4

    I feel like I'm the only one who loved Mr Blobby as a child. I had all the VHS tapes and some toys of Mr Blobby.
    Too be honest though, as I'm older and times have change. I can definitely see why some folks were terrified of him.

  • @scamlikely5626
    @scamlikely5626 Місяць тому +5

    Mr. Bonzo is on his way
    He wants to stay
    He wants to play

  • @ColorHeartCarlie42
    @ColorHeartCarlie42 6 місяців тому +19

    If he didn’t have the jiggly eyes
    If he he didn’t sound like a literal demon
    If he didn’t destroy so many things
    He might’ve been a much better character, but he’d need a MAJOR redesign

    • @theblackbaron4119
      @theblackbaron4119 6 місяців тому +8

      He looks like he would lure little children into the back of a van. Not with candy, just by chasing them into it like a sheep heading dog.

    • @AmieEss
      @AmieEss 6 місяців тому

      Like not looking like a giant diseased phallus with eyes and teeth?

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 6 місяців тому +21

    Paddington Bear and his love of mermalade is ICONIC! Specially his movies and commercial with the Queen! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻

    • @JamesAndTheBulldogsOfficial
      @JamesAndTheBulldogsOfficial 6 місяців тому +2

      I watched the paddington movie, I watched 1 and 2

    • @musician4776
      @musician4776 5 місяців тому

      Very much the anti-Blobby. I know which side I’d rather be on, Paddington is way too twee.

  • @CYSYS8993
    @CYSYS8993 6 місяців тому +3

    Xploshi should make a cursed short parody out of this guy.

  • @Strobertat
    @Strobertat 5 місяців тому +2

    I loved Mr Blobby as a kid! I even saw him on stage once at an Aladdin pantomime where Mr Blobby was the genie.

  • @Jemmyleedoesart
    @Jemmyleedoesart 6 місяців тому +4

    My little sister loved this pink abomination. Even now, my fiancé goes on about how funny he was. I was a young kid in the 90’s, but I never took to him: he was an unpleasant shade of wart-pink and vomit-yellow, and his voice scared me. Truly a stain on British pop culture 😂

  • @JayMoonShorts
    @JayMoonShorts Місяць тому +6

    Oh my god it’s mr bonzo

  • @UltimateDragonX9999
    @UltimateDragonX9999 6 місяців тому +4

    Steve review needs to review the amazing digital circus pilot next after this.

  • @voidliss8
    @voidliss8 Місяць тому +5

    Mr.bonzos on his way mr.bonzo wants to play

  • @suitov
    @suitov 5 місяців тому +3

    The formula works because it's the classic auguste/whiteface clown pairing. He even has a red nose.
    We used to watch Noel's House Party round at our dad's. And I bought him the Mr Blobby single for Christmas, which I'm sure he appreciated. The lyricist clearly had too much fun: "if humanity is a question of degree, stay loyal to your Blobby pedigree" implying that blobbies are better than humans (which, fair). I've never heard the album tracks before, but they also sound like people having a massive laugh.
    I still can't imagine why they went ahead with a theme park. If you have a craze like that, you should KNOW it will peter out before you can make a friggin' _theme park_ profitable.

  • @cianroe3233
    @cianroe3233 6 місяців тому +4

    Don’t forget the Children in Need song with the other more beloved British puppet characters like Hacker, Dodge, Oucho and Otic of CBBC, Zippy, George and Bungle from Rainbow, Muffin the Mule, Basil Brush and others, they purposely excluded Blobby from the single showing that even they don’t like him, that’s how bad Mr Blobby is!

  • @SonikkuKun
    @SonikkuKun 6 місяців тому +6

    Apparently Mr Blobby got attacked by a father of a daughter because she was crying from what Mr Blobby was like

    • @James84800
      @James84800 6 місяців тому +2

      The dad hired a person in a blobby outfit for his daughters birthday party, Blobby thought it would be funny to wreck the cake infront of the kid, the kid was upset and the father punched him.

    • @SonikkuKun
      @SonikkuKun 6 місяців тому +2

      @@James84800 Yeah! That's the *OUCH* detail!

  • @hisfavworstnightmare
    @hisfavworstnightmare 6 місяців тому +2

    every time mr blobby pops up on a bbc special on the telly it literally makes my soul drop. i’m so glad i don’t remember noel’s house party.

  • @RhiannonSmudge
    @RhiannonSmudge 6 місяців тому +2

    I've heard of Mr. Blobby from one of those top 10 videos for scariest children's shows/mascots but I always thought he was made specifically to be a children's show character. The fact that he was created to be a parody and a troll for a comedy show and purposely made to look terrible is honestly hilarious and I want to check out the original skits

  • @edencollier3212
    @edencollier3212 6 місяців тому +13

    I was always terrified (and somewhat still am) of Mr Blobby as I was a small child during the peak Blobby years. I was so scared of him that I was once refused to eat a Mr Blobby gingerbread man and instead tore of its legs and threw the pieces to the seagulls.

  • @biggrizzgojira9883
    @biggrizzgojira9883 6 місяців тому +5

    I honestly liked Mr. Blobby when I first saw him.
    I used to like weird stuff as a kid, so he was up my alley.😂

  • @PelinalDidNothingWrong
    @PelinalDidNothingWrong 5 місяців тому +2

    Mr.Blobby looks like the "special" cousin of Majin Buu and I cannot unthink that

  • @thomastheooshow
    @thomastheooshow 5 місяців тому +1

    Seeing him torture that poor accordion makes me want to cry.

  • @safebox36
    @safebox36 6 місяців тому +3

    One thing worth mentioning is Mr Blobby has returned a few more times in advertising, Red Nose Day, Children In Need, and similar children's TV mascot events such as Basil Brush's Christmas songs.
    I think the owners of the IP know how annoying he is to a lot of people now, given most of said appearances are people attempting to get away from the character.

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 5 місяців тому

      I recall Blobby appearing on a poster with the slogan "Prices that take you back." An appeal to nostalgia. Evidently not a perfect ad though, as I can't recall what it was trying to sell.

    • @safebox36
      @safebox36 5 місяців тому

      @@vylbird8014 it was a Tesco advert, they had a few ither characters like Zippy and the Chuckle Bros

  • @Cons_studios
    @Cons_studios 5 місяців тому +2

    A wonderful intro speaking facts and was a part of my childhood :)

  • @mattevans4377
    @mattevans4377 6 місяців тому +2

    Pretty certain giving him things like a child, was just to amp up the cursed nature. Like, they knew he was cursed, and just rolled with it.

  • @rudedolphin
    @rudedolphin Місяць тому +3

    I bought a Mr. Blobby wind-up toy for $200 and idk if I regret it or not, but now I treasure it & people think I'm even more autistic for it than they did before
    but they don't have a Mr. Blobby wind-up toy so I choose to think they're jealous

  • @soylentlyso3219
    @soylentlyso3219 6 місяців тому +3

    ‘Dad gives Blobby a smack in gobby’ 👌🏻

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 5 місяців тому +1

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff

  • @MissAmyEW
    @MissAmyEW 6 місяців тому +2

    I loved Mr. Blobby as a kid, I’ll always remember that episode where he tries to build a shed 😂

  • @theblackbaron4119
    @theblackbaron4119 6 місяців тому +4

    I'm glad that you're working through your childhood trauma with is here. Sharing it and all ...

  • @SpecialKatherine10
    @SpecialKatherine10 6 місяців тому +5

    A cursed British icon Mr blobby sure was.
    Great review as always Steve. I subscribed to your channel ever since I watched the Mary and Max video or the Spirited away video. I can’t remember which one I watched first. But both videos were great and I was instantly hooked to your channel ever since.
    I hope you review Code Lyoko in the future that show was my childhood and after rewatching it again on Netflix as a adult it’s still holds up as a massive pile of nostalgia from the plot, the characters, the animation and the awesome music including the theme tune it never gets old. 🙂

  • @GundamDragonLord
    @GundamDragonLord 6 місяців тому +2

    Mr Blobby was a Minion before Minions in Despicable Me.

  • @Gun909
    @Gun909 6 місяців тому +1

    It’s always funny and brilliant to see Mr blobby show up on the odd tv show now and again and it brings back memories of watching him back then. I could never imagine in my life time of him ever coming back in a full time show. As he would scare the crap out of kids today and the humour just wouldn’t stand like it did in the 90s

  • @totallyadifferentperson
    @totallyadifferentperson Місяць тому +4

    Mr. Bonzo's on his way he wants to stay he wnts to play

  • @mrgriff6122
    @mrgriff6122 6 місяців тому +3

    I’m surprised the man in the suit would let anybody know it was him!!

  • @drewlovelyhell4892
    @drewlovelyhell4892 5 місяців тому +2

    Mr Blobby was intended to be creepy, annoying and terrifying, so he did his job well. My family watched a lot of Noel's House Party, and Blobby was the highlight of the show. He was the most chaotic entity on TV. Luckily, Blobbymania didn't really carry over to New Zealand, so he didn't wear out his welcome so much. I'm always thrilled when he turns up in a surprise appearance.

  • @task_under_rubblestone5575
    @task_under_rubblestone5575 Місяць тому +2

    So if I get a Mr. Blobby suit I can be a killer with a schtick

  • @lisaleonard9874
    @lisaleonard9874 6 місяців тому +3

    mr.blobby is something I can never unsee