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
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
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)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@unclerobert7532 a horror podcast, originally based of the iconic Magnus Archives. Protocol took inspiration from Mr. Blobby to create one of their villains
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 😂
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
@@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...
I kinda think blue Peter was almost like aspirational TV, like certain parents wanted 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
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.
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.
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.
I hope you take enjoyment, my fellow trans sibling, absolutely confuses the hell out of me. Like that comedian, Ian said on that game show would blobby came on, why was this ever allowed around children. Anyways, I’m writing this on July 4, 2024 so I hope you have your candidate turned out as the leader of your elections and I wish myself happy Fourth of July. So happy in fact, I’m watching this STD of a children show.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Mr Blobby wasn't "voted" the Christmas number one, that's not how the UK Chart works 😂 It was number one because it sold the most, because parents/grandparents/embarrassing aunts were buying them for their kids
I thought Mr bonzo was a severe over exaggeration, but it's literally just the same thing, they didn't have to change a single thing about Blobby to turn him into a horror character
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 😂
As someone who's not English and have never heard of Mr. Blobby before... I thought Mr. Bonzo magnus protocol was a huge exaggeration. Wow. He was not.
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.
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.
Not very fun fact; the Blobby Land in Morecambe, Lancashire was so bad that it absolutely crashed the local economy. Since then, the town has seen a massive drop in residents and has never financially recovered since then. How does one theme park affect a town so badly? Simple; the town heavily invested in Blobby Town and went deep into debt and fraud to built it whilst neglecting the rest of the town. Don’t get me wrong, the town has been declining since the 70’s for many other factors but this random theme park was the beginning of the plunge. Just, wow.
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
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
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.
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!
There's some Brit game show where Mr. blobby came on right after a celeb stated he despised and feared Blobby- and it was the most sadistically funniest gd thing ever. The way this char atrr moves and shrieks "JAAAAACKKKKK XD" is such perfect 90s gameshow fodder and I easily can see when provided the right context why this thing is a viral hit, because of the sheer irony. Nobody was supposed to not find this thing creepy and it's enjoyment is the same way people enjoy the goofy hammy campy nature of Chucky or Freddy Krueger or the og FNAF characters. Kids love horror and love silly colorful violence and cute weird mascots and this was just all those things at once. It would fit right in as a running joke on the American's 90s kids show All That or Keenan and Kel or The Amanda Show as a sketch gag the main crew "adored", or got to beat up, as a mockery of the then popular Barney craze.
I guess I was in the minority of kids that actually liked Mr Blobby back in the day. However, hindsight is 20/20! I've watched Mr Blobby clips here and there over the past few years and I've asked myself from time to time 'Wait... I actually LIKED this a kid?! He's terrifying!'. In retrospect Mr Blobby feels like a character that belongs in the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared series!
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
Knowing Mr Blobby started off as a parody of mascot characters makes a lot of his design make more sense.
Thought so
Honestly I just assumed that British cartoon characters were just…
Like that
I didn't know that.
No it does not, that herpes abomination will never make sense
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
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
What the actual fu-?!
Jesus Christ!
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)
WHAT THE FK LMAO
Are you sure you’re not suppressing a horrible memory?
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.
There is something so... British in the humor of Mr Blobby being a parody, it is perfect, and for some reason it is charming.
Speak for yourself, i hated that thing. He had pervy vibes and looked like mouldy bubble gum.
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
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.
I loved the Blobby hahaa
thank you for this magnus protocol lore video
THANK YOU FOR BEING THE ONLY PERSON OTHER THAN ME WHO CAME FROM TMAGP I WAS GONNA BE SO SAD
omg I was expecting more comments like this hahaha. He's even more terrifying than I imagined 😭
@@hrafnm28 I would beat the ever-living shit out of Mr Blobby, Bonzo bro i'm sprinting
I'm so glad someone else commented this. Mr.Bonzo makes so much more sense lol
Did anyone listen to ep 12...
Jon sims, while i appreciate the lore video i dont absolutely need this to enter my recc page
I guarantee if they brought him back these days they'd make him a full on horror thing like Five Nights.
Look up Mr. Bonzo
He looks like he'd be a character in The Amazing Digital Circus.
That might be interesting. He already has the "cute children's media that is actually horrifying and gorey" mascot horror look to him.
I would pay to see it
And I’d play it so I can scare the hell out of myself
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.
That could be interesting. Mr. Blobby didn't like being shunned and forgotten, so now he's back...for revenge. 😈
Oh my god that actually sounds like a brilliant movie idea 😂😂😂
i loved the banana splits... that cheap shit horror movie did them dirty.
When you mentioned Kumamon, I thought you were talking about the Digimon character.
Omg I hate kumamon and the bastard is EVERYWHERE
Mr bonzos on his way Mr bonzo wants to play with me
Mr Bonzo's on his way! He wants to stay! He wants to play with you!
Holler to the Magnus Protocol Peeps.
Got me there
Hi
Mr blobby is easily a piece of nightmare fuel but it shows what happens when you let creativity get the better of you!
My farts are better than Steve’s farts 💨
This is what DHIS was warnis us about...
It shows you what happens when LSD and a deadline get the better of you.
@@jaqjynxah yes. "It's weird, therefore drugs *must* be involved"
So like Barney the Dinosaur?
So...Who here's from The Magnus Protocol?
Gotta find something to watch waiting for the next ep ok😞
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MR. BONZO
*bird calls*
gotta say, they nailed mr Bonzo's voice
British cartoons aged really well.
My farts are better than Steve’s farts 💨
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Actually, it’s my farts that are better than his.
Just as well as British teeth and the British occupation of Ireland! Bloody amazing really.
@@p-__you realize nobody is asking about your farts, right?
Who else came here to learn more about the story of Mr. Bonzo from TMAGP?
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As a horror fan growing up, I loved Mr Blobby when I was a kid and I still love watching him to this day.
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.
@@PrototypeSpaceMonkey I was thinking that too.
Bruh, there needs to be a Blobby horror-comedy.
🙋🏻♀️ me too 💯
@@satireisnotdead5804 Too right there does!
Who's here from The Magnus Protocol?
hello lgbtq community
What is that?????
@@unclerobert7532 a horror podcast, originally based of the iconic Magnus Archives. Protocol took inspiration from Mr. Blobby to create one of their villains
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@unclerobert7532 Only the best piece of media I've seen (or rather heard) in a decade
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
In hindsight it is very perverse we subjected you to a big pink potato.
The Irish got revenge with Mrs Brown's Boys.
Damn the Irish can never get a break
@@davidmccann9811 I'm the only person that likes that show!
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.
And I bet the demons think that plush toy belongs up there with you. Even they would be terrified! 😂
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.
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.
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
@@SilverSkyCloudI still live in fear of that spoon.
@@SilverSkyCloudI always hated the puzzler
@Hi-Im-salad To be fair, I'd never trust a half-blind bear.
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
That's making me laugh now too, thanks for the story.
you had me laughing till I read the last bit and now im sad
Guess you didn't have any siblings after that
@@rehanchowdhury368 strangely enough. No i didnt hahaha
Lmao rip
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.
My farts are better than Steve’s farts 💨
The Tweenies was good
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.
*YOU SHALL NOT PASS!*
It's a tie between Tenacious D or the Ghostbusters.
thank you alexander j newall and jonny sims for amazing inspired character design
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
The word would be "agility".
Guess I'm not the only one.
@James84800
Totally agree with you, loved Blobby, thought he was funny as.
Is Mr Blobby the toughest man in the UK?
@theceoofcrackcocaineandamp5961 I mean that suit would probably soften the blows if he gets into a fight
FINE UA-cam I'LL CHECK THIS VIDEO BECAUSE OF THE MR. BONZO EPISODES STOP RECOMMENDING IT
SAME WHAT IS CHESTER AND NORRIS DOUNG TO US
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
Sadly it's not around anymore and has been just rubble since the early 2000s
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.
@@Ghostgate611 not even a park any more?
@@tsm688 nope just an empty construction site that's been there for almost 20 years
@@Ghostgate611 sounds still interesting to check out.
Mr Blobby was more frighting to me than Daleks and Cybermen combined. He kinda still is.
The Doctor would be boned, if that space hobo encountered him.
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.
What was your and your father's reaction to finding out?
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.
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 😂
Noel’s house party! Not home party!
Home party?! 😂
Damned auto correct 😆
it's called "house party" but yes i watched it every weekend too
🎶 Mr Bonzo’s on his way, he wants to stay, he wants to play with you 🎶
🎶 Mr Bonzo's on his way, he wants to stay, he wants to play with you 🎶
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.
07:08 “To the nations horror, Mr Blobby was breeding” I’ve never laughed so loud 😂😂😂
Someone should make a Mr Blobby horror film or game set in the abandoned Blobbyland themepark.
And it would still be less scary than actual Mr Blobby
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
The Magnus Protocol just did
Okay yall know why I'm here. Roll call?
(Also the implication that he could be a stripper is staggering)
Mr Bonzo I assume? XD
Yup
his teeth is not soft
Roll call!!
Here
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.
It was Bouphe
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
He broke the Royal Doulton with the hand-painted periwinkles!? Unforgivable.
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
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
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.
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
For education reasons?
@@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...
Almost everything else was worse. There were only 3 or 4 channels, and little for each age range of children
I kinda think blue Peter was almost like aspirational TV, like certain parents wanted 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
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.
Finally somebody mentions that absolute creep! I'm American, have never even seen the show and I still find him freaky!
The only jigsaw that I know brutally tortures people
@@user-xh4ov1so1p Bold of you to assume Mr Noseybonk wouldn't torture people
yank here, vaugely heard of Noseybonk from Ashens and Blameitonjorge.
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.
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.
I hope you take enjoyment, my fellow trans sibling, absolutely confuses the hell out of me. Like that comedian, Ian said on that game show would blobby came on, why was this ever allowed around children. Anyways, I’m writing this on July 4, 2024 so I hope you have your candidate turned out as the leader of your elections and I wish myself happy Fourth of July. So happy in fact, I’m watching this STD of a children show.
A horrifying character usually only says one word
My farts are better than Steve’s farts 💨
so he's a pokemon? A hideous mr-mime x jigglypuff gene splice gone wrong!
@@leonie7754OMG it all makes sense now.
Mr Bonzo’s on his way, he wants to stay, he wants to play!
Whenever I see characters like Mr. Blobby, I think to myself, “How do people think of characters like this?”
My farts are better than Steve’s farts 💨
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.
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.
This was the 90's, pretty sure they used drugs most of the time when it came to inspiration.
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.
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.
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
Salad fingers is popular outside England to the lovers of the bizarre and surrealism such as myself
It took them a while but, they are finally airing the paddington cartoon
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.
Oh...so this is the inspiration for Mr. Bonzo from Magnus Protocol....I hate it.
Like who got high and created this monstrosity?!?
I swear mr. Blobby is in like every parody spoof the BBC has made in the last 30yrs
0:13 ah yeah old Tommy boy was and still is my all-time favourite kids and I am a proud member of the fandom (Don't judge me)
As an American, I can safely say that Mr. Blobby seems to be Britain's Barney the dinosaur.
As an American I'm glad we had Barney, Blobby existed just to be a demonic little shit.
@@__FloweRy_ Or in steve's terms a infection.
at least barney was well meaning and wasnt offputting on purpose, some degree of care was put into the design
@@nickolaswilcox425 Yeah let me give you some straightforward advice never look at barney Up. His eyes look into your soul.
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.
Mr Blobby's a being that even Daleks would be terrified of
Are their industrial egg whisks not effective?
Or a being that not even the power rangers could take down.
I was scared of everything as a kid but ironically, I loved Mr Blobby. He's the unhinged icon we deserve.
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!
Mr. Blobby reminds me of one of Those stress reliever dolls , except from hell.
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
Oh my god it’s mr bonzo
Mr Blobby was a Minion before Minions in Despicable Me.
The childhood slenderman...
Chungus Edition
That would be Mr Noseybonk
Like.... Slenderman?
My farts are better than Steve’s farts 💨
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I loved Mr Blobby as a kid! I even saw him on stage once at an Aladdin pantomime where Mr Blobby was the genie.
Mr Bonzo’s on his way!
He wants to stay!
He wants to play!
Jack Whitehall freaking out on the Big Fat Quiz was legitimately one of the funniest moments of that show!
Mr Blobby looks like Patrick Star as a crazy pyshcopath
So basically just Patrick
Where do you think they got the idea for Patrick?
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.
I loved Mr. Blobby as a kid, I’ll always remember that episode where he tries to build a shed 😂
In Denmark we tried to copy the show plus the blobby figure, but no one understood the concept. so it was quickly closed down.
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.
Apparently Powerpuff Girls too..! And admittedly I don't have any PPG figures or plushies and only things with 2D art on it 😅
I like it when Blobby barged into Hyacinth Bucket’s residence
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.
He's just been on television rn with Noel Edmunds on "Good Morning Britain" lol
Mr Blobby wasn't "voted" the Christmas number one, that's not how the UK Chart works 😂 It was number one because it sold the most, because parents/grandparents/embarrassing aunts were buying them for their kids
This is sacrilege, i loved mr blobby growing up. I can remember him 1st coming on the screen and i was all for it
Paddington Bear and his love of mermalade is ICONIC! Specially his movies and commercial with the Queen! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻
I watched the paddington movie, I watched 1 and 2
Very much the anti-Blobby. I know which side I’d rather be on, Paddington is way too twee.
Was that Jeremy Clarkston driving the convertible in the blobby Christmas song music video?????
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
And Teletubbies in 1997
BUT, you also gave us The Beatles.
@@toddkurzbard All 128 of them.
@@jmac356 And 74 of those are 5th Beatles.
The rest are doppelgangers for the Late Paul McCartney (Miss him. Miss him. Miss him.).
Absolute bangers M8
I thought Mr bonzo was a severe over exaggeration, but it's literally just the same thing, they didn't have to change a single thing about Blobby to turn him into a horror character
Steve review needs to review the amazing digital circus pilot next after this.
Mr.bonzos on his way mr.bonzo wants to play
Xploshi should make a cursed short parody out of this guy.
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 😂
"And then there's Mr Blobby. . ."
Terrified screams*
One-Winged Angel intensifies.*
As someone who's not English and have never heard of Mr. Blobby before... I thought Mr. Bonzo magnus protocol was a huge exaggeration. Wow. He was not.
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.
HOW THE F&%$ WERE YOU FOR KIDS?!
Somewhere out there, Jack Whitehall is pissing himself.
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.
Americans in the 90s:
Woohoo The Wiggles 🔫
British in the 90s:
Hip hip Mr Blobby ☕️
Not very fun fact; the Blobby Land in Morecambe, Lancashire was so bad that it absolutely crashed the local economy. Since then, the town has seen a massive drop in residents and has never financially recovered since then. How does one theme park affect a town so badly? Simple; the town heavily invested in Blobby Town and went deep into debt and fraud to built it whilst neglecting the rest of the town. Don’t get me wrong, the town has been declining since the 70’s for many other factors but this random theme park was the beginning of the plunge. Just, wow.
you guys do have a strange idea of what good design is haha ( thomas and gromit and padington aside)
your olympic mascots.. were terrifying hah
scared? i found Mr blobby absolutely hilarious back in the day, he always kept me laughing with his antics! 🤣🤣
Mr. Bonzo's on his way he wants to stay he wnts to play
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.😂
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
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
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.
Like not looking like a giant diseased phallus with eyes and teeth?
I've heard Pennywise still checks under his bed for Mr. Blobby every night
Apparently Mr Blobby got attacked by a father of a daughter because she was crying from what Mr Blobby was like
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.
@@James84800 Yeah! That's the *OUCH* detail!
I'm sorry but within seconds of Mr Blobby appearing on screen I loved him.
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!
There's some Brit game show where Mr. blobby came on right after a celeb stated he despised and feared Blobby- and it was the most sadistically funniest gd thing ever. The way this char atrr moves and shrieks "JAAAAACKKKKK XD" is such perfect 90s gameshow fodder and I easily can see when provided the right context why this thing is a viral hit, because of the sheer irony. Nobody was supposed to not find this thing creepy and it's enjoyment is the same way people enjoy the goofy hammy campy nature of Chucky or Freddy Krueger or the og FNAF characters. Kids love horror and love silly colorful violence and cute weird mascots and this was just all those things at once. It would fit right in as a running joke on the American's 90s kids show All That or Keenan and Kel or The Amanda Show as a sketch gag the main crew "adored", or got to beat up, as a mockery of the then popular Barney craze.
I guess I was in the minority of kids that actually liked Mr Blobby back in the day. However, hindsight is 20/20! I've watched Mr Blobby clips here and there over the past few years and I've asked myself from time to time 'Wait... I actually LIKED this a kid?! He's terrifying!'. In retrospect Mr Blobby feels like a character that belongs in the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared series!
Mate you can’t look at him for more than 5 seconds. He lives in a cursed cabin at the bottom of uncanny valley