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03 Mar 2012, 6:09 pm

Dear Tequila, I Googled Splink and could not find anything that seemed to refer to your beach-going cartoon family!

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03 Mar 2012, 6:14 pm

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Dear Tequila, I Googled Splink and could not find anything that seemed to refer to your beach-going cartoon family!


No, Splink was an entirely different PIF.

Joe and Petunia:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEHc1XGr0Ss[/youtube]



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03 Mar 2012, 6:37 pm

Dear Tequila, Hysterical! When were those made, the 1960's? I loved the voices, thank you so much!

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03 Mar 2012, 6:39 pm

Sylkat is cool


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03 Mar 2012, 7:28 pm

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Dear Tequila, Hysterical! When were those made, the 1960's? I loved the voices, thank you so much!


Yes, the late 1960s/early 1970s. If you like the paternalist nature of them, I can show you many more of these. Though all the ones that were made of Joe & Petunia were in that YouTube video. Joe & Petunia became too successful and they had to be killed off as characters. How would you fancy meeting Tufty?

As for the voices: they are actually caricatured, very exaggerated voices of people from Northern England. In fact, the entire advert is really a satire of certain types of people from Northern England and really relies on stereotypes quite a bit.



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03 Mar 2012, 7:35 pm

Dear Ten, Did you watch those 'joe and Petunia' videos? Either you or Tequila can help me figure what Joe has on his head at the beach.

Dear Tequila, Why in the world would popular characters be killed off?

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03 Mar 2012, 7:37 pm

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Dear Tequila, Why in the world would popular characters be killed off?


Because the entire idea of Public Information Films is to act as a deterrent, as a warning to people. That would be diluted if these characters became popular in their own right. Though there was a Tufty Club for a time in the 1970s.



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03 Mar 2012, 8:24 pm

Here you go Sylkat:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kokSe00T7U[/youtube]



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03 Mar 2012, 11:56 pm

Dear Tequila, Thank you so much! They remind me of things presented in school when I was very young. The speaking voices, the accents, fascinate me, I think I laughed out loud when they spoke Swedish!

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04 Mar 2012, 12:54 am

Tequila wrote:
Sylkat wrote:
Dear Tequila, Hysterical! When were those made, the 1960's? I loved the voices, thank you so much!


Yes, the late 1960s/early 1970s. If you like the paternalist nature of them, I can show you many more of these. Though all the ones that were made of Joe & Petunia were in that YouTube video. Joe & Petunia became too successful and they had to be killed off as characters. How would you fancy meeting Tufty?

As for the voices: they are actually caricatured, very exaggerated voices of people from Northern England. In fact, the entire advert is really a satire of certain types of people from Northern England and really relies on stereotypes quite a bit.


I love watching those Splink videos. The animation and voices are very sell done and they're funny. :)


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04 Mar 2012, 12:56 am

Sweetleaf is a kind and gentle soul and there should be more people in the world like her.Image


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04 Mar 2012, 1:00 am

Seatyed gives a lot of good advice. :)


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04 Mar 2012, 6:19 am

Sylkat wrote:
I think I laughed out loud when they spoke Swedish!


It's not Swedish - it's Welsh!



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04 Mar 2012, 6:20 am

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I love watching those Splink videos. The animation and voices are very sell done and they're funny. :)


That's Joe & Petunia. I'll have to see how many Splink videos I have. Hang on...



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04 Mar 2012, 6:31 am

Here's one, featuring Jon Pertwee:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQAlQobGyN0[/youtube]



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04 Mar 2012, 8:06 am

CosmicMonster has got a great avatar.


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