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What does the fat bloke do? They couldn t and shouldn t get that particular guessing game on the telly now, but The Word got away with it in 1990s. It even got the laughs, writes Sheena McGinley, as did Little Britain blackface a decade later. We barely batted an eye at slow-mo Baywatch babes either, or at fat-shaming Mr Blobby, but you wouldn t get it on the small screen now. Thank god…
12 Noel s House Party (1991)
I think it s safe to assume that Mr Blobby would be spared a platform in today s current climate - unless he was employed to highlight the spread of Covid-19, bouncing off surfaces with abandon. The pink and yellow bulbous blob, channelling the demon from The Exorcist, was a staple of Saturday-evening TV, beamed live from the village of Crinkley Bottom . Whether it was freaking kids out with impromptu talking puppets via the My Little Friend segment; literally coveting your neighbours goods in Beat the Neighbours; or creepy NTV, where people would think they wer