A bizarre clip from an old BBC One children's show has resurfaced online and left many people baffled. The clip from Stupid! A clip from BBC show Stupid! Baffled Americans who watched the viral clip couldn't believe it's what British children used to watch when the programme aired in KreenBean lamented: 'Sad that Americans will never understand devil finger. Rachel Burgess first tweeted a clip of the show last week with the caption: 'British TV was weird,' and it quickly caught many Twitter users attention and was retweeted more than 21, times.
Many people reminisced about watching the bizarre show and realised in hindsight it was slightly strange. The clip has gone viral and Twitter users were split with many baffled by the clip and others remembering the show from their childhood. At the beginning of the clip, the young boy who has a 'devil finger' which pokes people, is unhappy and tells the offending finger to 'die'. The confusing clip was a recurring sketch on the show, showing a boy who had a 'devil finger' which resulted in him needing to poke random people.
The clip starts with the young boy attacking the finger and shouting 'Die! But instead of poking someone, he has been approached by a young girl. She immediately reaches out with her finger towards his and bends it back, saying in a singsong voice: 'Bendy Wendy. The young boy, dressed in a V-neck jumper, exclaimed: 'Ow that hurts! Why are you doing that? The girl, dressed in a white poloneck and blue dress explained: 'Sorry, I can't control my finger.
Everytime I see an outstretched finger I have to She does it again and pushes back his finger with hers. But then she becomes distracted and appears to fall in love with him.
She repeats again in a distracted fashion 'Bendy Wendy. The boy is also overwhelmed by her and they stare into each other eyes as he repeats 'Bendy Wendy. The boy is approached by a girl who feels an urge to bend people's fingers and shout 'Bendy Wendy.
Twitter users realised the clip was 'weird' with some admitting to doing it themselves as a child. The young boy is unhappy when Wendy bends his finger but the two then fall in love as they realise they have a lot in common.
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Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. The families have a contest- the Walls wail in their usual way, whilst the Ringing Ding family make "Ring ding ding ding" noises. The sketch ends with both families agreeing never to speak of the incident, and leaving in opposite directions. Both families have a strange way of walking when they leave- they shuffle off sideways.
Mattie is a teenager who's already short attention span is made shorter by King Stupid whenever he is required to take in important information, like where a ward in a hospital is, or tea and Biscuits for a church coffee morning even though his mother wrote the things down on a list!
When he is not listening, it is often shown that he has amazing talents such as juggling or plate-spinning. A makeover show presenter who specializes in making over gardens like putting Nail varnish on conifers, or putting clothes on a tree for example this usually happens in an unwilling person's garden. Her catchphrase is " Also, when this sketch comes on, there plays a theme very much like Changing Rooms.
An ardent Jockey named Penny, always dressed in a purple horse rider's hat and a pink jacket, who can't tell the difference between a horse or a man, because when one bends down, she shouts 'Piggyback! She is a source of shame for her parents, who unsurprisingly, are shunted out of most parties, weddings, etc.
Even the centenarian Uncle Albert cannot stop her. A school choir boss runs the choir as if it were a football team, threatening members of the choir with foreign transfers, and claims the school bell is half-time. He also speaks in a Manchester accent.
Any critic of his is in trouble. Catchphrase : "She fancies you! No she fancies you! Two twin sisters argue and say "No! She fancies you! Two children who sit on a wall in a street or a school stage and when someone tries to enter they get into a spooky story to answer questions they don't know the answers to like why they have a day off on Friday, or where a girl's bag is with close ups of their faces, then they trail off and admit it was a made up tale. All their stories start perfectly normally, and then they say "To start with..
A girl who does not speak properly, but uses wildly over exaggerated onamatopoeia to tell people things e. Unsurprisingly, no-one can understand a word she's saying. Her mother appears in one sketch- she is called when a driver asking for directions fails to understand her daughter. As it turns out, the mother's directions are equally incomprehensible. A girl whose mother always acts like a stereotypical teenager and joins in girl talk with her and her friends much to the annoyance of the girl who tells her mum to go away.
It usually ends in her mum taking them all out. A boy and girl who are dressed up as FBI agents with suits, shades and walkie-talkies who tell people to 'step away from the Catchphrases : "I don't think so. At the end of each sketch, she comes to her senses and tries to undo her actions.
The uncle Clive sketch ends with her chasing after him, and the Justin Timberlake ends with her hugging Kirsten O'Brien , trying to charm her into letting her come. The sketch also tends to end with her sensible best friend getting the treat instead.
Dress up in fancy dress clothes for all events they go to and do not involve fancy dress whatsoever , and always cause a scene in front of their daughter. Their trademark phrase is "I'm sure it said fancy dress on the invitation".
But when there is a fancy dress party, they have no dress whatsoever. Catchphrase : "Dark! Very Dark! I sometimes wonder why I bother!
A female teenage goth thinks that she is a witch and that she can put curses on anyone who doesn't do what she says by bringing out soft toys dressed up in Gothic clothes. She announces the toy's demonic identity, and sets it after those who mock her. But then they get flattened by a bus or fall on the floor. The girl gets angry and throws the cuddly toy to the ground. Her sketches often contain a young boy called Ian and his girlfriend, who both think goths are losers.
The girl is slightly kinder, but not much. She is played by the same girl as Overreaction Jackson, but is barely recognisable. An eccentric mum knits her son every imaginable luxury, such as a dog , the newest games console around or, what's worst of it all, she knitted a new father the old father left her because of her eccentric knitting.
She also knits all the family clothes, including her son's school uniform. A duo act as if they were in " The Professionals ", going further than their "job" entails, such as tormenting their sister because of a half- biscuit found in one of the duo's room and tearing the head off their sister's doll. A young lad tries to do the Heimlich manoeuvre on people that just put something into their mouth, like a harmless whistle or a slice of cake in the case of the Queen.
He is mocked by his peers. Whenever someone brings their animal to see the vet, the vet suddenly starts acting very peculiarly indeed. For example, when a girl brings her dog to the vet's, she foolishly puts her cuddly bunny down on the table while she goes to pick him up, but the vet sees the cuddly toy, and starts desperately trying to resuscitate it. She also makes fun of a cat 's flatulence problem by imitating fart noises and calling the cat "Windy Mindy".
However, the cat then farts loudly in her face. Stupid's worst enemy in a cameo by Rebecca Ryan who investigates his works and falls prey to his advances in front of the country on Newsround "see below" , and she films the work on her phone and Stupid's work may come to an end.
She is less a sketch, more an important part of the plot in the final episode of series two. Mr Quiver is a teacher who is very strict with his puplis until another adult enters the class. When this happens he acts all shy, cowering in fear and speaking in a squeaky, quiet voice. A Nigeria n car salesman offers his clients a spacehopper and a tiny toy car much to their annoyance. His catchphrase when they storm off is "Timewaster! His attempt to forget about annoying his clients is to no avail.
These aren't necessarily the subject of a sketch, they are the affected. A man and his wife keep on trying to find babysitters for their baby. The dad chose him when it became clear he and his wife could not attend a function. An unusual old reverend, who only appears in one episode. He is the first to discover a new planet, or naming the Beckham 's new child, giving them strange names at the last minute due to Stupid Rex's mind control - "see below" , such as "Melanie Frou Frou Fridge Magnet Wobble-Bottom", for Beckham's child, and "Chuffing Flannel hooter" for his planet, the former being surprisingly to the satisfaction of David He called his child Tuppeny Snugglewoffer.
A seemingly normal man who is affected by King Stupid in any shop- King Stupid makes him make dreadful decisions. The decision isn't heard but includes having his eyebrows shaved off in the hairdresses, having "STUPID" tattooed across his forehead, and even selling his son at a charity shop. The sketch ends with his catchphrase "I think I've just made a terrible decision!
An incompetent face-painter always gets the wrong idea when she paints kids' faces. She asks pointless questions- such as "How much has he stolen? She then proceeds to make a very bad job of painting their faces. When a boy says he wants to look like William Shakespeare, she makes his face look like a skull, because Shakespeare has been dead for over three hundred years. When the kids run off in tears, she always looks furious and says they are stupid.
Alan, who is a businessman in his thirties who is a dad acts like a child and his daughter acts like the parent. He refuses to eat cabbages and cries if he doesn't have the " Financial Times " and " The Guardian ".
In the dinner sketch, she bans him from listening to Radio 4 and as once the girl apologizes for his poor behaviour, the rest of the adults at dinner start crying and act like children too. A young lad who claims himself to be the world's finest romantic, who usually fails dismally in his pursuits. When encouraged by a girl receiving flowers from an admirer, he brings it to a new proportion, and has an even larger bunch of flowers and because of hay fever , he sneezes in her face of all places.
When he sees a girl receiving perfume, he makes some then accidentally sprays it in her eyes. The one sketch where he does succeed in winning the girl is a sketch which combines him with the disbelieving girl. He asks her out, since he meets all the criteria she looks for in a man, but she does her usual trick. However, he asks her friend if she wants to go out with him, and she agrees. A boy Played By Ben Thompson goes to fix things when he finds them broken, only to be destructive against them using only a hammer which is the only tool in his box.
Once, in the case of a mobile phone , he actually "helped" boost the signal, and he refused payment "I wouldn't know what to charge you love, this has never happened before". Catchphrase : "Oops! Oh dear! I seem to lost me contact lenses, Oh, I found them! No, that's just a button! I am a robot! A dinner lady working in a school canteen who is seemingly polite to everyone she serves. The boy then leaves after losing his patience without any food and the dinner lady makes a comment about him not eating; "He's as thin as a rake.
It must be a cry for help. Mark Dence Travis Yates is a nerdy boy has brown wavy hair and enormous glasses who believes he is a superhero named Mr Fabulous. Every time he is in a situation where something bad happens, e. However, his attempts to save the day fail and the sketches usually end with him looking for his glasses.
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