Barbapapas - anyone remember them?

JupiterKid

Does anyone else here remember the shape-shifting Barbapapas with fondness?

They were originally French but were televised here in the late 70s and early 80s.:) I used to love the Barbapapas as a small kid.

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JupiterKid wrote: »

Does anyone else here remember the shape-shifting Barbapapas with fondness?

They were originally French but were televised here in the late 70s and early 80s.:) I used to love the Barbapapas as a small kid.

I do. We used to have books about them too. I only remember barbapappa & barbamama though. No idea what the children were called.

JupiterKid

Finally - someone else who remembers the Barbapapas.:) I thought I was the only one!

I also had two of the books - one in English and the other in French when I was a few years older which helped me to learn the language.

Amalgam

Just have to mention this.. I was looking for PU Keyrings (floating), a few months back, stumbled across this seller with Barbapapas keyrings, from Meath, of all places..

http://myworld.ebay.ie/denisak2007/

Lawrence1895

I do remember them, watched them on the telly when I was a child. But weren't they Czech?

working fool

Thank god
They DO exist
I spent years trying to explain the clangers too

JupiterKid

Lars1916 wrote: »

I do remember them, watched them on the telly when I was a child. But weren't they Czech?

Nope .... The barbapapas were French. They were created in the early 1970s by two French cartoonists. The word "barbapapa" in French means candy floss but translated literally it means "Daddy's Beard."

Ann22

For a long, long time, I thought I was the only one in the country who remembered Babapapa. I loved it!

The Princess Bride

Had forgotten about this-now the theme song is in my head!

JupiterKid

It would be really nice to see the Barbapapas have a comeback -
- because they really don't date at all and would be just as entertaining to today's children as they were to me and my generation.:):o

Cee-Jay-Cee

I loved them as a kid, had totally forgotten about them until i saw this thread. They used to make the shape of the letters from the word Barbapapas at the end of the show.

LiamMc

My sister and her French husband have some of those books for their three year old en francais

gobnaitolunacy

Vaguely familiar.

Like kiddie friendly versions of 'The Blob'.