Thursday, July 27, 2006

Immoral Noddy

I'm not getting onto the subject of the original Enid Blyton books, although I may be hard-pressed to resist. :D

Today I watched an episode of Make Way for Noddy on Channel 5, with my children.

The plot went like this: Dinah Doll asked Noddy to look after her stall while she took some time off. Noddy accepted but while she was away, he started eating some of the googleberries she had in stock. In fact he ate a whole crate of them.

When she returned and wondered what had happened to them all, he realised he'd been naughty to eat them, but instead of paying for them, he lied and told her that a monster had eaten them. The whole town believed this story, including PC Plod, who organised night patrols to look out for this scary creature. Noddy didn't confess the truth until the whole town was in a panic and mistook Mr Jumbo for the monster.

At this point, everyone was relieved and congratulated him on owning up. And then he was basically rewarded with lots of attention as they asked him to retell the story, as it had been so convincing/exciting.

The little git had stolen a crate of googleberries, lied about it and had the whole town in an uproar, but simple confession was enough. If it had been the goblins, they would have ended up in jail. Goblinist! Where's the justice?

Ahem. What does this teach us?

As long as we tell the truth eventually and feel a little bit off about what we did, we can behave as badly as we like and fear no consequences? #Sigh# Not even a stomach ache for his greediness.

1 comment:

Mephitis said...

I think my only problem is taking Noddy rather too seriously, but I've got medication for that. Thanks. :D