Boobah

One of the most bizarre and mind boggling TV shows I've ever seen is a childrens program called 'Boobah' .. I can't decide if it's been made by extra-terrestrial aliens or someone who has had one too many bad acid trips.

The five main porcine furry characters arrive from the sky in a ball of light with a rainbow contrail, awaken with a 'pfft' noise, and after pocking their large dome heads out of what looks suspicially like a foreskin, scan their eyes left and right with a ratchety clacking sound. they then proceed to run around in circles, bumping chaotically off each other untill a childs voice shouts their names, at which point one by one they stop and stand at attention.

And their names, unpronounceable .. something like 'gumbah' and 'zumbah' and 'zimzimzimbah' to name a few.

Then they perform a most poorly choreographed and executed dance routine, to the 'tune' of a clonking repetitous rhythm accompanied by what can only be described as farting noises. During the dance they take turns running up to the camera, scan their eyes left and right (accompanied by the ratcheting sound), and then flash the lights in their eyebrows a few times (yes you read right), run back and continue with the dancing.

The rythm increases in tempo and the dancing becomes more hectic untill they are again bumping chaotically of each other, at which point they rise into the air, make a lot of 'Weee!' noises, form a parachute style formation in the air, excrete a stream of white material from their heads (??) which mixes together and spins in the center, while acompanied by a 'Doo..Doo..Dooodoodoodoodoodoodoodoo' sound.

Next we have a small child in a room that looks like a cross between the inside of a lava lamp and a Jackson Pollock painting, who retrieves a gift wrapped box floating in midair as the narrator proclaims 'A present for the story people'

Next a segment with characters such as 'Mr Man', 'Mrs Lady', 'Granpapa' and so on, who try to undertake some mundane activity such as posting a letter, while the narrators dead-pan delivery gives us such gems as 'Oh, it's a letterbox' or 'It's Mr Man' or even 'It doesn't fit' Finally the narrator announces 'Goodbye', the story people wave, and we move on.

After some more bizarre and inexplicable shenanigans from the crew of the spaceship 'boobah', they climb back into their 'flight seats' Have one last ratchet-eye scan of their surroundings, one last flash of the eyebrow-lights (signalling all is well no doubt), give a final farewell fart as their heads retract back into their foreskins, rotate faster and faster until a blur, then lift off and fly over the horizen with their characteristic rainbow contrail following behind. As they fly off a child stands in the foreground watching, jumping up and down, waving and saying 'boobah' over and over again. Roll credits.

Don't try to see who produces the show or the country of origin in the credits, it doesn't say, but could very well be along the lines of 'copyright (c) Zeta reticulii c/o- the horsehead nebula, galactic co-ordinates +110, -12.'

if you haven't seen 'Boobah' I would strongly recommend you do at least once, but I warn you, your life may never be the same again.

Boobah currently screens on ABC 2 at 7:30am on saturday mornings.