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Kids show is OOglies of fun.

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If you find yourself watching mischievous mushrooms, motorbiking eggs, dancing underpants and a daredevil tomato - don't panic.

You aren't having a hallucinatory hal·lu·ci·na·to·ry
adj.
1. Of or characterized by hallucination.

2. Inducing or causing hallucination.
 experience, you have just entered the fast, furious and fun world of the OOglies.

The new CBBC show - created by BBC Scotland BBC Scotland (Gaelic: BBC Alba) is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London  - is set in an ordinary household, where just about everything comes to life as soon as human backs are turned.

With more than 70 characters, the fastpaced sketch show zips through sketches as the cast of everyday foods and household objects communicate with an array of silly sounds.

It all sounds like simple fun but behind the scenes it was a major production with an industrial unit in Glasgow housed a production base for four months.

A dozen mini-studio pods of bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms were created, where the OOglies acted out the general mayhem courtesy of a team of some of the top animators in the UK.

Each of the 70 or so characters also needed up to 29 different expressions. At a conservative estimate, the design team customised more than 30,000 googly eyes This article is about the plastic craft accessory. For body language intending to initiate Courtship, see Wink and Staring.

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Series producer Nick Hopkin says: "We hope the audience - whatever age they are - just enjoy OOglies and think it is fun. But our serious hope is OOglies, having brought such a creative team together, will be a spark for more animation in Scotland."

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Publication:Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
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Date:Aug 8, 2009
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