Before you start berating me for the misspelling of rhubarb or are wondering where the recipe is, let me explain…
While I was researching the subject of rhubarb, it’s wonderful health properties and the delicious recipes you can create using it for a feature on our website, I was reminded of the classic kids cartoon series of the 1970s, Roobarb and Custard, by the excellent foody site Eat the Seasons.
It’s a crazy concoction of vibrating, jelly-wobble animation, punky theme tune and quite bizarre tales featuring Roobarb the dog and Custard the cat – kind of a psychedelic Tom and Jerry.
Roobarb is the breathlessly optimistic hound determined to reshape the universe according to his existential whims but who, like many dogs, is perpetually apt to bark up the wrong tree. Daily he tries to liven up the garden he inhabits, be it putting on a clown show on a rainy day or reinventing the day Thursday as Thorsday, invoking the anger of the Norse Gods.
All his efforts end in catastrophe, provoking the guffaws of the smug and cynical cat Custard and twittery snickers of the Greek chorus of birds in the trees. Deep truths about hubris and folly are revealed in these episodes.
If you haven’t come across R&C before, then now’s the time to discover it and enjoy the madness with your children. If you’re kids are grown up and you do remember the BBC show, surely you can’t resist rediscovering it. And the good news is that the entire R&C series is now available on DVD – and now comes with an interactive game!
R&C is probably the coolest kids cartoon of all time. Let me know if you feel the same.
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Plus you can get R&C books…
