It's the Mr Men Show!

Oh dear. Oh dear. Despite the innate wrongness of the Mr Men Show, it's, erm, oh no, it really is, good. Yes. Very much so. Bonkers, non shouty and really very amusing.

Totally, totally (slightly) unconnected to the original Mr Men, other than some of the characters being the same and an acknowledgement of the late, great Roger Hargreaves.

Aside: I should listen to that Radio 4 podcast about the Mr Men. I may be reiterating points the only person on the planet that cares about this has already heard. Ah well. This is not original, it's the observations of someone that hasn't a clue what anyone else thinks.

Back (vaguely) to point:
The Mr Men Show is set in a place called Dillydale, all the Mr Men and Little Misses live there and interact with one another. While there was interaction between the original characters, they lived in their own lands - happyland, loudland etc, and they lived amongst people. Although in the most recent issues by Adam Hargreaves, there are several Mr Men all living in one place. So, dunno. Move with the times. Or tomes as my dyslexic thumb decided, which would seem a difficult way to move really.

Mr Lazy is not a pink blob, he's a green sluglike shape with a floppy cap. Mr Nosey is completely the wrong shade of green, and is always, always with Mr Small. (Mr Nosey is my new favourite, for reasons that may become apparent). And Mr Strong is not square, he's all "I workout a lot" shaped and he wears a weightlifters belt. Like the original Mr Strong would need a belt...

The voices are quite probably not PC in their stereotyping, but they are amusingly apt.

Mr Happy has a very jolly Tony Blackburn voice.
Mr Stubborn is of course Scottish
Mr Grumpy is countryside old man - Cornish/Yorkshire? you know the voice.
Mr Messy is Scouse and should really be wearing a tracksuit.
Mr Rude is French. No comment.
Mr Scatterbrained has a American clown type voice that is exactly like some entertainer whose name/identity eludes me.
Mr Nosey is a Geordie which makes him entirely loveable, having the second best accent in existence. The other accents I can't quite place, but Little Miss Chatterbox sounds excitedly chattery, Mr Lazy sounds lazy, Mr Strong speaks like you'd expect someone who wears a weightlifting belt to sound.

I'm sold. I'm disloyal. I'm sorry.

Although I did have a sneaky read of Original Mr Men "Mr Tickle and the Dragon" and was slightly disturbed by the fact that most of the the residents had their house burnt down. Most advanced from the stories of old, so if it's good enough for Adam Hargreaves, it's good enough for me.