Well, it’s Friday, the worst day of the year is behind us and the first payday of the month is just around the corner. What better time to introduce our new, (probably not) regular feature: Lookalike Fridays?
No better time.
First up, who remembers Bodger and Badger? A children’s TV show about a man and a badger who lived together and ate mashed potato a lot. Perfectly normal, everyday situation. Bodger had a funny squashy face with lovely sticky-out ears and Badger was, we can only assume, visually impaired in some way. Judge for yourselves below.
Put the two together and what do you get? That’s right folks, Jim Branning off of Eastenders (Dot’s piece, if you’re not a regular viewer).
Now, we can’t be the only ones to have noticed that Jim Branning became a regular on screens in 1996, the very same year that Bodger and Badger mysteriously disappeared from them.
Coincidence? Or irrefutable evidence that Branning is indeed the result of an ill-advised scientific splicing experiment involving the afore-mentioned mashed potato lovers?
We know which explanation we believe.
Another too-freaky-to-be-ignored lookalike situation that’s been bothering us here at Swamp is that of the much-loved Mrs Spoon, of Button Moon fame.
Anyone seen her recently? Didn’t think so.
But you know who we did see an awful lot of in the run up to Christmas don’t you? That’s right, Jamie Afro who didn’t win the X Factor.
Even their poses are the same! The sheer audacity of the man beggars belief, bearing in mind he is undoubtedly a body snatcher.
It’s the elephant in the room people; the secret so dark, so terrible, that no one dares to speak its name. Well, we dare. No longer will we stand by and let TV personalities and talent show contestants body snatch or scientifically splice our beloved children’s TV characters under this terrible shroud of secrecy. The truth will out!
So, if you have any unnerving lookalikeys, particularly if they involve kids’ TV characters, do your duty and share them with us.
Together, we’ll shatter the silence.
