Children’s television can be trippy at the best of times, but breakfast related executions are a bit rich, especially for impressionable kids. In the show in question, a sinister ‘toast jihadi’ stands behind an innocent egg — before decapitating it in the style of the brutal execution videos posted by ISIS. Not very PC.
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Angela Halliwell, a 35-year-old mum from Tooting found the ‘extremely violent’ episode of Ooglies to be out of order, so she complained to Ofcom, arguing:
Kids could think extreme violence like beheading is normal.
What do you make of the video? Ok for kids in the morning or no?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l0clOcPGbI
Twitter has reacted to the outlandish episode, with many branding it an ‘ISIS execution’.
https://twitter.com/Passengersalute/status/674562451623550976
https://twitter.com/unobtainabelle/status/674510110362902528
The episode had another brutal scene where a piece of toast is smeared with strawberry jam after being ‘shot’. However, this particular episode of Ooglies was filmed in 2012 — long before the brutal execution videos were published in 2014 and 2015.
The BBC has said it has no plans to get rid of the violent episode. A BBC source said:
Ooglies is a popular slapstick comedy series that depicts all sorts of food getting into scrapes with each other.
This clip involving a boiled egg and toast is no different and we would be surprised if our audiences read anything more into it.
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Whichever side you fall down on the Ooglies-ISIS issue, it certainly feels like a long time ago since the heady days of Rastamouse and his ‘Easy Crew’ entertained the kids with their crime solving, cheese loving ways. Simpler times.
