In defence of Button Moon

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It saddens me that so many here who love Oscar the Rabbit don't feel the same way about Button Moon, which proceeds from basically the same premise: the sort of banal-but-essential life-challenges of girl/group are allegorized into action-y saving-the-world scenarios (not to mention which Sandra Dickinson is Gernashus only with better outfits). Except Button Moon is that even more so plus with fairy-tale melodrama like you wouldn't believe and villains that are sort of terrifying emblems of gender-role problems.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is all about Mr Spoon

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I wuvved it Nick, there was something about it that was really really sad.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr. Spoon was the Buffy. Mrs. Spoon was the Xander.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

narrated by a husband and wife team that first met on The Tomorrow People, so classic. (esp as that story featured a spanking)

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I once went to see Button Moon LIVE (or whatever equivalent is for spoon puppets against a black background).

― Ellie (Ellie), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:28 (twenty-three years ago)

The husband and wife team element is key. You could almost call it "Richard & Judy, but bearable", seeing as you don't see them and so the "chemistry" isn't so obv. They sang the theme tune together as well, didn't they? I think that's very sweet.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I read this thread before Nabisco's one. Wow, I thought, and pondered the mysteries of N.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 26 September 2002 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I lived quite close to my secondary school and would run home at Lunch to catch button moon. There would be me and some friends watching in awed silence eating sandwiches. I love button moon.
Button Moo-oon, Button Moo-oon.

Also, Pob.

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i went to see it live too. there was some kind of witch running round the ailes who scared me shitless. apart from that though, i remember it being good.

― racing_the_tide (racing_the_tide), Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

There's something inherently sexist about Button Moon tho isn't there? What with Mr Spoon going to Button Moon while Mrs Spoon and Tina are stuck indoors?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

oh no! Sociology dissertation! Oh no!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Tina usually went with him, didn't she? And Egbert if he was a lucky boy.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw a girl with a Button Moon t-shirt the other day.

The Freshers are back in town.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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