series and also one that flipped into the current kids TV shows as well
because I'm going to be talking about fireman sam now my brother tells me that
I was head over heels in love with fireman sam when I was younger I know I
love postman pat and knotty Topsy and Tim rosy and jam talk TV I don't even
remember love and fireman sam i remember watching it I don't like remember
wanting all the merchandise and walking all the books and things I watched it
the other day and I watched a couple of episodes and it's like three Dean well
not three deep what's more there are the characters more three-dimensional than
they are you know animation and more computer computer computer graphics and
it's although that's the big difference and you guys know I don't like it when
you take classics and make them more modernize the actual plot lines and the
way it runs and the voices and the songs theme tune is still the same which is
amazing because very rarely will a 90s theme tune remain the same like nearly
what 20 years later or something Christ 20 years Wow
so I'm really happy that theme to you has stayed the same and the plots are
still the same the characters are still the same it just looks slightly
different which I can get past that if you've never seen fireman sam ironically
it focuses on the life of a fireman named Sam and I'm actually pyrophoric or
I used to be I'm not so bad as I was now but basically because I can I can say
the word fire or now but I never used to be able to mister call him Harry Baals
don't ask and so basically fireman sam goes to all these different things but
he doesn't always go out to a fire which I suppose is true to fireman now you
know a lot of firemen are nowadays recall that the car crashes and other
accidents like that I mean I don't know the specific numbers but from what you
hear in the news more of the problems are caused by crashes or no serious
problems like that not a fire isn't serious
rather than you know a chip pan fire so firemen some might go up to like a
bushfire or like you know a picnic problem and like he never really goes
out to a building fire not often anyway because they do sort of let pontypandy a
sort of a really grassy area with him going off picnics on a daily basis if
they want and a lot of the problems is caused by North Norman as well even
though he doesn't know with me in it there is one where Norman is trapped and
in his bedroom there's a fire downstairs and can't get out and nothing is always
quite scary I shouldn't thinking what would it be
like if you actually in that situation it is quite terrifying and I'd hate that
I've luckily luckily never been in a situation like that so I don't really
know where my fear comes from my sister's the same my sister's really
scared of fire and I should keep going I don't like fire I'm scared of fire and
I'm like oh stop saying the word then um I wonder wonder the fireman some calls
these little mild phobias and fears of fire and I don't really know um like
when we had a fire education at school I was like you know I was like no no
looking here today so I often do worry and fireman sam is the cause of that
because obviously there's being sensibly aware of the dangers or being
irrationally petrified which I was irrationally petrified I've only
recently been able to like touch a Cukor and use an iron because I have eight of
them so only recently have I been able to do that and I do feel that fireman
sam is part of the cause of that and you know anybody else who's scared of fire
who watched Fireman Sam but on the bright side fireman sam does have its
morals you know don't play with matches don't leave a chimp on unattended you
know and don't let your cat get stuck up a tree and the models are quite strong
compared tomorrow such as Portland part where it's sort of don't leave your van
door open otherwise the partials will blow away which is not generally a
problem a kid has to deal with whereas you know play with matches and
things are my brother I'm when I'm waiting to say some things my brother
would kill me for saying but my brother actually he has a friend who was quite a
naughty little boy he's not naughty is just senseless and his friend and they
found a my brother my brother came at the house and got a lighter
and when he got caught he asked what I was going to do and then we're gonna go
and set a fridge on fire like a fridge breeze or whatever those like a fridge
freezer being dumped somewhere I never gonna go and try and set it on fire my
brother should have washed fireman sam as a kid i don't think you did and so it
does sort of teach kids some some sense we me and you know awareness of the
dangers of fire so probably the pros are better than the
cons but I do worry about the cons do you cause there's a rational fear but
look at the end of the day but but it has been on for a very long time so it's
obviously doing something right and children do love it I can't bear to wash
it because as soon as you hear that fire alarm ring I just curl into a ball I'm
inside not literally I don't you know stop what I'm doing curl into a ball I'm
not caterpillar but I do just circle oh I hate it so much it's custom so I don't
watch it I try not to watch it when I was watching those episodes to see I
would have changed for review purposes I was saying clenching my teeth going
hurry up finish and but yeah kids do like it and then the hype around it
isn't so much now you know shelves are filled with Fifi toys and even bought
the build of house are starting to go away a bit in the Tweenies nobody cares
were at the tween is now it's such a shame and yeah so fireman sam is a good
show but I do feel that there are some problems with it because it does make
children a bit more scared than what it should be should be trying to make them
aware of the dangers which it does but it can also pump this fear into them so
it's not bad but for me I just don't ever believe my mother when she says I
loved it and we have a please feel free to leave comments below with your
thoughts on fireman sam and if you feel it has affected your personal views on
the dangers of fire whether in a positive way or a negative way and also
any requests for any more 90s nostalgia shows I'm always happy to take those