This tune helped me when I was 10 years old, my mum left home and I felt like a rejected ragged doll. The words just like you and me made me feel I was not alone. I would comfortably sing away to myself.
Aw bless you, got you through some hard times, that's sad but amazing. I didn't experience that but was always a misfit, this was the start of making me proud to be one. Take care x
I hope your mum came back, would be a long time to leave you alone. Might want to consider getting on with your life if there's signs of her return. God bless you both.
It takes me right back to remembering my dad, "listen son itle fly by, make the most of everything" etc etc and of course like most youngsters, I never listened but oh jesus was he right 45 years old now, approaching 46, where the hell did the time go? We had it all, the best of everything, people, music, tv, times, the best! For me hearing and seeing these things again takes me on massive memory journeys filled with smiles and laughing, but also it is just so sad, right? What would we give to be back there.
The message behind all this is that is doesn't matter what you look what you look like what dose matter is the size of your heart and the strength of your character.
I’m actually crying,I wanted to be in the reject bin with the raggy dolls! This program made me feel apart of something 💚 The best program of my childhood most definitely. Love to everyone here 🇮🇪💚
I have disabilities myself both physical and mental and was always a loner at school back in the day. The raggy dolls helped me feel worth living at times and gave me something to relate to. It was certainly one of my favorit programs aswell as a child.
You're more likely to find real friends in a reject bin than ever being in places you don't feel a belonging in. The class of being diversely different has something that holds one heart dear 😍
You're absolutely right. One of the decent things about Raggy Dolls was that it tried to educate people on social issues, eg. race, disability etc. They'd do well to either re-broadcast or remake it for a prime-time audience. Being educated about diversity is as important now as it was back then #HelpingToEducateOthers
Back in the early 90's when I was growing up and living on Bristol I used to watch The Raggy Dolls all the time when coming home from primary school every week.
+ABarrellRoll I don't understand the correlation between Rejects and french? Is there some inside joke between English and French people? The war perhaps? Pardon my ignorance.
the english and the french have a long history of hating each other. it's not so bad the last century or so, but they still don't really respect each other.
@@cryptosguns yes it is revolved from the war and as a result the French and English don't like each other, although I'm English I got nothing against the French to be honest.
I'm going on 29 and realized I still knew all of the lyrics as well. Even back in High School in the late 90s, I remember a friend nicknaming our Detention Class the "Raggy Dolls". Yup. True story.
Thank you! I feel like such a dolt. For 41 years I've been thinking it was "Made in perfect lee"(whatever that would mean). But now I've seen it written down it makes perfect sense. Jesus I'm an idiot.
The show that told you it's okay and you're still worth something if you're poorly made, damaged, malfunctioning or French. Because of this, I was convinced soft toys were made of a material called Lee, because the Raggy Dolls were "Made in perfect Lee."
We didnt get this show in Australia until early 90's. Still i loved this show. Those of us who had something in our lives made us connect with this show. ❤
Gotta love the old stuff... Takes me back to my child hood "its not much of a life when you're just a pretty face just to be whoever you are is no disgrace don't be scared if u don't fit in look who's in the reject bin..." It's a sad time when an old kids show has more meaning than most of today's mainstream music xD
Turning 30 in 3 weeks :( childhood has long gone :( such a shame it went so fast :( i loved my cartoons :( why do we have to get old, why cant we just stay as kids :) getting old sucks big time :)))))
***** I'm 30 next January, just got a mortgage and I'm getting married this September, and I still watch Thundercats and the Moondreamers. :D Plus Lady Lovely Locks, Care Bears, My Little Pony, The Smurfs... isn't that what RUclips is for?? I may have to grow old, but I shall NEVER grow up!
This show legit doesn't get taught about enough for the amazing positive message it sent to tell u to embrace who u are no matter what and don't let not being " the same" or "normal" get u down
its a deep and meaningful tune, its just saying be happy with how you look and be happy you are different and not just some "pretty face" like all the others.
I used to cry listening to this. I was so depressed about being ugly. I wished I didn't care that I was made imperfectly, but the pressure when I was younger was immense. I've just accepted I'm a reject now.
I remember feeling that way too, but yet loved the show. Looking back though it was a deep message. I think the big hand and being chucked out was confronting...perhaps as a kid you over identify within the doll.
Im 32 and I remember this cartoon from the 80s. Who remembers a cartoon calked kissyfur? Kids telly was so much better back then, much better then the tripe they churn out these days.
It was about a little Yank bear and his loving father? "Ahhhh Kissyfurrrrrr" he'd often drawl? I picture them: Saturday mornings, in a wooden hut, wearing dungarees, in a forest.
It’s weird how this song is ingrained in my brain. Like I never even think about the show, I barely remember anything about it, but the song is like a core memory
If you're not at ease with your nobbly knees and your fingers are all thumbs. stand on your two left feet and sing in harmony They're the lyrics I remember
This was a classic. Watching this as a kid so many times over back in the 1990s made me feel that its ok not to fit in with other kids/people and teachs you that you find your real friends that way in life €:)
the only cartoon that i found the theme song, teaches children something to rememember. Nothing wrong in being who you are, if people don't like you "say i just don't care". No law says you ha ve to be perfect
Oh, I remember this show! Apparently I'm somewhat related to the creator. My gran always used to go on about this famous relative who created this show. I think it was a second cousin or something - no-one I ever met. When I was a little kid, it seemed like a big claim to fame!
@@itssmariaaaa am gunna say it's a really old show but we were lucky enough to see it when it was on tv I was born in 91 so I had this shit on tv all the time as a kid
I play this to my blow up doll every time I drag her out of the cupboard, I think she is depressed as she is ageing and has puncture repair patches all over her neck. She is convinced I have a new silicon dolly (as seen on Jerry Springer). Not true my love, there's only you.
This probably sounds weird, but I cried watching this theme. Its been about ten years since I last watched it (I'm 18 now) and I adored this program as a child and would rewatch my video tapes so much. I guess I just felt a bit sentimental, having not seen this for over ten years.
Yet it's actually asymmetry that defines most attractive faces to most people. Symmetrical faces actually look less attractive to most humans because it's so rare. Good luck finding many people that have all the features you describe. I wonder what colour the hair would be to be allegedly 'perfect'.
Oh god, it is the strangest sensation ever listening to these old tunes and other things from the 80s and 90s right? Anyway growing up in that era knows what I mean. A massive mixture of memories, happiness and joy, BUT for me anyway, a huge mix of sadness, missing things, longing for those times again and all of the people and all of the times and all of the other million things that simply made the 80s and 90s the BEST of everything. We can tell kids of today what it was like, we can tell them until we are blue in the face but no one who was not there will ever truly know just how good
This was probably the first times I heard Neil Innes' voice; only later did I find out he was in the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. If you don't know them, they were a great experimental band, and eccentric even by 1960s standards.
Just thought about this series today. I know this series is supposed to be optimistic and encourage people to be themselves even if society isn't reqarding uniqueness, but the atmosphere makes me feel as if the characters are dead and spending their time in wherever raggy dolls go when they die. At least heaven is a nice place.
a lot of kids tv shows were done that way. Everyone was different. Probably to try and get kids to accept people for who they were and therefore not bully people who were different to themselves.
There are bits of the melody that really remind me of “My Name is Jack” by Manfred Mann.. given that song was about an orphanage, I guess it’s kind of fitting.
Was just sat in the front room and my little boy started singing a song that sounded so close to this song, had to come to RUclips to listen to it . Brings back memories . Also a reminder of the instant distraction phones being
It’s not much of a life when you’re just a pretty face Just to be whoever you are is no disgrace Don’t be scared if don’t fit in Look who’s in the reject bin It’s the Raggy Dolls Raggy Dolls Dolls like you & me Raggy Dolls Raggy Dolls made imperfectly So if you got a bump on your nose or a lump on your toes Do not despairbe like the Raggy Dolls and say I just don’t care Cause Raggy Dolls Raggy Dolls Are happy just to be Raggy Dolls, Raggy Dolls Dolls like you & me
Far from the picture that is painted of it by todays revisionists, the past was actually more tolerant than today in many ways. The words to this cartoon illustrates that point well and bear in mind these shows were watched by more people than even successful mainstream shows today. It gave the message that it was ok not to be perfect, which is not the impression that todays young people get from watching the trashy reality stars with their fake everything. Bravo.
Why aren't there more cartoons like this? That teach that not only is it okay to be different, but actually very good! That's a healthy message in today's world where kids are pressured to all be alike. As for the song, there must be a scientific anomaly that guarantees that once this tune enters your head, it stays there.
I’m 21. We were poor growing up and our tvs had the video compartment where you put the tapes. We had Raggy dolls and others on video tape so I grew up watching all 80s and 90s stuff.
This tune helped me when I was 10 years old, my mum left home and I felt like a rejected ragged doll. The words just like you and me made me feel I was not alone. I would comfortably sing away to myself.
Aw bless you, got you through some hard times, that's sad but amazing. I didn't experience that but was always a misfit, this was the start of making me proud to be one. Take care x
I hope your mum came back, would be a long time to leave you alone. Might want to consider getting on with your life if there's signs of her return. God bless you both.
Awww 😢
You're amazing. Fuck anyone who made you feel differently
Sending love your amazing 💚
It's funny how you can remember the words when the music starts! I had completely forgotten about this until recently!
ive been singing it for the last week. my family think ive fially completely lost it :\
+Andy Howard same
So true. I'm weird so have woken up to this theme tune playing in my head lol
@@HoweyDamus lmao nice one
I realised the same thing. That's Neil Innes for you!
You just can't beat 80s television programme's.
198? 정확히 몇년대야?
70's has awesome programming that kept going strong into the 80's to the very early 90's.
Absolutely agreed.
Modern kids tv sucks
Count Duckula.
90s had some great children shows too.
I'm actually crying. Bloody hell, haven't thought about this for decades. Time flies man.
It takes me right back to remembering my dad, "listen son itle fly by, make the most of everything" etc etc and of course like most youngsters, I never listened but oh jesus was he right
45 years old now, approaching 46, where the hell did the time go? We had it all, the best of everything, people, music, tv, times, the best! For me hearing and seeing these things again takes me on massive memory journeys filled with smiles and laughing, but also it is just so sad, right? What would we give to be back there.
same.
im 42 this year and disabled from birth with cerebal palsy and other disabilities i so related to this show when i was younger
The message behind all this is that is doesn't matter what you look what you look like what dose matter is the size of your heart and the strength of your character.
Theme composed and narrated by Neil Innes. He was a great songwriter!
"So if you've got a lump on your nose or bumps on your toes, do not despair. Be like the raggy dolls, and say "I just don't care!'"
Words to live by.
J C Bradshaw excelent
“It’s not much of a life if you’re just a pretty face...”
“Just to be whoever you are is no disgrace”
The song is full of them
Hate to disagree with the lumps n bumps..... id get it checked out!
The raggy dolls don't have balls to loose.
brill
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I think this is actually a very important show for kids. Excellent message that is probably missed by young people.
youtube is a time machine
youtube plus a touch of booze
@@katakisLives just a tad, eh? 😉
How I miss those simple days...I get emotional when I hear this
Me too. The days of this and Puddle Lane.
Button moon for me, good ol day's
I’m actually crying,I wanted to be in the reject bin with the raggy dolls!
This program made me feel apart of something 💚
The best program of my childhood most definitely.
Love to everyone here 🇮🇪💚
I have disabilities myself both physical and mental and was always a loner at school back in the day. The raggy dolls helped me feel worth living at times and gave me something to relate to. It was certainly one of my favorit programs aswell as a child.
Was the token weirdo one that got bullied at my primary school and my mum had me sing this to make me more confident
You're more likely to find real friends in a reject bin than ever being in places you don't feel a belonging in. The class of being diversely different has something that holds one heart dear 😍
jamsee1 you're right
jamsee1 how true!
Well said
You're absolutely right. One of the decent things about Raggy Dolls was that it tried to educate people on social issues, eg. race, disability etc. They'd do well to either re-broadcast or remake it for a prime-time audience. Being educated about diversity is as important now as it was back then #HelpingToEducateOthers
Very true
Omg I'm about to cry :') none of my friends remember this show, I'm glad I have proof it actually existed
I don't think there's anything now for kids with the spirit of it's okay to be different, certainly not as much as shows like this and superted
I'm a 9 year old and I love this show
+Little Ela I was 9 years old last year too.
Spyro Fan yes very true don't be scared if you don't fit in just put it in a reject bin
i'm 14, i used to watch this when i was 1-3 and now watching modern cartoons some tbh are very bad
So we're gonna ignore Garnet's song about self-love and Amythyst's ENTIRE arc about learning to accept herself as she is.
Sweet nostalgia! One of my top 10 favorite shows as a little kid 😍
Mine too 😊
Mine too ahhhhhhhh
And mine, along with Poddington Peas and Bodger and Badger 😂
Back in the early 90's when I was growing up and living on Bristol I used to watch The Raggy Dolls all the time when coming home from primary school every week.
I loved the fact Claude was a reject - because he was French. Fucking lol.
xD Yeah there was nothing wrong with Claude except that he was French :p
+ABarrellRoll I don't understand the correlation between Rejects and french?
Is there some inside joke between English and French people?
The war perhaps? Pardon my ignorance.
Acually, claude was perfectly fine, he fell from the box that flew to france, so they put him in the reject ben.
the english and the french have a long history of hating each other. it's not so bad the last century or so, but they still don't really respect each other.
@@cryptosguns yes it is revolved from the war and as a result the French and English don't like each other, although I'm English I got nothing against the French to be honest.
I'm going on 29 and realized I still knew all of the lyrics as well.
Even back in High School in the late 90s, I remember a friend nicknaming our Detention Class the "Raggy Dolls". Yup. True story.
That's hilarious
Wait- your 38 now?
Same age, memory lane and a half.
Oh shitm happy 40th! 11 years since this comment. Shit, time flies when you're a raggy doll! Happy as ever could be!
@@itzrosygaming4354 lol, I realised this was old late too. I was thinking "a 29 year old knows this?" I'm 40 now and I remember this show very fondly
@@davidstanton4716 if I'm being honest I'm actually a minor and I watched this show! My parents were great for showing me it
OMG it's been years but I still remember the words, 56 years old and singing along to the tune. I'm a Raggydoll made imperfectly.
Thank you! I feel like such a dolt. For 41 years I've been thinking it was "Made in perfect lee"(whatever that would mean). But now I've seen it written down it makes perfect sense. Jesus I'm an idiot.
Ken lee
I literally cannot get enough of this video, such a nostalgia trip. It's going to be in my head forever!
Lol literally 😂
Man I miss being a little kid
Harry Boyd Me too!!!!! It’s kind of sad.
yep i think back to it lots
SAME
Me too!😢
Me too, I had such a good childhood...
(Not a girl, my mom's name)
The show that told you it's okay and you're still worth something if you're poorly made, damaged, malfunctioning or French.
Because of this, I was convinced soft toys were made of a material called Lee, because the Raggy Dolls were "Made in perfect Lee."
That was some curve ball with the French.
I never realised Claude was a reject because he was french. Now I’m sad.
Lol alot of amazing things come from France .. Les Miserables and phantom of the Opera!
he says "made imperfectly"
@@foxtrotoscar4284 sorry, sorry, I thought he didn't know, my apologies😢
First 5 years of my life right here.
We didnt get this show in Australia until early 90's. Still i loved this show. Those of us who had something in our lives made us connect with this show. ❤
The 80s is my safe place mentally.
A legend of a theme tune! Please show it again and let the children of today fall in love with the Raggy Dolls once more!
Getting called sadsack back in the day was instant fighting talk.
What a tune, and what an amazing message!
Gotta love the old stuff... Takes me back to my child hood
"its not much of a life when you're just a pretty face
just to be whoever you are is no disgrace
don't be scared if u don't fit in
look who's in the reject bin..."
It's a sad time when an old kids show has more meaning than most of today's mainstream music xD
🥹
This theme inspires me a whole lot more today. Still a great show for children today.
Turning 30 in 3 weeks :( childhood has long gone :( such a shame it went so fast :( i loved my cartoons :( why do we have to get old, why cant we just stay as kids :) getting old sucks big time :)))))
***** I'm 30 next January, just got a mortgage and I'm getting married this September, and I still watch Thundercats and the Moondreamers. :D Plus Lady Lovely Locks, Care Bears, My Little Pony, The Smurfs... isn't that what RUclips is for?? I may have to grow old, but I shall NEVER grow up!
You boys would be 36 now.. time flies ay lol
Hey 35/36 year old, sup old buddy
My 20 month old son has just said....
“Noooo Daddy”
No? This is legendary!
This show legit doesn't get taught about enough for the amazing positive message it sent to tell u to embrace who u are no matter what and don't let not being " the same" or "normal" get u down
its a deep and meaningful tune, its just saying be happy with how you look and be happy you are different and not just some "pretty face" like all the others.
Do they not fit in because of the way they look?
This cartoon is very dear to me now that I am so in need of confidence for my body, this show may be old and older than me but I still love it!
I used to cry listening to this. I was so depressed about being ugly. I wished I didn't care that I was made imperfectly, but the pressure when I was younger was immense. I've just accepted I'm a reject now.
This tune has been stuck in my head for like 22 years.
I was 5 when this came out, it was my favourite cartoon! The song is so cute! Right, I’m off to cry for a few hours 😢😢😢
This intro literally terrified me as a kid, and I have no idea why.
I still feel uneasy watching it due to that O_o
Someone else said the same under a Worzel Gummidge video.
I remember feeling that way too, but yet loved the show. Looking back though it was a deep message. I think the big hand and being chucked out was confronting...perhaps as a kid you over identify within the doll.
Matt, unconsiously you may be scare to be rejected by people... I sugest talk to the Psy
It's the fact the music is in an off sounding key to start off with that gets me, I think it makes it sound creepier 🤣
Probably the bit where the hand grabs the raggy doll
Im 32 and I remember this cartoon from the 80s. Who remembers a cartoon calked kissyfur? Kids telly was so much better back then, much better then the tripe they churn out these days.
It was about a little Yank bear and his loving father?
"Ahhhh Kissyfurrrrrr" he'd often drawl? I picture them: Saturday mornings, in a wooden hut, wearing dungarees, in a forest.
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I absolutely love that theme tune it is so catchy
It’s weird how this song is ingrained in my brain. Like I never even think about the show, I barely remember anything about it, but the song is like a core memory
If you're not at ease with your nobbly knees and your fingers are all thumbs. stand on your two left feet and sing in harmony
They're the lyrics I remember
Love this show as kid!! Good old days!!
This used to be aired in Kenya 🇰🇪 in the 90s, my aunt tells me I used to like this cartoon.
LOL i was just humming the song in the shower and decided to look for it!
I remember thinking they were made 'in Perfectleigh'.
+kelman727 I thought it was "East Purley".
Made in Perfect Leigh
kelman727 me too 😂
Haha, so true it was above my vocabulary at the time. I thought it was a place!
No. The Song says imperfectly.... All the Dolls have a problem
This was a classic. Watching this as a kid so many times over back in the 1990s made me feel that its ok not to fit in with other kids/people and teachs you that you find your real friends that way in life €:)
👍 that’s right it doesn’t matter if you don’t fit in be happy for who you are
R.I.P. Neil Innes (1944-2019)
I love the message that this gives, that it's okay to be different and you should just live your life and be happy whatever
This cartoon creeped me out as a kid 😂
Awww, Raggydolls. It breaks my heart to know something I loved as a child will be all but forgotten within a generation 💔
Listening to the words now and i get the msg that if you regarded as imperfect in todays world then be unique and own it ❤
This song gave me inspiration to make characters
I freaking loved this program, 12 years later and I can still remember the theme tune.
the only cartoon that i found the theme song, teaches children something to rememember. Nothing wrong in being who you are, if people don't like you "say i just don't care". No law says you ha ve to be perfect
You're right
Oh, I remember this show! Apparently I'm somewhat related to the creator. My gran always used to go on about this famous relative who created this show. I think it was a second cousin or something - no-one I ever met.
When I was a little kid, it seemed like a big claim to fame!
It probably came out in 2000 lol. That's my opinion.
@@siennagalloway8235 the show was out in like the 80s!
@@itssmariaaaa am gunna say it's a really old show but we were lucky enough to see it when it was on tv I was born in 91 so I had this shit on tv all the time as a kid
Omg! Raggy dolls is the best show ever!!!!! :D
This takes it back, I was born 1980 to be honest it hurts to grow up and only have these as memories left
I’m only 12 years old and I used to watch this on my vhs player thingy when I was like 7 or 6 😭☹️I miss them days
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I play this to my blow up doll every time I drag her out of the cupboard, I think she is depressed as she is ageing and has puncture repair patches all over her neck. She is convinced I have a new silicon dolly (as seen on Jerry Springer). Not true my love, there's only you.
Randy Bentwick I think you should trade her in for a newer model
Sounds like Seth Mcfarland singing this, lol
Thanks for putting this on-really brought back memories for me. I used to love this show
This probably sounds weird, but I cried watching this theme. Its been about ten years since I last watched it (I'm 18 now) and I adored this program as a child and would rewatch my video tapes so much. I guess I just felt a bit sentimental, having not seen this for over ten years.
I remember this I was born in the 80 facing my 40 next year were it has all gone amazing.
its got a real 80s feel about it. i loved it.
Love it. Especially wben todays standards is to look "perfect". What is perfect? To one is perfect but not to anogher...
Clear, firm, skin, symmetrical facial features, straight white teeth, 20/20 vision, full head of colourful hair ...
Yet it's actually asymmetry that defines most attractive faces to most people. Symmetrical faces actually look less attractive to most humans because it's so rare. Good luck finding many people that have all the features you describe. I wonder what colour the hair would be to be allegedly 'perfect'.
KRSsven i think for girls its blond hair blue eyes skinny wastes
the perfect you refer to today is insecurity. People can't accept themselves as they are they have to change this and change that. It's an illness.
I can relate to this now more than when I was a kid 😁
Oh my fucking god the nostalgia...
Makes me think of Mixels, Homestar Runner and more shows I love!
One of the best tv theme songs!! i still remember it and now I'm 25! ;) Kids TV is so horrible these days! Love my era.
Oh god, it is the strangest sensation ever listening to these old tunes and other things from the 80s and 90s right? Anyway growing up in that era knows what I mean. A massive mixture of memories, happiness and joy, BUT for me anyway, a huge mix of sadness, missing things, longing for those times again and all of the people and all of the times and all of the other million things that simply made the 80s and 90s the BEST of everything. We can tell kids of today what it was like, we can tell them until we are blue in the face but no one who was not there will ever truly know just how good
This was probably the first times I heard Neil Innes' voice; only later did I find out he was in the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. If you don't know them, they were a great experimental band, and eccentric even by 1960s standards.
Just thought about this series today. I know this series is supposed to be optimistic and encourage people to be themselves even if society isn't reqarding uniqueness, but the atmosphere makes me feel as if the characters are dead and spending their time in wherever raggy dolls go when they die. At least heaven is a nice place.
In my opinion, The Raggy Dolls first aired on January 4, 2000 & then got cancelled on July 2, 2008.
Aww I used to sing this to my baby girl when she was a few months old ❤❤
Listen to the msg. This song is dedicated the minoritys and lower class. Disabled ect and so are the characters
yup
a lot of kids tv shows were done that way. Everyone was different. Probably to try and get kids to accept people for who they were and therefore not bully people who were different to themselves.
The moral of this song is “you are special, just the way you are” 😉
The beat sounds like Ub40 - I Got You Babe
B.J SWAG lol no it doesn't!
I'd say it sounds more like "Scales and Arpeggios" from Disney's The Aristocats.
There are bits of the melody that really remind me of “My Name is Jack” by Manfred Mann.. given that song was about an orphanage, I guess it’s kind of fitting.
this takes me right back to my old school days i loved this programme thx u so much for whoever uploaded this great theme
scariest theme song ever
Was just sat in the front room and my little boy started singing a song that sounded so close to this song, had to come to RUclips to listen to it . Brings back memories . Also a reminder of the instant distraction phones being
I used to love this cartoon when i was a kid, but it also had some really dark moments, like the poacher episode, man the music was scary in that D:
Wow my mum remembers watching this when she was young brings good memories
in the times when the media was less subtle about promoting self deprication
I remember coming home from primary school and watching this, although I seem to remember it starting around 1985.
Wow this theme makes me feel so old
Dam. I haven’t seen this in like 30years. I remember everyone of those characters.
Anyone watching this in 2019?
Takes back to my childhood
It’s not much of a life when you’re just a pretty face
Just to be whoever you are is no disgrace
Don’t be scared if don’t fit in
Look who’s in the reject bin
It’s the Raggy Dolls Raggy Dolls Dolls like you & me
Raggy Dolls Raggy Dolls made imperfectly
So if you got a bump on your nose or a lump on your toes
Do not despairbe like the Raggy Dolls and say I just don’t care
Cause Raggy Dolls Raggy Dolls
Are happy just to be
Raggy Dolls, Raggy Dolls
Dolls like you & me
The structure of the lyric "so if you've got a bump on your nose or lumps on your toes, do not despair" is actually very clever.
Oh wow, I'd completely forgotten about this one.
Far from the picture that is painted of it by todays revisionists, the past was actually more tolerant than today in many ways. The words to this cartoon illustrates that point well and bear in mind these shows were watched by more people than even successful mainstream shows today. It gave the message that it was ok not to be perfect, which is not the impression that todays young people get from watching the trashy reality stars with their fake everything. Bravo.
This was stuck in my head during a maths exam....
Takes me back, coming back from school and watching this whilst having my tea.
Why aren't there more cartoons like this? That teach that not only is it okay to be different, but actually very good! That's a healthy message in today's world where kids are pressured to all be alike. As for the song, there must be a scientific anomaly that guarantees that once this tune enters your head, it stays there.
In a lot of the cartoons my children watch the characters are just different.
I’m 21. We were poor growing up and our tvs had the video compartment where you put the tapes. We had Raggy dolls and others on video tape so I grew up watching all 80s and 90s stuff.
After 30 seconds, they're like "oh dear God, we've got another 23 seconds to fill."
Funny how forgotten videos can unlock core memorys and take you back to a time where life was soo much better actually made me fill up this intro 😭❤😭❤