YMMV / In the Night Garden...

• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: Look out for wacky theories about Christian allegory in this show. For example, Makka Pakka lives in a cave, and garages his scooter in another cave, rolling a round stone in front to close the entrance (like Christ's tomb). He also goes around washing everyone's faces (John the Baptist). Igglepiggle goes out in a boat (sermon from the boat/"fishers of men"). There's also Upsy Daisy (Mary Magdalen), the Pinky-Ponk (merkabah), and so on. The point is that the creators of In the Night Garden... are all old enough to have had compulsory religious education at school, and have all the Christian imagery floating about in their heads, waiting to slip out into a programme concept.
• Fleeting Demographic Rule: Despite the show being extremely popular, only 100 episodes were ever commissioned. The logic here is that the show's target demographic will only watch it for two years and then grow out of it, so after 100 episodes you could start from the beginning again and no one but adults would notice. This is also why the show has no series-long overarching plot or episodes identifying themselves as the first or last episode.
• Nightmare Fuel: The toucan from the tittifer (bird) segments is infamous for scaring many viewers when they were little. The toucan separates itself from the other tittifers in a way that's downright unnerving, especially for the target audience. Its song is off-key, dissonant, and not similar to any of the other birds' songs, it's not complemented by any other bird, and its movements are unusually stiff and unnatural—not helped by it just silently turning its head to the viewer at the very end.
• Quirky Work: Much like Ragdoll's other shows like Teletubbies and Boohbah, there's not much in this show that makes too much sense, albeit this one is significantly more coherent than the aforementioned two shows.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: A deliberate example. Literally the whole point of the show is to calm down children to get them to sleep for the night, so this shouldn't come off as much of a surprise.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Most of the characters, especially Iggle Piggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka, and The Haa-Hoos. Their faces don't seem to show any expression other than joy, and their eyes don't move at all.

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