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and see if anything rings a bell; this sort of thing seems to be their forté.
If it helps, the description of iced bread with sprinkles sounds like fairy bread, a treat that’s popular in Australia, so this might be an Australian show.
I may be wrong about this but the talking backpack sounds like Dora The Explorer (any episode) and the girl being pushed underwater by a friend sounds like what Dawn did to Leona at the end of the season 11 episode Hot Springing A Leak from Pokemon. But those two scenes are probalby not what you are looking for.
Edited by pikafanLift Off. Australian TV series, 1992-1996. Quasi-educational, many surreal interpolations, talking backpacks and talking elevator.
Official web site
, with pictures that might look familiar and episode guide that includes "Kim and Poss enjoy swimming in the pool at the Stinson's until Kim is pushed under. Kim comes to terms with her fears with Lotis' help and dives under water." (Lotis is the talking elevator.)
Youtube clip, just to prove we're not both imagining this.
Holy crud, it really happened! I TOLD THEM I WASN'T CRAZY!
Thanks, you lot are seriously awesome, even if you may have unintentionally reawakened memories my subconscious was trying to block out. In retrospect I'm faily sure now that I recall Australian accents. My own personal Brown Note. This is a... very pointless concern solved. Ta very much.
...I wonder if I can find that sequence with the backpack spitting everything out...
Edited by ScarabThe backpack spitting everything out sounds like the backpack backpack scene(s) in Dora The Explorer.

Okay this one is... difficult. I will honestly be surprised if anyone can get this. I'm honestly half convinced I imagined or even dreamed the whole thing.
I believe it was one of those quasi-educational, surreal kids shows that were popular on daytime TV in the 90's. It's... slightly along the lines of Ghost Writer, but weirder (at the very least, it was airing on British TV in roughly the same time period as Ghost Writer) My memories of it are less solid and more a series of vague flashbacks which may or may not be the same episode. These flashbacks are as follows.
-A backpack on a girl's back laughing and clearly enjoying itself as she runs away, upset about something utterly unrelated to the fact that there's a freaking happy talking backpack on her back.
-A machine that makes bread with sprinkles and icing on it. An unimpressed girl telling her dad "I want my mum!" before storming off.
-A group of... something's watching a film on a projector. They are discussing the film, which appears to feature children hopping about playing leapfrog. The creatures are being educated about this activity, with their "teacher" informing them that the human children are attempting to become frogs. However, this will never happen "as they were not tadpoles first". (Hey, makes perfect sense to me).
- A girl being pushed under the water during a fight with a friend at a swimming pool.
- From the same episode as the above -the aforementioned example has apparantly instilled in the girl a fear of water. In what appears to be an attempt to cure her of this, a talking elevator (don't ask I don't even know) takes her below the ocean, to show her a pool full of fish and other assorted sea creatures, viewed through it's open doors. The girl is frightened at first, but is encouraged to take a better look and actually plucks up the courage to stick her face right into the water.
- A large crystal dropped to the bottom of a pool (honestly, it looked like one of those tacky crystal doorknobs more than anything but I think it's meant to be a MacGuffin of somekind). The girl jumps in to retrieve it. Pretty sure that's the same episode as above, too.
(Don't say I didn't warn you...)
This vague collection of images has been driving me berserk for over a decade. Anyone got any ideas?
Edited by Scarab