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The clangers http://www.clangers.co.uk/ ate that one, they will eat this one too...

On an interesting and related note (ahem): The Clangers. A BBC tv children's programme in which the characters communicated entirely by whistles.

The whistles were blown by actors, using a script. When they aired the show, they found people writing in saying "my child insists the characters said X, Y and Z" - is he mad?

The thing is, the kids usually got it spot on.

Lucky they took out the swearing in the original script, then. Also of note is the final paragrah in that link, which says:

I took an episode of The Clangers to the 1984 E.B.U.
conference in Germany and showed it to the participants without my voice-
over. Afterwards I asked them whether they had been able to understand
what the Clangers were saying.
"But of course." they replied. "They are speaking perfect German."
"But no." said Gerd, "That is not so. They spoke only Swedish,"

On an interesting and related note (ahem): The Clangers. A BBC tv children's programme in which the characters communicated entirely by whistles.

The whistles were blown by actors, using a script. When they aired the show, they found people writing in saying "my child insists the characters said X, Y and Z" - is he mad?

The thing is, the kids usually got it spot on.

Lucky they took out the swearing in the original script, then. Also of note is the final paragrah in that link, which says:

I took an episode of The Clangers to the 1984 E.B.U.
conference in Germany and showed it to the participants without my voice-
over. Afterwards I asked them whether they had been able to understand
what the Clangers were saying.
"But of course." they replied. "They are speaking perfect German."
"But no." said Gerd, "That is not so. They spoke only Swedish,"

In http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/media/ir/2004/197_2 07_1.jpg that photo, I think I see a wire.

It's probably one of The Clangers. Otherwise it's the soup dragon.

More importantly, there is also a source of a unique and highly-valuable soup although, Shrub may have to send in the army to defeat the Clangers who have the whole supply bought up under exclusive contract. They might have to use nukes to defeat the soup dragon though.

I was surprised to see The Clangers weren't mentioned yet. The Clangers were little aardvark looking creatures that live on the moon and communicate by whistling. It was a kids' TV program in the UK, but became a typical 'cult' thing with students watching, etc.

The whole program was just these weird puppet things whistling at each other, with some guy narrating over it. Really creepy, but it was quite big at the time.

See pictures of the Clangers.

Lots of other samples, pictures, and bits and bobs at http://www.clangers.co.uk/home.htm

I was surprised to see The Clangers weren't mentioned yet. The Clangers were little aardvark looking creatures that live on the moon and communicate by whistling. It was a kids' TV program in the UK, but became a typical 'cult' thing with students watching, etc.

The whole program was just these weird puppet things whistling at each other, with some guy narrating over it. Really creepy, but it was quite big at the time.

See pictures of the Clangers.

Lots of other samples, pictures, and bits and bobs at http://www.clangers.co.uk/home.htm

Why not make use of the Moon's abundant resources and eat soup?

More information on the Clangers here.

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The Clangers!