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programme created and produced by Jon Doyle. It is a comedy puppet panel show following a format that parodies

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. There are five contestants in each episode. Each show includes a "missing word round", a "picture round", a "numbers round", a "sound round" and "general knowledge". The winner receives a silly prize; for example, Mr. Biscuits won a wooden spoon in episode 28.Buzz and Tell Episode 28
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Characters

Different contestants appear in different episodes. Mr Biscuits and Charles Cheese have appeared in every episode alongside Walter Flipstick the quizmaster. * Host: Walter Flipstick – He is a

walrus The walrus (''Odobenus rosmarus'') is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in the fami ...

who is the quizmaster of the show. * Orange Bernard – He is an

orangutan Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia. They are now found only in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, but during the Pleistocene they ranged throughout Southeast Asia and South China. Classified in the genu ...

who is obsessed with bananas. His greatest achievement is the ability to eat a banana sideways. Walter Flipstick once swapped places with Orange Bernand for the tie - breaker and got it correct. * Ken Koala – He is a very shy

koala The koala or, inaccurately, koala bear (''Phascolarctos cinereus''), is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia. It is the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae and its closest living relatives are the w ...

with an Australian accent. * Karl – He is a chinchilla with a large knowledge of nuts. He regularly forgets to press his buzzer and once reminded by Water, forgets what he was going to say next. * Miss Honkover – She is an exotic

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...

who likes

singing Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or with ...

. * Callista Croak – She is a

frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" ''Triadobatrachus'' is ...

who likes to

keep fit ''Keep Fit'' is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring George Formby, Kay Walsh and Guy Middleton. Formby was at his British top box-office peak when this comedy was made. Synopsis George Formby again plays his work ...

. * Charles Cheese – He is a mouse with a cheese fascination. He is also the smallest of all of the contestants. * Melanie Wiggles – She is a rabbit who studies carrots. * Henrietta Peck – She is a

chicken The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated junglefowl species, with attributes of wild species such as the grey and the Ceylon junglefowl that are originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adu ...

who is often joined by one of her

egg An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the a ...

s hatching into a very deep voiced chick part way through the show. * Mr Biscuits – He is a hare who likes biscuits. * B1N – He is a

rubbish bin A waste container, also known as a dustbin, garbage can, and trash can is a type of container that is usually made out of metal or plastic. The words "rubbish", "basket" and "bin" are more common in British English usage; "trash" and "can" a ...

robot A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may ...

made from a pedal bin. B1N frequently gives a ridiculous answer to every question.

Episodes

References

External links

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