The Roly Mo Show

"The Roly Mo Show" is a CBeebies children's television series featuring a cast of puppets; it is a spin-off from the "Fimbles" show and was created by the same people, "Novel Entertainment". There are 100 episodes of 15 minutes in length.

The protagonist is Roly Mo, a green and purple striped mole who lives underground and likes to read books. Roly Mo was a regular storyteller character in the better known "Fimbles" show, and "The Roly Mo Show" draws heavily on this. The show is noted for its particularly gentle and pleasant characters and plots.

The show displays similar characteristics to "Bear in the Big Blue House".

Format

Each episode follows a general format.
* It starts with Little Bo visiting Roly Mo after school. She hangs up her rucksack and hat and goes down the slide into the main part of Roly's house.
* One of the characters has a problem; this is the main plot element throughout the episode.
* Someone reads a story from Roly Mo's library, preceded by the "Inside a book" song. Most of the time this is Roly, although sometimes this is Little Bo, Rockit, Yugo and Migo or a combination. The story is related to the problem and often gives an idea for its solution.
* Little Bo looks in her 'Busy Book', starting the segment of an animated Fimble solving an educational puzzle.
* The problem is solved, often with a song.
* The show closes with voice-overs over the credits, and is often humorous or providing further closure.

Other characters

*Little Bo - a younger and highly intelligent mole. Little Bo has pink and purple stripes, and is Roly's niece.
*Yugo and Migo - Yugo and Migo are Snoots; orange and yellow fox-like characters. Yugo is striped and Migo is spotted. They are slightly dim and manic, and probably created for the amusement of younger viewers.
* The Fimbles appear in short quiz/puzzle segments, but as animated cartoon characters rather than as live action characters.
*Rockit - a blue frog who makes guest appearances. He was also originally in "Fimbles".

Catchphrases

*"I'll be back in a Roly Mo!"
*"It's been a Roly Moly day!"
*"Story-time with Roly Mo! Our favourite time of day!"

*"Migo": Yugo!
"Yugo": Migo!!
"both": We-go!!! AMIGO!!!!
"(brief burst of Mexican-style music)"
"both": Let's A-GO-GO!

Trivia

* "Fimbles" shows Roly Mo travelling by forward-rolling along, but strangely he never does this in "The Roly Mo Show".
* Among Roly Mo's other talents is proficiency at playing the banjo.
* In one of the advertisements for the Roly Mo Show the LimpBizkit song Rollin' is played
*In December 2007 Rolly Mo appeared on a puppet special of the Weakest Link hosted by Anne Robinson which was originally broadcast on Friday, December 28th 2007 at 18:00GMT on BBC1.

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/rolymo/ CBeebies - "The Roly Mo Show"] at bbc.co.uk
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/about_cbeebies/shows/rolymo.shtml Educational content] of "The Roly Mo Show"