What-a-Mess

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Trash's Wonderful Life: Trash goes through His history and learns what would happen if He never existed.

What-a-Mess Facts for Kids

In Todmorden, West Yorkshire, British Waterways decorated a tree with dozens of bags of poo-filled plastic bags, to highlight the problem of owners picking the waste up - only to fling it into the foliage. Baldwin: In the US animated version is a blue duck who sits on What-a-mess's head, he is What-a-mess's companion and friend. More episodes were made in the UK in 1981 by Central Independent Television, Link Licensing, and Bevanfield Films. Frank Muir, the popular comedian and radio presenter who died in 1998, kept Afghan hounds as well as cats. In some moments of the story What-a-Mess likes to interact with his next-door neighbor a snobby cat named Felicia he is always trying to invite her to play with him but being a sophisticated character, she always says she doesn't want to get her paws dirty.When Keep Britain Tidy published its first How Clean is England report for 2001/2, 10% of sites surveyed had dog mess. Funny Background Event: Both the book and the show would have odd little creatures running about in the background getting into shenanigans or reacting to what's going on at the moment. Trash – Only in the US animated version, Trash is a Bull Terrier who is a real trouble maker for What-A-Mess. At Newcastle University bike thefts were reduced 62% by putting pictures of staring eyes above cycle racks. Esmeralda - A white mouse that belonged to the girl of the house, who only appeared in both the book, What-a-Mess and the Hairy Monster, and an episode of the US Version of the same name.

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In the US animated version, the duck was coloured blue, as his character was merged with the blue bird in the UK animated version and books, and was also given the name Baldwin by What-A-Mess.

What-a-Mess has a habit of not bathing and has a great passion for dirt and playing in the mud, even though he didn't want to, his owners always forced him to take a shower and that always makes What-a-Mess very upset. Frank – an Old English Sheepdog that narrates the US animated version of What-A-Mess, voiced by Frank Muir. As if onomastic uncertainty were not enough, What-a-mess is also plagued by philosophical anxiety of the deepest and most perturbing kind - not only does he not know who he is, he does not know what he is.