Which I don't mind -- the pace and action are much more fitting for a three-year-old than the screechy garish shit he'd *like* to watch on the Cartoon Network, "Cow and Chicken", "Ed, Edd, and Eddie", and so on. This is, like, more Teletubbies-style...

But yes, I must admit, that means I sometimes get to watch it too. (Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be on this spring.) And I also freely admit, I *did* use to watch it regularly and voluntarily back in the mid-seventies, when it still had "Farm" in the name and I was ten years old... Because that was what was on back then.

Mildly interesting note based on hearsay: My Mom claims one guy, a character named "Matt Sugden" IIRC, who lives on a farm outside the village, is the only one still remaining from the beginning; that his farm is (at least supposed to be) the original one of the title.

Even more tenuously interesting note based on observation: Since my memory seems to be better at faces than at names, I'm always referring to actors and actresses not as "that's [name], isn't it?", but as "Isn't that the guy who was this and that guy in this and that film?", etc... But Anki spotted this one before me: Frumpy spinster "Edna" of _Emmerdale_, the oldest and sourest-looking hag imaginable, is played by the original quite-luscious-for-a-definitely-middle-aged-bird sister "Rose" of _Keeping up Appearances_. (Though it seems she was only on the latter show for its first season or so.)

And that, AFAICS, concludes anything even REMOTELY "interesting" that could possibly be said about "Emmerdale".

Well, except that it's got a beer named after it now, that is.