“And when Bagpuss was asleep, all his friends were asleep.
The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.
Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.
Professor Yaffle was just an old wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker.
Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep,
was just an old, saggy cloth cat–
baggy, and a bit loose at the seams.
But Emily loved him.”
Meh, Bagpuss was for teh girlz. Ivor the Engine for me :)
In desparation, I once used Bagpuss to explain a client-server system to a customer. It worked.