usually appears brown with black boots, but a bath revealed him to be pink with yellow boots), Go And Play (a light green bug who wore shorts and trainers), the big bad I Said No (an angry red bug who has a pink pet dog-like one called Not Now), Hurry Up (a flying bug of red and yellow scribbles), Calm Down (a yellow bug with a blue umbrella), Don't Do That (a red bug who lives in a shell), Go To Bed (a tired, pink-haired white bug), Sayplease and Saythankyou (a two-faced plant-like bug), Clean Your Teeth (a purple-haired, sunglasses-wearing orange bug with huge teeth), and Take Care (a flying blue kangaroo-like bug). There are also groups of extra characters referred to as Naughties (who are purple with yellow spots, and will cause "Naughtypox" when touched) and Sit Downs (who are pink and have magic powers that can cure Naughtypox). None of the characters actually speak decipherable words as such. Instead they gabble, grunt, squeak, and hum whilst series narrator Terry Wogan unravels the tale for viewers. The characters' noises were provided by the show's co-creator Terry Brain but he was not credited for it. The storylines are notable for their random, abstract nature, and the fact that an episode will frequently end without any moral message at all. For example, in the twelfth episode, "Clean Your Teeth", it begins to snow in the middle of summer, and Stoppit gets left behind on his own while Tidyup and Clean Your Teeth spend the rest of the episode playing on sledges at the end, even though he loves the snow. Production Unlike its predecessor, Stoppit and Tidyup was cel-animated, and while a single episode of The Trap Door would take Charles Mills and Terry Brain an average of two weeks to write, build and shoot in 1984, a single episode of this series would only take them an average of ten days to write and film in 1987. After the series concluded, they mainly did commercials and title sequences. Media A series of twelve tie-in books were published by Price Stern Sloan Ltd. when the series was first aired in 1988, and an illustrated annual was released in 1989. All thirteen episodes were released on VHS by BBC Video (BBCV 4207) in that same year, but this is now out of print (it also segued them together, and dubbed over Wogan's