They were penned up and set out for purchase by huge beasts who wanted to chop them to pieces and devour their corpses. Before they could be eaten they staged a daring breakout and fled into the night. Finding a safe place to stop running, they established their own hidden sanctuary where they created a new society of their own, where they would hopefully be safe from being eaten. They named their community in memory of that threat, so they would never become complacent. They were… the Munch Bunch.
The whole terrifying tale retold as a jaunty song.
These characters were important to me when I was little, particularly the Banana Bunch. The all-knowing Wikipedia has an entry that mentions the special New Zealand series of characters. I remember these fondly, and I remember being pleased that there were NZ characters in the books (even if they never turned up on the television show).
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i also loved the much bunch and even wrote poetry about them when i was younger….ahhhh what a lovely trip down memory lane.
The Munch Bunch (munch bunch) have run away
The Munch Bunch (munch bunch) are here to stay
The Munch Bunch (munch bunch) ahve found a home,
with… a… garden…
Lizzy Leek and Pippa Pear… dum dum dum…
(I can’t remember much more than that of the theme tune)
I think we had some of the books – I remember Rozzie Raspberry, we might have also had the Ollie Onion book. I remember Spud wore a Union Jack waistcoat, I think.
I think Spud had a Union Jack baseball cap. I had the Spud book, it was one of my favourites. Spud got upset because when his portrait was being painted the artist used a bunch of the wrong colours but then luckily the painting got wet and all the colours mixed to make brown so Spud was happy.
Munch bunch were very cool.