Sun, Apr 10, 2005 .
MegaStar
Muffin the Mule, that popular vintage schoolboy gag and occasional prison sentence, is returning to our screens.
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What? What mule? What screens? Luckily, the Daily Mirror is on hand to fill us in.
Muffin the Mule was among the first-ever children's telly programmes on Beeb in the 40s and 50s, centering on the amusing exploits of a wooden donkey puppet.
Yes, amusing. Stick with us, we can tell you're glazing over already.
Obviously, on its telly return as a cartoon, the tired old wooden nag has been updated considerably for the three-second attention spans of the ASBO-PS2 generation.
The Mirror adds that Muffin's old muckers will be back in the new kids' series, including the dubious-sounding Willie The Worm, while a range of merchandising is in the pipeline.
"Have you been Muffin the Mule?" t-shirts will not be among the range, we'd wager.
