Nov 4, 2023 at 9:11 AM Update: an hour ago
The name Barbapapa is included in the dictionary fifty years after the first animated films were shown on television Van Dale. Barbapapa, his wife and their seven children are a kind of shapeless blobs that can take on any shape.
“The name Barbapapa is still widely used, often in a comparison of being supple or flexible,” says Ton den Boon, editor-in-chief of Van Dale, in the radio program Follow spot.
Serial Barbapapa consisted of short films in which the family solved problems by taking the form of an attribute that was needed at that moment: a ladder, a wheelbarrow or a musical instrument.
“I still see mentions of the word in the media,” says Den Boon. “For example, it is written that as a civil servant you have to be a Barbapapa to think along with the citizen all the time. Or death is like a Barbapapa: sometimes a thief in the night, other times very gentle.”
Diverse and progressive
According to the editor-in-chief of Van Dale “The series really captured the imagination. The constructive aspect appealed to many people, as did the diversity. The series was very progressive in its time.” For example, all members of the Barbapapa family had a different color.
Barbapapa dates from the 1970s and was created by the French-American couple Annette Tison and Talus Taylor. The series was broadcast in more than forty countries. These were five-minute episodes. In the Netherlands, the series was narrated by Wieteke van Dort, Leen Jongewaard, Edwin Rutten, Aart Staartjes and Marijke Merckens. Partly because these well-known actors joined the series Barbapapa very popular in the Netherlands.
More terms from the series are etched in the collective memory, such as: “Huup, Huup, Barbatruc!”, as one of the blobs changed. This fancy statement is not included separately Van Dale to stand.
2023-11-04 08:11:55
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