NO. These little break bumpers have been creeping me out for some time, and it's just getting worse.
At first it was sweet - the meerkat characters wandering round Coronation Street, poking their heads in the Kabin, reading the menu at the Bistro. Then I began to wonder: where were all the people? Where were all the residents?
The truth is obvious.
These supposedly "humorous" vignettes are actually set in a post-apocalyptic Weatherfield. This is Manchester after all the humans have been consumed by ravenous Meerkats hell-bent on global domination.
The only explanation for how this occurred is that Gail is somehow... indisposed. What horrible fate have the residents been condemned to?
Oh, the horror.
Each of these supposedly "sweet" films actually show our new Meerkat overlords larking about in the homes and businesses of their slaughtered victims. It's a bit like Planet of the Apes, but replacing Charlton Heston with Norris Cole.
In short, these videos are an insight into a hell that none of us want to see; a future where Coronation Street is a wasteland populated by sadistic, violent beasts. ITV's persistence in showing them in the middle of wholesome family entertainment is sick, sick, sick, and I for one will be fast forwarding through them as quickly as possible until sanity is restored. It almost makes me hanker for the return of those two sofa women and their weird sub-dom relationship with that man ("Fetch us food, while we luxuriate on this three seater!").
Shudder.
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