All that was good in the world died that day. https://twitter.com/pylonfan/status/1327713017237266435

But seriously, it's impossible.

What's weird about Mr Blobby is that he was meant to be a joke. He was part of the Gotcha! segment on Noel's House Party and he was - like a proto-Ali G - something *obviously* fake that unwitting celebrities would take seriously out of ignorance.

The pranked celebrities were told he was a children's TV character and they'd get increasingly frustrated at the ludicrous limitations of the alleged format as Blobby fucked up every take with his blundering.

How can you do a show where the apparent host can only say his own name, has the dexterity of a drunken hippopotamus and stares at you with a fixed, deeply unsettling grin throughout? And that, as a concept, is funny.

But then we took Blobby into our hearts and he broke free from his original context. We had to take this monstrosity seriously as a pop culture figure.

We still think Mr Blobby is funny (we wouldn't have spent way too much time statting him as a D&D demon lord otherwise) but only as a self-aware cultural artefact. At the height of his popularity, he was simply baffling.

Are you supposed to *like* him? To think he's funny in and of himself? Is it all just ironic? No one knew. No one cared. Blobby was...inevitable.

We don't know for sure, but we think his design is intentionally grotesque and unnerving, because that was part of the original prank concept. That celebrities would be duped into taking seriously something that was so clearly awful.

But then we ended up taking it seriously, in a sense! There was merchandise and stuff with this foul golem's face plastered on it. There was a theme park! A no. 1 song!

Anyway, this all informs the D&D backstory we invented for Mr Blobby, demon lord of the Abyss. A neutral court jester figure for speaking truth to power that became a national obsession and dragged us all into a nightmare dimension of his own making.

We're all still just prisoners of Mr Blobby's madness.