Boohbah

Boohbah is a British children's TV show. Its Wikipedia article has been vandalized a lot, with much of the interesting and stupidly bizarre vandalism occuring in March 2010. Much of this vandalism has been discussed on its talk page. One of this article's vandals may have been an obsessed Beatlemaniac.

20th century dictators
On 16 March 2009, an anonymous user changed the names of the Boohbah to Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, Frencisco Franco, Joseph Stalin, and Benito Mussolini.

JQ then posted on the talk page:

Adolf Hitler? Mao Zedong??? Is this for real, or is someone being a smartass? (I tried verifying at several official websites, but they're all as free of sanity and useful information as all of Anne Woods' creations.)

Gladys j cortez then reverted the vandalism, and then JQ posted "Haha, yes it was vandalism after all. But I had to ask..." on the talk page.

March 2010
On 3 March 2010 at 11:07 PM UTC, the user GhidGan83 replaced "Boohbah means 'doll' in Hebrew" with "Boohbah means "Au" in Hebrew" and added the following paragraph:

Aus is another name of Boohbahs. They are most likeley they're "cousins" and the leader of all the Aus is the great and wonderful one "Michael Au" Aus also have a planet that turns invisible and its called "Auis" And anytime it snows, that means when one Au, the "Peasent Au" works at building, when no other Au is looking, that Au breaks its leg, and the Cheif Au throws its things away to Earth. The Au's things are as we call "snow."

Four minutes later, the user added the characters


 * Michael Au
 * Big Boohbah
 * Lazy Au
 * Red XIII(From the Final Fantasy Series) (He acts as the Boohbah's guard dog.)

and the paragraph:

The fluffy "Aus" still exist today, but they never show up on TV, due to their absence, and their jobs take place at only one house, and their planet Auis. :D

This last edit was reverted two days later by Peter Greenwell. The next day, an anonymous user corrected the Hebrew definition back to doll, changed Michael Au's name to Cheif Au, named the planet "Strawberry Fields Forever", and added the following characters


 * Cheif Au - Michael Jackson
 * Pheasant Au - Lady Gaga
 * Pikachu

Three minutes later changing Pheasant Au's actress to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". All the "horsecrap" was rm'ed by Peter Greenwell on 7 March 2010 at 5:31 AM UTC.

On 17 March 2010 at 10:56 PM UTC, an anonymous user added the sentence "The characters look chunky in a fat sort a way. Ya know, like, OBESE!!!!". This was subsequently reverted by ClueBot.

Talk page
There has been so much vandalism related to this subject that the talk page was even vandalized multiple times.

On 16 October 2006, the user Jjschepis replaced a section with "!Boohbah is the stupidest bath show in the world!" and then blanked the other two sections on the page. The user RandomOrca2 replied, "And what would bath show even mean?" 23skidoo then added the "TelevisionWikiProject" to the page, because it was obviously missing at this point. After this, LeonWhite restored the page to the last good revision.

On 28 January 2008, an anonymous user replaced a paragraph with a paranoid screed, and after multiple edits by two separate IPs, the screed read:

I am a grown woman in my 30's. I must say, THIS SHOW SCARES ME! First they started out all cute and they were dancing, but then their voices turned evil and their faces were contorted and they looked DEVIOUS! DIEEEEE. They even sang this song " Mrs. Susie had a baby, the baby had a gun. The baby went to Amityville house and killed everyone!" and the purple one gives me the HEEBEEJEEBIES! Then they started killing people! But I don't mind really, I kill people too, so it's okay :) DEATH DEATH DEATH. you know...one time i killed this guy, and he started singing the boohbah theme song...weird huh. join the cult :D - JODI ! -p.s. AN ALIEN. hitler rules :D go hitler.< he's mahh hombrizzle!

Gladys j cortez reverted these edits and added the following disclaimer:

(NOTE: This section was edited 1/28/08 to remove one user's unnecessary nonsense. I understand that it is not generally considered good practice to refactor or remove other people's talk page comments, but the deleted section was not at all relevant to the discussion, either here or anywhere else on the page.)

On 9 January 2010, an anonymous user added "YOu may be wrong, but you may be right. -Billy Joel the fool on the hill sees the sun going down and the eyes in his head see the world spinning 'round -The Beatles" in an apparent response to a question asking for clarification about a really badly worded sentence in the article. Three minutes later, the same user added

But they do!

my home village in an ugly mood... the winter rain -Issa

apparently in response to a a user questioning whether it was appropriate to say the Boohbah have "acid trip like hallucinations". These random lyrics and poetry quotations were removed on 11 November 2012 by Clarinetguy097.