Well if it isn’t Friday and, moreover the 6th of April. But who really gives an ‘F’?
Well I do as a matter of fact, because ‘F’ is very much the letter I’m on in my quest to write about the beloved cartoons of my youth in this year’s A-Z blogging challenge.
‘F’ is for Ferocious Ness
The Family Ness was a cartoon all about a family of Loch Ness monsters. They all had names that made the most of the word ‘Ness’ by using is as a suffix to nominalise adjectives in order to create their names, although rather than creating an actual noun, the adjective was used as the character’s forename and ‘Ness’ became the surname. It was grammar lesson and a cartoon all in one.
Some examples of Nessie characters were:
Lovely Ness
Sporty Ness
Forgetful Ness
Clever Ness
Ferocious Ness was the main one and he appeared in the most episodes. He wasn’t particularly ferocious, although he was, perhaps, a little curmudgeonly at times.
James Proclaims! 
18 responses to “James’ Shamelessly Nostalgic A-Z Of Cartoon Characters That He Liked As A Child – Part 6: Ferocious Ness”
That theme song though! Will be singing it all day!
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I think the theme song is definitely my favourite bit of the show
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As if this fell off my memory radar! Nice reminder, thank you 🙂
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Glad you enjoyed. You don’t want to be like Forgetful Ness Do you?
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Too late, I think I achieved that label several years ago!
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Never ever heard of Ness cartoons. I’m either way to old or on the wrong continent. So enjoying your A to Z posts!
Gabrielle | gabaroo muses | https://gabaroo.org
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Let’s go with the wrong continent explanation – I don’t think they travelled that well.
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Never heard of him, but this post wins the day purely by using such a great word as curmudgeonly!
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It is a great word. Churlish is another great word.
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I’ve never heard of or seen this before. Unlike the real monster.
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Who hasn’t seen the real monster? I had tea with him the other week.
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One hump or two?
(It’s alright, I can hear everyone groaning, I’ll go now…)
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How do I not remember this cartoon? He’s as cute as can be!
Elsie
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Don’t let him hear you say that!
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How fun! I’ve never heard of this cartoon, but I’m in the United States, so maybe we didn’t have it here.
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Yes, I think this one flourished in the UK only 🙂
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Thank you, another one I watched with my eldest when he was a little boy so it’s nice having these memory triggers. I haven’t watched it, but when i can see the quality assurance of the BBC on the website returning to the quality I’d expect I might just splash out on my licence cos your posts are worth that even if I’m not watching telly, though news live is a good thing to have and radio news don’t quite cut it. Hope as a teacher my colloquialised informal commentary isn’t annoying to you.
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Not at all, keep them coming 🙂
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