Where are they?

[Tom]

Is it me, or have all of the characters mysteriously disappeared from the background?

They are still there on the blue heat and orange beer options.

[Mince]

You have just been awarded with the Eagle-Eye badge. Well done.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I thought they'd gone to watch the cricket with Roger.

[Mince]

I thought they'd gone to watch the cricket with Roger.

As for you, your skills of perception are falling apart.

[Roger Kettle]

It wouldn't surprise me. Tarks, going to a Test Match these days is a bizarre experience. I don't know when, or why, it all started but fancy dress is more common among the spectators than...er...unfancy dress. At one stage, I was in a queue for the toilet where I was standing behind Superman, a kangaroo and three nuns.

[Mince]

It wouldn't surprise me.

I am glad you agree with me.

Tarks, we both think you're as blind as a bar.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

You mean cat.

[Mince]

You mean cat.

[The Peepmaster]

You mean cat.

Brilliant, Tarquin! Only a totally demented mollusc who's just won "Thickest Whelk of the Century" award three years running could fail to appreciate that post. 

[Fyodor]

It wouldn't surprise me. Tarks, going to a Test Match these days is a bizarre experience. I don't know when, or why, it all started but fancy dress is more common among the spectators than...er...unfancy dress. At one stage, I was in a queue for the toilet where I was standing behind Superman, a kangaroo and three nuns.

So you didn't recognise Sister Mince and her two chums then?

[Diamond Lil]

It wouldn't surprise me. Tarks, going to a Test Match these days is a bizarre experience. I don't know when, or why, it all started but fancy dress is more common among the spectators than...er...unfancy dress. At one stage, I was in a queue for the toilet where I was standing behind Superman, a kangaroo and three nuns.

So you didn't recognise Sister Mince and her two chums then?