Does any one remember that back in the day, when there was a fault in the broadcast television would show a picture of a kiwi pulling out the plug? I'm asking that because TV2 just cut out just now. I wish they still did that. I wish I could find a copy of that online too!
@cupid1984 - The Kiwi first broadcast on TV2 in April 1975. It showed the Kiwi getting out of his director's chair, then pulling a switch to cut the power, then wave bye bye to the audience.
@BloodyBarlow - The version of the Kiwi you are seeing began broadcasting in 1980. The Kiwi dates back to 1975 when it showed the Kiwi leaving a director's chair, turns down the lights and waved to the audience in pajamas before going to bed. From 1976 until 1980, the Kiwi went into a TV camera.
Gosh Never noticed it before they even have the southern cross sparkling in the corner, This use to make me sad when I was younger my friend the TV was going to sleep :) it was a big thing when we only had two channels.
memories of being a kid again, was a real treat to see this back then cos we were never usually up that late. can't believe how many people have said it used to creep them out, i never got that about it, loved it. Anyone seen the escape rentals van with the tv kiwi murals on the side ? very cool
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I remember reading the books about Goodnight Kiwi when I was little but the only thing I didn't understand and still don't is why does a Kiwi have a pet cat?
LOL i was just playing this and my mom walked past and was all like OMG this brings back the good old days .i wasn't even born when this was on but i like the idea of it
I've watched this last night on "Celebrating 50 years of Television" and it bring back memories of me going to bed late every night because of this. I wish that they bring it back for good.
So many memories, great times, whats it going to be like in another 10/20 years or so.
Hey bondi0011 things are definitely to serious these days, someone is doing something stupid everyday to cause rules to change & be more strict & peoples lives are getting busier. live in the moment.
Its weird that this one the cat stays awake and on the other one on tv2 "posted by Wrappedinplastic" it goes to sleep. LOL i no thats weird but im bord and i thot i mite let u no
Its weird that this one the cat stays awake and on the other one on tv2 "posted by Wrappedinplastic" it goes to sleep. LOL i no thats weird but im bord and i thot i mite let u no
Its weird that this one the cat stays awake and on the other one on tv2 "posted by Wrappedinplastic" it goes to sleep. LOL i no thats weird but im bord and i thot i mite let u no
The world has become to serious man, what happened to watching Dave Dobyn at the mount soundshell for 20 bucks, fishing at 2 in the morning as a 10 year old, sleeping under the tables while the old man had a few drinks at the pub, the world should go back to the 70s and 80's BBQs knowing your neighbour, Go the Goodnight Kiwi
omg I remember this when I was only a kid. Those were the days..the generation these days have no idea just how lucky yet how unfortunate they are at the same time. If I had to do it all over again, I would, I truly miss these days, NZ was a lot much better back then, I don't know how to explain but it was so much better
hello, i remenber that you has a other video where, kiwi do a find, where i don´t know but the song was a song of Yan Tiersen, is a wonderfull song and i question me that you can say me the mane of that song i love you video.
This song used to make me want to cry when i was little, its such a SAD piece of music. I used to feel like the kiwi was going to lay down in bed to die or something, it used to make me feel so sad!
I rememba staying up with my older brotha & sistas to watch this .... then id quickly run off to bed before hearing the loud beeping sound that the tv makes when it's finished (when the screen has the stripes coming down in red, yellow, green & blue) .... good times!! ...
hahaha, awesome reading everyones posts and some hardcase ones too. I used to hate it when this came on because it meant tv was over for the day and it was time to go to bed.
O.M.G The Goodnight Kiwi haha.....I always wandered why they just suddenly stopped airing this??? I was chickenshit everytime I'd watch this on T.V. ....now I realize my goodness I was afraid of an animated kiwi & cat? LOL...It wasn't so much the goodnight kiwi...it was AFTER the g.k that scared the crap off me...you know the black screen with the neverending beep sound...THAT was scary...nevertheless I miss this so much, can't believe it['s been that long. Love my Kiwiana culture:)
Yeah the beeping sound was some freaky shit right? I mean they could have had some easy listening music like a beautiful symphony after the GoodnightKiwi but hell they had to end it with a scary fucking beep LOL. Maybe it was intentional you know like Ok kids the cute mushy kiwi is gone to sleep ...NOW FUCK OFF TO BED *BEEEEEEEEP* LMAO....Well looking back that's how I see it LOL.
I'm an Aussie who's been across the Tasman for a holiday and have only come across this here on youtube. What a cute and memorable way to close up tv for the day. I guess NZ now has 24 hour tv like we do on this side of the ditch, so such daily endings are not necessary now. Good memories for Kiwis, though.
Wow! The instant the music started I felt the urge to turn of my computer and head to bed! This tune is in my DNA and triggers so many memories... The house I grew up in, the ugly gold &black 70's style couch, the KBHS school uniform and, of course, the sound of me mums voice saying "Right, off to bed!"
havnt heard this for years, much thanks 4 the post, i sit here and watch it over and over remembering my grand parents that have passed on now. and the words BED
You know I just ADORE the beautiful Maori music:so SOOTHING and tranquil! It's one of the things I really grew to love on my holiday to New Zealand (from MANY years ago) and it makes this so much more special!
@elfirrepins i agree. better with old-fashioned looking t.v.'s and t.v. shows in hi-def, 90's wards, rather than all the hi-def, wreckage from 2010-esque cartoons and movies!
i used to always watch tv when i was little and this is the last thing i would watch every night. brings back long lost memories. thanx for posting this vid. excellent.
'Classic' Kiwiana this, Good old kiwi and his mate the cat, yes one of the best ways to sign off for the night when TVNZ finished up at night, then off to bed you went till sunrise to another day, now 24/7 365 days of the year. thanks for postiing this.
brings back memories of simpler times, staying up late watching twilight zone with Dad (R.I.P)who had fallin asleep, snorring away on the best chair in the lounge, and me and my brothers and sisters arguing over whos to turn off the telly cause we were all to scared too after watching Twilight zone lol
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soy latinoamericano y vivo en España, me gusta mucho Nueva Zelanda, es un pais hermoso, cudenlo y amen sus cosas, que bonito es este comercial, muy nostalgico...muchos besos y abrazos...ed.....
I left in 86 when I was 9... I was talking to friends today about how TV in NZ used to close down at night and when I moved to Australia there was no Goodnight Kiwi!
we have already lost ours, Australia has lost theres too, they just like we was all about good night kiwi, they was about skippy the kangaroo and blinky bill.. but this shitty new age we live in we all mix of other countrys now.. :(
I've lived in Australia for nearly 25 years, and hold dual citizenship. In fact, I've generally come to see NZ as nearly the 7th state of Australia. But one evening at an internet cafe in town, I stumble upon the iconic Goodnight Kiwi clip. Instant nostalgia attack.
So many of you have responded to this video with goosebumps (as I did!), tears and memories of being freaked out as a kid (a combination of age and time of night). It makes me feel like a Kiwi at heart, after all!
I live in London now and today due the credit crunch there is talk of shutting some TV down at midnight. I was telling my children about Goodnight Kiwi and so I thought I must search for it. I left in 83 so its cool to see it again.
So when he goes up the elevator its actually come down a second time, being the fact the cat used it the first time. Sorry just muttering away to myself as I remember wondering how the cat got up there, lolz the things you remember when reminising.
i love watching this! i was one when it stoped showing, makes me want to chuck the 24 hour tv and bring him back! maybe that can happen for one night only as a remembrance or something...
Thanks for posting this. Brings back memories. I never was allowed to stay up 'late' enough to watch it (must have been all of 11 pm when TV shut down in the 70s and 80s?) but remember how they would sometimes play it 'specially for the kids' at around 8 or something on that request show? Makes you proud to be a Kiwi. Since we're such a small country, most people have shared memories if they grew up round the same time. The music is Hine E Hine, a Maori lullaby. NZ was the best place to grow up.
I just about cried watching this. Brings back great memories of my childhood growing up in New Zealand. When days were spent climbing trees, playing bullrush with the neighbourhood kids and on Saturday mornings watch cartoons, Yahoo and the Pepsi Chart Countdown. Glass bottles of milk in crates were delivered to your door on Monday mornings, a walkman was the must have electronic, Polar Pops were 20c and a $10 fish n chips special could feed a family of 15 lol Ah, how times have changed.
Damn that bought back some memories lol! I use to hate it when it came on ovbiously cause it was time to go to bed.. and I didnt want to!.. and the song gave me the creeps! weird.
That is so cool. Takes me right back to when I was a kid. I was just talking to a friend about the TVNZ kiwi a wee while ago. Good to be able to see it. Weitd to think we didn't have all night TV once.
This is part of my nightly routine now. Watch Neighbours and Shortland Street or Outrageous Fortune, and then The Goodnight Kiwi before it's off to bed for me.
but there are two variations...at the end the cat sat up on the blanket on TVOne...but the TV2 variant...the cat is curled up on the blanket. Anyone got that one?
omg i soo remember this!! we always use to watch tv till this lil closing animation of the kiwi n his cat, and then it was kind of scary when the colorful stripes came up and tv made that annoying high pitched beep noise, memories..
Too cute. Gosh I remember seeing this when I was young and babysitting as a teenager and had to stay up late until the kids' parents came home in the wee small hours. Was awful when this cute ad finished and there was nothing else on to watch except the test pattern! Those were the days...
Now why couldn't any stations Canada have such a clever shut down animation? The best we got was a "Thanks for watching CFPL, good night!" followed by a test pattern.
0:08 nite nite my son, I Got U NZ xxx
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amy6194 2 months ago
Seeing things as this one makes me think that We all are, nowadays, using technology instead of creativity. How cute, how creative this is.
lastfortress 3 months ago
My bfs grandfather drew good night kiwi and the chesdale cheese characters. He's a lovely man, Sam Harvey is his name.
Okhana01 5 months ago
Does any one remember that back in the day, when there was a fault in the broadcast television would show a picture of a kiwi pulling out the plug? I'm asking that because TV2 just cut out just now. I wish they still did that. I wish I could find a copy of that online too!
andrewglover6 6 months ago
The song is a lullaby called Hine e Hine
zephyrv6 6 months ago
@cupid1984 - The Kiwi first broadcast on TV2 in April 1975. It showed the Kiwi getting out of his director's chair, then pulling a switch to cut the power, then wave bye bye to the audience.
20thCenturyPictures 6 months ago
@BloodyBarlow - The version of the Kiwi you are seeing began broadcasting in 1980. The Kiwi dates back to 1975 when it showed the Kiwi leaving a director's chair, turns down the lights and waved to the audience in pajamas before going to bed. From 1976 until 1980, the Kiwi went into a TV camera.
20thCenturyPictures 6 months ago
He just fliped that cat a few times!! Lol this cute:3
xCarlaguzix 7 months ago
BRING BACK THE GOODNIGHT KIWI :D i would love to see it again on tv
georgiaherdman2009 7 months ago
Gosh Never noticed it before they even have the southern cross sparkling in the corner, This use to make me sad when I was younger my friend the TV was going to sleep :) it was a big thing when we only had two channels.
taumarunui05 9 months ago
well damn that brings back memory's awesome! :D
GHRxMajorNoobx 9 months ago
God,don't ever let the Aussies get hold of this if we lose the Bledisloe cup.
starcladsol 10 months ago
Ohmigosh that's adorable.
Why don't American stations have anything that awesome?
Cheyenne17124 10 months ago
@Cheyenne17124 We don't have it anymore either. It stopped being broadcast in the '90s
Sailorsega 1 month ago
ITS SO CUTE!!!
Bwolber 10 months ago
memories of being a kid again, was a real treat to see this back then cos we were never usually up that late. can't believe how many people have said it used to creep them out, i never got that about it, loved it. Anyone seen the escape rentals van with the tv kiwi murals on the side ? very cool
000secretsquirrel 10 months ago
goodnight kiwi..miss u much!!
loustube60 10 months ago
Time is running out for the Goodnight Kiwi. He is going to be once again jobless. In March 2011, TVNZ 6 is going to be replaced by U.
utubeguy35 11 months ago
ohh the homesickness:--(haven't seen that in years thx tv nz
wellopointultras 11 months ago
Does kiwi even care bout the cat, he almost left him in the dark room. Lol
smartygirlygirlmel 11 months ago
Thumbs up if this use to creep you out before you went to bed
fuckenmike 1 year ago
Is the Goodnight Kiwi related to Piwi The Kiwi? Are they brothers? To find out, watch WORLD WONDER FROM DOWN UNDER – Video. Available on YouTube.
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DeaniusDaGenius 11 months ago
I remember reading the books about Goodnight Kiwi when I was little but the only thing I didn't understand and still don't is why does a Kiwi have a pet cat?
courtneyvictoria029 1 year ago
The letter the KIWI stuck in the bottle read "Old Man is out.... Come bang me in Sattelite Dish"
MADEINAUSTRALIA76 1 year ago
@MADEINAUSTRALIA76.....WTF......you are insane....in the membrane!!!
proud2bakiwi 1 year ago
Don,t worry about the door hinges being on both sides of the door or the cat beating him up to the top us KIWIS are fill of surprises
exkiwi 1 year ago
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maxheadway 1 year ago
@sygo7g dont get me wrong I think its quaint, we all hark back to days gone by and this is a New Zealand classic
SuperPhil1960 1 year ago
i used to stay up and watch this when i was kid. A simpler time i miss it.
Xenooo2k 1 year ago
I thoght Kiwis were nocturnal??????????
SuperPhil1960 1 year ago
LOL i was just playing this and my mom walked past and was all like OMG this brings back the good old days .i wasn't even born when this was on but i like the idea of it
IslandLifePete 1 year ago
The tune still gives me goosebumps. It don't help either when you go to a tangi and one of the hymns you'll hear a waiata sung in the exact tune
Benna4650 1 year ago
It's not a kiwi! Kiwi has no wings!
SofyaMiss 1 year ago
omg this reminds me of my nan & koros house, i was allowd to stay up until there was nothing left on tv lol
peatadaly 1 year ago
Why oh why did they ever take this away, *sniff sniff our mokos will never grow up with such fond memories of Television NZ lol.
novarone72 1 year ago
thanx youtube 4 bringing this clip back, brings back good memoryz az a kid just staying up 2 watch goodnite kiwi on t.v.
TheZgirl10 1 year ago
this thing makes me want to cry, love it
Keep3rz 1 year ago
brings back memories....much enjoyed...thanks Gary :--)
ivebeenthere1 1 year ago
I've watched this last night on "Celebrating 50 years of Television" and it bring back memories of me going to bed late every night because of this. I wish that they bring it back for good.
hermionefan12 1 year ago
awesome memories , how things have changed.
brettdeath 1 year ago
So many memories, great times, whats it going to be like in another 10/20 years or so.
Hey bondi0011 things are definitely to serious these days, someone is doing something stupid everyday to cause rules to change & be more strict & peoples lives are getting busier. live in the moment.
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Its weird that this one the cat stays awake and on the other one on tv2 "posted by Wrappedinplastic" it goes to sleep. LOL i no thats weird but im bord and i thot i mite let u no
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Its weird that this one the cat stays awake and on the other one on tv2 "posted by Wrappedinplastic" it goes to sleep. LOL i no thats weird but im bord and i thot i mite let u no
georgiaherdman2009 1 year ago
Its weird that this one the cat stays awake and on the other one on tv2 "posted by Wrappedinplastic" it goes to sleep. LOL i no thats weird but im bord and i thot i mite let u no
georgiaherdman2009 1 year ago
The world has become to serious man, what happened to watching Dave Dobyn at the mount soundshell for 20 bucks, fishing at 2 in the morning as a 10 year old, sleeping under the tables while the old man had a few drinks at the pub, the world should go back to the 70s and 80's BBQs knowing your neighbour, Go the Goodnight Kiwi
bondi0011 1 year ago
omg I remember this when I was only a kid. Those were the days..the generation these days have no idea just how lucky yet how unfortunate they are at the same time. If I had to do it all over again, I would, I truly miss these days, NZ was a lot much better back then, I don't know how to explain but it was so much better
Prolife29 1 year ago
nice man weres it all cone?
ufoaroundhere01 1 year ago
night all
hawksterau 1 year ago
so why not bring it back again as all the good ole times are all gone now
ranchybabe 1 year ago
i use to be scared of this theme song and cartoon wen it came at night.lol..
Lavulo187 1 year ago
lol its still on tvnz 6 at midnight!!
konnysays 1 year ago
hello, i remenber that you has a other video where, kiwi do a find, where i don´t know but the song was a song of Yan Tiersen, is a wonderfull song and i question me that you can say me the mane of that song i love you video.
angelsantime 1 year ago
loved this piece
ThePULIGI 1 year ago
This song used to make me want to cry when i was little, its such a SAD piece of music. I used to feel like the kiwi was going to lay down in bed to die or something, it used to make me feel so sad!
lizdylanboykie 1 year ago 7
@lizdylanboykie i thought that tv ended forever
TheMattyd23 1 month ago in playlist Kiwi Tunes
Used to watch this all the time. Didn't like it at the time as it meant it was Bedtime. Brings back loads of memories though. Lots of fond ones.
aX3kiLL3r 1 year ago
i used 2 watch it wif mi sis when i was little.
cameron12111 1 year ago
omg!!! this sooo brings back memories!!!
repzneffex 1 year ago
its awsome
cameron12111 1 year ago
but i used to hate it cos it meant bedtime for me lol
shrekthesheep 1 year ago
I love this .. I used to watch it all the time as a kid before I went to bed! It was like my goodnight story. :P Shame that they stopped it though.
Sukua22 2 years ago
i remeber this used to scare the shit outa me wen i was 5
Paengakahurangi 2 years ago
The music for the goodnight kiwi is 'Hine e Hine written by my aunt Princess Ti Rangi Pai. She would have been so proud.
phow5on 2 years ago 2
i used to love this. dont remember the tv switching off though.
just watching this, does the cat remind you of "dog" from footrot flats movie? the movements seem really similar.
sunhuntin 2 years ago
TVNZ6 plays this at the end of their broadcast day. I remember staying up just to see this, as I'm sure many of us did.
sylvainiac 2 years ago
I assume that's a 2-way switch, otherwise it's illegally wired.
maxheadway 2 years ago
Aw i was born in this year dam i missed it!
Drummaboi2000 2 years ago
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Me too budd=(.
But My oldman alway's sanq it to me before he went to work at like 3am.
he'a was/still is a truckie=)=)
Jizzem66 2 years ago
How did the cat make it up the stairs?
Thane5 2 years ago
does anyone know if the cartoonists name is frank harvey and is he still alive
1kellymorris 2 years ago
im tired now..... -_-*..ZZzzz...
sooty3000 2 years ago
I rememba staying up with my older brotha & sistas to watch this .... then id quickly run off to bed before hearing the loud beeping sound that the tv makes when it's finished (when the screen has the stripes coming down in red, yellow, green & blue) .... good times!! ...
310703 2 years ago 2
My teacher last year told us how when she was at her Nana's house, she'd stay up late to watch it. Apperantly it was cool to.
NatWolffFan11 2 years ago
aw this is cute
scrap222 2 years ago 3
hahaha, awesome reading everyones posts and some hardcase ones too. I used to hate it when this came on because it meant tv was over for the day and it was time to go to bed.
iLAZYt 2 years ago
member no2 yr a minga.
glenspainting123 2 years ago
What you don't see is that both the kiwi and the cat are microwaved to death when transmission begins the following day.
MemberNo2 2 years ago
im Aussie and i think this is very cute it really shows new zealand to the world!
MrJehovanoob 2 years ago
O.M.G The Goodnight Kiwi haha.....I always wandered why they just suddenly stopped airing this??? I was chickenshit everytime I'd watch this on T.V. ....now I realize my goodness I was afraid of an animated kiwi & cat? LOL...It wasn't so much the goodnight kiwi...it was AFTER the g.k that scared the crap off me...you know the black screen with the neverending beep sound...THAT was scary...nevertheless I miss this so much, can't believe it['s been that long. Love my Kiwiana culture:)
AdamLambertdominates 2 years ago
omg i just posted my comment & noticed u had something similar about the beeping sound hahaha ... id run to my room!! hahaha
310703 2 years ago
Yeah the beeping sound was some freaky shit right? I mean they could have had some easy listening music like a beautiful symphony after the GoodnightKiwi but hell they had to end it with a scary fucking beep LOL. Maybe it was intentional you know like Ok kids the cute mushy kiwi is gone to sleep ...NOW FUCK OFF TO BED *BEEEEEEEEP* LMAO....Well looking back that's how I see it LOL.
AdamLambertdominates 2 years ago 7
i love it, but its so ironic that the kiwi and the cat are friends...
0beanie0girl0 2 years ago 2
I miss these cartoon's. :)
Good ol' Good Night Kiwi. :D
Fabbulusify 2 years ago
Oh yes, It's on my Maori records and the Kiri Te Kanawa cd I bought home to OZ from NZ.
dynasue77 2 years ago
Hine Hine - maori lullaby
BanquetNZ 2 years ago
I'm an Aussie who's been across the Tasman for a holiday and have only come across this here on youtube. What a cute and memorable way to close up tv for the day. I guess NZ now has 24 hour tv like we do on this side of the ditch, so such daily endings are not necessary now. Good memories for Kiwis, though.
dynasue77 2 years ago
awesome goodfeelings from this, tear from my eye with that sound...........thanks for the gd memorie, Kauwhaka you are right this is within our dna
ngakaunui 2 years ago
Wow! The instant the music started I felt the urge to turn of my computer and head to bed! This tune is in my DNA and triggers so many memories... The house I grew up in, the ugly gold &black 70's style couch, the KBHS school uniform and, of course, the sound of me mums voice saying "Right, off to bed!"
Kauwhaka 2 years ago 3
Chur goodnite Kiwi & the cat still legends
MrJefdamaori 2 years ago 2
yeah i used to hate when there was no more telly then we had to listen to all these stories from mum and her friend about stuff from the old days.
Deetepou 2 years ago
I so wish my babies had grown up with this too ;0)
uretitibeach 2 years ago 3
havnt heard this for years, much thanks 4 the post, i sit here and watch it over and over remembering my grand parents that have passed on now. and the words BED
meuligirl 2 years ago
pretty cute:D
angelcloebratz 2 years ago
Twas a fav of mine,bloody fast-cats,lol
smoothcoops 2 years ago
man i rmemba this old skool!
there waz another 1 though an i used 2 hate it because i had 2 go bed hahaha!
ruggedsoldier7 2 years ago
I used to love this video - really brings back the memories - iconic ad!
KatalystProductions 2 years ago
I use to be scared of this y???
T4RB4BY 2 years ago
You know I just ADORE the beautiful Maori music:so SOOTHING and tranquil! It's one of the things I really grew to love on my holiday to New Zealand (from MANY years ago) and it makes this so much more special!
Babyhowdy233 2 years ago
How cute! I like this!!! :-)
DC4916 2 years ago 2
I loved this when I was it kid, and it's just as nice to see and hear now. Thanks!
cirpac 2 years ago 2
Damn that brings back the memories, used to stay up and watch that in the weekends when I was like 4 years old.
Classic
sharkmad7 2 years ago 2
Why couldn't things have stayed the same as they were back then.
Curse you technology!
elfirrepins 2 years ago 22
@elfirrepins i agree. better with old-fashioned looking t.v.'s and t.v. shows in hi-def, 90's wards, rather than all the hi-def, wreckage from 2010-esque cartoons and movies!
jianfongyaw 1 year ago
I don't know why, but this ad used to scare the sh... out of me when I was little. Now, watching it as an adult... aahh..it's not that scary :-)
HayleyAugust 2 years ago
Correct me if im wrong, but i know i'm not !.
There were 2 different versions, one where the cat lay down at the end and one where the cat sat up.
Can't remember which channel had which at one stage, think the cat lay down on channel 2.
What was this a symbol of horizontal polarization vs vertical polarization ?.
TJNthevisitor 2 years ago
How times have changed.
ofta11 2 years ago
i used to always watch tv when i was little and this is the last thing i would watch every night. brings back long lost memories. thanx for posting this vid. excellent.
thadkayne 2 years ago
well of course it was the last thing you watched every night because it was the last bloody thing on!
2pintsplease 2 years ago
'Classic' Kiwiana this, Good old kiwi and his mate the cat, yes one of the best ways to sign off for the night when TVNZ finished up at night, then off to bed you went till sunrise to another day, now 24/7 365 days of the year. thanks for postiing this.
kaiata1 2 years ago
yep that was old school it brings back my childhood days with the good night kiwi!
Adspac 2 years ago
hahaha
brings back memories of simpler times, staying up late watching twilight zone with Dad (R.I.P)who had fallin asleep, snorring away on the best chair in the lounge, and me and my brothers and sisters arguing over whos to turn off the telly cause we were all to scared too after watching Twilight zone lol
well, with this music who can blame us!
AHH the memories!
BananaBoloz 2 years ago
yeah kind of takes me to the old days but watching these things triggers memories good and bad bt mainly good
sonpat11 2 years ago
OH MY GOODNESS! I remember this from when I was a kid!
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AWSOMEBULGARIANKID 2 years ago
this made me sad.. strangely..? Why'd they get rid of it..?
sniickerrz 2 years ago
THINK, TV END UP GOING 24 HOURS A DAY,
Kyriakoscash 2 years ago
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tomweelin801 2 years ago
Go the KIWI'S
Gotta love the old stuff
KorNBikeR78 2 years ago
I left in 86 when I was 9... I was talking to friends today about how TV in NZ used to close down at night and when I moved to Australia there was no Goodnight Kiwi!
chakkowns 3 years ago 4
get bak hea boi NZ the place u shud be we being overun by so many other cultures we are losing ours
Tupitopi 2 years ago 5
we have already lost ours, Australia has lost theres too, they just like we was all about good night kiwi, they was about skippy the kangaroo and blinky bill.. but this shitty new age we live in we all mix of other countrys now.. :(
KraZynessKinGZ 2 years ago
Australia should've had a Goodnight Koala, and Canada, I wish we had a Goodnight Beaver. That would've been cool beans.
LondonGuysVids 2 years ago
I had a goodnight beaver last night...
stevesvenja 2 years ago 5
lmaooo... That made me laugh. +1 for you good sir.
LondonGuysVids 2 years ago
I've lived in Australia for nearly 25 years, and hold dual citizenship. In fact, I've generally come to see NZ as nearly the 7th state of Australia. But one evening at an internet cafe in town, I stumble upon the iconic Goodnight Kiwi clip. Instant nostalgia attack.
So many of you have responded to this video with goosebumps (as I did!), tears and memories of being freaked out as a kid (a combination of age and time of night). It makes me feel like a Kiwi at heart, after all!
brentjohnpalmer 3 years ago 4
I live in London now and today due the credit crunch there is talk of shutting some TV down at midnight. I was telling my children about Goodnight Kiwi and so I thought I must search for it. I left in 83 so its cool to see it again.
cherryfarm22 3 years ago 2
brings me back to the 80's when I lived in NZ as a kid. MEMORIES :) hahaha It used to scare me but I couldn't stop watching it for some reason.
allikohcysp 3 years ago 3
same here - goodnight kiwi freaked me out too lol. good to see the clip again brings back so many memories as a young kid.
johnmasina 3 years ago
Is the music in the background the theme from this?
Because it then makes sense why this is the music played when Aurora died on Outrageous Fortune, lol. Was wondering about that.
Workingfilms 3 years ago
It's called Hine O Hine
ILikeNZ 3 years ago
Awsum gud to c sum old school kiwi stuff even tho it was straight to bed wen it finished lol
raya26 3 years ago
That was the bit that freaked me out - I love TV and I hated it to end
mickeedee68 2 years ago
So when he goes up the elevator its actually come down a second time, being the fact the cat used it the first time. Sorry just muttering away to myself as I remember wondering how the cat got up there, lolz the things you remember when reminising.
mooks74 3 years ago 3
Wow, I always wondered how the cat got up there.
chakkowns 3 years ago 3
holy moses, were did this come from, havnt seen this since i was a young fulla
spruland 3 years ago
ahhh the memories..so good. though goodnight kiwi did use to freak me out a bit!
monirasos 3 years ago
I could understand if it was the EML version...
brentjohnpalmer 3 years ago
They better bring him back on or Ill be pissed at TVNZ.
keelanhemara 3 years ago
they did a few days ago
oevacoopa 3 years ago
it airs on tvnz 6 at midnight
supertrinko 3 years ago
lol after 6 years of having to go to bed when goodnight kiwi came on, i only just relised kiwi's are nocternal. thought it was kinda ironic
schnandet 3 years ago 3
The tune is to 'Hine e Hine' a Maori lulaby song!
sassyangelkiwi 3 years ago
TVNZ are bringing the Kiwi and Cat back for the summer period in 3 all-new animated shorts and will be done in 2-D.
The music will be retained and the first clip airs tomorrow night (Dec 1).
MTVCNZ 3 years ago
i love watching this! i was one when it stoped showing, makes me want to chuck the 24 hour tv and bring him back! maybe that can happen for one night only as a remembrance or something...
CaptainRaison 3 years ago
yeah man thanks for posting this hey blast from the past big time
honeheke4173 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this. Brings back memories. I never was allowed to stay up 'late' enough to watch it (must have been all of 11 pm when TV shut down in the 70s and 80s?) but remember how they would sometimes play it 'specially for the kids' at around 8 or something on that request show? Makes you proud to be a Kiwi. Since we're such a small country, most people have shared memories if they grew up round the same time. The music is Hine E Hine, a Maori lullaby. NZ was the best place to grow up.
picoharmotimpo 3 years ago
The request show 'I Like That One 2', right?
brentjohnpalmer 3 years ago
I just about cried watching this. Brings back great memories of my childhood growing up in New Zealand. When days were spent climbing trees, playing bullrush with the neighbourhood kids and on Saturday mornings watch cartoons, Yahoo and the Pepsi Chart Countdown. Glass bottles of milk in crates were delivered to your door on Monday mornings, a walkman was the must have electronic, Polar Pops were 20c and a $10 fish n chips special could feed a family of 15 lol Ah, how times have changed.
kakaurpantz13 3 years ago 7
I used to dread when this came on because it was always followed with "right, time you went to bed"
Mitsimad 3 years ago
OMG!! I thought I was the only one that used to get freaked out by the Good Night Kiwi! How funny! Lol.
JFTS23 3 years ago
Don't ask me why, but the good night kiwi use to give me nightmares as a kid lol
Pvt213 3 years ago
If you saw the EML parody, that would be understandable
brentjohnpalmer 3 years ago
Damn that bought back some memories lol! I use to hate it when it came on ovbiously cause it was time to go to bed.. and I didnt want to!.. and the song gave me the creeps! weird.
Spankztah 3 years ago
That is so cool. Takes me right back to when I was a kid. I was just talking to a friend about the TVNZ kiwi a wee while ago. Good to be able to see it. Weitd to think we didn't have all night TV once.
Thanks
Brooklight 3 years ago 3
We used to have this up here in Darwin many years ago, I think it was associated with 'Territory Television,' maybe the old channel 8.
These days most of our stations never close, so no need for a 'goodnight'. How times change.
pittycross 3 years ago
The music makes this fantastic. I remember the cat curling up though?
Bufster 3 years ago
That brings back some good memories
Sn0wman1982 3 years ago
It was so nice to see that again. Gosh it only seems like yesterday when it was on air. Thank you for sharing :-)
shellsybelle 3 years ago
ohhhh man, memories... good times..
trickey1981 3 years ago
yay reminds me of when i was little n used to jump up out of me bed and watch it then go back to sleep!!!
tamwich69 3 years ago
a true kiwi......he likes his pussy on top too!!
lefalesamoa 3 years ago 3
im going to bed now...
zigibogido 3 years ago 5
This is part of my nightly routine now. Watch Neighbours and Shortland Street or Outrageous Fortune, and then The Goodnight Kiwi before it's off to bed for me.
LondonGuysVids 3 years ago 2
I grew up in NZ and remember watching this.............it brings back so many memories
Aussiephil99 3 years ago 2
ha ha me too
groundnpounder 3 years ago
I'm sleepy now after watching that.
wtfthatguyagain 3 years ago
he is wearing this typical dirty vest what camera guys, photographers, movie directors and some artists wear! :))))
kylexy01988 3 years ago 2
lol
fitzyking1 3 years ago
Just loved it .nothin like that now
peteandpare 3 years ago
remember this as well...cute!
but there are two variations...at the end the cat sat up on the blanket on TVOne...but the TV2 variant...the cat is curled up on the blanket. Anyone got that one?
scankiwi 3 years ago 3
Are you referring to the South Pacific Television (now TV2) version from the mid-late 70's?
MTVCNZ 3 years ago
omg i soo remember this!! we always use to watch tv till this lil closing animation of the kiwi n his cat, and then it was kind of scary when the colorful stripes came up and tv made that annoying high pitched beep noise, memories..
liahpena 3 years ago
Too cute. Gosh I remember seeing this when I was young and babysitting as a teenager and had to stay up late until the kids' parents came home in the wee small hours. Was awful when this cute ad finished and there was nothing else on to watch except the test pattern! Those were the days...
susilang 3 years ago 3
there was also a 'goodnight kids' as well some were scared of that one, however this one is very nice lol
popoleaikoe01 3 years ago
Now why couldn't any stations Canada have such a clever shut down animation? The best we got was a "Thanks for watching CFPL, good night!" followed by a test pattern.
LondonGuysVids 3 years ago