Roobarb Roobarb Roobarb (commonly known as "Roobarb and Custard") is a British animated children's television programme, created by Grange Calveley originally shown on BBC1 just before the evening news. Each cartoon, written by Calveley and directed by Bob Godfrey, was about five minutes long. Thirty episodes were made, and the show was first shown on 21 October 1974. The theme is that of the friendly rivalry between Roobarb, a green dog with an overactive imagination, and Custard, the mischievous laconic pink cat from next door. The narration of the series was provided by the actor Richard Briers. On 17 February 2013,
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel ""'t Liep uit op katjesspel"", the literal translation of which is "it ends in the game of the cat", which relate to mischievous or arguing children. Leyster's husband, Jan Miense Molenaer, included such an image in his group portrait ""The Ruychaver-van der Laen Family"" (c. 1629–30) in which a boy holding a clawing cat by the tail torments a girl by dangling it near her; she shies away tending to her scratched hand. These roles are reversed in Leyster's painting where it is the girl pulling the cat's tail, tragedy has not yet struck, and the girl's eye contact and