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BBC3 2003-2008

BBC Choice morphed into BBC3 on 9th February 2003. The idents featured a big blue 3D 'THREE', surrounded by a family of 'blobs', created by Aardman Animations. The audio for each ident came from the BBC's massive sound archive, taken out of context to provide the blobs' voices.

The channel logo in the bottom right corner of the screen was changed from white to blue in 2005.

"Good lord, it's enormous!"/"It is huge, isn't it?"/"Oh isn't it beautiful!" "I didn't like it; I broke out in boils" "Uh, we, so um, er, r-r-rather than, ur, er, it's a bit er, haha, we've we've, um..." (image 1) "As you gets older, or nearer middle age, is that you get a kind of hankering for it to come back again" "What a body...but more than a body, what a mind...you see I'm into minds" The blob yodels The blob bubbles underwater "And, er, of course we compared notes, we'd both seen the same thing, except that his men were sort of greenish-metallic because he had his sunglasses on" (image 1) "I've got a mohican, which means it's shaved at the sides and there's a line of hair down the middle which is about five inches high" The blob opera-sings - sounds an extremely old recording! "It makes you feel good don't it, a man treating yer" "Can I just tell you I'm wearing glasses at the moment. With this pair of glasses I can do terrible damage to you." "...oh what's a nice woman like you doing up there on your own" Blobs sing: "Three is the magic number, yes it is, it's the magic number" "Well you can't, well, varies, it varies... I mean it might be...three times a week, might be four, it might be one, might be none" "And stretch your toes, and point, close. Rosie, what are you doing?" "And you feel so embarrassed, you feel like the ground should just open up and swallow you" (image 1) "Oh yes, yes" "She said, don't come back so late this evening" "May I ask what you think you're doing?"/"I should've thought it was obvious" "I love going to pubs with girls, it's great" "Right, it's the weekend, I wanna go mad, I wanna feel different, I wanna enjoy myself" "What are you doing in the centre of Manchester?"/"I'm waiting for my boyfriend to come"/"Boyfriend?"/"Yes, I'm a homosexual" "Er, well no, I really can't say that I have because, er...I mean no I h-h-have...well I really haven't, no" "Microelectroics...sorry...microelectronics...microelectronics...an electronic...ics..." "Well if you want to learn how to do this, chances are high that there'll be a group near you!" "Pull it away from his backside and out" "I've had a lot of compliments in my time, Dom, because I can open my mouth very wide...and draw it in quite tight" "That one...that one...that one...that one...that...one..." "As you stand on the edge and let go, everything in your body tells you that you shouldn't be doing this" (image 1) The blob witters on incomprehensibly (audio from Matt Lucas and David Walliams' 'Little Britain') "With the temperature rising from Friday's...sorry...I'm never any good if it's not live" "You know I've just let myself go a bit, you know, I might, er, you know I get scruffy and that but I'm not hurting anybody..." "I mean I know he is, I mean he, he was a year out the game and that's a long long time, and you don't just step back in and find your match fitness and match..."(CRASH!)/"That rather put me off!"/"Was that you?"/"Yes" "Well, in men's clothing, I just can't, you know, one just can't feel comfortable, whereas, as a woman, I know most people think you're exploiting yourself, but...I feel more comfortable dressed as a woman than I do as a man" "It's not the easiest thing to make, spaghetti" "Do all cats go to heaven when they die?"/"Some get stuffed"/"What?"/"Some get stuffed"/"And they don't go to heaven then?"/"No" "Er, you're sitting in front of me now, absolutely starkers, nothing on at all, are you a bit embarrassed?"/"Not in the least"/"But you're old enough to be my grandad"/"I am, yes" Soundtrack is Will Young's 'Leave Right Now' Soundtrack is Englebert Humperdinck's 'Please Release Me' Soundtrack is The Clash's 'Should I Stay or Should I Go?' Soundtrack is Bay City Rollers' 'Bye Bye Baby' Soundtrack is 'So Long, Farewell' from The Sound of Music

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