Those of us that have seen "Take Off with T-Bag" will need no introduction to this prop. Nibbles was a small, cute, hairy alien described by T-Bag as a "hippy tennis ball". He latched onto Tow Ling's spacesuit when he and T-Shirt are sent out on a space walk by T-Bad. Unfortunately, Nibbles has an insatiable appetite for metal, and will eat any metal that he can find, including the hull of a spaceship. As such, he is regarded as a most dangerous pest. Even more unfortunate, is that when T-Bag tries to get rid of Nibbles with a bomb, the resulting fragments of Nibbles each grow into a new baby Nibbles.

An interesting bit of trivia, is that this episode is a nod to the original series of Star Trek, that featured an episode called "Trouble with Tribbles". Tribbles were little cute, furry aliens that purred when stroked. The purring of the Tribbles produced soothing effect on the person doing the stroking, so they became very popular on the Enterprise. Unfortunately, they multiplied at an alarming rate, and soon took over everything.

The episode also tips a wink at the Alien films and also to Red Dwarf.

The prop that I photographed was simply a pingpong ball covered in long synthetic fur with an embroidered smile and a pair of small blue glass eyes. I am not sure, but I think that it is one of the Nibbles that we see stuck to Tow Ling as he stuffs them all into the Trash Zapper.