I'm pretty sure this entire episode was written just to set up the line "use the fours".

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All the mummies and daddies also went to Madame Gazelle’s playgroup. Does this mean they all met at playgroup as toddlers and young children? If so, what is the dating pool for the current crop of playgroup attendees? Nobody seems to be in relationships outside their species, and all junior animals of each species are siblings. This has potentially grave implications for the birth rate going forward.

How TH are the animals they rescue and release just randomly spawning in the backyard? Did poachers just ditch them there? Or is Leo stuck in some kind of Groundhog Day style time loop where everyday he has to go save an animal that randomly spawns in his backyard.

Most days I watch this singular episode of Paw Patrol with my son a few times just not back to back. He loves Halloween and ghosts. I indulge him.

But I got questions. How is Ryder the super brains of Adventure Bay (my conspiracy with zero proof and I won’t elaborate is that Chickaletta runs the show) but him and the Paw Patrol can’t do a quick head count and realize Marshall is just mia (and he’s a minor so where’s the Amber Alert?!) look at the sheet walking around and go “oh wow that’s clearly Marshall the missing member of the crew who isn’t being bothered by Pup Pup Boogie playing loud as fuck at midnight”.

Also who’s funding Adventure Bay?! Where’s the money coming from? Mr. Porter is dropping merchandise like every other episode so there goes the town’s food. Both Turbots are constantly injured they got to be drowning in medical debt at this point. Farmer Yumi is the only one who seems competent but her barns are always collapsing. Farmer Al seems okay minus the chosen name of his farm (Moo Juice Dairy Farm). Mayor Humdinger clearly has unresolved childhood trauma and all his cats hate him. How is this town operational?! The most put together person is Ryder and he’s like what 12? He’s like a modern day child coal miner.

Don’t even get me started on the geographical location to Adventure Bay. In the blink of an eye they are in the jungle getting all their shit stolen by a monkey or they are in the arctic because they gotta count the penguins.

All jokes aside I love this show but I’m constantly watching the same episodes because my son asks for them and I just focus on the show itself and it’s ridiculous.

Who else?

Daisy, obviously.

Mickey and Minnie would never.

Is this like an Interstellar thing where 4th-dimensional dinosaurs of the future placed it in the past, with a set number of stations? For what purpose? How far into the past does it go?? OR are there mines and steel mills and glass manufacturing facilities just out of camera shot? I think about these things a lot when my son watches. La-la-looooooo

Not really surprising considering all the adults in MH seem to be garbage human beings (aside maybe from the helicopter mom) but Chowder says something along the lines of "I paid 28 dollars for that ball! I raked 10 yards and asked my mom for a dollar 26 times!"

My guy how did you only get 20 cents a yard?

Animal or vegetable or some sick hybrid?? The nose and mouth make me think Barnacles had a tryst with a bunch of root vegetables last time he was on dry land.

And the Octonaughts eat fish sticks?! Cooked by a sentient vegetable? Made out of a sentient fish?? They are SICK.

There are some episodes without Daniel? Wow. That’s surprising and other charecters get to make believe

For the last 6 months my three year old has been begging for the “wolf spider” episode of Lucas the spider. He said Lucas gets scratched by a wolf spider. I have no earthly idea what he’s talking about and the internet has nothing. I’m starting to think he made it up.

From <u>Clifford's Thanksgiving Visit</u>, by Norman Bridwell, 1993

My son was on the PBS Kids games app playing the Daniel Tiger Bedtime game. The point of the game is to help all the characters with getting ready for bed. Daniel has Mom Tiger, Ms Elaina has Music Man Stan, etc. But guess who is putting Prince Wednesday to bed? Surely, it's one of his parents as the other characters have? Nope, it's Prince Freaking Tuesday! It's not enough to working in the grocery store, as a lifeguard, babysitter, waiter, crossing guard, and who knows what else. He has to put his little brother to bed too! Give the kid a break already!

When the reigning king over Daniel Tiger's 50 acre slice of heaven dies what will happen? I'll tell you, his young and most likely foreign wife will take over and begin acting as a proxy for her home country. She'll possibly remarry and forge a new bond that the tiger and owl and cat families don't align with politically. By this time the princes will have to make a choice, side with their mother whom they love or their father who so callously left them too early. One prince will side with the mother, using his influence to aid his mother and the new king. The other prince will side with the people, taking down the war factory literally and figuratively. The prince turned freedom fighter will flee, taking a party of royal staff with him. He will go on adventures to gain the people's favor, one of his advisors will be blinded by a shadow creature on an island somewhere, and he will return to kill his brother and put a stop to his now elderly mothers reign. I shed a tear for I know I can't help this dreary future.

And what's this guy's origin story in general?

Just... What's up with him? Is he a drunk? Just depressed? Was his marriage falling apart before they realized Muffin was so difficult?

He and Trixie never seen to be happy together. He seems to be sleeping or laying around a lot and seems to doubt himself a lot, too. Plus... Omg when Socks was playing out an argument near the end on The Sign... Omg.

So yeah... What's up?

Surprise, said PBS.

Like, I grew up watching the US dubbed version on PBS Kids and didn't realize until I was like, 17 that he actually was British and I was just watching the American voiceover.

The fact that the US dubbing of Bob the Builder is now lost media will never not be strange to me

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They seem to be trying a soft yet excited-sounding rap style; I'm not sure as too how much it works to combine excitement with softness; granted, they might be trying not to overstimulate certain viewers. (this show does have an autistic protagonist, after all) If I were the composer of the show’s theme song and whatnot (I have a strange hunch that it might be Bill Sherman; it’s worth noting that Spiffy Pictures is supposedly working on this show, and Bill's made music for Spiffy's other PBS works), I perhaps wouldn’t make it any sort of rap number.

I have a strange hunch that the theme's composer might be Bill Sherman; it’s worth noting that Spiffy Pictures is supposedly working on this show, and Bill's made music for Spiffy's other PBS works. I know Bill has a notable history with this sort of music (going as far back as being an accompanying artist in Lin Manuel-Miranda's Freestyle Love Supreme, I believe), but I still might as well prefer a different sort of theme. (one that’s perhaps still soft-sounding)

https://www.pbs.org/video/carl-the-collector-theme-song-otzhdu/

(Also, the way they say "absolutely" makes me cringe, somewhat)

I still miss it. Wish it became a streaming service.

What were your favorite shows on there? I liked Madeline, Pippi Longstocking, Babar, and The adventures of Paddington Bear

The ecosystem of the Truffula forest had extremely low biodiversity. There was only one species of tree, and the only animals are one species of mammal, bird, and fish each. I propose that the region was in the aftermath of a local mass extinction event, therefore giving it a very fragile ecosystem.

Every time my kid wants to watch it my shepherd mix starts watching & barking. The puppies episode is very triggering, the moment the puppies start barking she attempts to jump up at the tv barking at them wanting to herd them back in line.

Pixar is indoctrinating both dogs & children.

For that matter, why do you have guards trying to stop people from crossing the bridge if the magical bridge prevents it anyway?

But back to the subject, do people in the land of the dead need jobs? How does the economy work? What's the trajectory of someone that lived a life, died, and then winds up as hired muscle for Ernesto de la Cruz?

Who says no?