Piper Cub has discovered WonderPets, the most sacahrine child’s program known.
In addition to the unbearable cuteness, it relies heavily on ear worms.
what tune is the opening song, “The phone! the phone is ringing!” sung to? I think it’s something Tchaicovsky - esque, but is that right?
[going back to the rescue of the baby kangaroo]
That show was so weird to me at first but I quickly became a fan. They slip a lot of clever subtle “adult” jokes ingot he show here and there. My favorite episodes are “The Rat Pack” and “Fiddler Crab on the Roof.”
Thith! Ith! Theriouth!
It’s apparently an original composition by Bollywood brother-composers Salim-Sulaiman.
From the Times of India article linked in the wiki article, it looks like they just provided music for one episode, where the Wonder Pets fly to India to save a Bengal tiger.
The “Phone” tune is used in every episode, so i don’t think the Merchants did it.
In “The Wonder Pets Save the Baby Chimp”, the chimp’s in a space capsule about to be struck by a meteor. Cue a musical explanation of what a meteor is, and Ming Ming says “And it would hurt” to be struck by one. Apparently offended 
, the meteor stops, reverses course, and pursues the Wonder Pets!
Also loved the episode in which the Wonder Pets are supposed to “save” a puppy, but it’s in no danger. It just needs to go outside. I started singing, “Let’s save the carpet! Let’s save the carpet!”
This should be in the pit as one of the most obnoxious kids shows ever. And, WTF, are they doing with the one character that speaks with a horrible lisp. Mao on a pogo stick, this show is for 2, 3 or 4 year olds learning how to speak. It isn’t cute, it’s fucked up to have role models that can’t speak even close to properly.
That and ever episode is stupid beyond belief. “Oh, the baby bird forgot how to fly, we have to save him.” Maybe we could throw in Calliou and Barney and make the worst beatiality porno in the history of cinema. Gah! Don’t get me started on this festering pile of yak excrement.
To the OP, who the hell is calling on behalf of these dumbass animals in trouble? Sheesh, do I have to buy you a WWSD (what would **Skald **do wrist thingy to get you to focus on more important issues than the music derivation in the opening?
Meh, it’s no Peep.
I like that it bucks the usual trends of TV and movies and has two female leads with only one guy. And the leader is a girl!
Well! What do you think of Team Umizoomi then, huh?
“I can show you anything…on my belly belly screen”
Gah!
Actually, the theme sounds more Elfman-esque to me than classical. It has a definite “written for soundtrack” flavor to it.
There is a special level in hell past the ice that Dante didn’t visit since they didn’t have stooopid kid cartoons back in his day that is reserved for the fuckwits that invent these gawdawful shows. Dammit, we had Captain Kangaroo and we liked it.
Om my gods, Wonderpets is my favorite kids-my-kids-generation show bar freaking none.
Even Barney wasn’t as motivating to small children cleaning a room as “What’s Gonna Work? Teeeeeeeaaaaaamwork!” and, yes, while they are earworms, they’re not sung by a grown man who’s giggling.
I am, however, horribly ashamed to admit that I didn’t “get” it when they had a “celery-bration” at the end of each show, until my 5 year old pointed it out to me. :smack: (Yes, Mom stretched the viewing of that show a good year and a half past its intended demographic.)
Yeah. Fuck children’s characters with speech impediments.
Yes, the Cub’s been singing the “teamwork” bit quite a lot. Haven’t noticed any uptick in tidiness, though.
Well, ya gotta get in there as part of the “team”, of course, but I could get a good 10 minutes of cleaning out of my 3 year old with enough verses of that song. And only about 30 seconds without it.
We have an “Underpants” song that we sing to the Wonder Pets tune.
I hate the wonder pets. They are not welcome in my home.
I couldn’t agree more about the lisp. I speak like a semi-educated adult with a proper mouth full of teeth and (gasp) wouldn’t you know it? I have a two year old who speaks in full sentences and doesn’t require constant translation to communicate with guests.
I have fond memories of The Wonder Pets. Bricker Jr has of course outgrown them now, but he was a huge fan of Noggin back in 2006, and Noggin promoted the hack out of the new show debut, so he was all revved up to watch it.
We have friends now with kids in the target age group, and were discussing “Fiddler Crab on the Roof” just this past weekend!
I kind of like it, at least compared to the other options. I’m between a child moving on from it and one not yet old enough for tv, so perhaps my memory’s being kind.
I always giggle that the background whenever they fly anywhere is the same North American forest - I could hazard a guess where, but probably get it wrong. Australia, the UK, China - they all seem to have the same pine/spruce forests 
. I particularly cherish the episode set in Manchester starring a pseudo-cockney skunk, which seemed (from my tv experience anyway) to take place in a facsimile of Central Park. I lost count of the number of ways they screwed that up, but in truth it does make me smile.
I’d so much rather this than the godawful Umizoomi, or Dora.
None of those are designed for little kids learning to talk as a type of edutainment program. A better example would be someone like Elmo, who can’t handle pronouns.
Any kids show, like Dora, that includes the phrase “Let’s say it again, louder!” in their script is on my shit list. And buy the girl some clothes that fit for crying out loud.
I’m generally happy if the show is inoffensive, quiet and has nice music. Wonder Pets gets a thumbs up on that score.
I’m going to put in a good word now for Octonauts, awesome theme song, fun underwater adventure show. Interestingly enough, the problems they solve aren’t childish nonsense problems. Sure, a real underwater adventurer team wouldn’t help a molting elephant seal meet up with his friends on the beach, but elephant seals are real, molting is real, and the fact they congregate on a particular beach is real, so it’s cool.
Compare that to, I dunno, Special Agent Oso, who was on a time critical mission to help a little girl build a sand castle. :rolleyes:
