Yo Gabba Gabba has tackled nutrition and not eating things on the floor, and for that we're grateful... or we would be if their method wasn't so damned creepy. The focus of these storylines is usually Brobee, and he sings the popular song "Party in My Tummy." That's fine, but the food he's eating joins in with adorable backing vocals begging to be consumed and rot inside the hot, dark cavern of his stomach. In fact, when he spares the carrots and green beans, they sob uncontrollably until he agrees to consume them.
That's not even the most disturbing example. In one episode Brobee drops his toast on the floor, then starts to eat it anyway. The toast comes to life and screams for Brobee to stop as she's now covered in germs. Cool, right? Everyone lives. Nope, she then begs the robot Plex to send her to "a better place," which apparently involves being incinerated in his laser beam. That's the fate she chose as better than being eaten.
We don't know what's going on in Brobee's mind in this relationship, but the foods in Yo Gabba Gabba are rampant vorarephiles. Do NOT click on that link. Ever.
We like Little Bear. It's a fun little show that we feel teaches some really good lessons about how to interact with people. Frankly, if the show had been around when we were a child, we might've had more friends and not grown into the twisted loner who makes money accusing cartoon characters of interspeciality....which we're going to do right about...now.
Emily is a young girl a little bit older than Little Bear, and pretty much the only human character amongst an all-animal cast. She visits the neighborhood often, but rarely interacts with anyone besides Little Bear alone.
We can't put our finger on it, but take a look at that episode up there (Loaded upside down to avoid copyright infringement complaints from Viacom because it's not piracy if you stand on your head). The way that Little Bear's and Emily's eyes follow each other at all times, the fact that Little Bear is naked when it's shown often that his parents wear clothes, the subtle lilt to Emily's voice whenever she says Little Bear's name, none of these things out and out screams that just off camera the characters are doing things pretty explicity banned in the Bible (We mean burning incense), but the relationship between them just has this weird...electricity that makes us turn the episodes featuring Emily off whenever they come on in our house.
