In "Fruit Picking Day," Prince Wednesday "royally commanding" apples to come off a tree, and then begging them to please come off when his royal commands have no effect.
This tends to be a habit of Prince Wednesday, such as when he royally commands the rain to stop. It never works, but it's cute that he tries
In "Play Pretend," O the Owl rigidly insists that a box that Teacher Harriet is having them play pretend with is a box and nothing more. "That's a box, not a boat. ... I think I'll stay here and read my book about boxes. Just boxes. ...If you look at it like this, it still looks like it's a box." Until, finally, to everyone's delight, he pretends it's a race car.
Daniel's "horsey" song is just "neigh" repeatedly.
When the kids are playing restaurant and Margaret knocks it over, Daniel improvises by making it a "floor restaurant". Then, Margaret puts a cup on her head and he makes it a "floor restaurant where everything is on your head."
Another pretend niche restaurant happens in "Allergies at School", when Katerina Kitty Cat and Miss Elaina make an "orange restaurant" where all the food is orange. Prince Wednesday orders green food instead as a joke, and Daniel imagines a whole orange world.
In "Prince Wednesday Goes To The Potty", Miss Elaina builds the "smallest tower in the world" with one block. Daniel builds a medium tower and calls it the "mediumest tower in the world."
Dad Tiger's joking suggestions in "Daniel Feels Left Out" that Tigey wants to eat Daniel.
Mom: I think it's time to eat.
Dad: Okay, I'll get the Daniel. (motions Tigey as if he's eating Daniel and makes playful growly eating noises) I mean, the chicken.
Daniel asking "Are We There Yet?" several times in "Tiger Family Trip." Seems he can get just as antsy as any other kid.
In "Daniel's Birthday," Dad Tiger tries to get Daniel to see something good about the fact that his cake got smushed by asking him what's good about all birthday cakes.
Daniel: That they're not smushed?
In "Daniel Learns About Lizards," Daniel and Prince Wednesday discover an anole lizard, which they name "Nelly." They learn from a book that anoles can change their color depending on their surroundings. When they observe Nelly doing this, Prince Wednesday shouts "Whoa, Nelly!", which was the obvious joke, but nevertheless amusing.
In "Daniel's Babysitter", when Daniel says, "Going potty!", Prince Tuesday gets a "TMI!" expression.
In "The Fire Drill," when Teacher Harriet asks if there are any other questions about the fire drill, Miss Elaina replies "My daddy's a firefighter!"
Teacher Harriet: (chuckles) That's right.
In "Prince Wednesday's Happy Birthday", Daniel ends up putting the rabbit's tail in a game similar to Pin the Tail on the Donkey but with a rabbit, on someone's head by accident.
In "Circle Time Squabble" during the freeze dance game, Prince Wednesday complains of an itchy nose, while Miss Elaina pretends she's literally frozen and says, "Brr!".
"Snowflake Day":
During the pageant, Prince Wednesday slips and adds his "boop-she boop-she boo" Verbal Tic at the end of his line.
O: Price Wednesday, you are not supposed to say "boop-she, boop-she boo."
Later, Katerina as the fairy transforms the presents into friends. As she does so, they're supposed to say "Friends, not presents." Prince Wednesday says "Friends, not presents, boop-she boop-shee boo." Katerina just sighs.
In "Daniel Goes to the Hospital," Daniel is eager to leave the hospital. Mom Tiger reminds him that he might want to get dressed first, in something other than his hospital gown.
In "Empathy at School", Daniel and Chrissie are playing a game where they mime emotions and guess the emotion. When Chrissie says, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!" after Daniel guesses that she's miming being surprised, Katerina shows up, mistaking it for a Surprise Party.
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At the Television Critics Association Awards, two producers of the show, Christopher Loggins and Sarah Wallendjack, came to accept the program's youth programming award and were seated at the same table as the producers of Netflix's hit show Making a Murderer, which won for best reality program.
Wallendjack:note Or Loggins, articles conflict as to who said it We usually don’t get to sit at the big kids' table. The people from Making a Murderer are all so nice.
This post, "The Daniel Tiger Guide to Surviving Adulthood," which suggests among other things that "When someone blocks you on all social media platforms... "When a friend doesn’t want to play with you, you can find something else to do."
Show creator Angela Santomero tried one of the show strategies on her daughter, age 12, who told her "Don't Daniel Tiger me, mom!"
at the same table as the producers of Netflix's hit show Making a Murderer, which won for best reality program.Wallendjack:note We usually don’t get to sit at the big kids' table. The people from Making a Murderer are all so nice.