Dot is a Reality Warper
Hence how she's the same age in the mid 20th century and 1899. And it could provide an explanation for how she manages to:- Talk to animals without the aid of the root (in later movies).
- Get a major part in a movie with no (known) acting experience.
- Survive a space trip without a single day of astronaut training.
- Breathe underwater.
- Travel around the world with no money and no vehicle except for a sled pulled by 2 kangaroos.
- Survive in extremely cold environments (the Antarctic and to a lesser extent, the Northern Hemisphere during its winter months) without cold weather clothing, or indeed, footwear though she probably still felt like she was wearing the latter in Around the World with Dot as she did wear shoes in her live-action appearance in said movie.
Dot can travel through time
Which could also explain why she is still alive and still a kid in the original film (set in the late 19th century) and the sequels (set in the mid-20th century at the earliest)- This could also explain why she interacts with 1930/40s/50s movie stars in Dot Goes to Hollywood, despite the film's setting having to be June 1959 at the earliest due to the appearance of a Qantas jet airliner.
- This could also explain the chronology of the events of the sequels which, theoretically, should be as follows:
- Dot and the Bunny > Around the World with Dot > Dot and Keeto (a storybook adaptation depicts Joey with Kangaroo) > Dot and the Koala > Dot and the Smugglers > Dot and the Whale onwards.
- This could also explain why Dot's brother Ben in Around the World with Dot is replaced by Simon in Dot and Keeto.
The Dot and the Kangaroo series shares the same universe as other Yoram Gross productions:
The Little Convict:- If you look closely at the beginning of the film, which takes place at a carnival, you can see the logo for Dot and the Kangaroo on the balloons.
- The live-action backgrounds for Rolf Harris' story about Toby Nelson are almost the same as the ones in Dot & the Kangaroo
- Some of the scenes in The Little Convict were reused from Dot and the Kangaroo
- Both Toby Nelson and Dot are both perpetually barefoot animal lovers who were thrown in prison for incredibly stupid reasons (Toby Nelson was convicted for holding a horse for a highwayman in The Little Convict, and Dot was thrown in the Prison for Squaries by Papa Drop and the Roundies for not being round enough in Dot in Space)
- Both series started out combining live-action backgrounds with animated characters before becoming fully animated (although Dot in Space is the only film in the Dot series to be fully animated (save for a recycled scene from Dot Goes to Hollywood) and only the pilot movie for Blinky Bill used live-action backgrounds with the series becoming fully animated from thereon).
- In both books the Dot and Blinky Bill series were based on, both protagonists meet a character named Willie Wagtail.
- In the pilot movie for Blinky Bill, Claire, the daughter of Harry and Joe, the two main antagonists, has a plush toy of a koala she names "Gumley", which is the same name of Dot's koala friend in Dot Goes to Hollywood.
- In the Blinky Bill episode "Blinky Bill and the Earthquake", Miss Magpie can be seen reading a story to her students about a human girl who learned how to speak to animals (sound familiar?), and she also states that her parents were worried she was spending too much time in the bush so she went back to her home, which may explain why we don't see Dot in the bush in much of Dot and the Koala and Dot and the Whale.
- In the episode Blinky Bill and the Bird Smugglers, the two smugglers bear a striking resemblance to Mr. Sprag and Scarface from Dot and the Smugglers.
Grumble-Bones witnessed or took part in an extremely tragic event as a joey
- This may be why he stubbornly insisted he was not born a joey in Around the World with Dot and also why he is perpetually grumpy in general.
- He may have lost his parents or siblings or other relatives to the aborigines from the original film (they were wearing kangaroo skins after all) or to hunters or poachers.
Dot And The Bunny took place before Around the World with Dot
- and Funny-Bunny is now Joey's adopted brother.
Dot went on a Self-Imposed Exile in the bush to atone for the events of Dot and the Koala
She briefly had a My God, What Have I Done? moment near the end of the climax once the dam collapsed (even though there were no casualties and it could be argued that Mayor Percy and Sherlock Bones were more at fault since he brought them here despite knowing the bush animals would stop at nothing to defend their homes and left the opening ceremony without evacuating everyone), and knew deep down her parents would be far from pleased with her playing a role. Even during that period, she still did heroic deeds such as raising money to save Tonga the Whale, shutting down an international wildlife smuggling operation and protecting the Bunyip, posing as a Hollywood film star to win money needed to pay for Gumley's eye operation and rescuing Whyka, not only out of care for said animals but also to wishing to redeem herself in the eyes of her family and those she had (unintentionally) wronged. Although it may not seem like it at times (such as her interactions with Simon in Dot and Keeto), deep down she still loves her family and hopes one day to reconcile with them. And her family still loves her and hope one day she will return to them. This would theoretically be the case if the events of Dot and Keeto chronologically precede those of Dot and the Koala. It depends on which order one puts the films in, however. Grumble-Bones has a Hidden Heart of Gold in the last two sequels
His unsympathetic attitude towards the plights of Gumley and Whyka is a façade and deep down he really does want to help Dot with her goals but he just can't really figure out how he can do that, given what Dot is up against in each case. Either that or he's giving ideas to Dot without even realizing it. Wormholes exist in Dot in Space
Hence why Dot's rocket ended up in another solar system and crash-landed on Pie-Arr-Squared after it was hit by the shockwave from the destruction of Whyka's rocket. Papa Drop may have survived his defeat in Dot in Space and is doomed to spend an eternity as a living planet
A bit far-fetched, but in a world where a little girl can talk to animals with the aid of a magic root, kangaroos can pull sleighs, and dogs can bark in foreign languages, anything is possible. We even hear Roley say he can "fly away and cook up a planet." He wanted to conquer the universe with Dot's rocket and subject several planets to the same tyranny he inflicts on his own planet, Pie-Arr-Squared, so let the punishment fit the crime. The Roundy Sergeant may have been shot by his own troops after Papa Drop was overthrown in Dot in Space.
Therefore giving a whole new meaning to the trope The Neidermeyer. It's also possible given how his own troops were eager to ditch him and join the side of The Party/Roley, Dot and Gorgo to confront Papa Drop as he was willing to throw his own troops under the bus to save his own skin, as shown when he orders his own troops to come back after running away from Gorgo when they fail to recapture Dot, not even caring if his troops get eaten. The events of the sequels took place in Dot's (or someone else's) imagination.
Or, at worst, she may be hallucinating as a result of head injuries sustained when she struck a tree at the bottom of the embankment she tumbled down in the original film. For some of the sequels at least, any of the above may be possible, after all:- In Around the World with Dot, she's wearing different clothes (and shoes) in her live-action appearance but reverts back to her normal appearance when she, Danny/Santa, Dozey-Face and Grumble-Bones 'take-off' on their mission to find the missing joey.
- This would certainly explain this movie's portrayal of sentient inanimate objects (specifically the British Lion statues).
- Dot and the Bunny starts off as an extended dream sequence of a girl who was reading a storybook adaptation of the original film and ignores the events of the previous film.
- In Dot and the Koala, Dot is the only character depicted as a human, everyone else is an anthropomorphic animal.
- In Dot and Keeto, Dot has a different mother and brother from those seen in the first two movies.
- This may explain how Nelson the dolphin is able to teach Dot how to survive underwater and why she is unaffected by sub-zero temperatures in Dot and the Whale.
- This would explain the Anachronism Stew of Dot Goes to Hollywood and also that of Dot in Space (at least until Dot ends up on Pie-Arr-Squared).
- In the case of both films, this would explain how Dozey-Face is able to transport Dot (and Gumley in the former movie) from Australia to America by disguising herself as the Qantas logo on the tail fin of a jet airliner.
- In the latter's case, this might explain why Roley knows of the existence of rabbits, despite the species not being native to Pie-Arr-Squared.
- Also, if Dot never learned any lessons from one film to the next, this would explain why.
- This would also explain everything listed under Reality Warper above.
- This might possibly also explain why Dot and other human characters do not always have the right number of fingers and toes in the sequels.
- This would also explain why no one ever asks why Dot is perpetually barefoot, even in times and places where she would be expected to wear shoes.
Dot told Poley about her adventures in the previous movies.
This would have included the events of Dot and the Bunny (providing they actually happened and weren't just a dream of course) so Poley would have found out about the existence of rabbits and would have passed this on through correspondence to Roley with Dot and Whyka's help. Magic exists in the Dot Movie Universe.
Just watch the Little Things song in Dot and Keeto very carefully.