Awesome Music: Covered Up pop tunes aside, this franchise not only turns some well-known children's tunes into well-orchestrated ones for everyone to enjoy, but also has some original songs which are exceptionally well-written and boast great pop sound.
Base-Breaking Character: The Biggles. There are fans who don't like them, while there's the opposite spectrum that quite like them. Then there's the middle that don't really care too much, but don't hate them as well.
Covered Up: It's hard to count how many famous songs from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and even 80s they've managed to record.
Harsher in Hindsight: It may be harder to watch "I Love the Water World" in light of the film Blackfish, which showed the debilitating effect of keeping orcas in captivity.
"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" where the scarecrow gives a kid a pep talk before he has to go out and "save the team" during a friendly game of baseball. Scarecrow then says, "Remember, you can do anything in your life if you really believe in your dreams."
"Ride the Rollercoaster" has a moment where two boys do a Demolition Derby on the bumper cars, the girls ask them if they'll be careful. Bumper cars are not dangerous and they just bump each other playfully.
Actress April Hong was one of the kids in "A Day at Old MacDonald's Farm" and "Cars, Boats, Trains and Planes".
Lynsey Bartilson, more widely known for Grounded for Life, was in a few of the videos and a cast member in the second season of the rebooted Kidsongs TV Show.
Voice actor Josh Keaton, billed under the name Josh Weiner, as one of the kids in "A Day at Camp" and "Ride the Roller Coaster" videos.
Signature Song: "I Got Wheels", the instrumental of which was used as the opening theme to the videos. The theme song for the TV show also used the same melody.
Squick: A pizza getting doused in ketchup and mustard during the Fast Food song in "Ride the Roller Coaster". For this reason, this was the only song from this video that wasn't used on The Kidsongs Television Show on PBS.
The franchise's rendition of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" shows Mary's classmates laughing while her teacher scolds her for bringing a noisy lamb into class. She does a Face Palm and the teacher leaves the lamb outside until Mary reunites with it at lunch. What especially makes this version hard to listen to without tearing up is it's tone, along with the Scarecrow's vocal delivery.
"Santa Please Don't Forget Me" as the singer admits that he hasn't been that good a kid, but he apologizes for the wrong things that he did, including watching TV while doing homework and staying up late reading. Santa in the meantime has a neutral expression about it. On a brighter note, however, after the song ends, Santa asks if surely the singer did something nice. The singer replies that he found a lost puppy and took care of it until its owner could reclaim it.
Unintentional Period Piece: "A Day at the Circus". In the years since the video was first released, the traditional American-style traveling circus has diminished in popularity with the biggest example being the closing of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 2017. Not helping is the animal acts, especially those with elephants, which have come under much scrutiny by animal rights groups.
The Biggles have got to be some of the most ridiculous-looking creatures ever created for a kids' series. They look like a cross between Pikachu and Gizmo, with garishly-colored fur.
The costume for the kangaroo who very randomly enters in "Waltzing Matilda" to set the Jumback free. It's only on-screen for a few seconds total but it can easily come off as Accidental Nightmare Fuel for some.
"A Day at the Circus" shows the children walking alongside elephants and even riding them in various ways. Dogs are also shown dancing and running in a circle. Given the modern day lawsuits against circuses for animal abuse, especially where elephants are concerned, it may be hard to watch these.
"A Day with the Animals" has a killer whale in Marineland of the Pacific (which closed a year after it was filmed) performing tricks in "I Love the Water World". Come The New '10s, the controversy over raising orcas in captivity forced water parks to stop doing such shows, most notably Sea World in 2016. The segment likewise shows children riding elephants and juvenile chimpanzees acting out a love story.
"Ride the Rollercoaster" toys with this. The kids cover the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe" where the girls cheer on the boys on the bumper cars. There's also a song about a love for eating fast foodnote Granted they're at a theme park, so it's to be expected, before the issues of child obesity in the US became more widely discussed.
