YMMV / Nina Needs to Go!

• Alternate Aesop Interpretation: As mentioned on the main page, Nina's catchphrase of "Now I know: Don't wait to go!" makes less sense when you consider she only waited because she legitimately didn't think she needed to go earlier. A better Aesop for that context would be "If you know your bathroom break opportunities will be limited later, it's better to go earlier when the opportunity presents itself, even if you don't necessarily have to", and Nina's catchphrase would still make sense.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Nina will often deny needing to go to the bathroom, only to have a Potty Emergency moments later, and the moral is said to be "Don't wait to go". Is she lying when she says she doesn't need to go to the bathroom, or does she genuinely think she doesn't?
• Audience-Alienating Premise: The show is about a little girl having a Potty Emergency every episode. And we do mean every episode, despite the main character's equally common insistence that she's learned better than to let it become an emergency. It's naturally a very divisive show.
• Broken Base: The last season. Some people like how Nina gets to learn other lessons that don't involve the bathroom and those lessons stick, averting Aesop Amnesia. Others think the show is less funny in Season Three.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: One of the most common criticisms of the show was that the moral was meant to be to go to the bathroom before leaving the house, except whenever Nina didn't go to the bathroom before leaving the house, she always went on a cool adventure with her ninja grandmother.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: This show is big in Japan compared to the rest of the world, possibly because of the country's respect for hygiene and bathrooms in general. There's even reports of parents saying that this show helped toilet train their kids.
• Quirky Work: The show turned out to be a Wabbit for most foreign markets, as the concept of a grandma who does insane stunts to take her grandkid to the bathroom on time seemed to be a little bit over the top and strange for them.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: The show had its detractors who hated the main character, Nina, for saying, "That will never happen again" at the end of every episode but it happening again anyway. In season three, she was given additional Aesops that did stick, warming a lot of the viewers up to her.
• Salvaged Story: A lot of people (especially parents) hated the show because Nina kept saying it would never happen again but it did. Later episodes would have her learn additional lessons that did stick.

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