YMMV / Play School

• Accidental Innuendo: The theme song of the Australian version has one line that goes Open wide, come inside. Many Australian parents actually find the line amusing. It does come up from time to time in friendly banter, but use it to insult the show...
• Archive Panic: The Australian version has 49 Seasons with over 4,000 episodes!
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Or Australians Love Play School, rather, if the fact that the Australian version has lasted longer than the original British version is anything to go by.
• Sacred Cow: Do not mock this show in front of an Australian. Certain long-standing hosts like John Hamblin or Benita Collings have universal respect and veneration from people aged 15 to 50 on a par with Mr Rogers.
• Spiritual Successor: Playdays was the official replacement for the UK version, running from 1988 to 1997. The current CBeebies show Tikkabilla has a number of Play School elements, including the windows.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • Until 1999, the format remained basically the same with 3 windows, 2 different clocks (each with their own theme music) and 2 presenters who, for the majority of the time, would act like they were playing with you, and no-one else. Since 1999, the format has been changed to reflect a more modernized Australia, with both the clocks and three windows option put in storage, and replaced with more computerised equivalents. (The Windows rotating prop that was mentioned at the top was briefly replaced by an animation that showed what Window would be the one that they would be going through. In 2011, actual windows done in stop-motion were added into the show as part of the rebrand, ending this.
  • It happened again in 2017, when the Rocket Clock returned in photorealistic CGI (ending the long-awaited replacement for the Hickory Dickory Clock), the windows were replaced by 3 screens and a film camera (along with calling the footage "clips"). However, older episodes with the 2011-style windows still continue to air.
  • When the UK version was cancelled, it was replaced with a very similar show called Playbus (later Playdays). Not similar enough for some parents, though. It is held as dearly by many of its generation however.
• The Scrappy: Hamble in the UK version was hated by both the presenters and the general public. It got to the point where she was even being kicked across the room by disgruntled cast members, which might explain why the Australian version (who had her on loan from the UK) had to retire her some 15 years ago - seeing as she was "beyond repair".

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