Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf / YMMV

The following Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf adaptations have their own pages:

Americans Hate Tingle: Wolnie is a less well-regarded character in the Western fandom compared to China, due to her constantly abusing her husband Wolffy and the series using it for comedy purposes.
Animation Age Ghetto: When compared with Western Animation and Anime, Pleasant Goat is often regarded as a childish show for kids and kids only. This might be because of it being Strictly Formula (at least early on) and not having a lot of Parental Bonus. But when compared with other Chinese cartoons of the period, it becomes The Golden Age of Animation. However, by the mid-2010s, the Chinese animation industry has left the ghetto with several critically acclaimed works such as Big Fish & Begonia and Ne Zha.
Archive Panic:
- It's the fourth longest animated series in the world, behind Doraemon, 3000 Whys of Blue Cat and Sandmannchen. It has 2,000+ episodes, 20+ seasons and 10 movies, and it's still being made. Put into a marathon, Pleasant Goat would run for upwards of 16 days, or half a month without breaks, meaning it'll take one quite a while to catch up with the entire series.
- The first season alone also counts, with it having 530 episodes - which probably accounts for around one fourth of the general show's total episode count.
Awesomeness Withdrawal: Some of the most interesting or unique seasons have low episode counts. Mr.Wolffy, Mr.Right!, which basically completely changes the idea of the show, only has 24 episodes.
Broken Base: Some people are divided on whether or not the later seasons with updated animation and more fantasy elements are as good as the earlier classic seasons.
Captain Obvious Reveal:
- Mighty Little Defenders is about the goats trying to befriend the wolves. The goats and wolves become friends, but the final episode reveals that the wolves might not keep their friendship with the goats and they might go back to being enemies. Did that really surprise anyone, considering the wolves are the main villains of the franchise and even before Mighty Little Defenders came out, we already knew there were going to be more seasons and movies after it?
- After a character undergoes a sad, unfortunate event in Rescue Across Time episode 41, episode 42 brings everything back to normal. Everyone saw that coming because the character is a major character who's been on the show since it started and more seasons were already confirmed to come.
Common Knowledge: It is commonly believed that this show was banned following a controversy accident that happened in April 6, 2013 on China where a boy accidentally burnt another two of his friends while trying to imitate a scene from the cartoon itself. While a kid did injure themselves after watching this show, the show was never banned from television and it continued airing, but some episodes did get bowdlerized following the incident.
Critical Dissonance: Critical reception has always been mixed-to-positive and news sources are often impressed at how long the show's been around. Viewer reception is often negative-to-mixed with many viewers considering it childish or flat.
Cult Classic: In the West. Despite only having a handful of active fans, some fans can be pretty devoted to the show. Barely anyone outside the fandom is aware of the show.
Designated Villain: Wolffy. He's very devoted to his wife Wolnie and only tries to catch the goats so that they can have something to eat.
Even Better Sequel: Mighty Little Defenders is the sequel to War of Invention. People tend to prefer Mighty Little Defenders due to it returning to the normal art style, having a better plot, and having more unique ideas.
Fan Nickname:
- Xi Di Di/Little Brother Happy or Xiao Xi Ur/Little Happy for Weslie.
- Hui Da Guh/ Big Brother Grey or Hui Da Xu/ Old Man Grey for Wolffy.
- The goats (and Wolnie sometimes) tend to be called just by their adjectives (lazy, etc.). Or the goats are called in the same "format" as Weslie's nicknames.
- The show as a whole is sometimes nicknamed Xi Hui, which is based off of the Chinese title.
- The first season doesn't have a unique name compared to the other ones, so fans will sometimes call it Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf 530 Edition, the 530 referring to the number of episodes in that season.
Fandom Rivalry:
- The Pleasant Goat fandom sometimes conflicts with the Boonie Bears fandom due to the latter show quickly becoming more popular than the former show.
- Sometimes rivals with the Doraemon fandom, with some people comparing the two shows or arguing which is better.
First Installment Wins: The general public is most familiar with the plot and jokes of season 1, despite the show drastically changing in the years since. This is understandable because season 1 has the most episodes, it still airs in some countries, and some people break away from the show after season 1.
Foe Yay Shipping: Some people ship the two main rivals Weslie and Wolffy. There's even a fan-made manhua where they... uh, do stuff we're not gonna mention here.
Fridge Logic: Why don't the wolves just eat the goats raw? It would save a lot of trouble. Then again, if they did that, there would be no more episodes. They actually try this in one episode (Joys of Seasons episode 90), the only thing stopping them being that their teeth crack - they had just eaten Paddi's entire candy house beforehand.
Friendly Fandoms:
- In the West, it has a bit of overlap with the Doraemon fandom, possibly because they're both obscure Asian animated series.
- In China and the West, it gets along well with the Happy Heroes fandom. Understandable because Huang Weiming worked on both series.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
- The series is very popular in Taiwan. It was also once popular in Hong Kong, but its popularity faded off there due to a controversy surrounding an incident that happened in China in 2013, involving kids burning another kid while mimicking the show.
- It used to be popular in Malaysia and Singapore, since the first season once aired on the Saturday kids block on Singaporean Channel 8, with one episode aired every Saturday until the season finale. Besides that, Joys of Seasons aired on the Southeast Asian feed of Disney Channel and Dear Little Wish was made available on Miao Mi (a service which teaches Chinese) via Toggle, and the show received a stage play in the Sentosa Genting Highlands in 2013. Nowadays, it is now almost obscure there, outside of Singaporean Chinese people who grew up watching the show.
Growing the Beard: The first season of the show is just a Road Runner vs. Coyote story about Wolffy trying and failing to catch the goats every day. For some people, the show is much better in its later seasons when it begins to have continuous stories and larger plots, some of which (Marching to the New Wonderland and War of Invention) stretch across multiple seasons.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- In episode 28, Wolffy uses a fake friendship peace negotiation in an attempt to eat the goats. ^note However, several years later in real life, the season Mighty Little Defenders started airing, which actually DOES involve a peace negotiation between the goats and wolves as a plot device, just without Wolffy adding any sneaky schemes to it.
- In Joys of Seasons episode 31, Wolnie gets amnesia after Wolffy feeds her forgetful grass. Near the end of the episode, Paddi's tears are enough to water a remembering flower that Wolffy wants to grow so he can feed it to Wolnie and restore her memory... except when she actually does eat it, she also develops a friendship with Paddi since it was Paddi's tears and not hers. This gets taken even further in the later season Love You Babe, where Wolnie gets amnesia again and spends the entire season thinking Paddi is her child.
Heartwarming Moments: The ending of Mighty Little Defenders. The goats and wolves finally celebrate peace after years of fighting.
Ho Yay: All the male goats, and the wolves when they get along. The most memorable is the incident where Sparky thought he was pregnant with Paddi's child because they kissed during a play of "Sleeping Beauty". They spent the rest of the episode dating and deciding who should be the father. Paddi.
- Weslie kisses Sparky on the cheek, and tells him it was Tibbie.
- All the shojo-esque roses and bubbles that show up whenever Night Wolf offers Wolffy assistance.
- When the wolves try to lure the goats out by having Wolffy pretend to be a goat, they cook him in a pot. The goats didn't fall for it. Wolffy's pack members then proceed to comment on how good he smells.
- Wilie and Paddi get along pretty well too. Wilie even calls him boss.
- Brother Tai/Tai Guh and Wolffy have some noticeable chemistry.
Brother Tai: Who knew, that in the dead of night, Wolffy would be my muse?
- Tai also has some with Master Pao Pao. The two are practically Heterosexual Life-Partners!
I Am Not Shazam: Applies to the English dub. The original Chinese title, Xǐ Yángyáng Yǔ Huī Tàiláng, matches the original Chinese names of the two major characters. The English title is Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, but the title does not match the characters' names; the characters are only known as Weslie and Wolffy in the English dub. Many people assume that if the Chinese title matches the names of the characters, this must go the same for the English title, leading to them calling the characters by the names Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. The English dub of Great War in the Bizarre World refers to Wolffy as Big Big Wolffy several times, but not as Big Big Wolf.
Incest Yay Shipping: Some fans pair Wilie and Angelalily, even though they are cousins related through both of their parents. This ship is known as "香灰" in the Chinese community. However, many people oppose this ship.
Iron Woobie: Wolffy and Wolnie's relationship leads to both of them being this.
It's the Same, Now It Sucks!:
- Some people don't like Joys of Seasons, Smart Dodging, and the other seasons that share the plot of season 1 because they would prefer if each season had its own unique plot.
- Some people think Everyday Pleasant Goat is boring because it's literally just clips from older episodes. They prefer to watch the actual full episodes that the clips originally came from.
It Was His Sled: Very shortly after Rescue Across Time episodes 41 and 42 came out, the events were spoiled everywhere on most social media websites and even spoiled in the news. Most people are probably aware of what happens by now (specifically, Weslie dies. Don't worry, he comes back afterward).
Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Weslie, Paddi, Tibbie, and Wolffy got paired with EVERY character.
Like You Would Really Do It: Rescue Across Time features the tragic death of Weslie. While it's certainly considered a shocking and sad scene, there were already more seasons announced to be on the way after this one, and this character is one of the main characters, meaning there's no reason to believe it would be a permanent change in the status quo; indeed, the character comes back fine an episode later.
Memetic Badass: Wolffy, due to the amount of domesticated abuse he takes.
Memetic Mutation:
- The old wiki has become a bit of a joke in the English community due to its poorly-written and unintentionally-funny articles.
- "Oxygen-Breathing Goat" and "Pleasant Goat" sound similar in Chinese, so people often use this to poke fun at the show.
- "Weslie, get in the robot!" is a meme within the (miniscule) English community. One fan asked the English voice actor of Mr. Slowy to say the line. Ever since then, it's been a meme to combine Pleasant Goat and Evangelion.
- In a fan edit, Sparky asks why Weslie hasn't come back, and then Paddi says that Weslie was eaten by Wolffy and he's prepared a funeral wreath for him. Then the edit cuts to the song "Buttercup" by Jack Stauber and shows Paddi and Sparky in black-and-white, with question marks. This edit became really popular, inspiring others to make similar edits for both Pleasant Goat and other shows.
- Due to it having a prominent focus on cats and dogs, The Season Towns resulted in the meme quote "We have come to the town of dogs and cats again", referencing a line from the theme song of a previous season, Against the Dark Force (specifically "We come to a new world/This is a mysterious place for cats"), which also features dogs and cats as characters.
Older Than the Demographic: I Love Wolffy is very much a children's movie, but it stars Wolffy, who's a live-action adult in this movie.
Overshadowed by Controversy: In the English-speaking world. It's impossible to find English coverage of this show without hearing mentions of an incident where two kids in China had a third one tie them to a tree and set the base on fire to imitate something they saw on the show, seriously injuring themselves in the process. Certain episodes were Bowdlerized afterwards in an effort to prevent the show from being connected with further incidents of this kind, and the show's popularity decreased as a result of this event until Mighty Little Defenders aired in 2019.
Periphery Demographic: There are some older fans of this show if you know where to find them. Oftentimes, the Chinese fans are ones who grew up with the series and now have nostalgic memories of it.
Popular with Furries: The show has a following with some groups of furries. The show is often tagged as "furry" on Pixiv.
Popularity Polynomial: When it premiered in 2005, the series got unexpectedly high ratings and became an instant hit with children. Once some time passed, it started to get a bit of a bad rep due to both an incident where real-life kids imitating the show hurt their friend and the show's seasons becoming experimental and not hitting the same way previous ones did; War of Invention in particular was criticized by fans for its writing and art styles enough to make Creative Power Entertaining revert to the initial styles in the next season. In 2019, Mighty Little Defenders blew people's expectations out of the water with its storyline being considered one of the most exciting in years, and it brought back a lot of fans who had since left the Pleasant Goat fanbase; it's been doing well for itself since then with its story-based seasons and is now a well-respected show again.
Rooting for the Empire: Older fans tend to root for Wolffy and not Weslie.
The Scrappy:
- Many fans consider Tibbie to be this because she rarely saves herself and usually just cries or calls for Weslie to save her whenever she's in trouble.
- Many fans in the West hate Wolnie greatly, simply due to her whiny personality and her being constantly enraged by her husband, Wolffy, as well as her domestic abuse toward him.
Seasonal Rot:
- Many viewers dislike everything new and especially everything past The Little Detective due to the art style and writing. They only watch the earlier episodes.
- As far as specific seasons go, War of Invention is noted for its art and writing styles that didn't mesh well with viewers. Tellingly, all seasons afterwards go back to the original art and writing styles.
Signature Series Arc: The most popular Story Arc might be Great War in the Bizarre World. It's one of the show's first attempts at a long story and one of the most memorable. The characters from this arc are still popular to this day, and it seems to have influenced later seasons in that they almost always have the same number of episodes as Great War (60) and have similar Previously on… recaps at the beginnings of the episodes.
Signature Song: It's had a lot of different theme songs over its run, but the original theme from season 1 is still the most popular song from the show. The original theme song is still associated with Pleasant Goat several years after the show began using different theme songs. This might be because the original theme song is still used here and there, just in the closing instead of the opening.
Suspiciously Similar Song: At the beginning of every The Season Towns episode is a song that's very similar to the Treasure Town theme from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, to the point that the music collaborator for that season changed it when they were informed of the similarity.
Tear Jerker: In Rescue Across Time episode 41, Weslie undergoes death and everyone feels sad for him.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: People tend not to like the show whenever it changes its art style due to it looking visually displeasing to some viewers.
They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Some people feel like the show rips off Tom and Jerry (due to sharing the same concept of Sapient Eat Sapient with slapstick humor) and/or The Smurfs (due to the main characters having similar personalities) and does the formula worse due to Black-and-White Morality.
Unpopular Popular Character: Wolffy is rightfully recognized as a threat by the goats he wants to eat, but his Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain personality has endeared him to fans as much as the goats have. It helps that he's also the target of a lot of abuse by his wife Wolnie whenever he fails to catch the goats, painting him in a more sympathetic light; he just wants to get some food for him and her, and while he loves his wife, he obviously can't stand the slapstick she puts him through. His popularity is to the point that he later got not one, but two films specifically centered around him.
Values Dissonance: In the US, the show has been marketed at preschoolers on the Miao Mi app, but it hasn't been very successful. There might be values dissonance about how much slapstick and comic violence is acceptable for preschoolers.
Viewer Gender Confusion:
- Many people thought Jonie is a man, due to her manly voice.
- Wilie's Cutesy big eyes and higher voice probably makes him seem more like a female.
- Little Fairy's gender is still technically unknown, but it looks more like a lady.
- There's at least one case of Weslie being confused to be female.
Vindicated by History: No one really cared about the English dub when it originally aired on some countries' Disney Channels. No one made much of a note of it and very few people shared stuff relating to it online. After Disney stopped airing it, people became interested in it and they set out to find the dub and learn more about it. They were successful since Creative Power Entertaining decided to upload it due to an increase in fan demand.
What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The show is often criticized for being quite violent and stretching the boundaries of Slapstick into Family-Unfriendly Violence. People cite the incident where a kid caused serious harm after imitating the show. Though fans defend the show by saying that the show itself is fine and that parents should be more mindful if they're worried about it.
Win Back the Crowd:
- After years of quieting down and declining in popularity, the show became famous again with the season Mighty Little Defenders. Many people who had stopped watching the show came back to watch the season Mighty Little Defenders because it was the most exciting and unique season in years.
- When the Dunk for Victories season was put on iQiyi, originally the episodes beyond episode 6 (probably) were restricted to VIP access, but this VIP access was removed and the season became free to watch for a while. But due to the popularity of the season, the VIP was later added again as Creative Power Entertaining's strategy to invoke this trope and earn more money.
The Woobie: Weslie, when you learn the whereabouts of his parents.
Woolseyism: As shown in the title, Weslie's name in Chinese is the quite generic-sounding "Pleasant Goat." Every goat and wolf has a name along the lines of "color/emotion+species." These names don't sound nearly as generic in Chinese due to linguistic differences, but the translations opted for unique names that vaguely kept the feel of each character's associated personality.

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