YMMV / The Noddy Shop

• Accidental Innuendo: Try saying this show's title to yourself a few times.
• Americans Hate Tingle: British fans of the cartoon that this frames really hate that this show ruined Toyland Adventures and felt that the framing device was unnecessary, since most of the characters ^note  specifically Johnny Crawfish, due to how ugly his character design is and because the BBC kept overpromoting the character by playing episodes in which he was prominently featured (most notably "The Tooth Fairy", where he gets a solo song with the Crybabies providing backup) every single week and putting him (and Bonita Flamingo to a lesser extent) on merchandise where he didn't belong were annoying.
• Fan Nickname: "Noddy Shop Toys" for the toys and Johnny as a group, usually when people discuss the songs they sing.
• Friendly Fandoms: Noddy Shop fans seem to get along with fans of shows aired on Treehouse TV ^note  which aired many shows with some of the show's actors such as Franklin and The Big Comfy Couch, as well as fans of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic thanks to a fanfic crossing one of the show's songs over with the show.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • This show was so big in Guam that the show actually ran on the local PBS station until the fall of 2004. And unlike most networks in North America which shoved the show into early morning time slots late in its run, KGFT was one of three stations that kept The Noddy Shop in a good timeslot for its entire run ^note  the other two being WNYE in New York and KHET in Hawaii, both of which ended the show in September of 2002 until it was replaced by an encore of Sesame Street.
  • It was also big in Poland. To put it into retrospective, a Polish-dubbed episode was online before a full English episode was posted.
• Harsher in Hindsight: "Stop, Listen And Learn" has Noah become sick and refuse to take medicine given to him by Aunt Agatha. When Noah's actor Sean McCann died after years of fighting heart disease in 2019, this made that particular scene even sadder, as people who read the news might think about what might've happened if Noah didn't listen to her advice in the end.
• Memetic Mutation: Has its own page here.
• Periphery Demographic: Most of the viewers for the show were surprisingly not in the intended 2-5 demographic Noddy was aimed at. According to pages on the PBS Kids official site for the show, most of the viewers were tweens aged 8-12, possibly due to the Kid Com segments that framed the show and it airing before Arthur in most areas. It also got this among people who either watched it when they were young and forgot about the show or had never heard of it before after The Noddy Shop was given an entry on Lost Media Wiki.
• Retroactive Recognition: For all of the characters played by kids except for Gil Filar (who was Boobull), this was their introduction to the acting industry, paving the way for future works. Perhaps the most notable example of this was Butch in the episode "Big Bullies" being played by Michael Cera.
• Special Effects Failure: The low budget of the show tends to rear its ugly head in the live action segments. Apparently some of the scenes, namely those that involve the "goblins", are chroma-keyed onto photographed backgrounds to save costs. Aside from the background being clearly static, the chroma key was also done quite amateurishly in that the goblins have a thin outline visible in certain scenes.
• Spiritual Successor: The show is one to Rick Sigglekow's earlier TV series Shining Time Station. The show focuses on an older adult who runs a business related to the British animated show it frames, a crazy person who runs a business near the shop, something inanimate coming to life during one point in the episode, a group of kids who visit the place, small, human-like creatures who interact with the humans and people telling stories leading into the British animation.
• Sweetness Aversion: "Jack Frost Is Back In Town" features the titular character singing with cute characters based on winter. Though this is lessened somewhat by Jack Frost being played by Gilbert Gottfried.
• Tear Jerker:
  • "Thank You For Being You" is a bittersweet song about how the puppets love Noah. After the actor who played him, Sean McCann, died of heart disease, it really tugs at the heartstrings, especially the last few lines of the song.
  • "Anything Can Happen At Christmas", because of its message that love is important around the holidays.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The show is notorious for having people who watched the show as a kid talk about how the puppets, mainly those with more complicated designs (common examples include Johnny Crawfish, Stein, Island Princess, the Ruby Reds and Gaylord, for example) were creepy.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Let's see - one of the characters is a beer mug, another character has large breasts, the show references adult works like Sudden Impact, the "Special" song is pretty much about sex (and drops the word "hell"), and the series finale has a man trying to turn NODDY's into a cigar store. It's a wonder that this show was approved for preschool television at all. Then again, Canada's censors are pretty lax compared to American ones.

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