Daisy’s PJs ( guess who’s her stuffed animal?)
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the backyardigans were unsupervised children having shared delusions in a backyard
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Got emotional the other day watching the Backyardigans (“Samurai Pie”; s2 e1 I believe) because Austin wants to be a master pie maker like Pie Master Tyrone and when he messes up during the “turn and fill” lesson he says “whoops!” at the end and you can hear the fear and disappointment in his voice. He already messed up at the end of the last lesson and you can feel how upset he is about this mistake. But what does Pie Master Tyrone say? After Austin has inadvertently thrown a pie filling onto the floor, Tyrone simply says “Good. Now clean up the spill” (completing the rhyme of the “turn and fill” song). NOW THAT’S MENTORSHIP. EMBRACING FAILURE. EMBRACING THE MISTAKES. ACKNOWLEDGING THAT HE HAD IT RIGHT THERE UP UNTIL THE END AND REFOCUSING HIM ON THE TASK THAT STILL NEEDS TO BE DONE. HE DIDN’T CHASTISE OR REPRIMAND AUSTIN HE KNEW HOW TO MEET THAT MOMENT WITH HUMOR AND GRACE FOR HIS APPRENTICE. It’s beautiful.
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A character design assignment from college! I had to reboot characters for a discontinued cartoon.
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I’m going to commit murder…
Where is the flavor of this beautiful musical genre? The melody of the trumpets that has stuck with me since I was five years old?
At this point, the animation isn’t even the problem; they’re trying to “adapt for children” something that was already designed for that purpose. Excuse me, but I never had a stroke from listening to jazz or tango when I was a child.
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why have the backyardigans and special agent oso never had a collab with animal crossing
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So my friend cryptically send me a list media video about the mascot pilot of the Backyardigans (which was my favorite fucking thing as a kid) called “Me and My Friends”.
Now I’m watching this and thinking, “These motherfuckers are terrifying to look at and there’s no sight of my boy, Austin.”
And my friend and I are texting back and forth as I’m reacting to this. Then they said, “FNAF LOOKING MASCOTS”.
And my brain is only able to produce a title: Five Nights in the Backyard.
A Five Nights at Freddy’s AU where you, the player, are returning to the neighborhood you grew up in for the first time in a couple decades. Something horrible happened in the shared backyard you and your friends used to play and share snacks together. Something that even you don’t remember well. Until you find yourself playing again like you used to. The backyard transforming into the woods as your friends start playing a game of hide and seek. But overtime, the game is becoming a little too real. And your friends don’t seem quite like themselves. Almost as if they were waiting for you. Waiting for your return to play again. Waiting for you to join them as you should have long ago…
Do with that what you will, internet.
This is the video if anyone is curious lol: https://youtu.be/i2fKYEJ_bsw?si=Q8eIM8tvcynjs87i
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The New Backyardigans are saying Happy 21st Anniversary to the Original Backyardigans
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This is the last character for my All-New Backyardigans reboot - Mikey the hamster!
Bio: An orange hamster with brown hair, and he wears a blue ombre gradient striped shirt, and gray shoes.
Persona: Mikey is the smallest of the Backyardigans [almost a whole head inches shorter than Pui], but it doesn’t stop him from joining in the adventures. He often needs explanations from the other characters on how things work or what they are. Sometimes, like Pablo from the original Backyardigans series, he’s prone to having panic attacks and getting over-excited.
[backyardigans is to Janice Burgess and nickelodeon]
My oc is to me and me alone
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So I was talking about the Backyardigans and about Austin, specifically and my sister walked up and whispered in my ear
“his name sounds like autism”
And I have been trying SO hard not to laugh
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Been recently reminded that there’s a group of people whose most prominent memory of me is a 20min powerpoint presentation on characterizarion in the Backyardigans cartoon and my subsequent headcanons of it, which was coincidentally one of the only times I’ve shared my own analysis of a work to others.
Anyway, some of the songs showed up to me again so I want to talk about how interesting it is that a procedural show with a VERY young target audience, with the entire premise being that the same characters play diferente roles in each episode, actually mantained a consistent characterizarion of each one.
(tucking the rest under the cut bc it is A Lot)
[[MORE]]Most of the kids have specific traits that repeat in several episodes - Pablo repeats roles that care a lot about hygiene (Pirate Captain Moody, Robin Hood the Clean, and the one time his thing is dirt is when he plays a supervillain that redeems himself by becoming Very Clean Guy), or roles that they prefer - Austin being a campy villain when he gets more focus (Gloom Meister, Funnyman Boogeyman, Le Master of Disguise, Mayor Stinkypants). There’s also traits that repeat unrelated to the actual roles - like Tyrone having motion sickness and not knowing how to skate (Robot Rampage, Cave party, The Yeti).
There’s even a diference in how much of a driving force in the plot each of them ususally is. Tasha likes to be in a position to boss others around (The Key to the Nile), but doesn’t mind taking on a supporting role (Internacional Super Spy, Who Goes There, Knights are Brave and Strong, Scared of You).
Pablo and Uniqua both like being in the spotlight, and most of the episodes have them either working together or competing with each other as a duo (Horsing Around, Big Dipper Diner, Internacional Super Spy, The Swamp Creature, Ranch Hands from Outer Space, Attack of the 50ft Worman). They also have the biggest range when it comes to roles, and Uniqua especially likes to bring others into the game as part of it, whether by finding them along the game or by instigating conflict (Knights are Brave and Strong, Fly Girl, The Secret of Snow, The Yeti). She likes a dramatic plot and she likes her friends to be a part of it.
And Tyrone! He has solos that dont even fully tie into the main plot (Movers of Arabia, Special Delivery) and in all, kind of seems to prefer quieter “slice of life” games (being a paperboy, a delivery man, a nightguard, a tour guide) but ends up being dragged into an action adventure, by Uniqua, Pablo and some times Austin (Best Clowns in Town, It’s Great to be a Ghost, Sinbad sails Alone, Super Team Awesome).
There’s also an evolution in all this from the start to the end of the show. I’ve seen people talk about Pablo’s gradually decreasing panic attacks, but there’s also Austin gradually being more confortable in the actual backyard space and leading the stories and Tasha having much less of a bossy/confrontational stance in season 4 compared to earlier seasons.
Anyway, this is just something that I spent quite some time thinking about (these are the effects of the pandemic that they don’t tell you about). It’s actually not all I said in the powerpoint, there’s some about the different duo/trio dynamics and actual personal headcanons, but I think this post is long enough as is kkkkk
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