Children's Show Cars

Podcast Episode: 0255
What Vehicles are hidden in popular Children's Shows?

       What vehicles are hidden amongst our favourite children's shows?  Join us as we journey through the world of famous children's shows and the automotive influences which hide within them.  From the obvious to the unknown, AutoLooks will uncover the vehicles from the top children's shows.

​      We've all been exposed to it. The automotive influence in television shows We've all seen it. There's been dedicated shows about vehicles We've discussed that before like stuff like Knight Rider, the A-Team, even Chrysler's own show, viper. And then we've also talked about some of the other stories, some of the top vehicles of the automotive television world, those being the Flintstones car, the Jetsons car, the Simpsons car. But nobody ever really talks about the bottom end Children, little kids, are even exposed to the automotive world and a lot of their shows. They don't realize it, but they're being influenced by some of these great automotive products. And today AutoLooks is going to be taking a look at all of the automotive influences in children's shows that you've never even thought about and how we're even going to include the names of a few that you've been itching to learn all today on the auto looks podcast. 

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     I am the host of the AutoLooks Podcast, Mr. Everett Jay, speaking to you today about children's shows, cars. We're not talking about cartoons. We're not talking about like everybody gets it. There's a lot of them out there. We all remember Scooby-Doo, we all remember the Flintstones, we all remember the Jetsons. But there's actual other shows that you probably never think of and I know you know having kids and gone through all of those entry-level shows. Even the small children's shows have automotive influences and the funny thing is we don't take it in consideration. There's a lot of them out there and a lot of great ones that we don't even notice. Hell. One that comes to mind from my childhood that centered essentially around an automobile portion, even though the entire show was dedicated to learning stuff, was the Magic School Bus. Oh yes, the Magic School Bus. We all remember it A yellow bus that could turn into anything. It'd shrink down in size; it could go out into space. Hell, it could become a bear. On one episode it transformed. Now during my childhood, I remember things shows like transformed. Now. 

      During my childhood I remember things shows like Transformers and even GI Joe those ones we all knew and they had automotive influences in them. Transformers are basically based off automobiles to begin with, so naturally we all became accustomed to those ones. But then there was the show Mask. If you don't remember this one from the 1980s, mask was amazing. Why? Because Mask had all these interesting vehicles within it literally had a flying Camaro. 

      And I remember one of my cub leaders yeah, I went through beavers, cubs and scouts back in the day. His son liked mask and actually had quite a few of those vehicles and we were over there visiting one day because my dad was leader of scouts and they knew each other and all that. We went over and his son had these and he's like oh, you know, he was kind of growing out of them. And he's like, okay, yeah, here's some toys if you want to keep yourself, you know, busy while they're chit-chatting and whatever, you just stay here and play, and I played with them. They were the coolest toys I had ever seen. 

      Then, when I became exposed to the show, it just made perfect sense to me. This, this is cool. This is essentially made for not children but more adolescents in preteens. But you have to remember, Saturday morning cartoons had all those shows on it. If you ever watch Futurama, they kind of poke fun at that with all the different shows that were on. You know, back in those days we watched shows like Smurfs, G.I. Joe, Transformers, droids and even one of my favorites, Astro Boy. But those ones, some of them, were dedicated to older people. 

     We're talking about the children shows. We're talking about something like Barbie. Now. Barbie wasn't a television series back then, but she had an automotive influence and she still does today. We did an entire podcast, right before the Barbie movie came out, about all the different Barbie vehicles ever since it's been created All the different pink Corvettes, the Rolls Royce, the Beetle, the Fiat They've had tons of them. 

     Well, Barbie has moved up into again more of a younger generation, so adolescence or pre-teen series similar to that of the Lego Friends series. But younger kids are still exposed to it and they have a lot of automotive influences in it and, with Barbie now separating itself from the automotive, industry has now designed and built their own dedicated Barbie car and it fits right into the show. It's pink, it's a convertible and it's got four seats. It's something you don't see out in the world today, because Barbie is an expression of yourself. You're supposed to show who you are, not follow the trend, not jump in with whatever's going on. Barbie drives a different car because she is different than everyone else, even though the actual physical doll you know there's millions of them out there and all pretty much the same she gives you the ability to be different and with that she's created her own different car. The Lego Friends series has done this as well, and they've done it in a way that actually gets you to purchase the toys a lot easier. 

      Essentially, the Lego friend show was an addition to the Lego friend series. Now, Lego’s always had a problem trying to get younger female groups into purchasing Lego products. Now, my kids love Lego and it doesn't matter, they both do, and the great thing with Lego is you could build and create. Well, that's not something that was really pushed. I remember when I was younger it was more of a you know, a select group. You know boys play with boy toys; girls play with girl toys. Girls weren't playing with Lego and boys weren't playing with Barbies. Well, things have changed and the world has changed and Lego is finally able to get their stuff out there and to help them get it out there. They've created the Lego Friends television show and they've even had special episodes dedicated to racing yeah, a full-on race in the Lego world and it just makes it amazing.
 
      Go-karts and cars and bikes. This is Lego. We're talking about People that get connected together and you build the world around you. And now that has an automotive influence in it. It's showing little girls that they can be a race car driver. You don't have to settle for just watching it. It's showing you can do it and that's a great thing with the show.
 
       And just like that, there's many other shows that are very similar to that, like Scooby-Doo and the Flintstones Hell, even SpongeBob with his paddy wagon. You all remember that from the movie. It's basically run of recycled grease. Hell was SpongeBob onto something, telling us maybe we should be recycling all the grease that we throw out of McDonald's to power our vehicles. Well, they are showing us a lot of other stuff if your kind of into all those weird theories about SpongeBob, about Bikini Atoll and all that. But SpongeBob is a show that you're actually not supposed to let little children watch because it flashes images so quickly it'll create a really bad attention span. But in today's world we don't really worry about that because most kids are just jammed in front of a tablet to begin with, and little shows like this are starting to disappear. Now even children are starting to watch tiny little shows on YouTube. So, the automotive influence has to jump into a new medium. But they still remember it from past shows.
 
      Remember Bob the Builder? It was a show set up for little children. It was to show you that anybody can build something. When you put your mind to it, you can build it. Can we build it? Yes, we can. That's basically the motto of Bob the Builder. He can do it and all of his machines are talking to him. 

​      Now we all remember Thomas, the tank engine from back in the day. There's tons and tons of different trains. See Thomas, you may not think. Well, it's a train. It's not part of the automotive industry, but automobiles run off an internal combustion engine. Trains run off either diesel or diesel electric. Now they're similar. Boats have giant motors too, so everything altogether still confines with that propulsion system.
 
       So, something like Thomas or Chuggington, Super Wings are dedicated towards children showing a transportation system. Thomas was amazing at it. It showed an entire transportation infrastructure across an entire island nation, and if you're ever wondering where the island of Sodor is, essentially, it's a giant island between Ireland and Great Britain. That's literally where it's supposed to be. You can go online, look for them, but they actually. Somebody actually made a map and showcase where Sodor was. It's pretty cool. But Thomas was made for younger children. They want to show the transportation industry and hell, there's even a bus, a helicopter equipment and even the fat train conductor. Sorry, that's the original name. Sir Topham Hatt now drives around in his own vehicle, an old blue Rolls Royce, or he has his train car. That's pretty neat. He's showing you that you can actually drive a car on the railroad tracks, all from a show that's dedicated to being about the transportation infrastructure of trains, shows you the ability that automobiles can move from both the road towards the track. It does this in a way that engages us and it does it with a show that the whole family can enjoy. Thomas, Percy, diesel they're all there and they're all showcasing to us all the fun aspects of this world.
 
        My son grew up watching Thomas when he was little. That was his favorite show to watch when he was a little kid. Now he didn't get to watch a ton of television like a lot of other kids out there, but he loved to watch Thomas and we liked him to watch Thomas. I especially liked him to watch Thomas because I liked watching Thomas as a kid, but I'm an automotive enthusiast. I love cars and the transportation infrastructure that's in Thomas still engages me today. Now, today I can't watch Thomas because Thomas is now CG and his whole face moves and everything, so it just throws me right out the window. It's like no, no, no, no, this is not Thomas. Okay, Thomas is actual trains like models and a giant table in a warehouse to make a show. He's not a CG thing. I get it. The CG aspect makes it easier to build this world and add on to it. You know what? Let's just keep it the way it was.
 
      Thomas was great, especially when he had Ringo Starr doing the talking or my favorite, George Carlin, a man that literally does stand up to showcase to the world all the things that are wrong with it. It doesn't miss a step on swearing. And yet he was the voice on Shining Time Station for Thomas and his friends, which I always found amazing. I remember as a kid watching that show and that show you know. It had people and it had the aspect in it. Now, Thomas, you might say why is he here? Because Thomas was real life products, whereas something like SpongeBob was a cartoon. Well, Thomas still fits into this because he's made for children and he's made to showcase our favorite world. 

​         There's a lot of other ones out there. Fireman Sam was one of the ones that my kids grew up with and really, I was never really too fond about Fireman Sam. I prefer when they watch bob the builder. Bob the builder was great when he was made out of plasticine. Second it became cg. That was it. It's done. I'm tired of watching it. Like, seriously people, I get it. It costs a ton of money and takes a lot of time to make that, but that was the way we loved it.
 
        It's like Rory the racing car. That was a short show developed for children. We've done an entire episode about Rory the Racing Car. If you want to listen to it or want to let your children listen to it, they can find out about it. Rory was amazing. He came from the same place as Bob the Builder. So, does Fireman Sam. He's a fireman and firemen have fire trucks. And if your kid likes fire trucks like most young kids do, they'll love the show, even though the kid Norman, is always doing bad things, always causing issues, and is so annoying with his voice. Ugh, yeah, I never liked it, but my kids liked it, so I watch it with them.
 
          It's like Paw Patrol. I was never too crazy about Paw Patrol as well and they loved it. I loved watching Paw Patrol and I'm just like why I get it. There's a part of me that says, yes, it's good to enjoy this one and it's good to promote it because it's Canadian. Yeah, if you didn't know that, paw Patrol is actually from Canada and its toys from Spin Master are from Canada as well. Oh, yeah, yeah, all Canadian right there. And Paw Patrol is one of the biggest things going around for little kids out there, for little kids out there, and he's got tons and tons of different variations of their products, from trucks to boats to submarines, aircraft to hovercraft to snow machines. They go everywhere. They show every aspect of the automotive world.
 
         Now we're not going to get too deep into the Paw Patrol aspect of this. We all know kids love Paw Patrol and they want to watch it. But they'll only do it for a couple of years and then all of a sudden, when they get out of it, you find all of their toys at thrift stores. Trust me, if you want paw patrol stuff for your kid, just go to a thrift store, like value village and all that. You will find tons of them, because when kids are into it, they want everything. And then all of a sudden, one day they just wake up and they're like nope, I don't want it, I don't like it, I, I'm not watching it and I want to get rid of everything. And then you have to get rid of everything. See, Thomas is something where you keep the toys and you keep it with you, just like Barbie, just like Lego.
 
        But Paw Patrol, once you grow out of it, that's it, you're done. You're walking away from these toys. Doesn't matter how much money or how much time you haven't invested into them. You walk away from it, even though it's an amazing show that shows the entire automotive industry off in one spectacular showcase for young children that grabs their attention and keeps them engaged the only thing I was never crazy about it what the hell are these engines? You get in these like big diesel sounding vehicles, especially from like Chase and his police truck. It sounds like a diesel engine when he fires it up, but where's the engine? They sleep inside of their vehicles when they're not in use.
 
         I'm still trying to figure this one out. Plus, there's a lot of things that are really questionable on that. But, just like most kids shows, there's a lot of weird and questionable things in it, like they build a bridge for these beavers to cross a river okay, but the bridge isn't tall enough for me to get my boat under. Did you literally try and figure that one out? And then they build a bridge to go over this road once for all these beavers yet again. And I'm putting these trees and all this grass on it because I need to make it look more realistic. Yeah, I know about those types of bridges I live close to the only one that exists in the province of Ontario and one of the few that's in Canada, but they just put it together in one afternoon. Nah, you can't do that in an afternoon and literally you can't just shut down the whole road as you build a bridge, and that bridge doesn't even look tall enough to get cars under it like it's.
 
        So many questions that need to be answered. But then I sit back and I realize this is a kid's show. Kids don't ask those questions like the vibrant colors, the cool machines, the funny, the humor aspects of it. As long as it keeps them engaged, they love it and all kids love it and all kids love the kid shows. And when you're above the world, you're in the world of Paw Patrol. 

       ​When you jump into the ocean you get into the Octonauts, and the Octonauts was another one of those ones I was never 100% crazy about. It was kind of like Bubble Guppies, just Bubble Guppies is made for like babies. And the second you hit like three or four, that's it. You're getting out of bubble guppies and you're moving up in the world. Well, you're moving into the Octonauts, paw Patrol world, you're getting into things like Peppa Pig and Bluey and all those Before you make that next jump into like the Flintstones, the Jetsons, Scooby-doo, and then crossovers between them are like Fireman Sam and Rory the Racing Car, and then you get into the older shows that make you think, like the Magic School Bus.
 
       Like I said, how does that bus turn into everything? What type of features does it have? How does it operate? What power source does it have? We all want this answer, but in the end it's all about teaching us a lesson and that's what a lot of kids' shows are all about teaching us an amazing lesson and showcasing some amazing vehicles to us. Fireman Sam has his fire trucks. Magic School Bus had the bus, but recently first it started with Netflix and then it moved on to Disney was this miraculous show with the Ladybug car, which kind of showcased to us an electrified version of a new age Volkswagen Beetle.
 
       When I saw that I was like every other parent who loves automobiles. It's like we got to watch that movie. I want to see that car. It wasn't just bringing kids into watching a kid's show, it was bringing parents in so they could see the cool cars that are in it. It was fully sponsored by Volkswagen, so all the vehicles were Volkswagen and we saw the one with the ladybug cat noir. Okay, her car was a new age Volkswagen beetle. We all know it, we all saw it and we all wondered why hasn't Volkswagen built upon that momentum?
 
       Well, the show Miraculous didn't really take off and the movie was on Netflix, but the TV show is on Disney and it wasn't a very big thing. Now it was bigger for more adults than it was for children. So that's one of those shows I think kind of missed the mark, even on the automobile scale. They kind of walked away from it. But do they really need to do that? Maybe they do. Maybe they do need to move in to other things, some of the older ones you might think about from the past, like we talked about before, about the Jetsons, the flying car and the Flintstones car. 

​       But nobody ever really talks about one of the earliest cartoons you ever get introduced to as a child, curious George. Now he had a television show, but in the books Curious George was there and the man in the yellow hat actually has a blue convertible and you see it quite often when they're out and about. Now I get it. This really isn't a big thing. There's no name for it or anything. It's just a blue car; they're sedan or they're convertible to go out in public in. It's kind of cool. It's kind of neat. And when you find out about it, you're just like, oh my God, I never noticed that Curious George has an automobile in it. I get it. Cars are everywhere and they're in any show you could think of, but this is a dedicated car that the man in the yellow hat drives all the time. It's the only one you ever see him in.
 
          See, what we're talking about in this episode is all the vehicles that you actually see in the shows that are more of an emphasis on them, like the Krabby Mobile or the boat cars from Bikini Bottom and SpongeBob. Those boat cars are everywhere, but you want to know something neat about them. It's when they're driving past, you're like, well, yeah, if you lived under the sea and they were all you know walking around, talking around people, what would they be cruising around in? They'd be cruising around in boat cars. It makes perfect sense. Well, actually it doesn't, because you're underwater, not above the water, but it's still kind of cool that they added that aspect to it and every time I see them, I was like, yep, there's your automotive. The buses are submarines in SpongeBob and the standard cars are boats. It's kind of interesting. They kind of add that aspect. The octonauts add that aspect with all kinds of different looking submarines. They have subs for missions, they have subs for moving quick, they have subs for going slow, they have subs to bring everyone, subs for singular. It shows the entire aspect of that part of the world.
 
        Now, up until now we've been talking about a lot of these different shows that you've found cars in. You've seen cars in what we're going to get into in the end. Here we've got four more shows that are essentially made for children, with vehicles in them. These ones are full on out. You'll remember them, and they're Peppa Pig, PJ Masks, the Wiggles and the one everyone's waiting for, bluey. Okay, Peppa Pig, we all get it. Peppa Pig has the family car. It's a convertible and it's red. It's literally just the Peppa pig family car. There's no real name to it, it's just the red car, kind of like the wiggles with the big red car. 

        Now, the wiggles never really showcase their automobile out to the younger generation. They're all about their singing, they're all about all these cool games and talking about stuff, but every once in a while, they go out into the world and they utilize a vehicle, and they've actually had four different Big Red Cars. They had the original Big Red Car, which was a Volkswagen Beetle. Then they had one built off that same platform which was essentially the dedicated Wiggles Big Red Car. It was made for them. It's made for the original cast and the second series cast. We're now into the third iteration of the Wiggles Big Red Car. It was made for them. It's made for the original cast and the second series cast. We're now into the third iteration of the Wiggles show. And now the Wiggles because the world's moving away from cars, they're moving up into the world as well.
 
      When they first started touring with the new cast of the Wiggles you know, after Emma left kind of missed that I didn't mind Emma, but moved on to bigger and better things they decided to update the Wiggles Big Red Car because it kind of went back with the original series for this. Now, when they started touring, they brought the Big Red U, which was a Toyota Hilux. Well, what did Toyota do for the Wiggles? Knowing how big the Wiggles are in their home country and countries all around the world, they decided to make them a special edition new big red car. See, Volkswagen never really got on board with the original big red car. It was built off a Volkswagen platform, didn't really go that far, but Toyota built one. They slapped on the front end from an old school Land Cruiser, lifted the big red car up, gave it a roll bar and it's now known as the Wiggles big red Ute.
 
       This thing is cool and when I was going back and doing the research for this podcast, thinking about all these cars from kids shows, I all knew about the big red car. Everybody knows about the wiggles big red car. Well, I didn't know that they have the big red Ute now and the big red Ute is what they're using. And now it's literally sponsored by Toyota with a big Toyota branding on the front of it. Toyota has realized that the Wiggles make such an impact on children that they can influence them into their buying power. Later on, showcasing a Land Cruiser, one of the most notable vehicles in any part of Australia, they built the Big Red Ute and it's amazing they're showcasing this prowess off to children. 

        Like the show is about music and all kinds of funny tales but, like I said, every once in a while, they go out and about, and now they're doing it and the wiggles big red Ute sponsored and created by Toyota. See, Volkswagen tried to do it with cat noirs, new Volkswagen beetle, and we've been doing it for years. Like the mystery machine has been a combination of many different things for Scooby-Doo and the pink sedan from the Simpsons well, we all considered that to be an old Plymouth or even K-Car. But what is it? No, the Big Red Ute. We know who makes it, we know what it is. Its name is right there. It's the most focused automotive product out of any children's show ever the Big Red Ute.
 
       Now, the next show was one I had the joy of going to see its live performance and I do say joy loosely. It was PJ Masks. Now, this literally was like a very short-run television series in my house. PJ Masks was different. I could tell that it was made for kids. I could tell it was made to showcase the automobile industry out with flying vehicles and driving vehicles. They were cool, they were neat. Each of the three PJ Masks characters all had their own dedicated vehicle the Gecko, the Owl Glider and the PJ Masks standard blue Falcon vehicle.
 
      But it doesn't really showcase anything very interesting. But it doesn't really showcase anything very interesting with a short-run show that only grabs your attention for a very limited amount of time, you kind of forget about the automobile. So, it's there but it's not really there, and that's the problem. PJ Masks never really showed it off. They were trying to bring our culture into a kid's show. They were trying to showcase what we know and what we love, to try and engage with the adults. The unfortunate thing is, no matter how many times they showcase them or try and throw them in, the backdrop was super dry and super boring. Like my kids, I get it. They have a lot longer attention spans than other kids, but they couldn't even be held by it and when they watched it was only because it was the only show on. Yeah, now some other shows you might find for kids. There's like Blaze, that's a good one. Ranger Rob, that's another good one. 

​        Daniel Tiger has one of the most notable automotive figures for children's show from history. Why do I say that? Well, Daniel Tiger, in his new series, which engages preschoolers and younger children, has brought Trolley into a world. Trolley has always been there to bring mail or to talk to Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Rogers has been around a long time. I get it, he's retired, he's no longer part of the acting part of the show, but Trolley is, and it's interesting that they kept it in there. It's a trolley and it's a free ride for anyone to get around the world of Daniel Tiger Now. And it's a free ride for anyone to get around the world of Daniel Tiger Now.
 
        Daniel Tiger is a great show to watch your little children watch, because it has so many great meanings in it. It teaches you a lot about patience and that I get it. Lots of kids just want to watch those action-packed shows PJ Masks and Paw Patrol but Daniel Tiger is better because it teaches you things and it doesn't shove these cars right in your face. It shows it to you that you need a form of transportation to get around the world. Okay, whether it be a plane, a boat, a car, a motorcycle hell, even a subway train or a regular train, you need some way to get around. You can use your feet too. We all have two feet and if we don't have two feet, we have a wheelchair. If we don't wheelchair, somebody can push us. There's a multitude of different ways to get in and around Daniel Tiger's neighborhood with trolley gives us that aspect. It shows free use of public transit to children. It makes them not scared to take the bus.
 
      I grew up in a generation whose parents literally had songs about people riding buses. Guess who Bus rider gets up in the morning. It's like you're literally telling people that riding public transit is for dumb people and poor people. That's it. If you're riding the bus, we don't want to talk to you. My generation started stepping out from that. With Daniel Tiger showing trolley, he's showcasing to us that you and your family can literally use it to get in and around. Daniel Tiger is similar to that of Uber as well. Trolley brings Daniel Tiger to everywhere he needs to go, so it's making a great impression on kids that they don't need to go out and purchase a vehicle. 

        You still have public transit if you live close enough to everything you need, and if you don't, then you need a vehicle, depending where you are. But as of right now, the SUV market is one of the biggest. So, you need a vehicle like bobo. Who's bobo? That's the name of our car. That's what bingo says in an episode of bluey, and I actually had to learn that from one of my kids. I had to ask him what's the name of Buley’s vehicle. I get it like Peppa pig has a big red car, the wiggles, have the wiggles. Big red car, the big red Ute. There's the magic school bus, you know. The Barbie car, the crabby patty what is the name of Buley’s car? I'm like it's got to have a name. Bluey is one of the biggest shows out there right now.
 
       Now, being a dad, I'm kind of you know, I love watching bluey. It's great, it's amazing. It teaches all these cool things. But literally, when I've seen this meme a million times when al Bundy and homer Simpson were the fathers we had to look up to, it was a lot easier to be a dad than having to live up towards Bandit. You got to be fun, you got to be energetic, you got to be in with your kids. But it also showcases to us what the things that we need to do with our kids. Bluey does all of that and they do it in short little eight-minute episodes. They get the whole point across and they make you feel good.
 
      And every once in a while, they've got to hop in a vehicle and go somewhere and their vehicle looks like things that you would see out on the road. It's not a custom-made vehicle; it's not like the boatmobile from SpongeBob. No, it looks like an everyday SUV that you would find anywhere, and it has a name BOGO. All my vehicles have names. Except for my little black car in the garage, everything else I've ever owned has a name. There's Susie, the Suzuki. There's Lightning, the CX-9. There's Rev, the RAV4. There's Marty, the Tacoma. There's Griff, my unicorn of a vehicle, my old Kia Borrego. Then there was the Beast, my old Concorde. I named the vehicle and that was a podcast we did way back in our first season. Actually, second season is what's in a Name?
 
       Bluey teaches us that our vehicle is not just a conveyance form. When you don't live close to everything, you need a vehicle to get in and around. Now Bluey does go downtown, park their vehicle and wander around the city. When they're close to everything which showcases, we need to get out and explore the world around us as well, but we also need to make that vehicle a part of our family. Like I said, all of my vehicles have names and when I got rid of my Borrego this past winter, I had a book in it that was Griffin. It was a book about a baby Griffin Okay; the mythical creature and the name of my truck was Griff. My daughter kept it as a reminder of the vehicle that she essentially grew up with and knew about for most of her life. Kind of like Bogo and Bluey. It's part of the family and vehicles essentially are that. 

​        When you own them, people just look at them as a piece of machinery. But you know what? An automobile is completely different than that and it really takes children's shows to show you how they can be an extension of yourself. Man in the Yellow Hat had a blue convertible. He was single and he always liked to go out and learn and do things. Single, and he always liked to go out and learn and do things. Well, he had a vehicle for that. The mystery machine was a van because it was easily accessible for all the people that needed to fit inside of it plus all their gear. The boatmobile was underwater. Trolley brought them places. They all fit into the show and bobo does that and that's what I love about kids shows.
 
        You might not think about the automobile aspect of the show. I do, because that's what I love and that's what I'm talking about, but it's something that makes you think and makes you look. You want to know what it is, you want to understand where it comes from and why it's there, and it brings some sort of joy to your life. Would the Simpsons be the Simpsons without pink sedan and an orange station wagon? If graining changed the cars every single year, we wouldn't remember what they drove. But because they've had the same car since the beginning, we remember. And if bluey ever decides in their show to get rid of their vehicle and upgrade to something else because it's been given a name and became part of that family, we will remember it and children will remember it.
 
         You have to remember the time in your life that you take in the most amount of information is between the ages of one and seven, and Bluey fits into that aspect. All these shows do. We've all seen these shows within that age group. Some of them we shouldn't be watching within that age group, but we've all seen them and they've all shown us our automotive aspect. They've all given us a form of our industry. They've all proven to us that they're not just a giant hunk of metal to convey us around from place to place.
 
         They're literally part of the family, and kids like to point that out the most. My kids are the ones who always want to name vehicles. I kind of gave them names back in the day, but when we get a new vehicle, they want to name it. They think it needs a name because it's part of the family and that's the greatest thing for kids. They make you realize this stuff; make you forget about the things that you lost from your childhood.
 
       And these kids show, when you sit down and watch them when you get whether it be an annoying show like fireman Sam with that stupid Norman kid that you just want to punch in the face to something really cool like bluey or Scooby-doo they make you think and enjoy. And it doesn't matter if you see those vehicles or not. They're there and they're a part of our life and we remember them. And they're part of the toys. You have to remember that, just what all these shows have created toys as well. By having those things as part of the toy series, it makes merchandising even better and exposes us to even more of the automotive world when we can move up and find new interests in the automotive world, like racing, mechanics, engineering, designing, fashion. It's all there, and children's shows are our first step. 

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