3rd Grade Squad

**3rd Grade Squad**, better known as **Dottiedoodling Delights** is a live-action children's series from The Kiddie Channel. It was cancelled after its 12th episode aired. The show was removed from Kiddie Plus on May 18, 2022.

## Plot

4-year-old Collis doesn't know the meaning of "cool" or "possible", which means he doesn't know that dumb jokes are uncool and impossible to get right if done all the time. This preschooler boy has great curiosity and excitement about everything. That's what sends Collis on adventures that are always yucky, gross, or even oddly sweet. Avoiding him is his best friend, Magendie, who is a personalized master of disguise that can fool just about anything or anyone. To most people, Magendie seems like a normal kid; only Collis and the other students can hear her distorted words of wisdom. Their lovable relationship is still important in the end, and the biggest threat is Ms. Foristell, the classroom teacher who is always on the verge of figuring out about Magendie and Collis.

## Why This Show Sucks

* Almost every episode features disgusting gross-out humor, an example is "Out of Color", in which Magendie pokes Collis in the stomach, which causes him to **vomit on-screen**.
* A large number of moments in the show come off as very mean-spirited, mainly the ones revolving around Magendie and Collis' relationship.
* Magendie is a horrible friend and a jerk towards Collis, and she usually gets away with all of the bad deeds that she committed. She’s also an overplayed bully-like stereotype.
* The titular students are immature jerks who, although not intentionally mean, annoy everyone around them, which doesn't help that their voices are a bit too overly grating.
* Magendie is also somewhat mean-spirited, but usually only towards Collis, as she constantly fools him into believing he can do what he wants. In her debut episode, **she actually gave Collis dynamite so he can explode**. Yes, really!
* In fact, Collis' cliché of being treated badly is insulting, thus turning him into a butt-monkey, a character who gets hurt by everyone in the show for little to no reason at all.
* The show is filled to the brim with bad/mediocre episodes, ranging from ridiculous to dangerous to even **offensive** in most cases, let alone the fact that this show was doomed to fail from the start.
	+ The worst example is the episode "Flippin' Fantastic", in which Magendie tells a candy-themed story where the bunny protagonists ***actually end up getting arrested***. What the hell is going on here?
* Every episode usually ends in a disaster.
* The theme song is horribly composed and cringeworthy.
* Many episodes are very inappropriate and disturbing for younger audiences.
* It has very messed up and horrible morals in every single episode to the point where it makes the show unwatchable!
* Another main problem is that it is filled with unlikable or stereotypical characters.
* Overall, this show nearly ruined the Kiddie Channel's reputation and caused various parents to hate Kiddie as a whole, even though it has several good and/or decent shows here and there.

## Redeeming Qualities

* Creative and interesting concepts, notably the toddler ideas, as well as the premise of Magendie and Collis learning new things at preschool.
* Magendie and Collis do get comeuppance for their actions.
* Kiddie Channel hasn't aired this show since December 2021, and it's missing from Kiddie Plus. It's unknown why this show no longer airs, although it's probably for the best.
	+ Prior to the series' cancellation, Kiddie planned to release 40 episodes and 4 seasons, which didn't end up happening due to the series being cancelled.
* The theme song can be nice to listen to, despite being annoying and cringeworthy.
* There are still a handful of funny moments.
* Despite its violence and gross-out humor, it still feels like a kids' show because there's no blood, overly grotesque wounds, or fetishes in the show.

## Reception and failure

Although it actually performed well with its target preschool demographic, this show pretty much damaged the reputation of the entire *Dottiedoodling Delights* franchise and has caused Kiddie to completely ruin their own creation, especially when Primal Screen was working alongside Kiddie for this series, and Primal Screen did not really do anything to stop it from happening. So in the end, both Kiddie and Primal Screen are to blame for this disaster, and ever since, the *Dottiedoodling Delights* franchise was killed, with no signs of it ever returning as of now.

Worst of all, Kiddie was absolutely blind to all of the negative reception that this show got, with them having planned 3 whole seasons, 130 episodes and even a movie special; unfortunately, they were not able to accomplish this goal, since the only time when Kiddie sort of listened was in 2021 when they finally cancelled the show after only one season and 12 episodes, with no signs of it getting a 2nd season.

Upon release, *Dottiedoodling Delights* received outrage by parents of young children, as well as fans, audiences and critics alike, with many complaining about the heavy flanderizations of several characters (including the titular two), bland and horribly written plots, poor slapstick, and most notably the unnecessary gross-out humor. Due to the failure of the show, it basically killed the whole *Dottiedoodling Delights* franchise. The show currently holds a below-average rating on IMDb.