A Little Curious About Life

**A Little Curious About Life** is the 12th episode of season 2 and the 37th episode of the series overall.

This episode focuses on all about life.

Shorts and Songs as follows:

1. Intro Sequence with Bob and Mr. String
2. Beautiful Day\*
3. Beginning of Life\*
4. Full of Life
5. A Seed Needs Water
6. I Got Life (\*)
7. A Seed Needs Sunshine
8. I Will Love You for the Rest of My Life
9. A Seed Needs Time to Grow\*
10. I Am What I Am
11. Love of My Life
12. Life is But a Dream

\*followed by "A Little Reality" segment.

1. Some girls look at flowers and plants (which are a part of **life**) through kaleidoscopes.
2. A father and two girls walk into the hospital to meet their new baby.
3. Kids show their different parts of the body according to Mop's lyrics in her song, even featuring stock footage from different segments. (this doesn't count as a stand alone segment because it's part of the song).
4. Kids harvest raspberries, apples, corn on the cobs and pumpkins and eat the crops because "**life** gives us food to eat".

## Trivia

* Contrary to popular belief, this episode is technically not the series finale. Many sources, including this HBO Family schedule archive, list it as the 37th episode aired. However, this was the final episode produced and was intended to be the finale. given that the other episodes after this one feature topics that were already produced in other episodes.
	+ Before then, the supposed airdate was August 15, 2000.
* **Differences between normal episodes and this episode:**
	+ The episode begins with Mr. String and Bob on hill above a night sky, talking about life and planets, instead of the intro song.
	+ Plush still hops on the "A Little Curious" logo letters like he does in the regular opening, but the background is in space. The title card itself has "About Life" below the actual logo. During the starring segment, different clips from the episode are used instead of the regular clips.
	+ Oddly, when the first short starts, the title card with the short's name doesn't appear.
	+ Altogether, the animation seems to be more improved compared to older A Little Curious episodes, namely the 3D CGI segments.
	+ At the end of the episode after the last short, there is no recap of the episode's subjects, and it cuts straight to the credits. This is mostly because the entire episode focuses on one subject.
	+ The copyright screen at the end of the credits is noticeably laid out differently: it's more centered and the "Dolby Surround" logo appears over it. The copyright itself says this is the only episode produced in 2000, as the other episodes' copyrights date 1999, even the ones that aired in 2000.
	+ We are introduced to two new characters: Irving the Awning and Baby Booties. Previously, the cast never expanded beyond the twelve main characters.
* For a quick second in *Beautiful Day*, Little Cup's juice inside of him disappears, a second before Mop, Pad, Pencil, Mary Jane, Lacey, Bob, and himself look up in the sky.
* The *A Seed Needs Water* short ends with Bob and Little Cup waiting outside for the flower to grow, but the *A Seed Needs Sunshine* short begins with the two inside. In a way, this is a continuity error because the latter segment occurs right after the former segment. It also doesn't make sense why they brought the plant back inside anyway.
* I Got Life includes clips from: live action segments from Over, Under, Balance, Top, Bottom, Jump, Fast, Slow, Spin, First, Last, Step, and Lead, Follow, Act.
* In *Love of My Life*, Doris says "Didn't/Did I ever tell you about Irving? Irving the Awning was his name." twice, when despite the fact she already told him who Irving was at the beginning of the story.
* This episode was pulled from reruns in 2017 due to the covers of “I Got Life” and "I Am What I Am"

## References

1. This site mentions the episodes, and shows this one as a special.

## Gallery

Intro sequence with Bob and Mr. StringBeautiful DaySome girls look at flowers and plants (which are a part of **life**) through kaleidoscopes.Look at a girl (which are a part of **life**) through a kaleidoscope.Beginning of LifeMother, father and the two girls holding a baby at the hospital.Full of LifeA Seed Needs WaterI Got LifeA Seed Needs SunshineI Will Love You for the Rest of My LifeA Seed Needs Time to GrowKids harvest raspberries, apples, corn on the cobs and pumpkins and eat the crops because "**life** gives us food to eat".I Am What I AmLove of My LifeLife is But a Dream