The World of Happy Planet/Reasons

## Fun Facts

* Adorable CGI animation, even for 2002 standards, which is wonderfully animated by Sean Maynard and Philippe Jacques.
	+ In fact, what's more, is that the CGI animation was made in LightWave for the high quality animation and Messiah for the cel-shaded animation. Even the Preschool Time Fun segments were made in 3ds Max and Maya for the real-time animation as well.

* The mascots and the kids are all very cartoony, different, realistic and likable characters that they work very well together as a quintet in Season 1 and a septet in Season 2.

* Anime-esque, cute and original character designs.

* Promotes creativity and imagination for preschoolers.

* The inventive plot of five friends pretending to be whatever they want in their own planet.

* Catchy songs, such as the theme songs, the original songs, the character songs, and uses unique genres of music for each seven of them. Including cheerful, yodel, lullaby, cha-cha-cha, Russian, waltz, Arabian, Chinese, tango, melancholy, Christmassy, swing, fox-trot, ragtime, March, rock-n-roll, Celtic, South American, tarantella, Bossa nova, pop, Gypsy, gospel, Hawaiian, Cajun, operetta, Mexican, side story, hip-hop, electronic, ballad, country, salvo, Charleston, salsa, Greek, classical, jazz, and even samba which are all accurately represented by the dancing and the movements.

* Typical for a show that focuses on imagination, the show holds a lot of very creative and inventive episodes, including "The Life of Lemons", where the two mascots and the two kids pretend that they're in the Wild Wild West and is a reference to Cowboy Bebop.

* Beautiful and colorful background designs in all the episodes and two made-to-TV movies, such as the Butterfly Garden, the Tropical Island, the Wild Wild West, the Tropical Jungle, the North Pole, and even ten countries around the world.

* Great voice acting, especially for the two Canadian English versions from Canada.

* A troupe of real dancers learned each dance choreography and was filmed for the Canadian animators to watch, creating very realistic dances and movements.

* Some character development. Dizzy and Jonah were initially strong, (since they recently fell in love with Sparkle and Emily and sometimes with Stretchy and Angie) but they got tougher and more confident over time, taking on the roles of the villains in the stories.

* There are some cool guest appearances like Nathalie Hougay (Alias Mimik) and Maureen Straub.

* Properly utilizes pop culture references. The episode title of "The Life of Bananas" is a reference to One Piece and Haré+Guu.

* Funny jokes and running gags, such as Sprayer and William constantly freaking out and panicking of the bees and the six characters have to calm them down.

* Christmas Miracle and The Hidden Treasure are great made-for-TV movies.

* The Little Gelatos are very cute and adorable.

* Unlike Passe-Partout, the way the fourth wall is broken in this show is pretty cool and it's not annoying for older children or adults making this one of the few educational preschool shows that is entertaining for all ages.

* It stays true to the original Canadian French version.

## Goofs/Errors

* The CGI animation can either look stiff or too fast. This is more evident in the first season, since the second season, the CGI animation is slightly improved.
	+ Heck, it even looks like an old PS1/N64 video game and also looks similar to the early episodes of VeggieTales, Elroy's Toy and Imaginit.

* Sometimes, the mascots and the kids' singing voices are irritating.

* Springy and Savannah's attitudes can get very annoying.

* Many people got confused about Sunny and Brooklyn's species.

* The excessive/prolonged/repetitive singing can be annoying.

* The running gag that the characters' screaming can get you the last nerve.

* The crying in some episodes can be too much for some people as the voice actresses were actually sobbing while acting.

* In one episode, Sprayer and William became emotional and started crying because they lost their blue balloons, which is annoying due to the voice actor who was actually sobbing while acting.

* The Albanian, Arabic, Dutch, Georgian, Hebrew, Hindi, Polish, Romanian, and the Turkish dubs were complete disasters.

* There is no reason to buy this on VHS and DVD anymore. As you can find this television show on Dailymotion.