It’s bizarre.Īt any rate: Every episode involves the Octopod tooling around in the ocean and dealing with some sort of sea animal’s problem, or sometimes the sea animals are the problem. The rest of the characters have personality and agency Tunip and his other plant-based lifeforms appear to be either vegetable-based Oompa Loompas or actual slaves, and they really don’t fit into the rest of the show very well. His name is Tunip, but I thought it was Turnip until seeing it in print just now. You’ll recall I said they were mostly animals. They are so, so, so British, even the ones who aren’t British. Then there is the one with the southern accent (and by “southern accent,” I mean “southern US”) and what might be an attempt at a Mexican accent, maybe, since the character’s name is Peso? Only they’re all done by British voice actors, and they are perhaps done by British voice actors who have never met southerners or Mexicans, because the southerner (“Tweak,” the rabbit) sounds like the worst stereotype of a toothless Mississippi white-trash hick you’ve ever heard and the Mexican accent sounds so un-Mexican that I thought the character was supposed to be Asian at first. Most of them, as I said, are various flavors of British, and their accents are region-specific. It seems that a professor might be better as a consultant from afar, instead of using up valuable resources like food and air (which he's not able to breathe anyway - see point 1).So here’s the new hotness: Octonauts, a show about British (mostly) animals (mostly) who live underwater in a giant octopus and Do Science. Inkling's title of Professor indicates that he is knowledgeable about something.but, what, exactly? I would think it's pretty expensive to maintain this undersea ship that is fully powered and operational at all times. What is his actual purpose? Captain Barnacles seems to be in charge of everything that goes on. Also, shouldn't he be wearing Octo-boots on all eight of his legs?ģ. His blue bow tie is sort of the same color, so perhaps that's his link to the rest of the crew. Is he just too cool for school? Apparently, the hats worn by the rest of the Octo-crew are totally beneath him. In the photos here, we see Professor Inkling hanging out around all of the land mammals who have (of course) no problem breathing the air inside the Octopod.Ģ. The last time I checked, that's the sort of creature that needs to be actually living in water. How precisely is he surviving? He's an octopus. Which leads me to many deep and ponderous questions about this perhaps slighted character.ġ. But a lot of the time, he's entirely ignored. Occasionally, he produces some knowledge (because, Professor - duh). The vegimals, though mostly incapable of speaking, manage to be in charge of feeding the different animals meals that apparently fit within their food groups - you know, from raw fish to lettuce to seals (what?! That's what polar bears eat, according to Wikipedia).īut perhaps the most puzzling creature of all who resides in the Octopod is Professor Inkling, a pink octopus who is rarely seen. They're an awfully prepared bunch - with Gups named after almost every letter of the alphabet, which used for exploring places like the Midnight Zone undetected by dangerous creatures that might eat them all. These adventurous little explorers save the lives of hurt and sick sea creatures every single day! They happily abide in the Octopod, down in the deep blue sea, coexisting as only a cat, a penguin, a polar bear, a bunny rabbit, a dog, and a bunch of vegetable-animals (vegimals) can. I've not made is a secret that my kids are obsessed with The Octonauts. Creature report! Creature report! Creature report!
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