Noozles - Nick Knacks Episode

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What's better than one Japanese cartoon about the adventures of an anthropomorphic koala and his little sister to cash in on Japan's koala fever, which was then dubbed to English and broadcast on Nick Jr? TWO Japanese cartoons about the adventures of an anthropomorphic koala and his little sister to cash in on Japan's koala fever, which was then dubbed to English and broadcast on Nick Jr!
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[@alannamcfall7887]

Oh man, hearing Angelica's voice coming out of a different cartoon's mouth was a trip.

[@thesladesterb3vt3co7h]

And it’s worth noting that Cheryl Chase, Angelica’s voice actress, only voiced Pinky in the first eight episodes of the English dub. For some reason, another voice actress by the name of Lara Cody took over the role in later episodes. The two voices are slightly different and it shows.

[@kgrfirdjy]

wow! that is rather ironic!

[@BriskSunrise]

@@thesladesterb3vt3co7h Which was explained in the video itself.

[@allenmozek1]

I want to go on the record saying that the tonal shift in Noozles from slice of life fluff to a serial, high stakes adventure with personal consequences was a formative narrative moment for me. I was under ten when I was consuming this show and seeing the last couple episodes were a delirious experience for me that had a real impact.

[@gokaiorange9576]

Here's something interesting; Heidi Lenhart is Haim Saban's stepdaughter. She's the daughter of Haim's current wife Cheryl Saban, who, coincidentally enough, wrote the first two Au Pair films.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Damn, quite a life there.

[@FunnymanTimmy]

Also I think Cheryl co-wrote the movies with Jeffrey Sherman the son of the late Robert Sherman aka one half of the Sherman Brothers songwriting team.

[@genemelendez8157]

Nick Jr. post 2000; simple shows with life lessons and educational content Nick Jr. in the 80s; life lessons mixed in with plots about stopping the apocalypse of multiple dimensions Early Nick Jr. was wild

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Certainly. It's why pre-school TV of today feels boring to me.

[@Rhomega]

They should have added two more koalas named Inky and Clyde.

[@TECH097]

Don't forget Sue.

[@kgrfirdjy]

We had an extra fun Pac-Man Fever going on in the 1980's! 😆 My mom loved Pac-Man on the Atari 2600 that her Pac-Man fever is why we joke she burned out the joysticks.

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

And classic Nick Jr was just the best too. Cartoons don't have to be super loud or over the top; it's ok to have nice, cozy little shows.

[@stevensuarez8023]

Hear, Hear. *sighs* what has happened with kids shows nowadays?

[@andrejg4136]

@@stevensuarez8023 The kids changed. They were asking the same about kids in the 80s and early 90s. And late 90s and 00s. Time marches on and drags us all with it.

[@LeoHightower]

Hear Hear! But alas, things change and it's sad.... 😔

[@IzludeTingel]

the whole grandfather trapped in the bubble for eternity was terribly unsettling for all these years... and then you mention something about the lizard being an avatar of the grandpa, that makes me feel a sht ton better now. perhaps yes, the lizard IS the grandfather existing outside of the bubble, because when a family approaches the bubble, he wakes up as his former self (without a body anyway), but perhaps when he goes back to sleep, he wakes up as the lizard.

[@goodwinter85]

A new Nick Knacks episode means it's gonna be a good day!

[@codeblack9407]

I love this nick knacks

[@MyRetroLife]

I remember watching this show as a small child at my Great Grandparents house. They had cable and I always watched Nick Jr over there. Great memories!

[@sugarfrosted2005]

14:30 The giant panda is a bear. The racoon origin theory is debunked by genetic evidence. The Red Panda on the other hand is closely related to weasels and raccoons. (Oops my other comment got eaten by the automoderator. I'll delete this one if that one is approved.)

[@allyssaswain2394]

why would that comment be deleted?

[@JamesLewis2]

I was just about to make a comment about that, although I do remember that the re-classification of giant pandas as bears was only a few years old, and the narrator may have never heard that and just held that memory from when it was believed to *not* be a descendant of the most recent common ancestor of other bears.

[@Scarybug]

Came here to say this. :)

[@Rmlohner]

Now this was one of my big obsessions as a kid. That plot switch halfway through was absolutely mind-blowing to five year old me, and it definitely played a formative role in my entertainment tastes from then on.

[@kimmie91978]

I remember being really invested in this show (I was 11-12 when it aired, but I watched anything on Nick and anything animated). I've barely thought about it since then, but when I did have the odd thought about Noozles, I'd always think, "isn't that the cute show that got weird and deep?" I really thought it was just a fever dream. Your retrospective validates everything for me!

[@sailoritaly]

Oh hey, it’s the other Nick Jr. anime about talking koalas

[@janedoe3043]

This show traumatized me. I had apocalypse fears from this show for years. I didn't even remember anything about the show but the final episode.

[@leegoldsmith2028]

Love your work. Always impressed by your research and thoughtfulness. Just want to offer this interpretive tidbit. The change from mundane scenarios to apocalyptic ones isn’t a switch from coming of age to something else like heroism, but rather an intensification of the coming of age theme. The conflict with koalawala land is a metaphor for the onset of adolescence, especially the threat it can appear to pose. I had this thought a few years back when preparing to become a parent and reflecting on my own childhood, which like yours involved a lot of noozles. Hope you find this interesting. Keep up the great work!

[@basehead617]

The best thing about this series is how much history and context regarding Nickelodeon is in every episode, it's not just focused on the show itself

[@amyfloyd2]

It's funny: I distinctly remember that there was a koala cartoon I really enjoyed as a small child, but after watching the Nick Knacks episodes on Noozles and Adventures of the Little Koala, I still have no idea which of the two it was. Maybe it was both of them -- apparently I was only four when they stopped airing on Nick, so it's entirely possible that I assumed they were the same show. Anyway, I'm glad to know that it/they did exist and to find out more about them.

[@RajaReign78]

I was way too old to be watching this cartoon during my teenage years and loved it.

[@LadyHawke78]

1988... OH WOW. My aging Gen-X self has a lot of fond memories of this show.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

Is your avatar official art, or some real old fanart?

[@Blackbird26155]

THANK YOU!! THANK YOU! *THANK YOU* for covering this! I watched this show all the time when I was 7 but I could not for the life of me remember the name of it so I could never look it up! There was awhile there I was convinced I just dreamed it up!

[@Kate7950]

I loved this show when I was little. No wonder I loved anime as I got older, I had unknowingly been watching it since I was a preschooler. So much of the direction my later childhood and teen years took makes sense now.

[@Psergiorivera]

The episode where Sandy’s dad is arrested in Koalawalaland breaks my heart. He saves the Platypus egg with his tape, then goes to jail. The moment that ripped my heart out was seeing Osgood in the jail cell with him. It blew me away and, at 44, still makes me cry.

[@Toonrick12]

Next Time: "Do you want to see the rabbits, David?"

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Europeans and their harsh lessons on life and death!

[@thedjvinyljerk]

TOM BOSLEY!!!!!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@thedjvinyljerk A pretty warm voice to give a gnome I felt.

[@JerryD9000]

I was googling "Chinese and Japanese keeping koalas as pets" as soon as you brought it up....as I was searching you explained EXACTLY what I was curious about. This channel is quality.

[@RoyStorey]

i remember seeing one of the later "koala walla land" episodes when i was really young. for years i had no idea what it was and since most people i knew just saw the earlier noozles episodes everyone thought i was just confusing noozles or little koala with something else, and i always sounded insane talking about this show with this koala army and giant bubbles and such. now i see this and all that is flooding back to me lol

[@yszman6478]

I wonder when will Grimm's Fairy Tales Classics show be cover in the Nick Knack canon, with the 1989 shows or the 1992 shows. It was originally part of Special Delivery, and wasn't independent of SD still 1992.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Probably when he gets to 1992.

[@doryna_sira]

Fun name also spotted in the opening credits: Tony Oliver was one of the ADR directors. Famous to anime nerds as Rick Hunter in Robotech, Lancer in the Fate series, and, in a weird and tenuous Nick Knacks connection, the current English voice of Lupin III.

[@lainiwakura1776]

He is best Lupin.

[@doryna_sira]

@@lainiwakura1776 Damn right.

[@jdenoe69]

I remember watching Noozles on Nick jr. around spring of 1993. Thought it was a fun but weird little show. Didn't realize that Cheryl Chase from Rugrats, was Pinky until I rewatched the show on a nostalgia binge in the late 2000s.

[@mikesilva3868]

😎this was a fun cartoon series from my childhood

[@Sundancer213]

Have the Rolling Stones Killed!

[@daniexists6]

Yknow, a show about a child in possession of magic creatures from another plane of existence that they have to keep hidden is apt for Nick.

[@JMein13074]

17:22 Well Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man and The Fly reboots, so stranger decisions had been made during the decade.

[@requiett]

I watched this show every day and the final episode worked an insane existential examination of reality in 5-year-old me's brain. Amazing retrospective, very professionally done!

[@ryanlemay6296]

My cousin had a plastic Barbie candle, and we used to pretend it was Pinky's lipstick and use it open portals all the time haha

[@jamesmoss3424]

I remember watching noozles when I was a kid and it's an excellent show. 😀👍🐨

[@ptrgiese]

Noozles need a redub or reboot, someday. It was a nostalgic anime.

[@daveybelladonna9295]

The episode where they find the spirit of her grandfather tripped me out as a kid.

[@TwoPairSA]

Forget the early 2000s webcomics, I wouldn't be shocked if the sudden plot move here inspired a lot of modern American animators. There have been a lot of cartoons lately since the 2010s (especially since Adventure Time, though they're hardly the first, of course) to pivot from wacky adventures/slice of life cartoon into a real "shit got real" plot later.

[@ryanklima791]

Wow I knew I recognized Blinky as the voice of Koromon and Tommy from Digimon

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Noozles is basically darker than most younger kids shows.

[@Archdeco]

If you liked this premise for a show, you might also take a look at Nemulin, Batten Robomaru, Pettonton and the other shows from the "There's a goofy goober in my house" era of the Fushigi Comedy series.

[@ryanpyle9822]

I love this series! thank you for making it!

[@WaspandUnicorn]

I thought I made this show up! I used to play that my Koala stuffed animal would 'wake up' and that we would go to Koala Koala World. I'm so glad you talked about this. It's literally put to rest a 33 year conundrum for me. I can sleep easy knowing this show is real and there are others who loved it too!

[@WaspandUnicorn]

Also David the Gnome is extremely my shit!!!!! I still watch episodes when I'm feeling down!

[@kriswright]

I was at the upper end of the Nick Jr age group by this point, watching this at about age 9 or so. But my little sister loved it. I remember watching the first half with her and then not watching for awhile and coming back and things had gotten buck wild on the Noozles!

[@Konacha37]

I remember watching Noozels back when it first aired..... I really loved this show back in the day and it was only recently that I found out that it was an Anime. I kinda want to see it again to see how it held. Was so happy when I heard you talking about it back in the Adventures of little Koala and was looking forward to this.

[@mikesilva3868]

Same production company that the awful power rangers series glad I only saw the pilot episode of that show in 1993 when I was 9 at the time knew they used stock footage from zyuranger my substitute teacher had papers and gave me his copies the last paper was a drawing of witch bandora I recorded the pilot episode of mmpr and watched it i hated it so happy I am a huge sentai fan and not a fan of power rangers 📼

[@meyerj75]

@@mikesilva3868 I wasn't a huge fan of the Power Rangers either. The Noozles and Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics were huge departures from the Power Rangers, but both catered to different age group audiences.

[@mikesilva3868]

Saw this cartoon series on nickjr in 1991 until I was 9 in 1993😎

[@edgeman83]

Ever since Nick Knacks started, I have been waiting for this show. It and David the Gnome were probably my favorite shows way back when they first aired.

[@Unguided]

I see we finally got to Evangelion with koalas.

[@VahanNisanian]

I guess this was the beginning of Nickelodeon's association with Cheryl Chase. Cheryl also voiced Puar in the Harmony Gold dub of Dragon Ball (Puar was renamed Squeaker in that). Nickelodeon will revisit Japanese Animes in 1991 with "The Littl' Bits" (localization of 1980's "Cheerful Dwarves of the Forest: Belfy & Lillibit").

[@allyssaswain2394]

Was Harmony Gold DB dub supposed to air on Nick?

[@VahanNisanian]

@@allyssaswain2394 I only found two records of that dub airing in the US: In Philadelphia in December 1989 (Combined edit of the first and third movies) and in Detroit in January 1990 (first five episodes). I don't think it ever aired on Nick, or was intended for that.

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

Yes! I loved this show! Not that I remember the specifics, being only about 5 or 6 when it first started airing, but I've never forgotten those koalas. 🐨

[@sergeant_sailor]

THIS is the episode I've been waiting for

[@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate]

Enjoy. It's been my up and coming episode as well. :)

[@takigan]

For many years it was impossible to find Noozles in this level of video quality. In the 80s Japanese studios would broadcast their anime but would rarely release it on home video, and licenses to American/Overseas broadcasters didn't usually include home video release rights either. A lot of anime from the World Masterpiece Theater series had this same issue. You couldn't really watch it because the video just didn't realistically exist. You'd see bits of some episodes crop up from people who'd recorded it off broadcast to VHS and then digitally transferred it themselves, but this was often really low quality, and it was still impossibly hard to find until at least 2010 for most of these series. I remember hunting down vids for WMT's "Little Women" anime (Ai no Wakakusa Monogatari) which I remember having a couple episodes of on VHS as a child in the late 1980s (but had never seen the whole series) and eventually finding a pirate distributor that had been compiling them from the TBS (Christian broadcaster) streaming service called Smile of a Child since 2009, and then later in 2015 stitching the English audio into video rips from the Japanese DVD boxset which got released in 2012. So you could flip between the English audio (from Smile of a Child) or the Japanese audio from the DVD...which was an awesome feature. You gotta love fan projects. Amazon has been putting out a lot of these old series lately, so it's finally been possible to enjoy Noozles and a lot of these other series in the highest available video quality.

[@Firechick12012]

It makes you wonder if Adventures of the Little Koala will ever get that treatment as well, since it never got put on home video in Japan at all to the point where the original version is considered lost media.

[@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate]

Whenever David the Gnome, my feels for it will really come out. The theme song for it rocked, and i loved how David and his wife, Lisa, would do that eskimo-like kissing (i always thought that was adorable) And just like the Smurfs have their crane friend, Feathers, Swift the fox was also a true animal friend to David.

[@chubbiMommi]

The last episode still makes me cry

[@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate]

There's my other childhood Nick Jr. show! I really could relate to Sandy sometimes with how her lifestyle would be at times. I swear Blinky had the voice of Calumon from Digimon Season 3.

[@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate]

@ChronoArcaile2019 yep! Good ol Brianne! I remember Koromon, but Calumon is the one I remembered and liked the most, as his voice was a major mainstay during the season.

[@johnbakasmoothhotchocolate]

@ChronoArcaile2019 that's really interesting. Especially since when hearing her, you couldn't even tell her voice got deeper at all. I remember Circuit from Power Rangers Time Force: he was no Alpha, but still a cute robot nonetheless. She must have had a lot of fun doing those voice talents back then.

[@thesladesterb3vt3co7h]

@ChronoArcaile2019 According to Behind the voice actors, Blinky’s English voice is said to be Barbara Goodson (Rita Repulsa in Power Rangers, Goku in the Harmony Gold dub of Dragon Ball). However, there is nothing to prove that Barbara Goodson voiced Blinky, and she couldn’t have done that back then. Blinky is definitely the voice of Brianne Sidall in English because Blinky sounds more like her. Behind the Voice Actors needs to correct their mistakes.

[@thesladesterb3vt3co7h]

@ChronoArcaile2019 Yeah. Also, the thing is, the Nickelodeon-Saban dub, even though it was edited & some things were altered, was one of the dubs Saban Entertainment did that was closer to the original Japanese version. How do I know this? Well, I requested my older sister to translate the original Japanese first episode of Noozles, and fan sub it. She looked at the English dub and discovered that it was much closer to the original version so she told me she can’t do that (she’s an expert at that stuff, she would tell you). Unfortunately, the English dub episodes of Noozles got taken down by KZbin but you could still view them on the Archive website, although the episodes and the titles are all out of order for some reason. But yeah, I don’t know why Behind the Voice actors came to that conclusion or even made the assumption that Barbara Goodson ever voiced Blinky. Brianne Siddall was the only voice of Blinky in the English dub, and all they had to do was look at the credits. Also, it’s worth noting that Cheryl Chase (Angelica’s VA) only voiced Pinky in the first eight episodes. I don’t know what happened, but for some reason, another voice actress by the name of Lara Cody took over the role from Cheryl Chase in later episodes. The two voices are a bit different, and it shows. Another character, one of Sandy’s friends named Emily, has a similar sounding voice to Pinky in later episodes so that’s how I know Lara Cody voiced Pinky later on. Pinky had two voice actresses in the English dub.

[@thesladesterb3vt3co7h]

@ChronoArcaile2019 Wait a minute...Blinky and Pinky DIED?! Holy crap. Does this mean I have to redo my Noozles fanfiction then? Because in my story of Noozles that I am currently writing, Blinky & Pinky actually come back to Sandy (and Blinky & Sandy, later in the lives, start a romantic relationship). I know it sounds gross, but Blinky is anthropomorphic, and I doubt anthro animal x human is bestiality. Also, call me nuts but I don't believe Sandy's grandfather is totally dead. He said himself that his body is gone but his spirit remains in a shadow (of course that was in the dub). And also, the High Dingy Doo said that Sandy's grandpa isn't among the living but they can't say he is dead either (And this was also in the dub). I might be basing it way too much on the english dub but I have only seen the first episode in Japanese, and not the whole series. Even if Grandpa Ben is dead, they could do a sequel and he comes back to life as an older, elderly man like his wife. I don't now. But yeah, it's surprising that Saban had kept all the references to death in Noozles (except for the end where Blinky and Pinky actually die).

[@bluebaron6858]

Good video on noozles

[@pompe221]

Despite it running for 5 years, I never saw the whole series through from start to finish. I kept seeing the episodes out of order so I never got the whole story (but I did get a whole lot of confusion.) I think that's why I liked "Little Koala" better, because it didn't matter what order you saw the episodes in. Next time: the show that made me mourn fictional characters for the first time.

[@TigerMystic10000]

14:30 - Uh, giant pandas are most certainly bears, genetics had proved it.

[@tenthz]

I remember the second half of the show way more. It was the "getting chased by the police" show. My sister and I would play this and run around the house shouting, stop in the name of the high dingy-doo! It wasn't until recently I was able to even figure out what the show was because my searches would usually come up with one of those OTHER koala shows!

[@jmn327]

Oh my Lord, the second half of the show going a lot weirder was something I had nearly forgotten! I also watched the show a lot on Nick Jr as a little kid, but man, that brought a lot of memories flooding back. This came up in the Little Koala episode, but having further context concerning the origins of the "Japanese tourist" stereotype/cliche from that era is welcomed, as well, and seeing how integrated pushes to encourage travel were in even anime of the era is pretty fascinating.

[@bluebaron6858]

Im surprised discotek hasnt saved this show...

[@Lynn17]

Yay, I've been looking forward to this one! I did NOT know Sandy was voiced by Jenny from California Dreams. (That was another one I watched as a kid) I remember being absolutely FLOORED as an adult when I found out that the cute little girl and her koalas cartoon I used to watch as a kid got so serious and dark later on. I just remember loving Sandy and finding Blinky and Pinky super adorable, if I'd seen the ending back then it would have destroyed me. Oh boy, David the Gnome. That was another ending I only learned about as an adult...

[@TheBronyBraeburn]

I honestly remember the second half of the show much more then the slice-of-life eps in the first half.

[@chibirurouni]

I was obsessed with this show when I was 4/5

[@sebastianmoreno6004]

Oh, I forgot to mention; the voice of Blinky voicing Calumon in Digimon: Tamers. Dude, that makes too much. Also, I imagine if I were to see a talking Koala, my choice of words would have been exactly like Tony Stark: "Until this exact second, I thought you were Build a Bear."

[@tetsjin42]

The structure of the show sounds like it's modeled closely on Doraemon.

[@NoraQRosa]

I haven't seen this much of a hard shift in tone in a cartoon since Adventure Time. This show sounds positively wild.

[@Kevins93cobra]

David the Gnome!!!!! Ahh yes, can't wait for that one.

[@bainr6856]

This was a FASCINATING watch. Great as always!

[@angelmarie2281]

I didn't expect California Dreams to enter the chat on Nick Knacks but here were are. Haha.

[@ConekillerConfuzor]

As an 8-ish year old I recall watching this with my younger brothers. I dont recall there being such a dramatic shift in tone "halfway thru" but I distinctly remember being impressed by the introdcution of serialized story elements, a rarity in kids shows then. I dont recall the details but I also remember the last episode being very bittersweet.

[@ThennaryNak]

While I have lived in the US for most of my life I was born in Australia and lived there until I was 5. I loved watching The Noozles as it was something familiar to me as a young child that had moved to another country.

[@KaiserBeamz]

Hmm... this magical koala slice-of-life anime is nice, but do you know what would really kick it up to an 11? *pours on some threat of the apocalypse*

[@Love1nOther]

I used to blend this show with Little Koala. And I confused this nick knacks episode with your episode on Little Koala. I definitely thought you had done this one already, lol!

[@MissAshley42]

This series was a guilty pleasure of mine as a kid. I was about 9 or 10 when I first saw it, and around that time, I was quick to call out certain shows and movies as meant for much younger children (whether true or not). Still, I just kept on watching this show. The whole casual magic in a real world setting appealed to me, and I thought Pinky was really cool. I wished I could effortlessly fly and teleport around. I sometimes got annoyed, though, when she acted like a brat.

[@cheesegod1337]

This was one of the very first shows I remember watching as a kid

[@aestroai8012]

I'm a whole day late! I guess I didn't hit that bell. Well, this made my day! I'd watch Noozles again today if I had time. I loved this show. It's crazy to remember a show I watched when I was eight like it was yesterday, but I guess that's how iconic it was. Thanks for reminding me how weird that second half of what may have been my second anime (my first was Macross via R O B O T E C H !) R.I.P. Ishiguro-san, he helped make anime what it is today!

[@Reshme77]

The voice of sandy also plays the voice of Elizabeth (or rose)from the animated Titanic cartoon In search of titanic

[@minecraftsteve4593]

Yes

[@minecraftsteve4593]

Pandas

[@tammie1078]

a cute rare show, I would watch this all the time. I know Heidi did sandy's voice but I thought someone else did it too..

[@MaliceInCandyland]

I used to watch this in Spanish in Puerto Rico in the early 00s. It was on a free local channel and the show that came after it was the Spanish dub of Ranma 1/2 of all things! They both have bears but...

[@GreenRiver72]

It first debuted on July 7th, 1984. So did I :).

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

...this show starts off eerily similar to part 3 of Jojo. Good thing that box didn't say DIO on it...

[@GoingRampant]

21:42 ...Most adorable Nazis ever?

[@memematicproductions3192]

Greg, you forget that Cheryl Chase was also the voice of Arale in the Harmony Gold english dub pilot of Dr. Slump Arale-chan (plus HG dub of DB movie 3). Here, see that pilot for yourself: archive.org/details/DoctorSlumpHarmonyGoldDub

[@bluebaron6858]

Kinda crazy how she got out of anime quick while alot of the other older stayed with Saban and dubbed more roles up until retirement.

[@CrowRider1999]

Hold on... Are you telling me that Saban- as in, “POWER RANGERS” Saban, helped make a conspiracy special?! Seriously, you think you know a company when they make multiple seasons of a fighting team franchise (which originated in Japan), and then you get hit with this! It’s really weird considering where they’d end up years later...

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Some people have all the luck in the TV business.

[@gokaiorange9576]

Saban also made a few erotic thrillers.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@gokaiorange9576 Not surprising he did that.

[@Kevins93cobra]

Oh man, I loved this show as a kid!

[@Furore2323]

3:20 Fastest any NK has made me start blubbing, with the Valley of the Wind fanfare.

[@MaliceInCandyland]

Brianne Brozey and Cheryl Chase were both in My Neighbor Totoro.

[@mr.tomraypaz6085]

Noozles! I remember watching that! I was waiting for Nick Knacks to cover this show! Hearing the theme music reminds me of my young childhood before I hit the age for compulsory education. Earworm alert!

[@captainjetpack]

i LOVED this show when i was 6. the tonal shift was intense. all that weird stuff on Ayers Rock. 10/10

[@TickleMonster333]

I love this channel because you take me back to being 5 years old, also because what you support as well 😊

[@vgtrp]

I remember the more slice of life episodes of the Noozles, but not a lot of the more serious apocalyptic parts of the show. But, what I do remember it was a cute little show. There was also talent both in the voice acting and behind the scenes that still work in anime today. Also, the whole Saban producing a JFK documentary kinda was a bit of a shock to me. Finally, not only will we all get sad about the ending of David the Gnome, but also from who produced the English version.

[@KaseyWynne]

He posted a pic to twitter with a screenshot of his name with the comment "*sighs*"

[@vgtrp]

@@KaseyWynne Yeah, I saw that.

[@Scarybug]

DNA evidence has shown that Pandas are actually bears after all. (Though that was debated for decades) (I am doing a rewatch of Nick Knacks and only just now noticed the line where you said Pandas and Koalas were both non-bears.)

[@yszman6478]

Tell me I am not the only one who thought Koalawlla Land was the dimension that the Adventure of Little Koala took place?

[@WaspandUnicorn]

Yes! I was very very young so I didn't understand that they were two different shows. Plus over the years they've melded into one memory. Lol for the longest time I thought I had made it up!

[@TankHammer]

I 100% remember that face-changing suitcase as well as the Nick Jr. promo. This is wild, I didn't know how much I was going to remember this show since I was so young when I saw it. I remember the slice-of-life stuff more vividly than the fantasy adventures later but it was absolutely a favorite series of mine at the time.

[@WindowshadeCure]

Interesting fact: Blinky and Roobear actually shared the same voice voice actress in the Korean dub (she was also the Korean voice of Marge Simpson and Mokey Fraggle)

[@amwfan88]

This is another one of those Nick shows where I know I saw it, but I only have vague memories. The only part of this show I remember is a scene of Blinky eating eucalyptus and saying, "MMmmm! Eucalyptus!"

[@richardroberts6021]

Oh man I remember Noozles it was so trippy. Wasn't there a recurring plot point in the second half where Sandy's dad or someone was stuck on a boat in a storm and it was about to crash, so she had Pinky freeze time right before it crashed but there was like some big argument about whether they were actually going to save him? I don't think I ever saw how that got resolved and I remember it bugging me years later, like "dammit whatever happened to that boat on that Koala show?"

[@carmineknight9123]

Ooooh, this one sounds great. Both parts seem very well done, and it's great to have shows for younger audiences that tip into more fantastical and challenging ideas. I'm also glad to see this video seems to be doing pretty well!

[@darktetsuya]

wait tony oliver was ADR director for this?! also TIL maya the bee was an anime, who knew?! I guess the hard right turn half way through makes some kinda sense, if one of the guys from Macross and Space Battleship Yamato is involved...

[@SuperCrazyDiscoKangaroo9001]

Good work for covering one of my favourite Obscure Animes. I literally have the entire original Japanese version on my laptop that I downloaded off Nyaa

[@WillmobilePlus]

I was hitting that age when shows like this were becoming a little lame, but I watched it because my younger brother (b.1987), was into Nick Jr. , so I watched this show quite a bit. Hated that pink bear so much. She was a total b*tch. The plots were a bit WTF, but I'm sure that is just something lost in translation from the Japanese show.