June 17, 2025 • 32 mins
What vehicles are hidden amongst our favourite children's shows? Join us as we journey through the world of famous children's shows and the automotive influences which hide within them. From the obvious to the unknown, AutoLooks will uncover the vehicles from the top children's shows.
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Everett J. (00:00):
We've all been exposed to it.
The automotive influence in television
shows We've all seen it.
There's been dedicated shows about vehicles
We've discussed that before like stuff like
Knight Rider, the A-Team, even Chrysler's
own show, viper.
And then we've also talked about some of
the other stories, some of the top vehicles
of the automotive television world, those
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being the Flintstones car, the Jetsons car,
the Simpsons car.
But nobody ever really talks about the
bottom end Children, little kids, are even
exposed to the automotive world and a lot
of their shows.
They don't realize it, but they're being
influenced by some of these great
automotive products.
And today Autolux is going to be taking a
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look at all of the automotive influences in
children's shows that you've never even
thought about and how we're even going to
include the names of a few that you've been
itching to learn all today on the auto
looks podcast.
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Everett Jay, speaking to you today about
children's shows, cars.
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We're not talking about cartoons.
We're not talking about like everybody gets
it.
There's a lot of them out there.
We all remember Scooby-Doo, we all remember
the Flintstones, we all remember the
Jetsons.
But there's actual other shows that you
probably never think of and I know you know
having kids and gone through all of those
entry-level shows.
Even the small children's shows have
automotive influences and the funny thing
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is is we don't take it in consideration.
There's a lot of them out there and a lot
of great ones that we don't even notice.
Hell.
One that comes to mind from my childhood
that centered essentially around an
automobile portion, even though the entire
show was dedicated to learning stuff, was
the Magic School Bus.
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Oh yes, the Magic School Bus.
We all remember it A yellow bus that could
turn into anything.
It'd shrink down in size, it could go out
into space.
Hell, it could become a bear.
On one episode it transformed.
Now during my childhood I remember things
shows like transformed.
Now.
During my childhood I remember things shows
like Transformers and even GI Joe those
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ones we all knew and they had automotive
influences in them.
Transformers are basically based off
automobiles to begin with, so naturally we
all became accustomed to those ones.
But then there was the show Mask.
If you don't remember this one from the
1980s, mask was amazing.
Why?
Because Mask had all these interesting
vehicles within it literally had a flying
camaro.
And I remember one of my cub leaders yeah,
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I went through beavers, cubs and scouts
back in the day.
His son liked mask and actually had quite a
few of those vehicles and we were over
there visiting one day because my dad was
leader of scouts and they knew each other
and all that.
We went over and his son had these and he's
like oh, you know, he was kind of growing
out of them.
And he's like, okay, yeah, here's some toys
if you want to keep yourself, you know,
busy while they're chit-chatting and
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whatever, you just stay here and play, and
I played with them.
They were the coolest toys I had ever seen.
Then, when I became exposed to the show, it
just made perfect sense to me.
This, this is cool.
This is essentially made for not children
but more adolescents in preteens.
But you have to remember, saturday morning
cartoons had all those shows on it.
If you ever watch Futurama, they kind of
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poke fun at that with all the different
shows that were on.
You know, back in those days we watched
shows like Smurfs, G.I. Joe, transformers,
droids and even one of my favorites, Astro
Boy.
But those ones, some of them, were
dedicated to older people.
We're talking about the children shows.
We're talking about something like Barbie.
Now.
Barbie wasn't a television series back then,
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but she had an automotive influence and she
still does today.
We did an entire podcast, right before the
Barbie movie came out, about all the
different Barbie vehicles ever since it's
been created All the different pink
Corvettes, the Rolls Royce, the Beetle, the
Fiat They've had tons of them.
Well, Barbie has moved up into again more
of a younger generation, so adolescence or
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pre-teen series similar to that of the Lego
Friends series.
But younger kids are still exposed to it
and they have a lot of automotive
influences in it and, with Barbie now
separating itself from the automotive,
industry has now designed and built their
own dedicated Barbie car and it fits right
into the show.
It's pink, it's a convertible and it's got
four seats.
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It's something you don't see out in the
world today, because Barbie is an
expression of yourself.
You're supposed to show who you are, not
follow the trend, not expression of
yourself.
You're supposed to show who you are, not
follow the trend, not jump in with
whatever's going on.
Barbie drives a different car because she
is different than everyone else, even
though the actual physical doll you know
there's millions of them out there and all
pretty much the same she gives you the
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ability to be different and with that she's
created her own different car.
The Lego Friends series has done this as
well, and they've done it in a way that
actually gets you to purchase the toys a
lot easier.
Essentially, the Lego friend show was an
addition to the Lego friend series.
Now, Lego's always had a problem trying to
get younger female groups into purchasing
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Lego products.
Now, my kids love Lego and it doesn't
matter, they both do, and the great thing
with lego is you could build and create.
Well, that's not something that was really
pushed.
I remember when I was younger it was more
of a you know, a select group.
You know boys play with boy toys, girls
play with girl toys.
Girls weren't playing with lego and boys
weren't playing with Barbie's.
Well, things have changed and the world has
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changed and Lego is finally able to get
their stuff out there and to help them them
get it out there.
They've created the Lego Friends television
show and they've even had special episodes
dedicated to racing yeah, a full-on race in
the Lego world and it just makes it amazing.
Go-karts and cars and bikes.
This is Lego.
We're talking about People that get
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connected together and you build the world
around you.
And now that has an automotive influence in
it.
It's showing little girls that they can be
a race car driver.
You don't have to settle for just watching
it.
It's showing you you can do it and that's a
great thing with the show.
And just like that, there's many other
shows that are very similar to that, like
Scooby-Doo and the Flintstones Hell, even
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SpongeBob With his paddy wagon.
You all remember that from the movie.
It's basically run of recycled grease.
Hell was SpongeBob onto something, telling
us maybe we should be recycling all the
grease that we throw out of McDonald's to
power our vehicles.
Well, they are showing us a lot of other
stuff if you kind of into all those weird
theories about SpongeBob, about Bikini
Atoll and all that.
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But SpongeBob is a show that you're
actually not supposed to let little
children watch because it flashes images so
quickly it'll create a really bad attention
span.
But in today's world we don't really worry
about that because most kids are just
jammed in front of a tablet to begin with,
and little shows like this are starting to
disappear.
Now even children are starting to watch
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tiny little shows on YouTube.
So the automotive influence has to jump
into a new medium.
But they still remember it from past shows.
Remember Bob the Builder?
It was a show set up for little children.
It was to show you that anybody can build
something.
When you put your mind to it, you can build
it.
Can we build it?
Yes, we can.
That's basically the motto of Bob the
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Builder.
He can do it and all of his machines are
talking to him.
Now we all remember Thomas, the tank engine
from back in the day.
There's tons and tons of different trains.
See Thomas, you may not think.
Well, it's a train.
It's not part of the automotive industry,
but automobiles run off an internal
combustion engine.
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Trains run off either diesel or diesel
electric.
Now they're similar.
Boats have giant motors too, so everything
altogether still confines with that
propulsion system.
So something like Thomas or Chuggington
super wings are dedicated towards children
showing a transportation system.
Thomas was amazing at it.
It showed an entire transportation
infrastructure across an entire island
nation, and if you're ever wondering where
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the island of Sodor is, essentially it's a
giant island between Ireland and great
Britain.
That's literally where it's supposed to be.
You can go online, look for them, but they
actually.
Somebody actually made a map and showcase
where Sodor was.
It's pretty cool.
But Thomas was made for younger children.
They want to show the transportation
industry and hell, there's even a bus, a
helicopter equipment and even the fat train
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conductor.
Sorry, that's the original name.
Sir Topham Hat now drives around in his
own vehicle, an old blue Rolls Royce, or he
has his train car.
That's pretty neat.
He's showing you that you can actually
drive a car on the railroad tracks, all
from a show that's dedicated to being about
the transportation infrastructure of trains,
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Shows you the ability that automobiles can
move from both the road towards the track.
It does this in a way that engages us and
it does it with a show that the whole
family can enjoy.
Thomas, percy, diesel they're all there and
they're all showcasing to us all the fun
aspects of this world.
My son grew up watching Thomas when he was
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little.
That was his favorite show to watch when he
was a little kid.
Now he didn't get to watch a ton of
television like a lot of other kids out
there, but he loved to watch Thomas and we
liked him to watch Thomas.
I especially liked him to watch Thomas
because I liked watching Thomas as a kid,
but I'm an automotive enthusiast.
I love cars and the transportation
infrastructure that's in Thomas still
engages me today.
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Now, today I can't watch Thomas because
Thomas is now CG and his whole face moves
and everything, so it just throws me right
out the window.
It's like no, no, no, no, this is not
Thomas.
Okay, Thomas is actual trains like models
and a giant table in a warehouse to make a
show.
He's not a CG thing.
I get it.
The CG aspect makes it easier to build this
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world and add on to it.
You know what?
Let's just keep it the way it was.
Thomas was great, especially when he had
Ringo Starr doing the talking or my
favorite, george Carlin, a man that
literally does stand up to showcase to the
world all the things that are wrong with it.
It doesn't miss a step on swearing.
And yet he was the voice on Shining Time
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Station for Thomas and his friends, which I
always found amazing.
I remember as a kid watching that show and
that show you know.
It had people and it had the aspect in it.
Now, thomas, you might say why is he here?
Because Thomas was real life products,
whereas something like Spongebob was a
cartoon.
Well, thomas still fits into this because
he's made for children and he's made to
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showcase our favorite world.
There's a lot of other ones out there.
Fireman Sam was one of the ones that my
kids grew up with and really I was never
really too fond about Fireman Sam.
I prefer when they watch bob the builder.
Bob the builder was great when he was made
out of plasticine.
Second it became cg.
That was it.
It's done.
I'm tired of watching it.
Like, seriously people, I get it.
It costs a ton of money and takes a lot of
time to make that, but that was the way we
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loved it.
It's like Rory the racing car.
That was a short show developed for
children.
We've done an entire episode about Rory the
Racing Car.
If you want to listen to it or want to let
your children listen to it, they can find
out about it.
Rory was amazing.
He came from the same place as Bob the
Builder.
So does Fireman Sam.
He's a fireman and firemen have fire trucks.
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And if your kid likes fire trucks like most
young kids do, they'll love the show, even
though the kid Norman, is always doing bad
things, always causing issues, and is so
annoying with his voice.
Ugh, yeah, I never liked it, but my kids
liked it, so I watch it with them.
It's like Paw Patrol.
I was never too crazy about Paw Patrol as
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well and they loved it.
I loved watching Paw Patrol and I'm just
like why I get it.
There's a part of me that says, yes, it's
good to enjoy this one and it's good to
promote it because it's Canadian.
Yeah, if you didn't know that, paw Patrol
is actually from Canada and it's toys from
Spin Master are from Canada as well.
Oh, yeah, yeah, all Canadian right there.
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And Paw Patrol is one of the biggest things
going around for little kids out there, for
little kids out there, and he's got tons
and tons of different variations of their
products, from trucks to boats to
submarines, aircraft to hovercraft to snow
machines.
They go everywhere.
They show every aspect of the automotive
world.
Now we're not going to get too deep into
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the Paw Patrol aspect of this.
We all know kids love Paw Patrol and they
want to watch it.
But they'll only do it for a couple of
years and then all of a sudden, when they
get out of it, you find all of their toys
at thrift stores.
Trust me, if you want paw patrol stuff for
your kid, just go to a thrift store, like
value village and all that.
You will find tons of them, because when
kids are into it, they want everything.
And then all of a sudden, one day they just
wake up and they're like nope, I don't want
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it, I don't like it, I, I'm not watching it
and I want to get rid of everything.
And then you have to get rid of everything.
See, thomas is something where you keep the
toys and you keep it with you, just like
Barbie, just like Lego.
But Paw Patrol, once you grow out of it,
that's it, you're done.
You're walking away from these toys.
Doesn't matter how much money or how much
time you haven't invested into them.
You walk away from it, even though it's an
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amazing show that shows the entire
automotive industry off in one spectacular
showcase for young children that grabs
their attention and keeps them engaged the
only thing I was never crazy about it what
the hell are these engines?
You get in these like big diesel sounding
vehicles, especially from like Chase and
his police truck.
It sounds like a diesel engine when he
fires it up, but where's the engine?
They sleep inside of their vehicles when
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they're not in use.
I'm still trying to figure this one out.
Plus, there's a lot of things that are
really questionable on that.
But, just like most kids shows, there's a
lot of weird and questionable things in it,
like they build a bridge for these beavers
to cross a river okay, but the bridge isn't
tall enough for me to get my boat under.
Did you literally try and figure that one
out?
And then they build a bridge to go over
this road once for all these beavers yet
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again.
And I'm putting these trees and all this
grass on it because I need to make it look
more realistic.
Yeah, I know about those types of bridges I
live close to the only one that exists in
the province of Ontario and one of the few
that's in Canada, but they just put it
together in one afternoon.
Nah, you can't do that in an afternoon and
literally you can't just shut down the
whole road as you build a bridge, and that
bridge doesn't even look tall enough to get
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cars under it like it's.
So many questions that need to be answered.
But then I sit back and I realize this is a
kid's show.
Kids don't ask those questions like the
vibrant colors, the cool machines, the
funny, the humor aspects of it.
As long as it keeps them engaged, they love
it and all kids love it and all kids love
the kid shows.
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And when you're above the world, you're in
the world of Paw Patrol.
When you jump into the ocean you get into
the Octonauts, and the Octonauts was
another one of those ones I was never 100%
crazy about.
It was kind of like Bubble Guppies, just
Bubble Guppies is made for like babies.
And the second you hit like three or four,
that's it.
You're getting out of bubble guppies and
you're moving up in the world.
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Well, you're moving into the Octonauts, paw
Patrol world, you're getting into things
like Peppa Pig and Bluey and all those
Before you make that next jump into like
the Flintstones, the Jetsons, scooby-doo,
and then crossovers between them are like
Fireman Sam and Rory the Racing Car, and
then you get into the older shows that make
you think, like the Magic School Bus.
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Like I said, how does that bus turn into
everything?
What type of features does it have?
How does it operate?
What power source does it have?
We all want this answer, but in the end
it's all about teaching us a lesson and
that's what a lot of kids' shows are all
about teaching us an amazing lesson and
showcasing some amazing vehicles to us.
Fireman Sam has his fire trucks.
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Magic School Bus had the bus, but recently
first it started with Netflix and then it
moved on to Disney was this miraculous show
with the Ladybug car, which kind of
showcased to us an electrified version of a
new age Volkswagen Beetle.
When I saw that I was like every other
parent who loves automobiles.
It's like we gotta watch that movie.
I wanna see that car car.
It wasn't just bringing kids into watching
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a kid's show, it was bringing parents in so
they could see the cool cars that are in it.
It was fully sponsored by Volkswagen, so
all the vehicles were volkswagen and we saw
the one with the ladybug cat noir.
Okay, her car was a new age Volkswagen
beetle.
We all know it, we we all saw it and we all
wondered why hasn't Volkswagen built upon
that momentum?
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Well, the show Miraculous didn't really
take off and the movie was on Netflix, but
the TV show is on Disney and it wasn't a
very big thing.
Now it was bigger for more adults than it
was for children.
So that's one of those shows I think kind
of missed the mark, even on the automobile
scale.
They kind of walked away from it.
But do they really need to do that?
Maybe they do.
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Maybe they do need to move in to other
things, some of the older ones you might
think about from the past, like we talked
about before, about the Jetsons, the flying
car and the Flintstones car.
But nobody ever really talks about one of
the earliest cartoons you ever get
introduced to as a child, curious George.
Now he had a television show, but in the
books Curious George was there and the man
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in the yellow hat actually has a blue
convertible and you see it quite often when
they're out and about.
Now I get it.
This really isn't a big thing.
There's no name for it or anything.
It's just a blue car, they're sedan or
they're convertible to go out in public in.
It's kind of cool.
It's kind of neat.
And when you find out about it you're just
like, oh my God, I never noticed that
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Curious George has an automobile in it.
I get it.
Cars are everywhere and they're in any show
you could think of, but this is a dedicated
car that the man in the yellow hat drives
all the time.
It's the only one you ever see him in.
See, what we're talking about in this
episode is all the vehicles that you
actually see in the shows that are more of
an emphasis on them, like the Krabby Mobile
or the boat cars from Bikini Bottom and
SpongeBob.
Those boat cars are everywhere, but you
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want to know something neat about them.
It's when they're driving past you're like,
well, yeah, if you lived under the sea and
they were all you know walking around,
talking around people, what would they be
cruising around in?
They'd be cruising around in boat cars.
It makes perfect sense.
Well, actually it doesn't, because you're
underwater, not above the water, but it's
still kind of cool that they added that
aspect to it and every time I see them I
was like, yep, there's your automotive.
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The buses are submarines in Spongebob and
the standard cars are boats.
It's kind of interesting.
They kind of add that aspect.
The octonauts add that aspect with all
kinds of different looking submarines.
They have subs for missions, they have subs
for moving quick, they have subs for going
slow, they have subs to bring everyone,
subs for singular.
It shows the entire aspect of that part of
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the world.
Now, up until now we've been talking about
a lot of these different shows that you've
found cars in.
You've seen cars in what we're going to get
into in the end.
Here we've got four more shows that are
essentially made for children, with
vehicles in them.
These ones are full on out.
You'll remember them, and they're Peppa Pig,
PJ Masks, the Wiggles and the one
everyone's waiting for, bluey.
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Okay, peppa Pig, we all get it.
Peppa Pig has the family car.
It's a convertible and it's red.
It's literally just the Peppa pig family
car.
There's no real name to it, it's just the
red car, kind of like the wiggles with the
big red car.
Now, the wiggles never really showcase
their automobile out to the younger
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generation.
They're all about their singing, they're
all about all these cool games and talking
about stuff, but every once in a while they
go out into the world and they utilize a
vehicle, and they've actually had four
different Big Red Cars.
They had the original Big Red Car, which
was a Volkswagen Beetle.
Then they had one built off that same
platform which was essentially the
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dedicated Wiggles Big Red Car.
It was made for them.
It's made for the original cast and the
second series cast.
We're now into the third iteration of the
Wiggles Big Red Car.
It was made for them.
It's made for the original cast and the
second series cast.
We're now into the third iteration of the
Wiggles show.
And now the Wiggles because the world's
moving away from cars, they're moving up
into the world as well.
When they first started touring with the
new cast of the Wiggles you know, after
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Emma left kind of missed that I didn't mind
Emma, but moved on to bigger and better
things they decided to update the Wiggles
Big Red Car because it kind of went back
with the original series for this.
Now, when they started touring, they
brought the Big Red U, which was a Toyota
Hilux.
Well, what did Toyota do for the Wiggles?
Knowing how big the Wiggles are in their
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home country and countries all around the
world, they decided to make them a special
edition new big red car.
See, Volkswagen never really got on board
with the original big red car.
It was built off a Volkswagen platform,
didn't really go that far, but Toyota built
one.
They slapped on the front end from an old
school Land Cruiser, lifted the big red car
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up, gave it a roll bar and it's now known
as the Wiggles big red UTE.
This thing is cool and when I was going
back and doing the research for this
podcast, thinking about all these cars from
kids shows, I all knew about the big red
car.
Everybody knows about the wiggles big red
car.
Well, I didn't know that they have the big
red ute now and the big red ute is what
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they're using.
And now it's literally sponsored by Toyota
with a a big Toyota branding on the front
of it.
Toyota has realized that the Wiggles make
such an impact on children that they can
influence them into their buying power.
Later on, showcasing a Land Cruiser, one of
the most notable vehicles in any part of
Australia, they built the Big Red Ute and
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it's amazing they're showcasing this
prowess off to children.
Like the show is about music and all kinds
of funny tales but, like I said, every once
in a while they go out and about, and now
they're doing it and the wiggles big red
ute sponsored and created by Toyota.
See, Volkswagen tried to do it with cat
noirs, new Volkswagen beetle, and we've
been doing it for years.
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Like the mystery machine has been a
combination of many different things for
Scooby-Doo and the pink sedan from the
Simpsons well, we all considered that to be
an old Plymouth or even K-Car.
But what is it?
No, the Big Red Ute.
We know who makes it, we know what it is.
Its name is right there.
It's the most focused automotive product
out of any children's show ever the Big Red
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Ute.
Now, the next show was one I had the joy of
going to see its live performance and I do
say joy loosely.
It was PJ Masks.
Now, this literally was like a very
short-run television series in my house.
PJ Masks was different.
I could tell that it was made for kids.
I could tell it was made to showcase the
automobile industry out with flying
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vehicles and driving vehicles.
They were cool, they were neat.
Each of the three PJ Masks characters all
had their own dedicated vehicle the Gecko,
the Owl Glider and the PJ Masks standard
blue Falcon vehicle.
But it doesn't really showcase anything
very interesting.
But it doesn't really showcase anything
very interesting With a short-run show that
only grabs your attention for a very
limited amount of time, you kind of forget
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about the automobile.
So it's there but it's not really there,
and that's the problem.
Pj Masks never really showed it off.
They were trying to bring our culture into
a kid's show.
They were trying to showcase what we know
and what we love, to try and engage with
the adults.
The unfortunate thing is, no matter how
many times they showcase them or try and
throw them in, the backdrop was super dry
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and super boring.
Like my kids, I get it.
They have a lot longer attention spans than
other kids, but they couldn't even be held
by it and when they watched it it was only
because it was the only show on.
Yeah now some other shows you might find
for kids.
There's like Blaze, that's a good one.
Ranger Rob, that's another good one.
Daniel Tiger has one of the most notable
automotive figures for children's show from
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history.
Why do I say that?
Well, Daniel Tiger, in his new series,
which engages preschoolers and younger
children, has brought Trolley into a world.
Trolley has always been there to bring mail
or to talk to Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Rogers has
been around a long time.
I get it, he's retired, he's no longer part
of the acting part of the show, but Trolley
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is, and it's interesting that they kept it
in there.
It's a trolley and it's a free ride for
anyone to get around the world of Daniel
Tiger Now.
And it's a free ride for anyone to get
around the world of Daniel Tiger Now.
Daniel Tiger is a great show to watch your
little children watch, because it has so
many great meanings in it.
It teaches you a lot about patience and
that I get it.
Lots of kids just want to watch those
action-packed shows PJ Masks and Paw Patrol
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but Daniel Tiger is better because it
teaches you things and it doesn't shove
these cars right in your face.
It shows it to you that you need a form of
transportation to get around the world.
Okay, whether it be a plane, a boat, a car,
a motorcycle hell, even a subway train or a
regular train, you need some way to get
around.
You can use your feet too.
We all have two feet and if we don't have
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two feet, we have a wheelchair.
If we don't wheelchair, somebody can push
us.
There's a multitude of different ways to
get in and around Daniel Tiger's
neighborhood with trolley gives us that
aspect.
It shows free use of public transit to
children.
It makes them not scared to take the bus.
I grew up in a generation whose parents
literally had songs about people riding
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buses.
Guess who Bus rider get up in the morning.
It's like you're literally telling people
that riding public transit is for dumb
people and poor people.
That's it.
If you're riding the bus, we don't want to
talk to you.
My generation started stepping out from
that.
With Daniel Tiger showing trolley, he's
showcasing to us that you and your family
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can literally use it to get in and around.
Daniel Tiger is similar to that of Uber as
well.
Trolley brings Daniel Tiger to everywhere
he needs to go, so it's making a great
impression on kids that they don't need to
go out and purchase a vehicle.
You still have public transit if you live
close enough to everything you need, and if
you don't, then you need a vehicle,
depending where you are.
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But as of right now, the SUV market is one
of the biggest.
So you need a vehicle like bogo.
Who's bogo?
That's the name of our car.
That's what bingo says in an episode of
bluey, and I actually had to learn that
from one of my kids.
I had to ask him what's the name of bluey's
vehicle.
I get it like peppa pig has a big red car,
the wiggles, have the wiggles.
Big red car, the big red ute.
There's the magic school bus, you know.
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The Barbie car, the crabby patty what is
the name of Bluey's car?
I'm like it's got to have a name.
Bluey is one of the biggest shows out there
right now.
Now, being a dad, I'm kind of you know, I
love watching bluey.
It's great, it's amazing.
It teaches all these cool things.
But literally, when I've seen this meme a
million times when Al Bundy and Homer
Simpson were the fathers we had to look up
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to, it was a lot easier to be a dad than
having to live up towards Bandit.
You got to be fun, you got to be energetic,
you got to be in with your kids.
But it also showcases to us what the things
that we need to do with our kids.
Bluey does all of that and they do it in
short little eight minute episodes.
They get the whole point across and they
make you feel good.
And every once in a while they've got to
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hop in a vehicle and go somewhere and their
vehicle looks like things that you would
see out on the road.
It's not a custom-made vehicle, it's not
like the boatmobile from SpongeBob.
No, it looks like an everyday SUV that you
would find anywhere, and it has a name BOBO.
All my vehicles have names.
Except for my little black car in the
garage, everything else I've ever owned has
a name.
There's Susie, the Suzuki.
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There's Lightning, the CX-9.
There's Rev, the RAV4.
There's Marty, the Tacoma.
There's Griff, my unicorn of a vehicle, my
old Kia Borrego.
Then there was the Beast, my old Concorde.
I named the vehicle and that was a podcast
we did way back in our first season.
Actually, second season is what's in a Name?
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Bluey teaches us that our vehicle is not
just a conveyance form.
When you don't live close to everything,
you need a vehicle to get in and around.
Now Bluey does go downtown, park their
vehicle and wander around the city.
When they're close to everything which
showcases, we need to get out and explore
the world around us as well, but we also
need to make that vehicle a part of our
family.
Like I said, all of my vehicles have names
and when I got rid of my Borrego this past
winter, I had a book in it that was Griffin.
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It was a book about a baby Griffin Okay,
the mythical creature and the name of my
truck was Griff.
My daughter kept it as a reminder of the
vehicle that she essentially grew up with
and knew about for most of her life.
Kind of like BOBO and Bluey.
It's part of the family and vehicles
essentially are that.
When you own them, people just look at them
as a piece of machinery.
But you know what?
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An automobile is completely different than
that and it really takes children's shows
to show you how they can be an extension of
yourself.
Man in the Yellow Hat had a blue
convertible.
He was single and he always liked to go out
and learn and do things.
Single, and he always liked to go out and
learn and do things.
Well, he had a vehicle for that.
The mystery machine was a van because it
was easily accessible for all the people
that needed to fit inside of it plus all
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their gear.
The boatmobile was underwater.
Trolley brought them places.
They all fit into the show and BOBO does
that and that's what I love about kids
shows.
You might not think about the automobile
aspect of the show.
I do, because that's what I love and that's
what I'm talking about, but it's something
that makes you think and makes you look.
You want to know what it is, you want to
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understand where it comes from and why it's
there, and it brings some sort of joy to
your life.
Would the Simpsons be the Simpsons without
pink sedan and an orange station wagon?
If graining changed the cars every single
year, we wouldn't remember what they drove.
But because they've had the same car since
the beginning, we remember.
And if bluey ever decides in their show to
get rid of their vehicle and upgrade to
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something else because it's been given a
name and became part of that family, we
will remember it and children will remember
it.
You have to remember the time in your life
that you take in the most amount of
information is between the ages of one and
seven, and Bluey fits into that aspect.
All these shows do.
We've all seen these shows within that age
group.
Some of them we shouldn't be watching
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within that age group, but we've all seen
them and they've all shown us our
automotive aspect.
They've all given us a form of our industry.
They've all proven to us that they're not
just a giant hunk of metal to convey us
around from place to place.
They're literally part of the family, and
kids like to point that out the most.
My kids are the ones who always want to
name vehicles.
I kind of gave them names back in the day,
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but when we get a new vehicle, they want to
name it.
They think it needs a name because it's
part of the family and that's the greatest
thing for kids.
They make you realize this stuff, make you
forget about the things that you lost from
your childhood.
And these kids shows, when you sit down and
watch them when you get whether it be an
annoying show like fireman Sam with that
stupid Norman kid that you just want to
punch in the face to something really cool
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like bluey or Scooby-doo they make you
think and enjoy.
And it doesn't matter if you see those
vehicles or not.
They're there and they're a part of our
life and we remember them.
And they're part of the toys.
You have to remember that, just what all
these shows have created toys as well.
By having those things as part of the toy
series, it makes merchandising even better
and exposes us to even more of the
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automotive world when we can move up and
find new interests in the automotive world,
like racing, mechanics, engineering,
designing, fashion.
It's all there, and children's shows are
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We've all been exposed to it.
The automotive influence in television
shows We've all seen it.
There's been dedicated shows about vehicles
We've discussed that before like stuff like
Knight Rider, the A-Team, even Chrysler's
own show, viper.
And then we've also talked about some of
the other stories, some of the top vehicles
of the automotive television world, those
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being the Flintstones car, the Jetsons car,
the Simpsons car.
But nobody ever really talks about the
bottom end Children, little kids, are even
exposed to the automotive world and a lot
of their shows.
They don't realize it, but they're being
influenced by some of these great
automotive products.
And today Autolux is going to be taking a
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look at all of the automotive influences in
children's shows that you've never even
thought about and how we're even going to
include the names of a few that you've been
itching to learn all today on the auto
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Welcome back to the AutoLooks podcast.
I am your host, as always.
The doctor to the automotive industry, MR.
Everett Jay, coming to you from our host
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I am the host of the AutoLooks Podcast, Mr
Everett Jay, speaking to you today about
children's shows, cars.
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We're not talking about cartoons.
We're not talking about like everybody gets
it.
There's a lot of them out there.
We all remember Scooby-Doo, we all remember
the Flintstones, we all remember the
Jetsons.
But there's actual other shows that you
probably never think of and I know you know
having kids and gone through all of those
entry-level shows.
Even the small children's shows have
automotive influences and the funny thing
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is is we don't take it in consideration.
There's a lot of them out there and a lot
of great ones that we don't even notice.
Hell.
One that comes to mind from my childhood
that centered essentially around an
automobile portion, even though the entire
show was dedicated to learning stuff, was
the Magic School Bus.
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Oh yes, the Magic School Bus.
We all remember it A yellow bus that could
turn into anything.
It'd shrink down in size, it could go out
into space.
Hell, it could become a bear.
On one episode it transformed.
Now during my childhood I remember things
shows like transformed.
Now.
During my childhood I remember things shows
like Transformers and even GI Joe those
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ones we all knew and they had automotive
influences in them.
Transformers are basically based off
automobiles to begin with, so naturally we
all became accustomed to those ones.
But then there was the show Mask.
If you don't remember this one from the
1980s, mask was amazing.
Why?
Because Mask had all these interesting
vehicles within it literally had a flying
camaro.
And I remember one of my cub leaders yeah,
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I went through beavers, cubs and scouts
back in the day.
His son liked mask and actually had quite a
few of those vehicles and we were over
there visiting one day because my dad was
leader of scouts and they knew each other
and all that.
We went over and his son had these and he's
like oh, you know, he was kind of growing
out of them.
And he's like, okay, yeah, here's some toys
if you want to keep yourself, you know,
busy while they're chit-chatting and
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whatever, you just stay here and play, and
I played with them.
They were the coolest toys I had ever seen.
Then, when I became exposed to the show, it
just made perfect sense to me.
This, this is cool.
This is essentially made for not children
but more adolescents in preteens.
But you have to remember, saturday morning
cartoons had all those shows on it.
If you ever watch Futurama, they kind of
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poke fun at that with all the different
shows that were on.
You know, back in those days we watched
shows like Smurfs, G.I. Joe, transformers,
droids and even one of my favorites, Astro
Boy.
But those ones, some of them, were
dedicated to older people.
We're talking about the children shows.
We're talking about something like Barbie.
Now.
Barbie wasn't a television series back then,
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but she had an automotive influence and she
still does today.
We did an entire podcast, right before the
Barbie movie came out, about all the
different Barbie vehicles ever since it's
been created All the different pink
Corvettes, the Rolls Royce, the Beetle, the
Fiat They've had tons of them.
Well, Barbie has moved up into again more
of a younger generation, so adolescence or
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pre-teen series similar to that of the Lego
Friends series.
But younger kids are still exposed to it
and they have a lot of automotive
influences in it and, with Barbie now
separating itself from the automotive,
industry has now designed and built their
own dedicated Barbie car and it fits right
into the show.
It's pink, it's a convertible and it's got
four seats.
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It's something you don't see out in the
world today, because Barbie is an
expression of yourself.
You're supposed to show who you are, not
follow the trend, not expression of
yourself.
You're supposed to show who you are, not
follow the trend, not jump in with
whatever's going on.
Barbie drives a different car because she
is different than everyone else, even
though the actual physical doll you know
there's millions of them out there and all
pretty much the same she gives you the
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ability to be different and with that she's
created her own different car.
The Lego Friends series has done this as
well, and they've done it in a way that
actually gets you to purchase the toys a
lot easier.
Essentially, the Lego friend show was an
addition to the Lego friend series.
Now, Lego's always had a problem trying to
get younger female groups into purchasing
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Lego products.
Now, my kids love Lego and it doesn't
matter, they both do, and the great thing
with lego is you could build and create.
Well, that's not something that was really
pushed.
I remember when I was younger it was more
of a you know, a select group.
You know boys play with boy toys, girls
play with girl toys.
Girls weren't playing with lego and boys
weren't playing with Barbie's.
Well, things have changed and the world has
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changed and Lego is finally able to get
their stuff out there and to help them them
get it out there.
They've created the Lego Friends television
show and they've even had special episodes
dedicated to racing yeah, a full-on race in
the Lego world and it just makes it amazing.
Go-karts and cars and bikes.
This is Lego.
We're talking about People that get
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connected together and you build the world
around you.
And now that has an automotive influence in
it.
It's showing little girls that they can be
a race car driver.
You don't have to settle for just watching
it.
It's showing you you can do it and that's a
great thing with the show.
And just like that, there's many other
shows that are very similar to that, like
Scooby-Doo and the Flintstones Hell, even
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SpongeBob With his paddy wagon.
You all remember that from the movie.
It's basically run of recycled grease.
Hell was SpongeBob onto something, telling
us maybe we should be recycling all the
grease that we throw out of McDonald's to
power our vehicles.
Well, they are showing us a lot of other
stuff if you kind of into all those weird
theories about SpongeBob, about Bikini
Atoll and all that.
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But SpongeBob is a show that you're
actually not supposed to let little
children watch because it flashes images so
quickly it'll create a really bad attention
span.
But in today's world we don't really worry
about that because most kids are just
jammed in front of a tablet to begin with,
and little shows like this are starting to
disappear.
Now even children are starting to watch
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tiny little shows on YouTube.
So the automotive influence has to jump
into a new medium.
But they still remember it from past shows.
Remember Bob the Builder?
It was a show set up for little children.
It was to show you that anybody can build
something.
When you put your mind to it, you can build
it.
Can we build it?
Yes, we can.
That's basically the motto of Bob the
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Builder.
He can do it and all of his machines are
talking to him.
Now we all remember Thomas, the tank engine
from back in the day.
There's tons and tons of different trains.
See Thomas, you may not think.
Well, it's a train.
It's not part of the automotive industry,
but automobiles run off an internal
combustion engine.
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Trains run off either diesel or diesel
electric.
Now they're similar.
Boats have giant motors too, so everything
altogether still confines with that
propulsion system.
So something like Thomas or Chuggington
super wings are dedicated towards children
showing a transportation system.
Thomas was amazing at it.
It showed an entire transportation
infrastructure across an entire island
nation, and if you're ever wondering where
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the island of Sodor is, essentially it's a
giant island between Ireland and great
Britain.
That's literally where it's supposed to be.
You can go online, look for them, but they
actually.
Somebody actually made a map and showcase
where Sodor was.
It's pretty cool.
But Thomas was made for younger children.
They want to show the transportation
industry and hell, there's even a bus, a
helicopter equipment and even the fat train
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conductor.
Sorry, that's the original name.
Sir Topham Hat now drives around in his
own vehicle, an old blue Rolls Royce, or he
has his train car.
That's pretty neat.
He's showing you that you can actually
drive a car on the railroad tracks, all
from a show that's dedicated to being about
the transportation infrastructure of trains,
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Shows you the ability that automobiles can
move from both the road towards the track.
It does this in a way that engages us and
it does it with a show that the whole
family can enjoy.
Thomas, percy, diesel they're all there and
they're all showcasing to us all the fun
aspects of this world.
My son grew up watching Thomas when he was
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little.
That was his favorite show to watch when he
was a little kid.
Now he didn't get to watch a ton of
television like a lot of other kids out
there, but he loved to watch Thomas and we
liked him to watch Thomas.
I especially liked him to watch Thomas
because I liked watching Thomas as a kid,
but I'm an automotive enthusiast.
I love cars and the transportation
infrastructure that's in Thomas still
engages me today.
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Now, today I can't watch Thomas because
Thomas is now CG and his whole face moves
and everything, so it just throws me right
out the window.
It's like no, no, no, no, this is not
Thomas.
Okay, Thomas is actual trains like models
and a giant table in a warehouse to make a
show.
He's not a CG thing.
I get it.
The CG aspect makes it easier to build this
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world and add on to it.
You know what?
Let's just keep it the way it was.
Thomas was great, especially when he had
Ringo Starr doing the talking or my
favorite, george Carlin, a man that
literally does stand up to showcase to the
world all the things that are wrong with it.
It doesn't miss a step on swearing.
And yet he was the voice on Shining Time
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Station for Thomas and his friends, which I
always found amazing.
I remember as a kid watching that show and
that show you know.
It had people and it had the aspect in it.
Now, thomas, you might say why is he here?
Because Thomas was real life products,
whereas something like Spongebob was a
cartoon.
Well, thomas still fits into this because
he's made for children and he's made to
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showcase our favorite world.
There's a lot of other ones out there.
Fireman Sam was one of the ones that my
kids grew up with and really I was never
really too fond about Fireman Sam.
I prefer when they watch bob the builder.
Bob the builder was great when he was made
out of plasticine.
Second it became cg.
That was it.
It's done.
I'm tired of watching it.
Like, seriously people, I get it.
It costs a ton of money and takes a lot of
time to make that, but that was the way we
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loved it.
It's like Rory the racing car.
That was a short show developed for
children.
We've done an entire episode about Rory the
Racing Car.
If you want to listen to it or want to let
your children listen to it, they can find
out about it.
Rory was amazing.
He came from the same place as Bob the
Builder.
So does Fireman Sam.
He's a fireman and firemen have fire trucks.
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And if your kid likes fire trucks like most
young kids do, they'll love the show, even
though the kid Norman, is always doing bad
things, always causing issues, and is so
annoying with his voice.
Ugh, yeah, I never liked it, but my kids
liked it, so I watch it with them.
It's like Paw Patrol.
I was never too crazy about Paw Patrol as
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well and they loved it.
I loved watching Paw Patrol and I'm just
like why I get it.
There's a part of me that says, yes, it's
good to enjoy this one and it's good to
promote it because it's Canadian.
Yeah, if you didn't know that, paw Patrol
is actually from Canada and it's toys from
Spin Master are from Canada as well.
Oh, yeah, yeah, all Canadian right there.
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And Paw Patrol is one of the biggest things
going around for little kids out there, for
little kids out there, and he's got tons
and tons of different variations of their
products, from trucks to boats to
submarines, aircraft to hovercraft to snow
machines.
They go everywhere.
They show every aspect of the automotive
world.
Now we're not going to get too deep into
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the Paw Patrol aspect of this.
We all know kids love Paw Patrol and they
want to watch it.
But they'll only do it for a couple of
years and then all of a sudden, when they
get out of it, you find all of their toys
at thrift stores.
Trust me, if you want paw patrol stuff for
your kid, just go to a thrift store, like
value village and all that.
You will find tons of them, because when
kids are into it, they want everything.
And then all of a sudden, one day they just
wake up and they're like nope, I don't want
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it, I don't like it, I, I'm not watching it
and I want to get rid of everything.
And then you have to get rid of everything.
See, thomas is something where you keep the
toys and you keep it with you, just like
Barbie, just like Lego.
But Paw Patrol, once you grow out of it,
that's it, you're done.
You're walking away from these toys.
Doesn't matter how much money or how much
time you haven't invested into them.
You walk away from it, even though it's an
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amazing show that shows the entire
automotive industry off in one spectacular
showcase for young children that grabs
their attention and keeps them engaged the
only thing I was never crazy about it what
the hell are these engines?
You get in these like big diesel sounding
vehicles, especially from like Chase and
his police truck.
It sounds like a diesel engine when he
fires it up, but where's the engine?
They sleep inside of their vehicles when
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they're not in use.
I'm still trying to figure this one out.
Plus, there's a lot of things that are
really questionable on that.
But, just like most kids shows, there's a
lot of weird and questionable things in it,
like they build a bridge for these beavers
to cross a river okay, but the bridge isn't
tall enough for me to get my boat under.
Did you literally try and figure that one
out?
And then they build a bridge to go over
this road once for all these beavers yet
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again.
And I'm putting these trees and all this
grass on it because I need to make it look
more realistic.
Yeah, I know about those types of bridges I
live close to the only one that exists in
the province of Ontario and one of the few
that's in Canada, but they just put it
together in one afternoon.
Nah, you can't do that in an afternoon and
literally you can't just shut down the
whole road as you build a bridge, and that
bridge doesn't even look tall enough to get
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cars under it like it's.
So many questions that need to be answered.
But then I sit back and I realize this is a
kid's show.
Kids don't ask those questions like the
vibrant colors, the cool machines, the
funny, the humor aspects of it.
As long as it keeps them engaged, they love
it and all kids love it and all kids love
the kid shows.
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And when you're above the world, you're in
the world of Paw Patrol.
When you jump into the ocean you get into
the Octonauts, and the Octonauts was
another one of those ones I was never 100%
crazy about.
It was kind of like Bubble Guppies, just
Bubble Guppies is made for like babies.
And the second you hit like three or four,
that's it.
You're getting out of bubble guppies and
you're moving up in the world.
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Well, you're moving into the Octonauts, paw
Patrol world, you're getting into things
like Peppa Pig and Bluey and all those
Before you make that next jump into like
the Flintstones, the Jetsons, scooby-doo,
and then crossovers between them are like
Fireman Sam and Rory the Racing Car, and
then you get into the older shows that make
you think, like the Magic School Bus.
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Like I said, how does that bus turn into
everything?
What type of features does it have?
How does it operate?
What power source does it have?
We all want this answer, but in the end
it's all about teaching us a lesson and
that's what a lot of kids' shows are all
about teaching us an amazing lesson and
showcasing some amazing vehicles to us.
Fireman Sam has his fire trucks.
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Magic School Bus had the bus, but recently
first it started with Netflix and then it
moved on to Disney was this miraculous show
with the Ladybug car, which kind of
showcased to us an electrified version of a
new age Volkswagen Beetle.
When I saw that I was like every other
parent who loves automobiles.
It's like we gotta watch that movie.
I wanna see that car car.
It wasn't just bringing kids into watching
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a kid's show, it was bringing parents in so
they could see the cool cars that are in it.
It was fully sponsored by Volkswagen, so
all the vehicles were volkswagen and we saw
the one with the ladybug cat noir.
Okay, her car was a new age Volkswagen
beetle.
We all know it, we we all saw it and we all
wondered why hasn't Volkswagen built upon
that momentum?
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Well, the show Miraculous didn't really
take off and the movie was on Netflix, but
the TV show is on Disney and it wasn't a
very big thing.
Now it was bigger for more adults than it
was for children.
So that's one of those shows I think kind
of missed the mark, even on the automobile
scale.
They kind of walked away from it.
But do they really need to do that?
Maybe they do.
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Maybe they do need to move in to other
things, some of the older ones you might
think about from the past, like we talked
about before, about the Jetsons, the flying
car and the Flintstones car.
But nobody ever really talks about one of
the earliest cartoons you ever get
introduced to as a child, curious George.
Now he had a television show, but in the
books Curious George was there and the man
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in the yellow hat actually has a blue
convertible and you see it quite often when
they're out and about.
Now I get it.
This really isn't a big thing.
There's no name for it or anything.
It's just a blue car, they're sedan or
they're convertible to go out in public in.
It's kind of cool.
It's kind of neat.
And when you find out about it you're just
like, oh my God, I never noticed that
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Curious George has an automobile in it.
I get it.
Cars are everywhere and they're in any show
you could think of, but this is a dedicated
car that the man in the yellow hat drives
all the time.
It's the only one you ever see him in.
See, what we're talking about in this
episode is all the vehicles that you
actually see in the shows that are more of
an emphasis on them, like the Krabby Mobile
or the boat cars from Bikini Bottom and
SpongeBob.
Those boat cars are everywhere, but you
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want to know something neat about them.
It's when they're driving past you're like,
well, yeah, if you lived under the sea and
they were all you know walking around,
talking around people, what would they be
cruising around in?
They'd be cruising around in boat cars.
It makes perfect sense.
Well, actually it doesn't, because you're
underwater, not above the water, but it's
still kind of cool that they added that
aspect to it and every time I see them I
was like, yep, there's your automotive.
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The buses are submarines in Spongebob and
the standard cars are boats.
It's kind of interesting.
They kind of add that aspect.
The octonauts add that aspect with all
kinds of different looking submarines.
They have subs for missions, they have subs
for moving quick, they have subs for going
slow, they have subs to bring everyone,
subs for singular.
It shows the entire aspect of that part of
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the world.
Now, up until now we've been talking about
a lot of these different shows that you've
found cars in.
You've seen cars in what we're going to get
into in the end.
Here we've got four more shows that are
essentially made for children, with
vehicles in them.
These ones are full on out.
You'll remember them, and they're Peppa Pig,
PJ Masks, the Wiggles and the one
everyone's waiting for, bluey.
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Okay, peppa Pig, we all get it.
Peppa Pig has the family car.
It's a convertible and it's red.
It's literally just the Peppa pig family
car.
There's no real name to it, it's just the
red car, kind of like the wiggles with the
big red car.
Now, the wiggles never really showcase
their automobile out to the younger
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generation.
They're all about their singing, they're
all about all these cool games and talking
about stuff, but every once in a while they
go out into the world and they utilize a
vehicle, and they've actually had four
different Big Red Cars.
They had the original Big Red Car, which
was a Volkswagen Beetle.
Then they had one built off that same
platform which was essentially the
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dedicated Wiggles Big Red Car.
It was made for them.
It's made for the original cast and the
second series cast.
We're now into the third iteration of the
Wiggles Big Red Car.
It was made for them.
It's made for the original cast and the
second series cast.
We're now into the third iteration of the
Wiggles show.
And now the Wiggles because the world's
moving away from cars, they're moving up
into the world as well.
When they first started touring with the
new cast of the Wiggles you know, after
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Emma left kind of missed that I didn't mind
Emma, but moved on to bigger and better
things they decided to update the Wiggles
Big Red Car because it kind of went back
with the original series for this.
Now, when they started touring, they
brought the Big Red U, which was a Toyota
Hilux.
Well, what did Toyota do for the Wiggles?
Knowing how big the Wiggles are in their
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home country and countries all around the
world, they decided to make them a special
edition new big red car.
See, Volkswagen never really got on board
with the original big red car.
It was built off a Volkswagen platform,
didn't really go that far, but Toyota built
one.
They slapped on the front end from an old
school Land Cruiser, lifted the big red car
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up, gave it a roll bar and it's now known
as the Wiggles big red UTE.
This thing is cool and when I was going
back and doing the research for this
podcast, thinking about all these cars from
kids shows, I all knew about the big red
car.
Everybody knows about the wiggles big red
car.
Well, I didn't know that they have the big
red ute now and the big red ute is what
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they're using.
And now it's literally sponsored by Toyota
with a a big Toyota branding on the front
of it.
Toyota has realized that the Wiggles make
such an impact on children that they can
influence them into their buying power.
Later on, showcasing a Land Cruiser, one of
the most notable vehicles in any part of
Australia, they built the Big Red Ute and
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it's amazing they're showcasing this
prowess off to children.
Like the show is about music and all kinds
of funny tales but, like I said, every once
in a while they go out and about, and now
they're doing it and the wiggles big red
ute sponsored and created by Toyota.
See, Volkswagen tried to do it with cat
noirs, new Volkswagen beetle, and we've
been doing it for years.
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Like the mystery machine has been a
combination of many different things for
Scooby-Doo and the pink sedan from the
Simpsons well, we all considered that to be
an old Plymouth or even K-Car.
But what is it?
No, the Big Red Ute.
We know who makes it, we know what it is.
Its name is right there.
It's the most focused automotive product
out of any children's show ever the Big Red
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Ute.
Now, the next show was one I had the joy of
going to see its live performance and I do
say joy loosely.
It was PJ Masks.
Now, this literally was like a very
short-run television series in my house.
PJ Masks was different.
I could tell that it was made for kids.
I could tell it was made to showcase the
automobile industry out with flying
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vehicles and driving vehicles.
They were cool, they were neat.
Each of the three PJ Masks characters all
had their own dedicated vehicle the Gecko,
the Owl Glider and the PJ Masks standard
blue Falcon vehicle.
But it doesn't really showcase anything
very interesting.
But it doesn't really showcase anything
very interesting With a short-run show that
only grabs your attention for a very
limited amount of time, you kind of forget
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about the automobile.
So it's there but it's not really there,
and that's the problem.
Pj Masks never really showed it off.
They were trying to bring our culture into
a kid's show.
They were trying to showcase what we know
and what we love, to try and engage with
the adults.
The unfortunate thing is, no matter how
many times they showcase them or try and
throw them in, the backdrop was super dry
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and super boring.
Like my kids, I get it.
They have a lot longer attention spans than
other kids, but they couldn't even be held
by it and when they watched it it was only
because it was the only show on.
Yeah now some other shows you might find
for kids.
There's like Blaze, that's a good one.
Ranger Rob, that's another good one.
Daniel Tiger has one of the most notable
automotive figures for children's show from
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history.
Why do I say that?
Well, Daniel Tiger, in his new series,
which engages preschoolers and younger
children, has brought Trolley into a world.
Trolley has always been there to bring mail
or to talk to Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Rogers has
been around a long time.
I get it, he's retired, he's no longer part
of the acting part of the show, but Trolley
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is, and it's interesting that they kept it
in there.
It's a trolley and it's a free ride for
anyone to get around the world of Daniel
Tiger Now.
And it's a free ride for anyone to get
around the world of Daniel Tiger Now.
Daniel Tiger is a great show to watch your
little children watch, because it has so
many great meanings in it.
It teaches you a lot about patience and
that I get it.
Lots of kids just want to watch those
action-packed shows PJ Masks and Paw Patrol
(24:17):
but Daniel Tiger is better because it
teaches you things and it doesn't shove
these cars right in your face.
It shows it to you that you need a form of
transportation to get around the world.
Okay, whether it be a plane, a boat, a car,
a motorcycle hell, even a subway train or a
regular train, you need some way to get
around.
You can use your feet too.
We all have two feet and if we don't have
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two feet, we have a wheelchair.
If we don't wheelchair, somebody can push
us.
There's a multitude of different ways to
get in and around Daniel Tiger's
neighborhood with trolley gives us that
aspect.
It shows free use of public transit to
children.
It makes them not scared to take the bus.
I grew up in a generation whose parents
literally had songs about people riding
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buses.
Guess who Bus rider get up in the morning.
It's like you're literally telling people
that riding public transit is for dumb
people and poor people.
That's it.
If you're riding the bus, we don't want to
talk to you.
My generation started stepping out from
that.
With Daniel Tiger showing trolley, he's
showcasing to us that you and your family
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can literally use it to get in and around.
Daniel Tiger is similar to that of Uber as
well.
Trolley brings Daniel Tiger to everywhere
he needs to go, so it's making a great
impression on kids that they don't need to
go out and purchase a vehicle.
You still have public transit if you live
close enough to everything you need, and if
you don't, then you need a vehicle,
depending where you are.
(25:40):
But as of right now, the SUV market is one
of the biggest.
So you need a vehicle like bogo.
Who's bogo?
That's the name of our car.
That's what bingo says in an episode of
bluey, and I actually had to learn that
from one of my kids.
I had to ask him what's the name of bluey's
vehicle.
I get it like peppa pig has a big red car,
the wiggles, have the wiggles.
Big red car, the big red ute.
There's the magic school bus, you know.
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The Barbie car, the crabby patty what is
the name of Bluey's car?
I'm like it's got to have a name.
Bluey is one of the biggest shows out there
right now.
Now, being a dad, I'm kind of you know, I
love watching bluey.
It's great, it's amazing.
It teaches all these cool things.
But literally, when I've seen this meme a
million times when Al Bundy and Homer
Simpson were the fathers we had to look up
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to, it was a lot easier to be a dad than
having to live up towards Bandit.
You got to be fun, you got to be energetic,
you got to be in with your kids.
But it also showcases to us what the things
that we need to do with our kids.
Bluey does all of that and they do it in
short little eight minute episodes.
They get the whole point across and they
make you feel good.
And every once in a while they've got to
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hop in a vehicle and go somewhere and their
vehicle looks like things that you would
see out on the road.
It's not a custom-made vehicle, it's not
like the boatmobile from SpongeBob.
No, it looks like an everyday SUV that you
would find anywhere, and it has a name BOBO.
All my vehicles have names.
Except for my little black car in the
garage, everything else I've ever owned has
a name.
There's Susie, the Suzuki.
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There's Lightning, the CX-9.
There's Rev, the RAV4.
There's Marty, the Tacoma.
There's Griff, my unicorn of a vehicle, my
old Kia Borrego.
Then there was the Beast, my old Concorde.
I named the vehicle and that was a podcast
we did way back in our first season.
Actually, second season is what's in a Name?
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Bluey teaches us that our vehicle is not
just a conveyance form.
When you don't live close to everything,
you need a vehicle to get in and around.
Now Bluey does go downtown, park their
vehicle and wander around the city.
When they're close to everything which
showcases, we need to get out and explore
the world around us as well, but we also
need to make that vehicle a part of our
family.
Like I said, all of my vehicles have names
and when I got rid of my Borrego this past
winter, I had a book in it that was Griffin.
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It was a book about a baby Griffin Okay,
the mythical creature and the name of my
truck was Griff.
My daughter kept it as a reminder of the
vehicle that she essentially grew up with
and knew about for most of her life.
Kind of like BOBO and Bluey.
It's part of the family and vehicles
essentially are that.
When you own them, people just look at them
as a piece of machinery.
But you know what?
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An automobile is completely different than
that and it really takes children's shows
to show you how they can be an extension of
yourself.
Man in the Yellow Hat had a blue
convertible.
He was single and he always liked to go out
and learn and do things.
Single, and he always liked to go out and
learn and do things.
Well, he had a vehicle for that.
The mystery machine was a van because it
was easily accessible for all the people
that needed to fit inside of it plus all
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their gear.
The boatmobile was underwater.
Trolley brought them places.
They all fit into the show and BOBO does
that and that's what I love about kids
shows.
You might not think about the automobile
aspect of the show.
I do, because that's what I love and that's
what I'm talking about, but it's something
that makes you think and makes you look.
You want to know what it is, you want to
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understand where it comes from and why it's
there, and it brings some sort of joy to
your life.
Would the Simpsons be the Simpsons without
pink sedan and an orange station wagon?
If graining changed the cars every single
year, we wouldn't remember what they drove.
But because they've had the same car since
the beginning, we remember.
And if bluey ever decides in their show to
get rid of their vehicle and upgrade to
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something else because it's been given a
name and became part of that family, we
will remember it and children will remember
it.
You have to remember the time in your life
that you take in the most amount of
information is between the ages of one and
seven, and Bluey fits into that aspect.
All these shows do.
We've all seen these shows within that age
group.
Some of them we shouldn't be watching
(29:33):
within that age group, but we've all seen
them and they've all shown us our
automotive aspect.
They've all given us a form of our industry.
They've all proven to us that they're not
just a giant hunk of metal to convey us
around from place to place.
They're literally part of the family, and
kids like to point that out the most.
My kids are the ones who always want to
name vehicles.
I kind of gave them names back in the day,
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but when we get a new vehicle, they want to
name it.
They think it needs a name because it's
part of the family and that's the greatest
thing for kids.
They make you realize this stuff, make you
forget about the things that you lost from
your childhood.
And these kids shows, when you sit down and
watch them when you get whether it be an
annoying show like fireman Sam with that
stupid Norman kid that you just want to
punch in the face to something really cool
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like bluey or Scooby-doo they make you
think and enjoy.
And it doesn't matter if you see those
vehicles or not.
They're there and they're a part of our
life and we remember them.
And they're part of the toys.
You have to remember that, just what all
these shows have created toys as well.
By having those things as part of the toy
series, it makes merchandising even better
and exposes us to even more of the
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automotive world when we can move up and
find new interests in the automotive world,
like racing, mechanics, engineering,
designing, fashion.
It's all there, and children's shows are
our first step.
So if you like this podcast, please like,
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What shows do you remember as a kid that
had an automotive aspect within it, that
had something that stood out to you?
These are all cars that literally stand out
to every single person watching this show.
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Do you remember some shows?
Give us some more insights to some
children's shows watching this show.
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