Doc McStuffins
Season 1 (2012)
Just when I was ready to throw in the towel
when it came to the Disney Channel Doc
McStuffins came along and restored my faith. She’s a miracle worker, that Doc! I had heard of this Disney Junior show, about a little girl
who serves as a doctor to broken toys that come to life around her. It’s a cute premise and this plucky
show really delivered with this Halloween episode.
It’s Halloween and the good doctor and her dad
are working on their annual haunted living room display. Even Doc’s toys are getting in the act
by wearing costumes. But when a
pumpkin with a motion-detecting ghost inside malfunctions, Doc McStuffins takes it to
her clinic (a playhouse in the backyard) to work her medical magic.
Once the Doc brings the adorable little ghost
to life it’s revealed that he was frightened by the Halloween decorations and
so is hiding out inside the pumpkin.
Doc McStuffins brings the decorations, including a witch and some hanging
spiders, to life in order to show the ghost that they are friendly and it’s all
in good fun. The witch reminds me of the motorized witch seen in Home Improvement-- except now with the added bonus of sentience! All my Halloween dreams are coming true! Anyhoo, the ghost gets into
the spirit of things and everyone comes together to spook visiting
trick-or-treaters.
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| Ghost or dollop of delicious frozen yogurt? Either way I'm sold. |
Loved it! I loved the toy characters and I loved that the Halloween
decorations came alive and conversed.
Basically this show is my childhood brought to life, in which I assigned
personalities and developed friendships with every inanimate object I came
across. I named every stuffed animal
I ever owned and rotated which ones got to sleep at the head of the bed so no
one’s feelings would be hurt. And
unpacking our Halloween decorations every year was like being reunited with old
friends.
My only complaint was with the voice actress
chosen for the Doc. The actress is
14 and she sounds like it, with no attempt made to make her sound more
childlike. So it was a bit weird
to see this animated little girl talking to her dad in a sort of womanly
voice. Other than that, Doc McStuffins really nails that sense
of imagination that kids infuse the world with, especially around the holidays.
And I discovered that there is a dollhouse
playset and it is so going on my 2013 Christmas Wish List!
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| It will be mine! |
Halloween Quotient: 4
See It, Skip It, Own It?
This was so charming that it’s worth owning
and watching yearly—here’s hoping there’s a Christmas episode!
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