![]() ![]() There's also a song about how "it's fun having fun," and I'm really hoping all the parts that actually make sense got lost in the translation somehow.Įach "Baby Felix" short runs around four or five minutes, and the TV episodes collect a handful of these shorts that connect in a running theme there's a show on Baby Felix playing baseball, another about the Professor trying to break into Baby Felix's magic bag of tricks. The show's theme song should do a good job of explaining just where the cartoon stands. It's anime dubbing as done by squeaky cartoon talent. ![]() (The English dub makes it an even more bizarre experience, with the oddly placed ahs, ohs, and various other pauses and grunts that voice-over folks have to put in to fill in ill-fitting mouth movements. A hypnotically disastrous blend of classic American cartooning and Japanese anime, "Baby Felix" straddles the fence between uninspired kiddie fluff to painfully wretched TV disaster. ![]() "Baby Felix" debuted in Japan in 2000 (all accounts indicate it was made with that nation's audience in mind) it came Stateside with the "& Friends" added to the title. "Baby Felix" is, I am told, a series created by Don Oriolo, son of Joe Oriolo, the man who brought "Felix the Cat" to TV in the 1950s. Seems simple, yes? Ah, but did anybody explain this to the creators of "Baby Felix & Friends," a series in which Baby Felix is constantly walking through a time-portal mirror and then running into his older self. There's a general rule about popular-characters-as-babies cartoons, and it's this: you get to see the popular characters as babies. ![]()
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