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Sid the Science Kid (TV Series 2008– )

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2008–
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A young and curious boy constantly wonders the fields of science.A young and curious boy constantly wonders the fields of science.A young and curious boy constantly wonders the fields of science.

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- Drew Massey
- Victor Yerrid
- Mia Ella Mimica

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- Drew Massey
- Victor Yerrid
- Mia Ella Mimica

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Teaches pre-k kids about science, fun to watch

This charming program follows a boy named Sid, a very curious kid, through a school day. Sid starts the day with a question, and the class explores the science behind it with simple experiments and class discussion. The program's tone is very light and humorous, filled with lots of music and jokes, and it is effective for teaching natural science. The show is CG animated, but it contains live-action segments of kids in school performing experiments. Sid himself appears to be in first or second grade, but the show is aimed at pre-K and kindergärtners too, as there is no reading involved, just a lot of music and exploration.

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- September 1, 2008 (United States)
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- United States
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- English
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- Sid, el niño científico
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- The Jim Henson Company
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Parents need to know that Sid the Science Kid encourages preschoolers' curiosity about the world around them and promotes finding answers through hands-on exploration. Sid and his friends are always excited to learn new things and solve pint-size scientific mysteries like "Why are my shoes shrinking?" and "Why do bananas get mushy?" The show -- which is co-produced by The Jim Henson Company -- introduces kids to the basics of scientific study, but they'll be so busy enjoying the show's use of song, dance, and humor that they may not even realize they're learning.

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Please don't delete or get rid of Sid the Science Kid from Netflix. This show is so educational and fun for all ages. I raised my kids off this show and now i am helping my niece raise her kids (age 5 months and one yrs old). It's an all day family thing for me.

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What's the Story?

SID THE SCIENCE KID introduces kids to the basics of science through the eyes of a young boy named Sid (voiced by Drew Massey), whose insatiable curiosity about the world around him leads to discoveries of all kinds. Each day Sid and his friends tackle a new question that's sure to resonate with their young viewers; episodes have explored why snowmen melt, why leaves fall in autumn, why teeth are different shapes, and more. Under the guidance of his parents, grandmother, and caring teacher Miss Susie (Donna Kimball), Sid uses scientific techniques like observation, measurement, and data collection to discover answers to his many questions.

Is It Any Good?

This enjoyable educational series fills a gap in preschool programming, which has more often tended to focus on developing kids' readiness for reading and math. With Sid as their guide, kids will be inspired to ask question as a means of discovering new things, and they'll want to make observations and test their own scientific theories. The show's dual settings -- Sid's school and his home -- remind young viewers that the scientific world is all around us, waiting to be explored. With some encouragement from parents, there's no end to the educational opportunities that could be inspired by Sid's curiosity.

And, learning aside, Sid the Science Kid is sure to be a hit with kids because it's got plenty of music, dance, and all-around good fun. Preschoolers will enjoy aspiring comedian Sid's silly antics and the jokes that he and his friends make up (they're always related to the episode's theme). It's so entertaining that parents might find themselves drawn to watch as well -- and those who do may well learn a few things, too.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

Families can talk about the kinds of things that kids like to learn about. Kids: Where do you get your information? What places can you visit to learn more? Which of the scientific methods that Sid learns about on Sid the Science Kid have you used? How do scientists use tools to help them discover things? What tools do you use?
Families can take the opportunity to check out local museums, zoos, and aquariums to inspire their kids' interest in the sciences.
How do the characters in Sid the Science Kid demonstrate curiosity and respectful communication? Why are these important character strengths?

TV Details

Premiere date: September 1, 2008
Cast: Alice Dinnean, Drew Massey, Julianne Buescher
Network: PBS Kids
Genre: Educational
Topics: STEM, Friendship, Science and Nature
Character Strengths: Communication, Curiosity
TV rating: TV-Y
Last updated: March 2, 2022

The sad truth about the Ice Age and Sid

How often do we watch our favorite cartoons after a long time and see something completely different there? When you look at something with an adult and more experienced look, the characters, their thoughts and actions appear in a completely different light.

This is exactly what a Twitter user with the nickname Hustle Hazza did, revisiting Ice Age and looking at the cartoon with completely different eyes. Did you think that Sid was a funny character, and nothing more? It's time to learn the sad truth.

What's wrong with him?

Sid is a funny and ridiculous sloth, a real comic character. He constantly says stupid things, falls, stumbles - this delights the kids, but for adults, his fate is seen as a real tragedy.

In fact, it is he who does really important and useful deeds - insists on returning the child to people, acts as the voice of reason and simply seeks love. And he has been looking for her since birth, because his family just left little Sid without even saying goodbye.

Friends (or those whom Sid considered friends) Manny and Diego all the way do not miss the opportunity to insult him, call him annoying, unnecessary and garbage. Quote.

And when a bright streak came in his life, Manny and Diego literally became a "bucket of crabs" and pulled him back, not allowing him to enjoy a good attitude towards themselves. And this is at the same time that Sid helped Diego overcome his fear of water.

Just think: other sloths appreciated Sid's personal qualities and literally worshiped the hero, but the tiger and mammoth did not let him go to his relatives, insisting that Sid stay with the two of them. The very ones who regularly humiliate and devalue the hero. Toxicity as it is.

Despite the fact that by the third cartoon of the Sid series, it seems that began to be perceived a little better, in fact, nothing really changed. When Manny got a girlfriend, Sid said to the tiger: “So now we are one herd,” and Diego answered him: “There is no us.”

And the unfortunate sloth had to look for love elsewhere: he found eggs and began to consider them his children, to take care and patronize them. But when the mother of the eggs, a big dinosaur, took him to her nest, only Manny's girlfriend, Ellie, wanted to save her friend.

Even Sid's own grandmother is not that simple. She is quite quarrelsome: having appeared in Sid's life for a reason (a family of sloths literally hangs her on the neck of the unfortunate hero), she begins to poison the life of everyone around. And Sid, out of the kindness of his heart, allows her to treat him like this and fulfills all desires and whims. Well, do you still feel like laughing at Sid?

What do the fans think?

“I am crying. I remembered that such naive characters, who are joked about and so on, are in almost every famous cartoon.

"And everyone really thinks he's stupid, although he's just very kind and always made everyone laugh and tried not to lose heart... It hurts."

"Oh god why have I never seen Sid's story HOW TRAGIC"

"There's always been a distaste for Sid being treated like he's unnecessary trash, a rag and a burden."

"As a child you laugh at him, but as an adult you realize that you and Sid have a lot more in common than you think. "

“In fact, it’s dumb to watch cartoons already at a conscious age because of those things that you didn’t understand / didn’t notice in childhood. You understand that a story can have a completely different meaning and message"

"Every year you understand such cartoons much better, and you love completely different characters"

Now I really want to watch a cartoon where Sid himself would be the main character , and in his life, finally, everything would turn out well!

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How to make a cartoon that will appeal to kindergarteners, teenagers, and their parents? Fill it with jokes and meanings for each of these viewers. We have already talked about Easter eggs for adults in Shrek. And what interesting things could you miss in the "Ice Age"?

Ecological problems

The cartoon "Ice Age" was released in 2002. Already by the name it is clear that the theme of ecology is played up there in one way or another. This is done through sarcasm and irony, but it still gives a reason to think about the fate of the planet - for many years "Ice Age" has occupied high positions in the ratings of cartoons that tell children about ecology.

In the very first frame, the audience gets acquainted with a rat squirrel named Scrat, who runs across the ice hugging her beloved acorn and is very afraid of losing it. Interestingly, the creators did not originally plan to give this character a lot of screen time. However, the audience liked him so much that he became one of the key characters, for whom several more scenes were invented, and Scrat was voiced by the director of the cartoon himself, Chris Wedge.

The crazy squirrel was supposed to be the first victim of the advancing glacier and only set the tone for the coming catastrophe. By the way, pay attention: almost 40 minutes after Scrat's collision with the ice element, there are no traces of winter on the screen. Animals suffer from drought, cannot get water for themselves, and rejoice when they find one dandelion, since this is the only fresh green they have seen lately.

Mammal babies play various games related to environmental disasters, one of which is called "Extinction". Dodo birds cherish three watermelons and plan to eat them for a million years until life gets better. And when the animals understand what threatens them, they begin to migrate to another part of the Earth, because they are afraid of dying because of a giant glacier that is about to melt and collapse.

In different parts of the cartoon, the animals also face threats such as radioactive rain, overpopulation problems, the extinction of rare species, and even an asteroid collision with the Earth. By their (often negative) example, the characters teach viewers to protect the planet and endangered species, use natural resources responsibly and economically.

Evolution and natural selection

Archaeological studies have shown that Scrat was a lucky find for the authors of the cartoon, not only in terms of audience sympathy. When creating characters, the artists thought over the types of animals that could be found in the cartoon for a long time. All of them actually existed in ancient times, except for the rat squirrel itself. But in 2011 (nine years after the release of the first series), Argentine scientists discovered the remains of an extinct mammal Cronopio dentiacutus, very similar to Scrat.

In order for the cartoon to be believable and correspond to the era, the scriptwriters studied works on history and paleontology for a long time, visited various museums. Therefore, all the cave paintings that can be seen in some scenes quite plausibly convey the first examples of human art from the Paleolithic. And by showing the cave paintings of mammoths in a 3D cartoon about mammoths, the creators hinted at a funny connection between times: humanity has made an incredible leap in the technical means of self-expression, but the topics for it have not changed over the centuries.

The people from whom the saber-toothed tiger Diego tried to steal a child are the Nivkhs, the most ancient indigenous people of Sakhalin. In the cartoon, they do not talk, and their outfits and dwellings are created according to the images described in anthropological works.

A serious attitude to history is set off by the constant irony of multipliers. For example, in the cave where the characters are hiding in one of the episodes, the sloth Sid, before the eyes of the audience, stands on a par with representatives of different stages of evolution frozen in ice, which can be considered a hint at the lazy essence of human nature.

Sid is often the butt of jokes related to the idea of natural selection. When he meets beautiful females of his own kind and tries to flirt with them, one of them says: "He's not handsome, but finding a man who wants to marry is so difficult." And in another part of the cartoon, Buck, a brash weasel from the underworld, calls Sid a "vegetable" when he loses his coordination after fighting a dinosaur.

Black prehistoric humor, built around the principle of "survival of the fittest", affects other characters as well. Remember how two armadillos, setting off to look for a place without a drought, begin to discuss where their third friend has gone? At this moment, you can see how he runs up and jumps off a cliff in the hope that he can fly.

The dodos in the same part are looking at a crater in the ground and discussing that if you fall there, you can be boiled alive. After a few seconds, one of them becomes a clear example of this.

And in the very first scene, when the audience is just getting to know Manny the mammoth, the tapir swears at him: “Hey, do me a favor! Go your way!" To which the mammoth replies: "With such a short proboscis, I would behave more modestly. " This joke may not make children laugh, but adults and teenagers, on the contrary.

In addition to black humor, there are quite a few scenes in the cartoon that hint at how animals and people die in agony. For example, in the first part, the mother jumps with the child into the waterfall to save the baby from the attack of lions. When they emerge, the woman is exhausted. She barely pushes the cub ashore, after which she disappears.

Cultural allusions

In the first part of the cartoon, Star Trek fans noticed a quote from their favorite series. When the heroes find themselves in an ice cave, they pass by a flying saucer, and at the sight of a UFO, the baby folds his palm in the iconic greeting of one of the characters of the saga - Mr. Spock. By the way, the Blue Sky studio, which made Ice Age, a few years before, was engaged in special effects for one of the full-length sequels to Star Trek. Coincidence? We don't think.

In the same place, in the first series, there is also a quote from Titanic. As the heroes roll on the ice, Sid says to Manny, "Captain, there's an iceberg ahead!"

Do you remember how Manny gets stunned by the geysers in the second part? This is also a reference to the very beginning of Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg's already iconic World War II film.

Well, the vulture song "Lunch, Hearty Lunch" is a direct parody of the song from the musical "Oliver!" based on the novel by Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist".

Some allusions in the cartoon have not only cultural, but also religious overtones. For example, in the first part, Sid the sloth, Manny the mammoth, and Diego the saber-toothed tiger save a human child. This sends the viewer back to John Ford's western The Three Godfathers, where cowboys rescue a baby. Their images are similar to cartoon characters: one is a simpleton, the other hides a good nature behind a mask of a skeptic, and the third has Latin American roots. The western itself became one of the classic Hollywood films that are shown at Christmas, and the motif of the three men and the baby sent viewers to the biblical legend of the three wise men. The gospel theme was strengthened by the fact that the characters were looking for a way to a city called New Jerusalem.

At the center of the second part of the "Ice Age" is the problem of global warming. To save themselves and their species from extinction, the animals go in search of a huge piece of wood in which they could wait out the impending flood - this story repeats the story of the Old Testament Noah, who recruited animals on his ark before the Flood.

In this light, the ending of the cartoon becomes clear, when Scrat dreams that he is in heaven, where acorns are scattered everywhere. When the rest of the characters fall into a water trap, he accidentally splits a huge glacier in two and opens the way for them. In this way, he repeats one of the miracles of Moses, who parted the waters of the Red Sea in order to save his people from the Egyptian soldiers. But since Scrat did his feat not out of a noble spiritual impulse, but by chance, then paradise turns into just a dream for him.

If in the first part of the cartoon there was an emphasis on the origin of man, and in the second part the Flood was played out, then the third part (“The Age of Dinosaurs”) turned to a more infernal theme. Buck, that same weasel that lives in the underworld, warns the heroes about the danger with the words carved over the gates of hell in Dante's Divine Comedy: "Abandon hope, everyone who enters here."

Adult puns and jokes

Of course, to understand most of the quotes and adult jokes in a cartoon, you need to watch it in the original. For example, Sid in the part "Ice Age 4: Continental Drift" uses the curse "Holy crab" ("Holy crab"), which does not mean anything to Russian-speaking viewers. But in the English version, you can hear that the sloth slurs the word "crab", swallowing the end of the word, as small children do, so the curse word "crap" is well read.

Captain Gutt appears in the fourth part, joking about being named after "gut". At first, it may seem that he likes to tickle someone's abdomen.