Scaredy Squirrel

This would actually be a generally fine animated show if not for the fact that it is an obvious SpongeBob rip-off that is absolute repelling due to its lack of originality. The series does not offer anything new. Rather, it deals in an identical style of humour built on hyperactivity and identically concieved characters, just with different figures against a different backdrop. Instead of fast food, this time the scene is a supermarket, another showcase of capitalism. The strangest thing about this project is the fact that it was created based on the popular picture books by Melanie Watt, which are as far removed from the series as possible in terms of their style and stories – it’s as if someone had taken Peppa Pig and turned it into a superhero comic book. Some producer must have been higher than fuck on cocaine when he said to himself that he would buy the rights to books for small children, in which a cute squirrel is always afraid of something and then finds out that he can easily overcome his fear, and then said he would use only the title of the book series and have a facsimile of an international hit written, while emphasising everywhere that it is based on the original series of books in order to prevent Nickelodeon from filing lawsuits. (17.04.2019)