Der Phantastische Paul

My kids are 2 and 4 - they both love this show and I actually enjoy watching it with them. It's sweet and educational - what's not to love?

This show is flawless. Highly recommend. Perfect for cultivating happy well mannered children interested in a wide range of subjects. It's funny to me that one of the negative reviews here is that the show is too positive. This is precisely what I like about it. But more importantly the show doesn't rely on a lot of fast cuts to keep kids attention but instead uses pacing and proper plot to maintain sustained attention of children. My kids love it and have become interested in things like trains, planes, Dino digs and detective work by watching this show. Not a big fan of tv for kids but this show is the best I've seen after seven years of curating content. Pretty cool if you ask me.

It's nicely animated but it's packed full of cheesy clichés, idioms, stereotypes, and exaggerated emotions. The over-the-top positiveness is lame, and I'd rather they didn't try to make the show educational in the way they do. The accents of people from other countries is embarrassing and was reason alone for not letting my son watch it anymore. All in all, pretty awful garbage for your little ones to watch.

Both my boys I nanny for love this show. We have seen all of the first season at least 3 or 4 times! Can't wait for season 2 to appear on Netflix! Every morning my 3 y.o. asks for this show and we watch a little bit in the morning and a little bit after afternoon nap. It is definitely one way to calm him down and get him to concentrate on one thing. One thing I swore was that I wouldn't let kids watch TV but this show is pretty good. Plus some times you really just need a break. Love all the imaginary play too. And of course we have our favorite episodes. The theme song is nice and not annoying. The show is also not annoying, like many other "learning" shows.