Littlest Pet Shop

*Warning: This Review Is Biased

The littlest pet shop videos (made by 5-20 year olds) on YouTube are so much better. This show is basically twenty-two minutes of clichés and stereotypes. The characters have personalities that are obviously ripped off of another Hasbro/Hub show (My Little Pony). Plus, the music is absolutely awful. To be honest, I couldn't be paid to like this show. Also, in my opinion, the animals are outrageously skinny but this is just a cartoon. I don't know if that would be fair judgement for a cartoon but it's true. Like I said, the many series on YouTube is better because they have creative plots and realistic and likable characters/personality. Of course, they don't have good voices because it's just one voice actors but it's still amazing for their own standards unlike Littlest Pet Shop. All in all, Littlest Pet Shop is poorly written and you shouldn't be wasting time watching it.

The new incarnation of Littlest Pet Shop is the creation of spouses Julie McNally Cahill and Tim Cahill, creators of Cartoon Network's "My Gym Partner's A Monkey" and former Warner Brothers executives. The show centers on a girl named Blythe Baxter who moves to Downtown City with her father, and gains the ability to speak to animals when she goes down a dumbwaiter into the pet shop. As the title implies, this is one of my favorite cartoons of the 2010s. It's in my top 3. The show isn't perfect, but its good outweighs the bad. Blythe is a well rounded protagonist in that she's ambitious in her dreams, but knows when to scale back. She's intelligent, kind to animals, and is a great person to be with. The pets all have their comedic moments, and have traits that make them something other than comic relief. Roger manages to be funny without crossing the line, and a good father. The Biskits are a bit annoying, but they're comedic too. Mrs. Twombly is just hilarious with her door knob obsession and strange antics, but she can be a good guardian of sorts to Blythe, and I think they have a special connection. While Sue and Jasper could be more developed, I think they're fine, and Youngmee is the best of Blythe's friends. She can cook, think, likes boy bands like Blythe, and is the only one of Blythe's friends that knows she can talk to animals. The show isn't as focused on morality, making for some meh episodes sometimes, but the show can still provide good laughs, great songs from Daniel Ingram, and plenty of genuine heart ad emotion to go along with good morals.

My Grade: 9.5/10 (A)(I rounded up for my score up there.

LPS is just good enough to be watchable. Many of the characters have interesting personalities, quirks, or behaviors while others are just annoying, bland, or stereotypical. For example I found Sunil and Vinne grating to watch while Russel, Minka, and Pepper were interesting and fun. The plots and musical numbers fall into a similar catch or miss territory as well. I found myself skipping entire scenes or episodes but laughing at and replaying others. If you are interested in watching it as a test run I would recommend watching S1 EP15 (Topped with Buttercream), S1 EP23 (Door Jammed), and S2 EP18(Grounded).

Most episodes contain two parallel stories which alternate usually focusing on both Blythe and the Pet-shop pets. They follow a slice of life format with the occasional minor antagonist like the Biskit twins or a new guest at the pet-shop. Most problems are usually a result of someone blowing something way out of proportions and resolved with relatively little struggle. This show does fall into many overdone tropes but they are relatively painless in most cases. Overall it's a decent show with a issue or two but nothing bad enough to ruin it.

Since this show is coming to a close I thought I might as well put in my two cents. First, the characters. This show has a very odd tendency of giving only some of the characters depth. The only characters I can really find myself relating to are Blythe, Zoey, and Russel, but the rest are pretty bland most of the time. Vinnie is stupid, Sunil is scared of everything, Minka is crazy, Pepper is supposedly funny, the list goes on and on. The show is seems to try to pander to the teenage demographic with the Internet crazes, crushes, and middle school problems, but also seems to try to entertain small children, so what is this show's target audience? i will give this show credit, though. The plots are easy to follow yet can be very entertaining (not all of the episodes are like this, however) and many of the songs are really good. So overall, I'll give this show five stars for the music, plots, and some of the characters.

It's hard to have cartoons on The Hub with so many forgotten shows.

Unlike channels like Cartoon Network that had hit after hit, or lesser known ones that became cult among the critic.

FiM is one of the main drives among the likes of classic superhero shows, and new shows like Teenage Fairytale.

Well, here is the new LPS from The Hub based on the endless row of classic toys.

Toys that ranks from doll, electronic games and more.

In this update we follow Blythe a girl that can understand the pets in her shop.

Along the way we meet other random animals like a cat with sprinkles on her head.

There are also the butler, and his two evil twins.

The songs ranks from upbeat to sad, exotic and thrilling.

Despite LPS does not seems to have any known big meet ups and Cons like MLP it sure have a lot of Youtbe hits, and lots of talk on forums.

If you like some light cartoon entertainment I recommended this show.

10/10