A lot of reviewers, including parents ranked this a 10....greatest animation ever, and not scary for kids. I found some of these episodes and artifacts, extremely scary and surprised about these comments. I found that the family and the fellow creatures they encounter, to be very blasé about the artifacts surrounding them. The episode of the puppet from India that takes over the body of the son, was very disturbing, yet the entire family travels to India with their son trapped by this puppet not upsetting at all. It took me several episodes to get used to Larry, the rolling pirate skull and the goofy wood thing with the antlers.
It also took a while to get used to the kids with their gigantic eyeballs, and their smarty-pants attitudes, but halfway through the first season, I got used to them.
Love the rough/sketchiness of the cartoon. Love the animation of the rolling skull and the wood creature. They walk and move like Lego creatures, which are my favorite cartoons to watch (especially lego Batman and Lego Scooby doo).
I knew this would happen before I even watched it, but the episode with the Cowboys and their horses in New Mexico bugs me as a NM artist. What is about cartoonist, animators, illustrators, and script writers, that they always have to add saguaros (cactus that has arms and looks like a person) to anything with a western theme? Saguaros only grow in the Sonoran desert, which is located in AZ and Northern Mexico. They can't grow where there is snow and New Mexico's higher altitude with the Chihuahuan desert and Rocky mtns., receives snow all the time. It bugs me because there's an episode about Australia and its plant life, which looks authentic...Why can't they do the research in their own US?
