The word "pee-pee" - let's use the right term, people!
It's only a mini-wank, but it seems wanky enough to go right here rather than to clairvoyantwank - you know, since the size of the wank shouldn't matter, just the motion of the...well, you get the idea.

More importantly, I thought we could all use some mommy wank that was actually fandom related and had nothing to do with boobies breastfeeding.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Nick Jr's Wonder Pets! - it's a show about three photo-puppeted classroom pets who go around the world helping baby animals in trouble. Examples include a baby pigeon stuck on the Statue of Liberty's nose, a baby elephant with his trunk stuck in the mud in the jungle, and a chimpanzee in space. Like many other children's shows, it's set to music, in this case, opera, and all the dialogue is sung. It has the requisite theme songs that kids will repeat ad nauseum and cutesy message about helping others in trouble.

The Wonder Pets have flown their flying boat past the Sphinx, the Swiss Alps, into outer space, and to Hawaii, but one baby animal in trouble has a less glamorous problem. It's a puppy stuck in the kitchen, and he needs to go outside to pee. As Ming-Ming would say, "This is serious!"

Parents on the Nick Jr message boards take issue with the fact that the word "pee-pee" was used in the episode, and all the tl;dr excerpts are behind the cut. Although some of the posts were back in March, people are still commenting through April, May, and June on the same issues.



There's a puppy who has to pee pee

PrincessKiara05
I agree with you, I myself did not approve of the choice of words, I was just talking to my sister about this because she has a 2 1/2 year old that watches this show. I do believe they could have used the word potty. I just think they should have chosen their words more carefully. My niece uses the word potty, not pee-pee and that is the way we would like to keep things and if this is what wonderpets is going to promote, my niece will no longer watch this show again, garunteed.

babiandtwin
Just to let you know I have seen this episode and also had a problem with it. I was disturbed with the whole episode in general but it really got to me when my 2 and 3 year olds started walking around singing pee pee wee wee tinkle in public. And to make matters worse, my kids were potty trained except for bedtime and now thanks to that episode my kids aren't. They want to go potty outside instead of in the potty and the 2 year old sings that stupid song and pees his pant about 4 times a day now.


The pee pee issue

lovebuggynikki03
I have to agree with all of you who don't agree with the pee pee issue. I have a 3 year old and my sister has a 5 month old, who ofcorse we all know dosent understand yet,but my 3 year old does. We are in the middle of potty training,and yeah we ask her if she needs to go pee.But for that to be on a childrens show is different.Some parents would rather refer to it as potty...or tinkle or other things.And even in my case where we use pee or pee pee, I don't feel it was right for it to be part of the show. I am not putting the show down.My daughter has set in front of it since the first show and knows the theme song!! Shell come running up to me"Mommy Mommy Wonder Pets are coming!" It's cute. But I think they need to use different wording and be more carfull..Remember these are 1-2-3-4-5 year olds watching not older kids.Lets use the right words!!!

Because, as you know, there is only one acceptable word for children to use to express the need to use the bathroom, and if I were going to pick the right word to use, it would definitely come from someone named lovebuggynikki03.

Pee-pee, wee-wee, tinkle (yes, that is the song that the trio sang at the end)

babiandtwin is back again to remind us of the horrible aftermath of this episode.
Not only did my 2 and 3 year olds start running around singing pee-pee wee-wee tinkle but they also stopped using the bathroom. They only want to go outside like that stupid dog. My 2 year old also has started wetting his pants about 4 times a day now and he was completely potty trained except for bed time. Now I have to start all over with his potty training. Thanks NickJr.


But wait! This show isn't just a horrible blemish on the face of children's programming because of the pee-pee issue. No, we also have gripes about the baby talk being used by one of the characters, Ming-Ming the duckling with guest appearances by expert preschool teachers and almost speech therapists.

Concerned parents are up in arms here, here (with caps lock o' rage and someone who dislikes when people use sarcasm to voice their opinion), here, and here, where mothers ask why LJ/SixApart is ignoring their concerns about breastfeeding if their concerns about Ming-Ming's inappropriate speech are being ignored. Bonus points to the parent who brings up Elmer Fudd and a short round of back and forth "these pseudo statistics say there is/isn't a problem here."

Since this is the diet version with 1/3 less wank, I bring you an e-version of those cheap chalky after dinner mints that accidentally get crushed under your car keys as you dig out your wallet with these two links, one to Wonder Pets will give children nightmares and the other to "Where are the daddies".