I Watched 97 Episodes of Booba - Toonstalgia

What I learned from watching all the Booba

He's a gremlin like creature that does things.

Thoughts

I only know about Booba because of my nephews. I favor 2-D animation and stop motion. It's a personal taste thing. But I've watched Bingo, Rollie, Rabbids, Booba, Mighty Mike, Grizzy, the Lemmings, and so many more for them it blurs in my brain into an uncanny mass of madness. Not to be dramatic or anything. 

So anyway...I decided to watch all of it.

Season 1: Episodes 1-10

Booba's eyebrows bug me because they're on little stalks. The midseason eyebrow redesign from fleshy to more white and furry helped ease my continuing discomfort. I know I will never be happy about his eyebrows.

Attic - My favorite episode in the first season is the attic. Booba explores a cursed attic. He finds himself under the sway of multiple magical objects including a cursed mirror and a magical doll. Since the cursed doll looks like him and controls him, that means someone made the doll to target Booba.

Season 2: Episodes 11-21

I like the background details worked into the shorts. They do some creative work with musical cues and sound design. The fly designs in "Mousetrap" are clean, not overly anthropomorphized and still expressive. Party has a Terminator 2 reference and I respect that. 

Booba's nails are no longer claws but rounded off (although he's able to cut glass with them). It's starting to gross me out to see him eat things that aren't food. The constant lack of dialog stresses me out. 

Episode 8 "Burger" Dr. Texas, my little nephew, thinks it's good but he doesn't like the ants because he wouldn't want to eat ant guts, legs or faces.

Episode 9 "Escalator" Dr. Texas thinks it's really good.

Episode 10 "The Supermarket" Dr. Texas thinks it's good. He likes that Booba works out before he tries to beat the robot. This is my favorite episode of the second season because Booba has a goal, faces an obstacle and creates multiple solutions to overcome the obstacle.

Season 3: Episodes 22-32

Episode 1 introduces a second character in the form of a bespectacled mouse with eyebrows on fleshy stalks and I hate that. This is the first recurring character. He's quickly followed by a parrot in the next episode and he had fleshy stalks too. Season 3, Episode 3 features a reference to Pulp Fiction.

Noise - My favorite episode of the third season shows Booba trying to complete his cheese dream. I really like the look of the cheese world.

Season 4: Episodes 23-33

Dr. Texas and I got into an argument about the worm. Dr. Texas was convinced the worm was a caterpillar because he looks like a caterpillar. I just assumed he was a worm because he was in an apple (worms in apples, caterpillars on leaves). But the names of green caterpillars include the word worm. The show descriptions say he's a worm. He wasn't happy that the internet confirmed my theory but he was reassured when I pointed out we were both proven right. But he will not agree to use the portmanteau Caterworm, he prefers half caterpillar and half worm. We haven't settled this argument.

Video Game - Booba gets sucked into a video game and binges on chocolate, cake and ice cream. The episode reminded me of the minigame section from Wreck it Ralph.

Season 5: Episodes 34-44

I went through about 25 episodes from Season 4, 5, and 6 with Dr. Texas and his brother. I didn't take many notes from those episodes because I was too busy talking about it with them while they messaged my sister GIFs of cats on my phone. 

Magic Chalk is a great episode. Magic chalk is not an uncommon concept in cartoons. Chalkzone comes to mind. But the battle between Booba and his rat friend is a fun take on magic chalk. 

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes - This is my favorite because my nephew started singing the sond and it was so adorable I couldn't even think of liking another one better.

Season 6: Episodes 45-55

I jokingly suggested to Dr. Texas that Booba's living in a post apocalyptic world populated by only teddy bears and his few friends. We had a lively debate on the subject.

Guest: This episode presented a continuation of a storyline. I appreciated that.

Season 7: Episode 65-75

At this point I realized, most of the fun of watching these is the nephews. They're loud, distracting and joyful. The show continues to be noise and movement. 

Easter: This episode embraces the feeling of the bunny and candy holiday. The ending is particularly sweet.

Season 8: Episode 66-76

They're not hard to watch. I'm pretty much convinced there's nothing I'm missing here. There's nothing more to this than "stuff happens". And Booba's eyebrows still bother me.

Season 1 and 2: Food Puzzle

There's not much to this. They're about 3 minutes an episode and they feel longer. It's Booba and his rat friend assembling food into pretty shapes. My brain reeled at the celery filled with grape jam and decorated with an orange slice. The ideas are cute and harmless unless someone's kid decides they want their meals to look like them. It feels like one of those games where you need to fill orders at a restaurant.

Season1, Episode 7 has Booba in a headdress and him and Loola making a war cry. It's not good. This is the second time Booba's used a Native American style head dress.