After an critically acclaimed but viewer short series during the fifties (the cancellation of which signaled one more ring on the deathtoll of UPA's final days) One wonders the mind of people who want to bring back this difficult character. One wonders even more about how you turn a cute, innocuous little theatrical short into something like this, apparently only too easily. The original fifties shorts were harmless, insouciance fun; this is just (as Lupercal below puts it) annoying.

A mishmash of segments, with little to do with one another, punctuated by a “Sound Check” breaker that’s is the most pointless thing I’ve ever seen in a modern day series. Although generally I don’t mind plot-less cartoons, as long as they have something else which compensates for it, here the whole thing is gratingly pointless and innately cheerful.

One of the segments is made up of a story set to rhyming couplets, which try to emulate Dr Seuss’s work, but the writers aren’t quite up to his level of excellence and the whole thing falls flat. Another thing that’s falls flat is the animation. UPA’s short was highly stylized because it was designed that way; you can still tell that it’s the work of ex-disney animators though. Here it just falls into today’s lower end standard TV fare.

An insult to the original short, avoid.

One of the most excruciatingly annoying things I've ever seen. I don't know if the 1950 short was better - it's hard to imagine, since the screenshots I've seen of it make 'Q.T. Hush' look like 'The Incredibles' - but this 2005 version is unspeakably irritating. The central character can only communicate in sound effects. This doesn't seem to bother him, or anyone else - which is the whole point, I suppose - but I think it will remind anyone over 5 years old that they have something else that desperately needs doing, like multiple root canals, perhaps.

Gerald's favourite noise is 'boing boing' - the sort of standard cartoon sound effect you'd get for say, a pogo-stick or jack in the box. He says this a lot. His father thinks this is cute. Message - I dunno - you can make stupid noises and people will still like you, I suppose. He can also punch his nose and turn himself into a radio. The show has good intentions, and maybe very little kids will think it's fun, but I can't review like a litte kid - I'm sorry (or maybe that's all I do?)

I can accept that this show's heart is in the right place, but don't blame me if you let your kids watch it, and end up throwing them out of a second story window after they've gone 'boing boing boing!' continuously since last thursday - because the truth is that kids who go 'boing boing' continuously aren't just like everyone else. Who the hell goes 'boing boing', with a stupid big grin on their face? The kid needs therapy, or throat surgery, not a TV show.

Will kids pick up on the analogy offered here? That being different is ok? Possibly. I must admit it's possible. Personally though, I live in fear of accidentally seeing this thing again.