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A good start
I think this has potential, and I hope that it develops further. The characters look appealing, and I'd love to see them in puppet form. The blue dog is a little weird-looking at first, but I'm sure that I'd quickly get used to him.

My main criticism would be that the blue dog doesn't talk like a little kid all of the time. Sometimes he seems to be a kid, and sometimes he talks like a child psychologist. Butch did a bit of this too. If I were editing this, I'd go through the dialogue and rewrite the lines so they said the same things, but in a way that a child would. For example, a line like "You can wait until you feel ready to play with us" could become "It's okay, you don't have to play if you don't want to. But when you do, jump in!"

Too in your face
I watched this because it said Jim Henson. I don't have any small children now but I did and back when I did, shows didn't try to shove a lesson down their throat so forcefully. I would've preferred if they'd just shown the new dog finding his way. Any help from the other dogs could've been more natural. Not so manic or in your face; so obvious. I think people are trying to dumb down our children by having to explain everything to death and by telling them how and what they should think. What happened to individualism or creativity? Or engendering independent problem solving? This doesn't foster that at all. Also, as a pilot I know it must lay down some groundwork for the storyline, so this go nowhere episode gets a pass. Future stories need more fleshing out. Some reviewers complained that it was live action and cartoon combined. It did say at the beginning that it would eventually become all puppet if produced. Having said that, I thought the puppet was too stark. There was no...

my nephew LOVES Teeny Tiny Dogs -- PRODUCE THIS SHOW !!!
Another reviewer notes that this series has potential--and they are right. My nephew loves this! I also like that Jim Henson puppetry; the people who produced this pilot obviously worked hard! I would like to see more episodes with all puppets and less animated drawings. In addition, any small child beginning day care or preschool will be able to identify with the emotions of Butch, the new dog in doggy day care who is initially nervous, uncomfortable and even sad until he is befriended by the blue dog Dinky and the other doggies in the day care center.

True, Dinky's lines could stand a slight reworking re-write here and there. As another person wrote, Dinky sometimes sounds like a child therapist but then again young kids do learn that it's safe to leave home for the day and go to day care or preschool. At any rate, young kids watching this pilot would be given a "warm fuzzy" opportunity to see just how much fun it really is to go to day care and/or preschool. Kids will...

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