Jimin is hoping to find a family to call his after seventeen years, when he finally gets adopted - but his adopted family seems to have a secret that could be fatal for him.
The very first name written down is Mina. It’s the first name and the only name written with a pen instead of carved in. It’s followed by a text, a note - probably her last. My name is Mina. It’s the 6th of November, 2010. Dear anyone who reads this, I don’t think we’re safe here. If you can, run away - but not through the garden. Yesterday, I heard a scream, followed by a howl. It almost sounded like flesh was being ripped.
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Whether friends (Koki x Jimmy, Mikayla x Tulip, Piper x Aerrow), crushes (Harold x Leshawna, Duncan x Mia) or couples (Honeybee x Wolf, Anaelle x Bob)... this is my jam.
They been "best friends" for 30 years. I'm a old gay. I know wtf this is. 😅
Not a lot of content for this show, because its for the youngest audience, and they only need a few things, so this show isn’t really a show that would do big on this site. BUT, I did find a few things, probably from kids in the area or people with kids in their lives, whatever, and a few posts I saw that were surprised about Bob being a straight man who has a romantic relationship. So, now I am on a journey to talk about Bob and Ana.
I watched this show because I watch kids shows both to feel them out for kids in my care at work and to decompress from all of the content out there that gets draining and painful to endure because of grit and grime and grimness. And, I think I have found something that I can have as an alternative for Paw Patrol. Kids can see puppies solve mysteries and go on adventures without the copaganda.
Firstly: This is a show where nobody is going to address sexuality. It will not happen, and so his sexuality can be whatever the audience member who wants to branch out into that sort of thing wants to do. But, let’s say for my journey with this series that he is an asexual man - because the show addresses him with he/him pronouns only, it is a preschool show that does not explicitly give sexuality, and I am ace, so we’re first viewing him from an asexual perspective.
Ace people can have relationships, love, affection, and even physical intimacy. The option of doing all these things doesn’t necessarily become futile in this orientation. So, Bob could still have himself some human connection, as a treat. Even if you were used to him being a single man with his pets and inventions who didn’t seem remotely interested in having relationships with other people in a standard way.
Even if we presume he has some other orientation - hetero being the most represented in children’s shows, but bisexuality and fluid orientations are making their way into mainstream content for older kids more and more all the time and kids with other orientations may still see this show for a younger audience and see elements of themselves in Bob. A gay child might be confused as to why Bob has a female love interest when he comes across to them as homosexual, etc.
The conversation about how many queer people get involved in relationships with the opposite sex, and sometimes even begin families is a huge discussion that this is not the place for, but I did want to bring that up, because while I don’t think that’s Bob’s situation, it could be an explanation for a gay audience observing the relationship between these two characters.
Adopt-a-Palooza
The site I was watching this on had delayed captions, so I had to cut them off and I didn’t write down the exact wording, but it was basically both of them taking accountability for running into each other, Bob asked the kitty if he could help them off his head, they exchanged that they thought the other was good with animals, introduced themselves (she was in charge of the volunteers and he was violunteering), then they left their pets to play in the dog park while they went and did their thing for the pet adoptions. (I think if you click on the image it becomes clearer. Will try to have captions in the future ones)
Personally, I think Bob’s nose was wide open the moment he literally bumped into Anaelle. This is the first time we see her, and while they initially collide with each other simultaneously, she soon shows that she's still more coordinated when she catches him from falling a second time moments later.
"Excuse me." "No. Excuse me." Was cutish.
The "you're pretty good with animals " "So are you!"
Ma'am. Sir. That cat, in particular, is traumatized, and Lollie look like her life momentarily flashed before her eyes. The cat saw the moment they effed up and stayed on high alert the rest of the scene. 😅
Since I’m watching this as both an adult who has been in relationships and one who has watched things for a long time, I am used to characters being introduced specifically to become an interest for the main. This is a program created by someone who seems to identify as a man, who seems to be married to a woman. It isn’t a stretch for me that they would introduce a love interest, especially because he already has a steady home life, sort of. Their universe is not exactly like ours, but the nature of things here - the problems are all situational and hardly ever at the hands of a villain, when someone does something wrong or harmful, they almost immediately regret it and apologize... this is a very small child’s show. It is showing very primary connections.
So, whenever Ana is introduced, she could very well be as a love interest or as a background character. She doesn’t show up and automatically become a main, but she does become recurring and Bob does speak of her and talk to her. He calls her “My friend Ana,” because we aren’t sexualizing them and they don’t have a romance brewing, but They do appear to be being set up for that from the moment she shows up and Bob seems interested in knowing her. That spin of his bow tie when he says, “I’m Bob!” Guys. That was this corny cornball of a man flirting, in his way. And any time you see Ana or hear about her after this moment, there is excitement on Bob’s part.
Yes. Bob is a very excitable man. He very much gives you that certain, “Me and the Bad Bitch I Pulled” energy. But, he also is a heightened worrier at times... when it comes to Ana, he tends to generally not worry specifically about something until it clearly goes wrong and she winds up being a person who tells him not to worry in those moments. (Not so much in this episode, because they’re just meeting.)
If Bob weren’t going to wind up with Ana, this would still likely be a very special friendship for him, because we don’t get to see a lot of characters interact with Bob in that way. If anything, I don’t know that we ever really got much of why on Earth Ana was interested in Bob, except that maybe, she’s just a cornball of a person, too. It’s cute.
