The Main Characters


Got into this show thanks to nephew and ironically can't stop watching it. Even when I'm not babysitting him. Wondering if the main characters such as Super Why keep within a same storyline? I ask due to one episode he claimed that Jack (of Jack and Jill fame) was his older brother. Then in another episode he receives a secret letter and sees Jill pass by and ask her if she wrote it. Now maybe I'm making too much from a kids show but wouldn't Jack and Jill be brother n sister (or am I recalling that story wrong) or perhaps Jill (for this show) is just another character and not seen as Super Whys sister. Sorry if I wrote that out so vague and long but trying to get an understanding.

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I'm not sure why I'm doing this, because no one's going to benefit from it and it will only serve to destroy my credibility on everything else in the world, but here goes.

Whyatt/Super Why: His brother is Jack from 'Jack and the Beanstalk', and his last name is, strangely enough, Beanstalk. He explains this at the beginning of the 'Jack and the Beanstalk' episode. His parents are children's book writers, and he has a baby sister named Joy who is the subject of almost every Whyatt-centric episode. He has the deus ex machina power of randomly changing the endings of fairy tales to correspond with the day's lesson.

Little Red Riding Hood/Wonder Red: She is from the story of the same name, despite being the same age as all of the other second-generation fairy tale characters. She doesn't have any on-screen parents, but she occasionally visits her grandmother for cake and hugs. Her power is changing objects and animals into things that they rhyme with. Since there is not much call for a power like this, she hardly ever gets to do anything except announce what's happening.

Littlest Pig/Alpha Pig: He might be from 'The Three Little Pigs,' but it isn't ever noted in the series. Littlest Pig is his full name, but all of the main characters just call him Pig. He has two older brothers (guess what their names are) and a father, Papa Pig, but no onscreen mother. He can harness the infinite power of the alphabet, which he uses to create words that affect reality, track important plot points, and pretty much anything the writers can think of. Thus, he is a staple character in every episode.

Princess Pea/Princess Presto: She is the daughter of the prince and princess from 'The Princess and the Pea' (and not the original princess). It is interesting, though not very interesting, to note that her father is Indian and her mother is not Carol Burnett. Her power is a limited version of Pig's power of the alphabet, in that she can only spell out words that impact the story. She uses this power every time the writers can't think of anything for Red to do.

*Sighs contentedly* Ahhh, my OCD is slaked for another day.

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Thanks that did help me to understand better ~ oddly enough my nephew is now into Little Bill which I don't care for

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Understandable. Little Bill is more for the little kids than for their parents, while Super Why is more for...not really anyone. It requires kids to already know classic fairy tales (or else learn them wrong now) and also to know how to read and spell (because it doesn't have a very good method of teaching it). I'd say Super Why is more meant for parents who like to have a laugh at kids shows that have higher-than-child-level subtext.

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Great post. I think my four year old watches entirely for the theme songs and to be Told she has a super power.

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