What's the Big Idea?
2013Pre-school animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Because philosophy is too important to leave to grown-ups!
Seasons & Episode
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. School is the place where Hugo can learn all kinds of things, like counting and drawing, but it's also a place to meet friends.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo understands it's good to be fair so everyone can have a turn going down the slide and getting the same amount of sweets. But when Hugo gives the same size cupcakes to his huge yeti friend and a tiny ant, the yeti is still hungry. Is that fair?
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo learns that heroes are not just ones with superpowers - there are also heroes in real life, like firefighters, rock stars and even his granny. Even Hugo can be a hero to someone.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo goes on a journey to discover that tiny flowers and huge elephants are part of nature, and so are forests and oceans and the wind. But are humans also part of nature?
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo explores what art is by looking at all sorts of weird and wonderful paintings, sculptures and photos. And he learns that art can make you feel all kind of feelings!
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo thinks he's human because he's got legs, ears, eyes, nose and mouth. But his pet spider and his friend the naughty monkey have all those things too! Felix and Lily help Hugo work out what makes humans different.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Felix and Lily tell Hugo about all different types of work, and Hugo gets to work on a busy construction site.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo always has something to think about, whether it's something important like remembering Mum's birthday or scoring a great goal. But is there ever a time when he's not thinking?
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo imagines a perfect world where every kid looks, thinks and acts exactly like him. But this gets pretty annoying fast, and Felix and Lily help Hugo learn that variety is the spice of life.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo's friend the yeti is so sad that he's crying his eyes out. Hugo doesn't know why but tries to cheer him up by trying lots of things, like taking him to the circus!
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo knows some things because he can see, hear or touch them. But when he wonders if his friend the elephant can fly, Hugo holds his very own experiment to find out.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. What's right? What's wrong? 2+2=4 is right, but is Hugo a little boy or a big boy? Sometimes it's hard to decide on the right answer, and the right thing to do.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. When a cheeky monkey steals Hugo's ice cream, Hugo can't help but feel all hot and bothered ... Is that what you call anger?
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo explores things that are beautiful, from flowers and rainbows to his cool new bike. But he learns that beautiful can be all kinds of things, even Mr Yeti and Mrs Yeti.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo finds that rules are everywhere, telling you what to do and what not to do, rules in games and rules to keep you safe... but should Hugo always stick to the rules?
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. The universe is so big, some say it's infinite. Hugo ventures out into space with his trusty robot friend to find out how big infinity really is.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Every kid becomes a grown up, even Hugo. One day, he will have to find a job and might have his own house, maybe with his own family! But can grown-ups act like kids sometimes too?
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo is growing taller all the time. Growing up can be good so you can do exciting things like fly a plane! But with so many things to learn and discover, Hugo wonders if people ever stop growing up.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Oscar is afraid of the naughty monkey, Hugo is afraid of the thunder, and everybody is afraid of a big spider. But together, they learn what fear is and how to fight it.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo can't wait to grow up so he can drive cars, watch scary movies, and do whatever he wants! But he soon learns that grown-ups don't always have the freedom to play like kids do.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo has a contest of strength with an elephant and a tiny ant, and learns that even an ant is strong for its size. Hugo also learns that he can have a strong mind.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo has a great imagination, which helps him conjure up lots of fun and wild games. Felix and Lily show him that he can use his imagination to figure out tough problems and even help people too.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Some choices are easy, like which game to play, and who to play with. But Hugo finds that choosing some things is hard, and sometimes he has no choice at all!
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo has a big family: he has two sisters, a dad, a mum, a granny, uncles, cousins and so many more people - and all these people have a dad, mum and cousins too... what a big family! Maybe someday, Hugo will make his own family too.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo's friend the yeti loves his teddy, and elephant loves his rollerskates. Hugo learns about love by looking at all the things and people around him and how they make him feel.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo thinks he needs a monkey to play with, badly. But he doesn't think he needs stuff like books or sleep. Felix and Lily help Hugo understand the things Hugo needs and the things he wants.
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Some things are easy to agree on, like snow is cold and the sun is hot. But Hugo finds it harder to agree on other things, like when he wants to play basketball but his friends want to play dolls! They learn to compromise and go on a fun bumper car ride all together!
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo definitely likes some things over others, like Granny's homemade soup, good music and the colour orange. Hugo wonders if the world would be even better if it was only made up of things he likes, and if everything was orange!
Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Lots of things change when they grow up. An egg becomes a bird, a caterpillar becomes a butterfly and a kid becomes a grown up. But Hugo likes some things just the way they are!
Brave
Pre-school animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Because philosophy is too important to leave to grown-ups!