Helen Oyeyemi is an author that I've wanting to read for a few years now. I had a feeling I would like her books, and this feels like a promising start. It was strange and hypnotic and completely wonderful. I mostly read this at night for an hour or two before bed (sometimes longer) and I found myself looking forward to it throughout the day. It follows a writer, Mr. Fox, who has a habit of brutally killing all the female characters in his stories. His imagined muse, Mary Foxe comes to life and insists he is a murderer.

I fixed her early. I told her in heartfelt tones that one of the reasons I love her is because she never complains. So now of course she doesn't dare complain.”

Mr. String: Oooh, boy, an inchworm! Hah, inchworms are definitely, definitely, curious. They stretch, and they wiggle, and they waggle, and they squirm all day long, and never, ever, tangle into a knot. Oh, I think I'll be a worm! (He turns into a tornado) Wait up, wormie!

Oyeyemi hits the nail with this book, giving voice to my annoyance with this hedonistic treatment of dead women, not only in crime fiction but throughout literature. Byronic heroines do literaly little else than dying all the time. Writers, poets, have been women-murderers for centuries, but does it really matter? It's a book, it's all lies after all. "Well," Miss Foxe, the rebellious muse of the book, says, "it does matter". Inspired by the English version of Bluebeard, a fairytale called Mister Fox, she chases the author of dead women, Mr Fox, through a series of oneiric landscapes in which real and fictional blend together, in which selves multiply into dozens of different lives - some of them lived, some of them only dreamt of. But really, what makes the lived more important than the dreamt of?... Mr. String: There may be something that's hard for me, but for you, it's so easy. Then something else is for easy for me, but for you may be hard to do. Episodes usually focused on three simple subjects that interweave with each other. Our cast of colorful characters includes: This is the story of, well, Mr. Fox. And Mr.Fox has one major failing: he can't stop killing all his female characters. Of course, this is a failing many people (men, really) share with him, but most of them make it through life perfectly fine, never thinking this particular indulgence of theirs might be a problem. They don't have a muse out to get them, though. Because Mary Foxe, the muse of Mr. Fox, has absolutely had it with the killings. So she materialises and tells him to do better, when it turns out Mr. Fox is more interested in flirting and a lot less interested in changing his ways, she resorts to other means. She brings him into the world he thought he'd mastered and shows him how utterly mistaken he is.Pad recites the poem The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson, as Pencil doodles visuals to go along with it. Pad tells him that was beautiful, but Pencil says it wasn't as beautiful as her, and the two kiss. Plush walks into a yard and spots a large apple tree. He sees an apple high in the tree and leaps up to get it, failing most of the time. So he shakes the tree around and then uses his ears to extend himself up to the apple, but he ends up twisting himself when he tries to pull the apple off. Eventually, a whole mountain of apples falls down from the tree, and he eats one. The Shoe Family – a family of pairs of shoes with footwear-themed names. The parents are Mr. Shoe ( brown dress shoes) and Mrs. Shoe ( red high heels), and the children are Lacey ( sneakers) and Mary Jane (a pair of Mary Janes). In "A Little Curious About Life", they had a baby brother named Booties. Mary Jane and Lacey are two of Bob's best friends. This episode's "Starring" segment features a noticeably different intro, featuring extra instrumentation, including piano keys for Mop, an oboe for Mr. String, an accordion for Pad and Pencil, synths implementing the main theme starting from Doris, and an extended outro.

Dance Sensation: One of the "Bump" segments and the subsequent live-action segment focuses on the Bump dance.

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Bob (off-screen): Starring... Mop, Mr. String, The Shoe Family, Doris the Door, Little Cup, Plush, Pad and Pencil, and me, Bob the Ball! Today, we're a little curious about.. Long, Short, and Roll! The Shoe Family: A family of shoes. Comprised of Mr. and Mrs. Shoe and their children, Lacey and Mary Jane. Mop gets done mopping a waxy floor, which she calls "Wax and Shine" as she marvels at her "masterpiece". Mr. String comes down from the ceiling and worries about the slippery floor and that someone could fall and never get up. Just then, The Shoe Family comes stomping down the hallway to go to the circus, which causes Mr. String to worry that if they slip, they won't get to the circus, which would ultimately result in the tent filling up with uneaten food and fall down. Mr. String tries to warn them, but they don't listen and end up falling anyway. Mr. String – a nervous, intelligent, fussy bit of blue string who can twist and tie himself into a multitude of shapes. He frequently says "definitely".