Easter Episode: In "Dye Another Egg", two kids named Gabriel and Kiara want to learn to dye eggs for an Easter egg hunt before bedtime, so Oso has to step in and teach them.Drink-Based Characterization: Oso likes his water "fizzy, not flat", just like how James Bond likes his martini "shaken, not stirred".Disney Acid Sequence: A lot of the songs diverge into this.They're also both CGI and have reasonably similar looks. Presumably relatively easy to finagle, since not only do both shows air on Disney Junior, but both are produced by Disney Television Animation. Crossover: "The Manny with the Golden Bear" had Handy Manny and his tools show up to help out when Oso has to help a kid who has a broken bike.Christmas Episode: "The Living Holiday Lights," which also covers Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.Chekhov's Skill: During Oso’s Special Assignment, he remembers something about the Training Exercise from earlier, which he uses to complete it correctly.Blatantly toyed with, in that he always forgets the lecture in question when it's actually INTENDED to be used, and only remembers it when something only vaguely related comes up.Chekhov's Classroom "Your special assignment for today, Oso.".in the plush!" (Oso, in response to a kid shouting "Special Agent Oso!") From Agent Wolfie: "Outstanding, Oso! AWOOO-tstanding!"."I want to do X, but I don't know how." (Or, more generally, some form or another of "I don't know how."). ![]() And, to a lesser extent, "Sounds like a plan."."It's all part of the plan! More or less.".Captain Obvious: Guess what the third step of petting a llama is? Petting a llama.Butt-Monkey: Oso is the butt of more than a few jokes and Running Gag things.Bilingual Bonus: Oso being Spanish for bear.Bedsheet Ghost: In "A View To a Mask," the boy that Oso is helping, Kevin, initially mistakes Oso for being dressed up as one of these when he lands in front of his doorway covered in his parachute.Instead of the rocket crashing, it shoots halfway through the rock. Artistic License – Physics: Oso is in a rocket when it collides head-on with a huge rock.Then ask yourself, "how did he get from Europe to North America in just a couple of minutes BY CAR?!" Or better yet, how is it that Oso makes it from the moon to help a kid in a matter of minutes? Artistic License – Geography: Pay attention to the two different locations on the globe that are shown when the camera zooms out of a shot of a kid in need of help, then zooms in on where Oso is.In other cases, they may have even offered to help, only for the kid to say that they wanted to do the task on their own, before admitting to themself that they didn't know how. In certain cases, the adult was about to help the child until they got called away by something else. They may be sick, busy with a sibling, or the child simply didn't ask them for help because they wanted to try to accomplish the task without the parents' help. In many cases, though, it's not so much that they're useless so much as that they have a good excuse. Adults Are Useless: The adults on the show don't seem to help their children but rely on Oso to help them.The new Disney Junior block includes a short show called Special Agent Oso: Three Healthy Steps in which Oso observes as real-life children take three healthy steps to complete some sort of physical activity, such as jumping rope, swinging on a swing or fixing a salad. Oso is then reviewed of what he did during the assignment and is awarded a "Digi-medal".īasically, it's James Bond meets Dora the Explorer meets Winnie the Pooh. After helping the child, Oso goes back to agent training where he tries at his exercise again this time, he remembers a technique from when he helped the child, which he uses to complete the exercise correctly. Oso then gets the "three special steps" from Paw Pilot which are needed to help the child and complete the assignment successfully. ![]() Dos, who alerts him to a child who needs help doing some sort of everyday thing, aka his special assignment. He messes up his exercise at first, and that's when he gets a "special alert" from Mr. In each episode, Oso is doing his agent training guided by Wolfie, Dottie or Buffo. ![]() Dos, a deep-voiced man who only talks through Oso's watch, and Rapide and Whirlybird, a talking train and a talking helicopter, respectively. It's about Oso, a "unique stuffed bear" who is a secret "special" agent in training working with some kind of nondescript agency, along with his training helpers, Wolfie and Dottie, and his trusty talking map Paw Pilot. ![]() Special Agent Oso (2009-2012) is a children's animated television series that aired on Disney Junior and seen for a couple of years when that programming block was still known as Playhouse Disney.
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