Seven Little Monsters

Seven Little Monsters (pronounced: 7 Little Monsters) is an animated television series about a family of seven monsters and their mother. The series premiered on September 30, 2000 and ended on October 6, 2003. It aired on YTV in Canada and PBS Kids in the United States as part of the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch. It was created by Maurice Sendak.

Plot
Seven giant monsters, each named as a number, One through Seven, line up together in the first frame and then start causing mischief. One flies, Two uses his long nose to dig a hole, Three scares a town, Four eats tulip trees, Five drinks the seas, Six sleeps on houses, and Seven unscrews his head.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Awesome concept.
 * 2) Very likeable and tolerable characters.
 * 3) *One, a monster that flies.
 * 4) *Two, a monster that uses his long nose to dig holes.
 * 5) *Three, the town-scaring monster.
 * 6) *Four, a monster who eats tulip trees.
 * 7) *Five, a monster who drinks the seas.
 * 8) *Six, a monster that sleeps on houses.
 * 9) *Seven, a monster that unscrews his head.
 * 10) *Mom, the caretaker for the monsters.
 * 11) *Belinda, the monsters' pet cow.
 * 12) Lot's of great episodes.
 * 13) * Season 1
 * 14) **Good Morning
 * 15) **Good Night
 * 16) **The Mystery of the Missing Five
 * 17) **Seven Monsters and a Baby
 * 18) **Please Mr. Postman
 * 19) **Doctor, Doctor!
 * 20) **Along Comes Mary
 * 21) **A Monster's Best Friend
 * 22) **Spooky
 * 23) **The Plooky
 * 24) **Fair Play
 * 25) **Lost and Found
 * 26) * Season 2
 * 27) **Losing Sam
 * 28) **Out of Sight
 * 29) **All the Marbles
 * 30) **The Whole Tooth
 * 31) **My Fair One
 * 32) **Splitting Hairs
 * 33) **Elephant
 * 34) **A Day at the Firehouse
 * 35) **Runaway Mom
 * 36) **You Are What You Eat
 * 37) **April Fools
 * 38) **It's a Wonderful Life
 * 39) **Adventures of Super Three
 * 40) * Season 3
 * 41) **Voyage to the Bottom of a Cereal Box
 * 42) **Bang! Zoom! To the moon!
 * 43) **All's Quiet on the Monster Front
 * 44) **Guys and Dolls
 * 45) **Drip, Drip, Drip!
 * 46) **Ahoy, Me Monsters
 * 47) **Ear Spy
 * 48) **High Moon
 * 49) **I'm Telling
 * 50) **Nightmare on Chestnut Street
 * 51) **No Place Like Home
 * 52) **Dinner for Breakfast
 * 53) **A Pony Tale (which ended the series on a high-note)
 * 54) This show has good morals.
 * 55) Catchy and unforgettable theme song.
 * 56) Great quality. Especially for Nelvana standards.
 * 57) *The quality is a little like the art style used on the Berenstain Bears. But overall, it's at it's original.
 * 58) Very good lip-syncing compared to other Nelvana shows.
 * 59) The additional characters are well-played.
 * 60) Great 2D animation.
 * 61) The fact that the children were born as human-babies but became monsters is interesting.
 * 62) *But it never happens in real life. Humans can't really transform into monsters.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The animation, while great, can suffer from animation errors.
 * 2) Some bad episodes include
 * 3) *Are You My Family?
 * 4) **This episode is a female version of "The Mystery of The Missing Five." But instead, it's about Six running away when One affects her feelings. However, One cried a little when she lost Six after losing her. At the end of the episode, each of the monsters are wearing circus-designed clown costumes. Except, Two and Seven were clowns, Three and Five were elephants, Six was normal, One was a ringmaster and Four was normal.
 * 5) The characters, although likeable, can get a little annoying.

Reception
Seven Little Monsters was met with a 6.5/10 on IMDB.

Trivia

 * Dwayne Hill also starred in Timothy Goes to School.
 * Maurice Sendak, the creator of the series, also created Little Bear.
 * When the show aired on the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch, the end credits were different than in the actual show itself, as if it showed Five thinking about stuff.
 * It played the show's theme song but instrumental on both versions.