This is sorta on topic, but it's coming from an 18 year old fan of the show who doesn't have children. Sleepytime slaps me on a number of levels. The music alone is so stirring and moving, it never fails to at least get me misty.Īs an exvangelical-now-I-think-mystic, growing up in the church, I'd often associate basically everything with God and the spiritual realm and since The Planets represent the gods behind the names of the planets, Jupiter always evoked feelings and imagery of the God I always imagined minus the encumbrances of modern Evangelical religion. It wrecks me for a number of reasons - my inner child always yearned for that kind of love and affection from my parents, and to see it so beautifully expressed gets me on that level.Īs a dad, I want me and my wife to provide such love and affection for our kids, and I am hyper-sensitive and hyper-self-critical to giving our kids a better growth environment than both my wife and I grew up in.Īs a music lover, The Planets has been one of my favorite symphonies since high school (over 20 yrs now) and Jupiter, the piece featured in Sleepytime, is my absolute favorite. My 1 yr old starts crying during the sun scene tho, esp as the music swells in the credits. My 4 yr old doesn't seem to react to either moment, but he loves the fun parts of the dream. This episode WRECKS ME every rewatch which is why we don't rewatch it as often as the other eps. I'm curious if you noticed a similar trend in reactions of adults vs children, including yourselves and your own kids. As well, this shows children that its not a binary, "one or the other" decision to stay in your "childish" comfort zone or to act mature and grown up, you can strike a balance between the two where you make use of these comforts while maturing and growing as a person, which is exactly what Bingo did with the help of her mum. This is a major theme of the series with how the parents use childlike behavior both to enjoy life and to fully engage with their children in play. Deciding whether to stick in your comfort zones or to show others that you're more grown up is one of the first (if not the first) important life decisions that a child can make, and having that amount of control instead of your parents deciding everything for you is both unprecedented and tantalizing.įortunately, at the end when Chilli gives her Floppy after proving herself by sleeping in her own bed, Bingo learns from her mother that she doesn't need to put away her childlike interests and outlook when growing up. So, not only was her source of comfort removed, but she had to make the decision to do that herself. Not only this, but note that letting go of Floppy was an action that Bingo did deliberately, at least in the dream. While its certainly not anywhere near the scale of a change like a death in the family, for children who have no frame of reference for these kinds of changes at their age, it can feel very similar to one. It may seem inconsequential to adults that have many other things to deal with, but whether its a night light or a stuffed toy, these are sources of comfort that have been with these children all their lives, and suddenly removing them is often a change that is unprecedented at their stage of development. While this is certainly heartrending for adults too, I feel like kids have a special reaction to it because its such an accurate depiction of what is often the biggest crisis in their lives at that point: How they feel an increasing pressure to put away the "childish" sources of comfort in their lives, for good, so that they can prove to others that they are more grown up. This is where Bingo hugs Floppy a tearful goodbye, and then cries to herself, alone. For any time that parents show children reacting to the episode, however, they always seem to cite the moment right before as the one that gets the biggest reaction out of them, which has made children as young as two cry. about everyone's reactions to Sleepytime, I noticed that adults would commonly cite the emotional high point of the episode as the moment where the Sun gives warmth to Bingo/Chilli hugs her daughter, given how it is such a cathartic representation of the innate desire of the parents watching the show to comfort their children and make them feel better about what life throws at them. While looking through posts on here, Facebook, Twitter, Insta, etc.
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