9.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Charlie Horse Music Pizza (1998)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 9.3
Overview
The Charlie Horse Music Pizza is a children's television show that was shown on PBS in the United States from January to May 1998. Re-runs aired until late 1999, with infrequent airings throughout 2000. It is a spin-off of the series Lamb Chop's Play-Along and was hosted by Shari Lewis, whose strong belief in the benefits of music education for children led to the creation of the series. The show takes place around a pizzeria on the beach. Alongside the original cast of Lamb Chop, Hush Puppy, Charlie Horse, and Shari, Charlie Horse Music Pizza introduced four new characters – Take-Out, a big anthropomorphized orangutan who makes deliveries on roller skates; Fingers, a giant purple raccoon that lives in the dumpster behind the pizzeria; Cookie the soft-hearted, opera-loving cook; and Junior, who works at the pizzeria part-time, and plays musical instruments, such as the tuba for his high school marching band. The series was put on hiatus after the May 30 episode aired due to Lewis' treatment in a local hospital. It was then cancelled when she died on August 2.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Overview
The Charlie Horse Music Pizza is a children's television show that was shown on PBS in the United States from January to May 1998. Re-runs aired until late 1999, with infrequent airings throughout 2000. It is a spin-off of the series Lamb Chop's Play-Along and was hosted by Shari Lewis, whose strong belief in the benefits of music education for children led to the creation of the series. The show takes place around a pizzeria on the beach. Alongside the original cast of Lamb Chop, Hush Puppy, Charlie Horse, and Shari, Charlie Horse Music Pizza introduced four new characters – Take-Out, a big anthropomorphized orangutan who makes deliveries on roller skates; Fingers, a giant purple raccoon that lives in the dumpster behind the pizzeria; Cookie the soft-hearted, opera-loving cook; and Junior, who works at the pizzeria part-time, and plays musical instruments, such as the tuba for his high school marching band. The series was put on hiatus after the May 30 episode aired due to Lewis' treatment in a local hospital. It was then cancelled when she died on August 2.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's central subject matter, children's educational entertainment, is inherently apolitical. Its themes focus on universal positive values like learning, cooperation, and creativity, without promoting any specific political ideology.
The series features a visibly diverse cast, consistent with children's educational programming, without explicitly recasting traditionally white roles. Its narrative maintains a neutral or positive framing of traditional identities, aligning with its focus on entertainment and education for a young audience.
Secondary
The children's television series "The Charlie Horse Music Pizza" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The show's content is primarily focused on music, puppetry, and educational entertainment for a young audience, with no narrative elements related to queer identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Charlie Horse Music Pizza is an original children's show featuring established puppet characters like Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse, and Hush Puppy, who maintain their canonical genders. There are no instances of characters from prior, distinct source material being portrayed with a different gender.
The Charlie Horse Music Pizza is a children's show featuring original human characters and puppets. There are no pre-existing characters from prior canon, history, or widely established sources whose race was changed for this production.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.6
10.0
Critic Ratings
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