6.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Rolie Polie Olie (1998)
Rolie Polie Olie (1998)
Overview
Rolie Polie Olie was a children's television series produced by Nelvana, distributed by Disney, and created by William Joyce, Maggie Swanson, and Anne Wood. The show centers on a little roly pollie who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes. The show was one of the earliest series that was fully animated in CGI, and the first CGI animated preschool series.Rolie Polie Olie now airs in reruns on Disney Junior. Rolie Polie Olie won a Gemini Award in Canada for "Best Animated Program" in 1999. The show also won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Special Class Animated Program" in 2000 and 2005. William Joyce won a 1999 Daytime Emmy for Best Production Design for this series. The show has a vintage atmosphere reminiscent of the 1950s and early 1960s, with futuristic elements.
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Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Viewer Rating
6.5
Overview
Rolie Polie Olie was a children's television series produced by Nelvana, distributed by Disney, and created by William Joyce, Maggie Swanson, and Anne Wood. The show centers on a little roly pollie who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes. The show was one of the earliest series that was fully animated in CGI, and the first CGI animated preschool series.Rolie Polie Olie now airs in reruns on Disney Junior. Rolie Polie Olie won a Gemini Award in Canada for "Best Animated Program" in 1999. The show also won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Special Class Animated Program" in 2000 and 2005. William Joyce won a 1999 Daytime Emmy for Best Production Design for this series. The show has a vintage atmosphere reminiscent of the 1950s and early 1960s, with futuristic elements.
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Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Rolie Polie Olie is rated 0 (Neutral/Centrist) because its central themes revolve around universal childhood experiences, family relationships, and imaginative play, presenting apolitical problems and solutions without promoting any specific ideological viewpoint.
Rolie Polie Olie features a cast of abstract robot characters, which means the concepts of human racial or gender representation, traditional casting, or explicit DEI-driven casting are not applicable. The narrative maintains a positive and uncritical tone, focusing on family and imagination without engaging in social critiques related to human identities.
Secondary
The children's animated series 'Rolie Polie Olie' focuses on the adventures of a robot boy and his family in a whimsical, geometric world. The show does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes, thus there is no portrayal to evaluate.
The animated children's series "Rolie Polie Olie" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Consequently, there is no portrayal to evaluate within the framework of trans representation.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Rolie Polie Olie is an original animated series that introduced its characters for the first time. There is no prior source material or established canon from which characters' genders could have been swapped.
Rolie Polie Olie features anthropomorphic robot characters who do not possess human racial characteristics. Therefore, the concept of a 'race swap' as defined does not apply to this animated series.
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6.3
6.7
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