Lyla in the Loop

Lyla in the Loop
This show will never jump into a loop.
Genre: Animated series Comedy Educational Running Time: 24 minutes (12 minutes per segment) Country: United States Canada Release Date: February 5, 2024 - present Network(s): PBS Kids Created by: Dave Peth Distributed by: PBS Distribution Starring: Liyou Abere Izzy Woodbury Elijah Lindo Eden Cupid Shechinah Mpumlwana Joseph Motiki Morrissa Nicole Isaac Ng Seasons: 1 Episodes: 40

Lyla in the Loop (originally known as Liza Loops) is a children's animated television series created by Dave Peth. It premiered on February 5, 2024, on PBS Kids. The series is produced by Mighty Picnic and Pipeline Studios. The series is produced using 2D software.

Plot

Seven-year-old Lyla and her close-knit family address everyday problems together in the big city.

Qualities Out of the Loop

1. While the animation is fine, it can look pretty lazy-looking at times.
   • The character designs, while alright, are too simple. They clearly look like DeviantArt OCs but with a new coat of paint.
     • Most of the human designs, if not all have huge eyeballs as an attempt to look "cute", when it just ends up looking awkward.
     • For a four-year-old kid, Luke looks incredibly short for his size. He looks more like a fusion of Stewie Griffin from Family Guy and Little Bill if he was well-behaved.
     • At one point, Liana and Louisa look so alike that some viewers have difficulty telling who is who. To better explain what it's focused on, take Lana and Lola from The Loud House. They may be twins, but their designs and personalities are drastically different, making it easier for younger viewers to tell who's who. In case one was wondering, Liana wears two braids and blue while Louisa has one braid and wears pink.
     • Stu, the only character with an interesting design, looks like a poor man's Doraemon. His personality is also basically a mixture of Bozzly from Abby Hatcher and Scrat from Ice Age.
     • They also somehow look more like The Twisted Timeline of Sammy and Raj rejects, which that show isn’t any better.
   • Even the end credits are generic silhouettes. Shows nowadays would end their segments with either a catchy song, a short animatic, a humorous sketch with one of the characters (in the case of Ba Da Bean), or even a behind-the-scenes segment, but this show does the bare minimum of what is already a bare-bones show.
   • Plus, the animation team, Pipeline Studios, has a good track record when it comes to their animation such as Craig of the Creek, Pibby, and Elinor Wonders Why, albeit with a few flops here and there, like Scaredy Squirrel and Work It Out Wombats! . So it's clear that either they didn't have much money to work with, or had to animate it in a rushed manner.
2. The characters (mostly Lyla) cry if something bad happened in an episode (often for no reason), but it somewhat comes off as more annoying, forced and cringeworthy than "sad".
3. In "Lyla Out of the Loop", Lyla rants about how she's losing Everett (Lyla's best frieend) to a girl named Ale and calls Ale "mean". The mood whiplash comes in when Lyla starts crying and sits under the table after that scene. But the question is, why is she crying? None of the characters ever made her upset in the episode. And Lyla is the one that was being a complete jerk to Ale, and made Ale and Everett want to ditch her again, when Ale herself did not harm Lyla in any way. So why did the episode end with the three becoming friends again? Everett should've ditched Lyla again after what she did.
4. The theme song's pretty boring and mediocre.
5. The Latin American Spanish and Hebrew dubs are terrible as they both use poor, obnoxious and loud voice acting.
6. Izzy Woodbury's trills are annoying.
7. The episodes are boring and hard to sit through.
8. It also tries to be hip with the kids, such as one character taking a picture of her pie.
9. Many of the characters are boring, with their only personality trait is them being nice to each other.
10. The show inadvertently encourages bad things, such as:
    • Being a jerk
    • Being an idiot
    • Bullying
    • Lying
    • Stealing
    • Framing people
    • Lacking empathy
    • Breaking rules without good reasons.
    • Crying to get your problems solved without good purpose
    • Impatience
11. Tons of bad, boring, or at least mediocre episodes such as:
    • "Kibbles and Coins"
    • "The Mystery Puzzle"
    • "The Stu Express"
    • "Every Sand-Which Way"
    • "Growing Up"
    • "Carnival for Luke"
    • "Rap Report"
    • "Lemonade Champs"
    • "Double Dutch Dilemma"
    • "The Carrot Cake Dance"
    • "Loopstastic Mess Vacuum Test"
    • "When Luke Became Stu"
    • "Secret Surprise Party"
    • "Finding a New Friend"
    • "Lyla Bugs Out"
    • "Lyla Out of the Loop" (Counts as the worst and most mean-spirited episode of the show.)
    • "Uh-oh!"
12. It even has a rock opera/musical, tiled "Prostitution." This is not an appropriate title for a show for children. It has many things, such as race jokes and condoms.

Qualities in the Loop

1. The Carrot Cake Dance is a nice song.
2. Passable voice acting.
3. Although the characters are flat and one-dimensional, they are nowhere near unlikable.
4. While the animation is feel lazy and cheap, it's still decent.
5. Surprisingly, this show has a good moral.
6. There are some good episodes such as:
   • "Piece of Cake" (A decent first impression, though not enough to make the show good.)
   • "How the Cookie Crumbled"
   • "Hide and Go Stu"
   • "The Case of the Mysterious Cake"
   • "Kibbles and Tricks"
   • "Four Little Piggies and Brucey"
   • "Handle With Care"
   • "Sanitation Situation"
   • "Stu Rides the Bus"
   • "Stu's Up"
   • "Roll n' Scoot"
   • "Moon Rock Cove"
   • "Rainbow Collection"
   • "2 on 2 Plus Stu"
   • "The Stu-Mobile"
   • "Lyla's Lucky Strike"
   • "The Puddle"
   • "Too Many Pumpkins"
   • "Happy New Year, Lyla!"
   • "Un-Boxing Match"

Reception

TBA

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