Wolfoo

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Wolfoo
Look, it's Peppa Pig... but worse!
Genre: Elsagate Preschool Children's Animation Gross-out humor Country: Vietnam Release Date: August 23, 2018 - present Network(s): YouTube Created by: SCONNECT Seasons: 3

Wolfoo is a YouTube children's animated series and content farm created by Vietnamese company SCONNECT. The show features Wolfoo, an anthropomorphic 5-year-old wolf who lives on a hill in a small American-styled village, having misadventures with his friends Lucy, Pando, Kat, Bufo, Piggy, Croco, Moly, Alien, etc. The show itself is notorious for being a rip-off of Peppa Pig.

Why It Deserved to be Sued by eOne

1. FIRST AND FOREMOST, the show is a complete rip-off of Peppa Pig as stated above, which isn't any better than this. In fact, it's basically Peppa Pig done worse!
2. Everything about it is similar, from the animation style, the elements, the feel, the characters (e.g. most of the characters are rip-offs of any of the Pigs, Candy Cat, Molly Mole, and to a lesser extent, both Pandora/Peggy Panda) to even stealing sound effects from the original show. In fact, this whole show even feels like if MAD or SNL had actually made a parody out of Peppa Pig.
3. It’s worse over the fact that this is not only a Peppa Pig clone but it even uses stuff from other media in a way very reminiscent of Elsagate-era videos like Elsa from Disney’s Frozen, the trademark Disney characters Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Superman from the DC comics, Spider-Man and Captain Marvel from the Marvel comics, the characters from Angry Birds (notably being Red, Chuck, Bomb, Stella, King Pig or Minion Pigs), Pac-Man from his titular series, etc. They even used Sonic the Hedgehog as well. Fortunately, those were removed in Season 3.
4. The channels contain a lot of clickbait, like most “YouTube Kids Cartoons (aka Elsagate)” on YouTube. For example, an episode thumbnail has Lucy using scissors to cut off Wolfoo's tail, but that never happens in the video.
5. Tons of unlikable characters, such as:
   • Wolfoo himself is an absolute jerk who is rude to his family & friends and always treats them badly, and he hardly ever gets any comeuppance or karma at all, which is a sign of being a Karma Houdini.
   • Pando is a glutton who eats far too many apples, betrays his best friends, and steals people's property as well.
   • Kat is a cowardly crybaby who gets scared of mice and is a Mary Sue who mistreats Wolfoo and Pando all the time.
   • Bufo and Piggy are complete jerks to everyone, possibly even worse than Wolfoo. They also bully Wolfoo (Bufo for the most part), do gross-out things all the time, and have no sense or hint of likability, remorse, or even personality.
     • Also, for some reason, they are Wolfoo's friends, which makes it extremely weird because they're bullies and friends at the same time.
   • Lucy is an even more jerk to Wolfoo, gets the most Butt-Monkey treatment out of all the Wolf family, throws tantrums, and is a pathetic redesign of Wolfoo but with tan fur. Let's also not forget that she's absolutely MEAN-SPIRITED, to the point she's even more unlikable than the main character himself, or even Peppa on that note (at least Peppa's bossiness isn't taken this far).
     • In one episode, Jenny was playing with Lucy's doll, and they fight over it. Eventually, it tears apart, and Lucy says to Jenny that she hates her. That's just cruel, mean-spirited, and even a promotion to CHILD ABUSE.
     • In another episode, Wolfoo tries to protect the blocks (made for Jenny) from Lucy. The blocks are not meant to be ruined with. Then, Lucy comes up with a prank where she starts yelling for help. As you have expected, Wolfoo comes right in, and then Lucy locks the door and ruins the blocks. She did, fortunately, get comeuppance for what she did later on.
     • Another time, she even manipulates Jenny into becoming an Object Terror Mint. She throws a stinky sock at Wolfoo and he gets angry and chases her on a skateboard and also tries to shoot her down with a plunger but misses. Then, Wolfoo gets her Elsa doll toy and acts like if he wants to challenge her to a sword duel (or a doll duel to make more sense) but then she hits him in the head, causing Wolfoo to attempt to hit her back but his mom tells him not to. She was supposed to punish Lucy instead. Then, Jenny throws a stinky sock at Wolfoo and also throws the Elsa doll at Lucy as well.
     • In another episode, Wolfoo puts in rules for the pool. His friends and Lucy do not care and continue what they're doing. They even went as far to take down the rules and start doing even more irresponsible stuff in the pool. Lucy played a prank on Wolfoo and locks the house door on him. To make matters worse, she even had the key, and started to play with it in the pool until it was about to burst. Wolfoo somehow gets out of the house and saves them before the pool flies away. You guys are lucky enough Wolfoo saved you, but that was very irresponsible!
   • Moly is the biggest Butt-Monkey out of all of them, has little to no reason to exist, and comes out short by personality and character development. Not to mention, she looks like a mole but is a mouse for no reason whatsoever.
   • Croco feels like a reskin of Moly, except that, unlike Moly, he did nothing memorable at all. He also looks nothing like a crocodile. He is also quite destructive as well.
   • Police Bu is a stereotypical bully police officer with no personality and acts like a jerk to his enemy, Rhino.
   • Rhino is nothing more than a Generic Doomsday Villain, has no personality whatsoever, and is a punching bag for Police Bu, as he always treats him horribly and arrests him all the time. True, he is technically a villain, but still.
   • Jenny, who is a new character, is basically Baby Alexander, except more mischievous and annoying, making it hard for Wolfoo and Lucy to babysit her (which happens in a few episodes).
   • Pandolar, another new character, is basically created for filler, and is mean-spirited towards Jenny, such as in the scene where he farts at her.
6. Jumping the shark by adding too many new characters, such as Jenny, Pandolar and the Air Conditioner, who is a freaking object for example. Some of them are even used for filler.
7. The character assets are horrible rip-offs of the ones from Peppa Pig, for example, some characters have 2 eyes on both sides of their head, which means they actually have 4 in total. (It’s a common Peppa Pig theory). Thankfully, the series "Wolfoo the Adventurer" and a couple of episodes feature the characters only having 2 eyes on the front of their head.
8. Two words: Unnecessary filler.
9. It's still going: It first appeared in the mid-2010s (in late 2017 to mid-2018) as a part of the infamous Elsagate controversy that ran for around a year (2016-2017). Out of all of those, this one is still running and has not been sued nor taken down for using assets and sound effects from the show it was inspired from. Although, it might get taken down as eOne signed a lawsuit against the show.
   • Let's not forget that this is a good example of jumping the shark.
10. The show tries way too hard to be hip with kids, said attempts results in hopping into trends, like a Pop-It fidget and fidget spinner occasionally appearing in thumbnails of videos.
11. Hypocrisy and Unfortunate Implications: Despite being a kids' show, they add inappropriate content in it, such as racism, pregnancy, pornography, swearing, peeing, vomiting, pooping, and even cannibalism.
    • In Wolfoo the Adventurer 2, the word dumbass was said.
    • In one episode, a black crayon wants to help Wolfoo and the other crayons but accidentally makes messes in the process, so they start acting like jerks to him over accidents, which is considered as racism.
    • In one episode, Kat gets her uvula hurt and then Wolfoo tries to help, so he goes into Kat's mouth and almost gets eaten in the process. We know, Kat and Wolfoo are not the same species, but still.
    • They also add things that are gross-out: such as characters vomiting (often offscreen), the explicit details of pregnancy (e.g. Wolfoo knowing what morning sickness is and Wolfoo’s mother becoming nauseous around smells while pregnant with Lucy), characters graphically revealing parts of their body (e.g. In one episode, Pando pulls Wolfoo's pants down), and babies wetting and soiling their diapers so much that the diaper leaks.
      • There’s an episode that revolves around dirty diapers titled Jenny’s Diaper is Full, we’re not even kidding.
    • In said series, Wolfoo the Adventurer 2, there is a scene where a character says that he is going to kick another character's ass. If you don’t believe us, then go watch it and skip to 1:41:28 to see it.
12. Most of the voice acting is bad, with Bufo being the worst offender, because his voice sounds like it’s pitched down.
13. Most of the intros for the show are generic. One has the letter "O" shaped as Wolfoo's head jumping in, then Kat, Wolfoo, and Pando come out of nowhere and then stare at the screen. Another intro has Wolfoo running away, with his friends in hot pursuit. The ending screen is also generic as it just shows Wolfoo and his friends walking.
14. Some of the characters' names are lazy, for example, Piggy's name is just “Piggy”, nothing more.
15. Most of the time, the characters rarely get screen time (especially Croco, Moly and Pandolar) with Wolfoo, Pando, Kat and Lucy getting a superfluous amount of screen time.
16. Like most other shows, it can be a bad influence on children because of the characters' behavior.
17. Unlike Peppa Pig, which features a sense of being like real life despite being in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals, this show blatantly strays away from that realism by having things like inanimate objects as living characters, fairy tale tropes that contrast with the show’s nature, etc.
18. The show makers do not seem to take criticism very well, as they filed a cease and assist letter to YouTuber SaberSpark and forced him to delete his video critiquing the show, claiming that the contents in the video fell under “Defamation” and “Copyright Infringement” despite it falling under fair use.
    • It also comes off as a very hypocritical move as despite proceeding legal action against a well-known YouTuber for alleged copyright infringement, they themselves are committing the same crime with producing this show, to the point where the IP owners of Peppa Pig; eOne, have filed a lawsuit against SConnect; the makers of this show, for the same reason.
19. Overall, it can be seen as an uninspiring and intolerable rip-off of Peppa Pig, and an even worse one at that.
20. The video and the channel's description say that the audio is owned by SConnect, but as mentioned above, some of the audio is ripped from Peppa Pig. Are they lying or what?
    • As for whatever reason, this even counts as plagiarism.
21. The overuse of sound effects like laughing, crying (especially the baby crying one made by “panikko” in Freesound) or screaming is really annoying and it's stolen from Peppa Pig.
22. Some episodes even copy the episodes from other media like Sheriff Labrador, Molang, etc.

Redeeming Qualities

1. The characters sometimes get comeuppance for their bad actions, like with Lucy in one episode when she was playing in the hospital.
2. The series "Wolfoo the Adventurer" can be considered decent enough.
3. Some moments from the show are funny, and can even make for some unintentional comedy.
4. Some of the characters are likable. Rhino sometimes is a good example, as he always gets picked on by Police Bu.
5. Some episodes are good, and tolerable enough. Most of them also do have good morals.

Reception

Despite being a success with young children, Wolfoo has been massively panned for being a rip-off of Peppa Pig and has received negative reception, that even the studio behind the show, SConnect has recently gotten a lawsuit from eOne, the company behind Peppa Pig.

Trivia

• As mentioned above in the reception section, SConnect has gotten a lawsuit from eOne, the company behind Peppa Pig.

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