#nesha hyperfixates

Firstly: This is a show where nobody is going to address sexuality. It will not happen, and so his sexuality can be whatever the audience member who wants to branch out into that sort of thing wants to do. But, let’s say for my journey with this series that he is an asexual man - because the show addresses him with he/him pronouns only, it is a preschool show that does not explicitly give sexuality, and I am ace, so we’re first viewing him from an asexual perspective. 

Ace people can have relationships, love, affection, and even physical intimacy. The option of doing all these things doesn’t necessarily become futile in this orientation. So, Bob could still have himself some human connection, as a treat. Even if you were used to him being a single man with his pets and inventions who didn’t seem remotely interested in having relationships with other people in a standard way.

Even if we presume he has some other orientation - hetero being the most represented in children’s shows, but bisexuality and fluid orientations are making their way into mainstream content for older kids more and more all the time and kids with other orientations may still see this show for a younger audience and see elements of themselves in Bob. A gay child might be confused as to why Bob has a female love interest when he comes across to them as homosexual, etc. 

The conversation about how many queer people get involved in relationships with the opposite sex, and sometimes even begin families is a huge discussion that this is not the place for, but I did want to bring that up, because while I don’t think that’s Bob’s situation, it could be an explanation for a gay audience observing the relationship between these two characters.

Adopt-a-Palooza

The site I was watching this on had delayed captions, so I had to cut them off and I didn’t write down the exact wording, but it was basically both of them taking accountability for running into each other, Bob asked the kitty if he could help them off his head, they exchanged that they thought the other was good with animals, introduced themselves (she was in charge of the volunteers and he was violunteering), then they left their pets to play in the dog park while they went and did their thing for the pet adoptions. (I think if you click on the image it becomes clearer. Will try to have captions in the future ones)

Personally, I think Bob’s nose was wide open the moment he literally bumped into Anaelle. This is the first time we see her, and while they initially collide with each other simultaneously, she soon shows that she's still more coordinated when she catches him from falling a second time moments later.

"Excuse me." "No. Excuse me." Was cutish.

The "you're pretty good with animals " "So are you!"

Ma'am. Sir. That cat, in particular, is traumatized, and Lollie look like her life momentarily flashed before her eyes. The cat saw the moment they effed up and stayed on high alert the rest of the scene. 😅

Since I’m watching this as both an adult who has been in relationships and one who has watched things for a long time, I am used to characters being introduced specifically to become an interest for the main. This is a program created by someone who seems to identify as a man, who seems to be married to a woman. It isn’t a stretch for me that they would introduce a love interest, especially because he already has a steady home life, sort of. Their universe is not exactly like ours, but the nature of things here - the problems are all situational and hardly ever at the hands of a villain, when someone does something wrong or harmful, they almost immediately regret it and apologize... this is a very small child’s show. It is showing very primary connections. 

So, whenever Ana is introduced, she could very well be as a love interest or as a background character. She doesn’t show up and automatically become a main, but she does become recurring and Bob does speak of her and talk to her. He calls her “My friend Ana,” because we aren’t sexualizing them and they don’t have a romance brewing, but They do appear to be being set up for that from the moment she shows up and Bob seems interested in knowing her. That spin of his bow tie when he says, “I’m Bob!” Guys. That was this corny cornball of a man flirting, in his way. And any time you see Ana or hear about her after this moment, there is excitement on Bob’s part. 

Yes. Bob is a very excitable man. He very much gives you that certain, “Me and the Bad Bitch I Pulled” energy. But, he also is a heightened worrier at times... when it comes to Ana, he tends to generally not worry specifically about something until it clearly goes wrong and she winds up being a person who tells him not to worry in those moments. (Not so much in this episode, because they’re just meeting.)

I don't have much more to say. It reads like family. These are work friends, but she is also the person who keeps his pets clean and the smartest pet initially thinks, "These two humans together can do anything," before his human expresses uncertainty.

Bingo's face is sending me in that shot.

Banana Cookie | Beet Cookie | Birthday Cake Cookie |  Black Raisin Cookie | Blackberry Cookie

Carrot Cookie | Cheerleader Cookie | Cheesecake Cookie | Chocolate BonBon Cookie |  Cloud Cookie |  Cocoa Cookie |  Cotton Candy Cookie

Dark Enchantress Cookie

Forest Queen Fairy Cookie

Gingerbright Cookie

Hollyberry Cookie: Because whenever I see her name, I sing it in my mind like Hurricane Chris in his Halle Berry song, this is redhead Halle Berry to be my Hollyberry | Hydrangea Cookie

Latte Cookie | Lime Cookie 

Mocha Ray Cookie | Moonlight Cookie | Mustard Cookie

Onion Cookie

Pastry Cookie | Pink Choco Cookie | Pomegranate Cookie | Popcorn Cookie

Raspberry Cookie | Reverend Mother Cookie | Rose Cookie

Shadow Sister Cookie | Starfruit Cookie

Notes:

I only did l,l,ladies,ladies because blackfemmecharacterdepency, so I don’t need nobody to point out the Black ones that are men and stuff.

Most of them cookies darker than the most popular current Black actresses, so fan casting would be a breeze.

Lightskints of all ages could be the majority of these cookies and then there's also some darker ones that would need to be casted accordingly. The fanart be a lil' half baked. IDK what cookies some of y’all be looking at. Maybe my screen different.

Pictured: Sofia Wylie, Sofia Bryant, Zoe Kravitz, Aisha Wainwright, Amandla Sternberg, Ruth Negga,Tesss Thompson, Zazie Beetz

And there's a huge area for Black gingers to be included in the redhead choices as we have plenty of them too. They don’t get called into the conversation a lot whenever the folk start up with their whole The Blacks are stealing redhead representation thing, so I’d cast every Black ginger I could think of for the redhead cookies we got.

Pictured: Carmen Solomons, Zoe Knife, Georgia Moot, Jamillah McWhorter, Erin Kellyman, Coral Kwayie, Sonny Turner, Joyjah Estrada

Now, I'm just showing off. Flaunting some of my Brown skinned girl faves, for your consideration. Extremely important information if you ask me.

Pictured: Marsai Martin, Eris Baker, Anjelika Washington, Saniyya Sidney, Jadah Marie, Skai Jackson, China McClain, Riele Downs

Aight, so I already have been honest about not knowing these cookies’ lives that way, so IDEK what ages they are to accurately cast for them. Are they all kids? Are they all adults? Are some young and some old? Don’t know. What I do know is that I’m about to go into dark skinned actresses/models for the browner cookies. 

Pictured: Laura Kariuki, Precious Mustapha, Ashley Winfrey, Jazz Raycole, Ashleigh Morghan, Ashley Monique Harper, Khailah Johnson, Ashleigh Murray

Black people love naming they kids some kinda "Ash"(ley,leigh,ly...)