What's the Big Idea?

What's the Big Idea?

2013
What's the Big Idea?
What's the Big Idea?

What's the Big Idea?

8 | en | Animation

Pre-school animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Because philosophy is too important to leave to grown-ups!

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EP52  Brave
Oct. 01,2013
Brave

Brave

EP51  Old
Sep. 30,2013
Old

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EP50  Change
Sep. 27,2013
Change

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Lots of things change when they grow up. An egg becomes a bird, a caterpillar becomes a butterfly and a kid becomes a grown up. But Hugo likes some things just the way they are!

EP49  Preference
Sep. 26,2013
Preference

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo definitely likes some things over others, like Granny's homemade soup, good music and the colour orange. Hugo wonders if the world would be even better if it was only made up of things he likes, and if everything was orange!

EP48  Compromise
Sep. 25,2013
Compromise

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Some things are easy to agree on, like snow is cold and the sun is hot. But Hugo finds it harder to agree on other things, like when he wants to play basketball but his friends want to play dolls! They learn to compromise and go on a fun bumper car ride all together!

EP47  Desire
Sep. 24,2013
Desire

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo thinks he needs a monkey to play with, badly. But he doesn't think he needs stuff like books or sleep. Felix and Lily help Hugo understand the things Hugo needs and the things he wants.

EP46  Love
Sep. 23,2013
Love

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo's friend the yeti loves his teddy, and elephant loves his rollerskates. Hugo learns about love by looking at all the things and people around him and how they make him feel.

EP45  Family
Sep. 20,2013
Family

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo has a big family: he has two sisters, a dad, a mum, a granny, uncles, cousins and so many more people - and all these people have a dad, mum and cousins too... what a big family! Maybe someday, Hugo will make his own family too.

EP44  Choice
Sep. 19,2013
Choice

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Some choices are easy, like which game to play, and who to play with. But Hugo finds that choosing some things is hard, and sometimes he has no choice at all!

EP43  Fight
Sep. 18,2013
Fight

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo finds it scary when he sees some big robots fighting, and upsetting when he argues with his friend. But he learns that sometimes people have to fight to defend others from danger. Bravely, Hugo defends a princess from a marauding dragon.

EP42  Imagination
Sep. 17,2013
Imagination

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo has a great imagination, which helps him conjure up lots of fun and wild games. Felix and Lily show him that he can use his imagination to figure out tough problems and even help people too.

EP41  Strength
Sep. 16,2013
Strength

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo has a contest of strength with an elephant and a tiny ant, and learns that even an ant is strong for its size. Hugo also learns that he can have a strong mind.

EP40  Allowed
Sep. 13,2013
Allowed

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo can't wait to grow up so he can drive cars, watch scary movies, and do whatever he wants! But he soon learns that grown-ups don't always have the freedom to play like kids do.

EP39  Dreams
Sep. 12,2013
Dreams

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. When Hugo is sleeping, he dreams a lot, about flying with dragons and racing with cheetahs. But even when he's awake, he daydreams he can bounce super high in the sky. Hugo wonders what dreams really are, and how do we know they're not real?

EP38  Fear
Sep. 11,2013
Fear

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Oscar is afraid of the naughty monkey, Hugo is afraid of the thunder, and everybody is afraid of a big spider. But together, they learn what fear is and how to fight it.

EP37  Growing Up
Sep. 10,2013
Growing Up

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo is growing taller all the time. Growing up can be good so you can do exciting things like fly a plane! But with so many things to learn and discover, Hugo wonders if people ever stop growing up.

EP36  Grown Ups
Sep. 09,2013
Grown Ups

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Every kid becomes a grown up, even Hugo. One day, he will have to find a job and might have his own house, maybe with his own family! But can grown-ups act like kids sometimes too?

EP35  Obedience
May. 17,2013
Obedience

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EP34  Music
May. 16,2013
Music

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EP33  Senses
May. 15,2013
Senses

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EP32  Patience
May. 14,2013
Patience

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EP31  Clever
May. 13,2013
Clever

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EP30  Mind
May. 10,2013
Mind

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EP29  Infinity
May. 09,2013
Infinity

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. The universe is so big, some say it's infinite. Hugo ventures out into space with his trusty robot friend to find out how big infinity really is.

EP28  Rules
May. 08,2013
Rules

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo finds that rules are everywhere, telling you what to do and what not to do, rules in games and rules to keep you safe... but should Hugo always stick to the rules?

EP27  Others
May. 07,2013
Others

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo wants his friends to like him for his fancy tricks, and his parents and teachers to be proud of him for his super smarts. But he learns that sometimes it's also important that he be himself.

EP26  Sharing
May. 06,2013
Sharing

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Felix and Lily show Hugo that it can be fun to share things, like a comic book, or an idea, or your time. But Hugo also learns that sometimes sharing is not a good idea, like sharing his bath with a naughty monkey!

EP25  Pets
May. 03,2013
Pets

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo learns there are good pets, like dogs and cats, and other pets that are too big, like elephants! Felix and Lily explain that pets are animals you love and take care of, but when a space robot wants to make Hugo his pet, Hugo's not so sure.

EP24  Truth
May. 02,2013
Truth

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo knows some things are true, like elephants are big! But is it true that llamas can skateboard? And is his friend Oscar right that a giant dinosaur still walks the earth? Hugo tries to find the truth.

EP23  Beautiful
May. 01,2013
Beautiful

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo explores things that are beautiful, from flowers and rainbows to his cool new bike. But he learns that beautiful can be all kinds of things, even Mr Yeti and Mrs Yeti.

EP22  Anger
Apr. 30,2013
Anger

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. When a cheeky monkey steals Hugo's ice cream, Hugo can't help but feel all hot and bothered ... Is that what you call anger?

EP21  Home
Apr. 29,2013
Home

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo is worried about moving to a new home. Felix and Lily help him learn that a home is a place where you feel safe and spend time with your family. So don't worry Hugo, you can feel the same in another house and make new memories!

EP20  Advice
Apr. 26,2013
Advice

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Everyone needs advice and Hugo does too, especially when his dad helps him get his flying dragon toy working again. But when the big, furry yeti convinces him to climb a huge mountain without even their winter jackets, Hugo learns that not all advice is good.

EP19  Decisions
Apr. 25,2013
Decisions

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. What's right? What's wrong? 2+2=4 is right, but is Hugo a little boy or a big boy? Sometimes it's hard to decide on the right answer, and the right thing to do.

EP18  Knowledge
Apr. 24,2013
Knowledge

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo knows some things because he can see, hear or touch them. But when he wonders if his friend the elephant can fly, Hugo holds his very own experiment to find out.

EP17  Memory
Apr. 23,2013
Memory

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo learns that a brain is kind of like a computer, which can store lots of different thoughts that make him feel and remember all kinds of things, good and bad. Lily and Felix help Hugo figure out how memory works.

EP16  Sad
Apr. 22,2013
Sad

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo's friend the yeti is so sad that he's crying his eyes out. Hugo doesn't know why but tries to cheer him up by trying lots of things, like taking him to the circus!

EP15  Is Everybody Different?
Mar. 29,2013
Is Everybody Different?

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo imagines a perfect world where every kid looks, thinks and acts exactly like him. But this gets pretty annoying fast, and Felix and Lily help Hugo learn that variety is the spice of life.

EP14  Am I Always Thinking?
Mar. 28,2013
Am I Always Thinking?

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo always has something to think about, whether it's something important like remembering Mum's birthday or scoring a great goal. But is there ever a time when he's not thinking?

EP13  What is Work?
Mar. 27,2013
What is Work?

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Felix and Lily tell Hugo about all different types of work, and Hugo gets to work on a busy construction site.

EP12  What makes me Human?
Mar. 26,2013
What makes me Human?

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo thinks he's human because he's got legs, ears, eyes, nose and mouth. But his pet spider and his friend the naughty monkey have all those things too! Felix and Lily help Hugo work out what makes humans different.

EP11  Can Anything be Art?
Mar. 25,2013
Can Anything be Art?

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo explores what art is by looking at all sorts of weird and wonderful paintings, sculptures and photos. And he learns that art can make you feel all kind of feelings!

EP10  What is Nature?
Mar. 22,2013
What is Nature?

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo goes on a journey to discover that tiny flowers and huge elephants are part of nature, and so are forests and oceans and the wind. But are humans also part of nature?

EP9  What does it mean to Learn Something?
Mar. 25,2013
What does it mean to Learn Something?

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EP8  What is a Hero?
Mar. 21,2013
What is a Hero?

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo learns that heroes are not just ones with superpowers - there are also heroes in real life, like firefighters, rock stars and even his granny. Even Hugo can be a hero to someone.

EP7  What is Jealousy?
Mar. 25,2013
What is Jealousy?

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EP6  What does it mean to be fair?
Mar. 20,2013
What does it mean to be fair?

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Hugo understands it's good to be fair so everyone can have a turn going down the slide and getting the same amount of sweets. But when Hugo gives the same size cupcakes to his huge yeti friend and a tiny ant, the yeti is still hungry. Is that fair?

EP5  Why do I play?
Mar. 25,2013
Why do I play?

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EP4  Am I Kind?
Mar. 19,2013
Am I Kind?

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. Lily and Felix explain to Hugo all the different ways to be kind, like helping someone who is hurt and taking care of your pets. But when Hugo gives almost all of his balloons away to his friends, he wonders if he's been too kind.

EP3  What is a Friend?
Mar. 25,2013
What is a Friend?

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EP2  Why do we go to School?
Mar. 18,2013
Why do we go to School?

Preschool animation exploring ideas and promoting thinking skills, encouraging viewers to make up their own minds. School is the place where Hugo can learn all kinds of things, like counting and drawing, but it's also a place to meet friends.

EP1  What is Big?
Sep. 09,2013
What is Big?

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Released: 2013-09-09 | Released Producted By: Planet Nemo Animation , Country: France Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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