Gender: Male (Mr. Shoe), Female (Mrs. Shoe, Lacey and Mary Jane) Voiced by: Gary Yudman (Mr. Shoe), Sandy Correia (Mrs. Shoe and Lacey), Amanda Kaplan (Mary Jane) Episodes [ edit ] The premise, if you haven't read it: St. John Fox, the Mr. Fox of the title, is a writer who can't stop killing women in his stories. He always comes up with an excuse, of course, but the attentive reader will notice parallels between his interactions with Daphne and the deaths of these fictional women, so maaaaaybe he's got some unspoken issues with women. Mary Foxe, his fictional muse whom he eventually wills into the real world, takes objection to this, and the two chase each other through St. John Fox's fictional universes, Mary trying to get St. John to realize the consequences of his actions, St. John trying to defend himself. And when Daphne finds out about Mary, all hell breaks loose.

Now me! (Mr. String attempts to do it as well but ends up getting all scrambled up, and falling to the ground. He gets up and laughs as the segment ends) Mr. String: Oooh, boy, an inchworm! Hah, inchworms are definitely, definitely, curious. They stretch, and they wiggle, and they waggle, and they squirm all day long, and never, ever, tangle into a knot. Oh, I think I'll be a worm! (He turns into a tornado) Wait up, wormie! I thought the creativity within this book was absolutely delightful! There's the main storyline with Mary, St John and Daphne running through, and then through lots of off-shoot stories we get a peek inside St John's fiction. But the lines between fiction and reality blur; characters weave in and out of real life and stories. It gets a little murky if you're not concentrating, but overall the effect is gleefully playful. Mix-and-Match Critters: Plush is one, apparently, or rather, his attributes. According to Pad and Pencil in Plush's first "I Am" Song, "he's got eyes like an eagle and a nose like a hog; he's shaped like a beagle but he roars like a frog".

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Pad and Pencil - A drawing pad and a pencil that are a French couple. Pad is voiced by Gerrianne Raphae, and Pencil is voiced by Rafael Ferrer.

The story of this love triangle is told in a series of short stories, vignettes, fairy tales, letters, and narratives by the three characters and jumbled together in a blender of sorts so that the reader must be on the very tip-top of their game to keep it all straight. It was very A Visit from a Goon Squad-ish but even more confusing. Stories would abruptly end and one of the characters would start talking and half the time I wouldn’t know what was going on. Plush skates across a booth Bob is in, wearing a hat and with a bag of popcorn. Bob giggles. Plush skates some more) All the while Daphne, the wife of Mr. Fox, becomes suspicious of his behavior and soon finds herself caught in their web as well. The camera pans up to a dripping ice cream cone, and Mop looks around and moaning. Pan to Pad and Pencil on the table, and to Plush who slides down on the floor. Then it pans up to a fan with Mr. String blowing against it)Cover Version: While having a slew of original songs, the show sometimes did its own versions of retro hits like “We Got the Beat”, “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head”, "Twist and Shout" and “TURN TURN TURN!”. Mr. String: Oh boy, hot oatmeal! But should I eat hot cereal on such a hot day? My bowtie will wilt, like a lettuce leaf, and the rabbits will nibble on it, and I don't even have any salad dressing! Oh that would be terrible, terrible! I changed my mind, I'll have cold cereal. Pad and Pencil – a presumably romantic drawing pad and pencil couple who constantly flatter each other through French accents. Pencil: Hah, so much has changed since then... (Pad opens to a sketch of Pencil writing a letter with a feather and ink) In olden days, we kept in touch, and said "I love you" all so much, in a letter. Grand Finale: Most episodes are about simple concepts like up and down, but the last episode, "A Little Curious About Life", touches on existentialism, childbirth, death, and other concepts not normal for the series.

In this ALR segment, children are ice skating in a rink, with most of them falling or skating safely with cones. Singers: Roly poly, roly poly, down the hill! Roly poly, roly poly, can't keep still. The world is spinning, can't stop grinning.. Mr. String finds a fishbowl with a Moorish Idol inside. He transforms into a fish resembling the one in the fishbowl and copies everything it does. When the fish jumps out of the bowl, Mr. String tries to copy it but ends up swishing himself around. He laughs as the segment ends. In this segment, children are out in the rain, playing and jumping around in the rain below their umbrellas, covered in their raincoats as the rain is showering down from above. Bob: And now, I, Bob the Magic Ball, will say "presto change-o" and change-o my daring young assistant, Cupini, into a wild animal!

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The book is loosely based on the legend of Bluebeard – a feared and shunned nobleman who murdered multiple wives after they enter his forbidden room. His last wife-to-be is able to escape her fate.

Bob (singing): He's a Plush, he's a Plush, he was created in a rush, adjust to this combobbled mush, not quite, completed. Plush – a multicolored, air-headed stuffed plush dog who is another one of Bob's best friends. Unlike the others, he mostly speaks in a strange giggly language. As confirmed through the Library of Congress, this episode is notably the first to be produced. As a result, there are noticeable differences between this episode and other episodes. Pad: Now where is that breadpan? Step three, we knead the dough, (Takes dough and rubs it) and knead it, ah.. and knead it, ah! We return periodically to a writer, his wife and Mary Fox, a real enough muse/mistress he has invented/imagined. It's set in 1930's New York, in England, in a Paris reached from China by taxi, at a school in Europe where boys are taught how to become the husbands of fantastically rich and complicated women.There is such a haunting, beautiful ... emptiness ... to it all, that I feel I should be giving it more stars than I am. Every body else seems to think it's a good read, and so I must be missing something, right? But the majority of those who say what a good book it really is don't seem to know why. The tortured relationship between the sexes is the core theme. The author confesses that she has been inspired by the tale of Bluebeard, the ultimate female fantasy of the murderous husband who marries and kills off young women and hoards their decapitated heads. However, the monstrous male has been partially emasculated in these tales - he is a victim of the circumstances as much as the woman is - but it does not absolve him of uxoricide. By playing down the horrific and stressing the weirdness, Oyeyemi forces us to look at the whole issue through fresh lenses. Pad recites the poem The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson, as Pencil doodles visuals to go along with it. Pad tells him that was beautiful, but Pencil says it wasn't as beautiful as her, and the two kiss.