Post by littlemachines on Sept 12, 2020 15:02:35 GMT
Hello everyone! There is a piece of media that I have been trying to find the name of for a long time, and it's probably a long shot but I thought I would try asking here. 
It was an anti-bullying video (on VHS) that they showed us in school. I believe I was in either first or second grade, so it was around the year 1999-2000, so I assume the video itself was made in the 90s. It featured mostly puppets but there were some real people in it as well. Here are the details I remember:
The main character was a lion. At the beginning, he was walking to school (I seem to recall he was walking through the woods). He was chased by some kids (I believe they were real-life children and not puppets) who were taunting him and calling him "mop head".
He got to school, and there was a new student in his class who was a panda. I remember there being a scene where they were in art class. This part is a little foggy to me but what I think happened is that the panda made a nice painting and the teacher praised it but ignored the lion's painting. In any case, something happened that made the lion upset or jealous. I might be making this up, but I believe he was painting a self portrait and then drew angry eyebrows on himself haha.
After school ended, the lion went outside and climbed up into a tree to wait for the panda to come out. When the panda walked out of the school, the lion started yelling at him "Pumpkin head, pumpkin head!" and the panda started crying and said "I'm not a pumpkin head!" and ran away.
A staff member from the school (the principal, I think) witnessed this and approached the lion. (She was a human being and not a puppet.) She got into a conversation with the lion about why he had bullied the panda, and determined that it was his own insecurities from being bullied himself that had caused him to want to make fun of others. She talked about her own experiences with bullying; specifically she talked about how she and her family had immigrated to the US when she was a child, and other children had bullied her for being an immigrant so she'd also grown up with a lot of insecurities and could understand what the lion was feeling.
The lion apologized to the panda the next day and they became friends. It then skipped ahead in time to when they were at a birthday party together, and were reminiscing about how they'd met. Then they did some kind of secret handshake and head-butted each other and I think that's about where it ended.
Not sure why I remember it in such great detail 20 years later, but I've never been able to find any evidence of its existence. Again I know it's probably a long shot, but I'd be curious to see if anyone can even find out what it was called... Thanks!
It was an anti-bullying video (on VHS) that they showed us in school. I believe I was in either first or second grade, so it was around the year 1999-2000, so I assume the video itself was made in the 90s. It featured mostly puppets but there were some real people in it as well. Here are the details I remember:
The main character was a lion. At the beginning, he was walking to school (I seem to recall he was walking through the woods). He was chased by some kids (I believe they were real-life children and not puppets) who were taunting him and calling him "mop head".
He got to school, and there was a new student in his class who was a panda. I remember there being a scene where they were in art class. This part is a little foggy to me but what I think happened is that the panda made a nice painting and the teacher praised it but ignored the lion's painting. In any case, something happened that made the lion upset or jealous. I might be making this up, but I believe he was painting a self portrait and then drew angry eyebrows on himself haha.
After school ended, the lion went outside and climbed up into a tree to wait for the panda to come out. When the panda walked out of the school, the lion started yelling at him "Pumpkin head, pumpkin head!" and the panda started crying and said "I'm not a pumpkin head!" and ran away.
A staff member from the school (the principal, I think) witnessed this and approached the lion. (She was a human being and not a puppet.) She got into a conversation with the lion about why he had bullied the panda, and determined that it was his own insecurities from being bullied himself that had caused him to want to make fun of others. She talked about her own experiences with bullying; specifically she talked about how she and her family had immigrated to the US when she was a child, and other children had bullied her for being an immigrant so she'd also grown up with a lot of insecurities and could understand what the lion was feeling.
The lion apologized to the panda the next day and they became friends. It then skipped ahead in time to when they were at a birthday party together, and were reminiscing about how they'd met. Then they did some kind of secret handshake and head-butted each other and I think that's about where it ended.
Not sure why I remember it in such great detail 20 years later, but I've never been able to find any evidence of its existence. Again I know it's probably a long shot, but I'd be curious to see if anyone can even find out what it was called... Thanks!
