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Baby Einstein is a series of educational direct-to-video programs created in 1997 by Julie-Aigner Clark, a onetime teacher and the full-time mother of two girls, and the eponymous brand of The Baby Einstein Company. The videos are meant for very small children under the age of four years erstwhile. The videos use classical music and puppetry to introduce babies and toddlers to various subjects such as art in Infant Van Gogh and animals in the Baby Dolittle videos. The series was a fiscal success and spawned into music albums, books, flash cards, toys, and other baby products. The videos were distributed by Artisan Entertainment until November 2001, when the series and the titular company were bought outright by The Walt Disney Company. Twelve years later, in October 2013, it was sold to Kids Two, Inc., previously a merchandise licensee for the series.

Not to be confused with Footling Einsteins, though created by the aforementioned company.

    List of Babe Einstein Videos

All of the videos released under the Baby Einstein name.

• Baby Einstein: Language Nursery (1997)
• Baby Mozart - Music Festival (1998) ^note Re-released in 2008 & 2010
• Infant Bach - Musical Adventure (1998)
• Baby Shakespeare - World of Verse (1999) ^note Re-released in 2010 equally World of Words
• Baby Van Gogh - World of Colors (2000) ^note Re-released in 2010 as Earth of Colors
• Baby Santa'due south Music Box (2000)
• Babe Dolittle: Neighborhood Animals (2001)
• Baby Dolittle: World Animals (2001)
• Baby Newton - All About Shapes (2002) ^note Re-released as Baby Newton - Discovering Shapes
• Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun (2002) ^annotation Re-released in 2008 & 2010
• Babe Neptune - Discovering H2o (2003) ^annotation Re-released in 2009
• Baby Galileo - Discovering the Heaven (2003)
• Baby Einstein: Numbers Nursery (2003)
• Baby MacDonald - A Day on the Subcontract (2004) ^note Re-released in 2009
• Baby Da Vinci - From Caput to Toe (2004)
• Babe Noah - Animal Expedition (2004) ^notation Re-released in 2009 as simply Baby Noah
• Infant Monet - Discovering the Seasons (2005)
• Infant Wordsworth: First Words - Around the House (2005) ^note Re-released in 2009
• On the Get - Riding, Sailing, and Soaring (2005)
• Meet the Orchestra - First Instruments (2006)
• Baby's Favorite Places: Kickoff Words - Around Town (2006)
• Baby's First Moves (2006) ^note Re-released in 2009
• My First Signs (2007) ^note Re-released in 2009
• Discovering Shapes (2007)
• Lullaby Time (2007)
• Infant's First Sounds (2008)
• Globe Music (2009)
• World Animal Hazard (2009)
• Animals Around Me (2010)
• Wild Animal Safari (2010)
• Baby Lullaby (2011)
• Neptune'south Oceans (2011)
• World of Rhythm (2011)

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This serial provides examples of:

• Absentee Thespian: Julie Aigner-Clark, the creator of the series and the narrator/speaker for near every single episode, does not narrate Baby Neptune (until the 2009 revision), Baby Galileo, Babe's First Moves (same exception as Baby Neptune), Discovering Shapes, Lullaby Time, and Baby'southward Kickoff Sounds. In fact, the rendition of Humpty Dumpty featured in Baby'south First Sounds was re-dubbed from its first appearance in Language Nursery, nearly likely to remove her vocalism.
  • While she did not narrate in either of the Infant Dolittle videos or Baby Newton, she was still involved in their production.
• Accessory-Wearing Drawing Beast: Some of the puppets wear an article of clothing (shirt, hat, etc.) but never wear pants (then once again, they're puppets in a baby bear witness). Some animals don't wearable any clothes. Some of the characters article of clothing clothes in artwork simply not as puppets.
• A Dog Named "Canis familiaris": Since most of the puppets are just animals, they go by names such as Duck and Tiger. Other puppets, like Bard the Dragon and Vincent Van Goat, do have their own names. Moreover, the animal puppets' who have their own names accept their surname that bespeak their species.
• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The caprine animal puppet Vincent Van Goat from Infant Van Gogh is blueish, and many other puppets throughout this specific video follow this troupe, like a pink/majestic goat, a red moose, a orangish rabbit, and a bluish mouse.
• And Starring: The Baby Einstein Puppets.
  • From Baby Shakespeare to World Animals, it focuses primarily on the main puppet of the video rather than all of them.
• Are Y'all Sure You Can Drive This Affair?: In On the Go, during "The Wheels on the Coach", the engine of the coach breaks and everybody has to evacuate the motorbus.
• Balloonacy: In Infant Galileo, the kangaroo puppet flies into space.
• Assistant Peel: In Globe Animals, Jane the Monkey slips over a assistant peel, and so makes monkey noises due to confusion, which makes no sense at all in context. Jane too slips on a banana peel in Wild Animal Safari.
• Baths Are Fun: The "Bathroom Fourth dimension with the Pandas" scene in Globe Fauna Adventure and the "Pop Goes the Bubbles" scene in Baby'due south First Sounds are prime examples of this.
• Beach Episode: Baby Neptune.
• Bilingual Dialogue:
  • Language Plant nursery uses seven languages intended equally exposure to babies; the languages featured depend on the foreign version in question. Most releases use American English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian and Spanish, while others substitute British English, Canadian French, Italian, Spanish Spanish, Korean, Mandarin Chinese or Danish passages.
  • The original Japanese releases of Neighborhood Animals and World Animals by Comtec Co., Ltd. nether the Eduté brand feature both English and Japanese audio for all the animal names, except for the songs.
  • Baby da Vinci prominently uses three languages for a few parts of the video. Which languages are used depends on the language version: most versions use English, French, and Castilian, the Japanese dub uses English language, Japanese, and Italian, the European Spanish and Portuguese dubs use English, Spanish, and Portuguese, the Catalan dub uses English language, Catalan, and Portuguese and the Hebrew dub uses Hebrew, English language, and French.
  • Babe'south First Sounds features phonemes in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Chinese).
• Battle Kangaroo: At that place is a toy kangaroo with boxing gloves in Babe Noah.
• Brought to You past the Letter of the alphabet "S": Pavlov the Dog sports the letter of the alphabet P on his collar, which is brusque for his name.
• Cactus Person: The ii dancing cacti seen at the beginning of Baby Van Gogh.
• Drawing Conductor: The koala in sure re-releases of Infant Mozart.
• Christmas Special: Baby Santa'south Music Box.
• Impuissant Copyright Censorship: All DVDs after the 2000 release of Baby Van Gogh (excluding the 2010 release of Globe of Colors) have Bolero omitted from the Concert Hall, near likely because Ravel's Bolero wasn't in the public domain until 2016. All the same, it was nonetheless left in the video itself.
  • Many toys featured in the videos (for example, the Castle Pounder toy featured in the Baby Mozart video) have the company'southward logo found on the toy painted or taped over. However, the toy chests featured on the habitation media releases tell you lot what brand the toy is by, so it's odd that they would even put in the extra effort to conscience it.
• Counting Sheep: Seen in a bonus characteristic on the Lullaby Fourth dimension DVD, in which the sheep puppet.... counts other sheep puppets. How ironic.
• Cross-Referenced Titles: Language Plant nursery, and so Numbers Nursery. World Animals and World Animal Adventure was probably unintentional.
• Classical Music: The staple of the series. The only video without it is Language Nursery.
• Cymbal-Banging Monkey: A toy version is seen in Baby Shakespeare and World Animals.
• Trip the light fantastic Party Catastrophe: Seen at the end of World of Rhythm.
• Disney Owns This Trope: Used to, in this example. Disney endemic Baby Einstein for 12 years, having bought it in Nov 2001 and sold it to Kids II Inc. in October 2013. Despite this sale, they still own Petty Einsteins.
• Early on Installment Weirdness: Language Plant nursery, the first video in the series, is missing classical music, puppets, and stock footage, all of which would become staples in later videos.
  • Baby Bach doesn't have the official Baby Einstein puppets either, simply even so follows the aforementioned formula every bit the others. The showtime video to officially include signature puppets was Baby Shakespeare (Bard really debuted in Baby Mozart, but simply appeared in one scene.)
• Educational Song: There are many, including Deep Blue Sea from World Animals and I Know My Shapes from Baby Newton.
• Edutainment Testify
• Everything Is an Instrument: In Meet the Orchestra, the duck boob plays Blueish Danube with bottles.
• Fainting: The duck does this after looking at a washing auto for a while in Baby Neptune.
• Floating in a Bubble: In a scene from Baby Neptune, the turtle and octopus puppets accept a bubble-blowing contest. It ends with the octopus puppet blowing a chimera large enough to encapsulate the turtle, causing it to bladder away inside the bubble. The octopus and so waves good-adieu and laughs, which is surprisingly dark for a series geared toward literal infants.
• Follow the Leader / The Rival / Companion Show: Many shows and franchises - such as Erudite Baby, Baby Genius and So Smart! - effort to copy or inspire it, simply some of them may or may non be as successful every bit Baby Einstein. Even then, they do run across the needs for young children and have inspired many edutainment shows.
• The Fool: The horse puppet. In various videos in the series, he proves that he'southward not the brightest.
  • In Neighborhood Animals, he continues to steal the cow'southward bale of hay until he ends up getting caught anyways.
  • In Baby Beethoven, he loses runway of the puppets in the parade twice until getting on the correct track.
  • In Numbers Nursery, he eats a bloom, which makes him go crazy and make strange sounds until he runs off. Averted in Baby MacDonald where he eats a flower without whatsoever consequences. He also knocks over the tiger'south block tower for no reason and doesn't know numerical guild either when he mixes up the numbers 2 and 4.
  • In On the Get (where he is also the titular host of the video), he doesn't know how to properly row his rowboat and gets quickly passed by the raccoon.
• Furry Confusion: Pavlov the Domestic dog tin be seen feeding a real life rabbit in the Neighborhood Animals video.
• Goto Slumber Ending: Baby Shakespeare.
• Hand Puppet: Almost of the puppets in the older videos (earlier Disney started distributing the videos) are paw puppets. Some were used afterward but rod-controlled puppets were prominently used also.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every video upward to Baby Wordsworth (excluding Numbers Nursery) followed the format of Babe [x]. Yet, after the release of On the Go, this verbal title scheme was not used again til the Discovery Kit Baby Lullaby.
• Later Installment Weirdness: Later videos are notorious for having either reused clips from other videos (Baby's First Sounds is infamous for this), and other videos completely reuse ideas (Discovering Shapes and Earth Animate being Adventure).
• Licensed Games / Edutainment Games: Two in total were released, one on Windows computers based on the Baby Newton video, and one on the 5. Smile Baby educational learning organization.
• Long-Runners: Videos were released from 1997 to 2011 (14 years).
• Merchandise-Driven: The series was originally merely for videos but slowly turned into a multi-million dollar company. CDs, toys, books, discovery cards, and other infant products were created after the brand. In fact, now that the company doesn't make videos anymore, its profits are from toys and books.
• Musical Theme Naming: Baby Mozart, Baby Bach, and Baby Beethoven are obvious examples of this.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Every video upward to Baby Wordsworth except for Numbers Nursery follow this. Language Nursery was originally called Baby Einstein and the Neighborhood Animals and World Animals videos were originally released as Baby Dolittle.
• No Antagonist: For obvious reasons.
• No Plot? No Problem!: These videos don't really have a need for a plot. The target demographic wouldn't exist interested anyways. The closest matter to a 'plot' in these videos would exist the structure of Baby Van Gogh, where each segment is most one of the seven colors of the rainbow, and similar themed structures in other videos similar World Music. Baby Bach has past far the least plot, as it barely qualifies as coherent anyways. Of course, this isn't a bad thing.
• Non-Indicative Proper name: This series was notorious for existence recalled by the FTC for existence "not-educational and unhealthy for your babe". However, it was revealed that this is neither true nor false.
• Oddball in the Series: Linguistic communication Nursery (which was besides the first video ever released) has no classical music, puppets, and is in multiple languages.
• Open the Door and See All the People: Seen in Infant Newton when the horse's door bursts open up as other puppets begin to walk in.
• Off Screen Crash: Pops up often in several videos.
  • Babe Van Gogh, subsequently the titles, opens with one after a brief 2d of static.
  • Neighborhood Animals has ane during the true cat footprints boob prove.
  • Globe Fauna Adventure features one in the "Horse Shoe" puppet show, when the mommy horse is playing a game of horseshoe with her foal. The first time the mommy throws the horseshoe, information technology ends upward flying past the peg and crashing off-screen.
• Playful Otter: The otter featured in My Beginning Signs.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: Almost all of the music tracks and songs in Baby Einstein are from the public domain. Few music tracks and songs are original.
• Boob Shows: Another staple in the series. As usual, the only video without it is Linguistic communication Nursery.
• Rearrange the Vocal: The bonus features of On the Get include a vocal titled The Bells on the Train, which is just The Wheels on the Bus (which is already nowadays in the video) with contradistinct lyrics to feature vehicles other than a omnibus.
• Retool: Once Disney purchased the company, the videos focused more on learning more complex vocabulary (instruments, vehicles, places around town, motion) rather than simple objects due to the modest amount of topics such a simple serial could possibly cover. This led to three videos that characteristic sign language into the videos and virtually of the ones initially distributed past Disney adding recaps then each give-and-take be repeated at least twice, if not more in certain case, which overall fabricated the videos longer than ever. Disney considered these videos more "educational" and added this claim to a majority of their marketing.
  • This would eventually exist turned on its caput, as Baby Einstein would be recalled... for this exact reason. Not merely that, merely many older fans of Infant Einstein consider some of these afterward Disney videos considerably worse than the videos created during the early years, with Baby'southward First Sounds fifty-fifty receiving poor reviews from parents due to its confusing structure and copied scenes.
• Same Language Dub: xv of the videos were dubbed in British English for the European and Australian DVD/VHS releases. DVDs released in 2005 oftentimes contain both British and American versions on the aforementioned disc.
• Santa Claus: Winks at the viewers (through stock footage) near the cease of Baby Santa's Music Box.
• Scary Jack-in-the-Box: A jack-in-the-box toy is seen in many videos, but it is never scary.
• Screen Tap: Pavlov the Dog licking the screen in Neighborhood Animals.
• Seldom-Seen Species: The video Baby Noah features a lot of animals yous'd look to run into, such as lion, elephant, tiger, dolphin, etc. Oddly enough, in the Animals in the Outback section, ane of the animals featured are wombats.
• Sequel Episode: Some people call up Discovering Shapes is more of a rip-off of Baby Newton rather than a sequel since it was meant to replace it rather than spin off of it. Yet, 'Discovering Shapes would've been more of a sequel to Infant Newton'', since it has a variety of classical music and information technology is more than interactive rather than just Vivaldi.
• The Song Remains the Same: Five examples, all in strange language versions:
  • The Baby Shakespeare adaptation of the ABC song is entirely in English in the Hebrew version. Other Asian-language versions skip information technology birthday. Justified every bit the Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Thai alphabets are drastically different from the Latin alphabet used in near languages.
  • For some reason, the 2003 European French version of Neighborhood Animals does not dub "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," instead using the American English audio for the singing. It is not subtitled either.
  • The 2004 version of the Baby Newton song "I Know My Shapes" has all the singing parts remain in American English language for the British dub, whereas the speaking parts in the middle of the song are dubbed.
  • The Earth Music song "This World, Our World" (salvage for a few speaking parts) isn't dubbed or subtitled at all in French or Latin Spanish. This is not the case in the Castilian Spanish and Catalan versions.
  • The "World Fauna Vocal" from World Animal Risk re-used the Latin Castilian version for the Castilian Spanish version.
• The Speechless: Applies to every single Babe Einstein boob, who generally brand squeaking sounds (similar to those of Chica's) or similar sound effects instead of speaking. There are rare aversions to this trope though, such as Vincent Van Caprine animal saying "merci beaucoup!" after finishing the purple painting in Baby Van Gogh.
• Spiders Are Scary: The Baby'due south Commencement Sounds video features Lilliputian Miss Muffet in Spanish, which is portrayed by an blitheness of Mimi getting scared and running off one time the spider appears.
• Spin-Off: Niggling Einsteins. Another spinoff chosen Einstein Pals was gear up for direct-to-DVD release former effectually 2007-2008, merely was quietly canceled after controversy sparked nearly the brand.
• Stock Footage: Seen in most videos, besides the ones that focus on music or language.
• That Cloud Looks Like...: Seen in a puppet testify featured in Baby Galileo, where Baby Galileo and his mother look at the clouds. Geese fly into the clouds above, forming a goose shape in the clouds that magically flies away.
• Tired After the Song: In Babe Van Gogh, in one case the reddish music video is over, Vincent Van Caprine animal yawns and turns off the calorie-free without finishing his painting, resulting in the duck coming in and finishing it for him.
• Washy Watchy: Seen in Baby Neptune when the duck ends up watching the washing machine. Due to condign empty-headed, he ends up fainting, every bit mentioned earlier.
• Viewers Are Goldfish: Peculiarly applies to the Disney-distributed videos, which think babies are so dumb that everything needs to be repeated twice.
• You Don't Look Like You lot: The video World Music redesigned the puppets, since the unabridged team up to that signal was almost entirely recast, including the puppeteers. These puppets are known for looking... not the greatest, at to the lowest degree to fans of the series.

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