The show, which is produced by DR, the same Danish production company responsible for the pirate and strip-down shows, was written for 4-to-8-year-olds. As Christian Groes, an anthropologist at Denmark’s Roskilde University, told me, Danish children’s television is not unlike an LSD trip: “Everything is possible in that universe,” he said, loosely quoting a friend, “and people won’t complain about it.”īut people did complain when the Danes debuted a kids’ animated series in January featuring a protagonist with an absurdly long, prehensile penis. In another, an audience of 11-to-13-year-olds asks probing questions about the bodies of adults who disrobe before them. One show centers on a pipe-smoking pirate who wallops ninjas and flirts with Satanism. Kids who turn on the tube in Denmark might be greeted by gratuitous flatulence, cursing, casual nudity, or cross-dressing puppets.
The world of Danish children’s television is not for the prudish.
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