Baby Einstein en Espanol Latino Baby Mozart Un Festival De Musica

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Baby Einstein is a series of educational direct-to-video programs created in 1997 by Julie-Aigner Clark, a former 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 4 years old. The videos use classical music and puppetry to introduce babies and toddlers to various subjects such as art in Baby Van Gogh and animals in the Baby Dolittle videos. The series was a financial 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 II, Inc., previously a merchandise licensee for the series.

Not to be confused with Little Einsteins, though created by the same company.

    List of Baby 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
• Baby Bach - Musical Adventure (1998)
• Baby Shakespeare - World of Poetry (1999) ^note Re-released in 2010 as World of Words
• Baby Van Gogh - World of Colors (2000) ^note Re-released in 2010 as World of Colors
• Baby Santa's Music Box (2000)
• Baby 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) ^note Re-released in 2008 & 2010
• Baby Neptune - Discovering Water (2003) ^note Re-released in 2009
• Baby Galileo - Discovering the Sky (2003)
• Baby Einstein: Numbers Nursery (2003)
• Baby MacDonald - A Day on the Farm (2004) ^note Re-released in 2009
• Baby Da Vinci - From Head to Toe (2004)
• Baby Noah - Animal Expedition (2004) ^note Re-released in 2009 as simply Baby Noah
• Baby Monet - Discovering the Seasons (2005)
• Baby Wordsworth: First Words - Around the House (2005) ^note Re-released in 2009
• On the Go - Riding, Sailing, and Soaring (2005)
• Meet the Orchestra - First Instruments (2006)
• Baby's Favorite Places: First 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)
• Baby's First Sounds (2008)
• World Music (2009)
• World Animal Adventure (2009)
• Animals Around Me (2010)
• Wild Animal Safari (2010)
• Baby Lullaby (2011)
• Neptune's Oceans (2011)
• World of Rhythm (2011)

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This series provides examples of:

• Absentee Actor: Julie Aigner-Clark, the creator of the series and the narrator/speaker for nearly every single episode, does not narrate Baby Neptune (until the 2009 revision), Baby Galileo, Baby's First Moves (same exception as Baby Neptune), Discovering Shapes, Lullaby Time, and Baby's First Sounds. In fact, the rendition of Humpty Dumpty featured in Baby's First Sounds was re-dubbed from its first appearance in Language Nursery, most likely to remove her voice.
  • While she did not narrate in either of the Baby Dolittle videos or Baby Newton, she was still involved in their production.
• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Some of the puppets wear an article of clothing (shirt, hat, etc.) but never wear pants (then again, they're puppets in a baby show). Some animals don't wear any clothes. Some of the characters wear clothes in artwork but not as puppets.
• A Dog Named "Dog": 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 have their surname that indicate their species.
• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The goat puppet Vincent Van Goat from Baby Van Gogh is blue, and many other puppets throughout this specific video follow this troupe, like a pink/purple goat, a red moose, a orange rabbit, and a blue 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 You Sure You Can Drive This Thing?: In On the Go, during "The Wheels on the Bus", the engine of the bus breaks and everybody has to evacuate the bus.
• Balloonacy: In Baby Galileo, the kangaroo puppet flies into space.
• Banana Peel: In World Animals, Jane the Monkey slips over a banana peel, and then makes monkey noises due to confusion, which makes no sense at all in context. Jane also slips on a banana peel in Wild Animal Safari.
• Baths Are Fun: The "Bath Time with the Pandas" scene in World Animal Adventure and the "Pop Goes the Bubbles" scene in Baby's First Sounds are prime examples of this.
• Beach Episode: Baby Neptune.
• Bilingual Dialogue:
  • Language Nursery uses seven languages intended as 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, Castilian Spanish, Korean, Mandarin Chinese or Danish passages.
  • The original Japanese releases of Neighborhood Animals and World Animals by Comtec Co., Ltd. under 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 Spanish, the Japanese dub uses English, Japanese, and Italian, the European Spanish and Portuguese dubs use English, Spanish, and Portuguese, the Catalan dub uses English, Catalan, and Portuguese and the Hebrew dub uses Hebrew, English, and French.
  • Baby's First Sounds features phonemes in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Chinese).
• Boxing Kangaroo: There is a toy kangaroo with boxing gloves in Baby Noah.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Pavlov the Dog sports the letter P on his collar, which is short for his name.
• Cactus Person: The two dancing cacti seen at the beginning of Baby Van Gogh.
• Cartoon Conductor: The koala in certain re-releases of Baby Mozart.
• Christmas Special: Baby Santa's Music Box.
• Clumsy Copyright Censorship: All DVDs after the 2000 release of Baby Van Gogh (excluding the 2010 release of World of Colors) have Bolero omitted from the Concert Hall, most likely because Ravel's Bolero wasn't in the public domain until 2016. However, it was still 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's logo found on the toy painted or taped over. However, the toy chests featured on the home media releases tell you what brand the toy is by, so it's odd that they would even put in the extra effort to censor it.
• Counting Sheep: Seen in a bonus feature on the Lullaby Time DVD, in which the sheep puppet.... counts other sheep puppets. How ironic.
• Cross-Referenced Titles: Language Nursery, and then 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.
• Dance Party Ending: Seen at the end of World of Rhythm.
• Disney Owns This Trope: Used to, in this case. Disney owned Baby Einstein for 12 years, having bought it in November 2001 and sold it to Kids II Inc. in October 2013. Despite this sale, they still own Little Einsteins.
• Early Installment Weirdness: Language 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, but still follows the same formula as the others. The first video to officially include signature puppets was Baby Shakespeare (Bard actually debuted in Baby Mozart, but only 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 Show
• Everything Is an Instrument: In Meet the Orchestra, the duck puppet plays Blue Danube with bottles.
• Fainting: The duck does this after looking at a washing machine for a while in Baby Neptune.
• Floating in a Bubble: This happens to the turtle puppet in Baby Neptune (in an albeit dark manner as the octopus laughs and waves good-bye).
• Follow the Leader / The Rival / Companion Show: Many shows and franchises - such as Brainy Baby, Baby Genius and So Smart! - try to copy or inspire it, but some of them may or may not be as successful as Baby Einstein. Even then, they do meet 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's not the brightest.
  • In Neighborhood Animals, he continues to steal the cow's bale of hay until he ends up getting caught anyways.
  • In Baby Beethoven, he loses track of the puppets in the parade twice until getting on the right track.
  • In Numbers Nursery, he eats a flower, which makes him go crazy and make strange sounds until he runs off. Averted in Baby MacDonald where he eats a flower without any consequences. He also knocks over the tiger's block tower for no reason and doesn't know numerical order either when he mixes up the numbers 2 and 4.
  • In On the Go (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 Dog can be seen feeding a real life rabbit in the Neighborhood Animals video.
• Goto Sleep Ending: Baby Shakespeare.
• Hand Puppet: Most of the puppets in the older videos (before Disney started distributing the videos) are hand puppets. Some were used later but rod-controlled puppets were prominently used also.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every video up to Baby Wordsworth (excluding Numbers Nursery) followed the format of Baby [x]. However, after the release of On the Go, this exact 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 World Animal Adventure).
• Licensed Games / Edutainment Games: Two in total were released, one on Windows computers based on the Baby Newton video, and one on the V. Smile Baby educational learning system.
• Long-Runners: Videos were released from 1997 to 2011 (14 years).
• Merchandise-Driven: The series was originally just for videos but slowly turned into a multi-million dollar company. CDs, toys, books, discovery cards, and other baby 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 up 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 be interested anyways. The closest thing to a 'plot' in these videos would be the structure of Baby Van Gogh, where each segment is about one of the seven colors of the rainbow, and similar themed structures in other videos like World Music. Baby Bach has by far the least plot, as it barely qualifies as coherent anyways. Of course, this isn't a bad thing.
• Non-Indicative Name: This series was notorious for being recalled by the FTC for being "non-educational and unhealthy for your baby". However, it was revealed that this is neither true nor false.
• Oddball in the Series: Language Nursery (which was also 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 Baby Newton when the horse's door bursts open as other puppets begin to walk in.
• Off Screen Crash: Pops up often in several videos.
  • Baby Van Gogh, after the titles, opens with one after a brief second of static.
  • Neighborhood Animals has one during the cat footprints puppet show.
  • World Animal 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, it ends up flying past the peg and crashing off-screen.
• Playful Otter: The otter featured in My First 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.
• Puppet Shows: Another staple in the series. As usual, the only video without it is Language Nursery.
• Rearrange the Song: The bonus features of On the Go include a song titled The Bells on the Train, which is just The Wheels on the Bus (which is already present in the video) with altered lyrics to feature vehicles other than a bus.
• Retool: Once Disney purchased the company, the videos focused more on learning more complex vocabulary (instruments, vehicles, places around town, movement) rather than simple objects due to the small amount of topics such a simple series could possibly cover. This led to three videos that feature sign language into the videos and most of the ones initially distributed by Disney adding recaps so each word be repeated at least twice, if not more in certain case, which overall made the videos longer than ever. Disney considered these videos more "educational" and added this claim to a majority of their marketing.
  • This would eventually be turned on its head, as Baby Einstein would be recalled... for this exact reason. Not only that, but many older fans of Baby Einstein consider some of these later Disney videos considerably worse than the videos created during the early years, with Baby's First Sounds even receiving poor reviews from parents due to its confusing structure and copied scenes.
• Same Language Dub: 15 of the videos were dubbed in British English for the European and Australian DVD/VHS releases. DVDs released in 2005 often contain both British and American versions on the same disc.
• Santa Claus: Winks at the viewers (through stock footage) near the end 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 you'd expect to see, such as lion, elephant, tiger, dolphin, etc. Oddly enough, in the Animals in the Outback section, one of the animals featured are wombats.
• Sequel Episode: Some people think 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. However, 'Discovering Shapes would've been more of a sequel to Baby Newton'', since it has a variety of classical music and it is more interactive rather than just Vivaldi.
• The Song Remains the Same: Five examples, all in foreign language versions:
  • The Baby Shakespeare adaptation of the ABC song is entirely in English in the Hebrew version. Other Asian-language versions skip it altogether. Justified as the Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Thai alphabets are drastically different from the Latin alphabet used in most 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 for the British dub, whereas the speaking parts in the middle of the song are dubbed.
  • The World Music song "This World, Our World" (save 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 Animal Song" from World Animal Adventure re-used the Latin Spanish version for the Castilian Spanish version.
• The Speechless: Applies to every single Baby Einstein puppet, who generally make 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 Goat saying "merci beaucoup!" after finishing the purple painting in Baby Van Gogh.
• Spiders Are Scary: The Baby's First Sounds video features Little Miss Muffet in Spanish, which is portrayed by an animation of Mimi getting scared and running off once the spider appears.
• Spin-Off: Little Einsteins. Another spinoff called Einstein Pals was set for direct-to-DVD release sometime around 2007-2008, but was quietly canceled after controversy sparked about 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 show 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 Baby Van Gogh, once the red music video is over, Vincent Van Goat yawns and turns off the light 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 becoming dizzy, he ends up fainting, as mentioned earlier.
• Viewers Are Goldfish: Especially 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: The video World Music redesigned the puppets, since the entire team up to that point was almost entirely recast, including the puppeteers. These puppets are known for looking... not the greatest, at least to fans of the series.

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Baby Einstein en Espanol Latino Baby Mozart Un Festival De Musica

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