Pappyland (1996–1999) User Reviews

One of my favorite kid show!!

[Illyngophobia · 10/10 · 8 February 2008]

Pappyland was music to my ears!I remember seeing the show,around the time I was six,and I loved it!It has many bright and colorful characters,great music and also let kids express themselves through art.I remember having to wake up at 6:30 every morning before school,with my art pad,pen and crayons so I could draw along with Pappy.

And it wasn't bright vibrant colors,good characters,and good morals that amde the show good,it was the fact that they let kids express themselves through art,and many were inspired,which is why they had the Hall of Art,in which at the end of every episode,they would show pictures that fans drew and sent in to the show.I remember being about five,six or seven and I sent in a picture of my favorite character,Buddy Bear.

Pappyland was a great show,which was the Bob Ross for kids.Where we all got to show our feelings and such through the art of imagiantion.I still wish the show could have been longer,and still stuck around.

Pappyland - 10/10 *****

90s kid

[aundriathorne · 8/10 · 15 March 2021]

This show popped into my head today reminiscing...showed my significant other the theme song and tons of memories of me sitting at the kitchen table eating cereal before school flooded over me. Loved this show as a child.

Loved It

[juliannalighty · 10/10 · 24 January 2020]

I loved this show and looked forward to watching it as much as I could. It always bugged the crap out of me that I couldn't finish the episode before I had to leave for school, so now 24 years later, I'm looking up the episodes just so I can finish them. I always envied the other artistic kids and their ability to draw, so I tried so hard to mimic each drawing. Yeah, some may call this show stupid, but I loved it then and I do now. It gave me hope and something to look forward to. My drawing abilities increased over the years (even though I didn't finish the episodes), but I would think about this show from time to time and try to recreate some of them. It always reminded me of those chaotic times where I would make a million excuses to not go to school and stall for time just so I could see the finished drawing.

As someone who works in the industry now, it would be interesting to know the cast and crew and know behind the scenes secrets. Knowing what it takes for production, but still looking at the show like a kid, it would be interesting to meld the two perspectives together.

I thought it was great...

[ladywaterfallx · 7/10 · 4 October 2007]

I was an artistic kid and loved watching this guy. In retrospect I guess he was a little weird, but at the time I looked forward to getting out my markers and crayons and trying to draw with him. Mine never looked as good at his of course, but dangit, I wanted to try. I usually ignored the first half of the show anyway and just settled in for the drawing. I'm glad I came upon this review actually. I was thinking about this show a couple of weeks ago and couldn't remember the name of it. I remembered something about his voice was rather soothing, I looked forward to hearing that as well. I wish it still came on, I'm an adult now but I think I'd still watch it, just for kicks.

Props to Pappy.

[flirt-much2003 · 7 April 2006]

I remember this show. I watched it everyday when I was in Pre-K. Doodle bug was always a favorite character of mine, even though he always failed at his attempt to stump Pappy. I even still have one of my drawings from this show. I owe a lot to this series. It was what got me interested in art and drawing. Now, I'm a Sr. about to graduate high school and I'm in training to be a Graphic Designer. I even won the chance to be in a State wide contest for ad designing. I give credit of all my talent and skill to the show and only wish it was still on the air for my niece to watch. I loved that show and if it were on TV today I would still watch as a reminder of the inspiration I received from it.

To the cast and crew of the show: Thank you for getting me started!

I too remember this fiasco.

[tictacmaster · 1/10 · 22 June 2006]

Woof. I was looking this up to see how long it was actually on television. I remember this show because my little brother watched it everyday. The only thing I learned from this show is that I didn't like it. I may not have been its target audience, but I still love reading rainbow and Mr. Rogers. So why was this a poor children's show? It lacked the key ingredient in any children's show, repetition. Also, at the end of every episode, they would post artwork that the children would send in. My brother once sent something in and all they never showed it on the air. All he got in return was a catalog to buy overpriced and cheaply made (personal observation only) art supplies. I'm surprised it went even three years.

Chucky Speaks; by Chris Grom

[cgromehs · 12 June 2008]

Listen...to all you wisenheimer's bashing my show. Chucky rocked. Turtle Lou rocked. Seriously, the cast members that played Turtle Lou and Doodlebug were some of my best friends back in the day, as was Mike(Pappy). The camera crew rocked (long live Mr. Sulu!) Marilyn (Doodlebug) and I still talk about those days from time to time. Bernie, bless his heart, lit the set and taped the show while battling cancer. I still owe Joe and Steve for the taxi home in the pickup trucks. Ah Gabe, the many trips to Burger King to pick up the latest 'Universal Monster', Dave the sound guy...heck the list of good people from this show is a long one.

Some of our outtakes are hysterical. I still have them. How many of you knew that Lily was actually enrolled in the witness protection program? (you'd have to see the outtakes to understand) And that Mike is a classic Star Trek fan? Unfortunately the show was cut the year it made the cover of TV Guide because a producer took the funds for our show and dumped them into a show on the CBC called Skinamarinkidink (if that's how it's spelled). There were a host of other legal problems with the way money was handled on the show. But the cast and crew were great fun, oftentimes hysterical. Life passes by way too fast when you are having fun, that's a lesson learned.

Anyhoo...I hope some of you had fun watching Pappyland, I know we had a lot of fun making it. A lot of us have lost touch, but if you read this, I just wanted you all to know it was a blast. : )

Sincerely, Chris Grom (aka 'Chucky')

I liked the program

[knudscj · 19 October 2017]

I would try to watch it to learn how to draw. I had a hard time learning to draw. I would watch how Pappy would draw it, stop the video, do what he did and continue until I finish the animal. I video recorded it, because it came on PBS at around 4:30 am. I found it by accident. I wish he had more.

Thank you for sharing the gift of drawing.

So I'm the first, then...

[sngbrd39 · 12 March 2006]

Hmmm, I knew this was an obscure show, but no one else remembers it? Really? Well, I guess it's up to me to tell you all about the horror that was Pappyland. It was basically a really bad cross between Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and The Joy of Painting. Every episode would begin with Pappy Drew-It, a grizzled yet friendly old cowboy, walking into his house and greeting us, the lucky home audience. Yay for us. Stuff that I can't really remember right now would happen in the house, then he would go into some magical, puppet-inhabited rip-off of Mr. Rogers' Land of Make Believe, where he would learn valuable morals (groan) with his woodland friends, including Turtle Lou, who probably had the worst Italian accent I've ever heard. While dealing with his friends' issues, he'd teach the audience to draw a picture that was connected in some way with the solution. After the daily moral dilemma had been wrapped up by drawing a pretty picture, Sing-Along Sam would sing a song to reiterate the lesson we all just learned. After that bit of musical bliss, Pappy would go back home, then bid us farewell.

How, you may ask, do I know so much about this show which I thoroughly dislike? Easy. It used to come on one of our local PBS stations, and I watched it every single freaking day with my brother, who loved to watch the twin tortures of Pappyland and the Shelly T. Turtle Show (which is so obscure that it's not even on IMDb!!). But I think that the fact no one has commented on this show until just now really says something about just how (un)memorable this show is.