History YMMV / Babar

* HarsherInHindsight:
** At the beginning of "Conga the Terrible", Pompadour asks Babar if he could steer the ship due to him being having "more youth" than Cornelius. Later, after Cornelius falls asleep while on guard for Conga, Pompadour outright attacks Cornelius for falling asleep because he is too old to guard.
** In "Mango Madness", when Flora tells Cornelius about the whereabouts of his glasses, she follows this up with how Pompadour says that Cornelius is getting forgetful because he's so old.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3y04Xc2Uw The theme song is so relaxing...]]

* PeripheryDemographic: The show's primary target audience is children eight and under, but has surprisingly intelligent writing, dramatic and/or humorous stories, child-friendly but effectively funny gags, well-developed and likable characters, Creator/TaraStrong as the voice of Young Celeste, an AmbiguouslyGay character, {{Shout Out}}s to more adult works of fiction, and a handful of {{Parental Bonus}}es, all of which make it quite enjoyable for older viewers as well- this was likely due to airing on HBO and hence being able to get away with this type of stuff. ''WesternAnimation/BabarAndTheAdventuresOfBadou'' on the other hand....not so much.

-->'''Fireman''': Okay, where's the fire?
-->'''Cornelius''': There's no fire, it's more serious than that.
-->'''Pompadour''': It's the children.
-->'''Fireman''': The children are on fire?

%%* EnsembleDarkhorse: Pompadour.

** "The Best We Both Can Be."

* HarsherInHindsight: Some of the jabs towards Cornelius being old are this due to Chris Wiggins' death in 2017.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The reason for the 1999 film's huge failure. Besides the fact that it came out long after the brief renaissance in Babar's popularity that the TV series sparked had ended, and most of its original fans had grown up, it was a completely new adaptation of the original books, with nothing for fans of the original series to experience nostalgia with.

* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: For most part, the series is very cute and filled with many heartwarming moments.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The FiveEpisodePilot ''alone'' features rather grisly deaths for a kids show, including Babar's mother being shot (BloodlessCarnage, but still), The Old King succumbing to food poisoning (he re-appears in "Ghost for a Day" as, well, a ghost), and the hunter being burned alive by the fire ''he'' started, with Babar confirming in "Boys Will Be Boys" that the Hunter was KilledOffForReal. Even as the series grew LighterAndSofter, it still tackled subject matter such as Babar and his friends being picked on because they look different, Cornelius and Pompadour believing an assassin is out to kill Babar (a plot recycled in two separate episodes no less), an elephant-hating general sending Celesteville and Rhinoland to war, and Flora nearly dying from being bitten by a poisonous snake. Owing to the fact that the series was produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}}, it aired in reruns on preschool-oriented networks owned by parent company Corus Entertainment, such as Qubo in the United States as well as Treehouse TV in Canada.

* ValuesDissonance: In the original books, Babar and Celeste are [[KissingCousins cousins.]] All the animated versions omit any mention of this.

-->'''Fireman''': The children CrossesTheLineTwice are on fire?