History YMMV / NiHaoKaiLan

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer''. Little ethnic girl and her monkey sidekick teach kids a foreign language while hanging out with other animals.

* {{Moe}}: Kai-Lan is an eternally optimistic and sweet little girl who helps her friends with problems they need to solve.

* {{Moe}}: Kai-Lan is an eternally optimistic and sweet little girl who helps her friends with problems they need to solve.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: As the picture on the main page shows you, there's a good bit of it on this show. It's a trippy, colorful world, but subverted in the behavior of the characters, who -- unusual in edutainment shows -- often exhibit rude and antisocial behavior. Of course, learning how to cope with this behavior then becomes the {{Aesop}} of the episode.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The series is a rare preschool show that tells kids that ''it's okay'' to feel negative emotions, and not everything has to be happy and upbeat all the time. It also teaches children how to deal with negative feelings in a constructive manner, predating shows like ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'', ''WesternAnimation/EsmeAndRoy'', and the older-skewing ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' and ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain''.

* FridgeLogic: The main conflict of the episode "Tolee's Rhyme Time" is that Tolee doesn't know how to rhyme words. However, at the beginning of the episode, he was singing a rhyming song when he was taking a bath. He may not have realized it was a rhyming song, but since the song isn't brought up after that point in the episode, it makes it a little awkward.

* InformedWrongness: In "Everybody's Hat Parade", Rintoo is shown as the bad guy for being mad at Hoho for copying his hat design, and the lesson of the day is basically that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. However, Rintoo had every right to be mad at Hoho for stealing his original ideas, flattery or not.

* {{Narm}}: "Pandy's Puddle". Tolee's stuffed panda, Pandy, falls into a puddle of mud and needs to be washed...but the way how Tolee reacts to the whole situation like if someone gunned down Pandy is what makes the episode so painfully narmful.

%%* {{Moe}}: Kai-Lan, oh so much.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop:
** In one episode, Rintoo is angry at Hoho for [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil copying]] his hat design; the problem is resolved when Rintoo learns he should be ''happy'' that his design was stolen because it means that people ''like'' it. But, after all, imitation is the SincerestFormOfFlattery. This message becomes somewhat meta when you remember that this show is a copy of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer''. Or, better yet, that China is known for basically being a breeding ground for {{Shoddy Knockoff Product}}s.
** Another one for us, is that every episode we watched with the kids involved one of the characters getting upset and throwing a temper tantrum, and it was up to everyone ''else'' to figure out what was wrong and make sure they fixed it. Yes, from one point of view it's teaching kids empathy and understanding how others feel, but from another point of view it's teaching that if you don't get your way, throwing a fit is a sure way to get what you want in the end. Of the ones we saw, the one having a tantrum was never wrong, and always got their way.

* AmericansHateTingle: More like Americans Don't Know Tingle for a pretty good reason. You'd think China would like this show, right? Not quite. This show briefly aired on China's Creator/{{CCTV}} channel, but not a lot of Chinese actually watched it. It never even got an article on China's popular encyclopedia Baidu Baike, a wiki that usually has articles on most other cartoons.
* EarWorm: Good luck getting the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs772vyZr9Y theme song]] out of your head.

* FridgeLogic:
** Lulu is a rhino who can somehow fly in the air using a balloon tied to her horn.
** The main conflict of the episode "Tolee's Rhyme Time" is that Tolee doesn't know how to rhyme words. However, at the beginning of the episode, he was singing a rhyming song when he was taking a bath. He may not have realized it was a rhyming song, but since the song isn't brought up after that point in the episode, it makes it a little awkward.
* {{Moe}}: Kai-Lan, oh so much.

* AmericansHateTingle: More like Americans Don't Know Tingle. You'd think China would like this show, right? Not quite. This show briefly aired on China's Creator/{{CCTV}} channel, but not a lot of Chinese actually watched it. It never even got an article on China's popular encyclopedia Baidu Baike, a wiki that usually has articles on most other cartoons.

* AmericansHateTingle: You'd think China would like this show, right? Not quite. This show briefly aired on China's Creator/{{CCTV}} channel, but not a lot of Chinese actually watched it. It never even got an article on China's popular encyclopedia Baidu Baike, a wiki that usually has articles on most other cartoons.

* FandomRivalry: The PeripheryDemographic of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' has often had bitter reactions towards ''Ni Hao Kai Lan''.

** Lulu the balloon flying rhino.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: In one episode, Rintoo is angry at Hoho for [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil copying]] his hat design; the problem is resolved when Rintoo learns he should be ''happy'' that his design was stolen because it means that people ''like'' it. But, after all, imitation is the SincerestFormOfFlattery.
** This message becomes somewhat meta when you remember that this show is a copy of WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer.

* TastesLikeDiabetes:
** As the picture on the main page shows you, there's a good bit of it on this show. It's a trippy, colorful world.
** Subverted in the behavior of the characters, who -- unusual in edutainment shows -- often exhibit rude and antisocial behavior. Of course, learning how to cope with this behavior then becomes the {{Aesop}} of the episode.

** This message becomes somewhat meta when you remember that this show is a copy of DoraTheExplorer.
* FridgeLogic: Lulu the balloon flying rhino.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: As the picture on the main page shows you, there's a good bit of it on this show. It's a trippy, colorful world.

* UnfortunateImplications: You know the old racist joke that [[IdenticalLookingAsians all Asians look the same]]? Probably wasn't a good idea for this show to play "I Spy" with a crowd of them...

* {{Narm}} : "Pandy's Puddle". Tolee's stuffed panda, Pandy, falls into a puddle of mud and needs to be washed...but the way how Tolee reacts to the whole situation like if someone gunned down Pandy is what makes the episode so painfully narmful.

* UnfortunateImplications: You know the old racist joke that [[AllAsiansAreAlike all Asians look the same]]? Probably wasn't a good idea for this show to play "I Spy" with a crowd of them...

* GuiltyPleasures