Headscratchers / Doc McStuffins

• In some episodes the toys recount something that happened to them before they were animated but in others they are totally unaware of anything happening before being animated.
  • Doc has the toys "go stuffed" if they're going to have surgery, which suggests that they are totally oblivious to anything while in this state. If that were so though, then they shouldn't know anything that happens when they're not animated.
• How long do the toys remain animate without Doc's support?
  • The whole thing is definitely confusing. Doc doesn't seem to have any power to stop the toys once they're animated other than to tell them to "go stuffed," but that doesn't always work and seems to be based on their own understanding of the command and their desire to do so. Other times, they have been shown acting on their own after she's left for school or something, which makes it seem like animation is their default state. But if that were true, then why would she even need the stethoscope to "activate" them?
  • Maybe she needs to animate them first, and once she animates toys, toys can self-animate and stuff whenever they choose.
• What range does Doc's animation spell have?
• What medical school did Doc go to anyway?
  • She didn't go to med school because she only doctors toys. Note that she couldn't diagnose her own flu in "Doctoring the Doc". If she seems to have more medical knowledge than the average kid, it's probably because her mother's a doctor. If you mean which med school did her mother go to, I don't know.
• Why does Doc keep her magic stethoscope's power a secret from everyone, excepting the young Florence Nightingale when she was transported to the past?
  • Well, who was she going to tell anyway? Nobody would believe her.
    • Seeing is believing. Florence believes it quickly enough once she actually sees the toys come to life, so why wouldn't anyone else?
• Where did she get the magic stethoscope from in the first place?
  • This one has now been answered, seems it comes from Grandma McStuffins.
• What's the big deal with other kids finding out about McStuffinsville?
  • This ties into the question about Doc keeping the power of the stethoscope a secret, really, but in "First Responders to the Rescue," when Dev first finds out about McStuffinsville, everyone is like "ZOMG, this is bad, really bad!" and Doc is all "No other kid was supposed to find out." Yet by about two minutes later everyone has just sort of shrugged it off, with Dev even being given his own toysponder and invited to come back at the end of the episode.
• Why do the toys still sing about the "ouches" being taken away even if they weren't in actual pain?
• If Frida can fly, why can't Stuffy?
• Bronty first arrived at the McStuffins house in "Bronto Boo-Boos". However, he was first shown in "Hallie's Happy Birthday". Are the episodes out of order?
• In "Diagnosis Not Even Close-is", during the song "A Little Help", Hallie was flipping through the Big Book of Boo Boos where the diagnoses from the episodes "A Tale of Two Dragons", 'Disco Dress Up Daisy', "The Glider Brothers" and "Don't Knock the Noggin" can be seen, despite the fact that these episodes had aired after that episode.
  • Also in "McStuffins School of Medicine", during the song "Be a Doctor Too", while Tundra is flipping through the Big Book of Boo Boos, the diagnosis from "My Breakfast with Bronty" can be seen, although that episode aired after the former episode. Are the episodes out of order?
• In "Cece's First Bath", why didn't Doc just have Cece go inanimate while bathing her?
  • Cece needed to learn that baths aren't bad or scary; if she got to skip out on her first bath, it would be all the harder to get her to adjust in the future.
    • Why would she even need to adjust though, if she can just go inanimate every time?