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Why are the kids named, in order, Winter Melon, Silly Melon Head, and Water Melon?
  • In the episode explaining their names, the incidents go winter melon, water melon, and silly melon head. However, Sagwa is older than Sheegwa. Why are the incidents out of order? Why would Mama and Baba pick the most embarrassing name for their second child? (This bugged me as a kid)
    • Maybe they were planning on following the sequence but when Sagwa was born, they decided that she looked like a Sagwa instead of a Sheegwa and named her thusly. Then when their next kitten came along they named her Sheegwa.
Are the sleeve dogs all male, or is one of them female?
  • I can't seem to find any info about this, and since they all have gender neutral names and identical characteristics, it's hard to so much as figure out which is which).
    • I kind of figured one was female going by the voice (I recall one having a higher sounding voice, as opposed to the more growly ones of the other two) but like the previous troper, I can't ascertain either. What really doesn't help this is that anything that would have helped this is long gone (I think the PBS website cleared some of this up). However, a children's book seems to be pointing towards one of them being female but it doesn't say whether that's the case or not.
Why would Mama Miao get angry at Sagwa for giving her dinner away to a family in need? It seemed like she was teaching her daughter not to help others.
  • That’s not why. She was angry because Sagwa had been showing up late for dinner, and had broken her promise to be on time for once. She actually praises Sagwa once she learns about what she did for Fam’s family, and explains that she could’ve just told her what she was doing, and she would’ve understood.
Why is it that Mama and Baba always seem to overreact whenever their kids cause minor mistakes?
  • To wit: Mama chewed out Sagwa simply for being late to dinner because she was helping Fam. Also implied to have been her reaction to Sagwa’s honest mistake in the pilot episode’s flashback. Second, Sagwa offers to help her brother with writing scrolls, and when Baba catches her doing Dongwa’s work, he grounds them both after accusing Sagwa of helping Dongwa double-cross him.
    • While there's no explanation for Mama, Baba's behavior is explained later in the scroll episode: as we learn from a nightmare he has about his younger days, his father used to be just as strict with him, constantly pressuring him to write scrolls all the time. He may have been subconsciously been treating Dongwa exactly the same way his own father used to treat him. He even seems to realize this after he wakes up from his nightmare, and the next morning he apologizes to Dongwa for being too hard on him.

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