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U-tan is a girl.


* PokemonSpeak: The short-lived puppet character Daa-Daa spoke like this, occasionally making other sounds as well.



** U-tan is a cute little humanoid... [[CartoonCreature something]] with a big head, big eyes, and little rattles on his head.

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** U-tan is a cute little humanoid... [[CartoonCreature something]] with a big head, big eyes, and little rattles on his hed head.
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''Inai Inai Baa!'' is a Japanese children's show. It premiered on the Creator/{{NHK}} on April 1, 1996, and has been running since. In North America, the show airs on NHK's international feed, TV Japan, and in Vietnam, it airs on [=VTV7=] as ''Ú Òa''. It's also available on Creator/{{Netflix}}.

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''Inai Inai Baa!'' is a Japanese children's show. It premiered on the Creator/{{NHK}} on April 1, 1996, and has been running since. In North America, the show airs on NHK's international feed, TV Japan, and in Vietnam, it airs on Japan. [=VTV7=] as in Vietnam airs a ForeignRemake, ''Ú Òa''. It's also available on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: The song "Penguin Penguin" features the characters singing about various kinds of penguins. In earlier versions of this segment, U-Tan dressed up like a penguin.

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* AnimateInanimateObject: Some of U-tan's friends are a toy box, a superhero toothbrush, a pink blanket, a blue pair of shoes, a tissue box girl, a potty chair and a toilet king.

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* AnimateInanimateObject: Some of U-tan's friends are a toy box, a superhero toothbrush, a pink blanket, a blue pair of shoes, a tissue box girl, a potty chair seat and a toilet king.



** U-tan wasn't in the show prior to 2003. Instead, there were mascots called Penta and Kuu that served a similar purpose to her.
** Kana originally dressed in a poodle outfit for the first year of the program before changing to her rainbow alien-esque costume.

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** U-tan wasn't in the show prior to 2003. Instead, there were mascots was a mascot called Penta and Kuu that served a similar purpose to her.
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** Kana originally dressed in a poodle outfit for the first year of the program before changing to her rainbow alien-esque costume. Also, there was a yellow star puppet named Penta who would be replaced by Kuu around the same time Kana's costume changed.



* FleetingDemographicRule: This is the reason for the onee-san on this show changing every four years.

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* FleetingDemographicRule: This is the reason for the onee-san on this show changing every four years, and the song used for the exercise changing every eight years.



* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: U-tan is a cute little humanoid... [[CartoonCreature something]] with a big head, big eyes, and little rattles on his head.

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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: RidiculouslyCuteCritter:
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U-tan is a cute little humanoid... [[CartoonCreature something]] with a big head, big eyes, and little rattles on his head.head.
** Before U-tan, there was Kuu, a cute, pink cloud monster with green hair.
* ToiletTrainingPlot: Many of the songs on the show focus on using the bathroom, usually involving U-tan and her talking potty seat and toilet king friends.
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** The segments that taught kids an educational aspect like toilet-training or teethbrushing used to be done in anime style rather than live action.
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* OneTwoThreeFourGo: The song "Kanpa~i!" contains a line that goes "One, two, Wanwan!" before the second chorus. "Wan" is also the Japanese pronnounciation of "one".
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* OnceAnEpisode: In every episode, babies will come out to do whatever exercise is the current one with the oneesan and Wanwan.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** U-tan wasn't in the show prior to 2003. Instead, there were mascots called Penta and Kuu that served a similar purpose to her.
** Kana originally dressed in a poodle outfit for the first year of the program before changing to her rainbow alien-esque costume.
** When Yuki first appeared, she wore a blue version of Yuuna's outfit.
** In the Vietamese version, Nana was a person dressed in a cat outfit before she became a full-bodied costume character like Wanwan.
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''Inai Inai Baa!'' is a Japanese children's show. It premiered on the Creator/{{NHK}} on April 1, 1996, and has been running since. In North America, the show airs on NHK's international feed, TV Japan, and in Vietnam, it airs on [=VTV7=] as ''Uacute; Òa''. It's also available on Creator/{{Netflix}}.

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''Inai Inai Baa!'' is a Japanese children's show. It premiered on the Creator/{{NHK}} on April 1, 1996, and has been running since. In North America, the show airs on NHK's international feed, TV Japan, and in Vietnam, it airs on [=VTV7=] as ''Uacute; ''Ú Òa''. It's also available on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
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''Inai Inai Baa!'' is a Japanese children's show. It premiered on the Creator/{{NHK}} on April 1, 1996, and has been running since. In North America, the show airs on NHK's international feed, TV Japan, and in Vietnam, it airs on [=VTV7=] as "Ú Òa". It's also available on Creator/{{Netflix}}.

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''Inai Inai Baa!'' is a Japanese children's show. It premiered on the Creator/{{NHK}} on April 1, 1996, and has been running since. In North America, the show airs on NHK's international feed, TV Japan, and in Vietnam, it airs on [=VTV7=] as "Ú Òa".''Uacute; Òa''. It's also available on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
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''Inai Inai Baa!'' is a Japanese children's show. It premiered on the Creator/{{NHK}} on April 1, 1996, and has been running since. In North America, the show airs on NHK's international feed, TV Japan. It's also available on Creator/{{Netflix}}.

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''Inai Inai Baa!'' is a Japanese children's show. It premiered on the Creator/{{NHK}} on April 1, 1996, and has been running since. In North America, the show airs on NHK's international feed, TV Japan.Japan, and in Vietnam, it airs on [=VTV7=] as "Ú Òa". It's also available on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
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* ClipShow: The "Memories" feature of each of the final DVD releases for a specific onee-san are comprised of clips of their stint on the show set to whatever the theme song of that DVD is.
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* FleetingDemographicRule: This is the reason for the onee-san on this show changing every four years.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: Some of U-tan's friends are a toy box, a superhero toothbrush, a pink blanket, a tissue box girl, a potty chair and a toilet king.

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* AnimateInanimateObject: Some of U-tan's friends are a toy box, a superhero toothbrush, a pink blanket, a blue pair of shoes, a tissue box girl, a potty chair and a toilet king.
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* RewrittenPopVersion: Two songs from the Yuki-chan era (2014-2019) were given J-Pop covers, with Yuzu covering "Kanpai!" and [=GReeeeN=] covering "Popopopopose", the latter of which [[BreakawayPopHit became more popular than the original song]] and inspiring a dance challenge on Website/YouTube.

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* RewrittenPopVersion: Two songs from the Yuki-chan era (2014-2019) were given J-Pop covers, with Yuzu covering "Kanpai!" and [=GReeeeN=] covering "Popopopopose", the latter of which [[BreakawayPopHit became more popular than the original song]] song and inspiring inspired a dance challenge on Website/YouTube.
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* RewrittenPopVersion: Two songs from the Yuki-chan era (2014-2019) were given J-Pop covers, with Yuzu covering "Kanpai!" and [=GReeeeN=] covering "Popopopopose", the latter of which [[BreakawayPopHit became more popular than the original song]] and inspiring a dance challenge on Website/YouTube.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Wan-Wan, U-tan and the 2015-2019 onee-san Yuki.]]



''Inai Inai Baa!'' is an educational series starring One-san the girl and Wanwan the anthropomorphic dog. A character named U-tan was introduced later on in the series.

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''Inai Inai Baa!'' is an educational series starring One-san the girl and Wanwan the anthropomorphic dog. dog and a female child host known as Onee-san, or "big sister". A character named U-tan was introduced later on in the series.
series. The show is a children's sing-along show in the same vein as ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: Some of U-tan's friends are a toy box, a superhero toothbrush, a pink blanket, a tissue box girl, and a toilet king.

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* AnimateInanimateObject: Some of U-tan's friends are a toy box, a superhero toothbrush, a pink blanket, a tissue box girl, a potty chair and a toilet king.
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...is U-tan supposed to be a specific species?


* FunnyAnimal: Wanwan the dog.

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* FunnyAnimal: Wanwan the is an anthropomorphic dog.



* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: U-tan.

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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: U-tan. U-tan is a cute little humanoid... [[CartoonCreature something]] with a big head, big eyes, and little rattles on his head.
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If you're wondering, the show's title basically means "peek-a-boo" in Japanese. In fact, the aforementioned Netflix release renames the show ''Peek-a-Boo''.

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If you're wondering, the show's title basically means "peek-a-boo" in Japanese. In fact, the aforementioned Netflix release renames release, as well as the TV Japan website, both rename the show ''Peek-a-Boo''.
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If you're wondering, the show's title basically means "peek-a-boo" in Japanese.

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If you're wondering, the show's title basically means "peek-a-boo" in Japanese.
Japanese. In fact, the aforementioned Netflix release renames the show ''Peek-a-Boo''.
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''Inai Inai Baa!'' is a Japanese children's show. It premiered on the Creator/{{NHK}} on April 1, 1996, and has been running since.

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''Inai Inai Baa!'' is a Japanese children's show. It premiered on the Creator/{{NHK}} on April 1, 1996, and has been running since.
since. In North America, the show airs on NHK's international feed, TV Japan. It's also available on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
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more like "wildlife" than "population" since Wanwan is a dog


* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The otherwise white-furred Wanwan has green fur on his ears, arms, feet, and tail.

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The otherwise white-furred Wanwan has green fur on his ears, arms, feet, and tail.tail. Not really that common of a color scheme for dogs.
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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The otherwise white-furred Wanwan has green fur on his ears, arms, feet, and tail.

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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The otherwise white-furred Wanwan has green fur on his ears, arms, feet, and tail.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The otherwise white-furred Wanwan has green fur on his ears, arms, feet, and tail.

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The otherwise white-furred Wanwan has green fur on his ears, arms, feet, and tail.


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* FunnyAnimal: Wanwan the dog.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The otherwise white-furred Wanwan has green fur on his ears and arms.

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The otherwise white-furred Wanwan has green fur on his ears ears, arms, feet, and arms.tail.
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* LongRunner: It premiered in 1996 and is still going.

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!!''Inai Inai Baa!'' provides examples of: * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The otherwise white-furred Wanwan has green fur on his ears and arms.

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''Inai Inai Baa!'' is a Japanese children's show. It premiered on the Creator/{{NHK}} on April 1, 1996, and has been running since.

''Inai Inai Baa!'' is an educational series starring One-san the girl and Wanwan the anthropomorphic dog. A character named U-tan was introduced later on in the series.

If you're wondering, the show's title basically means "peek-a-boo" in Japanese.

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!!''Inai Inai Baa!'' provides examples of: * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The otherwise white-furred Wanwan has green fur on his ears and arms.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Some of U-tan's friends are a toy box, a superhero toothbrush, a pink blanket, a tissue box girl, and a toilet king.
* ExcitedShowTitle
* FakeInteractivity: One of the recurring segments on the show featured an animated caterpillar named Mushimushi-kun who often "interacted" with the children watching. For example, in one segment, he offered the viewers a drink by holding his opened can of juice up to the screen for them to drink out of, and in another segment he played catch with the viewers using a balloon.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: U-tan.
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