| 1 | * AlternateAesopInterpretation: As mentioned on the main page, Nina's catchphrase of "Now I know: Don't wait to go!" makes less sense when you consider she only waited because she legitimately didn't think she needed to go earlier. A better Aesop for that context would be "If you know your bathroom break opportunities will be limited later, it's better to go earlier when the opportunity presents itself, even if you don't necessarily have to", and Nina's catchphrase would still make sense. |
| 2 | * AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Nina will often deny needing to go to the bathroom, only to have a Potty Emergency moments later, and the moral is said to be "Don't wait to go". Is she lying when she says she doesn't need to go to the bathroom, or does she genuinely think she doesn't? |
| 3 | * AudienceAlienatingPremise: The show is about a little girl having a PottyEmergency every episode. And we do mean every episode, despite the main character's equally common insistence that she's learned better than to let it become an emergency. It's naturally a very divisive show. |
| 4 | * BrokenBase: The last season. Some people like how Nina gets to learn other lessons that don't involve the bathroom and those lessons stick, averting AesopAmnesia. Others think the show is less funny in Season Three. |
| 5 | * DoNotDoThisCoolThing: One of the most common criticisms of the show was that the moral was meant to be to go to the bathroom before leaving the house, except whenever Nina ''didn't'' go to the bathroom before leaving the house, she always went on a cool adventure with her ninja grandmother. |
| 6 | * GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: This show is big in Japan compared to the rest of the world, possibly because of the country's respect for hygiene and bathrooms in general. There's even reports of parents saying that this show helped toilet train their kids. |
| 7 | * QuirkyWork: The show turned out to be a Wabbit for most foreign markets, as the concept of a grandma who does insane stunts to take her grandkid to the bathroom on time seemed to be a little bit over the top and strange for them. |
| 8 | * RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: The show had its detractors who hated the main character, Nina, for [[AesopAmnesia saying, "That will never happen again" at the end of every episode but it happening again anyway]]. In season three, she was given additional [[AnAesop Aesops]] that ''did'' stick, warming a lot of the viewers up to her. |
| 9 | * SalvagedStory: A lot of people (especially parents) hated the show because Nina kept [[AesopAmnesia saying it would never happen again but it did]]. Later episodes would have her learn additional lessons that did stick. |
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