YMMV / Big Hero 6 The Series S 3 E 03 The Dog Craze Of Summer

• Accidental Aesop: Give your dogsitter prior notice.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Hiro. While he should have been focused completely on his job from the start, Granville saddled him with three high-maintenance dogs and a really huge manual for the task at the last minute without prior notice. His poutiness when Cass takes his video games away and makes him take the job isn't unwarranted as he never actually volunteered to watch the dogs and he was forced into taking the job without being told what it was first. At Fred's house, as none of the objects Oppenheimer fetches in Fred's room are doors, you can make the case Hiro had no reason to think the dogs would bust down Fred's gate. When Hiro and Baymax are out on the streets looking for Fermi, Hiro's refusal to read the manual is explicitly shown to not be out of laziness but out of a concern that they don't have enough time to go through it and that Fermi could be in a bad situation. Having the last of his dogsitting money stolen from him by a supervillain comes off as excessive punishment after he got stuck in a floor retrieving Fermi and had most of the money taken by his friends for their help.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Professor Granville comes off as rather inconsiderate in this episode. She dumps the job on Hiro at the last minute with a ridiculously huge amount of instructions and supplies for just one day of dogsitting when she would known ahead of time she had a conference. There is no reason given why she couldn't have called Hiro over to her home, which unlike the Lucky Cat, would presumably be prepped for three high maintenance dogs to roam around and presumably has a backyard. That she had time to arrange a truckload of supplies to be brought to the Lucky Cat shows she had time that could have been spent giving Hiro a proper walkthrough of how to do his job at her place. She also merely says the dogs have "quirks" rather than taking 20-30 seconds to explain the specifics. Adding to that, we see Baymax read the Mr. Pip instruction from the middle of the book, when putting it on the front page could have allowed Hiro to retrieve Fermi when he saw him across the street. Instead, this causes the trouble to be dragged out until night. Given how easily the dogs seem to have been controlled with their toys at the end, the entire plot could have been avoided if she had merely left Hiro a 1 or 2-page list. Her talk about Hiro having an abundance of free time and agreement with Cass about Hiro needing real-world work experience can also come off as this considering that she is aware Hiro is the leader of Big Hero 6, who just stopped being fugitives from the law.
  • The rest of the team besides Hiro and Baymax can come off as this as they essentially act like Hiro should have expected the dogs to be capable of tearing down the gate to Fred's yard even though Hiro never saw Oppenheimer fetch doors in Fred's room before he put the dogs outside. The case can also be made that the trouble Go Go and Honey Lemon experience with Curie is something Hiro couldn't have possibly foreseen as she only got ahold of the chem purse due to Honey Lemon turning her back with Go Go and leaving it unattended after having seen Curie's habit for herself.