Thanks for sharing

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It might well be that Krtek was introduced to Germany via the Maus TV programme. I remember watching Krtek animated clips within Sendung mit der Maus as a kid. The programme is basically a mixture of animated series and clips explaining all sorts of things, among which famously visits to factories showing how things in our everyday life are being made, which is very interesting for kids and adults alike.

I do wonder about Krtek. It seems to be somewhat country specific and then only as a TV show and not as a real thing kids have around them in books or plushly form etc.

"Die Maus", new to me. Don't remember ever seeing this before. Certainly not as a kid.

The elephant reminds me of Éléphant Bleu (French car wash chain..)!

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That said, I have not the slightest idea who Dikkie Dik is. I know about Jip en Janneke but only because of personal contact to someone who grew up in NL.

I am curious if you know about "Die Maus", from "Die Sendung mit der Maus" (lit. "The TV Programme with the Mouse"). It is one of the most succesful franchises for kids in Germany.

https://www.wdr-maus.de

Nowadays my kids got treated to a decent dose of Astrid Lindgren in Swedish along with the whole Disnay and Ghibli catalogue.

For kids stuff I don't think Jip and Janneke or Alfred Jodocus Kwak really made it out of the Netherlands. But Nijntje definitely did! Fwiw, my bed sheets as a kid were Nils Holgersson, which is originally Swedish. I don't know if it was actually well known in the Netherlands or just a quirk of what we had in the house.

@Pepijn

I purposely said young kids* btw. And thus stuff that's primarily NOT tv based.

*for young teenagers this actually seems even more localised. Naturally there's the big English-in-origin stuff like Harry Potter and the Roald Dahl stories but at least in the countries I know local stuff is king.

That's very surprising to me, I'd expect everyone to know the moomins.

I liked the idea, seemed fun, but I agree that the actual cartoon is boring. But I suppose I am not really the target audience.

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I believe Spanish Pocoyo is popular too. So were Vicke Viking (Sweden) or Maya the Bee (Germany), to name a few.

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mijn moeder had me destijds als tienjarige meegenomen naar die voorstelling én we hadden de CD

tintin, pingu, bluey, moomins(!), astérix, peppa pig.

for non-english grown-up shows i can only really think of montalbano, engrenages and the bridge. and they're pretty niche (and all about detectives? why are they all about detectives?). i think the language/culture barrier matters much more for adults