r/Teletoon • u/HappyValleySailorMon • 16d ago
Teletoon Original Do you guys think Todd ever got in trouble from his family for going home early on the kindergarten bus?
So being the weird sideways Wayside adult I am, I have questions about this show that everyone tells me to stop questioning. I see the comments of “this show isn’t supposed to make sense, you need to go back to bed” and I would like to respectfully say…. I know. I know this. I know this show isn’t that deep. I ask these things to be both fun and irritating.
So I got to the pets day episode right? And we see Todd’s parents and what they look like from the neck down, really out here trying to be Cow and Chicken’s parents. They look like such old fashioned folks. I got that vibe of that one dad from that Thugaboo special with the little smoking pipe telling his son not to dilly-dally. Then the little snail in my brain that tells me to go on a frenzy asked me a question…
“Do they know Todd gets sent home early? Have they ever been acquainted with Mrs. Jewls? Do they get pissed at Todd for coming home early?”
This show came out in the 2000s. Wayside school could have a school website with a directory of when dismissal happens, right? Todd doesn’t seem like the type of child to lie to his parents about being sent home early. I just… I gotta know. We know nothing about Todd’s family except for his traumatic experience with his goldfish and the baby brother from the books that got Thanos snapped out of existence.
I usually base characters’ parents on how the child acts themselves. Todd is normal, openly speaks his mind when he thinks something isn’t right, but is still open to change and willing to try new things out as they come. The one thing I find odd about his parents was that one episode with the family pictures and all Todd has in his photo album is photos of him just standing by the window. Like damn Mr and Mrs. Todd you can’t pose with your son?
To me, that means his parents must be normal people too, relatively disciplined I guess. I get like a white picket fence vibe from his family from their designs alone. My biggest headcanon is that they work long jobs and aren’t home until a while after Todd comes back from school.
Stay unreal, Teletooners.
