The Puzzle Place
TV Show • 1995
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The Puzzle Place is an American children's television series produced by KCET in Los Angeles, California and Lancit Media in New York City, New York. It premiered on the Public Broadcasting Service on January 16, 1995, and ran for about four years, airing its final episode on December 4, 1998. Reruns were continued until March 31, 2000. The show followed a multi-ethnic group of kids from different parts of the United States who hung out at "the Puzzle Place", which is a teen hangout themed around jigsaw puzzle pieces. In each episode the characters were confronted with an everyday conflict usually encountered in childhood and even early teenagerdom, such as making moral decisions, sharing, racism, sexism, etc.
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“The Ballad of Davy Cricket” is about the death of Jody’s pet cricket.
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Sorta. In “Rudy One,” Julie needs Ben, a boy, to model a dress. Ben says that boys don’t wear dresses. While the episode does show that men wear dresses in different cultures, the character of Rudy (a rude robot) makes fun of Ben for wearing the dress.
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There are a group of characters called the “Piece Police,” but they don’t do much of anything and never do anything bad - all they do is talk in gibberish
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In “Party of One,” Leon is uninvited from a birthday party for being Black. In “Accentuate the Positive,” Kiki’s Mexican accent is made fun of. We don’t get to see either of these on screen, but they are discussed within the episodes and their effects are shown.
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In the Christmas special, the kids are surprised to find out that Jody celebrates Hanukkah instead of Christmas, but no one is mean to her for being Jewish, and they learn valuable lessons.
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A dead pet cricket in one episode.
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In “Big Boys Don’t Cry,” Leon cries and Ben teases him for it, calling him a crybaby and acting like boys are too tough to cry. The episode teaches us that it’s okay for boys to cry.
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