The World of David the Gnome

Lyle, what was your immediate reaction to Which Witch is Which?

The immediate reaction was that the animation style reminded me of a lot of the old cartoons that I used to watch as a kid, like Maya the Bee or David the Gnome.

They all had that same exact style.

So I instantly knew that this was from that time period.

... what was that like, you c- growing up with that stuff?

It was David the Gnome from Nick Jr.

David the Gnome.

Yeah.

Early in the '90s.

It's on YouTube, everyone.

Right.

Just look, look for it, David the Gnome, every episode.

testament to...

It made such a fucking impact on a young Ian Carmel watching David the Gnome.

You know what I mean? Whatever.

David the...

Okay.

what is it called when people do like when they make like cartoon characters but they're like sexy cartoon characters like is it like is it called fan art deviant art deviant

well that's that's the website but usually it's fanfic and that could be pictures or writings uh so i was so you know how every time something goes in a public domain they always make shitty horror movies out of it yeah david the gnome will be eligible in 2079 and i guarantee you looking at david the gnome drawings like that is going to become a really shitty horror movie and i will say i am sorry i will not be alive to see that because i would have to be 100 years old at that point

Well, you can set a goal, man.

And it was dressed kind of like, I guess, like a...

Like David the Gnome or something, right? So it was kind of dressed like that, but it wasn't old.

It didn't have a beard.

So it was like a young man that was a foot tall.

Okay.

Like I'm gonna just sleep there in the roots of a tree like I've always dreamed, like in David the Gnome.

No, oh, sorry, I went out of character there for a minute and I was just feeling like myself there for a second.

Travis just went on his own-

Sorry

... sort of psychosexual David the Gnome-based voyage.

Whoa, there was nothing sexual about it.

Godwin w-

Yeah

... we watched, uh, one of my favorites as a kid was Dave the Gnome and, uh-

Oh, yeah

... me like, [singing].

Um, no, it's actually not, but it did open...

When you told me about the gnome, it did open a well of childhood memories for me, um, because I, I was into, uh, this, uh, little guy called the David de Kabouter as a child, who is, uh, literally, literal translation is D- David the Gnome.

Um, he-

Yeah, we, we had a sh- we had a David the Gnome show here.

Well, it's actually the intellectual property of Rien Poortvliet, which is a Dutch, uh, who is a Dutch, like, uh, graphic artist.

And, um, it's was this whole well of childhood memories because I used to watch this show, but then we also had a book, and I actually looked into the books, uh, or I looked into the...

I ordered the book actually to check for you, like, where did it actually come from, w- what was this all about with David de Kabouter, and I found this book called Life and Work of the Gnome, or the Kabouter in Dutch.

And, um, it says here, I actually...

Okay.

Like David the Gnome, was David the Gnome a wood elf?

He was more in the gnome range of things.

Hmm.

If, if you think back to this time period, Nick Jr. was all resyndicated TV shows.

Sharon, Lois, Bram's Elephant Show, uh, Fred Penner's Place, David the Gnome.

Eureka's Castle, uh, was like the only original Nick show that, Nick Jr. show, that was going on at the time on Nick Jr. Muppet Babies, Muppet Show, and then Blue's Clues came out, and they had a massive, massive hit, and it went all the way up until August 6th, 2006.

Uh, as mentioned before, it was created by Angela C. Santomero, Traci Paige Johnson, and Todd Kessler.