Curious George

I'm not sure why I can suspend my disbelief in many children's books and television shows but not with Curious George. But he has been bugging the crap out of me recently. Let me break it down for you.

Curious George Feeds the Animals Book: George goes to the zoo to see some new exhibit. But the opening is delayed so he has to kill some time so he and the man with the yellow hat (TMWTYH) check out the zoo. They see a zoo keeper feeding the seals. That looks like fun George thinks. TMWTYH buys George some peanuts so he can have a snack. So of course he starts feeding the animals. A zoo keeper gets pissed at him and comes after him. George tries to hide from him by standing next to the sign pointing the way to the monkeys. The monkeys on the sign look just like George. The zoo keeper sees George and tells him that he's not supposed to feed the animals because they could get sick. Crazy part: The monkeys on the sign look just like George. How come the zoo keeper doesn't think that George is an escaped monkey from that zoo???

TV Show: Curious George goes for a rocket ride. TMWTYH is going to go to the space station and deliver some food to the astronauts there because they've run out of food. But as they are showing him how to drop off the food payload they discover that he can't press all 4 control buttons at once so he can't go on the mission. But wait! George has 4 hands, he can do it! So George gets go go into space. Crazy parts: They have a space suit that fits George. Including boots that are fitted around his monkey feet. They are also taking some things to send to the space station: a raccoon which they explain is so they can study the effects of space on it, some ants for the same purpose as the raccoon, and a container that they don't say what's in there. When they get into space George of course takes it out and it's filled with toys. Why are they taking toys into space? They didn't even know George was going so it's not for him. Are they for the raccoon? Because the raccoon seemed way more interested in the food.

And a general crazy thing about the show, people are always leaving George alone in some place like the train station master's office, a restaurant kitchen, or the band concert hall saying something like "well he can't get into any trouble in here." Is anyone else thinking - he's a MONKEY! He's nothing but trouble. The only place he's not going to get in trouble is in a bare prison cell and even then he's probably going to be throwing poop before long.

And what's with the arbitrary discipline of TMWTYH? He's very strict at enforcing bed time but that damn monkey is wandering the city alone most of the day.