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And I'm 43 years old. My 3yo loves it. The animation is simple but well executed. The stories have morale and everything always turns out OK.

An excellent TV show for kids. I plopped my 3 year old sister in front of this show and she didn't stop until an hour and a half later. Incredible stories, and even though it isn't the most educational, it's still a fantastic show for kids. Incredible animation, and adorable characters. Love this show!

This is an adorable, kid-friendly show. I disagree with the other review and enjoy the voices, as does my son. The stories are very short and simple and very sweet.

The animation isn't your typical bold outline bright colours and I LOVE that. It's so pleasing to look at. The voices are so cute and believable as children, parents, grandparents etc. The story's aren't crazy educational, BUT they do always teach a small lesson about family, friends, sharing, love etc. My 3 year old loves this show. I think the way they show the parents and siblings is also really important. Simon's parents and brother show him so much love and support and that shows the audience how they should be treated and how they should treat others. Everyone really respects each other in the show.

Simon caught my attention at a quick glance on Netflix and based on the appeal design of the character, I figured I give it a watch. The first episode left me rather cold as the English dub had really bad acting and off putting lip syncing. I was originally going to drop it, but then I decided to see if it faired better in the original French dub. To my surprise, it turned out to be a much superior experience than in English. From the really soild animation to the really talented voice cast, sub triumphs over dub in this international cartoon.

Based on the children's book series by Stephanie Blake, Simon follows the life of the titular bunny and his family in the rural side of France. Simon plays games with friends, goes on adventures with his brother, plays pretend, and learns some valuable life lessons. The show does a good job creating a welcoming atmosphere by showing Simon as a playful and clever kid we want to hang out with. The show also teaches kids great lessons such as learning to play fair, not be afraid of change in your routine, compromising, and helping one another. The show does a good job showing the world Simon lives in where everyone is an anthropomorphic rabbit and they're all generally nice people. This show has some good moments of humor such as clever slapstick, comedic jumpscares, and fun visual gags. My one critique with the writing, though, is it has some pacing issues. Each episode runs for about 5 minutes and as such the conflicts is over and done with rather quickly. It also doesn't leave room for surprises as the outcome of every episode is exactly what you think it's gonna be. Despite the literal short commings, this show makes up for it be teaching valuable lessons to kids and having some genuine moments of humor.

The characters could've easily got on my nerves, but mercifully they're a really likable bunch. Starting with our titular bunny, Simon is a playful and energetic kod who likes playing games and hanging out with friends. He can be bossy at tines, but he honestly means well and learns his lesson very quickly. His little brother, Gaspard, is an energetic toddler that looks up to Simon and enjoys playing with him as much as he does sucking his security blanky. Their parents, Andre and Eva, are very kind, patient, helpful, and caring people who always steer Simon in the right direction. Other characters that make a notable impression include Ferdinand, Simon's neighbor with a vast toy collection, Lou, a girl Simon met on the first day of school and whom Simon helps conquer her anxieties, Margot, Simon and Gaspard's fun babysitter, and Simon's grandparents who are the wise and lively elders in his life.

Bringing these characters to life is the more than solid voice cast on display as they all sound so natural in their roles. Salmone Keren Zeitoun sounded very good as Simon, giving him an authentic childlike wonder to his voice. Tony Sanial brilliantly made Gaspard sound so innocent and adorable. Magalie Bonfils sounded very sweet and motherly as Eva with Matthias Casatrelli sounding so friendly and patient as Andre. Casatrellia also did a good job making Simon's Grandpa sound like a distinctly old man with Angele Humeau doing a really good job voicing his Grandma. All the actors were wonderfully directed by Anne Mathot who made them all sound so natural and believable in their respective roles.

Visually, the show looks like a children's story book come to life and that's not a knock against the show. Actually, GO-N Productions did a wonderful job translating the illustrations of the original books into animation. The characters have simple but easily recognizable designs with the characters having big, expressive eyes, differing body types and unique clothes and accessories. The adults are also made tall and lengthy to signify that they look like giants from Simon's perspective. The character animation is very smooth with the characters having distinct walk cycles and their ears moving in an eb and flow manner with their heads. The biggest highlight of the visuals are the backgrounds, which are simple, yes, but also very charming and colorful. The Sun has a face on it, the house looks like a parallelogram as opposed to a square, the trees are magenta instead of the usual brown, and the school, park, and beach all look so lived in and spacious. This show really went the extra mile in making itself feel like a children's book when adapting a children's book.

Huh, that was surprisingly pretty good despite starting off on a sour note with the English dub. Simon is a more than solid children's show with likable characters, talented voice work, well crafted animation, and plenty of valuable lessons to teach kids. Sure it suffers from pacing issues, but it more than makes up for it with a really good execution. If you're learning French or you wanna teach your kids some French, I definitely recommend giving this a watch to learn some French phrases and sentence structures. I never thought I'd be in a position where I'd say the sub is better than the dub, yet here we are.

We so love the show and hope Netflix do more seasons as we have watched the same season 1 over 60 times but still wonderful. My 13yr old son and 4 yr old daughter watch and get a lot out of it as my son reads the books of simon when we are not watching wish there was more shows like this, 5 mins or so long and just the right size for the childrens attention spans very cool

My daughter has been watching this show for about 2 years and loves it, its her go-to. It gives her exposure to international characters and highlights relationships between children and their parents as well as one another. The episodes are served up in small, digestible pieces so that its easy to say, "one more show and then we have to ..." it reminds me very much of the series, "Tro Tro", (also international) only I enjoy this one a bit more.

It lacks any educational value or depth. I just don't get it.

I'm choosy about what my kids watch, and this show is a go-to for my youngest (though the older kids like it too). It supports positive relationships with parents and siblings and shows kids having fun. It isn't visually overstimulating, and the episodes are short and sweet. My three year old belly-laughs at every episode, and often pretends to be Simon.

As a bonus for our family (we live in Morocco, and the school system is in Arabic and French), this show was made in France, and we wanted our littles to get good exposure to native speaking French, so we alternate watching it in English and French.

Sure, the kids are sucked into it. It's colorful. That's about all it has going for it. It's painful. The stories are not educational and, as far as I can tell in the five minute episodes, are designed for pure entertainment. A child that enjoys this needs educational stimulation, not just nonsense.

I loathe the upper middle class vibe of this and the voices are SO annoying- they don't sound natural and the laughing is so forced/fake. The animation / design is nice but I find myself cringing if I hear it when my daughter chooses to watch it.

Ok this may look like a joke review but its not. I REALLY hate blushing. It started a few years ago when i was a kid but i perfer not to talk about it. Anyways this show has WAAAAAAY too many blushing and its annoying! Seriously why do they have to add something i hate? Literaly eveyone blushes and its SO annoying. Its triggers me everytime i see it and i have a mental breakdown because of it. Blushing is just some thing that pops in your face and i hate that. Why does everyone do it so much? Why does this stupid show do i so much? I HATE IT!!!

I hate this show, it is overrated.

Nobody even cares about Simon the white bunny and his friends.

The cast is so bad, That the animation style is rough.

This is not a lie, but,

If I could rate this 0/10, I would.

Begins bad from the start; with a theme tune that is grinding to the point of sheer annoyance. Obviously written by someone with little musical talent, my kids place hands over ears and make loud laalaa noises to drown out the droaning monotony of the so called song.

No educational value at all for kids to learn from, with each inconsequential "storyline" beating out the previous one in its dissapointing outcome of nothingness... what is the point of this show exactly?

Freaky looking drawing style. My kids (ages 2,5 and 6) all scream with discontent when it comes on tele. Please stop playing this on tiny pop. I hate very little in this amazing thing we called life, but I definately hate this enough to create this account solely to write this review. Please make it go away!

Hate it, my daughter loves it so it must have some entertainment value hence 2 stars, but to me there is far too much "Mummy, Daddy!" Middle class pretentiousness for my liking.

The parents are obviously both career driven "beautiful people" who actual don't give a toss about their kids, I come to this conclusion as they never are present in the moment to guide or take the lead.

I mean when they are there, they don't actually seem that bothered about their kids and the style of parenting presented in this series is very much, let the kids do what they like and let them squabble, argue, be mean to each other, just as long as the parents don't have to be involved. When the parents do get involved, they divide the children and encourage narcissistic competitiveness and rivalry between them, and offer no real lessons on treating others with kindness or compassion.

Overall I would say this is perfect if you plan on raising self centred, ignorant, consumeristic, arrogant little narcissists, but it lacks any educational or relationship building value.

Feels a bit cold and loveless, lacking depth with the characters, with plenty of negative sibling/peer rivalry and prank playing thrown in, which overal gives it quite a negative vibe that I don't really want my kids picking up.