Debuting in 2016, PAW Patrol Live: Race to the Rescue follows the crew on the day of the Great Adventure Bay Race. Making their way from the screen to the stage, Ryder and the PAW Patrol pups keep the energy - and suspense - at an all-time high. PAW Patrol follows the heroic adventures of young Ryder and his team of search and rescue dogs as they work to keep their home of Adventure Bay safe. Characters from the hit Nickelodeon TV series come to life right in front of your eyes to do what they do best: save the day. In short, the moral of this story is don’t have children.It's never too early to introduce your kids to the theater, and PAW Patrol Live might just be the perfect place to start. I’m going on a 130-mile round trip with him in a couple of weeks, purely on the off-chance that there’ll be a bloke in a Paw Patrol costume there. To him the wall-to-wall merchandising of Paw Patrol is an excuse to have lots of nice toys, not a cynical attempt to strip me of all the money I ever earn, money that I used to spend on myself back in the days before I started cutting my own hair in a mirror with nail scissors in a state of perpetual exhaustion.Īnd the horrible truth of it is that I put up with Paw Patrol, just because it makes him happy. To him everyone’s tendency to speak purely in catchphrases is a fun and repetitive language aid, not proof that they’re all sleepwalking through life without ever engaging in the moment. To him the puppies are all distinct characters with rigid skillsets, not avatars for the growing legion of workers shafted by the gig economy. To him Ryder is just a cool dude with some cute puppies, not a dangerous supervillain in the making. My kid loves everything that drives me to despair about Paw Patrol. Oh, and Ryder is also working on a robotic dog, which sets up an eventual episode where the Paw Patrol, steamrollered by technology, find themselves saddled with such a profound lack of purpose that they all become grizzled alcoholics. Every episode – with the possible exception of the one where all the puppies turn into mermaids – is exactly the same. The puppies will work together to fix the boat, then they’ll be rewarded with a treat while Ryder presumably keeps the bulk of the financial reward himself. This will always include Chase, the bum-licking, sycophantic self-appointed leader of the group and very rarely include Zuma (the puppy with a boat) because Ryder has got a jet-ski of his own and wants all the credit for himself. Then he’ll call upon some of the puppies to help him. Ryder will summon the five puppies to his tower to show them a lengthy PowerPoint presentation on the nature of the emergency – even though, all the while, the boat is still sinking. The mayor, a woman who routinely ignores her civic duties to chase her pet chicken around, will inadvertently cause an emergency. Here’s what happens in an average episode. Twenty years from now when a grownup fan makes a knowing Paw Patrol revival movie, Ryder will be depicted as a cackling maniac with an unstoppable God complex, but for now all this is implied. These puppies can talk, and they call him Sir. Ryder – who lives in a glass tower high above the civilised world – has coerced a team of five puppies into providing the sole emergency services for his city. If you’ve never seen Paw Patrol, it’s essentially about Ryder, a boy whose parents didn’t tell him no enough, and the megalomaniacal world he’s created for himself. But a line was crossed while my back was turned, and now my kid has bought into Paw Patrol wholesale.
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