4.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The California Raisin Show (1989)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Viewer Rating
Rating: 4.8
Overview
The California Raisin Show is an animated television series based on the claymation advertising characters The California Raisins. The show is based on an Emmy Award-winning claymation special, Meet the Raisins!, which originally aired on CBS in 1989. After the show's 13-episode run, a sequel to the original special, Raisins: Sold Out!: The California Raisins II, aired in 1990. While the characters are traditionally depicted in claymation, the TV show was cel animated by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson. It did, however, maintain Will Vinton as creative director and executive producer. It takes place in a world populated by anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables and focuses on the main characters, the California Raisins: A.C., Beebop, Stretch, and Red. Each episode has one or more musical numbers.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Overview
The California Raisin Show is an animated television series based on the claymation advertising characters The California Raisins. The show is based on an Emmy Award-winning claymation special, Meet the Raisins!, which originally aired on CBS in 1989. After the show's 13-episode run, a sequel to the original special, Raisins: Sold Out!: The California Raisins II, aired in 1990. While the characters are traditionally depicted in claymation, the TV show was cel animated by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson. It did, however, maintain Will Vinton as creative director and executive producer. It takes place in a world populated by anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables and focuses on the main characters, the California Raisins: A.C., Beebop, Stretch, and Red. Each episode has one or more musical numbers.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The show's central subject matter, a band of singing raisins, is inherently apolitical, and its episodic narratives focus on universal themes of friendship and perseverance without promoting any specific political ideology.
The movie features a diverse cast of anthropomorphic raisin characters, who are original creations rather than explicit race-swaps of traditional roles. The narrative maintains a neutral and positive tone, without critiquing traditional identities or explicitly centering DEI themes.
Secondary
The California Raisin Show, a children's animated series, does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative focuses on the musical adventures of the California Raisins without engaging with queer identity or experiences.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The California Raisin Show features the established characters from the original commercials, all of whom retain their canonical male gender. No previously established characters are portrayed as a different gender.
The California Raisins are anthropomorphic food characters, not human. The concept of race, and therefore a 'race swap,' does not apply to these characters as they were never established as any human race in their source material.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.2
3.3
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