Things you notice watching childrens tv

After watching alot of kids TV over the last few months, I have a few things I wonder about

1. Where is Harry’s Dad in “Harry and his bucket full of Dinosaurs?”
2. Why is the Island of Sodor in “Thomas the Tank Engine” so dangerous with such poorly maintained railways?
3. Why in “Lazytown” does a 30+ year old man (called Sporticus) hover over the town watching the kids?
4. Does Shadow in “Bear in the Big Blue House” suffer from some form of manic mental illness?
5. Why is Dora the Explorer so dumb?
6. Why is ‘Big Plane’, the villain in “Little Einsteins” obviously a Soviet era SU-27 Flanker?