Something bugs me about this

'Somebuggy' is missing here

   For about a month our daughter was simply possessed by Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends which was fine but I was glad to see her let it go (or rather we let it go for her).
   Clever enough for "everybuggy," the Nick Jr. show has a warm message about adoption and adoptees and diversity.
   But there are a couple of things that always bugged me about the show.
   The first one is the recurring theme of the weak, clueless father figure. For at least a couple of decades, the gradual clubbing of the father as a dim, out of touch, near waste-of-space character has dominated television in both programming and commercial advertising.
   And here we have Holley (Holley??), "a songwriter and loves to play his guitar," and that's about all he's good for.
   He has a weak, wimpy voice, wears rounded spectacles, a beret and is much, much smaller than his wife. The other aspect which further diminishes the male spider is that the show is called Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends and not Mrs. Spider's Sunny Patch Friends. ¿Por qué?
   Holley is not even pictured in the promo photo.
   And while the show is all fuzzy and 'diverse,' other characters also reinforce stereotypes.
   A pushy, uncouth city bug (a cockroach, nudge, nudge) named Sweetie is blown by the wind into Sunny Patch. She, naturally, has a New Jersey accent.
   Similarly, a couple of ne'er-do-well brothers, Ned and Ted (red ants, wink, wink) have accents: Ned speaks with a Cockney accent, Ted has a New York accent. Interesting that two brothers have different accents. Again, ¿Por qué?
   Similarly, I have no clue if David Kirk, the author of the books, had these devices in his stories.
   I was just glad we let our daughter delouse herself from Sunny Patch and move on to something more palatable, such as Doc McStuffins.