This is a list of productions in the Baby Einstein franchise.
Videos[]
- Baby Einstein
- Everybody's Wondering
- Baby Einstein's Fun
- Baby's Relaxing
- Baby's Experience
- Baby's Fun Time
- Baby's Learning
- Baby's Firsts
- Baby's Education
- Baby's Variety
Spinoffs and Specials[]
- Little Einsteins: An animated spinoff series that has a completely different cast.
- Einstein Pals: A special which tells the stories of 10 animals, none of whom are from the 10 videos.
- Baby Einstein Finale: The last video features all the puppets from all 10 videos and their hijinks, all the toys, and a lot of classical music. Some stock footage from the videos is recycled. Markie Scholz from the end of Everybody's Wondering is shown conversing with the puppets in the credits of the video, as well as the kids from all the videos playing and interacting with their parents (which is similar to how they are shown playing at the end of the 10 videos), especially Sierra and Aspen Clark from the end of Baby Einstein (the first video) having a moment with their parents, Julie-Aigner Clark, who created the series, and Bill Clark, who introduced the videos with Julie. After that comes a timeline, and then it cuts to the kids and their parents saying "Goodbye!". Then the camera zooms in on a box, and then Madeline Pluto from the end of Everybody's Wondering pops out of the box, starts giggling, plays peekaboo, and says "Bye bye!" as her mother, Karen Pluto, picks her up and her father, Victor Pluto, watches in awe, and the video ends.
- Baby Einstein Adventures: A series that features the same cast as the videos (Every character from them appears), but is more action oriented and is aimed at an older audience. It takes place in a town in Colorado and has some fantastical elements. The series gives the kids their own quirks and personalities (Brad Boller is intelligent and likes to read, Aspen Clark is serious and likes flowers, Sierra Clark is fun-loving and eats lemons, Dakota and Dylan Snyder are adventurous and like the rain, Chloe and Toby Tyler are nervous and love the beach, Mia Mettais is playful and likes fruit, Gabrielle Margas is cautious and loves animals, Maddison Long is overprotective and eats strawberries, Macrae Long is mischievous and likes ducks, Madeline Pluto is compassionate and hides in odd places, Brandon Calbart is sunny and likes bubbles, Gabriel Mazon is humorous and likes leaves, etc.). The pilot episode involves Madeline Pluto suddenly disappearing in the middle of the night and her parents, her babysitter Jill, the puppets, Markie Scholz (as well as her grandson Mark Scholz, who she raises as a result of the death of his parents, Tim and Jenna Scholz, from illness and childbirth and is deeply in love with Madeline Pluto, along with his friends from school, two of who, Samantha Allison and Jamie Wilson, view Madeline Pluto as cute), the other kids, and their parents have to find clues in order to solve the cause of her disappearance. The story then turns into a rescue mission when it is revealed that she was kidnapped and taken to a chemical factory in Bavaria by a criminal named Bill Schmidt to be killed along with other children she has befriended. The movie also reveals that the kids have pets, that the kids have grandparents who died before they were born (such as Madeline Pluto's grandparents, Gabriel Mazon's grandparents, Brad Boller's grandparents, and Mia Mettais's paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather) or when they were babies (such as Mia Mettais's paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother, Maddison and Macrae Long's grandparents, Brandon Calbart's maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother, and Gabrielle and John Margas's grandparents) (except for Aspen and Sierra Clark's grandparents, Brandon Calbart's maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather, Dakota and Dylan Snyder's grandparents, and Chloe and Toby Tyler's grandparents, who are still alive), that Madeline Pluto has her own pool which she enjoys swimming and playing in, that Gabriel Mazon likes to build snowmen in the winter (he outright mentions it, but it is directly shown in an episode of the actual series), that Brad Boller has his own sandbox in which he loves playing with his toy vehicles and acting out his imagination, that Brandon Calbart always eats the same lunch every summer and dislikes what his parents cook for dinner (which is outright mentioned, but is directly shown in the actual show), that Dakota Snyder likes to eat cereal that has high sugar content. The actual show involves the wacky antics of the puppets, Markie Scholz's attempts to keep them in line, and the kids and their parents going on adventures like camping and dealing with bullies, who bribed Bill Schmidt to kidnap Madeline Pluto and repeatedly tried to kill her when she was an infant, such as attempting to drown her at a beach shortly after she was born (This caused Mark Scholz to meet, rescue and fall in love with Madeline Pluto, despite Markie Scholz telling him that it was the lifeguard's job to save the baby.), simply due to Maren Hoffmann, the leader of the bullies, having an unrequited crush on Mark Scholz and believing that her existence came in between their made-up relationship, and because of their belief that interracial relationships are wrong, since Mark Scholz is white and Madeline Pluto is Asian, though they don't care about the four year difference in age (Mark Scholz is school aged, as he can fully speak, and Madeline Pluto is a toddler, as she can only babble and say eight basic words, which are "mommy", "daddy", "doggy", "meow", "yay", "no", "bye bye", "hi", "uh oh", and 'eww", which also connects to a running gag of her throwing tantrums whenever her parents tell her to use her words, the joke being that their command is futile because she can barely talk). Some of the plots in the series include Aspen Clark creating a magazine entirely devoted to chewing gum, Brad Boller and his parents, Susan and Dale Boller, sustaining bug bites while on a trip to the Rocky Mountains, Maddison Long keeping a worm that she found in her backyard, and Brandon Calbart inventing a game that has no rules. However, it is set in an alternative universe where the events of the pilot didn't happen because as a result of time travel by the aforementioned bullies, Madeline Pluto's parents endured a tragic breakup while they were dating (the bullies wrote a letter to Karen Lang while pretending to be Victor Pluto which was filled with insults, harassments, and a lie about having another girlfriend, causing them to angrily break up over the phone and commit suicide), preventing her conception and her birth and inadvertently causing a young boy on vacation from England to have a pleasant sleep that wasn't interrupted by bumps and altering the memories of the other characters as a result, which makes Mark Scholz, the only character other than the bullies whose memories weren't altered (a running gag in the series is Maren Hoffmann bragging nonstop about how she killed Madeline Pluto and the other characters, with the exception of Mark Scholz, who gets sad and angry, not knowing who she is talking about), so upset and after a failed attempt to revert the timeline back to normal by trying to find Victor Pluto and Karen Lang and make them fall in love in order for Madeline Pluto to exist, he is even more depressed to the point where he has nightmares (such as one where he is alone in a field and sees Madeline Pluto again, only for her to turn into a baby and fade away, and when Markie Scholz asks him what happened, he simply responds that he had a nightmare, because, like most of the characters, Markie Scholz doesn't remember Madeline Pluto) and doesn't come out of his house, except for school. Also in the first episode, after Mark Scholz's failed attempt to bring Madeline Pluto back into existence, the unmistakable first breath and cry of a newborn baby is heard. The breath and cry are revealed to be in Mark Scholz's mind, as they belong to Madeline Pluto. Several other episodes feature fantasy sequences where Mark Scholz is still in a relationship with Madeline Pluto. The alternate timeline that every episode after the pilot takes place in is portrayed differently than most alternate timelines in other media, because nothing has changed even though Madeline Pluto was never born. However, it has been confirmed by the creators of The Great Crossover Franchise that Madeline Pluto was eventually reborn as Madeline Tilly from THX Productions.
Cast[]
Languages[]
- The videos and the shows have been dubbed into Portuguese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Dutch.