Grown-Ass Kids Club
The treehouse is open and adulthood is optional!
Grown-Ass Kids Club
Calico Critters & Maple Town: The Coziest 90s Obsession
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Andrea Shapiro and Ryan Wright
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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Before there were influencer houses, there were fully furnished woodland homes in Maple Town. This week, Andrea and Ryan revisit Calico Critters and the animated series that made small-town animal life feel aspirational.
We talk nostalgia, merchandising, the gentle moral lessons, and why those tiny flocked figures still hold a strangely powerful place in our hearts. Turns out, the treehouse was never the only real estate we wanted.
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