ArthurCox’s 20 micro-episodes, each barely longer than a nappy-change, follow Aubree Young’s relentlessly distracted Nina as she twigs she “needs to go” halfway up a ski lift, inside a wedding cake queue or while dressed as a rock wedged in a doorway. Her saviour is always Miriam Margolyes’ turbo-gran Nana, who vaults turnstiles, commandeers library trolleys or commandeers zoo trains to deliver her granddaughter to the nearest cubicle seconds before disaster.
The concept sprang from director Sarah Cox’s own Spanish holiday sprint through the Alhambra with a desperate child; every storyboarded crisis is a compressed parental memory, served with chase-music by Jean-Marc Pestas and Christian Siddel. At two-to-three minutes, the shorts fit between Disney Junior programming blocks and function as light-hearted potty-training propaganda, normalising the urgent bathroom break without ever showing the actual deed.
Supporting voices – Colleen O’Shaughnessey’s patient mum, Jess Harnell’s harassed dad, Josie Totah’s older brother Frank – add background colour, yet the core duo remains the preschooler bladder and the super-gran who can outrun a marching band or abseil a castle wall to reach a restroom first. The series ran from February 2014 until 2017, when the potty was finally flushed.
Production Details
Disney Junior / 3 Seasons / 20 Episodes / 2013 - Present
Created by: Bradley Zweig
Writer(s): Bradley Zweig
Producer(s): Kaia Rose
Main Cast
