Have you ever watched a show about ducks? How about a show starring someone named Sarah? Do you want to watch a kid show about a girl named Sarah and a duck named Duck? If you do, then have you ever heard of a show called Sarah and Duck? It is a British animated children’s show created by Sarah Gomes Harris and Tim O’Sullivan. It was produced by Karrot Animation for the BBC and has a total of three series with 40 episodes each, with the show’s very first episode airing in the UK on February 18, 2013. I have never heard of this show until recently, so how about we get a feel for it with this show’s first episode? 

Before the episode starts, there is a small intro section involving the narrator saying “Sarah and Duck,” followed by Duck quacking. This repeats three times before the episode truly begins. The episode is titled “Lots of Shallots,” opening with the narrator setting the scene in Sarah and Duck’s living room with Sarah trying to read the newspaper. A pack of seeds then falls out of the newspaper. After noticing it, Sarah and Duck go outside to plant them in the front yard. The two get muddy from planting the seeds so they go to the outside faucet, then they proceed to try and watch the seeds grow while washing clothes and eating dinner. The two decide to go to sleep after a while of seeing no progress on the seeds. The next morning, the two wake up to find sentient, small onions. Sarah and Duck then decide to teach them things to help them grow. These include the duo doing physical warm ups, Sarah bringing out her vegetable book to show off vegetables to the small onions, and Duck attempting to give them flying lessons. Eventually, Duck accidentally opens the book to a page on shallots. Sarah reads it and figures out that the sentient onions are actually sentient shallots, which are meant to be small. After correcting this mistake, the shallots do a small dance before the episode ends.

All things considered, I would say this was a pretty enjoyable episode. I found the animation and story to be fairly simple yet very charming. The interactions between Sarah, Duck, and the narrator were cute, and they reminded me of how a parent would interact with his child. I do not feel like I did a great job showcasing these positives with my summary, so if this episode sounded interesting to you then I would recommend checking it out for yourself! You can find the first episode of Sarah and Duck, along with some of its other episodes, for free on its official YouTube channel, or on streaming services like Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV.