In Peg + Cat, Peg (voiced by Hayley Faith Negrin) is a young girl who, with her taking indigo cat named Cat, solve “big problems” every week with the help of math and science. Peg likes to break out in song with her ukelele, and keeps a special blue marble under her red hat.

In Ready Jet Go!, Sydney Skelley is one of Jet’s best friends. Sydney loves sci-fi and using her imagination. She especially loves anything to do with Commander Cressida, about a brave female space captain. Sydney keeps her hair in a bun using a yellow hair tie.

In PBS’s educational nature show Wild Kratts, Aviva Corcovado is a biomechanical engineer and third in command of the Wild Kratts crew. Aviva is responsible for inventing all of the gadgets, including the Tortuga and Creature Power Suits. Her signature color is purple, and she likes to dress practically from her windbreaker down to her sneakers.

Arthur Read is an anthropomorphic aardvark, based on the children’s books by Marc Brown, who lives in Elmwood City with his aardvark family and animal friends and attends Lakewood Elementary School. He’s been 8 years old for like 20 years now.

We never see Nanny’s face in the Muppet Babies series, but her characteristic green and white striped stockings and purple sneakers always stood out. Though we assume she’s human, it’s also quite possible she could be a Muppet as well.

Jareth (David Bowie) is the Goblin King who is summoned by Sarah to take her infant brother away. He gives Sarah a chance to get her brother back if she can make it through The Labyrinth. Along the way he distracts her with song and dance but it’s his choice of pants that distracts viewers.