Pippi Langstrumpf

Created by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, the powerful and independent little girl Pipi was never my mother's favorite role-model for her children. And since I always saw the show with her by my side, I learned not to enjoy the character's antics very much either. Pipi standing on furniture still makes me grunt, and I'm now in my fifties.

Still, the show was so much more than the main character, it was about the innocence of children and how they see and discover the world around them. In that, it succeeds fully!