There was a TV playing Tom and Jerry in the pediatrician's waiting room and Anna thought the show was exciting. Of course she loves mice & cats so that makes sense. The funny part of the doctor's visit was that her doctor said she was going to look for "Barneys" in Anna's ears and Anna has no clue who or what Barney is.
I do need to introduce her to some of the popular kids characters at some point, I guess, because right now Tigger is just some tiger (she has gotten Tigger stamps on her hand at music class twice now and I just say "oooh, a tiger stamp!) and Mickey & Minnie are some mice.
I don't want her to feel left out of kids conversations about popular culture just because I have a thing for not exposing her to licensed characters, television, and marketing in general! (She does know who Elmo is and who some other Sesame Street characters are because they are on her diapers and on some of the Earth's Best products we used at home, but she has no idea that they have a show on TV!)
I'm not saying that we're going to start plopping her in front of the TV or anything (I'm sure that will happen more often when Baby arrives and the grandmas leave, but even so, my lovely Librarian sister has pointed me in the direction of movies based on books (so far she only watches three Dr. Seuss "soft animation" books on the computer a few times per week) that I'll start with before going down the Walt Disney trail) but I might start choosing some books that feature these characters so she has a clue who they are. I'll have to scour Amazon and see if there is anything decent. Winnie the Pooh stuff should be easy enough so I might start there; I'm sure she'll love Piglet!
George has watched a couple of the Winnie the Pooh episodes. They are short ~10min, but it irritates me that they aren't actually from the books but stupid stories made up by Disney...