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Episode 1: "Hello! I am Homard, an art enthusiast, and I will be your tour guide today. I have no formal training, but what I don't know for sure, I'm ready to make up on the spot and tell a lobster tail about! So please gather around and we'll make our way into the gallery at once!"

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Episode 2: Gentle Giant is a refreshing look at a character whose appeal is unmistakable, and provokes a warm response from the casual observer.
Art critics have suggested an underlying theme of questioning the age old stories of beanstalks and giant killers, but thus far the artist has not chosen to confirm or deny this speculation, leaving the art to speak for itself.

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Episode 3: Amusant Effrayant Miniature (Miniature Frightful Fun) is a delightful tale of adventure. It's diminutive setting draws the patron into the story, only to leave with a sense of unresolved mystery lingering, and a longing to return to this whimsical realm.

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Episode 4: Entitled What If? this artist asks the onlooker to rethink nature, and what you can find there. Amazing things live in our natural world. What if there really are dragons living among us, but we're just too busy to see them?

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Episode 5: During the celebration of Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, sugar skulls are used to decorate the offerings to the dead, and have also become a pop culture decoration. The artist here is clearly toying with the adorability of the panda and combining it with the starkness of skulls. One wonders what's in the punch bowl and how good it must taste...

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Episode 6: Rosie’s Follow Your Dream is a whimsical landscape that cleverly uses light to draw viewers into the image, until they can virtually feel the slippery rocks and icy water under their paws, and then feel compelled to move towards the deeper blue water in the distance… MARIA feels sure that their hooman will be very pleased with MARIA for bringing home such a delightful print of this famous PnF landscape!

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Episode 7: Homard is very excited to present this lovely piece of art by one of PnF's up and coming artists to MARIA and the tour group! Homard says that the Gallery has named this art "The Key to Life" because it represents key needs in the lives of most pets. The need for love. The need for companionship. The need for beauty. And the need for sustenance.

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Episode 8: "Sweets is a lovely metaphor for all the good things life has to offer," Homard explains, raising his squeaky lobster voice to try to cover the sounds of tummies rumbling.
"Peasants!" Homard mutters, as he grudgingly leads the tour group over to the snack bar AGAIN!

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Episode 9: The Swim Meet is a candid view of the competition of life, and the spectators looking on. Whether for sport or support, their ever present cheers seem to swell in response to one's efforts, and can be inspirational or taunting, depending upon one's view.

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Episode 10: Santarina’s Dress
From the Pauli Hoh collection
This festive little red dress is perfect for the holiday celebrations. It was lovingly designed from luxurious red velvet fabric and is accented on the bodice and hemline with cotton lace crocheted by the always industrious PnF elves. Golden glittery stars make the dress sparkle and red stars and a cut-out cookie buckle adds fun and whimsy to the cute coordinating belt. Add a beautiful gold angel brooch for the finishing touch and you are all set to enjoy the festivities.

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Episode 11: So Homard is in full tour guide mode. He asks MARIA and the group what they see here. One pet sees flowers first. Another sees a cross. Another sees a grave. Another sees "hope for the future" in the rainbow around a memorial. MARIA asks Homard what this really is? Homard replies that this is art, so it is whatever it makes you see, think or feel. Thanks a lot, thinks MARIA, none the wiser! Mostly what MARIA sees, thinks and feels is pink, which would be perfect, if MARIA even liked pink?

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Episode 12: " The Vortex easily depicts the struggle of daily life, getting swept into the madness of routine and demands. Thought to be an existential crisis in painting, the scholars have waxed on for years about the true meaning the artist was portraying," said Homard.

MARIA piped up and mentioned that maybe it is really just a picture of mom vacuuming the playroom floor?

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Episode 13: Art School is a fun rendition by one of PnF's up and coming artists! Homard directs MARIA and the tour group's attention to how well the hare images all resemble the hare that modelled for them...but if either Quazzle or Flounder modelled for the centre image, something may have gone awry!

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Episode 14: Escapee is one of Homard's favourite works of art in the Musee! Escapee was created by one of PnF's finest purveyors of tiny art, so it is hardly surprising that MARIA and the whole tour group are mesmerised by the level of detail and the sense of whimsy this piece evokes!

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Episode 15: MARIA squeals with delight at receiving a beautiful print of Iben’s Stonehenge, an inspiring modern rendition of the well-photographed natural wonder visited and pondered over by pets and their hoomans for generations. The subtle use of colour in this scene adds a magical quality to its timelessness and natural beauty!

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Episode 16: The artist here created an homage to a favorite children's story, that captured the wonderment and love of reading for every generation. This puts a sense of excitement in the viewer, wondering why their letter never arrived, and if it still might come by owl post!

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Episode 17: Art as fashion is no new concept, and you can clearly see that the artist evokes not only a passionate love for country but expresses it with a daily wearable garment, able to show that love and pride wherever they go.

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Episode 18: When Homard presents another work of art to MARIA's tour group, everypet is amused when MARIA's tummy rumbles at the sight of the cookies in the art! Homard uses this incident to illustrate the power art has to move pets and to illicit physical and emotional reactions.

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Episode 19: Red Twinkle and Lace Dress
From the Pauli Hoh collection
With just a hint of subtle sparkle and the classic elegance of handmade lace, this sassy red gown will make sure all eyes are on you. A ruffled flirty skirt and delicate straps make this gown smolder, and the fitted bodice gives you that hourglass silhouette. No doubt this sexy little number will put a twinkle in someone’s eye. ;)

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Episode 20: The Exploration transports us back to an early, more primitive time, but there's nothing primitive about this gem! Done with great finesse, it tells the story of early exploration of the rolling seas and the work needed to navigate. Hard work and camaraderie paid off, and the pilgrims planted the flag in many foreign lands.

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Episode 21: Homard is particularly fond of this perspective piece, he explains to MARIA and the group. MARIA really appreciates the way the road disappears into the distance, and something alien seems to be rising up out of the earth in the background! Spooky!

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Episode 22: Nothing says love like a rainbow, and this piece nails the love for the Mussee, the everypet home and life in general in one fell swoop. Creative placement of the colors, and the multi-layered heart add that feeling of peace and tranquility to everypet who visits.

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Episode 23: MARIA met an artist in PnF once, who made amazing art just like this...but Homard and the tour group are moving along, and MARIA is NOT ready to move along with them yet, because this art speaks to MARIA, who wants a little more time to admire it...all of those tiny pieces, making one big beautiful cohesive masterpiece...
Have you ever felt like this? While you are feeding and shaking, and shaking and feeding?
Do you need some more time just to smell the roses? Well, the arts created by this artist are all roses in MARIA's humble opinion, so take as long as you need my friends, thinks MARIA...

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Episode 24: "Here we have a fine example of pop culture influence" Homard explains, gesturing with one claw toward the next painting.
Many in the tour group are fans, and crowd in for a closer look...

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Episode 25: After viewing all of the inspiring works in this section of Musee d’Art de Cannelle, MARIA is feeling a little sad to have to return to a gourd house that looks exactly the same as every other gourd house in PnF Land, which is not terribly exciting...because if you've seen one gourd house, you've seen them all!

But suddenly MARIA stumbles upon a quaint cottage, which looks very similar to one in a Monet masterpiece....
"A present for me?" asks MARIA, hardly daring to hope!