Shelldon - cartoon

Just came across Shelldon today, a cartoon for very young kids. Features some kind of creatures in shells, snails I believe.

Shelldon, the lead, is a boy, of course. Has a bucktoothed crab friend named Herman (Herman the Hermit Crab) and a female snail friend whose name I don't remember.

So I'm watching, and the lead characters are going to school, and they get to go on a field trip - a turtle being their bus.

The class teacher, a squid, asks, "Can you guess where we're going on our field trip?"

And of course a girl character says excitedly, "The beauty salon?"

And a boy character says, "To have adventures hunting sharks?"

Typical.

Herman wants to follow a character named Cranky Crab for no good reason, and Shelldon won't let him go alone. The girl doesn't want them to go off on their own, but rather than calling a grownup to stop them, she just goes following after them. So then they all get lost.

They are washed up onto a beach. Shelldon goes for help while the girl stays behind to protect Hermit, who has gotten stuck in some branches, while a big bird menaces them. At least this shows that girls can be brave and not abandon their friends...

Finally Shelldon returns with someone bigger to rescue them - having had to blackmail first Cranky and then this big fish, because they won't help just because someone needs help. That's a rather disturbing lesson to teach little kids, I thought.

At the end of the show some character comes on and tells the audience always to carry their address with them, and to know their phone number, but most important, never to wander away from their teacher or parents.