Abby's Tricycle is very frequently wrongly called a bike (which is slang short for bicycle) which is inaccurate since that means two wheels. It is most definitely a tricycle, the short form of which would be 'trike', not 'bike'. Merchandise error![]() One playset which includes Abby's tricycle refers to it as an "adventure bike" even though it clearly has three wheels and not two. News errorEven a reporter made the mistake of calling it a bike:
Spoken errorsSOGAbby commits this error herself in the episode Shape of Grumbles, saying "bike" twice:
OOTGTerry then Abby then Bozzly all make the mistake in Otis on the Go as well:
Transformed accuracyWhen Abby's trike changes into the Fuzzly Flyer it is correct to call it a bike because the two rear wheels come together into a single wheel. ABMIn Abby Babysits Melvin, Melvin calls it "Abby's flying bike". Transcript errors and accuracyThe transcripts used on the TVOkids website also frequently wrongly refer to it as a bike. This is in two recycled (likely cut and pasted) descriptions of stock footage used in the show:
Despite this, another recycled description of the animation at the start DOES correctly identify the vehicle:
The Fuzzlies' Talent Show has a transcript here which also uses the phrase "Abby brings her bike near him". |
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