Political satire in kids TV programs

This cracked me up this morning.

Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom was on while I was getting ready for work and CL1.1 was getting ready for school. It wasn't getting 100% of my attention but I caught some of it.

For the benefit of those who don't know, Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom is about two groups of little folk. The elves and the fairies. The elves are a bit stuffy and serious, and a bit bureacratic. The fairies just get things done. The elves are strongly against magic.

In this episode, there was no magic (I didn't catch why) and the whole kingdom ground to a halt, to the extent that there wasn't even food for people to eat and all industry had stopped. The fairies went to see the elves, and it turned out their special engine that drives everything had stopped working.

At this point, the fairies asked if there was a backup generator, and it turned out there was, it was a hamster wheel. At this point one of the fairy characters put great emphasis on a particular quote, "We're all in this together", and they all got in the hamster wheel. Just then, magic came back and everything started working again, so everyone just got on with their day without even questioning it.

You should have seen it. The whole episode was clearly about the financial bubble that nobody questioned until it collapsed, then the government's infamous 'we're all in this together' line, then the recently miraculous resurgence of the economy, which has led to people just accepting it all without question once again