And you thought a children’s book about a serial killer was out there. Turns out the Danes have that beat.

The Danish television network DR (a public television network equivalent to our PBS) recently released a show for children featuring a most unusual character, if unusual isn’t too mild a word. John Dillermand is about the adventures of a man whose enormous, prehensile penis is beyond his control, leading to many a wacky hijink.

This show is aimed, if you will, at children ages 4-8.

Yes, really.

In Danish, diller means penis, so the character is literally John Penis-man. The 13 adventures released so far are available for your viewing pleasure here, but the tone is silly, not salacious.

In episode one, for instance, the mustachioed Dillermand uses his gigantic, striped organ as a lead for his dog but then must deal with an overbearing number of requests from his neighbors to take their pets out for a walk, too. At another point in the show, he is stuck floating in mid-air after balloons are tied to his groin. 

He breaks a friend’s vase with his penis and must raise money to pay them back in one, and in another, he uses his tool to steal an ice cream at the zoo. The show’s opening montage also shows him using his package to keep a lion away from a group of children. Heroic!

The show has received both criticism and praise, in apparently equal measure. Erla Heinesen Højsted, a clinical psychologist, defended the show on the grounds that it “talks to children and shares their way of thinking,” notably that “kids do find genitals funny.” Of course they do!

She agrees with others that the timing of the show’s release, which came in the midst of Denmark’s #MeToo movement, is “poor,” but says the show isn’t about sex. Dillermand “takes responsibility” for his giant penis’s actions, respecting when “a woman in the show tells him that he should keep [it] in his pants, for instance.” 

“This is categorically not a show about sex,” she said. “To pretend it is projects adult ideas on it.”

So, all you parents sorry about the recent cancellation of PBS’s Caillou, if there are any, here’s a new character for your children to inexplicably love. Skol!