Lola often gets caught up in situations that she (inadvertently) causes, whether it's running out of money at the zoo and having to borrow Charlie's[2] to forgetting her entire suitcase when having a sleepover at a friend's house.

[3] These situations are sometimes comedic but often reflect real world problems that younger children may face, such as losing a best friend,[4] not getting the preferred part in a school play,[5] or becoming too excited about an upcoming event and accidentally ruining it.

[6] When these situations happen, Charlie usually ends up having to solve her problems through imaginative or creative methods, or by explaining to Lola where she went wrong.

This is particularly demonstrated in the debut episode, "I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato", where Charlie pretends that her least favourite foods (such as carrots, mashed potatoes, fish fingers, and tomatoes) are more fantastical items in order to encourage her to eat them, such as 'orange twiglets from Jupiter' and 'ocean nibblers from the supermarket under the sea'.

On 12 October 2023, Banijay Kids & Family acquired the distribution rights to the series from BBC Studios.