History Franchise / AlvinAndThechipmunks

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Eleanor and Brittany.

* AgeInappropriateDress: The Chipettes are often accused of this, two particular occasions that stand out are the episode, "Goin' Down to Dixie," from [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks the 80s series]] and ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure''. In the former, The Chipettes entertain on a riverboat that's also a floating hotel, where they sing Creedence Clearwater Revival's, "Proud Mary," while wearing New Orleans-inspired dresses. This moment became the subject of controversy when the song surfaced on YouTube in 2007, with ''one'' troll's comments about The Chipettes being, "A pedophilic rape waiting to happen," sparking an entire internet article as to what exactly the motive behind The Chipettes are. In the latter, The Chipettes find themselves in Egypt, where the Prince wants to marry Brittany, and they are later dressed in harem attire for the rest of the movie; the fact that they also charmed snakes by singing a song called, "[[IntercourseWithYou Gettin' Lucky]]," didn't help matters either.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Theodore and Alvin.

** Choleric -- Alvin

** Sanguine/leuquine -- Theodore
** Phlegmatic -- Dave

** For starters, both Chipmunks and Chipettes attend ThomasEdison Elementary School in the eighties cartoon series then attend middle school in ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'', but in ''The Squeakquel'', they're in high school. (Then again, there's that "Children's Labor Law" that permitting child actors working for over a period of certain hours so they had to use older actors.) Looking back in ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'', the Chipmunks aren't seen attending school or working on homework but they appear younger than elementary school if Dave has to tell them what to do when they're finished with a chore. An example is from episode "Haunted House":

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Many times you see Simon referencing the latest computers as being incredible, despite graphics which have ''visible'' pixels and being roughly the size of a microwave oven. Audio equipment is similarly outdated, using reel-to-reel recording devices instead of digital media which was gaining popularity even in the late eighties when this show was produced. "Back to Our Future" [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this phenomenon by having the '60s Chipmunks all amazed at the advances in technology.
-->'''[='60s=] Alvin:''' Incredible! There's music coming from [[BuffySpeak these little silver thingies!]]\\
'''[='60s=] Simon:''' And this computer has as much information on it as the public library!\\
'''[='60s=] Theodore:''' Look at this TV! It's color! And it has more than three channels!

*** In one episode, Simon and Theodore get back at Alvin for playing pranks on them by having him believe Theodore is transforming into a weredog (after Alvin tricked Theodore into a dog biscuit); Theodore even goes so far as to crawl on his hands and knees. Later in the same episode, Simon has Alvin dress as a dog and recite an incantation to break the spell, only to be caught by the dog catcher, who is surprised, but somehow convinced that a dog can talk.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Alvin, although can be a [[Jerkass]] at times, even he was disgusted at the way Brittney was treating and blowing off Jeanette just to get in good with some popular snobby group. You'd think Simon would be more angry at Brittney for this, but surprisingly not the case.

* AgeInappropriateDress: The Chipettes are often accused of this, two particular occasions that stand out are the episode, "Goin' Down to Dixie," from [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks the 80s series]] and ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure''. In the former, The Chipettes entertain on a riverboat that's also a floating hotel, where they sing Creedence Clearwater Revival's, "Proud Mary," while wearing New Orleans-inspired dresses. This moment became the subject of controversy when the song surfaced on YouTube in 2007, with ''one'' troll's comments about The Chipettes being, "A pedophilic rape waiting to happen," sparking an entire internet article as to what exactly the motive behind The Chipettes are. In the latter, The Chipettes find themselves in Egypt, where the Prince wants to marry Brittany, and they are later dressed in harem attire for the rest of the movie; the fact that they also charmed snakes by singing a song called, [["IntercourseWithYou Gettin' Lucky,"]] didn't help matters either.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Alvin and the Chipmunks, as well as The Chipettes experience this with almost every new incarnation. While the characters have experienced some natural CharacterDevelopment over the years (especially true of the 1980s cartoon series), they have also experienced complete changes in their personalities when it comes to the more recent live action/CGI movies. For example, Simon goes from being DeadpanSnarker with biting sarcasm to having a less cerebral sense of humor with a underlying perverted streak; Theodore's innocence and naivete not only becomes a thing of {{flanderization}}, but he also becomes more absent-minded (much like Jeanette usually is); and Brittany is hardly the Alpha Bitch diva that she's been known for in previous incarnations.

An animated TV series revival, simply titled ''The Chipmunks and The Chipettes'', has been announced on October 5, 2012 by Genao Productions. It is scheduled to run for 52 11-minute episodes. The channel and air date of the revival is currently unknown.

* Tropes exclusive to the DirectToVideo movies go either in:

* TalkingToHimself
** Alvin, Simon, Theodore, and David Seville are all voiced by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in "The Chipmunk Song".
** Since the '80s, Alvin, Simon, and Dave have been voiced by Ross Bagdasarian, Jr., while Theodore and all three Chipettes are voiced by his wife, Janice Karman.
** Later still, when the series switched to [=DiC=] for animation, almost all of the additional one-shot characters were voiced by their associate producer Thom Watkins, with Ross occasionally stepping in for other additional male characters, while Janice voiced most additional female characters.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the LiveActionAdaptation, where each chipmunk is voiced by a different actor.
** On the second-draft ConceptAlbum ''Chipmunk Punk'', each chipmunk is sung by a different singer as well: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. was Alvin, Steve Vining was Simon and Dave Adams of Glass Moon was Theodore.

## "WesternAnimation/Alvinnn!!! and The Chipmunks"

## the upcoming one

* AbsentMindedProfessor: Jeanette is the queen of this trope. In fact, it had to be pointed out quite frequently throughout the series (untied shoelaces, holding a sign upside down, not watching where she's going), to point out she may be ''book''-smart, but lacks common sense and general intelligence otherwise, since many people associated her glasses with her being TheSmartGuy (it's simply because she has incredibly poor vision).