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* HypocriticalHumor: In "Franklin Migrates," Bear and Franklin get a little too loud and excited while in the library, so Mrs. Goose comes to to tell them to use their library voices. She then says that Goose told her that Franklin agreed to come to their Migration Eve Party and tells him in her loud, musical voice, "Bring your dancing shoes!"

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* HypocriticalHumor: In "Franklin Migrates," Bear and Franklin get a little too loud and excited while in the library, so Mrs. Goose comes to to tell them to [[SilenceIntheLibrary use their library voices.voices]]. She then says that Goose told her that Franklin agreed to come to their Migration Eve Party and tells him in her loud, musical voice, "Bring your dancing shoes!"
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* CanadaEh: Franklin is a Canadian production, and Mr. Marmot invoked the trope in ''Franklin Plays It Safe''. To be specific, Mr. Marmot punctuates the end of every other sentence with an "Eh".
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* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: In "Franklin Plays the Game", Franklin's team still loses their first game after making adjustments to their game, but are nonetheless happy because their close loss is a marked improvement over their [[CurbStompBattle previous defeats]].
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* DistinctionWithoutADifference: In "Franklin's Maple Syrup," when Bear and Franklin lose a sledding race to Rabbit and Fox, they cheer about being first and Bear cheers "We're second!" Franklin asks what's great about being second when there's nobody to be third. Bear argues that it's better than saying that they lost.

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* {{Licensed Game}}s: Two UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance games, one UsefulNotes/NintendoDS game, and one UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 game. All of them by The Game Factory.

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* {{Licensed Game}}s: Two UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance games, one UsefulNotes/NintendoDS Platform/NintendoDS game, and one UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 Platform/PlayStation2 game. All of them by The Game Factory.
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* BreakfastInBed: In the ''Franklin Says I Love You'' book, Franklin is searching for something to do for his mother or something to give her for her birthday. He goes to his friends for ideas and they tell them what they've done before for their own mothers, but various reasons he rejects each idea. Bear tells him that he always brings his mother breakfast in bed, but Mrs. Turtle had told Franklin that she didn't like crumbs in bed. In the end, Franklin decides to combine all of his friends' ideas and serves her breakfast in bed anyway, with her being careful to brush away the crumbs.

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** In "Franklin's Baby Sister", Franklin's mother [[PregnantReptile gets pregnant]] and is due to give birth in spring. Franklin is excited, but he gets dismayed that he [[PatiencePlot has to wait until winter is over]]. His baby sister Harriet is born at the end, and he's happy to see her.

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** In "Franklin's Baby Sister", Sister" (this is the book version of ''Franklin and the Green Knight''), Franklin's mother [[PregnantReptile gets pregnant]] and is due to give birth in spring. Franklin is excited, but he gets dismayed that he [[PatiencePlot has to wait until winter is over]]. His baby sister Harriet is born at the end, and he's happy to see her.


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* NotMyLuckyDay: In "Franklin and the Fortune Teller," Beaver's fortune-teller tells Franklin that he's going to have a bad day the next day. This ends up becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, as Franklin stays home the next day, stating the mantra that the safest place to be on a bad day as at home. However, this causes him to miss out on all of the fun things that happen to his friends, such as getting free ice cream at Mr. Skunk's ice cream shop when he has to change out his freezer. He finally decides to join his friends outside, rationalizing that things can't get any worse than they've already been by his choosing to spend the day at home, and finally breaks out of the funk.
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* RetroUniverse: The stories and the animated TV shows take place in a universe where certain old-fashioned things co-exist alongside modern ones. The kids attend an old-style one-room school house that they get to and from on a contemporary-looking school bus, the adults drive cars and trucks straight out of TheForties, rotary phones are used alongside contemporary desktop computers, and more.
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** In the first books, Franklin used to be afraid of going into his shell and dragged it around with him everywhere. Franklin's parents used to walk on all fours, and so did Franklin's friends, who were all much bigger than Franklin until they were all reduced to nearly the same height.

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** In the first books, book, ''Franklin in the Dark'', Franklin used to be afraid of going into his shell and dragged it around with him everywhere. He wears it for the remainder of the series. In addition, Franklin's parents used to walk on all fours, be quadrupedal, and so did some of Franklin's friends, who were all much bigger than Franklin until they were all reduced to nearly the same height.
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** Porcupine (of Franklin’s generation), also only had one appearance on the show (around the same time, ironically enough). Unlike Moose, though, she was a case of RememberTheNewGuy.

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