History Literature / TheLittles

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Dr. Hunter and Petersen do not appear in Season 3. Even Henry's appearances were minimized in favor of Cousin Ashley being promoted to a regular character.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Dr. Hunter and Petersen do not appear in Season 3.

Similar to Mary Norton's earlier novel ''Literature/TheBorrowers'', ''The Littles'' features a family of tiny but intelligent humanoid creatures with mouse-like features (the Littles) who live in a house owned by the Bigg family. The mouse-like features include a long, furry tail, long teeth and mouse-like ears. (In the books, only the tail is present, and there are no mouse-like features - mice are in fact deadly enemies of the Tinies.) Their height is 4–6 inches.

** The suspense music usually played during Dr. Hunter scenes also can be heard in the ''WesternAnimation/MisterT'' animated series (although that show was create dby Creator/RubySpears, they also outsourced the music to Saban and Levy).

* CreatorCameo: Well, composer cameo, anyway. One of Shuky Levy and Haim Saban's music cues from [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]] [[note]]Which premiered the same year as this show.[[/note]] can be heard in at least a few episodes (as well as in the movie Here Come the Littles).

* RecycledSoundtrack: The episode ''The Wrong Stuff'' features some "space" background music from ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats''.
** Additionally, the Catillac Cats episode ''A Camping We Will Go'' used the Copacetics' rock music from ''A Little Rock and Roll'' for the "Nasty Cats" band's music.

** The suspense music usually played during Dr. Hunter scenes also can be heard in the Mr. T animated series that aired the same years as The Littles.

* IAteWhat: In "Prescription for Disaster", Dinky accidentally ingests some of the contents of a prescription pill. Since not only was Dinky not supposed to be taking the medicine but he is ''much'' smaller than the woman who is meant to be taking the pills, he has a ''severe'' overdose reaction.

** Subverted in ''Here Come the Littles'' when [[spoiler:the cat befriends Tom after getting a splinter out of its paw]].

* OffModel: Some episodes were obviously rushed causing scenes of off-model characters, noticeable in some of the "Big Ideas for Little People" segments and in "Dinky's Doomsday Pizza".

[[caption-width-right:216:From left to right: [[TheDitz Dinky Little]], [[SecretKeeper Henry Bigg]] (top), Grandpa Little (bottom), [[BigBrotherInstinct Tom Little]], [[TheChick Lucy Little]].]]

* ExpositoryThemeTune: The theme music to the show's second season (1984), though it doesn't fit with the continuity of the movie tie-in.

* AbsenteeActor: There are a few episodes that do not feature Henry Bigg, but still do feature humans in some way, including "Prescription for Disaster," "The Little Scouts," "The Little Girl Who Could" and the ''Liberty and the Littles'' TV movie.

* RealityEnsues: In "Prescription for Disaster", Dinky accidentally ingests some of the contents of a prescription pill. Since not only was Dinky not supposed to be taking the medicine but he is ''much'' smaller than the woman who is meant to be taking the pills, he has a ''severe'' overdose reaction.

Similar to Mary Norton's earlier novel ''Literature/TheBorrowers'', ''The Littles'' features a family of tiny but intelligent humanoid creatures with mouse-like features (the Littles) who live in a house owned by the Bigg family. The mouse-like features include a long, furry tail, long teeth and mouse-like ears. Their height is 4–6 inches.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed, while the series is generally bright, cheerful, light-hearten & cutesy there have been plenty of times where it can be surprisingly unwilling to pull its punches when it comes to serious scenes to at times GettingCrapPastTheRadar levels. One of the bigger cases is in ''Prescription for Disaster'' which delivers a rather realistic depiction of [[DrugsAreBad substance abuse with pills]]. And when one of those pills accidentally got into the pie Dinky was eating he ended up getting a lot of drug-induced hallucinations which were PlayedForDrama to nearly getting himself killed in a ConveyorBeltODoom. (In which this episode was actually cut when the series was rerun on Toon Disney years later.)

[[caption-width-right:216:From left to right: [[TheDitz Dinky Little]], [[SecretKeeper Henry Bigg]] (top), [[BadassGrandpa Grandpa Little]] (bottom), [[BigBrotherInstinct Tom Little]], [[TheChick Lucy Little]].]]

* CreatorCameo: Well, composer cameo, anyway. One of Shuky Levy and Haim Saban's music cues from [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]] [[note]]Which premiered the same year as this show.[[/note]] can be heard in at least one episode (as well as in the movie Here Come the Littles).

** Additionally, the Catillac Cats episode ''A Camping We Will Go'' used the Copacetics' rock music from ''A Little Rock and Roll'' for the "Nasty Cats" band's music. The suspense music usually played during Dr. Hunter scenes also can be heard in the Mr. T animated series that aired the same years as The Littles.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Downplayed, while the series is generally bright, cheerful, light-hearten & cutesy there have been plenty of times where it can be surprisingly unwilling to pull its punches when it comes to serious scenes to at times GettingCrapPastTheRadar levels. One of the bigger cases is in ''Prescription for Disaster'' which delivers a rather realistic depiction of [[DrugsAreBad substance abuse with pills]]. And when one of those pills accidentally got into the pie Dinky was eating he ended up getting a lot of drug-induced hallucinations which were PlayedForDrama to nearly getting himself killed in a ConveyorBeltODoom. (In which this episode was actually cut when the series was in Toon Disney years later.)
** In the next episode ''The Little Scouts'' depicts a pilot crash landing into the woods unconscious as the Littles try to save him. The pilot had a fully shown bloody wound that the Littles did treat. Also Grandpa Little & the Scouts were quite aware that the pilot would be in real danger from some of the animals if he stayed in the forest for too long (and so would they).

--> '''Henry:''' *first words in the theme song* I have a very special secret; I'm the only one who knows about tiny people living in our walls called, the Littles.

* HumansAreBastards: Shown completely in "Dinky's Doomsday Pizza" when [[spoiler: Dinky dreams The Littles are discovered and captured by Dr. Hunter leading to experiments and being caged at the zoo like animals]]