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[[caption-width-right:350:A 1992 collection of the first four books in the series.[[note]]Left-to-right going down: Lisa, Freddie, Sam, and Hector.[[/note]]]]
The '''Where Are They?''' series was a series of [[ChildrensLiterature children's]] PictureBooks illustrated by American comic book artist Tony Tallarico for Kidsbooks Inc.
Like other books of the search-and-find genre, each book would hold several colorful drawings each spanning two pages for the viewer to look through in search for the titular character, the occasional person also looking for TheNamesake, and a checklist of items that can be found in a scene.
Several books where published in the late 1980s and through the 1990s, with those frequently being put into [[{{Omnibus}} Omnibuses]].
[[AC:Individual ''Where Are They?'' books include:]]
* ''Find Freddie'' (1988)
* ''Hunt for Hector'' (1989)
* ''Look for Lisa'' (1989)
* ''Search for Sam'' (1989)
* ''Find Frankie'' (1990)
* ''Search for Santa'' (1990)
* ''Find Freddie & Lisa in the Haunted House'' (1991)
* ''Search for Santa's Helpers'' (1991)
* ''Detect Donald'' (1991)
* ''Look for Laura'' (1991)
* ''Search for Susie'' (1991)
* ''Find Freddie Around the World'' (1992)
* ''Look for Lisa: Time Traveler'' (1992)
* ''Search for Sylvester'' (1992)
* ''Where's Wendy?'' (1992)
* ''Where's Cupid?'' (1992)
* ''Where's the Bunny?'' (1993)
* ''Where's Columbus?'' (1997)
!!Track down those Tropes!
* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Sam has a red bowtie, Susie wears a pink shirt, Sylvester has a baseball cap and neckercheief, Bunny Honey has a vest and bowler hat... and those are just title characters.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: [[spoiler:The [[CluelessDetective not-so-detective]] Detective Donald wins ten film awards for Best Detective after walking through ten film sets without even realizing it until he stumbles into [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward the Academy Awards]].]]
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Most individual books use a synonym for "search" or "find" that is alliterative with the central character.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The aliens, monsters, and talking dinosaurs throughout the books come not only in a plethora of shapes, but also a fair array of colors as well. See just below for more on the lattermost.
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Most animals through out the books are colored realistically, but the dinosaurs come in more colorful shades due to paleontology's long history of not knowing what exactly they looked like, and elephants are usually [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant literal]] PinkElephants.
* AnachronismStew: Things that don't fit the time setting of the scene can be found regularly. This by virtue due to the very premise of ''Look for Lisa: Time Traveler''.
* AnimalJingoism: Found regularly throughout the books, taken UpToEleven on some pages such as "Search for Sam at the Battle of Cats and Mice".
* ArtStyleClash: While most of the books are drawn in simple cartoons, Tallarico's work in the comic book industry. possibly the most egregious example is in the page "Look for Laura at School", where a kid is holding a giant bass fish that isn't even lineart, but painted.
* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: One page in ''Look for Lisa: Time Traveler'' takes place on a cluttered table of the odd GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks among a bunch of garbage. Aside from that improper work environment, ([[MadScientist most]]) scientists wouldn't have a funnel spitting out [[TechnicolorScience technicolor bubbles]] into the air or use a Bunsen burner to bake a pie. %%I don't know what this one is called, the page with the left half of the drawing fell out.
* ArtisticLicenseGeology: Not a case about the Earth, but its moon. The page "Look for Lisa in these Cavernous Craters" in ''Look for Lisa: Time Traveler'' is set on the Moon for one of NASA's moon landings, but the reddish-orange landscape leaves it so the viewer can easily mistake it for Mars. {{Justified}} by the book's nature as a HiddenObjectGame, as the Moon's more eye-catching color now contrasts against the grey of the moon lander and Lisa can blend in with her orange shirt.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Tallarico took liberties in depicting dinosaurs' [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife coloration]], [[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism anthropomorphism]], and [[LivingDinosaurs extancy]]. This is most prevalent in ''Search for Susie''.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Most animals don't wear any footwear unless its part of an attire they're wearing, like big goofy clown shoes.
* BaseballEpisode: The eighth page of ''Find Freddie'', "Find Freddie at the Ballpark".
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: While some characters have the sense to put on a spacesuit, most characters in a space scene don't even bother to wear a FishbowlHelmet.
* BeachEpisode: The third page of ''Find Freddie'', "Find Freddie at the Beach".
* BizarreAlienBiology: Some aliens are nonsensical creatures with walking on odd amounts of feet and tooting from horns in their [[{{Cephalothorax}} Cephalothoraces]]
* BlackComedy: Some of the {{Funny Background Event}}s can have a little edge to them, whether its a man proposing an easier way to shave than with a guillotine, a ghoul impaled by an umbrella, or two pigs watching a football team of dogs throwing the old "pigskin" around.
-->-- '''Pig 1:''' He's carrying Uncle Nick!
-->-- '''Pig 2:''' He's going to kick Aunt Em!
* {{CAPSLOCK}}: Everything within the illustrations are written in capital letters, neat and legible for the children.
* CaptainObvious: A RunningGag is that object might be labeled "this is a(n) [object]", or someone or something saying who, what, or how they are.
* CatConcerto: "Search for Sam at the Midnight Meowing" sees a horde of cats meowing on and round the fences behind an apartment complex to hostile reception.
-->-- '''Sam:''' What does "meow" mean?
* CatDogDichotomy: Most abundant in "Search for Sam with the Dogbusters"
* CatsAreLazy: One cat tries to sleep trough the Battle of Cats and Mice.
* CatsAreSnarkers: Sam and some of his fellow cats crack a few quips.
* ChristmasEpisode: The tenth page of ''Search for Sam'', "Search for Sam at the North Pole". Also goes for the entirety of ''Search for Santa'' and ''Search for Santa's Helpers'' to the series.
* CircusEpisode: and "Search for Sylvester at this Silly Circus".
* CivilizedAnimal: They can be found in any book, most abundant in the cats in ''Search for Sam'' or the dinosaurs in ''Search for Susie''.
* ConfusedQuestionMark: Sometimes that's all that's in a SpeechBubble. Because of how Tallarico would write his question marks, they look less like "?" and more like "αΊ“".
* CowboyEpisode: The tenth page of ''Find Freddie'', "Find Freddie in the Old West Town".
* DarthVaderClone: Bark Vader in "Hunt for Hector in Space".
* DisproportionateRetribution
** A man in stockades in "Find Freddie at the Museum" defends himself, saying "[he] didn't mean to touch the painting."
** Two men try to stop the CatConcerto in "Search for Sam at the Midnight Meowing" by loading a cannon.
** [[spoiler:In "Detect Donald at the Academy Award", most of the actors and audience are angered by the trespassing Detective Donald winning Best Detective in an accidental AwardSnub, with several of them threatening Donald with harm.]]
* TheDitz: in "Search for Sam with the Dogbusters", there's a horse that laments having lost his saddle. The saddle is as close to the horse's SpeechBubble as he is to it.
* DumbDinos: Like any other extras, the dinos aren't exempt from being down-right stupid. Not even Susie's BumblingDad.
* EasterBunny: Bunny Honey is one.
* ElephantsAreScaredOfMice: One panicked elephant finds itself stuck in the middle of the Battle of Cats and Mice.
* EmphasizeEverything: It's good guest to say that [[SturgeonsLaw 99%]] of all lines of dialogue across the series ends in either an exclamation point or a question mark.
%%* TheFaceOfTheSun
* TheFatEpisode: The third page of ''Search for Sam'', "Search for Sam at the Fat Cat Health Club". Not for Sam himself, but all the other cats there.
* FireIsRed
* FishbowlHelmet: The titular characters always wear one when when they're in space or underwater, some of the extra often wearing one as well. Humorously, Lisa's is shaped to fit her GirlishPigtails.
* FixingTheGame: At the race at the end of ''Find Freddie'', Hector admits to doing this... [[CheatersNeverProsper poorly.]]
-->-- '''Hector:''' This race was fixed! I fixed it and I still lost!
* ForcedFromTheirHome: The Monster Club in ''Find Frankie'' is forced to find "a nice, new, ugly place to meet" when their clubhouse is set to be demolished, motivating Frankie for his adventure.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: All over the place, different comical quips and conundrums can be found.
* FrankensteinsMonster: The monster is one of several {{Public Domain Character}}s found throughout the series, with even a young one named Frankie being the central character of ''Find Frankie''.
* FrankenX: Aside from Frankie, a few extra introduce themselves such, including:
** Frankendog in "Hunt for Hector at Dog School".
** Frankenswine in "Hunt for Hector at the K-9 Cleanup".
** Frankencat in "Search for Sam at the Battle of Cats and Mice".
* HiddenObjectGame
* HomeOfMonsters: Frankie quests out to find one in ''Find Frankie''.
* HomeSweetHome: The first page in the first book is "Find Freddie at Home".
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: There's the occasional "one way" sign that points in two or more directions, or a sign prohibiting doing something in a place explicitly for that purpose.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: At the end of ''Find Frankie'', a sun umbrella is being supported up by a ghoulish goblin who is bent over with the shaft piercing through his chest. He seems... fine... -ish.
-->-- '''Monster:''' It only hurts when I laugh!
* ImposterForgotOneDetail: At the end of ''Look for Laura'' and ''Search for Susie'', they along with Donald and Frankie can be found on the last page a couple of look-a-likes with minor differences (and SpeechBubbles explaining they aren't the real one). Frankie, at the end of ''Detect Donald'', just has one who is missing the [[PauperPatches Pauper Patch]] on the overalls.
-->-- '''Not Frankie:''' I'm the [[StuntDouble stand-in!]]
* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Since everything is colorful and most spacesuits just consist of a clear FishbowlHelmet. {{Averted}} with the NASA astronaut in "Look for Lisa in these Cavernous Craters".
* IWillFindYou: Susie's mom and dad, trying to find her throughout the Big Fun Amusement Park.
* LawOfAlienNames: {{Averted}}. The name of the titular alien of ''Look for Laura'' isn't alien, its just Latin.
* LibraryEpisode: The eighth page of ''Look for Lisa'', "Look for Lisa at the Library".
* LimitedWardrobe: Each protagonist wears the same thing throughout each of their appearances.
* LivingDinosaurs: Most or at least a fair majority of the characters in ''Search for Susie'' are dinosaurs, including Susie herself.
* LostInACrowd: Everything is this to the viewer. Explicitly the plot for ''Search for Susie'', where Susie has gotten separated from her parents at an amusement part.
* TheManInTheMoon: In the space scenes, you may find some crescent moons with faces. Just "Find Freddie in Space" alone has ten of them.
* MoonRabbit: The outlines of a rabbit can be found on the moon in "Look for Lisa in these Cavernous Craters".
* MovieTheaterEpisode
** In ''Find Frankie at the Theater", Frankie finds his way into theater hosting a play so horrendous, not even a little FrankensteinsMonster like him can stand being there.
** [[spoiler:The entirety of ''Detect Donald'' may be this, as Donald wanders through several movie sets without even realizing it.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: One elderly-looking critic of the play in "Find Frankie in the Theater" reveals himself to be the case.
-->-- "This show ages you! I'm only nine years old!"
* PandaingToTheAudience: Sylvester and ''Search for Sylvester''.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: Pirates can be found about, whether it's lone ones wandering a field of ghosts and ghouls looking for his ship or a foul-breathed one in the Monster Club, to a whole crew of them in "Detect Donald at the Pirates' Battle". [[spoiler:{{Justified}} for the latter, as it turns out to be the set of a pirate movie.]]
* APlanetNamedZok: Laura's homeworld, Maxx.
* PaintingTheMedium
** In both "Look for Laura on the Planet Maxx" and "Look for Laura at the Welcome Home Party", the SpeechBubbles have little red antennae like Laura or most of Maxx's inhabitants.
** The occasional character who is upside down may have their SpeechBubbles oriented with them.
* RecycledInSpace: The second page of ''Find Freddie'' ("Find Freddie in Space") and the tenth page of ''Hunt for Hector'' ("Hunt for Hector in Space").
* RoadTripPlot: The fifth page of ''Find Freddie'', "Find Freddie on the School Bus Trip".
* RhymingNames
** The main character of ''Where's the Bunny?'' is a white rabbit named Bunny Honey.
** One of the places you for Frankie in is a cafeteria called the Yum-Yum Emporium.
* RunningGag: Signs and SpeechBubbles planted about regularly say things such as:
** "For rent"/"Vacant"
** "This is a(n) ''X''!"/"I'm a(n) ''X''!"
** "One way"/"This way"/"No way"
** "Boy, am I Lost!"
** [[SchmuckBait "Do not read this"]]
** "Rest area"/"This is not a rest area"
** HiMom
* SantaClaus: Outside of ''Search for Santa'' and ''Search for Santa's Helpers'', the jolly fat man can be found in other books whether visiting the museum or flying through thick airport traffic. A cat Santa, Santa Claws, is even found in "Search for Sam at the North Pole".
* SchmuckBait: You can often find signs reading the following:
--> [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Do not read this]]
* SignatureHeadgear: Freddie's goggles; Donald's fedora; Bunny Honey's bowler hat; Wendy's [[RobeAndWizardHat witch hat]]; and what else but SantaClaus and his famous cap?
* SmallTaxonomyPools: The dinosaurs are usually just generic dromaesaurids; stegosaurids; and theropods, and the only pterosaurs are pterodactyloids.
* SpaceEpisode: Several pages across several books, like "Find Freddie in Space", "Hunt for Hector in Space", and "Look for Lisa among these Friendly Aliens".
* SpeechBubbles
* TheStinger: At the end of the books, simpler one-page illustrations with all of the batch's protagonists can be found. (ex. Freddie, Hector, Lisa, and Sam in their books.)
* TalkingAnimal: If an animal has something to say, the viewer or other extras should be able to understand them.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: The second page of ''Search for Sam'', "Search for Sam on Friday the 13th". One thing to look for on that is thirteen instances of the numeral "13".
* TechnicolorScience: Any GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks will be filled with richly colored chemicals.
* TimeTravelEpisode: Lisa's third book, ''Look for Lisa: Time Traveler''.
* VisualPun: Chock full of 'em.
* XtremeKoolLetterz
* WaterIsBlue
* WeirdMoon: Not only do [[TheManInTheMoon crescent moons with a face]] pop up a few times, but in our moon is colored red.
%%* WeirdSun: See TheFaceOfTheSun above.
* WrittenSoundEffect
* YellowLightningBlueLightning: Lightning bolts and electricity are colored yellow.
[[caption-width-right:350:A 1992 collection of the first four books in the series.[[note]]Left-to-right going down: Lisa, Freddie, Sam, and Hector.[[/note]]]]
The '''Where Are They?''' series was a series of [[ChildrensLiterature children's]] PictureBooks illustrated by American comic book artist Tony Tallarico for Kidsbooks Inc.
Like other books of the search-and-find genre, each book would hold several colorful drawings each spanning two pages for the viewer to look through in search for the titular character, the occasional person also looking for TheNamesake, and a checklist of items that can be found in a scene.
Several books where published in the late 1980s and through the 1990s, with those frequently being put into [[{{Omnibus}} Omnibuses]].
[[AC:Individual ''Where Are They?'' books include:]]
* ''Find Freddie'' (1988)
* ''Hunt for Hector'' (1989)
* ''Look for Lisa'' (1989)
* ''Search for Sam'' (1989)
* ''Find Frankie'' (1990)
* ''Search for Santa'' (1990)
* ''Find Freddie & Lisa in the Haunted House'' (1991)
* ''Search for Santa's Helpers'' (1991)
* ''Detect Donald'' (1991)
* ''Look for Laura'' (1991)
* ''Search for Susie'' (1991)
* ''Find Freddie Around the World'' (1992)
* ''Look for Lisa: Time Traveler'' (1992)
* ''Search for Sylvester'' (1992)
* ''Where's Wendy?'' (1992)
* ''Where's Cupid?'' (1992)
* ''Where's the Bunny?'' (1993)
* ''Where's Columbus?'' (1997)
!!Track down those Tropes!
* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Sam has a red bowtie, Susie wears a pink shirt, Sylvester has a baseball cap and neckercheief, Bunny Honey has a vest and bowler hat... and those are just title characters.
* AchievementsInIgnorance: [[spoiler:The [[CluelessDetective not-so-detective]] Detective Donald wins ten film awards for Best Detective after walking through ten film sets without even realizing it until he stumbles into [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward the Academy Awards]].]]
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Most individual books use a synonym for "search" or "find" that is alliterative with the central character.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The aliens, monsters, and talking dinosaurs throughout the books come not only in a plethora of shapes, but also a fair array of colors as well. See just below for more on the lattermost.
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Most animals through out the books are colored realistically, but the dinosaurs come in more colorful shades due to paleontology's long history of not knowing what exactly they looked like, and elephants are usually [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant literal]] PinkElephants.
* AnachronismStew: Things that don't fit the time setting of the scene can be found regularly. This by virtue due to the very premise of ''Look for Lisa: Time Traveler''.
* AnimalJingoism: Found regularly throughout the books, taken UpToEleven on some pages such as "Search for Sam at the Battle of Cats and Mice".
* ArtStyleClash: While most of the books are drawn in simple cartoons, Tallarico's work in the comic book industry. possibly the most egregious example is in the page "Look for Laura at School", where a kid is holding a giant bass fish that isn't even lineart, but painted.
* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: One page in ''Look for Lisa: Time Traveler'' takes place on a cluttered table of the odd GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks among a bunch of garbage. Aside from that improper work environment, ([[MadScientist most]]) scientists wouldn't have a funnel spitting out [[TechnicolorScience technicolor bubbles]] into the air or use a Bunsen burner to bake a pie. %%I don't know what this one is called, the page with the left half of the drawing fell out.
* ArtisticLicenseGeology: Not a case about the Earth, but its moon. The page "Look for Lisa in these Cavernous Craters" in ''Look for Lisa: Time Traveler'' is set on the Moon for one of NASA's moon landings, but the reddish-orange landscape leaves it so the viewer can easily mistake it for Mars. {{Justified}} by the book's nature as a HiddenObjectGame, as the Moon's more eye-catching color now contrasts against the grey of the moon lander and Lisa can blend in with her orange shirt.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Tallarico took liberties in depicting dinosaurs' [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife coloration]], [[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism anthropomorphism]], and [[LivingDinosaurs extancy]]. This is most prevalent in ''Search for Susie''.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Most animals don't wear any footwear unless its part of an attire they're wearing, like big goofy clown shoes.
* BaseballEpisode: The eighth page of ''Find Freddie'', "Find Freddie at the Ballpark".
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: While some characters have the sense to put on a spacesuit, most characters in a space scene don't even bother to wear a FishbowlHelmet.
* BeachEpisode: The third page of ''Find Freddie'', "Find Freddie at the Beach".
* BizarreAlienBiology: Some aliens are nonsensical creatures with walking on odd amounts of feet and tooting from horns in their [[{{Cephalothorax}} Cephalothoraces]]
* BlackComedy: Some of the {{Funny Background Event}}s can have a little edge to them, whether its a man proposing an easier way to shave than with a guillotine, a ghoul impaled by an umbrella, or two pigs watching a football team of dogs throwing the old "pigskin" around.
-->-- '''Pig 1:''' He's carrying Uncle Nick!
-->-- '''Pig 2:''' He's going to kick Aunt Em!
* {{CAPSLOCK}}: Everything within the illustrations are written in capital letters, neat and legible for the children.
* CaptainObvious: A RunningGag is that object might be labeled "this is a(n) [object]", or someone or something saying who, what, or how they are.
* CatConcerto: "Search for Sam at the Midnight Meowing" sees a horde of cats meowing on and round the fences behind an apartment complex to hostile reception.
-->-- '''Sam:''' What does "meow" mean?
* CatDogDichotomy: Most abundant in "Search for Sam with the Dogbusters"
* CatsAreLazy: One cat tries to sleep trough the Battle of Cats and Mice.
* CatsAreSnarkers: Sam and some of his fellow cats crack a few quips.
* ChristmasEpisode: The tenth page of ''Search for Sam'', "Search for Sam at the North Pole". Also goes for the entirety of ''Search for Santa'' and ''Search for Santa's Helpers'' to the series.
* CircusEpisode: and "Search for Sylvester at this Silly Circus".
* CivilizedAnimal: They can be found in any book, most abundant in the cats in ''Search for Sam'' or the dinosaurs in ''Search for Susie''.
* ConfusedQuestionMark: Sometimes that's all that's in a SpeechBubble. Because of how Tallarico would write his question marks, they look less like "?" and more like "αΊ“".
* CowboyEpisode: The tenth page of ''Find Freddie'', "Find Freddie in the Old West Town".
* DarthVaderClone: Bark Vader in "Hunt for Hector in Space".
* DisproportionateRetribution
** A man in stockades in "Find Freddie at the Museum" defends himself, saying "[he] didn't mean to touch the painting."
** Two men try to stop the CatConcerto in "Search for Sam at the Midnight Meowing" by loading a cannon.
** [[spoiler:In "Detect Donald at the Academy Award", most of the actors and audience are angered by the trespassing Detective Donald winning Best Detective in an accidental AwardSnub, with several of them threatening Donald with harm.]]
* TheDitz: in "Search for Sam with the Dogbusters", there's a horse that laments having lost his saddle. The saddle is as close to the horse's SpeechBubble as he is to it.
* DumbDinos: Like any other extras, the dinos aren't exempt from being down-right stupid. Not even Susie's BumblingDad.
* EasterBunny: Bunny Honey is one.
* ElephantsAreScaredOfMice: One panicked elephant finds itself stuck in the middle of the Battle of Cats and Mice.
* EmphasizeEverything: It's good guest to say that [[SturgeonsLaw 99%]] of all lines of dialogue across the series ends in either an exclamation point or a question mark.
%%* TheFaceOfTheSun
* TheFatEpisode: The third page of ''Search for Sam'', "Search for Sam at the Fat Cat Health Club". Not for Sam himself, but all the other cats there.
* FireIsRed
* FishbowlHelmet: The titular characters always wear one when when they're in space or underwater, some of the extra often wearing one as well. Humorously, Lisa's is shaped to fit her GirlishPigtails.
* FixingTheGame: At the race at the end of ''Find Freddie'', Hector admits to doing this... [[CheatersNeverProsper poorly.]]
-->-- '''Hector:''' This race was fixed! I fixed it and I still lost!
* ForcedFromTheirHome: The Monster Club in ''Find Frankie'' is forced to find "a nice, new, ugly place to meet" when their clubhouse is set to be demolished, motivating Frankie for his adventure.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: All over the place, different comical quips and conundrums can be found.
* FrankensteinsMonster: The monster is one of several {{Public Domain Character}}s found throughout the series, with even a young one named Frankie being the central character of ''Find Frankie''.
* FrankenX: Aside from Frankie, a few extra introduce themselves such, including:
** Frankendog in "Hunt for Hector at Dog School".
** Frankenswine in "Hunt for Hector at the K-9 Cleanup".
** Frankencat in "Search for Sam at the Battle of Cats and Mice".
* HiddenObjectGame
* HomeOfMonsters: Frankie quests out to find one in ''Find Frankie''.
* HomeSweetHome: The first page in the first book is "Find Freddie at Home".
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: There's the occasional "one way" sign that points in two or more directions, or a sign prohibiting doing something in a place explicitly for that purpose.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: At the end of ''Find Frankie'', a sun umbrella is being supported up by a ghoulish goblin who is bent over with the shaft piercing through his chest. He seems... fine... -ish.
-->-- '''Monster:''' It only hurts when I laugh!
* ImposterForgotOneDetail: At the end of ''Look for Laura'' and ''Search for Susie'', they along with Donald and Frankie can be found on the last page a couple of look-a-likes with minor differences (and SpeechBubbles explaining they aren't the real one). Frankie, at the end of ''Detect Donald'', just has one who is missing the [[PauperPatches Pauper Patch]] on the overalls.
-->-- '''Not Frankie:''' I'm the [[StuntDouble stand-in!]]
* InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Since everything is colorful and most spacesuits just consist of a clear FishbowlHelmet. {{Averted}} with the NASA astronaut in "Look for Lisa in these Cavernous Craters".
* IWillFindYou: Susie's mom and dad, trying to find her throughout the Big Fun Amusement Park.
* LawOfAlienNames: {{Averted}}. The name of the titular alien of ''Look for Laura'' isn't alien, its just Latin.
* LibraryEpisode: The eighth page of ''Look for Lisa'', "Look for Lisa at the Library".
* LimitedWardrobe: Each protagonist wears the same thing throughout each of their appearances.
* LivingDinosaurs: Most or at least a fair majority of the characters in ''Search for Susie'' are dinosaurs, including Susie herself.
* LostInACrowd: Everything is this to the viewer. Explicitly the plot for ''Search for Susie'', where Susie has gotten separated from her parents at an amusement part.
* TheManInTheMoon: In the space scenes, you may find some crescent moons with faces. Just "Find Freddie in Space" alone has ten of them.
* MoonRabbit: The outlines of a rabbit can be found on the moon in "Look for Lisa in these Cavernous Craters".
* MovieTheaterEpisode
** In ''Find Frankie at the Theater", Frankie finds his way into theater hosting a play so horrendous, not even a little FrankensteinsMonster like him can stand being there.
** [[spoiler:The entirety of ''Detect Donald'' may be this, as Donald wanders through several movie sets without even realizing it.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: One elderly-looking critic of the play in "Find Frankie in the Theater" reveals himself to be the case.
-->-- "This show ages you! I'm only nine years old!"
* PandaingToTheAudience: Sylvester and ''Search for Sylvester''.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: Pirates can be found about, whether it's lone ones wandering a field of ghosts and ghouls looking for his ship or a foul-breathed one in the Monster Club, to a whole crew of them in "Detect Donald at the Pirates' Battle". [[spoiler:{{Justified}} for the latter, as it turns out to be the set of a pirate movie.]]
* APlanetNamedZok: Laura's homeworld, Maxx.
* PaintingTheMedium
** In both "Look for Laura on the Planet Maxx" and "Look for Laura at the Welcome Home Party", the SpeechBubbles have little red antennae like Laura or most of Maxx's inhabitants.
** The occasional character who is upside down may have their SpeechBubbles oriented with them.
* RecycledInSpace: The second page of ''Find Freddie'' ("Find Freddie in Space") and the tenth page of ''Hunt for Hector'' ("Hunt for Hector in Space").
* RoadTripPlot: The fifth page of ''Find Freddie'', "Find Freddie on the School Bus Trip".
* RhymingNames
** The main character of ''Where's the Bunny?'' is a white rabbit named Bunny Honey.
** One of the places you for Frankie in is a cafeteria called the Yum-Yum Emporium.
* RunningGag: Signs and SpeechBubbles planted about regularly say things such as:
** "For rent"/"Vacant"
** "This is a(n) ''X''!"/"I'm a(n) ''X''!"
** "One way"/"This way"/"No way"
** "Boy, am I Lost!"
** [[SchmuckBait "Do not read this"]]
** "Rest area"/"This is not a rest area"
** HiMom
* SantaClaus: Outside of ''Search for Santa'' and ''Search for Santa's Helpers'', the jolly fat man can be found in other books whether visiting the museum or flying through thick airport traffic. A cat Santa, Santa Claws, is even found in "Search for Sam at the North Pole".
* SchmuckBait: You can often find signs reading the following:
--> [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Do not read this]]
* SignatureHeadgear: Freddie's goggles; Donald's fedora; Bunny Honey's bowler hat; Wendy's [[RobeAndWizardHat witch hat]]; and what else but SantaClaus and his famous cap?
* SmallTaxonomyPools: The dinosaurs are usually just generic dromaesaurids; stegosaurids; and theropods, and the only pterosaurs are pterodactyloids.
* SpaceEpisode: Several pages across several books, like "Find Freddie in Space", "Hunt for Hector in Space", and "Look for Lisa among these Friendly Aliens".
* SpeechBubbles
* TheStinger: At the end of the books, simpler one-page illustrations with all of the batch's protagonists can be found. (ex. Freddie, Hector, Lisa, and Sam in their books.)
* TalkingAnimal: If an animal has something to say, the viewer or other extras should be able to understand them.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: The second page of ''Search for Sam'', "Search for Sam on Friday the 13th". One thing to look for on that is thirteen instances of the numeral "13".
* TechnicolorScience: Any GratuitousLaboratoryFlasks will be filled with richly colored chemicals.
* TimeTravelEpisode: Lisa's third book, ''Look for Lisa: Time Traveler''.
* VisualPun: Chock full of 'em.
* XtremeKoolLetterz
* WaterIsBlue
* WeirdMoon: Not only do [[TheManInTheMoon crescent moons with a face]] pop up a few times, but in our moon is colored red.
%%* WeirdSun: See TheFaceOfTheSun above.
* WrittenSoundEffect
* YellowLightningBlueLightning: Lightning bolts and electricity are colored yellow.
