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* CharacterDevelopment: Of all characters, Betty the Kitchen Fairy has some development over the 13 episodes that sticks: at first, she would refuse to help the other characters when they had a pressing problem, like a world-destroying demon or a [[ItMakesSenseInContext Frankenstein's Monster-expy made of ham]]. A few episodes before the end of the show, she realizes how annoying this is, and actually helps them out. [[spoiler: In the finale, it's actually her who saves the day from an AlienInvasion.]]



* LampshadeHanging: When Jiblets is playing the evil overlord in the spy episode and has spy!Mr. Potato Head and spy!Baloney captured, he literally says he'll explain his evil plan to them so they can foil it. Then when Mr. Potato Head pressed a BigRedButton to activate the island's self-destruct, Jiblets howls, "I knew I shouldn't have had that thing installed!"

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* LampshadeHanging: When This being a show about producing a show, a lot of meta-humor is a given. One outstanding example: when Jiblets is playing the evil overlord in the spy episode and has spy!Mr. Potato Head and spy!Baloney captured, he literally says he'll explain his evil plan to them so they can foil it. Then when Mr. Potato Head pressed a BigRedButton to activate the island's self-destruct, Jiblets howls, "I knew I shouldn't have had that thing installed!"
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* StockFootage: Hilariously lampshaded in the Variety Show episode: there's no studio audience for the ShowWithinAShow, so Mr. Potato Head splices in stock footage of an applauding audience after each act, instead. At one point, footage plays of a woman working in what looks to be a tomato-canning factory, and Mr. Potato Head shouts "Wrong stock footage!"
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* AshFace: Mr. Potato Head was lucky that this was the only consequence of losing an [[EyeBeams Eye ]]BeamOWar with a demon who was supposed to be able to ''destroy the world!''


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* BeamOWar: At one point, superhero!Mr. Potato Head and an ancient demon, both of which have EyeBeams, get into a beam-o-war duel. Mr. Potato Head loses and gets an AshFace as a result.
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* EyeBeams: During the superhero episode, Mr. Potato Head's "Spudman" character has the ability to fire lightning-like purple rays from his eyes; he used them to create a BulletholeDoor to enter the villain's lair. He showed this ability once backstage, too.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mr. Potato Head acts like either this or JerkWithAHeartOfJerk, depending on the episode.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mr. Potato Head acts like either this or JerkWithAHeartOfJerk, depending on the episode.episode or even the situation. For instance, in one episode spoofing reality shows, he deliberately tricked his friends into getting mad at each other to create drama, but in the end apologized.
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* TemptingFate: after listing off what his invention does (see ArsonMurderAndJaywalking), Dr. Fruitcake tells those assembled at his press conference that his latest invention is ''completely safe'' (his own emphasis). Cue explosion. Then he starts telling them about another invention of his. Cue ''another'' explosion!
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: inverted when Dr. Fruitcake lists his latest invention's features: it will cure all known diseases, generate limitless power, and make [[StockYuck bussels sprouts]] taste like [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood cherry cheesecake]]!
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* RestrainedRevenge: After Mr. Potato Head has a segment of his show where Queenie gets hit by about a dozen pies, she tells him she's not upset because of her new philosophy: Don't get mad--get even! She then pies him in the face. He laughs it off and admits he deserved it.
** Mr. Potato Head arranging PieInTheFace segment of his show in the first place qualifies, as well, since Queenie had been acting like a colossal jerk while she thought she was the [[ItMakesSenseInContext reigning queen of Egypt]].
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* PieInTheFace: Queenie Sweet Potato loves her sugar cream pies. At one point, she accidentally got some pie slapped onto her face, and when Mr. Potato Head's test audience loved it, he added a segment to his for-Toddlers episode where a large number of pies were thrown in Queenie's face.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Queenie Sweet Potato, despite being AnthropomorphicFood herself, has a favorite food: sugar-cream pies.
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* TypeCasting: [[invoked]] This happens in-universe as the way Mr. Potato Head runs his ShowWithinAShow: Mr. Potato Head is invariably TheHero and his best friend Baloney is invariably the {{Sidekick}}. The other characters aren't nearly as typecasted, however; Queenie and Johnny have played both villains and allies, for instance.
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* BeardOfEvil: Bully-Boy [=McPherson=] sports a goatee, and he very much lives up to his name.
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* BaldOfEvil: This, combined with BeardOfEvil and his ''name'', [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bully-Boy McPherson]], are all that's needed to establish Mr. Potato Head's new supervisor as bad news the moment he's introduced.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The [=TV=] bosses set up a violent and sour supervisor over Mr. Potato Head whose name, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer we kid you not]], was ''Bully-Boy McPherson''.

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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The [=TV=] bosses set up a violent and sour supervisor over Mr. Potato Head whose name, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer we kid you not]], was ''Bully-Boy McPherson''.[=McPherson=]''.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The [=TV=] bosses set up a violent and sour supervisor over Mr. Potato Head whose name, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer we kid you not]], was ''Bully-Boy McPherson''.

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* TheDarkArts: Baloney gets a magic kit in one episode. He thinks it's plain sleight-of-hand magic that he's getting into at first, but his magic wand turns another character into a toaster, and he accidentally summons a monster out of his top hat while trying to perform a magic act.



* TheDarkArts: Baloney gets a magic kit in one episode. He thinks it's plain sleight-of-hand magic that he's getting into, but his magic wand turns another character into a toaster, and he accidentally summons a monster out of his top hat while trying to perform a magic act.


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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: The western episode-[[ShowWithinAShow episode]] sees the [=TV=] bosses giving Mr. Potato Head a literally impossible task. When he calls them out on its impossibility, they put an [[SarcasmMode oh-so-subtly-named]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bully-Boy McPherson]] in charge of his show, and give him a contract that allows him to cancel the show if he's not satisfied with the cast's work.
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* InsufferableGenius: One episode (appropriately with a Sherlock Holmes ShowWithinAShow theme to it) had Potato Bug use a brain enhancer. She's an atypical example in that she isn't just a know-it-all, and doesn't even go out of her way to prove she knows it all, either--when other characters ask her trivia questions, she gets bored with that quickly. The problems begin when she starts enhancing equipment around the kitchen in ways only she can understand.

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* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Sweet Potato to Mr. Potato Head.

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* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Sweet Potato to often slaps Mr. Potato Head.Head around, and no one calls her on it. Then again, there are times when Mr. Potato Head is kind of asking for it.


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* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Technically averted, as we never see ''any'' kind of gun on-screen, realistic or otherwise. That said, the show lampshades and dances around the fact that you can't have real guns on a kid's show. For example, in a western episode, sherrif!Mr. Potato Head and outlaw!Johnny have some closeups of them that size them up head-to-toe, and you can tell that ''their holsters are empty''. And yet, when Mr. Potato Head is showing this western episode to the [[ScrewedByTheNetwork TV bosses]], seconds after these size-up camera shots, you can ''hear'' gunshots as part of the climactic shootout while seeing the bosses' reactions of horror as they tell him he can't have guns on the show.
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* IHaveToGoIronMyDog: Due to a misunderstanding, Queenie Sweet Potato felt very awkward around Mr. Potato Head, and made up random and nonsensical excuses to get away from him, including:
--> I have to go shampoo the doorbell!
--> I have to go feed the toaster!
--> I have to go iron my toenails!
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* BrownNote: Mr. Potato Head works hard writing a masterpiece script, hoping it will satisfy the [[Main/TyrantTakesTheHelm man]] his [[ScrewedByTheNetwork TV Bosses]] put in charge of his show. He actually writes something that causes anyone who reads it to go bug-eyed and scream "I have gazed into the nameless horror of the void!". Which actually works perfectly in this case.
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* EverybodyHatesMath: One episode had the TV Guys tell Mr. Potato Head and his crew to do an educational superhero show. When Mr. Potato Head's character sang a song about the Pythagorean Theorem right before a battle with an evil robot, the evil robot just moaned "I ''hate'' math!", [[ItMakesSenseInContext filled up its bubble-helmet with whipped cream in a panic]], and fainted.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold / JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Mr. Potato Head acts like this in some episodes.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold / JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mr. Potato Head acts like either this in some episodes.or JerkWithAHeartOfJerk, depending on the episode.

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* MagicIsEvil / TheDarkArts: Baloney gets a magic kit in one episode. He thinks it's plain sleight-of-hand magic that he's getting into, but his magic wand turns another character into a toaster, and he accidentally summons a monster out of his top hat while trying to perform a magic act.


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* TheDarkArts: Baloney gets a magic kit in one episode. He thinks it's plain sleight-of-hand magic that he's getting into, but his magic wand turns another character into a toaster, and he accidentally summons a monster out of his top hat while trying to perform a magic act.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Mr. Potato Head makes the mistake of having a BLAM at the end of his cop-episode where a clown appears on-stage and sprays everyone with whipped cream. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext This only makes]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext slightly more sense in context]]. The other cast members call him out on it.
* CloudCuckooLander: Potato Bug.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: This happens in-universe as a bad decision on Mr. Potato Head makes the mistake Head's part on how he wrote an episode of having his ShowWithinAShow: he had a BLAM at the end of his cop-episode where a clown appears on-stage and sprays everyone with whipped cream. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext This only makes]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext slightly more sense in context]]. The other cast members call him out Other characters comment on it.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Potato Bug.Bug: she talks to shoes (but ''never'' boots), believes goblins deliver the newspaper every day, and thinks you can get milk from a cabbage if you can get it to say "moo".



* ScrewedByTheNetwork: happens often in-universe, with the TV executives changing their minds about things ''in the middle of filming an episode'' of Mr. Potato Head's {{ShowWithinAShow}}, such as telling them that their superhero episode needs to be educational or a musical.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: happens often in-universe, with the TV executives changing their minds about things ''in the middle of filming an episode'' of Mr. Potato Head's {{ShowWithinAShow}}, ShowWithinAShow, such as telling them that their superhero episode needs to be educational or a musical.
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* AesopAmnesia: Mr. Potato Head often forgets the moral of the episode immediately after voicing it; this tends to happen as part of the stinger.
* AmusingInjuries: the show uses slapstick humor from time to time, including Baloney being electrocuted and a ham-monster hurling characters across the room.
* AnthropomorphicFood: the majority of the cast.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: In one episode, Dr. Fruitcake grows to enormous proportions after eating radioactive sludge. In another episode, Dr. Fruitcake ends up in a parallel universe where he's chased by a giant, carnivorous Mr. Potato Head.
* BalefulPolymorph: an evil magic kit turns two characters into toasters, who both say "I feel peculiar" upon this happening.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Mr. Potato Head makes the mistake of having a BLAM at the end of his cop-episode where a clown appears on-stage and sprays everyone with whipped cream. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext This only makes]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext slightly more sense in context]]. The other cast members call him out on it.


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* CueTheRain: After alienating all his friends and turning all the floorspace he'd normally use to film his show into rented space in order to make money, Mr. Potato Head is stuck outdoors, alone. He says it's not so bad "on a day like today", only for a thunderstorm to begin.


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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Often, when Mr. Potato Head met with the TV executives, they were eating french fries.


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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold / JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Mr. Potato Head acts like this in some episodes.
* LampshadeHanging: When Jiblets is playing the evil overlord in the spy episode and has spy!Mr. Potato Head and spy!Baloney captured, he literally says he'll explain his evil plan to them so they can foil it. Then when Mr. Potato Head pressed a BigRedButton to activate the island's self-destruct, Jiblets howls, "I knew I shouldn't have had that thing installed!"
* MadScientist: Dr. Fruitcake, in spades: he created a Frankenstein-like ham-monster that attacked the rest of the cast, built machines that have exploded when they're supposed to be safe, and given the other characters ''real weapons'' as props while they were doing a spy show.
* MagicIsEvil / TheDarkArts: Baloney gets a magic kit in one episode. He thinks it's plain sleight-of-hand magic that he's getting into, but his magic wand turns another character into a toaster, and he accidentally summons a monster out of his top hat while trying to perform a magic act.


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* NervousWreck: Happy Whip, a can of whipped cream with Mr. Potato Head arms attached, comes across this way. Whenever he gets emotional (typically afraid, though pride can have this effect as well), he sprays whipped cream everywhere. The main purpose of his appearances is for him to panic and trigger this.
* OncePerEpisode: Most episodes had Betty the Kitchen Fairy appear to deliver an aesop and call out the characters on jerkish behavior. If there's a problem like a monster chasing the characters, though, she won't intervene to save them. Most episodes also have a song in them.
* SassyBlackWoman: Queenie Sweet Potato comes across this way, though she's an anthropomorphic yam.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: happens often in-universe, with the TV executives changing their minds about things ''in the middle of filming an episode'' of Mr. Potato Head's {{ShowWithinAShow}}, such as telling them that their superhero episode needs to be educational or a musical.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Baloney and Mr. Potato Head have this dynamic; Baloney has little problem expressing his softer emotions and is into things like aromatherapy, while PH tends to only express manlier emotions like anger and annoyance, and is ashamed to be found dancing.
* ShoePhone: subverted in the spy episode: Potato Bug is regularly in the habit of speaking to shoes. See CloudCuckooLander above.
* ShowWithinAShow: This is the premise of the Mr. Potato Head show. No, really: the main cast films episodes of a TV show (not all of which we get to see) for a pair of network executives. However, what this show is or even its genre is different in every episode.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: happens in-universe in an episode where Mr. Potato Head had gone money-mad and was deliberately keeping the budget down: three small spaceship miniatures made of tinfoil, suspended by visible wires, are swinging around in front of the camera, while the narrator says things like "Swish! Boom! Zap!"--those were the only sound effects. And this is supposed to be the sci-fi episode's epic space battle.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Jiblets is a character who delights in the suffering of others. When the show is cancelled in the finale, he laments that he's unemployable, and when Mr. Potato Head jokingly says "There's always politics", he quickly regrets it.
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''The Mr. Potato Head Show'' was a short-lived {{Puppet Show|s}} on Creator/FoxKids based on Mr. Potato Head. It lasted 13 episodes before being canceled. Afterwards, a DirectToVideo movie was produced, in which... well, the show gets canceled.

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''The Mr. Potato Head Show'' was a short-lived {{Puppet Show|s}} on Creator/FoxKids based on Mr. Potato Head. It lasted 13 episodes [[ShortRunners before being canceled. canceled.]] Afterwards, a DirectToVideo movie was produced, in which... well, the show gets canceled.
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!!''The Mr. Potato Head Show'' provides examples of:

*CloudCuckooLander: Potato Bug.
*DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Sweet Potato to Mr. Potato Head.
*EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: In "Aliens Dig Baloney", the Aliens that Baloney encounters make him listen to bagpipe music, much to his horror. They later regret this decision.
*GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Godfrey Daniels! Not the censors again!"
*JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: In an episode of Mr. Potato Head's in-universe show, where Mr. Potato Head and Baloney play cops, they arrest Sweet Potato for jaywalking.
*MoralGuardians: During the filming of a monster-themed episode, the censors won't let Mr. Potato Head use a gun or drive a stake through someone's heart on a children's show. He improvises by serving yogurt with a silver spoon to the werewolf actor and driving a stake through the vampire actor's cape.
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-> ''He's got two eyes''\\
''He's got a nose''\\
''He's got two ears''\\
''Wherever he goes''\\
''When you see him comin', well everybody knows!''\\
''Mr. Potato Head! Mr. Potato Head! Mr. Potato Head...''\\
--'''Opening theme song'''

''The Mr. Potato Head Show'' was a short-lived PuppetShow on Creator/FoxKids based on Mr. Potato Head. It lasted 13 episodes before being canceled. Afterwards, a DirectToVideo movie was produced, in which... well, the show gets canceled.

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Mr.
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''The Mr. Potato Head Show'' was a short-lived PuppetShow {{Puppet Show|s}} on Creator/FoxKids based on Mr. Potato Head. It lasted 13 episodes before being canceled. Afterwards, a DirectToVideo movie was produced, in which... well, the show gets canceled.
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-> ''He's got two eyes''\\
''He's got a nose''\\
''He's got two ears''\\
''Wherever he goes''\\
''When you see him comin', well everybody knows!''\\
''Mr. Potato Head! Mr. Potato Head! Mr. Potato Head...''\\
--'''Opening theme song'''

''The Mr. Potato Head Show'' was a short-lived PuppetShow on Creator/FoxKids based on Mr. Potato Head. It lasted 13 episodes before being canceled. Afterwards, a DirectToVideo movie was produced, in which... well, the show gets canceled.

Yes, the show was sort of ''about'' Mr. Potato Head having a TV show. Potato Head battled with the TV execs (who are [[CardCarryingVillain most certainly evil, and they won't let you forget it]]) many times, including in the movie.

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