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* NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: {{Averted|Trope}}, since robots are shown to be swimming with no problems in the "Water Safety" movie.
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* EmbarrassingNickname: Tim's mom [[AffectionateNickname affectionately calls him "Timmy"]], much to his chagrin.
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** In the "Henry Hudson" movie, Hudson's crew passes by [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a Santa statue holding up a sign]] that says [[Series/GameOfThrones "winter is coming".]]

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* LoopholeAbuse: In the "Engineering Design Process" movie, Rita's team gets 2nd Place in the rafting competition. Each team had to build rafts using household objects, but the winning team used a raft from the store. The winner then claims that he found the raft in his house, ''technically'' making it a household object, but Moby quickly snatches the rulebook away from him.



** At the end of the "Atoms" video, Tim has moment of wide-eyed panic when Moby throws his football to him and then tackles him.

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** At the end of the "Atoms" video, Tim has a moment of wide-eyed panic when Moby throws his football to him and then tackles him.



* OncePerEpisode: In most episodes, Tim receives from Moby a letter asking about the episode's subject, and he reads it out loud. It was followed by him explaining information about the subject.

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* OncePerEpisode: In most episodes, Tim receives from Moby a letter asking about the episode's subject, and he reads it out loud. It was It's followed by him explaining information about the subject.
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** The "Relative Dating" movie takes place on Cassie's 16th birthday, and she and Moby discuss how scientists determined how old Earth is.

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** The "Relative Dating" movie takes place on Cassie's 16th birthday, and she and Moby discuss how scientists determined how old Earth is. It's then revealed that Moby baked a layer cake of Cassie's life, just like the Earth's strata, but [[IAteWhat with her baby teeth as the "fossils".]]

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** The "Relative Dating" movie takes place on Cassie's 16th birthday.

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** The "Relative Dating" movie takes place on Cassie's 16th birthday.birthday, and she and Moby discuss how scientists determined how old Earth is.



* IdeaBulb: Played with in the "Relative Dating" movie, where Charles Darwin had a gas lantern pop up above his head when the discovery of the Earth's age [[EurekaMoment gave him the idea to study evolution.]]



** UpToEleven when Tim and Moby become stranded on a island named "Nude Island".

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** UpToEleven when Tim and Moby become stranded on a an island named "Nude Island".

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* BirthdayEpisode: The "Concept Mapping" movie has Moby celebrating his birthday, but he can't blow out the candle since he doesn't have lungs. This motivates Tim to make a concept map about fire.

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The "Concept Mapping" movie has Moby celebrating his birthday, but he can't blow out the candle since he doesn't have lungs. This motivates Tim to make a concept map about fire. fire.
** The "Relative Dating" movie takes place on Cassie's 16th birthday.



* CollectorOfTheStrange: Apparently Tim kept a lot of rubber ducks in his bathroom, and he used them to make his team's raft in the "Engineering Design Process" movie. Cassie likewise had a large Kitty Ranger collection, so she didn't judge him.

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* CollectorOfTheStrange: Apparently Tim kept keeps a lot of rubber ducks in his bathroom, and he used them to make his team's raft in the "Engineering Design Process" movie. Cassie likewise had has a large Kitty Ranger collection, so she didn't judge him.

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** Since the 2010s, the character designs on either historical figures or background characters both look and animate more smooth compare to the earlier toons.

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** Since the 2010s, the character designs on either historical figures or background characters both look and animate more smooth compare smoothly compared to the earlier toons.



* CheerfulChild: Annie of BrainPop Jr. is this.

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* CheerfulChild: Annie of BrainPop [=BrainPop=] Jr. is this.



* RoboRomance: In the "Grace Hopper" movie, Moby dates Aphasia, Tim's virtual assistant that functions like Alexa, much to Tim's chagrin since he needed it to [[ItMakesSenseInContext order more pimple cream.]]



** The beginning of the "Alan Turing" video includes a homage to ''Series/WheelOfFortune''.

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** The beginning of the "Alan Turing" video includes a homage to ''Series/WheelOfFortune''.''Series/WheelOfFortune'', where Tim hosts "Disc of Dollars", with Moby and two other robots as the contestants.



** In the "Capitalization," "Clauses," and "Multiplication" videos, Energon cubes from Franchise{{Transformers}} are mentioned.

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** In the "Capitalization," "Clauses," and "Multiplication" videos, Energon cubes from Franchise{{Transformers}} Franchise/{{Transformers}} are mentioned.



** Moby says something about a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster flying spaghetti monster]] in the Dark Matter video.

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** Moby says something about a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster [[UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster flying spaghetti monster]] in the Dark Matter video.



** Tim hosts [[Series/WheelOfForturne "Disc of Dollars"]] in the "Alan Turing" movie, with Moby and two other robots as the contestants.
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* CollectorOfTheStrange: Apparently Tim kept a lot of rubber ducks in his bathroom, and he used them to make his team's raft in the "Engineering Design Process" movie. Cassie likewise had a large Kitty Ranger collection, so she didn't judge him.
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* BirthdayEpisode: The "Concept Mapping" movie has Moby celebrating his birthday, but he can't blow out the candle since he doesn't have lungs. This motivates Tim to make a concept map about fire.

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* FourFingeredHands: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] at the end of the "Metric vs Imperial" movie. Tim explains that we use the decimal system because we have ten fingers and raises both hands up to show ten... only to realize that he's missing two.

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* FourFingeredHands: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d at the end of the "Metric vs Imperial" movie. Tim explains that we use the decimal system because we have ten fingers and raises both hands up to show ten... only to realize that he's missing two.



** Tim hosts [[Series/WheelOfForturne "Disc of Dollars"]] in the "Alan Turing" movie, with Moby and two other robots as the contestants.



* UpdatedRerelease: Some of the toons are updated during time. Best examples are one involving the 9/11 attacks, where minor were made after Osama's death, and about rainbows, which is a major remake of the original.

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* UpdatedRerelease: Some of the toons are updated during time. Best examples are one involving the 9/11 attacks, where minor changes were made after Osama's death, and about rainbows, which is a major remake of the original.



* VocalEvolution / EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Tim sounded quite different in older videos, and he talked faster because back then dial-up was common.

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Tim sounded quite different in older videos, and he talked faster because back then dial-up was common.


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* YourHeadAsplode: When Moby tries comprehending how many computations the Alan Turing's Enigma machine made, his head explodes, but he regrows it.

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* SuddenlyVoiced: Moby in the Etymology video where Tim installed his speech function. This has GoneHorriblyRight when he begs Tim to give him fifty dollars.

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* SuddenlyVoiced: SuddenlySpeaking: Moby in the Etymology video where Tim installed his speech function. This has GoneHorriblyRight when he begs Tim to give him fifty dollars.
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** Tim and Moby in the "Industrial Revolution" episode when they hear the train's whistle and get out of the tunnel as fast as they can.
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* TalkingLightbulb: Moby's lights on his chest blinks whenever he beeps.


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* WalletMoths: "Dividing Decimals" has Moby opening his wallet to see if he had any money to pay for the gas station food, but the only thing that came out is flies.

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A Shipper On Deck actively ships two other people. Been a long time since I last watched this, so I'm not sure if they're really an Official Couple, so feel free to change it to a better trope.


* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: "Pregnancy" shows [[ShipperOnDeck a grown-up, married Tim and Rita]] with two children.

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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: "Pregnancy" shows [[ShipperOnDeck [[OfficialCouple a grown-up, married Tim and Rita]] with two children.



* OfficialCouple: See BabiesMakeEverythingBetter.



* ShipperOnDeck: See BabiesMakeEverythingBetter.

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* CheerfulChild: Annie of BrainPop Jr. is this.



** Tim sings a song to the tune of "[[Music/{{Survivor}} Eye of the Tiger]]" while going to feed his pet lizard.

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** Tim sings a song to the tune of "[[Music/{{Survivor}} Eye of the Tiger]]" while going to feed his pet lizard.turtle, Tibby.


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** In newer videos of BrainPop Jr., Annie's voice is a lot higher-pitched than it was in older videos.
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* ArtStyleDissonance: Despite the series getting an art evolution, some characters that didn't updated would often look odd against some of the newer characters (compare Tim with Nat).

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* ArtStyleDissonance: Despite the series getting an art evolution, some characters that didn't get updated would often look odd against some of the newer characters (compare Tim with Nat).
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** See the Digital Etiquette episode.

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** See the Digital Etiquette episode. JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though he does have these moments.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Cassie and Rita replace Tim and Moby in the Menstrual Cycle and Underwater World videos. Not only that, but later videos, updated or not, have Tim replaced with either of them or Nat.
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[[caption-width-right:258:The main ''[[http://www.brainpop.com BrainPOP]]'' and ''[[http://www.brainpopjr.com BrainPOP Jr.]]'' cast.[[note]]From L to R: [[RecurringExtra Rita]], [[ButtMonkey Tim]], [[IntelligibleUnintelligible Moby]], [[CheerfulChild Annie]], and [[RecurringExtra Cassie]]. Not pictured, Ben from ''[=BrainPOP=] ELL''.[[/note]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:258:The main ''[[http://www.brainpop.com BrainPOP]]'' and ''[[http://www.brainpopjr.com BrainPOP Jr.]]'' cast.[[note]]From L to R: [[RecurringExtra Rita]], [[ButtMonkey Tim]], [[IntelligibleUnintelligible Moby]], [[CheerfulChild Annie]], and [[RecurringExtra Cassie]]. Not pictured, Ben from ''[=BrainPOP=] ELL''.ELL'' and [[BlackAndNerdy Nat]].[[/note]]]]
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Today is Harvey Milk day, so I watched the Brainpop movie on him. Why yes, I do watch Brainpop videos outside of school sometimes.

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** The intro to the Harvey Milk video is a parody of cheesy '80s sitcom intros, specifically the ''Series/FullHouse'', which makes sense, considering that the video takes place in San Francisco.
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A Boy And His X is a different sort of trope where the work revolves around the relationship between two individuals and they usually form a bond with the "X" that "changes them forever, usually starting them down the path to adulthood."


* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his orange robot.

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* {{Adorkable}}: Tim

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* {{Adorkable}}: TimTim can be this at times.



* BlandNameProduct: In the "Smoking" video, an e-cigarette named Kuul is mentioned, it being an obvious ripoff of Juul.



* DistaffCounterpart: Cassie and Rita would be this to Tim and Moby. Cassie is more like Moby, with Rita being more of the Tim.

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Cassie and Rita would be this to Tim and Moby. Cassie is more like Moby, with Rita being more of the Tim.



* At the beginning of the "Dance" movie, Tim hums the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Underwater Theme.]]

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* ** At the beginning of the "Dance" movie, Tim hums the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Underwater Theme.]]]]
** In the episode about Alexander Hamilton, Moby is shown directing ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}''.

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* ArtEvolution: Tim & Moby looked rather ugly when they first appeared in 1997. In 1998, Tim looks much like an adult and Moby looks much better. Beginning in the "Asthma" video (from 1999), Moby got straighter lines.

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** Cassie originally had eyes with pupils unlike the other characters who have the black bead eyes and wore a tanktop. But she got a new design in 2017 and received similar eyes like the other characters, gain freckles and her top is now a regular t-shirt.

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* OhCrap: Tim has a moment of confused shock when he walks in on Cassie and Rita reading a letter about [[NoPeriodsPeriod the menstrual cycle.]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Then, he quickly decides to leave]].

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Tim has a moment of confused shock when he walks in on Cassie and Rita reading a letter about [[NoPeriodsPeriod the menstrual cycle.]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Then, he quickly decides to leave]].leave]].
** At the end of the "Atoms" video, Tim has moment of wide-eyed panic when Moby throws his football to him and then tackles him.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In the remake version of the "Dinosaur" episode, Moby uses an energy ball to transform a fossilized Eoraptor into a real one and the energy ball inadvertently causes chaos within the museum.

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In the remake version of the "Dinosaur" episode, Moby uses an energy ball to transform a fossilized Eoraptor ''Eoraptor'' into a real one and the energy ball inadvertently causes chaos within the museum.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In the remake version of the "Dinosaur" episode, Moby uses an energy ball to transform a fossilized Eoraptor into a real one and the energy ball inadvertently causes chaos within the museum.
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** The beginning of the "Alan Turing" video includes a parody of ''Series/WheelOfFortune''.

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** The beginning of the "Alan Turing" video includes a parody of homage to ''Series/WheelOfFortune''.
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* OhCrap: Tim, upon finding out that he has to talk about [[NoPeriodsPeriod periods.]]

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* OhCrap: Tim, upon finding out that he Tim has to talk a moment of confused shock when he walks in on Cassie and Rita reading a letter about [[NoPeriodsPeriod periods.]]the menstrual cycle.]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Then, he quickly decides to leave]].

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