History WesternAnimation / BottersnikesAndGumbles

* LostAesop: Combined with ScriptWank; in "The King's Seat", Happi says he thinks there's a lesson for all the Gumbles to have learned after the events of the episode, but when he is asked what it is, he has no clue.

* MismatchedEyes: Unlike the rest of the Gumbles, Toot has heterochromatic eyes - his left eye has a yellow iris and his right eye has a blue iris.

* RealityEnsues:
** When Tink attempts to drive over Snike Hill at full speed to escape the Bottersnikes pursuing him and his friends (after stealing their magnet), Bounce is quick to warn him that they will either die or get seriously injured. [[SubvertedTrope Luckily, neither happens]].
** In "Gumble Pie", Bounce and Willi see Tink getting "eaten" by King Snike (in reality, he ate a dummy made to look like Tink [[SleepingDummy to skip lookout duty]]). Despite Toot [[GettingEatenIsHarmless having previously survived that himself]], when Bounce and Willi learn Tink is alive and well (along with the fact he shirked work), Bounce's response quite vividly implies that getting eaten means being killed.
---> '''Bounce:''' What kind of a whomping grubmuffin...? We thought you were dead!

* BrokenHero: [[spoiler:Toot once went into Snike Hill by himself and attempted to make friends with the Bottersnikes, only for it to backfire horribly when the Snikes not only refused but proceeded to imprison him underground and, later on, have King Snike eat him alive. After escaping, Toot was left paranoid and scared of the Bottersnikes and now spends his days in the Gumbletree's lookout turret, with his hero story about his attempt at making peace - which refers to him as "the Unnamed Gumble" - stashed away in a container and never being recorded into the Gumbledex.]]

* StrongFamilyResemblance: Sammi Whammi looks like an older Toot.

* MismatchedEyes: Unlike the rest of the Gumbles, Toot has heterochromatic eyes - his left eye has a brown iris and his right eye has a blue iris.

** In "This Means Peace", Tink and a Bottersnike get stuck together and must cooperate to get free. At the end they decide to become friends after one of them says they don't remember why they're enemies, but their friendship is short-lived as they end up accidentally insulting each other which then escalates into a fight before the two part ways.

** "Where's Willi?" revolves around Willi discovering a Gumble with supposedly no name and trying to find out more about him when he finds that some of the Gumbledex cards depicting him are missing. As a result, he goes to ask Happi about it, hoping to find out more about the unnamed Gumble since Happi is considered the wisest of the bunch and would probably be happy to tell all about it as he does with other famous Gumbles. However, a slightly more serious tone sets in when Happi [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness refuses to say anything on the matter]].
---> '''Willi:''' You know about the unnamed Gumble! Why hasn't he been rescued, why doesn't he have a name, and who hid these cards?\\
---> '''Happi:''' There are reasons we don't talk about this. A grublit shouldn't pry, let sleeping Gumbles lie.

* RealityEnsues: When Tink attempts to drive over Snike Hill at full speed to escape the Bottersnikes pursuing him and his friends (after stealing their magnet), Bounce is quick to warn him that they will either die or get seriously injured. [[SubvertedTrope Luckily, neither happens]].

* WhamEpisode: "Toot On Duty" plays out like the show usually does, but with an unique addition not seen in any other episode: the opportunity to hear [[InnerMonologue Toot's thoughts]]. Also unlike other episodes which rely on comedy and silliness, this one portrays the idea that Toot doesn't have an outlook on life that is as positive as those of the other Gumbles and also brings out a bleaker tone, revealing the reason behind his fearful disposition.
--> '''Bounce:''' Hey, Toot!
--> '''Toot:''' Toot. Toot.
--> '''Bounce:''' Don't suppose you want to come out gumbling? I mean, [[TheHermit you never do]], but...
--> '''Toot:''' Toot. Toot toot toot toot.
--> '''Bounce:''' Aww, Toot. You don't know what you're missing!
--> '''Toot:''' (in his mind) [[WhamLine Oh, young Bounce, I do know what I'm missing. I do know what's out there.]] ''[[WhamLine Bottersnikes.]]''

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In "Gumble Magnetism", when King Snike is woken up by radio music which Willi had accidentally turned on while trying to steal a giant magnet with his friends, he utters the following:
---> "Auuugh! What fresh [[PrecisionFStrike hell]] is this?!
** In "The Gumbledex", Willi makes guesses on how many Bottersnike nose hairs he thinks Tink can get based on the minimum number needed to break the record (six, as the record is five). His guesses include six, sixty, six thousand, six million, and [[NumberOfTheBeast six hundred and sixty six]].
** In "Eau De Gumble", Tink and Bounce eat all but two chili grubs which get left behind in a bucket after the two rescue Willi from Snike Hill. When they return later and reclaim the bucket, they discover that [[ExplosiveBreeder it's now full of chili grubs instead of having only the two from earlier]], resulting in Willi (who is a child) getting confused and Bounce nervously telling him that she'll "explain later".

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Toot is particularly afraid of the Bottersnikes, and has a strong aversion to mattress stuffing. As his thoughts reveal in "Toot On Duty", this is because he was once captured by the Bottersnikes and SwallowedWhole by King Snike and any mentions of either Bottersnikes or mattress stuffing reminded him of that.

* TheSoCalledCoward: Although he's normally defined as very shy and apprehensive, Toot can and does muster the courage to go against his fears when the situation calls for it.

* BadBoss: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. King Snike regularly takes advantage of his minions, but a couple of times he's also shown to treat the other Bottersnikes [[PetTheDog just a little nicely]].

* PaperThinDisguise: In "Undercover Gumble", Tink disguises himself as a Bottersnike... using a poorly conceived suit made out of junk. With it even being described as a terrible design. The Bottersnikes fall for the disguise (with a bit of initial suspicion).