History WesternAnimation / DanielTigersNeighborhood

''Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood'' is targeted at young audiences and preschoolers around the age of 2-4, rather than the wider target audience of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' and carries a focus on social development and emotions. Each installment features Daniel either at home, at one of his friend's houses, or at school with his friends. The show was made with the direct involvement of the Fred Rogers Company and [[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/arts/television/daniel-tigers-neighborhood-in-mr-rogerss-tradition.html?pagewanted=all had been in development for six years after the company realized it could not survive without making a new show.]] Fred Rogers had considered grooming a replacement before his death, but could never find someone suitable, and the creators decided not to include any character intended to represent a form of Rogers in the series for this reason. Despite this, the program contains many nods to the original show. In 2013, the program won the [[http://angelasclues.com/daniel-tigers-neighborhood-wins-parents-choice-award Parents Choice Award.]]

* Half Dressed Cartoon Animal: Daniel Tiger Does Not Wear Pants https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HalfDressedCartoonAnimal

* Half Dressed Cartoon Animal: Daniel Tiger Does Not Wear Pants

* BeYourself: This is the [[AnAesop aesop]] of "You Are Special / Daniel is Special." For example, O wants to do a magic trick because he thinks it'll make him special like Prince Wednesday, even though he doesn't really know how to do magic. Teacher Harriet tells him he doesn't have to do a magic trick to be special.

* FormulaBreakingEpisode: Most episodes have AnAesop, but "Prince Wednesday's Happy Birthday" doesn't have any morals at all. Notably, while songs are usually used to teach morals in the episodes, this episode's song was just Daniel singing for joy.

* AnAesop:
** Most, if not all, episodes have morals, usually delivered in song. Curiously, all of the adults (and on some occasions, all of the kids) seem to know these songs. It's almost as if they're teaching them to one another. This is directly [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "Something Special for Dad" when Mr. [=McFeeley=] sings one of the songs that Daniel's mom sung and then flashes a wink at her.
** In particular, the episodes on voting claims that everyone’s vote counts and that you should try to find something good about alternatives when you don't get what you want.

* ButNotTooBlack: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Miss Elaina, who has a white mother and black father, but has a reasonably dark skin tone.