History WesternAnimation / DawnOfTheCroods

* BeeAfraid: Happens constantly to multiple characters.
** In "A Spoonful of Soo-Gar," the whole tribe is on the run from a huge swarm of bees, though nobody gets stung.
** In "It Crushes," Eep accdenally crashes into a beehive, shrieking in pain. She then intentionally lets herself be stung as an attempt to drown out her feelings of love for her crush.
** In "It Takes Ahhh! Valley Part 2," the Croods launch a beehive at a dinosaur in an unsuccessful attempt to ward it off.
** In "Slak Attack," One-Eyed Amber recommends shoving beehives into the clothes of lazy teenagers as a way of motivating them, then proceeds to demonstrate by cramming one down her own loincloth.
** In "A Gran Adventure," Ugga is stung badly by swarms of bees Gran has employed as booby traps to safeguard her treasure.
** In "Gorgey Girl," a male caveman is stung by bees as part of a lesson being taught to Eep's class. When the teacher realizes Eep isn't paying attention, he throws a hive at her as well.

* ProgressivelyPrettier: Both Eep and Ugga have been shifted away from UglyCute and closer to HotAmazon territory. (Oddly, this makes the show closer to Creator/ChrisSanders original concept than the movie was.)

->'''Eep''': Since the first sunrise, there have been two things you can always count on: Family and change. And both can be pretty painful. Hi, I'm Eep. My family, the Croods, [[WesternAnimation/TheCroods went through a lot of changes surviving what we called "The End"]]. But this isn't that story. [[{{Prequel}} This is about "The Before", as in, before the end]].

* SuddenlyVoiced: Sandy gets several songs in "Wrestlebabia: The Musical", although all of her songs are simply ImagineSpot.

* BlackComedy: This series uses a lot of jokes centered around either the chance of someone dying or someone already have died.

* AdaptationalDyeJob: Ugga and Sandy have red hair like Eep.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In "Thunkytown":
-->'''Thunk:''' I'm just gonna do a number three real quick.\\
'''Grug:''' Is that the sit-down one or the stand-up one?\\
'''Thunk:''' It's the jumping-from-the-tree one.\\
'''Grug:''' Huh. Well, however you get it done, son.

** In "It Crushes," Eep willingly lets herself be stung by bees as an attempt to drown out her feelings of love for her crush.

''[Thunk imagines himself riding an bear owl.]''\\

* MixAndMatchCritter: As is the case in the movies, Creatures in the Croodaceous era are mash ups of other creatures. A few sample critters are spider ants, bear owls, chickuna (a mix of tuna and chicken) and albacerous (a bird with rhinoceros feature).

* AerithAndBob: Amongst the many object inspired names, we have Steve and Kevin. Eep later reveals Sandy's full name is Sandra.

* [[spoiler: FramingDevice: The whole series turns out to be this in the series finale when it was revealed in the end that Eep was telling the whole series to Guy after the end of the movie]]

* PuppyDogEyes: In "There Will Be Eggs", Eep and Thunk try to do this on their parents to let them trade for screamboards, which doesn't work.

* WeirdCurrency: Eggs, apparently. Specifically Moooooose eggs in "There Will Be Eggs". Though the screamboard maker/seller only wants eggs to smash them.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: In "There Will Be Eggs", Eep and Thunk try to find something more valuable to trade for screamboards. All they found are "worthless sparkle rocks" (diamonds).

* ItsPronouncedTroPAY: It's literally named after a scream, you can just say "Ahh Valley", you have to scream the Ahh out. "''AAAH!!'' Valley". The Broods don't really get this so Grug keeps correcting them.
* [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: In two episodes, a character finishes the episode by speaking directly to the viewers and someone asking who are they talking to. Then it is shown that the character was [[BaitAndSwitch apparently addressing some Liyotes]], only they are just as confused as the cast.

** When Grug is temporarily the valley's problem solver, he considers hitting himself in the head with a rock to "activate ideas".

** In "Gran the Unfriendly Ghost", after disregarding Gran's advice about eclipses, she decides to pretend to be eaten by wild liyotes to make the croods feel guilty.

* ShoutOut: Eep's Egg Toss team is named [[Film/CoyoteUgly Liyote Uglies]].

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Meep and Snoot

* PickyEater: Thunk hates Chickuna, and trying to dispose of all the Chickuna he's been hiding instead of eating accidentally attracts Bear Owls.