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** Played straight with Abuela, whose skin tone is a darker brown tone than any of the main cast.
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* LatinoIsBrown: Averted with the Grant-Gomez kids and their maternal cousin, Fred--they are all actually fairly pale-skinned. Especially noticeable in the blue-eyed, blonde-haired Gretel.
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* GrumpyBear: Kevin is this in contrast to Gretel, complaining about having to drive his sister everywhere in a minivan and having no superpowers.
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* SecretKeeper: Fred is the only character other than Kevin who knows of Hamster and Gretel's superhero identities and that they are one and the same.
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* SecretKeeper: Fred is the only character other than Kevin who knows of Hamster and Gretel's superhero identities and that they are one and the same. [[spoiler: She's joined by Kevin and Gretel's ''abuelita'' at the end of "Abuelita's World".]]
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'''Hamster:''' Not gonna happen. [[MediumAwareness We're a cartoon]].\\
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'''Hamster:''' [[NotAllowedToGrowUp Not gonna happen. happen.]] [[MediumAwareness We're a cartoon]].\\
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* TakeThat: In "Birthday Besties", Kevin flies through the air, hitting the lever on the ride to "Only Legal in Florida", which is a jab to the state of Florida.
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* TakeThat: In "Birthday Besties", Kevin flies through the air, hitting the lever on the ride to its highest level, "Only Legal in Florida", which is a jab to the state of Florida.{{UsefulNotes/Florida}}".
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!!''Hamster & Gretel'' provides examples of:
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* HiddenAgendaVillain: The aliens. "Oakey Dokey" ends on the implication that they have ulterior motives for giving Hamster and Gretel superpowers to use for good, as they similarly bestow powers upon Lauren and Lyle for the purposes of ''evil'' instead. They're also the ones who gave La Cebolla superpowers for evil in "La Ballad of La Cebolla", noting her case as Experiment 622H-108 and calling its status a Failure after its completion (i.e. after Hamster and Gretel defeated her). The ending of "U.F. UH-OH!" also has the male alien compliment the female alien for finding [[KryptoniteFactor some weird rock that saps away superpowers]], and proclaim that [[AllAccordingToPlan everything is coming together]] as they [[EvilLaugh laugh maniacally]].
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If they were meant to give Kevin superpowers, they had all the time to do so since they keep visiting the same town without EVER giving Kevin superpowers (they provided lights for Kevin's impromptu homecoming dance at the end of "Saturday Homecoming Fever" and nothing else, for instance. Kevin's Theme Song Takeover also actively goes against the notion that Kevin was supposed to get superpowers, as they explicitly tell Kevin that they're not giving him superpowers. Finally, the ending of "Oakey Dokey" doesn't actually imply at all that Kevin was supposed to get superpowers; the fact that they're giving Lauren and Lyle (and later La Cebolla, and possibly a bouncy castle as well) superpowers to do evil instead of good, would INSTEAD imply that they have ulterior motives for giving these random citizens superpowers, which is again indicated at the end of "U.F. UH-OH". So far, there isn't ANY evidence that Kevin was supposed to get superpowers, only Kevin thinks he got skipped over by accident.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: "Oakey Dokey" ends on the implication that Keven ''really was'' meant to be gifted superpowers as well alongside Gretel, as the aliens similarly bestow powers upon Lauren and Lyle for the purposes of evil, but due to Hamster also being a living being in the target zone of their beam, he got the powers instead by accident.
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** Gretel, Kevin, and Fred are watching a show called "[[Series/GameOfThrones English History But With Dragons]]"
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** Gretel, Kevin, and Fred are watching a show called "[[Series/GameOfThrones English History England But With Dragons]]"
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Used for RuleOfFunny and lampshaped in "Cheer Cheer Bang Bang" when Fred needs to prove that she's acrobatic enough to be on the cheerleading squad; she executes an ''absurd'' routine that requires her to be airborne for an impossible amount of time - long enough for Kevin to consult a Physics textbook ''and'' a professor of Astrophysics about it.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Used for RuleOfFunny and lampshaped lampshaded in "Cheer Cheer Bang Bang" when Fred needs to prove that she's acrobatic enough to be on the cheerleading squad; she executes an ''absurd'' routine that requires her to be airborne for an impossible amount of time - long enough for Kevin to consult a Physics textbook ''and'' a professor of Astrophysics about it.
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* LeeroyJenkins: Gretel's go-to strategy for dealing with a superhero problem is just to punch it. This leads to some of Gretel’s more reckless decisions, and can often make the problem worse.
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* LeeroyJenkins: Gretel's go-to strategy for dealing with a superhero problem is just to punch it. This leads to some of Gretel’s Gretel's more reckless decisions, and can often make the problem worse.
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* TrainProblem: In "Math Punch", Gretel hates doing math, and the episode begins with Kevin trying to have her do a train problem; she just claims that since she's a superhero now, she won't need math. Later, when Kevin and Rodney Thunderpants are on a runaway train, Gretel has to do math to figure out how to get there in time to save them.
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* TrainProblem: In "Math Punch", Gretel hates doing math, and the episode begins with Kevin trying to have her do a train problem; she just claims that since she's a superhero now, she won't need math. Later, when Kevin and Rodney Thunderpants are on a runaway train, Gretel has to do the math to figure out how to get there in time to save them.
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* PowersInTheFirstEpisode: Hamster and Gretel receive their superpowers from the aliens in the first episode.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Gretel's friend Bailey is somehow unaware that both "normal" Gretel and "superhero" Gretel are the same person, even in the first episode telling "superhero" Gretel she has a best friend who's ''also'' named Gretel.
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* ShoutOut:
** In the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NASedrl2hk It's My Best Friend Bailey's Birthday]]" from the episode "[[Recap/HamsterAndGretelS1E14BirthdayBesties Birthday Besties]]" Gretel dances like how 3 & 4 did in The Peanuts Christmas Special.
** Gretel, Kevin, and Fred are watching a show called "[[Series/GameOfThrones English History But With Dragons]]"
** In the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NASedrl2hk It's My Best Friend Bailey's Birthday]]" from the episode "[[Recap/HamsterAndGretelS1E14BirthdayBesties Birthday Besties]]" Gretel dances like how 3 & 4 did in The Peanuts Christmas Special.
** Gretel, Kevin, and Fred are watching a show called "[[Series/GameOfThrones English History But With Dragons]]"
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* ThemeTuneExtended: The theme song ends at the line "There's also Kevin in the minivan"; however, there's a 30-second instrumental part afterward followed by a dramatic rousing finish, which is used as the EndingTheme. Both parts are spliced together on the soundtrack.
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* PunnyName: Pretty standard for most of the villains, to the point where Gretel mocks Rodney Thunderpants, whose tragic backstory involves being struck multiple times by lightning, for not choosing the name "LightningRod" instead.
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* PunnyName: Pretty standard for most of the villains, to the point where Gretel mocks Rodney Thunderpants, whose tragic backstory involves being struck multiple times by lightning, for not choosing the name "LightningRod" "[=LightningRod=]" instead.
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* TakeThat: In "Birthday Besties", Kevin flies through the air, hitting the lever on the ride to "Only Legal in Florida", which is a jab to the state of Florida.
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--> Bailey: My best friend looks just like you! And her name is Gretel, just like you! And she has a pet hamster called Hamster, juuust like you! So I was wondering... would you sign this T-shirt for her?
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--> '''Kevin''': It means something different now.
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-->"Well, your name is Gretel, and you have a pet hamster, and you'd think that would have been enough, but I ''still'' didn't put it together until a couple of hours ago when I noticed that ''you'' are right-handed and Gretel is ''also'' right-handed!"
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* ShowWithinAShow: ''Yuko Cheerleading Warrior Attack 7''.
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* StomachOfHolding: In "Empower Failure", Hamster manages to drink all of the water from a burst water main - at least enough to fill the minivan - while remaining exactly the same size.
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** Played with in "Saturday Homecoming Fever" when Kevin tries to shed his nickname "minivan kid" by giving himself a new look and learning to dance. The nickname (and the minivan) ended up sticking, but he ends up feeling better about it.
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** Played with in "Saturday Homecoming Fever" when Kevin tries to shed his nickname "minivan kid" by giving himself a new look and learning to dance. The nickname (and the minivan) ended up sticking, stick, but he ends up feeling better about it.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Bailey in general for Gretel's ClarkKenting, but she gets a particularly egregious one in "Empower Failure" that sets the tone for everyone else:
--> Bailey: My best friend looks just like you! And her name is Gretel, just like you! And she has a pet hamster called Hamster, juuust like you! So I was wondering... would you sign this T-shirt for her?
--> Bailey: My best friend looks just like you! And her name is Gretel, just like you! And she has a pet hamster called Hamster, juuust like you! So I was wondering... would you sign this T-shirt for her?
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* ChewingTheScenery: La Cebolla. She climbed up a stepladder in the middle of a grocery store just to hit the high note in her own theme song.
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** Averted hilariously by Van Dyke, who [[SpottingTheThread spots the undeniable commonality]] [[SarcasmMode between the two]]:
-->"Well, your name is Gretel, and you have a pet hamster, and you'd think that would have been enough, but I ''still'' didn't put it together until a couple of hours ago when I noticed that ''you'' are right-handed and Gretel is ''also'' right-handed!"
-->"Well, your name is Gretel, and you have a pet hamster, and you'd think that would have been enough, but I ''still'' didn't put it together until a couple of hours ago when I noticed that ''you'' are right-handed and Gretel is ''also'' right-handed!"
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* BeYourself: Kevin and Copycat each get one of these in "Comic Shop Copycat".
** Played with in "Saturday Homecoming Fever" when Kevin tries to shed his nickname "minivan kid" by giving himself a new look and learning to dance. The nickname (and the minivan) ended up sticking, but he ends up feeling better about it.
--> '''Kevin''': It means something different now.
** Played with in "Saturday Homecoming Fever" when Kevin tries to shed his nickname "minivan kid" by giving himself a new look and learning to dance. The nickname (and the minivan) ended up sticking, but he ends up feeling better about it.
--> '''Kevin''': It means something different now.
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* BattleRapping: Gretel is forced to do this to defeat The Neighslayer after she makes a PinkySwear not to punch ''anything'' while she hangs out with Bailey as her superhero alter ego, lest Bailey get hurt in the process.
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* PinkySwear: Kevin and Gretel, and later Gretel and Bailey, each with their own musical jingle.
-->'''It's the Kevin-Gretel Pinky Pro-mise!'''
-->'''It's the Kevin-Gretel Pinky Pro-mise!'''
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Used for RuleOfFunny and lampshaped in "Cheer Cheer Bang Bang" when Fred needs to prove that she's acrobatic enough to be on the cheerleading squad; she executes an ''absurd'' routine that requires her to be airborne for an impossible amount of time - long enough for Kevin to consult a Physics textbook ''and'' a professor of Astrophysics about it.
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* PunnyName: Pretty standard for most of the villains, to the point where Gretel mocks Rodney Thunderpants, whose tragic backstory involves being struck multiple times, for not choosing the name "LightningRod" instead.
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* PunnyName: Pretty standard for most of the villains, to the point where Gretel mocks Rodney Thunderpants, whose tragic backstory involves being struck multiple times, times by lightning, for not choosing the name "LightningRod" instead.
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* IncrediblyLongNote: La Cebollaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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* ReactiveContinuousScream: Subverted in "Recipe for Disaster". When Gretel burns their mother's ropa vieja, first she screams, then Kevin screams, and then Hamster... just sits there eating a leaf. The gag is then repeated when Carolina comes early to pick up her grocery list.
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* PunnyName: Pretty standard for most of the villains, to the point where Gretel mocks Rodney Thunderpants, whose tragic backstory involves being struck multiple times, for not choosing the name "LightningRod" instead.
* ReactiveContinuousScream: Subverted in "Recipe for Disaster". When Gretel burns their mother's ropa vieja, first she screams, then Kevin screams, and then Hamster... just sits there eating a leaf. The gag is then repeated when Carolina comes home early to pick up her grocery list.
* ReactiveContinuousScream: Subverted in "Recipe for Disaster". When Gretel burns their mother's ropa vieja, first she screams, then Kevin screams, and then Hamster... just sits there eating a leaf. The gag is then repeated when Carolina comes home early to pick up her grocery list.
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* ComicBookTime: Hilariously invoked in "Saturday Homecoming Fever":
-->'''Gretel:''' I can't wait 'til I'm a teenager.\\
'''Hamster:''' Not gonna happen. [[MediumAwareness We're a cartoon]].\\
'''Gretel:''' What?\\
'''Hamster:''' Nothing.
-->'''Gretel:''' I can't wait 'til I'm a teenager.\\
'''Hamster:''' Not gonna happen. [[MediumAwareness We're a cartoon]].\\
'''Gretel:''' What?\\
'''Hamster:''' Nothing.
