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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: In "The Wishing Whale", the titular whale grants the wishes of Potsworth and company (except Keiko, who didn't appear in the Dream Zone raft with the others for reasons that are never explained). The wishes are just what the heroes wanted at first, but then go awry:
** Potsworth ends up in a world where dogs are the masters and humans are the pets, and he even lives in a house of his very own. However, a human pet he adopts ends up causing trouble for him when he invites other humans over, and they end up causing chaos just as a pack of dogs would for a real life human.
** Nick ends up in a world where he's painting live on stage, and everyone is cheering on his talent and vision. Unfortunately, when Potsworth accidentally messes up Nick's painting, the crowd ''still'' cheers him on, so Nick realizes to his horror that the crowd will just give him nothing but compliments regardless of what he paints, making the crowd's adulation meaningless.
** Rosie ends up in a world where a huge shopping mall has thousands of stores, with all of their items on sale, and everything Rosie could ever want. However, after Rosie has bought what she wanted, the robot salesman ''keeps chasing her'' to offer her more products, even after Rosie's done shopping.
** Nick ends up in a world where he's jumbo-sized, which allows him to scare off a mugger, so he doesn't have to be the littlest kid around anymore. Unfortunately, he's also so huge that he scares the ordinary citizens along with the mugger, so none of them will sell him food when he's hungry and eventually they bring in tanks to shoot at him.
** Potsworth ends up in a world where dogs are the masters and humans are the pets, and he even lives in a house of his very own. However, a human pet he adopts ends up causing trouble for him when he invites other humans over, and they end up causing chaos just as a pack of dogs would for a real life human.
** Nick ends up in a world where he's painting live on stage, and everyone is cheering on his talent and vision. Unfortunately, when Potsworth accidentally messes up Nick's painting, the crowd ''still'' cheers him on, so Nick realizes to his horror that the crowd will just give him nothing but compliments regardless of what he paints, making the crowd's adulation meaningless.
** Rosie ends up in a world where a huge shopping mall has thousands of stores, with all of their items on sale, and everything Rosie could ever want. However, after Rosie has bought what she wanted, the robot salesman ''keeps chasing her'' to offer her more products, even after Rosie's done shopping.
** Nick ends up in a world where he's jumbo-sized, which allows him to scare off a mugger, so he doesn't have to be the littlest kid around anymore. Unfortunately, he's also so huge that he scares the ordinary citizens along with the mugger, so none of them will sell him food when he's hungry and eventually they bring in tanks to shoot at him.
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* NoodleIncident: In "The Wishing Whale", for some reason Keiko doesn't appear with the others in the Dream Zone, so she doesn't participate in their "wishing" adventure (Nick even wonders at one point if sharks got her). It's never explained why Keiko was separated from them since she was sleeping at the same time they were, so Keiko is just left confused at the end when they're willing to do chores in the real world.
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* FirstNameUltimatum: Rosie often does this to her brother Nicholas (AKA: Nick), especially in one episode where she is in such a bad mood, that she does it several times.[[note]]"Nicho-LAS!!"[[/note]]
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Known as ''Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone'' in the U.S., ''Potsworth And & Company'' (1990) was an animated show about four kids and a dog, who ventured together to the [[DreamLand Dream Zone]]. It was produced by Creator/HannaBarbera and Sleepy Kids PLC.
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* BigBad: The Nightmare Prince
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* TalkingAnimal: Potsworth in the Dream Zone.
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Known as ''MidnightPatrol: ''Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone'' in the U.S., ''PotsworthAndCompany'' ''Potsworth And Company'' (1990) was an animated show about four kids and a dog, who ventured together to the [[DreamLand Dream Zone]]. It was produced by Creator/HannaBarbera and Sleepy Kids PLC.
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* ShoutOut: The Nightmare Prince's mother phoning him is similar to the General calling Dick Dastardly in ''DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines''. Well, WilliamHanna and JosephBarbera were Executive Producers for both cartoons.
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* ShoutOut: The Nightmare Prince's mother phoning him is similar to the General calling Dick Dastardly in ''DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines''.''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines''. Well, WilliamHanna and JosephBarbera were Executive Producers for both cartoons.
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Known as ''MidnightPatrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone'' in the U.S., ''PotsworthAndCompany'' (1990) was an animated show about four kids and a dog, who ventured together to the [[DreamLand Dream Zone]]. It was produced by HannaBarbera Creator/HannaBarbera and Sleepy Kids PLC.
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** The Grand Dozer and Sebastian are usually this trope in general.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Unexpectedly, the female patrol officer in "The Nightmirror" turns out to be this. The heroes were locked up because evil duplicates were causing trouble, but once the evil duplicates create another incident while ''the heroes are already in jail'', the patrol officer springs the heroes out right away so they can take on the real villains.
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* BatmanGambit: How the Midnight Patrol finally gets rid of their evil duplicates in "The Nightmirror" episode. The only way to get rid of them is to trick the duplicates into looking into the same mirror that gave them birth; the heroes accomplish this by relying on the duplicates' own nastiness. They trick the Carter and Rosie duplicates into looking into the mirror by asking them to get rope for "captured" good kids, and they trick the Nick and Keiko duplicates into looking into the mirror by tricking the arrogant Nick duplicate into proving his strength by lifting up a bigger boulder. The Potsworth duplicate is then dispatched by asking him to play fetch with a bone.
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* CrushingHandshake: In "When Bubba Rules", that's how the Nightmare Prince learned Bubba deserved being called "Bonebreaker".
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* PainfulRhyme: The US version of the theme song has a few of these. It's believed ''Potsworth & Co.'' was the original title and they had to rush out a new theme song when the title was changed.
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* PainfulRhyme: The US version of the theme song has a few of these. It's believed ''Potsworth & Co.'' was the original title and they had to rush out a new theme song when the title was changed.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Keiko and Rosie respectively.
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* FisherKing: The Grand Dozer, who needs to be (mostly) asleep for the Dream Zone to be stable. When he has insomnia, the land starts to fall apart.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The Greystone Giant. Giant.
** Rosie can be a brat at times, but she's always willing to help out her friends and brother if need be.
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* EnemyMine: The Nightmare Prince and the Midnight Patrol once teamed up to recapture the Bed Bugs.
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* LesserOfTwoEvils: The Nightmare Prince to Count Bubba Bonebreaker.
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Known as ''MidnightPatrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone'' in the U.S., ''PotsworthAndCompany'' was an animated show about four kids and a dog, who ventured together to the [[DreamLand Dream Zone]]. It was produced by HannaBarbera and Sleepy Kids PLC.
Main cast:
* '''Potsworth''': Carter's pet dog, and the main character of the series. In the Dream Zone he's a talking, sarcastic dog.
* '''Carter''': an African-American boy who is a skilled artist. In the Dream Zone he has a magic brush that can bring things to life.
* '''Keiko:''' a Japanese-American skater girl. In the Dream Zone, she can hover using her skateboard.
* '''Rosie''': a short-tempered, annoying brat. Sometimes she helps in dangerous situations.
* '''Nick''': Rosie's young brother, who always carries a dinosaur doll. In the Dream Zone he can fly like a superhero, and his dinosaur is alive.
There are also the Dream Zone inhabitants, whose king is the Grand Dozer, who must not be fully awakened or the world will end. The BigBad is the Nightmare Prince, who plans to disturb the Grand Dozer and to have nightmares take over the world of dreams. Quite often, the Midnight Patrol's foiling of the Nightmare Prince's plans would involved getting a key MacGuffin by going to the Cave of the Greystone Giant, who essentially keeps track of all the items used in dreams and stores them in the Cave when not in use. While on the side of good, the Greystone Giant is a grumpy character who likes his solitude and the Patrol often have to talk him around to helping them.
Had a ComicBookAdaptation in the ''The Beezer and The Topper'', and when that folded, ''ComicBook/TheDandy''.
!!This series shows examples of:
* AlliterativeName: Greystone Giant
* AnimalJingoism: One episode featured Potsworth being made King of the Dogs, which was a poisoned chalice as he was then required to lead them in battle against a giant cat.
* ArtInitiatesLife: Carter's superpower.
* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: The heroes learned the trope when the Nightmare Prince's mother sent someone to replace him.
* BigBad: The Nightmare Prince
* BiggerBad: The {{Big Bad}}'s mother.
* BrattyHalfPint: Rosie.
* ButNotTooForeign: Carter and Keiko. Potsworth, perhaps? (Isn't he British? I can't tell...)
* CelestialBureaucracy: The Greystone Giant (well, more Dreamland Logistics, but approximately this trope).
* DaChief: [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Chief]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Again, Potsworth.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: When the Greystone Giant went on a vacation and left the Midnight Patrol in charge of the cave, he set three rules to be followed: 1) Don't let anyone in; 2) Don't lose the key; and 3) '''Don't let anyone in'''.
* DreamLand: The Dream Zone.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The Nightmare Prince has a large phone in his lair, so that his unseen mom can yell at him every time his schemes go wrong.
** It's not just because he loves her. She has the authority to demote him to janitor post and appoint another BigBad to [[TyrantTakesTheHelm take over the helm]].
* EvilTwin: Thanks to the Night Mirror, each Midnight Patrol member gained one and the Nightmare Prince became one to a good duplicate.
* EvilerThanThou: The new villain the Nightmare Prince's mother hired to replace him. The new villain's minions were this to the Nightmare Prince's minions.
* ExpositoryThemeTune
* {{Flight}}: Nick. Not a FlyingBrick yet.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The kids keep forgetting that they can just conjure up whatever they want in the Dream Zone just by thinking.
* GenkiGirl: Keiko, but not that much.
* GilliganCut: In the episode "When Bubba Rules", [[BigBad the Nightmare Prince]]'s [[BiggerBad Mother]] sent Count Bubba [[MeaningfulName Bonebreaker]] to replace him. When asked about what he'd be, the Nightmare Prince was told he'd be a janitor. He then said he wouldn't be one even in a billion years. Cut to the next scene, where he's already doing janitor duties.
* GrumpyBear: The Greystone Giant.
* {{Hammerspace}}: The Nightmare Prince's sleeves, often subject to RummageFail when he's trying to find a useful item.
* HeavySleeper: The Grand Dozer is an obligatory one. That [[TalkingInYourSleep doesn't prevent him]] to give advice to the Midnight Patrol.
* [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen She Who Must Not Be Seen]]: The Nightmare Prince's mother.
* HoverBoard: Keiko's skateboard becomes one in the Dream Zone.
* HypercompetentSidekick: The Grand Dozer's minister Sebastian. More or less required given that the Grand Dozer ''needs'' to be asleep in order to keep the Dream Zone safe (in one episode when he has insomnia, the land starts to fall apart) so Sebastian has to do all the work.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The Greystone Giant.
* LivingToy: Murphy in the Dream Zone.
* MagicSkirt: Keiko. The opening features her doing a backflip on her skateboard, and falling straight to bed.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: The Nightmare Prince's minions.
* PantyShot: Rosie, in the intro and pretty much every episode.
* PaperThinDisguise: In "Save the Cave" the Nightmare Prince uses one to trick the Midnight Patrol into letting him into a cave they're guarding and he locks them out. The Midnight Patrol try their own paper thin disguises to trick him into letting them back in, but none of them fool him.
* RedshirtArmy: The Snooze Patrol, the Dream Zone's conventional law enforcement, who are sometimes shown as somewhat resentful of the Midnight Patrol.
* RunningGag: Whenever someone claims the Grand Dozer to be on a certain mood, be it good or bad, the Grand Dozer would be shown asleep and that claimant would state something like "Well, he would be if he was awake".
* ShoutOut: The Nightmare Prince's mother phoning him is similar to the General calling Dick Dastardly in ''DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines''. Well, WilliamHanna and JosephBarbera were Executive Producers for both cartoons.
* SissyVillain: The Nightmare Prince.
* SuperheroesWearCapes: Nick.
* TalkingAnimal: Potsworth in the Dream Zone.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: When the Nightmare Prince's mother demoted him and hired another villain to replace him was so hard (''read "impossible"'') to defeat in direct confrontation the heroes decided to sabotage the nightmare generator as part of a plan to trick the Nightmare Prince's mother into firing him and reinstating her son as the BigBad.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: When Count Bubba replaced the Nightmare Prince, he brought three henchmen. When the Nightmare Prince returned and fired Bubba's henchmen, only two henchmen were around and no explanation was given to justify the third one's absence.
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Known as ''MidnightPatrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone'' in the U.S., ''PotsworthAndCompany'' was an animated show about four kids and a dog, who ventured together to the [[DreamLand Dream Zone]]. It was produced by HannaBarbera and Sleepy Kids PLC.
Main cast:
* '''Potsworth''': Carter's pet dog, and the main character of the series. In the Dream Zone he's a talking, sarcastic dog.
* '''Carter''': an African-American boy who is a skilled artist. In the Dream Zone he has a magic brush that can bring things to life.
* '''Keiko:''' a Japanese-American skater girl. In the Dream Zone, she can hover using her skateboard.
* '''Rosie''': a short-tempered, annoying brat. Sometimes she helps in dangerous situations.
* '''Nick''': Rosie's young brother, who always carries a dinosaur doll. In the Dream Zone he can fly like a superhero, and his dinosaur is alive.
There are also the Dream Zone inhabitants, whose king is the Grand Dozer, who must not be fully awakened or the world will end. The BigBad is the Nightmare Prince, who plans to disturb the Grand Dozer and to have nightmares take over the world of dreams. Quite often, the Midnight Patrol's foiling of the Nightmare Prince's plans would involved getting a key MacGuffin by going to the Cave of the Greystone Giant, who essentially keeps track of all the items used in dreams and stores them in the Cave when not in use. While on the side of good, the Greystone Giant is a grumpy character who likes his solitude and the Patrol often have to talk him around to helping them.
Had a ComicBookAdaptation in the ''The Beezer and The Topper'', and when that folded, ''ComicBook/TheDandy''.
!!This series shows examples of:
* AlliterativeName: Greystone Giant
* AnimalJingoism: One episode featured Potsworth being made King of the Dogs, which was a poisoned chalice as he was then required to lead them in battle against a giant cat.
* ArtInitiatesLife: Carter's superpower.
* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: The heroes learned the trope when the Nightmare Prince's mother sent someone to replace him.
* BigBad: The Nightmare Prince
* BiggerBad: The {{Big Bad}}'s mother.
* BrattyHalfPint: Rosie.
* ButNotTooForeign: Carter and Keiko. Potsworth, perhaps? (Isn't he British? I can't tell...)
* CelestialBureaucracy: The Greystone Giant (well, more Dreamland Logistics, but approximately this trope).
* DaChief: [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Chief]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Again, Potsworth.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: When the Greystone Giant went on a vacation and left the Midnight Patrol in charge of the cave, he set three rules to be followed: 1) Don't let anyone in; 2) Don't lose the key; and 3) '''Don't let anyone in'''.
* DreamLand: The Dream Zone.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The Nightmare Prince has a large phone in his lair, so that his unseen mom can yell at him every time his schemes go wrong.
** It's not just because he loves her. She has the authority to demote him to janitor post and appoint another BigBad to [[TyrantTakesTheHelm take over the helm]].
* EvilTwin: Thanks to the Night Mirror, each Midnight Patrol member gained one and the Nightmare Prince became one to a good duplicate.
* EvilerThanThou: The new villain the Nightmare Prince's mother hired to replace him. The new villain's minions were this to the Nightmare Prince's minions.
* ExpositoryThemeTune
* {{Flight}}: Nick. Not a FlyingBrick yet.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The kids keep forgetting that they can just conjure up whatever they want in the Dream Zone just by thinking.
* GenkiGirl: Keiko, but not that much.
* GilliganCut: In the episode "When Bubba Rules", [[BigBad the Nightmare Prince]]'s [[BiggerBad Mother]] sent Count Bubba [[MeaningfulName Bonebreaker]] to replace him. When asked about what he'd be, the Nightmare Prince was told he'd be a janitor. He then said he wouldn't be one even in a billion years. Cut to the next scene, where he's already doing janitor duties.
* GrumpyBear: The Greystone Giant.
* {{Hammerspace}}: The Nightmare Prince's sleeves, often subject to RummageFail when he's trying to find a useful item.
* HeavySleeper: The Grand Dozer is an obligatory one. That [[TalkingInYourSleep doesn't prevent him]] to give advice to the Midnight Patrol.
* [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen She Who Must Not Be Seen]]: The Nightmare Prince's mother.
* HoverBoard: Keiko's skateboard becomes one in the Dream Zone.
* HypercompetentSidekick: The Grand Dozer's minister Sebastian. More or less required given that the Grand Dozer ''needs'' to be asleep in order to keep the Dream Zone safe (in one episode when he has insomnia, the land starts to fall apart) so Sebastian has to do all the work.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The Greystone Giant.
* LivingToy: Murphy in the Dream Zone.
* MagicSkirt: Keiko. The opening features her doing a backflip on her skateboard, and falling straight to bed.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: The Nightmare Prince's minions.
* PantyShot: Rosie, in the intro and pretty much every episode.
* PaperThinDisguise: In "Save the Cave" the Nightmare Prince uses one to trick the Midnight Patrol into letting him into a cave they're guarding and he locks them out. The Midnight Patrol try their own paper thin disguises to trick him into letting them back in, but none of them fool him.
* RedshirtArmy: The Snooze Patrol, the Dream Zone's conventional law enforcement, who are sometimes shown as somewhat resentful of the Midnight Patrol.
* RunningGag: Whenever someone claims the Grand Dozer to be on a certain mood, be it good or bad, the Grand Dozer would be shown asleep and that claimant would state something like "Well, he would be if he was awake".
* ShoutOut: The Nightmare Prince's mother phoning him is similar to the General calling Dick Dastardly in ''DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines''. Well, WilliamHanna and JosephBarbera were Executive Producers for both cartoons.
* SissyVillain: The Nightmare Prince.
* SuperheroesWearCapes: Nick.
* TalkingAnimal: Potsworth in the Dream Zone.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: When the Nightmare Prince's mother demoted him and hired another villain to replace him was so hard (''read "impossible"'') to defeat in direct confrontation the heroes decided to sabotage the nightmare generator as part of a plan to trick the Nightmare Prince's mother into firing him and reinstating her son as the BigBad.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: When Count Bubba replaced the Nightmare Prince, he brought three henchmen. When the Nightmare Prince returned and fired Bubba's henchmen, only two henchmen were around and no explanation was given to justify the third one's absence.
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