History WesternAnimation / SevenLittleMonsters

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The book's monsters were a ''lot'' more mischievous (if not outright malevolent), and terrorize the humans for kicks. The story even ends with said humans successfully capturing them. In the animated series, they are significantly friendlier and are more interested in befriending and having fun with humans than scaring them.

* AdaptationDyeJobe: Two is depicted with dark brown hair, when he was blond in the original book.

* MythologyGag: The show's intro includes a scene of Five drinking the sea, which he did in the original book.

* CountingSheep: In "Good Night", Two advises an insomniac Seven to go to sleep by counting sheep. Seven refuses because he doesn't like sheep, but changes his mind after Four suggests counting crabs and Three suggests counting elephants.

* LooseToothEpisode: "The Whole Tooth" concerns Six having a loose tooth.

* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The show's tie-in books for some reason depicted One as wearing no clothes besides her hat.

** "Are You My Family?" has One and Six references to the famous Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ad.

''Seven Little Monsters'' was a part of the Creator/{{PBS}} Kids Bookworm Bunch from 2000-2002 and also aired from 2003-2007 on its home country of Canada on Creator/{{YTV}} (and later Creator/TreehouseTV). While not as successful and recognizable as its fellow Nelvana-produced Maurice Sendak adaptation ''Literature/LittleBear'', it has gained CultClassic status among those who watched it on PBS as part of Bookworm Bunch and later as part of its dual slot with ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears''. Part of this was due to the fact that like ''Little Bear'', Maurice Sendak was involved in the show's production, and thus had more significant influence over the series' development than is typical for a cartoon adaptation of a kids' book. The theme song of the show was performed by Music/BarenakedLadies.

* AdaptationalModesty: One, Three, Four and Five are depicted wearing clothes, when they went naked in the original book.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Belinda is a cow who sometimes behaves like a dog, most notably her fetching skills and her scent sniffing nose (like when the monsters thought their mom left them out of anger, and they were looking for her.)

* ExactWords: In "It's a Wonder-Four Life", Four wishes he had no brothers or sisters. In the alternate universe this leads to, his siblings still exist, he's just not related to them.

* SeriousBusiness: After a trip to the fire house, Seven becomes worried that a fire could start at any minute, and doesn't appreciate his siblings making light of it. He even invokes this word for word.

** "Are You My Family?" has One and Six reference the famous Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ad.

* SkywardScream: Five does one when Sammy the turtle goes missing.

* VerySpecialEpisode: "Losing Sam." In this case, Sam wasn't even in danger of dying (unless he fell off the roof), the monsters just thought he was.

Interestingly, Nelvana's cartoon is not the first effort to adapt the book in animated form, as it had previously been adapted as an animated segment on ''Series/SesameStreet'' that was animated by Fred Calvert.

* ToiletHumour: When the monsters try to get the hospital receptionist to understand that they want to know where to find the babies in "Mystery of the Missing Five" by acting like babies, Six pretends to be a baby who wet her diaper.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Belinda. Most notably her fetching skills and her scent sniffing nose (like when the monsters thought their mom left them out of anger, and they were looking for her.)

* AudienceSurrogate: Mary.

* WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore: "Doctor, Doctor" features the seven monsters imagining that they're in a pastiche of ''Series/{{StarTrek|TheOriginalSeries}}'', with One playing the part of Captain James T. Kirk in addition to Three and Four respectively channeling Dr. Leonard "Bones" [=McCoy=] and Montgomery "Scotty" Scott.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Nobody bats an eyelid at a bunch of gigantic monsters running around. Even very young children show absolutely no fear at the sight of the seven monsters.

* BabysittingEpisode: "Seven Monsters and a Baby".

* VengefulVendingMachine: Four tries his hardest to get a sheriff's badge from a prize machine, only for it to keep giving him princess crowns.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Nobody bats an eyelid at a bunch of gigantic monsters running around.

* TitleThemeTune: Performed by Music/BarenakedLadies at that! The only other words in the song besides the title are "They cause trouble, there they go!"

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Presumably the monsters' parents.

* SickEpisode: Doctor, Doctor! Two gets a cold and can't go see a new movie with his siblings, so the monsters led by Three who is a Groucho Marx/Jerry Lewis-esque doctor, try to cure him...but fail and end up getting sick themselves.

* TwoShorts: The first two seasons had one half-hour story, while the third season used two 11-minute stories.

* WhosOnFirst: Because their names are numbers, this happens rather frequently.