History WesternAnimation / TheAngryBeavers

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The credits for many of the earlier episodes had very few [[CreditsGag Credits Gags]], if any. It became a standard appearance starting in Season 2.

** In "Dumbwaiters", one of the Oxnard Montalvo movie monster masks is of Helga Pataki from the other Nickelodeon show ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''.

** "Dagski & Norb" is presented as a show on [[Creator/NickAtNite Nick Not At Nite]].

* CompanyCrossReferences: In "Dumbwaiters", one of the Oxnard Montalvo movie monster masks is of Helga Pataki from the other Nickelodeon show ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''.

* AcidRefluxNightmare: The episode ''Food of the Clods'' shows Norbert feasting on junk food late at night then ending up {{Sleepwalking}} and re-enacting the 1950s B-films he's watching at the time.

** In ''Euro-beavers'', Norbert claims European beavers don't build dams. Eurasian beavers are no less dam-builders than their North American cousins are. Though that could be him making an excuse not to re-twig their dam.
** Orcas do not eat humans like Camu does in ''Moby Dopes''.

** Lampshaded in ''Dumbwaiters'' when Dag refers to his and Norb's ''thumbs''.

* ArtShift: Everyone's addition to the campfire story in ''Pass It On''. Norb's version is a [[Film/JamesBond Bond-esque]] spy thriller, Barry does the story over as a '70s blaxploitation movie, Bing's is just a series of doodles running around frantically, Stump's version is a letterboxed black-and-white drama with Scottish accents, Treeflower's is a MagicalGirl anime with choppy 50's-style animation, and Dag's is just all the different styles floating in a white void.

* BiggerThanJesus: In ''Beaver Fever'', the beavers become [[OneHitWonder One Hit Wonders]]. Their manager tells them that they're "bigger than sliced bread" and shows them a graph chart that proves this. When Daggett repeats this to the press, people start burning their albums, leading to Daggett explaining that he meant that they're ''physically larger'' than sliced bread. Upon hearing this explanation, people burning their albums are seen putting their hands into the fire to retrieve them.

* CrappyCarnival: Smelly Jim's Carnival of Mirthiness in ''Dag Con-Carny''.

** Norbert and Treeflower's duet in ''Bummer of Love''.
** The entire episode of ''Brothers, to the End?''

** ''Slap Happy'', where beaver tail slapping (which is [[ShownTheirWork something beavers actually do in real life to warn others of danger]]) and the discussion on not abusing it comes off more as a metaphor for [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]], leading to this great exchange:

* EndOfSeriesAwareness: Too much of this is why the final episode, ''Bye Bye Beavers'', was never completed.

* EveryoneHasStandards: In ''Brothers...To The End?'', Daggett and Norbert, who now have [[AGodAmI godly powers]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext to create a new world]], get in a fight. The entity (credited as The Voice) which gave them the powers seems to side with Dag:

* FantasticVoyagePlot: ''Van-tastic Voyage''. The scientists enlarge Daggett to immense proportions in order to explore him.

** Norbert's helmet in ''Muscular Beaver 2'' either falls off him before sustaining a head injury or just fails to protect his head at all. This is ultimately subverted at the end of the episode, where Norbert's helmet ends up defeating the giant splinter he and Daggett (as Muscular Beaver) have been fighting.

** Daggett's non-existent 'invisible' x-ray glasses and Norbert's [[SubvertedTrope working]] x-ray glasses in ''Specs Appeal''. [[spoiler: Ends up reversed - Daggett's x-ray glasses are the ones which work, not to mention ''[[{{Invisibility}} literally invisible]]'', while Norbert has the ones which don't work.]]

* AGoodNameForARockBand: The wacky word combo sort appears in ''Bummer of Love'' with Treeflower's band, The Friendly Chartreuse Bubblegum Machine.
* GotMeDoingIt: In ''My Bunnyguard'', both Daggett and Norbert end up copying Big Rabbit's Brooklyn accent.

* GratuitousSpanish: El Grapadura, with Norb translating. The episode ''Norberto y Daggetto en El Grapadura y el Castor Malo'' is ''entirely'' in Spanish, with English subtitles.

* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: In ''Chocolate Up To Experience'', Norb gets addicted to the chocolate bars he's been making Dag sell in order to raise money. He's making Dag sell what appears to be the last remaining bar for two hundred dollars, while he gorges on a warehouse full of the bars. Norb eventually bloats to the point that he needs to be carried around in a wheelbarrow, but Dag does make the money... by selling their entire house. Because "no one wanted to buy a spooty old candy bar for $200."

* MatchlightDangerRevelation: You never actually get to see from Dag's point of view, but when Dag spies on Norb in ''Gonna Getcha'' from under the floorboards, he keeps noticing bugs and shoving them out the spyhole, until he finally decides to light a match and see where the bugs are coming from.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''Lumberjack's Delight'', where after exhausting every other option, Norb decides the only way to save the forest and get rid of the Lumberjacks is via a competition. A tree felling competition. Norb wins, but realizes that in the process, they've felled the entire forest, which the Lumberjacks gladly take with them.

* NoDialogueEpisode: ''Silent But Deadly'', justified in that the beavers have woken up with their bedroom infested with sleeping beaver-eating wolverines. The only real line of dialogue in the episode is thought, as they don't want to risk waking them up by talking.

** In "Practical Jerks", Daggett refers to the raccoon girl tribe as "those Amazon girl raccoon lady thingies from, uh, ''Mighty Knothead''", referencing the episode title in which they were introduced.
* NonstandardCharacterDesign: The Beavers' cousin from ''Kreature Komforts'', who is just a live-action beaver, and behaves as one.
* NoodleIncident: In the episode ''Slap Happy'', the Beavers' father claims that the story of Slap Johnson was made up by their mother because she never forgave him for the bachelor party that was thrown. Slap merely says, "It's okay, it was worth it."

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: In ''Spookyspoots'', the dam is inexplicably haunted by good, friendly ghosts who cater to the brothers' every whim and let them use portals to teleport around the house. Dag and Norb are quite fond of the ghosts, until the two annoying scientists show up to exorcise the ghosts against Dag and Norb's wishes. They then team up with the ghosts to get rid of the scientists.
* OutGambitted: In ''The Big Round Sticky Fish Thingy'', Norb tricks Dag into going to Delaware, "a place nobody knows". As Norb's getting away, he didn't expect Dag to construct a "big, wooden, treadmill, thingamabob", which is "the specialty of the proud people of DELAWARE!"

* ParanoiaGambit: Norbert uses this in ''Gonna Getcha''. [[spoiler:of course, as soon as Norbert explains he was using this, he then proceeds to actually get Daggett back anyways]].

** Barry the Bear's doorbell is Music/JamesBrown's famous "HEY!" from his hit-song, ''I Got You (I Feel Good)''.

** Any number of B movies, especially in the episode ''The Day the Earth Got Really Screwed Up'', which parodies the heck out of those things, yet manages to be really cool.

*** The episode ''Sqotters'' involves river otters claiming the beavers' unoccupied home, which do happen in real life.

*** Norb's "European beaver" phase in ''Euro-Beavers'' isn't something he made up; there actually is a species of beaver that lives in Europe and it's called the Eurasian beaver, the only other extant species of beaver besides the North American beaver.
*** In ''The Posei-Dam Adventure'' Daggett tells Truckee that beavers can hold their breath for 15 minutes, which also applies to beavers in real life.
** In ''Moby Dopes'' Camu would occasionally beach himself on land to catch prey just like real orcas.

* SpaceIsAnOcean: In ''Mission to the Big Hot Thingy'', the Beavers watch a video comparing their imminent doom of being pulled into the sun by gravity with a boat being pulled by a swift river current. They take this analogy literally and do what beavers would do in the river scenario. They build a giant dam to cut off the Sun's gravity! Which in turn [[ApocalypseHow cut the gravity from all other planets and the heat it provides to them, leaving Earth into an Ice Age as they swim their space ship back.]]

** A throwaway line in ''Slap Happy'':

** Anytime Muscular Beaver shows up. Dag deludes himself into thinking he's a superhero, with awesome tools like the ''Cloak of Limited Invisibility'' ("it's just nearly visible!")

*** This is eventually lampshaded when Norb pronouces movie as "MYOO-vee" throughout the episode ''Dag for Night''. Then when he finally pronounces it right, Dag calls him out on it.

** The ''Food of the Clods'' episode, which frequently shows Norb watching 1950s B-movies, invokes this by showing a boom mic visible in shots.

* AcidRefluxNightmare: The episode ''Food of the Clods'' shows Norbert feasting on junk food late at night then ending up {{Sleepwalking}} and re-enacting the 1950s B-films he's watching at the time

* BMovie: Oxnard Montalvo's filmography. The HalloweenEpisode is one big {{Homage}} where the beavers visit him, and an alien even turns everything black and white. ([[MindScrew and the plot makes no sense whatsoever]]).

*** And Treeflower's doorbell is "[[Music/IronButterfly In A Gadda Da Vida]]".

* MythologyGag: In "Un-Barry-Able", as part of his breakdown after Barry approves of his brother Dagget over him, Norbert dresses up like Dagget to try to win Barry back over since he likes him so much. This is a reference to the "Snowbound" pilot, where he just looks like a yellow version of Dag.

* ExpressDelivery: In the first episode, Norb and Dag's mom gets pregnant and gives birth to their twin sisters, all in the span of a couple of seconds. After which the brothers head off on their own.

** Regular shoutouts to Creator/CharltonHeston movies, especially Film/BenHur and Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes. The "damned dirty apes" quote is used at least twice.

* NotSoDifferent: Norb and Dag are more similar than it may seem.

* ThemeTuneCameo: The show's opening theme frequently plays in several episodes.

* MaskedLuchador: One character is a masked wrestler named El Grapadura (GratuitousSpanish PlayedForLaughs; this really means "Hard Staple", and it also [[MondeGreen sounds similar]] to "grapadora", which is Spanish for "Stapler").

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The ''TyrannosaurusRex'' from the ending of "Moby Dopes" has three fingers on each hand and four prominent toes, and it stands in a tripod stance like in old-fashioned portraits. It is also much larger than the real animal, being able to eat an orca whole (a real ''Tyrannosaurus'' would be slightly larger than an orca).

* EndOfSeriesAwareness: Too much of this is why the final episode, ''Bye Bye Beavers'', was never aired.

** Daggett is DumbButDiligent. He gives it his all, even when he really doesn't know what he's doing.
** Norbert is BrilliantButLazy. If he doesn't feel like working, he'll just trick Dag into doing it for him.

** Lampshaded in ''Dumbwaiters'' when Dag refers to his and Norb's ''thumbs'' (which beavers lack).

--->"Funny, I didn't think beavers gad thymbs."

* FunnyAfro: Daggett has one in ''Beaver Fever'' after he and Norb become disco stars. It's later confiscated when they fail to fulfill their recording contract.