History WesternAnimation / TheAngryBeavers

An animated show about two beavers, Norbert (Creator/NickBakay) and Daggett (Creator/RichardHorvitz), who are brothers and share a home. Norb is actually relatively easy-going (or was early on), and Daggett is the angry one. HilarityEnsues between the two regularly, often in a highly absurd way, crammed full of dialogue both fantastically witty and ridiculously dim.

* FunWithAcronyms: In the episode "Salmon Sez", Daggett doesn't know what it means for fish to "spawn," so he claims that it stands for "'''S'''mashing '''P'''roperty '''A'''nd '''W'''omping '''N'''orb."

** "Oh, what a fool I was!" which is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's ''Film/{{Rebecca}}''.

* WoodlandCreatures: The beavers and the other animals, with many episodes revolving around nature in a cooky way.

Part of {{Creator/Nickelodeon}}'s Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} franchise, the show first began airing in 1997 and ran for four seasons. In 2001, it was canceled for good, and the last episode to be produced had the characters [[EndOfSeriesAwareness aware]] of the fact that they were in a cartoon which was [[SelfFulfillingProphecy about to end]]. This apparently broke several in-house rules -- mostly related to not announcing the end of a series, much less within the show itself (due to Nickelodeon's habit of profiting off re-runs). It also apparently got the executives angry by referring to an earlier incident where the line "Shut up" was censored for a re-run using a SoundEffectBleep, and then changed altogether when that generated even more controversy.

However, the show was later released through iTunes, featuring the best of Seasons 1 and 2. Seasons 1, 2, and 3 were individually put out on DVD, and [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Angry-Beavers-Complete-Series/dp/B00C7E3E7S/ref=pd_cp_mov_0 the complete series was released on July 30th, 2013.]] Daggett and Norbert are also featured as playable characters in ''VideoGame/NicktoonsRacing'' and ''[[VideoGame/NickelodeonAllStarBrawl Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2]]''.

Part of {{Creator/Nickelodeon}}'s Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} franchise, the show first began airing in 1997 and ran for four seasons. In 2001, it was canceled for good when the last episode to be produced had the characters [[EndOfSeriesAwareness aware]] of the fact that they were in a cartoon which was [[SelfFulfillingProphecy about to end]]. This apparently broke several in-house rules, namely not breaking the fourth wall (even though ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' did this in, like, every episode) or announcing the end of a series (due to Nickelodeon's habit of profiting off re-runs). It also apparently got the executives angry by referring to an earlier incident where the line "Shut up" was censored for a re-run using the SoundEffectBleep and then changed altogether when that generated even more controversy.

However, the show was able to be released through iTunes, featuring the best of Seasons 1 and 2. Seasons 1, 2 and 3 have been placed on DVD. The [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Angry-Beavers-Complete-Series/dp/B00C7E3E7S/ref=pd_cp_mov_0 complete series was released on July 30th, 2013]].

** Beavers also do not have white incisors either, although how do you make orange incisors ''not'' seem cartoonish?
** The older beaver offsprings actually leave their parents when the mother is pregnant, not after their young siblings are born.

** Orcas do not eat humans like Camu does in "Moby Dopes".[[note]]That isn't to say they haven't ''attacked'' humans before, but most if not all cases are where the Orca either mistook a human for a prey animal (such as sealions or penguins) or cases where the whale was in captivity and under a lot of stress.[[/note]]

* MenagerieOfMisery: Defied. The episode "Zooing Time" has Norb being sent to a zoo due being framed for a crime Dag committed, only to see that the zoo is essentially a paradise resort for animals and has the time of his life. Unfortunately, a guilt-ridden Dag believes this trope to be the case and ends up blowing up the zoo, prompting the animals to lock him up in a cage that actually looks like a prison cell.

** Orcas do not eat humans like Camu does in "Moby Dopes".

An animated show about two beavers, Norbert (voiced by Nick Bakay) and Daggett (Creator/RichardHorvitz), who are brothers and share a home. Norb is actually relatively easy-going (or was early on), and Daggett is the angry one. HilarityEnsues between the two regularly, often in a highly absurd way, crammed full of dialogue both fantastically witty and ridiculously dim.

An animated show about two beavers, Norbert and Daggett, who are brothers and share a home. Norb is actually relatively easy-going (or was early on), and Daggett is the angry one. HilarityEnsues between the two regularly, often in a highly absurd way, crammed full of dialogue both fantastically witty and ridiculously dim.

** "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:

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Daggett's immaturity sometimes get on Norb's nerves.

** Really, 80% the cast is prone to using non-descriptive words for things they can't name.

** Daggett tends to suffer a lot throughout episodes.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The beaver brothers' dam is the end result of an out of control pickup truck knocking over some trees, falling over a cliff, and the trees landing in a perfect arrangement in the body of water below.
* CountingSheep: Daggett gets the concept of counting sheep to fall asleep mixed up in "Up All Night 2: Up All Day", thinking that instead he must listen to a sheep counting.

* {{Deconstruction}}: The series finale "Bye Bye Beavers" was never filmed because it broke two of Nickelodeon's rules. One being that a show doesn't acknowledge an episode is the last episode, so kids keep watching and hoping for new episodes, and the other rule being a show doesn't break the fourth wall. "Bye Bye Beavers" did both. However, a recording of the actors reading the script exists online. This episode, even only as an audio, is one of the most unique deconstructions ever made. It starts off somewhat normal, with Norbert explaining to Daggett that they're fictional characters in a cartoon, that has just been cancelled. The insanity begins when you hear the voice actors laughing as they're reading their lines, and then having a conversation. Norbert and Daggett are talking to each other about how their lives are just a show, joking about common tropes in cartoons, while each character's voice actors are talking to each other about other shows and their future plans. This doesn't just break the fourth wall, it completely deconstructs the show in a bizarre [[MetaConcepts meta]] way.

* DubNameChange: In the Dutch dubbed version, Norbert is named Benno and Daggett is named Boris.

* FreudianSlip: In "The Posei-Dam Adventure" when they're singing the Auld Lang Syne parody, Norb says, "left in a dam to die.", reflecting his brother's current situation trapped in the upside down dam, life in danger.

-->'''Norbert:''' This... this... [[RunningGag HELMUUUUT!!!]] has been completely, absolutely, positively and rightfully USELESS!

* HumanityEnsues: The episode "I'm Not An Animal, I'm Scientist #1" ends with Norb, Daggett and the other animals being turned into human beings.
* HumansAreMorons: How humans are portrayed in the show. They're shown to be extremely stupid, unable to complete sentences and basically TooDumbToLive, both to themselves and to the much smarter {{Talking Animal}}s.

* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Its a Spootiful Life. It turns out [[spoiler:everyone really would have been better off if Daggett had never been born. He decides he wants to go back anyway. That is, assuming it wasn't all just a dream.]]

** Combined with HumiliationConga in 'Specs Appeal'. After Norb tricks Daggett into letting him have x-ray specs and lets him 'have' non-existent invisible x-ray specs, [[spoiler: it turns out Norb's specs [[TheGogglesDoNothing fake an x-ray effect]], Dag's specs exist, are [[{{Invisibility}} invisible]], and ''actually work'', the brothers loose the working x-ray specs in a fight, and Dag accidentally smashes the working specs once Norb finds them.]]

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: "Sans-a-Pelt" revolves around the brothers losing all their fur (minus their head fur) after Dag's misshap with an extremely complicated magical spell book.

* NeverWakeUpASleepwalker: Played straight as Daggett was told never to wake up a sleepwalker. It makes it tough as Norb is usually playing out scenarios he's watching on late night B-films and [[AcidRefluxNightmare eating loads of junk food]] in the process.

** Let's not forget BABA in "Euro Beavers", since that should've been clear [[Music/{{ABBA}} who are they are appear to be]].

* OneHitWonder: In-universe. Norbert and Daggett never do produce another hit beyond "Beaver Fever" in the episode of that name, and eventually their spotlight is taken by Barry.

** In the climax of "Lumberjack's Delight", Norbert finally succeeds in driving away the lumberjacks from chopping all the trees in the forest. The problem? He did so by winning in a tree chopping contest... and the lumberjacks left smugly singing with the entire forest's worth of trees.
** This also happens in "Sqotters". By LoopholeAbuse, Norb tries to trick the otters out of their house so they can reclaim it. Eventually he and Dag decide that they have to put all of their stuff outside so the otters would leave. The beavers get their house back... but the otters leave with everything in it.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Stacy and Chelsea. Also the Beavers themselves when shown as kits.

* SeparateSceneStorytelling: In one episode, all the characters go on a camping trip and play a storytelling game where they get to tell part of a story for a set ammount of time (the rules being that it has to be about the main characters or the antagonists in some way). Each "chapter" has its own art style. It starts out as a spy thriller (Norbert) and ends as a 90s MagicalGirl anime (Treeflower).
* TheSeventies: Tends to pop up occasionally, whether through the music, fashion, or Barry Bear. And it's so well done, it doesn't seem at all out of place. In fact, it ''adds'' to the show's charm.

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

*** The episode "Sqotters" involves river otters claiming the beavers' unoccupied home, which do happen in real life.
*** Beaver dams can prevent salmon from travelling upstream during spawning season, which the main premise of ''Salmon Sez''. But the ponds associating with the dams can also provide nurseries for the salmon (as the beavers find out at the end of the episode).
*** Norb's "European beaver" phase in "Euro-Beaver" 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.

* 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.]]

* StylisticSuck: The beavers love terrible B-movies, that they even make one. And yet AnimationBump. The movies in question are drawn much more realistically than the rest of the show.

* TemptingFate: The episode "Beaver Master". A warrior keeps re-appearing everytime Dag and Norb utter, "That's the last we'll see of him!" Norb eventually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]]. They both start using it to their advantage... at least for a plan they thought would work. Even after learning this, they still willingly tempt the phrase when they think they've actually won (twice) only to be proven wrong.

** "Gonna Getcha" has Norb get mad when Daggett accidentally farts on him and swears that he'll get even with his brother. After Daggett spends the rest of the episode paranoid of how his brother will pay him back, Norb catches Daggett off-guard with a surprise party and then gets his revenge by farting on his brother.

* TheUnreveal[=/=]WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The manservant in "The Day the World Got Really Screwed Up". At the end of the episode, Norbert says there was no manservant, and asks Daggett to explain. Daggett begins playing a video...and then the show instantly cuts to the end of his explanation. All the viewers sees is the other characters reacting to the explanation, and one person commenting "And to think they did it without using their...tongues."

* UnwantedAssistance: Daggett's attempts at superheroics in "Muscular Beaver" only cause trouble for the people he's trying to help. He gets a bear trying to fish eaten by a gigantic fish, bothers a mother bird by convincing her hatchlings that they can fly just by jumping off a cliff and gets a raccoon in trouble when he steals food from a family picnic and the family ends up blaming the raccoon.

*** 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.

** Treeflower's story in "Pass It On" features Norb looking like ''Anime/AstroBoy'', and, before transforming into a MagicalGirl form, Treeflower's schoolgirl look is a reference to ''[[Anime/ProjectAko A-ko Magami]]''.

** Treeflower's story in "Pass It On" features Norb looking like ''Anime/AstroBoy'', and, before transforming into a MagicalGirl form, Treeflower's schoolgirl look is a reference to ''[[Anime/ProjectAko Project A-ko]]''.

** Treeflower's story in "Pass It On" features Norb looking like ''Anime/AstroBoy'' and Treeflower herself transforming into a MagicalGirl character slightly resembling [[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Lina Inverse]].

-->'''Chrous''' ''He'll kill y'all with kindness, he'll kill y'all with a griiiiiiiiin. Kid Friendly!'' \\

* YourMom: After chased by dogs in "Born to Be Beavers", Daggett tells them "And your cousin is a three-legged toadstool!"

* {{Bowdlerise}}: A rare example of how this can backfire. Norbert yelled "Shut up!" in one episode, drawing complaints from parents. Nickelodeon addressed them by adding a SoundEffectBleep but only the word "shut" got censored by it. This generated even more controversy, leading Nick to outright change the line to "Shush up!".