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* GrumpyBear: The Old Tea Bag, who doesn't like noise, games or mice.
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* AdaptationalLateAppearance: In the original stage play, The Gingerbread Man meets Sleek the Mouse on the same night he was born. Here, he doesn't meet him until a couple of nights later.


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* NiceGuy: The Gingerbread Man is very friendly and likes to help his friends.
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The series follows a gingerbread man and his friends: Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Herr Von Cuckoo, and Old Tea Bag, who come to life in their kitchen home when the Big Ones aren't looking. There's also Sleek the Mouse, a hungry mouse with a Brooklyn accent who will try to eat the titular gingerbread man.

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The series follows a gingerbread man and his friends: Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Herr Von Cuckoo, and Old Tea Bag, who come to life in their kitchen home when the Big Ones ([[TheVoice the human couple we always hear but never see]]) aren't looking. There's also Sleek the Mouse, a hungry mouse with a Brooklyn accent who will try to eat the titular gingerbread man.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Herr Von Cuckoo, and Old Tea Bag, who are a salt shaker, a pepper shaker, a cuckoo clock bird and a tea bag.

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* AnimateInanimateObject: Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Herr Von Cuckoo, and Old Tea Bag, who are a salt shaker, a pepper shaker, a cuckoo clock bird and a tea bag.bag respectively.
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* MinimalisticCast: Not counting the Big Ones, they are only six characters in the whole series.

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* MinimalisticCast: MinimalistCast: Not counting the Big Ones, they are only six characters in the whole series.
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* MinimalisticCast: Not counting the Big Ones, they are only six characters in the whole series.



* TookALevelInKindness: Through the show, Throughout the show, the Old Tea Bag goes from hating the Gingerbread Man and wanting to be eaten to respecting and caring for him.

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* TookALevelInKindness: Through the show, Throughout the show, the Old Tea Bag goes from hating the Gingerbread Man and wanting to be eaten to respecting and caring for him.
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''The Gingerbread Man'' (1992) is a ''very''-short lived StopMotion cartoon created by David Wood and co-produced by [=FilmFair=] and Central Independent Television. It is loosely based on the 1976 musical play of the same name also created by David Wood, which in turn is inspired on the [[Literature/TheGingerbreadMan 19th-century fairy tale]] of the same name as well.

The series follows a gingerbread man and his friends: Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Herr Von Cuckoo, and Old Tea Bag, who come to life in their kitchen home when the Big Ones aren't looking. There's also Sleek the Mouse, a hungry mouse with a Brooklyn accent who will try to eat the titular gingerbread man.
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!! This show provides examples of:
* AnimateInanimateObject: Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper, Herr Von Cuckoo, and Old Tea Bag, who are a salt shaker, a pepper shaker, a cuckoo clock bird and a tea bag.
* AnthropomorphicFood: The Gingerbread Man himself.
* DancePartyEnding: The first episode ends with the Gingerbread Man and his friends dancing to the music on the radio.
* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: In one episode, a TV near the kitchen dresser plays the series' TitleThemeTune.
* GrumpyBear: The Old Tea Bag, who doesn't like noise, games or mice.
* PerpetualSmiler: Mr. Salt and, to a lesser extent, the Gingerbread Man are always smiling.
* SpaceJews: Herr Von Cuckoo is a German cuckoo clock bird dressed as a yodeler.
* TookALevelInKindness: Through the show, Throughout the show, the Old Tea Bag goes from hating the Gingerbread Man and wanting to be eaten to respecting and caring for him.

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