History WesternAnimation / TheWeekenders

** Lor can't speak to Thompson.

* BareYourMidriff: Lor has one outfit that follows this trope.

* TheBGrade: Subverted in ''"Imperfection"''.

* TheCameo: JenniferLoveHewitt in "My Punky Valentine."

*** Actually, all the main characters have shades of this. The Tonitinis definitely win first prize, but Lor isn't far behind. And Carver has his moments.

* InWithTheInCrowd: ''"The Lone Wolves Club"''

* LimitedWardrobe: Amazingly, this is ''averted.'' Notable for a Western Animation cartoon. Throughout an episode, their clothes change after each day begins, similar to RealLife. They avoid UnlimitedWardrobe, because they each have the same four or five outfits that they continue to wear throughout the show's run.

* LoveableNerd: Tino and Tish, although the former comes off as more so then the latter.

** Tish, in the episode where she become a local celebrity.

* MuseumOfBoredom: The aforementioned "Foods of the World" exhibit. Although it's not the exhibit so much as the server's monotonous delivery; apparently the gang really likes the food enough to keep coming back.

* PerfumeCommercial

* RunningGag: Many, including the aforementioned pizza place, Carver's terrible penmanship, Tish's mom's broken English, Tino's Mom's cooking, and the exact number of Lor's siblings, among others.

* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Tino, of course. The rest of the gang calls it his "squeaky scream".

* {{Snapback}}: ''"To Tish"'': So... why is no one mentioning the titular verb again?

* TwitchyEye: Sometimes Tino gets one, most notably in "Cry" where he gives up his emotions, and the gang tries to get him angry.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Tish, in the episode where she accidentally gets famous.

* AdultChild: Tish's mother goes into this in "The New Girl". Justified in that she actually didn't really ''have'' a childhood.
* AesopAmnesia: More than one episode has Lor learning that she doesn't have to change herself to get the attention of her crush, Thompson. She never seems to fully pick it up despite going through the same plot two or three times.

* TomboyAndGirlygirl: Lor and Tish, lampshaded a couple of times.

An animated series, aired in 2000, created by Doug Langdale, and ran for four seasons. It followed the lives of four friends: {{Deadpan Snarker}} Tino Tonitini, TheSmartGirl Petratishkovna "Tish" Katsufrakis, {{Tomboy}} Lor [=MacQuarrie=], and not so cool {{Cool Loser}} Carver Descartes. Oddly enough, despite having four school-age children in the main roles, the show hardly (if ever) touches on aspects of school life, since stories nearly always begin on Friday afternoon and end on Sunday evening.

Noted for its surprisingly good writing, averting the LimitedWardrobe (unusual for an animated show) and for [[NoFourthWall often breaking the fourth wall]], with the audience being addressed directly by (usually) Tino, serving as a narrator of sorts; other characters have also taken this role, or even {{lampshaded}} it on occasion. Also had quite a set of {{Once An Episode}} recurring gags, such as the seemingly indecisive [[LocalHangOut pizza place]] (never having the same name or theme twice), Tino's Mom serving highly questionable food, and of course "[[CatchPhrase Later Days!]]" One other reason this show stands out is the aversion of the AdultsAreUseless trope - showing that adults ''can'' be useful and ''still'' have a good show.

* AdultChild: Tish's mother goes into this in "The New Girl". Justified in that she actually didn't really ''have'' a childhood.

* AmicablyDivorced: Tino's parents. While Tino's dad doesn't visit very often, his relationship with his mom still seems to be friendly enough that they can have a friendly dinner now and then with her new boyfriend.

* BlackBestFriend: Carver

** Bluke isn't [[{{Metaphorgotten}} the brightest bulb in the knife drawer either.]]

* DysfunctionalFamily: Lor's family doesn't have many personal problems or anything like that. But Lor has so many brothers that it reaches the double digits, and quite frankly she admits that she does not know how many brothers she has. That has to count for something. She has somewhere between thirteen and sixteen.

** In a few episodes, it's hinted that Carver is a closeted cross-dresser. In "Never Say Diorama", when he went shopping for fur-lined bathing suits with Lor, Lor found a women's bathing suit in her shopping bag that she didn't remember buying (Carver nervously explained "It's for my sister!"). Then in "Celebrity", when he tried to help the kids give Tish a girly makeover, Tino eventually had to ask him why his closet was full of girls' clothes (again, he nervously explained that it was "for a Halloween costume").

** It has no [=VHS's=] either. It aired on television, randomly, up until 2008 or 2009 too.

** Not to mention, anyone with a keen ear can recognize the sound effects - plenty of which actually come from ''SuperMarioBros''.
* ParentalBonus: As with almost every cartoon, references most kid won't get show up in the dialogue. For example, in one episode when Tish was babysitting Carver's brother, Todd, she tries to read ''OedipusRex'' to him (she even described it as a story for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids kids of all ages]]).

** More like ''SavedByTheBell'' meets ''AllGrownUp''; it's more akin to a young tween comedy than it is an out right kids show. Helps that they are actually in middle school.
* VocalEvolution: Lor's voice is higher in season 4.

** Also, Tish's Mother frequently exclaims "Is what I say!" after her English is corrected.

* ContinuityNod: There are quite a few mentions of Chum Bukkit song "suffused elephant quaff winces exasperating" throughout the series. The name came from the episode "Band" when Carver tried to write a message to the band and, because of his [[RunningGag bad handwriting]], that's what they thought it said.

* DifferentInEveryEpisode: The pizza restaurant has a different theme and the museum offers a sample of a different exotic food in each episode.

* GibberishOfLove: Tino sometimes does this when around a really pretty girl. Also, Carver struggles to speak to "The Cool Kids."

* MenDontCry: Tino is mocked in one episode for crying while watching ''RomeoAndJuliet'' in school. Taken to ludicrous extremes when he has an ImagineSpot of himself as a girl.

* MuseumOfBoredom: The aforementioned "Foods of the World" exhibit. Although it's not the exhibit so much as the deadpan server.

* OppositesAttract: Tino has a crush on a punk girl named Tasha.

* ShowWithinAShow: ''Teen Canyon''. It even helps the main cast sometimes with their issues.
--> '''Lor:''' Wow, what would we do without TV? We'd have to learn these lessons for ourselves!

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When Lor is interviewing the "Strings N Things" store owner:

* TwitchyEye: Sometimes Tino gets one, most notably the episode where he gives up his emotions.

* [[WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs Why Do You Keep Changing Themes?]]: They occasionally acknowledge that the pizza place had a different theme the previous week.

** Might also be a StealthPun but the cool kids Bree and Colby, which are both types of cheese.

An animated series, aired in 2000, created by Doug Langdale, and ran for four seasons. It followed the lives of four friends: {{Deadpan Snarker}} Tino Tonitini, TheSmartGirl Petratishkovna "Tish" Katsufrakis, {{Tomboy}} Lor [=MacQuarrie=], and not so cool {{Cool Loser}} Carver Descartes. Oddly enough despite having four school-age children in the main roles, the show hardly (if ever) touches on aspects of school life, since stories nearly always begin on Friday afternoon and end on Sunday evening.

---> '('Roughly four hours pass'')

* BigEater: Carver. Also, Tish's mother; when she hangs out with them she wins a chili dog eating contest.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Pru, a spoilt, whiny AlphaBitch who hangs out with the group for one episode because her old friends [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous didn't buy her a present on flag day.]]

* TheDitz: Lor... kind of. In one episode she takes it to the extreme when she's acting like a teen in a TV show when the gang are being filmed by a documentarist. ItMakesSenseInContext.

* DrowningMySorrows[=/=]GRatedDrug: In the "Celebrity" episode in which Tish becomes a LocalCelebrity, she can be seen drowning her sorrows in Chug-A-Freezes when she realizes she's not famous anymore. She even asks for another, but the man at the counter tells her he thinks she's had enough.
* DumbBlonde: Pru, sort of with Bluke.

* GenreSavvy: Tino's mom.

** In "Shoes of Destiny", they get away with saying "crap" by having Tino spell it out as an acronym. When Carver starts describing himself as "C.A.R.P." (Cool And Radically Popular), Tino responds, "Good thing you're not '''C'''ool, '''''R'''ich'' '''A'''nd '''P'''opular."

* LethalChef: Tino's mom, though where she gets the ingredients and how she prepares them are extremely questionable, the result is at least edible, most of the time. This overlaps with the IAteWhat RunningGag as well.

** Despite having a full wardrobe of different clothes for each character, each had their own color scheme. Tish usually wore purple, Carver wore yellow, Lor usually wore grey, and Tino wore blue. TruthInTelevision, as lots of people have a favorite color that they genuinely wear a lot.

* TheMakeover: Tish in the episode where she become a local celebrity.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Lor and Tino.

* MuseumOfBoredom: The aforementioned "Foods of the World" exhibit.

* PersonAsVerb: ''"To Tish"''

->'''Lor''' It's the crazy backwards universe again-\\

* AdultChild: Tish's mother goes into this in one episode. Justified in that she actually didn't really ''have'' a childhood.

* BigEater: Carver. Tish's mother, when she hangs out with them she wins a chili dog eating contest.

* ContinuityNod: There are quite a few mentions of Chum Bukkit song "suffused elephant quaff winces exasperating" throughout the series. The name came from an early Season One episode when Carver tried to write a message to the band and, because of his [[RunningGag bad handwriting]], that's what they thought it said.
* CrackDefeat: "Talent Show" again: Lor plays guitar. Bluke throws hams into the air. Bluke wins the ribbon. Go figure.

* TheCelebrityLie: ''"Band"''

* FreeRangeChildren: They're allowed to go everywhere in Bahia Bay on the weekends it seems. They never run into any issues where their parents specifically forbid them from going somewhere. It's possible that since they're in middle school and they rarely travel alone that their parents will think they're okay.

* FunnyForeigner: Tish's mother, whose main purpose was to mangle "kiss and make up" into "kitchen my cup".

** In a few episodes, it's hinted that Carver is a closeted crossdresser. In "Never Say Diorama", when he went shopping for fur-lined bathing suits with Lor, Lor found a women's bathing suit in her shopping bag that she didn't remember buying (Carver nervously explained "It's for my sister!"). Then in "Celebrity", when he tried to help the kids give Tish a girly makeover, Tino eventually had to ask him why his closet was full of girls' clothes (again, he nervously explained that it was "for a Halloween costume").

* LethalChef: Tino's mom, though where she gets the ingredients and how she prepares them are extremely questionable, the result is at least edible, most of the time. This overlaps with the IAteWhat RunningGag, also.

* LocalHangout: The pizza place with the [[RunningGag ever-changing name.]]
* LoveableNerd: Tino and Tish, although the former comes off as moreso then the latter.

* {{Malaproper}}: Tish's mom. "Now why don' you kitchen my cup?" "You mean 'kiss and make up'?" "Is what I say!"

* ParentWithNewParamour: Tino's Mom dates Dixon, who often gets along with the gang. And in a rare instance for cartoons, not only did he appear in future episodes instead of just being a one-shot character, they also didn't immediately jump to the two of them going straight to marriage.

* RunningGag: Many, including the aforementioned pizza place, Carver's terrible penmanship, Tish's mom's broken English, Tino's Moms cooking, and Lor's sibling amount, among others.
** Also, the exotic food exhibit at the Anthropology Museum. They usually are completely irrelevant to the plot.
*** With the completely apathetic server. "Couscous - the food so nice, they named it twice."

* ShowWithinAShow: ''Teen Canyon''

* ShoutOut: Somewhat randomly, many to famous French writers & thinkers. Obviously, one of the main characters is named Carver 'Rene' Descartes; more subtle are the girl named Cheri Montaigne, and the discussion of François Rabelais in the episode where Tish tries to be more mature (which is even thematically relevant!).

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When Lor is interviewing the "Strings N Things" store owner

* TeamMom: Tino's mother whose advice is pretty much there to solve their problems every episode. Tish's mom also hangs out with the kids in one episode.

'''Carver''': "Which stopped the show!"\\

* Mrs. Duong can't seem to go for a sentence without adding the word "help" in there somewhere.

--> '''Mr. Katsufrakis''': One time, mishkin tubelhauser goes just little bit wrong. Is reason we had to leave Old Country.\\

An animated series, aired in 2000, created by Doug Langdale, and ran for four seasons. It followed the lives of four friends: {{Deadpan Snarker}} Tino Tonitini, TheSmartGirl Pteratishkovna "Tish" Katsufrakis, {{Tomboy}} Lor [=MacQuarrie=], and not so cool {{Cool Loser}} Carver Descartes. Oddly enough despite having four school-age children in the main roles, the show hardly (if ever) touches on aspects of school life, since stories nearly always begin on Friday afternoon and end on Sunday evening.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissicm@ Tish, in the episode where she accidentally gets famous.

* AdultsAreUseless: One of the few children's shows that actually averts this trope and shows that it's not always the case - Tino's mom in particular is ''very'' in touch with her kids and always knows the right things to say about whatever problem Tino is facing at the time. Likewise, the other characters' parents are shown to be [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable authority figures]] in their own way, and still know about their kids.

* AlliterativeName: Tino Tonatini.

* BadBadActing / DullSurprise: Lor whenever she tries to act or lie.
** Take this scene from ''"Radio Drama"'' for example:
---> '''Lor:''' (blandly, reading) "After all these years I finally feel truely alive."

---> '''Lor:''' OH, SURE, RIGHT, YEAH, I GOT IT, OKAY! (blandly, reading) "After all these years I finally feel truly alive."

---> ''Roughly four hours pass''
---> '''Lor:''' (blandly, reading) "After all these years I finally feel truely alive."

* TheBGrade: subverted in ''"Imperfection"''
** ''inverted'' in "Brain Dead". This trope usually entails the "nerd" overreacting to a low score, while his/her friends wonder what's so bad. In "Brain Dead", Tish tries to brush off her "B" grade, but her friends are hesitant to accept the fact that she didn't get an "A". This leads the group attempting to give Tish a new ''reputation'', since she could no longer be the "nerd".

** Also Francis, the girl who's always saying that she likes pointy things and giggling.

* DeadpanSnarker When Tino isn't being a total coward, he definitely falls under this, as mentioned above. [[LampshadeHanging He even wins "Most Sarcastic" in the Yearbook Awards.]]

* TheDitz: Lor...kind of. In one episode she takes it to the extreme when she's acting like a teen in a TV show when the gang are being filmed by a documentarist. ItMakesSenseInContext.

* FeudEpisode: ''"Taking Sides"''

* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: ''"Sense and Sensitivity"''

* FlatJoy: One of the problems with Lor's BadBadActing. Tish fixes it later by having Tino say shes still under the zombie curse.

* IAteWhat: Occasionally one of the characters will eat something from the Foods of the World exhibit at the museum before it's revealed that it was made from something gross or unusual. Also, when Carver ate that 40 year old pickle which was in Lor's savings in ''"Lor's Will"'', which became a RunningGag for that episode.

* Jerkass: Percy and Ruby, two kids from the gang's school, sometimes come off as this.

* TheLadette: Lor is about as close to this trope as a 12 year old girl can get on a kid's show.

* MeaningfulName: When Tish is having an identity crisis after [[TheBGrade getting a B]], she goes to get help from her parents, who reveal that every person in TheOldCountry receives a MeaningfulName at birth. They re-name her to Petratishkova so she wouldn't be saddled with an identity due to her name.

* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Lor's grandma. Mr. McQuarrie can carry her around on his shoulders.

** Not to mention, anyone with a keen ear can recognize the sound effects - plenty of which actually come from ''SuperMarioBos''.

* ParentWithNewParamour: Tino's Mom dates Dixon, who often gets along with the gang. And in a rare instance for cartoons, not only did he appear in future episodes instead of just being a oneshot character, they also didn't immediately jump to the two of them going straight to marriage.

* SelfDeprecatingHumor: Every now and then characters lampshade how their character designs are fairly odd looking. With Tino's head being compared to a pumpkin, and Carver pointing out he resembles a pineapple.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Clowns?]] (Tino has a severe fear of clowns.)

** more like ''SavedByTheBell'' meets ''AllGrownUp'' it's more akin to a young tween comedy than it is an out right kids show. Helps that they are actually in middle school.

* TheDitz: Lor...kind of. In one episode she takes it to the extreme when shes acting like a teen in a TV show when the gang are being filmed by a documentarist. ItMakesSenseInContext.

** In a few episodes, it's hinted that Carver is a closeted crossdresser. In "Never Say Diorama", when he went shopping for fur-lined bathing suits with Lor, Lor found a women's bathing suit in her shopping bag that she didn't remember buying (Carver nervously explained "It's for my sister!"). Then in "Celebrity", when he tried to help the kids give Tish a girly makeover, Tino eventually had to ask him why his closet was full of girls' clothes (again, he nervously explained that it was "for a Halloween costume").

** It's hinted in a few episodes that Carver is a closeted crossdresser. In "Never Say Diorama", when he went shopping for fur-lined bathing suits with Lor, Lor found a women's bathing suit in her shopping bag that she didn't remember buying (Carver nervously explained "It's for my sister!"). Then in "Celebrity", when he tried to help the kids give Tish a girly makeover, Tino eventually had to ask him why his closet was full of girls' clothes (again, he nervously explained that it was "for a Halloween costume").

** It's subtly hinted in a few episodes that Carver is secretly a crossdresser. In "Never Say Diorama", he went shopping for fur-lined bathing suits with Lor, and Lor found a fur-lined women's bathing suit in their shopping bags that she didn't buy (he nervously explained "It's for my sister!"). Then in "Celebrity", he tried to help the kids give Tish a girly makeover, leaving the other kids baffled as to why his room was stocked with girls' clothes (again, he nervously explained that it was for "a Halloween costume").

* AdultsAreUseless: One of the few children's shows that actually averts this trope and shows that it's not always the case - Tino's mom in particular is ''very'' in touch with her kids and always knows the right things to say about whatever problem Tino is facing at the time. Likewise, the other characters' parents are shown to be [[ReasonableAuthorityFigures reasonable authority figures]] in their own way, and still know about their kids.

* AdultsAreUseless: Averted for the most part. Tino's mom's advice is frequently what helps the kids get over the problem of the episode and the other parents, while not perfect, are usually shown being pretty reasonable and receptive to their kids.

* NoodleIncident: There is a pool trick Ms. Katsufrakis does called ''mishkin tubelhauser'' that involves: "[[NoodleImplements six cats, one pair flame-proof pants,]] and [[BeyondTheImpossible a piano filled with sausages]]."

* BigEater: Carver. Tish's mother, when she hangs out with them she wins a Chilli Dog eating contest.