History WesternAnimation / TheWeekenders

* {{Adorkable}}: Tino

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

** 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 Petratishkovna so she wouldn't be saddled with an identity due to her name. [[spoiler: It translates as "girl with one nose"]].
---> '''Tish:''' How...accurate.

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The group as a whole is a mixed example: [[FieryRedhead Lor]], [[BrainyBrunette Tish]], [[DarkSkinnedBlond Tino]], and [[BlackBestfriend Carver]].

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Lor has something like fourteen brothers. Even she can't track of them, in part because her parents apparently repeated some of their names two or three times.

** "Penny McQuarrie" for Penny, Carver's sister, and one of Lor's brothers

* GoneHorriblyRight: Quite possibly the TropeNamer despite [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample not applying in any sense except]] [[DeadpanSnarker Ms. Tonitini's]] sarcastic remark.

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

* BlackBestFriend: Carver

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In "Hair", the gang take Tish to a play to try and avoid running into anyone from school...the play is extremely weird, and every time a character asks a question, they begin playing shuffle-board. Even Tish thought it sucked. [[invoked]]

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Tino's dad shares his son's looks and neurotic obsessions. And his GirlyScream. As Tino's mother observes:
--> "It's like a cloning experiment GoneHorriblyRight."
** What Ms. Tonitini actually said was "It's like I'm watching a cloning experiment gone horribly AWRY".

'''Lor:''' A.S.A.P.? They put my cat to sleep![[note]] What Lor is referring to is the ASPCA: the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [[/note]]

'''Lor:''' The guys who pick the movie ratings? [[note]] What Lor is referring to is the MPAA: the Motion Picture Association of America [[/note]]

* AcronymConfusion: In "Grow Up", Tino tells Lor, Carver, and Tish to leave A.S.A.P. Lor responds with "A.S.A.P.? They put my cat to sleep!"[[note]] What Lor is probably referring to is ASPCA, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [[/note]] Also counts as GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

* AcronymConfusion: In "Grow Up", Tino tells Lor, Carver, and Tish to leave A.S.A.P. Lor responds with "A.S.A.P.? They put my cat to sleep!" [[note]] What Lor is probably referring to is ASPCA, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [[/note]]

* AcronymConfusion: In "Grow Up", Tino tells Lor, Carver, and Tish to leave A.S.A.P. Lor responds with "A.S.A.P.? They put my cat to sleep!" [[note What Lor is probably referring to is ASPCA, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals]]

An animated series from Disney, aired in 2000 as part of the ''OneSaturdayMorning'' block on Creator/{{ABC}}, created by Doug Langdale (previously of Creator/{{Universal}}'s ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' adaptation, Sony's ''WesternAnimation/ProjectGeeker'' and later Disney series ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian''), and ran for four seasons. It followed the lives of four friends: DeadpanSnarker Tino Tonitini, {{The Smart G|uy}}irl Petratishkovna "Tish" Katsufrakis, {{Tomboy}} Lor [=MacQuarrie=], and not so cool CoolLoser 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.

* PacManFever: Averted. In the episode "Shoes of Destiny" Lor and Tino are playing a game involving space robots fighting. The sounds match up to the movements, and when Carver shows up, the Konami pause sound even plays as the screen goes blank! Not to mention, anyone with a keen ear can recognize the sound effects - plenty of which actually come from ''SuperMarioBros''.

* 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. Thompson himself calls her out on it in the season 3 episode "Tutor", even [[ContinuityNod referring to the previous episodes]] ("Makeover" and "Brain Envy", from each of the previous seasons) where Lor acted the same way:

** Tish often has episodes focusing on her desperation to be mature.

* AlliterativeName: Tino Tonitini.
** As well as his near-clone, Tony Tordalero.

* BadBadActing[=/=]DullSurprise: Lor whenever she tries to act or lie.
** Take this scene from "''Radio Drama''" for example:

* TheBGrade: Subverted in ''"Imperfection"''; Despite getting straight A's, Tish does have an overreaction -- about a teacher's comment regarding her perfectionist tendencies.

* CatchPhrase: "Later days!"

* ContinuityNod: There are quite a few mentions of Chum Bukkit song "suffused elephant quaff winces exasperating" throughout the series. The name came from the season 1 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.
** Actually, the show was always brilliant at this. Many throwbacks to in-jokes, events and even character traits built up over the course of the seasons are subdued enough to slip by viewers without an eye out for them.

* CreepyChild: ''Never'' put Carver's brother Todd and his friend Quinty together.

* DeadpanSnarker: Tino is excellent at this. [[LampshadeHanging He even wins "Most Sarcastic" in the Yearbook Awards.]]

* TheDitz: Lor... kind of. In "Real Fake" 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.
** Bluke isn't [[{{Metaphorgotten}} the brightest bulb in the knife drawer either.]]
** "The Tao of Bluke" reveals that he's really just simple, rather than stupid as revealed at the episode's end when they won pizzas instead of the pool table.

* DrowningMySorrows[=/=]GRatedDrug: In the "Celebrity" episode in which Tish becomes a local celebrity, 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.

* 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.

* FeudEpisode: "''Taking Sides''"
* 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.

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

* GenreSavvy: Tino's mom. Lampshaded in "Vengeance":

** This is because all the episodes follow the same rhythm of having problems on Saturday and fixing it up on Sunday (or Monday morning at the latest).

* GibberishOfLove: Tino sometimes does this when around a really pretty girl. Also, Carver struggles to speak to "The Cool Kids", although that's not due to love so much as envy.

* 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.

* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Tino Tonitini and Tony Tordalero]]. Thankfully, it's easy to tell them apart when they say something; the only word Tony knows to say is "Sure."

* InformedJudaism: Tino is an Informed Pagan; aside from a Solstice celebration in lieu of Christmas, we don't hear anything about it.
** Although it ''is'' mentioned in two separate episodes; his mother celebrates ''both'' Solstices. And the Vernal Equinox.

* INeedToGoIronMyDog: In "Lor's Will", Tish uses the excuse "I have to go paint... my... lawn," after thinking Lor 'betrayed' her.
** "Look... up in the sky! It's the Lor signal! The President needs me!"
*** "And she'll need her trusty sidekick, Carver Lad!"
* {{Jerkass}}: Percy and Ruby, two kids from the gang's school, sometimes come off as this.
** Brie and Colby.
* JerkJock: Laird

* LimitedWardrobe: Amazingly, this is ''averted.'' Notable for a Western Animation cartoon. Throughout an episode, the characters' 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.

* LovableJock: Lor.

* TheMakeover: In the episode titled, well, "Makeover", Lor gets one when she's told that she has to do so in order to get her crush Thompson to notice her. She eventually goes back to her usual appearance, much to Thompson's relief.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Lor and Tino (or Carver). Also Dixon and Tino's Mother on occasion.
** It doesn't help that Carver keeps female clothing in his closet.

* {{Meganekko}}: Tish.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Frances. Not only does she have an obsession with pointy objects, her laugh is also scary.
** Even more disturbing is that she was a perfectly normal kid at one point who was good friends with Tish, only to become what she is now, completely out of nowhere. Of course it's parodying the "Friends change over time" situation. But seriously... what could have possibly happened to practically have her become this overnight?

* OneSteveLimit: An aversion, which is PlayedForLaughs. Lor apparently has more than one brother named "Danny", and she [[RunningGag has difficulty keeping track of her brothers]] because she sometimes forgets how many "Dannies" there are. Why her parents decided to give two (or more) of their children the same first name is anyone's guess.
** [[Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete Maybe the same reason there's two Petes?]]

* PacManFever: Averted. In the episode "Shoes of Destiny" Lor and Tino are playing a game involving space robots fighting. The sounds match up to the movements, and when Carver shows up, the Konami pause sound even plays as the screen goes blank!
** 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 ''Theatre/OedipusRex'' to him (she even described it as a story for [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids kids of all ages]]).

* TeenGenius: Tish.

* TwitchyEye: Sometimes Tino gets one, most notably in "Cry" where he gives up his emotions, and the gang tries to get him angry. Lor and Carver get this when they are unable to say the word "homework" on the weekend.

* VerbalTic: Tony Tordellaro only says "sure".

* WeWantOurJerkBack: ''"Sense and Sensitivity"''

'''Tino:''' Where cats chase dogs and [[HypocriticalHumor sitcoms are funny?]]

Staying away from broad and cartoonish plots, the show [[SliceOfLife takes a more subtle route]], with much of the humor deriving from its many one-liners ([[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl and Tino's screams, of course]]).