History WesternAnimation / TheWorldOfDavidTheGnome

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Trolls. Even the few that wear clothes never wear shoes, not even in snowy and arctic environments.

* ChangelingTale: In "The Baby Troll", the troll mother confesses that her baby was left on a rock in the middle of the river by a human farmer, after she tried to change him for the farmer's son.

''The World of David the Gnome'' (1985) was a Spanish-produced animated television series based on the children's books ''{{Literature/Gnomes}}'' and ''The Secret Book of Gnomes'', by the Dutch author Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet, with production handled by BRB Internacional. The English dub aired on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} in the late [[TheEighties 1980s]] and early [[TheNineties 1990s]], with the English adaptation handled by Canadian firm [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment Cinar Films]], in association with Miramax and produced by Harvey Weinstein (yes, THAT Creator/{{Miramax|Films}} and THAT [[Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany Harvey Weinstein]]) and followed the adventures of one David the Gnome, who in most episodes traveled through the forest on his pet fox Swift and rescued animals that were injured or in danger.

''You know where to find us now''\

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters:

* TheSmartGuy: The trolls' ringleader, Holler, is the only one with even a modicum of intelligence. Unlike the others, he's clever enough to make snares and traps, learns how to use human tools and weapons, and is fairly articulate when he speaks. The rest of them, though equally malicious, speak and act like people with severe mental handicaps.
* {{Transflormation}}: Gnomes turn into trees when they pass on, as shown with David, Lisa, and the former's friend Casper.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Trolls can also smell gnomes from large distances away and ''also'' think they smell disgusting (yet would like to eat them).

* OurGnomesAreWeirder: Not necessarily mad, but definitely non-blue [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs smurfs]] with some stripes of UndergroundMonkey, CantArgueWithElves, and SpeaksFluentAnimal. Also MindManipulation, {{Telepathy}}, and HorseOfADifferentColor.

* ThePowerOfLove: Required to open the CoolGate in "The Shadowless Stone."

* NiceHat: And they almost never take them off, not even for baths.
** They remove their hat so rarely that in the second episode one of the trolls even carries David by holding the tip of his hat.

** The opening narration of the first episode was MUCH darker in the original version, chastising humans for their treatment of nature and their tendency towards destruction... ending in a nuclear explosion just to drive the point home. ''Some'' of this footage is in the English dub, but the narration is much more toned down and omits the more traumatic imagery. All of the narration footage was removed entirely from the Finnish dub, which did otherwise keep the original elements in the whole series.

** Hoolley and Poopey's mother, Ingrid, is called "good" by the gnomes, but she's still greedy and an enabler who excuses her children's behavior as being naughty but not evil. Nevertheless, [[EvenEvilhasLovedOnes she loves them]] and [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas they love her back]].

** The last episode implies that the 400-year lifespan is a choice rather than an actual requirement, but that after that point gnomes are subject to greatly reduced quality of life, being hit by many of the ravages of age in a short amount of time.

* TogetherInDeath: David and Lisa become two intertwined trees after they pass on, and their spirits are shown being happy together in the branches.

* AdultFear:
** In the episode "Young Dr. Gnome", a hunter shoots little fawn and mother deer can't do nothing more but soothe him. Luckily David arrives and saves the fawn.
** Harold, David's son, gets almost trampeled by horses and is abducted by a magpie in episode "Any milk Today?".

* AdultFear: In one episode, a hunter shoots little fawn and mother deer can't do nothing more but soothe him. Luckily David arrives and saves the fawn.