History WesternAnimation / TimeSquad

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Otto is smart and cheerful, Larry is snarky and narcissistic, and Tuddrussel is also kind but more assertive than Otto. Sometimes it's Tuddrussel (mean) and Larry (in-between) as Tuddrussel acts like a LazyHusband and while Larry is selfish he is emotionally closer to Otto.

* WorkingWithTheEx: Occasionally other [[TimePolice Time Squad units]] join in to help the trio. [[TheChosenMany One of these squads]] consists of [[TheBigGuy Buck Tuddrussel's]] ex-wife Sheila Sternwell. While Buck is good-natured towards his ex, Sheila seems to hold nothing but enmity for him (then again, [[ManChild he]] ''is'' [[DumbMuscle an]] [[WhatAnIdiot idiot]]).

* WorkingWithTheEx: Occasionally other [[TimePolice Time Squad units]] join in to help the trio. [[TheChosenMany One of these squads]] consists of [[TheBigGuy Buck Tuddrussel's]] ex-wife Sheila Sternwell. While Buck is good-natured towards his ex, Sheila seems to hold nothing but enmity for him (then again, [[ManChild he]] ''[[IdiotHero is]]'' [[DumbMuscle an]] [[WhatAnIdiot idiot]]).

* ActorAllusion: Yes, that's [[Creator/MarkHamill Luke Skywalker/The Joker]] voicing [[StarWars an effeminate robot]] not unlike an exaggerated take on C-3PO.

** "Betsy Ross Flies Her Freak Flag" has Betsy Ross leading a NewAgeRetroHippie commune, a good 200 years before there was any such thing as a hippie.

* CardCarryingVillain: UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, or "Dishonest Abe".

* AnachronisticOrphanage: Otto lived in an OrphanageOfFear until he was adopted. It looks more like something out of a Dickens novel than anything you might see today.

** In one episode ("Kubla Khan't") Otto [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this. "I didn't know comic books even existed back then." Not to mention how Khan managed to [[spoiler: find the materials to construct the laser rifle from the schematics in the magazine that Tuddrussel had on him]]

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Buck and Larry's hug after their fight in "Hate and Let Hate" which can be inferred as VitriolicBestBuds or a [[HoYay romantic relationship]]

* ThroughHisStomach The beginning of "Ex Marks the Spot," complete with a Freudian gravy-pouring sequence.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tuddrussel is almost always asking for one thing of Larry, and that is for him to make just a simple cheeseburger. And Larry himself is fond of making soufflés.

* {{Jerkass}}: Louis Pasteur is portrayed as this, showing no redeemable features whatsoever and generally acts like a stuck up asshole. Even Otto, historical fanboy extraordinaire, cant stand the guy.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Despite Tuddrussels size and strength, he's gotten his ass kicked several times, ranging from experienced Soldiers like General Patton and UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, to ''Florence Nightingale''!

* NegativeContinuity: Averted in the case of some episodes as some of the episodes do make references to past ones as well as reintroduce past characters which were the case of episodes featuring Julius Caesar, Sigmund Freud, George Washington, Blackbeard, and the Boston Tea Party. However, some episodes do play it straight as Larry's implication of him and Tuddrussel sharing a bed seems to negate the previous establishments that Larry and Tuddrussel had their own beds and rooms to sleep in separately.

** "White House Weirdness" is a full-episode parody of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo''

** A rare example that has nothing to do with the homosexual undertone of the show occurs in "Child's Play," where Shakespeare gets into creative differences between his agent (who wants him to do kids' plays for merchandise) and Larry (who acts as a MoralGuardian and keeps objecting to the plays' content). Considering how short-lived "Time Squad" was, one has to wonder if this wasn't Dave Wasson (the show creator) speaking out against the creative output of his show or if this was merely a satire on the mediocre quality of current kids' TV programming and movies due to greed and PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad.

* DidYouJustHaveSex: How a great deal of the fandom interprets Larry's sudden, over-the-top good mood at the beginning of "Ex Marks the Spot" [[note]]It hasn't been confirmed by creator, Dave Wasson, or anyone else who has worked on the show[[/note]]. Otto even calls him out on it and the Freudian symbolism of the food involved (the gravy being pumped into the turkey and a lone cherry sinking into the gravy-smothered turkey) seems to speak volumes of why Larry is such in a good mood.

* HideYourLesbians: Tuddrussel and Larry throughout the shows run, were constantly hinted to be in a same sex relationship thanks to all the rampant HoYay that occurred between them. “Ex Marks The Spot” almost subverted this trope with Larry’s stunt with putting gravy in the chicken, his apparent jealously towards Sheila, and his throwaway line towards Tuddrussel that stated that Tuddrussel was going to sleep on the couch, implying that they both share a bed. They are basically all but explicitly stated to be a couple.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: This show excelled at GettingCrapPastTheRadar, thanks to the seemingly constant flashes of HoYay and AmbiguouslyGay behavior. Examples:

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: To the point that it not only has its [[Radar/TimeSquad own page]], but a subsection on the Creator/CartoonNetwork [[Radar/CartoonNetwork radar page]].

* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: When it doesn't run on HoYay, GettingCrapPastTheRadar, DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything and HypocriticalHumor.

* ParentalBonus: Everything mentioned in HoYay, DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything, GeniusBonus, and GettingCrapPastTheRadar, along with a significant number of [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]].

* MistakenForGay: This happens to Tuddrussell at least twice as he and Larry were mistaken for an engaged couple by Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud.

Enter the Time Squad, who travel through time making sure that the past stays right on track. The show follows one section of Time Squad: Buck Tuddrussel, who likes to shoot first and forget the questions, Larry 3000, an uppity, effeminate, snarky robot who originally worked with kings, senators, and diplomats, and Otto, an orphaned history buff from the 21st century picked up along the way who assists with his knowledge of the past. "Enforcing the past to protect our future."

** Also, A script for an early episode involving [[https://thecarlosramos.tumblr.com/post/181960714855/time-squads-adam-eve-ep the Time Squad going back to the Garden of Eden to get Adam and Eve to partake of the forbidden fruit from The Tree of Knowledge was written, but never made]] But can be viewed on Carlos Ramos' Tumblr blog.

The show was created by Creator/DaveWasson and [[Creator/CartoonCartoons premiered]] on Creator/CartoonNetwork in June 2001 and was canceled in November 2003. It reran for a time between November 2003 and August 2005 in the US, but since then, the show has all but disappeared from the airwaves. Creator/CartoonNetwork did air clips of select episodes on their website as part of the channel's 20th birthday in October 2012, but that was a "limited time only" deal.

* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Otto is smart and cheerful, Larry is snarky and narcissistic, and Tuddrussel is also kind but more assertive than Otto.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The Man with No Name in Billy the Kid, who after the Time Squad and Billy turn themselves in states they're going to hang for their crimes. Implied in the ''Dollars'' movies but in the tie-in novel "A Coffin Full of Dollars" he states that he doesn't kill children or idiots, and the Time Squad are a mixture of both.

* UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln: As a prankster after getting sick of everyone praising him for being honest and good. Also has a guest spot when Creator/BuffaloBill claims that the reason he won the presidency was because he had mind control powers.

* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Self-described as a "C- Student's guide to history" -- which is frankly being generous -- the show often doesn't even try for historical accuracy, opting for RuleOfFunny instead. It also treats CommonKnowledge myths about history as accurate. The actual list of historical inaccuracies would be '''''way''''' too long to list, even on its own page.

* BrickJoke, OverlyLongGag, and LeaveTheCameraRunning: "Killing Time," where after the Time Squad guide UsefulNotes/NicolausCopernicus to be an astronomer instead of a farmer, the trio spends the rest of the episode waiting around for Larry to restart his time travel software so they can go home. Just as the Time Squad zap back to the satellite, [[spoiler: Copernicus runs back and yells, "Wait! I forgot to ask! What is the sun?"]].

* TheCape [=/=] IncorruptiblePurePureness: George Washington is the only historical figure whose depiction hasn't been warped (though he came close on "Father Figure of Our Country, when he wanted to quit being the first U.S. President and be an actual father).

* CastOfSnowflakes

* UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington - appeared on "Betsy Ross Flies Her Freak Flag" and "Father Figure of Our Country."

* NationalSterotypes: The rule rather than the exception, ranging from suble to exaggerated to borderline insensitive.

* [[FiveManBand Three Man Band]]
** TheHero[=/=]TheBigGuy: Tuddrussell
** TheLancer[=/=]TheChick: Larry
** TheSmartGuy: Otto

* ThroughHisStomach / YourFavorite: The beginning of "Ex Marks the Spot," complete with a Freudian gravy-pouring sequence.

* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Self-described as a "C- Student's guide to history" -- which is frankly being generous -- the show often doesn't even try for historical accuracy, opting for RuleOfFunny instead. It also treats CommonKnowledge myths about history as accurate. The actual list of historical inaccuracies would be ***way*** too long to list, even on its own page.

%%* TheAce: Implied to be the case with JT Laser and Lance 9 Trillion.

* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Literally. UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud is the only psychologist who appears in canon.
** Freud himself psychoanalyzes the trio near the end of his episode.
* AmbiguousCloneEnding: The end of "Day of the Larrys."

* AmbiguouslyJewish: UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun.
* AnachronisticOrphanage: Otto lived in an OrphanageOfFear until he was adopted.

* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Self-described as a "C- Student's guide to history", the show often doesn't even try for historical accuracy, opting for RuleOfFunny instead. It also treats CommonKnowledge myths about history as accurate. The actual list of historical inaccuracies would be waaaaay too long to list.

* BlackComedy: On "The Clownfather," Larry and Tuddrussell fight each other over who gets to entertain kids at a party. Tuddrussell wows the kids by balancing a piano on his nose. Larry throws down a banana peel and Tuddrussell slips on it. The two almost get into a pie fight until a panicked mom finds her son [[BrickJoke crushed by a piano]] and the mobsters (including the Time Squad, who joined UsefulNotes/AlCapone's gang because Capone mistook them for three gangsters who look like them) bail before the cops can come.

*** In a similar vein, on the first episode "Eli Whitney's Flesh-Eating Mistake," there was FantasticRacism in the form of the townspeople who were attacked by Eli Whitney's flesh-eating robots attacking Larry because he may be a flesh-eating robot and Tuddrussell taking offense to being called a "robot lover" (though the rampant, mostly one-sided HoYay begs to differ). However, the whole scenario could be taken another way, because Tuddrussel only takes offense ("Hey! You watch who you're calling 'robot lover'!") when a townsperson labels ''Otto'' as a 'robot lover' ("This must be some kind of flesh eating robot lover trick!") right after Otto explains that Larry doesn't have any teeth. Tuddrussel having taken offence to someone other than himself being labeled as such can vaguely be interpreted as pure [[HoYay jealousy]].

* HistoricalInJoke

* JobTitle

* TimePolice: The time squad

* TimeTravel
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tuddrussel is almost always asking for one thing of Larry, and that is for him to make just a simple cheeseburger.
** And Larry himself is fond of making soufflés.