History WesternAnimation / TimewarpTrio

A 2005 [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Discovery Kids]] series, co-produced with [[Series/{{Zoom}} WGBH]] [[WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman Boston]] and Creator/Soup2Nuts, based off the book series of the same name by award-winning children's author Creator/JonScieszka (also known for ''Literature/TheTrueStoryOfTheThreeLittlePigs'' and ''Literature/TheStinkyCheeseMan'').

* {{AlphaBitch}}: Jodie. She mellows out as the series progresses.
* ArsonMurderAndJayWalking: In "The Seven Blunders of the World," there's this with Hamonri and "Marduk."

* HistoricalInJoke

* HypotheticalCasting: The website's character bios list who could possibly play that character in a movie.

* TradeMarkFavoriteFood: Samantha loves onion rings so much she regularly goes to the past or to [[InnBetweenTheWorlds Maple's]] to get them. She's also fond of marshmallows.

A 2005 [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Discovery Kids]] series, co-produced with [[Series/{{Zoom}} WGBH]] [[WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman Boston]], based off the book series of the same name by award-winning children's author Creator/JonScieszka (also known for ''Literature/TheTrueStoryOfTheThreeLittlePigs'' and ''Literature/TheStinkyCheeseMan'').

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: The boys are less snarky and selfish than they were in books. Sam is also more cowardly and paranoid, Jodie is more of a selfish ValleyGirl than in the book series (though this is much more toned down in the later episodes), and Freddi has become as cowardly as Sam, which was slightly hinted in at least one book.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Samantha's robot cat first appears in ''Sam Samurai'' while in the books it was not introduced until "Oh I Say I Can't See."
** Fred's brother Mike first appears in "See You Later, Gladiator" while in the books he first appears in "Viking it and Liking It."
* ADayInTheLimelight: Along with adding a big bad, the girls get their own adventures by themselves.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Mad Jack appeared in the background of ''every episode'' before his official appearance in "The Seven Blunders of the World."

* BrooklynRage: Fred steers into from time to time whenever he is angry, fitting as he is from the borough.

* TheFuture: The entire plot of "2105." The boys accidentally send themselves 100 years into the future, where they eventually meet their own great-granddaughters. The farthest they have gone beyond that year was in the episode itself one year into the future of 2015 to 2106. Besides a few cameos of the 22nd century, especially if the girls are present in the story, it is the only time when forward time-traveling became the setting to an episode, not counting episodes where future traveling was only intended for a few minutes to days into the future.

* AbsenteeActor: None of the original trio (Fred, Joe, and Sam) appear in Lewis and Clark... and Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha; and The High and Flighty.
** As for the boys separately:
*** Fred is absent in "Nightmare on Joe’s Street," "Breaking the Codex," and "Plaid to the Bone."
*** Joe is absent in "Birdman or Birdbrain," "My Big Fat Greek Olympics," "What’s So Great About Peter?", "Caveman Catastrophe," and "Harem Scare’em."
*** Sam is absent in "Birdman or Birdbrain?", "Breaking the Codex," and "Plaid to the Bone."

* AbsenteeActor: None of the original trio (Fred, Joe, and Sam) appear in Lewis and Clark....and Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha; and The High and Flighty.

*** Fred is absent in Nightmare on Joe’s Street, Breaking the Codex, and Plaid to the Bone.
*** Joe is absent in Birdman or Birdbrain, My Big Fat Greek Olympics, What’s So Great About Peter?, Caveman Catastrophe, and Harem Scare’m.
*** Sam is absent in Birdman or Birdbrain?, Breaking the Codex, and Plaid to the Bone.
* AchillesHeel: The concept is directly discussed in "My Big Fat Greek Olympics", upon discovering their opponent is afraid of blood.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: The boys are less snarky and selfish than they were in books. Sam is also more cowardly and paranoid. Jodie is more of a selfish ValleyGirl than in the book series (though this is much more toned down in the later episodes) and Freddi has become as cowardly as Sam, which was slightly hinted in at least one book.

** The man they run into in "Hey Kid Wanna Buy a Bridge" is named Mr. Mug in the book, and Mr. Beaner in the episode.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Samantha's robot cat first appears in ''Sam Samurai'' while in the books it was not introduced until "Oh I Say I Can't See".
** Fred's brother Mike first appears in "See You Later, Gladiator" while in the books he first appears in "Viking it and Liking It".

* ArsonMurderAndJayWalking: In "The Seven Blunders of the World", there's this with Hamonri and "Marduk"
--->'''Marduk''': And so you will. Or I will rain fire upon your house, dry up your wells, and plague you with itches in hard to scratch places!

* AscendedExtra: Jodie, Freddi and Samantha. In the books they only appear a few other times after their duet, while the series at least one of them is in most of the episodes in the latter half. And as noted above, they get two episodes of their own.
* BadFuture: It's not seen on screen but this apparently what becomes of Samantha's time in the episode where they accidentally allow Napoleon to win Waterloo.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Uttered in the opening and played straight in the series; let's just say that imagining being into a historical setting compared to being IN it is two different things all together.
* BookDumb: Fred
* BrilliantButLazy: The website has character bios and sort of implied this was the case with Samantha. According to it, she's smart but isn't as into school as Sam is (she gets bored just sitting around all day).
* {{Bowdlerise}}: In the book version of "The Not So Jolly Roger", Blackbeard says "Damnation and hellfire" when realizes his gun is not loaded. The episode changes it to "barnacles and bilgewater".
* ComicallySmallBribe: Played with; $1 in the 30s was a lot of money, but the girls are from a time when 100s are small change so they view it this way.
* CowardlyLion: In "Lewis and Clark...and Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha", LovableCoward Freddi [[DrawAggro draws a bear's attention]] to save Samantha, who was trapped against a tree when it came foraging for food.
* CliffHanger: At the end of "Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba", the book is seen being stolen by someone. This is continued in "The 7 Blunders of the World".
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Fred
* DeadGuyJunior: Jodie, Samantha, and Freddie were all named after Joe, Sam and Fred, who were dead by the time they were born.

** In "Wushu Were Here", Joe and Anna thought Fred got killed by a monk, but it turned out that Fred wasn't dead, and in fact a monk never kills.

** In "The Good, The Bad and The Goofy", Joe thought Sam and Fred drowned in a rapid river.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Mad Jack appeared in the background of ''every episode'' before his official appearance in ''The Seven Blunders of the World''.
* DistaffCounterpart: Jodie, Freddi and Samantha, who are the trio's great-granddaughters. In the book series, it is revealed they were named after them.
* {{Duck}}: In "Hey Kid, Wanna Buy a Bridge?", someone throws something their way, and they shout "duck!". Sam is looking at a segull and thinks they got confused, before realizing what they mean.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The episode "Breaking the Codex" reveals that at some point [[spoiler: Joe will have a fight across time against Mad Jack]]. Due to the series cancellation, we never saw it
** In "The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy", when Joe is flipped through the book, a page that says "Able was I Ere I Saw Elba" can be quickly seen. This becomes the setup for the episode of the same name.
* & In "Birdman or Birdbrain?", a poster of Amelida
* FrankensteinsMonster: In "A Nightmare on Joe's Street," they travel back to the time Mary Shelly and she accidentally brings the monster to life by writing in The Book.
* FutureBadass: Joe will take on his Uncle in a battle that will determine the fate of space and time in the future so one can assume he will become this. Plus, Freddi reveals he becomes a warp wizard.
* TheFuture: The entire plot of “2105”. The boys accidentally send themselves 100 years into the future we’re they eventually meet their own great-granddaughters. The farthest they have gone beyond that year was in the episode itself one year into the future to 2106. Besides a few cameos of the 22nd century especially if the girls are present in the story it is the only time when forward time-traveling became the setting to an episode, not counting episodes where future traveling was only intended for a few minutes to days into the future.
* GenderFlip: In "Me Oh Maya", Jun is a girl while they were a boy in the book.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: With a show that heavily relies on HistoricalDomainCharacter, this is a given. Notably, one episode featured this happening to one of the main characters. After Sam and Fred get back from their adventure with Jodi in "Jinga All The Way", Joe runs into the room raving about his adventure with Samantha and Freddi. Turns out the past and future versions of the Book were reacting to each other.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Joe, Sam and Fred are this to each other. Their descendants, Samantha, Jodie and Freddie are this as well. For that reason, we can deduce that Sam, Fred and Joe remained friends for the rest of their lives.

* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: In one episode, Joe, Samantha and Fred accidentally cause Napoleon to win the Battle of Waterloo. When they return to the present, the U.S. is now "New France" and they are forced to go back in time and fix it.

* IKissYourFoot: Joe was forced to kiss a female priest's foot in "See You Later, Gladiator". Not just any female's, either; he kissed his ''sister's'', because she had The Book and wouldn't save them unless he did so.
* InTheBlood: "Dude, Where's My Karma?" reveals that terrible magic tricks run in Joe's family as his ancestor, who Fred, Sam, Freddi and Samantha are helping get married so [[RetGone Joe and Jodi don't get erased from existence]], tries to pull the classical "watch me remove my thumb" trick, prompting all 4 of them to roll their eyes and Fred to [[DeadpanSnarker quip "At least we know where Joe gets it from."]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: More often, it's Fred's fault that they're stuck in the past. Joe may or may not be involved as well.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: The main male trio has: Sam, the nice and nerdy one, Fred, the mean and tough one, and Joe, the in between and well-meaning leader of the group. For the female trio, we have: Freddi, the ShrinkingViolet, Jodie, the snobby and needy one, and Samantha, the BrilliantButLazy one who remains in between most of the time. Jodie is the leader, despite being the mean one.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Dude, Where's My Karma", Fred becomes amazingly smart when he notices that Joe was a horrible magician, so he couldn't have been making himself disappear.

* PunBasedTitle: The episodes have some such "Me Oh Maya", "My Big Fat Greek Olympics", and "You Can't, But Genghis Khan".
* PunnyName: A running gag is all non- HistoricalDomainCharacter villains have names that are bad puns on insults.
* RidiculousFutureInflation: "Give me that hundred back you borrowed for gum". Made even funnier by the facts it's said directly after a man in Amelia Earhart's time offered them a whole dollar.
* RedOniBlueOni: Fred being the one who's off to face whatever's in front of them, Sam being the one who wants to think logically.
* RuleOfThree: Three characters are the focus every episode, usually the three main boys, sometimes shared with some of the girls, and the girls sometimes get the spotlight.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: The girls get introduced in 2015.
* ShoutOut: Blink and you'll miss it, but in "2105", [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII a boy with brown hair wearing a red vest flies by on a hover board.]]
* SixthRanger: Joe's little sister Anna can be counted as this when she joins the team in "Tut Tut" and has traveled with the group in several episodes since.
* SkewedPriorities: In "2105", after an ill-advised pocket watch jump by the boys and Samantha wound up erasing the latter from history temporarily, Samantha quite rightly begins freaking out over her missing legs; Jodie only cares about the shoes Samantha borrowed being missing. Later in the same scene, Samantha is more concerned with how poorly Sam drew her hair than with the explanation he gives for what will happen if he and his friends don't get back to their own time; fortunately her priorities get back on track when he bluntly tells her that the male trio has to get back home "or you are toast!"
* SmartBall: Fred actually grabs this in "Dude, Where's My Karma?", where he points out Joe's fading body can't be a magic trick because Joe is a ''terrible'' magician.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Sam inadvertently saves Joe's family in "Dude, Where's my Karma" when Mad Jack attempts to do away with Joe once and for all by poisoning his ancestor, Lakshmi with some pastries he has Mahaloogie deliver. Sam doesn't give them to her, not because they're poisoned as he is unaware of this, but because he's disgusted at Prince Mahaloogie's chronic congestion.
* StableTimeLoop: Most of the time when the trios go back to the past, they don't affect the future (save for a few cases). A major danger though is that the crew have to avoid being killed during their adventures and keep their book intact. Especially true for the boys cause if something happens to them in the far off past (or get stuck too long in the future), their granddaughters will never be born.
** This was definitely played straight in the Amelia Earhart episode. [[spoiler: Freddi wants to figure out what happened to her...only to find out that when the Female Trio got to the plane that Amelia was asking who THEY were and how they got on her plane.]]
** In 2105, the girls knew where to find them because in the future they write them a note telling them where to meet. The boys only know to do this because they were told they did so in the future.
* TalkingAnimal: [[spoiler: In "Harem Scarem", a monkey at first appears to be a case of ConsultingMisterPuppet. It turns out to be this.]]

* TemporalParadox: Explored in the episode "2105" where Joe, Sam, Fred, Jodie, Freddi and Samantha realize they have to get the boys back to the year 2005 or else their timeline will be altered and the girls will not be born.
* TradeMarkFavoriteFood: Samantha loves onion rings so much she regularly goes to the past or to [[InnBetweenTheWorlds Maple's]] to get them. She's also fond of Marshmallows.
* TrappedInThePast: Almost every episode (the exceptions being the time they were trapped in the ''future'' and the maybe two times they didn't loose the book.
* TimePolice: While it's mostly informal, time travelers are responsible for making sure no one screws up the way history is supposed go down (read: Mad Jack). Although it's implied it's a little more formal than we think (for example there's Time Agents monitoring things in specific times/locations).
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Samantha is the tomboy to Jodie and Freddi are the girly girls.
* TotallyRadical: Averted mostly, but parodied nonetheless. When Fred calls a Moai Statue "Rocking" Samantha and Freddi laugh at what they his dated past slang, asking "What else is it? Cool? Groovy?" Only for it to be revealed that the statue was literally rocking back and forth.

* TranslationConvention: All other languages are translated by the book so the Trios (and the viewers) hear them in English.
* UniversalTranslator: The book can translate all languages. The two times this breaks down causes problems for the Trios (almost getting attacked by a Samurai for seemingly sneaking into his house and not being able to explain themselves and accidentally setting the book to a dead language, and thus not being able to get back respectively).
* TheUnreveal: There are two instances of this: The first one is Joe fighting his uncle in an epic fight, and Sam being told he'd invent something super amazing that'd change everything. (Although the books reveal Sam invents anti-gravity so it's likely that)
* VitriolicBestBuds: The male trio more so. They tend to tease and poke at each other often. But they always come through for each other when they need it.
* VomitDiscretionShot: At the end of the Lewis and Clark episode. Jodie comments that she "really shouldn't have eaten those berries", then retches, and Samantha and Freddie flee the tent.
* WalkThePlank: Subverted at first as there isn't historical precedent for it but ome pirates hear them mention it and think it's a good idea. Later on, someone hears this and tells another British guy to write it down, as it's "a splendid idea".
* WaybackTrip: Apparently they were SUPPOSED to have kind of destroyed the hanging gardens, saved Sitting Bull, etc. as by doing so history stayed the same.

* WildHair: Seems to be genetic in Sam's family (Sam's hair is an unruly black blob, Samantha's hair is styled oddly in a series of wavy bun-like things, and Sam's Russian ancestor has an unruly beard that his refusal to shave almost gets him executed over and that he uses to hide things in).
* WouldHurtAChild: Some episodes had villains that would kill a child in order to get away. There's also Mad Jack who tries to hunt the kids down and steal the book. He even tries to erase Joe from existence (also Jodie because Joe is one of the people responsible for her existence). Most likely this was in order to prevent the future showdown they will have.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The boys meet Genesis Khan as a young boy, but could also be applied to [[spoiler: Joe and Sam from the girls point of view as both grow up to be famous in the future. Joe for a famous battle against Mad Jack and Sam for inventing...something]].

*** Joe is absent in Birdman or Birdbrain, My Big Fat Greek Olympics, What’s So Great About Peter?, The Caveman Catastrophe, and Harem Scare’m.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: The boys are less snarky and selfish than they were in books. Sam is also more cowardly and paranoid. Jodie is more of a selfish ValleyGirl than in the book series (though this is much more toned down in the later episodes) and Freddi has become as cowardly as Sam.
* AdaptationNameChange: In the books, Jodie was named Joanie.

* FrankensteinsMonster: In "A Nightmare on Joe's Street," they travel back to the time of Frankenstein's
* FutureBadass: Joe will take on his Uncle in a battle that will determine the fate of space and time in the future so one can assume he will become this.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: With a show that heavily relies on HistoricalDomainCharacter, this is a given. Notably, one episode featured this happening to one of the main characters. After Sam and Fred get back from their adventure with Jodi in "The Caveman Catastrophe", Joe runs into the room raving about his adventure with Samantha and Freddi. Turns out the past and future versions of the Book were reacting to each other.

* WouldntHurtAChild: Subverted, Some episodes had villains that would kill a child in order to get away. There's also Mad Jack who tries to hunt the kids down and steal the book. He even tries to erase Joe from existence (also Jodie because Joe is one of the people responsible for her existence). Most likely this was in order to prevent the future showdown they will have.

* {{Megane}}: Sam and Samantha

* {{Bowlderise}}: In the book version of "The Not So Jolly Roger", Blackbeard says "Damnation and hellfire" when realizes his gun is not loaded. The episode changes it to "barnacles and bilgewater".

* BrilliantButLazy: The website has character bios back and sort of implied this was the case with Samantha. According to it, she's smart but isn't as into school as Sam is (she gets bored just sitting around all day).

** In "The Good, The Bad and The Goofy", Joe thought Sam and Fred drowned in a rapid river turns out they were alive.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The episode "Breaking the Codex" reveals that at some point [[spoiler: Joe will have a fight across time against Mad Jack]]. Due to the series cancellation, we never saw it.that says "Able was I Ere I Saw Elba" can be quickly seen. This becomes the setup for the episode of the same name.
** In "The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy", when Joe is flipped through the book, a page

* * AdaptationNameChange: In the books, Jodie was named Joanie.

* BrilliantButLazy: The website had character bios back in the day and sort of implied this was the case with Samantha. According to it, she's smart but isn't as into school as Sam is (she gets bored just sitting around all day).

* EarlyBirdCameo: Mad Jack appeared in the background of ''every episode'' before his official appearance. No joke.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The episode "Breaking the Codex" reveals that at some point [[spoiler: Joe will have a fight across time against Mad Jack]]. Due to the series cancellation, we never saw it.
* FrankensteinsMonster: In "A Nightmare on Joe's Street," they travel back to the time of Frankenstein's

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:In ''Plaid to the Bone'']][[note]]This was the show's laat episode before getting dropped.[[/note]], [[spoiler:Joe had discovered that he became a "time page" in The Book and teases Jodie that he hasn't see her wear any stopwatches, and Jodie replied that she hasn't been a "time page" in The Book since she was 5]][[note]] In the episode ''2105'', she didn't get The Book till she was ten.[[/note]].
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted.

* PunBasedTitle: ''Time Warp Trio'' does this for the episode titles. Examples: "Me Oh Maya", "My Big Fat Greek Olympics", "You Can't, But Genghis Khan".

* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: The girls.

* SixthRanger: Joe's little sister Anna can be counted as this when she joins the team in "Tut Tut" and has travelled with the group in several episodes since.

* TheUnreveal: There are two instances of this: The first one is Joe fighting his uncle in an epic fight, and Sam being told he'd invent something super amazing that'd change everything.

* WalkThePlank: Subverted. Some pirates hear them mention it and think it's a good idea. Later on, some British guy hears this and tells another British guy to write it down, as it's "a splendid idea".

* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The boys meet Genesis Khan as a young boy, but could also be applied to [[spoiler: Joe and Sam from the girls point of view as both grow up to be famous in the future. Joe for a famous battle against Mad Jack and Sam for inventing..........something]].

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearence: Samantha's robot cat first appears in ''Sam Samurai'' while in the books it was not introduced until "Oh I Say I Can't See".

A 2005 [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Discovery Kids]] series, co-produced with [[Series/{{Zoom}} WGBH]] [[WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman Boston]], based off the [[Literature/TimeWarpTrio book series]] of the same name by award-winning children's author Creator/JonScieszka (also known for ''Literature/TheTrueStoryOfTheThreeLittlePigs'' and ''Literature/TheStinkyCheeseMan'').

A 2005 [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Discovery Kids]] series, co-produced with [[Series/{{Zoom}} WGBH]] [[WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman Boston]], based off the book series of the same name by award-winning children's author Creator/JonScieszka (also known for ''Literature/TheTrueStoryOfTheThreeLittlePigs'' and ''Literature/TheStinkyCheeseMan'').

* SixthRanger: Joe's little sister Anna can be counted as this as she has travelled with the group in several episodes.

* PunnyName / UnfortunateName: A running gag is all non- HistoricalDomainCharacter villains have names that are bad puns on insults.

A 2005 [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Discovery Kids]] series, co-produced with [[Series/{{Zoom}} WGBH]] [[WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman Boston]], based off the book series of the same name by award-winning children's author Jon Scieszka (also known for ''Literature/TheTrueStoryOfTheThreeLittlePigs'' and ''Literature/TheStinkyCheeseMan'').

A 2005 [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Discovery Kids]] series, co-produced with [[Series/{{Zoom}} WGBH]] [[WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman Boston]], based off the book series of the same name.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: For a kids' series, the show is surprisingly violent. No blood or gore shown but a few historical characters do get killed (the camera pulls away when they do).
** There was also a member of the press drawing a donkey (think about the other name for donkey) on his note pad when he was frustrated and thought Edison was a jerk that was wasting his time with no ideas to announce.

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* TheFuture: The entire plot of “2105”. The boys accidentally send themselves 100 years into the future we’re they eventually meet their own great-granddaughters. The farthest they have gone beyond that year was in the episode itself one year into the future to 2106. Besides a few cameos of the 22nd century especially if the girls are present in the story it is the only time when future time-traveling was ever achieved, with the exception of a few minutes or hours into the future.