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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All the characters' names have the same first letter as their species. Averted with Les Galagoogoo.


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* AlliterativeName: All the characters' names have the same first letter as their species. Averted with Les Galagoogoo.
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* HotDrinkCure: In "Sick Day", Fergy makes twineberry tea and vineberry tea for a sick Paulie and Ella, respectively.


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* SoupIsMedicine: In "Sick Day", Fergy serves the sick Pinatas soup in a cup.

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This series focuses on an EnsembleCast of pinatas friends and their everyday lives on Pinata Island. To name a few; [[{{Narcissist}} Hudson Horstachio,]] [[BigEater Fergy Fudgehog,]] [[BearyFriendly Franklin Fizzlybear,]] [[CunningLikeAFox Paulie Pretztail,]] [[TheUnintelligible Les Galagoogoo,]] [[MultipleHeadCase Tina and Teddington Twingersnap,]] and [[ForgetfulJones Ella Elephanilla.]]

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This series focuses on an EnsembleCast of pinatas piñata friends and their everyday lives on Pinata Piñata Island. To name a few; [[{{Narcissist}} Hudson Horstachio,]] [[BigEater Fergy Fudgehog,]] [[BearyFriendly Franklin Fizzlybear,]] [[CunningLikeAFox Paulie Pretztail,]] [[TheUnintelligible Les Galagoogoo,]] [[MultipleHeadCase Tina and Teddington Twingersnap,]] and [[ForgetfulJones Ella Elephanilla.]]


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* AnthropomorphicShift: In the games, the piñatas mostly acted like animals, but here they can talk and most of the quadrupeds can stand on two legs.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Parodied in “Crimes of Passion Fruit”. When Fergy asks the Big Boss [[ItMakesSenseInContext (who is represented by a bowl of fruit)]] to get Langston to stop chasing him all the time, the Big Boss does not respond, because he's in the restroom. Thinking that he's purposefully not listening to him, Fergy gets furious and proceeds to ''smash the fruit bowl with a stapler!'' Juice spatters everywhere as the PsychoStrings play in the background. After making a huge mess, Fergy comes back to his senses [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone and is horrified thinking that he killed the Big Boss.]] As silly as the setup looks, it still manages to be quite disturbing.
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%%* * CannotTellALie: FranklinFranklin is really bad at lying, something he is aware of. Unfortunately, it also means he can't keep secrets for very long.



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%%* * CowboyEpisode: "High Class Drafter".Plains Drafter". It takes place in the desert area of Piñata Island and it's about a mysterious masked Mallowolf named El Sketcho tormenting everyone by... [[FauxHorrific drawing insulting caricatures of them]]. He then challenges the main cast into a sketching duel at [[ShowDownAtHighNoon high noon]].

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** Another example being Cliff Dragonache, who Fergy brings out from him by unintentionally playing fetch with him.

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** Another example being Cliff Dragonache, the Dragonache from "A Royal Visit", who Fergy brings out from him by unintentionally playing fetch with him.


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* RepeatAfterMe: Hudson, Fergy and Paulie try this in "Announce This" after they find out that Hudson is unable to actually focus on his job as a sports announcer and resorts to [[ItsAllAboutMe only talking about himself]], making them decide that Fergy and Paulie should just have Hudson repeat what they say to him through an earpiece. As expected of this trope, it goes wrong, with [[BigEater Fergy]] getting distracted by a banana splits ad and screaming about it into the speaker and Hudson being LiteralMinded about Paulie's directions, to the point where's he's just shouting "Now sweep your hand dramatically towards the race course... no, don't say that, do it! Stop repeating me! No, ''stop'' repeating me! You sound ridiculous! [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Oh, I give up!]]"... still in the same LargeHamAnnouncer voice, no less.

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* MediumAwareness: At one point in "The Wrong Stuff", Langston and Pester's groups keep trying to teleport aboard each other's ships, with the screen splitting in two to show it. Langston and Pester then ''look down/up at each other'' through the screens to call each other out.

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* MediumAwareness: MediumAwareness:
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At one point in "The Wrong Stuff", Langston and Pester's groups keep trying to teleport aboard each other's ships, with the screen splitting in two to show it. Langston and Pester then ''look down/up at each other'' through the screens to call each other out.out.
** In "For My Next Trick", Pester and the Ruffians bring out umbrellas out of nowhere. When Franklin asks how they did it, Pester explains that "his sister knows one of the animators".
** In both "Beauty and the Beasts" and "Hudsonly Ever After", Hudson aknowledges the existence of commercial breaks - in the former, he says "Perhaps a brief intermission" during a disasterous beauty pageant he's hosting, which leads to an actual commercial break. In the latter, he says "Man, these commercial breaks are getting longer and longer" after the end of one.
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* DrosteImage: Used for a quick sight gag in "Franklin Can't Dance". When Florence asks Hudson, Fergy and Paulie if Franklin would really like to dance with her, [[ShamelessSelfPromoter Hudson]] says that he swears on his "exclusive line of personal skincare products" and brings up what look like a skin cream container. The image on the said container has Hudson doing the same exact pose and holding the same container, which also has the same image plastered on it and so on.
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* DenserAndWackier: While the games do have their goofy moments, they mostly have a fairly peaceful atmosphere (unless you have to deal with fights, the Sours, Dastardos, Ruffians or Professor Pester) and the comedic elements are more subdued, mostly coming from the dialogue of the [=NPCs=]. By contrast, the show is highly energetic in tone, being a gag-focused comedy with slapstick and almost no grasp on logic.


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* EggLayingMale: Langston lays an egg in "Pinatametermania". Though, considering that the games allow you to breed any two Pinatas, maybe it isn't too surprising.
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This is a tie-in animation series to the [[VideoGame/VivaPinata video game of the same name]], produced by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment for Creator/{{YTV}}.

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This is a tie-in animation series to the [[VideoGame/VivaPinata video game of the same name]], produced by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment and animated by Creator/BardelEntertainment for Creator/{{YTV}}.

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%%* ForgetfulJones: Ella.

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%%* * ForgetfulJones: Ella.Ella Elephanilla suffers from extreme short-term memory loss, subverting the ElephantsNeverForget trope. When someone tells her something, she will generally forget about it just a few seconds later.


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* HeyLetsPutOnAShow: "Pinata Island Idol" has the main characters organizing a talent show to raise money for a night club that they accidentally destroyed from too much partying. Of course, HilarityEnsues, especially when [[BigBad Professor Pester]] finds out about it and tries to take the money for himself.

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* VocalDissonance: Fergy's mother, Francine Fudgehog in "My Little Fergy" has an unusually deep, manly voice.

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Fergy's mother, Francine Fudgehog in "My Little Fergy" has an unusually deep, manly voice.voice.
** Les is a pink, adorable little bush baby pinata who can usually only communicate in high-pitched gibberish. However, when he temporarily gains the abillity to speak in "Wraisins of Wrath", he ends up speaking in a sophisticated BadassBaritone. Same goes for his alternate universe counterpart in "Mirror Schmirror".
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%%* FiveManBand:
%%** TheHero: Hudson
%%** TheLancer: Paulie
%%** TheBigGuy: Franklin
%%** TheSmartGuy: Les (even though he's also TheUnintelligible)
%%** TheChick: Fergy (NonActionGuy), Ella (standard)
%%** ThoseTwoGuys: Tina and Teddington
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* WhoIsDriving: Happens in "Hudson Tells All", when Ella saves Hudson from being chased by [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pack of angry Sweettooths]] by having him jump into the back of a van that's already moving.
--> '''Hudson''': Ella, you're a lifesaver! ...wait. Who's driving the van?
--> '''[[ForgetfulJones Ella]]''': Driving ''what'' van?
--> ''The van falls down a cliff and onto the beach''
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** "On a Sour Note" gives us this line from Franklin:
--> '''Franklin''': [[Film/DudeWheresMyCar Dudes, where's my car]]?
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* VillainsOutShopping: "The Fudgetive" has Professor Pester going on a vocation to a different island to take a break from evildoing.
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* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem:
** Tina and Teddington Twingersnap are always at each other's throats and are rarely seen getting along with each other. However, in "Twingersnapped", they get temporarily separated, causing them to realize that they feel lonely when they don't have their sibling around. However, after they get attached to each other again, they just start arguing like they always do.
** Hudson has this sort of relationship with Beverly, his crazed StalkerWithACrush. On one hand, he is annoyed and creeped out by her constant advances and disregard for his privacy. On the other hand, whenever she stops being his fan, he realizes that he likes having her attention and usually tries getting it back.
** "Ruffians on Strike" shows that Professor Pester feels this way towards Ruffians. He is a BadBoss towards them, constantly insults them and finds them annoying, but after they move out, he starts missing them.
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%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Fergy and Paulie.

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%%* * HeterosexualLifePartners: Fergy and Paulie.Paulie. The two are almost always together and are best friends, mostly because they both hate parties.
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%%* CardCarryingVillain: Professor Pester / The Ruffians

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%%* * CardCarryingVillain: Professor Pester / The Ruffiansdefinitely isn't above calling himself a villain or evil. In fact, he is quite proud of it.



%%* ConMan: The "Great Bonboon".

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%%* * ConMan: The "Great Bonboon".Bonboon". He pretends to be a wise old man who gives other pinatas advice and supposedly helpful items but he's always lying and is just trying to scam everyone out of their candy.



%%* DisguisedInDrag: Paulie, Franklin and Fergy in the episode "Beauty And The Beasts."

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%%* * DisguisedInDrag: Paulie, Franklin and Fergy in the episode "Beauty And The Beasts."and the Beasts" has Hudson making Fergy, Paulie and Franklin pretend they are girls and participate in a beauty contest because he didn't want to be stuck on a boat with one of the other contestants.

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%%* FantasticVoyagePlot: "Party Parasite".

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%%* * FantasticVoyagePlot: "Party Parasite".Parasite" has Fergy, Paulie and Franklin shrinking down and entering Hudson's body to get rid of a parasite that is eating his candy. [[spoiler: They end up finding out that it was actually Professor Pester who was causing it all along]].
* FelonyMisdemeanor: Apparently, the Pinata Island has ridiculous laws like "No top scoop of an ice cream cone is allowed to touch the ground" and "It's illegal to tap dance withing twenty feet of a garbage truck". Thankfully, the police is aware of how silly they are and don't enforce them anymore as a result. That said, when Hudson temporarily becomes a police officer in "Bad Clop, Good Clop", he ends up arresting everyone for breaking those laws.
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%%* AttentionWhore: Hudson.

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%%* * AttentionWhore: Hudson.Hudson is obsessed with getting the attention of other Pinatas as well as people who receive him as a party pinata. He more often than not becomes a really desperate and obsessed GreenEyedMonster when someone takes away his popularity.



%%* StalkerWithACrush: Beverly Badgesicle to Hudson.

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%%* * StalkerWithACrush: Beverly Badgesicle to Hudson.Hudson. To start off, she apparently asked him for "hundreds of autographs" that she then sewed into a quilt. Then it's revealed that she sometimes runs through his garbage and mail, she admitted to have been secretly living in his attic for a week and a half right after sneaking into his bathtub while he was taking a bath in it and [[StalkerShrine her house is filled to a brim with Hudson-related merchandise]].
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* MindScrew: In "For My Next Trick", Franklin tries to send in a letter requesting for a magic kit, but then when he walks out the door, he sees that the package has already arrived on his doorstep! And according to the delivery guy, the package was long overdue simply because of traffic. Confused at first, Franklin then gives the letter to the delivery guy so he can mail it for him.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: There are a few Moozipans (cow pinatas) who are male.
** Maurice the Moozipan (granted, it's just a robot created by Professor Pester. But nobody bothered to question its gender even though it had utters.)
** There is one in a magazine who wears sunglasses and a ''mustache''.
** Though unseen, there is a character on a television show who is referred to as "Mr. Moozipan" who undergoes a medical procedure known as the "full candy transfusion". [[spoiler:He does not survive in the end.]]


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* RealAfterAll: At the end of "Chewnicorn in the Garden", when both Fergy and Franklin both come to the conclusion that Chewnicorns are not real, [[HereWeGoAgain they decide to go search for a Dragonache instead.]] Then when the camera pans to the Gem Tree, we see a Chewnicorn already hiding in it. Then it has this [[{{Pun}} gem]] to say.
-->'''Chewnicorn:''' [[HypocriticalHumor Everyone knows there's no such thing as Dragonaches.]]
** Turns out, there really are Dragonaches in future episodes.
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* KissingCousins: Unless you've seen the episode "Hibernation Nation" and did the math, you won't be squicked out. [[spoiler: Franklin Fizzlybear & Florence Fizzlybear (never mind their last names as they actually refer to their species rather than their ancestry) both meet and fall in love in "Franklin Can't Dance". Their romance isn't touched upon any further in any future episode, except briefly in "Hudson's Better Half". Then when you watch "Hibernation Nation", we are introduced to Franklin's uncle named Phineas Fizzlybear, who performs on stage at a family reunion with his "family", which includes Florence who plays the piano. This strongly implies that she is Phineas' daughter, which would make her... brace yourself... [[SurpriseIncest Franklin's first cousin!]] And even if this wasn't the case, it's bad enough that she shows up at Franklin's family reunion.]] It's left undisclosed whether it was done by accident or on purpose, but then again, the video games are infamous for their ''inbreeding.''
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the episode "Franklingestion" where Franklin gets sick and coughs out vegetables, a moral outrage ensues and all the other pinatas publicly shun Franklin, treating him like a freak of nature. Frankin, who is ashamed, decides to hide in his house indefinitely, and won't even talk to his friends or answer his phone. This can easily be interpreted as a metaphor of a ClosetGay in a [[HeteronormativeCrusader homophobic society.]] However, Franklin's illness is still depicted as a bad thing and is resolved by the end.
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This series focuses on an EnsembleCast of pinatas friends and their everyday lives on Pinata Island. To name a few; [[{{Narcissist}} Hudson Horstachio,]] [[BigEater Fergy Fudgehog,]] [[BearyFriendly Franklin Fizzlybear,]] [[CunningLikeAFox Paulie Pretztail,]] [[TheUnintelligible Les Galagoogoo,]] [[MultipleHeadCase Tina and Teddington Twingersnap,]] and [[ForgetfulJones Ella Elephanilla.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Years ago, in [[OriginsEpisode "My Sweet Sours"]], [[BigBad Professor Pester]] moved to the Broken Arms Evil Startup Lairplex when he was just starting out on evil. [[OneShotCharacter Boris Buzzenge,]] who runs the place as Pester's "lairlord", allows him to conduct any evil scheme, but forbids him to take over Pinata Island and steal all the candy, which leaves Pester shocked. [[SubvertedTrope This gets subverted]] [[IWasJustJoking when Boris then says he was just kidding.]]

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All the characters' names have the same first letter as their species.
** Averted with Les Galagoogoo.

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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All the characters' names have the same first letter as their species.
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species. Averted with Les Galagoogoo.



* AttentionWhore: Hudson.

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* CardCarryingVillain: Professor Pester / The Ruffians
* CannotTellALie: Franklin
* ConMan: The "Great Bonboon."
* CowboyEpisode: "High Class Drafter".
* DisguisedInDrag: Paulie, Franklin and Fergy in the episode "Beauty And The Beasts."

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* %%* CardCarryingVillain: Professor Pester / The Ruffians
* %%* CannotTellALie: Franklin
* %%* ConMan: The "Great Bonboon."
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Bonboon".
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CowboyEpisode: "High Class Drafter".
* %%* DisguisedInDrag: Paulie, Franklin and Fergy in the episode "Beauty And The Beasts."



* FantasticVoyagePlot: "Party Parasite".
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Hudson
** TheLancer: Paulie
** TheBigGuy: Franklin
** TheSmartGuy: Les (even though he's also TheUnintelligible)
** TheChick: Fergy (NonActionGuy), Ella (standard)
** ThoseTwoGuys: Tina and Teddington
* ForgetfulJones: Ella.

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* %%* FantasticVoyagePlot: "Party Parasite".
* %%* FiveManBand:
** %%** TheHero: Hudson
** %%** TheLancer: Paulie
** %%** TheBigGuy: Franklin
** %%** TheSmartGuy: Les (even though he's also TheUnintelligible)
** %%** TheChick: Fergy (NonActionGuy), Ella (standard)
** %%** ThoseTwoGuys: Tina and Teddington
* %%* ForgetfulJones: Ella.



* HeterosexualLifePartners: Fergy and Paulie.

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* %%* HeterosexualLifePartners: Fergy and Paulie.



* TheLastStraw: In "Candiosity," an overstuffed Fergy on the scanner eats one last piece of candy, causing his top to burst off and completely empty him, saving him from being launched to a party at the last second.

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* TheLastStraw: In "Candiosity," "Candiosity", an overstuffed Fergy on the scanner eats one last piece of candy, causing his top to burst off and completely empty him, saving him from being launched to a party at the last second.



* StalkerWithACrush: Beverly Badgesicle to Hudson.

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* PersonalitySwap: {{Invoked}}. In "Ruffians on Strike", the Ruffians get fed up with Pester's BadBoss behavior and move in with Hudson, who actually took pity on them. However, Pester starts missing them while Hudson becomes annoyed with them. The two decide to resolve this by pretending to act like each other. While Hudson does a [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct shockingly good job]] at playing a menacing and hammy villain (even Pester himself admits it, with his only issue being that when Hudson says "[[BorrowedCatchphrase Victory is mine]]" he puts more emphasis on the word "is" than the word "mine"), Pester's Hudson impression... [[BadBadActing leaves much to be desired]].
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* WordSchmord: The episode title "Mirror Schmirror".

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