History WesternAnimation / WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego

* CatchPhrase: Carmen's signoff, "Until/See you next crime."
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In episode one, Ivy seemed to have a personal grudge against Carmen for a NoodleIncident that occurred pre-series. Later, Ivy is the first to show sentiment and sorrow whenever Carmen plays the part of TheWoobie.

''[[caption-width-right:350:♫[[TitleDrop Where on Earth]] [[{{TitleThemeTune}} can she be]]?♫'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Where on Earth can she be?]]

%% * 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.

* ShesGotLegs: Ivy in "Labyrinth Part 3", later in which she's seen wearing a mini toga dress, on that special occasion she does show off her bare legs with slight peeks at her rear.

* SiliconSnarker:The Chief has been known to deliver a few snarky remarks from time to time, particularly while making pop culture references.

* MasterOfDisguise: Carmen occasionally dons various outfits and costumes depending on what she's trying to accomplish. Gets turned UpToEleven in the HalloweenEpisode when she disguised herself as [[spoiler:Ivy, even fooling Zack]]. Carmen's henchman [[PunnyName Frank M. Poster]] was also described as this trope.

* SnapBack: Besides the fact that almost every episode or StoryArc is completely standalone, the CardboardPrison nature of the show goes [[UpToEleven even beyond Carmen herself]]. The writers never seem to keep track of who's been sent to jail and who evades capture, as various V.I.L.E. henchman are often seen alongside or mentioned to have done work for Carmen even if they were arrested in a previous episode. The most prominent example of this is [[spoiler:Sarah Bellum]], who went full [[TheStarscream Starscream]] on Carmen in "When It Rains" and got captured at the end, and then is seen back in V.I.L.E. in "Follow My Footprints" as if nothing ever happened. [[spoiler:Lee Jordan]]'s breakout may be the only time they even attempted a HandWave at this.

* NiceHat: Carmen's red fedora.

* FandomSpecificPlot: Carmen dressing up as a "family friend" to get Zack out of situations his young age makes him more vulnerable to than Ivy, such as bullies at a training camp or the DepartmentOfChildDisservices taking him away because his job at ACME is too dangerous, pops up more than you might think.

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* NotSoDifferent:

* TeamPet: Stretch, a K-9 basset hound. [[GuestStarPartyMember Only appears in "The Remnants"]], ''Where in America's Past'', and the ''Junior Detective'' game, though.

* VileVillainLaughableLackey: A one-off villain from the past named Maelstrom had a lackey with a typically UnfortunateName: Bilge. Downplayed, in that Bilge's only comical aspects were his name and the fact that he is afraid of a giant squid kept in the ship's hold who [[ProperlyParanoid attacks the heroes at one point]].

* {{Omniglot}}: Zack. See ''Translation Convention'' below.

* FanserviceExtra: Pearl Diver, who appears only in "A Date with Carmen", doesn't have a single spoken line, only a gasp when Zack and Ivy arrive unexpectedly. She does, however, have a gratuitous scene in which she climbs out of the water onto a ship wearing a skimpy bikini.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: An upskirt shot of Ivy revealing the lower part of her rear when she turns to see that Zack is her opponent in a colosseum battle in "Labyrinth Part 3".

** And yet she tops herself in "By a Whisker" when she steals a beach ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaim%C5%AB,_Hawaii Kaimu Beach in Hawaii]])[[spoiler:which she planned to use as a huge litter box for two white lion cubs]]. Ivy's response? "The entire beach?!"

* GettingCrapPasttheRadar: An upskirt shot of Ivy revealing the lower part of her rear when she turns to see that Zack is her opponent in a colosseum battle in "Labyrinth Part 3".

In this series, BrotherSisterTeam Zack (Creator/ScottMenville) and Ivy (Creator/JenniferHale) track Carmen (Creator/RitaMoreno), who gradually becomes more and more of a FriendlyEnemy than she ever was in the computer games. ''Earth'' seems to be set in an AlternateContinuity in relation to the rest of the series, although Brøderbund did include some characters from it (Zack, Ivy, Stretch, and the Chief) in ''VideoGame/CarmenSandiegoJuniorDetectiveEdition''.

In this series, BrotherSisterTeam Zack (Creator/ScottMenville) and Ivy (Creator/JenniferHale) track Carmen (Creator/RitaMoreno), who gradually becomes more and more of a FriendlyEnemy than she ever was in the computer games. ''Earth'' seems to be set in an AlternateContinuity in relation to the rest of the series, although Brøderbund did include some characters from it (Zack, Ivy, Stretch, and the Chief) in ''Carmen Sandiego: Junior Detective Edition''.

* ContinuityCameo: The Chronoskimmer is based on the one that appears in ''Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?'' (the 1989 game), albeit slightly redesigned. [[note]]Most notably, the original Chronoskimmer was blue and gray and had a screen on the left side that showed the user's current location. The one in the show was brown and is lacking the location screen.[[/note]]