History WesternAnimation / WonderPets

* CatchPhrase:
** Ming-Ming will exclaim, "This is sewious!" if she thinks a situation is serious.
** Linny will say, "Good eye, Tuck!" if Tuck makes an observation.
%%** "To the flyboat?" "To the flyboat!"

* DamselInDistress / DistressedDude: While a lot of the animals weren't actually in grave danger, the pets have saved a beached whale (in "How it All Began") who was female.

* DamselInDistress: While a lot of the animals weren't actually in grave danger, the pets have saved a beached whale (in "How it All Began") who was female.

And pretty much every parent who watched television with their child in the mid-to-late 2000s could probably recite the rest by heart.

The series started as a set of two short films called "Linny the Guinea Pig." Selig made these in between production cycles of ''Oobi'' and pitched them to Nickelodeon. Selig called Nickelodeon "a great partner," saying "They're really the company that first believed in us when we pitched ''Oobi'', and then they believed in us again on ''Wonder Pets!''."

* DeusExitMachina: Linny ends up getting sick in “Saves The Mouse” just to have Tuck and Ming-Ming save the mouse without her guidance.

* FakeInteractivity: A one-off example. In "Save the What?", the Wonder Pets don't know who they need to rescue, and they need the viewers help to find clues.

* FurryConfusion: In the circus episode, we see an anthropomorphic penguin even though all other animals seen are either completely normal or only slightly humanised.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: "Let's celebrate with some celery!" And apparently every species loves celery.
* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Distance and even reality are never barriers for the Wonder Pets when it comes to saving an animal in need. In the second story of the first episode, they travel into space to save a chimp in the time it takes to sing a cheery tune and in the first story of the second episode, they zip into a storybook to save a unicorn.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Downplayed with Ollie, but the main group seems to find him as annoying as the audience does, ''especially'' [[LittleMissSnarker Ming-Ming]].

** Ollie is impolite and more than a little bit irritating during his appearances. This has the added affect of making his philosophies as unappealing as he himself is.

* TheLoad: Ollie the rabbit, who is guaranteed to either screw up the rescue when he comes along and/or require rescuing himself. He's also a {{Jerkass}}. Notably, Ollie tends to attempt things on his own ''before'' he screws things up and/or requires rescuing. One wonders if he was deliberately thrown in to reinforce the show's Aesop.
* LonersAreFreaks: Ollie, considering the derision he gets from the Wonder Pets for trying to do things by himself and making the problems worse for not using teamwork.

* ExcitedShowTitle: Nearly all episode titles end in an exclamation point.

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* HiddenFirstActParallel: OnceAnEpisode, the pets have to solve a minor problem before they can get on their way, and the method they use fits the needs of the larger quest with ''insane'' precision.

* ChekhovsSkill: OnceAnEpisode, the pets have to solve a minor problem before they can get on their way, and the method they use fits the needs of the larger quest with ''insane'' precision.

* ArgumentOfContradictions: In "How it All Began", Ming-Ming and Tuck argue over whether to build a boat or a vehicle that can fly, which devolves into shouting, "Boat!" "Fly!". This leads to the creation of the flyboat.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: "Save the Chameleon" involved the titular chameleon having to hide from a cuckoo-hawk.

* CircusEpisode: A particularly odd one that was a borderline BizarroEpisode. The three pets are [[PartTimeHero part time heroes]] and in all other episodes everyone is a normal animal implied to speak AnimalTalk. The circus is different. The ringmaster was a penguin, not a human, and the audience were all wild animals wearing clothing. It showed animals were riding a normal sized train in front of a school and no humans caring. You may think that this indicates that all the "humans" in the show (who are never actually seen) are actually animals that treat smaller animals as pets but it was explicitly said in early episodes that the humans were humans. The episode was full of FurryConfusion in a series devoid of it.

* FreezeFrameBonus: In "Save the Puppy", the doggy door can be easily seen in a few shots of the door (evidenced by the hatch on one of the lower panels) long before the team realizes they can use it.

%%* HalloweenEpisode: Save the Black Kitten.

* IncomingHam: Linny in "Save The Puppy". "It's a puppy, he has to pee-pee, but he '''''CAAAAAAN'T''''', 'cause he's stuck in the house!"

* PottyEmergency: "Save The Puppy" had a puppy locked in the house alone, while he has to go outside, so the Wonder Pets have to find a way out before the dog bursts his kidneys. Soon even the Wonder Pets find themselves in the same situation as the pup. In the end, they find a way outside and [[NatureTinkling take a piss in great relief]].

->'''Ming-Ming Duckling:''' This is ''[[SeriousBusiness serious!!!]]''

Created by Josh Selig, who had previously created Creator/{{Noggin}}'s ''Series/{{Oobi}}'', "Wonder Pets!" is a series about three cute little baby animals who go on adventures to save other cute little animals. The animation is created with cut-out photographs and all the important dialogue is delivered operatically.

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* LandSeaSky: We have Linny, a guinea pig (land); Tuck, a turtle who likes to swim (sea), and Ming-Ming, a duckling (sky).

** Ducks and turtles don't urinate. At least, not the way the show portrays they do. Similarly, in "Save the Puppy!" (the same episode that showed Ming-Ming and Tuck urinating), during the song about peeing, Ming-Ming says that "frogs do it", but they don't.

* LonersAreFreaks: Ollie, considering the diresion he gets from the Wonder Pets for trying to do things by himself and making the problems worse for not using teamwork.

* ArgumentOfContradictions: In "How it All Began", Ming-Ming and Tuck argue over whether to build a boat or a vehicle that can fly, which devolves into shouting, "Boat!" "Fly!".

* MalevolentMice: In "Save the Nutcracker!", [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the Mouse King]] steals the Wonder Pets' nutcracker out of greed. [[HeelFaceTurn He apologizes and returns it to them]] once they show him that he's already got a lot to be grateful for.

* ParentalBonus: Scattered throughout, what preschooler would recognize references to Music/TheBeatles, The Creator/RatPack, and ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof''? Also see NoCelebritiesWereHarmed.

Created by Josh Selig, who had previously created Creator/{{Noggin}}'s ''Series/{{Oobi}}'', "Wonder Pets!" is a series about three cute little baby animals who go on adventures to save other cute little baby animals. The animation is created with cut-out photographs and all the important dialogue is delivered operatically.

The show is currently available for streaming on Amazon and the Creator/{{Noggin}} mobile app. It has three official seasons and wrapped production in 2010, but its broadcast history is highly unusual. It began in 2006 and aired most of its third season on Nickelodeon in 2009-2010. After that, the show was moved to the Nick Jr. channel, where there were two episodes in 2011, three in 2013, one in 2015 and three as recently as September 2016.