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* NiceHat:
** Jackie Robinson and Lou Gehrig both wear a blue baseball cap.
** Leonardo da Vinci wears a floppy purple hat.
** Amelia Earhart wears an aviator's hat.
** Zora Neale Hurston wears a red sunhat.
** The Wright Brothers both wear bowler hats.
** Eleanor Roosevelt wears a fancy purple hat.
** Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln both wear hats, which doubles as their artifact.
** Mary Leakey wears a paleontologist hat.
** Junko Tabei wears and orange hat.
** Marie Owens wears a cowboy hat.
** Nellie Bly wears a journalist hat.
** Kate Warne wears a cowboy hat.
** Confucious wears a blue hat.
** Mary Anning wears a bonnet.
** Charlie Chaplin wears a bowler hat.
** Harriet Tubman wears a purple bandana.
** Jackie Robinson and Lou Gehrig both wear a blue baseball cap.
** Leonardo da Vinci wears a floppy purple hat.
** Amelia Earhart wears an aviator's hat.
** Zora Neale Hurston wears a red sunhat.
** The Wright Brothers both wear bowler hats.
** Eleanor Roosevelt wears a fancy purple hat.
** Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln both wear hats, which doubles as their artifact.
** Mary Leakey wears a paleontologist hat.
** Junko Tabei wears and orange hat.
** Marie Owens wears a cowboy hat.
** Nellie Bly wears a journalist hat.
** Kate Warne wears a cowboy hat.
** Confucious wears a blue hat.
** Mary Anning wears a bonnet.
** Charlie Chaplin wears a bowler hat.
** Harriet Tubman wears a purple bandana.
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* SignatureHeadgear: Some of the historical figures' artifacts are hats. Among these are Amelia Earhart's pilot cap and Abraham Lincoln's top hat.
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* TwoWordsAddedEmphasis: In "I Am Cleopatra", Xavier doesn't know how to ask his parents if he can stay up late to see a supermoon. Yadina suggests telling them that Xavier has two words: "Super. Moon." Xavier points out that it did not work when Dr. Zoom wanted "More. Pie."
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On July 8, 2022, eight online one-minute shorts were released talking about virtues such as compassion, gratitude, and more. Watch them [[https://pbskids.org/xavier/videos here]] ([[NoExportForYou US residents only]]).
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* NeverLearnedToTalk: Helen Keller in "I Am Helen Keller" can't speak due to her deafness, so her teacher Anne Sullivan tries to teach her words via sign language. At the end, [[SuddenlySpeaking she learns to say her dog Belle's name]].
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Meganekko is no longer a trope. It's a Fanspeak term. Moving wicks to Bespectacled Cutie when appropriate.
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* {{Meganekko}}: Mary Leakey wears glasses as a child in "I Am Mary Leakey", as does Junko Tabei in "I Am Madam President" and Billie Jean King in "I Am Billie Jean King".
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* FieldTripToThePast: The show's entire premise runs on our trio time traveling to learn lessons from historical figures.
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* MistakesAreNotTheEndOfTheWorld: A key lesson taught in "We Are the Wright Brothers", and briefly in "I Am Anna Pavlova".
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* MistakesAreNotTheEndOfTheWorld: MistakesAreNotTheEndOfTheWorld:
** A key lesson taught in "We Are the Wright Brothers", and briefly in "I Am AnnaPavlova".Pavlova".
** "I Am Bob Ross" also teaches this lesson, showing how Bob Ross turned mistakes into happy little accidents.
** A key lesson taught in "We Are the Wright Brothers", and briefly in "I Am Anna
** "I Am Bob Ross" also teaches this lesson, showing how Bob Ross turned mistakes into happy little accidents.
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* ContinuityCavalcade: The Season 1 finale, "I Am Fred Rogers", features clips from the episodes in the past season as the kids sing "It's You I Like".
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* ExtraLongEpisode: "I Am Madam President" is 58 minutes long.
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** "I Am Madam President" is 58 minuteslong.long.
** While most episodes are 11-minutes, "I Am Harriet Tubman" and "I Am Fred Rogers" are both 22-minutes. Rule of thumb: if an episode is 22-minutes, it will be a major turning point for the series.
** "I Am Madam President" is 58 minutes
** While most episodes are 11-minutes, "I Am Harriet Tubman" and "I Am Fred Rogers" are both 22-minutes. Rule of thumb: if an episode is 22-minutes, it will be a major turning point for the series.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: [[spoiler:In "I Am Fred Rogers", Xavier worries that Brad and Yadina won't want to hang out with him if the Secret Museum is closed. Xavier feels that without the Secret Museum, he's nothing. Fortunately, Creator/FredRogers teaches him that he is special just the way he is]].
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* ShownTheirWork: Aside from a few cases of ArtisticLicenseHistory, the show does have a lot of research and accuracy put into it. For example, Helen Keller and the water pump, the Bronte Sisters' made up world called Glass Town, George Washington Carver's secret garden, Amelia Earhart's homemade roller coaster, Zora Neale Hurston's characters named Miss Corn Shuck and Mr. Sweet Smell, etc.
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* ShownTheirWork: ShownTheirWork:
** Aside from a few cases of ArtisticLicenseHistory, the show does have a lot of research and accuracy put into it. For example, Helen Keller and the water pump, the Bronte Sisters' made up world called Glass Town, George Washington Carver's secret garden, Amelia Earhart's homemade roller coaster, Zora Neale Hurston's characters named Miss Corn Shuck and Mr. Sweet Smell,etc.etc.
** The crew went out of their way to make ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' TV set look 100% accurate in "I Am Fred Rogers". The puppets, the clock tower, the stoplight, everything.
** Aside from a few cases of ArtisticLicenseHistory, the show does have a lot of research and accuracy put into it. For example, Helen Keller and the water pump, the Bronte Sisters' made up world called Glass Town, George Washington Carver's secret garden, Amelia Earhart's homemade roller coaster, Zora Neale Hurston's characters named Miss Corn Shuck and Mr. Sweet Smell,
** The crew went out of their way to make ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' TV set look 100% accurate in "I Am Fred Rogers". The puppets, the clock tower, the stoplight, everything.
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* ToTheTuneOf: In "I Am Fred Rogers", the gang and Rogers sing a song called "When I Feel Happy", which is sung to the tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". Note that this song was created specifically for the episode and was never on Rogers' show.
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* BookEnds: The episodes begin and end in the same place
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* BookEnds: The episodes begin and end in the same placeplace.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: In real life, Sacagawea got pregnant at 16, and the ''I Am Sacagawea'' book shows her carrying the baby during her expedition with Lewis and Clark. However, the "I Am Sacagawea" episode omits this entirely due to TeenPregnancy being an extremely taboo topic, especially for a show for elementary schoolers. Plus, the SuperDeformed art style would make said pregnancy look...awkward.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: In real life, Sacagawea got pregnant at 16, and the ''I Am Sacagawea'' book shows her carrying the baby during her expedition with Lewis and Clark. However, the "I Am Sacagawea" episode omits this entirely due to TeenPregnancy being an extremely taboo topic, especially for a show for elementary schoolers. Plus, the SuperDeformed art style would make said pregnancy look...awkward.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: The voice actors for the historical figures generally use appropriate accents, but in "I Am Edmund Hillary," Edmund doesn't have a New Zealand accent at all and instead speaks like a typical American kid.
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''Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum'' is a Creator/PBSKids animated series based on the children's book series ''Ordinary People Change the World'' by New York Times best-selling author Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos. This new multiplatform series will introduce kids ages 4-7 to inspiring historical figures – from Rosa Parks to Leonardo da Vinci – who will help them learn important social-emotional concepts. It premiered on November 11, 2019.
The series follows the adventures of Xavier Riddle, his sister Yadina and their friend Brad. In each episode, they face a problem and turn to the Secret Museum, a hidden room under an ordinary museum, to help them solve it. The museum allows Xavier, Yadina and Brad to travel back in time to meet real-life historical figures when they were kids. They witness pivotal moments that shaped each of these iconic people and learn social-emotional lessons – such as being resilient in the face of adversity and making and accomplishing goals. Each episode is designed to help viewers make the connection between the attributes that made each historical figure a hero, and those same attributes within themselves, while approaching history in an engaging, age-appropriate manner. Each episode of the show will include two animated 11-minute stories with accompanying interstitial content.
The series follows the adventures of Xavier Riddle, his sister Yadina and their friend Brad. In each episode, they face a problem and turn to the Secret Museum, a hidden room under an ordinary museum, to help them solve it. The museum allows Xavier, Yadina and Brad to travel back in time to meet real-life historical figures when they were kids. They witness pivotal moments that shaped each of these iconic people and learn social-emotional lessons – such as being resilient in the face of adversity and making and accomplishing goals. Each episode is designed to help viewers make the connection between the attributes that made each historical figure a hero, and those same attributes within themselves, while approaching history in an engaging, age-appropriate manner. Each episode of the show will include two animated 11-minute stories with accompanying interstitial content.
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''Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum'' is a Creator/PBSKids animated series based on the children's book series ''Ordinary People Change the World'' by New York Times best-selling author Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos. This new multiplatform series will introduce kids ages 4-7 to inspiring historical figures – from Rosa Parks to Leonardo da Vinci – who will help them learn important social-emotional concepts. It premiered on November 11, 2019.
The series follows the adventures of Xavier Riddle, his sister Yadina and their friend Brad. Ineach every episode, they face one of them has a problem and turn to the Secret Museum, a hidden room under an underneath the ordinary museum, museum owned by Xavier and Yadina's parents, to help them solve it. The museum allows Xavier, Yadina and Brad to travel Secret Museum takes them back in time to meet real-life iconic historical figures when they were kids. They witness pivotal moments that shaped each children, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, and Harriet Tubman. The positive qualities of all of these iconic people and learn social-emotional lessons – such as being resilient in the face of adversity and making and accomplishing goals. Each episode is designed to help viewers make the connection between the attributes that made each historical figure a hero, and those same attributes within themselves, while approaching history in an engaging, age-appropriate manner. Each episode of the show will include two animated 11-minute stories with accompanying interstitial content.
trio solve their problem.
The series follows the adventures of Xavier Riddle, his sister Yadina and their friend Brad. In
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* StorefrontTelevisionDisplay: In "I Am Neil Armstrong", the gang gets to see Neil Armstrong land on the moon via televisions displayed in a storefront.
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->''Thank you for joining our awesome adventure to read this page. That is made by a troper, just like you and me. So tropers like you can change the world. I am Yadina. I am Brad. I am Xavier, and I know that JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife , just like this page.''
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->''Thank you for joining our awesome adventure to read this page. That is made by a troper, just like you and me. So tropers like you can change the world. I am Yadina. I am Brad. I am Xavier, and I know that JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife , JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife, just like this page.''
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->''Thank you for joining our awesome adventure to read this page. That is made by a troper, just like you and me. So tropers like you can change the world. I am Yadina. I am Brad. I am Xavier, and I know that TVTropesWillRuinYourLife, just like this page.''
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->''Thank you for joining our awesome adventure to read this page. That is made by a troper, just like you and me. So tropers like you can change the world. I am Yadina. I am Brad. I am Xavier, and I know that TVTropesWillRuinYourLife, JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife , just like this page.''
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* CaptureTheFlag: In "I Am Winston Churchill", the gang travels back in time to meet a young Winston Churchill, who is playing capture the flag with his new schoolmates. It's through this game that Winston teaches Brad the importance of speaking up for yourself.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Falls heavily on the idealistic side. All of the historical figures provide a positive lesson to learn. The show also promotes the messages that kids can change the world for good.
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** Theodore Roosevelt wears a hat, which is also his artifact.
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** Theodore Roosevelt wears a hat, and Abraham Lincoln both wear hats, which is also his doubles as their artifact.
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** Abraham Lincoln wears a tophat.
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* FeudEpisode: Xavier and Yadina have a sibling fall-out in both "I Am Maya Angelou" and "I Am Confucius".
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* FeudEpisode: FeudEpisode:
** Xavier and Yadina have a sibling fall-out in both "I Am Maya Angelou" and "I AmConfucius".Confucius".
** In "I Am Jigonsaseh", Xavier, Yadina, and Brad fight and briefly break off their friendship over a disagreement on what they should do with boxes. Jigonsaseh helps them.
** Xavier and Yadina have a sibling fall-out in both "I Am Maya Angelou" and "I Am
** In "I Am Jigonsaseh", Xavier, Yadina, and Brad fight and briefly break off their friendship over a disagreement on what they should do with boxes. Jigonsaseh helps them.
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* DifferentInEveryEpisode: In every episode, the gang accesses the Secret Museum in a specific way. There are six variants:
** Through a portrait.
** Through a tornado.
** Through an Egyptian wall.
** Through a grandfather clock.
** Through a dinosaur exhibit.
** Through a Chinese throne.
** Through a portrait.
** Through a tornado.
** Through an Egyptian wall.
** Through a grandfather clock.
** Through a dinosaur exhibit.
** Through a Chinese throne.
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...is it obvious the deaf ed part of me has feelings about these two episodes?
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* ArtisticLicenseEducation: "I Am Helen Keller" as well as its sister episode, "I Am Alexander Graham Bell" portray clear speech as much easier to learn/achieve for profoundly deaf people than it typically is in real life, and the latter episode also features a deaf student reacting with an answer to Yadina talking to them almost before they've even turned their head to try reading her lips. To some extent this can be forgiven due to the simplification of plots for the episodes; Helen Keller's episode, for instance, omits some aspects of its book version, like Keller's use of home signs (signs deaf children make up to communicate with their families before they are exposed to established sign languages) prior to Anne Sullivan's arrival, likely to keep the pacing steady.
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** Alexander Graham Bell is portrayed alongside the lesson of listening to everyone, with the implication that different forms of communication are equal. While the moral is fine, it doesn't really mesh with a lot of Bell's beliefs, which heavily valued oralism (speech) over manualism (sign language). (Needless to say, it doesn't get into his related beliefs regarding eugenics and deaf people (where oralism was one means to try to prevent deaf people marrying each other), either, due to the show's tendency to focus on more ostensibly positive aspects that uphold the message.)
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* AnAesop: Every episode has a lesson supplied by the historical figure featured in it.
** Nobody is perfect. The show makes it clear that none of the heroes featured are perfect human beings whatsoever, as they are shown making mistakes, and there are even some that had made questionable decisions or said questionable things in real life. [[note]]Like George Washington and Winston Churchill, to name a few[[/note]] But the show is about believing the best of everyone and remembering people for the good they put into the world.
** "I Am Billie Jean King" teaches that boys and girls can do the same things. Girls are allowed to play sports, boys are allowed to do ballet, etc.
** Nobody is perfect. The show makes it clear that none of the heroes featured are perfect human beings whatsoever, as they are shown making mistakes, and there are even some that had made questionable decisions or said questionable things in real life. [[note]]Like George Washington and Winston Churchill, to name a few[[/note]] But the show is about believing the best of everyone and remembering people for the good they put into the world.
** "I Am Billie Jean King" teaches that boys and girls can do the same things. Girls are allowed to play sports, boys are allowed to do ballet, etc.
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* AnAesop: Every episode has a lesson supplied by the historical figure featured in it.
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* WeAllLiveInAmerica: The TV movie has Yadina heartbroken to learn there's never been a female U.S. president, despite the show being produced in Canada, France, and Ireland. All three countries, for better or worse, have had at least one female leader each.
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* WeAllLiveInAmerica: The TV movie has Yadina heartbroken to learn there's never been a female U.S. president, despite the show being produced in Canada, France, and Ireland. All three countries, for better or worse, have had at least one female leader each. Justified in that Yadina specifically wants to be the President of the United States of America, which is why the lack of a female U.S. president upsets her.
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* TinCanTelephone: The crew attempts to use tin can phones in the intro for "I Am Alexander Graham Bell." They can't get the phones to work (clearly, they hadn't been told that the string has to be stretched taut), and they quickly end up getting tangled up as they walk around trying to figure the phones out.
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* AlliterativeName: Some of the heroes the trio meets fall under this:
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* AlliterativeName: Some of the heroes the trio meets fall under this:this. Some of those heroes are:
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** Jackie Robinson wears a blue baseball cap.
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** Jackie Robinson wears and Lou Gehrig both wear a blue baseball cap.cap.
** Leonardo da Vinci wears a floppy purple hat.
** Amelia Earhart wears an aviator's hat.
** Zora Neale Hurston wears a red sunhat.
** The Wright Brothers both wear bowler hats.
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** Zora Neale Hurston wears a red sunhat.
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** Mary Leakey wears a paleontologist hat.
** Junko Tabei wears and orange hat.
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** Confucious wears a blue hat.
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** Harriet Tubman wears a purple bandana.
** Abraham Lincoln wears a tophat.
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* PurpleIsPowerful: Some of the heroes the trio meets wear purple. Some of those heroes are:
** Leonardo da Vinci wears a purple hat and robe.
** The Bronte Sisters, specifically Emily Bronte, wears a purple dress.
** Eleanor Roosevelt is dressed head-to-toe in purple.
** Marie Owens wears a purple tie.
** Harriet Tubman wears a purple bandana, which doubles as her relic.
** Ella Fitzgerald wears a purple dress and shoes.
** Carol Burnett wears a pale purple sweater, pants and shoes.
** Celia Cruz wears a shirt that has frilly sleeves and one of those frills is purple. Same thing with her frilly skirt and wears purple shoes.
** Leonardo da Vinci wears a purple hat and robe.
** The Bronte Sisters, specifically Emily Bronte, wears a purple dress.
** Eleanor Roosevelt is dressed head-to-toe in purple.
** Marie Owens wears a purple tie.
** Harriet Tubman wears a purple bandana, which doubles as her relic.
** Ella Fitzgerald wears a purple dress and shoes.
** Carol Burnett wears a pale purple sweater, pants and shoes.
** Celia Cruz wears a shirt that has frilly sleeves and one of those frills is purple. Same thing with her frilly skirt and wears purple shoes.
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*** Downplayed with Cesar Chavez and Celia Cruz because the names are not phonetically similar even though the initials are the same.
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*** Downplayed with Cesar Chavez and Celia Cruz because the their names are not phonetically similar even though the initials are the same.
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*** Inverted with Nikola Tesla since the former's name ends with same sound.
*** Downplayed with Cesar Chavez and Celia Cruz because the names are not phonetically similar even though the initials are the same.
*** Downplayed with Cesar Chavez and Celia Cruz because the names are not phonetically similar even though the initials are the same.
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* AlliterativeName: Some of the heroes the trio meets fall under this:
** '''H'''arry '''H'''oudini
** '''T'''omioka '''T'''essai
** '''A'''bigail '''A'''dams
** '''Ch'''arlie '''Ch'''aplin
** '''A'''rthur '''A'''she
** '''Ja'''ne '''Ja'''cobs
** '''H'''arry '''H'''oudini
** '''T'''omioka '''T'''essai
** '''A'''bigail '''A'''dams
** '''Ch'''arlie '''Ch'''aplin
** '''A'''rthur '''A'''she
** '''Ja'''ne '''Ja'''cobs
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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Xavier briefly hums the show's theme tune at one point in "I Am Madam President".
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* ThemeTuneCameo: Xavier briefly hums the show's theme tune at one point in "I Am Madam President".
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Since the historical figures are located anywhere in the world, oftentimes some of the figures are in different countries and speak foreign languages that aren't English. When this happens, Xavier has to use a translator in order for the trio to even understand them.
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** In the opening sequence of "I Am Madam President", the gang parodies iconic promotional shots from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''Film/ANewHope''.
