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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmBSiYulUSk&t=60s theme song]] composed by Drew Neumann is a vibrant and lively piece featuring lovely vocals from an African choir. It sets the exact mood you'd expect for a globe-trotting adventure.
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* FashionDissonance: For the most part, the show is pretty good about not letting on to the exact era it's in. However, Debbie's taste in fashion practically ''screams'' "TheNineties" most of the time. Doesn't help that her standard outfit is a green, loose-fitting flannel jacket combined with torn, faded blue jeans.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: In the episode with the Galapagos Tortoises, it's presented as a happy thing that they have mated and will have offspring. Sure, it's a nice heartwarming ending... except it's still not going to bring the species back from extinction and only delays the inevitable: Since any other mating pairs will be genetically related.
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misuse, refers to minor characters who become unexpectedly popular. He's a major character, so he doesn't apply


* EnsembleDarkhorse: Nigel Thornberry, to the point of being a MemeticBadass.
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It's not a hybrid; it's a dress she wears — it's one thing.


* HollywoodHomely: Eliza is actually really cute for a pig-tailed, bespectacled nerd. Especially in the later seasons, where she lets her hair down and stops wearing the violent yellow skirt and T-shirt hybrid she usually favors.

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* HollywoodHomely: Eliza is actually really cute for a pig-tailed, bespectacled nerd. Especially in the later seasons, where she lets her hair down and stops wearing the violent yellow skirt and T-shirt hybrid dress she usually favors.



** Tyler, Eliza's annoying and haughty cousin, who becomes a main character for part of season 3. Fortunately, the creators caught on quickly and his appearances became much more sporadic.

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** Tyler, Eliza's annoying and haughty cousin, who becomes a main character for part of season Season 3. Fortunately, the creators caught on quickly and his appearances became much more sporadic.



* SeasonalRot: Seasons 3 onward are still enjoyable and do contain some of the shows best written episodes like “The Origin of Donnie”, but are still widely considered mostly inferior to the first two seasons. The main flaw was how the show started focusing less on the animals and locales, and more on hijinks that just happen to involve talking to animals and had more IdiotBall plots. For comparison, season 2's "Chimp Off the Old Block" centers on the social structure of chimpanzees, and the series finale centers on Eliza struggling to confess her love to a pop star.

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* SeasonalRot: Seasons 3 onward are still enjoyable and do contain some of the shows best written episodes like “The Origin of Donnie”, but are still widely considered mostly inferior to the first two seasons. The main flaw was how the show started focusing less on the animals and locales, and more on hijinks that just happen to involve talking to animals and had more IdiotBall plots. For comparison, season Season 2's "Chimp Off the Old Block" centers on the social structure of chimpanzees, and the series finale centers on Eliza struggling to confess her love to a pop star.
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* SeasonalRot: Seasons 3 onward are still enjoyable and do contain some of the shows best written episodes like “The Origin of Donnie”, but are still widely considered mostly inferior to the first two seasons. The main flaw was how the show started focusing less on the animals and locales, and more on hijinks that just happen to involve talking to animals and had more IdiotBall plots. For comparison, season 2's "Chimp Off the Old Block" center on the social structure of chimpanzees, and the series finale centers on Eliza struggling to confess her love to a pop star.

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* SeasonalRot: Seasons 3 onward are still enjoyable and do contain some of the shows best written episodes like “The Origin of Donnie”, but are still widely considered mostly inferior to the first two seasons. The main flaw was how the show started focusing less on the animals and locales, and more on hijinks that just happen to involve talking to animals and had more IdiotBall plots. For comparison, season 2's "Chimp Off the Old Block" center centers on the social structure of chimpanzees, and the series finale centers on Eliza struggling to confess her love to a pop star.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The Lion in "Have Yourself a Thornberry Little Christmas" is treated as a Woobie driven by hunger who once he's full is able to come to his senses and apologize for trying to eat Darwin--he also threatened to eat Eliza too. It comes off though as a very flimsy excuse for him doing so because of how smug he is beforehand, that the audience is just supposed to take him not thinking clearly due to extreme hunger at face value--when other very hungry animals in the series have been shown to not get anywhere near as crazy as he does--and that he also comes off as an UngratefulBastard when he demands more after Eliza gives him the Christmas goose. Only after he then eats the rest of the food is he satiated and shows gratitude.

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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The Lion in "Have Yourself a Thornberry Little Christmas" is treated as a Woobie driven by hunger who once he's full is able to come to his senses and apologize for trying to eat Darwin--he also threatened to eat Eliza too. It comes off though as a very flimsy excuse for him doing so because of how smug he is beforehand, that the audience is just supposed to take him not thinking clearly due to extreme hunger at face value--when other very hungry animals in the series have been shown to not get anywhere near as crazy as he does--and that he also comes off as an UngratefulBastard when he demands more after Eliza gives him the Christmas goose. Only after he then eats the rest of the food is he satiated and shows gratitude.actually thanks her.

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