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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/groundling.jpg]]
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3	->''Now, if you're looking for a place to play in.''
4	->''Where friends are friends and green is green all day.''
5	->''And if you're looking for a spot to stay in.''
6	->''Where problems that you face together sometimes melt away.''
7	->''Come on down.''
8	-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvMTjx4Tn-Q Intro Theme]]'''
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10	''Groundling Marsh'' is a {{Canadian\|Series}} Live-Action Puppet Show that aired on Creator/{{YTV}} starting in 1994.
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12	The show took place in a magical marsh populated by creatures known as "Groundlings", which appeared to be any kind of combination of humans, animals, elves, and/or plants. The only exception was Stacks, a robot made of various junk sitting under a tree in the marsh.
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14	The show generally followed the day-to-day lives of the Groundlings, showing them getting up to all kinds of various antics, hearing stories [[MediumBlending that were portrayed on the show in animated stills]], and, in later seasons, dealing with Hegdish Yuckywood, the show's resident villainous presence.
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17	!!''Groundling Marsh'' contains examples of:
18	* BigOlUnibrow: Hegdish has a big fuzzy one.
19	* BlackDotPupils: The whole cast has these.
20	* FantasticFlora: The marsh has plants like this, such as the Tinkletree, which only blooms once in spring, and makes bell chime-like noises when wind blows through it.
21	* FreakyFridayFlip: In the episode "Tupelo Treat", Mud and Maggie temporarily switch bodies when they cook up the wrong recipe and make a body-swapping concoction by mistake.
22	* JerkAss: Hegdish. He's grumpy, grouchy, and likes messing with the other groundlings.
23	* MediumBlending: The show is mainly done in Live-Action puppetry. However, whenever the characters were telling a story, it would shift to animated stills.
24	* MultipleHeadCase: Mud/Slinger, a two-headed Groundling who was two Groundlings sharing a single body.
25	* PointyEars: Galileo's ears are pointy.
26	* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Stacks. He's a robot Galileo built out of random machines, and has human-level intelligence.
27	* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Eco has the ability to speak to animals, rocks and plants. It's a skill she learned years ago.
28	* SuperHearing: Crystal has long bunny ears that let hear hear things from really far away.
29	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Maggie and Crystal respectively.

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