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2[[caption-width-right:350:Everybody now! ''Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies'']]
3''Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies'' is a 2006 Creator/CBeebies and Creator/PBSKids Sprout TV series set in the African savanna that focuses on Mama Mirabelle and three principal young characters, Bo the cheetah, Karla the zebra, and the titular character's son, Max. Mama Mirabelle travels around the world and records her eponymous home movies, live action footage of animals[[note]]Borrowed from Creator/{{BBC}} and National Geographic Society[[/note]], to show to all of the animal kingdom.
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5This show is animated using the same software that ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' is animated with.
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7!!Tropes that apply to this series:
8* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Mama Mirabelle and her mom only wear hats.
9* BatOutOfHell: Slightly averted with a young bat named Merlin.
10* CrossdressingVoices: Max and Bo were voiced by females. Max was voiced by Teresa Gallagher, and Bo was voiced by Jules de Jongh.
11* DisembodiedEyebrows: This one goes one step further-- certain of the characters, most notably Karla, as a member of the main cast, appear to have a disembodied eye when shown in profile.
12* HonorableElephant: Mama Mirabelle and her son Max
13* HumanlikeFootAnatomy: Bo and Karla. The former has feet that are just toes and the latter has feet that are just hooves.
14* MediumBlending: The home movies that Mama Mirabelle shows to the children are live-action clips of African animals.
15* OncePerEpisode: The home movies.
16* PartiallyCivilizedAnimal: Mama Mirabelle and the other animals live in the savanna and are naked like normal animals, but they can talk and even watch movie clips.
17* RogerRabbitEffect: Shows up periodically during the live-action animal clips described above.
18* ShoutOut: The animals' silhouettes popping in and out from the edges of the screen during the home movies are reminiscent of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
19* SickEpisode: "Healthy Habits" - Max catches a cold and learns that it's important to rest when not feeling well and that everyone gets sick sometimes, even if they follow the healthy habits described in the episode's title.
20* SlidingScaleOfAnimalCommunication: Level 7
21* TitleThemeTune

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