Line #53 WesternAnimation/SevenLittleMonsters


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3	''Seven Little Monsters'' was a book by Creator/MauriceSendak (of ''Literature/WhereTheWildThingsAre'' fame) that got a 3-seasons, 40-episodes AnimatedAdaptation from the Canadian animation studio Creator/{{Nelvana}}, with China's Creator/HongYing Animation and Creator/PhilippineAnimationStudioInc helping out with production as well.
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5	The show is about a family of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin seven monster siblings]] (five boys and two girls), who despite the title, are actually much larger than the humans they share their neighborhood with. These seven siblings, known simply by their respective numbers going from oldest to youngest, live with a diminutive, Slavic-accented old lady who happens to be their mother. While their sizes and unusual abilities and appearances seem alarming at first glance, they are all {{Gentle Giant}}s who mean well and do their best to do what's right. And even despite the trouble that their individual quirks and personalities can bring on their various adventures and misadventures, the seven little monsters can always count on the love and support they have from each other and their mother as a family.
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7	''Seven Little Monsters'' was a part of the Creator/PBSKids Bookworm Bunch from 2000-2002 and also aired from 2003-2007 in its home country of Canada on Creator/{{YTV}} (and later Creator/TreehouseTV). While not as successful and recognizable as it's fellow Nelvana-produced Maurice Sendak adaptation ''Literature/LittleBear'', it has gained CultClassic status among those who watched it on PBS as part of Bookworm Bunch and later as part of its dual slot with ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears''. Part of this was due to the fact that like ''Little Bear'', Maurice Sendak was involved in the show's production, and thus had more significant influence over the series' development than is typical for a cartoon adaptation of a kids' book. The theme song of the show was performed by Music/BarenakedLadies.
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9	Interestingly, Nelvana's cartoon [[OlderThanTheyThink is not the first effort]] to adapt the book in animated form, as it had previously been adapted as an animated segment on ''Series/SesameStreet'' that was animated by Fred Calvert.
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11	Nelvana has made episodes available on Youtube through their Treehouse Direct channel. [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUIixndCOJ8x1w8u1eBROiQEUfAzvRv2C Check them out here!]]
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14	!!This cartoon provides examples of:
15	* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The show's tie-in books by Volo for some reason depicted One as wearing no clothes besides her hat.
16	* AccidentalTruth: In "April Fools", One, Two, Three, Six and Seven have a boy named Maurice help in a prank they pull to get back at Four and Five by having him pretend to be an alien from Jupiter out to get them. [[spoiler:The ending reveals he actually is an alien from Jupiter, but fortunately bears no malevolence and only wanted to take a copy of Three's play script so it can be used to entertain his people on his home planet.]]
17	* AcidRefluxNightmare: In "Nightmare on Chestnut Street", Seven mentions he once dreamed he was made of cheese and then menaced by giant mice, which Three surmises happened because he ate too much cheese before bed.
18	* AdaptationDyeJob: Two is depicted with dark brown hair, when he was blond in the original book.
19	* AdaptationalDiversity: In Sendak's original book, none of the monsters were visibly female, and only One, Two, and Seven had distinct gimmicks (unless you count Five's [[ExtremeOmnivore ability to drink entire oceans]]). In the cartoon, the others are given gimmicks as well, and Six is outright redesigned into a GirlyGirl.
20	* AdaptationalModesty: One, Three, Four, and Five are depicted wearing clothes, when they went naked in the original book.
21	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The book's monsters were a ''lot'' more mischievous (if not outright malevolent), and terrorize the humans for kicks. The story even ends with said humans successfully capturing them. In the animated series, they are significantly friendlier and are more interested in befriending and having fun with humans than scaring them. Even when they do end up doing something wrong, it is rarely deliberate and they are usually quick to apologize for their actions and make restitution.
22	* AlasPoorYorick: The episodes "April Fools" and "A Pony Tale" both have Three become a William Shakespeare pastiche named William Three in "April Fools", and both episodes have a part where he holds Seven's detachable head in a manner reminiscent of Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
23	* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Belinda is a cow who sometimes behaves like a dog, most notably her fetching skills and her scent-sniffing nose (like when the monsters thought their mom left them out of anger, and they were looking for her.)
24	* AlienAmongUs: [[spoiler:"April Fools" ends with Maurice turning out to be an alien posing as a human boy.]]
25	* AnimationBump: Season 3. Due to the switch from Creator/HongYing to Creator/PhilippineAnimationStudioInc, the animation is much more fluid here.
26	* AntiSneezeFinger: Three tries to use his finger to block Two's nose when he's about to sneeze as they're measuring the flour to make cupcakes in "High Noon". Two still sneezes anyway, forcing the monsters to start that step over.
27	* ArtistAndTheBand: "Gone But Not Four-Gotten" has a car radio mention a band called Tom and the Toenails.
28	* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: Occurs in "Seven Monsters and a Baby".
29	-->'''Four:''' I promised to help with the laundry, and I promised to let Mom take a nap, but I did not promise to--\
30	'''Seven:''' To take care of a baby?
31	* AudienceSurrogate: Mary tends to represent normal children reacting to the seven monsters' naivete.
32	* BabysittingEpisode: "Seven Monsters and a Baby" has the seven monsters look after their neighbor Mrs. Mulligan's baby while their mother is sleeping.
33	* BarefootCartoonAnimal: One, Four, Five, and sometimes Three depending on his persona all go barefoot.
34	* BigLittleBrother: Five acts like the youngest but he is older than Six and Seven.
35	* BittersweetEnding ''Bang! Zoom! To the Moon!'' Four's rocket made of junk doesn't take them to the moon, or even off the ground for obvious reasons, but Astronaut Three tells him that he had a dream, just like the world did when they first wanted to go to the moon... and if he keeps dreaming, one day he might actually achieve his goal.
36	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: When the monsters brainstorm ideas for a play in "April Fools", One suggests doing a play about baseball, Six chimes in that they do a ballet and One responds by suggesting a ballet about baseball.
37	* CanonForeigner: Essentially every character aside from the seven monsters themselves didn't exist in the original book and was created for the animated series, with the monster's Mama, Mary and Belinda the cow being the most prominent examples.
38	* CastOfSnowflakes: The monsters look completely different to one another, despite being septuplets.
39	* CastingGag: One of Creator/ColinMochrie's favorite things to mock about his ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' costar Ryan Stiles is his big nose. Here, he plays a character ''with'' a big nose.
40	* CatchPhrase:
41	** "What are you supposed to be today, Three?"
42	** "Tell me you didn't just say (number)."
43	** "One of these days..."
44	* CheesyMoon: In "Bang! Zoom! To the Moon", Seven asks if the moon is made of cheese and is told by Three that it's actually made of dust and rocks.
45	* ChirpingCrickets: Cricket chirps are heard in "April Fools" when Four suggests that they charge everyone 50 dollars to watch their play.
46	* CirclingBirdies: "The Nose Knows" has a bit where Belinda gets hit in the head by Two's pop-up book and has miniature versions of herself wearing tutus spin around her head.
47	* CluelessAesop: "The Bad Word", as indicated by the title, [[SwearWordPlot has a moral that children shouldn't use swear words]], but Mama's lecture to Two doesn't get any more specific on why he shouldn't say bad words than that the words have no place in conversation, plus the episode disregards that most adults who swear in real life don't particularly care that people who'd object to their foul language could hear them.
48	* CompetitionCouponMadness:
49	** In "Losing Sam", Three's efforts to rescue Sam the turtle from the plumbing releases several of the monster's belongings, with Seven's being a bronze statue of Johannes Stauss the Elder, which he remarks he sent a lot of box tops for.
50	** "Voyage to the Bottom of the Cereal Box" has Three mail 50 cereal box tops for a submarine, expecting a real one and being disappointed when what he gets is just a toy submarine.
51	* CountingSheep:
52	** In "Good Night", Two advises an insomniac Seven to go to sleep by counting sheep. Seven refuses because he doesn't like sheep, but changes his mind after Four suggests counting crabs and Three suggests counting elephants.
53	** "Splitting Hairs" at one point has Three go to sleep by counting three actual sheep, which were in his room because the persona he adopted for the episode was that of an Irish shepherd.
54	* CountingToPotato: When trying to count sheep in "Good Night", Seven's counting goes as "5, 7, 99..."
55	* CryingWolf: In the episode, ''The Two Who Cried Ouch'', Two lately is always second in everything (hence his name) and feels unappreciated. When he gets sick, he becomes the center of attention and is treated like a king. But after learning once he recovers that he will not receive this treatment anymore now that he is better, he starts faking injuries to keep getting his way. But after feeling guilty and going to confess, he actually gets hurt. But the others (as Four caught him jumping up and down when he was suppose to be hurt and told the rest of the monsters) don't believe him...
56	* CuteLittleFangs: Four is the only Monster with them...but he never uses them to hurt.
57	* DarkReprise: After his siblings drive him crazy one day in "It's a Wonder-Four Life", Four sings a song about what the world would be like if he was an only child and four was the only number that mattered. When a wishing star based on [[Film/ItsAWonderfulLife Clarence the angel]] grants his wish and he finds that he misses his siblings, and four is not the only number that should be taken into consideration, he sings a somber version of said song.
58	* DemonicPossession: Star Zero possesses Belinda the cow to talk with Four in "It's a Wonder-Four Life."
59	* DescentIntoAddiction: Five becomes severely addicted to pie as a result of Four's attempt at training him for a pie-eating contest by having him eat nothing but pie in "You Are What You Eat."
60	* DisappearedDad: Their dad is mentioned twice in the first season, but never seen. Likely dead.
61	* DogsLoveFireHydrants:
62	** A dog appears near a fire hydrant only to cling to it when it bursts into the air from water pressure in "Losing Sam".
63	** A mother dog and her puppies sniff at a fire hydrant in "Runaway Mom".
64	* DomCom: A younger child version with monsters.
65	* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: In "My Fair One", Four and Two get into an argument over whether Two is out or safe, with Four ultimately saying "safe" to trick Two into agreeing that he is out.
66	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episode, some people seem visibly afraid of the monsters in the grocery store, though this could be more due to their size and clumsiness than their appearance.
67	* EdibleTreasure: "Ahoy, Me Monsters" ends with the monsters opening the treasure chest to find that it contains snacks.
68	* EdutainmentShow: Like all of Bookworm Bunches shows, the show is intended to teach children important life lessons as well as entertain them.
69	* ExactWords: In "It's a Wonder-Four Life", Four wishes he had no brothers or sisters. In the alternate universe, this leads to, his siblings still exist, he's just not related to them (nor are they related to one another, and they for some reason are also all named Four).
70	* {{Expy}}: Star Zero in "It's a Wonder-Four Life" is pretty much a female wish star version of Clarence from ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' in that she visits Four to teach him the folly of his wishing he had no siblings, like how Clarence visited George Bailey to talk him out of suicide by showing how worse off the world would be if he never existed. Her introductory scene is even a recreation of Clarence's first scene in the original film.
71	* FaceOnAMilkCarton: Invoked in "Runaway Mom" during the monsters' efforts to search for Mama when she goes missing. One and Six go to the grocery store and glue their mother's picture to several milk cartons.
72	* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: In "It's a Wonder-Four Life", Star Zero is told to appear to Four in a way he'll understand, so she possesses Belinda the cow. Because a talking cow is totally less strange than a magic wishing star.
73	* FriendToAllChildren: The monsters can often be found playing with human kids and offering them fun experiences due to their great sizes (and none of them seem slightly scared of them...)
74	* FromBadToWorse: Inverted with One's reasons to tell on her sibling during the campout in the episode ''I'm Telling!'' At first, One has good reasons to tell on them, like Four planning to have Seven climb up an incredibly unstable stack of books to reach an ENORMOUS suitcase for Six to pack a bunch of clothes that she does not need at all for one night in the backyard and use Five as a safety landing, and then Four planning to pack ''everything'' in the fridge to take to eat on the campout. But then she starts telling on them for smaller and smaller things like Four not sharing the snacks, Seven yelling at her when she tries to help, and Six sticking her tongue out at her. Mom even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this:]]
75	-->'''Mom:''' (''sighs'') One..maybe these things are not all that serious being.
76	* FurryFemaleMane: Both One and Six have human-like hair despite being furry (although Six's face isn't). Three also has a mop of human-like hair, however, as do Two and Seven (though they don't look furry).
77	* FunWithHomophones: "Losing Sam" has Five point out a manhole labeled "Y" and his brother Four mistaking him for exclaiming "Why".
78	* GentleGiant: All of them quite literally are huge as well as friendly.
79	* GettingEatenIsHarmless:
80	** "Good Morning" has Five eat a boy who offers him a lick of his ice cream cone when the monsters are riding a bus. The other monsters get Five to spit the kid out, who is unharmed and even asks to be eaten again due to finding the experience fun.
81	** In "Runaway Mom", Four mentions that Five once ate some ducklings and states that they didn't mind, implying that they weren't digested and subsequently got out of Five unharmed.
82	* GooGooGetup:
83	** The monsters get a tour of the firehouse in "A Day at the Firehouse". While Seven becomes paranoid of the possibility of their house catching on fire, his six siblings aren't as worried and even play pretend in a game where One, Two, Three and Four pretend to be firefighters while Six pretends to be a mother being rescued from a fire and Five pretends to be her baby by wearing a diaper and a bonnet.
84	** The episode 'And Baby Makes Eight" revolves around Three wanting to be a baby again after being jealous of a neighbor's new baby, so he dresses up and acts like one. However, after his siblings and mother play along, he finds that there are downsides to still being treated like a baby, such as being fed mush while his brothers and sisters get hot dogs and having to go to bed early.
85	* GroceryStoreEpisode: The first episode, "Good Morning", begins with the monsters waking up to find they have no milk and deciding to take a trip to the store to buy some more. One is in charge of the others until they realize Six was left behind on the bus by accident, leading to Four being put in charge so that One and Three can go chase after the bus. While the others are causing chaos in the store, Seven loses his head, which ends up in the shopping kart of an old lady who thinks it's a watermelon.
86	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Three and Four. Three wears an oversized long sleeve while Four sports a yellow t-shirt and purple top hat, and neither of them wear pants.
87	* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: The monsters' mother is a human, so presumably their father is a monster - especially since their mother often points out that Two reminds her of him...
88	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Presumably the monsters' parents fit this description, given that they are giants and their mother is a normal-sized human.
89	* TheIgor: "The Adventures of Super Three" has Five pretend to be a hunchbacked assistant to Four named Figor (pronounced fye-gore).
90	* ImpactSilhouette: In "Mystery of the Missing Five", Seven and Five crash through the walls of their house and leave holes shaped like themselves.
91	* InNameOnly: The monsters share the same names and basic designs from the original picture book by Maurice Sendak, but the series otherwise shares nothing in common with it.
92	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Four's siblings in "It's a Wonder-Four Life." Five keeps him awake by playing loudly, One accidentally destroys his hat while vacuuming, Six wrecks a project he's working on by dancing too close, and Two uses up all the hot water in the tub. [[ItsAWonderfulPlot That night, he rashly wishes he didn't have any brothers or sisters...]]
93	* InsaneTrollLogic: In "Mystery of the Missing Five", Three comes to the conclusion that the hospital is the best place to look for the disappeared Five on the basis that Four stated he wished Five wasn't born before Five's disappearance and the hospital is where babies are born.
94	* IsTheAnswerToThisQuestionYes: "The Nose Knows" has Three reply "Do crocodiles have teeth?" in response to Two asking if camouflaging his nose will really work.
95	* ItsAWonderfulPlot: Inverted in "It's A Wonder-Four Life". Four wishes he didn't have siblings, and is shown a world where he is an only child and [[ItsAllAboutMe everything is about him]] (his six siblings still exist, except the monsters are no longer related and have each gone their separate paths, in addition to all being named Four for some reason). After what should have been a perfect day for him, he winds up feeling lonely, which makes him appreciate his siblings more.
96	* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: In "You Are What You Eat" Five enters a pie-eating contest, so Four decides to help him prepare. The problem is, he decides that Five should ''only'' eat pie until the contest, while ''he'' eats all of Five's regular meals in addition to his own. This makes both of them horribly sick, and Five gets so hooked on pie that he can't stop eating it even if he wants to.
97	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: ''All'' the monsters are this to some degree, but Four is the most prominent example, being the grouchiest of monsters and yet still being shown to care about his siblings and be capable of doing the right thing.
98	* {{Kaiju}}: All 7 monsters are pretty large.
99	* KarloffKopy: Seven's voice is very similar to Creator/BorisKarloff, which is rather appropriate given that he looks somewhat like a horned version of the Frankenstein monster.
100	* LamePunReaction: One gives Seven a disapproving glare in "All's Quiet on the Monster Front" when he proves he can sing "higher" than Six by lifting his head up after screwing it off.
101	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In "April Fools," when Two and Seven are building the set for their play, Seven tells Two he will count the pieces of wood they have "for the benefit of anyone who might be watching." Within the context of the story, he means anyone watching the play they will later put on, but the audience could just as easily interpret it as anyone watching the show.
102	* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Except they're monsters instead of anthropomorphic animals.
103	* LiteralMinded: Several characters have moments of this. Two is especially prone to this- in "The Whole Tooth", he does it twice in the same scene.
104	* LongJohnShoutOut: In "Ahoy, Me Monsters", Three receives a letter instructing him to look for clues leading to a pirate treasure that is signed Long John Shorty, [[spoiler:who turns out to actually be the monsters' Mama setting up the treasure hunt to keep them entertained.]]
105	* LooseToothEpisode: "The Whole Tooth" concerns Six having a loose tooth and worrying about it falling out before her ballet recital.
106	* LosingYourHead: Seven is able to survive removing his own head.
107	* LostVoicePlot: "Gone But Not Four-Gotten" has Four lose his voice, with Six feeling responsible because she wished for her brother to be quiet before he became unable to speak. Mama later assures Six that her wishing isn't the cause of Four's predicament and that Four simply strained his vocal cords and will be okay once he's made time to recover.
108	* MagicFeather: In "The Winning Streak", Mama gives Six a ring called a Zimplooky and tells her it will help her bowl well. When Six ends up losing the ring after a couple of strikes, Mama then reveals to her that the Zimplooky is just a trinket and that it was really Six believing in herself that made her good at bowling.
109	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: The titular seven monsters themselves are brothers and sisters.
110	* MeatOVision:
111	** "Runaway Mom" has an ImagineSpot where the monsters have no food after their mother has abandoned them (due to believing that their mother being angry at them means she no longer loves them), which ends with Five looking at Four and hallucinating that his head is a roast chicken.
112	** In "You Are What You Eat", Five ends up becoming addicted to pie and eventually eats all of Mama's pies that were in the freezer. After Four breaks it to his brother that there are no more pies, Five proceeds to hallucinate Four as a pie and attempt to eat him.
113	* MerlinSickness: In "Dinner for Breakfast", the final straw that makes the monsters reconsider their wish for everything to be opposite is when they discover they are aging backwards and have become little children.
114	* MistakenForDying: Sam the turtle in "Losing Sam." He falls out the window onto the roof, but the monsters think he was sucked down the tub drain (Five was taking a bath and left the room for a moment).
115	* MockCousteau: Three's persona of the day in "My Favorite Crustacean" is Jacques Threesteau, who speaks in a French accent and tells his siblings facts about marine life.
116	* MistakenFromBehind: "The Big Store" has Six mistake two men in an alligator costume for her brother Four after seeing them from the back.
117	* MythologyGag:
118	** The show's intro includes a scene of Five drinking the sea, which he did in the original book.
119	** The theme song includes the lyric "They cause trouble, there they go", a nod to the original book's closing line "Seven monsters in a row, making trouble. There they go!"
120	* NakedNutter: The alternate version of Five in "It's a Wonder-Four Life" in the reality resulting from Four's wish of having no siblings is depicted as going naked and behaving in a feral manner due to Four not being there to help him learn how to behave properly.
121	* NonIndicativeName: Yes, there's seven of them. They ''are'' indeed monsters. Little? [[GentleGiant Obviously not]], unless "little" is intended in the sense that they are young and inexperienced.
122	* NonIronicClown: When the monsters go to the toy store in "All the Marbles", they are greeted by a friendly clown who informs them how revolving doors work.
123	* NotNowWereTooBusyCryingOverYou: In "Mystery of the Missing Five", Four gets annoyed that he's being repeatedly licked while lamenting the disappearance of his brother Five, but is elated when he sees that Five has come back and is the one licking him.
124	* NumberOfObjectsTitle: ''Seven Little Monsters''.
125	* OneDialogueTwoConversations: This exchange in "Out of Sight":
126	-->'''Six:''' ''(reading a sign)'' "Dr. See: Eye Care."
127	-->'''Three:''' Well, I care too, Six. That's very nice of you.
128	-->'''Two:''' No, Three, ''eye'' care. See? ''Eye'' care!
129	--> '''Seven:''' Oh no, Two. The doctor's name is "See", not "Three."
130	--> '''One:''' I don't care what his name is.
131	* OrganAutonomy: Two brings up in "Nightmare on Chestnut Street" that his worst nightmare has his nose missing from his face and acting as a separate entity.
132	* OurMonstersAreDifferent: They're roughly nine to ten foot monsters who look and sound full grown, but their lives are basically the same as those of normal children in a large family with most of the episodes dealing with family dynamics.
133	* ParentalAbandonment: The monsters think their mom has abandoned them in "Runaway Mom." She hasn't, of course.
134	* PlayingSick: In "The Two Who Cried Ouch", Two ends up getting sick after expressing disappointment at never being first at anything and enjoys the attention and care his siblings and mother provide him during his period of illness so much that after he recovers, he repeatedly fakes getting injured to get his way. He starts to feel bad about it when Four catches him playing fetch with Belinda after he faked a sprained ankle to get out of doing yard work and decides to fess up and apologize to his brothers and sisters after Mama tells him a story of a girl who repeatedly yelled "Sloth" when there weren't any only to be ignored when there actually were sloths. On his way, however, Two gets his nose stuck in a tree and his siblings initially refuse to help him due to thinking he's faking yet again.
135	* PowderGag: In [[Recap/SevenLittleMonstersS03E05HighNoonTheWinningStreak "High Noon"]], the monsters are measuring the flour to bake cupcakes. Two starts to sneeze but is temporarily stopped by Three putting AntiSneezeFinger on his nose. Two does a SneezeOfDoom anyway, dispersing the floor on everyone's faces.
136	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: The cartoon establishes that the seven monsters are siblings. While the original book depicted them living in the same house, it wasn't stated there that the monsters were related.
137	* RunningGag: The monsters often get stuck in doorways.
138	* SeriousBusiness: After a trip to the firehouse, Seven becomes worried that a fire could start at any minute, and doesn't appreciate his siblings making light of it. He even invokes this word for word.
139	* SmoothTalkingTalentAgent: The persona Three adopts in "Ear Spy" is that of an insincerely complementary talent agent.
140	* ShakingTheRump: Mama shakes her backside at the end of "All's Quiet on the Monster Front" when the family celebrate winning the rutabaga pudding that was first prize for the song contest Two participated in.
141	* ShoutOut:
142	** Many of the personas that Three takes on each episode, from famous characters of older media like [[Franchise/IndianaJones Indiana Jones]] and [[{{Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea}} Captain Nemo]], to real-life celebrities such as Music/LeonardBernstein, [[UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud Sigmund Freud]], [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]] and Creator/RodSerling.
143	** In "Don't Pass Go" Seven's dream sequence is very similar to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
144	-->'''Seven:''' You were there... and you... and you, and you were no help at all!
145	** In "Bang! Zoom! To the Moon!" the scene where Four tosses his blueprints into the air is very reminiscent of Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey.
146	** The monsters "Rutabaga pudding" song in "All's Quiet on the Monster Front" is set to the tune of "Swing low, sweet chariot".
147	** "Are You My Family?" has One and Six reference the famous Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ad.
148	-->'''Six:''' You got paint on my tutu!\
149	'''One:''' Well, you got tutu on my paint!
150	** "Elephant!" features a reference to a particular phrase from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' when Seven asks what kind of animals are at the zoo.
151	-->'''One:''' Lions.\
152	'''Two:''' And tigers.\
153	'''Six:''' And bears.\
154	'''Seven:''' Oh, my!
155	** Two's songs about his nose in "The Nose Knows" are both sung to the tune of Scott Joplin's The Entertainer.
156	* SickEpisode: In "Doctor, Doctor!", Two gets a cold and can't go see a new movie with his siblings, so the monsters led by Three who is a Groucho Marx/Jerry Lewis-esque doctor, try to cure him...but fail and end up getting sick themselves.
157	* SkywardScream: Five screams in despair while a view from the sky is shown when Sammy the turtle goes missing in "Losing Sam".
158	* SliceOfLife: The seven monsters spend every episode going through mundane problems and situations.
159	* SoundEffectBleep: In "The Bad Word", they tiptoe around having a character say a swear word in a children's show by censoring the bad word with various sound effects, including a steam whistle, Belinda mooing and a goose honking.
160	* SplittingPants: After becoming fat from eating Five's meals while Five focuses on eating pie in "You Are What You Eat", Four ends up splitting his pants when he bends over to kiss Mama.
161	* SuperStrength: All of the monsters possess considerable strength due to their size.
162	* SuperheroEpisode: A game of make-believe revolving around superheroes is the focus of the plot in "The Adventures of Super Three", with Three as the titular superhero, One as his partner One Girl, Two as a news reporter, Four as a MadScientist supervillain, Five as Four's assistant [[TheIgor Figor]] and Six and Seven being victims of Four's experiments.
163	* SwearWordPlot: "The Bad Word" is about Two learning a curse word and Mama having to teach him that he shouldn't say it.
164	* TemptingFate: In the first episode, Seven accidentally swaps his head with a watermelon. Once he gets it back he declares, "That will never happen again." Spoiler alert: It does.
165	* ThisIsMySide: When Four and Five have a falling out in "These Are Our Lives", Four makes the decision to use tape to divide their bunk beds, then tells Five that he can't touch the floor because it's on his side.
166	* TiedTogetherShoelaceTrip: "My Fair One" has a gopher make Two and Seven fall down by tying their shoelaces together.
167	* TitleThemeTune: Performed by Music/BarenakedLadies at that! The only other words in the song besides the title are "They cause trouble, there they go!" and counting to seven.
168	* ToiletHumour:
169	** When the monsters try to get the hospital receptionist to understand that they want to know where to find the babies in "Mystery of the Missing Five" by acting like babies, Six pretends to be a baby who wet her diaper.
170	** "A Monster's Best Friend" has a recurring gag of the seven monsters being annoyed by their new puppy Freddy leaving messes on the floor, with Three frequently being forced to clean up after Freddy and their efforts to paper-train Freddy per their neighbor Mary's advice going awry when Freddy chooses to relieve himself on an area of the floor that ''isn't'' covered up by newspaper.
171	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: One and Six respectively.
172	* ToothFairy: "The Whole Tooth" has Mama try to make Six feel better about her loose tooth by telling her a tale of tooth dwarfs who visit children to take their baby teeth and are represented by Six's siblings.
173	* TraumaCongaLine: Four goes through one in "It's a Wonder-Four Life" (his hat gets destroyed, Six ruins his popsicle stick sculpture of a turkey, etc.), leading him to wish he was an only child.
174	* TwoGirlsToATeam: One and Six are the only two females among the seven monsters.
175	* TwoShorts: The first two seasons had one half-hour story per episode, while the third season used two 11-minute stories.
176	* TuxedoAndMartini: "The Big Store" and "No Place Like Home" have Three pretend to be a secret agent named Double O Three, wearing a suit and speaking with a Sean Connery impression.
177	* UnexplainedAccent: Their mother is a FunnyForeigner, but the monsters speak clear English... Well, except [[TheUnintelligible Five]].
178	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Nobody bats an eyelid at a bunch of gigantic monsters running around. Even very young children show absolutely no fear at the sight of the seven monsters. Heck, whenever Seven's detached head finds itself in different places, even complete strangers take the circumstances in stride.
179	* VagueAge: The monsters' ages are difficult to determine. They're giants who look and sound like adults, but are frequently shown to lack basic knowledge that an adult is unlikely to be ignorant of prior to their mother or another person informing them about the relevant subject, plus "The Whole Tooth" centers around Six losing a baby tooth when it is impossible for adults to have any baby teeth left. On the other hand, Three's personas tend to have him demonstrate knowledge and skills appropriate to his character that he'd realistically obtain through years of higher education, while the alternate timeline of the monsters not being related in "It's a Wonder-Four Life" shows the timeline's counterparts of One, Two, Three, Six and Seven to be working jobs that they'd only be eligible for hiring if they at least graduated high school (such as Six's counterpart being a dance instructor). Further complicating matters is that they are shown to have been significantly smaller as young children and Mama states in "Seven Monsters and a Baby" that she hasn't had much time to rest in 40 years, but doesn't state where in this time frame her children were born, if they're even her biological children in the first place.
180	* VengefulVendingMachine: Four tries his hardest to get a sheriff's badge from a prize machine in "Good Morning", only for it to keep giving him princess rings.
181	* VerySpecialEpisode: "Losing Sam" discusses how we have to accept the inevitable deaths of those we love, whether they're pets or people. In this case, Five's pet turtle Sam wasn't even in danger of dying (unless he fell off the roof), the monsters just thought he was.
182	* VillainSong: "How Fabulous it is to Be a Four" in "It's a Wonder-Four Life." Loose definition of "villain" here, but it's still a song about how he wishes his siblings didn't exist.
183	* AWeightyAesop: The importance of eating healthy and not overeating serves as the moral in "You Are What You Eat." Five gets very sick from eating nothing but pie, while Four suffers ill effects from overeating when he opts to eat Five's meals.
184	* WhatsAHenway: "The Whole Tooth" has the classic joke quoted verbatim.
185	-->'''Four:''' What's a henway?\
186	'''Three:''' About six pounds.\
187	'''Four:''' Sorry I asked.
188	* WhereNoParodyHasGoneBefore: "Doctor, Doctor" features the seven monsters imagining that they're in a pastiche of ''Series/{{Star Trek\|TheOriginalSeries}}'', with One playing the part of Captain James T. Kirk in addition to Three and Four respectively channeling Dr. Leonard "Bones" [=McCoy=] and Montgomery "Scotty" Scott.
189	* WingedHumanoid: One is a humanoid monster with feathered wings.
190	* WhosOnFirst: Because their names are numbers, this happens rather frequently. For instance, the first episode has Two respond to Six exclaiming "Me, too" by correcting her that ''he'' is Two.
191	* WordSchmord: "All the Marbles" has Mama remark "Commercial, schmercial" in response to Seven being enthralled by the commercial for Monster Marbles.
192	* WorldOfChaos: In "Dinner for Breakfast", the monsters aren't happy about having to go to bed instead of staying up late and wish upon the Plooky that everything was the opposite of how it's supposed to be. This leads to the monsters finding themselves in a world where night is day, dinner is eaten at breakfasttime and vice versa, fish fly in the sky and various other weird things happen. The monsters are eventually driven to wish things back to normal when [[MerlinSickness they start aging backwards]].
193	* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Subverted. They all have yellow eyes but none of them are particularly sneaky.
194	* YouAreNumberSix: The monsters are named from One to Seven.

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