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10	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spliced_cast_pic.jpg]]
11	[[caption-width-right:350:Half-baked and diced and regurgitated.[[note]]From T to B: [[AllGirlsLikePonies Princess Pony Apehands]], [[InsufferableGenius Mister Smarty Smarts]], [[TheQuietOne Lord Wingus Eternum]] & [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking Two Legs Joe]], [[OnlySaneMan Patricia]], [[AllLovingHero Peri]] and [[FatBastard Entree]].(Not pictured: [[TheChewToy Fuzzy Snuggums]], [[HypercompetentSidekick Octocat]], [[TheSmartGuy Compuhorse]], and [[KillerRabbit the Wunny Sharbit]])[[/note]]]]
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13	->''"On a tiny little island in the ocean called Pacific\
14	There's a mixed up group of creatures who are really quite horrific\
15	Stitched together with whatever [[PrecisionFStrike crap]] was found or could be grabbed\
16	Reinvented in the bowels of a lab"''
17	-->-- The first lines of the show's ExpositoryThemeTune
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19	Once upon a time, there lived a MadScientist who spent his weary days on a secluded tropical island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. To occupy his time, he created mutants, MixAndMatchCritters, and other biological abominations that stood against all notions of sanity and common sense. But it was only a matter of time until the judicial system caught whiff of the whole situation and arrested him for his crimes against nature and "good taste". With their master forever gone from their lives, the genetic hybrids and oddities he made, with only limited knowledge of the outside world and its customs, are left to form a society of their own. Of course, HilarityEnsues.
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21	''Spliced'' is a crazy Canadian animated television series from Creator/{{Nelvana}} that was created by cartoon writers Simon Racioppa and Richard Elliott (who had previously also developed ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}'' for television). Inspired by Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'' and the {{Zany Cartoon}}s of decades past, the series is headed by two best friends, [[WideEyedIdealist the naïve optimist Peri]] (a failed experiment of The Doctor with [[CartoonCreature a genetic makeup unknown even to himself]]) and [[{{Jerkass}} the self-centered gourmand Entree]] (a walking amalgamation of cow, pig, chicken, and shrimp made to be [[LetsMeetTheMeat the perfect food animal]]). While [[TheDitz neither of the two are especially bright]] (Entree moreso than Peri), they do find plenty of shared misadventures around the setting of [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Keepaway Island]] lead to all manner of insane occurrences and wacky mishaps.
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23	As every bit as bizarre as the things that happen around Keepaway Island however is Peri and Entree's ensemble of co-stars. Thse include: Two-Legs Joe, the ill-tempered front half of a rhinoceros who acts as [[UltimateAuthorityMayor "mayor" for the mutants]]; Patricia, a platypus who also happens to be [[OnlySaneWoman the most normal creature]] on the island; Mister Smarty Smarts, a chimpanzee-dolphin and [[EvilGenius self-declared brainiac with dreams of island domination]] (usually accompanied by his henchmutant [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Octocat]]); Fuzzy Snuggums, a {{Ridiculously Cute\|Critter}} [[CartoonCreature whatsit]] whose love of exploring is only matched by his terrible luck, and Princess Pony Apehands, a [[GonkyFemme hulking brute]] with the body and strength of King Kong and the head and mindset of ''My Little Pony''. Oh, and there's also a super-genius computer-horse who moves and talks like Stephan Hawking, a literal KillerRabbit with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily that sometimes tries to eat the other characters, swineapples, whale-squirrels, an active volcano, and plenty of leftover bits of killer tech from the Doctor's lab, among other strangeness. One thing's for certain though. With a cast of creatures as deranged as the scientist who created them living on island that can be called anything except ordinary, you can only imagine how madcap things can get.
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25	The series saw broad international distribution throughout 2009, running on Creator/{{Qubo}} in the United States, Creator/DisneyXD in Latin America and Spain, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in Scandinavia, Creator/{{ABC3}} in Australia, and Creator/{{Nicktoons}} in the British Isles, among other places. In fact, the show would not arrive in its native Canada until April 2010, where it aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}}. However, it was canceled after a single season of 26 episodes, despite getting some very good ratings in its home country. Nonetheless, the show is fondly remembered by a decent number of people, even if it remains one of Nelvana's more obscure creations.
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27	[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas And no]], this is not an AnimatedAdaptation of the sci-fi horror film ''Film/{{Splice}}'', even if they do both feature genetically-engineered hybrid freaks of nature.
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29	Compare to Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles'', another short-lived animated series about MixAndMatchCritters.
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31	!!''Spliced'' provides examples of:
32	* ADayInTheLimelight: The show is primarily about Peri and Entree, but many episodes feature the supporting cast in starring roles. These are typically labelled as "A ____ Cartoon".
33	** Princess Pony Apehands is actually the first character to receive them, these being "No Play for Princess" and "Fairly Odd Princesses". She quickly fell OutOfFocus afterwards however.
34	** Mister Smarty Smarts gets "Outsmartered" and "Come to the Dork Side". Additionally, two episodes labelled as "A Mister Smarty Smarts Cartoon" actually focus primarily on his henchmutant Octocat, these being "Octocataclysm" and "Of Masters and Minions".
35	** Two-Legs Joe is the star in "Two-Arms Joe", "Stompabout", "There Will Be Stomp", and "Same Difference" (although he shares the last one with Smarty Smarts). Additionally, "One-Joe Wingus", while labelled as "A Two-Legs Joe Cartoon", is focused on Lord Wingus Eternum, the bird on his rump.
36	** Patricia is the main character of "Honorary Freak", "Marzipan Meadows and the Kingdom of Adventure", and "Living Hellp".
37	** Fuzzy Snuggums has "Fuzzy's Great Journey" and "Sgt. Snuggums"
38	** Additionally, there are episodes that use the "A Peri & Entree Cartoon" label all regular episodes use, but are actually primarily focused on more minor secondary characters. The first is "Cube Whacked", which is focused on Compuhorse, and the second is "My Fair Sharkbunny", which puts the Wunny Sharbit in the spotlight (even giving it the ability to speak just for the episode, thanks to a TranslatorCollar).
39	* AWizardDidIt: Most, if not all, the weirdness in the show is presented as being the result of one of the Doctor's experiments.
40	* AdvertisedExtra: Princess Pony Apehands is presented as a major character with the rest of the main cast but after getting some early spotlight episodes, she was mostly relegated to non-speaking cameos.
41	* AllJustADream: The episode ''Mo' Mayo Mo' Problems'', which then turned into a DreamWithinADream.
42	* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: Parodied with the "Knowing is Growing" shorts, which deals with incredibly common problems and misconceptions, such as samurai pet care, time travel, and even snorting antelopes up your nose. We all know you've done the last one sometime in your life.
43	* AngerIsHealthyAesop: In the episode "Stompabout", Two-Legs Joe loses his temper over Peri and Entrée accidentally causing a whirrel to destroy half the town and ends up wrecking the other half chasing the duo, with Joe resigning as mayor and leaving when Patricia and the townsfolk call him out on it. While in his self-imposed exile, Lord Wingus Eternum discusses with Joe that the latter has had anger management issues since he was a kid, that a mayor does not need a temper to do his job evidenced by Peri and Entrée voluntarily cleaning up without Joe being around to yell at them to do so, and that there would be potentially disastrous consequences if Joe chooses to either just stay angry all the time or never get angry again (Joe becomes a tyrant with giant robot legs and sinks the island in the former situation and everyone is enslaved by Fuzzy Snuggums in the latter, despite Wingus admitting to having made both of them up and [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Joe getting sidetracked by how cool his future self's robot legs were]]). In the end, Joe comes to the conclusion that he should keep his anger in moderation instead of going to one extreme or the other, demonstrated when he lets himself get angry just enough to be able to chase the destructive whirrel pack out of town that were [[TooDumbToLive later summoned by Peri and Entrée out of the idea that more of them would help fix everything that was destroyed by the first one]].
44	--> '''Patricia:''' (''after Joe chases the whirrels out'') That was amazing! but how'd you learn to control your temper like that?\
45	'''Joe:''' Let's just say a little bird told me.\
46	(''Peri, Entrée, and Patricia laugh despite not understanding what Joe means'')\
47	'''Joe:''' At least he tried to. But he was wrong, and I had to figure it out for myself. [[BrickJoke But I really wish I had those robot legs!]]\
48	'''Peri:''' (''confused'') Robot legs??
49	* AnimalGenderBender: Entree. He is a male yet has a pair of udders. He also lays eggs and has a rooster comb, which confounds the issue further.
50	* ArtShift
51	** A very discreet example. Any episodes that gives Lord Wingus Eternum a speaking role give him a more detailed look (i.e: more frayed hair, longer beak, and eyes in a half-lidded expression). The source picture for this page shows how Wingus looks when he's silent/just there. [[http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l400/dany098/LordWingusEternus.jpg And when he speaks...]]
52	** The animation briefly switches over to stop-motion in the beginning of "Poosh and the Quest for the Blargy Parble".
53	* AssShove: Fuzzy accidentally crawls up Entree's ass in "Brothers in Farms".
54	* BelligerentSexualTension: Mister Smarty Smarts and Octocat's relationship, which is thoroughly shown in the episodes "Octocataclysm", and "Of Masters and Minions".
55	* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Yeti show up to wreak havoc on the island whenever it gets cold enough to snow. They're apparently aliens as their second appearance shows them leaving in an iceberg spaceship.
56	* BlackComedyCannibalism: In "Promises, Promises", Entrée tries to eat one of Patricia's swineapple pies, but Patricia tries to keep it away from him. Entrée gets around this by eating Patricia along with the pie.
57	* BodyHorror: Often, but having your spine sucked viciously from your body by a baby robot comes to mind as a particularly nasty one. The show, [[DerangedAnimation being what it is]], has these kinds of things PlayedForLaughs.
58	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs
59	-->'''Joe''': Do I smell monkey on fire?
60	-->'''Patricia''': No, smells more like charred dolphin.
61	-->(Smarty-Smarts jumps in wearing lava pants)
62	-->'''Patricia''': What do you know? We were both right.
63	* BreakingTheFourthWall
64	** Peri in "Bowled Over": "But when I realized I was narrating, I knew it was time to take a break." He even tries to speak to Entree in his InnerMonologue before correcting himself.
65	** Several of the IdiosyncraticWipes address the audience, often commenting on the absurdity of a situation.
66	* BrickJoke
67	** In "Gordon", Entree replaces a car's engine with the brain of one of Smarty Smarts' robots, and then puts a sandwich in place of the brain. The episode then ends with a trailer for a horror movie about "The Robot with a Sandwich for a Brain!". Later in "Honorary Freak", Entree steals Smarty Smarts' brain scanning machine and replaces it with a sandwich, prompting Smarty Smarts to ask "Again? Who keeps doing that?"
68	** The boxers Peri and Entree stole from the Doctor's lab in "Stomach On Strike". Entree told Peri the boxers didn't fit him, and was interrupted before he could tell him the whereabouts of it. About a minute later, when Entree's stomach climbs out of his body, it barfs out the muffins Entree was trying to digest, and a pair of boxers.
69	* BrownNote: Lord Wingus Eternum is more of a [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith Name You Are Comfortable With]], as his real name would "[[NameThatUnfoldsLikeLotusBlossom begin with a dawn, end with the moon, and ravage your mind like a nightmare]]".
70	* BuffySpeak: "Look, a thingy thing thing!"
71	* BunnyEarsPicturePrank: The opening sequence has a FreezeFrameBonus of the Doctor who created the mutants smiling and wearing a lei as he does the "bunny ears" gesture on Entree.
72	* CalculatorSpelling: In the short "The Adventures of Compuhorse and Calcupony", Calcupony is only able to speak in words that the numbers on calculators make upside down.
73	--> '''Calcupony:''' HELLO!\
74	'''Calcupony:''' IGLOO!\
75	'''Calcupony:''' GOGGLES!
76	* CallingYourAttacks
77	** Two-legs Joe. THUNDER STOMP! TELEPORT STOMP!! QUANTUM STOMP!!! REGURGA-STOMP!!!! The IdiosyncraticWipes even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] how absurd these could get.
78	** Smarty-Smarts when he had his Mechanical Stomping Legs. "RAINBOW FISHY STOMP!!!"
79	* {{Calvinball}}: Peri and Entree often play a game called "Bucket-Stick-Fruit Ball". While it does seem to have coherent rules and structure, the little we see of it shows them to be incredibly absurd and preposterous.
80	* TheCanKickedHim: In "Pink", a mole-ster pretending to be Entree's conscience (ItMakesSenseInContext) hits Entree over the head with a toilet hard enough to shatter the toilet.
81	* CatchPhrase:
82	** Fuzzy often says "Huzzah!" and "Expedition note!" when something happens to him.
83	** Joe frequently exclaims of "Horns above!" or "Sweet mercy!", usually in response to one of Peri and Entree's antics.
84	* CityOnTheWater: It's shown that the entire island is completely artificial. The volcano has a finite supply of lava and the whole thing can be driven around the oceans with great speed.
85	* CompanyCrossReferences:
86	** In "Same Difference", one clip in Smarty-Smarts and Joe's montage shows the both of them watching ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}'', which was created by the same people, and by extension the same company (Creator/{{Nelvana}}, in this case).
87	** In "Come to the Dork Side", Peri and Entree watch another Nelvana cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/DiGataDefenders'', on Mister Smarty Smarts' movie theater screen at the end of the episode.
88	* CompressedVice:
89	** Subverted with Peri's bowling skills. They form the plot of the first episode, then are never mentioned again. Then, they finally come back at the ''very end'' of the ''very last episode'', where Peri tries to get the mythical Blargy Parble from a robot, but loses in direct combat, but the robot, due to its robotic pride, challenges Peri to a bowling game, which Peri wins, thus allowing him to get the Blargy Parble.
90	** Played straight in a number of episodes that give Entree some flaw that's never mentioned before or after. Lampshaded in "Juice":
91	-->'''Entree''': But then I won't be popular! And that's all I've ever wanted, since yesterday!
92	* ContinuityNod / CallBack: Despite NegativeContinuity being in full effect (especially when the episode ends with the island being destroyed), some things remain the same for one episode to another. For example, Entree's udder teats still have the same names from episode to episode (although which one is which may vary).
93	* ConvectionSchmonvection
94	** The episode "Livin' La Vida Lava". The entire town ends up using lava as if it were a public utility.
95	** And in "Bowled Over", Peri pulls a bowling ball out of the top of a volcano.
96	* CoveredInKisses: Two-legs Joe, thanks to Entree's heart in "Stomach on Strike".
97	* CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen:
98	** PlayedForLaughs in the episode "Bowled Over". Peri makes a sandwich, which then randomly grows insect-like legs and wings and begins attacking people. Later, he attempts to fix Patricia's car, but he ends up giving it sentience instead.
99	** In the episode "Living Hellp", Entree attempts to microwave a microwave, which results in the microwave coming to life and attacking him.
100	* CrossReferencedTitles: The episodes "Yetis Don't Care About Nothin'" and "Clones Don't Care 'Bout Nothin' Either".
101	* CrypticBackgroundReference: The Blargy Parble, which we never get to see.
102	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Entree and Peri. The former can fly, teleport, mind-control people, and [[Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} summon sea creatures to do his bidding.]] The latter can shapeshift, detach his limbs, and turn people into his slaves with butterfly wings.
103	* DemotedToExtra: Princess Pony Ape Hands had two episodes of her own early in the show but after that, she was lucky if she got to speak.
104	* DerangedAnimation: If a lot of what has been written on this page hasn't tipped you off already, this show is ''insane''.
105	* DidYouDie: A variation is used in the episode ''One Joe Wingus'':
106	--> '''Wingus''': I was offered a choice. Remove you [Two Legs Joe], or be banished.
107	--> '''Entree''': So what'cha do? Did you pull'em off?
108	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the episode "Pink", Peri wakes up one day and finds out that he has turned the color pink (instead of his usual orange), and Entree does not want to be his friend anymore because of this. The metaphor is heightened by the fact that Entree thinks that being around Peri will turn him pink, and indeed has a nightmare in which this happens.
109	-->'''Entree:''' Hey Peri? [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster Have you tried being Orange again?]]
110	* {{Egopolis}}: The town on the island has this for the Doctor to an extent. In the hybrids' culture, the Doctor has been demoted to 'the Simon in Simon Says' in his absence.
111	* EpicFail: Peri tries to paint Two-Legs' house and it catches on fire.
112	* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: {{Parodied}} and combined with CargoShip in "Helen", where Patricia admires the title [[spoiler: pancake, and eats "her"]].
113	* EyeScream
114	** In both of the first two episodes, Entree gets a foreign object in the eye: a wrench in "Bowled Over" and a book in "Stuck Together".
115	** Also the chair that [[Film/AClockworkOrange holds their eyes open]]. Interestingly though, while meant to be a torture device, Peri applies the holders to ''himself'', thinking they're for convenience.
116	---> '''Peri''': "This is great! I hate it when I blink during movies."
117	* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Joe claims Lord Wingus is just the bird that hangs out on his butt in ''Stompabout'', Lord Wingus replies that maybe Joe is the one hanging out on Wingus's feet. [[spoiler: The episode ''One Joe Wingus'' reveals that this is exactly the case.]]
118	* FreakyFridayFlip: Occurs between Entree and a whirrel he named Ed in the episode "Whirrel Call", thanks to their brains getting knocked into each other's skulls in an accident. Entree even lampshades the usual conventions of these kinds of plots, although contrary to what he believes will happen, he and the whirrel greatly enjoy being in each other's bodies and have no interest in switching back [[spoiler:at least until the whirrel elders order "Ed" to kill "Entree" for abusing them. Ultimately, Entree and Ed have their brains knocked out of their skulls again... but their bodies are destroyed before they can be put back, leaving them as talking brains.]] Interestingly, while Entree hears himself speaking in his own voice in Ed's body, everyone else just hears whirrel noises, whereas Ed speaks in a very different voice from that of Entree while in his body.
119	* FurIsClothing: In "Bowled Over", Peri pulls back his fur to reveal a tattoo.
120	* GeneticAbomination: The whole cast is made up of these, being MixAndMatchCritters like the ultimate food animal, the front half of a rhinoceros, a dolphin-chaimpanzee, etc.
121	* GeniusSerum: In "Outsmartered", Smarty Smarts builds a machine to turn everyone on Keep Away Island as smart as he is, only [[GoneHorriblyRight for it to work]] ''[[GoneHorriblyRight too]]'' [[GoneHorriblyRight well]] and make him seem dumber by comparison. After a failed attempt to reverse the process, Smarty Smarts goes back in time to stop himself from building the machine in the first place.
122	* GoneHorriblyRight: In "Outsmartered", as mentioned above, Smarty Smarts is fed up with the other mutants' stupidity, and builds a machine to increase everybody else's intelligence. Now everybody is ''smarter'' than him, and his ego cannot take it.
123	* GonkyFemme: Princess Pony Apehands is indeed, a [[AllGirlsLikePonies pony]] crossed with a gorilla, and while she acts like a young girl most of the time, can become very aggressive when annoyed.
124	* GrossoutShow: While the show does not venture into grossout territory super frequently, but it can get pretty nasty when it does, with stuff like miles of snot, exposed brains, the sounds of stretched limbs slowly tearing apart, and the occasional inside-out bodies.
125	* TheHatMakesTheMan: In "Follow Your Dreamworms", Entree snatches Joe's top hat and replaces it with a flowery sunhat. Joe's normally angry voice immediately becomes much more girly and singsong.
126	* IdiosyncraticWipes: The show's main [[RunningGag running gag]], which is often accompanied with random sound effects for laughs. Some of them can be kinda snarky or outright fourth-wall-breaking.
127	* ImpactSilhouette: Several times. How Joe found out who stole his pretzel-maker. [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] when the hole Entree cuts open with a laser sword is shaped just like himself.
128	* InMediasRes: "Octocataclysm." Lampshaded when Peri tries to explain the concept to Entree.
129	* InstantExpert: Peri and Entree find a learning helmet that lets them instantly [[PowersAsPrograms download]] and master a large number of skills, with a [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity recurring side effect]].
130	* IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery: In "Stuck Together", Peri thinks his purpose is to be best friends with Entree. This works out decently for the two at first, but eventually Peri takes a turn for the creepy and starts following Entree wherever he goes, frustrating him to the point that he uses one of the doctor's inventions to merge them together and teach him a lesson about not stalking him.
131	* ItTastesLikeFeet: Entree says this after attempting to eat Two-legs Joe.
132	* KarmicButtMonkey: Entrée is often an idiotic FatBastard to everyone around him, to the point where even his best friend Peri barely tolerates him. A lot of his stunts and schemes end in severe humiliation and slapstick.
133	* KillSat: Octocat controls one in "Of Masters and Minions", which she uses on Entree ''twice''.
134	* LampshadeHanging: In one episode, when Peri and Entree are trapped between the volcano and the MonsterOfTheWeek, we get:
135	-->'''Peri:''' This happens to us a lot.
136	* LazyBum:
137	** Entree. Highlighted in "Roots" where he becomes so lazy that he starts to turn into a tree.
138	** Deconstructed with the Slouch Potato (part potato, part sloth, all lazy), who's even lazier than Entree could ever hope to be. He ends up getting [[KilledOffscreen eaten by the Wunny Sharbit offscreen]] because he was waiting for someone else to run away for him.
139	* LostLoveMontage: Mr. Smarty-Smart's experiences one after Octo-Cat leaves him "Of Masters and Minions". Of course, all of the scenes involve him and Octo-Cat attempting to conquer Keepaway Island.
140	* MakeoverMontage: Wunny Sharbit gets one in "My Fair Sharkbunny".
141	--> '''Wunny''': "Oh dude...please no."
142	* MediumBlending: Happens in several episodes, including "Pork Chop", "Bowled Over", "No Play for Princess", "Two Arms Joe", and "Poosh and the Quest for the Blargy Parble".
143	* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: Entree performs one while stealing Joe's hat in the episode "Follow Your Dreamworms".
144	* MixAndMatchCritters: Pretty much all of the main cast. Entree is part cow, part pig, part chicken, and part shrimpy; Two-Legs Joe is the front half of a rhinoceros with a bird on his rump, Mr. Smarty Smarts is a dolphin-chimpanzee mix, Patricia is a platypus, and Peri is... well, not even he knows for sure.
145	* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The Wunny Sharbit. It is part shark and part chainsaw, after all.
146	* NegativeContinuity: The show features many drastic predicaments impossible to get out of, but all will go back to normal by the next episode.
147	* NoodleIncident: In "No Play for Princess", Joe reminds Peri and Entree about what happened the last time they played Bucket Stick Fruitball. We don't get the specifics, but it apparently involved a flight of planes crashing into a bridge, a car going off a ledge, a giant lizard, and [[{{ArsonMurderAndJaywalking}} dancing.]]
148	* OddFriendship: In the episode "Same Difference", Two Legs Joe and Mister Smarty Smarts develop a friendship over their mutual dislike of Peri and Entree (though Mister Smarty Smarts downright despises them, while Joe just finds them annoying).
149	* OrganAutonomy: Entree once made a bet with his brain, heart and stomach that he could survive a week without them. They went off and had adventures of their own for the week.
150	* OutOfCharacterMoment: Peri is usually shown as an extremely kind person who only causes destruction because he's dumb and easily manipulated. However, in "Sgt. Snuggums" he's shown taking sadistic pleasure in Fuzzy getting seriously injured.
151	* OverlyLongTongue
152	** "Stuck Together" shows Peri to have one so long that he can use it to walk on.
153	** Entree has a very long tongue in "Yetis Don't Care About Nothin".
154	* PetTheDog: More like pet the Octocat for Mister Smarty Smarts.
155	* {{Planimal}}: The Swineapple. It's part pig, part pineapple.
156	* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "My name is Peri and I! AM! A BOWLER!"
157	* RecycledInSpace: It's kinda like ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' or ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' (the creators admitted to being heavily inspired by the latter) but set on an island full of MixAndMatchCritters.
158	* RelaxOVision: Used in the episode "Pork Chop", where Entree goes crazy on everybody after obtaining Kung-Fu powers.
159	-->'''Narrator:''' To avoid damage to young minds, we've been ordered to replace this fight scene with happy puppies!
160	* RuleOfFunny: The show operates almost entirely on this.
161	* SanityBall: Passed between Peri and Patricia, mainly, though almost everyone except [[TheDitz Entree]] gets a turn with it.
162	* ShoutOut: The general concept of the series is meant to be one to ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'', but the show also has plenty of more specific examples.
163	** Entree sees the Wunny Sharbit in the episode "Cleaning Up" as wearing a [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Goaltender mask.]] Interestingly, that depiction of Wunny is in the theme song, despite it not actually existing.
164	** In the episode "Nightmare On Condemned Street", Entree says [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 "I have the power!"]] Peri says the same line in "Bowled Over".
165	** In "Nightmare On Condemned Street", Entree says "[[Franchise/StarWars Do or do not.]]"
166	** In "Come to the Dork Side", Mr. Smarty Smarts tries to get Peri to join his cause, by [[Film/AClockworkOrange strapping him to an electrical chair, forcing him to watch violent scenes, preventing him from blinking]], and washing his brain with shampoo. It doesn't work.
167	** One of Entree's udders is the cane wielding [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry Cranky.]]
168	** The original VideoGame/DonkeyKong games in "Octocataclysm".
169	** VideoGame/PacMan in "Honorary Freak".
170	** The entire plot of ''Cube Whacked'' involves a video game similar to ''Breakout''.
171	** In "Pork Chop", Entree says [[AWinnerIsYou "A winner is me"]] from the NES game ''VideoGame/ProWrestling''.
172	** ''Peri's Rainbow'' is to ''The Red Balloon''.
173	** Kilroy, the famous graffiti man, appears in ''Follow your Dreamworms''.
174	** Mr. Smarty does the [[Series/TheKidsInTheHall head crushing thing]] in two episodes.
175	** Compu-Peri's outfit was very reminiscent of ''Film/{{Tron}}''.
176	** There's a [[Film/JamesBond Bond-esque]] laser scene in ''Of Masters and Minions''...only it works.
177	** Same episode, Mr. Smarty holds a radio over his head like in ''Film/SayAnything''.
178	** In ''Nightmare on Condemned Street'', Mr. Smarty can be seen wearing a [[Film/TheFabulousBakerBoys Suzie Diamond]] style dress and slinking seductively towards Peri, Entree and Fuzzy in one of the dream visitations. The ensuing flee was quite understandable ([[spoiler: Suzie Diamond is a porn star]]).
179	** The "Knowing is Growing" segments are rather like those "The More You Know" ones.
180	** Patricia's mother computer acts an awful lot like [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL]] and/or [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]].
181	** ''The Count of Pinchy Crabbo'' is a whole plot reference to ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''.
182	** The board game ''Clue'' appears in a whirrel's intestines as a clue to the Blargy Parble.
183	** The title card to the episode ''One Joe Wingus'' is a clear shout out to the [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Pixar short]] ''For the Birds''.
184	** Calcu-Pony makes fun of the ridiculously stupid early generations of ''Franchise/MyLittlePony''.
185	** "You got computer in my horse! You got horse in my computer!" from "Two Arms Joe" is a reference to 70's Reese's commercials.
186	* SlowMotionDrop: Entree does this with a mayonnaise jar in "Stuck Together".
187	* SlowNo: Two-Legs Joe does one when Peri uses his bowling ball to fix his house.
188	* SluggishSloths: The episode "Roots" has the Slouch Potato, a mutant who is "part potato, part sloth, all lazy", even lazier than Entrée could ever hope to be. However, he ends up [[KilledOffscreen getting eaten by the Wunny Sharbit offscreen]] because he was so lazy he was waiting for someone else to run away for him.
189	* SnapBack: Several episodes end in manners that inevitably result in one.
190	** In "Walkie-Talkie Spinie-Suckie", basically everyone except Peri, Entree, and Octocat permanently lose their spines in a volcano.
191	** "Clones Don't Care 'Bout Nothin' Either" had the entire island engulfed with deformed clones of Peri and Entree.
192	** "Sgt. Snuggums" had a overpowered and deranged Octocat bombing the island with Fuzzy's rocket.
193	** "Bite, Shuffle, and Moan" had everyone except Peri being infected by zombies.
194	** "Two-Arms Joe" had Peri losing his arm and Joe giving him a giant robotic one.
195	** "Pork Chop" had Entree getting the ability to walk removed from his brain.
196	** "Whirrel Call" had Entree falling to his death and then having his brain fly out of his head and getting crushed by a boulder.
197	** "Mole-sters In the Mist" had the entire shrunken town being enslaved by overgrown mole-sters.
198	* SpaceWhaleAesop: The show seems to ''love'' this trope.
199	** {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in "Roots": "I promise I'll never be lazy enough to turn into a tree again!"
200	** "Cleaning Up": "Have good hygiene or your dirt will take on a life of its own and try to replace you"
201	** "Stompabout" has two in-universe examples from Wingus about getting angry. First, that if Joe doesn't learn to control his anger, he'll become a cyborg and sink the island with his robot legs. Second, that if he is ''too'' determined not to get angry, Fuzzy will become a SuperSoldier and take over the island (the latter became a ChekhovsGun in "Sgt. Snuggums", which itself was an example: "Don't play pranks on your friends or they'll turn into insane {{Super Soldier}}s who see everyone as evil robots that need to be destroyed")
202	** "Amazon": "Take proper care of your pets or they'll form their own civilization where you're a wanted criminal"
203	** "Juice": "Don't be too determined to be popular or all your friends will turn into juice-obsessed zombies"
204	** "Promises, Promises": "Fulfill your promises or your best friend will have his brain stolen by a MadScientist in order to power a toaster"
205	** "Taste of Friendship": "Don't be jealous of your friends or your mind will be taken over by an evil squid"
206	** "Sugar Low": "Don't eat too much sugar or time will stop"
207	** "The Mutants Who Cried Monster": "Admit to your mistakes or a giant robot will destroy your hometown"
208	** "Livin' La Vida Lava": "Don't use too much power or you'll trigger an ice age in which yetis become the dominant species"
209	** "Mo' Mayo, Mo' Problems": "Don't eat too much junk food or the junk food will eat ''you''"
210	** "Walkie-Talkie-Spinesuckie": "Think for yourself or a mad scientist will make you suck out all your friends' spines to feed a baby robot and then throw them in the volcano"
211	** "Whirrel Call": "Don't be cruel to animals or you'll swap brains with them"
212	** "Stomach on Strike": "Live a healthy lifestyle or your organs will become sentient and jump out of your body"
213	** "Bite, Shuffle and Moan": "Stay in bed when you're sick or you'll cause a ZombieApocalypse"
214	* SpoofAesop: The "Knowing is Growing" shorts, which have included aesops like 'don't put antelopes up your nose', 'gravy isn't a vegetable; it's a fruit', and 'don't adopt samurai as pets'.
215	* SpoonBending: Inverted when Entree attempts to twist a utensil, but ends up twisting everything around but it. Peri counts the test as a fail.
216	* StockFootage: Black-and-white, public domain movie footage occasionally makes appearances, often in the form of something the characters watch on a TV screen.
217	* StraightMan: Patricia usually acts like this for Peri, Entree, and Joe, but Peri fills in whenever she's not around. Also, Octocat acts like this for Smarty-Smarts.
218	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: In one episode, when Peri and Entree are about to fall, Peri reminds Entree he has chicken wings, but Entree objects because chickens live underwater. Then, at the end of the episode:
219	--> '''Peri''': He'll be fine. He has chicken wings.\
220	'''Mr. Smarty Smarts''': But don't chickens live underwater?
221	* TemporalDuplication: Mr. Smarty Smarts uses a time machine to go back and prevent his past self [[ItMakesSenseInContext from creating an intelligence enhancing machine to make all mutants as smart as him]]. The two eventually play chess against each other only for one to get upset at the results. Cue another Smarty Smarts coming in to prevent a chess move followed by more and more.
222	* TimeFreezeTrollingSpree: Inverted and PlayedForLaughs. When Peri gets a sugar rush he starts moving at SuperSpeed so to him it look like everyone is frozen in time. He then spends his time doing good deeds to everyone, thinking they'll be appreciative and throw him a parade, except when he returns to normal time, nobody believes he was the one who did everything.
223	* TitleDrop: In "Stuck Together", Entree [[spoiler:fuses Peri to his body and says, "Oh, you know, I just spliced us together with one of the doctor's machines!"]]
224	* ToothbrushFloorScrubbing: In "Of Masters and Minions", Mr Smarty-Smarts new robotic minion makes him clean the lair with a toothbrush. He is so scared of her that when the toothbrush breaks, he starts using his tongue.
225	* TorchesAndPitchforks: Standard riot supplies on Keepaway Island. They even keep a flaming torch in a 'break glass in case of emergency' style glass case.
226	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Entree loves mayonaise.
227	* TravelingLandmass: Keepaway Island is shown to be a MeaningfulName as one episode shows that it is capable of being driven like giant motorboat across the oceans.
228	* VerbedTitle: Named for the spliced together animals of the cast.
229	* VillainsOutShopping: In a second-hand revelation of this, it turns out the Mad Doctor was quite the avid bowler.
230	* VolcanoLair: Mister Smarty Smarts lives in a hideout on Keepaway Island's volcano, allowing him to overlook the rest of the island and plot his schemes against them.
231	* WackySoundEffect: The show's IdiosyncraticWipes are always accompanied by these.
232	* WakingNonSequitur: Entree does it in "Amazon".
233	-->'''Entree:''' Hey guy, have you seen our red fire truck?
234	* WeWantOurIdiotBack: In "Outsmartered", Mister Smarty Smarts builds a machine to make everyone on Keep Away Island as smart as he is. It ends up [[GoneHorriblyRight working]] ''[[GoneHorriblyRight too]]'' [[GoneHorriblyRight well]], and makes everyone smarter than he is while making him look dumb in comparison. After failing to build a machine to make everyone dumb again, Smarty Smarts then uses a time machine to go back in time and stop himself from ever building the first machine that made everyone smarter.
235	* WeirdnessMagnet: Keepaway Island. From what we see, the rest of the world is relatively normal, but Keepaway Island itself just plain bonkers. And that's ''ignoring'' the mutants who inhabit it.
236	* WheelOFeet: This shows up quite a bit. In Entree's case, Wheel o' Udder Teats.
237	* WomenAreWiser: Patricia and Octocat are usually the most sensible members of the cast.

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