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3	''Staines Down Drains'' is an animated series created in UsefulNotes/NewZealand. It was produced together by Flying Bark Productions (formerly known as Creator/YoramGross Productions) in Australia and Flux Animation in New Zealand.
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5	Life just got far more interesting for Stanley and Mary-Jane Staines. They've just moved to a new town, into a new house, and started going to a new school. Oh, did we mention the portal in the basement sink's plughole that shrinks them down to three-inches high and sends them down into the local drain system? Suddenly Stanly and Mary-Jane find themselves in a whole new world, one that's wracked with conflict. The drains are home to tiny mutant creatures called Drainlanders who manage a pond of special purifying plants that absorb toxins and produce clean water. This doesn't sit well with a group of mutant creatures called Gobblers, who thrive on toxins.
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7	Unfortunately, the Gobblers have just gained an advantage. A mysterious human named Dr. Drain who's also found his way into the drains. Dr. Drain will stop at nothing to fill the drains with toxins and grow a giant mutant army he can use to take revenge on the town. Suddenly Stanly and Mary-Jane find themselves as reluctant heroes in a desperate struggle to save two worlds.
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10	!!Tropes Down Drains:
11	* ActionGirl: Mary-Jane tries to be this, but it usually gets her into trouble.
12	* UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash: The second series switched to this to be animated entirely at Flux Animation.
13	* AlphaBitch: Gretel lives this.
14	* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The Drainlanders. Being mutant life forms living in a drain system, they tend to come in a lot of shapes, sizes and colors.
15	* BalloonBelly: Stanley and Mary-Jane both get one in the first episode after eating a giant, mutant, teddy-bear cookie.
16	* BarbieDollAnatomy: Stanley and Mary-Jane's mother is seen naked at the end of "Dentures of Death", with her chest clearly shown to be flat and devoid of nipples.
17	* BuildingOfAdventure: Well, 'Drainage System of Adventure'. Almost the entire series takes place inside the town's drains.
18	* CannotTellAJoke: Betty Staines. Stand-up comedy was probably a poor career choice for her...
19	* CloudCuckooLander: Stanley and Mary-Jane's mom can be a bit flighty sometimes. But she pales in comparison to Beef, who takes this to a whole new level.
20	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Betty Staines. She starts a new job at the beginning of every episode.
21	* ExpositoryThemeTune: The theme song details Stanley and Mary-Jane finding the Drainlanders' world in their sink's drain and having to deal with Dr. Drain.
22	* ExpressiveMask: Dr. Drain's gas mask.
23	* {{Expy}}: Vegety-Bill is essentially Creator/JohnWayne, if John Wayne was a four-inch tall talking carrot man.
24	* TheFaceless: Until the last two episodes, Dr. Drain is only ever seen wearing a full hazmat suit and gas mask.
25	* FantasticVoyagePlot: "Inner Space"
26	* IncredibleShrinkingMan: A shrunken Stanley and Mary-Jane have had to face full-sized foe a few times. And there's also an episode titled "Land of Giants".
27	* LethalChef: The lunch lady at Stanley and Mary-Jane's school. She's called Typhoid Mary for a reason.
28	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: "Dentures of Death" involves Mary-Jane hypnotizing her and Stanley's mother to try and make her more organized, which works too well due to their mother eliminating stuff she sees as insufficient. It isn't until Mom has removed her clothes due to feeling that the hassle of buying, washing and mending them is too much that Mary-Jane undoes the hypnosis, at which point the mother is embarrassed that she's in her birthday suit in front of her kids.
29	* QuirkyMiniBossSquad: The Gobblers.
30	* RunningGag: Stanley has a slight phobia about dirt and germs. And so, of course, he is routinely forced to travel into the town's drain system.
31	* ShoutOut: To ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' classic "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E123NightmareAt20000Feet Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]]", of all things. In one episode, Beans uses one of Dr. Drains inventions and accidentily gets teleported onto the wing of a passenger plane. A man sitting in the plane, dressed as [[Franchise/StarTrek Captain]] [[Creator/WilliamShatner Kirk]], looks out the window, sees her, [[FreakOut freaks out ]]and parachutes out of the plane.
32	** One episode had Stanley and Mary-Jane trying out for a stage musical knock-off of ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' to get out of doing homework.
33	* TwoShorts: The second series switched to this.
34	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Beans definitely has an accent, but whether it's French or Mexican or something else entirely is hard to say.
35	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Stanley is TerrifiedOfGerms.

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