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''Jake and the Never Land Pirates'' is a 2011 animated {{Swashbuckler}} {{Pirate}} series airing on [[Creator/DisneyChannel Disney Junior]], one of three new programs that helped to launch the brand along with ''WesternAnimation/BabarAndTheAdventuresOfBadou'' and ''Animation/TingaTingaTales'' (the latter two were third-party acquisitions). Set in the universe of the classic Disney film ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', the program focuses on the adventures of the young Jake and his two friends, Cubby and Izzy, along with their parrot, Skully. They're a group of "[[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything pirates]]" who just want to have fun and do the things ordinary kids do, but their time is often spent chasing after Captain Hook, who is always trying to steal their stuff. Hook is "aided" by his usual bumbling sidekick [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Smee]], and Bones & Sharky, two even-more-dimwitted pirates who seem to exist for little more than to swab the deck and sing comic songs. The program contains occasional references to Peter Pan and Tinker Bell and later episodes sometimes contain appearances by them as well. One of the specials even featured Wendy, John and Michael (and Nana).

In December 2011, it was officially announced that the program was returning for a second season. New episodes began airing on February 20, 2012, though each "new" episode actually consists of one original story and one repeat. Season 3 started on January 3, 2014. There was also a series of shorts titled ''Jake's Neverland Pirate School''. The program's fourth season premiered in September 2015, commissioned as ''[[NewSeasonNewName Captain Jake and the Neverland Pirates]]''. This new season features an upgraded appearance for "Captain Jake," but has also stated to [[http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/animation-work-in-and-around-los-angeles.html "likely"]] be the last season of the show due to Disney's standard 4-season limit, though this may simply be "scuttlebutt." This did turn out to be true however and the series finished its five-year run in 2016.

Notable for being one of only two traditionally animated series in the Disney Junior era along with ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'', as all other series are completely CGI.

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!!''Jake and the Never Land Pirates'' provides examples of:
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* AdaptationalWimp: Captain Hook, MemeticBadass and much-loved villain of ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' comes back to menace the kid heroes of the [[FakeInteractivity Dora-esque]] show missing about half his brain cells and with a somewhat off-putting redesign. Granted, Hook has [[FridgeBrilliance always had trouble defeating children]], but in this case it is particularly glaring.
* AffablyEvil: Smee (even moreso than in the movie), Sharky and Bones fit this to a T, half the time you wouldn't even know they're villains. They only seem to go along with Hook because he's their Captain, and in some episodes are practically rooting for the kids. Even Hook, while still an unpleasant guy, has shades of genuine affability here, whereas in the movie [[FauxAffablyEvil not so much]]. To put it bluntly, Hook was basically downgraded from murderous pirate to schoolyard bully.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Izzy has darker skin tone than the rest of the main cast, but it's never really stated what her ethnicity is.
* UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball: Played, but called "pirate football" in an episode.
* AnachronismStew: The main cast have access to modern technology, such as electric guitars, but in ''Battle for the Book'' when they go to London, England it's still stuck in the early 20th century.
* AnimateInanimateObject: Bucky, the ship, is apparently supposed to be sentient, though "he" has no face and doesn't talk. "He" will come when called, though, and has attachments that can be used to scoop hazards out of the water on command.
* ArtisticLicenseMusic: Jake is seen playing an electric guitar in ''Escape from Belch Mountain'' without an amplifier, yet it's still loud.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Captain Gizmo in "The Island of Dr. Undergear".
* BigBadWannabe: Captain Hook, goes from an incompetent, but still manipulative person to an even bigger joke than he already was.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: Cubby's "Aw, coconuts" is translated as "Aw, palm trees" in Latin American Spanish, which kind of clashes with all his "Coconuts" jokes.
* BroughtDownToNormal: "Dread the Pharaoh!" reveals that Dread was depowered when he was trapped in his own bottle; the plot of the episode has him stealing the Pirate Pharaoh's magical crook and flail so he can use it as a new source of magical power.
* BuffySpeak: Any of the names Hook has for Jake's toys and such in earlier episodes, like "throwy-kicky-thingy" for a football.
* ButtMonkey: Hook and his crew, but mostly Hook.
* BuriedTreasure
* CharacterCatchphrase:
** Whenever Cubby is in distress or finds trouble, he yells "Aw, coconuts!"
** Jake usually says "Yay-hey, no way!" or "Yo-ho, let's go!".
** [[PirateParrot Scully]] always says "Crackers!", likely based on the phrase "Polly wants a cracker".
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase
* CinderellaPlot: "Smee-erella".
* ComesGreatResponsibility: In "The Mermaid's Song," Marina lectures her little sister Stormy that mersong is only to be used to help people after she uses the song for selfish reasons. (See HypnoFool below.)
* CompanionCube: Captain Hook can't sleep without Captain Cuddly Bear.
* ContinuitySnarl: The appearances of the Darling children still as children, in the double-length episode ''Battle for the Book'' makes it pretty clear that the show happens pretty soon after the original film, ''before'' the 2002 sequel in which the Octopus is introduced and starts chasing Hook. Yet the Octopus is shown as a recurring character, already chasing Hook…
* DerelictGraveyard: The seahorse episode features a pretty sizeable ship's boneyard.
* DesertIsland
* DisguisedInDrag:
** Captain Hook does this in "The Queen of Neverland" to try to pass himself off as a Neverland queen. Jake and his team quickly smell a rat.
** Jake actually uses one to get some treasure back from Hook. It works, but by the time Hook and Smee connect the dots, Jake and his crew escapes.
* DisneyAcidSequence: The luau dance featured in "Tiki Tree Luau."
* DrivenByEnvy: Many of Hook's schemes are initiated by Hook seeing Jake and his friends have some kind of treasure and he decides he wants it.
* EasyAmnesia: In "Captain Who?", Captain Hook catches a whiff of a "Forget-Me Flower" and it causes him to forget who he is. His memory is eventually restored by [[spoiler:an encounter with Tick Tock Croc.]]
* EdutainmentShow: Like all programming airing as a part of Disney Junior, it has basic educational concepts that it teaches, though it's really much more entertainment than education. Education generally focuses on pro-social skills, such as good manners, working together as a team, and sticking to a task. It also teaches basic counting.
* EggMacGuffin: The episode "Golden Egg".
* EnemyMine: Used in combination with GladIThoughtOfIt after a playful seal swipes everyone's toys, including Captain Hook's rubber ducky bath toy, which he plays with during his yearly bath. Jake suggests the idea. Captain Hook initially rejects it, then claims the credit for it. Jake doesn't try to argue. Later seen again in "Big Bug Island" when Hook agrees to one of these in the hope of finding treasure by tracking the Golden Caterpillar.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: All episodes end with the kids counting the doubloons they found. The last few seconds of the episode feature a music video by the Never Land Pirate Band.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: In "Hats Off to Hook" when Hook is looking for his lost hat and sees Jake and his crew have it he assumes they stole it and dismisses Smee's suggestion that they may have simply found it and are coming to return it (which is of course accurate) and when Jake tries to give the hat back Hook thinks it's some kind of trick.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: "Just off the shores of Neverland, a hideaway at sea... a pirate band outwits the plans of Captain Hook and Smee..." It's also a TitleThemeTune. For the fourth season, it becomes ''Captain Jake and the Never Land Pirates''. The rest of the lyrics are mostly unchanged, though they're a bit misleading at this point, given that most episodes really aren't about Jake and the others having to deal with Hook and Smee anymore.
* {{Expy}}: Clearly Hook, Smee and Tick Tock from the Peter Pan film, but Jake also looks a lot like the Jake from ''[[WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong American Dragon: Jake Long]]''. And kinda like a younger version of Captain Jack Sparrow. Jack, Jake... See the resemblance? There had even been rumors going around for a while that Disney was going to make an animated show based about a young Jack Sparrow.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: For any of Captain Hook's schemes to take the stuff of Jake and his team.
* FairyGodmother: Pip the Pirate Genie plays this role in "Smee-erella".
* FakeInteractivity:
** Used regularly in the show, but the bonus games included on the DVD take this to the fullest extreme. It's a DVD, so they could actually have interactive games. Instead, however, the "games" are fully non-interactive, simply around five minutes of Jake navigating the viewer through a non-interactive adventure.
** Extremely downplayed in later episodes. The only non-interactive segments in the show are at the beginning and at the count-up of the Golden Doubloons. Other than that, it barely happens at all.
* FantasyHelmetEnforcement: Used with lifejackets when Jake and his team go canoeing.
** And in the bike episode; not only are helmets placed on all of the kids, but Hook and Smee don them before stealing said bike as well. Interestingly, however, the gang does not need safety gear when traversing rocks or leaping pits and traps.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Dread the Evil Genie, who steals magic from other genies to augment his own and puts on a veneer of exaggerated good manners to get what he wants, which frequently slips. He cheerfully torments Pip in preparation for imprisoning him outright to completely possess the latter's power, and in "Dread the Pharaoh!" tries to zap Jake and his friends with magical blasts.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: Hook's large hat plume.
* FormulaBreakingEpisode:
** Both ''Peter Pan Returns'' and ''Jake Saves Bucky'' open with quite a bit of time spent with Hook and his crew, excepting the very opening part where Jake has the viewers say the pirate password.
** ''Battle for the Book'' opens with John and Michael listening to Wendy telling them stories of Peter Pan and Captain Hook from a special book she wrote. When Hook and his crew come and swipe the book, Peter Pan summons Jake and his crew to pay a visit to London to help out.
* FountainOfYouth: Jake, Izzy, Cubby and Hook fall into one in "Pirate Sitting Pirates" and turn into babies. As a result, Smee, Sharky, Bones and Skully need to find a magic flower and use it's pollen to turn them back to normal.
* FreeRangeChildren: Naturally, this being Neverland and all.
* FrenchJerk: Beatrice Le Beak. She's an even bigger jerk than Hook.
* FriendlyPirate: Zigzagged the eponymous Neverland Pirates are friendly little kids, but Captain Hook and Smee are bad guys.
* GenieInABottle: Pip the Pirate Genie is this in his initial appearance, and EvilCounterpart Dread ''ends up'' as one (and is depowered to boot).
* GenreShift: In its original form, the show could more-or-less be described as ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' [-[[RecycledInSpace WITH PIRATES]]-] (who [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything don't do anything]]). Things such as FakeInteractivity and comic adventures with vague morals to teach were all common fare. The later installments, particularly ''Captain Jake and the Neverland Pirates'', have seen a major shift towards action, with high-stakes specials, serious villains and Jake (Captain Jake) engaging in swordplay using a magic sword.
* TheGhost: Whenever there's a "Wow, Peter Pan sent us an [insert object here]!" moment. And other than a constellation that resembles him, the boy is present only in name. At least until February 2012, anyway, when Disney Channel premiered the primetime special "Peter Pan Returns." He also promised that he'd be back, and returned in ''Jake Saves Bucky''. Then he appeared again in "Jake's Great Neverland Rescue". It seems to be that the character only appears in hour-length specials.
* GhostShip: Bucky is thought to be this when he's stolen by Hook.
* GladIThoughtOfIt: Captain Hook has done this to Smee at least once the show, probably more. See also the entry for EnemyMine on this same page.
* GreenAndMean: Dread the Evil Genie has green skin (and a SicklyGreenGlow to his magic).
* HalloweenEpisode: "Night of the Golden Pirate Pumpkin / Trick or Treasure"
* HarmlessVillain: This being a Preschool show, Hook and his crew fit this to a T.
* HookHand: Captain Hook is this trope's page picture.
* HuddlePower: An entire episode, named "Huddle Up!", is centered around this.
* HumanDoorstop: Smee being used as a toboggan and for other purposes.
* HypnoFool: In "The Mermaid's Song," Marina's sister uses mersong to turn Captain Hook, Smee and Cubby into this so that they will do work for her. Marina calls her out on it and reminds that the song should be used to others, it should never be use selfishly. At the end of the story, Bones and Sharky successfully emulate the mersong to get Hook to swab the deck of the ''Jolly Roger''.
* ICanSeeMyHouseFromHere
-->'''Bones''': "Well, whaddya know? I can see our ship from here..!"
* IdiosyncraticWipes: Most scene transitions are accompanied by the screen filling up with pixie dust which then poofs away.
* IDontPayYouToThink: In "The Never Star," when talking about the Lost City of Gold, Captain Hook asks his crew, "You know what methinks?" Bones replies "That somebody lost an entire city?" and Captain Hook decides "Methinks from now on I'll do the methinking around here."
* IMeantToDoThat: Hook after falling into a messy bog.
* IndyEscape: In one episode there are many giant rolling boulder traps.
* InexplicableTreasureChests
* InkSuitActor: In the later episodes. Cameron Boyce is basically Jake with YouthfulFreckles.
* InNameOnly: Jake and his crew is really just Lost Boys trying out [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything their own version of being "pirates."]]
* IWorkAlone:
** In "[=ShiverJack=]," when Captain Hook proposes a team-up with [=ShiverJack=], [=ShiverJack=] stops him before he can even finish speaking and then tells him that he works alone.
* JokeItem: Bucky's cannons gush water. How this would ever be useful is anyone's guess.
** Considering that blasting several thousand gallons of high-pressure water at high speeds is used for many different purposes in RealLife (including cutting through stone), it's surprisingly useful.
* KillItWithFire: In "Golden Hook," from ''Captain Jake and the Neverland Pirates'', Captain Hook uses a golden hook that turns everything and everyone he touches to gold. Captain Jake's solution is to claim it using his magic sword, which has its own magic and is therefore immune to the effect, then toss the sucker into a volcano. Upon its destruction, the magic is reversed and everything that was turned to gold changes back, including Smee and Hook's other bumbling lackeys, Sharkey and Bones.
* {{Ladyella}}: The episode "Smee-erella".
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In "Battle for the Book", Wendy, John and Michael slowly begin to lose their memories of Peter Pan and Neverland; it's revealed Wendy's book about Neverland is magical and the longer she doesn't have it, the more she forgets until they are gone for good. Once the book is completed, the memories are restored.
* {{Leitmotif}}: An instrumental of the Tick Tock Croc's VillainSong "Tick Tock the Crocodile" is often played whenever said Croc puts in an appearance.
* LighterAndSofter: Than Disney's ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'', at least in the earlier installments. The specials and the latter installments, especially ''Captain Jake and the Neverland Pirates'', strongly ramp up the action-adventure element, including stuff like having Jake engage in swordplay.
* LoopholeAbuse: In "Jake Saves Bucky", Hook tore off a piece of the Pirate Code which the kids steal back after losing Bucky to him, with help from Peter Pan. The torn sheet reveals a loophole in the code: if Bucky lost to the Jolly Roger, the kids have one chance to get Bucky back if they find the Great Golden Bell of Bell Island and bring it back before [[CelestialDeadline sunrise]]. They succeed at this, and save Bucky.
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* MadeASlave:
** Those three seahorses, when Hook decided he wanted to capture them to pull his dinghy.
** The penguins are subjected to this by Shiverjack in his second appearance.
* MagicAIsMagicA: Thoroughly averted with the pixie dust. Its effect seems to change even during the same episode: usually it makes the person it lands on fly at his/her will, but in some cases it can make the target fly at the caster's will (like when it's used on Hook), and can also make inanimate objects levitate (objects don't have Happy Thoughts, and thus shouldn't be able to fly).
* MermaidingSwimsuit: Izzy has a mermaid costume in which the tail is made [[GardenGarment out of leaves.]]
* MinionWithAnFInEvil:
** Smee; he's nowhere near the cut-throat longing to return to days of plunder he used to be. Hook even has to ask once, "Whose side are you ON, Smee?!" As for Sharky and Bones, well, they're pretty much getting downright chummy with Jake and his team.
** In "Captain Hook is Missing!," Jake and his team are their choice for someone to help find him, without hesitation or debate.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate : The new villain, Dr. Undergear.
* MythologyGag:
** Sharky is most likely named after Starkey, a pirate from the original ''Literature/PeterPan''.
** Cubby shares his name with a Lost Boy in ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' who wore a bear fur.
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Tick Tock Croc.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain:
** Whenever Peter Pan shows up Hook, and his crew are far more formidable and competent and usually two steps ahead of Jake and his friends. Justified since Peter Pan IS Captain Hook's archenemy, of course he'd take him more seriously than Jake and his "Puny Pirate Pals".
** And to a lesser extent the Tick-Tock Croc, who clearly tries to eat Hook any chance he gets, though he's only really a threat to Hook and even then the level of which is debatable as he seems pretty well aware by now that Hook always escapes and his constant chasing and attempts to eat the pirate are more of a game to him than anything.
* OhCrap:
** Stormy has this expression when her scheme to making Hook, Smee, and Cubby do all her chores is discovered (after Marina's pet crab told her what Stormy did).
** Captain Hook often has this whenever he encounters Tick Tock Croc.
* OnceAnEpisode:
** At the end of every episode, the team gets together and counts the gold doubloons earned for solving pirate problems before putting them in the pirate treasure chest.
** Also the use of pixie dust.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Mother Hook Knows Best" reveals that Captain Hook's name is actually [[spoiler:James Bartholomew Hook.]] And Bucky's full name is ''The Buccaneer''.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent:
** Marina, the mermaid friend of the group who teaches them to surf, is MUCH different than any of the mermaids appearing in the original Disney movie. For starters, she's their friend. And helpful. And not trying to jealously drown all females.
** As is her sister Stormy. The more grown up mermaids probably still act like from the movie, but they're confined to the background in this show.
* PaperThinDisguise:
** Subverted in one episode where Hook disguises as a mermaid. The gang (almost) immediately noticed.
** Another subversion in a HalloweenEpisode, where Hook and Smee tries to steal the gang's treats by disguising as clowns. It was a pretty convincing disguise though, [[LongList if not for the fact that they didn't bother to fake their voices and Hook blew it off by being terrified of Cubby's crocodile costume. Smee too, as he was fooled by Jake's trick by calling him by his name. He realizes this, but too late. It doesn't help that their figure was well-known by Jake and his crew.]]
* PickedLast: Exaggerated with Captain Hook, who was ''never'' picked as a kid to play on any baseball team, despite turning out to be a natural.
* PirateBooty: 'Tis what both sides are always after.
* PirateGirl: Izzy.
* PirateParrot: Skully (obviously).
* PirateSong: The opening, treasure and ending themes, along with many others.
* {{Pirates}}: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Duh.]]
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Jake and his crew. They're the page image for the trope, and why not? As the trope description states "They don't pillage. They don't plunder. They don't invade Port Towns, kidnap beautiful maidens, battle the Royal Navy on the high seas, broadcast without a license, or swap files on the intertubes... and they've never been to Boston in the fall." Yep. The image is a promotional image for the show which reads "Today's pirate pledge: A good pirate never takes another person's property!" As with several other elements of the show, however, this has become heavily changed with ''Captain Jake and the Neverland Pirates'', which generally greatly raises the action-adventure stakes. The specials are also generally much more intense.
* PitTrap: With a crocodile in it!
* PoirotSpeak: Beatrice Le Beak.
-->"Aw, le phooey!"
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The main plot of "Never Land Rescue": Jake and the pirates have to restore the Forever Tree before Never Land loses its magic forever.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Subverted. While Tick Tock is shown to be dangerous (he is a crocodile, after all), his actions are driven by hunger rather than any sort of malevolence towards the other characters, and the way he goes about it is actually pretty [[AllAnimalsAreDogs dog-like and cute.]]
* ReTool: ''Captain Jake and the Neverland Pirates'' features a revamped title sequence and look for Jake. Many of the show's signature songs have been changed or done away with entirely. There's less focus on conflicts with Hook and the gold dubloons are only even mentioned at the end of each of story, with a new Team Treasure Chest sequence. The songs in the closing credits have been dropped in favor of an entirely instrumental outro.
* RubeGoldbergDevice: In ''Captain Jake and the Neverland Pirates'', Jake and the others raise the Team Treasure Chest from a vault under the sand via use of a Rube Goldberg Device.
* SaveTheVillain:
** Pretty much OnceAnEpisode, Captain Hook gets into trouble after his plans go awry. Jake and/or the members of his crew always offer to help him, but he always refuses, saying that he can solve his own problems. (He can't.) One of the ''Jake's Neverland Pirate School'' shorts was even about "Saving Captain Hook".
** Averted with Shiverjack and Dr. Undergear.
** Played straight in "Dread the Pharaoh!"
* SealedEvilInACan: Dread becomes this at the end of his debut appearance, and is released by the Pirate Pharaoh's pet cat at the start of "Dread the Pharaoh!"
* ShipTease: Between John and Izzy in ''Battle for the Book.''
* ShoutOut:
** "Duck and cover!"
** In ''Trick Or Treasure'', Jake is dressed like Peter Pan, and Cubby is dressed like Tick Tock the crocodile (who also occasionally appears)
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Izzy is the only girl on Jake's team, and the only regular female character on the show.
** Marina later appears, but Izzy is still the main girl.
** Other female supporting characters, like Red Jessica or the Pirate Princess or Hook's mother, have appeared, but Izzy is ''still'' the main girl and the only regular.
** In one of the specials, Wendy appears.
* SpeechImpediment: Cubby has a bit of a lisp. (Very noticeable in "Escape from Belch Mountain", where he says "Slippery Serpent Forest".)
* SpinOff: To WesternAnimation/PeterPan.
* StockPuzzle: Every puzzle in "Izzy's Pirate Puzzle".
* StupidEvil: Hook: he never lets Jake help, even when he's in a threatening situation, like being chased by the crocodile.
* StupidGood: Jake and his crew, to the point of forcing Hook's hat on him even though he didn't want it. Granted, he thought it was a trap, but still.
* SwiperNoSwiping: Tried with Captain Hook, though it doesn't work. Occasionally works for other guest characters on the program that engage in mischief, but aren't actually villainous.
* SwissArmyAppendage: Hook's got a whole case full of interchangeable hook replacements.
* TalkingAnimal:
** Skully the parrot.
** There are also talking penguins, starfish, and monkeys, as well as a talking cat and a talking scorpion.
* TalkLikeAPirate: Of course. Oh, and one of the songs is titled this.
* TeamPet: Skully, naturally.
* TeamSpirit:
** The theme of most episodes, and what is preached by the main crew.
** "Pirate Princess Teamwork!" could be the practical embodiment of this trope.
* TheTeaser: At the beginning of every episode right after the opening theme, there's a scene where Jake welcomes the viewer and asks them to sign in with the pirate password, "Yo-ho-ho."
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In one episode, Hook and his crew must work with Jake's crew to find out who's been stealing all of their treasure. They also work with them in later episodes to more avail.
* TemptingFate: Twice in ''Peter Pan Returns''. First when Hook and his crew are ejected from the ''Jolly Roger'' and fall into a raft. Either Bones or Sharkey points out their good luck, only for it to then sink due to the group's combined weight. One of them then comments that it can't get any worse, only for the Tick Tock Croc to then show up.
* TerribleTicking:
** The ringing of Bucky's bell is thought to be this by Hook and Smee.
** Tick Tock, naturally. Even his eyes twitch to the rhythm of the clock in his belly.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: A marching song used as the team begins their adventure and also the "Well Done, Crew" song performed before the team counts the gold doubloons. Also, live-action versions of Bones and Sharky (portrayed by "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Bogg_and_Salty Captain Bogg and Salty]]," a real-life pirate rock band from Oregon) perform original songs related to the show at the end of the each episode over the credits. This team also [[http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2011/02/two_portland_performers_provid.html writes the entire underscore for the program and wrote the theme song]].
* ThemeNaming: The mermaid sisters Marina and Stormy.
* ThemeTuneRollCall: "Jake! (Ahoy!) Izzy! (Ahoy!) Cubby! (Ahoy!) Skully! (Ahoy!)"
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Hook often has moments like this before being blasted or hurled somewhere.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** It doesn't stick, naturally, but when Peter Pan is back in Neverland, [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Hook becomes much more competent in his evil-doing]], getting ahead of the heroes at nearly every turn and actually coming pretty close to success.
** Justified, in that Captain Hook sees Peter Pan as his ArchEnemy and therefore would take him more seriously as a threat than a bunch of kids (despite said kids outsmarting him every time).
* TookALevelInKindness: Ever since Red Jessica was introduced, Hook seems to have gone further and further away from badass, and while not necessarily outright friendly with Jake and his crew, is becoming pretty darned close.
* TreasureMap: Cubby's always in charge of one, even.
* TriumphantReprise: "I Can Fly" from ''Peter Pan Returns''.
* TrojanHorse: In "Elephant Surprise!," Captain Hook and Smee trick their way into the trio's treasure room by hiding inside a large wooden elephant presented as a gift. The plan fails, however, when the elephant slides out of the treasure room and Jake and his crew spend the remainder of the story chasing after it.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: The main trio consists of Jake, Izzy and Cubby.
* ViewersAreGeniuses:
** This is a show for four year olds with a love triangle between Jake, [[PirateGirl Izzy]], and Marina the Mermaid.
** In ''Peter Pan Returns'' there's also some small hints that Izzy has a PrecociousCrush on Peter.
* ViewersAreMorons: Downplayed, especially in later episodes. While NonInteractivity is still present, the kids are usually smart enough to figure stuff out on their own, and only occasionally ask for help. Season 3 takes this further as Jake no longer asks the viewers to join them on their adventures or his pirate crew. He knows they're willing to help them out. Additionally, Izzy has stopped explaining that Tinker Bell gave her the fairy dust so that they can fly, but only in emergencies, after all, we already know that. Also, the idea of them receiving gold doubloons throughout the story has been dropped and instead they just get a bunch of them at end of it, which was what was already being done in the books anyway.
* VillainDecay: Hook was a comical, but fearsome pirate in ''Peter Pan''. Here, he's a flat-out HarmlessVillain.
* VillainSong:
** Captain Hook, Smee and Tick Tock each get one from the pirate band. Hook even has a little theme chant that plays during many of his entrances. Additionally, Bones and Sharky have one of their own.
** Dread the Evil Genie sings in ''both'' of his appearances, all the better for [[Creator/DavidTennant his voice actor]] to [[EvilIsHammy ham it up]].
* TheVillainSucksSong: A song in "Peter Pan Returns" serves as this AND a "the HERO sucks" song, as it's both Peter Pan and Hook trading insults and singing about how much they hate each other.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: In "Captain Who?", when Captain Hook forgets who he is, he also loses all of his {{Jerkass}} tendencies. Smee, Sharky and Bones turn to Jake and his team to help because they went their jerk back.
* WholePlotReference: "Smee-erella" is one big ShoutOut to Literature/{{Cinderella}}.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Both Hook and Smee have done this.
* WorthlessTreasureTwist:
** Used in "Big Bug Island," when the treasure for following the Golden Caterpillar turns out to be seeing the hatching of the Golden Butterfly. Jake, his crew and Hook's minions are thrilled by it, but Hook is the opposite of pleased.
** In "The Queen of Neverland," Hook lures two princesses under the guise of a queen and tells them to present treasure in order for him to decide which one of them should become the new queen. He is highly aggravated when both of their gifts turn out to be of this type, and steals a treasure of diamonds from them. When Jake and his team get it back, they're rewarded with a diamond each for helping out.
* YankTheDogsChain: Happens to Hook at times, like at the end of "Treasure Chest Switcheroo" where his crew gets him his own magic treasure chest filled with golden eggs. Heartwarming, right? Unfortunately, the eggs hatch into [[OhCrap baby crocodiles!]]
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