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In the tiny, tiny land of Do As You're Told, there live two creatures: Stoppit, a red, hyperactive furball who lives in a human-sized dump yard, and his friend Tidyup, a more mature blue creature that wears a tie and is a neat-freak and passionate gardener, growing giant multi-coloured gherkins to eat. Other inhabitants of Do As You're Told serve as Stoppit and Tidyup's friends; each episode revolved around one of these friends of theirs and was named after whichever friend it focused on. Other characters include the Naughties, which are dark blue and yellow spherical creatures, and the Sit Downs, which are white creatures that do nothing but sit down.

''Stoppit and Tidyup'' was created by CMTB Animation and Queensgate Productions, the same companies that made ''WesternAnimation/TheTrapDoor'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Bump}}'', and aired in 1988. The show was also worked on by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Britain_Tidy Keep Britain Tidy]], which was known as the Tidy Britain Group back then. The show was narrated by Radio/TerryWogan.

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!!''Stoppit and Tidyup'' provides examples of:
* TheAce: Clean Your Teeth. His episode focuses on the many things he can do by just snapping his fingers. This includes diving somersaults and making objects appear out of thin air.
* AngryGuardDog: I Said No's pet, Not Now, was a small, yappy one.
* BigBad: I Said No, at least in his episode where he steals all the gherkins and takes them back to his tree stump.
* BigEater: Eat Your Greens, who, as his name suggests, eats a lot of greens.
* BirthdayEpisode: Take Care's episode. The episode indicates that literally everybody in Do As You're Told celebrates their birthday on the same day, like a holiday.
* CastOfPersonifications: Specifically a cast of various commands often given to children by their parents, but as {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: Stoppit is a red ball of fluff with arms and legs.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Every one of Stoppit and Tidyup's friends are given a major focus in each episode. The one character that averted this and never got an episode dedicated to them is Not Now, who is I Said No's pet.
* DeadpanSnarker: The narrator on occasion.
--> "Tidyup was very upset. You can see that, can't you?"
* DisproportionateRetribution: There was an episode where Stoppit sent Eat Your Greens into Tidyup's garden to eat it all up... all because Eat Your Greens ate a plant that Stoppit liked.
* ForcedTransformation: Touching a Naughty causes the victim to get Naughty Pox, which basically transforms them into a Naughty.
* HairTriggerTemper: Stoppit, very much in the manner of WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode is named after whichever character it focuses on.
* {{Manchild}}: Go And Play is the most humanoid of the characters, and his defining trait is how he's seen playing with a variety of toys no matter what the situation.
* MeaningfulName: Every character has a name taken from a command that parents give to children, and each name represents their personality; for example, Go And Play likes to play with his toys while Hurry Up is very fast.
* {{Muggles}}: The characters share their world with humans who seem unaware of their existence.
* NameAndName: ''Stoppit and Tidyup''.
* NervousWreck: Calm Down, a small yellow creature who was constantly shaking and running from things.
* NoFourthWall: The characters would frequently look at the audience or react to the narrator.
* ThePigPen: Wash Your Face, who is covered in mud due to his love of splashing in puddles. When Tidyup gives him a bath, he's revealed to be a pale orange, rather than dark brown.
* PunnyName: There are characters named Beehave and Beequiet. Beehave and Beequiet. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Guess what animal they are]].
* RedOniBlueOni: Stoppit is the red oni and Tidyup is the blue oni, complete with the characters actually being coloured red and blue.
* ShaggyDogStory: Comb Your Hair's episode. Stoppit and Tidyup ride Comb Your Hair to a special picnic spot for gherkin sandwiches. After Comb Your Hair has spent the entire episode bumping into things and carrying the duo off cliffs, they arrive at the spot. Only to discover it has been paved over for a road. And then Comb Your Hair eats all the sandwiches. To say Stoppit and Tidyup were not happy is a bit of an understatement.
* ShortRunner: Ran for 13 episodes.
* SickEpisode: Hurry Up's episode, where Tidyup touches a Naughty and winds up with Naughty Pox.
* SimpletonVoice: Wash Your Face, he spoke in sounds rather than words like all the other characters, but his tone was clearly meant to be this.
* TheSpeechless: Every character makes noises such as grunts, babbling, etc. instead of actually saying anything.
* SuperSpeed: Hurry Up's defining trait is being able to move significantly faster than any of the other characters.
* ThemeTuneRollCall: Quite a long one, considering how short the episodes were.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Tidyup loves to eat gherkins.
* TwoFaced: Say Please And Say Thankyou. One face would say 'please', the other would say 'thankyou'.
* YourSizeMayVary: Exactly how tiny the characters are seems to change in relation to different human objects. As large as a television and tyre whilst walking through the dump but able to hide in a tin can, for example.
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