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The channel has over 746,000 subscribers as of May 2023, and 116 episodes and 126 compilation videos to boot. Every character is drawn in a typical child's drawing style, and the stories are explained without any dialogue.
No new episodes have been uploaded after January 26, 2021. However, four additional compilation videos were published in 2022, with the thumbnails of those videos now being rebranded to EK World, which has the regular Ryan's World art style and not the more original stick-figure one used in EK Doodles.
Tropes
- Action Girl: Emma and Kate become superheroes in this episode
. - All Balloons Have Helium: Kate inflates a balloon in this scene, in which the balloon lifts her.
- Art Evolution: In earlier episodes, almost everything had no color and was just white or gray, but everything slowly starts to get more colorful as the show moves on. The characters' animations and facial expressions also improve and become more exaggerated.
- Art-Style Clash: The stamp is animated in CGI, while the rest of the series is animated in Adobe Flash.
- Ascended Extra: Emma and Kate, while minor in Ryan ToysReview, are the sole protagonists.
- Barbershop Episode: There's three of them, although all of them are downplayed because they're just about the twins styling their hair.
- Big Ball of Violence: Whenever Emma and Kate fight.
- Big Head Mode: Emma and Kate have their heads grow for comedic effect briefly in "Catching Butterflies" and for two scenes in "Combo Plays Soccer".
- Black Bead Eyes: All the human characters don them.
- Cheerful Child: Emma and especially Kate are notable examples of this.
- Circling Birdies: This sometimes happens when a character becomes dizzy.
- Cool Big Bro: Ryan is this, especially in earlier appearances.
- Copycat Mockery: In "Copycat", Emma decides to copy Kate, later in the episode, it backfires on her, and is copied by everyone else.
- Dress-Up Episode: There are several of them.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Kate does this in one episode, where she ties her hair into a bun. Other than that, Kate always has her hair in a ponytail, while Emma keeps her hair in pigtails.
- Gingerbread House: Emma and Kate make one in the eponymous episode.
- Hammerspace: There are countless moments where a character will pull an object from thin air, or put the aforementioned object behind their back.
- Helium Speech: Due to both of them being voiced by a woman, Emma and Kate's vocals are pitched-up significantly to make them sound younger.
- The Hyena: Emma and Kate giggle a lot, mainly in the earlier episodes.
- Inconsistent Episode Lengths: The duration of the episodes vary, from 70 seconds to three minutes.
- Nobody Touches the Hair: In this scene, Kate accidentally ruins Emma's hair, causing the latter to become mad.
- No-Dialogue Episode: All episodes are like this, however the characters do grunt, laugh and scream.
- Ocular Gushers: How the characters cry.
- Pets as a Present: The premise of "Surprise Cats Presents", where Emma and Kate are given two pet cats, which themselves become recurring characters in the series.
- Polar Opposite Twins: Emma is the more short-tempered and naïve twin while Kate is the more cute and independent one.
- Shapes of Disappearance
- In "Don't Wake Parents", when Ryan sees Emma and Kate are not drawing on their table, dotted outlines of the twins appear briefly.
- Something similar happens in "Candyland", when Gus sees that the twins are missing.
- In "Don't Wake Parents
- Sick Episode: Kate becomes ill in "Sick Day", and so does Emma at the end of the episode, when Kate is feeling better.
- Stick Figure Animation
- Sudden Anatomy: Most of the time, the characters have simple, mitten-like hands, but occasionally their hands are more detailed, with more visible fingers shown.
- The End: This is used in the end of every episode.
- Thick-Line Animation: The art-style is a notable example of this.
- Thought Bubble Speech: Characters sometimes do this, to illustrate their thoughts.
- Time Out: Happens to Emma and Kate in two episodes.
- Toon Physics: These have a moderately high chance of occurring, however these are sometimes limited, presumably due to the younger demographic the series is targeted to.
- The Unintelligible: In the rare moments where the characters speak, they only do so in gibberish.
- Unusual Eyebrows: Emma and Kate's "eyebrows" are quite unusual, and look more like their eyes have a sclera.
- Vague Age: In earlier episodes, Emma and Kate are shown to be either babies or younger toddlers, but in later episodes, they act more like older children at least.
- Vocal Evolution: From 2018 to 2019, Emma and Kate's voices were extremely high pitched to the point where they didn't sound human at all. Since 2020, their voices got a lot deeper. After EK Doodles stopped uploading new episodes, their voices as characters in Ryan's World have got even lower, to the point where their voices aren't even pitch-shifted anymore.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Since 2020, the stamp has almost completely been absent from the channel.
- Wingding Eyes: There are countless times when Emma and Kate's eyes change appearance for comedic effect, especially in later episodes.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Emma and Kate, who are likely toddlers in this show, mostly just played with baby toys and are extremely naive, but in later episodes, they are now roaming freely without adult supervision, can safely cook food, and have other skills that young children couldn't do.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Emma is shown to be scared of spiders in "Pretend Fishing".
- Zany Cartoon: As mentioned above, the show is pretty cartoony if you watch it enough.
