History WesternAnimation / DawnOfTheCroods

* TheCameo: In "It Crushes", the Croods enter a cave of mysterious drawings, one of them depicts WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman.
** WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} has made a few cameos in the series; doodles of him and Donkey appear on a slateboard in "There Will Be Eggs", a mutated pigrat is shown to have his ears in "28 Fleas Later", and a drawing of him wielding a spiked club glaring at a terrified Donkey appears in the "Tunnel of Terror" from the eponymous episode, of which scares Eep, Thunk, Lerk, and Womp away.

* AbsenteeActor: Outside of a silent cameo at the beginning of the episode, Gran is absent from "Night of the Living Croods".

** WesternAnimation/Shrek has made a few cameos in the series; doodles of him and Donkey appear on a slateboard in "There Will Be Eggs", a mutated pigrat is shown to have his ears in "28 Fleas Later", and a drawing of him wielding a spiked club glaring at a terrified Donkey appears in the "Tunnel of Terror" from the eponymous episode, of which scares Eep, Thunk, Lerk, and Womp away.

* TheCameo: In "It Crushes", the Croods enter a cave of mysterious drawings, one of them depicts Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
** Shrek has made a few cameos in the series; doodles of him and Donkey appear on a slateboard in "There Will Be Eggs", a mutated pigrat is shown to have his ears in "28 Fleas Later", and a drawing of him wielding a spiked club glaring at a terrified Donkey appears in the "Tunnel of Terror" from the eponymous episode, of which scares Eep, Thunk, Lerk, and Womp away.

* ItsPronouncedTroPAY: It's literally named after a scream, you can't just say "Ahh Valley", you have to scream the Ahh out. "''AAAH!!'' Valley". The Broods don't really get this so Grug keeps correcting them.

* AdaptationalDyeJob: Ugga and Sandy are green-eyed redheads like Eep instead of having brown hair (with Ugga also having gray eyes and Sandy's brown eyes) like the film.

* AdaptationalDyeJob: Ugga and Sandy have red hair like Eep instead of brown like the film.

* RealityEnsues: "Unsolved [=MysterEep=]" ends on a cliffhanger as the sun "mysteriously" vanishes from the sky, seemingly being stolen. But since this is actually just a solar eclipse, it's over only a few minutes into "Gran the Unfriendly Ghost".

* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: A sudden solar eclipse cause the cavemen to panic thinking someone's stolen the sun, leading to a cliffhanger.

* FramingDevice: [[spoiler:The whole series turns out to be this in the series finale when it was revealed in the end that Eep was telling the whole series to Guy after the end of the movie.]]

The show started out being animated in UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash, but after three episodes, the production team decided that the show would work better in traditional animation. The three flash-animated episodes were released on Netflix as-is, and possibly OutOfOrder (season 1, episodes 2, 4, and 9), so they stand out within the traditionally-animated episodes.

* ButtMonkey: A lot of the cast have been this from time to time, but Baitsy and Womp exist just to be this trope, the latter even being used as an object in many episodes.

** The series finale leads one to believe that this will be invoked, as it involves a meteor about to destroy Ahhh! Valley. [[spoiler:Everyone manages to stop the meteor however, and Ahhh! Valley falls apart for unrelated reasons, all the cavemen simply ending scattered by the beginning of the movie rather than implicitly dead. Lurk even manages to find Eep again after The End.]]

* SitcomArchnemesis: The Crood's neighbors, the Boors. And for a more one-on-one example, Grug and Gran.

* TooDumbToLive: While none of the characters are particularly bright, being cave people, Thunk and Lerk stand out the most.

* Yandere: In "It Crushes", Eep briefly becomes this when her crush Kevin starts hitting on Lerk. [[LiteralMinded And then she starts actually trying to crush Lerk with a boulder.]]