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Western Animation: Doc Mc Stuffins

The Doc is in!

Doc McStuffins is a preschool-targeted CGI-animated children's series on Disney Junior featuring a child doctor who runs a clinic for stuffed animals and toys. The series was one of the first announced for Disney Junior, which replaced Playhouse Disney, though it did not begin airing until Valentine's Day, 2012 with the premiere of the 24/7 Disney Junior network in the United States. In each episode, the eponymous Doc uses her magic stethoscope to bring toys to life and then diagnoses and heals a sick or damaged toy. With its complex characters and willingness to buck the general format of similar shows currently on the air, the program has been described

as "Cheers for prechoolers" and has amassed a sizeable audience. The program is officially renewed for a second season to start airing in mid-2013.

Doc McStuffins features examples of:

Action Girl: Kiko, the Japanese action doll Doc got from her grandmother. She even has an action kick, as portrayed on her box. Doubles as a Genki Girl.
Adorkable: Stuffy the dragon. In spades.
Afraid of Needles: Boomer the soccer ball hates being filled up because he's afraid of the pump. The scenario works out suspiciously similar to a kid being afraid of a hypodermic needle, but that's probably the intended effect anyways.
All Animals Are Dogs: Despite being a brontosaurus, Bronty's personality and mannerisms are essentially those of a large, playful, hyperactive dog.
Alliterative Family "Dottie" (Doc's real name) McStuffins and Donnie.
All CGI Cartoon
Bare Your Midriff: Doc's warm weather outfit.
Big Eater: The Gulpy-Gulpy Gators. They practically try to eat everything on site after Doc animates them.
Big Fun: Bronty— when he first meets the other toys, he plays really rough and ends up causing a spate of "Bronty Boo-boos."
Bindle Stick: Pickles the bunny creates one using a paintbrush in "The Bunny Blues" when she believes that her owner has decided to sell her in a yard sale.
Blind Without Em: Hallie the hippo claims to be blind without her glasses, though a point-of-view shot establishes the actual fuzzy nearsightedness.
Cool Big Sis: Doc to Donnie.
Cuddle Bug: Lambie and Val in "My Huggy Valentine"
Defictionalization: Well, this is a show about a girl and her sentient toys that are brought to life by means of a magical MacGuffin. And due to The Merch, this trope is indirectly invoked. Specifically, there's a battery-powered toy featured the good Doc and Lambie with a "magic stethoscope" that can be used to "bring Lambie to life", and of course there are talking plushes. Heck, even the regular plushes count, given that the plush toys in the show are just that until brought to life with the magic stethoscope.
Dinosaurs Are Dragons: Played with— when Stuffy (dragon) and Bronty (brontosaurus) meet, the Doc says that they are like family and that they could be cousins.
Edutainment Show: The main thrust of the program is to show children what happens at the doctor's office and make them less fearful of a checkup, but there are also the general pro-social lessons often included with this type of show.
Expressive Ears: Seen on Pickles the bunny in "The Bunny Blues"
Fake Interactivity: Consciously avoided in the main show, as the creator didn't want to make a show like this with so many of them already out there, but used in the segments in the closing credits in which the titular Doc quizzes the viewer on a subject related to hygiene or health.
Five-Man Band:
- The Heroine: Doc McStuffins (also The Medic)
- The Lancer: Stuffy
- The Smart Girl: Hallie
- The Big Guy: Chilly
- The Chick: Lambie
Generic Name: Awesome man. Is a superhero. No words on that one I can tell you...
Green-Eyed Monster: Lambie gets jealous when Val shows up on the show in "My Huggy Valentine."
Halloween Episode: "Boo-Hoo to You! / Glow Time," which premiered on October 12, 2012. In the first story, a toy ghost is afraid of Halloween. In the second, a normally glowing toy has "no-glow-atosis."
Hey, That's My Line!: Lambie in "My Huggy Valentine" after Val says "You look like you could use a cuddle."
Hypochondria: One of the main characters is a hypochondriac stuffed snowman named Chilly who regularly fears melting (he's not made of real snow), getting broken bones (he's a stuffed toy) and catching various illnesses that aren't contagious.
Keet: Stuffy again.
The Merch: Merchandise is already out and ranges from the good (a Lambie plush that is reviewed as being very soft and cuddly) to the bad (a talking Lambie that seems to be the toy equivalent of a lemon - nearly everyone reports that stops working after a couple of days.) Merchandise for this show often sells online for a heavy premium, and you simply may or may not get lucky if you're trying to find a particular item in stores. Note that if you live in a primarily white area, though, there's a good chance that you may be able to find plenty of plush of the Doc herself, even when Stuffy, Lambie, Chilly and all of the others are sold out. Yep, even in this day and age. (Of course, it's possible that this may not have anything to do with Doc's blackness when you consider that she's competing against a stuffed lamb that oozes cuteness and a blue dragon who's also rather cute.)
The Messiah: Lambie.
My Little Panzer: In the episode Rip Heard 'Round The World, Apparently, Sir Kirby's sword is sharp enough to cut a rip through Lambie's plush when she was accidentally swung hard by Doc into the Sir Kirby who was brandishing his sword accessory. Magic can be ruled out since the toys were inanimate when that happened, and plush fabric don't tear easily. The only plausible explanation is that the sword accessory is made of real sharpened steel.
No Indoor Voice: One of Doc's patients was a toy cell phone that kept talking too loudly. At first she thought something was wrong with his volume control, but it just turned out that he had no indoor voice and talked loudly whenever he got excited.
One Of These Is Not Like The Others: Of the five main toy characters, Squeakers is the only one not to be stuffed.
Only Known by Their Nickname: "Doc" McStuffins doesn't go by any other name - even her parents call her "Doc."
- Word Of God, based on merchandise releases, is that her real name is "Dottie," but this is never said on the show itself.
Pantsless Males Fully Dressed Females: Anna the female stuffed monkey wears a bow on her head and a skirt without underwear, but her brother, Ben, only wears a bowtie.
Percussive Maintenance: In "Stuck Up," before giving his toy to Doc to fix, the boy had tried banging it with no success.
Punny Name: Ben and Anna. They're huggy monkeys, which uses velcro to cuddle up to each other. Guess what monkeys are stereotyped to like eating in media...
- And then there's the title of the episode. At first, it may seem like a case of Exactly What It Says on the Tin or Word Salad Title, but after a while the Punny Name joke settles in, and you realize why you're craving for dessert whenever you tried to make sense of the title.
Race Lift: An unofficial merchandise example— in Buenos Aires, Argentina, some stores are selling a Doc that looks at best Ambiguously Brown, and at worst, white. It's no surprise, therefore, that those living in South America often purchase official Doc merchandise online.
Real Life Writes the Plot: Chris Nee was inspired to create the program because her son has asthma and there have been a lot of scary doctor's visits. Her son refers to the program as "my show."
Running Gag: Chilly keeps forgetting he's not really made of snow and always worries he might melt.
Slice of Life: A show about a six year old and her day to day life as a toy repair lady, toys magically brought alive through a magical MacGuffin not withstanding.
Sliding Scale of Living Toys: The toys on the show seem to fall somewhere between Level 2 and 3. They are brought to life by Doc's magic stethoscope, but they only ever speak to her and other toys, and Doc alerts them to "go stuffed" if anyone else approaches. They still don't seem to have a consciousness while inanimate, though, as evidenced when Doc accidentally cut up Lambie and she didn't even notice until Doc pointed it out later in the episode.
That Reminds Me of a Song: At least Once per Episode (actually, twice per story). Trust us, it's quite a musical show.
Title Theme Tune
The Voiceless: Even though the Doc's magic stethoscope brings toys to life and allows them to speak, Squeakers can still only squeak.
Hallie: I dunno! I don't speak squeak!
Why Did It Have to be Spiders?: Stuffy
Stuffy: Why did it have to be spiders? Dragons hate spiders.
- Also Why Did It Have To Be A Needle? said word-for-word for Boomer the soccer ball.
You Won't Feel a Thing: The whole clinic staff uttered this exact phrase to an uneasy Niles while trying to get his bandages off. Of course, Niles was expecting it to hurt. Inverted in that they proceeded to carefully take off most of the bandages while Niles wasn't paying attention, so he naturally felt nothing when Doc told him it was time to take them off and pulled a little piece of bandage still on him.