Pearlie is a park fairy with a giant-sized heart and a wardrobe to match. Appointed by Fairy HQ, Pearlie keeps Jubilee Park in sparkling order. She’s a type A personality full of nutty, over the top plans, parties and events for the park and its residents. She has assistance in Jasper, her right hand elf, although he prefers chilling out to real work. There’s also Opal, an outback fairy from Australia sent to learn the ropes of park management from Pearlie.
But all isn’t perfect in Jubilee Park. Pearlie’s cousin Saphira is jealous of Pearlie’s popularity in the fairy world and desperately wants her job. With her incompetent assistant Ludwig, a bat with a heavy German accent, Saphira sets out to spoil perky Pearlie’s day any way she can. Pearlie remains oblivious – always thinking the best of her cousin – while Opal and Jasper are more hip to Saphira’s game. Saphira resides in the park’s greenhouse, running a day-spa for well-heeled fairies, butterflies and the odd goblin fairy inspector.
Based on the children's book series Pearlie the Park Fairy by Wendy Harmer, Pearlie is an Australian-Canadian animated series produced by Australia's Sticky Pictures Ltd. and Canada's Nelvana that ran for one season of 26 episodes from 2009 to 2011 on YTV in Canada and Network Ten in Australia. Reruns later appeared on Qubo in the United States.
Tropes used is this series include:
- Acquired Situational Narcissism: Happens to Jasper when he is asked to fill in as drummer for the rock band Buggy Holly and the Crickets in "Bongo Boy". He is so busy giving interviews that he fails to rehearse.
- Ambiguously Brown: Jasper. His skin is slightly tanner than Pearlie who's fair white, and he has dreadlocks.
- Ambiguously Gay: Gobsmack. He even wears lip gloss in "Snip and Snit".
- Animated Adaptation: Of an obscure Australian children's book series.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In "Super Sized Elf" Jasper grows to human size, which is giant by elf standards.
- Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Scrag and Mr. Flea wear shirts and pants but lack shoes.
- Cupid's Arrow: Promotional art featured Pearlie dressed as Cupid, pointing a heart-shaped arrow at the park residents.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Scrag and Mr. Flea may be greedy, but their plans are always very flighty and poorly executed.
- Character Title: Pearlie the fairy is the main character of the series.
- Funny Animal: Ludwig the bat, Sugar the possum, and Scrag and Mr. Flea the rats, among others.
- G-Rated Drug: An ENTIRE EPISODE make a Love Bug's bites look like an acid trip.
- Granola Girl: Fern who looks and acts a lot like a 1960s hippie and talks to animals in a chant, saying "Love, Peace, Trees".
- Green Means Natural: As mentioned above, Fern loves nature and peace and happens to wear green clothing.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: In "If The Boot Fits", we get a Foot Focus on Gobsmack's ugly, smelly feet. Though it's probably smellier after having to wear cowboy boots.
- Groupie Brigade: A groupie brigade of fairies pursue Buggy Holly and the Crickets when they play in the park in "Bongo Boy".
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Ludwig, who wears only a necktie and glasses.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Pearlie always see the best in her cousin Saphira, while her friends Opal and Jasper don't.
- Jerkass: Gobsmack and Saphira. While Gobsmack is not that bad of a guy, who doesn’t really consider the feelings of others that much. Saphira on the other hand can be very rude to pretty much everyone.
- I Am Not Weasel: In one episode, Jasper is briefly seen by a little girl who thinks he is a fairy. He gets really upset at being mistaken for a fairy since he is an elf.
- Magic Skirt: Saphira, and rather justifiable when you think on it.
- Man-Eating Plant: Pearlie gets swallowed by a self-mobile carnivorous plant in "Prickly Friends".
- The Masquerade: The fairies make it a practice not to show themselves in front of humans (except babies, since they can't talk).
- Our Fairies Are Different: They are of the tiny humanoids with wings variety. Pearlie has a wand while Opal uses a lasso to do magic.
- Our Elves Are Different: Jasper the wood elf, who's mistaken for a fairy because of his wings.
- Our Goblins Are Different: Gobsmack, who is as small as Pearlie and the other fairies. He is also very human looking, though he is covered in warts. He gets around by teleporting from place to place.
- Pinocchio Nose: Saphira after being cursed by the Turquoise Fairy.
- Prefers Going Barefoot: Jasper. He always goes barefoot and often wiggles his toes to show how much he enjoys it.
- Pretty in Mink: Saphira wears an extravagant, fur-trimmed outfit in "Whiter Shade of Pale."
- The Prima Donna: Twinkle Twinkle is a famous fairy singer who is very entitled and obnoxious to every around her.
- Recycled Animation: Pearlie and Blair's dance consists of this, along with Spectacular Spinning.
- Rock Theme Naming: Many characters have gem and/or mineral names, like protagonist Pearlie, friends Opal and Jasper, and cousin Saphira.
- Shear Menace: Moe the bald-headed pixie might as well count because he carries around scissors so he can cut off people’s hair.
- Shout-Out: One of the episodes is titled "Socks in the City", similarly to Sex and the City.
- Spring Is Late: Inverted. In the episode "Fairytastic Fall," the new Fall Fairy is late, due to getting lost and then being detained by Saphira, causing Jubilee Park to become seasonless, robbing the park of all color.
- The Ditz: Pearlie, willing to sponsor a dangerous dragonfly race and let a primadonna fairy boss her around.
- Totally Radical: Jasper has a habit of saying "dude".
- Two Girls and a Guy: Pearlie, Opal, and Jasper.
- Twofer Token Minority: Opal is black and Australian.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: An elf thief is afraid of spiders.
- Workaholic: Pearlie, definitely. She is a slave to her work that she forbids breaks from Jasper and Opal. This fortunately died out in "Snip & Snit".
- You Dirty Rat!: Scrag and Mr. Flea are two lowly mischievous rats. Downplayed because they aren’t that bad and even get along with Pearlie sometimes.
