This series provides examples of:
- Affirmative Action Girl: Kip Kangaroo.
- Ageless Birthday Episode: "Sunrise Surprise"note is about Pammy's birthday.
- Alliterative Name: The only exceptions are Digger Mole and Bogey Orangutan.
- Expressive Shirt
- Five-Man Band
- Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics: First season only.
- Friend to All Living Things
- Gang of Critters
- Half Dressed Cartoon Animals
- Hope Spot: In "Digger's Three Wishes," when Digger finally has enough of the genie that's been manipulating him, he and his friends invoke the power of their magical shirts ... only to have the genie zap the shirts away.
- Jackass Genie: The genie in "Digger's Three Wishes" is a magical con artist.
- Kangaroos Represent Australia: Kip Kangaroo.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Fred Travalena's Bogey Orangutan was a voice caricature of Humphrey Bogart, "schweetheart".
- Overt Operative: Possible subversion. No one is supposed to know who the Shirt Tales really are, let alone that they are five (later six) talking animals. The mere fact that they are talking animals is the perfect cover since most humans would assume that the Shirt Tales were also humans. So, they aren't as "overt" as the trope would imply.
- Panda-ing to the Audience: Pammy Panda.
- Secret Identity: A major point of the first season, but mostly downplayed in the second.
- The Smurfette Principle
- Theme Tune Roll Call: Both seasons, but especially the second:"Pammy! Rick! Digger! Tyg! Kip! and Bogey! The Shirt Tales!"
- Verbal Tic: Bogey again, "schweetheart". It's also not the only he does, "Sam".
- Villain Song: "Concrete Paradise" in "A Song Saves the Park".note
- We Help the Helpless
- West Coast Team: The Western Shirt Tales from the episode "Moving Time" consisted of a prairie dog, a fox, a skunk and an owl.
- Yet Another Christmas Carol: A non-Christmas example in "Save the Park"; features a character named "Ebenezer Grunge".
