The Replacements (2006-2009) was a Disney Channel animated TV series. The opening sequence explains that siblings Todd and Riley lived in an orphanage, with no explanation of what happened to their parents. Stumbling across a Fleemco comic book, they mail-ordered a Fleemco phone (which allows them to replace any person or animal they desire) and in the process they got new parents: a female British secret agent named K (along with her sarcastic talking car) and a none-too-bright professional daredevil named Dick Daring.Whenever Todd and Riley want to replace someone, they push a special button on their Fleemco phones, connecting them with Conrad Fleem. Fleemco immediately replaces the person with someone more to the liking of Todd and Riley. The series follows their chaotic misadventures as they use Fleemco to attempt to better their lives in nearly every problematic situation they encounter. (Although as the series progressed they managed to get into trouble with Fleemco replacements barely figuring into the episode.)No relation to a football movie starring Keanu Reeves. Or the Minnesotan punk band.
Aborted Arc: Sierra spends the rest of season 1 and most of 2 trying to break Riley and Johnny up. Yet after Johnny broke up with Riley, Sierra seems to have lost interest in him.
Acme Products: It seems everything in the world is made or run by Fleemco.
Art Evolution: Season 2. Notice the noses on the Todd and Riley look different and that the body proportions looks (especially on the female characters) more slimming.
Also note that the characters went from having Four-Fingered Hands in the early seasons to having normal five fingered ones in later seasons.
Extreme Omnivore: Dick eats 50 pinecones in an episode. He was only dared to eat one, but found them so tasty he couldn't help himself.
There's also Dick easily defeating The Human Garbage Can in a contest of who could stomach the most rancid food while on a spinning carnival ride in "Carnie Dearest"
Tagalong Kid - Shelton (Jewish, & he would be the Smart Guy if only he appeared more)
Actually, the episode "Crushing Riley" specifically states that Shelton isn't really that smart.
Getting Crap Past the Radar: Many examples. One of the more obvious examples was in the episode where Fleemco turned out to be developing an anatomically-correct robotic duplicate of underage Riley. Part of her assembly was shown, with scientists gawking at the double's naked leg in a scene which strongly implies that the rest of the robot was also naked.
Then there's the episode where Abby's sister basically treated Todd like a gigolo, showering him with gifts in return for dating her
Genre Savvy: Garth the janitor is downright obnoxious about this in one episode. He refuses to help Riley because "every time i slightly inconvenience you or your funny-looking brother, some guys in jumpsuits show up and send me somewhere nice for a few weeks." When said jumpsuits turn up, he's waiting impatiently for them with his suitcase already packed.
Irony: Riley uses a cute lifeguard to make an unnoticed Johnny jealous, much to her frustration. Then Riley unintentionally broke the lifeguard's heart because he developed feelings for her. As a result, the pool was closed, which causes everyone to hate her, including Johnny who was about to ask her out.
Kissing In A Tree: The episode where Riley tries to find a girlfriend for Shelton has Sierra not only tease her with this song, but Todd actually visualizes it. Also, Jacobo and Tasumi state that they were actually doing this in the last episode.
Last Minute Hook Up: Jacobo and Tasumi are revealed to be a couple in the last episode.
Though, it was revealed in "The Truth Hurts" that Tasumi has a crush on Jacobo.
Limited Wardrobe: All the characters. With Dick at least, it is specifically shown that he owns countless red-white-and-blue jumpsuits.
Line-of-Sight Name: Todd takes evil robot to school to threaten the teachers into accepting anything he says as correct, says the first president of the United States is "George Stapler"
But then even more impressively, since its named for said president, all of the school's signs were immediately changed to say "George Stapler Middle School", and the name remained for the rest of the series
Nervous Wreck: In "The Truth Hurts", the head of the school newspaper who is replaced is a Nervous Wreck who is constantly jittery and gets extremely nervous about the idea of anything being published in the school newspaper that would make things like fruit on the bottom yogurt as opposed to being like plain yogurt, as he likes it.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Sheldon again; he has Jerry Lewis' voice and mannerisms. Also, a sleezy salesman does a fairly good Phil Hartman.
Positive Discrimination: Averted in the episode where a blind kid uses his disability to bully Todd.
Power of Love: Made fun of in 'German Squirmin': Sheldon: "Princess Cuddlepuff wields the power of love... which apparently wasn't powerful enough to defeat his doom ray...
Will They or Won't They?: Riley and Johnny, as of season 2. Riley still has feelings for her and tries to get him back, but her Yandere-ish nature ruins it. At the end of one episode, Johnny may want her back, but Riley wasn't interested.
Yandere: Riley to Johnny Hitswell, seriously, she has puppets, a balloon Johnny... just watch season 2, 18: Heartbreak in the City.
Xanatos Gambit: Todd justifies helping his sister with the following statement: "Either we save the day or I get to see her blow up when everything goes horribly wrong! Its win-win."
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