History WesternAnimation / TheSecretShow

Originally a British creation airing on Creator/TheBBC, this is among Creator/{{Nicktoons}}' independently-funded acquisitions it made in the later part of the [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]], along with ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'', ''WesternAnimation/SkyLand'', ''WesternAnimation/ShurikenSchool'', ''WesternAnimation/EdgarAndEllen'', ''WesternAnimation/RickySprocketShowbizBoy'', ''WesternAnimation/ThreeDelivery'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Wayside}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends''. The current distribution rights are with Universal, however.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: A pair of aliens spying on U.Z.Z. base made one of these using some of [[https://youtu.be/yzKmwbozKE4 Changed Daily's names]].

* NegativeContinuity: Many episodes end with a seemingly irreversible outcome, such as Changed Daily’s brain being stuck in a mannequin, or all of humanity being sent to live on the moon. These never stick, and everything is back to normal once the next episode starts.

* NoRespectGuy: Victor is a constant ButtMonkey, with Professor Professor, Changed Daily and even Anita making fun of him or actively making his life worse. He's usually the one to test out the professor's gadgets.

* NoRespectGuy: Victor is a constant ButtMonkey, with Professor Professor, Changed Daily and even Anita making fun of him or actively making his life worse. He's usually the one to test out the professors gadgets.

* PyrrhicVillainy: In the episode "Monument Racers", Doctor Doctor succeeds in stealing all of the world's money by attaching stolen '[[BuffySpeak weird little motor thingies]]' to the world's banks, allowing them to fly. However, possibly as a fail-safe, after twenty minutes of use, the motors go thermal and become 'unshtoppable', sending all of the banks to crash land on the moon. By the end of the episode, she still has all of the Earth's money, but absolutely nothing to do with it.

* WeInterruptThisProgram: As part of the shows laundry list of [[RunningGag running gags]], every episode starts by interrupting The Fluffy Bunny Show and taking its timeslot.

* As part of the shows laundry list of [[RunningGag running gags]], every episode starts by interrupting The Fluffy Bunny Show and taking its timeslot.

* FunWithAcronyms: It's U.Z.Z versus T.H.E.M.

* MacGuffin: The aptly named Secret Thing.
* ManChild: Changed Daily.

* QuarterHourShort: The show used the single 10-minute episode format when airing on CBBC. Elsewhere, it used the TwoShorts format.
* RepetitiveName: One of the chief naming schemes of the show is this, with Anita Knight and Changed Daily's names (usually) being the exceptions:

* CatchPhrase: Oh so many, from Professor Professor's "Totally untested und highly dangerous!" to The Impostor's "Ding Badoo!" (No one really knows what it means, but they say it a lot).

* CouchGag: Special Agent Ray's method of evicting Sweet Little Granny from the opening timeslot, and in each episode, it's always something different.

* FusionDance: Combined with CatsHaveNineLives when Victor and an evil cat are teleported back to U.Z.Z. base together; the cat gains a secret code from Victor's brain, but Victor gains eight lives... which he promptly loses, thanks to his aforementioned butt monkey status.

The show follows top U.Z.Z. agents Victor Volt and Anita Knight as they thwart the various threats to earth's security, supported by DaChief whose name is [[CodeName Changed Daily]], always to something embarrassing and/or silly, and U.Z.Z. chief scientist Professor Professor. The most common foe is Doctor Doctor's T.H.E.M. and its [[{{Mooks}} Expendaballs]]. Other foes are the Impostors, a race of (probably) worm-like aliens who have special suits that allow them to assume perfect disguises; the Reptogators who live 60 miles below the surface of the Earth and are naturally stupid[[note]]they have terrible eye sight, so they track people down by the smell of dirty teeth. They only become intelligent by sucking out the brainwaves of other creatures (most are too stupid to know this, however)[[/note]]; and the Floaty Heads, aliens with floating heads who, according to the website [[MotiveDecay seem to want something different every time they show up.]]

* WorldOfWeirdness: Where to start?:

''Fluffy fluffy bunnies, jumping in the woods, Fluffy fluffy bunnies, jumpi--''

''[[SelfDemonstratingArticle Hello there, you cutesy-wutesy little troping friends, Sweet Little Granny here; welcome to... the Fluffy Bunny Sh-]]''

''[[WeInterruptThisProgram -Sorry Sweet Little Granny, but this wiki page is needed urgently!]]''

''The Secret Show'' (2006-2007) is either an incredibly silly SpyFiction cartoon... or a ruthless parody of Martini Flavoured SpyFiction. It's probably both. Any trope that gets even within a mile of this show tends to end up getting subverted or parodied. Like all good children's comedy shows, it can raise a smile in adults too.

* CatchPhrase: Oh so many, from Professor Professor's "Totally untested und highly dangerous!" to The Impostor's "Ding Badoo!" (No one really knows what it means, but they say it a lot.)
** "Victor. Are you still alive?"
*** "Yes, I'm still alive!"
** Changed Daily's "CODE CUSTARD! CODE CUSTARD!" when something goes wrong.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Victor is still a highly-trained U.Z.Z agent, so he's still very good at what he does, he's just a ButtMonkey.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episode, when a security breach happens, U.Z.Z issues a Code Red. Later episodes would see UZZ use the more comedic Code Custard and Code Cauliflower.

* FunWithAcronyms: It's U.Z.Z against T.H.E.M.

** Mummy Dearest

* MeaningfulName: Professor Professor, Doctor Doctor and double agent Kent B. Trusted. Also the World Leader's name seems to be [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep World Leader]].

* MysteriousMiddleInitial: Kent B. Trusted

* NoRespectGuy: Victor.
* NoSell: When humanity gets hooked on eating green visiting aliens due to them smelling and tasting like delicious dishes, Victor realises that he's unaffected by the smell due to being ''vegetarian''. He then assembles a "Vegetarian Task Force" to go to the mother ship of the aliens... only to find out that most of his members are pescatarian after most of them eat the fish-tasting aliens.

** Victor and Anita always land the jump they start in the title sequence (usually on a hover bike or from a high-up place to a low-down place).
** Changed Daily's name being changed to something embarrassing.

* RepetitiveName: One of the chief naming schemes in the show, with Anita Knight and Changed Daily's names being the exceptions:

* UntranslatedCatchPhrase: The Imposters are constantly heard saying the phrase "Ding Ba-Doo!" though it's never revealed what these words mean.
** Ultimately subverted when in 2017, co-creator [[WordOfGod Tony Collingwood]] revealed in the commentary for "Flick the Switch" that "Ding Ba-Doo!" means "Freeze the World!"

* WorldOfWeirdness: Where to start?

* EpisodeOfTheDead: "Zombie Attack" has [[BigBad Doctor Doctor]] unleashing a ZombieApocalypse upon the world. As a more G-rated version of this trope, the zombies are not the flesh eating variant, and merely transmit the infection via touch. In a more unorthodox means of spreading the infection, Doctor Doctor encoded two words, “yes” and “no”, that when spoken would turn a person into a zombie. Eventually the entire world ends up zombified with only Victor and Anita being the {{Sole Survivor}}s left to stop Doctor Doctor and save humanity, with Anita stealing Doctor Doctor's controller after both the MadDoctor and Victor get zombified, with Anita reseting the key words so that the zombie groan “uhh uhh” restores a zombie back to human.

* RegionalRedecoration: One of the Imposters' plans involved dumping the entire Atlantic Ocean into the Earth's core, extinguishing it and causing an ice age.

* RegionalRedecoration: In one of the Imposters' plans, they dump the entire Atlantic Ocean into the Earth's core, extinguishing it and causing an ice age.

* TechnicolorEyes: Anita Knight has purple eyes. It's also a case of SupernaturalIsPurple since in "The Abyss," it's revealed that [[spoiler: she's a mermaid]].

* WholePlotReference: "The Wobble Men from Dimension Ten" has some striking similarities to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]

* EvilIsPetty: After Victor and Anita go undercover in "Mission to Monkey Nut Island", Victor gets up and starts shouting ideas out at how to defeat U.Z.Z at a competition, and Doctor Doctor thinks all of his ideas were amazing. Later on, Doctor Doctor reveals that she knew Victor hadn't turned turncoat and went along with the ideas out of curiosity, and she promptly restrains him. One of Victor's ideas had nanobots eat Changed Daily's moustache:

* ZombieEpisode: "Zombie Attack" has [[BigBad Doctor Doctor]] unleashing a ZombieApocalypse upon the world. As a more G-rated version of this trope, the zombies are not the flesh eating variant, and merely transmit the infection via touch. In a more unorthodox means of spreading the infection, Doctor Doctor encoded two words, “yes” and “no”, that when spoken would turn a person into a zombie. Eventually the entire world ends up zombified with only Victor and Anita being the {{Sole Survivor}}s left to stop Doctor Doctor and save humanity, with Anita stealing Doctor Doctor's controller after both the MadDoctor and Victor get zombified, with Anita reseting the key words so that the zombie groan “uhh uhh” restores a zombie back to human.

''[[DescribeTopicHere Describe... The Secret Show!]]''

** Victor Thomas Jefferson Volt
** Professor Professor
** Doctor Doctor
** Maestro Maestro
** Frau Frau
** Assistant Assistant
** Stacy Stern

''The Secret Show'' (2006-2007) is either an incredibly silly SpyFiction cartoon... or a ruthless parody of Martini Flavoured SpyFiction. Probably both. Any trope that gets even within a mile of this show tends to end up getting subverted or parodied. Like all good children's comedy shows it can raise a smile in adults too.

** Victor "Thomas Jefferson" Volt.

* BigBad: Doctor Doctor.

* INeverToldYouMyName: While in disguise, Victor bumps into Ray and accidentally calls him by name. He gets suspicious, so Victor claims he knew Ray's name because it's written on his suit. And it is... on the back of his collar. Ray still buys it.

* INeverToldYouMyName: While in disguise, Victor bumps into Ray and accidentally calls him by name. He gets suspicious, so Victor claims he knew Ray's name because it's written on his suit. And it is - on the inside of his pants. Ray still buys it.
* InterspeciesRomance: Dabbled with between Victor and an alien princess, in the episode where the Floaty-Head Aliens steal the solar-system, and again with U.Z.Z. agent Lucy Woo and an animatronic hamster.
* {{Jerkass}}:
** You would think that Professor Professor would bother to test his experiments, rather than just wait for Victor to need them.
*** More than that. Professor Professor always seems intent on screwing around with people, even when it would really be inappropriate (like in the middle of a life or death situation).
*** And he's implied to be just as much of a jerkass in the future, if not moreso; the one that stows away to the present in 'Victor of the Future'; when asked by present Victor what defeated the Floatyheads back when this was happening for him, he plays a guessing game and leads Victor to throw ''potatoes'' at the thing.

* SkewedPriorities: After using one of Professor Professor's poorly-timed calls on his phone to prevent him and Anita from being killed by a giant hornet, he's later reprimanded for damaging company property.