History WesternAnimation / Tutenstein

* EatingContest: Tut wins a peanut butter and banana sandwich eating contest in "The King Of Memphis. He can pack away a lot of food for an undead mummy.

* AMythologyIsTrue: While Egyptian myths are portrayed as true, all other mythologies are treated as fictitious; a few of the Egyptian deities notably expressed no prior awareness of the Greco-Roman deities prior to stumbling onto their museum exhibit in "Spells and Sleepovers."

--> '''Cleo''': Luxor, this movie is so cheesy it's great! What are you so scared about?
--> '''Luxor''': That mummy eats brains!
--> '''Cleo''': Luxor, get real! Tutenstein's a mummy, he doesn't eat brains!
--> '''Luxor''': ''So far.''
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Did you just trap [[EldritchAbomination Apep]] with a fishing net?
* DisappearedDad: Cleo's father. It's never clear exactly what happened to him.
* DisproportionateRetribution: It's hard to blame the gods for being annoyed with [[JerkAss Tuten]][[RoyalBrat stein]], but threatening a ten-year-old child with eternal damnation for crimes like vandalizing a wall or cheating at a board game seems a ''little'' harsh. Cleo even points this out, mentioning that in spite of his position, he is just a kid.
* DownerEnding: "The Comeback Kid". [[spoiler:Not only does Tut turn back into a mummy, ''he will never get the chance to become flesh and blood again''.]] FridgeLogic makes the whole series kind of a downer from then on.
* ElvisImpersonator: The characters visited a convention of them in "The King of Memphis".

* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: In "Day of the Undead," Tut walks among mortals on Halloween, impressing trick-or-treaters with how much his costume looks and smells like a long-dead Egyptian mummy.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While the gods may seem overly harsh at lashing out at Tut for his shenanigans, it’s not difficult to understand why they would be so upset with him. While Tut is ultimately well-meaning, he's still selfish, bratty, and a rather inept ruler who frequently abuses magic for his own ends. You can’t blame Ra for being angry at him for obstructing his job over a really petty reason in “The Boat of Millions of Years” or Isis for wanting to punish him for being a cheater/bully in “Ghostbusted”.

* MagicSkirt: in this case it's Tut's shendyt.
%%* MagicWand: The Scepter of Was functions as one.

* RoyalBrat: Tut acts like a spoiled little JerkAss most of the time.

* SpottingTheThread: In the episode Keep You’re Wandering Eye To Yourself, Kara says Cleo is doing the right thing to keep Tut away. Cleo concurs until she realizes she never told her his name.

* TimeFreezeTrollingSpree: In the episode "The Boat of Millions of Years" has Tut wishing a movie night would last longer. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor This causes Ra the Sun God to get captured on his journey through the underworld and time stops altogether]]. Later when Cleo and Luxor wake up they first get everyone frozen on the street out of harm's way. However when they find Walter in the museum they decide to prank him. They replace the burgers he is about to eat with skulls and a sword, puts a wig on his head and a skirt on him. When time unfreezes, Walter bites the skull and thinks he's [[AlienAbduction being messed with by aliens]].

* UndeathAlwaysEnds: Averted - by the end of the series, Tutenstein is still a living mummy.
%%* VitriolicBestBuds: Tut and Cleo.

* AMythologyIsTrue: While the Egyptian myths were all portrayed as true, other mythologies (like the Nordic and Greco-Roman ones) came off as fictitious; a few of the Egyptian deities notably expressed no prior awareness of the Greco-Roman deities prior to stumbling onto their museum exhibit in "Spells and Sleepovers."

* JerkassHasAPoint: While the gods may seem overly harsh at lashing out at Tut for his shenanigans, it’s not difficult to understand why they would be so upset with him considering that Tut is a selfish, bratty, and rather inept ruler (even if he is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold) who sees himself on the same level as them and frequently abuses magic to drastically affect the world around him. You can’t blame Ra for being angry at him for obstructing his job over a really petty reason in “The Boat of Millions of Years” or Isis for wanting to punish him for being a cheater/bully in “Ghostbusted”.

* TinyGuyHugeGirl: As with [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang and Katara]], Cleo is taller because she's two years older.

''Tutenstein'' is an Emmy Award-winning animated television series, produced by Porchlight Entertainment (best known for ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresFromTheBookOfVirtues'') for [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily Discovery Kids]]. The series is based on the comic book character of the same name by Jay Stephens (''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays''), who would serve as a creative consultant. The series ran for 39 episodes from November 1, 2003 to October 11, 2008, concluding with the television movie "Clash of the Pharaohs".

The show follows the adventures of the child pharaoh Tutankhensetamun, based loosely on the real-life UsefulNotes/{{Tutankhamun}}, who is awoken three thousand years after his untimely death by a 12-year-old aspiring Egyptologist named Cleo Carter after she fixed some mistakes made to his exhibit by the museum curator. Together with Cleo's pet cat Luxor, who has been given the gift of speech and a position as Tut's servant/advisor, the trio spends their nights after the museum closes helping Tut (affectionally called Tutenstein) adjust to the modern world: solving the myriad of problems caused by Tut's inexperience as a pharaoh and inflated ego, and fighting back the threat of various Ancient Egyptian figures; the most dangerous being the Egyptian god Set, who seeks Tut's all-powerful Staff of Was, which would give him the might to rule the world.