This is a tie-in animation series to the
video game of the same name.
- Added Alliterative Appeal: All the characters' names have the same first letter as their species.
- Alternate Universe: Freak Cannonada accidents have launched Franklin into at least two: one where he went evil and took over the island and Professor Pester is now "Coronel Cuddles" among other things, and one where piņatas are simply giants.
- Bald of Evil: Professor Pester. Flashbacks show him with brown hair (growing from the top of his mask).
- Bilingual Bonus In the sumo wrestler episode, the youngest sumo wrestler called Fergie "Fergie-san" for the whole episode.
- Now remember who produced the show.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Professor Pester / The Ruffians
- Carnivore Confusion: A little bit,it's softened by the fact pinatas don't actually die,so so 'carivores' may indeed take a whack at other pinatas,only for said pinatas to be fine the next day,what confuses matter is the fact the only character shown to 'eat' pinatas is Pester, the villain.
- Cannot Tell a Lie: Franklin
- Can You Hear Me Now?: After failed attempts to communicate with the very tiny Raisants, Hudson simply picks up his cell phone and is able to call the exact Raisant he needed to talk with.
- Easy Amnesia: Averted with Ella Elaphanilla, who's amnesia is not a plot device but a full-time trait,as well as the fact she has anterograde amnesia in addition to retrograde amnesia.
- Five-Man Band:
- 4Kids Entertainment
- Getting Crap Past the Radar:
Boris: "Boys, meet your new neighbor, Associate Associate
Associate Professor Poofter!"
Professor Pester: "That's Pester!"
- Numerous moments in the episode "Crimes of Passion Fruit". The scene in which Fergy looses it resulting in him destroying the fruit bowl of the Big Boss in certain frames is cut to look like something reminiscent of a slasher film. He then panics, ingesting the "remains" but not before conversing with himself in a manner made to look like he's lost his mind and is talking to another side of a split personality. The entirety of the episode is then Fergy attempting to hide what he had done, not realizing that there was a speaker in the fruit he ate to channel the voice of "The Big Boss", convinced he's possessed by the vengeful spirit of the man who he'd done in. He runs to the Bonboon, who suggests an exorcism of all things! This Troper had to admit- for a 4kids production cartoon, this was pretty dark...
- And then of course- "What's with all the heavy breathing? Are you some kind of sicko?"
- In the episode that introduced the Big Boss: "I want you to look me in the grapes."
- I'm a Humanitarian: Just like in the games, the Piņatas have no qualms eating candy regardless of whether or not it's currently being bled (or in one case, sneezed) out of someone else.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Hudson is a self-centred egotist, but otherwise a good friend.
- Only Sane Man: Les
- Road Sign Reversal: One of the slowest examples ever. It takes fifty years to reach the payoff.
- Species Surname
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