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  • Awesome Music: A 10-member live orchestra performs each episode, sometimes including other instrumentalists skilled in music from the region to which the pets are traveling during the episode. The show won an Emmy in 2008 for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition.
  • Fridge Brilliance: "How it All Began" reveals that Linny used to be very lonely before Tuck arrived and Ming-Ming hatched. Guinea pigs are very social animals, and they do become lonely without company, so Linny's loneliness makes sense.
  • Fridge Logic: Ducklings don't stay yellow and fuzzy very long. Linny appears to be a mature guinea pig, and Tuck as a turtle can probably live for decades, so how many "Ming-Mings" have there been on the team?
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: This show has been loved by Malaysians due to its amazing dub and usually aired at TV9 everyday (alongside other Nickelodeon shows such as Spongebob Squarepants which aired at the same network) and kids always watched it after school. However, there is also a good songs that were dubbed too. This had died down in 2016 due to the introduction of CJ Wow Shop, which aired between hours and hours.note  However, there are few episodes which had still shown at social medias such as TikTok.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Tim Curry plays the Tin Man in In The Land of Oz! where his character first appears rusted in place. Curry would suffer a stroke that would leave him mostly paralyzed shortly before the episode's premiere.
  • Ho Yay: Linny and Ming-Ming go off to find Tuck, and while they ride over to him Ming-Ming says, "Isn't this nice Linny? Just you and me…" Linny's reaction says it all.
  • Memetic Mutation:
  • Moe: All three of the main pets, but especially Ming-Ming.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Some of the baby animals' situations are rather dark, like a dolphin trapped in a net underwater nearly drowning, or a snow leopard nearly about to fall off Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Lucky the pets are able to save them on time.
  • Sweet Dreams Fuel: A show about three baby animals saving other baby animals. What more could you ask for?
  • Viewer Gender Confusion: Linny the guinea pig is a girl, but you wouldn't know it from the baseball cap and overalls, or the fact that she wears a blue cape, a color traditionally associated with boys. It doesn't help the other Wonder Pets seem to pronounce her name as "Lenny", when it's "Linny".
  • Viewer Name Confusion: Some viewers think Linny's name is "Lenny" and that she is a boy because she lacks any cartoon signifiers that she's female and one of the other characters has a Speech Impediment.

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