History Literature / CharlieAndLola

* HeatWaveEpisode: In "I'm Extremely, Absolutely Boiling", the siblings, plus Arnold Wolf, are annoyed on a very hot day and wish it was cooler.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Lola fits this trope sometimes, but Charlie is often patient and understanding with her. She's probably one of the mildest examples of this ever, while Charlie does occasionally get irritated by her, oftentimes he seems to find her behaviour anywhere from amusing to endearing.

* ArgumentOfContradictions: The story "Yes I Am, No You're Not" is about Charlie and Lola having a number of these about various things. Eventually, after one too many, their parents send them to time-out or the "Simmer Down Chairs."

%% * BrattyHalfPint: Again, Lola.
* CaptainErsatz: Bat Cat, a character from Charlie and Lola's favourite comic. And Pirate Captain Squidbones.

%% * CloudCuckoolander: Lola.
%% * TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight: See YourTomcatIsPregnant.

* DoesNotLikeSpam: Lola claims this about many foods, but she's never actually tried them, and when Charlie has enough creativity to get her to eat them, she turns around completely.
* FearOfThunder: Lola once had this, but it completely disappeared after Charlie came up with a solution for his sister.
* FlippingHelpless: Lola thinks this trope in regards to beetles is the funniest thing ever.
%% * FourFingeredHands

* HiccupHijinks: The episode "I Can't Stop Hiccuping" involved Lola getting the hiccups after she sang a high note. After various cures that all fail, Charlie does a special trick where he pretends to transfer her hiccups to him. The episode ends with Charlie getting hiccups while Lola is cured of hers.

%% * HilarityEnsues: Often as a result of Lola's actions.

* ImaginaryFriend: Lola has this in Soren Lorenson, a character who is actually her conscience, but sometimes her bad side.
** In the books and in shows derived from the books, Soren Lorenson, while not malicious, is the darker and more selfish side of Lola; he's the one who encourages her to play with Charlie's rocket and lie about it when it gets accidentally broken, he's the one who drinks all the pink milk that Charlie was hoping to share with Marv, and he's the one who Lola is scared will be lonely on her first day in school. More of an id than a conscience, then.
*** However, Soren takes the role of a [[GoodAngelBadAngel Superego]] in the television series, trying to sagely guide Lola against creating chaos, and when his ideas accidentally cause problems, he shows genuine concern or alarm and gets worried when he is ignored.
* ImagineSpot: At ''least'' OncePerEpisode. The animation gets very creative.

-->'''Lola''': Charlie! They look like fish fingers to me and I'll never eat a fish finger.
-->'''Charlie''': Fish fingers?! They are not fish fingers. (initiates a shared ImagineSpot in which he and Lola are swimming underwater) Lola, they are not fish fingers. They are ocean nibbles from under the sea. (they enter a mermaid supermarket) Mermaids ''always'' eat ocean nibbles.

As of 2017, the series has been made available freely to stream for those who have Amazon Prime / Amazon Video, and was picked up by Creator/UniversalKids in December of 2017.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Lola fits this trope sometimes, but Charlie is often patient and understanding with her. She's probably one of the mildest examples of this ever, while Charlie does occasionally get irritated by her, oftentimes he seems to find her behavior anywhere from amusing to endearing.

* ArgumentOfContradictions: The story "Yes I Am, No You're Not" is about Charlie and Lola having a number of these about various things. Eventually, after one too many, their parents send them to time-out, or the "Simmer Down Chairs."

* CaptainErsatz: Bat Cat, a character from Charlie and Lola's favorite comic. And Pirate Captain Squidbones.

* FullBodyDisguise: In "But I Am an Alligator", Lola wears, for a majority of the episode, a large, dark green alligator costume which covers her entire body, with the exception of her arms and legs. This embarrasses Charlie, as she wears it in public, and the size of the costume makes it difficult for Lola to perform basic tasks such as tying her shoelaces.

** Each is read out loud by Lola, and it is not unusual for her continue the statement as the show proper starts. In some cases, what's said and shown on the program don't match up with what's in schedule listings. For example, "I've Got Nobody to Play With" is listed as "Playing On My Own." In other cases, the really long titles are simply shortened, sometimes to as a little as one word.

*** However, Soren takes the role of a [[GoodAngelBadAngel Superego]] in the television series, trying to sagely guide Lola against creating chaos, and when his ideas accidentally cause problems, he shows genuine concern or alarm, and gets worried when he is ignored.

** In "I Will Not Never Ever Eat a Tomato," Lola insists that she [[PickyEater won't eat various foods]] - no wonder in her age, but Charlie makes up more fanciful names for them to get her to try them.

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: In "This Is Actually My Party," Charlie says that all of his friends are invited to his birthday party, and Lola. Which comes across as a bit odd since the two are generally pretty friendly.

-->'''Lola''': One, two, three, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, sixty-four, eighty-nine, a thousand three hundred, 64 billion, 500 trillion, twenty-two thousand, twenty-two hundred, twenty-two thousand, one hundred billion and trillion [[EleventyZillion gazillion]], million, tillion, quillion, million...

* ThemedParty: In "This is Actually My Party", Charlie has a monster-themed birthday party where his friends dress as and act like monsters.

* FreePrizeAtTheBottom: In "I Am Collecting a Collection," Charlie pours all the cereal out of a box and get the second-to-last dinosaur he needs for his collection of plastic dinosaur figures.

** In the end Lola is so brainwashed (or rather, she realize her Don't-eat-what-you-don't-know attitude was totally unjustified), that she herself calls the tomatoes moonsquashers.

* StylisticSuck: The characters are depicted as childish drawings and the backgrounds are paper collages, giving the series a visual style unique to Lauren Child's work.

* FearOfThunder: Lola once had this, but it completely disappeared after Charlie came up with a solution for her sister.

* FearOfThunder: Lola once had this, but it completely disappeared after Charlie came up with a solution for his sister.

* BilingualAnimal: Discussed in the book "We Honestly Can Look After Your Dog", where the four-year-old girls Lola and Lotta claim that Sizzles (the titular dog) can speak English as well as barking, but he's never heard speaking English so they're probably just spinning yarns.

* OneTwoSkipAFew: In "I'm Really Ever Not So Well," when Lola gets a cold, Charlie tells her it's because of all of the germs in her mouth. After an extended musical sequence, she comments that there must be thousands and hundreds of germs. He suggests that she count them, so she does so.

%% * BlackBestFriend: Lola's best friend Lotta.

* {{Adorkable}}: Lola Sonner, an annoying and eccentric but unfailingly adorable little twerp.

In the end Lola is so brainwashed (or rather, she realize her Don't-eat-what-you-don't-know attitude was totally unjustified), that she herself calls the tomatoes moonsquashers.

* HairDecorations: The butterfly decorations in Lola's hair help to emphasize her femininity, as her hairstyle is fairly unisex.

* OneTwoSkipAFew: In "I'm Really Ever Not So Well," when Lola gets a cold, Charlie tells her it's because of all of the germs in her mouth. After an extended musical sequence, she comments that there must be thousands and hundreds of germs. He suggets that she count them, so she does so.

** In "I Will Not Never Ever Eat a Tomato," Lola insists that she won't eat various foods, but Charlie makes up more fanciful names for them to get her to try them.

** Morten, Marv's little brother.

* BlackBestFriend: Lola's best friend Lotta.
* BrattyHalfPint: Again, Lola.

* CloudCuckoolander: Lola.
** TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight: See YourTomcatIsPregnant.

* FourFingeredHands

* GettingReadyForBedPlot: "I'm Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed" is about Charlie trying to put Lola to bed.
* GreenAesop: In "Look After Your Planet".

* HalloweenEpisode: "What Can I Be for Halloween?"

* HilarityEnsues: Often as a result of Lola's actions.

* NameAndName: The title.

* YourTomcatIsPregnant: In one episode, Lola brings home the class guinea pig, who is called Bert. Lola insists that Bert is a female guinea pig, even though everyone else insists it's male. At the end of the story, Lola was [[TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight correct.]] Bert has guinea piglets.

''Charlie and Lola'' is a series of books by Lauren Child, later adapted into a cartoon. The original book was published in 2000. The stories focus on Lola and her older brother Charlie as well as their friends. Lola is an energetic, imaginative and random little girl; Charlie is a patient and kind older brother who has his work cut out (but is always willing) to help Lola learn and grow.

* SliceOfLife: The animated series revolves around the titular characters' everyday lives.

* NeverSayDie: Averted in "I Will Ever Never Forget You Nibbles", when Charlie and Lola's mouse dies. Charlie also explicitly states that Nibbles has died.