History Series / AmazingAnimals

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: A ''Tyrannosaurus'' is one of the cartoon animals.

* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse with Henry's reports.

* UnreliableNarrator: The focus of an entire segment of each episode, where Henry clearly [[CriticalResearchFailure didn't do any research]] for his report and explains 'facts' about animals that are clearly false (such as passenger pigeons building flying saucers and leaving Earth, or basking sharks being island-eating, cold-blooded killers). The Narrator has to step in at the end to explain the truth.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** One episode ("Scaly Animals") had Henry saying the title card (interrupting the narrator in the process) and doing most of the narrating for the episode, while the narrator did the "special report" (even screwing it up intentionally to get back at Henry). The episode also ended in a musical number, unusual for the show.
** The Golden Gecko Awards did not appear in "Underground Animals".
** It's happened at least once where Henry's report actually wasn't wildly inaccurate.
** "Around the World" revolved around [[ContinuityPorn revisiting places Henry had been to in previous episodes]] and also ended on a musical number.
** "Animal Partners" features a quiet, banjo ending for the credits theme, instead of the show's usual leitmotif.

* DifferentInEveryEpisode: When Henry does his report, he brings his backpack searching for it tossing a pencil case, a ball, and something related to the episode.

* Timmyinawell: A reference to the old joke is seemingly found in ''Animal Helpers'':

The joke is later recreated for real in the episode, where [[spoiler:Henry too falls into the well, and Goodie is to save him and Timmy. Henry refuses to be saved however, ordering Goody to drop the rope. Goody does so accordingly, sending Henry back into the well. Timmy has climbed out of the well, however.]]

* ToiletHumour: Implied briefly at the end of Animal Partners.

* NatureisNotNice: Discussed and, ultimately, downplayed. The show doesn't shy away from the more gruesome facts of life, such as when predators hunt prey, and Henry himself can be squeamish about it. But both he and the narrator acknowledge, in the end, that animals don't do what they do to be cruel, but because they want to survive like every other animal, and sometimes the way they evolved means they can't do anything else.

** "Rats."

* NotSoAboveItAll: Downplayed, but occasionally the narrator does things that would be expected of Henry, like getting freaked out by a moray eel (and [[NightmareFuel Henry's reflection]]) in "Scary Animals", or fighting with Henry over looking through a pair of binoculars in "Animal Eggs".

* PredatorsAreMean: Heavily averted. While scary at times, predators and scavengers are treated as just as dignified and worthy of respect as part of nature's complex ecosystems as the herbivores. Henry is often squeamish when predators are shown hunting, but both he and the narrator acknowledge that the predators are just doing what they do to survive.

* PredatorsAreMean: Heavily averted. While scary at times, predators and scavengers are treated as just as dignified and worthy of respect as part of nature's complex ecosystems as the herbivores. Henry often scolds predators and shows sympathy for the prey, but both he and the narrator acknowledge that the predators are just doing what they do to survive.

* HoisByHisOwnPetard: Aside from Henry and the narrator trading barbs, most of the show's humour comes from Henry overestimating his own abilities/knowledge and the results backfiring in his face, much to the narrator's amusement/exasperation.

* CarnivoresAreMean: Heavily averted. While scary at times, predators and scavengers are treated as just as dignified and worthy of respect as part of nature's complex ecosystems as the herbivores.
* CatchPhrase: Several.

* PredatorsAreMean: Averted. Henry often scolds predators and shows sympathy for their prey, but both he and the Narrator acknowledge that the predators are just doing what they do to survive.

* TyrannosaurusRex: One of the cartoon animals.

** Henry is seemingly more hospitable than other episodes in "Animal Helpers".

* EekAMouse: In the cartoons, the elephant is always scared of the mouse.

* ScienceMarchesOn: In "Extinct Animals", after hearing about the Jamaican Iguana, Henry laments "Sometimes I wish my relatives got lost, but not forever!" Henry needn't worry, as 8 years before the episode, the Jamaican Iguana was rediscovered, albeit in extremely fragmented populations.