History Series / BabyEinstein

* OddballInTheSeries: ''Language Nursery'' (which was also the first video ever released) has no classical music, puppets, and is in multiple languages.

* SequelEpisode: Some people think ''Discovering Shapes'' is more of a rip-off of ''Baby Newton'' rather than a sequel since it was meant to replace it rather than spin off of it. However, 'Discovering Shapes'' would've been more of a sequel to ''Baby Newton'', since it has a variety of classical music and it is more interactive rather than just Vivaldi.

* TheVitruvianPose: ''The Vitruvian Man'' painting makes an appearance at the start of ''Baby da Vinci''.

* WashyWatchy: Seen in ''Baby Neptune'' during the Washing the Clothes puppet show when the duck ends up watching the washing machine. Due to becoming dizzy, he ends up fainting, as mentioned earlier.

* Baby Einstein: Language Nursery (1997)
* Baby Mozart - Music Festival (1998) [[note]]Re-released in 2008 & 2010 [[/note]]

* Baby Shakespeare - World of Poetry (1999) [[note]]Re-released in 2010 as ''World of Words'' [[/note]]
* Baby Van Gogh - World of Colors (2000) [[note]]Re-released in 2010 as ''World of Colors'' [[/note]]

* Baby Dolittle: Neighborhood Animals (2001)
* Baby Dolittle: World Animals (2001)
* Baby Newton - All About Shapes (2002)[[note]]Re-released as ''Baby Newton - Discovering Shapes'' [[/note]]
* Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun (2002) [[note]]Re-released in 2008 & 2010 [[/note]]

* Baby Einstein: Numbers Nursery (2003)

* Baby Noah - Animal Expedition (2004) [[note]]Re-released in 2009 as simply ''Baby Noah'' [[/note]]

* Baby's First Moves (2006) [[note]]Re-released in 2009 [[/note]]
* My First Signs (2007) [[note]]Re-released in 2009 [[/note]]
* Discovering Shapes (2007)
* Lullaby Time (2007)
* Baby's First Sounds (2008)

* World of Rhythm (2011)

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The goat puppet Vincent Van Goat from ''Baby Van Gogh'' is blue, and many other puppets throughout this specific video follow this troupe, like a pink/purple goat, a red moose, a orange rabbit, and a blue mouse.

** From Baby Shakespeare to World Animals, it focuses primarily on the main puppet of the video rather than all of them.

** The original Japanese releases of ''Neighborhood Animals'' and ''World Animals'' by Comtec Co., Ltd. under the Eduté brand feature both English and Japanese audio for all the animal names, [[TheSongRemainsTheSame except for the songs]].

* CactusPerson: The two dancing cacti seen at the beginning of ''Baby Van Gogh''.

* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: All [=DVDs=] after the 2000 release of ''Baby Van Gogh'' (excluding the 2010 release of ''World of Colors'') have Bolero omitted from the Concert Hall, most likely because Ravel's Bolero wasn't in the public domain until 2016. However, it was still left in the video itself.
** Many toys featured in the videos (for example, the Castle Pounder toy featured in the ''Baby Mozart'' video) have the company's logo found on the toy painted or taped over. However, the toy chests featured on the home media releases tell you what brand the toy is by, so it's odd that they would even put in the extra effort to censor it.

* CymbalBangingMonkey: A toy version is seen in ''Baby Shakespeare'' and ''World Animals''.

** ''Baby Bach'' doesn't have the official Baby Einstein puppets either, but still follows the same formula as the others. The first video to officially include signature puppets was ''Baby Shakespeare'' (Bard actually debuted in ''Baby Mozart'', but only appeared in one scene.)
* EducationalSong: There are many, including ''Deep Blue Sea'' from ''World Animals'' and ''I Know My Shapes'' from ''Baby Newton''.

* EverythingIsAnInstrument: In ''Meet the Orchestra'', the duck puppet plays Blue Danube with bottles.

* FloatingInABubble: In a scene from ''Baby Neptune'', the turtle and octopus puppets have a bubble-blowing contest. It ends with the octopus puppet blowing a bubble large enough to encapsulate the turtle, causing it to float away inside the bubble. The octopus then waves good-bye and laughs, which is surprisingly dark for a series geared toward literal infants.

** In ''Numbers Nursery'', he eats a flower, which makes him go crazy and make strange sounds until he runs off. Averted in ''Baby [=MacDonald=] '' where he eats a flower without any consequences. He also knocks over the tiger's block tower for no reason and doesn't know numerical order either when he mixes up the numbers 2 and 4.
** In ''On the Go'' (where he is also the titular host of the video), he doesn't know how to properly row his rowboat and gets quickly passed by the raccoon.

* HandPuppet: Most of the puppets in the older videos (before Disney started distributing the videos) are hand puppets. Some were used later but rod-controlled puppets were prominently used also.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every video up to ''Baby Wordsworth'' (excluding ''Numbers Nursery'') followed the format of Baby [x]. However, after the release of ''On the Go'', this exact title scheme was not used again til the Discovery Kit ''Baby Lullaby''.

* NamedAfterFirstInstallment: The Baby Einstein Company was originally named I Think I Can Productions, with the first video, released by Franchise/{{Gymboree}}, being titled "Baby Einstein." However, the company was initially renamed to "Aigner-Clark Productions" with the original release of ''Baby Bach'' and eventually got changed again to what it is today in 1999 after ''Baby Shakespeare'''s original release. Starting with 2001 video releases onwards, the video would be retitled "Language Nursery."

* NoPlotNoProblem: These videos don't really have a need for a plot. The target demographic wouldn't be interested anyways. The closest thing to a 'plot' in these videos would be the structure of Baby Van Gogh, where each segment is about one of six basic colors, and similar themed structures exist in other videos like World Music. Baby Bach has by far the least plot, as it barely qualifies as coherent anyways. Of course, this isn't a bad thing.

** ''World Animal Adventure'' features one in the "Horse Shoe" puppet show, when the mommy horse is playing a game of horseshoe with her foal. The first time the mommy throws the horseshoe, it ends up flying past the peg and crashing off-screen.

* {{Retool}}: Once Disney purchased the company, the videos focused more on learning more complex vocabulary (instruments, vehicles, places around town, movement) rather than simple objects due to the small amount of topics such a simple series could possibly cover. This led to three videos that feature sign language into the videos and most of the ones initially distributed by Disney adding recaps so each word be repeated at least twice, if not more in certain case, which overall made the videos longer than ever. Disney considered these videos more "educational" and added this claim to a majority of their marketing.

* TheSongRemainsTheSame: Six examples, all in foreign language versions:

* TheSpeechless: Applies to every single Baby Einstein puppet, who generally make squeaking sounds (similar to those of [[Series/TheSunnySideUpShow Chica]]'s) or similar sound effects instead of speaking. There are rare aversions to this trope though, such as Vincent Van Goat saying "merci beaucoup!" after finishing the purple painting in ''Baby Van Gogh''.

* WashyWatchy: Seen in ''Baby Neptune'' when the duck ends up watching the washing machine. Due to becoming dizzy, he ends up fainting, as mentioned earlier.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The video ''Baby Noah'' features a lot of animals you'd expect to see, such as lion, elephant, tiger, dolphin, etc. Oddly enough, in the Animals in the Outback section, one of the animals featured are wombats.

* NamedAfterFirstInstallment: The Baby Einstein Company was originally named I Think I Can Productions, with the first video, released by Franchise/{{Gymboree}}, being titled "Baby Einstein." However, the company was renamed to what it is today in 1999 after Baby Einstein's success, and the video was retitled "Language Nursery."
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Every video up to ''Baby Wordsworth'' except for ''Numbers Nursery'' follow this. ''Language Nursery'' was originally called ''Baby Einstein'' and the ''Neighborhood Animals'' and ''World Animals'' videos were originally released as ''Baby Dolittle.''

* NoPlotNoProblem: These videos don't really have a need for a plot. The target demographic wouldn't be interested anyways. The closest thing to a 'plot' in these videos would be the structure of Baby Van Gogh, where each segment is about one of the seven colors of the rainbow, and similar themed structures in other videos like World Music. Baby Bach has by far the least plot, as it barely qualifies as coherent anyways. Of course, this isn't a bad thing.

* OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople: Seen in ''Baby Newton'' when the horse's door bursts open as other puppets begin to walk in.

** ''Neighborhood Animals'' has one during the cat footprints puppet show.

* RearrangeTheSong: The bonus features of ''On the Go'' include a song titled ''The Bells on the Train'', which is just ''The Wheels on the Bus'' (which is already present in the video) with altered lyrics to feature vehicles other than a bus.

* SpiritualSuccessor: In the 2010s, Julie Aigner-Clark created one in the form of ''[=WeeSchool=]''.

* AbsenteeActor: More like Absentee Creator in this case, but Julie Aigner-Clark, the creator of the series and the narrator/speaker for nearly every single episode, does not narrate ''Baby Neptune'' (until the 2009 revision), ''Baby Galileo'', ''Baby's First Moves'' (same exception as ''Baby Neptune''), ''Discovering Shapes'', ''Lullaby Time'', and ''Baby's First Sounds''. In fact, the rendition of Humpty Dumpty featured in ''Baby's First Sounds'' was re-dubbed from its first appearance in ''Language Nursery'', most likely to remove her voice.
** While she did not narrate in either of the ''Baby Dolittle'' videos or ''Baby Newton'', she was still involved in their production.

** ''Baby da Vinci'' prominently uses three languages for a few parts of the video. Which languages are used depends on the language version: most versions use English, French, and Spanish, the Japanese dub uses English, Japanese, and Italian, the European Spanish and Portuguese dubs use English, Spanish, and Portuguese, the Catalan dub uses English, Catalan, and Portuguese and the Hebrew dub uses Hebrew, English, and French.

* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Pavlov the Dog sports the letter P on his collar, which is short for his name.

* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Has happened a few times:
** ''Language Nursery'' originally released on VHS as ''Baby Einstein'' on February 1, 1997, yet the tape has a 1996 copyright date in the credits.
** ''Baby Neptune'' released on March 18, 2003, yet has an end credit copyright date of 2002.
** ''Baby [=MacDonald=]'' released on March 16, 2004, but has an end credit copyright date of 2003.
** Almost every foreign language dub also does this, as the copyright dates featured correspond to the original American release instead of the dubbed releases.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in regards to ''Baby Bach'' and ''Baby Shakespeare'', which were both originally released one year ''before'' their end credit copyright dates (late-1998 for ''Bach'' in contrast to its 1999 end credit copyright, and late-1999 for ''Shakespeare'' in contrast to its 2000 end credit copyright).

* StockFootage: Seen in most videos, besides the ones that focus on music or language.
* ThatCloudLooksLike: Seen in a puppet show featured in ''Baby Galileo'', where Baby Galileo and his mother look at the clouds. Geese fly into the clouds above, forming a goose shape in the clouds that magically flies away.

** A good majority of foreign language productions also do this, as the copyright dates featured correspond to the original American release instead of the dubbed releases.
** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in regards to ''Baby Shakespeare'', which was both originally released one year ''before'' its end credit copyright dates (late-1999 for ''Shakespeare'').

** ''Language Nursery'' originally released on VHS as ''Baby Einstein'' in 1997, yet the tape has a 1996 copyright date in the credits.
** ''Baby Neptune'' released in March 2003, yet has an end credit copyright date of 2002.
** ''Baby [=MacDonald=]'' released in March 2004, but has an end credit copyright date of 2003.

** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in regards to ''Baby Bach'' and ''Baby Shakespeare'', which were both originally released one year ''before'' their end credit copyright dates (late-1998 for ''Bach'' and late-1999 for ''Shakespeare'').

* AbsenteeActor: Julie Aigner-Clark, the creator of the series and the narrator/speaker for nearly every single episode, does not narrate ''Baby Neptune'' (until the 2009 revision), ''Baby Galileo'', ''Baby's First Moves'' (same exception as ''Baby Neptune''), ''Discovering Shapes'', ''Lullaby Time'', and ''Baby's First Sounds''. In fact, the rendition of Humpty Dumpty featured in ''Baby's First Sounds'' was re-dubbed from its first appearance in ''Language Nursery'', most likely to remove her voice.

** The ''Baby Shakespeare'' adaptation of the ABC song is entirely in English in the Hebrew version. Other Asian-language versions skip it altogether. Justified as the Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Thai alphabets are drastically different from the Latin alphabet used in most languages.
** For some reason, the 2003 European French version of ''Neighborhood Animals'' does not dub "Old [=MacDonald=] Had a Farm," instead using the American English audio for the singing. It is not subtitled either.
** The Israeli versions of ''Neighborhood Animals'' and ''World Animals'' leave both "Old [=MacDonald=] Had a Farm" and "Deep Blue Sea" in English instead of dubbing it.
** The 2004 version of the ''Baby Newton'' song "I Know My Shapes" has all the singing parts remain in American English for the [[SameLanguageDub British dub]], whereas the speaking parts in the middle of the song are dubbed.
** The ''World Music'' song "This World, Our World" (save for a few speaking parts) isn't dubbed or subtitled at all in French or Latin Spanish. This is not the case in the Castilian Spanish and Catalan versions.
** The "World Animal Song" from ''World Animal Adventure'' re-used the Latin Spanish version for the Castilian Spanish version.

* TheSongRemainsTheSame: Five examples, all in foreign language versions:

* FloatingInABubble: This happens to the turtle puppet in ''Baby Neptune'' (in an albeit dark manner as the octopus laughs and waves good-bye).

* BilingualDialogue: ''Language Nursery'' and ''Baby's First Sounds'' received criticism for using more than one language in the same video. ''Baby's First Sounds'' uses four languages (English, French, Spanish and Chinese), while ''Language Nursery'' uses seven (English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian and Spanish). Not only that, Baby da Vinci uses three (most versions use English, French, and Spanish, the Japanese dub uses English, Japanese, and Italian, the European Spanish and Portuguese dubs use English, Spanish, and Portuguese, the Catalan dub uses English, Catalan, and Portuguese, the Hebrew dub uses Hebrew, English, and French).

* FollowtheLeader / TheRival: Many shows and franchises - such as Brainy Baby, Baby Genius and So Smart! - try to copy or inspire it, but some of them may or may not be as successful as Baby Einstein. Even then, they do meet the needs for young children and have inspired many [[EdutainmentShow edutainment shows]].