History Series / DieSendungMitDerMaus

* RoadSignReversal: Totally subverted. An arrow in the mountains points to...wherever, we'll never know, the slope is far to steep for the free-climbing mouse and elephant. The mouse solves it pragmatically by turning the arrow around to point to the earth and make an impromptu picnic.
* ThePigpen: Jule from the song "Jule wäscht sich nie" ("Julia never washes").

[[caption-width-right:300:[[CatchPhrase ...and of course with the mouse and the elephant!]] [[AndZoidberg (And the duck.)]]]]

* AnimalsNotToScale: The [[RodentsOfUnusualSize mouse is twice as big]] as the elephant!

* TheDitz: The duck.
* TheOneWith: The title of the show. (This is basically a IconicCharacterForgottenTitle that was made official.)
* ThePigpen: Jule from the song "Jule wäscht sich nie" ("Julia never washes").

* VerySpecialEpisode: The show also doesn't refrain from tackling relatively serious topics, like the Chernobyl disaster or how life during the post-[[WorldWarTwo war]] era was.

While the German public broadcasters often have to take flak for shallow programming in spite of their "culture and education mandate", this show is often cited as a counter-example. And with reason, for ''Die Maus'' is very popular amongst young and old, owning its continuous [[LongRunner existence since 1971]] to a high quality [[EdutainmentShow mix of education and entertainment]].

* LongRunner: 40 years and still going strong.

While the German public broadcasters often have to take flak for shallow programming in spite of their "culture and education mandate", this show is often cited as a counter-example. And with reason, for ''Die Maus'' is very popular amongst young [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids and old]], owning its continuous [[LongRunner existence since 1971]] to a high quality [[EdutainmentShow mix of education and entertainment]].

* AardmanAnimations: The newest development is Aardman Animations' ''ShaunTheSheep'' being [[strike: [[IncrediblyLamePun shawn]]]] shown in the last story segment.

In the late 1980s or early 1990s a selection of episodes aired on Australian television, as ''Mouse TV'' or ''The Show with the Mouse''. The voice-over explanations were dubbed into English; the story segments were selected from those, such as the Little Mole stories, that were not primarily verbal. The Australian dub has since been exported worldwide.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: It's a TV programme. Featuring a Mouse.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheBox: It's a TV programme. Featuring a Mouse.

* [[AndroidsArePeopleToo Muroids are Mice Too]]: The mouse evidently has lots of cyborg parts, as an in-built alarm clock, springs in her legs, a nose that can be turned into a propeller or digging machine, etc. etc.

* NoExportForYou: Part of the show actually. The "international" (read: Australian) version seems to have various segments lobbed off and only focuses on the "how it's made" segments and the animated segments featuring the mouse and his friends. Various material licensed from other studios like the The ''Captain Bluebear'' segment and ''ShaunTheSheep'' segment does not air on that version of the show. Understandable since that they are third party segments and may have licensing clauses that prevent them from being resold as part of another show, as they may be aired as either part of a different show or on their own in other countries. Additionally, none of the musical segments were ever exported either, although Schnappi made it worldwide [[MemeticMutation by different means]].

* EasternEuropeanAnimation: The Little Mole, a Czech cartoon character[[note]]"Krteček" in his home country.[[/note]], became famous in Germany by regularly starring in the first story segment.

* EasternEuropeanAnimation: The Little Mole, a Czech cartoon character[[hottip:*:"Krteček" in his home country.]], became famous in Germany by regularly starring in the first story segment.

* {{Anthology}}

** ''Aus, die Maus!'' -- (literally ''Off, the mouse!'', meaning ''[[LooneyTunes That's all, folks!]]''): Like all of the above catchphrases, well known among German native speakers. Even Hades uses [[MemeticMutation a variation of this phrase]] in the German dub of [[{{Disney/Hercules}} Disney's Hercules]]!

* LongRunner: 40 years and still going strong.
* NoExportForYou: Part of the show actually. The "international" (read: Australian) version seems to have various segments lobbed off and only focuses on the "how it's made" segments and the animated segments featuring the mouse and his friends. Various material licensed from other studios like the The ''Captain Bluebear'' segment and ''ShaunTheSheep'' segment does not air on that version of the show. Understandable since that they are third party segments and may have licensing clauses that prevent them from being resold as part of another show, as they may be aired as either part of a different show or on their own in other countries. Additionally, none of the musical segments were ever exported either, although Schnappi made it worldwide [[MemeticMutation by different means]].
* SignatureSoundEffect: The mouse, elephant and duck segments have very distinctive sound effects.

** Also ''Series/CaptainBluebear'', thanks to ''Die Maus'' probably WalterMoers' most famous creation.

* WalterMoers: His character ''Series/CaptainBluebear'' became famous by regularly staring in the last story segment.

Outright iconic is the style of show host Armin Maiwald's voice-over explanations of what is going on on screen. Hence you can [[strike: see]] hear it often being [[AffectionateParody parodied]] in GermanMedia, complete with the TheJimmyHartVersion of the title theme.

* NoExportForYou: Part of the show actually. The "international" (read: Australian) version seems to have various segments lobbed off and only focuses on the "how it's made" segments and the animated segments featuring the mouse and his friends. Various material licensed from other studios like the The ''Captain Bluebear'' segment and ''ShaunTheSheep'' segment does not air on that version of the show. Understandable since that they are third party segments and may have licensing clauses that prevent them from being resold as part of another show, as they may be aired as either part of a different show or on their own in other countries. Additionally, none of the musical segments were ever exported either, although Schnappi made it worldwide by different means.

* TheOneWith: The title of the show. (This is basically a ReverseShazam that was made official.)

''Die Sendung mit der Maus'' (''"The Programme with the Mouse"'') is an educational tv-series for children, by the [[GermanTVStations German public broadcasting station ARD]]. An international version with English dubbing has been in Australia and airs as ''Mouse TV''.

''Die Sendung mit der Maus'' (''The Programme with the Mouse'') is an educational tv-series for children, by the [[GermanTVStations German public broadcasting station ARD]].

* EarWorm: The "Music/SchnappiDasKleineKrokodil" song, which made it's debut appearance on the show before becoming a nationwide phenomenon, and later snowballed into a worldwide phenomenon by means of MemeticMutation.

* PeripheryDemographic: The average fan may be as old as the show...
* ReverseShazam: The show's original title was ''Lach- und Sachgeschichten für Fernsehanfänger'' (roughly: ''Laughter- and Non-Fiction-Stories for TV-Newbies''). But after the orange mouse was introduced, everyone called it just "the programme with the mouse". [[ArtifactTitle (The "Lach- und Sachgeschichten"-part of the old title is still present in the title segment though)]].

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: This show is also very popular amongst adults. Partly because they know the show from their own childhood, partly because, hey, where else will you get the production of an airplane or a food product explained that comprehensibly?
** The popularity of the educational segments led to a SpinOff which featured only a selection of them (probably because the [[TastesLikeDiabetes cutesy shorts]] didn't appeal as much to the PeripheryDemographic).

''DieSendungMitDerMaus'' (''The Programme with the Mouse'') is an educational tv-series for children, by the [[GermanTVStations German public broadcasting station ARD]].