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* ShooOutTheClowns: MOTHER only appears during the funeral scene and the flasback sequence but has no lines in the series 2 episode "Why Do Things Have To Die?". Roger doesn't appear in the episode either but it was later lampshaded in that series finale episode "The Best of Little Howard's Big Question" in which due to a mix-up, he got paid anyway.

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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Mother

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* BigBad: Little Albert has the potential to be this.
* ButtMonkey: Big Howard and the monkeys.

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* %%* BigBad: Little Albert has the potential to be this.
* %%* ButtMonkey: Big Howard and the monkeys.



* ComicTrio: The schemer and follower alternates between MOTHER and Little Howard, where as Big Howard is mostly powerless.
* CoolOldLady: Doris
* {{Flanderization}}: Little Albert gets the opposite of most flanderizations, he's actually become a credible threat and possibly the future BigBad of the show.
* GeniusDitz: MOTHER.
* GirlOfTheWeek: Arguably, Little Susan.

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* ComicTrio: The schemer and follower alternates between MOTHER and Little Howard, where as whereas Big Howard is mostly powerless.
* %%* CoolOldLady: Doris
* {{Flanderization}}: Little Albert gets the opposite of most flanderizations, he's actually become a credible threat and possibly the future BigBad of the show.
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%%* GeniusDitz: MOTHER.
* %%* GirlOfTheWeek: Arguably, Little Susan.



* JerkAss: Roger the pigeon
* LoveableRogue: Little Howard.

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* %%* LoveableRogue: Little Howard.



* McGuffin: Big Howard's Sketchpad.

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* %%* McGuffin: Big Howard's Sketchpad.



* TeamDad: Big Howard

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* %%* TeamDad: Big Howard
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* AbsurdPhobia: In the episode "What is the World's Most Dangerous Food?", one of Little Howard's fears are coconuts because he mysteriously [[CoconutMeetsCranium got hit on the head]] with one before.


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* ComicTrio: The schemer and follower alternates between MOTHER and Little Howard, where as Big Howard is mostly powerless.


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* OncePerEpisode:
** Little Howard blowing his klaxon, causing Big Howard to suffer through an unfortunate mishap. Then...
** [[{{Catchphrase}} "I, LITTLE HOWARD, HAVE COME UP WITH ANOTHER ONE OF MY BIIIIIIIIG QUESTIONS!"]] *States the name of the episode as his question*
** A song at the end of each episode.
** [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Little Howard picking his nose]].
** An intermission during the episode which parodies advert breaks.
** Little Howard's dream sequences.


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* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Big Howard and Little Howard. Bonus points for being the main premise in "What is Funny?".


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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In Little Howard’s case, most people are not freaked out about him being a cartoon boy.
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* NeverSleepAgain: In the first episode. Little Howard takes the bed bug phrase too seriously and when MOTHER shows him that bed bugs are actually real and what they can do to him, he claims he'll never sleep again. He sticks to his word and becomes incredibly [[TheSleepless sleep-deprived]].

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Somewhere A Palaeontologist Is Crying is now Artistic License Paleontology. Bad examples and ZCE are being removed.


* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: "Could The Dinosaurs Ever Come Back" is a ''carnival'' of this, from a T-Rex with ''three'' fingers to ''Brontosaurus'' mentioned in the song. It lampshades the fact that most modern reptiles are often called dinosaurs, however.



* SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: "Could The Dinosaurs Ever Come Back" is a ''carnival'' of this, from a T-Rex with ''three'' fingers to ''Brontosaurus'' mentioned in the song. It lampshades the fact that most modern reptiles are often called dinosaurs, however.
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* NoFourthWall: There are constant ad breaks, occasionally characters refer to being 'stuck in a freeze frame' many episodes the narrator or even Little Howard talk directly to the audience.

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* NoFourthWall: There are is an entire episode which involves finding the budget so they can air the show. As well as constant ad breaks, occasionally characters refer to being 'stuck fourth wall breaking in a freeze frame' many episodes the narrator or even Little Howard talk directly to the audience.incredibly commonly.
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* NoFourthWall: There are constant ad breaks, occasionally characters refer to being 'stuck in a freeze frame' many episodes the narrator or even Little Howard talk directly to the audience.

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The show is notable for examining questions other than the standard edutainment fare, examining concepts such as scarcity, superstitions, love and TV production.

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The show is notable for examining questions other than the standard edutainment fare, examining concepts such as scarcity, superstitions, love and TV production.

The characters first appeared in Howard Read (Big Howard)'s stage shows ''The Big Howard And Little Howard Show'', ''At Home With The Howards'' and ''Little Howard and the Magic Pencil of Life and Death'', with the animation being projected on an onstage screen.
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* {{Flanderization}}: Little Albert gets the opposite of most flanderizations, he's actually become a credible threat and possibly the future [[BigBad]] of the show.

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* {{Flanderization}}: Little Albert gets the opposite of most flanderizations, he's actually become a credible threat and possibly the future [[BigBad]] BigBad of the show.



* SomwhereAPalentologistIsCrying: "Could The Dinosaurs Ever Come Back" is a ''carnival'' of this, from a T-Rex with ''three'' fingers to ''Brontosaurus'' mentioned in the song. It lampshades the fact that most modern reptiles are often called dinosaurs, however.
* SomwhereAHerpetologistIsCrying: In the same episode as above, a ''bearded dragon'' is shown savaging Big Howard's neck. In RealLife, bearded dragons are actually quite placid.

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* SomwhereAPalentologistIsCrying: SomewhereAPalaeontologistIsCrying: "Could The Dinosaurs Ever Come Back" is a ''carnival'' of this, from a T-Rex with ''three'' fingers to ''Brontosaurus'' mentioned in the song. It lampshades the fact that most modern reptiles are often called dinosaurs, however.
* SomwhereAHerpetologistIsCrying: SomewhereAHerpetologistIsCrying: In the same episode as above, a ''bearded dragon'' is shown savaging Big Howard's neck. In RealLife, bearded dragons are actually quite placid.
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[[BetterThanItSounds Only a lot more awesome than it sounds.]]

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[[BetterThanItSounds Only a lot more awesome than it sounds.]]
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* Attack of the 50 foot Whatever: littile howard grows 40 feet in why cant i be bigger?.

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* Attack of the 50 foot Whatever: littile howard AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Little Howard grows 40 feet in why cant i ''Why can't I be bigger?.bigger''?.

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