History Series / TheAdventuresOfSlimGoodbody

* IrishMob: Phineas Finicky, the brains behind the EvilDuo of Mary Pickfood and Finicky, has shades of this, given his accent and his connections. He begins most sentences with either "Saints preserve us" or "Sure an'".

* SecretIdentity: Slim leads a strange double life, in that both his alter ego (Captain Halen Hearty) and Slim himself work for the same organization. Nevertheless, his co-workers never realize that Slim is the captain---not even his RobotBuddy B-1, who [[UpToEleven activates the machine that turns Halen into Slim!!]]

* EvilDuo: The villains are generally puppets, and usually come in pairs. Perhaps so they can [[ThoseTwoBadGuys discuss their evil plans with each other]].

* ScienceFantasy: The series overall has a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture aesthetic to it, but mix in some Magitek and the odd evil wizard, and this is what you get.

* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: This is a rare case where the ''heroes'' actually have access to this! Body Control has a Surveill-o-scope in it that lets the heroes spy on the villains ''if'' they know where the villains are. Justified in that [a] Magitek exists in this setting, and [b] Body Control is heavily implied to be a government-funded operation.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Body Control has a transportizer that lets Slim quickly get to other areas of the city, or even teleport to his blimp. In later episodes, Slim has a wrist-mounted teleporter that his enemies don't seem to know about, and it him out of jams, e.g. being more or less kidnapped or locked into an announcer's booth in a stadium after cutting the wires to the microphones.

He got his start in TV by starring in a segment on the popular Series/CaptainKangaroo show, The Adventure of Slim Goodbody in Nutri City, along with a cast of characters that were mostly puppets. In his Nutri City series, Slim himself was a superhero who worked a Body Control, making sure that good nutrition and health prevailed in the city, foiling the plans of various villains who wanted to wreck these things.

It was so good, in fact, that after just a few years, PBS offered Slim his own TV show.

* DramaticUnmask: Agent B-12 has removed the Paper Thin Disguise of The Gobbler and Stuffin dramatically on camera, revealing who they really are. And she's done it twice, no less!
* EdibleThemeNaming: A variation: agents of Body Control are named after B-vitamins. It's stated in passing that there are other agents of body control who we never see on screen who are named after other vitamins.

** Professor Lobe and Sarah Bellum form another duo, with Bellum being considerably more worried about what Slim will do to stop their plans that Lobe is.
** Mary Pickfood and Phineas Finicky are constantly pursuing {{GetRichQuickScheme}}s, with Finicky coming up with the plans and Mary trying to talk him into taking the money they have and running away with it.

* GladIThoughtOfIt: Another EvilDuo named Sal Soda and Sarah Heartburn came up with an evil plan that Sal had to explain to Sarah in deep detail--Sarah kept poo-pooing Sal's idea until he was done explaining it, at which point Sarah thought it was brilliant and took credit for it, to Sal's shock.

* JustAMachine: Played with in a very odd way: the resident RobotBuddy, B-1, acknowledged that a robot like him can't GrowBeyondTheirProgramming, and indeed can't do anything at all unless he's programmed to do it. In fact, he crashes if he doesn't regularly receive new data via a tape drive in his chest. Despite all this, none of the other characters ever treat him with any less respect than they would a human, and in general they treat the emotions of machines with the same validity they would a human's emotions.

* MonsterProtectionRacket: A variation: one of the many GetRichQuickScheme attempts that Mary Pickfood and Finicky tried was burning some fake-food leftovers of a previous scheme to create a city-sized cloud of green smoke, then selling the gauze wrappers of that fake food as smoke-blocking masks. They make a ''literal'' pile of money doing this.

* SuperStrength: The pilot implies Slim has this, but it never gets shown or addressed in the series proper.

* UndyingLoyalty: It actually seems like Stuffin', the henchman of The Gobbler, has this toward The Gobbler: at one point The Gobbler ate so much, he couldn't get up from his chair---and this happened at the exact moment when his identity and Stuffin's identities were revealed. Instead of [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaving his boss to be captured]], he slowed himself down by ''carrying The Gobbler away''!

* {{Zeerust}}: This sci-fi series was produced in the late 1970s, and it shows: B-1 is an advanced robot who could easily pass the Turing test, has the ability to walk around on his own, and can even recognize faces. However, he needs to have floppy media inserted into him regularly, or his programming out-and-out crashes. What floppy media is this? [[CassetteFuturism A cassette of magnetic tape]].

He got his start in TV by starring in a segment on the popular Series/CaptainKangaroo show, The Adventure of Slim Goodbody in Nutri City, where he was a superhero who made sure that good nutrition and health prevailed in the city, and foiled the plans of various villains to wreck these things. It was better than it sounded.

* SkewedPriorities: Slim focuses on controlling the damage the villains deal over capturing them, to the point where, once he foils their plans, he makes zero effort to catch them. This enables them to come back with another plan at a later date.

* {{Magitek}}: Several villains use devices on other characters that have a mental effect on them, e.g. giving them bad habits or making them no longer feel hungry. They refer to these effects as spells, implying their devices are this.

* IrishMob: Phineas Finicky, the brains behind the EvilDuo of Mary Pickfood and Finisky, has shades of this, given his accent. He begins most sentences with either "Saints preserve us" or "Sure an'".