History WesternAnimation / ActionLeagueNOW

* SpinOff: Of ''KaBlam!'', which itself is a spinoff of ''AllThat''.

-->'''Meltman:''' Hey Bill! [[IncrediblyLamePun Don't bother reading his lifeline!]]

As an antholology segment, the series lasted from 1996 to 2000. Their spin-off show consisted of combinations of their old shorts into longer episodes.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The Action League accountant, due to The Flesh's idiocy, ended up being wrecked in a blender and subsequently "operated" on by Bill. The result? [[BiologicalMashup Hodge]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Podge]].

* BiologicalMashup: just take a guess at which of the two {{Big Bad}}s it is.

** Stinky Dive: TheLancer

* BalloonBelly: The Chief after being cursed to have a huge appetite by a fortune teller. Eventually, he looks like a bowling ball with a head and limbs. [[BeyondTheImpossible Remember, he's a plastic toy when this happens.]]

* SeaMonster: The giant trophy bass, as a parody of {{Jaws}}.

* AnimeAnatomy: The Flesh, being an action figure, doesn't have genitalia.

* [[IdiotHero Idiot Heroes]]:

* ThePoochie: Bill the Lab Guy's teenage daughter, Quarky. Introduced in ''KaBlam!'s'' second season premier (if we're going by production order), and was in a bunch of episodes from that season. Fans found her rather annoying, and after "The Quarky Syndrome", she never appeared again.

* RalphWiggum: The Flesh is by far the least intelligent character on the show, often being this.

** To see more, see ''KaBlam'''s page for GettingCrapPastTheRadar. [[Radar/KaBlam Courtesy link]].

* [[IdiotHero Idiot Heroes]]: And '''how'''.

* NoNameGiven (The Chief, The Mayor, etc)
*** Their first names are "[[SpellMyNameWithAThe The]]" and their last names are Chief/Mayor/Flesh.
*** It's revealed in one episode that the mayor's name is "Louis D. Mayor", though it could be fake, due to him pretending to be a film director at the time.
*** Meltman's driver's license gives his name as, "Barry Meltman"
*** The Flesh says that his middle name is, "Murray" in one episode, but we never learn his full name.

While the show aired on Nick for a short time, no one remembers it being a spin-off (more people forgot it got it's own show and only aired as part of ''KaBlam!''). And of course, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork did Nick pay attention to ''anything'' related to the show?]]. The show aired on Nicktoons until recently.

* AnimeAnatomy (The Flesh, being an action figure, doesn't have genitalia.)

* BalloonBelly: The Chief after being cursed to have a huge appetite by a fortune teller. Eventually, he looks like a bowling ball with a head and limbs. [[[BeyondTheImpossible remember, he's a plastic toy when this happens.]]

* CatchPhrase: "There is nothing I can do." If this editor recalls correctly, the Chief [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] it once.
** "Let me guess; There's nothing you can do!" "Correct."
*** "Oh no! I was afraid of this!"
** The Chief had "Blast it!" and The Flesh had "Ouchies!"
** The Mayor had "I hate Mondays" almost every time he was crushed.
*** Also he had: "Uh oh, here's trouble..."
** '''YOU MORONS!'''

* CriticalResearchFailure: Hilariously lampshaded by The Mayor.
-->Thunder doesn't fly! It's a noise!!
** Also by Stinky:
-->"[[{{Koan}} Remember, a butterfly does not need wings to fly.]]"
-->"Wait a minute, yes it does!"
-->"You know what I mean!"

* GallowsHumor: Obviously done by the Mayor, but the League can be just as bad with it, as seen in "Incident at Chlorine Lake" where a swimmer gets eaten and the trophy bass barfs up his ''hand'':

-->Stinky: I don't know Thundergirl, what's the difference between Meltman and a sack of manure?
-->Thundergirl: The sack!

* MostCommonSuperpower: Hilariously, Thundergirl.

* {{Narm}}: Any scene trying to be "emotional" or "dramatic"...however, given the type of humor this show has, it was most likely intended.

* PresidentEvil: (The Mayor might count)

Our heroes were The Flesh (a [[HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]] doll modified to replace his hips/loincloth with a ken type bulge who was described as "super-strong and super-naked"), Thunder Girl (who just flew around and complained about how stupid her teammates were, even though she could be just as clueless as the others), Stinky Diver (a loose cannon with a thick British accent and perpetual body odor) and Melt-Man (a not-too-bright melted {{GI Joe}}-like figurine "with the power to... ''melt!''"). They tended to suffer horrible injuries.

* BalloonBelly: The Chief after being cursed to have a huge appetite by a fortune teller. [[BeyondTheImpossible Eventually, he looks like a bowling ball with a head and limbs]].

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Hilariously lampshaded by The Mayor.
-->Thunder doesn't fly! It's a noise!!
** Also by Stinky:
-->"[[{{Koan}} Remember, a butterfly does not need wings to fly.]]"
-->"Wait a minute, yes it does!"
-->"You know what I mean!"

** The Mayor counts too. He's always quick to call the League idiots, despite half his evil plans being ones that are clearly not well thought out.

* DroppedABridgetOnHim: At the end of "Thunder and Lightning, Lightning was unmasked to be [[spoiler: The Mayor]].

Originally a segment on {{Nickelodeon}}'s AnimatedAnthology ''{{Kablam}}!'', ''ActionLeagueNOW''! centered on the crudely stop-motion-animated adventures of four superhero toys, who were forever going off on missions that were either ill-defined or just plain weird, and nearly always involved trying to stop the corrupt "The Mayor" in some zany scheme of his. What made it distinct was that the toys were all shown in their "natural state" of being 6 inches tall in a human world, seldom even moving on their own (unless being thrown or the like, which is why the show was sometimes described as being filmed in "Chuck-imation").

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: The voices were provided by the members of Pittsburgh's WDVE Morning Show, leading to this trope for those in western Pennsylvania.