History WesternAnimation / AngelaAnaconda

* ArtisticLicense: In "Fall Weather Friends", Nanette is said to have laryngitis, but is still able to speak, as though she had just lost her voice rather than actually ''been infected with laryngitis.''

* BreatherEpisode: "Saving Private Gordy," which doesn't have Nanette nor a sociopathic ImagineSpot and instead shows Angela's dim brothers bonding with the sensitive Gordy while Angela's desperately trying to protect her friend from injury and suffering her own [[AmusingInjury amusing injuries]]. The heartwarming only increases when Coach Rhinehart walks into the room and only yells at Gordy because they're making a chocolate souffle when his favorite flavor is strawberry.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Well, if you count 'grey' as 'technicolor'. Due to the animation being assembled from black-and-white photographes, everyone looks like they have grayscale skin.

%%* HenpeckedHusband: Mr. Brinks.

* SociopathicHero: Angela can come off as this, as her {{Imagine Spot}}s all involve brutalizing or even killing Nanette Manoir in the most brutal ways possible (even via ''cannibalism'' once!). Nanette herself, while obnoxiously conceited, hardly does anything even close to warranting such hostility.

* DumbMuscle: Angela's brothers; great sports players, but very, very stupid.

** Angela herself tries to act the part, but it [[NotSoAboveItAll hardly ever works]]. This is most cleary expressed in her [[VerbalTic Verbal Tics]]; her tendency to speak without contractions, using 'on account of' instead of 'because', calling people by FullNameBasis and using [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundant sentences which are redundant and repeat themselves]] all give her the air of a child trying to sound more mature than she actually is.

* ExpositoryThemeTune: the theme song seems to start like this, with Angela promising to introduce all of her friends. But then Nanette tries to pull off a HostileShowTakeover, which leads Angela to turn the song into a TheVillainSucksSong.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* PepperSneeze: One episode is centered around it.

* ShowWithinAShow: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X57LrcA_TDs One whole episode]] was about Angela and her friends going to see ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}: TheMovie'', of all things. Said episode was shown before said movie on both theatrical and DVD versions.
** Though when it aired as an actual episode in the show, they [[WritingAroundTrademarks removed all mention]] of ''Digimon'' and called it Mega Giants.

* GenerationXerox: Angela's grandmother looks exactly like Angela, but with white hair.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Nanette is something of a subversion--pretty much everyone realizes how mean and horrible she is, with the notable exception of Mrs. Brinks.
** And even Mrs. Brinks has the occasional donning moment, like one episode where it ends with Mrs. Brinks finding out Nanette wrote rude things about her in a letter to Angela under an alias.

** While not as bad as Johnny, Angela can have her moments of this. In the dog-walking episode, she thinks three times ten is "at least over forty". What the-?!
*** It's mentioned in "Cabin Fever" that she once tried to fake appendicitis but got caught because she thought her appendix was in her ''foot''.

* AttentionWhore: Nanette loves being the center of attention, and if anyone or anything (but especially Angela) takes the spotlight away from her, she will conspire to take them down.

* FunnyBackGroundEvent: In one episode, pasta sauce falls into Gordy's shoe, causing his foot to swell up. In a later scene focussed on Angela and Johnny, Gordy can be seen in the background as Gina helps him get his shoe off.

Interesting to note, ''Angela Anaconda'' actually started off as a series of animated shorts on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam''. When it was developed into its own show, it ended up airing on what was then [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]] in the U.S. When Creator/{{Disney}} bought Fox Family and changed the network entirely, reruns returned to Nickelodeon (which also aired the show internationally). Funny enough, another ''[=KaBlam!=]'' short, ''WesternAnimation/UntalkativeBunny'', was later adapted as a full TV series, which also aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Angela (The Choleric), Gordy (The Phlegmatic), Gina (The Melancholic), and Johnny (The Sanguine).

%%* DisappearedDad: Gina.

* AnachronismStew: the level of technology in the show implies that it's set in than-current times, at the TurnOfTheMillennium. But the use of black-and-white photography in the animation and the clothing (espacially the fact that all the girls, even the Tomboy Angela, wear dresses), gives the impression that it's a lot more old-timey.

* BigBeautifulWoman: Gina Lash is on the heavy side since she eats a lot. Not only does this fail to stop Gordy Rhinehart from loving her, but in "Everybody Loves Gina", she models for Geneva, who compliments the girl on her big beautiful curves.

* BilingualBonus: Just from her last name, Nanette apparently has some French ancestry and peppers her speak with various French words. However, anyone with even just the most rudimentary knowledge of the French-language would be able to tell that Nanette clearly doesn't understand French ''at all''; or at least as well as she thinks. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] on the show itself when an ''actual'' French exchange student (who actually ''can'' speak French) visits and very nearly exposes this secret. It's also lampshaded all the time by Angela herself, who's constantly berating Nanette for how "un-French" she is. Among other things, Nanette claimed in one episode that "viola" is the French word for "violin," when in reality, a viola is entirely different instrument from a violin--the ''actual'' French word for violin is "violon."

* FaceHeelTurn: It is revealed in "Brinks of No Return" that Mrs. Brinks was once a much friendlier person before she started to teach Nanette.

* HeldBackInSchool: Candy May for her low level of intelligence.

* LotsOfLuggage: An episode had the AlphaBitch Nanette assigned to hike with the same team as Angela and her friends. Nanette demands that the others help her carry what she packed, and at one point pulls out a hair dryer and asking where she can find an outlet.

* ShoutOut: Mrs. Yamaguchi appears to sound like a certain [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} soup nazi]]...

* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: "January" hardly slips off the tongue easily when that's your given name. [[RealityIsUnrealistic It's not unheard of]], but it's ''very'' uncommon.

* CoolOldLady: Angela's grandmother, who goes on all sorts of wild adventures and even keeps [[CoolPet an alligator]] as a pet. Notably, she [[GenerationXerox looks just like Angela, but with white hair]], so although Angela is unnerved by (and yet still admires) her wildness, it's implied that this will be her in the future.

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* AnachronismStew: the level of technology in the show implies that it's set in than-current times, at the TurnOfTheMillennium. But the use of black-and-white photography in the animation and the clothings (espacially the fact that all the girls, even the Tomboy Angela, wear dresses), gives the impression that it's a lot more old-timey.

* BlandNameProduct: Converse shoes in the show, all of which are low-tops, have the 'CONVERSE ALL★STAR' text on the patch on the tongue replaced with three black stars. Some also have a white star patch on the side that faces away from the other foot.

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Angela (The Melancholic), Gordy (The Phlegmatic), Gina (The Choleric), and Johnny (The Sanguine).

* BlackComedyCannibalism: One ImagineSpot of Angela's had she going to cannibal restaurant and ordering Nanette and Mrs. Brinks for dinner.

* DumbassHasAPoint: Angela in "Hot Bob and Chocolate". She unscrambles the sentence cards to read "I love Bob and hot chocolate". While Nanette teases her as it should say "Bob and I love hot chocolate", the fact that Mrs. Brinks doesn't tell Angela it's incorrect shows that Mrs. Brinks does at least acknowledge that games like these ''do'' have multiple solutions.

* FreeRangeChildren: Played with - the characters all appear to have a surprising amount of freedom for third graders.

* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: "January" hardly slips off the tongue easily when that's your given name.

* AttentionWhore: Ninette loves being the center of attention, and if anyone or anything (but espacially Angela) takes the spotlight away from her, she will conspire to take them down.
** Angela herself shows these tendencies from time to time. Many episodes center around her desire to be TV or even just be the center of attention in school for a day. Although she's not nearly as bad as Ninette is about it.

* BigBeautifulWoman: Gina Lash is on the heavy side since she eats a lot. Not only does this fail to stop Gordy Rinehart from loving her, but in "Everybody Loves Gina", she models for Geneva, who compliments the girl on her big beautiful curves.

* BreatherEpisode: "Saving Private Gordy," which doesn't have Nanette nor a sociopathic ImagineSpot and instead shows Angela's dim brothers bonding with the sensitive Gordy while Angela's desperately trying to protect her friend from injury and suffering her own [[AmusingInjury amusing injuries]]. The heartwarming only increases when Coach Rinehart walks into the room and only yells at Gordy because they're making a chocolate souffle when his favorite flavor is strawberry.

* JerkJock: Angela's brothers, and occasionally Coach Rinehart.
* JockDadNerdSon: Coach Rinehart and Gordy are a subversion of the depiction; the dad is a hugely sporty guy, and Gordy is a frail and sickly nerd, but they deeply love each other and happily accept their differences, even trying to find common ground. Coach Rinehart in particular is very proud of Gordy's skill at cooking.

** "Enter the Angela". Tired of her brothers physically bullying her, she asks Coach Rinehart to teach her some martial arts moves, notably the "Flipping". Very anxious to try it out, she tries to provoke everyone to attack her... before doing it to Nanette. Surprisingly, [[OutOfCharacterMoment Angela actually expresses shock at this]] and says she didn't mean it. After that, she gets a reputation of a bully, even [[NotWhatItLooksLike flipping Uncle Nicky]]... and ends up putting ''herself'' through the humiliation conga!

* NiceGuy: Mr. Brinks and Angela's dad are among the nicest characters on the show. Gordy's dad, Coach Rinehart, also counts because he's very accepting toward his son not being interested in sports and is very proud of Gordy's cooking talent.