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** Veronica was dumb enough to play her sad song to lions right next to them, which ends on her being eaten by one.
** Jezebel literally walked right into the mouth of a crocodile, which unsurprisingly eats her.

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** Veronica was dumb enough to play her sad song to lions right next to them, which ends on her being eaten by one.
a deaf one who was immune to her BrownNote.
** Jezebel literally walked right into the mouth of a crocodile, crocodile because she wasn't watching where she was going, which unsurprisingly eats her.



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In "Not Now, Bernard", the main character tells his parents that there's a monster that's about to come and gobble him up, but they both keep dismissing him, even at the end when the monster tells Bernard's mother that he ate Bernard.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: UnusuallyUninterestingSight:
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In "Not Now, Bernard", the main character tells his parents that there's a monster that's about to come and gobble him up, but they both keep dismissing him, even at the end when the monster tells Bernard's mother that he ate Bernard.Bernard.
** The zookeeper chasing the crocodile that ultimately eats Jezebel scolds the animal as if it just peed on the carpet, as opposed to it eating the "best girl in the world".
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* NeatFreak: Jezebel has an immaculate bedroom and eats neatly.

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* NeatFreak: Jezebel Jezebel, from "Super Dooper Jezebel", has an immaculate bedroom and eats neatly.



* NoseNuggets: "Super Dooper Jezebel" is about a girl who's perfect in every way and delights in telling other kids how to behave. She tells another girl off for picking her nose, saying her nose will grow long and fat, like a carrot.

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* NoseNuggets: "Super Dooper Jezebel" is about a girl who's Jezebel prides herself on being perfect in every way and delights in telling other kids how to behave. She tells another girl off for picking her nose, saying her nose will grow long and fat, like a carrot.



* SpitOutAShoe: When the Prime Minister hears about Jezebel, he sends her a special medal for being good. One day, Jezebel's so busy telling the others not to run, she walks right into the jaws of a crocodile that's escaped from the zoo.

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* SpitOutAShoe: When the Prime Minister hears about Jezebel, he sends her a special medal for being good. One day, Jezebel's so busy telling the others other kids not to run, she walks right into the jaws of a crocodile that's escaped from the zoo.
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* DeafComposer: Ms. Leonie from "The Sad Story of Veronica who Played the Violin" is a deaf music teacher.

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* DeafComposer: Ms. Leonie Leonie, from "The Sad Story of Veronica who Played the Violin" Violin", is a deaf music teacher.
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The book spells the title as "Super Dooper Jezebel"


* AnimalLover: Jessie from "I Want a Cat" wants a cat and later a dog, and she's jealous of her friends who all have pets.

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* AnimalLover: Jessie Jessie, from "I Want a Cat" Cat", wants a cat and later a dog, and she's jealous of her friends who all have pets.



* NoseNuggets: In "Super-Duper Jezebel", Jezebel tells another girl off for picking her nose, saying her nose will grow long.

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* NoseNuggets: In "Super-Duper Jezebel", Jezebel "Super Dooper Jezebel" is about a girl who's perfect in every way and delights in telling other kids how to behave. She tells another girl off for picking her nose, saying her nose will grow long.long and fat, like a carrot.



* SpitOutAShoe: "Super Dooper Jezebel" is about a girl who's perfect in every way and delights in telling other kids how to behave. When the Prime Minister hears about her, he sends her a special medal for being good. One day, Jezebel's so busy telling the others not to run, she walks right into the jaws of a crocodile that's escaped from the zoo.

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* SpitOutAShoe: "Super Dooper Jezebel" is about a girl who's perfect in every way and delights in telling other kids how to behave. When the Prime Minister hears about her, Jezebel, he sends her a special medal for being good. One day, Jezebel's so busy telling the others not to run, she walks right into the jaws of a crocodile that's escaped from the zoo.



* StillSucksThumb: In "Super Duper Jezebel", Jezebel tells off two kids for sucking their thumbs, believing it'll give them bad teeth.

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* StillSucksThumb: In "Super Duper Dooper Jezebel", Jezebel tells off two kids for sucking their thumbs, believing it'll give them bad teeth.



** "Super Duper Jezebel" ends on Jezebel winning an award for being so well-behaved... only to be eaten by a crocodile.

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** "Super Duper Dooper Jezebel" ends on Jezebel winning an award for being so well-behaved... only to be eaten by a crocodile.

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* AnimatedAdaptation: And how!

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* AdultsAreUseless: In "Not Now, Bernard", Bernard's parents don't even notice that their son has been eaten by a monster.
* AmazingTechnicolourWildlife: Elmer is a multicoloured, checkered elephant.
* AnimalLover: Jessie from "I Want a Cat" wants a cat and later a dog, and she's jealous of her friends who all have pets.
* AnimatedAdaptation: And how!It's all cartoon versions of kids' books.
* AnthropomorphicFood: One story involves a monster eating some "banana people".



* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: The Princess spends a lot of "I Want My Potty" calling out for said potty.
* CatConcerto: In "I Want a Cat", Jessie howls at night as part of pretending she's a cat.
* DeafComposer: Ms. Leonie from "The Sad Story of Veronica who Played the Violin" is a deaf music teacher.
* DeathOfAChild: Bernard, Veronica, and Jezebel all seem to be about elementary school age, but they still get EatenAlive by a monster, lion, and crocodile respectively.
* DownerEnding: "I Want My Potty" ends with the Princess wetting her pants on the floor.
* DreadfulMusician: Veronica was initially such a bad violinist that her music teacher moved overseas and the new one was deaf.
* EatenAlive:
** Bernard gets eaten by a monster.
** Veronica gets eaten by a lion.
** Jezebel gets eaten by a crocodile.
** Some banana people get eaten by a monster.



* NeverMyFault: "Oscar Gets the Blame".
* NotNowKiddo: One of the episodes is entirely built around this trope.
* OddballInTheSeries: "Elmer" is an in-universe example.

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* NeatFreak: Jezebel has an immaculate bedroom and eats neatly.
* NeverMyFault: Subverted in "Oscar Gets Got the Blame".
Blame", where it seems as though Oscar is blaming all his misdeeds on his imaginary friend Oscar, but then it turns out that Billy ''does'' exist.
* NoFullName: We don't know the last names of Bernard, Veronica, Jessie, or Oscar, nor the first names of Ms. Leonie or Mr. and Mrs. Quest.
* NoseNuggets: In "Super-Duper Jezebel", Jezebel tells another girl off for picking her nose, saying her nose will grow long.
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NotNowKiddo: One of the episodes is entirely built around this trope.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Billy from "Oscar Got the Blame" seems to be imaginary, since he's never seen, but at the end of the story, he turns out to exist after all.
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OddballInTheSeries: "Elmer" is an in-universe example.example.
* PottyEmergency: In "I Want My Potty", it says that the Princess was sometimes a long way away from her potty when she needed it most, then later, she urgently needs her potty while playing on the roof.



* TooDumbToLive: Elmer, Veronica, and Jezebel.

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* TooDumbToLive: Elmer, Veronica, StillSucksThumb: In "Super Duper Jezebel", Jezebel tells off two kids for sucking their thumbs, believing it'll give them bad teeth.
* SuddenDownerEnding:
** As the name would suggest, "The Sad Story of Veronica who Played the Violin" ''is'' sad -- just as Veronica has learned to play happy music instead of sad music, a lion eats her alive.
** "Super Duper Jezebel" ends on Jezebel winning an award for being so well-behaved... only to be eaten by a crocodile.
* TalkingAnimal: The lion at the end of "The Sad Story of Veronica who Played the Violin" can speak.
* ToiletTrainingPlot: "I Want My Potty" is all about a princess learning how to use her potty.
* TooDumbToLive:
%% ** Elmer
** Veronica was dumb enough to play her sad song to lions right next to them, which ends on her being eaten by one.
** Jezebel literally walked right into the mouth of a crocodile, which unsurprisingly eats her.
** Bernard got eaten by the monster because he walked up to it
and Jezebel.said hi.
* UnnamedParent: None of the parent characters have names.
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* TooDumbToLive: Elmer and Veronica.

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* TooDumbToLive: Elmer Elmer, Veronica, and Veronica.Jezebel.
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* HereWeGoAgain: "I Want a Cat" ends with Jessie's dad finally buying her a cat, only to turn out that now she wants a dog.

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* HereWeGoAgain: "I Want a Cat" ends with Jessie's dad finally buying her a cat, only for her to turn out say that she now she wants a dog.
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* HereWeGoAgain: "I want a cat" ends with Jessie's dad finally buying her a cat, only to turn out that now she wants a dog.

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* HereWeGoAgain: "I want Want a cat" Cat" ends with Jessie's dad finally buying her a cat, only to turn out that now she wants a dog.
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* SpitOutAShoe: "Super Dooper Jezebel" is about a girl who's perfect in every way and delights in telling other kids how to behave. When the Prime Minister hears about her, he sends her a special medal for being good. One day, Jezebel's so busy telling the others not to run, she walks right into the jaws of a crocodile that's escaped from the zoo.
-->'''Zookeeper:''' You naughty boy! You've eaten the best girl in the world.\\
'''Crocodile:''' I've tasted better. ''[Spits out the medal.]''
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* NotNowKiddo: TropeNamer and one of the episodes.

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* NotNowKiddo: TropeNamer and one One of the episodes.episodes is entirely built around this trope.



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In "Not Now, Bernard", the main character tells his parents that there's a monster that's about to come and gobble him up, but they both keep saying the episode's name, even at the end when the monster tells Bernard's mother that he ate Bernard.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In "Not Now, Bernard", the main character tells his parents that there's a monster that's about to come and gobble him up, but they both keep saying the episode's name, dismissing him, even at the end when the monster tells Bernard's mother that he ate Bernard.
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* HereWeGoAgain: "I want a cat" ends with Jessie's dad finally buying her a cat, only to turn out that now she wants a dog.
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''Anytime Tales'' is a StopMotion PuppetShows-esque cartoon for children by KingRolloFilms (who made ''SpotTheDog'' and, obviously, ''KingRollo''), which was broadcast on British television in 1992.

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''Anytime Tales'' is a StopMotion PuppetShows-esque cartoon for children by KingRolloFilms (who made ''SpotTheDog'' ''WesternAnimation/SpotTheDog'' and, obviously, ''KingRollo''), ''WesternAnimation/KingRollo''), which was broadcast on British television in 1992.
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The show was really a series of stories by David [=McKee=] and Tony Ross that had been adapted for TV, such as "NotNowBernard" and "TheLittlePrincess".

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The show was really a series of stories by David [=McKee=] and Tony Ross that had been adapted for TV, such as "NotNowBernard" ''Literature/NotNowBernard'' and "TheLittlePrincess".
''Literature/TheLittlePrincess''.



* NotNowBernard: TropeNamer and one of the episodes.

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* NotNowBernard: NotNowKiddo: TropeNamer and one of the episodes.

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Anytime Tales is a StopMotion PuppetShows-esque cartoon for children by KingRolloFilms (who made SpotTheDog and, obviously, KingRollo), which was broadcast in 1992.

The show was really a series of stories by DavidMcKee and TonyRoss that had been adapted for TV, such as NotNowBernard and TheLittlePrincess.

Unlike most cartoons, the episodes run long or short individually. The series was narrated by the likes of JohnnyMorris (DavidMckee ATs only), VictoriaWood, and Steve Steen.

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Anytime Tales ''Anytime Tales'' is a StopMotion PuppetShows-esque cartoon for children by KingRolloFilms (who made SpotTheDog ''SpotTheDog'' and, obviously, KingRollo), ''KingRollo''), which was broadcast on British television in 1992.

The show was really a series of stories by DavidMcKee David [=McKee=] and TonyRoss Tony Ross that had been adapted for TV, such as NotNowBernard "NotNowBernard" and TheLittlePrincess.

"TheLittlePrincess".

Unlike most cartoons, the episodes run long or short individually. The series was narrated by the likes of JohnnyMorris (DavidMckee ATs (David [=McKee ATs=] only), VictoriaWood, and Steve Steen.

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!!Relevant tropes:



* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: The show had been on one children's compilation for charity... twice! In NSPCC Children's TV Favourites Volume 2 in 1993, Elmer came first, then I Want a Cat came after NellieTheElephant.
* NeverMyFault: Oscar Gets the Blame.

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* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: The show had been on one children's compilation for charity... twice! In NSPCC ''NSPCC Children's TV Favourites Volume 2 2'' in 1993, Elmer "Elmer" came first, then I "I Want a Cat Cat" came after NellieTheElephant.
"NellieTheElephant".
* NeverMyFault: Oscar "Oscar Gets the Blame.Blame".



* OddballInTheSeries: In-universe example. Elmer.

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* OddballInTheSeries: In-universe example. Elmer."Elmer" is an in-universe example.



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In Not Now, Bernard, the protagnist tells his parents that there's a monster that's about to come and gobble him up, but they both keep saying the episode's name, even at the end when the monster tells Bernard's mother that he ate Bernard.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In Not "Not Now, Bernard, Bernard", the protagnist main character tells his parents that there's a monster that's about to come and gobble him up, but they both keep saying the episode's name, even at the end when the monster tells Bernard's mother that he ate Bernard.

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Bernard.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Two Can Toucan.
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* NotNowBernard: TropeNamer and one of the episodes.
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Anytime Tales is a StopMotion PuppetShows-esque cartoon for children by KingRolloFilms (who made SpotTheDog and, obviously, KingRollo), which was broadcast in 1992.

The show was really a series of stories by DavidMcKee and TonyRoss that had been adapted for TV, such as NotNowBernard and TheLittlePrincess.

Unlike most cartoons, the episodes run long or short individually. The series was narrated by the likes of JohnnyMorris (DavidMckee ATs only), VictoriaWood, and Steve Steen.

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* AnimatedAdaptation: And how!
* BrownNote: Veronica plays her violin to a song so sad, that it makes even the whole world cry!
* IncrediblyLamePun: Two Can Toucan.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: The show had been on one children's compilation for charity... twice! In NSPCC Children's TV Favourites Volume 2 in 1993, Elmer came first, then I Want a Cat came after NellieTheElephant.
* NeverMyFault: Oscar Gets the Blame.
* OddballInTheSeries: In-universe example. Elmer.
* TooDumbToLive: Elmer and Veronica.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In Not Now, Bernard, the protagnist tells his parents that there's a monster that's about to come and gobble him up, but they both keep saying the episode's name, even at the end when the monster tells Bernard's mother that he ate Bernard.

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