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The show only lasted a season, with its last episode airing in early 2014. Ella's voice actor, Addison Holley, as recently gone on to star in the new Disney Junior series ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks''.
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* WorthlessTreasureTwist: The treasure of "Treasure Hunters" is note a about friendship being the greatest treasure of all, signed by the kids' parents. Belinda's ''really'' annoyed at first, but then they all agree that it's a great treasure.

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* WorthlessTreasureTwist: The treasure of "Treasure Hunters" is note a about friendship being the greatest treasure of all, signed by the kids' parents. Belinda's ''really'' annoyed at first, but then they all agree that it's a great treasure.treasure.
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''Ella the Elephant'' is a 3D-animated series (with [[MediumBlending hand-drawn backgrounds]]) based on a series of books by Carmela D' Amico and Steven Henry. Taking place on Elephant Island, it follows Ella and her friends as they solve life problems through ingenuity, teamwork, and Ella's magic transforming hat.

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''Ella the Elephant'' is a short-lived 2013 3D-animated series (with [[MediumBlending hand-drawn backgrounds]]) Canadian kids' cartoon based on a series of books by Carmela D' Amico and Steven Henry. It wass produced by DHX Cookie Jar Inc. (the former Creator/CookieJarEntertainment until its acquisition by Creator/WildBrain) in association with [=TVOntario=], Creator/DisneyJunior, and Creator/FremantleMedia, with animation provided by Creator/AtomicCartoons.

Taking place on Elephant Island, it the series follows the adventures of a spirited little girl elephant named Ella, who possesses a big heart, a vivid imagination, and a magic transforming hat. Alongside her circle of friends, Frankie, Belinda, and Tiki, Ella always finds adventures to go on or problems to solve around the island. But with ingenuity, determination, teamwork, and a touch of magic, Ella and her friends as work to make every tricky situation they solve life problems through ingenuity, teamwork, and Ella's magic transforming hat.
get into work out in the end.
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* ComesGreatResponsibility: Ella can use her magic hat to help others, but it will start acting funny and not work properly if she tries to use it do something like getting out of doing work.
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* HalloweenEpisode: "Frankie's Perfect Pumpkin" has the kids in costumes and trick-or-treating, though most of the story is actually spent on hunting for Frankie's lost pumpkin.


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* TwinSwitch: The twins Ida and Ada do this as their Halloween costumes in "Frankie's Perfect Pumpkin."
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: This happens to Ella in "Tiki's Moving Day" when she stubs her foot on a desk after overhearing about Tiki moving.


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* TheMovingExperience: "Tiki's Moving Day" - Ella overhears Tiki talking about having to move and how different things are going to be, so she and friends put on a parade, get her a butterfly house she's always wanted as well as books for her own library, all to try to get her to stay. It turns out Tiki's monkey is moving to another room in her house.
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* DaddysGirl: Blenda, the mayor's daughter. She constantly mentions her father to the other characters, dotes on him, and is also fond of reminding the other characters that he's the mayor.

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* DaddysGirl: Blenda, Belinda, the mayor's daughter. She constantly mentions her father to the other characters, dotes on him, and is also fond of reminding the other characters that he's the mayor.
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%% * DaddysGirl: Blenda, the mayor's daughter.daughter. She constantly mentions her father to the other characters, dotes on him, and is also fond of reminding the other characters that he's the mayor.
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* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: In "Seashell Serenade," Frankie calls "Ships ahoy!" when he sees some ships coming in on the lake, then says that he always wanted to say that.

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* ForgottenBirthday: This is the essential plot of "By Invitation Only" in which Ella's friends and family all put together a surprise party for her and try desperately to hide it. Though when Ella tells her mother that everyone forgot her birthday, her mother gets her to admit that she never actually asked her friends if they had forgotten it.


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* NotSoForgottenBirthday: This is the essential plot of "By Invitation Only" in which Ella's friends and family all put together a surprise party for her and try desperately to hide it. Though when Ella tells her mother that everyone forgot her birthday, her mother gets her to admit that she never actually asked her friends if they had forgotten it.
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* ForgottenBirthday: This is the essential plot of "By Invitation Only" in which Ella's friends and family all put together a surprise party for her and try desperately to hide it. Though when Ella tells her mother that everyone forgot her birthday, her mother gets her to admit that she never actually asked her friends if they had forgotten it.
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* RoadSignReversal: In "Parade Problem," one of these kicks off the problem described in the title. An unwitting seagull reverses a sign, causing a delivery van with frozen bananas to go the wrong way.
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* ALizardNamedLiz: Ella.

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* ALizardNamedLiz: Ella.[[ALizardNamedLiz An Elephant Named Ella]]
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* TalkingInYourSleep: Belinda sometimes mutters "No more autographs, please" in her sleep.
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* AesopAmnesia: In "Ella Borrows Trouble," Ella "borrows" a number of things from her friends without asking. She gets into trouble for it and learns an important lesson. Yet, in "Tea Party Trouble," she "borrows" her mother's favorite earrings for the tea party without asking, resulting in one being stolen by a seagull.

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* QueenBee: Blenda tends to be this around her friends. This comes to a head in one episode where she creates an 'exclusive club' that excludes Ella's friend Frankie. Ella quits the club, followed by everyone else when they see how much fun the two are having. Blenda then apologises and reforms the club to include Frankie.

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* QueenBee: Blenda Belinda tends to be this around her friends. This comes to a head in one episode where she creates an 'exclusive club' that excludes Ella's friend Frankie. Ella quits the club, followed by everyone else when they see how much fun the two are having. Blenda Belinda then apologises and reforms the club to include Frankie.


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* WorthlessTreasureTwist: The treasure of "Treasure Hunters" is note a about friendship being the greatest treasure of all, signed by the kids' parents. Belinda's ''really'' annoyed at first, but then they all agree that it's a great treasure.
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* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: In "Treasure Hunters," Ella and her friends encounter of a group of stone heads that look generally like moai, except with elephant trunks. They're one of the landmarks on the map to the treasure.
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* RecordNeedleScratch: In "Stylish Ella," Ella's initial performance of her magic hat song is record needle scratched early on because she ''isn't wearing'' the hat. Belinda has her wearing a different hat with feathers to try to make her look "stylish."
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* ScoutOut: Ella and her friends are members of the "Trunk Troopers." They get to wear special hats and go on adventures in the "great unknown."
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* ExpositoryThemeSong: Much of the song covers Ella's disposition and the premise of the show.
-->"I'm Ella, everyday is an adventure to me! I've got my magic hat on, Grandma gave it to me!"
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* ALizardNamedLiz: Ella.
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%% * MediumBlendingMediumBlending: The show uses 3D-animated characters against 2D backgrounds.

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* MediumBlending
* QueenBee: Blenda tends to be this around her friends.
** This comes to a head in one episode where she creates an 'exclusive club' that excludes Ella's friend Frankie. Ella quits the club, followed by everyone else when they see how much fun the two are having. Blenda then apologises and reforms the club to include Frankie.

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* QueenBee: Blenda tends to be this around her friends.
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friends. This comes to a head in one episode where she creates an 'exclusive club' that excludes Ella's friend Frankie. Ella quits the club, followed by everyone else when they see how much fun the two are having. Blenda then apologises and reforms the club to include Frankie.
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** This comes to a head in one episode where she creates an 'exclusive club' that excludes Ella's friend Frankie. Ella quits the club, followed by everyone else when they see how much fun the two are having. Blenda then apologises and reforms the club to include Frankie.
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* QueenBee: Blenda tends to be this around her friends.
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* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The theme song is sung in-character by Ella.
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* FeudEpisode: In one episode, the island is hosting a soap box derby, and Frankie and Ella decide to work together on their kart. However, Frankie doesn't listen to any of Ella's design ideas, only using his own, causing her to quit the team.

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* FeudEpisode: In one episode, the island is hosting a soap box derby, and Frankie and Ella decide to work together on their kart. However, Frankie doesn't listen to any of Ella's design ideas, only using his own, causing her to quit the team. Frankie later reconciles with Ella by [[TakeAThirdOption taking a third option]].
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* DaddysGirl: Blenda, the mayor's daughter.
* FeudEpisode: In one episode, the island is hosting a soap box derby, and Frankie and Ella decide to work together on their kart. However, Frankie doesn't listen to any of Ella's design ideas, only using his own, causing her to quit the team.


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* TakeAThirdOption: Frankie's solution to their kart design problem is to make it half Ella's design and half Frankie's design.
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''Ella the Elephant'' is a 3D-animated series (with [[MediumBlending hand-drawn backgrounds]]) based on a series of books by Carmela D' Amico and Steven Henry. Taking place on Elephant Island, it follows Ella and her friends as they solve life problems through ingenuity, teamwork, and Ella's magic transforming hat.

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!!''Ella the Elephant'' provides examples for:

* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Everyone on Elephant Island.
* MagicalAccessory: Ella usually transforms her hat into something that will help solve the problem of the episode somehow.
* MediumBlending

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