History WesternAnimation / FiremanSam

**** The latest episodes actually introduce a handful of new characters, including Mountaineer Moose Roberts, Bronwyn's father Gareth Griffiths who is a retired train driver and who operates the newly opened [[CoolTrain Pontypandy Flyer]], and school teacher Mrs. Chen and her three year-old daughter Lily, along with the Movie's Chief Fire Officer Boyce from Newtown, which flesh out the town's population somewhat.

* OfficeGolf: Station Officer Steele indulges in one episode, causing a minor disaster in the fire station.

* {{Retcon}}: In the original series, Penny was actually stationed in Newtown. She came to Pontypandy to help conduct a series of drills, and later on came by once in a while to visit or when an extra hand was needed. The later series change it so that she's a regular member of the Pontypandy Fire Service.

* StiffUpperLip: Averted constantly with Dilys, who's practically a stampede waiting to happen all on her own. However, in TheMovie [[spoiler: she averts this spectacularly as she [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome leads Trevor and all the kids, including her son and nephew, to safety in the midst of the biggest fire in the town's history.]]]]

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Bella and Rosa in the CGI seasons. Bella is essentially replaced by Brownwyn; she even runs a Cafe like Bella. Lion is pretty much a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute to Rosa, right on down to appearances.

* CountryMouse: Inverted with Brownwyn. She was born and raised in the City but feels much more at home in Pontypandy.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Brownwyn, although it comes back to bite her somewhat when she wishes at a well that Lion would stop hunting birds. Norman qualifies as well, especially where Wooly and Lambykins are concerned.
* GeographicFlexibility: In the CGI season, Pontypandy has somehow acquired a coastline. Most likely as a means of giving Charlie Jones something to do, as he is a fisherman, and to showcase sea-related rescues.

** Tom Thomas and Moose Roberts, starting from season 8 onward. They are the self-proclaimed "Wild Men of Pontypandy" who tend to get into a lot of friendly debates and competitions with regards to their wildlife skills. Notably, before Moose showed up, Tom generally didn't interact with the citizens of Pontypandy outside of a rescue operation.

* InvisibleParents: Charlie and Bronwyn Jones, until recently.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the original series at least, Norman came off as this. While still keen on pranks, he was usually just trying to get a good laugh and felt genuine remorse when they go horribly wrong. He did at least once get an episode showcasing his good side, when he helped Trevor with a charity drive by donating a bunch of his old toys.

* KarmaHoudini: Even though his CatchPhrase is "Oh mam!", Norman Price rarely gets punished for the many, many problems he causes. Even starting the [[spoiler: ''Great Fire of Pontypandy'']], putting the lives of every main character in danger along the way, only results in a telling off from his mum. Presumably he serves his punishments after the credits roll...

* TheKlutz: Mike Flood, the village handyman, whose main job sees to be mending things that he's previously broken.

** A bit of FridgeHorror comes up if you think about this one at length. Both Sam and Station Officer Steele constantly remark about how bad Elvis's cooking is, but we never see them even consider having either taking the job themselves. Steele might refuse to do the cooking out of pride (though he's probably very bad at it anyway), but given Sam devises elaborate machinery to cook in Elvis's place rather than try it himself one can only imagine how much worse he is.
* LimitedSocialCircle \ OmegaCast: No-one other than the main characters is ever seen during an ordinary episode, though one of the 1997 tie-in books featured a cameo from an unidentified police constable. Somewhat hammered home when the same character model was used for two unrelated guest characters in frequency.

**** The latest episodes actually introduce a handful of new characters, which flesh out the town's population somewhat.

* {{Nephewism}}: Sarah and James are Sam's niece and nephew, and until recently their parents were never seen.

** Generally speaking, as far as competences goes, Tom is shown to have [[Ace Pilot Ace traits]], too. At least when it comes to his helicopter skills. Though he is shown to be NotSoAboveItAll when the right people are around him, namely, Moose.

* DisappearedDad: Norman Price's father is never even mentioned. (unless you count that time in Brass Band mentioning about his old telescope) Some have noted that the only man in town [[HairColorSpoiler with ginger hair]] is, well...

* BunglingInventor: Sam.
* [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys]]: Trevor Evans, Mike Flood, and Charlie Jones.

** And the ever popular "Oh mam!"
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Bella and Rosa in the CGI season.

* [[CoolPlane Cool Helicopter]]: Tom Thomas' helicopter certainly qualifies. Also something of a [[SwissArmyWeapon Swiss Army Helicopter]] as it's always carrying the right equipment, despite being a bit on the small side to be carrying everything all the time.

* DistractedByTheSexy: Trevor Evans crashes a bus in 'Dilys's Forgetful Day', when he drives past Penny, the new girl in the Ponypandy fire service. Elvis even hits on her a little earlier in the episode.

* GeographicFlexibility: In the CGI season, Pontypandy has somehow acquired a coastline.

** The show's own EmergencySquadScramble sequence is an almost shot-for-shot homage to the one from ''LondonsBurning''.

** Same goes for the Adults who ''should'' really know better, like Trevor and ''especially'' Mike.

* ArtEvolution: In stages with the different series. Sam and the other firefighters have remained similar in appearance along the way, the twins and Mandy rather less so. Dilys has changed in appearence too, becoming much younger-looking.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Sam, Elvis and Penny. Notable for actually being the opposite of their hair colour tropes (DumbBlonde, BrainyBrunette, FieryRedhead.) Sam (Redhead) is very even tempered, Penny (Blonde) is very brainy and competent and Elvis (Brunette) is, well... [[IdiotHero not]].
* BraggingThemeTune: "So move aside make way for (Fireman Sam!) He's gonna save the day, (Fireman Sam!)...". Overlaps with ExpositoryThemeTune and TitleThemeTune to an extent.
** The orginal version from the stop-motion version was rather less egregious about this.
* BrattyHalfPint: Norman Price.

* AnAesop: Managed not to be {{Anvilicious}} about it most of the time, and usually involved AnvilsThatNeededToBeDropped anyway.

* AntiHero / ByronicHero / VillainProtagonist: Norman (Type V).

[[caption-width-right:350:Sam is TheHero next door![[note:Left to right: Penny Moris, Station Officer Steele, Fireman Sam, and Elvis Cridlington.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Sam is TheHero next door!]]

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* BraggingThemeTune: "So move aside make way (Fireman Sam!) He's gonna save the day (Fireman Sam!)...". Overlaps with ExpositoryThemeTune and TitleThemeTune to an extent.

* ShoutOut: The crew (or maybe lookalikes of them) along with additional firemen did appear in It's Very Noisy for Mr. Quiet, a television exclusive MrMen story. Steele made TheCameo in the GBA version of LEGOIsland2.

* OnlyShopInTown: Dilys Price's shop is this to Pontypandy.

* {{Retcon}}: In the original series, Penny was actually stationed in Newtown. She came to Pontypandy to help conduct a series of drills, and later on came by once in a while to visit or when an extra hand was needed. The later series change it so that she's a regular member of the Pontypandy Fire Service.

* DisappearedDad: Norman Price's father is never even mentioned. Some have noted that the only man in town [[HairColorSpoiler with ginger hair]] is, well...

* [[BackedByTheGovernment Backed By The Fire Brigade]]

* DisappearedDad: Norman Price's father is never even mentioned.

* AlliterativeName: James Jones, Tom Thomas (see also RepetitiveName)* AnAesop: Managed not to be {{Anvilicious}} about it most of the time, and usually involved AnvilsThatNeededToBeDropped anyway.

** A bit of FridgeHorror comes up if you think about this one at length. Both Sam and Station Officer Steele admit to not liking his food, but never try cooking themselves. Given they're willing to put up with Elvis's cooking one can only imagine how much worse either of them are. Penny is shown to actually be a pretty good cook, but in the original series, at least, she was actually stationed in Newton, and was really only working in Pontypandy whenever an extra hand was needed (or in one case, to take over for same while he had a day off).

** A bit of FridgeHorror comes up if you think about this one at length. Both Sam and Station Officer Steele admit to not liking his food, but never try cooking themselves. Given they're willing to put up with Elvis's cooking one can only imagine how much worse either of them are.

* AlliterativeName: James Jones, Tom Thomas (see also RepetitiveName)
* AnAesop: Managed not to be {{Anvilicious}} about it most of the time, and usually involved AnvilsThatNeededToBeDropped anyway.

* GeniusDitz: Elvis, who's a very competent firefighter and who's shown to take the lead on the (very, very rare) occasions Sam's not around.

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** But very occasionally he shows himself to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Just don't expect to see it often.

Fireman Sam (Sam Tan in its original language) was an 1985 stop motion animation series, about the fire service in the fictional Welsh town of Pontypandy. The original series was first broadcast in the Welsh language, then in English as of 1987. Originally narrated by John Alderton. Said series ended by 1994. [=HiT=] Entertainment acquired the rights and produced a new series made with Clay-mation, lasting from 2003 to 2005. An ever newer CGI series debuted in 2008 and is currently broadcast on TV.

* AntiHero / ByronicHero /VillainProtagonist: Norman (Type V).

* KarmaHoudini: Norman Price rarely gets punished for the many, many problems he causes. Even starting the [[spoiler: ''Great Fire of Pontypandy'']], putting the lives of every main character in danger along the way, only results in a telling off from his mum. Presumably he serves his punishments after the credits roll...

* LimitedSocialCircle: No-one other than the main characters is ever seen during an ordinary episode, though one of the tie-in books featured a cameo from an unidentified police constable. Somewhat hammered home when the same character model was used for two unrelated guest characters in different episodes.

*** FridgeLogic: Maybe the residents are just so used to living around Norman Price by now they'd already got out before the main characters passed through town?
**** Or probably the GrimReaper or [[{{Rayman}} Mr. Dark]] came and killed the residents before the cartoon aired in 1986?
***** The latest episodes actually introduce a handful of new characters, which flesh out the town's population somewhat.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Largely averted, but for all that the show is clearly well advised on fire safety issues, one episode shows the crew using water to put on an electrical fire.
** They ''do'' unplug the appliance in question first, however. In RealLife the crew would have used extinguishers containing foam or powder, so this was probably a concession to the limits of the special effects and/or a subtle PSA about how to deal with an electrical fire when water is all you've got on hand.

* TedBaxter: Norman.