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* ShooTheDog: [[spoiler:Once Goat shows up, Guy (who'd just patched up his relationship with Michellee), realizes that if the four of them traveled together as planned, she and EB would be targets and tells them to travel alone instead. Michellee, not knowing about Goat, is offended]].
* ShooTheDog: [[spoiler:Once Goat shows up, Guy (who'd just patched up his relationship with Michellee), realizes that if the four of them traveled together as planned, she and EB would be targets and tells them to travel alone instead. Michellee, not knowing about Goat, is offended]].
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* TakeThat: Cantaloupe--the garbage fruit!
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** In Episode 8, Guy lets loose criticizing a group of wild Giroosters attacking E.B., causing them to back down and thus saving her.
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** The head of the gang in ''Rain'' looks a lot like Literature/TheLorax with a humanoid body and biker gear.
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* FoodEnd: [[spoiler:"Anywhere" ends with Sam and Guy sharing the titular meal after Snertz was defeated and all is well, and he finally recognizes the taste of his mother in one of the eggs.]]
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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Sam and EB; in fact it's this friendship that [[spoiler:makes Sam decide to not go sell Mr. Jenkins to Snertz.]]
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* FrenchJerk: Squeaky speaks with a French accent and he's not a nice mouse at all. [[spoiler:Turns out he's turned cynical because he was arrested for stealing cheese for his family.]]
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* FrenchJerk: Squeaky speaks with a French accent and he's not a nice mouse at all. [[spoiler:Turns jaded and cynical jailbird. Turns out he's turned cynical because he was arrested for stealing cheese for his family.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The group called BADGUYS actually get along so well compared to our main characters. [[spoiler:It's because ''they're'' the good guys this entire time.]]
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** The group called BADGUYS actually get along so well compared to our main characters. [[spoiler:It's because ''they're'' the good guys this entire time.]]
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** Michelee is able to draw an accurate description of the Chickeraffe. [[spoiler:She was actually a painter before her husband passed away.]]
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** How does Guy express guilt for [[spoiler:telling Sam doesn't deserve anyone, particularly a mother? By eating Green Egss and Ham.]]
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** In one of the more depressing scenes of the first season, [[spoiler: he is shown in shock after Guy chews him out for hiding his past and Guy stating that Sam doesn't deserve "fit" anyone; not even a his mother.]]
** How does Guy express guilt for [[spoiler:telling Sam doesn'tdeserve fit anyone, particularly a mother? his own mother (and by that token, suggesting that Sam's mother abandoned him because she ''also'' got sick of him)? By eating Green Egss and Ham.]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Oh dear does Guy rage at Sam when he's revealed to be a liar and a scam artist. But he stops himself after he says that Sam doesn't deserve anyone. [[ThatCameOutWrong Not even a mother.]]]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Oh dear does Guy rage at Sam when he's revealed to be a liar and a scam artist. But he stops himself after he says that Sam doesn't deserve "fit" anyone. [[ThatCameOutWrong Not even a his mother.]]]]
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* InteractiveNarrator: He can be muted, confused, and when he briefly talks to Guy in the second episode, the Narrator tells him that he's gone insane.
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* EasilyForgiven: Averted. [[spoiler:After Guy blew up at Sam, saying that he doesn't fit any friends, he doesn't fit anyone, he doesn't fit even his own mother, Sam found it hard to forgive him right away for saying something so hurtful. Guy also not believing Sam when he said he's trying to return Jenkins to Chickaraffe Island is also a contributor, although Guy is justified for not believing a scam artist.]]
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Sam shows shades of this before he goes with Guy on the road. Giving people his address to his house to hang out, but he's always met with polite nos.
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** Most of the attractions Michellee wants to take EG to, in keeping with her initial distrust of excitement. [[spoiler: Subverted with the Hall of Walls, which is actually a gallery of vivid artworks that EG loves]].
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** Most of the attractions Michellee wants to take EG EB to, in keeping with her initial distrust of excitement. [[spoiler: Subverted with the Hall of Walls, which is actually a gallery of vivid artworks that EG EB loves]].
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* EasilyForgiven: Averted. [[spoiler:After Guy blew up at Sam, saying that he doesn't fit any friends, he doesn't fit anyone, he doesn't fit even his own mother, Sam found it hard to forgive him right away for saying something so hurtful. Guy also not believing Sam when he said he's trying to return Jenkins to Chickaraffe Island is also a contributor, although Guy is justified for not believing a scam artist.]]
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: It's the wonderful world of Dr. Seuss full of quirkily bloodthirsty beasts, dangerously whimsical architecture, charmingly stupid or mischievous citizenry, and an almost Kafka-esque fixation on inane trivium.
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* AdultFear: Michellee's character thrives on this trope: she won't let her daughter do anything fun or adventerous due to many things that could go wrong. [[spoiler:This later becomes justified when we learned that her husband died recently so she's afraid for her daughter's safety.]]
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** One of the most important lessons of the series is that people/animals are not what they appear to be.
** One of the most important lessons of the series is that people/animals are not what they appear to be.
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**BaitAndSwitch: One of the most important lessons of the series is that people/animals are not what they appear to be.
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** Guy doesn't like mentioning his family, making people believe that they're pretty abusive. [[spoiler:They're the exact opposite and are really supportive of him.]]
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* BigEater: Sam. While his book counterpart was peddling the same Green Eggs & Ham meal for the whole book, this Sam gobbles down entire platters in seconds and would do so three or more times a day if given the opportunity.
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* BigEater: Sam. While his book counterpart was peddling the same Green Eggs & Ham meal for the whole book, this Sam gobbles down entire platters in seconds and would do so three or more times a day if given the opportunity. This actually bites him later, because [=McWinkle=] noticing his consumption of the meal is what makes him figure out where Sam's heading for next.
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* HeroicComedicSociopath: At his best, Sam is a BlitheSpirit. At his worst, he's an insensitive and witless gadabout who has no respect for the feelings or wishes of others.
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* HeroicComedicSociopath: At his best, Sam is a BlitheSpirit. At his worst, he's an insensitive and witless gadabout who has no respect for the feelings or wishes of others. [[spoiler:And really, it's not really right to call him "heroic", given his true background.]]
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Sam is a popular customer at his local diner, but nobody there wants to spend much time with him outside of it for reasons [[JustifiedTrope that become frustratingly clear during his journey with Guy.]]
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->'''Sam-I-Am''': Green Eggs and Ham on a stick! Bestest carnival food ever! Wanna try? They're really good in a box.\\
'''Guy-Am-I''': No, I will not eat them in a box! ...wait a minute. How did you pay for them?\\
'''Sam-I-Am''': I didn't. I struck up a conversation with the vendor, and he gave them to me for free.\\
'''Guy-Am-I''': (shakes head) Oho, why wouldn't they be free? Stuff always turns out fine for Sam. You do ''wrong'' and ''win''. I do ''right''...and it all blows up in my face!
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* BigEater: Sam. While his book counterpart was peddling the same Green Eggs & Ham meal for the whole book, this Sam gobbles down entire platters in seconds and would do so three or more times a day if given the opportunity.
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** ** Subverted with Snerz. [[spoiler:He goes into detail telling a story of how he was much happier as a child and affectionately played with his pet Fleemur, but his mother accidentally let it out one night and he never recovered from the incident, becoming a cold-hearted business tycoon as an adult. Mama Snerz reveals later that it was a SelfServingMemory -- [[AndCallHimGeorge the Fleemur was terrified of Snerz and he handled it much too roughly]], suggesting that he was always greedy and emotionally domineering to some extent.]]
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The trailer has Sam reacting to Michellee being "vegan" as if she had a serious medical condition, complete with him sympathetically asking "How long have you known?"
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* IveHeardOfThatWhatIsIt: When Michellee tells Sam she's vegan, he thinks it's an illness, complete with sympathetically asking "How long have you known?"
* LiteralMetaphor: All over the place. Michellee is a bean-counter, who worked her way up from number-cruncher and works alongside pencil-pushers. Guy's parents are a breadwinner and a homemaker, his brothers are movers and shakers, and his grandfather used to move mountains. And all of these terms are exactly what they do.
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* MythologyGag: The trailer has Sam mention "Whoville" and "The Places You'll Go" the former is the setting of ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' and ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' and the latter referencing ''Oh the Places You'll Go!''
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** The trailer has Sam mention "Whoville" and "The Places You'll Go" the former is the setting of ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' and ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' and the latter referencing ''Oh the Places You'll Go!''
** The trailer has Sam mention "Whoville" and "The Places You'll Go" the former is the setting of ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' and ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' and the latter referencing ''Oh the Places You'll Go!''
** In the last episode, Guy's newspaper is called ''Who.S.A. Today'', as another reference to Whoville.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Snerz has bouffant yellow hair (actually a fluffy animal he forces to cover his baldness), runs a conglomerate and collects a series of gold-plated objects. [[Usefulnotes/DonaldTrump Ring any bells?]]
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bells?]] At one point he actually says he has "all the best words".
* OfficialCouple: Michellee and Guy as the showprogressesprogresses.
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Following the reveal to the audience that [[spoiler: Sam is working for Snerz]], multiple characters tell him [[spoiler: how heroic he is for returning the Chickiraffe to its home]].
* OfficialCouple: Michellee and Guy as the show
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Following the reveal to the audience that [[spoiler: Sam is working for Snerz]], multiple characters tell him [[spoiler: how heroic he is for returning the Chickiraffe to its home]].
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* {{Ninja}}: One appears in the first episode (Sam). This gets lampshaded by the narrator.
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* {{Ninja}}: One appears in the first episode (Sam). This gets lampshaded by the narrator. [[spoiler:Sam the Ninja appears again when he's trying to bust Guy out of the BADGUYS interrogation room]]
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''Green Eggs and Ham (2019)'' is a series that premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on November 8, 2019.
It’s a 13-episode season that follows Sam-I-Am (Creator/AdamDevine) and Guy-Am-I (Creator/MichaelDouglas) as they go on a whimsical adventure to Meepville trying to return a Chickeraffe back to its natural habitat.
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!!The Netflix Animated Series contains examples of:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: The only one who seems to know anything about chickeraffes is [=EB=], while its zookeepers (who had it in captivity for years), Sam (who rescued it), and the general public know next to nada.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade:
** The fox from the book is given both a name (Michael) and a potent cocktail of neuroses as he attempts to woo an aloof hen at the farm he works at who looks down on him for eating eggs. His efforts to deprive himself of his favorite food have caused him to become unstable and violent. Mentioning eggs or even the name of his would-be girlfriend is enough to cause him to go on a rampage.
** [[spoiler:Sam as well. It turns out he loves Green Eggs and Ham as it connects to his disappeared mother and he's actually a SadClown underneath his beaming smile.]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: Guy-Am-I's fur color is a bit darker compare to the original book, and his hat is dark brown.
* AdaptationExpansion: Green Eggs and Ham has gone from a book about learning to eat new things only using 50 words to a "postmodern Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles" where Sam and Guy find themselves on a road trip to return a rare creature back to its natural habitat.
* AdaptationalBadass: Sam breaks into a zoo and liberates the chickeraffe ''Mission Impossible'' style.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Guy is shown to be quite the mechanic in the series.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** The goat from the book is a bounty hunter.
** [[spoiler:'''''SAM-I-AM''''', no seriously. Though not ''evil'' by any means, the last few episodes of Season 1 reveal that his claim to want to return Jenkins to his family in the wild was a lie and that '''he’s''' the one trying to sell him to Snerz as part of his career as a animal-smuggling scam artist, with a notorious enough rap sheet to catch the BADGUYS attention. Thankfully, his adventures and friendship with Jenkins and Guy inspire him to pull a HeelFaceTurn and help Jenkins for real]].
* AerithAndBob: Contrast Sam and Guy's fairly normal names to the typically outlandish ones of the other cast members. Michellee (''not'' Michelle) and [=EB=] (short for ''Elana''beth) exist somewhere in the wide gulf between those extremes.
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Sam-I-Am. Even though he is a scam artist and an animal smuggler in this version, his friendly attitude towards Guy and everyone is genuine. He later pulls a HeelFaceTurn, becoming a NiceGuy]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The season finale has Sam and Guy eating Green Eggs and Ham...and Sam recognizes the taste of the eggs as the ones similar to his mother's. Thus the two head off to East Flubria to find answers.]]
* TheArtifact: The titular Green Eggs and Ham. The subtext of the dish (i.e. trying out new things) becomes the actual text of the show as Guy does undertake a plethora of unfamiliar adventures to help Sam get the chickeraffe back to its natural habitat. Sam does offer Guy various types of Green Eggs and Ham OnceAnEpisode, but he's not as persistent as he was in the book and is fine with his pal going without sustenance if there's no other food available. It's still symbolic of Guy's character development and his relationship with Sam, but its consumption no longer constitutes the main thrust of the story.
** Well it's not ''Guy'' consuming it that's part of the story [[spoiler:until he eats it in the season finale]]. [[spoiler:Sam loves the dish so much because he's trying to find the one that was like how his mother made it.]]
* BaitAndSwitch:
** One of the most important lessons of the series is that people/animals are not what they appear to be.
** BADGUYS are here to chase after Sam and Guy... [[spoiler:because ''Sam'' is the real bad guy, not them. Turns out they were hired because Sam's a smuggling scam artist.]]
** The penultimate episode ends with EB seeing [[spoiler:Sam selling Mr. Jenkins to Snerz...the next episode reveals that it's actually a Girooster painted to look like Mr. Jenkins.]]
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Sam was the true villain the entire time, wanting to turn Mr. Jenkins in as he's actually an animal-smuggling scam artist. But his time on the run with Guy made him switch sides in the end.]]
* BigBad: Snerz, whose desire for the Chickeraffe kickstarts the entire plot.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Guy's the mechanic and Sam seems to be the upfront socializer. Or as Sam states, "You're the brains. I'm the ''other'' brains."
* BunglingInventor: Guy has inventions that always explode no matter what he does.
* ButtMonkey: Life seems determined to make Guy miserable.
* CanonForeigner: Much of the supporting cast, including [=McWinkle=], Gluntz, Michellee, [=EB=], Snerz, among others.
* CentralTheme:
** Do not take things at face-value, ranging from Michelee and her thinking that Mr. Jenkins the Chickaraffe is dangerous to [[spoiler:the audience knowing the truth about Sam and BADGUYS.]] The extended lyrics to the show's opening "Backflip" adds onto it: "But take any advice with a grain of salt" which reflects that you shouldn't 100% believe everything you see/hear.
* CerebusRetcon:
** Guy's grouchiness is shown to be justified every scene he's in. He's first introduced when he steps in a puddle and somehow sinks up to his waist. He's been trying to get his inventions onto the market for who-knows-how-long and on his most recent pitch, the device blows up in his face. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Then his hat gets bent.]]
** Sam's love of Green Eggs and Ham? [[spoiler:His mother always made it for breakfast and then one day she disappeared. He's eating it so much to see if that one matches hers.]]
* ChainedHeat: In preparation for their trip, Michellee gets [=EB=] and herself "friendship bracelets." These accessories are more like handcuffs that magnetically latch on to each other with a press of the button so her daughter can't get too far away from her.
* CheerfulChild: EB is a sweet an innocent girl with a huge imagination.
* ChekhovsGun: Over half-a-dozen.
** Sam and Guy's matching briefcases.
** Sam's Wildlife Protection Agent badge.
** Guy's failed flight pack.
** The Stovepipe newspaper Sam reads during his origin story.
** Michellee's jar of beans.
** Michellee and [=EB=]'s "friendship bracelets."
** The [[spoiler:BADGUYS]] calling card.
** The [[spoiler:Giroosters]]' uncanny resemblance to Mr. Jenkins.
** Snerz's living wig.
* CoolTrain: Sam and Guy ride on one of these on their journey. Perplexingly, it has a "Model Train Car" which contains a scaled down model of the actual train that reflects exactly what's happening on and inside of it.
* DaChief: [[spoiler:Captain Walter Bigman.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Of all the Seuss book adaptations, this show has the capacity to really scale back the levity to create atmospheres of bonafide danger and mortal peril. [[spoiler:Oh, and Sam is actually a ''bad guy''.]]
* TheDitz: Gluntz. If there ''any'' way she can [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Comically Miss The Point]], she ''will.''
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The trailer has Sam reacting to Michellee being "vegan" as if she had a serious medical condition, complete with him sympathetically asking "How long have you known?"
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Sam I Am for Snerz; he wasn't trying to return the Chickeraff home, he was trying to sell it to Snerz!]]
* DrosteImage: The Model Train Car on the train has a model of the train itself that replicates everything that happens on it.
* TheDreaded: The Goat. He’s so notorious that even [[ThePollyanna Sam-I-Am]] shows fear of him!
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The narrator says this word-per-word just before Sam finally recognizes the taste of his mother's Green Eggs and Ham.]]
* EpicFail: Pretty much all of Guy's inventions violently explode. Even very simple ones like a device made from two chopsticks, an eggbeater, and a pair of gloves.
** Gluntz tries to conquer a Green Eggs and Ham MegaMealChallenge , but fails to even skim its topmost layer.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Guy heading off to Snerzco in order to make his dreams come true...then he sinks half-way into a puddle. After that, he says "no" to pretty much everyone who interacts with him. Sam, in the meantime, befriends the exact same people Guy dismisses.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The narrator stating -- "This is Dr. Seuss, I didn’t expect a n... WHY WOULD YOU CUT THE LINE?" which reveals how off-kilter this series will be.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Averted with Snerz. [[spoiler:He had a pet Flemur once, he said he was inseparable with. But his mother noticed how miserable the Flemur was and let him escape free. He hasn't spoken to his mom since he was six, minus the scant prank call on Mother's Day.]]
** [[spoiler: Played straight with Sam-I-Am. He’s on a journey to find his mother, while being a con artist and smuggler. It gets to the point where it hurts when Guy brings up the fact that she abandoned him during a heated argument.]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:While it's a stretch, it turns out lovable Sam is actually a scam artist in this setting.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [=McWinkle=] and Gluntz are basically bounty hunter versions of Guy and Sam in terms of temperament and size, but [=McWinkle=] is genuinely successful at his profession and Gluntz mostly listens to what he has to say.[[spoiler: Subverted when they’re revealed to be GoodAllAlong]].
* EvilPoacher: [=McWinkle=]. [[spoiler:But not really: see GoodAllAlong]].
* FinalBoss: The final obstacle standing in between the heroes' way between them and returning Mr. Jenkins home [[spoiler:isn't [[BigBad Snerz himself]], but [[TheDreaded the Goat.]]]]
* FireForgedFriends: Sam and Guy slowly become friends over the course of the season, with Guy even stating that Sam is his friend in the final episode.
* {{Foil}}: Guy and Sam's quest is paralleled by a cross-country trip undertaken by Michellee and [=EB=], a mother-daughter pair whose dynamic is an inversion of the protagonists' with the former being quirkily cautious and the latter being sensibly adventurous.
** The backgrounds for Guy and Sam are also a contrast to one another as revealed in Episode 10: Guy is a grouch but has a loving family who supports him being an inventor, while Sam is optimistic [[spoiler:yet he was abandoned by his mother at a young age.]]
* FoodEnd: [[spoiler:"Anywhere" ends with Sam and Guy sharing the titular meal after Snertz was defeated and all is well, and he finally recognizes the taste of his mother in one of the eggs.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The group called BADGUYS actually get along so well compared to our main characters. [[spoiler:It's because ''they're'' the good guys this entire time.]]
** Sam stating that Guy is "the brains" and he's the "other brains". [[spoiler:Because Sam is a smooth-talking scam artist with people skills in comparison to Guy's technical genius.]]
*** Adding onto this, why is it weird for ''Sam'' to get arrested? [[spoiler: Perhaps it's because he's a scam-artist and has a humongous rap sheet?]]
** Also, even though Sam is determined to get the Chickaraffe home, why is it that he doesn't seem to have any knowledge about it at all? [[spoiler:Because he's lying; he's an animal smuggler scam artist.]]
*** He usually uses Guy's money in order to pay for everything. [[spoiler: Again, part and parcel of being a scam artist.]]
** Michelee is able to draw an accurate description of the Chickeraffe. [[spoiler:She was actually a painter before her husband passed away.]]
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:Had Guy not taken the suitcase with the Chickeraffe, Sam probably would've been able to give it away to Snerz guilt-free.]]
* FrenchJerk: Squeaky speaks with a French accent and he's not a nice mouse at all. [[spoiler:Turns out he's turned cynical because he was arrested for stealing cheese for his family.]]
* FunWithAcronyms: [[spoiler:BADGUYS stands for “Bureau of Animal Defense, Glurfsberg, Upper Yipville Section". The Meepville branch is the Bureau of Animal Defense Meepville Environmental Network, or BADMEN.]]
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:The BADGUYS, whose name is actually an acronym for “Bureau of Animal Defense, Glurfsberg, Upper Yipville Section, and were chasing after Sam and Guy to '''stop''' Sam from selling Jenkins to Snerz. The narrator even uses this trope word-for-word to describe them. In fact, they decide to let Sam go after learning his true quest!]].
* GrumpyBear: Guy. Though between his crushed dreams and the constant string of bad luck he endures at every turn, you can't blame him.
* GutturalGrowler: [=McWinkle=].
* HartmanHips: Some characters have them on this list.
* HashHouseLingo: The waitress at Donna's Diner calls Guy's order of dry oatmush the "Sad Man's Special."
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Sam decides against giving Mr. Jenkins to Snerz after the adventures he had with Guy, and encouraging words from EB.]]
* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: [[spoiler:True to the book, Guy finally relents and eats the dish in "Anywhere", only this time it's to win back Sam's trust. Of course, he winds up enjoying it.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode is only one word, and is named after an element where the meal would be eaten in the original book which otherwise refers to whatever is the subject of the plot.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Sam and EG; in fact it's this friendship that [[spoiler:makes Sam decide to not go sell Mr. Jenkins to Snertz.]]
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: Squeaky was arrested for [[spoiler:stealing a small crumb of cheese for his family.]]
* LanternJawOfJustice: Gluntz is one of the few characters in any Seuss-related production who has [[NonStandardCharacterDesign a bonafide, solid chin.]]
* LastNameBasis: [=McWinkle=] and Gluntz go by and call each other by their last names exclusively.
* LemonyNarrator: He can be muted, confused, and when he briefly talks to Guy in the second episode, the Narrator tells him that he's gone insane.
* LovableRogue: Deconstructed with the precocious Sam whose harebrained whims and reckless spending of ''Guy's'' money leave the pair broke midway through the show. [[spoiler:Especially true when he’s revealed to be an animal-smuggling scam artist]].
* MissingDad: Michellee is a widow which presumably is why she's so worried about her daughter's safety.
* MissingMom: [[spoiler:Sam comes up with all sorts of lies about his mom, and how much of a wonderful mom she was. Truth is, she left him at an orphanage at a young age, without any clue why. The one thing he remembers is that she always made him breakfast: Green Eggs and Ham. He's on a journey to find her, by tasting every Green Eggs and Ham, hoping to find the ones that taste like hers.]]
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Gluntz. [[spoiler:Except she’s not evil]].
* MuseumOfBoredom:
** After giving up on his invention, Guy's fallback plan is to go to Meepville and get a job as a paint-watcher. Even the perpetually-enthusiastic Sam has to force himself to sound excited about that choice of career.
** Most of the attractions Michellee wants to take EG to, in keeping with her initial distrust of excitement. [[spoiler: Subverted with the Hall of Walls, which is actually a gallery of vivid artworks that EG loves]].
* MythologyGag: The trailer has Sam mention "Whoville" and "The Places You'll Go" the former is the setting of ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' and ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' and the latter referencing ''Oh the Places You'll Go!''
** There is also a [[Literature/OneFishTwoFishRedFishBlueFish family of fish]] whose house is accidentally destroyed by the car Sam & Guy hijack.
** Blink and you'll miss it, but Snerz takes out a passport to the [[Literature/TheButterBattleBook Nation of Zookia.]]
** Each of the one word episodes are based on what Guy said in the books that he doesn't want to get Green Eggs and Ham. (eg. I will not eat with them in a house, I will not with a fox)
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Sam's "friend" (for lack of a better term) is finally given a name, which is Guy-Am-I. The unnamed Fox and Mouse are also likewise given names.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Sam's lack of caution causes him to make most situations he and Guy find themselves in worse. Such as deciding to drive a car off a cliff into a lake without bothering to wake up Guy (who was still inside it), or opening up a drainage pipe without reading what it was being used for and causing corrosive toxic sludge to flood the area. [[spoiler:Then again, calling Sam a "hero" is a bit of a stretch...]]
* {{Ninja}}: One appears in the first episode (Sam). This gets lampshaded by the narrator.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Snerz has bouffant yellow hair (actually a fluffy animal he forces to cover his baldness), runs a conglomerate and collects a series of gold-plated objects. [[Usefulnotes/DonaldTrump Ring any bells?]]
* OfficialCouple: Michellee and Guy as the show progresses
* ObviouslyEvil: Sam and Guy are chased by, gasp, BADGUYS! [[spoiler:Subverted, the acronym for BADGUYS is the opposite of what we're expected to believe.]]
* OddCouple: Sam's an upbeat guy with a love of green eggs and ham. Guy is a grump dragged along for the ride with a keen mind of machinery. There's also the familial Michellee and [=EB=], and the coworker pair [=McWinkle=] and Gluntz.
* OneWordTitle: Crossed with IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming above.
* OnlySaneMan: Guy and [=McWinkle=], who are often frustrated at how weird and lackadaisical the world and people around them are.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** The one thing that Sam would show absolute terror of is the Old Goat.
** In one of the more depressing scenes of the first season, [[spoiler: he is shown in shock after Guy chews him out for hiding his past and Guy stating that Sam doesn't deserve anyone; not even a mother.]]
** How does Guy express guilt for [[spoiler:telling Sam doesn't deserve anyone, particularly a mother? By eating Green Egss and Ham.]]
* PaperThinDisguise: Sam and Guy disguise themselves in "Box" just by ''switching their hats''.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Goat is capable of destroying a ski lift and a large ferry all on his lonesome.
* ThePollyanna: Sam; not even getting stuck in jail dampens his mood.
* PowerUpFood: '''FLANNEL CANDY.'''
* PrisonEpisode: "Mouse" has Guy trying to get to the jail where Sam was taken prisoner.
* ProperlyParanoid: Chickeraffe's ''can'' be as deadly as the public fears, but only if they're sufficiently provoked as they're a mostly friendly species.
* RedOniBlueOni: Sam is the jovial upbeat Red to Guy's grumpy blue.
* TheReveal: Episodes 10 and 11 shows us that [[spoiler:Sam and BADGUYS are actually the opposite of what we're expected to believe. Sam is the villain and BADGUYS are trying to stop ''him'' from returning Mr. Jenkins to Snerz.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Oh dear does Guy rage at Sam when he's revealed to be a liar and a scam artist. But he stops himself after he says that Sam doesn't deserve anyone. [[ThatCameOutWrong Not even a mother.]]]]
* RecycledInSpace: It's ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'' as retold by Dr. Seuss!
** Alternateively it's ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' by Dr. Seuss!
* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:Once the viewer knows the true colors of Sam and BADGUYS, they'll start to notice the hints sprinkled throughout the entire season. Such as the fact that Mr. Snerz never refers to the smuggler by name. So it misleads us to think that the BADGUYS are working for him, when really, it’s Sam-I-Am.]]
** Sam loving green eggs and ham becomes harsher to look like when we learn why he loves eating it so much.
* RoadTripPlot: The story is about Sam and Guy traveling the world to return a rare creature to its home.
* RunningGag: Besides Sam trying to offer Guy Green Eggs and Ham, there are several.
** Guy's inventions exploding.
** [=McWinkle=]'s fur getting greyer and greyer with each setback he and Gluntz experience in their investigation.
** Mr. Jenkins' appetite for ties.
** Goat loudly announcing how he is performing the action that a character in a different scene said he would.
** Cantaloupe hatred.
* SadClown: [[spoiler:Sam, underneath his jovial exterior and love of Green Eggs and Ham is someone who is very lonely and that titular dish is his way to hopefully find his mother.]]
* SatchelSwitcheroo: The premise of the plot involved Sam and Guy accidentally switching briefcases (the former smuggling a rare creature the latter with his failed invention).
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: In a bizarre world, [=McWinkle=] gets by with sensible logic and ruthlessness. For example, when the protagonists would theoretically have an entire town to hide in, [=McWinkle=] is able to determine just from visiting a restaurant they were at, that the pair is short on cash (they only ordered partial portions) and to make money fast, they'd likely find work at the local carnival (which they are at). The Goat is a more typical example of the trope as he manages to get on Sam and Guy's trail with some rather off-kilter methods.
** [=McWinkle=] takes the cake upon using Sam's love of Green Eggs and Ham as a guide, figuring out which places serve the titular dish to figure out where Sam and Guy head next.
* SceneryPorn: The scenery looks just like someone took landscapes from a ''Dr. Seuss'' book and gave them a splash of color.
* SelfMadeMan: After falling out with his mother, Snerz left his country home and built himself an immense financial empire to fund his passion for collecting/imprisoning the world's rarest animals.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:As Sam and Guy both dine on Green Eggs and Ham, Sam notices that the eggs taste similar to that of what his mom makes. Thus the two head off for East Flubria in the chance to find her.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: Sam for Michellee and Guy
* ShoutOut:
** Multiple allusions to other ''Dr. Seuss'' books are made. At one point, Sam destroys the home of characters from ''One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish'' and later gives a ''very'' abbreviated version of ''Oh, the Places You'll Go!'' to high school graduates as he's being chased by the police.
** Everything involving the Mouse is one long extended ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' parody.
** Sam and Guy escaping jail in "Mouse" is framed like the climax of ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' (thankfully with pipes full of oat mush and not sewage), right down to the narrator doing a Creator/MorganFreeman impression and Sam ecstatically looking up in the rain like Andy Dufresne.
* SistineSteal: Guy’s parents painted a picture in this style with Sam, Jenkins and him as the subject.
* SynchroVox: In the second episode Guy hallucinates green eggs and ham singing to him, with the hams having actual mouths super imposed on them.
* TermsOfEndangerment: Goat and [=McWinkle=] both do this.
-->'''Goat''': We can do this the easy way or the hard way, amigo.
-->'''[=McWinkle=]''': I ain't your amigo, friend.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Grizzled, on-the-edge-of-retirement [=McWinkle=] and exuberant, rookie Gluntz. [[spoiler:Then it’s revealed that they’re not bad guys at all]].
* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler:Guy's invention works in capturing Goat and he even gets a kiss from Michelee.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Sam loves Green Eggs and Ham. Surprisingly this is a deconstruction. [[spoiler:His love for it stems from his mother making it for breakfast and he's trying to find the one who tastes exactly like hers. Not only that but his consumption of this is what catches BADGUYS attention and they use it to figure out where Sam and Guy heading for next.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Guy used to be happy as a kid.
* WasItAllALie: Guy is ''pissed off to no end'' when he learns about [[spoiler:Sam's true nature.]]
* WhamEpisode: Episode 10 is the episode to reveal that [[spoiler:Sam I Am's story was not 100% real.]]
* WhamLine: When Sam [[spoiler:calls in to Snerz to deliver Mr. Jenkins]].
* WhamShot: The end of the first episode: Guy tossing his suitcase into the fireplace...and something starts moving before the shadow reveals [[spoiler:The Chickeraffe.]]
* WholePlotReference: "Mouse" is essentially ''Les Miserables'' by Dr. Seuss, complete with song!
* YankTheDogsChain: Whenever Guy looks to be on the cusp of becoming more optimistic or tolerant of Sam, a new crisis (sometimes caused by Sam) immediately punishes him for letting his guard down. Something similar happens to Michellee whenever she admits how she feels about Guy or trusts E.B. to be on her own.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Stress and depression have caused Guy to look vaguely middle-aged with prominent scowl lines. If his [[spoiler:high school classmates]] are of any indication, he's roughly in his early thirties.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Subverted. [[spoiler:Sam turns in the supposed Chickiraff to Snerz, with Snerz complimenting how coldly he acts about Jenkins and his friends. Sam clearly looks uncomfortable with these implications. But it turns out he faked the transaction with a Girooster painted to look like Mr. Jenkins. So his shame was an act.]]
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''Green Eggs and Ham (2019)'' is a series that premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on November 8, 2019.
It’s a 13-episode season that follows Sam-I-Am (Creator/AdamDevine) and Guy-Am-I (Creator/MichaelDouglas) as they go on a whimsical adventure to Meepville trying to return a Chickeraffe back to its natural habitat.
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!!The Netflix Animated Series contains examples of:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: The only one who seems to know anything about chickeraffes is [=EB=], while its zookeepers (who had it in captivity for years), Sam (who rescued it), and the general public know next to nada.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade:
** The fox from the book is given both a name (Michael) and a potent cocktail of neuroses as he attempts to woo an aloof hen at the farm he works at who looks down on him for eating eggs. His efforts to deprive himself of his favorite food have caused him to become unstable and violent. Mentioning eggs or even the name of his would-be girlfriend is enough to cause him to go on a rampage.
** [[spoiler:Sam as well. It turns out he loves Green Eggs and Ham as it connects to his disappeared mother and he's actually a SadClown underneath his beaming smile.]]
* AdaptationDyeJob: Guy-Am-I's fur color is a bit darker compare to the original book, and his hat is dark brown.
* AdaptationExpansion: Green Eggs and Ham has gone from a book about learning to eat new things only using 50 words to a "postmodern Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles" where Sam and Guy find themselves on a road trip to return a rare creature back to its natural habitat.
* AdaptationalBadass: Sam breaks into a zoo and liberates the chickeraffe ''Mission Impossible'' style.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: Guy is shown to be quite the mechanic in the series.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** The goat from the book is a bounty hunter.
** [[spoiler:'''''SAM-I-AM''''', no seriously. Though not ''evil'' by any means, the last few episodes of Season 1 reveal that his claim to want to return Jenkins to his family in the wild was a lie and that '''he’s''' the one trying to sell him to Snerz as part of his career as a animal-smuggling scam artist, with a notorious enough rap sheet to catch the BADGUYS attention. Thankfully, his adventures and friendship with Jenkins and Guy inspire him to pull a HeelFaceTurn and help Jenkins for real]].
* AerithAndBob: Contrast Sam and Guy's fairly normal names to the typically outlandish ones of the other cast members. Michellee (''not'' Michelle) and [=EB=] (short for ''Elana''beth) exist somewhere in the wide gulf between those extremes.
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Sam-I-Am. Even though he is a scam artist and an animal smuggler in this version, his friendly attitude towards Guy and everyone is genuine. He later pulls a HeelFaceTurn, becoming a NiceGuy]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The season finale has Sam and Guy eating Green Eggs and Ham...and Sam recognizes the taste of the eggs as the ones similar to his mother's. Thus the two head off to East Flubria to find answers.]]
* TheArtifact: The titular Green Eggs and Ham. The subtext of the dish (i.e. trying out new things) becomes the actual text of the show as Guy does undertake a plethora of unfamiliar adventures to help Sam get the chickeraffe back to its natural habitat. Sam does offer Guy various types of Green Eggs and Ham OnceAnEpisode, but he's not as persistent as he was in the book and is fine with his pal going without sustenance if there's no other food available. It's still symbolic of Guy's character development and his relationship with Sam, but its consumption no longer constitutes the main thrust of the story.
** Well it's not ''Guy'' consuming it that's part of the story [[spoiler:until he eats it in the season finale]]. [[spoiler:Sam loves the dish so much because he's trying to find the one that was like how his mother made it.]]
* BaitAndSwitch:
** One of the most important lessons of the series is that people/animals are not what they appear to be.
** BADGUYS are here to chase after Sam and Guy... [[spoiler:because ''Sam'' is the real bad guy, not them. Turns out they were hired because Sam's a smuggling scam artist.]]
** The penultimate episode ends with EB seeing [[spoiler:Sam selling Mr. Jenkins to Snerz...the next episode reveals that it's actually a Girooster painted to look like Mr. Jenkins.]]
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Sam was the true villain the entire time, wanting to turn Mr. Jenkins in as he's actually an animal-smuggling scam artist. But his time on the run with Guy made him switch sides in the end.]]
* BigBad: Snerz, whose desire for the Chickeraffe kickstarts the entire plot.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Guy's the mechanic and Sam seems to be the upfront socializer. Or as Sam states, "You're the brains. I'm the ''other'' brains."
* BunglingInventor: Guy has inventions that always explode no matter what he does.
* ButtMonkey: Life seems determined to make Guy miserable.
* CanonForeigner: Much of the supporting cast, including [=McWinkle=], Gluntz, Michellee, [=EB=], Snerz, among others.
* CentralTheme:
** Do not take things at face-value, ranging from Michelee and her thinking that Mr. Jenkins the Chickaraffe is dangerous to [[spoiler:the audience knowing the truth about Sam and BADGUYS.]] The extended lyrics to the show's opening "Backflip" adds onto it: "But take any advice with a grain of salt" which reflects that you shouldn't 100% believe everything you see/hear.
* CerebusRetcon:
** Guy's grouchiness is shown to be justified every scene he's in. He's first introduced when he steps in a puddle and somehow sinks up to his waist. He's been trying to get his inventions onto the market for who-knows-how-long and on his most recent pitch, the device blows up in his face. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Then his hat gets bent.]]
** Sam's love of Green Eggs and Ham? [[spoiler:His mother always made it for breakfast and then one day she disappeared. He's eating it so much to see if that one matches hers.]]
* ChainedHeat: In preparation for their trip, Michellee gets [=EB=] and herself "friendship bracelets." These accessories are more like handcuffs that magnetically latch on to each other with a press of the button so her daughter can't get too far away from her.
* CheerfulChild: EB is a sweet an innocent girl with a huge imagination.
* ChekhovsGun: Over half-a-dozen.
** Sam and Guy's matching briefcases.
** Sam's Wildlife Protection Agent badge.
** Guy's failed flight pack.
** The Stovepipe newspaper Sam reads during his origin story.
** Michellee's jar of beans.
** Michellee and [=EB=]'s "friendship bracelets."
** The [[spoiler:BADGUYS]] calling card.
** The [[spoiler:Giroosters]]' uncanny resemblance to Mr. Jenkins.
** Snerz's living wig.
* CoolTrain: Sam and Guy ride on one of these on their journey. Perplexingly, it has a "Model Train Car" which contains a scaled down model of the actual train that reflects exactly what's happening on and inside of it.
* DaChief: [[spoiler:Captain Walter Bigman.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Of all the Seuss book adaptations, this show has the capacity to really scale back the levity to create atmospheres of bonafide danger and mortal peril. [[spoiler:Oh, and Sam is actually a ''bad guy''.]]
* TheDitz: Gluntz. If there ''any'' way she can [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Comically Miss The Point]], she ''will.''
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The trailer has Sam reacting to Michellee being "vegan" as if she had a serious medical condition, complete with him sympathetically asking "How long have you known?"
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Sam I Am for Snerz; he wasn't trying to return the Chickeraff home, he was trying to sell it to Snerz!]]
* DrosteImage: The Model Train Car on the train has a model of the train itself that replicates everything that happens on it.
* TheDreaded: The Goat. He’s so notorious that even [[ThePollyanna Sam-I-Am]] shows fear of him!
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The narrator says this word-per-word just before Sam finally recognizes the taste of his mother's Green Eggs and Ham.]]
* EpicFail: Pretty much all of Guy's inventions violently explode. Even very simple ones like a device made from two chopsticks, an eggbeater, and a pair of gloves.
** Gluntz tries to conquer a Green Eggs and Ham MegaMealChallenge , but fails to even skim its topmost layer.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Guy heading off to Snerzco in order to make his dreams come true...then he sinks half-way into a puddle. After that, he says "no" to pretty much everyone who interacts with him. Sam, in the meantime, befriends the exact same people Guy dismisses.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The narrator stating -- "This is Dr. Seuss, I didn’t expect a n... WHY WOULD YOU CUT THE LINE?" which reveals how off-kilter this series will be.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Averted with Snerz. [[spoiler:He had a pet Flemur once, he said he was inseparable with. But his mother noticed how miserable the Flemur was and let him escape free. He hasn't spoken to his mom since he was six, minus the scant prank call on Mother's Day.]]
** [[spoiler: Played straight with Sam-I-Am. He’s on a journey to find his mother, while being a con artist and smuggler. It gets to the point where it hurts when Guy brings up the fact that she abandoned him during a heated argument.]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:While it's a stretch, it turns out lovable Sam is actually a scam artist in this setting.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [=McWinkle=] and Gluntz are basically bounty hunter versions of Guy and Sam in terms of temperament and size, but [=McWinkle=] is genuinely successful at his profession and Gluntz mostly listens to what he has to say.[[spoiler: Subverted when they’re revealed to be GoodAllAlong]].
* EvilPoacher: [=McWinkle=]. [[spoiler:But not really: see GoodAllAlong]].
* FinalBoss: The final obstacle standing in between the heroes' way between them and returning Mr. Jenkins home [[spoiler:isn't [[BigBad Snerz himself]], but [[TheDreaded the Goat.]]]]
* FireForgedFriends: Sam and Guy slowly become friends over the course of the season, with Guy even stating that Sam is his friend in the final episode.
* {{Foil}}: Guy and Sam's quest is paralleled by a cross-country trip undertaken by Michellee and [=EB=], a mother-daughter pair whose dynamic is an inversion of the protagonists' with the former being quirkily cautious and the latter being sensibly adventurous.
** The backgrounds for Guy and Sam are also a contrast to one another as revealed in Episode 10: Guy is a grouch but has a loving family who supports him being an inventor, while Sam is optimistic [[spoiler:yet he was abandoned by his mother at a young age.]]
* FoodEnd: [[spoiler:"Anywhere" ends with Sam and Guy sharing the titular meal after Snertz was defeated and all is well, and he finally recognizes the taste of his mother in one of the eggs.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The group called BADGUYS actually get along so well compared to our main characters. [[spoiler:It's because ''they're'' the good guys this entire time.]]
** Sam stating that Guy is "the brains" and he's the "other brains". [[spoiler:Because Sam is a smooth-talking scam artist with people skills in comparison to Guy's technical genius.]]
*** Adding onto this, why is it weird for ''Sam'' to get arrested? [[spoiler: Perhaps it's because he's a scam-artist and has a humongous rap sheet?]]
** Also, even though Sam is determined to get the Chickaraffe home, why is it that he doesn't seem to have any knowledge about it at all? [[spoiler:Because he's lying; he's an animal smuggler scam artist.]]
*** He usually uses Guy's money in order to pay for everything. [[spoiler: Again, part and parcel of being a scam artist.]]
** Michelee is able to draw an accurate description of the Chickeraffe. [[spoiler:She was actually a painter before her husband passed away.]]
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:Had Guy not taken the suitcase with the Chickeraffe, Sam probably would've been able to give it away to Snerz guilt-free.]]
* FrenchJerk: Squeaky speaks with a French accent and he's not a nice mouse at all. [[spoiler:Turns out he's turned cynical because he was arrested for stealing cheese for his family.]]
* FunWithAcronyms: [[spoiler:BADGUYS stands for “Bureau of Animal Defense, Glurfsberg, Upper Yipville Section". The Meepville branch is the Bureau of Animal Defense Meepville Environmental Network, or BADMEN.]]
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:The BADGUYS, whose name is actually an acronym for “Bureau of Animal Defense, Glurfsberg, Upper Yipville Section, and were chasing after Sam and Guy to '''stop''' Sam from selling Jenkins to Snerz. The narrator even uses this trope word-for-word to describe them. In fact, they decide to let Sam go after learning his true quest!]].
* GrumpyBear: Guy. Though between his crushed dreams and the constant string of bad luck he endures at every turn, you can't blame him.
* GutturalGrowler: [=McWinkle=].
* HartmanHips: Some characters have them on this list.
* HashHouseLingo: The waitress at Donna's Diner calls Guy's order of dry oatmush the "Sad Man's Special."
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Sam decides against giving Mr. Jenkins to Snerz after the adventures he had with Guy, and encouraging words from EB.]]
* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: [[spoiler:True to the book, Guy finally relents and eats the dish in "Anywhere", only this time it's to win back Sam's trust. Of course, he winds up enjoying it.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode is only one word, and is named after an element where the meal would be eaten in the original book which otherwise refers to whatever is the subject of the plot.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Sam and EG; in fact it's this friendship that [[spoiler:makes Sam decide to not go sell Mr. Jenkins to Snertz.]]
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife: Squeaky was arrested for [[spoiler:stealing a small crumb of cheese for his family.]]
* LanternJawOfJustice: Gluntz is one of the few characters in any Seuss-related production who has [[NonStandardCharacterDesign a bonafide, solid chin.]]
* LastNameBasis: [=McWinkle=] and Gluntz go by and call each other by their last names exclusively.
* LemonyNarrator: He can be muted, confused, and when he briefly talks to Guy in the second episode, the Narrator tells him that he's gone insane.
* LovableRogue: Deconstructed with the precocious Sam whose harebrained whims and reckless spending of ''Guy's'' money leave the pair broke midway through the show. [[spoiler:Especially true when he’s revealed to be an animal-smuggling scam artist]].
* MissingDad: Michellee is a widow which presumably is why she's so worried about her daughter's safety.
* MissingMom: [[spoiler:Sam comes up with all sorts of lies about his mom, and how much of a wonderful mom she was. Truth is, she left him at an orphanage at a young age, without any clue why. The one thing he remembers is that she always made him breakfast: Green Eggs and Ham. He's on a journey to find her, by tasting every Green Eggs and Ham, hoping to find the ones that taste like hers.]]
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Gluntz. [[spoiler:Except she’s not evil]].
* MuseumOfBoredom:
** After giving up on his invention, Guy's fallback plan is to go to Meepville and get a job as a paint-watcher. Even the perpetually-enthusiastic Sam has to force himself to sound excited about that choice of career.
** Most of the attractions Michellee wants to take EG to, in keeping with her initial distrust of excitement. [[spoiler: Subverted with the Hall of Walls, which is actually a gallery of vivid artworks that EG loves]].
* MythologyGag: The trailer has Sam mention "Whoville" and "The Places You'll Go" the former is the setting of ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' and ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' and the latter referencing ''Oh the Places You'll Go!''
** There is also a [[Literature/OneFishTwoFishRedFishBlueFish family of fish]] whose house is accidentally destroyed by the car Sam & Guy hijack.
** Blink and you'll miss it, but Snerz takes out a passport to the [[Literature/TheButterBattleBook Nation of Zookia.]]
** Each of the one word episodes are based on what Guy said in the books that he doesn't want to get Green Eggs and Ham. (eg. I will not eat with them in a house, I will not with a fox)
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Sam's "friend" (for lack of a better term) is finally given a name, which is Guy-Am-I. The unnamed Fox and Mouse are also likewise given names.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Sam's lack of caution causes him to make most situations he and Guy find themselves in worse. Such as deciding to drive a car off a cliff into a lake without bothering to wake up Guy (who was still inside it), or opening up a drainage pipe without reading what it was being used for and causing corrosive toxic sludge to flood the area. [[spoiler:Then again, calling Sam a "hero" is a bit of a stretch...]]
* {{Ninja}}: One appears in the first episode (Sam). This gets lampshaded by the narrator.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Snerz has bouffant yellow hair (actually a fluffy animal he forces to cover his baldness), runs a conglomerate and collects a series of gold-plated objects. [[Usefulnotes/DonaldTrump Ring any bells?]]
* OfficialCouple: Michellee and Guy as the show progresses
* ObviouslyEvil: Sam and Guy are chased by, gasp, BADGUYS! [[spoiler:Subverted, the acronym for BADGUYS is the opposite of what we're expected to believe.]]
* OddCouple: Sam's an upbeat guy with a love of green eggs and ham. Guy is a grump dragged along for the ride with a keen mind of machinery. There's also the familial Michellee and [=EB=], and the coworker pair [=McWinkle=] and Gluntz.
* OneWordTitle: Crossed with IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming above.
* OnlySaneMan: Guy and [=McWinkle=], who are often frustrated at how weird and lackadaisical the world and people around them are.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** The one thing that Sam would show absolute terror of is the Old Goat.
** In one of the more depressing scenes of the first season, [[spoiler: he is shown in shock after Guy chews him out for hiding his past and Guy stating that Sam doesn't deserve anyone; not even a mother.]]
** How does Guy express guilt for [[spoiler:telling Sam doesn't deserve anyone, particularly a mother? By eating Green Egss and Ham.]]
* PaperThinDisguise: Sam and Guy disguise themselves in "Box" just by ''switching their hats''.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Goat is capable of destroying a ski lift and a large ferry all on his lonesome.
* ThePollyanna: Sam; not even getting stuck in jail dampens his mood.
* PowerUpFood: '''FLANNEL CANDY.'''
* PrisonEpisode: "Mouse" has Guy trying to get to the jail where Sam was taken prisoner.
* ProperlyParanoid: Chickeraffe's ''can'' be as deadly as the public fears, but only if they're sufficiently provoked as they're a mostly friendly species.
* RedOniBlueOni: Sam is the jovial upbeat Red to Guy's grumpy blue.
* TheReveal: Episodes 10 and 11 shows us that [[spoiler:Sam and BADGUYS are actually the opposite of what we're expected to believe. Sam is the villain and BADGUYS are trying to stop ''him'' from returning Mr. Jenkins to Snerz.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Oh dear does Guy rage at Sam when he's revealed to be a liar and a scam artist. But he stops himself after he says that Sam doesn't deserve anyone. [[ThatCameOutWrong Not even a mother.]]]]
* RecycledInSpace: It's ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'' as retold by Dr. Seuss!
** Alternateively it's ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' by Dr. Seuss!
* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:Once the viewer knows the true colors of Sam and BADGUYS, they'll start to notice the hints sprinkled throughout the entire season. Such as the fact that Mr. Snerz never refers to the smuggler by name. So it misleads us to think that the BADGUYS are working for him, when really, it’s Sam-I-Am.]]
** Sam loving green eggs and ham becomes harsher to look like when we learn why he loves eating it so much.
* RoadTripPlot: The story is about Sam and Guy traveling the world to return a rare creature to its home.
* RunningGag: Besides Sam trying to offer Guy Green Eggs and Ham, there are several.
** Guy's inventions exploding.
** [=McWinkle=]'s fur getting greyer and greyer with each setback he and Gluntz experience in their investigation.
** Mr. Jenkins' appetite for ties.
** Goat loudly announcing how he is performing the action that a character in a different scene said he would.
** Cantaloupe hatred.
* SadClown: [[spoiler:Sam, underneath his jovial exterior and love of Green Eggs and Ham is someone who is very lonely and that titular dish is his way to hopefully find his mother.]]
* SatchelSwitcheroo: The premise of the plot involved Sam and Guy accidentally switching briefcases (the former smuggling a rare creature the latter with his failed invention).
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: In a bizarre world, [=McWinkle=] gets by with sensible logic and ruthlessness. For example, when the protagonists would theoretically have an entire town to hide in, [=McWinkle=] is able to determine just from visiting a restaurant they were at, that the pair is short on cash (they only ordered partial portions) and to make money fast, they'd likely find work at the local carnival (which they are at). The Goat is a more typical example of the trope as he manages to get on Sam and Guy's trail with some rather off-kilter methods.
** [=McWinkle=] takes the cake upon using Sam's love of Green Eggs and Ham as a guide, figuring out which places serve the titular dish to figure out where Sam and Guy head next.
* SceneryPorn: The scenery looks just like someone took landscapes from a ''Dr. Seuss'' book and gave them a splash of color.
* SelfMadeMan: After falling out with his mother, Snerz left his country home and built himself an immense financial empire to fund his passion for collecting/imprisoning the world's rarest animals.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:As Sam and Guy both dine on Green Eggs and Ham, Sam notices that the eggs taste similar to that of what his mom makes. Thus the two head off for East Flubria in the chance to find her.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: Sam for Michellee and Guy
* ShoutOut:
** Multiple allusions to other ''Dr. Seuss'' books are made. At one point, Sam destroys the home of characters from ''One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish'' and later gives a ''very'' abbreviated version of ''Oh, the Places You'll Go!'' to high school graduates as he's being chased by the police.
** Everything involving the Mouse is one long extended ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' parody.
** Sam and Guy escaping jail in "Mouse" is framed like the climax of ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' (thankfully with pipes full of oat mush and not sewage), right down to the narrator doing a Creator/MorganFreeman impression and Sam ecstatically looking up in the rain like Andy Dufresne.
* SistineSteal: Guy’s parents painted a picture in this style with Sam, Jenkins and him as the subject.
* SynchroVox: In the second episode Guy hallucinates green eggs and ham singing to him, with the hams having actual mouths super imposed on them.
* TermsOfEndangerment: Goat and [=McWinkle=] both do this.
-->'''Goat''': We can do this the easy way or the hard way, amigo.
-->'''[=McWinkle=]''': I ain't your amigo, friend.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Grizzled, on-the-edge-of-retirement [=McWinkle=] and exuberant, rookie Gluntz. [[spoiler:Then it’s revealed that they’re not bad guys at all]].
* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler:Guy's invention works in capturing Goat and he even gets a kiss from Michelee.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Sam loves Green Eggs and Ham. Surprisingly this is a deconstruction. [[spoiler:His love for it stems from his mother making it for breakfast and he's trying to find the one who tastes exactly like hers. Not only that but his consumption of this is what catches BADGUYS attention and they use it to figure out where Sam and Guy heading for next.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Guy used to be happy as a kid.
* WasItAllALie: Guy is ''pissed off to no end'' when he learns about [[spoiler:Sam's true nature.]]
* WhamEpisode: Episode 10 is the episode to reveal that [[spoiler:Sam I Am's story was not 100% real.]]
* WhamLine: When Sam [[spoiler:calls in to Snerz to deliver Mr. Jenkins]].
* WhamShot: The end of the first episode: Guy tossing his suitcase into the fireplace...and something starts moving before the shadow reveals [[spoiler:The Chickeraffe.]]
* WholePlotReference: "Mouse" is essentially ''Les Miserables'' by Dr. Seuss, complete with song!
* YankTheDogsChain: Whenever Guy looks to be on the cusp of becoming more optimistic or tolerant of Sam, a new crisis (sometimes caused by Sam) immediately punishes him for letting his guard down. Something similar happens to Michellee whenever she admits how she feels about Guy or trusts E.B. to be on her own.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Stress and depression have caused Guy to look vaguely middle-aged with prominent scowl lines. If his [[spoiler:high school classmates]] are of any indication, he's roughly in his early thirties.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Subverted. [[spoiler:Sam turns in the supposed Chickiraff to Snerz, with Snerz complimenting how coldly he acts about Jenkins and his friends. Sam clearly looks uncomfortable with these implications. But it turns out he faked the transaction with a Girooster painted to look like Mr. Jenkins. So his shame was an act.]]
