History WesternAnimation / LanguageArtsThroughImagination

* CanisLatinicus: The Bookis Dragonis in "What Can You See By Looking?"
* CreativeSterility: Defied in "Do Dragons Dream?". Emma thinks she doesn't have an imagination. Figment tells her that everyone has one.

* {{Edutainment}}: The series fits this trope to a T.

# "How Does It Feel To Fly?": When a king of a country called Alpha Kadalpha tries to ban dragons and other flying fantasy creatures, Figment enlists the help of Beth and Danny to change his mind via getting every flyer to leave the kingdom in protest.

# "Where Does Time Fly?": Figment enlists the help of Nick and Jessie to create a story for a contest he wants to enter. In the process, flights are compared to stories as they each have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

The series had 11 shorts created between 1988 and 1989, exclusively meant for use in elementary schools. Each short is between 10-17 minutes long.

# "What Can You See By Looking?": Figment enlists the help of Todd and Dhara to find a book called the "Bookus Dragonis" via solving clues left by Figment's Uncle Max, who hid the book.

The series had 11 shorts created between 1988 and 1989, exclusively meant for use in elementary schools. Each short is between 14-17 minutes long.

# "Where Does Time Fly?": Figment enlists the help of Nick and Jessie to create a story for a contest he wants to enter.

* PlaygroundSong: In "How Does Sound Sound?", live action footage of kids reciting the "kissed a snake" variation of the "Cinderella Dressed in Yellow" rhyme is briefly shown.

* PlaygroundSong: In "How Does Sound Sound?", footage of kids reciting the "Cinderella Dressed in Yellow" rhyme is briefly shown.

* DressedToPlunder: In "Where Does Time Fly?", Nick and Jessie wind up helping Figment write a story about pirates at the end.

* BizarreTasteInFood: In "Would You Eat A Blue Potato?", Figment's snack for Katie and Scott consists of blue potatoes, green milk, pink cauliflower, and orange sandwiches. [[spoiler: At the end, Katie and Scott try the orange sandwiches and wind up liking them.]]

''Language Arts Through Imagination'' is an educational video series created by Disney Educational Media subsidary EPCOT Educational Media and starring the purple dragon Figment of Ride/JourneyIntoImagination fame.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. "How Does Sound Sound?" has one of the kids being named Peter and then the titular character of ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' appears in the following short "Reading Magic With Figment and Peter Pan".

* NeverLearnedToRead: Peter Pan in "Reading Magic With Figment and Peter Pan". Figment and Amy then teach him how important it is to know how to read. Peter decides that he will start learning to read by the end of the short.

Each of these shorts take place in a playhouse in the world of Figonia and focus on an animated Figment (Billy Barty) teaching 2 live action kids[[note]] a kid and another Disney character in "Reading Magic With Figment and Peter Pan" and "Writing Magic with Figment and Alice In Wonderland"[[/note]] about basic concepts of reading and writing and how imagination is important when using those aforementioned concepts. StockFootage of both live action and animated Disney films was used to help illustrate the topics.

* TitleDrop: Figment does this at the end of "The Case of the Missing Space".

* StockFootage: Used in every short as mentioned above in the description. One notable example is footage of the titular character of ''Film/TheReluctantDragon'' being used to portray Figment's Uncle Max in "What Can You See By Looking?".

# "Do Dragons Dream?": Figment helps Emma and Jeremy with their school assignment (writing a story about a dragon), teaching them and the viewers about steps of the writing process.

* CueTheFlyingPigs: In "Do Dragons Dream?", Emma tells Jeremy "you can't talk to dragons" when he explains that he was daydreaming about doing so to get an idea for their story. One second later, Figment brings them both to Figonia so they can do just that.

* PortalBook: Referenced in the theme song with the line "I open books and jump into them"

* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: At the end of "Do Dragons Dream?", Emma and Jeremy decide to write a story about their meeting with Figment for their homework assignment.

* BizarreTasteInFood: In "Would You Eat A Blue Potato?", Figment's snack for Katie and Scott consists of blue potatoes, green milk, pink cauliflower, and orange sandwiches.

The series had 11 shorts created between 1988 and 1989, exclusively meant for use in elementary schools.

* NeverLearnedToRead: Peter Pan in "Reading Magic With Figment and Peter Pan". Figment and Amy then teach him how important it is to know how to read and Peter decides that he will start learning to read by the end of the short.

# "How Does It Feel To Be An Elephant?": Figment takes Matt and Lisa on an "imagination safari" to see different real and imaginary animals and imagine what it would be like to be those animals.

* RogerRabbitEffect: A traditionally animated Figment interacts with live action children.

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