History WesternAnimation / LegendOfTheThreeCaballeros

* BeethovenWasanAlienSpy: The ghosts of the four presidents whose faces adorn Mt. Rushmore guard the Spark of Life, a magical crystal that can animate inanimate matter and was hidden in the mountain.

* TheChewToy: Take a wild guess?The first episode ''really'' piles on Donald with disaster after disaster for him... and on his birthday too!

* TheChewToy: Donald, as per usual. The first episode ''really'' piles on with disaster after disaster for him... and on his birthday too!

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Donald starts the series fired, homeless, and dumped by Daisy. [[spoiler: At the end of the first season, he's the President of The New Quackmore Institute, inherist the Mansion and has got back together with Daisy.]]

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In ''Mount Rushmore Or Less'' George Washington's ghost has statues in his section of Mount Rushmore, one of them shows Marsha Washington holding nunchucks.

* CrossoverCosmology: The cosmology of this show is a mish-mash of various mythologies. There are Greco-Roman gods (who for some reason reside in a World Tree like Norse gods, rather than on Mount Olympus); Mexican gods of Life and Death; an Underworld run by a Satanic figure [[spoiler: resembling Donald]], but with a CelestialBureaucracy and {{Yokai}} that are able to kill ghosts; the core of Earth is guarded by the Nazca creatures; Stonehenge is a portal to another dimension inhabited by Goblins; Egypt was founded by AncientAstronauts... and so on.

* DarkestHour: Episode 12. [[spoiler:Sheldgoose has stolen the Caballeros' amulets, Felldrake is on his way on becoming the most powerful warlock in the universe, Jose, Panchito, and Xandra are ready to fight Sheldgoose and Felldrake, and Donald isn't here.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Donald starts the series fired, homeless, and dumped by Daisy. [[spoiler: At the end of the first season, he's the President of The New Quackmore Institute, inherit to The Mansion and has got back together with Daisy.]]

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: The Three Caballeros use melee weapons (sword, scimitar and polearm) in combat; Xandra uses bow and arrow.

* SadlyMythtaken: The Greco-Roman Gods dwell in the World Tree — which has more to do with Norse mythology's Yggdrasil than with any part of Greco-Roman mythology. One wonders why didn't they just use the Norse gods instead.

* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: April, May, and June mostly play this role.

* WhamEpisode: "Mount Rushmore or Less" and "Mexico A Go-Go."

* FurryLens: Quoting Panchito: "We're not birds. Its not like we can fly".

* OurHeroIsDead: [[spoiler: The Three Caballeros.]]
* PrisonEpisode: "Stonehenge Your Bets."

* SadlyMythtaken: The Greco-Roman Gods dwell in the World Tree — which has more to do with Norse mythology's Yggdrasil than with any part of Greco-Roman mythology.

** Episode 3 ended with a shout out to the warehouse scene from Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk
** Episode 6 had a {{Franchise/Godzilla}} like monster.
** When The Minotaur in Episode 2 becomes enraged and attacks The Caballeros, his hair turns [[Anime/DragonBallZ gold]]

* TheHerosJourney: The entire plot.

* BrokenAesop: "Shangri-La-Di-Da'', is centered around Donald's anger problem. He has some sort of fantasy where a spirit tells him to reflect on everything that's happened so far that's gotten him into trouble. While Donald's anger is a defining characteristic, losing his barber shop job was because of the kid who refused to sit still and let his hair to get cut, the breakup with Daisy was her not letting him explain anything and his hair cut boss demanding he come in to work or be fired (who has worse anger issues than him) so he can't do both. His house burning down was due to the firefighters chopping everything with axes rather than using water. None of those things were due to his anger. However, this could also be the spirit telling Donald to reflect on the source of his anger rather than what was caused by his anger.

* TheCameo: Scrooge [=McDuck=] makes a cameo in the last episode when the Cabelleros cobble together a WaveMotionGun from the stuff in their hut to blast through a magic force field, which not only blasts through it, it melts the front off the money bin too.
* CanonForeigner: Lord Felldrake, Baron von Sheldgoose, and Xandra.

** The two homeless kittens that show up at the door bear a strong resemblance to Figaro in ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' and to the orange kitten in ''WesternAnimation/LendAPaw''.

* TheCameo: Scrooge [=McDuck=] makes a cameo when the Cabelleros blast through a mystic barrier, out the other side, clear to the other end of town and melt the front off the Money Bin.

* AncientAliens: Egypt was a colony of an ancient Moon civilization, with the pyramids being rocket ships they used to go between Earth and their home on the dark side of the Moon. Pyramid ships are even crewed by mummies in space suits.

* CrossoverCosmology: The cosmology of this show is a mish-mash of various mythologies. There are Greco-Roman gods (who for some reason reside in a World Tree like Norse gods, rather than on Mount Olympus); Mexican gods of Life and Death; an Underworld run by a Satanic figure [[spoiler: resembling Donald]], but with a CelestialBureaucracy and {{Yokai}} that are able to kill ghosts; the core of Earth is guarded by the Nazca creatures; Stonehenge is a portal to another dimension inhabited by Goblins; Egypt was founded by AncientAliens... and so on.

* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Sort of. Most characters, including historical figures, are depicted as anthropomorphic animals (including {{dogfaces}}), but the gods themselves are human-looking as are ancient egyptian mummies (though [[AncientAliens given the latter's status]]...) and as mentioned in FurryLens it's heavily implied everyone's actually human beings in-universe.

** The scene where the Three Caballeros inflate their body parts to fight the Yokai by blowing on their thumb references the scene from [[Disney/TheThreeCaballeros the original movie]] where Donald does the same while trying to grow back to regular size.

** Zigzagged: Though, considering that Donald, April, May, June, Daisy, Sheldgoose, Ari, Jose, and many other bird characters are pantsless and that Donald’s and Jose’s [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal pantsless status]] is alluded to, Donald still sounds [[AnimalSpeciesAccent as ducky as ever]], and he is imagined as being inside an egg a DisneyAcidSequence, this trope is not actually in effect on the non historical figure mortal characters. The historical figures (who are depicted as anthropomorphic animals, such as ducks and {{dogfaces}}) on the other hand, are contextually human.

* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Sort off. Most characters, including historical figures, are depicted as anthropomorphic animals (including {{dogfaces}}), but the gods themselves are human-looking as are ancient egyptian mummies (though [[AncientAliens given the latter's status]]...) and as mentioned in FurryLens it's heavily implied everyone's actually human beings in-universe.

* BrokenAesop: "Shangri-La-Di-Da'', is centered around Donald's anger problem. He has some sort of fantasy where a spirit tells him to reflect on everything that's happened so far that's gotten him into trouble. While Donald's anger is a defining characteristic, losing his barber shop job was because of the kid who refused to sit still and let his hair to get cut, the breakup with Daisy was her not letting him explain anything and his hair cut boss demanding he come in to work or be fired (who has worse anger issues than him) so he can't do both. His house burning down was due to the firefighters chopping everything with axes rather than using water. None of those things were due to his anger.
** I think the spirit is more telling Donald to reflect on the source of his anger rather than what was caused by his anger.

* SkewedPriorities: At the end of Episode 10, Sheldgoose, who has managed to become the manager of TheUnderworld, has failed to cross to barrier in time, thus he cannot return to life. Immediately afterwards, he is fired for letting the main characters escape. While this has the positive effect of returning him to life, Sheldgoose is more focused on the fact that he got fired.

* ColorCodedCharacters: Donald, José and Panchito are blue, green and red, respectively; Xandra is golden-yellow; the villains (Sheldgoose, Felldrake and Leopold) are purple.