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* CardboardPrison - Dr. Hamsterviel is able to keep contact with Gantu through video phone and receive captured experiments from within his prison cell.
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* Deconstruction: {{Deconstruction}}: Of Pokemon. The experiments can be dangerous and in fact were created for evil. What's more, the series showed us exactly what someone who is devoting her life to GottaCatchThemAll would really be like: Strange and slightly broken.
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* TheMenInBlack - Cobra Bubbles
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll - Dr. Hamsterviel, who effectively converted his cell into an off-site headquarters.Bubbles is still working for the CIA.
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* MonsterOfTheWeek - With the Disney twist
** MonsterOfTheAesop - Ridiculously so; an episode about healthy eating has a chef experiment that cooks unhealthy food, an episode about cooperation has two radically different experiments that work together, etc.
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twist; the monster is tamed and becomes your 'cousin'.
** MonsterOfTheAesop -Ridiculously so; an An episode about healthy eating has a chef experiment that cooks unhealthy food, food and an episode about cooperation has two radically different experiments that work together, etc.
*MonsterRoommateMonsterRoommate: Stitch and his cousins.
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** It was stated by [[WordofGod the producers]] that Gantu's sudden shrinkage between [[Disney/LiloAndStitch the movie]] and the series was so that Gantu could appear in frame without ridiculously dwarfing anything he stood over. (That doesn't explain the variance in the series itself, however...)
** It was stated by [[WordofGod the producers]] that Gantu's sudden shrinkage between [[Disney/LiloAndStitch the movie]] and the series was so that Gantu could appear in frame without ridiculously dwarfing anything he stood over. (That doesn't explain the variance in the series itself, however...)
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* OffModel - Gantu's height can range from just over twice Jumba's size to taller than two stories, and everything in between.
**between. It was stated by [[WordofGod the producers]] that Gantu's sudden shrinkage between [[Disney/LiloAndStitch the movie]] and the series was so that Gantu could appear in frame without ridiculously dwarfing anything he stood over. (That doesn't explain the variance in the series itself, however...)
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* VillainTeamUp: In "[[{{Crossover}} Rufus]]", Hamsterviel teams up with [[KimPossible Dr. Drakken and Shego]].
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** Sadly, fans were denied the opportunity to see Shego & Gantu work together, as the latter didn't appear in that episode.
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* VillainTeamUp: In "[[{{Crossover}} Rufus]]", Hamsterviel teams up with [[KimPossible Dr. Drakken and Shego]].
**Shego]]. Sadly, fans were denied the opportunity to see Shego & Gantu work together, as the latter didn't appear in that episode.
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* Reconstruction: Of Pokemon and GottaCatchThemAll series in general. Yes, the task of capturing experiments is sometimes dangerous and requires someone mentally unsound enough to carry it out. But it could also give her [[YouAreNotAlone friends and family.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The experiment that is a sentient virus just happened to end up in a cereal box and so it would be swallowed by Pleakley.
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* SpaceWhaleAesop: "Melty" teaches us we shouldn't go back in time to fix mistakes because we might make things far worse.
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* GodGuise - An [[UnwantedFalseFaith unwanted]] example in "Retro". Though it's a bit hard to tell since they can't talk, Nani's de-evolved friends seem to be worshipping her like a goddess for a short time.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - In "Angel" when Angel is about to go to bed she gives Stitch a look that basically says "Come to bed with me" and Stitch is all too eager to, but then Lilo makes them sleep in seperate beds.
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* BodyScreenFillUp: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2pKJcJgC1I AN ENTIRE VIDEO WORTH]]
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seems natterish,. plut they took notice of that and she later apolgized.
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** Nani's attitude toward Stitch was hit the most. She even tries to get rid of him in "Phantasmo", which was stupid in and of itself.
*** And what about when she grounded him and Lilo in "Bonnie and Clyde" just because they, as Lilo puts it, "ran around the house and burp"? What The Hell, Writers?
** Moses (Lilo's hula teacher) as well. In the movie, he tries his best to give Lilo support. In the series, he is surprisingly un-supportive of her ideas weird as they are. You think he would at least give her some amount of creativity a chance.
*** And what about when she grounded him and Lilo in "Bonnie and Clyde" just because they, as Lilo puts it, "ran around the house and burp"? What The Hell, Writers?
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*** And what about when she grounded him and Lilo in "Bonnie and Clyde" just because they, as Lilo puts it, "ran around the house and burp"? What The Hell, Writers?
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*** And what about when she grounded him and Lilo in "Bonnie and Clyde" just because they, as Lilo puts it, "ran around the house and burp"? What The Hell, Writers?
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* ShoutOut: Hamsterviel is ''not'' a space gerbil, he's clearly an alien version of the frenchman from MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Thanks to Hamsterveil sending all of the captured experiments to Gantu in "Woops", Lilo and Stitch will get the chance of freeing them in the next episode, "Snafu".
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* OutlawCouple: 149 and 150, nicknamed BonnieAndClyde. It helps that they were designed for theft and evasion.
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* RealAfterAll: In "Belle", Mertle constantly chastises Lilo for believing in the Nightmarchers, [[spoiler:though as the episode ends, she ''does'' see the Nightmarchers, and quickly gets into the car and demands that her mom drive away]].
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* BodyScreenFillUp: Happens twice in "Frenchfry", where Lilo rolls over her hula class. She's rolling towards the camera and the screen becomes filled with red. And when she and Stitch roll over Frenchfry near the end. First, Lilo rolls toward the camera, then it fades to blue and Sritch rolls out.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: [[TheProudFamily Penny Proud]]. Despite all the weird and supernatural things she's seen on her own series, she isn't willing to believe in aliens until she sees Jumba's equipment.
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* DependingOnTheWriter - Depending on the episode, Lilo is either [[SecretKeeper going along with keeping the aliens a secret]] or [[CassandraTruth openly blabbing about the secret with no one believing her]].
** Though her blabbing could be interpreted as her [[RefugeInAudacity expecting people not]] [[SarcasticConfession to believe her]].
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series (2003-2006) was a sequel series to the [[Disney/LiloAndStitch Disney movie of the same name]]. After the events of the film, Hawaiian girl Lilo is safe and happy with her sister Nani and their expanded family: alien experimental life-form Stitch, giant four-eyed mad scientist Jumba, and meek cycloptic soldier-bureaucrat Pleakley.
As the series begins, it is revealed that many other experiments of Stitch's lineage, of which he is number 626, have landed near Hawaii by accident (as shown in the straight for video movie ''Stitch The Movie''). Stored in pods that activate one by one in freak occurrences (usually by dropping into water), each specialized experiment uses its unique power to wreak havok on the island until it is captured. Lilo and Stitch's goal is to find a place in which each of Stitch's "cousins" can be useful and happy. Competing with them for each capture is movie bad-guy Captain Gantu, who seeks to enslave the experiments for the even-eviler Doctor Hamsterviel. After three seasons of this, the series closed out with the 4th and final movie, ''Leroy and Stitch''.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Shortstuff (#297) has a knack for this.
* ActorAllusion: In one episode Pleakley claims he and Jumba are "Canadians from Canadia." Kevin [=MacDonald=] is Canadian.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: As well as the experiment Frenchfry who can speak French.
* AnimateInanimateObject: The ghost-like Phantasmo (#375) has the ability to possess any inanimate object from [[HauntedTechnology kitchen appliances]] to [[LivingToys Lilo's doll Scrump]]. He eventually takes up residence in a broken animatronic macaw in a restaurant.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: An invisible Stitch is messing up things on Gantu's ship. In order, he takes out the Stabilizing Gyro Porter, the Subspace Hyper Gaskets, and the Satellite TV.
* ArtShift: The series has a simpler and thicker lined style than the original film.
* AudienceSurrogate: [[WordOfGod According to Jess Winfield]], Keoni is this and the entire writing staff hated him for it.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: All of the experiments are capable of doing this, as seen in 'The Asteroid', whether they have been specifically designed to survive in vacuum or just can hold their breath a long time is debatable.
* BigEater - Experiment 625, Gantu's {{sidekick}} and Stitch's immediate predecessor, is a lazy bum who eats Dagwood sandwiches all day. In fact, most of the experiments (at least the more "beastly" ones), including Stitch himself, are.
* BrokenAesop: Ohana may mean family, and family may mean that nobody's left behind, etc. etc., but Lilo can be astonishingly cold to some of the experiments. The episode ''Snafu'' hinged on this fact, actually.
* CardboardPrison - Dr. Hamsterviel is able to keep contact with Gantu through video phone and receive captured experiments from within his prison cell.
* CardCarryingVillain - Experiment 627 can literally only say "Evil."
** Gantu himself flipflopped on the issue, depending on the episode.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Subverted in one case where Mertle actually won a dog contest through cheating but relinquished the the trophy after the duo helped saved her pet (which was an experiment) from Gantu. Played straight in a later episode via a trivia contest.
* ContinuityNod: In the above episode, Stitch travels to the big city to participate in the dog show... and although he mostly keeps his destructive impulses with regards to large cities under control -- the question of whether he can being one of the driving elements of the plot -- he ''does'' eat someone's left shoe.
* {{Crossover}} - A series of episodes in which the characters from other Disney Channel shows came to visit the islands. The series also holds the honor of having the most crossovers in a Disney series, which include:
** ''KimPossible''
** ''AmericanDragonJakeLong''
** ''{{Recess}}''
** ''TheProudFamily''
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Stitch generally has to fight his cousins before they'll accept being 'ohana'.
* DoesNotLikeShoes - A lot of people are seen wearing sandals.
* EarthquakeMachine - Richter (#513)
* ElementalPowers - Several of the experiments, most notably Yin (#501) and Yang (#502).
** In fact, the entire 500 series of experiments have been stated to have some form of elemental abilities.
* EvilAlbino - Doctor Hamsterviel
* EvilRedhead - Mertle
* ExecutiveMeddling - Producers hated Angel and didn't want her to appear again. After finding out about her EnsembleDarkhorse status, they relented.
** Considering her lack of a real personality outside of being the LoveInterest, who could really blame them for not liking her?
* FastballSpecial: Stitch and Gantu in a rare EnemyMine moment.
* {{Flanderization}}
** Lilo's weirdness
** Mertle's meanness
** Jumba's broken English
** Stitch's destructive tendencies.
** Pleakley's cross dressing was also greatly exaggerated.
** Nani's attitude toward Stitch was hit the most. She even tries to get rid of him in "Phantasmo", which was stupid in and of itself.
*** And what about when she grounded him and Lilo in "Bonnie and Clyde" just because they, as Lilo puts it, "ran around the house and burp"? What The Hell, Writers?
** Moses (Lilo's hula teacher) as well. In the movie, he tries his best to give Lilo support. In the series, he is surprisingly un-supportive of her ideas weird as they are. You think he would at least give her some amount of creativity a chance.
* FlawedPrototype: Some of Stitch's 'cousins' are regarded as failures by Jumba. The two most notable ones are Reuben (#625) and Woops (#600), both of which were prototypes for Stitch but had negative traits (laziness and clumsiness, respectively). Ace (#262) is considered by Jumba to be [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest failure]] for not having ''any'' evil traits at all, instead being a hero by default.
* ForWantOfANail - "Melty"
* FrickinLaserBeams - The only type of firearms that appear in the series, being a kid's show and all. Technically averted in that they aren't really lasers, but "plasma". At least two of the experiments have this power as well.
** Slightly lampshaded in the original movie, where Stitch catches the ball of plasma that Jumba fires at him, does a "hot potato" reaction for about two seconds, and ''throws it back''. Even still, this hot potato reaction was from the gun it was fired from overloading.
* GenderBlenderName - Pleakley's first name is Wendy. Not an EmbarrassingFirstName for him, since it means "powerful warrior" on his planet.
* GoodAngelBadAngel - Mr. Stenchy (slight variation in that Stitch has two bad angels).
* GottaCatchThemAll
* HarmfulHealing
* HartmanHips - Nani, Myrtle's mom and aunt, and most of the women.
* HypnoFool - Gantu, Lilo, Stitch, and some other random islanders in one episode; caused by Swirly (#383).
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakly in ''Leroy and Stitch''.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming - Every episode title is the name of the featured experiment, except for "The Asteroid", "Bad Stitch", and "[[KimPossible Rufus]]".
* IdiotBall - And how. Nearly every character gets a hold of it within the pilot movie alone.
* InformedAbility - 625 "Reuben" is said to be as strong as Stitch, but is too lazy to use this strength effectively. Lampshaded repeatedly, mostly by himself. Finally gets to show off his strength in the GrandFinale, if only for a little bit, after Lilo names him.
* IronicEcho - A ridiculously funny example in Shoe.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine - Pleakley is voiced by [=Kevin MacDonald=] from TheKidsInTheHall; when his family came to visit, his former castmates provided their voices. [[CrossDressingVoices Scott Thompson was his mom, Bruce McCullough was his sister]] and Mark Mc Kinney was his brother. [[ItMakesSenseInContext And Dave Foley was the priest]].
* TheImp - Experiment 625
* InkSuitActor - WeirdAlYankovic as a minstrel at a medieval festival.
** Regis Philbin and Glenn Shadix in other episodes.
* TheKlutz - Woops. If he can't wreck something directly, he'll set off [[DisasterDominoes a chain reaction that ends with the target being wrecked]].
* LethalChef - Pleakley - who thinks dog food is incredibly convenient because "it makes its own gravy" - and to a lesser extent Nani.
** Also Frenchfry, whose food is quite good, but is a man-eating killer himself.
* LovePotion - In the form of a hummingbird-like experiment pecking people - Hunkahunka (#323).
* MakeAWish
* MeaningfulName -- Many of the experiments.
** All of them except Stitch and Leroy, actually.
*** If looked at the right way, Stitch's name could refer to the fact that he indirectly patched up Lilo's family.
* {{Meganekko}} - Myrtle, her mom and aunt, and Dr. Oprah.
** Subverted in Myrtle's case : she wears glasses, but she's not the nicest person ever, to say the least.
* MesACrowd - Dupe (#314), with the classic [[ConservationOfNinjutsu "divide your abilities amongst the clones"]] side effect.
* TheMenInBlack - Cobra Bubbles
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll - Dr. Hamsterviel, who effectively converted his cell into an off-site headquarters.
* MonsterOfTheWeek - With the Disney twist
** MonsterOfTheAesop - Ridiculously so; an episode about healthy eating has a chef experiment that cooks unhealthy food, an episode about cooperation has two radically different experiments that work together, etc.
* MonsterRoommate
* {{Mons}} - The experiments can be thought of like this.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood - Dr. [[strike:Hamster Wheel]] Hamsterviel. Doesn't help that he actually ''looks'' like a hamster.
** Actually he looks more like a gerbil (hamsters don't have tails that big).
* NeverMyFault - After Mertle activates Holio despite Lilo's warnings she blames Lilo for the whole thing.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown - There's a montage of Stitch getting his ass kicked by Experiment 627 in one episode, including being electrocuted, used as a trampoline, and used as a literal punching bag.
* NoNameGiven -- Experiment 625, until the GrandFinale, where he is christened "Reuben" after the sandwich.
** Experiment 627.
** Inverted in Leroy from the GrandFinale - he is given a name but no number.
* NoodleIncident- in one episode, Pleakley remembers 'the incident with the giant chicken'.
* OffModel - Gantu's height can range from just over twice Jumba's size to taller than two stories, and everything in between.
** It was stated by [[WordofGod the producers]] that Gantu's sudden shrinkage between [[Disney/LiloAndStitch the movie]] and the series was so that Gantu could appear in frame without ridiculously dwarfing anything he stood over. (That doesn't explain the variance in the series itself, however...)
* PlotTailoredToTheParty
* PokeThePoodle- Some of Jumba's experiments are like this (an experiment that steals people's desserts, another that annoys people by talking too much, etc.)
* PromotionToParent -- Nani
* ReunionShow: ''Fibber'', which, as mention above, features the ''{{Kids in the Hall}}'' cast as Pleakly family.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness David started talking like this after a wish-granting experiment had made him "the smartest person in the world". He was also practically incapable of speaking regularly.
* ShoutOut: Hamsterviel is ''not'' a space gerbil, he's clearly an alien version of the frenchman from MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail.
** In one episode, Lilo and a couple of Stitches (Duplication experiment, nuff said) try to do a levitation spell from ''{{The Craft}}''. Even reciting the incantation "Light as a feather, stiff as a board."
* SpannerInTheWorks: Snafu and Woops have this as their entire function.
* SuckECheeses
* SuperStrength - Stitch, although he has been stated to not be able to lift one ounce over 3000 times his own weight (this weakness has been exploited by both of the main villains).
* TheAce - Even named Ace (#262), He has the appearence of a superhero and dosen't have the slightest bit of evil in him.
* TakeThat - Phantasmo (#375) acts suspiciously like [[TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]]... This is a TakeThat because in The Simpsons, Bart never gets any comeuppance for his behavior, so Phantasmo, who acts like him, also does not get any comeuppance until the end. This sets up the Aesop: [[LaserGuidedKarma Don't blame others because you will be found out]].
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: "Aloha E Komo Mai" would play without vocals in an upbeat form whenever Stitch or someone else was doing a lot of fightng.
* TheNicknamer - Jumba
** And Lilo herself, of course.
* TheUnintelligible - Stitch's speech is very hard to understand, and most other experiments make animal or robotic noises.
* [[TransAtlanticEquivalent Trans-Pacific Equivalent]] - There is a [[{{ptitlem3bfpr12jt53}} Japanese version]] where Stitch lives on an equally tropical island in Okinawa. They keep the animation style, for the most part.
* TrueCompanions: [[CatchPhrase Ohana means family, and family means that no one gets left behind...or forgotten.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight - Many Hawaiians mistake Stitch and other experiments for normal Earth animals. They also mistake Gantu for a human foreigner [[WeirdnessCensor even when he's not]] wearing a PaperThinDisguise. Only two American tourists noticed Gantu and the experiments were aliens and when they complained to the mayor, even giving photographic evidence, he just shrugs it off as a hoax.
** In the Frenchfry episode, Kumu doesn't seem to find it odd that the now fat Lilo is shaped so unrealistically or how she gained so much weight in so little time.
** The ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'' crossover stated they were in Hawaii to investigate reports of undisguised magical creatures, so apparently a few people noticed.
* VerbalTic - Mertle has a habit of putting emphasis on words like me and my, [[FreudianSlip showing how conceited she is]]. It's pretty subtle, but it's made more apparent when Lilo does it when she's hypnotised into acting like Mertle.
* VillainTeamUp: In "[[{{Crossover}} Rufus]]", Hamsterviel teams up with [[KimPossible Dr. Drakken and Shego]].
* WeaksauceWeakness - Stitch has two. He cannot float or even swim in water, and he can lift only ''exactly'' 3000 times his own weight. To the point where [[WaferThinMint if so much as a feather lands on his load, he drops the whole thing]].
* WhatTheHellHero - Nosy calls Lilo out in "Snafu" for letting several Experiments go.
* WholesomeCrossdresser - Pleakley
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series (2003-2006) was a sequel series to the [[Disney/LiloAndStitch Disney movie of the same name]]. After the events of the film, Hawaiian girl Lilo is safe and happy with her sister Nani and their expanded family: alien experimental life-form Stitch, giant four-eyed mad scientist Jumba, and meek cycloptic soldier-bureaucrat Pleakley.
As the series begins, it is revealed that many other experiments of Stitch's lineage, of which he is number 626, have landed near Hawaii by accident (as shown in the straight for video movie ''Stitch The Movie''). Stored in pods that activate one by one in freak occurrences (usually by dropping into water), each specialized experiment uses its unique power to wreak havok on the island until it is captured. Lilo and Stitch's goal is to find a place in which each of Stitch's "cousins" can be useful and happy. Competing with them for each capture is movie bad-guy Captain Gantu, who seeks to enslave the experiments for the even-eviler Doctor Hamsterviel. After three seasons of this, the series closed out with the 4th and final movie, ''Leroy and Stitch''.
[[Characters/LiloAndStitch Now has a character sheet.]]
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!!This series contains examples of:
* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Shortstuff (#297) has a knack for this.
* ActorAllusion: In one episode Pleakley claims he and Jumba are "Canadians from Canadia." Kevin [=MacDonald=] is Canadian.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: As well as the experiment Frenchfry who can speak French.
* AnimateInanimateObject: The ghost-like Phantasmo (#375) has the ability to possess any inanimate object from [[HauntedTechnology kitchen appliances]] to [[LivingToys Lilo's doll Scrump]]. He eventually takes up residence in a broken animatronic macaw in a restaurant.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: An invisible Stitch is messing up things on Gantu's ship. In order, he takes out the Stabilizing Gyro Porter, the Subspace Hyper Gaskets, and the Satellite TV.
* ArtShift: The series has a simpler and thicker lined style than the original film.
* AudienceSurrogate: [[WordOfGod According to Jess Winfield]], Keoni is this and the entire writing staff hated him for it.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: All of the experiments are capable of doing this, as seen in 'The Asteroid', whether they have been specifically designed to survive in vacuum or just can hold their breath a long time is debatable.
* BigEater - Experiment 625, Gantu's {{sidekick}} and Stitch's immediate predecessor, is a lazy bum who eats Dagwood sandwiches all day. In fact, most of the experiments (at least the more "beastly" ones), including Stitch himself, are.
* BrokenAesop: Ohana may mean family, and family may mean that nobody's left behind, etc. etc., but Lilo can be astonishingly cold to some of the experiments. The episode ''Snafu'' hinged on this fact, actually.
* CardboardPrison - Dr. Hamsterviel is able to keep contact with Gantu through video phone and receive captured experiments from within his prison cell.
* CardCarryingVillain - Experiment 627 can literally only say "Evil."
** Gantu himself flipflopped on the issue, depending on the episode.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Subverted in one case where Mertle actually won a dog contest through cheating but relinquished the the trophy after the duo helped saved her pet (which was an experiment) from Gantu. Played straight in a later episode via a trivia contest.
* ContinuityNod: In the above episode, Stitch travels to the big city to participate in the dog show... and although he mostly keeps his destructive impulses with regards to large cities under control -- the question of whether he can being one of the driving elements of the plot -- he ''does'' eat someone's left shoe.
* {{Crossover}} - A series of episodes in which the characters from other Disney Channel shows came to visit the islands. The series also holds the honor of having the most crossovers in a Disney series, which include:
** ''KimPossible''
** ''AmericanDragonJakeLong''
** ''{{Recess}}''
** ''TheProudFamily''
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Stitch generally has to fight his cousins before they'll accept being 'ohana'.
* DoesNotLikeShoes - A lot of people are seen wearing sandals.
* EarthquakeMachine - Richter (#513)
* ElementalPowers - Several of the experiments, most notably Yin (#501) and Yang (#502).
** In fact, the entire 500 series of experiments have been stated to have some form of elemental abilities.
* EvilAlbino - Doctor Hamsterviel
* EvilRedhead - Mertle
* ExecutiveMeddling - Producers hated Angel and didn't want her to appear again. After finding out about her EnsembleDarkhorse status, they relented.
** Considering her lack of a real personality outside of being the LoveInterest, who could really blame them for not liking her?
* FastballSpecial: Stitch and Gantu in a rare EnemyMine moment.
* {{Flanderization}}
** Lilo's weirdness
** Mertle's meanness
** Jumba's broken English
** Stitch's destructive tendencies.
** Pleakley's cross dressing was also greatly exaggerated.
** Nani's attitude toward Stitch was hit the most. She even tries to get rid of him in "Phantasmo", which was stupid in and of itself.
*** And what about when she grounded him and Lilo in "Bonnie and Clyde" just because they, as Lilo puts it, "ran around the house and burp"? What The Hell, Writers?
** Moses (Lilo's hula teacher) as well. In the movie, he tries his best to give Lilo support. In the series, he is surprisingly un-supportive of her ideas weird as they are. You think he would at least give her some amount of creativity a chance.
* FlawedPrototype: Some of Stitch's 'cousins' are regarded as failures by Jumba. The two most notable ones are Reuben (#625) and Woops (#600), both of which were prototypes for Stitch but had negative traits (laziness and clumsiness, respectively). Ace (#262) is considered by Jumba to be [[MyGreatestFailure his greatest failure]] for not having ''any'' evil traits at all, instead being a hero by default.
* ForWantOfANail - "Melty"
* FrickinLaserBeams - The only type of firearms that appear in the series, being a kid's show and all. Technically averted in that they aren't really lasers, but "plasma". At least two of the experiments have this power as well.
** Slightly lampshaded in the original movie, where Stitch catches the ball of plasma that Jumba fires at him, does a "hot potato" reaction for about two seconds, and ''throws it back''. Even still, this hot potato reaction was from the gun it was fired from overloading.
* GenderBlenderName - Pleakley's first name is Wendy. Not an EmbarrassingFirstName for him, since it means "powerful warrior" on his planet.
* GoodAngelBadAngel - Mr. Stenchy (slight variation in that Stitch has two bad angels).
* GottaCatchThemAll
* HarmfulHealing
* HartmanHips - Nani, Myrtle's mom and aunt, and most of the women.
* HypnoFool - Gantu, Lilo, Stitch, and some other random islanders in one episode; caused by Swirly (#383).
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakly in ''Leroy and Stitch''.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming - Every episode title is the name of the featured experiment, except for "The Asteroid", "Bad Stitch", and "[[KimPossible Rufus]]".
* IdiotBall - And how. Nearly every character gets a hold of it within the pilot movie alone.
* InformedAbility - 625 "Reuben" is said to be as strong as Stitch, but is too lazy to use this strength effectively. Lampshaded repeatedly, mostly by himself. Finally gets to show off his strength in the GrandFinale, if only for a little bit, after Lilo names him.
* IronicEcho - A ridiculously funny example in Shoe.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine - Pleakley is voiced by [=Kevin MacDonald=] from TheKidsInTheHall; when his family came to visit, his former castmates provided their voices. [[CrossDressingVoices Scott Thompson was his mom, Bruce McCullough was his sister]] and Mark Mc Kinney was his brother. [[ItMakesSenseInContext And Dave Foley was the priest]].
* TheImp - Experiment 625
* InkSuitActor - WeirdAlYankovic as a minstrel at a medieval festival.
** Regis Philbin and Glenn Shadix in other episodes.
* TheKlutz - Woops. If he can't wreck something directly, he'll set off [[DisasterDominoes a chain reaction that ends with the target being wrecked]].
* LethalChef - Pleakley - who thinks dog food is incredibly convenient because "it makes its own gravy" - and to a lesser extent Nani.
** Also Frenchfry, whose food is quite good, but is a man-eating killer himself.
* LovePotion - In the form of a hummingbird-like experiment pecking people - Hunkahunka (#323).
* MakeAWish
* MeaningfulName -- Many of the experiments.
** All of them except Stitch and Leroy, actually.
*** If looked at the right way, Stitch's name could refer to the fact that he indirectly patched up Lilo's family.
* {{Meganekko}} - Myrtle, her mom and aunt, and Dr. Oprah.
** Subverted in Myrtle's case : she wears glasses, but she's not the nicest person ever, to say the least.
* MesACrowd - Dupe (#314), with the classic [[ConservationOfNinjutsu "divide your abilities amongst the clones"]] side effect.
* TheMenInBlack - Cobra Bubbles
* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll - Dr. Hamsterviel, who effectively converted his cell into an off-site headquarters.
* MonsterOfTheWeek - With the Disney twist
** MonsterOfTheAesop - Ridiculously so; an episode about healthy eating has a chef experiment that cooks unhealthy food, an episode about cooperation has two radically different experiments that work together, etc.
* MonsterRoommate
* {{Mons}} - The experiments can be thought of like this.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood - Dr. [[strike:Hamster Wheel]] Hamsterviel. Doesn't help that he actually ''looks'' like a hamster.
** Actually he looks more like a gerbil (hamsters don't have tails that big).
* NeverMyFault - After Mertle activates Holio despite Lilo's warnings she blames Lilo for the whole thing.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown - There's a montage of Stitch getting his ass kicked by Experiment 627 in one episode, including being electrocuted, used as a trampoline, and used as a literal punching bag.
* NoNameGiven -- Experiment 625, until the GrandFinale, where he is christened "Reuben" after the sandwich.
** Experiment 627.
** Inverted in Leroy from the GrandFinale - he is given a name but no number.
* NoodleIncident- in one episode, Pleakley remembers 'the incident with the giant chicken'.
* OffModel - Gantu's height can range from just over twice Jumba's size to taller than two stories, and everything in between.
** It was stated by [[WordofGod the producers]] that Gantu's sudden shrinkage between [[Disney/LiloAndStitch the movie]] and the series was so that Gantu could appear in frame without ridiculously dwarfing anything he stood over. (That doesn't explain the variance in the series itself, however...)
* PlotTailoredToTheParty
* PokeThePoodle- Some of Jumba's experiments are like this (an experiment that steals people's desserts, another that annoys people by talking too much, etc.)
* PromotionToParent -- Nani
* ReunionShow: ''Fibber'', which, as mention above, features the ''{{Kids in the Hall}}'' cast as Pleakly family.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness David started talking like this after a wish-granting experiment had made him "the smartest person in the world". He was also practically incapable of speaking regularly.
* ShoutOut: Hamsterviel is ''not'' a space gerbil, he's clearly an alien version of the frenchman from MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail.
** In one episode, Lilo and a couple of Stitches (Duplication experiment, nuff said) try to do a levitation spell from ''{{The Craft}}''. Even reciting the incantation "Light as a feather, stiff as a board."
* SpannerInTheWorks: Snafu and Woops have this as their entire function.
* SuckECheeses
* SuperStrength - Stitch, although he has been stated to not be able to lift one ounce over 3000 times his own weight (this weakness has been exploited by both of the main villains).
* TheAce - Even named Ace (#262), He has the appearence of a superhero and dosen't have the slightest bit of evil in him.
* TakeThat - Phantasmo (#375) acts suspiciously like [[TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]]... This is a TakeThat because in The Simpsons, Bart never gets any comeuppance for his behavior, so Phantasmo, who acts like him, also does not get any comeuppance until the end. This sets up the Aesop: [[LaserGuidedKarma Don't blame others because you will be found out]].
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: "Aloha E Komo Mai" would play without vocals in an upbeat form whenever Stitch or someone else was doing a lot of fightng.
* TheNicknamer - Jumba
** And Lilo herself, of course.
* TheUnintelligible - Stitch's speech is very hard to understand, and most other experiments make animal or robotic noises.
* [[TransAtlanticEquivalent Trans-Pacific Equivalent]] - There is a [[{{ptitlem3bfpr12jt53}} Japanese version]] where Stitch lives on an equally tropical island in Okinawa. They keep the animation style, for the most part.
* TrueCompanions: [[CatchPhrase Ohana means family, and family means that no one gets left behind...or forgotten.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight - Many Hawaiians mistake Stitch and other experiments for normal Earth animals. They also mistake Gantu for a human foreigner [[WeirdnessCensor even when he's not]] wearing a PaperThinDisguise. Only two American tourists noticed Gantu and the experiments were aliens and when they complained to the mayor, even giving photographic evidence, he just shrugs it off as a hoax.
** In the Frenchfry episode, Kumu doesn't seem to find it odd that the now fat Lilo is shaped so unrealistically or how she gained so much weight in so little time.
** The ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'' crossover stated they were in Hawaii to investigate reports of undisguised magical creatures, so apparently a few people noticed.
* VerbalTic - Mertle has a habit of putting emphasis on words like me and my, [[FreudianSlip showing how conceited she is]]. It's pretty subtle, but it's made more apparent when Lilo does it when she's hypnotised into acting like Mertle.
* VillainTeamUp: In "[[{{Crossover}} Rufus]]", Hamsterviel teams up with [[KimPossible Dr. Drakken and Shego]].
* WeaksauceWeakness - Stitch has two. He cannot float or even swim in water, and he can lift only ''exactly'' 3000 times his own weight. To the point where [[WaferThinMint if so much as a feather lands on his load, he drops the whole thing]].
* WhatTheHellHero - Nosy calls Lilo out in "Snafu" for letting several Experiments go.
* WholesomeCrossdresser - Pleakley
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