History WesternAnimation / NedsNewt

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Miss Bunn, Ned's schoolteacher, has her voice based on Greta Garbo.

--> '''Newton:''' ''(as Creator/MichaelDouglas)'' [[Film/WallStreet Greed is good.]] Film/APerfectMurder, not so good.

* CatsAreMean: Renfrew, Ned's {{Jerkass}} cousin, has a cat named Bundle, who frequently tries to eat the (untransformed) Newton. Of course, it never works out for him. Bundle actually has a history of attempting to eat Ned's pets way before Newton came along.
-->'''Ned:''' One time, we had to pump Bundle's stomach for my goldfish. He lived, but never came out of his little ceramic castle again.

* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: This happens to Newton in “New Improved Zippo”, after the company that makes Zippo Newt Food changes the formula.

* CatsAreMean: Renfrew, Ned's {{Jerkass}} cousin, has a cat named Bundle, who frequently tries to eat the (untransformed) Newton. Of course, it never works out for him. He actually has a history of attempting to eat Ned's pets.

* CatsAreMean: Renfrew, Ned's {{Jerkass}} cousin, has a cat named Bumble, who frequently tries to eat the (untransformed) Newton. Of course, it never works out for him.

* PlotHole: In the pilot, Ned pays exactly $1.65 (all of the change in his piggy bank) for Newton; the pet store owner actually rips him off, because the price list said $1.49. However, in a later episode, Ned loses his "lucky penny", described as such because it was his change when he bought Newton, even though we were explicitly shown the original transaction.
** Actually, it was his "lucky penny" because it inexplicably possesses a picture of Creator/GeneHackman as [[Film/{{Superman}} Lex]] [[Film/SupermanII Luthor]] on it, for some reason.

* RubeGoldbergMachine: Ned and Newton do a short one at the start of "Jurassic Joyride".
** Basically, it involves a vehicle on a racetrack, which takes a pair of scissors with it. The vehicle then reaches a rope that the scissors cut, causing a toy dog tied to a balloon to start floating. The balloon then gets popped by a drawing pin, making the dog fall and trigger its parachute, but not before finally landing on a bucket of water.

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Newton ended up enlisting Ned into the army without his consent.

* {{Expy}}: Newton, a shape-shifting, celebrity-impersonating blue newt is this to the genie from ''{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}}''. Both also have a voice actor whose last name is "Williams".

* PaperThinDisguise: As long as Newton is wearing human clothes, no one seems to notice that he's a 6-foot tall, blue-skinned freak.

* ForgottenAnniversary: [[UpToEleven Taken as far as it can go]]. While on the honeymoon they forgot to take, Mr and Mrs Flemkin find an engagement ring in the car glove box and realize they 'forgot to get married'.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In "Et Tu, Newte?", Ned mentions that, while sleeping over at the Plucks' place, he and Doogle rented "Frankenstein Goes Head-Curling Part 2: The Final Bonspiel" on DVD, then Doogle spent the rest of the night trying to figure out how to rewind it. This was due to the fact that the UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} format was new at the time, and most people still owned [[UsefulNotes/{{VCR}} VHS tapes]].

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In "Et Tu, Newte?", Ned mentions he and Doogle rented "Frankenstein Goes Head-Curling Part 2: The Final Bonspiel" on DVD, then Doogle spent the rest of the night trying to figure out how to rewind it. This was due to the fact that the UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} format was new at the time, and most people still owned [[UsefulNotes/{{VCR}} VHS tapes]].

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In "Et Tu, Newte?", Ned mentions he and Doogle rented "Frankenstein Goes Head-Curling Part 2: The Final Bonspiel" on DVD, then Doogle spent the rest of the night trying to figure out how to rewind it. This was due to the fact that the UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} format was new at the time, and most people still owned UsefulNotes/{{VHS}} tapes.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In "Et Tu, Newte?", Ned mentions he and Doogle rented "Frankenstein Goes Head-Curling Part 2: The Final Bonspiel" on DVD, then Doogle spent the rest of the night trying to figure out how to rewind it. This was due to the fact that the UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} format was new at the time.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In "Et Tu, Newte?", Ned mentions he and Doogle rented "Frankenstein Goes Head-Curling Part 2: The Final Bonspiel" on DVD, then Doogle spent the rest of the night trying to figure out how to rewind it. This was due to the fact that the UsefulNotes/[=DVD=] format was new at the time.

* TheEndOrIsIt: The ending of the episode "Happy Blood Altar Ring To You".

* AlternateUniverse: Ned & Newton travel to a number of these in "Rear Bus Window" which can be acessed by going through the back door of any schoolbus.

* TalkingAnimal: Newton.

* ParentalBonus: The vast majority of Newton's transformations, as it's highly doubtful kids would recognize any of them.

The series follows Ned's life in his school (where he deals with his LoveInterest Linda, ditzy best friend Doogle, and local RichBitch Rusty) and in his everyday life, focusing on the zany misadventures he gets through with (and usually because of) Newton to help him.

The series follows Ned Flemkin, a young boy whose pet and best friend is a newt (the only animal he could afford) called Newton. Whenever he's fed the special "Zippo" newt food, Newton temporarily grows into a humanoid, 6-foot-tall friendly trickster with a penchant for ShapeShifting into pop-culture references.

''Ned's Newt'' is a madcap Canadian animated series from Creator/{{Nelvana}} that was created by Andy Knight (who would later go on to create ''WesternAnimation/PigCity'', ''WesternAnimation/GetEd'', and ''WesternAnimation/BoltsAndBlip'') and Mike Burgess[[note]]although their involvement in the actual series was minimal. (Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers, former head writers for Johnny Carson, developed and produced the show, and wrote many of the episodes.[[/note]] It originally aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} as one of the very first series produced for that channel, and was also shown on Creator/FoxKids and later on Creator/{{Qubo}} in the US.

The series ran for 3 seasons and 39 episodes between October 17, 1997 and December 31, 1999.

''Ned's Newt'' is a madcap Canadian animated series from Creator/{{Nelvana}} that was created by Andy Knight (who would later go on to create ''WesternAnimation/PigCity'', ''WesternAnimation/GetEd'', and ''WesternAnimation/BoltsAndBlip'') and Mike Burgess, although their involvement in the actual series was minimal. (Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers, former head writers for Johnny Carson, developed and produced the show, and wrote many of the episodes.) It originally aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} as one of the very first series produced for that channel, and was also shown on Creator/FoxKids and later on Creator/{{Qubo}} in the US.