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* BirthdayEpisode: "New Year's Ned".
* BirthdayEpisode: "New Year's Ned".
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** 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.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Newton suffers a fate like this after hearing a group of sirens in "The Man Who Would Be Flemking". He then rows the boat from day until night when the boat crashes. Afterwards, this is what happens:
-->'''One of the sirens:''' We just gotta learn a number that makes people applaud instead of rowing to their death.
-->'''One of the sirens:''' We just gotta learn a number that makes people applaud instead of rowing to their death.
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* RealDreamsAreWeirder: Newton's dream in "Broken Record" [[spoiler:has a bunch of nonsensical elements, such as changing backgrounds and cheering people turning into beavers/squirrels, and then pudding]].
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-->"Doofus?! BIG BLUE DOOFUS?! [[DrivenToMadness Give me my agent! Get me some broccoli with cheese sauce! Give me the biggest egg roll in Chinatown!]]Chinatown!]]"
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* BerserkButton: Don't you ever call Newton a "big blue doofus"; this is what happens:
-->"Doofus?! BIG BLUE DOOFUS?! [[DrivenToMadness Give me my agent! Get me some broccoli with cheese sauce! Give me the biggest egg roll in Chinatown!]]
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* RubeGoldbergMachine: Ned and Newton do a short one at the start of "Jurassic Joyride".
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* OverlyLongTongue: Newton, when he's a small newt.
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* BigApplesauce: Most of the episode "Newt York, Newt York" (accompanied with sewer alligators).
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--> "If newts are born from eggs, why do I have a belly-button?" (beat) "Is a [[SelfDeprecation poorly-drawn]] 'x' an inny or an outy?"
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--> "If newts are born from eggs, why do I have a belly-button?" (beat) ''([[{{Beat}} beat]])'' "Is a [[SelfDeprecation poorly-drawn]] 'x' an inny or an outy?"
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* RunningGag: These gags span the episodes of all three seasons.
** Mrs. Flemkin finding (and shooing) a crow in the kitchen (or any other room in their house).
** See UnusuallyUninterestingSight,below. below.
** Newton's solution to various problems involving a rubber duck and bicycle pump (which he never gets to use).
** Quahogs in a barrel which sing ''M-O-T-H-E-R'' by Music/HowardJohnson.
** Mrs. Flemkin finding (and shooing) a crow in the kitchen (or any other room in their house).
** See UnusuallyUninterestingSight,
** Newton's solution to various problems involving a rubber duck and bicycle pump (which he never gets to use).
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* TheHypnotizers: Newton gets hypnotized by a group of sirens in one episode.
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* AllJustADream: Played with at the end of the episode "Jurassic Joyride". When Ned and Newton crash into Literature/GilligansIsland, Newton tries to get Ned to wake up as in Film/TheWizardOfOz, and it works, [[OrWasItADream only for Newton to find out that it wasn't a dream]].
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* AllJustADream: Played with at the end of the episode "Jurassic Joyride". When Ned and Newton crash into Literature/GilligansIsland, Newton tries to get Ned to wake up as in Film/TheWizardOfOz, ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', and it works, [[OrWasItADream only for Newton to find out that it wasn't a dream]].
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* CoatFullOfContraband: Episode "Newt York, Newt York": Newt turns into a shady watch dealer to try and "blend in with the locals" when visiting New York City. "Hey buddy, I've got a watch here that's ''you''! Heck, I've even got one that ''was'' yours!"
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* CoatFullOfContraband: Episode "Newt York, Newt York": Newt Newton turns into a shady watch dealer to try and "blend in with the locals" when visiting New York City. "Hey City.
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* ABoyAndHisX: Go on, take ArbitrarySkepticism: The Halloween episode, when Ned is home alone and the Frankenstein's monster suddenly shows up at his doorstep (in reality his uncle who's coming by to check on him. He's on his way to a wild guess.Halloween party, and can't get off his costume on his own).
-->'''Ned:''' It looks like Frankenstein! But he doesn't really exist, does he?\\
'''Newton:''' Hey, you're talking to a six-foot newt that can do this:\\
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'''Newton:''' Face it: The reality level here is a mite thin!
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* BuildingSwing: One episode had Newton save Ned from a bunch of island natives who were about to throw him into a volcano by swinging across on a vine and grabbing him. One of the natives [[LampshadeHanging immediately asks what the vine can possibly be hanging off of, since they are atop a volcano]].
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* SpoofAesop: Ned and Newton build a gigantic corporation by acquisitions and then let it collapse in on itself when they tire of it. As Ned enters his house:
-->'''Dad:''' I hope you've learned your lesson from this.
-->'''Ned:''' I sure have, Dad. Never buy a company on leveraged credit.
-->'''Dad:''' I hope you've learned your lesson from this.
-->'''Ned:''' I sure have, Dad. Never buy a company on leveraged credit.
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* BigRedButton
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A Canadian/German animated series by {{Nelvana}}.Creator/{{Nelvana}}.
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* CrossDressingVoices: Tracey Moore as Ned. Oddly, most of the other boys are played by (adult) male actors.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Harland Williams was replaced as Newton for the last few episodes, for undisclosed reasons.
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\"I\'ve only got $1.65.\" \"Ah, what the heck, I like you. $1.65 it is.\" There was no change, period. It was a continuity error, pure and simple.
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** Considered there might have been sales tax?
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* OrangeBlueContrast: Ned wears a bright orange shirt; Newton is entirely blue.
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A Canadian/German animated series by {{Nelvana}}.
When young Ned Flemkin scraped enough money to buy a pet - a newt (the only animal he could afford) he called Newton, he did not expect that the special "Zippo" newt food he fed it would cause Newton to grow regularly, if temporarily into a humanoid, 6-foot-tall friendly trickster with a penchant for humorous ShapeShifting.
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.
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!!Tropes exhibited by this series:
* AllTrollsAreDifferent / MoleMen
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The Zippo food.
* ABoyAndHisX: Go on, take a wild guess.
* BeneathTheEarth: ...live the malevolent trolls with the ambition to TakeOverTheWorld.
* BigRedButton
* CatchPhrase: "Hi, I'm (insert caricature here) and not a newt at all!"
* CloserToEarth: In a rare male example, Mr. Flemkin is usually more down-to-earth than his wife... or at the very least, he's not any ''more'' weird than she is.
** This seems to be a hereditary trait, as Ned is generally more level-headed than Linda... [[LoveMakesYouDumb except when he's]] ''[[LoveMakesYouDumb around]]'' [[LoveMakesYouDumb Linda, that is]].
* ConsolationWorldRecord: Ending of the episode "Broken Record".
* CrossDressingVoices: Tracey Moore as Ned. Oddly, most of the other boys are played by (adult) male actors.
* TheDitz: Ned's friend, Doogle Pluck.
* ExposedAnimalBellybutton: Newton, who even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it once.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: "There once was a boy who wanted a pet / When he got to the store a newt was all he could get / Brought it home but to his surprise / The newt just laid there, he was barely alive / The pet store owner knew what to do / He gave the boy a can of Zippo Newt Food!"
* {{Expy}}: [[SarcasmMode Why, no, the shape-shifting, celebrity-impersonating blue newt is absolutely nothing like]] [[{{Disney/Aladdin}} a certain shape-shifting, celebrity-impersonating blue genie]].
* FreakyFridayFlip: "Newt's Ned".
* GainaxEnding: In one episode, Ned and his family go on a cruise, and Ned and Newton supposedly get lost at sea, surrounded by icebergs. The episode ends with them turning out to be in the icemaker on the ship.
* GibberishOfLove: Ned, when around Linda.
* GranolaGirl: Linda occasionally shows signs of this.
* HappilyMarried: Mr. and Mrs. Flemkin, more or less.
* ImpossibleInsurance: Plot of "Trouble Indemnity".
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: The old guy from the pet store seems to work everywhere else in the city. Sometimes there's more than one of him. His "official" name, in fact, is simply "The Usual Guy".
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Newton ended up enlisting Ned into the army without his consent.
* LampshadeHanging: Frequently.
--> "If newts are born from eggs, why do I have a belly-button?" (beat) "Is a [[SelfDeprecation poorly-drawn]] 'x' an inny or an outy?"
* LightningCanDoAnything: Including set up the FreakyFridayFlip in "Newt's Ned".
* LimitedWardrobe: ''Everyone''. One episode [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by having Mrs. Flemkin tell Ned to change his clothes; he proceeds to pull his orange shirt and blue pants inside out, somehow turning them into a blue shirt and orange pants, and wears them for the rest of the episode.
* LiteralMinded: Newton, at times.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: A lot of times when Ned is around Linda he turns into a drooling imbecile.
* NoodleImplements: A bicycle pump and a rubber duck can seemingly solve all problems. Newton never got the chance to use the method, though.
* OfficialCouple: Ned and Linda.
* OnlyChildSyndrome: All of the kids seem to be only children.
* OnlySaneMan: Ned, very much so.
* TheOtherDarrin: Harland Williams was replaced as Newton for the last few episodes, for undisclosed reasons.
* PaperThinDisguise: As long as Newton is wearing human clothes, no one seems to notice that he's a 6-foot tall, blue-skinned freak.
* 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.
* QuirkyTown: Friendly Falls, the show's setting.
* RichBitch: [=Rusty McCabe=], a rare male example.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Rusty. The town mayor is his parents' old friend, and is more than eager to bend the rules of the great city scavenger hunt in his favor ("Remote Possibility"). Same happens when he takes Linda for a date to an amusement park owned by his parents, and inexplicably seems to win all the time. ("Carnival Knowledge")
* StraightMan: Ned, to Newton.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Newton, when he's impersonating a human, will often describe himself as "not a newt at all".
* TalkingAnimal: Newton.
* TVNeverLies: Ned's parents believe this.
** As shown in "The Show Must Go Off", the ENTIRE TOWN thinks this.
* TwoTimerDate: One episode has Ned inadvertently find himself on a date to practically every girl in the school (largely because of Newton). Newton is little help, since he just cites the example of the "sea newt" which mates with hundreds of females before they gang up and eat him.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A RunningGag is for Ned's parents to enter his room just as he's talking to Newton, upon which Newton quickly transforms into something supposedly innocuous... like the Venus of Milo, or "the big metal thingy for affixing a ship." Ned's parents comment on this, but never seem to mind.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Newton. Into pretty much anything (often into a pop culture reference).
* WholePlotReference: Several episodes take this form, including one to ''Film/CitizenKane'' ("Citizen Ned").
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: The old guy from the pet store, who also seems to work everywhere else in the city.
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A Canadian/German animated series by {{Nelvana}}.
When young Ned Flemkin scraped enough money to buy a pet - a newt (the only animal he could afford) he called Newton, he did not expect that the special "Zippo" newt food he fed it would cause Newton to grow regularly, if temporarily into a humanoid, 6-foot-tall friendly trickster with a penchant for humorous ShapeShifting.
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.
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!!Tropes exhibited by this series:
* AllTrollsAreDifferent / MoleMen
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The Zippo food.
* ABoyAndHisX: Go on, take a wild guess.
* BeneathTheEarth: ...live the malevolent trolls with the ambition to TakeOverTheWorld.
* BigRedButton
* CatchPhrase: "Hi, I'm (insert caricature here) and not a newt at all!"
* CloserToEarth: In a rare male example, Mr. Flemkin is usually more down-to-earth than his wife... or at the very least, he's not any ''more'' weird than she is.
** This seems to be a hereditary trait, as Ned is generally more level-headed than Linda... [[LoveMakesYouDumb except when he's]] ''[[LoveMakesYouDumb around]]'' [[LoveMakesYouDumb Linda, that is]].
* ConsolationWorldRecord: Ending of the episode "Broken Record".
* CrossDressingVoices: Tracey Moore as Ned. Oddly, most of the other boys are played by (adult) male actors.
* TheDitz: Ned's friend, Doogle Pluck.
* ExposedAnimalBellybutton: Newton, who even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it once.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: "There once was a boy who wanted a pet / When he got to the store a newt was all he could get / Brought it home but to his surprise / The newt just laid there, he was barely alive / The pet store owner knew what to do / He gave the boy a can of Zippo Newt Food!"
* {{Expy}}: [[SarcasmMode Why, no, the shape-shifting, celebrity-impersonating blue newt is absolutely nothing like]] [[{{Disney/Aladdin}} a certain shape-shifting, celebrity-impersonating blue genie]].
* FreakyFridayFlip: "Newt's Ned".
* GainaxEnding: In one episode, Ned and his family go on a cruise, and Ned and Newton supposedly get lost at sea, surrounded by icebergs. The episode ends with them turning out to be in the icemaker on the ship.
* GibberishOfLove: Ned, when around Linda.
* GranolaGirl: Linda occasionally shows signs of this.
* HappilyMarried: Mr. and Mrs. Flemkin, more or less.
* ImpossibleInsurance: Plot of "Trouble Indemnity".
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: The old guy from the pet store seems to work everywhere else in the city. Sometimes there's more than one of him. His "official" name, in fact, is simply "The Usual Guy".
* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Newton ended up enlisting Ned into the army without his consent.
* LampshadeHanging: Frequently.
--> "If newts are born from eggs, why do I have a belly-button?" (beat) "Is a [[SelfDeprecation poorly-drawn]] 'x' an inny or an outy?"
* LightningCanDoAnything: Including set up the FreakyFridayFlip in "Newt's Ned".
* LimitedWardrobe: ''Everyone''. One episode [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by having Mrs. Flemkin tell Ned to change his clothes; he proceeds to pull his orange shirt and blue pants inside out, somehow turning them into a blue shirt and orange pants, and wears them for the rest of the episode.
* LiteralMinded: Newton, at times.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: A lot of times when Ned is around Linda he turns into a drooling imbecile.
* NoodleImplements: A bicycle pump and a rubber duck can seemingly solve all problems. Newton never got the chance to use the method, though.
* OfficialCouple: Ned and Linda.
* OnlyChildSyndrome: All of the kids seem to be only children.
* OnlySaneMan: Ned, very much so.
* TheOtherDarrin: Harland Williams was replaced as Newton for the last few episodes, for undisclosed reasons.
* PaperThinDisguise: As long as Newton is wearing human clothes, no one seems to notice that he's a 6-foot tall, blue-skinned freak.
* 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.
* QuirkyTown: Friendly Falls, the show's setting.
* RichBitch: [=Rusty McCabe=], a rare male example.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Rusty. The town mayor is his parents' old friend, and is more than eager to bend the rules of the great city scavenger hunt in his favor ("Remote Possibility"). Same happens when he takes Linda for a date to an amusement park owned by his parents, and inexplicably seems to win all the time. ("Carnival Knowledge")
* StraightMan: Ned, to Newton.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Newton, when he's impersonating a human, will often describe himself as "not a newt at all".
* TalkingAnimal: Newton.
* TVNeverLies: Ned's parents believe this.
** As shown in "The Show Must Go Off", the ENTIRE TOWN thinks this.
* TwoTimerDate: One episode has Ned inadvertently find himself on a date to practically every girl in the school (largely because of Newton). Newton is little help, since he just cites the example of the "sea newt" which mates with hundreds of females before they gang up and eat him.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A RunningGag is for Ned's parents to enter his room just as he's talking to Newton, upon which Newton quickly transforms into something supposedly innocuous... like the Venus of Milo, or "the big metal thingy for affixing a ship." Ned's parents comment on this, but never seem to mind.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Newton. Into pretty much anything (often into a pop culture reference).
* WholePlotReference: Several episodes take this form, including one to ''Film/CitizenKane'' ("Citizen Ned").
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: The old guy from the pet store, who also seems to work everywhere else in the city.
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