History WesternAnimation / NedsNewt

* {{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]].

* AnimationBump: The second season episodes are much better animated and colorful than the first season. Also, the pilot uses scenes from the title sequence, but were apparently reanimated, as the title sequence animation looks like something out of [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren & Stimpy]].

A Canadian/German animated series by Creator/{{Nelvana}}; aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} and briefly on Creator/FoxKids and now Creator/Qubo in the US.

A Canadian/German animated series by Creator/{{Nelvana}}; aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} and briefly on Creator/FoxKids in the US.

* AlliterativeTitle

* AnimationBump: The second season episodes are much better animated and colorful than the first season.
** Also, the pilot uses scenes from the title sequence, but were apparently reanimated, as the title sequence animation looks like something out of [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren & Stimpy]].
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The Zippo food.

* BirthdayEpisode: "New Year's Ned".

* ABoyAndHisX: Go on, take a wild guess.

* AllTrollsAreDifferent / MoleMen

* HereWeGoAgain: In "Educating Reeger" Ned wants to sit in front of Linda, but Mrs. Bunn has a seating chart in alphabetical order, and there are four kids between them, including the titular Reeger. With Newton's help, Ned gets the kids to leave class (via changing locations, or names, or graduating) but then a family of quadruplets comes to school, setting things back to normal.

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

* HereWeGoAgain: In "Educating Reeger" Ned wants to sit in front of Linda, but Ms. Bunn has a seating chart in alphabetical order, and there are four kids between them, including the titular Reeger. With Newton's help, Ned gets the kids to leave class (via changing locations, or names, or graduating) but then a family of quadruplets comes to school, setting things back to normal.

* CassandraTruth: How Newton & Ned get rid of Renfrew in "A Snitch in Time"; since's he's a tattletale, they cause him to witness all kinds of unusual things, knowing he'll report it to Ned's parents and be made to look crazy.

* NoodleImplements: A bicycle pump and a rubber duck can seemingly solve all problems. Newton never got the chance to use the method, though.

* LoveMakesYouDumb: A lot of times when Ned is around Linda he turns into a drooling imbecile.

* NothingEverHappensHere: Ned complains about this is "The Show Must Go Off," as the lack of exciting things in Friendly Falls means the paper is shut down and he can't do his paper route, thereby earning money for a new xylophone.

* HereWeGoAgain: One episode had Ned wanting to sit in front of Linda, but there were four other kids between them and the teacher wouldn't let them move. After he and Newton set up things so that the kids leave the class and he can move to the right spot, a family of quintuplets arrives in the class and takes the now empty places.

** Quahogs in a barrel (or other container) which sing ''M-O-T-H-E-R'' by Howard Johnson. [[spoiler:Sometimes Newton will interact with them, saying later or it's not the time.]]

** Quahogs in a barrel (or other container) which sing ''M-O-T-H-E-R'' by Howard Johnson. [[spoiler:Sometimes Newton will interact with them, saying later or not by the time.]]

* 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 realise they 'forgot to get married'.

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.

* 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]].

* 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.

* AmazinglyEmbarresingParents: Mr and Mrs Flemkin.

* 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!]]"

* 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.

-->'''Newton:''' Hey buddy, I've got a watch here that's ''you''! Heck, I've even got one that ''was'' yours!

* [[{{Fainting}} Emotional Faint]]: Ned in one episode after realizing that a baby's parents live in another town.

* 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.
* KeyUnderTheDoormat: In one episode, on the doormat is a huge picture of a key and an arrow pointing to one corner of the mat.

* SewerGator: In the episode "Newt York, Newt York", Ned is excited to go to New York City for the weekend because an xylophone note is on sale there, but his parents cancel it after hearing the urban legend that alligators live in the sewers. Ned and Newton go to NYC anyway, and try to "blend in with the locals" (e.g. when Newton turns into a shady watch seller, see CoatFullOfContraband above) until they fall into a manhole by accident that leads to the sewers. Soon they come across the alligators that lived in the sewers ever since their musical on Broadway closed down. They help the alligators find a pipe that leads back to their home in Florida, and one week later Ned finally gets the xylophone note that he wanted.

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* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: The old guy from the pet store, who also seems to work everywhere else in the city.

A Canadian/German animated series by Creator/{{Nelvana}}.

* 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]].

* SewerGator: In the episode "Newt York, Newt York", Ned is excited to go to New York City for the weekend because an xylophone note is on sale there, but his parents cancel it after hearing the urban legend that alligators live in the sewers. Ned and Newton go to NYC anyway, and try to "blend in with the locals" (e.g. when Newton turns into a shady watch seller, see CoatFullOfContraband above) until they fall into a manhole by accident that leads to the sewers. Soon they come across the alligators who want to perform a musical on stage. They help the alligators exit New York in order to perform the musical, and one week later Ned finally gets the xylophone note that he wanted.

* BigApplesauce: The episode "Newt York, Newt York". Ned is excited to go to New York City for the weekend because an xylophone note is on sale there, but his parents cancel it after hearing the urban legend that alligators live in the sewers. Ned and Newton go to NYC anyway, and try to "blend in with the locals" (e.g. when Newton turns into a shady watch seller, see CoatFullOfContraband below) until they fall into a manhole by accident that leads to the sewers. Soon they find the alligators (again by accident), who are actually wanting to perform a musical on stage. They help the alligators exit New York in order to perform the musical, and one week later Ned finally gets the xylophone note that he wanted.