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* DistressedDamsel / DistressedDude: Bobby and Sally need to be rescued in the pilot.

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* DistressedDamsel DamselInDistress / DistressedDude: Bobby and Sally need to be rescued in the pilot.
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* ILoveNuclearPower: ...[[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. "Deep Threat" involves the harms of nuclear waste, but "Collision of the Aqiarius" involves the dangers of a submarine's nuclear reactor while not denouncing its use outright.

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* AdultFear: Bobby and Sally get lost at sea at least twice, including "Deep Threat" and "The Capture".


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* LostAtSea: Bobby and Sally get lost at sea at least twice, including "Deep Threat" and "The Capture".

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* RealityEnsues: The villain in one episode wants to go back to the surface from Sealab... but he has to be in a pressure chamber. Otherwise, he will get the bends, a real threat throughout the series.


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* WeaksauceWeakness: The villain in one episode wants to go back to the surface from Sealab... but he has to be in a pressure chamber. Otherwise, he will get the bends, a real threat throughout the series.
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* BrokenAesop: The focus of "Lost" involves Gail trying to train a dolphin, but eventually has to let go of him because he bolengs in the wild... despite a fully-trained seal being the TeamPet.

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* BrokenAesop: The focus of "Lost" involves Gail trying to train a dolphin, but eventually has to let go of him because he bolengs belongs in the wild... despite a fully-trained seal being the TeamPet.

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I added some tropes and cleaned up others.


* AllAnimalsAreDogs: As Hal said, "basking sharks are like the puppies of the ocean."
* ColorCodedCharacters: As listed below the wet suit the characters wear are color coded by position.
* DistressedDamsel / DistressedDude: Bobby and Salli need to be rescued in the pilot
* DrivenToMadness: Due to green fever, a minor character tries to sabotage Sealab

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* AdultFear: Bobby and Sally get lost at sea at least twice, including "Deep Threat" and "The Capture".
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: As Hal said, "basking sharks are like the puppies of the ocean."
" Most of the animals [[AvertedTrope Avert]] this trope, though.
* BrokenAesop: The focus of "Lost" involves Gail trying to train a dolphin, but eventually has to let go of him because he bolengs in the wild... despite a fully-trained seal being the TeamPet.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The dolphin Gail befriended in "Lost" never appears again... unless you think that one of the unnamed dolphins that appear in "The Shark Lover" could be the one Gail befriended.
* ColorCodedCharacters: As listed below below, the wet suit suits the characters wear are color coded by position.
* DistressedDamsel / DistressedDude: Bobby and Salli Sally need to be rescued in the pilot
pilot.
* DrivenToMadness: Due to green fever, a minor character tries to sabotage SealabSealab.
* EdutainmentShow: Despite the science fiction lab, the episodes teach a lot of real-life marine biology.



* GreenAesop: More often than not.

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* GreenAesop: More often than not. "The Capture" plays with this trope, being that Bobby and Sally want to free animals from cages, though the cages are meant to bring those animals to zoos, which benefits the episode explains.



* ILoveNuclearPower: ...[[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. "Deep Threat" involves the harms of nuclear waste, but "Collision of the Aqiarius" involves the dangers of a submarine's nuclear reactor while not denouncing its use outright.



* RealityEnsues: The villain in one episode wants to go back to the surface from Sealab... but he has to be in a pressure chamber. Otherwise, he will get the bends, a real threat throughout the series.



* TeamPet: Sealab has a pet seal and an orca.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There are clearly lots of workers in Sealab but outside of the primary cast most only get shown in one episode to never be mentioned again.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: There are clearly lots of workers in Sealab but outside of the primary cast most only get shown in one episode to never be mentioned again. The same thing happens with the dolphin Gail rescued in "Lost".
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Crosswicking.

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* TitleByYear: 2020 is said by the OpeningNarration as the year it's set in:
--> This is the year two thousand and twenty.
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* TheLeader: This trope actually takes a realistic approach to this trope. Dr. Paul Williams is the head scientist of Sealab and if often the one to lead the science decisions. Captain Murphy is the head of security, when there is trouble in Sealab Murphy takes charge of that part of the operation. Williams and Murphy throughout the series regularly ask for one another's advice for issues as one would in real life mission.

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* TheLeader: This trope The show actually takes a realistic approach to this trope. Dr. Paul Williams is the head scientist of Sealab and if often the one to lead the science decisions. Captain Murphy is the head of security, when there is trouble in Sealab Murphy takes charge of that part of the operation. Williams and Murphy throughout the series regularly ask for one another's advice for issues as one would in real life mission.

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* LimitedWardrobe: Since the show takes place in an undersea base, it's sort of a JustifiedTrope. Every one wears a diving suit (orange for scientist, blue for other job, yellow for student)
** Slightly subverted when each characters get a helmet when they go diving.

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* LimitedWardrobe: Since the show takes place in an undersea base, it's sort of a JustifiedTrope. Every one wears a diving suit (orange for scientist, blue for other job, yellow for student)
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student). Slightly subverted when each characters get character gets a helmet when they go diving.

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