History WesternAnimation / StainesDownDrains

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: "Dentures of Death" involves Mary-Jane hypnotizing her and Stanley's mother to try and make her more organized, which works too well due to their mother eliminating stuff she sees as insufficient. It isn't until Mom has removed her clothes that Mary-Jane undoes the hypnosis, at which point she is embarrassed that she's in her birthday suit.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Literally. The show is set in a town's drain system and it isn't shy about toilet humor. In various episodes we've seen Stanley and Mary-Jane imagining coming out of a drain into a toilet, which is blocked by a giant butt. A baby getting changed, with the dirty diaper clearly being shown. Various forms of slime and sludge in the drainlands. But the biggest example comes in the last episode of the season, titled "The Final Flush". In a last ditch effort to destroy the purifying plants, Dr. Drain breaks open a pipe and releases something he calls the brown tide. Even worse, Stanly has to wade through the stuff to reach the switch for an emergency drainage valve.

Life just got far more interesting for Stanley and Mary-Jane Staines. They've just moved to a new town, into a new house, started a new school. Oh, did we mention the portal in the basement sink's plughole that shrinks them down to three-inches high and sends them down into the local drain system? Suddenly Stanly and Mary-Jane find themselves in a whole new world, one that's wracked with conflict. The drains are home to tiny mutant creatures called Drainlanders who manage a pond of special purifying plants that absorb toxins and produce clean water. This doesn't sit well with a group of mutant creatures called Gobblers, who thrive on toxins.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Literally. The show is set in a town's drain system and it isn't shy about two humor. In various episodes we've seen Stanley and Mary-Jane imagining coming out of a drain into a toilet, which is blocked by a giant butt. A baby getting changed, with the dirty diaper clearly being shown. Various forms of slime and sludge in the drainlands. But the biggest example comes in the last episode of the season, titled "The Final Flush". In a last ditch effort to destroy the purifying plants, Dr. Drain breaks open a pipe and releases something he calls the brown tide. Even worse, Stanly has to wade through the stuff to reach the switch for an emergency drainage valve.

''Staines Down Drains'' is an animated series created in UsefulNotes/NewZealand. It was produced together by Flying Bark Productions (formerly known as Yoram Gross Productions) in Australia and Flux Animation in New Zealand.

* ShoutOut: To ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' classic "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E123NightmareAt20000Feet Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]]", of all things. In one episode, Beans uses one of Dr. Drains inventions and accidentily gets teleported onto the wing of a passenger plane. A man sitting in the plane, dressed as [[Franchise/StarTrek Captain]] [[Creator/WilliamShatner Kirk]], looks out the window, sees her, [[FreakOut freaks out ]]and parachutes out of the plane.

* RunningGag: Stanley has a slight phobia about dirt and germs. And so, of course, he is routinely forced to travel into the town's drain system.

* TheOtherDarrin: The Australian voice cast was replaced in the second series with a New Zealander one.

''Staines Down Drains'' is an animated series created in UsefulNotes/NewZealand. It was produced together by Flying Bark Productions and Flux Animation.

Life just got far more interesting for Stanly and Mary-Jane Staines. They've just moved to a new town, into a new house, started a new school. Oh, did we mention the portal in the basement sink's plughole that shrinks them down to three-inches high and sends them down into the local drain system? Suddenly Stanly and Mary-Jane find themselves in a whole new world, one that's wracked with conflict. The drains are home to tiny mutant creatures called Drainlanders who manage a pond of special purifying plants that absorb toxins and produce clean water. This doesn't sit well with a group of mutant creatures called Gobblers, who thrive on toxins.

Life just got far more interesting for Stanly and Mary-Jane Staines. They've just moved to a new town, into a new house, started a new school. Oh, did I mention the portal in the basement sink's plughole that shrinks them down to three-inches high and sends them down into the local drain system? Suddenly Stanly and Mary-Jane find themselves in a whole new world, one that's wracked with conflict. The drains are home to tiny mutant creatures called Drainlanders who manage a pond of special purifying plants that absorb toxins and produce clean water. This doesn't sit well with a group of mutant creatures called Gobblers, who thrive on toxins.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Literally. The show is set in a town's drain system and it isn't shy about two humor. In various episodes we've seen Stanley and Mary-Jane imagining coming out of a drain into a toilet, which is blocked by a giant butt. A baby getting changed, with the dirty diaper clearly being shown. Various forms of slime and sludge in the drainlands. But the biggest example comes in the last episode of the season, titled "The Final Flush". In a last ditch effoert to destroy the purifying plants, Dr. Drain breaks open a pipe and releases something he calls the brown tide. Even worse, Stanly has to wade through the stuff to reach the switch for an emergency drainage valve.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Stanley has a phobia about dirt and germs.

* ShoutOut: To ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' of all things. In one episode, Beans uses one of Dr. Drains inventions and accidentily gets teleported onto the wing of a passenger plane. A man sitting in the plane, dressed as Captain Kirk, looks out the window, sees her, freaks out and parachutes out of the plane.

* {{Expy}}: Vegety-Bill is essentially John Wayne, if John Wayne was a four-inch tall talking carrot man.

!!The main tropes found in ''Staines Down Drains'' are:

Unfortunately the Gobblers have just gained an advantage. A mysterious human named Dr. Drain who's also found his way into the drains. Dr. Drain will stop at nothing to fill the drains with toxins and grow a giant mutant army he can use to take revenge on the town. Suddenly Stanly and Mary-Jane find themselves as reluctant heroes in a desperate struggle to save two worlds.

''Staines Down Drains'' is an animated series created in New Zealand. It was produced together by Flying Bark Productions and Flux Animation.

** One episode had Stanley and Mary-Jane trying out for a stage musical knock-off of Literature/HarryPotter to get out of doing homework.

** One episode had Stanley and Mary-Jane trying out for a stage musical knock-off of HarryPotter to get out of doing homework.

* CloudCuckooLander: Stanley and Mary-Janes mom can be a bit flighty sometimes. But she pales in comparison to Beef, whos takes this to a whole new level.

* IncredibleShrinkingMan: A shrunken Stanley and Mary-Jane have had to face full-szied a few times. And there's also an episode titled "Land of Giants".

Staines Down Drains is an animated series created in New Zealand. It was produced together by Flying Bark Productions and Flux Animation.

* Expy: Vegety-Bill is essentially John Wayne, if John Wayne was a four-inch tall talking carrot man.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Literally. The show is set in a town's drain system and it isn't shy about two humor. In various episodes we've seen Stanley and Mary-Jane imagining coming out of a drain into a toilet, which is blocked by a giant but. A baby getting changed, with the dirty diaper clearly being shown. Various forms of slime and sludge in the drainlands. But the biggest example comes in the last episode of the season, titled the Final Flush. In a last ditch effoert to destroy the purifying plants, Dr. Drain breaks open a pipe and releases something he calls the brown tide. Even worse, Stanly has to wade through the stuff to reach the switch for an emergency drainage valve.

* ShoutOut: To the Twilight Zone of all things. In one episode Beans uses one of Dr. Drains inventions and accidentily gets teleported onto the wing of a passenger plane. A man sitting in the plane, dressed as Captain Kirk, looks out the window, sees her, freaks out and parachutes out of the plane.
** One episode had Stanley and Mary-Jane trying out for a stage musical knock-off of Harry Potter to get out of doing homework.