History WesternAnimation / TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots

* DowsingDevice: The Silver Dowsing Rod of Akhenaten, first acquired in "Scimitar", is a magical dowsing rod capable of finding literally anything its user can think of, making it one of the most valuable and frequently used treasures of San Lorenzo.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Dulcinea's "Good Book" is a children's book of [[TastesLikeDiabetes overly sweet and cheery rhymes,]] with such life lessons as "To feel at home in places new, a cheerful, bright hello will do".
-->'''Dulcinea''': Isn't it swell? I've based my entire life on it!
-->'''Puss''': [[ThisExplainsSoMuch That explains a lot]].
** Amusingly, it's a running gag that Dulcinea's rhymes aren't always as helpful as she hopes they are. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't contribute anything positive at all, and sometimes they just go ignored. In some cases, she's had to outright rewrite the book or make up her own when they failed. Which may foreshadow [[spoiler: the fact that they're gibberish that the author wrote in a weekend to make a quick buck.]]

** Pajuna seems to be inspired by the [[{{https://www.thelaughingcow.com/Content/img/tlc-logo2x.png}} Laughing Cow logo]], just with longer horns.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Cleevil, the little Goblin girl whose name even rhymes with evil. She is actually a very sweet kid even when tricked into evil by The Dutchess. Same goes with the Black Cats, who have learned to turn their bad luck into a gift.

* ContinuityDrift: The first season is extremely episodic, while the second season starts off with seemingly episodic plots, they all have a cause and effect that directly tie each other together before building up to a plotline that the rest of the series continues to follow up on.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode name in the first two seasons is a OneWordTitle while every episode name in season 3 and 4 has two words.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Dulcinea's "Good Book" is a children's book of rhymes, with such life lessons as "To feel at home in places new, a cheerful, bright hello will do".

* DoomedByCanon: No matter what shippers say is going on between Puss and Dulcinea, it will not pan out in the long run due to this series taking place between his self-titled film and ''Shrek 2''.

* TheDulcineaEffect: [[ShapedLikeItself This should be a little obvious as her name is Dulcinea]].

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode name in the first two seasons is a single word while every episode name in season 3 is two words.

* JokeItem: Jack Sprat doesn't have a real sword on him, it's just a tree branch made to look like a sword. It isn't even a particularly stiff branch, so it can't even be used as a decent bludgeoning weapon.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Although Dulcinea is usually very sweet and girly, she can be bad*** and tough when she wants to be, especially when the children are threatened.

* LogoJoke: The opening from the second episode onward features a Dreamworks Animation SKG logo. It is stylized in the 2D animation the rest of the opening is in, and features Puss in place of the boy in the moon, who catches a fish and drops it right into his mouth.

-->'''Goodsword''': Yes she does!
-->'''Puss''': You '''[[NoExceptYes GET]]''' to fight a monster!

* DarkIsNotEvil: Cleevil, the little Goblin girl whose name even rhymes with evil. She is actually a very sweet kid even when tricked into evil by The Dutchess. Same goes with the Black Cate, who have learned to turn their bad luck into a gift.

* YouAllLookFamiliar: Thieves all look identical to each other, save for the leader wearing a hat.

** "Mouse" involves a mouse that Puss wants to eat, much to the anger of the orphans who want to keep it as a pet. Dulcinea gets particularly upset at Puss's constant denial of the fact since, as a cat herself, she wants to eat the mouse just as much as he does, but is willing to admit it and show restraint by not doing it.