History WesternAnimation / TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin

* DidntThinkThisThrough: TweePERSONA5 the Animation OPENING & ENDING THEME DISCg, constantly.
** Quellor, surprizingly, when he threaten to erase Tweeg's memory, if Tweeg did not reveal him the secret gold-making formula. Tweeg rather logically pointed out, that if Quellor erase his memory, he would erase the formula, too.

''The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin'' (1987), a SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon based on the popular toy, follows young Teddy Ruxpin as he leaves his home on the island of Rillonia with his best friend Grubby to follow an ancient map which leads him to find a collection of crystals on the mainland of Grundo. With the help of their new friend Newton Gimmick, Teddy and Grubby discover the magical powers of what turns out to be an ancestral treasure as well as an organization with ambitions to use it for evil. Along the way, Teddy learns the long-lost history of his species and clues to the location of his missing father.

* AdaptationExpansion: Played with. While later books mention "the crystals" that the group found at the Hard-to-Find City, only the live-action special, and the series talk about how they actually found them.[[note]]This was especially confusing, since in the second book, Teddy mentions that helping Prince Arin rescue her sister was "more important than finding the treasure". Not only that, but the first book clearly shows Teddy's map of the Land of Grundo, along with the "...spirit / ...treasure / ...ledge" half of the medallion, which is what was used to find the crystals.[[/note]]

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Wooly.

* CollectorOfTheStrange: The Sorceror of Ying by necessity. He runs a zoo and the rarer and odder his attractions, the more money he makes. Teddy and Grubby inadvertently get on his radar while wearing disguises because he he's never heard of the monsters they're pretending to be. And apparently he charges his sapient exhibits room and board.

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: After crossing a bridge during a race, Tweeg stopped to destroy it and even waited to see how the Wooly What's It would cross it. And he wasn't even on the lead.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Twig, constantly.
** Quellor, surprizingly, when he threaten to erase Twig's memory, if Twig did not reveal him the secret gold-making formula. Twig rather logically pointed out, that if Quellor erase his memory, he would erase the formula, too.

* {{Expy}}: Tweeg and L.B. are expies of [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Dick]] [[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Dastardly and Muttley]]. L.B. occasionally laughs like Muttley and Tweeg not only has his DickDastardlyStopsToCheat moment but he once said [[BorrowedCatchphrase "Drat, drat and double drat"]].

* FriendlyEnemy: L.B. and the Trio. He seldom is directly mean to them, and even helps them occasionally or is otherwise what passes for friendly from him.

* FiveBadBand: The main members of M.A.V.O.:
** BigBad: Quellor.
** {{The Dragon}}s: Bognostraclum and Mrs. Maggotheart.
** EvilGenius: The Understander.
** TheBrute: Sludge, Drudge and Trudge.
** DarkChick: Eleanor Tweeg.
** SixthRanger: This is what Tweeg aspires to be.

* TheBarnum: Two of them. The Wizard of Grundo and the Sorceror of Ying, brothers, are both showman to the core who play to the crowd for their living. Comes to a head when the Wizard sets up a theme park next door to the Ying Zoo and the two come into direct competition.

** In Brazil, illiops were changed into [[AvertedTrope bears]] anyway.

* LastNameBasis: Practically everyone calls (Newton) Gimmick, (Jack) Tweeg and (Ickly) Bognostraclum by their last names.

** For nearly the entire series, Teddy is portrayed as patient, soft-spoken and calm. When his friends turn against him, however, Teddy is able to take on an entire room of bad guys alone and win, as seen in "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball". This could also double as Teddy's personal {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}.

* BirthdayEpisode: "Teddy's Birthday," natch.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a bit, actually, but the earliest example this troper recalls occurs in the fourth episode of the series. The gang are wandering around the Hard To Find City, when someone wonders who would build such a magnificent place. The camera pans away to show off [[spoiler: a building done in the shape of a bear's head]].
** Similarly, the ancient book in King Nogbert's library and [[spoiler: and the aqueduct beneath the castle both]] bear a silhouette of their creators.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Quite the Tearjerker too. A B-plot for one story arc involves Tweeg, who has spent most of his life under the heel of his abusive mother, meeting his estranged father Elroy who treats him rather decently. Despite himself, Tweeg finds himself coming to enjoy Elroy's surfer lifestyle, and the two even get a nice bonding montage while collecting seashells. It seems Tweeg will be exiting the series with a happy ending, until its revealed Elroy is sitting on a bucket full of gold. Falling back into old habits, Tweeg steals his father's gold and tries to leave, tearfully returning because he doesn't want Elroy's memories of his son tainted by thinking of him as a thief. Elroy doesn't really care about the gold and is all set to forgive his son, but Tweeg points out he's a villain to the core and won't be able to resist the gold's temptation. The two part company with Tweeg returning to his villainous life.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: While it's played straight with the main cast for the vast majority of the series, it notably gets averted once. When M.A.V.O. succeeds in collecting all the crystals, the dark sides of all of Teddy's friends' personalities are brought to the fore, causing them to abandon him when he needs them most. This results in Teddy having to go on a mission alone (and also leads to a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for him as well).

* ChehkovsGun: The crystal seen in Quellor's black box. [[spoiler: It is actually the eighth crystal, and holds the memories of the Hermit of Leaky Lake.]]

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: After crossing a bridge during a race, he stopped to destroy it and even waited to see how the Wooly What's It would cross it. And he wasn't even on the lead.
* DisappearedDad: Teddy's missing father. Later it's revealed that the reason he hasn't returned is that [[spoiler:Quellor erased his memory. Once his memory is restored, he returns to his family]]. Tweeg's father is this as well.

* MineralMacGuffin: The Seven Crystals.

--> '''Wooly What's-It''' Why would anybody kidnap a princess? That's baaaad!

* GoodCan'tComprehendEvil: In the pilot episode, The Wooly-What's-It says this line.

* GoodCantComprehendEvil: In the pilot episode, The Wooly-What's-It says this line.

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: Many stars of the era, such as Tiffany Brissette (of ''Series/SmallWonder''), Creator/JasonBateman, Corey Feldman. and Shannen Doherty, appeared on camera usually introduced by an animated Teddy Ruxpin (in one instance by the doll itself) to deliver a safety message in a segment titled "Protect Yourself" at the end of every episode. This also happened in the original books, where it was also combined with one or two songs.

* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: Many stars of the era, such as [[Series/SmallWonder Tiffany Brissette]], Creator/JasonBateman, [[Film/StandByMe Corey Feldman]] and [[Series/BeverlyHills90210 Shannen Doherty]], appeared on camera usually introduced by an animated Teddy Ruxpin (in one instance by the doll itself) to deliver a safety message in a segment titled "Protect Yourself" at the end of every episode.
** This also happened in the original books, where it was also combined with one or two songs.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: For nearly the entire series, Teddy is portrayed as patient, soft-spoken and calm. When his friends turn against him, however, Teddy is able to take on an entire room of bad guys alone and win, as seen in "M.A.V.O. Costume Ball". This could also double as Teddy's personal {{Crowning Moment of Awesome}}.

* CallARabbitASmeerp: Teddy Ruxpin is not a bear; he is an illiop. Similarly, Gimmick is a Perloon, and the monkey creatures in the masks with the planes are called Gutangs.

** KangarooCourt: A rule prohibited the defendant (Tweeg) from speaking.

* LethalChef: Grubby cooks food with roots in them. Given new meaning when his famous root stew is actually weaponized by King Nogbert's kingdom to fight the Gutangs.
** What's ''really'' cute is that Teddy and Gimmick are far too polite to point out to Grubby that he's a horrible chef.
** Except for root beer. Teddy and Gimmick liked Grubby's recipe.

** DarkReprise: In "Beware of the Mudblups", the trio sing cheerily about how singing makes mining coal for their airship feel like it goes faster. Later on, when they're captives of the Mudblups and forced to mine coal, they sing the same song again, but in an angry/sarcastic tone, and with Arin adding on a mournful verse worrying about being captive forever.
*** Also done in the episode "The Ying Zoo".

* SuperPoweredEvilSide: ''Do not'' feed Prince Arin vitamin Z... or any Illiper for that matter. It is not pretty.
** Judging by the dialogue, this would happen to ''anyone'' who eats too much vitamin Z, not just Illipers. Notice how Grubby crushed a large spoon with ease after just a taste of the vitamin Z-saturated soup and the Grunge chief became concerned.

* WackyRacing: The subject of a five-part plot arc that happened later in the series. Whilst the trio used their Airship (modified to sail on the land), some of the other vehicles we get to see are a giant hamster wheel (Tweeg's mother), a toy car (Leota and Seymour), a motorbike (Prince Arin and Princess Aruzia), and a skateboard (Wooly and some of his fob friends).

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: After drowning during a terrible storm and saving his father from falling in the water, Grubby doesn't feel like swimming anymore.

* BritishAccents: Prince Arin, King Nogburt, and Queen Lillibet all have British-inspired accents. Strangely, Princess Aruzia doesn't.

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* ''Precursors'': Grundo is littered with old contraptions and stockpiles from a lost society. It's later revealed that these used to belong to the [[spoiler: illiops]].

* ''Precursor'': Grundo is littered with old contraptions and stockpiles from a lost society. It's later revealed that these used to belong to the [[spoiler: illiops]].
* PrecursorKiller: [[spoiler: The Gutangs weren't the original settlers of the Hard-To-Find City.]]