History WesternAnimation / TheHerbs

* HealingHerb: The medicinal or folkloric properties of certain herbs is often brought up. In "The Chives Catch Colds", Parsley takes on the role of a doctor and recommends various herbs as relief for certain ills - specifically, chamomile for colds and toothace and marigolds for itchy skin.

* LawfulStupid: Constable Knapweed is more often a hinderance than a help due to being a stickler for nonsensical laws and procedures.
* MagicRealism: Despite the fairly realistic look of the garden, it's shown that magic is real in this setting. The garden itself is said to be magical in nature - all the plants growing there have the curative properties they are said to have in folklore. Then there's a lion, a dog and and an owl as [[{{Planimal}} Planimals]] running around, a witch who brews potions and casts spells, and a baby dragon, among other unusual sights.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Tarragon the dragon is born from an egg found at the top of a massive tarragon plant, hence his name. He's a {{Planimal}} like the others and has no wings, but can breathe white smoke from his nose that burns up anything.

** Tarragon gets one where he warns the viewer that things 'seem to disappear' when he's around, as he mischeviously burns up anything he can get his paws on.

* ManOfKryptonite: When the witch Belladonna comes to the garden, Dill turns out to be key to driving her off, as in real life the herb was originally planted to keep witches away.

* CowardlyLion: Literally! Parsley, by his own admission, is "not particularly brave" and often runs at the first sign of outright danger, but will often come to the rescue if his friends are in trouble.

* IdenticalStranger: "Parsley and the Circus Lion" has an escaped circus lion, identical to Parsely in appearance, get mistaken for the real Parsley.

''The Herbs'' is a British StopMotion children's television series that ran during 1968. The show was written by Creator/MichaelBond, directed by Ivor Wood and narrated/voiced by Gordon Rollings.

* MagicRealism: Despite the fairly realistic look of the garden, it's shown that magic is real in this setting. The garden itself is said to be magical in nature - all the plants growing there have the curative properties they are said to have in real life. Then there's a lion, a dog and and an owl as [[{{Planimal Planimals]] running around, a witch who brews potions and casts spells, and a baby dragon, among other unusual sights.

** Tarragon's name is a double-meaning, as his plant's name comes from the Middle French ''targon'', meaning "dragon", and the plant's species name ''dranunculus'' means "little dragon". Which is what he is.

''The Herbs'' is a British StopMotion children's television series that ran during 1968. The show was written by Michael Bond, creator of ''Literature/PaddingtonBear'', directed by Ivor Wood and narrated/voiced by Gordon Rollings.

* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Sir Basil spends more time indulging his pastimes of "huntin' and shootin' and fishin'" than doing anything useful.

* GrumpyBear: Sage the owl is almost always "not at all happy; in fact, in a rage" about something, and hates being disturbed from his sleep or having his nest meddled with.

* MagicRealism: Despite the fairly realistic look of the garden, it's shown that magic is real in this setting. The garden itself is said to be magical in nature - all the plants growing there have the curative properties they are said to have in real life. Then there's a lion, a dog and and owl [[{{Planimal Planimals]] running around, a witch who brews potions and casts spells, and a baby dragon, among other unusual sights.
* ManOfKryptonite: When the witch Belladonna comes to the garden, Dill turns out to be key to driving her off, as the herb was originally planted to keep witches away.

* VillainSong: Belladonna's song succinctly describes her motivations to take over the garden and and put all the other Herbs under her control.

* SameSexTriplets:

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Sir Basil almost never has the safety of his rifle on, leading to it going off at inappropriate moments. He also keeps brandishing it in ways where he ignorantly points the barrel at others. This is all {{PlayedForLaughs}}, but it has led to accidents, such as when he shot off Parsley's tail after being startled.

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Played for Laughs. Sir Basil, being the bungler that he is, almost never has the safety of his rifle on, leading to it going off at inappropriate moments.

* IAmSong: Every character gets a short, four-line song to themselves, introducing who they are. Parsley gets the lion's share of these (pun not intended) due to him being the focus character, with many variations depending on his current situation.

* CowardlyLion: Literally! Parsley, by his own admission, is "not particularly brave" and often runs at the first sign of trouble, but will often come to the rescue if his friends are in trouble.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Tarragon the dragon is born from an egg found at the top of a massive tarragon plant, hence his name. He's a {{Planimal}} like the others and has no wings, but can breathe smokey fire from his nose that burns up anything.

* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Sir Basil spends more time indulging his pastimes of "huntin', shootin' and fishin'" than doing anything useful.

* BrattyHalfPint: Tarragon has the personality of a mischievous kid, including speaking with a lisp during his songs.

* ManOfKryptonite: When the witch Bella Donna comes to the garden, Dill turns out to be key to driving her off, as the herb was originally planted to keep witches away.

* WorfHadTheFlu: Relating back to Dill being Bella Donna's weakness, she's only able to do as much damage to the garden as she did because Dill was initially asleep when she arrived and had to be woken up by Parsley.

* BrattyHalfPint: Tarragon has the personality of a mischievous kid, including speakingwith a lips during his songs.

* AnimalTalk: Outside of their respective songs, Parsley and the other animal characters can only communicate in animal sounds. The narrator can tell what they're trying to say, but the others have to guess.
* CowardlyLion: Literally! Parsley, by his own admission, is "not particularly brave" and often runs at the first sign of trouble.
* GrumpyBear: Sage the Owl is almost always "not at all happy" about something.

* LawfulStupid: Constable Knapweed is more often a hinderance than a help due to being a stickler for nonsensical laws and proceedures.

* WomenAreWiser: Lady Rosemary proves far more sensible than her bungling husband Sir Basil.

* AnimalTalk: Parsley and the other animal characters could only communicate in animal sounds. The narrator could tell what they were trying to say, but the others had to guess what they were saying.

* InteractiveNarrator: Downplayed. Parsley seemed to be the only character who could see the viewers and respond to the narrator. The other characters would be confused whenever he waved to the viewers, being unable to see them.
* LawfulStupid: Constable Knapweed was more often a hinderance than a help due to being a stickler for nonsensical laws and proceedures.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Tarragon the dragon was born from an egg found at the top of a massive tarragon plant. He lacked wings and showed {{Planimal}} traits, but akin to a typical dragon he could breathe smokey fire from his nose that burned up anything.
* {{Planimal}}: The animal characters all had features modelled after the herb they were named after. Thus, Parsley had parsley leaves for a mane, Dill had a sprig of dill on his tail, Tarragon had spines formed from leaves of tarragon etc.
* PoliceAreUseless: Despite being a constable, Knapweed never really enforced any proper law and order and mostly just wrote things down in his notebook.

* GrumpyBear: Sage the Owl is almost always "not at all happy" about something
* InteractiveNarrator: Downplayed. Parsley seemed to be the only caracter who could see the viewers and respond to the narrator. The other characters would be confused whenever he waved to the viewers, being unable to see them.
* LawfulStupid: Constable Knapweed was more often a hinderance than a help.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Tarragon the Dragon was born from an egg found at the top of a massive tarragon plant. He lacked wings and showed {{Planimal}} traits, but akin to a typical dragon he could breathe smokey fire from his nose that burned up anything.

* {{Planimal}}: The animal characters all had features modelled after the herb they were named after. Thus, Parsley the lion had parsley leaves for a main, Dill had a sprig of dill on his tail, Tarragon had spines formed from leaves of tarragon etc.

** Tarragon's name is a double-meaning, as his plant's name comes from the Middle French ''targon'', meaning "dragon", and the plant's species name 'dranunculus'' means "little dragon". Which is what he is.

* AnimalTalk: Parsley and the other animal characters could only communicate in animal sounds. The narrator could tell what they were trying to say, but the others had to make context clues to understand what they were saying.

* LoveableCoward: Parsley, by his own admission, is "not particularly brave" and often runs at the first sign of trouble.