History WesternAnimation / TheodoreTugboat

* CanadaEh: The show takes place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with many characters named after places around Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, the Maritimes, and Atlantic Canada.

* AnAesop: Nearly every episode features an aesop.

Oh, Thedore likes to do the things that friendly tugboats do.\\

Oh, Theodore, Emily, Foduck, Hank, and George, and the Harbour Master too."♫''\\
-->-- ''Opening song''

* FearlessFool: Carla the Cabin Cruiser lets her freedom get to her head. Sometimes, she doesn't consider the consequences of her risk-taking until it's almost too late.

* FeudEpisode: In "Theodore in the Middle", George and Emily have a feud when George makes an official complaint of Emily for her constant lateness to the morning work meeting. As the title implies, they use Theodore as a proxy to make their displeasure towards one another known.

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Oh, Theodore, Emily, Foduck, Hank, and George, and the Harbour Master too.\\

* ActorAllusion: Several of the Harbormaster's segments involve him playing musical instruments. The late Denny Doherty was himself a musician.

* FramingDevice: Each episode began and ended with the Harbourmaster talking to the the viewers. In the first segment, he would tell them about a problem he's having that's similar to the story he is going to tell, and in the second segment he summed up the story's moral.

* ActorAllusion: Several of the Harbormaster's segments involve him playing musical instruments. Denny Doherty is himself a musician.

%% * NiceHat: The entire tugboat fleet are identified by them.

''Theodore Tugboat'' is still very popular. To this day, a large-scale imitation tugboat built like Theodore himself, entitled ''Theodore Too'', can be found in Nova Scotia.

* PokemonSpeak: Donald Dock. All he can say is "Uh-huh". The junk dock Jasper can only say "nope". Apparently it's common for docks to only be able to say one word.

* HateSink: SS Malarkey from "Hank's Funny Feeling" is deliberately portrayed in a creepy, suspicious way to help further the episode's message about stranger danger. His name literally means "nonsense," he speaks in a forcedly excited voice in an attempt to hype up nearly everything that he says, he unconvincingly presents mundane objects as fantastical ones to try and earn Hank's trust, and for whatever reason, he wants to meet up with Hank alone without him ever telling anyone of his whereabouts. Hank slowly starts to pick up on these red flags, and against Malarkey's wishes, he confides in Theodore and the Dispatcher about the suspicious behavior.

* HateSink: SS Malarkey from "Hank's Funny Feeling". He's an extremely creepy and unnerving pedophile who tries to hurt Hank. He is also one of the few non-tugboat characters to have articulated eyes, but they do so slowly and stiffly to emphasize his shady disposition. Obviously, Malarkey is meant to be hated, and is defeated at the end of the episode.

* VocalDissonance: Canso Colossus has a noticeably squeaky voice for a supertanker. ''Everyone'' is taken aback when they hear him speak for the first time, in "Guysborough's Garbage".

* HypocriteHasAPoint: In ''Theodor The TattleTug'', Theodore notices that George's towrope is too long, when tied to Brunswick. He goes to tell the Dispatcher, hoping that he'll be praised for alerting him to a safety hazard. Theodore says that Brunswick could get hurt, only for George to show up and angrily state that Brunswick DID get hurt, which wouldn't have happened if Theodore had just told George instead of tattling on him to the dispatcher. However, it also wouldn't have happened if George had tied his tow rope properly in the first place.