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| 5 | [[folder:Tropes #-A]] |
| 6 | * AbandonShip: In a pirate-themed role playing episode, Mr. Cat and Pretty are on a ship, and Eugly is a giant kraken. Eugly raises a fist to sink the ship. Mr. Cat refuses to abandon the ship initially when she asks him to... but bails at the last second and jumps off, leaving Pretty on board. |
| 7 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: Pretty to Mr. Cat. Unlike most examples of this trope, she's not physically ugly, but she's an obnoxious AlphaBitch and StalkerWithACrush who only likes him for his looks and doesn't care about him at all. |
| 8 | * AbnormalAmmo: Apart from missiles, Mr. Cat also launches various things from his bazooka such as books, sheep, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick people who were dumb enough to mess with him]]. |
| 9 | * AccidentalHero: Stumpy in Episode 104. He manages to accidentally take control of [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Olaf]]'s MechaMooks, which leads to him being able to break into the lair, free his friends and blow up the building. |
| 10 | * AccidentalKiss: In Episode 83, Stumpy is kicked into the air by a sheep, causing him to land face first on Eugly with their lips touching. |
| 11 | * AccidentalPun: |
| 12 | ** Mr. Cat makes one in "[[HalloweenEpisode Let's Play Scaredy Cat]]". |
| 13 | -->'''Mr. Cat (to Stumpy):''' We already told you, your zombie impression ''bites''! |
| 14 | ** "Let's Play at Reading Books" has an example at the beginning. Quack Quack slams a book in Mr. Cat's face by accident, causing him pain. When Mr. Cat tries to say his CatchPhrase "Meow", it comes out as "Me..... OW". |
| 15 | * AccidentalSuicide: In Episode 72, Stumpy is playing air guitar with a boombox and offers to show his friends his impression of Jimi Hendrix, which he does by biting the boombox to simulate Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth. The resulting electric shock kills Stumpy instantly, though he is brought back to life by supernatural means shortly afterwards. |
| 16 | * AcidPool: Mr. Cat dunks Quack Quack in an acid tub in the episode "Let's Play Prince Charming". |
| 17 | * AcmeProducts: The unnamed online store the cast buy their stuff from sells everything from LovePotion to dangerous weapons. |
| 18 | * AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: [[TheAce Quack Quack]] gets this in "Let's Play Tennis" since he is a much better tennis player than the others. |
| 19 | * AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload: In one episode, Stumpy tries to get a girlfriend by talking to random girls online. When one girl replies to his message, she uses a lot of acronyms like ROFL and BWL, which confuses him so much he ends up rejecting her. |
| 20 | * ActingYourIntellectualAge: Mr. Cat, the smartest cast member, has the intellect of an adult, and acts like one too despite being a kid. In addition, Episode 97 shows that he has apparently "lost his inner child". |
| 21 | * AdaptationNameChange: In the pilot episode, Kaeloo's name was "Kaelou", which was changed to "Kaeloo" for the show. In addition, Stumpy was not given a DubNameChange in the pilot, retaining his French name "Moignon". |
| 22 | * AddictionDisplacement: {{Parodied| Trope}}; Mr. Cat says he curbed his addiction to [[GRatedDrug carrots]][[note]]the carrots in this case have the same effect as tobacco[[/note]] by developing an addiction to tormenting Quack Quack. He tries to justify this by saying that at least this way, he's not ruining his own health. |
| 23 | * ADogNamedDog: Kaeloo's name is the Japanese word for "frog", making her a frog named "Frog". |
| 24 | * AdvancedTech2000: Subverted in the episode "Let's Play Magicians". Kaeloo buys a magic kit labeled "Magic 2000", but later reveals that the kit actually has 2000 pieces in it. |
| 25 | * AerithAndBob: We have a character named "Olaf", a normal name, and characters with unusual names like "Stumpy" and "Quack Quack". This is discussed in seasons 4 and 5, which reveal that these names are considered bizarre in-universe as well. Quack-Quack was named by a young Kaeloo when she found his egg, Stumpy's family is known for giving terrible names to their children that everyone else finds ridiculous, and Mr. Cat has the fairly normal first name of Hector. |
| 26 | * AesopAmnesia: Kaeloo learns that CheatersNeverProsper in "Let's Play Golf". By the time [[BaseballEpisode Episode 95]] rolls around, she's forgotten all about it. |
| 27 | * AffectionateNickname: In "Let's Play House" and "Let's Play Babysitting", Mr. Cat gives Kaeloo the nickname "coochy-coo". |
| 28 | * AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: In "Let's Play Art Class", when [[TheTrickster Mr. Cat]] finds out that [[GeniusDitz Stumpy is a brilliant artist]] and that he plans to auction his art, he asks him to sign a contract that gives 95% of the profits to Mr. Cat. {{Subverted| Trope}} in that they never manage to sell any of the art, an therefore never make any money for Mr. Cat to swindle. |
| 29 | * AfraidOfDoctors: Quack Quack is terrified of them, as a result of being experimented on by scientists. |
| 30 | * AfraidOfNeedles: Stumpy is afraid of needles, and faints when he sees one in "Let's Play Spies". Kaeloo manages to use this to her advantage in one episode to get him to stop PlayingSick by threatening to give him injections to make him "get better". |
| 31 | * AgitatedItemStomping: |
| 32 | ** In Episode 82, when Pretty gets fed up with Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack, she throws her smartphone on the ground and stomps on it repeatedly. Somehow, it doesn't break. |
| 33 | ** In Episode 113, [[TheDitz Stumpy]] loses a video game. He throws his console on the floor and stomps on it as though it was the console's fault he lost. |
| 34 | * AgonyOfTheFeet: |
| 35 | ** In Episode 101, Kaeloo distracts [[CosmicPlaything Stumpy]] when he's trying to lift weights, and he drops the weight on his foot. |
| 36 | ** In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Stumpy's feet catch fire. |
| 37 | * AirGuitar: Stumpy and Olaf do this in Episode 72 to Music/{{Jimi Hendrix}}'s music. |
| 38 | * AlcoholHic: |
| 39 | ** Mr. Cat does this whenever he gets drunk. |
| 40 | ** Kaeloo and Stumpy does this in Episode 97 when Mr. Cat's RealityWarping gets them drunk. |
| 41 | * AlienAbduction: Happens to Stumpy in Episode 98. The aliens abduct him from the couch he's sitting on and examine some acorns he happened to have with him. [[spoiler: Turns out it was AllJustADream ... OrWasItADream]] |
| 42 | * AlienAnimals: In Episode 98, Stumpy comes up with the idea that all of Smileyland's sheep are aliens after an incident where they abduct him, but nobody believes him. [[spoiler:The entire episode turns out to be AllJustADream... until Stumpy gains a strange voice and swirling eyes when he tells Kaeloo she can play leapfrog along with him and the sheep, suggesting that the sheep really ''are'' aliens and Stumpy has been hypnotized by them.]] |
| 43 | * AllAnimalsAreDogs: In one episode, Mr. Cat tries to "tame" Bad Kaeloo (who is a toad), who starts wagging her "tail" and panting like a dog. |
| 44 | * AllCGICartoon |
| 45 | * AllegedLookalikes: In one episode, Kaeloo mentions that fraternal twins Pretty and Eugly resemble each other. Pretty is ''not'' amused. |
| 46 | * AllGermansAreNazis: When asked to speak German, Mr. Cat leaves and returns with a Nazi costume before he starts. |
| 47 | * AllGirlsLikePonies: Kaeloo and Pretty once got into a huge fight over one. It turns out they like unicorns better. In addition, it's suggested in the same episode that literally all girls, everywhere, love ponies. |
| 48 | -->'''Stumpy''': Is that supposed to be cool? Must be a girl thing. |
| 49 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Kaeloo and Pretty both have crushes on [[TroubledButCute Mr. Cat]], the show's BigBad. |
| 50 | * AlliterativeFamily: All of Kaeloo's cousins have names starting with the letter K, as well as some of her aunts and uncles. |
| 51 | * AllJustADream: The events of "[[spoiler: Let's Play Astronauts]]" turn out to be a dream Stumpy had, which he was narrating to Kaeloo. |
| 52 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: |
| 53 | ** [[StalkerWithACrush Pretty]] has a crush on Mr. Cat. The feeling is far from mutual; Mr. Cat loathes Pretty with every fiber of his being and wishes that she would die. |
| 54 | ** Kaeloo and Mr. Cat seem to have a constant UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo going on. Who's crushing on whom depends on the episode. When one makes advances, the other backs away, seemingly disgusted. |
| 55 | * AllMenArePerverts: Stumpy, Quack Quack, and especially Mr. Cat have shown themselves to be very perverted. |
| 56 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Olaf's backstory is that he was kicked out of the place he lived by the other emperor penguins for [[CargoShip marrying an ice cube.]]]] |
| 57 | * AlternateUniverse: |
| 58 | ** The cast visit one in "Let's Play Astronauts" [[spoiler: although that was AllJustADream]], where AlternateUniverse!Kaeloo [[HulkingOut transforms]] in reverse, AlternateUniverse!Stumpy is a genius who likes math and hates comic books, and AlternateUniverse!Mr. Cat and AlternateUniverse!Quack Quack (known as Meow Meow and Mr. Duck) have SwappedRoles. |
| 59 | ** They find another one in Episode 70, the world of "Let's Learn" as opposed to their "Let's Play". The counterparts in this universe are referred to as "Interdimensional [character's name]". Interdimensional Kaeloo's transformation takes place in reverse and is activated by cuddling rather than irritation, and her frog form is a strict teacher. Interdimensional Stumpy is intelligent, and Interdimensional Mr. Cat is a quiet, LiteralMinded idiot (as opposed to Stumpy who [[TheDitz is an idiot]] and [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat who is a genius]]). |
| 60 | * AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted with Pretty and Eugly, who are fraternal twins. |
| 61 | * AmateurFilmMakingPlot: In Episode 158, Kaeloo notices that Smileyland is falling into disrepair, so she and her friends (none of whom have any experience making movies) try to put together a movie, hoping that they'll earn money from ticket sales for the repairs. The movie ends up being so bad that it wins an award for being the worst movie ever made in history. |
| 62 | * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Pretty and Eugly are pink rabbits and Olaf is a blue emperor penguin. {{Averted| Trope}} with the main four, however, since they are colored like real animals. |
| 63 | * AmbiguousGender: Kaeloo, in-universe, especially in later seasons. She repeatedly eludes the question (or flees when asked during a Truth or dare game). She usually insists she's part of the girls, along with Pretty and Eugly. Bad Kaeloo, on the other hand, is shown hitting on Eugly once... [[note]]in the French dub at least, it could be explained by the fact that the word "frog" has a female gender, while "toad" is male[[/note]], but Bad Kaeloo also [[ForcefulKiss forcibly kissed Mr. Cat]] once. It was eventually confirmed by the official Facebook page that she is a {{Hermaphrodite}}. |
| 64 | * AmbiguousInnocence: Stumpy. As of later episodes, he's been leaning towards the antagonistic side, and showing perverted tendencies too. |
| 65 | * AmbiguouslyBi: |
| 66 | ** Stumpy has a girlfriend named [[TheGhost Ursula]] and likes girls in general, but he seemed to have fallen in love with Quack Quack in the episode "Let's Play Hot-Cold" and has admitted to liking crossdressing. |
| 67 | ** Mr. Cat, since his crush Kaeloo has an AmbiguousGender. |
| 68 | * AmbiguousSituation: |
| 69 | ** The end of "Let's Play Trap-Trap". Did Quack Quack find the yogurts Kaeloo hid or was he just hallucinating? |
| 70 | ** In Episode 138, Mr. Cat attempts to diagnose Stumpy with dyspraxia, although Kaeloo keeps insisting that Stumpy is just lazy. It's not really clear whether Mr. Cat actually believes that Stumpy has dyspraxia, or he's just pretending to believe so just to piss off Kaeloo. |
| 71 | * AmusingInjuries: The show basically revolves around this trope. |
| 72 | * AnAssKickingChristmas: Episodes 103 and 104, a MultiPartEpisode, revolve around Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat saving Quack Quack after [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Olaf]] kidnaps him to use his powers in a machine to TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 73 | * AndThisIsFor: A variant is used in one episode. Kaeloo forces Quack Quack to eat "org-yurt", a food which tastes absolutely disgusting but is good for the environment. When Quack Quack wastes it, she angrily transforms and [[ForceFeeding force-feeds]] him org-yurt while yelling for each one. |
| 74 | -->'''Bad Kaeloo''': One org-yurt for the rainforest! One org-yurt for the Siberian tiger! And one org-yurt for butt-naked Indians! |
| 75 | * AndYourLittleDogToo: OnceAnEpisode, Mr. Cat tortures Quack Quack in order to make Kaeloo angry. |
| 76 | * AngerBornOfWorry: In Episode 100, Kaeloo voluntarily gets put in a LotusEaterMachine which she never wants to leave. When her friends decide to get her to stop, they find out that she has undergone SanitySlippage. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Mr. Cat]] starts angrily screaming at her to stop using the machine because he's worried for her safety. |
| 77 | * AnimalGenderBender: In the pilot, Bad Kaeloo had a vocal sac. This was fixed in later episodes. |
| 78 | * AnimalsNotToScale: The frog is about a head taller than Stumpy the squirrel and slightly taller than Mr. [[SpeciesSurname Cat]]. Quack-Quack, who is a duckling, is in in turn half a head taller than ''Kaeloo''. In the [[http://www.cube-creative.fr/en/projet/356/making-of-kaeloo Making Of]] video, it's shown that Mr. Cat and Stumpy are actually reasonably sized for a domestic cat and a squirrel. To make things weirder, Kaeloo is often described as being ''little''. Pretty, a rabbit, is roughly the same size as the others, Eugly, also a rabbit, is twice the size of the others, and to top it all off, a RunningGag on the show is to note that Olaf, an emperor penguin, is the shortest of them all. |
| 79 | * AnimalStereotypes: [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] is Smileyland's resident jerk who is extremely [[CatsAreSnarkers snarky]], Stumpy the squirrel is hyperactive and [[TheDitz not very bright]], [[CloudCuckooLander Kaeloo]] the frog seems to be in constant bliss and is [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace smotheringly]] "friendly", and Eugly the rabbit is extremely kind. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Quack-Quack, Bad Kaeloo and Pretty as Quack-Quack is a diaper-wearing genius [[SpeechImpairedAnimal incapable of speech]], [[HulkingOut Bad Kaeloo]] is a monstrous [[GenderInvertedTrope she-toad]] with [[DumbMuscle little obvious intelligence]] and a horrific mean streak, and Pretty is an AlphaBitch who is mean to everyone for no reason. |
| 80 | * AnimateInanimateObject: Starting from season 4 onwards, inanimate objects may have faces and the ability to speak depending on RuleOfFunny. |
| 81 | * AnimationBump: |
| 82 | ** The Pilot looks nothing like the rest of the series. |
| 83 | ** The animation gets noticeably better from Season 2 onwards. |
| 84 | ** Season 4 has noticeably fluid animation compared to the ones before it. |
| 85 | ** Invoked in Episode 218. This being a series with NoFourthWall, Kaeloo deliberately reduces the quality of the first half of the episode so the animation budget can go towards a fight scene between Mr. Cat and Quack-Quack near the end of the episode. The ensuing fight scene has some of the most fluid animation in the entire series. |
| 86 | * {{Animesque}}: The characters often use [[SweatDrop sweat drops]], [[FaceFault face faults]] and other anime-like things. |
| 87 | * AnnoyingArrows: Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Pretty get impaled by arrows in one episode, but they don't take it as anything more than a minor inconvenience. |
| 88 | * AnnoyinglyRepetitiveChild: In one episode, Stumpy's kid sister Nombril follows him, saying his name nonstop. Stumpy complains to Quack Quack about this and claims he can never get any peace when she's calling his name all the time. |
| 89 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: A slight variant is used in Episode 105. The episode had the main four use a machine to extract the bad thoughts in their head, which are then personified as miniature versions of themselves. For example, one of Mr. Cat's thoughts, which represents greed, is portrayed as a miniature version of himself holding stacks of cash and yelling about how nobody can touch any of it. |
| 90 | * TheAnticipator: Stumpy becomes one in Episode 72 since his SuddenIntelligence allows him to use probability-based math sums to predict the future. |
| 91 | * AntiRoleModel: Episode 55 had [[IdiotHero Kaeloo]], [[TheDitz Stumpy]] and [[DitzyGenius Quack Quack]] tell the viewers about avoiding household hazards by doing the things they said not to onscreen (such as messing with chemicals and sticking their fingers into electric sockets) and suffering. |
| 92 | * AppealToForce: This trope is repeatedly PlayedForLaughs, as Kaeloo (who has the power of HulkingOut) and Mr. Cat (who owns several assorted weapons) will cheerfully threaten other people into doing whatever they want by threatening bodily harm if they object. |
| 93 | * AppendageAssimilation: In "Let's Play Peace Man", Quack Quack pulls a new head out of a suitcase and attaches it to his body after Mr. Cat blows off the old one with a bazooka. |
| 94 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat don't believe in magic despite living on a planet that ''runs on it''. |
| 95 | * AreWeThereYet: When Kaeloo forces Stumpy, who has acrophobia, to take a plane trip, he asks her this question ''as soon as the plane takes off''. |
| 96 | * ArrogantKungFuGuy: After Kaeloo teaches Stumpy martial arts, he manages to beat Mr. Cat in a fight and briefly becomes very arrogant. The problem quickly fixes itself when he tries to attack [[TheAce Quack Quack]], who manages to easily defeat him. |
| 97 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: |
| 98 | ** In Episode 12, when the gang are discussing what a TV news channel needs, Mr. Cat suggests "blood, pathos, suffering... and a blonde". |
| 99 | ** In Episode 133, Pretty gives Kaeloo the reasons why nobody likes her: [[TalkingToPlants she talks to flowers]], she doesn't earn money, and she wears woollen scarves. |
| 100 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", Kaeloo gets mad at Stumpy for not packing all the important things they needed for a camping trip: the tent, the sleeping bags, the flashlights, and the book of campfire songs. |
| 101 | ** In one episode, Stumpy wants to become a vampire, so Kaeloo explains to him the various downsides of being a vampire, such as that he has to sleep in a coffin, he'll be destroyed if he goes out in the sun, and that he won't be able to post selfies online anymore since vampires can't be seen in photos. |
| 102 | ** In Episode 72, Stumpy is turned into a genius and reveals his plans for the future: build a bomb capable of destroying the planet, TakeOverTheWorld, and change the show's name from [[ProtagonistTitle "Kaeloo"]] to [[HostileShowTakeover "Stumpy"]]. |
| 103 | ** After getting hit with TruthSerum, Bad Kaeloo admits to feeling inferior and less loved than regular Kaeloo, Mr. Cat talks about the abuse he received at home and his horrible body image, and Stumpy admits that... he enjoys wearing girl clothes and makeup when nobody is looking. |
| 104 | ** In Episode 91, Kaeloo re-dubs a clip of Mr. Cat speaking to say that he has low self-esteem, he has an inferiority complex, and his paws smell bad. |
| 105 | ** Kaeloo has a nightmare about what would happen in her show if it were realistic: Stumpy would be sent to a mental hospital for being insane, Mr. Cat would be locked up in an animal shelter for being a cat, and Pretty would have to work in retail to be able to afford the things she buys on the show. |
| 106 | * ArtShift: |
| 107 | ** In Episode 104, when Olaf explains his tragic backstory to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat, the art style shifts into a series of 2D illustrations. |
| 108 | ** In Episode 105, Kaeloo [[NoFourthWall interrupts the theme song of the show]] and complains about it. She then proceeds to make her own 2D animated intro for the episode. |
| 109 | ** In Episode 176, the main four are turned into 2-dimensional versions of themselves in various art styles for a song. |
| 110 | ** In Episode 218, Kaeloo turns the main four (and Pretty) into poorly drawn 2D versions of themselves for the purpose of deliberately reducing the animation budget required for this scene so she can invoke an AnimationBump later in the episode with the money they saved. |
| 111 | * AscendedToCarnivorism: |
| 112 | ** [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty Quack Quack attempts to cannibalize Kaeloo and Stumpy in "Let's Play Trap-Trap".]] |
| 113 | ** Stumpy also attempts to eat Kaeloo in Episode 61, and is shown enjoying sausages in Episode 135. |
| 114 | ** Eugly's favorite food is mutton. |
| 115 | * AshFace: Quite common, as the cast own weapons and explosives. |
| 116 | * AsideGlance: |
| 117 | ** In Episode 105, Mr. Cat has an ImagineSpot of himself being massaged by several clones of Kaeloo. The real Kaeloo, standing next to him, gives an annoyed look to the audience as all she can see is Mr. Cat [[CrushBlush blushing]] and [[PervertedDrooling drooling]]. |
| 118 | ** Mr. Cat does this in almost any instance where Kaeloo, Stumpy and/or Quack Quack does something he finds stupid. |
| 119 | * AsleepInClass: In Episode 211, the main four learn about the rules of art from Olaf. While Kaeloo, Stumpy, and Quack-Quack pay attention, Mr. Cat chooses to sleep through the lesson. |
| 120 | * AssKicksYou: |
| 121 | ** In Episode 76, Kaeloo gets annoyed with Stumpy and uses her butt to push him into a ditch. |
| 122 | ** [[ClingyJealousGirl Kaeloo]] once does this to Pretty in an attempt to get her away from Mr. Cat. |
| 123 | * AssShove: |
| 124 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", Kaeloo sets up a fun game of treasure hunt for Stumpy and Quack Quack with the promise of a "surprise" at the end. Mr. Cat changes the clues to make the game so they get injured. At the end, Kaeloo gives them the "surprise" she had promised, and it turns out to be [[spoiler: a photo of herself]]. Stumpy decides to shove it up his ass just to spite her, but she stops him before he does. |
| 125 | ** In another episode, Stumpy sticks a pencil up his butt because he thinks it's funny. To his chagrin, nobody else finds it amusing. |
| 126 | * AssuranceBackfire: |
| 127 | ** One episode had Kaeloo start crying about how [[HulkingOut she always turns into a monster]]. Mr. Cat, in an attempt to reassure her, says everyone likes her for her "brutal, primitive-minded" self. Cue more tears. |
| 128 | ** In Episode 223, Mr. Cat makes a movie that bombs at the box office. His friends, the only people to buy tickets, attempt to reassure him by saying that they found the movie to be profound and that it deeply touched their emotions. Mr. Cat is touched by their kindness, but still upset by their words because he had intended the movie to be a comedy, not emotional. |
| 129 | * ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Episode 65 ends with Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack chasing Mr. Cat with weapons and trying to beat him up. |
| 130 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Mr. Cat and Stumpy temporarily [[MakesSenseInContext turn themselves into giants]] in Episode 102 in order to fight off Bad Kaeloo. |
| 131 | * AttackReflector: In "Let's Play Superpowers", Quack Quack reflects all of Stumpy's attacks with his superpowers. |
| 132 | * AttackTheTail: Happens to Mr. Cat a lot. In one episode, he actually gets a bookshelf dropped on it. |
| 133 | * AttemptedRape: In "Let's Play Baby-Sitting", Kaeloo tries to seduce Mr. Cat in order to get him to have sex with her so that they can have a baby. Mr. Cat ends up getting seduced so well that he actually tries to rape her, but she manages to push him off. |
| 134 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: |
| 135 | ** Stumpy has a very short attention span and is easily distracted. |
| 136 | ** In one episode Mr. Cat is magically de-aged into a little kitten and frequently gets distracted by things like butterflies in the middle of serious monologues. |
| 137 | ** Violasse is prone to getting distracted because of her curious nature. This is best exemplified in one episode where she falls through an interdimensional portal and Stumpy follows her to get her back, only for Violasse to enter a new portal each time Stumpy is close to reaching her (despite Stumpy instructing her to stay right where she is) because she wants to see what's on the other side. |
| 138 | * AttractiveBentGender: In Episode 60, when trying to gain access to a girls-only nightclub, Stumpy [[PaperThinDisguise puts on a wig]] and knocks on the door. The bouncer immediately falls for him. |
| 139 | * AttractivenessDiscrimination: Taken up to eleven in an episode where Stumpy, Mr. Cat, Pretty and Eugly enter a cooking competition judged by Olaf. Olaf eliminates Eugly from the contest just for being ugly. |
| 140 | * AudibleGleam: In "Let's Play Air Pockets", Mr. Cat smiles and his mouth shows a [[TwinkleSmile twinkle]], complete with an audible gleam. |
| 141 | * AudienceSurrogate: |
| 142 | ** If anything happens that the audience can't understand, Stumpy will ask Kaeloo what's going on so Kaeloo can explain it to him (and by proxy, the audience). |
| 143 | ** In the fifth season, a lot of changes were made to the show, including CharacterDevelopment for various characters. In Episode 225, Mr. Cat and Rules note that the series has changed a lot, and thanks to the [[NoFourthWall lack of a fourth wall]] Rules outright says things like "how do we keep loving you all if you stop being the way we've always known you?" and describes the changes as "violating the rules of the series", which reflects how longtime viewers may feel scared in the face of changes being made to the show. |
| 144 | * AudienceWhatAudience: Episode 69, a ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' [[ParodyEpisode parody]], Kaeloo tries to teach the audience to speak foreign languages by saying a word in a different language and staring at the screen [[FakeInteractivity waiting for the audience to repeat after her.]] In the middle of one such session, Stumpy walks in, sees Kaeloo standing there staring into space since he can't see the audience, and is highly confused. |
| 145 | * AuthorPowers: One of the comics had Stumpy talking about how great the Mr. Coolskin comics are when suddenly, a giant fist crushes him. Kaeloo and Mr. Cat explain that it's the fist of the editor, who doesn't want other comic books endorsed in a comic about the ''Kaeloo'' series. |
| 146 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: After his I.Q. is increased in Episode 72, Stumpy manages to analyze everything around him and predict the future. |
| 147 | * AwfulWeddedLife: Mr. Cat explains how this works to Pretty in Episode 60 by showing her what would happen if he married her. It ends with Mr. Cat sitting on the couch watching soccer and yelling at her to get some beer, and in addition she has to share her money with him so he can pay off his loans. |
| 148 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The main four do have their moments. |
| 149 | * AxCrazy: Mr. Cat and, to a lesser extent, Stumpy. On some occasions, Mr. Cat even gets an actual ax. |
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| 152 | [[folder:Tropes B]] |
| 153 | * BabiesEverAfter: Stumpy tries to invoke this trope by setting Kaeloo and Mr. Cat up on a date so they could fall in love and have babies, [[ShipperWithAnAgenda which he could babysit to make money.]] It fails, because the date turns out to be a complete disaster. |
| 154 | * BabysitterFromHell: Stumpy winds up being one to Quack Quack in "Let's Play Baby-Sitting". |
| 155 | * BabysittingEpisode: "Let's Play Babysitting", where Stumpy tries to babysit Quack Quack, who doesn't want or need a babysitter. |
| 156 | * BabyTalk: |
| 157 | ** Mr. Cat uses this when talking to a miniature version of Kaeloo in Episode 105. |
| 158 | ** In Episode 93, Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat when they are acting as a firefighter and stranded kitten respectively. |
| 159 | * BackFromTheDead: Occasionally happens when Stumpy dies, for example in "Let's Play Art Class" when Quack Quack [[MakesSenseInContext makes Stumpy a new head]] after [[TooDumbToLive he blows his old one off with a bazooka.]] |
| 160 | * BadassArmFold: Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat do this in the rap music video at the end of "Let's Play Streetball". |
| 161 | * BadBadActing: Stumpy's idea of PlayingSick is to lie on a bed and yell "I'm suffering!" over and over again. |
| 162 | * BadImpressionists: In Episode 65, Kaeloo and Quack Quack's impressions of Mr. Cat are terrible. Quack Quack performs a magic trick to transform a sheep into a chainsaw (which is not something Mr. Cat would do), and Kaeloo uses a FingerGun while yelling that she's evil. Averted with Stumpy's impression, which was very accurate (but embarrassing)[[note]]It involved chasing Quack Quack around with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] and then trying to make out with a picture of Kaeloo.[[/note]]. |
| 163 | * BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Stumpy winds up as one of these in [[BabysittingEpisode "Let's Play Babysitting"]]. |
| 164 | * BaitAndSwitch: |
| 165 | ** In the {{pilot}} (and its remake, "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light"), Stumpy needs to beat Quack Quack to the finish line. He sees a pair of roller skates and a chainsaw nearby and gets an idea... putting the chainsaw on the ground, sitting on its handle and letting it drag him along the ground, rather than use the skates. [[spoiler: It actually works.]] |
| 166 | ** In one episode, [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Olaf]] captures Kaeloo and Mr. Cat and tells them to prepare to suffer... [[HollywoodToneDeaf and starts singing.]] |
| 167 | ** In Episode 85, Stumpy and Quack Quack, both having a PottyEmergency, reach the bathroom at the same time. Stumpy says that there is "one final solution" and they both raise their fists... to play RockPaperScissors. |
| 168 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Market Vendors", [[VillainProtagonist Mr. Cat]] and [[AntiHero Stumpy]] rob a supermarket, and Mr. Cat threatens to shoot anyone who moves. Kaeloo starts waving her arms and yelling for help. Gunshots are heard. It's then revealed that Mr. Cat shot [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]], not Kaeloo. |
| 169 | ** In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat says he has a surprise for Quack Quack, and leaves some yogurt on the table in front of him. Quack Quack reaches out for the yogurt, and then Mr. Cat whacks him on the head with a baseball bat and yells "Surprise!" |
| 170 | ** In Episode 110, Mr. Cat makes a slideshow about vampires to show to the rest of the characters. Kaeloo looks at the first slide and is absolutely horrified... not because it's a scary picture of a vampire, but because Mr. Cat [[HowDidThatGetInThere accidentally]] put up a "private" photo of her that was supposed to be for his eyes only[[note]]It's not a nude photo, but she's still quite embarrassed[[/note]]. |
| 171 | ** Usually, when the characters are stuck in a dark place and can't see, they yell "Quack Quack, lights!" and Quack Quack uses his EyeBeams as a light source. In Episode 79, Kaeloo yells "Quack Quack, lights!" and Quack Quack... turns on an actual lamp. |
| 172 | ** In Episode 180, Mr. Cat teaches Stumpy about marital disputes. Kaeloo tells Mr. Cat that he shouldn't be teaching Stumpy about marital disputes because that's not appropriate for a kid Stumpy's age. Stumpy tells Kaeloo that he watches things that "aren't for kids his age" on the internet all the time. Kaeloo angrily grabs his laptop to see what he's been watching. It turns out that he was looking at knitting tutorials for old ladies. |
| 173 | ** In one of the season 4 episodes, the main four are judging a singing contest. The bunny twins participate, with Pretty dancing and Eugly singing. A fight breaks out between the two and Eugly storms off, prompting this response from [[DeadpanSnarker Mr. Cat]]: |
| 174 | -->'''Mr. Cat''': I have to admit, the ugly one really isn't nice... her sister, on the other hand, sings very well. |
| 175 | * BaitAndSwitchComment: In one episode, the characters are PlayingHouse, and among the roles are Mr. Cat as the father and Quack Quack, a FunnyAnimal who [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal wears nothing but a pair of underwear]], as the daughter. Mr. Cat sees Quack Quack running and turns to the audience. |
| 176 | -->'''Mr. Cat''': That's my little girl, running around in just her underwear... they grow up so fast. |
| 177 | * BalletEpisode: Episode 67 is about the cast putting on a ballet for Olga's birthday. [[spoiler: The ballet [[EpicFail fails in the most epic way possible]].]] |
| 178 | * {{Balloonacy}}: Violasse has a GoodLuckCharm in the form of a balloon with [[BornLucky Quack-Quack]]'s face drawn on it, and is often shown floating around while carrying the balloon, with one RunningGag on the show being Stumpy running after her to stop her from floating away. |
| 179 | * BalloonBelly: Happens to Quack Quack when he eats too much yogurt. |
| 180 | * BallroomBlitz: The Valentine's Day party in [[ValentinesDayEpisode Episode 83]] ends up being a total disaster, mostly thanks to Mr. Cat. |
| 181 | * BarSlide: In "Let's Play Cowboys and Indians", Kaeloo and Quack Quack visit Stumpy's bar and order a soda and a yogurt respectively, both of which Stumpy slides across the countertop. Kaeloo catches her drink just fine, but Mr. Cat shoots Quack Quack's yogurt before he can catch it. |
| 182 | * BaseballEpisode: Episode 95, where Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat play baseball against Quack Quack, Olaf and Serguei. |
| 183 | * BathroomBreakOut: In Episode 53, Stumpy claims that he has to go to the bathroom, and he slips out of the front door to bury evidence of a crime. |
| 184 | * BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: All the characters can breathe in space. |
| 185 | * BatmanGambit: |
| 186 | ** In the episode "Let's Play House", Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat are PlayingHouse, with Kaeloo as the mother, Mr. Cat as the father, and the other two as the kids. Mr. Cat, however, just wants to watch sports on TV instead of playing. [[spoiler: First, when Kaeloo annoys the "kids" so much that they decide to run away from home, he does nothing about it and makes them even more annoyed so they leave. Then, after they leave, he says [[{{Demographically Inappropriate Humour}} he wants to have sex with Kaeloo]], who gets creeped out and leaves. As soon as all this is over, he turns the TV on to watch some sports. However, his plan fails since by the time he gets rid of them, his game is over.]] |
| 187 | ** In Episode 134, there are two consecutive Batman Gambits. Stumpy gets clones of himself and the clones annoy everyone, Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat make a plan to get rid of the clones. They claim that a package came in the mail for the real Stumpy, and only the real Stumpy can get it. All the Stumpy start fighting over who gets it. The original Stumpy opens a [[PortalDoor door to another dimension]] and lies that Ursula is on the other side. The clones run through and then Stumpy shuts the door, trapping them there forever. |
| 188 | ** In Episode 144, Quack Quack pulls one off. The plot of the episode is that Quack Quack and Stumpy are racing racecars. Due to unfair circumstances, Stumpy's car gets totaled and he can't make it to the finish line, but Quack Quack helps him push the car to the end and Stumpy wins, making Quack Quack look like a wonderful person in the eyes of his peers. [[spoiler: Then, it's revealed that he told his girlfriend to bet a huge sum of money on Stumpy winning and he lost the game on purpose so that they could win lots of money and go on vacation.]] |
| 189 | * BatterUp: [[AntiHero Stumpy]], [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] and [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] will not hesitate to use baseball bats on anyone who annoys them. |
| 190 | * BeachEpisode: Episode 80, which had the main four and the bunny twins go to the beach. Stumpy tries to get better at beach volleyball and Pretty tries to seduce Mr. Cat, [[EpicFail with the usual results.]] |
| 191 | * BeardOfEvil: {{Parodied| Trope}} in "Let's Play Spies", where Kaeloo gives Quack Quack (who is playing the villain) a fake beard to make himself look evil. |
| 192 | * BearHug: [[DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength Bad Kaeloo]] gives one to Stumpy, Quack Quack [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther and Mr. Cat]] in "Let's Play Spies". [[YourHeadAsplode Their heads explode.]] |
| 193 | * BeautyIsBad: [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] and [[AlphaBitch Pretty]], both of whom are apparently very attractive but also very selfish and cruel. |
| 194 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: |
| 195 | ** In Episode 77, after [[spoiler: Kaeloo's HeroicSacrifice, a tearful Stumpy wishes he could have sacrificed himself instead. Suddenly, they swap places and he is left on the exploding planet. [[IronButtMonkey He survives, somehow.]]]] |
| 196 | ** In [[HalloweenEpisode "Let’s Play Scaredy Cat"]], Mr. Cat says he loves scary stuff. About an hour later, he’s fighting off hordes of zombies by himself in a dark forest late at night. |
| 197 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: |
| 198 | ** It's heavily implied that the main reason Stumpy loves Ursula more than anyone else is that she accepts him despite all his flaws, while his other friends constantly make fun of and bully him. |
| 199 | ** It's also suggested that one of the main reasons Mr. Cat is relatively nicer to Kaeloo than anyone else and spares her from some of the more vicious things he does is that she shows him a lot of kindness. |
| 200 | * BedmateReveal: In Episode 106, Kaeloo holds a garage sale and Mr. Cat buys everything. Later, she wakes up to find Mr. Cat lying next to her in bed. Turns out he bought too much stuff at the sale and now there's no space in his room for him to sleep, so he decided to break into her room and sleep there instead. |
| 201 | * BeehiveHairdo: Both Kaeloo and Quack Quack own a wig with this type of hairstyle. They wear the wigs in some episodes which involve roleplaying games. |
| 202 | * BegoneBribe: Stumpy invokes this in Episode 128 by playing music horribly and threatening to continue playing if Kaeloo doesn't give him some money. Kaeloo initially refuses, but eventually decides to give it to him. |
| 203 | * BehavioralConditioning: When Stumpy and Quack Quack get addicted to [[GRatedDrug carrots which have the same effect as cigars]], [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] attempts to cure them by whacking them on the head with a [[FryingPanOfDoom frying pan]] each time they took a bite out of the carrots. It fails because they're so addicted that they continue to eat the carrots regardless of the pain. |
| 204 | * BelligerentSexualTension: |
| 205 | ** The relationship between Kaeloo and Mr. Cat can sometimes veer into this territory. |
| 206 | ** Stumpy and Pretty wind up having this in Season 3, despite the fact that Stumpy already has a girlfriend. |
| 207 | * BerserkButton: |
| 208 | ** Kaeloo has several of these: stepping on flowers, hurting Quack Quack, swearing, food wastage, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking being called "Priscilla"]]. |
| 209 | ** Stumpy really hates it when others insult his sisters in front of him. |
| 210 | ** Come between Quack Quack and [[GRatedDrug yogurt]] and [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You. Will. PAY!]] |
| 211 | ** Mr. Cat does NOT like it [[HypocriticalHeartwarming when you mess with the rest of the main four]] (especially [[MoralityPet Kaeloo]]) he HatesBeingTouched and has threatened to literally murder those who dare to attempt physical contact, and he also reacts pretty badly to being called a "kitty". |
| 212 | ** [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Eugly]] is generally nice, but it's best if you don't hurt Quack Quack in front of her. |
| 213 | ** Did you just tell [[{{Narcissist}} Pretty]] that her ears are asymmetrical? Hope you have insurance, buddy... |
| 214 | ** And Olaf hates it when is mocked for being too short. |
| 215 | * BetaCouple: The second season of the show introduced a new character, Eugly, who became Quack Quack's girlfriend almost instantly. Kaeloo and Mr. Cat, on the other hand, have an extremely complicated relationship with each other, though WordOfGod has suggested that they will be an OfficialCouple for sure by the end of the series. |
| 216 | * BeTheBall: A few episodes end with Bad Kaeloo [[InvoluntaryShapeshifter beating Mr. Cat into the shape of a ball]] and then using him to play soccer, tennis, etc. |
| 217 | ** Bad Kaeloo does this to Quack Quack in Episode 115 and plays tennis with him. Mr. Cat is the racket. |
| 218 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: |
| 219 | ** In Episode 77, Stumpy decides to hang himself rather than get killed as the planet is destroyed. [[BungledSuicide He fails]], [[RunningGag as usual]]. |
| 220 | ** In Episode 215, Mr. Cat convinces everyone in Smileyland that the end of the world is happening that day, causing multiple background characters to commit suicide before the apocalypse can get them. Of course, being ''Kaeloo'', this is PlayedForLaughs. |
| 221 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Given the fact that Kaeloo can [[HulkingOut turn into a huge monster when angered]]... |
| 222 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: At the end of Episode 105, [[spoiler: Stumpy manages to almost erase the rest of the cast from existence, and then even though he spares them, he tricks them into thinking they've been forgiven and then takes over the animation studio making the show.]] |
| 223 | * BeyondRedemption: After over a season of trying to convince Pretty to become a better person, Kaeloo finally gives up in Episode 118, stating that Pretty will never change. |
| 224 | * BeyondTheImpossible: A lot of people Mr. Cat knows are capable of doing insane things, like a guy who somehow swallowed 12 miles of sausage without swallowing and a guy who stuffs chickpeas with gloves. |
| 225 | * BeYourself: |
| 226 | ** In Episode 133, Kaeloo is not invited to a party everyone else was invited to because they all thought she was weird. [[OutOfCharacterMoment Mr. Cat tells her not to worry about being labeled and tells her that all she needs to do is be herself]], and she goes back to the party and spreads the same message to everyone else. The episode ends with everyone, Kaeloo included, throwing another party and "being themselves" there. |
| 227 | ** In Episode 184, Kaeloo finds out that no matter what she does, she can never be "perfect", so she starts doing things like eating junk food, swearing out loud whenever she feels like it, and not holding her farts in, and notices that her life is much better now. Mr. Cat tells her that now, since she has accepted herself for who she really is, she is truly perfect. |
| 228 | * BigBallOfViolence: Any time a fight happens that's not very important to the plot, one of these is used instead of the fight being shown in detail. |
| 229 | * BigBrotherBully: The main reason Mr. Cat ran away from home was that he suffered constant abuse from his two older brothers, who were jealous of him for [[ParentalFavoritism being their mother's favorite child]]. |
| 230 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Stumpy's sister may or may not exist[[note]]WordOfGod confirms that he has 36, actually[[/note]], but he does not like hearing her be insulted. |
| 231 | * BigRedButton: [[spoiler: Olaf's lair has one of these on the control panel, which [[TheDitz Stumpy]] pushes.]] |
| 232 | * BigScrewedUpFamily: Mr. Cat's family is one of these. His [[BigBrotherBully brothers]] would regularly beat him to the extent where he thought running away from home was better than living with them, his father was an alcoholic, and his mother was so abusive that even the sound of her voice over the phone is enough to make Mr. Cat run away screaming in terror. Mr. Cat himself is not much better, as the show itself describes him as "evil, sadistic, cruel, selfish, and psychopathic" in one episode. |
| 233 | * BigWordShout: OnceAnEpisode, "MISTER CAAAAAT!" (or occasionally, "STUMPYYYYYYYY!"). |
| 234 | * BilingualBonus: One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' had Mr. Cat and Stumpy watch the trailer for the in-universe Mr. Coolskin movie, which is entirely in Japanese. [[CreatorCameo The trailer's credits state that the movie was made by Rémi Chapotot and Tristan Michel, who are ''Kaeloo'''s creator and art director respectively.]] |
| 235 | * BillBillJunkBill: A variant happens in the episode "Let's Play Catch the Mailman". Stumpy receives a huge stack of mail, and everything he picks up is either a bill or an advertisement until he reaches the end of the stack and finds an actual letter. |
| 236 | * BillionsOfButtons: [[spoiler: The control panel for the machines in Olaf's lair. Since Stumpy doesn't know which one, he presses all of them - including the BigRedButton which will destroy the building.]] |
| 237 | * BirdsOfAFeather: [[OfficialCouple Quack Quack and Eugly.]] They're both TheUnintelligible, they're both much nicer than everybody else on the show and they both get horribly abused by [[WithFriendsLikeThese the rest of the cast.]] |
| 238 | * BirthdayEpisode: Episode 191, titled "Let's Play Multibirthday", is about Kaeloo learning that Stumpy has never celebrated his birthday since he was five and giving him a "multibirthday" to make up for those birthdays. |
| 239 | * ABirthdayNotABreak: Even on Quack Quack's birthday, [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] won't stop bullying him. |
| 240 | * BirthdayPartyGoesWrong: One episode had the main four and the bunny twins working together on putting a recital for Olga's birthday party, which ended horribly because everyone played their part wrong and it ended with the stage being destroyed and the performers being injured. |
| 241 | * BishieSparkle: In some episodes, Pretty sees her [[AllLoveIsUnrequited (unrequited)]] crush Mr. Cat in a cloud of sparkles when she looks at him. |
| 242 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Kaeloo can sometimes come off as one of these. While she deliberately tries her hardest to appear "nice", when she gets annoyed, she slips up and ends up doing things like insulting Stumpy for his stupidity or yelling at people who don't deserve it. Sometimes, it's even taken to the point where Mr. Cat is legitimately nicer than Kaeloo. Episode 156 reveals that Kaeloo actually encourages Mr. Cat's villainy so she can step in and paint herself as the hero for stopping him. |
| 243 | * BizarroUniverse: The episode "Let's Play Astronauts" had the main four go to an alternate universe through a black hole in space. There, Kaeloo's [[HulkingOut transformation]] works in reverse, [[TheWoobie Quack Quack]] and [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] (known as Meow Meow and Mr. Duck) had each other's personalities and traits, and [[TheDitz Stumpy]] was a genius who loved science and hated comic books. It turns out that [[spoiler: Stumpy [[AllJustADream dreamed this all up]].]] |
| 244 | * BlackComedy: Used quite a lot. |
| 245 | ** In Episode 94, the gang are roleplaying as usual. This time, Mr. Cat is the principal of a school, Quack Quack is a student at said school, and Kaeloo is Quack Quack's mother. Halfway through the episode, Kaeloo gets a call from Mr. Cat saying that Quack Quack died. Kaeloo rushes over to the school, only to find Quack Quack alive, just injured. Mr. Cat then explains to Kaeloo that if he said a child was injured, the child's parents probably wouldn't bother to show up. |
| 246 | * BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: |
| 247 | ** The series has Mr. Cat, an anthropomorphic cat, abuse non-anthropomorphic sheep by kicking them, setting them on fire and ''attacking them with weapons''. Fortunately, the sheep in question are MadeOfIron and able to survive all of this. |
| 248 | ** Pretty threatening to put her pet unicorn to sleep and shooting a horse in the head is also PlayedForLaughs[[note]]This was cut from the Miam Animation dub[[/note]] |
| 249 | ** One episode had Stumpy play a new game where people get into cars with bleating sheep, and the object of the game is to see how long you can stand the bleating before going berserk and beating the tar out of the sheep. |
| 250 | * BlackEyesOfCrazy: |
| 251 | ** PlayedForLaughs in "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel", where Kaeloo puts in a pair of fully black contact lenses and can't see anything because of them. |
| 252 | ** Played completely straight when she undergoes SanitySlippage in Episode 100. |
| 253 | * TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: Happens whenever Mr. Cat throws a knife, no matter how far the target is. If it hits a vertical surface (or a character), it hits at exactly 90 degrees. If it hits a horizontal one like the ground, it sticks either at 90 or 45 degrees. |
| 254 | * BlahBlahBlah: |
| 255 | ** In "Let's Play House", Stumpy hears Kaeloo's speech like this. |
| 256 | ** Stumpy himself uses this while singing the Happy Birthday song in one episode. |
| 257 | * BlandNameProduct: |
| 258 | ** [[Website/{{Facebook}} Fakebook]], the characters' favorite social network. |
| 259 | ** [=McDaube=], a TakeThat at UsefulNotes/McDonalds. |
| 260 | ** Gogol Maps, a parody of Google Maps[[note]]"Gogol" is French for "dummy"[[/note]]. |
| 261 | ** The popular game "Me-Me-Nopoly" is clearly a parody of TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}. |
| 262 | ** Designer brands in the show's universe include Chamel (for Chanel) and Loubouctin (for Louboutin). |
| 263 | * BlatantLies: |
| 264 | ** Half the words that come out of Mr. Cat's mouth fit this trope. For example, when Kaeloo sees him holding a mallet: |
| 265 | -->'''Kaeloo''': What's that in your hand?\ |
| 266 | '''Mr. Cat''': It's a wart. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments I should really see a skin doctor.]] |
| 267 | ** In Episode 135, Kaeloo is exercising and she tells Stumpy that she's trying to work on her quadriceps. It's made abundantly clear that she's actually working on her glutes to get a bigger butt. |
| 268 | ** In one episode, Kaeloo, Stumpy, and Quack Quack are all waitstaff at a restaurant, and they're each determined to be better than the other two. When Olaf comes to their restaurant, Quack Quack goes to his table and takes his order, but Stumpy runs up, kicks Quack Quack into the air and sends him flying, and screams "FIRST!" despite ''clearly'' not having gotten there first. |
| 269 | ** The show's viewers ask Kaeloo and Mr. Cat if they have some kind of romantic relationship going on. Mr. Cat attempts to tell the audience that Kaeloo is definitely in love with him, given the fact that she texts him nonstop. Before he can read any of said texts to the audience, [[ComicalOverreacting Kaeloo runs up, grabs his phone, shakes him roughly by the shoulders, and gives him a MegatonPunch which sends him flying into the air, all while screaming "I DON'T TEXT YOU AT ALL!"]] Mr. Cat even takes the time to point out that she's lying before he disappears as ATwinkleInTheSky. |
| 270 | ** In Episode 138, Kaeloo tells Stumpy to clean his room. He claims to have been paralyzed because a wizard put a curse on him. |
| 271 | * BlindShoulderToss: Stumpy does this once with a lighter. Some random guy from offscreen yells that [[ManOnFire he is on fire.]] |
| 272 | * BloodlessCarnage: Even if there are knives and chainsaws involved, not a single drop of blood is shed onscreen. |
| 273 | * BluntYes: In "Let's Play Teachers", of the "Blunt No" variant: |
| 274 | -->'''Stumpy''': Have you been listening to what I said here or what?!\ |
| 275 | '''Kaeloo''': No. |
| 276 | * BodyPocket: In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Kaeloo turns her "pockets" inside out to prove to Mr. Cat that she really doesn't have money. |
| 277 | * BodySled: Kaeloo uses Quack Quack as a sled in Episode 105. |
| 278 | * BoltOfDivineRetribution: Parodied in Episode 75. When Quack Quack leaves Smileyland, Mr. Cat decides to attack Stumpy instead. The moment he pulls out a chainsaw, he gets struck by lightning. Stumpy joyfully exclaims "God exists!" and then he is also struck by lightning and changes his mind. |
| 279 | * BookBurning: |
| 280 | ** Bad Kaeloo does this to a pile of dirty magazines and comic books in Episode 4. |
| 281 | ** In "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", Mr. Cat, who is too lazy to go look for actual firewood, burns Stumpy's comic books to start a campfire. |
| 282 | * BookEnds: The first episode where Pretty shows signs of remorse for being a bully is Episode 133. In this episode, Pretty hosts a party where Kaeloo is not invited, and Mr. Cat comforts Kaeloo about it. The episode ends with Pretty showing that she is apologetic, Mr. Cat giving Pretty an encouraging smile to show that he approves of her kind behavior, and everyone happily sitting together without any issues. The first episode where Pretty is clearly shown to have undergone a HeelFaceTurn is Episode 213, where Pretty happily invites Kaeloo to her party with no qualms and everyone starts off on good terms. This time, [[GossipyHens]] Kaeloo uses the opportunity of being at a party to spread a rumor about Mr. Cat that the latter would have much rather kept to himself, Pretty calls Kaeloo out on her behavior and sticks up for Mr. Cat, and the episode ends with Kaeloo sitting alone, implied to have been kicked out of the party. |
| 283 | * BoringInsult: Kaeloo is on the receiving end of this in a letter from someone claiming to be a fan of the show in "Let's Play Catch the Mailman". [[spoiler: It turns out that the letter was written by [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]].]] |
| 284 | * BornUnlucky: |
| 285 | ** For Stumpy, every day is a bad day. |
| 286 | ** The only person with worse luck than Stumpy is Violasse, to the point where this is her defining character trait. |
| 287 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: |
| 288 | ** In "Let's Play Golf", Kaeloo borrows one of Stumpy's myriad catchphrases: |
| 289 | -->'''Kaeloo''':[[HypocriticalHumor Are you stupid or what?!]] |
| 290 | ** Mr. Cat uses Pretty's catchphrase when greeting Stumpy and Quack Quack in Episode 91. |
| 291 | ** In one of the season 3 episodes, a HurricaneOfPuns from Mr. Cat causes Kaeloo to say "Mr. Cat... I hate your guts". |
| 292 | * BorrowedWithoutPermission: In one episode, Quack-Quack gets figurines of himself, Kaeloo, Stumpy, and Mr. Cat as a thank-you present from the [[TrademarkFavoriteFood yogurt]] company for his patronage and gives everyone the figure that looks like him. Knowing that Kaeloo, Quack-Quack, and Mr. Cat won't let him play with their figurines, Stumpy steals them for a game, and when they confront him, he tells them that he "didn't steal them, he just borrowed them long-term". |
| 293 | * BottomlessPit: In an episode where Kaeloo convinces the rest of the main four to play a game where YourMindMakesItReal, Mr. Cat pushes Quack Quack on the ground and says it's a bottomless pit. It affects Quack Quack as though it really was a bottomless pit. Somehow, despite it being a ''bottomless'' pit, it was full of alligators. |
| 294 | * BotheringByTheBook: In Episode 216, the main four want to play a game of blind man's buff. However, a passing remark makes Rules (who is an anthropomorphic personification of the concept of rules that has a somewhat robotic form) think that the game is "unequal" since one of the players can't see everyone else, so she refuses to allow them to play until she determines a way to make it "equal". Kaeloo then insists that if Rules wants to accommodate everyone, she really has to accommodate ''everyone'', and she assembles a diverse group of players with different needs and abilities that are impossible to adapt to at the same time and forces Rules to come up with a set of rules that this particular group can use that can truly make them all be on equal footing. Rules is overwhelmed by the increasing demands, shuts down, and restarts with no memory of what happened earlier. |
| 295 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: |
| 296 | ** In the French dub of "Let's Play Hide 'n Hunt", Stumpy tries to make Kaeloo angry by mooning her. In the English dub, it's changed to him farting at her. |
| 297 | ** In the French dub of "Let's Play House", Mr. Cat wants to watch a soccer game on TV, but when he turns on the TV the announcer says that one of the players' shorts fell off, and Mr. Cat turns off the TV in shock and disgust. In the English dub, this was changed to the announcer saying that the game was over and that [[Series/DesperateHousewives "Desperate Housecats"]] would be airing next. |
| 298 | * BrandX: The soda brand the cast drink is called "Slurp". |
| 299 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Done indirectly in "Let's Play Market Vendors" when Kaeloo is selling apples: |
| 300 | -->'''Quack Quack''': [[TheUnintelligible Quack.]]\ |
| 301 | '''Kaeloo''': I'm sorry, sir, we don't sell yogurt. We only sell apples!\ |
| 302 | '''Quack Quack''': Quack.\ |
| 303 | '''Kaeloo''': No, not even apple yogurt. |
| 304 | * BreadEggsMilkSquick: In "Let's Play Grown-Ups", Kaeloo tells the others about things grown-ups have to deal with: taxes, bills, and divorces. |
| 305 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: Mr. Cat frequently speaks to the audience. The other characters also often refer to the fact that they are in a cartoon, and reference the script, animation quality and other things. |
| 306 | * BreakTheHaughty: |
| 307 | ** Happens to RichBitch Pretty in many episodes, usually due to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat teaming up to set up a scenario for it to occur. |
| 308 | ** In Episode 26, Kaeloo herself gets a taste of this. She receives a letter in the mail, and just before she opens it, Stumpy asks what it is. Kaeloo says that it's probably a letter from an admirer or fan of the show, and explains to Stumpy in a condescending tone of voice that the reason she gets one and he doesn't is that she's the main character of the show and [[ProtagonistTitle the show is named after her.]] She then proceeds to open the letter, and it turns out to be a hate letter criticizing her for being "boring". And to rub salt in the wound, the letter also says that Stumpy (and the rest of the cast) is better than her. |
| 309 | * BreathWeapon: Bad Kaeloo can send people flying in the air by breathing out blasts of air. |
| 310 | * BrickJoke: |
| 311 | ** At the start of the theme song, Mr. Cat crushes a flower with a mallet causing Kaeloo to get angry. At the end of the song, she finds him and beats him up for it. |
| 312 | ** In the middle of the episode "Let's Play Golf", Kaeloo mentions something about pennyloafers coming back in style. At the end of the episode, Mr. Cat asks her if pennyloafers are really coming back in style. |
| 313 | ** Near the beginning of the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", during a game of Trap-Trap, Mr. Cat asks if he can team up with Kaeloo for the game. Kaeloo happily hugs him and tells him it was very nice of him to want her on his team. Later in the episode, Kaeloo gets angry at Mr. Cat and is about to beat him up as usual, and he asks her if she can hug him again. |
| 314 | ** In Episode 107, [[TheDitz Stumpy]] and [[DitzyGenius Quack Quack]] are [[ItMakesSenseInContext trying to break into a bank to get their stuff back]] and start packing the things they will need, Stumpy packs a pair of swim trunks and says they're "for the alibi". When they get caught later in the episode, Stumpy holds up the swim trunks and claims that he'd lost it inside the bank and just found it. Nobody believes them and they get arrested. |
| 315 | ** In "Let's Play Ecologists", at the beginning, Kaeloo tries teaching Stumpy how to recycle stuff, and Stumpy remarks "This recycling business is a nightmare!" When things descend into chaos as a result of Kaeloo taking the GreenAesop too far, Stumpy tells Mr. Cat "I told you recycling was a nightmare!" |
| 316 | ** In one episode, Olaf is a supervillain who wants revenge on the superhero [[CaptainErsatz Ratman]] (Stumpy) and asks Mr. Cat how to get to Ratman's apartment. Mr. Cat gives him a list of "directions" which tell him to go to the 32nd floor of the building and jump out the window. Later, the main four are having a conversation inside the building, which is interrupted by the sound of glass breaking and Olaf's screaming. |
| 317 | ** Early in Episode 241, [[AttentionWhore Nombril]] is excited to get on a train and wants to be first in line so all the passengers on the train will pay attention to her. When she boards the train later in the episode, the only people inside are her and her family, and Nombril is sad that there's nobody to look at her. |
| 318 | * BriefAccentImitation: |
| 319 | ** Mr. Cat does a horrible attempt at speaking with an Italian accent in "[[CircusEpisode Let's Play Circuses]]". When asked why, he admits that he has no idea. |
| 320 | ** Kaeloo does an equally horrible job at speaking with a British accent in "Let's Play Spies". |
| 321 | * BrokeEpisode: The trope is PlayedforLaughs in Episode 138, where Stumpy is broke and needs to raise money to buy a comic book. Since he's just a kid, he doesn't need to worry about food or shelter. |
| 322 | * BrownNote: Mr. Cat apparently came up with a story that is so disgusting that anyone who hears it, except Mr. Cat himself and Stumpy, will immediately throw up. |
| 323 | * BrutalHonesty: |
| 324 | ** Pretty, being the AlphaBitch, has no qualms with telling people to their faces what is wrong with them. |
| 325 | ** Kaeloo, to the extent that Mr. Cat has to give her lessons on how to tell lies so she doesn't lose all her friends in Episode 136. For example, she tells Stumpy that a drawing he made is ugly, and when Pretty shows Kaeloo a new bag she bought, Kaeloo tells her she hates the bag. |
| 326 | ** When Mr. Cat actually bothers to be honest, it tends to be the brutal kind of honesty. For example, when he gets invited to a dinner party by Kaeloo, the first thing he does is criticize the dining room's decor. He also tends to tell [[TheChewToy Stumpy]] to his face that he's ugly, stupid, and/or a loser. |
| 327 | ** The show's fifth season introduces us to Stumpy's little sisters, of whom two fit this trope. Vitamine is InnocentlyInsensitive and points out things like how Stumpy sucks at soccer. Cramoisie is a {{jerkass}} who labels Kaeloo and Mr. Cat "ugly and fat" and "a twisted narcissist" respectively. |
| 328 | * BubblegumPopping: Happens to Kaeloo in the BaseballEpisode. |
| 329 | * BubblePipe: Stumpy uses one in Episode 71 when acting as a detective. |
| 330 | * BullyingADragon: |
| 331 | ** Stumpy, Mr. Cat and Pretty anger Kaeloo all the time despite the fact that they are fully aware that she can [[HulkingOut transform into a giant monster]] who can beat them all up. |
| 332 | ** In Episode 213, Kaeloo mistakenly assumes that Mr. Cat has pulled a full-on HeelFaceTurn and starts telling everyone, unaware that Mr. Cat is in fact stuck in a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor. Having heard the rumor, a pair of sheep walk up to Mr. Cat and start trying to bully him for "going soft", only for Mr. Cat to beat them unconscious in a matter of seconds. |
| 333 | ** In Episode 214, Mr. Cat flicks one of Lavanade's ghosts on the forehead, which ends about as well as you'd expect. |
| 334 | * BungledSuicide: A RunningGag on the show is to have this happen to [[CosmicPlaything Stumpy]]. |
| 335 | * BunnyEarsPicturePrank: In [[BaseballEpisode Episode 95]], when both the baseball teams get their pictures taken, Kaeloo does this to Stumpy (who is on her team). |
| 336 | * BurgerFool: Episode 64 has Mr. Cat start a UsefulNotes/McDonalds parody called [=McDaube=][[note]]The series is French and this name is French for "[=McCrap=][[/note]] and rope Stumpy into working there; throughout the episode, Stumpy is horribly abused in various ways. |
| 337 | * BurningRubber: |
| 338 | ** In "Let's Play at Reading Books", Quack Quack does this with a motorized kick-scooter. |
| 339 | ** In Episode 74, Mr. Cat and Stumpy kick a soccer ball in the same direction at the same time with a lot of force, causing the ball to go super fast and leave a trail of flames behind it. [[EpicFail It goes just to the side of the goal.]] |
| 340 | * BusesAreForFreaks: In Episode 94, Kaeloo goes around the typical work day of an adult, and Mr. Cat follows her around everywhere to mess with her. After Mr. Cat gets her car towed away, Kaeloo takes the bus, where she finds Mr. Cat (now dressed as a creepy hobo with bad hygiene) begging her for money as snot dribbles out of his nose. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Kaeloo is so disgusted that she gets off the bus and chooses to take the subway instead.]] |
| 341 | * ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Whenever it goes pitch dark, the only things visible are eyes and teeth. |
| 342 | [[/folder]] |
| 343 | |
| 344 | [[folder:Tropes C]] |
| 345 | * CallingYourAttacks: In the episode "Let's Play Super Powers", the characters pretend to be Mr. Coolskin characters and call the names of their attacks when they use them. |
| 346 | * CallingYourBathroomBreaks: Kaeloo tells the audience that she has to pee in one episode before walking offscreen. |
| 347 | * CallousnessTowardsEmergency: In Episode 233 the main four play a life-sized board game where players are subjected to whatever their square says in real life. Stumpy winds up on a "trap" square, which leads to him being trapped on a small floating piece of gameboard on a river of lava filled with traps. Stumpy screams for help as the trap is activating, and Kaeloo suggests that everyone should finish their turns quickly so the die can be passed back to Stumpy and he can roll to escape, but Mr. Cat (the next player to roll) refuses to finish his turn because he's on the "beach" square and is enjoying the warm sunny beach. At one point Stumpy stops screaming and rather than realizing that Stumpy is in serious danger, Mr. Cat suggests that it's not worth caring about anymore. |
| 348 | * CameFromTheSky: The episode "Let's Play the Thing From Outer Space" involved the main four finding an object from space which fell out of the sky. |
| 349 | * CameraAbuse: |
| 350 | ** At the end of Episode 74, Mr. Cat kicks Quack Quack towards the camera and this ends the episode. |
| 351 | ** At Stumpy's request, Mr. Cat shoots the camera out with a bazooka in Episode 139 in order to stop the annoying {{narrator}}, who is also the one filming the episode. |
| 352 | * CampGay: For the first ten episodes of the English dub, Kaeloo was accidentally [[ShesAManInJapan dubbed as a male]]. Her personality fits this trope very well, as she's very touchy-feely, effeminate and has a lisp. |
| 353 | * CampingEpisode: "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", where the main four go camping and play a game of treasure hunt. The trip is disastrous; [[SkewedPriorities Stumpy unpacked all their supplies so he would have room for all his comic books]], and Mr. Cat ruins the game of treasure hunt as well. |
| 354 | * TheCanKickedHim: |
| 355 | ** When Stumpy tries to clean a toilet in one episode, a tentacle monster emerges from it and attacks him. |
| 356 | ** When the gang are playing TabletopGame/{{Cluedo}}, Stumpy theorizes that Lady Carrot (Pretty) was murdered when someone dropped a toilet on her head. |
| 357 | * CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Used as a plot point in Episode 229, where Rules hands out severe punishments for minor infractions such as Quack-Quack eating too much yogurt and Mr. Cat looking at the answer key for a crossword instead of figuring out the answer for himself. |
| 358 | * CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: Mr. Cat says he finds Kaeloo annoying and talkative, and tells her to leave (or at least stop talking), yet [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther he tried his best to stop her from leaving Smileyland in "Let's Play Courtroom Drama", even if doing so meant confessing to a crime he had previously claimed to be innocent of]]. |
| 359 | * CaptainObvious: In one episode where Kaeloo, Mr. Cat and the rest of the cast are sitting in a library: |
| 360 | -->'''Kaeloo''': This is a library.\ |
| 361 | '''[[CatsAreSnarkers Mr. Cat]] (deadpan)''': [[DeadpanSnarker I hadn't noticed.]] |
| 362 | * CaptainErsatz: One of Stumpy's favorite superheroes is Ratman, who is a stand-in for Batman. He has a sidekick named Robquack (Robin as a FunnyAnimal duck) and a butler, and uses gadgets such as a grappling gun. His costume is also very similar to Batman's. |
| 363 | * CargoShip: In-universe, Olaf is "married" to an ice cube. |
| 364 | * CarnivoreConfusion: Mr. Cat has expressed a desire to eat Stumpy and Quack Quack on more than one occasion. |
| 365 | * CartoonCheese: All cheese on the show is portrayed as a yellow wedge with holes in it. |
| 366 | * CartoonJuggling: The "shower" type is used in "Let's Play Circuses" when Stumpy juggles chainsaws. |
| 367 | * CassandraTruth: |
| 368 | ** Stumpy's claims of being abducted by aliens are true, but nobody believes him. |
| 369 | ** One of the season 5 episodes had Pretty try to tell a crowd that a rumor that was being spread about Mr. Cat was false, only for the crowd to call her a liar; [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty it turns out that after three seasons of telling everyone Mr. Cat was her boyfriend, they believed her, and now they think Mr. Cat's "girlfriend" is defending him simply because they're in a "relationship".]] |
| 370 | * CastOfSnowflakes: Every single character except for the sheep has their own design, which makes sense because they're all different species. Even Stumpy's sisters, who are nearly identical due to being septuplets, have features that distinguish them from the other sisters. |
| 371 | * CasualDangerDialogue: The main four do this a lot, since they are put in danger quite often. |
| 372 | * CatchPhrase: |
| 373 | ** Stumpy has many, the most common being "That's nuts!", "Cooooool!", and "I hate your guts!". There's also his MadLibsCatchphrase, "Are you [adjective] or what?" |
| 374 | ** Whenever somebody states a fact to Mr. Cat that he finds unbelievable or annoying, he'll respond with "What do you mean, [insert statement here]?!" |
| 375 | * CatharticScream: |
| 376 | ** In one episode, the main four are informed that they've been fired from their jobs and spend the whole episode feeling stressed and anxious. Once everything clears up and they get their jobs back, Kaeloo pulls a pillow [[HammerSpace out of nowhere]] and screams into it. |
| 377 | ** The buddies try to help [[TheDitz Stumpy]] study for a test and he keeps failing to understand what they're teaching him. Eventually they nearly give up and Kaeloo says she's starting to feel exhausted. She asks Pretty if she feels the same way and Pretty runs away, screams angrily, and comes back saying she feels fine. |
| 378 | * CatsAreMean: Played straight with Mr. Cat and his family, but averted with Ursula. |
| 379 | * CatsAreSuperior: Mr. Cat is really the only smart person on the show; the other "smart" characters on the show are {{Ditzy Genius}}es. |
| 380 | * CatsHateWater: Averted. Mr. Cat seems to find the idea of a bath to be relaxing. |
| 381 | * CatsHaveNineLives: This statement apparently holds true for Mr. Cat. |
| 382 | * CerebusCallBack: Episode 105 shows [[ContinuityCavalcade flashbacks to several episodes]] where [[spoiler: [[TheChewToy Stumpy]] was abused or made fun of by his friends. Those episodes are funny to watch by themselves, but not when you see the poor kid remembering them with tears in his eyes and the other three realizing just how cruel they've been.]] |
| 383 | * CerebusRetcon: In early episodes, [[UnreliableNarrator Mr. Cat]] would have a MultipleChoicePast, and some of the anecdotes he would recount would border on absurd. The show's fifth season reveals that due to the sheer amount of trauma that Mr. Cat has due to dealing with abuse in the past, he deliberately makes up ridiculous lies to avoid having to talk about what actually happened to him. |
| 384 | * ChairReveal: Olaf does this when revealing to Quack Quack that he was the one who kidnapped him in Episode 103. Since the chair is much larger than Olaf, he fails to impress. Especially when he tries getting down. |
| 385 | * TheChainOfHarm: Mr. Cat was abused by his two older brothers, causing him to run away from home and end up in Smileyland. Once in Smileyland, he became a bully and started taking out his frustrations on Quack-Quack with the same kind of physical violence his brothers used on him. |
| 386 | * ChainOfPeople: When it looks like Quack Quack is about to fall off an airplane, Mr. Cat grabs his hand to save him. Pretty and Eugly also get flung off and Eugly grabs Quack Quack's foot and Pretty grabs Eugly, creating a chain of people. Since Mr. Cat hates Pretty and Eugly, he chops Quack Quack's legs off with a chainsaw and Pretty and Eugly are flung off the plane. |
| 387 | * ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: |
| 388 | ** In "Let's Play Baby-Sitting", Mr. Cat reads random articles from the newspaper to Kaeloo when she asks him if they can talk (the topic of the conversation being himself). |
| 389 | ** In Episode 180, Kaeloo is hanging out with Pretty and Eugly. Pretty tries to ask Kaeloo to explain her "[[BelligerentSexualTension weird relationship]]" with Mr. Cat, to which Kaeloo responds by asking Eugly about the book she's reading and then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere asking where the bathroom is.]] |
| 390 | * CharacterBlog: The show's official Facebook page, where Kaeloo, and sometimes the other characters, regularly post stuff. |
| 391 | * CharacterInTheLogo: The logo depicts the characters running on a little planet. The characters, from left to right, are Bad Kaeloo, Mr. Cat, Quack Quack, Stumpy, and normal Kaeloo. |
| 392 | * CharacterTics: Stumpy has a Tourette's style tic, where his neck spasms while he yells gibberish which sounds like "SKBLBLBL!". |
| 393 | * ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: In almost every episode, the characters change their outfits or costumes between scenes, or even in the same scene, depending on RuleOfFunny. |
| 394 | * ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: Several episodes have ended with Bad Kaeloo chasing Mr. Cat into the distance with the intention of beating him up. |
| 395 | * CheatersNeverProsper: In some episodes, like "Let's Play Golf", people who cheat get punished. Other episodes, not so much. |
| 396 | * CheerThemUpWithLaughter: Episode 236 reveals that Stumpy's StrugglingSingleMother often cries over the hard circumstances of her life, but Stumpy often cracks jokes and acts silly to make her laugh. |
| 397 | * ChekhovsGun: |
| 398 | ** In one episode, the cast read a book series parodying Literature/HarryPotter, and Quack Quack goes into TroubledFetalPosition any time the main character's parents' death is mentioned[[note]]Because his own parents were killed when he was a baby[[/note]]. Later in the episode, Kaeloo transforms and needs to beat up Mr. Cat, but he makes himself look just like Quack Quack using a magic spell so she won't know who to beat up. She mentions the parents' death and the real Quack Quack assumes TroubledFetalPosition. |
| 399 | ** In the HalloweenEpisode, Mr. Cat comes up with a terrifying and disgusting scary story, but circumstances keep preventing him from telling it. By the end of the episode, there's a bunch of zombies who have risen from the grave, Kaeloo and Quack Quack have been turned into zombies, and Stumpy is being absolutely no help whatsoever. To solve the problem, Mr. Cat tells them his story as they surround him. The story[[note]]Which is told only to the characters and not the viewers[[/note]] is apparently so disgusting that everyone throws up. Kaeloo and Quack Quack revert back to normal and the other zombies die. |
| 400 | ** In "Let's Play Cops and Robbers", Mr. Cat gives Stumpy a banana and tells him he can use it as a fake gun. Later, during a car chase, Stumpy "shoots" the banana out of its peel and it gets stuck in Mr. Cat's nose, causing him to lose control of the car. |
| 401 | * ChekhovsSkill: In "Art Class", we see that Quack Quack has figured out how to make exact replicas of people's heads out of stone. When Stumpy decapitates himself near the end of the episode, Quack Quack carves him a new head and somehow uses magic to attach it to Stumpy's body and bring it back to life. |
| 402 | * ChessWithDeath: Parodied in Episode 92, when Stumpy challenges the GrimReaper to a rap battle. [[spoiler: It turns out that the Reaper is there for [[MakesSenseInContext Adele the flower]]'s soul, not Stumpy's, so she blatantly ignores Stumpy.]] |
| 403 | * ChewbaccaDefense: In one episode where Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are having a debate where Quack Quack must decide the winner, Mr. Cat's only "argument" is to repeatedly call Kaeloo a liar, which convinces Quack Quack to choose Mr. Cat. Kaeloo even lampshades the fact that his victory made absolutely no sense and he never said anything in defense of the subject he was arguing about. |
| 404 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: While the trope is usually heavily averted, it is occasionally played straight: |
| 405 | ** Stumpy is the closest thing to this trope, as he has no idea how babies are made and still believes in things like magic and Santa Claus. |
| 406 | ** Kaeloo has no idea how to even ''tell a lie'' until Mr. Cat gives her lessons on how to lie to people. |
| 407 | ** Even ''Mr. Cat'' has shown signs of this from time to time; one episode had him wear a Nazi costume when playing the bad guy in a game and suggested that he had no idea what his costume actually represents and got the idea from watching a movie. |
| 408 | * ChildrenAreSpecial: ThereAreNoAdults in Smileyland because only children are allowed to access the place because of their belief in magic and their [[ChildrenAreInnocent innocence]]. |
| 409 | * ChippendalesDancers: In an episode parodying weddings and bachelor parties, Kaeloo, Pretty and Eugly go to a bachelorette party where Chippendales Dancers are present. They then rush onstage to grope them offscreen. |
| 410 | * ChoosyBeggar: In episode 125, Kaeloo's having a pretty awful PottyEmergency thanks to Stumpy hogging the bathroom, but she's also being quite picky. Quack Quack offers her a diaper, but she refuses because she wants to preserve her dignity. Mr. Cat suggests that she should just [[NatureTinkling go in a bush]], but she turns that down as well, being a NatureLover and all. [[spoiler:At the very end, though, she ultimately does relieve herself in a bush.]] |
| 411 | * ChristmasEpisode: Episode 69, Episodes 103 and 104 (MultiPartEpisode), and Episode 105. |
| 412 | * CircusEpisode: The episode "Let's Play Circuses" had the gang set up their own circus. |
| 413 | * ClarkKenting: Mr. Cat does this in [[CourtroomEpisode "Let's Play Courtroom Drama"]] to become his own lawyer. |
| 414 | * ClusterBleepBomb: Mr. Cat drops one in "Let's Play Peace, Man!". While the audience hears it like it's been bleeped out, Kaeloo and Quack Quack's horrified reactions suggest that they heard every word he said. |
| 415 | * CollectorOfTheStrange: Stumpy has collections of normal things like comic books and stamps, and some unusual things as well. In one episode, Mr. Cat even manages to trick Stumpy into buying a toilet by claiming that Stumpy has a toilet collection he could add it to. Stumpy, being a complete idiot, believes this and starts a toilet collection. |
| 416 | * ComedicSociopathy: Everyone displays signs of this except Quack Quack and Eugly. |
| 417 | * ComedicSpanking: |
| 418 | ** Three clones of Bad Kaeloo do this to three clones of Stumpy at the end of Episode 13 as a punishment for mooning them. |
| 419 | ** At the end of [[CourtroomEpisode Episode 35]], Bad Kaeloo]] does this to Mr. Cat]] offscreen. |
| 420 | * CometOfDoom: Smileyland almost gets hit by one in "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel"]], and actually ''does'' get hit by one in Episode 77. |
| 421 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: |
| 422 | ** As part of an OverlyLongGag in the episode "Let's Play Golf". Kaeloo attempts to explain the rules of golf to Stumpy and Quack Quack. First, she says that the object of the game is to put the ball in the hole. Stumpy picks up the ball, runs to the hole and puts it in. Kaeloo then tells him that he was supposed to put it in with the club, so he takes the club and drops it down the hole with the ball. Kaeloo tells him that he was supposed to hit the ball with the club, so he goes to the hole with the ball in it and starts violently shoving the club down the hole to "hit" the ball. |
| 423 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light", when Quack Quack is having trouble opening a yogurt container, Stumpy suggests using a chainsaw. Kaeloo tells him that chainsaws are for cutting trees, and then she proceeds to open the yogurt in a strategic manner and tell Stumpy to "use his head". Stumpy misunderstands this as "use your head to cut trees", so he runs headlong into a tree. |
| 424 | ** In Episode 93, when Stumpy and Quack Quack are undergoing training to become firefighters, one of the exercises involves rescuing Mr. Cat from the second floor of a building with fake flames. Stumpy tries using Quack Quack as a battering ram to open the building's door, so Kaeloo tells them to use the ladder to get to the window where Mr. Cat is standing. They climb the ladder, and Stumpy tries using Quack Quack as a battering ram to break the window sill while Mr. Cat gives the audience an AsideGlance. |
| 425 | ** In "Let's Play Simon Says", Kaeloo runs around greeting all the people and non-living objects with "Good day!" By the time she finally meets Mr. Cat, the last person she wanted to greet before leaving, it's nighttime. He calls her an idiot for wasting a whole day saying "good day" to a bunch of non-living objects. Kaeloo realizes that he is right... she should probably be saying "good night" instead! |
| 426 | * ComicalNapDrool: Nearly everyone does this when they fall asleep. |
| 427 | * ComicalOverreacting: |
| 428 | ** Stumpy's reaction to anything not worth caring about. In the event he ''should'' be overreacting, he stays perfectly calm. |
| 429 | ** [[{{Narcissist}} Mr. Cat's]] reaction to losing a whisker: |
| 430 | -->'''Mr. Cat''': AAAAAH! OH NO! I'm deformed! |
| 431 | ** The show's viewers ask Kaeloo and Mr. Cat if they have some kind of romantic relationship going on. Mr. Cat attempts to tell the audience that Kaeloo is definitely in love with him, given the fact that she texts him nonstop. Before he can read any of the texts to the audience, Kaeloo runs up, grabs his phone away, shakes him roughly by the shoulders, and gives him a MegatonPunch which sends him flying into the air, all while screaming [[BlatantLies "I DON'T TEXT YOU AT ALL!"]] |
| 432 | * CompanionCube: [[LiteralMetaphor Literally]] - Olaf is "married" to an ice cube he calls Olga. |
| 433 | * CompellingVoice: Quack Quack develops one in Episode 97 after accidentally swallowing a spoon. It works on everyone except Mr. Cat. |
| 434 | * TheComplianceGame: In "Let's Play Simon Says", Stumpy, Quack-Quack, and Mr. Cat make a huge mess in the living room out of discarded snack packages. Kaeloo wants them to clean it up, but they refuse, so she tries to make them clean it up via a game of Simon Says. [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] isn't fooled, but the game gets Stumpy and Quack-Quack to clean up the mess immediately. |
| 435 | * ConfusedQuestionMark: In "Let's Play Teachers", several question marks appear next to Kaeloo when she asks Stumpy who Mr. Coolskin is. |
| 436 | * ConspicuousGloves: Mr. Cat and Stumpy both wear dark purple fingerless gloves. |
| 437 | * ConstantlyCurious: Stumpy's sister Violasse is always curious to explore new places and try new things. This, combined with her [[BornUnlucky terrible luck]], is constantly landing her in trouble. |
| 438 | * ConsumingPassion: In Episode 174, Mr. Cat gets his hands on a magic wand and turns Kaeloo, his crush, into a giant monster who tries to swallow him whole. Mr. Cat seems rather... "excited" by the prospect and actually allows her to do it. The effects of the wand are temporary, however, so it's likely that he knew that no real harm would rise from her swallowing him. |
| 439 | * ContinuityCavalcade: In Episode 105, Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat see a bunch of screens depicting almost every time in the show so far where [[spoiler: they abused or made fun of [[TheChewToy Stumpy]]]]. |
| 440 | * ContinuityNod: Despite the huge amount of NegativeContinuity, there is some continuity. In some episodes, the characters even bring in televisions and play clips from other episodes. |
| 441 | * ContrivedClumsiness: In "Let's Play Musical Chairs", Stumpy sticks out a leg and trips Kaeloo during a game of musical chairs so he can beat her to the last chair. |
| 442 | * CoolCar: The main four own several of these. |
| 443 | * CooldownHug: |
| 444 | ** Mr. Cat hugs Bad Kaeloo in Episode 108, with the unintended effect of Kaeloo detransforming. |
| 445 | ** In Episode 214, Lavanade is upset because she believes that she caused a fight between Stumpy and Quack-Quack and she breaks down in tears, [[PowerIncontinence making her powers go haywire and causing a storm]]. Stumpy, who was actually responsible for the conflict and had been mistreating Lavanade for the entire episode, has a HeelRealization and runs to the middle of the storm to give his sister a hug, which calms her down and makes the storm disappear. |
| 446 | * CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat's friendship is sometimes portrayed as this in Season 3, with Mr. Cat being the "cool kid" who everyone likes and Kaeloo being the "loser". Mr. Cat occasionally gives Kaeloo advice regarding her social life, like how not to lose her friends, in episodes like these. |
| 447 | * CopycatMockery: Whenever Kaeloo says something that Mr. Cat finds too preachy and annoying, he'll repeat it back to her with a silly high-pitched voice and a lisp that matches hers. |
| 448 | * CornerOfWoe: Stumpy insults Kaeloo about her [[SpeechImpediment lisp]] in Episode 109, which ends up striking a nerve and hurting her much more deeply than he had intended. Kaeloo ends up sobbing in the corner of the room, curled into a ball. |
| 449 | * CosmicPlaything: Episode 72 reveals that Stumpy is ''literally'' a cosmic plaything. |
| 450 | * {{Cosplay}}: Several episodes have Stumpy cosplay as comic book hero Mr. Coolskin. |
| 451 | * CounterZany: How Kaeloo gets Mr. Cat to admit to being guilty in "Let's Play Courtroom Drama". |
| 452 | * CountingSheep: Parodied during a math lesson when [[BookDumb Stumpy]] tries to prove that he's good at math. |
| 453 | -->'''Stumpy''': One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, four sheep...\ |
| 454 | ''Stumpy falls asleep.'' |
| 455 | * CourtroomEpisode: |
| 456 | ** The episode "Let's Play Courtroom Drama", where Mr. Cat is taken to court for attacking Quack Quack with a chainsaw. Kaeloo acts as Quack Quack's lawyer, and Stumpy is the judge. [[spoiler: [[BitchInSheepsClothing Kaeloo]] pulls off a WoundedGazelleGambit to get Mr. Cat to confess that it was him.]] |
| 457 | ** Episode 113 has Kaeloo take Stumpy to court for "mistreating" his objects, with Quack Quack as the judge and Mr. Cat as Stumpy's lawyer. [[spoiler: Mr. Cat [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hoists Kaeloo by her own petard]] and Stumpy winds up winning.]] |
| 458 | ** In Episode 179, a pair of [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] {{Amoral Attorney}}s convince Quack Quack and Stumpy to sue Kaeloo for "mistreating" them, which is really just her doing innocuous things like telling Quack Quack to put trash in the trashcan instead of leaving it on the floor, and threaten to have her sent to prison if she doesn't give them 2 billion bucks. This time, Mr. Cat acts as Kaeloo's lawyer and convinces Stumpy and Quack Quack to drop their lawsuit against Kaeloo. |
| 459 | * CoveredInGunge: In "Let's Play Market Vendors", Quack Quack blows a huge bubble out of yogurt, which pops and leaves Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat covered in yogurt. |
| 460 | * CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: |
| 461 | ** PlayedForLaughs in Episode 184, where Kaeloo says a bunch of swear words and Quack-Quack covers Stumpy's eyes instead of his ears. |
| 462 | ** In Episode 232, a series of mishaps involving a TeleportGun lead to [[BornUnlucky Stumpy and Violasse]] traveling across several different dimensions and trying to find a portal that will lead them home. One of the dimensions they enter is a haunted tomb, and Stumpy covers Violasse's eyes to keep her from getting scared by the ghosts they encounter. |
| 463 | * CovertPervert: Kaeloo tries to project herself as pure and innocent, but also shows a more perverted side, like when she groped ChippendalesDancers at a bachelorette party or her excited reaction to seeing... certain parts of Mr. Cat's anatomy in "Let's Play at Reading Books". |
| 464 | * CowboyEpisode: "Let's Play Cowboys and Indians" and Episode 88. |
| 465 | * CowerPower: When the characters are in danger, like being attacked by zombies or ExploringTheEvilLair, Kaeloo winds up hiding behind Mr. Cat. |
| 466 | * CrackOhMyBack: In Episode 101, [[ButtMonkey Stumpy]] tries to lift a dumbbell off the ground. All he succeeds in doing is cracking his back. |
| 467 | * CraniumChase: Happens to Quack Quack quite often. |
| 468 | * CrapsaccharineWorld: Smileyland. At first glance, it seems like a nice place; there's singing, dancing flowers, you can control the weather and other things, the place is magic and you can have almost anything by wishing for it. On the other hand, its inhabitants are insane, it's a WorldOfJerkass and there's an apparent ongoing economic crisis. |
| 469 | * CrazyPrepared: In Episode 60, the gang are playing "wedding". Pretty proclaims herself as the bride, and when Kaeloo tries to stop her since the groom is Quack Quack, and therefore the bride should be Eugly, Pretty informs her that she ''already'' bought a wedding dress and made sure she lost enough weight to be able to fit into it. |
| 470 | * CreatorCameo: In one episode, Mr. Cat and Stumpy watch the trailer for the in-universe Mr. Coolskin movie, which is entirely in Japanese. [[BilingualBonus The trailer's credits state that the movie was made by Rémi Chapotot and Tristan Michel, who are ''Kaeloo'''s creator and art director respectively.]] |
| 471 | * CreatorsCultureCarryover: The English dub is made in Australia, but the characters are supposed to act like Americans. However, they do screw up at times, like saying "rubbish" instead of "trash". |
| 472 | * {{Crossdresser}}: Stumpy dresses like a girl in several episodes and has admitted to liking it. |
| 473 | * CrossDressingVoices: Kaeloo, a young female frog, is voiced by a man in every dub of the show (except for Polish). In the English dub, she's voiced by Doug Rand, who [[ActingForTwo also voices Stumpy and Quack Quack]]. |
| 474 | * CrossPoppingVeins: When the characters are angry, this may happen to them, since the show has {{animesque}} elements in it. |
| 475 | * CruelToBeKind: Parodied. One episode had Mr. Cat go around doing horrible things to Stumpy and Quack Quack, and claims that he is "being cruel to be kind" despite literally not having any reason to do so. |
| 476 | * CrushBlush: In Episode 107, Mr. Cat flirts with Kaeloo, causing both of them to blush. |
| 477 | * CrushFilter: When someone looks at their crush, they will see him/her in a pink, fluffy cloud-filled background. |
| 478 | * CryLaughing: Kaeloo does this in [[BalletEpisode Episode 67]] when she realizes that [[MakesSenseInContext Eugly is now the lead ballerina in her dance performance]]. |
| 479 | * CryingCritters: The FunnyAnimal characters are sometimes seen crying. |
| 480 | * CrystalBall: |
| 481 | ** In Episode 37, Kaeloo uses a crystal ball to contact spirits. It is never revealed [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane whether the ball really works or not]], since Kaeloo's "predictions" were events that happen OnceAnEpisode on the show. |
| 482 | ** In Episode 90, Mr. Cat, as a sorcerer, uses a crystal ball to see where Kaeloo is and what she's doing. |
| 483 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Stumpy turns out to be right about Smileyland's sheep being aliens. [[CassandraTruth Not that anyone else believes him.]] |
| 484 | * CurbStompBattle: |
| 485 | ** In Episode 100, Kaeloo, having undergone SanitySlippage while playing a VR game where she knows how to control everything, prepares to attack her friends; Quack Quack defeats her with just one punch. |
| 486 | ** In another episode, Quack Quack undergoes DemonicPossession and gets superpowers as a result. Mr. Cat goes up against him and defeats him using just a mallet. |
| 487 | * CurseCutShort: When Mr. Cat is singing a rap song with words ending in "alls": |
| 488 | -->'''Mr. Cat''':He keeps breaking my b-\ |
| 489 | '''Kaeloo''': MISTER CAAAAAAT! |
| 490 | * CutenessProximity: Mr. Cat ([[OutOfCharacterMoment of all people]]) gets this in Episode 105 when he sees miniature versions of Kaeloo. |
| 491 | * CuttingCorners: This being a series with NoFourthWall, there was an episode where the main characters receive a call from the show's director explaining that they used up all the animation budget while doing an elaborate re-enactment of ''Literature/LesMiserables'' in the first scene and that they have to cut down on expenses for the rest of the episode. The characters try various methods of cutting corners such as getting rid of all the props and backgrounds, having Stumpy narrate the events of the episode instead of watching them play out on screen, and firing the voice actors and turning it into a silent cartoon. |
| 492 | * CuttingTheKnot: Mr. Cat bypasses the barrier in Episode 105 by blasting it open with a bazooka. |
| 493 | [[/folder]] |
| 494 | |
| 495 | [[folder:Tropes D]] |
| 496 | * DancePartyEnding: Happens in a Season 3 episode, to the disappointment of Mr. Cat and Stumpy, who were expecting a fight scene ending. |
| 497 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: |
| 498 | ** Most of Mr. Cat's backstory is is one big NoodleIncident, but what the show has revealed is that his past involves [[AlcoholicParent an alcoholic father]], a mother who was so abusive that the mere sound of her voice over the phone is enough to make him run away screaming in terror, [[BigBrotherBully two abusive older brothers]] who were so cruel he had to run away from home, the death of one or more loved ones, and being forced to face life-or-death situations. These issues continue to affect Mr. Cat to this day, since his current worldview and personality were entirely shaped by the horrific experiences he faced as a young child. |
| 499 | ** Olaf also has one: he was [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer exiled by other penguins]] for [[CargoShip marrying an ice cube]]. Said ice cube then started to melt. |
| 500 | ** Quack Quack’s is that his parents were killed before his egg even hatched, and he was subsequently found and experimented on by scientists. |
| 501 | * DateRapeAverted: In "Let's Play Babysitting", Kaeloo and Mr. Cat go on a date. He gets a little carried away and tries to force himself onto her, but she [[HulkingOut transforms]] and beats him up. |
| 502 | * DatingCatwoman: Kaeloo, the protagonist, and Mr. Cat, the antagonist, are in love. |
| 503 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Season 5 has one episode dedicated to each of Stumpy's seven little sisters. |
| 504 | * DeathGlare: |
| 505 | ** Mr. Cat has managed to give out some pretty terrifying ones to people who bother him, causing the other person to quickly back off. |
| 506 | ** Kaeloo gives one to Stumpy in the [[TheDreadedPretendTeaParty tea party]] episode when he won't stop annoying her. The glare is so scary that Stumpy immediately covers his mouth with both hands and stops talking. |
| 507 | * DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Some of the characters have died several times[[note]]Not just [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]][[/note]], only to be fine by the time the next episode rolls around. In fact, in Episode 58, Mr. Cat [[SuicideAsComedy hangs himself]], only to be fine by the very next scene. |
| 508 | * DeathSeeker: Stumpy becomes one in Episode 92, since he wants to know what Heaven is like. |
| 509 | * DealWithTheDevil: Stumpy makes one in "Let's Play Figurines]]" to get voodoo powers and become a witch doctor, and in Episode 89 to get the talent to write a song for Ursula. |
| 510 | * DeconstructiveParody: Of children's shows. It has the main character, Kaeloo, behave like a children's show character (by doing things like putting emphasis on being nice, make believe, etc.), and everyone else act like normal people would around such a person (one episode had Mr. Cat go so far as to ask whether she smoked weed). |
| 511 | * DeceptivelyHumanRobot: A variant with a "Deceptively Sheep Robot" which [[GadgeteerGenius Mr. Cat]] built to infiltrate a group of sheep. The robot sheep looks almost exactly like a real sheep when stationary, but bleats in a robotic voice and moves in a very robotic manner. Not that anybody realized it, since they're all idiots. |
| 512 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: In Episode 148, Stumpy starts to hate Eugly (who until this point was merely an acquaintance) due to a FriendVersusLover situation, so she asks to play video games with him. When she beats him, he decides that she's cool and wants to befriend her, which she gladly accepts. |
| 513 | * DelayedReaction: |
| 514 | ** In Episode 81, [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] offers to demonstrate the ancient Egyptian technique of removing the brain through the nostrils on [[TheDitz Stumpy]], but then says he can't because Stumpy probably doesn't have a brain for him to remove. Stumpy concurs that he must be right, and Mr. Cat gets up and leaves. After he leaves, Stumpy finally realizes that he was insulting him. |
| 515 | ** In another episode, Stumpy is granted SuddenIntelligence and starts inventing stuff. Soon, he decides to make a bomb, and [[InadvertentEntranceCue as soon as he mentions it]], [[HarmlessVillain Olaf]] shows up and demands that Stumpy give him the bomb. Stumpy asks him to pay for it, and Olaf starts looking through a stack of money before realizing that Stumpy is supposed to be TheDitz and asking why he is being so smart. |
| 516 | ** In Episode 65, Kaeloo gets angry at Mr. Cat and starts to look for him. In this episode, everybody has {{Full Body Disguise}}s of everyone else, so Mr. Cat dresses as Pretty, tells Kaeloo that he went the other way and walks off. Kaeloo thanks him, but only after he's gone does she realize that the voice she heard was clearly Mr. Cat's. |
| 517 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Tennis", Stumpy is sitting in a tennis umpire chair. It takes him several minutes until he realizes that he's very high up... and a few more seconds to remember that he has acrophobia. |
| 518 | ** In Episode 214, [[MagneticMedium Lavanade]] enters the general vicinity of Kaeloo's bathtub, causing ghosts to pop up everywhere while Kaeloo is showering. Kaeloo thrusts open the curtains and happily greets the ghosts before freaking out about there being ghosts in her bathroom and [[HandOrObjectUnderwear covering her crotch with her hands]]. |
| 519 | * DeliberatelyCuteChild: |
| 520 | ** Mr. Cat puts on this ruse sometimes. Whether it works or not depends on the episode. |
| 521 | ** In Episode 219, Stumpy's little sister Cramoisie joins the main four in playing a game of "zompire" (a mix between zombie and vampire) where one of the participants is the zompire and must bite the other players. Cramoisie is the zompire, and attempts to fool Kaeloo and Mr. Cat into coming close to her by making PuppyDogEyes and telling them that she's scared so they'll come closer to her to try to protect her and she can bite them. Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are [[ManipulativeBastard horribly manipulative people]] themselves, so they see right through her though. |
| 522 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: At the beginning of "Let's Play Detectives", everything is black and white except for the red lipstick ans high heels Stumpy is wearing (he's dressed as a girl). |
| 523 | * DeliciousDistraction: Quack Quack is obsessed with yogurt, which is a GRatedDrug in this universe, so he can easily be distracted by offering it to him. |
| 524 | * DemonicPossession: In Episode 37 and Episode 145, Quack Quack gets possessed, the first time by ghosts and the second time by a demon. |
| 525 | * DepartmentOfChildDisservices: In-universe, Mr. Cat tells a FracturedFairytale version of Cinderella where young Cinderella calls the police on the stepmother. While the police at least do arrest the stepmother, instead of finding a new guardian to take care of young Cinderella, they simply leave her alone in the house with no adult supervision. |
| 526 | * DependingOnTheWriter: |
| 527 | ** Kaeloo can be a NiceGirl or a ManipulativeBitch who tries to project herself as pure and kind but is anything but. Her intelligence varies between episodes as well, ranging from extremely stupid and naïve to somewhat intelligent. |
| 528 | ** Stumpy is either a complete {{jerkass}} or is friendly but not very bright. |
| 529 | ** Quack Quack is either the OnlySaneMan or a complete idiot. Also, whether or not he forgives Mr. Cat for constantly abusing him depends largely on the episode they're in. |
| 530 | ** Mr. Cat can be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, JerkWithAHeartOfJerk, or a JerkassWoobie. Also, he alternates between being extremely nice to Kaeloo while being a jerk to everyone else, and treating Kaeloo the same way he treats everyone else. |
| 531 | ** Pretty can either treat Kaeloo like a good friend or mercilessly bully her (the latter is used much more often). |
| 532 | * DescriptionCut: In Episode 79, the main four are pirates. Olaf, who is also a pirate, gives them the chance to split up into two teams and buy items from his store to help them find a treasure, and the first team to find the treasure not only gets to keep it, but will be crowned the "Emperor of Pirates". Kaeloo and Quack Quack take useful items such as a lantern and a compass, while Mr. Cat asks for a lawn chair, a magazine with a pin-up, and a bottle of rum. Stumpy (who is on Mr. Cat's team) is certain that being TheSmartGuy, Mr. Cat has some sort of amazing plan to get there first. [[DescriptionCut Scene cut to]] Mr. Cat, drunk off his ass, sitting on the lawn chair while singing loudly and looking at the magazine, while Stumpy carries him on his back. |
| 533 | -->'''Stumpy:''' [[LampshadeHanging This isn't exactly what I had in mind.]] |
| 534 | * TheDiaperChange: In "Let's Play Babysitting", Stumpy says he has to change Quack Quack's diaper in order to be done with his babysitting practice. Quack Quack initially refuses, but he winds up feeling so sorry for Stumpy that he relents and allows him to do it. Stumpy being [[TheDitz Stumpy]], he winds up putting the diaper on Quack Quack's head. |
| 535 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: |
| 536 | ** In Episode 2, Stumpy falls severely ill and keeps trying to get Kaeloo and Mr. Cat, who are pretend-playing as doctors, to pay attention to him instead of visiting an actual doctor. When they finally do notice that something is wrong, since neither one of them is actually a doctor, they're not sure what to do with him. |
| 537 | ** In Episode 40, Stumpy has a nightmare with deep psychological implications which he reveals to his jerkass friends in the hopes that they'll help him; since they're jerkasses, they end up using the information to play a cruel prank on him instead of trying to help him. |
| 538 | ** In Episode 45, Stumpy meets Ursula on the internet for the first time and when she asks for pictures of him, he sends an edited picture that makes it look like he has abs and is tan, and he has until that evening to look like the picture since they'll be meeting in person. When he asks for help, Mr. Cat and Quack Quack admit that making him look like the picture in such a short amount of time is impossible, even for them. |
| 539 | ** In Episode 47, Kaeloo and Stumpy challenge Quack Quack to a game of tennis, despite both of them being horrible at it, and they enlist Mr. Cat to train them at tennis. They both practice for only a few hours at best; most of Mr. Cat's exercises are completely unrelated to tennis at all, and then once a ball touches Stumpy's racket, he decides that he's good enough. The next day, at the big game, they get beaten horribly since they're still terrible at tennis. |
| 540 | ** In Episode 93, Quack Quack gets stuck inside a burning building, and Stumpy rushes into the building to save him. By the time he reaches Quack Quack, the flames have spread and both of them are stuck inside together. What makes this especially ridiculous was that they were undergoing firefighter training, and had a fire engine right outside with a hose and ladder which Stumpy could have used. |
| 541 | ** In Episode 118, When Pretty reveals embarrassing secrets about the main four to the public on television, they sue her for slandering them. |
| 542 | ** In Episode 134, when Stumpy gets several clones of himself which annoy everyone else, Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat hatch a plan where they claim that Stumpy got a package in the mail from Ursula and only the real Stumpy can sign it, so the original will get rid of the clones. The plan works, but they then realize that they forgot what would happen once Stumpy asked for the package. At the end of the episode, Stumpy punishes Kaeloo and Mr. Cat for tricking him, [[KarmaHoudini though Quack Quack gets away.]] |
| 543 | ** In Episode 183, the main four are camping outside at night and they keep making noise and fighting with each other. They end up getting arrested because their neighbors call the police on them for disturbing the peace. |
| 544 | ** In a Greek mythology-themed episode, Hades steals innocent souls and puts them in Hell for no reason. Zeus demands that Hades release everyone. To spite Zeus, [[ExactWords Hades releases]] ''[[ExactWords literally all the souls]]'', [[ExactWords including the ones who deserved to be there.]]... including their father, Chronus, who wanted to eat his kids. Zeus sees Chronus roaming free and remarks that Hades has been really irresponsible. From inside Chronus' stomach, Hades remarks that Zeus is right. |
| 545 | ** In one episode, Kaeloo gets mad at Mr. Cat and goes on a rant about how she will give him the SilentTreatment; halfway through the rant, she realizes that he's a LivingEmotionalCrutch to her and it would break her heart if she actually stopped talking to him. She gives up on her idea within mere seconds. |
| 546 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Rules has the power to inflict punishments on people ranging from putting their bodies into various forms of BodyHorror to destroying the planet, but that doesn't stop Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack-Quack, Mr. Cat, and Pretty from mocking her repeatedly to her face in Episode 238 and telling her that they don't care about her threats. |
| 547 | * DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: In some of the episodes, Stumpy's NotSoInnocentWhistling is to the tune of the theme song. |
| 548 | * DiegeticVisualEffects: In season 5, Mr. Cat's StalkerWithACrush, Pretty, realizes that Mr. Cat will never see her as anything more than an AbhorrentAdmirer and she should just give up on him. In the 13th episode of this season, the characters have a discussion about love, and the camera pans to Pretty gloomily talking about heartbreak while staring out of the window as rain pours down. The camera zooms out to reveal that it wasn't raining, there was just a guy with a watering can standing on the roof and pouring water down for... some reason. |
| 549 | * DiggingYourselfDeeper: Occasionally, Mr. Cat will attempt to flirt with Bad Kaeloo when she appears. Of course, asking to be kissed, cuddled or fed by an angry monster is ''not'' a good idea. |
| 550 | * DirtyKid: Most characters count - while Mr. Cat is the most obvious, Quack Quack likes reading dirty magazines, Pretty and even [[CovertPervert Kaeloo]] can both be quite perverted towards [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Mr. Cat]] and Stumpy also shows his more perverted side from time to time ([[AmbiguouslyBi interestingly, towards both male and female characters]]). |
| 551 | * DisappearedDad: Stumpy's father left the family an unspecified period of time ago, leaving his eight children to be raised by their mother. |
| 552 | * DisasterDominoes: |
| 553 | ** In "Let's Play Bye Bye, Yoghurt", Stumpy {{invoke|d trope}}s this trope when he needs to be put in danger by throwing a pebble and saying [[BornUnlucky his luck]] should take care of the rest. Sure enough, a chain reaction takes place and he is almost crushed to death by a giant boulder. |
| 554 | ** It happens again in Episode 92, where a yogurt container rolls into an apple tree causing an apple to fall an so on... this eventually causes a barrage of sharp weapons to fly towards Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat, almost killing them. |
| 555 | * DisembodiedEyebrows: Everyone has these. |
| 556 | * DisguisedInDrag: Stumpy does this in Episode 60 to gain access to a girls-only nightclub. |
| 557 | * DisownedSibling: |
| 558 | ** PlayedForLaughs with the AlphaBitch Pretty, who keeps threatening to disown her twin sister [[ExtremeDoormat Eugly]] if she doesn't do what she says. For example, in Episode 131, Pretty is in a bad mood and refuses to allow Eugly to be happy because she herself isn't. Kaeloo asks them to smile for a picture, and Pretty says that if Eugly smiles, she will no longer accept her as her sister. |
| 559 | ** PlayedForLaughs again in Episode 209. Stumpy is forced to spend a day babysitting his [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling annoying little sister]], [[StalkerWithoutACrush Nombril]], who likes to spend her time following Stumpy around and trying to get his attention. When Kaeloo asks about it, Stumpy insists that he "has no sister" and spends most of the episode pretending he doesn't know who Nombril is. |
| 560 | * DisproportionateRetribution: |
| 561 | ** Mr. Cat does this all the time. If somebody does something that even ''slightly'' annoys him, he'll pull out a weapon and threaten to use it on them. |
| 562 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Ecologists", when the gang finds out that Quack Quack has been eating yogurt from non-environment friendly containers, Mr. Cat suggests tying him up in a sack full of rats and setting it on fire. |
| 563 | ** Also in "Let's Play Ecologists", Bad Kaeloo, a NatureLover, sees a piece of garbage on the floor next to Mr. Cat and Stumpy and assumes that one of them must have dropped it. Mr. Cat even offers to pick it up and throw it away, but she picks them both up and throws them in a dumpster. |
| 564 | ** In Episode 55, Olaf blows a hairdryer in Kaeloo's eyes, causing her to scream in pain. Mr. Cat decides to avenge Kaeloo... by trying to shoot Olaf with a bazooka. |
| 565 | ** Downplayed in Episode 134. When Stumpy asks Mr. Cat to play with him, Mr. Cat shoots him in the face with a bazooka, with all the hurt he really gets being AshFace. Later in the episode, Stumpy clones himself. He and the clones destroy Mr. Cat's car by crashing a bunch of other cars into it (while he's inside the car), drop a fridge on his head, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and ruin his vacation to the beach]]. |
| 566 | ** In Episode 139, Olaf breaks Kaeloo's headphones. Kaeloo responds by HulkingOut, shoving Olaf inside his own robot and throwing him into space. |
| 567 | ** In "Let's Play Figurines", Stumpy asks his friends if he can play with his figurines. They refuse. What does he do to them? He makes a DealWithTheDevil, becomes a witch doctor, learns voodoo magic and then uses it to force them to become his slaves. |
| 568 | ** The plot of Episode 118 revolves around the main four having a feud with [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] where [[SerialEscalation each vengeful act is worse than the one that prompted it.]] The feud starts when Pretty puts embarrassing pictures of them online. They retaliate by doing the same thing to her, which would have been fine if it wasn't for the fact that Stumpy decided to humiliate her by putting what are implied to be ''[[{{Demographically Inappropriate Humour}} fake photoshopped nudes]]'' of her up on the internet where anyone could see them. Then, Pretty goes on TV and reveals a few of their embarrassing secrets to the public. After this, they decide to sue her for "slandering" them, and put her in a KangarooCourt where she is given a sentence of "community service for life", and in addition, she gets beaten up by Bad Kaeloo. She then writes a tell-all book with all of their embarrassing secrets in it and publishes two million copies of it. [[DownerEnding At this point, the main four decide that things have gotten out of hand and wisely choose to go home instead of escalating the fight any further.]] |
| 569 | ** The [[TheDreadedPretendTeaParty tea party]] episode has Mr. Cat try to strangle Stumpy because Stumpy blamed Mr. Cat for something that he did, making him look bad in front of Kaeloo (who he has a crush on). |
| 570 | ** How about the time [[ClingyJealousGirl Kaeloo]] ''[[ManOnFire literally set Mr. Cat on fire]]'' for looking at inappropriate pictures in a magazine? |
| 571 | ** In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Mr. Cat tells Kaeloo to her face that he hates her (incredibly lame) game show and tries to make it more fun. Kaeloo beats him up with a flaming torch for having the audacity to defy her [[SarcasmMode when she was very clearly doing an excellent job]]. |
| 572 | ** In Episode 139, the narrator continuously refers to Stumpy's superhero alter-ego, Ratman, as "the world's worst superhero". Stumpy gets Mr. Cat to murder the narrator. |
| 573 | ** While browsing the internet, Stumpy finds an unboxing video made by Quack Quack, his best friend. Stumpy hates unboxing videos, so he beats Quack Quack with a stick. |
| 574 | * DissonantSerenity: Kaeloo is almost always in constant bliss, completely unaware of the chaos around her. |
| 575 | * DistractedByTheSexy: Invoked by Stumpy's baseball team[[note]]consisting of Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat [[/note]] in the BaseballEpisode, where they get Eugly to stand next to the baseball field when Quack Quack (who is playing for the opposite team) is playing. Quack Quack gets distracted and misses the ball each time. |
| 576 | * DistinctionWithoutADifference: |
| 577 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Kaeloo tells Mr. Cat that she and the others wanted to play poker, but Stumpy lost the cards. Stumpy explains that he didn't ''lose'' the cards, he just doesn't know where he put them. |
| 578 | ** In Episode 145, Kaeloo sees Stumpy playing a war-themed video game and gets mad because she'd told him not to play games based on war. Stumpy tells Kaeloo that the game isn't about war, but a game about stopping an enemy from attacking your territory, stealing your weapons, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick going out with your sister]]. |
| 579 | * DoAnythingRobot: Olaf's robot, Serguei. |
| 580 | * DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: |
| 581 | ** Bad Kaeloo has SuperStrength, but she often forgets about it. In "Let's Play Spies", he gives a BearHug to Stumpy, Quack Quack [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther and Mr. Cat]]. [[YourHeadAsplode Their heads explode]]. |
| 582 | ** In one episode, Eugly gives Stumpy a high-five which sends him flying into the air and crashing into a nearby tree. |
| 583 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: |
| 584 | ** In Episode 108, Stumpy the squirrel decides that he wants to become a cat, and he says he's a "cat trapped in a squirrel's body" and then tries to get surgery to turn himself into a cat. |
| 585 | ** In "Let's Play the Thing from Outer Space", the argument the main four have about keeping the titular thing from outer space in Smileyland or launching it back into space sounds like people in a country arguing about deporting immigrants. |
| 586 | ** In one episode, Bad Kaeloo asks Mr. Cat if she can "buy" him. He agrees, so she starts aggressively cuddling him. The whole thing plays out like a paid BDSM encounter. |
| 587 | ** Episode 139 follows a super hero called [[CaptainErsatz Ratman]] (Stumpy) and his sidekick (Quack Quack) who share an apartment. Their nosy neighbor assures them that she's "very open-minded" and that she's perfectly fine with the "modern" idea of a duck and a squirrel living together. |
| 588 | ** In Episode 110, Mr. Cat makes a slideshow to show to the rest of the characters and [[HowDidThatGetInThere accidentally]] puts a photo of Kaeloo on the first slide. Horrified and embarrassed, Kaeloo tells him that the photo was supposed to be "private" between them and Mr. Cat apologizes, saying that the photo was "for later". The whole thing plays out as though she shared a nude photo with him and it accidentally got leaked. |
| 589 | ** In the English dub, Mr. Cat often refers to Quack Quack, a duck, as a platypus, implying that he thinks that [[InterchangeableAsianCultures all animals with webbed feet and beaks are the same]]. |
| 590 | * DomesticAbuse: Mr. Cat was a victim of this; he was constantly yelled at by his mom and beaten up by his [[BigBrotherBully older brothers.]] |
| 591 | * DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Parodied. In-universe, Stumpy and Quack Quack get addicted to [[GRatedDrug carrots that have the same effect on their bodies as tobacco]], and Mr. Cat tells Kaeloo that he can show them a PSA that is "terribly dissuasive" against carrots. The PSA in question has a doctor start to discuss the dangers of carrots, only to be shot by a cool cowboy with a gun who says that even though carrots are bad, they're "super cool". Stumpy and Quack Quack decide that carrots are actually cool because of the PSA, and immediately buy some... from Mr. Cat himself. |
| 592 | * DontBeRidiculous: In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' episode "The Thing from Outer Space", Kaeloo tells Quack-Quack that the Easter Bunny doesn't exist... because Easter eggs are actually left by the Flying Easter Bells. |
| 593 | * DontGoIntoTheWoods: Kaeloo warns Stumpy not to go into the forest in "Let's Play Scaredy Cat", a HalloweenEpisode. Stumpy ignores her, finds a cemetery which for whatever reason was inside the forest, and ends up accidentally causing a ZombieApocalypse by raising the dead. |
| 594 | * DontTouchItYouIdiot: In Episode 104, Olaf urges Stumpy not to touch [[spoiler: the BigRedButton]]. Naturally, Stumpy touches it anyway. [[spoiler: The building blows up, but everyone escapes [[LaserGuidedKarma except Olaf]].]] |
| 595 | * DoorDumb: The characters on this show are so stupid that on separate occasions, three different people have managed to get themselves stuck ''inside'' a car because they tried to pull the door inwardly instead of opening it outward. |
| 596 | * TheDoorSlamsYou: In one episode, Kaeloo knocks on the door and Pretty goes up to answer it. Before she can open the door, Kaeloo opens it from the outside, slamming it into Pretty's face. |
| 597 | * DopeSlap: [[{{Jerkass}} Pretty]] often does this to [[TheDitz Stumpy]] when he does something stupid. |
| 598 | * DoppelgangerAttack: |
| 599 | ** Stumpy does this in "Let's Play Super-Powers", but Quack Quack destroys the clones. |
| 600 | ** Stumpy does it again in Episode 63, when fighting Mr. Cat. This time, it actually works. |
| 601 | * DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Mr. Cat treats alternate versions of the people he knows from alternate universes the same way he treats the ones from his universe, e.g. flirting with Kaeloo, yelling at Stumpy, and beating Quack Quack up. |
| 602 | * DoubleEntendre: In one episode, Stumpy claims to have been abducted by aliens who then proceeded to examine his nuts. He's talking about acorns, but Kaeloo's reaction makes it clear she thought he was talking about the other kind of "nuts". |
| 603 | * DraggedIntoDrag: Stumpy is often forced to dress up as a girl to play a female role in a game while the others play males. He even {{lampshade| hanging}}s the fact that Kaeloo is female ([[{{Hermaphrodite}} sort of]]), and could play these roles herself. |
| 604 | * DraggedOffToHell: Happens to Quack Quack in "Let's Play Hopscotch", thanks to [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]]. |
| 605 | * DramaticallyMissingThePoint: In Episode 17, Kaeloo [[ForcefulKiss forces several kisses on Mr. Cat]] offscreen and she thinks it's okay because "kissing isn't violent". She tries to explain this to Mr. Cat... who is sitting in TroubledFetalPosition with a disturbed facial expression, clearly feeling violated. |
| 606 | * TheDreadedPretendTeaParty: Mr. Cat and Stumpy make it very clear that they don't want to be at Kaeloo's tea party in "Let's Play Tea Party". Things get even worse when they realize that there's no actual food at the party, and they're supposed to imagine the food. |
| 607 | * TheDreadedToiletDuty: In Episode 64, Stumpy eats at Mr. Cat's overpriced fast food restaurant and is forced to WorkOffTheDebt because he can't afford the bill. One of the examples of Mr. Cat's blatant mistreatment of Stumpy is to force him to clean the toilet, which is so dirty that a tentacle monster has started growing inside it. Naturally, Stumpy is attacked by the tentacle monster while trying to clean the toilet. |
| 608 | * DrivenToMadness: Happens to poor Kaeloo a lot, with Mr. Cat and Stumpy being the usual culprits. The ResetButton ensures that she's fine by the next episode. |
| 609 | * DrivenToSuicide: |
| 610 | ** Usually happens to poor [[TheChewToy Stumpy]], who [[BungledSuicide fails all his attempts.]] Reasons include thinking he can't impress a girl he likes and finding out that magic isn't real. |
| 611 | ** In one episode, the trope is PlayedForLaughs. [[SurroundedByIdiots Mr. Cat]] gets so fed up with Stumpy's idiocy that he hangs himself. Since DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, he's alive and well by the next scene. |
| 612 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: Stumpy, to the extent that Bad Kaeloo finds smashing Mr. Cat into a car and allowing Stumpy to drive a better punishment than strangling or punching him. |
| 613 | * DrivingTest: Stumpy and Quack Quack try to get their driver's licences in "Let's Play Driver's License". Both of them fail. [[TheDitz Stumpy]] fails not only because he DrivesLikeCrazy, but because Kaeloo didn't do a very good job of teaching him how to drive. Quack Quack, on the other hand, is able to do everything perfectly well, but his driving instructor is [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]], who not only gives him negative points for ridiculous reasons, but actively tries to make him fail by doing things like shining a flashlight in his eyes and ''[[RemovableSteeringWheel ripping out the steering wheel]]'', finally causing him to drive off a cliff[[note]][[EscapeArtist Mr. Cat somehow escaped the car before it fell.]][[/note]]. |
| 614 | * DrJerk: In "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses", [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]], who went to med school (or at least claims that he did), is trying to teach Kaeloo how to be a doctor. Most of his tips involve being rude and selfish. |
| 615 | -->'''Mr. Cat''': Make sure your patient can pay. You're not the Salvation Army. |
| 616 | * DropInCharacter: Pretty, Eugly and Olaf normally just show up and join the main four in whatever they're doing despite usually having no reason to be there in the first place. |
| 617 | * DrosteImage: In "Let's Play Paranormal Stuff", Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat find a PortalDoor to the inside of Quack Quack's head. When they open it, they see themselves and this trope occurs since they're standing right in front of Quack Quack. |
| 618 | * DubInducedPlotHole: For the first 10 episodes of the English dub, Kaeloo [[ShesAManInJapan was referred to as male]], but the 11th episode had a joke which involved her being female. From this episode on, the error was fixed, and she was referred to as a female. However, the already dubbed episodes were not fixed. |
| 619 | * DubNameChange: In the original French dub, Stumpy is called Moignon, Quack Quack is called Coin Coin and Mr. Cat is called Monsieur Chat. |
| 620 | * DubPersonalityChange: |
| 621 | ** The original (French) dub of the show has Mr. Cat be a super genius who is right about everything; the English dub makes him seem slightly dumber, for some reason. |
| 622 | ** In the English dub, Kaeloo has a HairTriggerTemper and is annoyed by everything the people around her do, causing her to angrily snap at them, whereas in the French dub, she's a little more patient. |
| 623 | * DuctTapeForEverything: In Episode 32, [[TooDumbToLive Stumpy]] blows his own head off with a bazooka after misinterpreting some advice Mr. Cat gave him. Upon witnessing Mr. Cat's apathy to this, Kaeloo is infuriated. Mr. Cat tries to calm her down by promising to bring Stumpy back to life by duct-taping his head back on. |
| 624 | * DudeShesLikeInAComa: |
| 625 | ** The trope is discussed when the characters read Sleeping Beauty, with [[EvenEvilHasStandards Mr. Cat]] pointing out that kissing an unconscious person is morally disgusting. |
| 626 | ** In Episode 61, the trope is enforced. Pretty knocks Mr. Cat out cold so that she can kiss him. |
| 627 | ** In one instance, the trope is PlayedforLaughs. [[TheAlcoholic Mr. Cat]] passes out after drinking and [[StalkerWithACrush Pretty]] takes the opportunity to kiss him, and then post a picture of this on the internet so people will think they're a couple. |
| 628 | * DumbassHasAPoint: In one episode, [[TheDitz Stumpy]] gives Kaeloo some "advice" that makes her start crying and curl up in a corner. Stumpy thinks that it may be a psychological problem, and decides to get Mr. Cat to help. Quack Quack points out that that may not be a good idea, since Mr. Cat is a {{Jerkass}}, but Stumpy points out that nobody other than Mr. Cat knows anything about psychology. Quack Quack admits that he's right and they get Mr. Cat to help Kaeloo. Even better, it turns out that Mr. Cat was more than willing to help Kaeloo and tried his best to make her feel better. |
| 629 | * DumbIsGood: Dumb characters like [[IdiotHero Kaeloo]] and [[TheDitz Stumpy]] are much nicer than smart ones like [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]]. Though this starts to get {{subverted| trope}} as Stumpy gets more and more antagonistic. |
| 630 | * DumpsterDive: Mr. Cat and his alley cat friends are prone to having parties in alleys, where they get drunk and eat food out of the dumpsters. |
| 631 | * DyingDeclarationOfLove: Mr. Cat does this to Kaeloo in Episode 77 when he thinks that the planet is about to be destroyed. |
| 632 | * DysfunctionalFamily: PlayedForLaughs in Let's Play House, where the main four are PlayingHouse with Kaeloo as the overbearing and strict mother, Mr. Cat as the father who abuses his children and only cares about having sex with Kaeloo, Stumpy as the rude and rebellious son and Quack Quack as the "daughter" who is bossed around by Kaeloo and gets annoyed by her. |
| 633 | * DysfunctionJunction: Kaeloo is obsessed with being perfect, nice and cute, Stumpy is a moron who sucks at everything, Quack Quack is essentially a drug addict, Mr. Cat is an AxCrazy psychopath, Pretty is obsessed with beauty and fashion to the extent that it's the main focus of her life, and Olaf wants to TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 634 | [[/folder]] |
| 635 | |
| 636 | [[folder:Tropes E]] |
| 637 | * EarlyBirdCameo: |
| 638 | ** Pretty and Eugly appear in the theme song from the very first episode of season 2, but are only introduced in the second episode of this season. |
| 639 | ** Stumpy's seven younger sisters are gradually introduced throughout season 5, but all of them appear together in the theme song from the first episode of the season. |
| 640 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: |
| 641 | ** The Pilot suffered from this tremendously: the animation is nowhere near that of the rest of the series, and the character designs are a little off. Mr. Cat refers to the rest of the cast as "study kids", implying that he thinks that they're annoying because they're nerdy, whereas in the actual show, Mr. Cat is a highly intelligent ChildProdigy who's well-versed in science, math, psychology and engineering. Most shockingly, Stumpy wins the game, whereas the actual show has a RunningGag where Stumpy loses at everything. |
| 642 | ** In the first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball", Stumpy refuses to be on Mr. Cat's team because CatsAreMean. Episodes which come a little later in the series have him willingly team up with Mr. Cat to pull off some antagonistic deed, and idolize him. |
| 643 | ** In "Red Light Green Light", Kaeloo says that chainsaws are for cutting trees, though future episodes portray her as a tree-hugging Nature Lover and one of the comics had her vehemently oppose the idea of even mowing the lawn because it hurts plants. |
| 644 | ** In the earlier episodes, [[TranslatorBuddy Kaeloo had to translate for Quack Quack]], [[SpeechImpairedAnimal who can only speak in quacks]]. In later episodes though, everyone else starts to understand him as well. |
| 645 | ** Season 1 episodes would occasionally refer to Mr. Cat as being ugly, as part of a joke. From season 2 onwards this is absent, with every character noting that Mr. Cat is quite attractive in-universe instead. |
| 646 | ** In season 1 Kaeloo was rarely a jerk to Stumpy and mostly treated him well, but after that she became one of the characters to mistreat Stumpy the most out of anyone in the cast. |
| 647 | * EarthShatteringKaboom: In Episode 72, Stumpy, who has been [[SuddenIntelligence turned into a genius]], plans to TakeOverTheWorld by building a bomb that could destroy the planet. |
| 648 | * EasilyForgiven: Notably averted. In Episode 16, Kaeloo loses her temper and beats Mr. Cat up with a flaming torch for essentially expressing an opinion which was different from hers (and was actually the same opinion the rest of the main four had too); once she calms down, she apologizes, but nobody accepts her apology since her reason for beating him up didn't seem valid to them, and they kick her out. |
| 649 | * EasilyImpressed: Kaeloo is impressed by anything and everything, no matter how mundane it is. And this is despite the fact that she lives on a planet that runs on magic and has the power of HulkingOut when she gets angry, and on a daily basis deals with weird stuff like aliens, ghosts and interdimensional travel. |
| 650 | * EasterEgg: In Episode 229, the characters are forced into SdrawkcabSpeech; reversing the audio reveals that it's Kaeloo saying "you must really have time to waste!" |
| 651 | * EatTheCamera: Stumpy does it in Episode 77 when he panics and runs around screaming. |
| 652 | * EdgyBackwardsChairSitting: In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat sees his friends playing poker completely wrong and decides to teach them, so he drags a chair to the table and sits on it backwards. |
| 653 | * EEqualsMCHammer: The cast have a board full of equations, which they use for everything from planning a wedding to teaching math. Don't ask how they use the same board for everything. |
| 654 | * EldritchAbomination: In Episode 102, [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] and [[AntiHero Stumpy]] fuse Quack Quack with a bunch of random objects and creatures and turn him into one of these. [[ResetButton Thankfully, he's fine by the next episode.]] |
| 655 | * ElongatingArmGag: In Episode 4, Mr. Cat manages to reach all the way across a very long table and tap Quack Quack, who is sitting on the other side, on the shoulder. |
| 656 | * EmbarrassingNickname: Mr. Cat refers to Kaeloo as "Priscilla" for most of the episode [[EpisodeOnAPlane "Let's Play Air Pockets"]]. For some reason, she finds it very embarrassing. |
| 657 | * EmbarrassingSlide: In an attempt to explain to his friends that vampires don't exist, [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] sets up a slideshow to explain the origin of vampires in fiction, and accidentally shows everyone a photo of Kaeloo which was supposed to be "private" between the two of them. While it's not a nude photo, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Kaeloo and Mr. Cat's mortified reactions to the picture showing up on screen suggests that they're treating it like one.]] |
| 658 | * EmpathicEnvironment: In Episode 134, when everyone else is too busy doing their own thing to play with Stumpy, Stumpy becomes upset and then it suddenly starts raining. |
| 659 | * TheEndIsNigh: In "Let's Play Ecologists", [[TheDitz Stumpy]] hears about air pollution harming people, and he panics and starts to hyperventilate. He then assumes that his inability to breathe properly is because of air pollution, and he runs around yelling "We're all going to die! The end is nigh!". |
| 660 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: At the end of Episode 77, the planet gets destroyed by a meteor, but [[StatusQuoIsGod it's back to normal by the next episode.]] Nobody dies, fortunately, since everyone escapes except Stumpy, who is an IronButtMonkey. |
| 661 | * EntendreFailure: In a bank-themed episode, Mr. Cat attempts to ask Kaeloo out on a date and implies that he wants to have sex with her afterwards with an UnusualEuphemism about her "cashing his checks". [[DidntThinkThisThrough Naturally, given the fact that it's a very unusual way to say it, Kaeloo assumes that he's trying to bribe her into doing him some sort of favor.]] |
| 662 | * EntertainmentAboveTheirAge: |
| 663 | ** In "Let's Play at Reading Books", Quack Quack [[CovertPervert of all people]] is shown reading a book with girls in skimpy outfits. [[DirtyKid Mr. Cat]] also wants that book, but Quack Quack refuses to give it to him, not even when Mr. Cat offers him loads of [[TrademarkFavoriteFood yogurt]]. |
| 664 | ** In one episode, Stumpy tells Kaeloo that he watches things that "aren't for kids his age" all the time, and Kaeloo is horrified for a minute until she looks at his laptop screen and realizes that he was talking about watching knitting videos for old ladies. |
| 665 | * EnormousEngagementRing: In Episode 60, Quack Quack buys a wedding ring for Pretty, who he is being forced to marry. Not only is the gem incredibly huge (according to the characters, since the audience can't see it), it's also shiny enough to set someone on fire. |
| 666 | * EnsembleCast: Even though the show is named after its protagonist, Kaeloo, all the main four get equal amounts of attention in the show. |
| 667 | * EpicFail: |
| 668 | ** [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/kaeloo/images/2/21/Unnamed8.gif/revision/latest?cb=20161121131057 Stumpy trying to catch a volleyball]] in the BeachEpisode. |
| 669 | ** The volleyball incident doesn't even come ''close'' to the ballet the cast put on in [[BalletEpisode Episode 67]], which ends with all of the performers being injured. |
| 670 | * EpisodeOfTheDead: In "Let's Play Scaredy Cat", Stumpy accidentally brings everyone in a graveyard back to life by reciting a magic spell, causing a ZombieApocalypse. Mr. Cat manages to bring everything back to normal by the end. |
| 671 | * EpisodeOnAPlane: "Let's Play Air Pockets", where Stumpy and Quack Quack go on a plane piloted by Mr. Cat, with Kaeloo as an air hostess. [[WithFriendsLikeThese Mr. Cat jumps out of the plane using the only parachute they had and leaves them to die.]] |
| 672 | * EquippableAlly: The others use Quack Quack as a weapon to fire objects ranging from yogurt to missiles. |
| 673 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Several characters get one in the episode where they first appear: |
| 674 | ** Kaeloo is first shown in "Let's Play Prison-Ball" inviting Mr. Cat to join a game against his will because she knows that deep down he really enjoys playing games with her, establishing both the fact that Kaeloo loves fun and the fact that Kaeloo is a caring person. |
| 675 | ** [[TheDitz Stumpy]] takes the term "prison" in "prison-ball" too literally[[note]]Prison-ball is a game similar to dodgeball, except if a player is hit they get sent to a space at the back of the court called a "prison"[[/note]], and upon being sent to "prison" in the game, spends the rest of the episode plotting a jailbreak. |
| 676 | ** The first conversation Mr. Cat has with Kaeloo in the series is about how much he enjoys beating Quack-Quack up. |
| 677 | ** Pretty the RichBitch gets one in her debut episode, where she looks down on the main four for being poor and tries to "dare" Stumpy to buy her expensive stuff during a game of Truth or Dare. |
| 678 | ** The first scene we see with Olaf is him trying to get Mr. Cat to bow down before him while talking about [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]] and gulags. |
| 679 | ** When Lavanade is introduced to the main four, the first thing she does is [[CuddleBug hug Quack-Quack]], which shows that she's an affectionate person. |
| 680 | ** Cramoisie's first introduction into the series is when Stumpy invites her to join his friends in playing a horror game for Halloween. Kaeloo expresses her concern over such a young child playing a scary game, and Cramoisie responds with her first spoken line in the series: insulting Kaeloo about her weight and calling her ugly, which establishes that Cramoisie is a {{jerkass}}. |
| 681 | * EstablishingSeriesMoment: The first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball", gives one near the end when Mr. Cat pulls out a bazooka and starts shooting spiked dodgeballs at Quack Quack. |
| 682 | * EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Mr. Cat, despite being evil, really loves his mother and will not allow anyone to talk about her in a disrespectful way. |
| 683 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Mr. Cat, Olaf, Pretty, and Cramoisie are evil, but they all have their loved ones: Pretty has her sister, who she regularly abuses but still cares about, Cramoisie loves her siblings despite being verbally abusive to most of them, Olaf has his "wife" Olga (who is actually a CompanionCube, but he treats her like a real person), and Mr. Cat, ironically enough, has the show's heroes. |
| 684 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Mr. Cat may be a sick and twisted pervert, but when he reads the story of Sleeping Beauty, even he is disgusted by the idea of [[DudeShesLikeInAComa kissing someone while they're unconscious.]] |
| 685 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Ursula is apparently so hot that not only Mr. Cat and Stumpy find her attractive, even Kaeloo says she's very beautiful. |
| 686 | * EverybodyHatesHades: Episode 127, where the characters play as [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]] characters, has the show's most villainous character, Mr. Cat, play the part of Hades. The episode is about Zeus (played by Kaeloo), with assistance from Hermes (played by Quack Quack), trying to save the flowers of Olympus when Mr. Cat/Hades takes their souls. |
| 687 | * EverybodyHatesMathematics: [[BookDumb Stumpy]] hates math more than any other subject and has difficulty counting higher than the number four. |
| 688 | * EveryoneCanSeeIt: Every single person in Smileyland (yes, even [[TheDitz Stumpy]]) knows that Kaeloo and Mr. Cat have massive crushes on each other except for Kaeloo and Mr. Cat themselves. In the later seasons, several people in-universe even assume that Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are already an OfficialCouple because of the way they behave with each other. |
| 689 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 690 | ** Mr. Cat may be a jerk, but even he won't let Kaeloo feel bad about something which wasn't her fault. |
| 691 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", Quack Quack becomes a crazy cannibal and the only way to cure him is to give him some yogurt. Mr. Cat suggests that [[TheDitz Stumpy]] goes to him to give him the yogurt, but it turns out that even Stumpy isn't dumb enough to confront an insane cannibal, so Mr. Cat is forced to do it himself. |
| 692 | -->'''Stumpy''': I may be nuts, but I'm not crazy. |
| 693 | ** Mr. Cat may be extremely perverted, but he draws the line at kissing people who are unconscious. |
| 694 | ** In Episode 72, Stumpy gets SuddenIntelligence and decides to TakeOverTheWorld by threatening to destroy the planet with a bomb. Even Mr. Cat is unsettled by the plan. |
| 695 | * EveryoneIsASuspect: When someone graffitis an image of a penis onto a bathroom door, Kaeloo takes it upon herself to play detective and identify which of her friends was the party responsible. Unfortunately, as she thinks about it, she realizes that all of them have potential motivations for doing so, so they're all suspects. |
| 696 | * EveryoneIsGoneEpisode: In Episode 201, Kaeloo heads out to play with her friends in the morning, only to find out that none of them are there. She initially panics that something might have happened to them and tries to get in contact with them, but finds out that they're all fine but have different plans for the day; Stumpy is babysitting his sisters, Quack-Quack is at the [[TrademarkFavoriteFood yogurt]] convention, and Mr. Cat is at a party. The rest of the episode revolves around Kaeloo trying to figure out how to have fun by herself. |
| 697 | * EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: One flashback shows Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat being in the same class as little kids, [[NegativeContinuity despite the fact that other episodes have stated that Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are older than the other two.]] |
| 698 | * EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Nombril wears a sparkling gold outfit, to go along with her loud personality and status as an AttentionWhore. |
| 699 | * EverythingTalks: Starting in season 4, objects and food items are given the ability to talk depending on RuleOfFunny. |
| 700 | * EverythingTryingToKillYou: Seems to be the case for [[CosmicPlaything the perpetually unlucky Stumpy]]. {{Lampshade| Hanging}}d in the Season 1 finale. |
| 701 | * EvilChancellor: Mr. Cat to Stumpy in Episode 90. |
| 702 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: |
| 703 | ** Mr. Cat. He takes delight in tormenting other people, [[WithFriendsLikeThese even his own best friends]], in various ways, ranging from burning Stumpy's comic book collection[[note]]Each comic costs 60 dollars[[/note]] to trying to kill people with chainsaws. |
| 704 | ** Olaf. In Episode 121, he tricks Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat into thinking that they've all been fired from the show, causing them great amounts of stress and worry, just so he can get a laugh out of it. |
| 705 | * EvilIsHammy: |
| 706 | ** One of the main reasons that nobody except Stumpy and Quack Quack takes Olaf seriously is his incredible hamminess. |
| 707 | ** Mr. Cat was the physical embodiment of this trope in the show's second episode due to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness. |
| 708 | * EvilLaugh: Mr. Cat and Olaf have the tendency to do this. |
| 709 | * EvilMeScaresMe: Kaeloo has often been shown to be terrified of her Bad Kaeloo side, who has a horrific mean streak and adores violently abusing people. |
| 710 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Mr. Cat has a deep, adult-like voice despite being less than 13 years old. Olaf also has a rather deep voice. The trope is averted with Stumpy and Pretty, whose voices are rather high pitched. |
| 711 | * ExactWords: |
| 712 | ** In "Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat", Kaeloo says that Mr. Cat will disappear. Near the end, he does - he's completely invisible, but alive [[LiteralMetaphor and kicking]]. |
| 713 | ** In another episode, Kaeloo, as a waiter, asks Mr. Cat what he would like to drink. He asks for a "SoundEffectBleep with ice" (presumably an alcoholic beverage). Kaeloo says he can’t have a "SoundEffectBleep with ice", so he asks for one without ice. |
| 714 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Figurines", Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat refuse to let Stumpy play with their new figurines. Later, they realize that Stumpy has stolen the figurines. When they call him out on it and say he stole them, he says that he borrowed them. Kaeloo says borrowing is when you ask someone before taking their things, but Stumpy points put that he ''did'' ask - but they refused. |
| 715 | ** When the gang are playing truth or dare, [[TheFashionista Pretty]] "dares" Stumpy to buy her a Prada bag. Kaeloo says that the dare is supposed to be something like "walk using your hands" or "hop on one leg", so Pretty dares Stumpy to buy her a Prada bag while hopping on one leg. |
| 716 | ** In a season 3 episode, Mr. Cat gets angry at a bunch of sheep and decides to [[DisproportionateRetribution throw them all off a cliff]]. [[NiceGirl Kaeloo]] tells him not to throw all the sheep off the cliff, so Mr. Cat throws just ''one'' of them off and the rest of them follow the other one and jump off themselves. |
| 717 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat tricks Kaeloo into thinking she owes him money. When she points out that nobody has any money, he reminds her that she has a piggy bank, describing it as a "little piggy which rattles when you shake it". [[spoiler: Kaeloo gives the piggy bank to Mr. Cat. Mr. Cat opens it and finds out that there really ''is'' no money inside... it was rattling because there was a soda can tab inside.]] |
| 718 | ** When [[VitriolicBestBuds Kaeloo and Mr. Cat]] get into an argument, Kaeloo goes on a rant about how she will [[SilentTreatment "never talk to Mr. Cat again"]]. Halfway through the rant, she realizes that she wouldn't be very happy if she couldn't talk to him anymore since he's her best friend, and then she decides to mime words to him because technically she wouldn't be "speaking" to him. |
| 719 | ** Stumpy is fed up with his sister Lavanade's supernatural powers, which he finds weird, and asks Quack-Quack (who has similar powers) to teach Lavanade to "control her powers", by which he means teach her to suppress them. Quack-Quack, who is supportive of Lavanade, decides to interpret "control her powers" as learning how to use them better, and teaches Lavanade how to do cool tricks with her powers instead. |
| 720 | * ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe, the director sometimes calls the characters when the scene is getting too [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence violent]] or risque to let them know that he wants them to change that part of the episode to avoid angering MoralGuardians. |
| 721 | * ExhaustedEyeBags: Mr. Cat spends the entirety of [[SuperheroEpisode "Let's Play Justice Masters"]] with these, as a result of him being extremely stressed and tired (and unable to rest thanks to Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack's UnwantedAssistance). |
| 722 | * ExiledToTheCouch: Olaf begs Kaeloo and her friends to help him plan a birthday party for his wife because if they don't, "I'll have to sleep in the bathtub again." |
| 723 | * ExpendableClone: |
| 724 | ** In Episode 134, Stumpy is granted a wish and gets a bunch of clones of himself. When he needs to get rid of then, he sends them through a PortalDoor into another dimension forever, and nobody cares. Even before this, Mr. Cat contemplated killing them because they were annoying and hurting everyone. |
| 725 | ** In "Let's Play Hide 'n Hunt", Mr. Cat clones the rest of the main four so he can kill the clones. |
| 726 | * ExploringTheEvilLair: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat do this in Episode 104 when trying to rescue Quack Quack, who has been kidnapped by Olaf. Mr. Cat walks around with a flashlight while Kaeloo nervously walks behind him, clinging to him. |
| 727 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Pretty gets one in season 5 to reflect her [[SameCharacterButDifferent offscreen]] character development. |
| 728 | * ExpressiveEars: Both of Mr. Cat's ears move downwards during an OhCrap moment. |
| 729 | * ExpressiveShirt: The designs on Eugly's shirt change to reflect how she feels. For example, when she's sad, it changes to a picture of a broken heart. |
| 730 | * ExtraLongEpisode: Episodes are usually seven minutes long, but Episode 105, titled "Let's Play the Very Special Episode", is 26 minutes long. |
| 731 | * ExtremeMeleeRevenge: This happens OnceAnEpisode to whoever managed to piss Kaeloo off. She usually comes to regret it once she calms down. |
| 732 | [[/folder]] |
| 733 | |
| 734 | [[folder:Tropes F]] |
| 735 | * FaceFault: This being an {{animesque}} show, the characters do it quite often. |
| 736 | * TheFaceOfTheSun: In "Let's Play Hide 'N' Hunt", the sun is depicted with a happy face. |
| 737 | * FacePalm: |
| 738 | ** Mr. Cat does this a lot. In Episode 105, he uses the "pinching the bridge of the nose" variant. |
| 739 | ** Kaeloo herself does this on occasions when [[TheDitz Stumpy]] does something stupid. |
| 740 | * FailureGambit: One episode has Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack-Quack, Mr. Cat, and Cramoisie playing a game where one person is secretly designated as a "zompire" (a cross between a zombie and a vampire) and the other players must avoid getting bitten by the zompire. Cramoisie is the zompire and she attempts to manipulate Mr. Cat into staying close to her by pretending to be scared. Mr. Cat sees through her guise instantly, but gladly allows her to bite him because then he can use the pretext of being part-vampire to step into a coffin and take a peaceful nap without anyone bothering him. |
| 741 | * FailureIsTheOnlyOption: |
| 742 | ** If your name is Stumpy, don't ever expect to succeed at anything. |
| 743 | ** Mr. Cat's attempts to confess to Kaeloo that he is in love with her usually end on a very bad note, either due to Kaeloo's [[ObliviousToLove obliviousness]] or poor execution on Mr. Cat's part. |
| 744 | * FailureMontage: |
| 745 | ** In [[BeachEpisode Episode 80]], a montage is shown of Stumpy losing at beach volleyball. The final scene in the montage makes it look like he's going to finally hit the ball, but he fails that too in an EpicFail. |
| 746 | ** In Episode 233, Kaeloo gets turned into a giant non-sapient frog and Mr. Cat and Quack-Quack must capture her in order to return her to her normal form. A montage ensues of them trying various methods devised by Mr. Cat, all of which fail horribly and end with [[AmusingInjuries Mr. Cat getting injured]]. |
| 747 | * FailuresOnIce: In Episode 105, near the beginning, Kaeloo tries to show Mr. Cat all the fun activities that one can engage in during winter. She tries to show him ice skating, but he can barely move without falling. |
| 748 | * FaintInShock: One of [[spoiler: the animators]] faints when Stumpy walks up to them at the end of Episode 105 and informs them that [[spoiler: he is taking over the show]]. |
| 749 | * FakeInteractivity: {{Parodied| Trope}} in Episode 69, which was a {{parody| episode}} of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer''. Kaeloo says random words in different languages, asks the viewers to repeat, and stares at the camera with a huge, creepy smile. Stumpy walks by and waves a hand in her face, trying to see if she is okay. |
| 750 | * FamilyOfChoice: Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat are a group of best friends who see each other as a family, to the extent that even Olaf (who doesn't know them that well) sometimes calls them "the little family". As for their real families, while Stumpy still has his, Quack Quack's family is dead, Mr. Cat's family was abusive so he ran away from home at a young age and nothing is known about Kaeloo's (though her extended family is shown in one episode). |
| 751 | * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: This being a show that runs on FamilyUnfriendlyViolence and where DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, the characters have died in several unpleasant ways such as explosion, [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] and ''[[SuicideAsComedy suicide]]''. |
| 752 | * FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: The show lives and breathes this trope. |
| 753 | * FanDisservice: In-universe example. In one episode, Kaeloo goes on a parody of ''Series/TheVoice'', and she tries to impress the judges by performing a sexually suggestive dance involving ShakingTheRump while wearing a revealing outfit. The judges are absolutely horrified and disgusted and they kick her off the show. |
| 754 | * FantasticRacism: |
| 755 | ** Mr. Cat is extremely racist by these terms. One episode even had him, while [[ItMakesSenseInContext trying to anger everybody else,]] claim that "cats are a superior race", and he claims to despise ducks and rabbits. |
| 756 | ** In the first episode of the series, Stumpy objects to being teamed up with Mr. Cat for a game because CatsAreMean[[note]]This may have been EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, as in later episodes he willingly teams up with Mr. Cat.[[/note]]. |
| 757 | ** In Episode 108, this becomes a plot point, with the main four arguing about which species is better. When Mr. Cat points out that cats were worshipped by Egyptians and get 10 million views on internet videos, Stumpy and Quack Quack get decide that they want to to become cats as well and get plastic surgery to look like cats. |
| 758 | * FantasyWorldMap: In Episode 55, Olaf pulls out a map of Smileyland with places such as the Enchanted Forest, [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]] and [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Wonderland]]. |
| 759 | * {{Fartillery}}: In Episode 55, Stumpy and Quack Quack try to use this against Olaf. It fails because [[TheNoseless Olaf doesn't have a nose]]. |
| 760 | * FartsOnFire: Bad Kaeloo does this in "Let's Play at Reading Books" [[MakesSenseInContext to light a pile of skin mags and comic books on fire.]] |
| 761 | * FatAndSkinny: [[PolarOppositeTwins The twins]] [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] and [[ExtremeDoormat Eugly]], the former of whom is slim (and implied to have an eating disorder) and the latter of whom is obese. |
| 762 | * FedoraOfAsskicking: The reason Kaeloo picks Quack Quack instead of Stumpy to be the hero in "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel" is because Quack Quack is wearing a fedora at the time. |
| 763 | * FictionalSocialNetwork: The characters often use the website "Fakebook", which is an obvious parody of Facebook. In the original French dub, it's called "Face de Bouc" ("Goat Face"). |
| 764 | * FictionalVideoGame: Mr. Coolskin video games. |
| 765 | * FingerGun: |
| 766 | ** Stumpy makes these in "Let's Play Air Pockets" and threatens to shoot everyone unless Kaeloo gives him back a video game she had taken away from him. |
| 767 | ** Kaeloo makes these in Episode 65 when impersonating Mr. Cat. |
| 768 | * FingerTenting: Mr. Cat does this a lot while making evil plans. |
| 769 | * FingerWag: The show often has Kaeloo wagging her finger while saying "no no no!" |
| 770 | * FireballEyeballs: |
| 771 | ** Kaeloo gets these in one episode after Mr. Cat makes fun of her [[SpeechImpediment lisp]]. |
| 772 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", this happens to Quack Quack several times over the course of the episode since he's being deprived of yogurt by Kaeloo, which is making him angry and slowly driving him insane. |
| 773 | * FirefightingEpisode: In Episode 93, Kaeloo realizes that there are no firefighters in Smileyland and trains Stumpy and Quack-Quack to be Smileyland's first firefighters, with help from Mr. Cat. Most of the episode just focuses on them practicing but in the end, Mr. Cat sets the fake building Stumpy and Quack-Quack are using for training on fire ForTheEvulz and they must figure out a way to escape. |
| 774 | * FirstNameUltimatum: In any case where [[NotMeThisTime Stumpy annoys Kaeloo to the point of transforming instead of Mr. Cat]]: "STUMPYYYY...". The same applies to Pretty. |
| 775 | ** Kaeloo does this to everyone in Episode 83 (except [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs Mr. Cat, whose first name isn't revealed to the audience]], and Olaf, who wasn't in that episode). |
| 776 | * FisherKing: When Mr. Cat takes over Smileyland, [[RedSkyTakeWarning the sky turns red]]. |
| 777 | * {{Flashback}}: In Episode 136, a flashback is shown to Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether at school in the same class as little kids.]] [[NegativeContinuity This is despite the fact that other episodes have established that Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are older than the other two.]] |
| 778 | * FlashbackTwist: In one episode, Stumpy tells Kaeloo that Mr. Cat forced him to give him all his comic books. When Kaeloo asks how it happened, a flashback is shown where Mr. Cat menacingly approaches Stumpy and demands the comic books... and Stumpy nonchalantly handed him the comic books and said "Okay". |
| 779 | * FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss: Episode 115 has Mr. Cat do this to Kaeloo. She, of course, gets angry and starts yelling at him. |
| 780 | * FlowerFromTheMountaintop: In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", the last challenge in Kaeloo's incredibly lame game show is for Mr. Cat to grab the flower from the mountaintop. The "mountaintop" is really just a rock. |
| 781 | * FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: In Episode 72, [[TheDitz Stumpy]] is [[SuddenIntelligence granted intelligence by a spirit]], but it turns out to be for the worse; he makes rude or [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]] remarks (such as saying that [[TheAlcoholic Mr. Cat]]'s drinking problem will make him obese), he tries to TakeOverTheWorld, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and he tries to change the show's name from "Kaeloo" to "Stumpy".]] |
| 782 | * FoodAsBribe: Quack Quack will do almost anything if you offer him [[TrademarkFavoriteFood yogurt]] in exchange. |
| 783 | * TheFoodPoisoningIncident: Mr. Cat owns a restaurant called [=McDaube=][[note]]This name means "[=McCrap=]" in the show's original language, French[[/note]] which is a parody of UsefulNotes/McDonalds. Anyone who eats there is prone to getting food poisoning that induces severe vomiting, the worst example of which ended with Pretty having to go to the hospital and have surgery on some of her digestive organs. |
| 784 | * FoodShoveGag: In Episode 106, Kaeloo tries to trick Mr. Cat into buying a painting by telling him it's valuable and that it was made by a famous artist. Stumpy pipes in to say that it was actually drawn by him, but Kaeloo shoves a banana in his mouth to make him shut up. |
| 785 | * ForceFeeding: |
| 786 | ** Kaeloo does this to Quack Quack in "Let's Play Ecologists" when he refuses to eat some absolutely disgusting organic yogurt called "org-yurt". |
| 787 | ** Stumpy does this to Quack Quack in [[BabysittingEpisode "Let's Play Babysitting"]] by putting a funnel in his mouth and using a baseball bat to push spinach down the funnel. Quack Quack retaliates by shoving the baseball bat and funnel down Stumpy's throat offscreen. |
| 788 | * ForceFieldDoor: In Episode 105, the door leading to the [[MakesSenseInContext magical staircase]] is a force field door. OnlyThePureOfHeart may pass through it; anyone who isn't pure gets an electric shock. |
| 789 | * ForcefulKiss: |
| 790 | ** Bad Kaeloo]] does this to Mr. Cat once. |
| 791 | ** Stumpy does this to Kaeloo in "Let's Play Treasure Hunt" so he can find out what happens when a person kisses a frog. |
| 792 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 793 | ** Episode 63 and Episode 72 foreshadowed the events of Episode 105, namely [[spoiler: Stumpy [[FaceHeelTurn becoming evil]] and [[TakeOverTheWorld taking control of the world]].]] |
| 794 | ** In Episode 121, Olaf informs the main four that they have been fired from the show and must report for a job interview the next day to see if they can be re-hired. At one point in the episode, [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] questions the logic behind firing them and immediately hiring them again. [[spoiler: It turns out that the whole thing was a [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor "prank"]] by Olaf and the main four never got fired in the first place.]] |
| 795 | ** The title card for the episode "Let's Play Hopscotch" has flames on it despite the episode seemingly having nothing to do with fire. Near the end of the episode, Mr. Cat successfully constructs a path to Hell, and Quack Quack is DraggedOffToHell. |
| 796 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Catch the Mailman", Kaeloo gets a letter in the mail from someone claiming to be a fan of the show, and the letter is quite insulting. It is addressed "Dear frog" instead of "Dear Kaeloo", foreshadowing the fact that [[spoiler: the letter was written by Mr. Cat, who often refers to Kaeloo as "frog" or "froggy".]] |
| 797 | * ForgivenButNotForgotten: |
| 798 | ** At the end of "Let's Play Golf", Stumpy and Mr. Cat forgive Kaeloo for cheating at golf, but in Episode 57, they [[CallBack reference the incident]] when trying to prove that she is a cheater. |
| 799 | ** Kaeloo says the trope name almost word-for-word in Episode 105 to [[spoiler: Quack Quack]]. |
| 800 | * FourFingeredHands: Everybody except Olaf. Even Quack Quack, who has FeatherFingers, has four fingers. {{Justified| Trope}}, since they're all animals. |
| 801 | * FormalFullArrayOfCutlery: Kaeloo sets out a bunch of different forks for different dishes in "Let's Play Tea Party". |
| 802 | * ForScience: [[MadScientist Mr. Cat]] sometimes tortures Quack Quack by conducting scientific experiments on him and claiming that it's for science. (Although sometimes it's out of genuine curiosity and the desire to know more.) |
| 803 | * FourthWallMailSlot: |
| 804 | ** In-universe, in the episode "Let's Play Catch the Mailman", Kaeloo gets a letter from a fan of the show criticizing her for being annoying and boring[[note]]This actually reflects the views of some real fans of the show[[/note]]. [[spoiler: The letter turns out to have been written by [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]].]] |
| 805 | ** Parodied in one episode. Mr. Cat says that nobody has ever seen Quack Quack laugh, but nobody is sure if he's right or if they actually ''have'' seen him laugh. They tell the audience that true fans should know the answer and that the fans should mail them a letter containing the correct answer. |
| 806 | * FourthWallPortrait: When drawing a picture of Stumpy in "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Mr. Cat draws a realistic squirrel. |
| 807 | * FracturedFairytale: |
| 808 | ** [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Stumpy]]'s version of ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'', as seen in "Let's Play Once Upon a Time". |
| 809 | ** Episode 122, a sequel to "Let's Play Once Upon a Time", had Mr. Cat make every fairy tale in the book more realistic, for example by having Cinderella report her stepmother to the police for abuse, or having Prince Philip call a doctor to wake up Sleeping Beauty instead of just kissing her. |
| 810 | * FrameUp: PlayedForLaughs. In Episode 18, Mr. Cat is working as a security guard at a fruit market, and Stumpy steals all the apples and bribes Mr. Cat to keep silent about it. Mr. Cat plants an apple on Quack Quack's (his most hated enemy's) person to frame him for stealing just so he can have an excuse to beat him up. |
| 811 | * FreakyFridayFlip: In a ParodyEpisode of Harry Potter, Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack switch bodies due to using magic spells on each other, but are soon brought back to normal. Unlike most examples, it is not the main focus of the episode, but only happens for one scene. |
| 812 | * FreePrizeAtTheBottom: One episode has Stumpy buy a cereal box for the sake of a free hat, and then rip the box to shreds and let all the cereal fall on the ground, taking only the hat. |
| 813 | * FreeRangeChildren: None of the characters are more than 13 years old, yet they do random things like going to outer space, fighting aliens, buying weapons, drinking alcohol, etc. and nobody has any problem with it. Though it's somewhat justified since ThereAreNoAdults in [[CrapsaccharineWorld Smileyland]], and especially in Mr. Cat and Quack Quack's cases since the former is a runaway and the latter is an orphan. |
| 814 | ** Averted in [[CircusEpisode Episode 33]], where [[TheDitz Stumpy]]'s mother sees him [[JugglingDangerously juggling chainsaws]] on TV and calls him so she can tell him to stop because it's too dangerous. |
| 815 | * FreezeFrameBonus: In "Driver's License", Kaeloo and Mr. Cat briefly present their driver's licenses to Stumpy. Pausing this scene will show that Mr. Cat is legally authorized to use the weapons he owns, that Kaeloo's license also allows her to ride a kick-scooter, and that the cat flap is Mr. Cat's legal residence. |
| 816 | * FreezeRay: Olaf owns one of these [[spoiler: and he uses it on Kaeloo and Mr. Cat in Episode 104.]] |
| 817 | * FreezeSneeze: In Episode 160, it's snowing outside and Mr. Cat starts sneezing from the cold. A couple of scenes later, he's perfectly fine. |
| 818 | * FreudianCouch: |
| 819 | ** At the end of "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses", Kaeloo lies on a couch and tells Mr. Cat (who is pretending to be a psychologist) about her metamorphosis from tadpole to frog. |
| 820 | ** Stumpy lies on a couch in "[[spoiler:Let's Play Astronauts]]" when narrating a dream he had to Kaeloo. |
| 821 | ** In Episode 86, Mr. Cat visits an actual psychotherapist and lies on a couch. |
| 822 | ** Stumpy lies on one in Episode 110 when Kaeloo tries to hold a therapy session for him. |
| 823 | * FreudianExcuse: Implied with Mr. Cat. What we have seen of his DarkAndTroubledPast involves [[BigBrotherBully abusive older brothers]], an [[AlcoholicParent alcoholic father]], the death of one or more loved ones, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking an annoying mother who kept screaming.]] No wonder he’s so evil. |
| 824 | * FriendlyTickleTorture: When Mr. Cat is told by his doctor that he is very stressed and he needs to relax a little, Kaeloo tries to help him out by tickling him since she thinks it will make him feel better. [[HatesBeingTouched It doesn't work.]] |
| 825 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: |
| 826 | ** Until Pretty's HeelFaceTurn, everyone (except maybe Eugly) absolutely despises her for being an AlphaBitch, but they still hang out with her. |
| 827 | ** The Rules is one of these in season 5, as despite the main four calling her their friend, they find her irritating, spend a lot of time plotting against her, and express disappointment whenever she shows up. |
| 828 | * FriendVersusLover: |
| 829 | ** In Episode 134, Stumpy wants to play a board game with Quack Quack, but Quack Quack is on a date with Eugly and therefore ignores Stumpy. Later, Stumpy manages to clone himself and he and the clones tease Quack Quack and Eugly until [[ProneToTears Eugly]] runs away crying so they can hang out with Quack Quack. |
| 830 | ** A one-sided example is used as a plot point in Episode 148. Stumpy and Mr. Cat feel that Quack Quack has been spending too much time with Eugly, so they try to [[RelationshipSabotage ruin their relationship so that they break up.]] [[spoiler: Eugly decides to befriend them in order to make them stop, which works.]] |
| 831 | * FromBadToWorse: In "[[HalloweenEpisode Let's Play Scaredy Cat]]", Mr. Cat and Kaeloo have to fight a huge army of zombies. Mr. Cat manages to anger Kaeloo enough to [[HulkingOut transform]], but just as she transforms, Kaeloo is bitten and turns into a zombie. In her [[SuperStrength transformed state]]. |
| 832 | * FryingPanOfDoom: Pretty does this a lot, and Mr. Cat also does this a few times. A variant is used in [[CowboyEpisode Episode 88]], where Mr. Cat throws the frying pan at [[HollywoodToneDeaf Stumpy]] to get him to stop singing. |
| 833 | * FullBodyDisguise: Mr. Cat disguises himself as Bad Kaeloo, and later as Pretty, in Episode 65. |
| 834 | * FunnyAnimal: [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals The entire cast is composed of these.]] Kaeloo is a frog, Stumpy is a squirrel, Quack Quack is a duck, Mr. Cat and Ursula are cats, Pretty and Eugly are rabbits and Olaf is an emperor penguin. |
| 835 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: |
| 836 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses", while Quack Quack escapes, Bad Kaeloo can be seen hitting Mr. Cat over the head repeatedly with a giant thermometer. |
| 837 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Golf", [[BrickJoke a ball Stumpy hit with his golf club earlier in the episode returns after orbiting the planet]] and hits him in the head after having orbiting the planet while Mr. Cat tries playing golf. |
| 838 | ** In-universe example. In one episode, whenever [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] takes a selfie and puts it on the website [[Website/{{Facebook}} "Fakebook"]], Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack, and/or Mr. Cat are doing something embarrassing in the background of the picture. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that being the {{jerkass}} she is, Pretty did this on purpose to humiliate them.]] |
| 839 | * FunWithHomophones: When Kaeloo tells [[TheDitz Stumpy]] that he has to use a tee to play golf, he thinks she said "tea" and asks why he can't have coffee instead. |
| 840 | * FurryConfusion: |
| 841 | ** All the characters are anthropomorphic animals, but there are several ordinary sheep who also live in [[CrapsaccharineWorld Smileyland]] with them. In Episode 132, Mr. Cat even lampshades this and says that letting the sheep hang out with the characters would be like [[{{Squick}} having Snow White marry the seven dwarves]]. |
| 842 | ** Mr. Cat's dreams for his future involve himself, a FunnyAnimal cat, marrying Kaeloo, a FunnyAnimal frog, and the two of them adopting a regular dog as a pet. |
| 843 | * FurryReminder: Happens quite a lot, with the cast being animals. |
| 844 | ** Stumpy eats a lot of acorns. |
| 845 | ** In "Let's Play Cops and Robbers", Kaeloo finds a hole in a yogurt container and concludes that Mr. Cat made it because he's the only one with claws. |
| 846 | ** In "Let's Play Simon Says", Kaeloo the frog uses her tongue to snatch Stumpy's game console. Later in the episode, she also mentions wanting money to buy herself a bowl and a ladder. |
| 847 | ** In "Let's Play Justice Masters" when Mr. Cat decides to take a nap on the couch, he walks around on top of it on all fours and then curls up to sleep. |
| 848 | ** In "Let's Play Figurines", Kaeloo takes one of Mr. Cat's whiskers. |
| 849 | ** In Episode 74, Mr. Cat pounces on a soccer ball and plays with it like a real cat would. |
| 850 | ** In Episode 83, Mr. Cat affectionately rubs his head against Kaeloo. |
| 851 | ** In Episode 87, Olaf slides down a hill like a penguin. |
| 852 | ** In Episode 143, Mr. Cat and Ursula can see in the dark because they're cats. |
| 853 | [[/folder]] |
| 854 | |
| 855 | [[folder:Tropes G]] |
| 856 | * GagSeries: The show has [[HalfwayPlotSwitch plots that switch halfway through the episode]], [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment one-off gags that have nothing to do with the rest of the plot of the episode]], and [[NegativeContinuity barely any continuity between episodes]]. Sometimes, there isn't even continuity ''between scenes of the same episode''. The main focus is humor. |
| 857 | * GaleForceSound: When Mr. Cat gets angry, he can yell loud enough to blow away a car with Kaeloo and Stumpy sitting in it. Both Bad Kaeloo and Mr. Cat can yell loud enough to send people flying into the air. |
| 858 | * GameShowAppearance: In Episode 58, Mr. Cat goes on a game show hosted by [[BitchInSheepsClothing Kaeloo]] to prove that [[InsufferableGenius he's right about everything all the time]]. The game show appears to be rigged so he will lose. [[spoiler: He wins, but it's a PyrrhicVictory.]] |
| 859 | * GarageSale: The second season 3 episode has Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack hold a garage sale with Mr. Cat as their only customer. He initially refuses to buy anything, but Kaeloo uses a psychological trick that convinces him to buy almost everything. After buying so many things, Mr. Cat winds up having his own garage sale - where he tricks them into buying their own stuff back at exorbitant prices. |
| 860 | * GassyGastronomy: Stumpy is known for belching frequently, and it gets even worse whenever he's had soda. |
| 861 | * GenderEqualEnsemble: In the second season, there are four males (Stumpy, Quack Quack, Mr. Cat and Olaf) and four females (Kaeloo[[note]]She is a {{Hermaphrodite}}, but is referred to as female[[/note]], Pretty, Eugly and Olga). |
| 862 | * GenderSeparatedEnsembleEpisode: Episode 60 has the boys and the girls split up and go to different places. {{Subverted| Trope}} since Stumpy winds up [[DisguisedInDrag disguising himself as a girl]] and joining the girls. |
| 863 | * GenreBlindness: Kaeloo literally has no idea what will happen if she invites Mr. Cat to play with her, even though it happens all the time. |
| 864 | * GenreSavvy: In Episode 121, the gang get fired from the show and need to take a job interview with Olaf to get re-hired [[spoiler: the whole of which turns out to be a "joke" on Olaf's part]]. Everyone is stressed except [[ButtMonkey Stumpy]], who points out that [[MediumAwareness they are in a comedy show]] and he's the comic relief, so he'll definitely be re-hired. |
| 865 | * GentlemanThief: Kaeloo and Stumpy both dress up as these in Episode 53. |
| 866 | * GetRichQuickScheme: Mr. Cat comes up with several of these. Most of them fail, though a few of them have gone without a hitch. |
| 867 | * GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: Apparently, in Smileyland, if your friends play Zumba music, it makes you dance along and become extremely happy and loving. Naturally, Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack do this to Mr. Cat in an attempt to make him nicer. He tries his best to resist, but ultimately fails and winds up being forced to be happy. |
| 868 | * GiftedlyBad: Kaeloo sucks at almost everything, but considers herself to be a very talented person. For example, she draws like a kindergartener but considers herself to be a really good artist. |
| 869 | * GilliganCut: |
| 870 | ** In "Let's Play Babysitting", Kaeloo blatantly tells Stumpy [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend that she is not in love with Mr. Cat]] right before going on a date with him in the very next scene. |
| 871 | ** In the same episode, Kaeloo mentions that Quack Quack "happily accepted" when Stumpy asked if he could practice baby-sitting with Quack Quack as the baby. The scene cuts to Quack Quack in a tree trying to get away from Stumpy while the latter throws objects at him to get him to come down. |
| 872 | ** In the HalloweenEpisode, as Stumpy is walking into the forest: |
| 873 | -->'''Kaeloo''': If you find a book of magic spells with funny words in it, whatever you do, don't touch it! Is that clear?\ |
| 874 | '''Stumpy''': Yeah, whatever.\ |
| 875 | ''(Scene cuts to Stumpy in the forest in front of the book)''\ |
| 876 | '''Stumpy''': Wow! A book of magic spells with funny words in it that I mustn't touch! ''(reading from book)'' Zombie zombie zom, zombie zombie zombie woo! |
| 877 | * GirlfriendInCanada: Stumpy's girlfriend Ursula [[TheGhost is never seen onscreen]] and he met her online, but he claims she exists. Nobody really believes him until they finally meet her in person, subverting the trope. |
| 878 | * GirlInTheTower: Invoked in "Let's Play Prince Charming" when Stumpy is DraggedIntoDrag and forced to sit in a tower so "Prince" Quack Quack can rescue him. |
| 879 | * GladIThoughtOfIt: The show has a RunningGag where Stumpy and Quack Quack get stuck in a situation, Quack Quack suggests a plan, and Stumpy pretends that he was the one who thought of it. |
| 880 | * GlassShatteringSound: In Episode 143, the gang are stuck in a situation where if all the lights go out, they get attacked by monsters, so they each hold a lightbulb, flashlight or mirror to keep some sort of light with them. Unfortunately, one of the monsters grabs Stumpy's mirror, and since he ScreamsLikeALittleGirl, everyone else's lightbulbs, mirrors, flashlights, etc. get broken. |
| 881 | * GlassSmackAndSlide: In Episode 104, [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Olaf]] [[HarmlessFreezing freezes Kaeloo and Mr. Cat]] and keeps them in glass PeopleJars. Stumpy shows up to save them by swinging on a rope, but he ends up smacking face first into the glass and sliding down it. |
| 882 | * TheGlomp: [[CuddleBug Kaeloo]] has done this to Mr. Cat on more than one occasion. |
| 883 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: Mr. Cat is portrayed with these in the intro for Episode 105. |
| 884 | * GoFetch: In one episode, Mr. Cat throws a yogurt in the air and Quack Quack runs to catch it. After he catches it, Mr. Cat activates the bombs he had hidden near the place where he threw the yogurt. |
| 885 | * GolfClubbing: Mr. Cat sometimes does this, the usual target being Quack Quack. |
| 886 | * GoneHorriblyRight: In "Let's Play Babysitting", Kaeloo attempts to seduce Mr. Cat so they can have sex and she can get pregnant. [[spoiler: [[AttemptedRape Let's just say he gets seduced a little too well]]...]] |
| 887 | * GoodbyeCruelWorld: Stumpy says this before most of his suicide attempts. |
| 888 | * GoodLuckCharm: [[BornUnlucky Violasse]] wards off her bad luck with a personal good luck charm, a balloon with [[BornLucky Quack-Quack]]'s face painted on it. The balloon has actually saved Violasse from dying several times, which means that it actually works. |
| 889 | * GoshDangItToHeck: |
| 890 | ** Any time Mr. Cat swears with no {{Sound Effect Bleep}}s. |
| 891 | ** In one episode, while impersonating Mr. Cat, Kaeloo yells out random "swear" words such as "poop" and "dang". |
| 892 | * GRatedDrug: Yogurt, carrots and tomato juice. |
| 893 | * GratuitousEnglish: In the French dub[[note]]The series' original language is French[[/note]], the characters frequently use English words like "what" and "stop" instead of the French words. |
| 894 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: Olaf interjects random Russian words into his speech. |
| 895 | * GratuitousNazis: In the episode "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel"[[note]]The episode parodies Franchise/IndianaJones[[/note]], [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] dresses as a Nazi to look more "evil". |
| 896 | * GratuitousSpanish: Parodied. When [[TheDitz Stumpy]] is asked to say "the grass is green" in Spanish, his response is anything but that. |
| 897 | -->'''[[TheDitz Stumpy]] (singing)''': Tapas! Paëlla! Real Madrid, Ibiza! Movida! Conchita, corrida! |
| 898 | * GravityIsAHarshMistress: In the episode "Red Light, Green Light", Mr. Cat launches Quack Quack several feet into the air using a bazooka. Quack Quack enjoys the sensation of flying for several seconds until he looks down, at which point gravity suddenly takes over and he is sent plummeting to the ground below. |
| 899 | * GrayRainOfDepression: |
| 900 | ** In Episode 52, it rains during Yogo's funeral and the sky is gray. |
| 901 | ** Subverted in Episode 215. Pretty stares out of a window while gloomily talking about how love often ends in heartbreak, but the camera zooms out to show that [[DiegeticVisualEffects it wasn't actually raining, there was just a guy on the roof pouring water out of a watering can in front of the window]]. |
| 902 | * GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The main four own a library full of books on every topic available, no matter how ridiculous it may seem. |
| 903 | * GreaterScopeVillain: The main antagonist of season 5 is Rules, a personification of the concept of rules who keeps harassing the residents of Smileyland and messing with their games by forcing them to comply with strict rules and handing out {{Cool and Unusual Punishment}}s whenever they disobeyed. At the end of the season we learn that [[spoiler:Rules was actually sent on this mission by her parents, who are personifications of the concepts of law and order, and was only trying to please them; in comparison to what her parents have in store for Smileyland's residents, it turns out Rules was going relatively ''easy'' on them.]] |
| 904 | * GreatEscape: The first episode of the series, "Let's Play Prison-Ball", parodies this trope to the extreme when [[TheDitz Stumpy]] gets sent to the "prison" in a game of prison-ball. He first starts yelling how "society's the one to blame", then he gets a map of the prison tattooed on his tummy, and finally he uses a jackhammer to dig his way out. Unfortunately, this happens at the exact time Kaeloo gets mad enough to throw Mr. Cat into the air, and Mr. Cat comes crashing down on top of Stumpy's tunnel, pushing him back in. By the end of the episode, Stumpy is released anyway since it was a game, though the experience makes him hate the game of prison-ball. |
| 905 | * GreenAesop: Taken to parody levels in Episode 14. Kaeloo tries to convince everyone that if they aren't green, the planet could get destroyed. She ends up forcing Quack Quack to give up his TrademarkFavoriteFood, yogurt, and makes him eat a substitute called "org-yurt" which is organic and comes in environment-friendly containers, despite the fact that it tastes so bad that he vomits. When he vomits, she punishes him for "wasting food". She also beats up Mr. Cat and Stumpy ''and throws them in a nearby dumpster'' just because they dropped a small piece of paper on the ground, and "littering is bad". |
| 906 | * GreenAroundTheGills: Almost any time anybody feels nauseous. In Kaeloo's case, since she's already green, her face turns an odd shade of yellowish green. |
| 907 | * TheGrimReaper: The main four meet him in Episode 92. He's portrayed as a black sheep with a scythe. |
| 908 | * GroinAttack: In "Let's Play Market Vendors", [[TheDitz Stumpy]] accidentally shoots the lights out with a gun. While trying to find another light switch, he accidentally grabs Mr. Cat's you-know-what, thinking it's a light switch, and pulls on it. |
| 909 | * GrossUpCloseUp: |
| 910 | ** In Episode 34, Kaeloo informs Mr. Cat that he has a zit on his face. The audience is then treated to a close-up of the zit on Mr. Cat's face. |
| 911 | ** The same happens with Pretty's zit in Episode 118. |
| 912 | * GroundShatteringLanding: Several episodes have at least one character doing this during a fight. |
| 913 | * GroupHug: Between the main four, in [[spoiler: Episode 105]]. |
| 914 | * GrowingMusclesSequence: [[StockFootage Kaeloo's transformation sequence]] which is played OnceAnEpisode. [[MaleGaze Most of the attention is drawn to her butt.]] |
| 915 | * GrowingUpSucks: The basis of the episode "Let's Play Grown-Ups". |
| 916 | * GRatedDrug: An episode has Stumpy and Quack Quack eating carrots, which are an in-universe replacement for tobacco. Stumpy was looking for something in his mother's purse and happened to accidentally find them. |
| 917 | * GunsAkimbo: Mr. Cat and Stumpy do this in [[spoiler: "Let's Play Market Vendors", when they rob the supermarket.]] |
| 918 | * GuysSmashGirlsShoot: {{Inverted| trope}}, as Mr. Cat and Stumpy use weapons and Kaeloo, Pretty and Eugly smash stuff. |
| 919 | [[/folder]] |
| 920 | |
| 921 | [[folder:Tropes H]] |
| 922 | * HairTriggerTemper: |
| 923 | ** Mr. Cat will get angry for the slightest of reasons. |
| 924 | ** Pretty actually makes Mr. Cat look patient. |
| 925 | * HalfBreedDiscrimination: Downplayed. In Episode 85, during a fight, Kaeloo refers to Mr. Cat (a cat) being mixed breed instead of a pedigree cat. However, this does not ever impact him negatively in any way on the show, and none of the other major characters are cats so it has yet to be seen if this is an actual problem in the show's society. |
| 926 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Mr. Cat does this to Quack Quack in several episodes. |
| 927 | * HalfwayPlotSwitch: |
| 928 | ** Episode 85 starts with everybody playing RockPaperScissors to see who gets to use the bathroom first. Halfway through the episode, the plot switches to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat arguing about whether Kaeloo's [[HulkingOut transformation]] is a good thing or not. |
| 929 | ** "Let's Play Hot-Cold" starts with Stumpy trying to make himself look tanned and muscular, while Kaeloo tries to find someone to play with. Halfway through, the plot becomes about the others teaching Stumpy how to impress girls. |
| 930 | * HalloweenEpisode: "Let's Play Scaredy Cat", an episode where [[TheDitz Stumpy]] raises the dead and causes a zombie apocalypse. |
| 931 | * HammeredIntoTheGround: In the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", Mr. Cat gets beaten up by Quack Quack and/or Kaeloo offscreen and winds up with his entire body except his head smashed into the ground. |
| 932 | * {{Hammerspace}}: The characters can pull random objects, including actual hammers, from out of thin air. |
| 933 | * HammerspaceHair: In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat dresses up as [[Film/PulpFiction Jules Winnfield]] for most of the episode and uses a wig which he uses to store stuff. |
| 934 | * HandBehindHead: Kaeloo does this sometimes when she is embarrassed or nervous. |
| 935 | * HandSignals: |
| 936 | ** [[TheUnintelligible Eugly]]'s method of communication, apart from indistinct mumbling. |
| 937 | ** In an OverlyLongGag in "Let's Play Cops and Robbers", [[TheUnintelligible Quack Quack]] uses these to try to communicate with [[TheDitz Stumpy]], who has no idea what he's saying. |
| 938 | ** Stumpy and Quack-Quack communicate this way at the library to remain in accordance with the "no making noise" rule. |
| 939 | * HanlonsRazor: Stumpy is able to get away with almost anything because everyone knows he's doing it out of sheer stupidity. However, this starts to get subverted in later episodes when he actually starts to do bad things out of malice. |
| 940 | * HappinessisMandatory: In Episode 123, Kaeloo takes Stumpy and Quack Quack on a tour to Heaven, where they meet an angel. The angel keeps singing about how in Heaven, there is only peace and harmony and things like that, but the angel seems to be forcing her happiness. |
| 941 | ** In Episode 131, Kaeloo invents a day called "Smile Day" where smiling is mandatory. By the end of the episode, everyone is upset for different reasons and they aren't smiling, so she beats them up offscreen. |
| 942 | * HappyDance: |
| 943 | ** Kaeloo's [[ShakingTheRump booty dance]]. |
| 944 | ** In the BaseballEpisode, Stumpy does one involving pushing his arms back and forth while walking on the spot. Later in the episode, Kaeloo joins him in doing it. |
| 945 | * HarmlessElectrocution: Nobody on the show ever gets harmed by electrocution (even if it involves being struck by lightning or sticking their fingers in electric sockets). |
| 946 | ** Averted in Episode 72 when [[TooDumbToLive Stumpy]] dies after electrocuting himself and has to be brought back to life by a spirit. |
| 947 | * HarmlessFreezing: [[spoiler: Happens to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat in Episode 104, and they are put into PeopleJars]]. |
| 948 | * HarmlessLiquefaction: In the BeachEpisode, Stumpy takes steroids to get buff, but uses too many instead of following the instructions. As a result, he ends up getting inflated "muscles" instead of real ones. When he tries to hit a volleyball with his new muscular arms, he pops and ends up as a pile of goo on the ground. In the next scene he's back to normal, though wearing bandages. |
| 949 | * HarmlessVillain: Olaf. All the heroes do is make fun of him. And if they decide that he's getting to be too annoying, they just beat him up. |
| 950 | * HarshWordImpact: In one episode Kaeloo presents a movie script that she wrote to her friends, who react with harsh criticism; every time someone says something, Kaeloo reacts as if she's been slapped in the face. |
| 951 | * HateAtFirstSight: Stumpy and Pretty started hating each other the moment they laid eyes on each other. |
| 952 | ** [[spoiler: The climax of Episode 105]] suggests that this may only be a facade. |
| 953 | * HatedByAll: Everyone hates [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Pretty]]. Even ''[[NiceGirl Kaeloo]]'' doesn't like her, which is saying something. |
| 954 | * HeadDesk: Mr. Cat does this in "Let's Play Prince Charming" after Quack Quack answers all his questions correctly. Unfortunately, he accidentally bangs it on a button on the desk which gives Quack Quack an electric shock. |
| 955 | * HeadsOrTails: When Stumpy and [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] get into an argument, Stumpy pulls out a coin so they can toss it and see who wins. He then says "Heads I win, tails you lose." He wins, obviously, and Pretty tries to attack him. |
| 956 | * HeadTiltinglyKinky: Minor example in "Let's Play Happy Rotter". Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack watch a documentary on crepidula, and when one of the crepidula [[GenderBender changes sex to mate]], they tilt their heads to one side. |
| 957 | * HeavenSeeker: In Episode 92, Stumpy becomes this when Kaeloo tells him that there are [[TradeMarkFavoriteFood lots of acorns]] there. [[spoiler: He dies at the end by committing suicide, but since suicide is a sin, [[CruelTwistEnding he gets sent to Hell instead]].]] |
| 958 | * HeldBackInSchool: [[TheDitz Stumpy]] has been held back in school so many times that he's still in kindergarten despite being a ten-year-old. |
| 959 | * HelloInsertNameHere: One of Stumpy's video games does this. When it asks Mr. Cat for his name, he angrily yells "Shut up, stupid machine!" From that point on, the game refers to him as though his name is "Shutupstupidmachine". |
| 960 | * HelpingAnotherSaveFace: In Episode 213, a rumor goes around that Mr. Cat, a CardCarryingVillain, has undergone a HeelFaceTurn, which he considers embarrassing. Pretty, having recently undergone an ''actual'' HeelFaceTurn and having become a nicer person, attempts to help him set the rumor straight by telling the crowd that the rumor is untrue. |
| 961 | * HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet: In Episode 210, Mr. Cat sets up a game show that judges people based on their ability to do good deeds. One of the challenges is for Kaeloo to help an old lady cross the street. Kaeloo does this by transforming into Bad Kaeloo and using SuperStrength to reconstruct the road, thus creating a safe path for the granny to cross, but Kaeloo fails the challenge because her actions led to all the cars crashing due to the new road shape. |
| 962 | * HelpYourselfInTheFuture: The gang go to the past to tell Quack Quack's past self to avoid consuming yogurt (which, in this show, is a GRatedDrug) so he doesn't end up being addicted to it like he is in the present. Things go horribly wrong when Stumpy tells his past self everything that has happened from then until the present, making him capable of [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the world]] since he has partial control over what will happen since he knows everything. [[StatusQuoIsGod Things are back to normal by the end, since the characters decided to avoid altering the timeline after witnessing the consequences.]] |
| 963 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Stumpy and Quack-Quack are inseparably close friends to the point where one episode showed that their friendship could quite literally transcend the boundaries of space and time, and another stated that they regularly hang out for more than twelve hours at a stretch. Stumpy also calls Quack-Quack his "brother" and aspires to be the best man at Quack-Quack's future wedding and be the fun uncle to his kids. In one episode he got jealous of Quack-Quack spending more time with Eugly than with him, but it is repeatedly made clear that Stumpy's feelings for Quack-Quack are only platonic. |
| 964 | * HereWeGoAgain: |
| 965 | ** The end of the pilot (and of "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light") had Kaeloo transform all over again with the intention of beating Mr. Cat up. |
| 966 | ** After Stumpy and Quack Quack get over their addiction to [[GRatedDrug carrots]], they get addicted to another GRatedDrug, tomato juice. |
| 967 | ** In Episode 216, the main four are playing blind man's buff and keep getting annoyed by Rules (a personification of the concept of rules), who keeps trying to alter the rules of the game to make the players more equal. The main four eventually get her to stop, and at the end of the episode, they decide to play soccer instead. Unfortunately, Stumpy asks for a reminder of the rules of soccer, and Rules shows up again to start talking about the rules of soccer, to Kaeloo's chagrin. |
| 968 | * HeroicFireRescue: [[spoiler: In Episode 93, Stumpy rushes in to rescue Quack Quack after [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] sets a building on fire with him trapped inside. Unfortunately, it's only after he gets inside and reaches Quack Quack that he realizes that there's no way to get out. He then remembers that [[MakesSenseInContext he can still make a birthday wish]], so he wishes them to safety.]] |
| 969 | * HeroicSacrifice:[[spoiler: Kaeloo tries to do this in Episode 77. Stumpy accidentally winds up doing it for her.]] See BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor above. |
| 970 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 971 | ** Kaeloo is apparently a great martial artist and can speak many different languages. |
| 972 | ** Stumpy is a brilliant artist and good at jump rope. [[spoiler: He's also dangerously smart at times, such as in Episode 105.]] |
| 973 | ** Mr. Cat is a brilliant scientist and is extremely athletic when necessary. [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat He might have even won a few events at the Zerolympics if he hadn’t been so obsessed with hurting Quack Quack]], and [[HalloweenEpisode "Let's Play Scaredy Cat"]] showed him to be capable of [[spoiler: single-handedly fighting off and stopping a zombie apocalypse]]. |
| 974 | ** [[GonkyFemme Eugly]] is capable of singing like a professional. |
| 975 | ** Pretty is apparently an excellent fighter, as shown in Episode 120. |
| 976 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: Mr. Cat, on ''very'' rare occasions, will show that he truly does care for his friends. [[spoiler:"Let’s Play Bye Bye, Yoghurt" ended with a PetTheDog moment between him and Quack Quack]]. |
| 977 | ** Moreover, Mr. Cat has outright confessed to Kaeloo that he has a sensitive and vulnerable side that he hides by being mean. |
| 978 | * HighFiveLeftHanging: In Episode 121, the main four are told that they are fired from their jobs and have to do a job interview to get re-hired. All four of them succeed, and Mr. Cat attempts to high five Kaeloo, but Kaeloo is too focused on yelling at Olaf (who conducted the interview) for the way she and the others were treated and she doesn't notice his hand. |
| 979 | * HighPressureEmotion: When Stumpy gets angry enough, he blows steam out of his nose. |
| 980 | * HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Quack Quack the duck. When he was still in an egg, his parents were killed by a hunter. He was subsequently found by scientists and taken to a laboratory where they did weird experiments on him. Then, he moved to Smileyland, where the show takes place. His life there, which is the events of the show, is not much better as his friends just exploit the superpowers he got from the experiments, and AxCrazy psychopath Mr. Cat repeatedly kills him, taking advantage of his NighInvulnerability. |
| 981 | * HiMom: |
| 982 | ** In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Stumpy isn't sure whether the camera is a webcam or a TV camera, but says hello to his mother anyway. |
| 983 | ** Inverted in [[CircusEpisode "Let's Play Circuses"]] when Stumpy's mom sees him on TV and calls him on his phone. |
| 984 | * HitMeDammit: In Episode 12, the main four start a news channel and Mr. Cat is convinced that [[IfItBleedsItLeads the audience will like violent news more than regular news]]. Later in the episode, Mr. Cat's usual antics cause Kaeloo to lose her temper and beat him up, which gets broadcasted on their channel. When Kaeloo comes to her senses and apologizes, Mr. Cat tries to convince her to continue hitting him in order to keep the viewers interested, going as far as to grab her foot and hit himself with it. |
| 985 | * HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: Mr. Cat uses these in the series' pilot episode when chopping off Quack Quack's arms. |
| 986 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: |
| 987 | ** Frequently happens to [[VillainProtagonist Mr. Cat]]. For example, in the episode "Let's Play Cops and Robbers", he gives Stumpy a banana as a weapon. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode during a car chase scene with Stumpy pursuing Mr. Cat, Stumpy launches the banana, which gets stuck in Mr. Cat's nose and causes him to lose control of the car.]] Sometimes it happens with even the most minor things; in one episode, he tries to hit [[TheWoobie Quack Quack]] on the head with a mallet, but since he is completely drunk at the time, he winds up hitting himself on the head. |
| 988 | ** In Episode 113, Kaeloo takes Stumpy to court, with Quack Quack as the judge, for "mistreating" objects and convinces the jury that objects have souls and therefore Stumpy should be punished. [[spoiler: Mr. Cat, who is Stumpy's lawyer in this episode, decides to use this to his advantage. He decides to call a can of yogurt, which is Quack Quack's TrademarkFavoriteFood, as a witness, pointing out that if objects have souls, the yogurt counts as a witness. Quack Quack devours the "witness" almost instantly and is taken to jail by Mr. Cat, who is also a police officer in this episode. Kaeloo steps out of the courtroom to talk to some reporters about the incident, and since everyone is gone, Stumpy takes the judge's place and declares himself "not guilty", which apparently works in [[CrapsaccharineWorld Smileyland]]'s judicial system.]] |
| 989 | ** In Episode 138, Kaeloo tells Stumpy to clean his incredibly messy room, and the latter resorts to PlayingSick so he can sit around playing video games instead of cleaning. Kaeloo sees right through this, so she says that if he's sick, he must need medicines... and brings in a truckload of vaccines. Stumpy, who is terribly AfraidOfNeedles, says that he "got better", and is forced to clean his room. |
| 990 | ** Villainous example: Kaeloo tries to give Mr. Cat the SilentTreatment so he'll stop the unethical activities he's doing in the episode. Mr. Cat chooses to ignore this and continues to address her in a friendly tone of voice, asking her if she'd like to join in a fun activity he's planning. Kaeloo starts crying because her [[VitriolicBestBuds friendship]] [[BelligerentSexualTension with]] [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Mr. Cat]] is too strong to never speak to him again, and she gives up on the idea. |
| 991 | * HoldingHands: |
| 992 | ** [[spoiler: Mr. Cat and Kaeloo]] do this in Episode 105. |
| 993 | ** In Episode 231, Kaeloo and Mr. Cat witness a bunch of happy couples together, and Kaeloo says "love is beautiful" before holding Mr. Cat's hand, showing that their relationship is leaning more towards romance than plain friendship at this point in the series. |
| 994 | * HollywoodAcid: Mr. Cat dunks [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]] into a tub full of it in "Let's Play Prince Charming". |
| 995 | * HollywoodHealing: |
| 996 | ** Bandages fix everything. Even if [[YourHeadAsplode your head blows up]], you should be fine with bandages. |
| 997 | ** This is averted in Episode 22 when after Stumpy, Quack Quack, and Mr. Cat are injured, Quack Quack is fine, but Stumpy and Mr. Cat need him to push them around on a hospital gurney since they haven't recovered enough to get back on their feet. |
| 998 | * HollywoodToneDeaf: Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Olaf (except in the MusicalEpisode). |
| 999 | * HolyHalo: Mr. Cat puts one on while pretending to be "innocent" in Episode 102. |
| 1000 | * HoodOrnamentHottie: When [[TheDitz Stumpy]] [[MakesSenseInContext tries to sell apples by giving away free cars with the purchase of an apple]], he dresses as a girl and sits on top of the car. Nobody buys the apples anyway. |
| 1001 | * HorribleCampingTrip: The main four's camping trip in "Let's Play Treasure Hunt". First, they find out that [[TheDitz Stumpy]] unpacked all their supplies [[SkewedPriorities so he could have room for all his comic books]]. Then, Kaeloo sets up a game of treasure hunt for Stumpy and Quack Quack to play, but Mr. Cat changes all the clues and dares in the game so Stumpy and Quack Quack are horribly injured. |
| 1002 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Kaeloo is the ''worst'' at character judgement. She believes that [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] is nice (unless he really is being nice, in which case she thinks he's being mean), and she thinks Olaf is just a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold when he's actually evil and wants to TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 1003 | * HostileShowTakeover: |
| 1004 | ** After [[SuddenIntelligence Stumpy becomes a genius]] in Episode 72, he decides to TakeOverTheWorld and change the show's name from ''[[ProtagonistTitle Kaeloo]]'' to ''Stumpy''. |
| 1005 | ** [[spoiler: At the end of Episode 105, Stumpy breaks into the animation studio making the show and takes over script-writing.]] |
| 1006 | * HotSkittyOnWailordAction: The episode "Let's Play Babysitting" revolves around Kaeloo, a frog, trying to persuade Mr. Cat, a cat, to have sex with her. It never gets to that stage due to an emotional outburst from Kaeloo's side, but Quack Quack has an ImagineSpot showing the viewers what the resulting babies would have looked like: [[PatchworkKids orange tadpoles with whiskers]]. |
| 1007 | * HourglassPlot: In Episode 209, Stumpy is saddled with watching [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling his little sister Nombril]] for the day. [[AttentionWhore Nombril]] keeps trying to get his attention with exaggerated gestures while Stumpy, who is fed up of Nombril constantly interfering with his activities, ignores her and pretends he doesn't even know who she is. Later in the episode, Stumpy annoys Nombril, causing her to start ignoring him. The episode ends with Stumpy desperately trying to get Nombril's attention while she gives him the cold shoulder, saying she doesn't talk to "strangers". |
| 1008 | * HowDidThatGetInThere: In one episode, Mr. Cat is giving a presentation on vampires with a slideshow to Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack when a picture of Bad Kaeloo shows up as one of the slides. |
| 1009 | * HuddleShot: Used in the BaseballEpisode when Stumpy's team[[note]]consisting of Kaeloo, |
| 1010 | Stumpy and Mr. Cat[[/note]] discusses strategies on how to defeat their extremely talented opponents[[note]][[TheAce Quack Quack]], Olaf and [[DoAnythingRobot Serguei]][[/note]]. |
| 1011 | * HulkingOut: The titular character goes through this OnceAnEpisode. |
| 1012 | * HumanHummingbird: In multiple episodes, running characters' feet are depicted as a blur of oval shapes. |
| 1013 | * HumanlikeHandAnatomy: Everyone except Olaf has FourFingeredHands which resemble those of humans, though Quack Quack's arms are flat like wings. |
| 1014 | * HumanoidFemaleAnimal: The female animals shown in men's magazines are bordering on LittleBitBeastly. Even Kaeloo herself, who [[ViewerGenderConfusion lacks]] most forms of TertiarySexualCharacteristics has some serious junk in the trunk and has a light curve to her hips which is often accentuated in the way she stands. She is also significantly less prone to dropping a FurryReminder than her male friends. Pretty also seems to have curvy hips as well (but no other curves). |
| 1015 | * HumiliationConga: In the very second episode of the show, Stumpy gets the flu, eats a poisonous mushroom, gives himself a concussion, and breaks his leg. |
| 1016 | * HyperspaceArsenal: Mr. Cat has an arsenal of weapons which he can randomly pull out at any time, which consists mostly of bazookas, guns, chainsaws, knives, mallets and others. {{Lampshade| hanging}}d in one episode where he says he is carrying a bazooka, a chainsaw and a cluster bomb, while his hands are completely empty. |
| 1017 | * HyperspaceMallet: Where exactly does Mr. Cat keep all those mallets[[note]]He has a bunch in different sizes[[/note]]? |
| 1018 | * HypocriticalHeartwarming: |
| 1019 | ** Mr. Cat acts like a {{Jerkass}} to Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack but when somebody else decides to mess with them, he will not accept it. |
| 1020 | ** Pretty is the ONLY one allowed to insult her sister. Notably in one episode where Stumpy insults Eugly, so Pretty punches his lights put, then turns to Eugly and says Stumpy was right. |
| 1021 | ** Stumpy thinks Lavanade is weird and annoying because of her supernatural powers that allow her to summon spirits and levitate, and constantly complains about her to his friends. However, when Kaeloo suggests that Lavanade needs to be exorcised, Stumpy angrily tells her that he won't let her do any rituals on his sister. |
| 1022 | * HypocriticalHumor: |
| 1023 | ** Happens twice in the same scene in "Let’s Play Scaredy Cat". Kaeloo, who is walking through a dark forest with Quack Quack and Mr. Cat, sees a door in the forest and screams in fear. Mr. Cat questions why she is scared, and opens the door to see Quack Quack on the other side. He screams. Then, Kaeloo says that he’s going overboard. |
| 1024 | ** In "Let's Play Golf", Mr. Cat joins the others in calling Kaeloo a "dirty cheater". |
| 1025 | ** In "Let's Play at Reading Books", Stumpy calls Mr. Cat a loser. |
| 1026 | ** Stumpy constantly makes fun of [[TheNapoleon Olaf]], the shortest character on the show, for being short. Guess who's the second shortest of the cast. |
| 1027 | ** There are episodes where [[IdiotHero Kaeloo]] accuses [[TheDitz Stumpy]] of being stupid. |
| 1028 | ** In Episode 82, the normally hyperactive [[GenkiGirl Kaeloo]], who normally spends her time dancing, singing and doing other such generally annoying things, is sitting and playing a board game. She turns around and yells at Stumpy, who is bouncing on a trampoline, for being annoying. |
| 1029 | ** In another episode, Stumpy finds out that Kaeloo once farted and blamed him for it. He calls her a "hypocrite"... and then he farts and decides to blame Quack Quack for it. |
| 1030 | ** In Episode 108, Kaeloo tells [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] that he is a "monster". Kaeloo herself is capable of HulkingOut and turning into a monster, and does so OncePerEpisode. [[LampshadeHanging Mr. Cat even calls her out on it.]] |
| 1031 | ** In Episode 81, when Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Pretty are in a desert, Kaeloo warns them that there could be scorpions in the desert. Pretty screams in fear. Stumpy makes fun of her for getting scared, but then Kaeloo mentions that there could also be rattlesnakes. Stumpy screams even louder and starts to panic. |
| 1032 | ** In one episode, we get a scene where the trope is used by several different people. Mr. Cat tries to run psychological tests on Stumpy. Quack Quack lampshades the fact that Mr. Cat is an AxCrazy psychopath and he himself qualifies for requiring such testing. Kaeloo agrees. Mr. Cat then points out that Quack Quack and Kaeloo need it too. |
| 1033 | ** In one episode, Pretty makes fun of Stumpy for having buck teeth. Pretty also has buck teeth. |
| 1034 | ** In "Let's Play Art Class", Kaeloo sees that Stumpy has made a painting without following the "rules of art" which she uses while painting and calls his painting "childish scribbles". Stumpy's painting is actually amazing and Kaeloo's painting looks like it was made by a kindergartener. |
| 1035 | ** In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat, the show's biggest {{jerkass}}, calls NiceGirl Kaeloo a "she-devil". |
| 1036 | ** In Episode 138, when Kaeloo yells at Stumpy, Mr. Cat tells her that she shouldn't be so mean to him. Mr. Cat regularly yells at, insults and even beats up Stumpy. |
| 1037 | ** Then there was this gem from the ChristmasEpisode: |
| 1038 | --> '''Mr. Cat:''' Don’t tell me you still believe in Santa!\ |
| 1039 | '''[[TheDitz Stumpy]]:''': Well, yeah. Who else would bring the presents? Your ''parents''? You’re so naive, Mr. Cat. |
| 1040 | ** In one episode from season 4, Kaeloo confides in Pretty that she feels like her butt is shapeless and flabby. Pretty promptly blabs the secret to Mr. Cat, the boy both she and Kaeloo like. When Mr. Cat informs Kaeloo that Pretty told him her secret, Kaeloo confronts Pretty and Pretty rants about how boys can't keep secrets properly. |
| 1041 | [[/folder]] |
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| 1043 | [[folder:Tropes I]] |
| 1044 | * IAmNotWeasel: Olaf is an emperor penguin, not an auk. [[RunningGag Not that anyone cares enough to remember, of course.]] [[note]]In the French dub, this also references the common mistake of calling penguins ''pingouins'' (auks) instead of ''manchots'', due to mixing up with the English word.[[/note]] |
| 1045 | * IAteWhat: Olaf, judging a cooking competition, seems fine with [[LethalChef Pretty]]'s dish until one of the live worms she put in it crawls out of his mouth. |
| 1046 | * ICallItVera: Mr. Cat named his bazooka "Patience", [[IronicName of all names.]] |
| 1047 | * ICantBelieveImSayingThis: When Quack Quack does Mr. Cat a favor, Mr. Cat responds with "I never thought I'd be saying this, but thanks, duck-face." |
| 1048 | * ICantLookGesture: |
| 1049 | ** Invoked and subverted. In "Let's Play Simon Says", [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] puts Quack Quack in a very humiliating situation and covers his eyes, saying "I can't look..." but then uncovers them and says "Or maybe I can." |
| 1050 | ** Played straight in "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", when [[NiceGirl Kaeloo]] covers her eyes and says "I can't watch this!" when [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor Mr. Cat]] tricks [[TheDitz Stumpy]] and [[DitzyGenius Quack Quack]] into jumping off a cliff. |
| 1051 | * IconicItem: [[AxCrazy Mr. Cat]]'s bazooka and [[TheDitz Stumpy]]'s video game console. |
| 1052 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode name starts with "Let's Play...". |
| 1053 | * IfItBleedsItLeads: Invoked. The main four want to start a news station, but since nothing interesting is happening, Mr. Cat deliberately instigates several violent incidents, including one with himself as the victim, and reports on these incidents on TV. The audience loves it. |
| 1054 | * IfItsYouItsOkay: Mr. Cat hates the concepts of dating and marriage and often dismisses them as a waste of time that ends poorly. However, he has repeatedly expressed that he wants to date (and eventually marry) Kaeloo. |
| 1055 | * IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: In "Let's Play Ecologists", Kaeloo buys Quack Quack organic yogurt to replace his regular yogurt because it is supposedly very healthy. Quack Quack vomits as soon as he eats it. Stumpy tries it and has the same reaction, and even Mr. Cat, who has eaten ''very'' questionable food before, says it's "revolting". Kaeloo winds up having to [[ForceFeeding force feed]] the organic yogurt to Quack Quack. |
| 1056 | * IgnoringBySinging: Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat in Episode 105 until she finds out [[spoiler: that [[NotMeThisTime the real villain of the episode is Stumpy and Mr. Cat was trying to stop him]].]] |
| 1057 | * IHaveNothingToSayToThat: When Kaeloo suddenly breaks down crying in the middle of a conversation, Stumpy thinks it must be a psychological issue, and suggests asking [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] to help Kaeloo sort it out. Quack Quack thinks this is a horrible idea, since Mr. Cat is, well, [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]], eliciting this response from Stumpy: |
| 1058 | -->'''Stumpy:''' Do YOU know anything about psychology?\ |
| 1059 | '''Quack Quack:''' ''Stares in silence''\ |
| 1060 | '''Stumpy:''' No? Exactly. |
| 1061 | * IHaveYourWife: In one episode of Season 1, [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] takes Quack Quack, to whom Kaeloo is a ParentalSubstitute, as a hostage so she'll pay him money. It turns out that she doesn't have any [[RunningGag because of the ongoing economic crisis]]. Mr. Cat then threatens to shoot Kaeloo if Quack Quack doesn't pay him, which also fails because Quack Quack doesn't have any money. Mr. Cat is subsequently punished by Kaeloo for what he did. |
| 1062 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: Kaeloo has a condition where she winds up HulkingOut whenever she gets too angry and does mean and sadistic things to whoever made her angry, which seem to be beyond her conscious control. She doesn't want this "power" and has tried numerous times to get rid of it, but she never can. |
| 1063 | * IJustWantToBeYou: Stumpy really, ''really'' wishes he was Mr. Cat. |
| 1064 | * IKissYourHand: Mr. Cat does this to Kaeloo sometimes, usually followed by [[KissUpTheArm kissing her arm]]. |
| 1065 | ** In "Let's Play Tea Party", Quack Quack tries doing this to Kaeloo, but [[CrazyJealousGuy Mr. Cat]] shoots his head off with a bazooka before he can. |
| 1066 | * IllFatedFlowerbed: This is a RunningGag on the show, with Kaeloo's flowers constantly being destroyed by the main four's antics (either accidentally or on purpose). |
| 1067 | * IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: Pretty does this in one episode where she goes on a TV show and says "I'd never say..." followed by one of her friends' secrets each time. [[spoiler: She's actually doing it on purpose, not because she's stupid.]] |
| 1068 | * ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: The trope is used in an episode where [[NiceGirl Kaeloo]] and [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] are doctors, with Mr. Cat taking DrJerk to a whole new level. When both of them try to "cure" Quack Quack (who isn't even sick), Kaeloo suggests homeopathic cures. Mr. Cat, eager to hurt Quack Quack, asks if she means acupuncture, and she clarifies that she meant to use herbs and flowers, eliciting this response from [[CatsAreSnarkers Mr. Cat]]: |
| 1069 | -->'''Mr. Cat''': I'm a doctor, not a florist. |
| 1070 | * ImaginaryFriend: Stumpy has many of these. |
| 1071 | * ImagineSpot: |
| 1072 | ** Quack Quack has one in "Let's Play Babysitting" about what Kaeloo and Mr. Cat's potential offspring would look like: [[PatchworkKids orange tadpoles with whiskers]]. |
| 1073 | ** When Kaeloo tries to talk to her friends about growing up, Mr. Cat briefly imagines a giant Quack Quack crushing him. |
| 1074 | * IMissMom: Mr. Cat admits to this after [[spoiler: being shot with TruthSerum]] in "Let's Play Spies", combined with crying and [[StillSucksThumb thumb-sucking]]. |
| 1075 | * ImmediateSelfContradiction: In one episode, in every dub except the English dub, Stumpy says he's not AfraidOfNeedles, then faints at the sight of a needle. Averted in the English dub where he admits that he's scared instead of denying it before passing out. |
| 1076 | * ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Mr. Cat constantly torments Quack Quack by shooting him with bazookas, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cutting him in half]], etc. and attempts to justify himself by saying that Quack Quack is indestructible. |
| 1077 | * ImpairmentShot: |
| 1078 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Hopscotch", when [[MakesSenseInContext Quack Quack is hit on the head by a boulder thanks to Stumpy]], the camera blurs and everything appears as though we're seeing double. |
| 1079 | ** In one episode where Mr. Cat gets completely drunk, the camera starts to wobble and slightly blur. |
| 1080 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Episode 184 reveals that Mr. Cat murdered a guy called Jean-René by impaling him on the bowsprit of a ship. It's never explained how or why he did this, but he did it skillfully enough that somehow Jean-René didn't even notice. |
| 1081 | * ImplausibleDeniability: |
| 1082 | ** One episode had Mr. Cat say that he would never try to hurt Quack Quack... ''while chasing the duck with a mallet''. |
| 1083 | ** In another episode, Kaeloo and Stumpy both set up market stalls. Kaeloo's is full of fresh apples, and Stumpy's is full of rotten ones. Later, Kaeloo finds all her apples stolen. Stumpy says he swears he didn't steal them, even though the fresh apples are in plain view at his stand. |
| 1084 | ** Then there's this line from Kaeloo: "I don't talk with a li''th''p, Mi''th''ter Cat!" |
| 1085 | ** When asked about the chance of a romantic relationship between him and Kaeloo, Mr. Cat tells the audience that Kaeloo constantly texts him, and it is implied that the texts are somewhat flirty in nature. Before he can reveal what exactly the messages said, Kaeloo yanks the phone out of his hands, launches him offstage, and yells that she "never texts him at all", despite the fact that Mr. Cat obviously had her texts on his phone screen and was about to show them to the audience. |
| 1086 | * ImpossibleHourglassFigure: The women in men's magazines on the show have extremely narrow waists when compared to the rest of their body proportions. |
| 1087 | * ImpossibleTask: In one episode, Mr. Cat gives Kaeloo the task of transforming without getting angry. Even though [[NegativeContinuity she has been seen doing this before]], she treats it as though it is not possible. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Kaeloo gives Mr. Cat another impossible task as a punishment.]] |
| 1088 | * ImStandingRightHere: In the BeachEpisode, [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] reads on the internet that boys love to comfort miserable girls and tries to get attention from Mr. Cat by telling him that she finds life with her sister unbearable and wants to commit suicide, ''[[KickTheDog while her sister is standing right there]]''. |
| 1089 | * InadvertentEntranceCue: |
| 1090 | ** In Episode 72, Stumpy, who has been given SuddenIntelligence, decides to invent a bomb. When he mentions this, Olaf suddenly shows up and asks who mentioned a bomb. |
| 1091 | ** In another episode, Kaeloo decides to play "restaurant" by playing waitress to [[OfficialCouple Quack Quack and Eugly]], who are on a date. After Mr. Cat ruins said date, Kaeloo laments and asks who she can play "restaurant" with now that her "customers" are gone. Suddenly, [[BigEater Stumpy]] shows up with a fork and knife and runs towards the table. |
| 1092 | * InanimateCompetitor: In Episode 238, Stumpy tries to run a race against a rock. Stumpy trips and falls on the ground, and the impact causes the rock to fly into the air and land on the finish line, and the rock is declared the winner. |
| 1093 | * InappropriateRoleModel: Stumpy's role model (besides comic book hero Mr. Coolskin) is, unfortunately, Mr. Cat. |
| 1094 | * IncomingHam: |
| 1095 | ** Kaeloo always yells something akin to "Hello, friends/buddies/pals!" while entering the scene in extravagant ways like floating down from the sky with an umbrella, crashing a kick-scooter into the couch or suddenly popping out of a conveniently placed box. |
| 1096 | ** In the French dub, Olaf the penguin always yells something which translates to "Bow down before your emperor!" whenever he enters the scene. Nobody ever obeys this, and in some cases Mr. Cat even goes as far as beating him up. |
| 1097 | * IncredibleShrinkingMan: In "Let's Play Happy Rotter", an episode parodying ''Literature/HarryPotter'', Stumpy says the wrong magic spell and shrinks himself. |
| 1098 | * IncrediblyLameFun: A lot of Kaeloo's games are seen as "boring" by her friends, who would much rather watch TV or play video games. |
| 1099 | * InelegantBlubbering: Depending on the episode, Kaeloo's crying can be this. |
| 1100 | * InfantSiblingJealousy: When Mr. Cat was born, both of his [[BigBrotherBully older brothers]] quickly developed a hatred towards him for supposedly being their mother's favorite and would bully him as a result. Unlike most examples of the trope, the brothers continued to hate and abuse him for years until Mr. Cat got sick of the abuse and decided to run away from home entirely. |
| 1101 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: |
| 1102 | ** Kaeloo claims to think of herself as cute-looking and talented, but the moment she sees a prettier girl or someone who is more talented than her, she becomes jealous of them because she actually has rather low self esteem. |
| 1103 | ** It's heavily implied, if not outright stated, that the reason Mr. Cat constantly brags about his intelligence, strength, and other talents is because he has no self-esteem, so he inflates his ego to make himself feel better. |
| 1104 | * InfernalBackground: When Mr. Cat gets really angry, the background behind him bursts into flames. |
| 1105 | * InformedAttractiveness: In-universe, Pretty apparently really lives up to her name. Mr. Cat is also suggested to be very attractive. |
| 1106 | * InformedDeformity: Apparently, in-universe, Kaeloo is overweight and has cellulite, and Stumpy is hideous. |
| 1107 | * InMediasRes: Episode 135 starts with the main four in the middle of re-enacting ''Literature/LesMiserables'' with no explanation given. |
| 1108 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: During an essay contest where the participants have to write about their biggest dream, Kaeloo writes an essay about how her ideal world would be, which includes calm and peace for everyone. Since Kaeloo Mr. Cat spend most of their time [[VitriolicBestBuds bonding over fights with each other]], Mr. Cat takes it to mean that Kaeloo doesn't want him in her ideal world and feels upset that his best friend seemingly doesn't care about him. |
| 1109 | * InsaneEqualsViolent: [[AxCrazy Mr. Cat]] is an insane psychopath owns a bunch of weapons, and attacks people and objects very violently to the slightest annoyance (or even for no reason at all). Stumpy may be an aversion since he is insane, but not violent. If he is being violent, it's probably in a video game or attacking an object, but not a person. |
| 1110 | * InsaneTrollLogic: |
| 1111 | ** Most of [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Stumpy]]'s reasoning. |
| 1112 | -->'''Stumpy''': "Life is magical, life is magical." How many times have I heard that? But if magic doesn't exist... then life itself doesn't exist! |
| 1113 | ** In one episode, Mr. Cat says that he believes that women must stay in the kitchen and do housework. Kaeloo points out how backward his thought process is, and Mr. Cat says that he has no problem with gay couples[[note]]The show portrays Mr. Cat as AmbiguouslyBi[[/note]] and therefore he can't be thinking backward. |
| 1114 | ** Stumpy tries to tan himself in Episode 45 by setting up a bunch of barbecue grills to accelerate global warming and make the planet hotter. |
| 1115 | ** In the first episode, during a game of prison-ball, Mr. Cat sets up a basketball hoop to catch the ball in. Kaeloo says that it's cheating, and Mr. Cat explains why it isn't: The game is called "prison-ball", and "all prisoners play basketball". |
| 1116 | ** In one episode, the main cast write a sitcom, and in the sitcom, the main characters are harboring an illegal immigrant from Mexico in their home. Their neighbor starts to suspect that they may be harboring a Mexican immigrant because... they had Mexican food for dinner one day. |
| 1117 | * InsignificantAnniversary: In "Astronauts", Stumpy prepares to celebrate the two-week anniversary of the day when he and his girlfriend Ursula became Fakebook friends. |
| 1118 | * InsistentTerminology: |
| 1119 | ** In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", each time somebody says that [[TheDitz Stumpy]] lost the cards, he claims that he just "forgot where he put them". |
| 1120 | ** Stumpy's little sister Poucave is an aspiring journalist who practices for her future career by spying on people to write about them. Whenever someone calls her out on it, Poucave explains that she isn't "spying", but "investigating". |
| 1121 | * InspirationalInsult: In the episode "Let's Play Catch the Mailman", Kaeloo receives a letter in the mail from [[NoFourthWall someone claiming to be a fan of the show]], who says that Stumpy, Quack Quack and especially Mr. Cat are the best characters on the show and that she is annoying, boring, serious and easily offended[[note]]This actually does [[AudienceSurrogate reflect the real-life feelings of some fans about her]][[/note]]. Kaeloo decides to use this as advice and never get angry again and be calm, easygoing and cool. [[spoiler: Of course, she gets angry beyond words at the end of the episode when she finds out that the letter was written not by a fan, but by Mr. Cat himself.]] |
| 1122 | * InstantBandages: In the pilot episode, bandages instantly appear on Mr. Cat while he is getting beaten up. Averted in the actual show, where we often see Kaeloo bandage him up after the beating. |
| 1123 | * InstantHomeDelivery: Anything the characters order immediately falls out of the sky. |
| 1124 | * InstantWakingSkills: In one episode, [[GenkiGirl Kaeloo]] has to wake up at 5:30. She proceeds to jump out of bed the moment the alarm clock rings, and somehow even does exercise. |
| 1125 | * InstantWebHit: In Episode 68, Bad Kaeloo, Quack Quack, Mr. Cat, Pretty and Eugly make a rock song. Someone puts it on the internet and they become incredibly famous overnight. |
| 1126 | * InstantWristwatch: The main four have these. |
| 1127 | * InstrumentalThemeTune |
| 1128 | * IntelligibleUnintelligible: {{Zigzagged| Trope}} with Quack Quack. Sometimes everyone understands him, sometimes they don't. |
| 1129 | * TheInternetIsForCats: Apparently, even though the show is set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals, there are still cat videos; even Mr. Cat thinks being a cat is awesome because people on the internet love cats. |
| 1130 | * InterruptedBath: In one episode, Kaeloo is taking a shower, but Stumpy flushes all the toilets at once and the house runs out of water, so Kaeloo's shower is cut short. |
| 1131 | * InterruptedSuicide: In an episode where Stumpy thinks he's not going to be able to impress a girl he likes, he tries to hang himself. Before he can do it, his friends talk him down and offer him advice on how to impress the girl. |
| 1132 | * InterspeciesRomance: |
| 1133 | ** Quack Quack, a duck, and Eugly, a rabbit, are an OfficialCouple. |
| 1134 | ** Another OfficialCouple is Stumpy the squirrel and Ursula the cat. |
| 1135 | ** Kaeloo, a frog, and Mr. Cat, a cat, have shown signs of attraction to each other. |
| 1136 | ** Pretty, a rabbit, has a crush on Mr. Cat. |
| 1137 | * IntroductoryOpeningCredits: The opening has shots of the main characters. |
| 1138 | * InVinoVeritas: When Mr. Cat drinks alcohol, he tends to drop the {{Jerkass}} act and be much nicer. |
| 1139 | * {{Invisibility}}: |
| 1140 | ** This has happened to Mr. Cat in a couple of episodes. Each time, he ended up beating up Kaeloo and Quack Quack, |
| 1141 | ** Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack turn themselves into ghosts in Episode 123, rendering them invisible. |
| 1142 | * InvisibleJerkass: |
| 1143 | ** Mr. Cat was already a jerk, but in some episodes when he gets turned invisible he's even worse, and he does things like kick Kaeloo and hit Quack Quack with mallets while constantly moving so they can't get back at him. |
| 1144 | ** When Stumpy is turned into a ghost in Episode 123, [[PowerPerversionPotential he tries to sneak into the bathroom to watch Pretty take a bath.]] Kaeloo stops him before he can do it. |
| 1145 | * InvisibleParents: |
| 1146 | ** Stumpy's mother is one of these. Stumpy and his sisters still live with her and regularly talk about her, but Stumpy's mother herself is never seen onscreen; in one episode she makes an appearance but her voice is heard from offscreen and she never appears physically. |
| 1147 | ** Due to Mr. Cat running away from home before the start of the series, his mother is one of these as well. Her presence in the show so far is limited to one brief phone call and one scene of her yelling at Mr. Cat from offscreen. |
| 1148 | * InvoluntaryDance: |
| 1149 | ** In Episode 132, Kaeloo forces Mr. Cat to join her and the others in having fun by turning on some Zumba music. He ties himself to a tree in order to escape, but the ropes break and he soon finds himself involuntarily doing Zumba with them. |
| 1150 | ** In "Let's Play Super Powers", Kaeloo uses an attack on Mr. Cat that causes him to dance uncontrollably. |
| 1151 | * InvoluntaryShapeshifter: Mr. Cat is one of these, his transformations into random objects usually brought upon by Kaeloo beating the stuffing out of him. |
| 1152 | * IResembleThatRemark: |
| 1153 | ** In "Let's Play Guess Who!", Kaeloo says she doesn't have a double personality... and [[JekyllAndHyde transforms]] mid-sentence. |
| 1154 | ** In another episode, she yells "I NEVER YELL!" when Mr. Cat says she should stop yelling. |
| 1155 | ** One episode had the main four go for a job interview. In the waiting room, Mr. Cat (who is calmly reading a book) tells Kaeloo that she seems stressed. She responds by screaming "I HAVE NO REASON TO BE STRESSED!" in an extremely stressed manner and slaps the book out of his hands. |
| 1156 | * IronicFear: Stumpy, a squirrel, is afraid of heights. |
| 1157 | * IronicName: In one episode, it is revealed that Mr. Cat, a sadistic psychopath with a HairTriggerTemper whose favorite hobby is to torture people with weapons, [[ICallItVera gave his bazooka a name.]] Its name is "Patience". |
| 1158 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 1159 | ** "Let's Play Grown Ups" ends with Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack singing a song about what a wonderful friend Mr. Cat is to them. At the moment they're singing this, Mr. Cat is running around looking for a bazooka or other weapon to kill them with. |
| 1160 | ** As the series progresses, we learn that Mr. Cat, who despises interacting with people, enjoys being alone, and is rude and snarky to everyone he meets, is popular and well-liked by everyone, while Kaeloo, a friendly extrovert who loves everyone, is generally avoided by people because they think she's weird and annoying. |
| 1161 | ** Kaeloo and Mr. Cat both have incredibly low self-esteem, but they have very high esteem for each other. |
| 1162 | ** Mr. Cat is the main antagonist and often tortures the rest of the main four just for the heck of it, yet he is TheLeader of the main four whenever they encounter a problem that the four of them need to face together. |
| 1163 | ** In one episode, Kaeloo's friends are all out doing their own thing and Kaeloo thinks that they've abandoned her because she's not important to them. When she makes a phone call to Mr. Cat, who is at a party, the latter tells everyone else at the party that the caller is "the frog I was telling you guys about just two seconds ago". |
| 1164 | ** When [[BornLucky Quack-Quack]] notices that Stumpy's sister Violasse carries around a balloon with his face on it, Stumpy explains that Violasse was BornUnlucky and that she sees the balloon as a GoodLuckCharm that will save her from danger, as if Quack-Quack was her personal "superhero", which Stumpy dismisses as nonsense. As Stumpy (who was also BornUnlucky) is explaining this, Quack-Quack saves him from falling into a pit, being hit by a meteor, and drinking poison, proving that he is indeed a "superhero" to those who struggle with bad luck. |
| 1165 | * IsItSomethingYouEat: In Episode 210, Mr. Cat invites Kaeloo, Stumpy, and Pretty onto a game show where participants earn good karma by doing good deeds. Stumpy, being the resident moron, doesn't know what karma is and asks "What's karma? Can you eat it?" |
| 1166 | * ISophagus: Parodied. Quack Quack manages to develop an amazing singing voice by accidentally swallowing a ''spoon'' of all things. |
| 1167 | * ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: In "Let's Play Bye Bye, Yoghurt", it rains at the funeral. |
| 1168 | * ItAmusedMe: Unlike Mr. Cat and Olaf, who have {{Freudian Excuse}}s, and Pretty, who is a SlaveToPR, Stumpy has no reason to torment people other than his own amusement. |
| 1169 | * ITasteDelicious: In one episode, [[TheDitz Stumpy]] gets a job at a fast-food restaurant and starts to smell like fries after working for a long time. He then licks his arm and remarks on how good he tastes. |
| 1170 | * ItsAllMyFault: In Episode 214, Stumpy repeatedly complains to [[MagneticMedium Lavanade]] that her supernatural powers are weird and he wishes she could be normal. This sparks an argument between Stumpy and Quack-Quack, because not only is Quack-Quack appalled by Stumpy's treatment of Lavanade, but Quack-Quack has superpowers too and every insult Stumpy says to Lavanade hurts him too. Lavanade being the subject of the argument, she blames herself for upsetting the two of them and starts crying about how it was all her fault. |
| 1171 | * IveHeardOfThatWhatIsIt: In "Let's Play Hopscotch", [[TheDitz Stumpy]] sees Kaeloo drawing on the ground with chalk and asks her what it is. She shows him that it is a game of hopscotch. Stumpy excitedly raves about how much he loves hopscotch, but he has one question: "what's hopscotch"? |
| 1172 | * IWantMyMommy: In one episode, Stumpy uses a PortalDoor to go inside Mr. Cat's brain. Mr. Cat tells him to leave, but he refuses to, so Mr. Cat imagines something disgusting which attacks Stumpy. Stumpy runs out screaming for his mother. |
| 1173 | * IWantSong: [[spoiler: Stumpy sings one in Episode 105, with [[TheChewToy Stumpy]] explaining how he wants all the abuse to stop and for people to treat him better.]] |
| 1174 | * IWasJustJoking: In "Let's Play Detectives", after Kaeloo finds out that [[spoiler: [[GadgeteerGenius Mr. Cat]] built a cloning machine]], she complains that it feels too much like a science fiction episode instead of a detective episode, and sarcastically asks him why he doesn't add some bazookas and lasers. Which turns out to be a bad question to ask someone who owns three of them. |
| 1175 | [[/folder]] |
| 1176 | |
| 1177 | [[folder:Tropes J-L]] |
| 1178 | * JailBaitWait: In Episode 191, Stumpy is magically turned into an adult and realizes that he will have to wait several more years until Ursula becomes old enough for their relationship to be legal again. |
| 1179 | * JawDrop: Kaeloo's reaction to anything she finds shocking, e.g. Stumpy eating a huge pile of food at a really high speed and throwing all the packaging on the ground. |
| 1180 | * JekyllAndHyde: Kaeloo and Bad Kaeloo, a cute gentle frog and a huge, buffed sadistic toad respectively. |
| 1181 | * JerkassHasAPoint: When Kaeloo tries to tell fairy tales as bedtime stories to Stumpy and Quack Quack in Episode 122, Mr. Cat interrupts each story, takes over the narration, and makes it more realistic (like having Cinderella call CPS, for example). When Kaeloo gets mad at him for "ruining" the stories, he points out that the original versions of the fairy tales would not help Stumpy and Quack Quack learn how to deal with real life problems. |
| 1182 | * JokerJury: |
| 1183 | ** Episode 35 Inverts the heroic and villainous roles by having Mr. Cat, the villain, be put on trial with the judge (who is none other than [[TheDitz Stumpy]]), the defense attorney ([[BitchInSheepsClothing Kaeloo]]) and the victim (Quack Quack) all wanting him to get punished. [[spoiler: [[ManipulativeBitch Kaeloo]] wins the case by manipulating Mr. Cat into confessing that he was guilty.]] |
| 1184 | ** In Episode 118, the heroic and villainous roles are inverted again. This time, the AlphaBitch Pretty is pur on trial. Kaeloo, who hates Pretty, is the judge. Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat, who hate Pretty even more than Kaeloo does, are the jury. The lawyer provided to Pretty is a sheep. Not a FunnyAnimal, an ordinary sheep. Obviously, Pretty is punished. |
| 1185 | * JudicialWig: The trope is parodied in one episode where Quack Quack is a judge. The wig is made out of toilet paper rolls. |
| 1186 | * JugglingDangerously: Stumpy does this in "Let's Play Circuses". It goes well until his mother calls him on the phone, having seen this on live TV and wanting to make sure her kid is safe. He neglects the chainsaws in the air and picks up the phone. |
| 1187 | * JustOneMoreLevel: Stumpy suffers from a very serious video game addiction, to the extent that when Kaeloo takes his game console away from him in one episode all he can do is crawl on the ground weakly saying "My console...". |
| 1188 | * KafkaKomedy: Almost any time Mr. Cat actually does something nice, he winds up suffering horribly as a result. The same often applies to Kaeloo. |
| 1189 | * KarmaHoudini: If Mr. Cat and Stumpy pull something off together, Stumpy almost always escapes. Pretty also doesn't receive any punishment for intentionally [[BlackComedyBurst shooting and killing a horse]] and bullying Kaeloo in "What if We Played at Riding Ponies?", and Quack Quack escapes in "Let’s Play at Reading Books" for doing the exact same thing as Mr. Cat. Even Mr. Cat gets away with some things, like selling dumpster trash as food in a restaurant. |
| 1190 | * KarmaHoudiniWarranty: |
| 1191 | ** In Episode 56, the AlphaBitch Pretty gets away with forcefully taking a horse away from Kaeloo, and shooting a horse with a gun just because she doesn't like it. In Episode 82, [[spoiler: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat succeed in getting her humiliated on the news.]] |
| 1192 | ** In Episode 118, Pretty gets away with posting embarrassing pictures of the main four online. She does this again a few episodes later to Kaeloo, but this time, she enters a competition and finds out that the judge is Kaeloo, who promptly fails her. |
| 1193 | ** Whenever Mr. Cat is driving his car, his jerkassery levels increase. Examples of this include deliberately driving at a ridiculously slow speed in order to slow Kaeloo down when she's in a hurry since her car is behind his, or in another episode, ramming his car into Kaeloo's because she's going too slow and he's behind her. In Episode 134, Stumpy, who is angry at Mr. Cat, gets a bunch of clones of himself, who destroy the car... by holding an impromptu demolition derby while Mr. Cat is driving. |
| 1194 | ** Cramoisie's DayInTheLimelight episode has her being a [[{{jerkass}} huge jerk]] to everyone. She fat-shames Kaeloo and calls her ugly, and insults Mr. Cat as well, which she gets away with because Kaeloo forgives her due to her young age and Mr. Cat (being a {{Jerkass}} himself) finds Cramoisie's insults endearing and encourages her to continue being mean. In the last episode of season 5, Lavanade notices Cramoisie bullying [[BornUnlucky Violasse]] and promptly summons a horde of ghosts to attack Cramoisie for being mean. |
| 1195 | ** In seasons 2-4, Pretty is an AbhorrentAdmirer to Mr. Cat and takes great pleasure in telling everyone that she and Mr. Cat are in a relationship even though [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Mr. Cat is disgusted by the idea]]. In season 5 Pretty undergoes a HeelFaceTurn and ends up falling out of love with him and becomes his friend instead. One of the season 5 episodes had Pretty try to tell a crowd that a rumor that was being spread about Mr. Cat was false, [[CassandraTruth only for the crowd to call her a liar]]; it turns out that after three seasons of telling everyone Mr. Cat was her boyfriend, they believed her, and now they think Mr. Cat's "girlfriend" is defending him simply because they're in a "relationship". |
| 1196 | * KarmicNod: In Episode 231, we find out that every time Stumpy loses a sock, he throws the remaining one under his bed instead of trying to reunite them, adding to a giant mess in his room. The socks, who are sentient, are unhappy about being split from their partners, swear revenge on Stumpy. As the plot progresses, the ending moves to a happy one with everyone enjoying themselves at a party on an island. Stumpy tells the socks that this came about as a direct result of his messiness and tells them that they should thank him, prompting the irate socks to chuck him off the island. Stumpy turns to the audience and says "I admit it, I deserved that." |
| 1197 | * KickTheDog: "Let's Play Treasure Hunt" has the main four go camping. Mr. Cat says he will get wood for the fire. It turns out he's too lazy to go get any, so he just sets Stumpy's favorite comic books on fire. Stumpy starts crying, and Mr. Cat callously tells the "spoiled brat" to shut up. |
| 1198 | * KidsAreCruel: All the characters are children under thirteen, yet most of them are unspeakably cruel, with even the nice ones sometimes being mean. The most prominent examples of this trope are [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]], who finds any excuse to hurt anyone (especially Quack Quack) in horrible ways, and [[AlphaBitch Pretty]], who is rude, snobbish, and looks down on people with less money or who are ugly. |
| 1199 | * KinkySpanking: In one episode, when Kaeloo gets mad at Mr. Cat, he suggestively tells her to punish him with a spanking. |
| 1200 | * KissOfLife: In Episode 61, Pretty finds Mr. Cat, who has been stranded on an island, and offers to do this. He declines and points out that he's perfectly fine, so [[ComedicSociopathy she knocks him out with a baseball bat and gives it to him anyway.]] |
| 1201 | * KissUpTheArm: Mr. Cat does this to Kaeloo in some episodes while flirting with her. |
| 1202 | * KlingonPromotion: Discussed in the episode "Let's Play Gangster Poker", where Mr. Cat becomes a gangster and hires [[BigBadWannabe Stumpy]] to work under him. Stumpy tries to formulate a complex plan to kill Mr. cat so he can become the boss instead, though he never gets the chance to carry it out. |
| 1203 | * LarynxDissonance: Since Kaeloo is voiced by a man in every dub, she often winds up sounding more like a boy. Her voice is even more boyish in the pilot. |
| 1204 | * LastSecondWordSwap: When Mr. Cat is singing a rap song with words ending in "alls": |
| 1205 | -->'''Mr. Cat''': He keeps breaking my b-\ |
| 1206 | '''Kaeloo''': MISTER CAAAAAT!\ |
| 1207 | '''Mr. Cat''': [[BlatantLies I meant walls!]] |
| 1208 | * LateForSchool: Stumpy and Quack Quack in Episode 94. Miraculously, Kaeloo manages to drop them off on time, but she winds up being late for work as a result. |
| 1209 | * LatexPerfection: In Episode 65, Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack have masks that make them look just like Mr. Cat. |
| 1210 | ** Mr. Cat also wears a FullBodyDisguise of Bad Kaeloo, and later of Pretty, both of which look just like the real deal. |
| 1211 | * LamePunReaction: |
| 1212 | ** In most cases where a character makes a pun, everyone else pulls an annoyed expression and walks away from the person who made the pun. |
| 1213 | ** In one of the season 3 episodes, Mr. Cat and Kaeloo are walking down the street and Mr. Cat drops a HurricaneOfPuns, to which Kaeloo flatly tells him [[BorrowedCatchphrase "I hate your guts."]] |
| 1214 | * LaughTrack: Used when the cast make their own sitcom. At one point, it plays when [[ButtMonkey Stumpy]] walks in through the door (and does nothing else), annoying him. |
| 1215 | * LawOfDisproportionateResponse: [[TheDitz Stumpy]]'s reaction to anything is the opposite of what it should be. Being told to take a bath? BigNo! [[HarmlessVillain Olaf]] trying to attack people with a hairdryer (of all things)? Look out, it's a dangerous weapon! [[AxCrazy Mr. Cat]] set [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]] [[ManOnFire on fire]]? "Oh hey, Quack Quack's on fire."]] |
| 1216 | * LeeroyJenkins: In an episode of the second season, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Pretty are looking for a magical artifact in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. At one point, they go into a chamber with horizontally suspended ropes. Kaeloo says that if they touch the ropes, it might trigger a trap, so they have to move slowly and carefully. [[TheDitz Stumpy]] picks up a knife and runs through the chamber, cutting them all and triggering the trap. Stumpy escapes the trap, but the other three are impaled by Annoying Arrows and get mad at him. |
| 1217 | * LethalChef: Everybody on the show is an absolutely horrible cook. |
| 1218 | * LethalEatery: In Episode 64, Mr. Cat starts a fast food restaurant where trash from the dumpster is served as food if they run out of ingredients, the toilets haven't been cleaned for so long that a giant sea monster lives inside them, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the counter is dusty]]. |
| 1219 | -->'''Pretty:''' ''(after eating there)'' I had a small intestine graft, a pancreas graft, and a colon ablation.\ |
| 1220 | * LetMeGetThisStraight: Mr. Cat often uses this to either AccentuateTheNegative about something or make it seem SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds. |
| 1221 | * LetsMeetTheMeat: The yogurts Quack Quack eats [[FridgeHorror are shown to be sentient.]] |
| 1222 | * LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: In one episode, Kaeloo, a hermaphrodite, and Stumpy, a boy, both enter the girls' bathroom. They both find each other there and ask what the other is doing in there. After an awkward silence, both of them silently agree not to ever speak about it again. |
| 1223 | * LevelAte: Episode 232 has Stumpy and Violasse visit various dimensions using a portal gun, one of which is made entirely of food (the floors are made of soda cups and cake, there's a mountain made of apples, and there's popsicles and bananas floating in the air for... some reason). |
| 1224 | * LiceEpisode: In Episode 178, Stumpy wants to get infected with lice because he thinks they're cool, and he orders some off the internet. The episode ends with everyone panicking that Stumpy is going to infect them too. |
| 1225 | * LiesToChildren: In Episode 21, 10-year-old Stumpy asks his friend Mr. Cat how babies are made. Mr. Cat (who is not much older than Stumpy but still far more savvy about the world) is fully aware of the truth, but decides to tell Stumpy that babies are made by holding your nose and not breathing for two days, which Stumpy easily believes. |
| 1226 | * LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat constantly bicker with each other, and they clearly have BelligerentSexualTension. Despite their fighting, they also have plenty of married couple-like moments, like putting Stumpy and Quack-Quack to bed with bedtime stories and then going off to do their own thing (like how parents of young children tend to do), and Kaeloo making Mr. Cat's breakfast, complete with coffee, in the mornings. |
| 1227 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: Kaeloo and Stumpy, to the point that she even refers to him as her little brother in one episode. |
| 1228 | * LimitedSocialCircle: In seasons 1-3, the cast only ever interact with one another. Mr. Cat and Pretty have other friends, and Stumpy has classmates at school, but these people never appear on the show. |
| 1229 | * LiteralAssKicking: Stumpy does this to Kaeloo in Episode 109 in an attempt to make her angry. While it hurts her, she doesn't get mad because she knew he was trying to anger her. |
| 1230 | * LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Quack Quack and Eugly, who live next door to each other, are an OfficialCouple. |
| 1231 | * LiteralMinded: |
| 1232 | ** Stumpy takes the "prison" in "prison-ball" far too literally in the first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball". |
| 1233 | ** In an episode where the main four meet their MirrorUniverse counterparts and get into a fight with them, Stumpy throws books at them and yells "Eat books!". Interdimensional Mr. Cat, being the opposite of Mr. Cat and therefore a moron instead of a genius, picks up the books he threw and eats them. |
| 1234 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: |
| 1235 | ** Kaeloo is highly dependent on her friends, especially Mr. Cat, and her entire life revolves around them. In one episode, all the characters play a VR game, and when everyone else quits and Kaeloo continues to play the game without them, she goes insane without their company and even tries to make ReplacementGoldfish for them. |
| 1236 | ** Mr. Cat feels the same way about Kaeloo, as his ideal version of the world is one where he and Kaeloo are the only ones who exist, her opinion of him matters to him more than anyone else's, and he once even claims that he "thinks about her day and night". |
| 1237 | * LockedInTheBathroom: Stumpy locks himself in the bathroom and starts crying in the MusicalEpisode when [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] steals the lyrics to a song Stumpy literally had to make a DealWithTheDevil to write. |
| 1238 | * LongDistanceRelationship: |
| 1239 | ** Stumpy and Ursula have one of these. Ursula occasionally visits, like when Stumpy is in the hospital or when she sees Smileyland submerged in darkness and believes that there's an emergency. |
| 1240 | ** As of season 5, Quack-Quack and Eugly wind up in one of these due to Eugly being PutOnABus. |
| 1241 | * LongList: |
| 1242 | ** Kaeloo's list of qualities a boy needs to impress a girl, shown in the episode "Let's Play Hot-Cold". |
| 1243 | ** Kaeloo's even longer list of Mr. Cat's character flaws takes her an entire day to recite. |
| 1244 | * LongRunners: The show started airing in 2010 and as of 2023, is airing its fifth season. |
| 1245 | * LongRunnerTechMarchesOn: In early episodes, the characters own flip phones. In later episodes, they are seen using smartphones instead. |
| 1246 | * LookBehindYou: In the episode "Let's Play Golf", Kaeloo, who has the power of HulkingOut, plays golf with her friends. Each time it's her turn, she tells everyone to look at something in the distance, e.g. a "flying rhinoceros", and then Hulks Out to hit the ball. Unfortunately for her, her final attempt ends in Stumpy, who is standing behind her, witnessing everything and telling the others. |
| 1247 | * LosingYourHead: Happens to Quack Quack a lot. |
| 1248 | * LostFoodGrievance: Quack Quack's BerserkButton is anyone destroying yogurt or preventing him from getting it in some way. When this happens, even Mr. Cat isn't safe from his anger. |
| 1249 | * LotsOfLuggage: Pretty packs several suitcases in Episode 77 when she is told to bring a strict minimum of stuff. |
| 1250 | * LotusPosition: In "Let's Play Catch the Mailman", Kaeloo meditates in this position to keep herself from getting angry about a fan letter she received that called her annoying. |
| 1251 | * LotusEaterMachine: One episode has Kaeloo play with a virtual reality game where she can't [[HulkingOut transform]] as long as she plays. [[IJustWantToBeNormal Having wanted to get rid of this power for a very long time]], Kaeloo is finally happy and refuses to stop playing the game. Her friends have to rescue her from the game becauze it slowly starts to drive her insane. In a variant of the trope, she is fully aware of what it is, she just doesn't ''want'' to leave because she now has what she wanted the most. |
| 1252 | * LoudOfWar: Several episodes have Mr. Cat pull out a megaphone and yell at the top of his lungs at someone he finds annoying. |
| 1253 | * LoveAtFirstSight: Quack Quack and Eugly fell in love as soon as they saw each other. |
| 1254 | * LoveConfession: Mr. Cat has done this to Kaeloo on more than one occasion. Sadly, all of them fail because she thinks he's joking. |
| 1255 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: In seasons 2-4, Pretty would go to absurd and irrational lengths to be with Mr. Cat and was utterly obsessed with him. In season 5 she says the trope name word-for-word when reflecting on her actions after falling out of love with him. |
| 1256 | * LoveMakesYouDumb: Mr. Cat is the smartest of all the characters on the show, but he does some pretty idiotic things to get the attention of his crush [[ObliviousToLove Kaeloo]]. |
| 1257 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: While he wasn't exactly nice to begin with, it's heavily implied that Mr. Cat wouldn't do so many evil deeds if he didn't have a crush on Bad Kaeloo. |
| 1258 | * LovePotion: In [[BeachEpisode Episode 80]], [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] buys a love potion so she can get Mr. Cat, who absolutely despises her, to fall in love with her. [[spoiler: She puts it in a glass and asks Mr. Cat if he is thirsty and wants a drink. Unfortunately, [[TheDitz Stumpy]], who is extremely thirsty, walks up behind her, snatches the potion and drinks it up. To Pretty's disgust and horror, Stumpy falls in love with her instead of Mr. Cat.]] |
| 1259 | * LuckyCharm: [[BornUnlucky Violasse]] wards off her bad luck with a personal good luck charm, a balloon with [[BornLucky Quack-Quack]]'s face painted on it. |
| 1260 | [[/folder]] |
| 1261 | |
| 1262 | [[folder:Tropes M]] |
| 1263 | * MacGyvering: [[GadgeteerGenius Mr. Cat]] once built a [[spoiler: cloning machine]] using a pair of toilet plungers, a cardboard box, a wooden board and some wires. |
| 1264 | * MadDoctor: Mr. Cat in [[SickEpisode "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses"]]. |
| 1265 | * MadLibsCatchphrase: |
| 1266 | ** If Mr. Cat hears a fact that he finds shocking or annoying, he usually yells "What do you mean, [insert fact here]?!". |
| 1267 | ** And then there's Stumpy's "Are you [insert adjective here] or what?!" |
| 1268 | * MadLove: Pretty just doesn't get the fact that Mr. Cat despises her. |
| 1269 | * TheMagazineRule: There's a magazine called "Oh La La", featuring girls in skimpy outfits. |
| 1270 | * MagicalFlutist: In Episode 132, Mr. Cat somehow gets hold of a magic flute and tries to use it to lead a bunch of sheep into a trap so he can barbecue them. |
| 1271 | * MagicVersusScience: Mr. Cat does not believe in magic and always tries to look at things from a scientific point of view. This being a show which has a lot of SurrealHumor, he's proven wrong more often than not. |
| 1272 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: This being a SadistShow that practically runs on FamilyUnfriendlyViolence, this happens with everyone. For example, in one episode, Stumpy accidentally unleashes a [[AnnoyingArrows bunch of arrows]] onto Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Pretty. Rather than scream or show any signs of pain, they just glare at him, annoyed. |
| 1273 | * MakeAWish: |
| 1274 | ** In Episode 93, when Stumpy and Quack Quack realize that they don't know when Quack Quack's birthday is, they can call any day his birthday and blow out a candle to make a wish on that day. They decide to use it on the current day. While Quack Quack blows on the candles, Stumpy makes the wish for him and wishes for [[spoiler: [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext himself and their other friends to become pole dancers.]]]] |
| 1275 | ** In Episode 129, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat try to stay up late so they can see a shooting star and make a wish on it. [[spoiler: Kaeloo and Quack Quack fall asleep, Stumpy stays up but is so tired that he wastes his wish on asking for a bed, and Mr. Cat asks for his own bar and several clones of Kaeloo.]] |
| 1276 | * TheManInTheMoon: In "Let's Play Simon Says", the moon is depicted with a sleeping face. |
| 1277 | * MandatoryLine: In one or two episodes, Mr. Cat will show up at the very end and start yelling at someone despite not having anything to do with the rest of the plot. In one episode, it's even lampshaded when his line is him asking how they made a whole episode without him. |
| 1278 | * MaritalRapeLicense: In "Let's Play House", when the gang are PlayingHouse with Kaeloo as the mother and Mr. Cat as the father, Mr. Cat tries to have sex with her even though she never consented and says he is "exercising his marital rights". Fortunately, she gets up and walks away before he does anything. |
| 1279 | * MarriageOfConvenience: The show parodies the trope in one episode where Pretty decides to get married - to Quack Quack, who she doesn't even like - just to get the chance to wear a wedding dress. When the others try to call her out on this, she goes on a rant about how much pain she had to endure to lose enough weight to be able to fit into the dress. |
| 1280 | * MassiveNumberedSiblings: |
| 1281 | ** Stumpy has 36 sisters. This means that including him, there are 37 kids in his family. |
| 1282 | ** Exaggerated with Kaeloo's family. She says she has 134,667 siblings! [[spoiler: The end of the episode suggests that she may have made it up, though it isn't clear whether or not she did.]] |
| 1283 | * MassOhCrap: The main four do this at the end of Episode 76 when they realize that [[spoiler: their interference with the past has somehow undone the extinction of the dinosaurs.]] |
| 1284 | * MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Sometimes it really isn't clear whether Kaeloo likes Mr. Cat back or just sees him as a friend, though there ''are'' a lot of hints she has a crush on him. |
| 1285 | * MatureAnimalStory: Despite its FunnyAnimal cast, the show is really quite mature. |
| 1286 | * MayanDoomsday: Episode 77 revolves around the cast panicking about the end of the world sonce the Mayans predicted that the world would end in 24 hours from the time of the start of that episode. [[spoiler: Kaeloo herself launches a meteor onto the planet, but thankfully everyone escapes the planet except Stumpy, who also [[IronButtMonkey survives the meteor landing]].]] |
| 1287 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is never quite clear whether the events in some of the games they play actually happen or take place only in their imagination. For instance, one episode where they play at being in an airliner makes it repeatedly clear that they are only sitting in chairs on the ground, even when they are supposed to be crashing, yet they flow around when the plane takes off and Mister Cat later jumps with a parachute and falls for some time before hitting the ground. However, in another episode, the same airplane actually leaves the cast stranded on an island. |
| 1288 | * MeadowRun: The show actually managed to subvert the trope in Episode 111 by using the BaitAndSwitch trope. Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are on the beach when they turn their heads in the opposite direction and the viewers assume that they are looking at each other. They are both separately shown running with outstretched arms, leading the viewers to believe that they are running towards each other... [[spoiler: and then the camera pans out to reveal that they're both running in the same direction, towards the bathroom.]] |
| 1289 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 1290 | ** Kaeloo means frog in Japanese. |
| 1291 | ** Stumpy wasn't supposed to have arms in the original concept, just stumps. |
| 1292 | ** Quack Quack [[TheUnintelligible can only say the word "Quack"]]. |
| 1293 | ** Mr. Cat [[SpeciesSurname is a cat]]. |
| 1294 | ** Pretty is beautiful. |
| 1295 | ** Eugly[[note]]pronounced "ugly"[[/note]] is... not so beautiful. |
| 1296 | ** Olaf means "ancestral heritage"; Olaf's desire to TakeOverTheWorld comes from his heritage as an emperor penguin. |
| 1297 | ** Lola means "sorrow" and Felicia means "joy". Mr. Cat had a rather confusing and bittersweet relationship with Lola Felicia where he simultaneously loved and hated her, and thinking about her brings him both sorrow and joy. |
| 1298 | * MeanBoss: |
| 1299 | ** Mr. Cat to Stumpy in Episode 64, when Stumpy is made to WorkOffTheDebt at a fast food restaurant. He underpays him, mistreats him and yells at him. |
| 1300 | ** Mr. Cat, again, to Kaeloo in Episode 94. This time, they are in an office setting, and he accuses her of being a slacker even though she's trying very hard to be a good worker. [[spoiler: He fires her near the end of the episode.]] |
| 1301 | * MeatgrinderSurgery: |
| 1302 | ** [[spoiler: Stumpy winds up being a victim of this in Episode 78 when Olaf tries to turn him into a cyborg by giving him surgery with no anasthetic using a drill and a chainsaw. Miraculously, he survives it, but his cyborganic implants suck. Fortunately, NegativeContinuity has him back to normal by the next episode.]] |
| 1303 | ** Stumpy again winds up being a victim of this when he asks [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] to help him when he has a toothache. Mr. Cat uses a chainsaw, a jackhammer and other things and somehow turns Stumpy's head into a fire extinguisher. Stumpy is back to normal in a few minutes. |
| 1304 | * MeatOVision: In "Let's Play Trap-Trap", Quack Quack hallucinates Kaeloo and Stumpy as yogurts after not eating any for nearly an hour. |
| 1305 | * MechaMooks: [[spoiler: Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat come across a huge army of these in Episode 104]]. |
| 1306 | * MedicineShow: A variant. [[ConMan Mr. Cat]] sells people medication that doesn't actually work for large sums of money through spam advertisements he puts on the internet. |
| 1307 | * MediumAwareness: The characters are aware that they are in a cartoon, and occasionally reference it, for instance saying they don't like the current episode. In one case, Kaeloo asks the director to replay a scene backward. |
| 1308 | ** It enters NightmareFuel territory at the end of Episode 105, where [[spoiler: Stumpy breaks into the animation studio and announces to the animators that he will be writing all the episodes from that point on.]] |
| 1309 | * MegatonPunch: Serguei and Bad Kaeloo have done this several times. |
| 1310 | * TheMentallyDisturbed: One episode revealed that every single person on the show is in need of intensive psychotherapy. |
| 1311 | * MesACrowd: |
| 1312 | ** Mr. Cat has the ability to clone himself at random. He also owns a cloning machine, which he invented. |
| 1313 | ** In Episode 134, Stumpy is supernaturally granted several clones of himself, which annoy Kaeloo and Mr. Cat. [[spoiler: At the end, Kaeloo and Mr. Cat get rid of the clones by claiming that a package in the mail came for Stumpy from Ursula, but only one Stumpy can get it. The original Stumpy opens a [[PortalDoor door to another dimension]] and tells the clones that Ursula is on the other side, and once they run through, he closes the door, trapping them there forever.]] |
| 1314 | * MetronomicManMashing: Bad Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat. |
| 1315 | * MindControlEyes: If a character gets put under mind control or hypnosis, their irises shrink and they open their eyes wider. |
| 1316 | * TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Inverted in Episode 91. When Stumpy invokes the PersonalitySwap trope [[IJustWantToBeYou so he can finally be just like Mr. Cat]], he gains a pair of [[CuteLittleFangs cat-like fangs]] like the ones Mr. Cat has along with his personality. |
| 1317 | * MiniGolfEpisode: The episode "Let's Play Golf". |
| 1318 | * MinimalistCast: In the first three seasons, the show has only seven[[note]] Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack, Mr. Cat, Pretty, Eugly and Olaf [[/note]] characters. While it could be argued that the seemingly sentient plants and the random sheep that pops up every now and then might count, they're still little more than props in terms of how they're used. This trope becomes subverted after season 4. |
| 1319 | * MinorInjuryOverreaction: Mr. Cat is capable of laughing off the pain of having a bunch of knives stuck in his body, but his reaction to having a whisker pulled off involves screaming and nursing the affected area for a long time. |
| 1320 | * MirrorMatch: Stumpy once tried playing RockPaperScissors against... his own reflection, who he thought was another squirrel. |
| 1321 | * MirrorMonologue: Mr. Cat buys a fancy new suit and talks to his reflection about how great the suit looks on him. |
| 1322 | * MirrorUniverse: |
| 1323 | ** "Let's Play Astronauts" shows us a universe where Kaeloo transforms from a huge hulking monster into a little girl when she gets mad, Stumpy is a math-loving genius, and Mr. Cat and Quack Quack are known as Mr. Duck and Meow Meow, and have each other's personalities. |
| 1324 | ** Episode 70 gave us another one where Kaeloo is a SternTeacher instead of a gentle and fun-loving person who transforms from toad to frog (her transformations are also caused by cuddling instead of irritation), Stumpy, who is an idiot, is smart and Mr. Cat, one of the smartest characters, is a moron. |
| 1325 | * MischiefForPunishment: |
| 1326 | ** Mr. Cat tries to make Kaeloo angry on purpose, because he likes it when she transforms. |
| 1327 | ** Stumpy does this in an episode where Kaeloo forces him to play "school" with her as the teacher and him as one of the students, hoping that he can get kicked out of class. |
| 1328 | * MisfitMobilizationMoment: When the main four stop fighting and actually work together, they can take down anything from an army of angry ghosts to their own AlternateUniverse counterparts. |
| 1329 | * MisleadingPackageSize: In "Let's Play Magicians", Kaeloo receives a giant box with nothing inside but a top hat and magic wand. |
| 1330 | * MisplacedSorrow: In Episode 81, Stumpy starts drowning in quicksand in the middle of the desert. Everybody panics and pulls him out... because their supplies are in his backpack. |
| 1331 | * MissingMom / DisappearedDad: Kaeloo's parents have never appeared in the episodes with her family. |
| 1332 | * MistakenForAnImposter: |
| 1333 | ** In Episode 65, Mr. Cat puts on a Pretty disguise and sneaks past Kaeloo, who is angrily looking for him. [[DelayedReaction Kaeloo then realizes]] that it was Mr. Cat, so she goes looking for him. She then sees the real Pretty and tries to rip her face off thinking it's a mask. |
| 1334 | ** Pretty becomes a victim of this trope again in Epsiode 83. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Stumpy]] is waiting for [[TheUnseen Ursula]] to show up to a party, then he suddenly gets the idea that someone at the party is Ursula in disguise, spying on him. He then tries to rip Pretty's face off, again thinking it's a mask. |
| 1335 | * MistakenForCheating: In Episode 83, Mr. Cat lies to Quack Quack that Eugly has been cheating on him, making him paranoid; later in the episode, [[AccidentalKiss Stumpy accidentally kisses Eugly]], and Quack Quack assumes that this means that Mr. Cat was right and that the kiss was deliberate. |
| 1336 | * MistakenForGay: Episode 139 follows a super hero called [[CaptainErsatz Ratman]] (played by Stumpy) and his sidekick (Quack Quack) who share an apartment. Their nosy neighbor visits their apartment and it's all but implied that she has mistaken them for a couple. |
| 1337 | * MistakenForRomance: See MistakenForGay above. |
| 1338 | * MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: In Episode 227, [[ManipulativeBastard Mr. Cat]] hires Poucave, an aspiring journalist, to write articles for his tabloid site. When Mr. Cat changes the articles to include misinformation and BlatantLies, Poucave protests, but Mr. Cat shuts her down using a combination of manipulation and threats. Eventually, Poucave gets fed up of his behavior and decides to write an embarrassing article about ''him'' instead. |
| 1339 | * MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Hilariously subverted. [[AllLovingHero Kae]][[IdiotHero loo]] believes this to be the case for [[MadScientist Olaf]]. He actually ''is'' insane and evil, [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter she just doesn't realize it.]] |
| 1340 | * MobileShrubbery: In Episode 68, Stumpy tries to disguise himself as a bush to listen in on a conversation he isn't supposed to hear. The others immediately identify him, but he [[BlatantLies keeps claiming to be a bush]]. |
| 1341 | * MockingSingsong: In Episode 156, Mr. Cat falls in love with a soda can thanks to a LovePotion gone wrong. Kaeloo's behavior makes it very clear that she is jealous of the soda can, and Stumpy sings "Kaeloo has a crush on Mr. Cat!" while making kissing noises. |
| 1342 | * ModestyShorts: [[PolarOppositeTwins The bunny twins]] wear these under their skirts. |
| 1343 | * ModestyTowel: In one episode, Kaeloo does a painting of Quack Quack wearing no clothes except a leaf covering his crotch. Once she's done, Quack Quack wraps a towel around his waist. |
| 1344 | * MondegreenGag: When Kaeloo tells [[TheDitz Stumpy]] that if he tried to be peaceful he could win the Nobel Peace Prize, he thinks she said "Frozen Peas Prize" and points out that he eats acorns, not frozen peas. |
| 1345 | * MoodWhiplash: |
| 1346 | ** From the episode [[BabysittingEpisode "Let's Play Babysitting"]]: |
| 1347 | -->'''Mr. Cat''': As a kitten, I was tied up in a sack and thrown into a rushing river. I was saved by a salmon, [[RaisedByWolves raised like her own son.]] Her greatest quality... she couldn't talk at all. |
| 1348 | ** In the episode "Let's Play Spies", everybody is injected with TruthSerum. Bad Kaeloo reveals that she considers herself to be ugly, Mr. Cat confesses that he was abused by his family, and Stumpy reveals... that he [[WholesomeCrossdresser enjoys dressing as a girl]] when nobody else is around. |
| 1349 | ** In Episode 104, [[spoiler: Olaf gives Kaeloo and Mr. Cat a tragic flashback... and is interrupted by the sound of them snoring, having fallen asleep out of boredom.]] |
| 1350 | ** In one episode, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack, Pretty and Eugly are watching TV. The show they're watching has a wedding scene. Pretty remarks, in admiration, that the actress playing the bride is beautiful. Then, she suddenly turns angry and calls the actress a "bitch" for being prettier than her. |
| 1351 | ** In Episode 119, we see Mr. Cat slapping Stumpy in the face using the elastic of a pair of underwear to threaten him into not telling Kaeloo one of Mr. Cat's embarrassing secrets, which is funny until we find out that Mr. Cat's original plan was to ''murder Stumpy with a chainsaw so he wouldn't be alive to tattle''. |
| 1352 | ** When the main four are participating in an essay contest on the theme of "their biggest dream", Kaeloo struggles to come up with something to write and ends up churning out a very generic speech about a world where everyone is happy. This prompts Mr. Cat to go on a long and angry tirade about her not specifically mentioning him in it even though he's her best friend and ignoring her desperate attempts to reassure him that she definitely does care about him. Then, when Kaeloo gets mad, he starts flirting with her, which is PlayedForLaughs. |
| 1353 | * {{Mooning}}: Stumpy does this to Kaeloo once in order to anger her [[MakesSenseInContext because he urgently needs her to transform.]] |
| 1354 | * MoralMyopia: In Episode 131, Mr. Cat blows [[NighInvulnerable Quack-Quack]]'s head off with a bazooka and Kaeloo punishes him by [[HulkingOut transforming]] and hitting him with a mallet, repaying his violence with violence. Mr. Cat is so mad about being punished that he spends the rest of the episode in a bad mood, despite having brought it upon himself. |
| 1355 | * MultiPartEpisode: Episodes 75 and 76 form a two-part episode about [[TimeTravelEpisode time travel]]. |
| 1356 | * MultiarmedMultitasking: Invoked in one episode, where [[MadScientist Mr. Cat]] operates on Quack Quack in a laboratory in order to give him this ability. |
| 1357 | * MultipleChoiceFuture: There are multiple episodes that show the futures the main four could have, and each one is different because it's based on what the characters are doing in the present. The trope is even lampshaded in Episode 30, where witnessing a BadFuture makes them promise to actively take steps to avoid what caused it. |
| 1358 | * MultipleChoicePast: Subverted with Mr. Cat's early childhood. In the earlier seasons he would constantly rattle off a different version of what happened to him (for example, one version says that he was tied up in a sack and thrown into a river, then subsequently [[RaisedByWolves rescued and raised by a salmon]] while another one says he ran away from home to escape from a very abusive family and wound up in Smileyland), until season 5 explained that the abusive family backstory is the only true one and [[UnreliableNarrator Mr. Cat is prone to lying about his past to avoid having to talk to his friends about the abuse he faced.]] |
| 1359 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: Every episode is about the characters trying to play a simple game, which culminates in explosions, [[ChaseScene car chases]], and the like. |
| 1360 | * MuscleAngst: After [[spoiler: being shot with TruthSerum]], Mr. Cat confesses that he wishes he had bigger muscles. |
| 1361 | * MusicalEpisode: |
| 1362 | ** Episode 89 is a musical comedy revolving around Mr. Cat stealing a song that Stumpy wrote by [[DealWithTheDevil selling his soul]] and turning it into a Broadway production. |
| 1363 | ** Episode 193 starts with Stumpy wanting to buy a pair of shoes and then suddenly shifts into a musical where Mr. Cat sings about trickle-down economics and Kaeloo sings about how love is more important than money. |
| 1364 | ** Episode 225 is about the characters noticing the CharacterDevelopment that they've been going through recently, and Mr. Cat and Rules' hesitancy to accept changes in life. |
| 1365 | * MusicalisInterruptus: In one episode, [[HollywoodToneDeaf Stumpy]] tries to start a song, but Mr. Cat throws a frying pan at him to get him to stop. |
| 1366 | * MustHaveCaffeine: Used as a one-scene gag in one episode where Kaeloo gets addicted to coffee, which is never brought up again. |
| 1367 | * MutuallyUnequalRelation: In the early episodes, Mr. Cat is well-respected and adored by the rest of the main four, who see him as a good friend, while he sees them as annoying nuisances who ruin his life with their mere presence. This gradually gets toned down, as they start to realize that he has flaws and he comes to see them as close friends. |
| 1368 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: |
| 1369 | ** Kaeloo's general reaction to hurting her friends. |
| 1370 | ** Mr. Cat's reaction to finding out that [[spoiler: his actions have caused Kaeloo to decide to leave Smileyland]] in "Let's Play Courtroom Drama". |
| 1371 | ** Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat's reaction when they realize [[spoiler: what bad friends they've been to Stumpy over the years]] in Episode 105. |
| 1372 | ** Mr. Cat's reaction to realizing that he may have [[spoiler: permanently killed Quack Quack]] in Episode 125, though he doesn't do anything to indicate that he's happy when it turns out that he didn't actually do it. |
| 1373 | * MyGodYouAreSerious: In Episode 121, Olaf informs the main four that they have been fired. They start laughing, but he then reveals that he was sent by the management, so they realize that they actually have been fired. |
| 1374 | * MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou: Stumpy tells Bad Kaeloo, who uses HulkSpeak, that "even my little sister can talk better than you." |
| 1375 | * MyNewGiftIsLame: PlayedForLaughs in the season 2 finale, which is a Christmas episode. The main four open the presents under their Christmas tree. Quack-Quack gets some yogurt, his TrademarkFavoriteFood. Mr. Cat, the local bully, gets a mallet, which he then uses to hit Quack-Quack. As for [[TheChewToy Stumpy]], he got a sheep, and he complains to the audience that it isn't what he asked for. |
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