Line #15 Series/MotherGooseTreasury


1	The ''Mother Goose Treasury'' is a collection of stories and rhymes as encountered and often told by Mother Goose. In this setting, Mother Goose and her goose friend Bertram live in the sequestered vaguely European period town of Gooseberry, where all the nursery rhyme characters live and work.
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3	The stories are sometimes told by Mother Goose from her book, but many are done from encounters with these characters. The "plots", [[ExcusePlot if you can call them that]], involve Mother Goose and Bertram exploring the fairy tale land and encountering the rhyming, singing populace.
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5	While it is a bit of a crazy world without much of a story, the treasury makes up for it with sincerity and a sense of humor towards the concept, complete with good costume design and puppetry.
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7	Four volumes were released on two VHS tapes, but they are long since out of print.
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9	Not at all related to the similar ''Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories''.
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11	!!!Tropes included:
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13	* CallAndResponseSong: "A is for the Archer...", an alphabet song that is one of the few original rhymes in the series. Letters Man says the letter and subject and the crowd describes it back to him.
14	* CanonImmigrant: Discussed, Exploited, and ultimately granted to Bertram ''twice''. Bertram is shocked to find there are no good rhymes about geese. So he becomes the hero to the stories of both Little Bo Peep (finds the sheep's tails) and the Old Woman in the Shoe (teaches her kids to behave), resulting in Mother Goose including lines about him.
15	** Though oddly this may be a borderline aversion with Bertram himself. The Nursery Rhyme ''about'' Mother Goose, which lends its opening lines to that of the theme song, starts like this:
16	--->"Old Mother Goose when she wanted to wander/Would ride on the back of a ''very fine gander''".
17	** The theme itself shows Bertram ''is'' that gander. Therefore, he is neither this nor a CanonForeigner.
18	* CloudCuckoolander: The Old Woman Tossed up in a Basket flies into the sky to "sweep the cobwebs off the sky".
19	* CostumePorn: For such a low-budget production, the costumes are quite impressive.
20	* TheDandy: Gregory Griggs and the Letters Man
21	* DownerEnding: Defied by Mother Goose in regards to Humpty Dumpty. She demands an amendment to the rhyme where she fixes him.
22	** However, in regards to the Old Woman in the Shoe, she said her children misbehaved, so they deserved one.
23	* TheDitz: Simple Simon
24	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Bertram has to help the Old Woman in the Shoe set her children to work. At the end, they get bread and jam as a just reward.
25	* ExcusePlot: There is a setup and scenario every episode, but most of the runtime is Mother Goose and/or Bertram running into various characters and reciting their rhymes.
26	** The first episode has the most cohesive plot, in the sense of conflict and progression. Bertram is upset there are no rhymes about "a brave and handsome goose", so he is set to make one for himself. Little Bo Peep pops in and out looking for her sheep, inspiring Bertram to help her. She finds the sheep, but not the tails, which Bertram finds on a tree somewhere. Putting the tails back on the sheep, Bertram earns a place in the book of rhymes.
27	* FakeHairDrama: Gregory Griggs owns 27 different wigs.
28	* GenkiGirl: Jumping Joan.
29	* InASingleBound: "Jack be nimble, jack be quick/Jack jumped over a candlestick." No matter how high it was, he could still clear it.
30	* InsistentTerminology: Bertram keeps wanting to be called "brave and handsome", but it doesn't fit the meter.
31	* ManChild: Bertram seems to function as one.
32	* MusicalChores: One sequence is choreographed to what is perhaps the UrExample, "Here we go Round the Mulberry Bush".
33	* NeverSayDie: Surprisingly averted in the Old Mother Hubbard segment:
34	-->"She went to the baker to buy him some bread/But when she came back the poor dog was dead!"
35	** He [[UnexplainedRecovery got better, though]].
36	* NoAntagonist: Mother Goose and Bertram just meander about from rhyme to rhyme with little hassle. The closest we get is the Knave of Hearts, a HarmlessVillain who is punished quickly.
37	* NonHumanSidekick: Bertram is Mother Goose's goose companion.
38	* NurseryRhyme: A show inspired by the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier is bound to feature them.
39	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. "The House that Jack Built" was not built by "Jack Be Nimble". Or the same Jack from "Jack and Jill" for that matter. A bit less confusing in that they are not in the same episodes and don't share any screentime.
40	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Bertram is in a snit, the whole town reacts and tries to set him straight.
41	* PairTheSpares: Jumping Joan and Handy Spandy get together at the end of their little dance number.
42	* {{Public Domain Character}}s
43	* RandomEventsPlot: Mother Goose and Bertram go about their day and just happen to run into the characters from her rhymes. It's one BigLippedAlligatorMoment after another.
44	* TongueTwister: Bertram recites the classic "Peter Piper" and "Betty Botter" ''without skipping a beat!''
45	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bertram loves porridge and stuffed peppers.
46	* VerbalTic: Bertram has a tendency to honk at the end of sentences.
47	* ViewersAreGoldfish: Several of the rhymes are repeated as soon as they are heard. Justified in a FridgeBrilliance sort of way when you realize the already repetitive and cadenced nature of nursery rhymes.
48	* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The series is set in somewhere called Gooseberry Glen. The setting is vaguely European, surrounded by forest, and has a small village atmosphere, but no details to location are given.

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