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8''Animalia'' (2007-2008) is an Australian children's television series based on the 1986 picture book of the same name by illustrator Creator/GraemeBase.
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10The story involves two kids, Alex and Zoe, who happen to find a portal while visiting their city's library. This leads them to an alternate world named Animalia, populated with {{Talking Animal}}s who are able to live in peace and harmony thanks to an artifact called [[CosmicKeystone the Core]]. However, the Core happens to suffer some kind of illness, resulting in it losing pieces regularly. Each piece has a specific function in Animalia's inhabitant's abilities to talk and act like humans, and losing a piece will inevitably provoke a weird side effect on everyone until the piece is put back in place. Being humans, Alex and Zoe are immune to those effects, resulting in them being in charge of collecting the pieces each time one is lost. They are assisted in this mission by G'bubu, a green gorilla, and Iggy, an Iguana.
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12The series mostly consists of a [[VillainOfTheWeek Piece of the week]] scheme, each episode usually involving a missing piece of the Core and Alex and Zoe trying to find it. Season 2, however, goes for a slight CerebusSyndrome by introducing a new villain, the Creeper. Unlike all characters portrayed before, the Creeper was a legitimately evil character, and caused the series to get a bit darker.
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15* AdaptationExpansion: It was originally a picture book, after all. In fact, the original picture book was really just an alphabet book, albeit a very lavishly-illustrated one. On the other hand, the television series has a rather complex plot and wealth of detailed characters.
16* AllCGICartoon: The show was made in the [[{{TurnoftheMillennium}} late 2000s]] in a country with less than 30 million people so the animation has aged a bit.
17* AlliterativeName: EVERYONE except Alex, Zoe and Bitzy and Snitzy the alligators.
18* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: G’bubu is a green gorilla.
19* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The series ends with a portal being now opened between Earth and Animalia, allowing both Zoe and Alex to go back home and the Animalians to visit Earth.]]
20%%* BigBad: The Creeper, in the season 1 finale and season 2.
21* TheButlerDidIt: {{Averted}} and {{discussed}} in ''Tunnel King''. The Creeper steals things from almost everyone unknowingly, Iggy says the thief is the butler but G'bubu points out to him they do not even have a butler.
22* CatsAreMean: Played with and later subverted with Tyrannicus Tiger. He starts out as a minor antagonist but later is shown to be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Firmly averted with Livingstone, however.
23* CoolGate: The portal in the library that Alex and Zoe use to go back and forth Animalia and their hometown.
24* CosmicKeystone: The Core is the main power source of Animalia, and whenever one of the core spores is lost, it has a negative effect on the Animalians.
25* InterspeciesFriendship: Iggy and G’Bubu are really close friends who get along quite well together.
26* KingOfBeasts: Livingstone Lion, who is the wise and noble leader of Animalia.
27* PluckyComicRelief: Iggy the iguana.
28* PublicDomainSoundtrack: "Music/RideOfTheValkyries" was used during action scenes.
29* TalkingAnimal: the whole population of Animalia, minus Alex and Zoe.
30* TimeStandsStill: Occurs when the Time Spore is lost.
31* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The human city's location. Is it in the US? Britain? Australia? Some fictional country altogether?
32* WhiteAndGreyMorality: For most of the series, the only antagonist was Tyrannicus, who is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold at worst. That is, until [[KnightOfCerebus the Creeper]] shows up...
33* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: Animalia, until Alex and Zoe show up.

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