Line #55 WesternAnimation/EsmeAndRoy


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3	A Canadian-American preschool-oriented cartoon produced by Creator/{{HBO}}, Creator/{{Nelvana}}, and Creator/SesameWorkshop, the people who made ''Series/SesameStreet'', ''Esme & Roy'' follows our titular main characters--a little girl and a monster--who help take care of all kinds of interesting creatures when their regular guardians need aid.
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5	It began airing on both HBO (in the United States) and Creator/TreehouseTV (in Canada) on August 18, 2018.
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7	Over a year later, it began airing on Creator/PBSKids on August 30, 2019 (or August 31, depending on your station)
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9	On October 29, 2019, it was revealed that it would begin airing on Creator/HBOMax for future seasons, with delayed PBS airings, much like ''Series/SesameStreet''. Episodes are also made available on PBS's website / video app service. However, it left Creator/{{PBS}} in July 2021, releasing exclusively on HBO Max and running on Creator/{{Cartoonito}}.
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11	On August 19, 2022, the series was removed from HBO Max, meaning that it no longer is available to freely stream on any U.S. service. 13 episodes of the first season are, however, available for purchase.
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14	!!This series provides examples of:
15	* BirthdayEpisode: In the episode "Special Delivery", it's Sid's birthday, and Fig is tasked with giving Sid his present. However, Fig wants to keep the present for herself, and Esme and Roy have to find a way to get her to let it go.
16	* BreadEggsBreadedEggs:
17	** In "Dark and Stormy Knight," Esme offers to read Snugs a book to distract him from the storm outside. He likes books, so he agrees. She offers to read him a book about worms, a book about space, or a book about worms in space, before he finally agrees to read one called ''The Brave Knight''.
18	** In the opening of "Picture Day Predicament," Esme has a present for Roy. Roy suggests that it might be a banana, or a shoe, or a banana shoe.
19	** In "The Case of the Missing Cuddles," Roy is having trouble finding his and Esme's pet Dumpling in hide-and-seek. He suggests that she might be on his back, his knee, or the back of his knee.
20	** In the opening of "Two Can Play at That Game," Roy couldn't decide on either spaghetti or a sandwich for a snack and therefore made himself a spaghetti sandwich. This sort of thing later turns out to be the solution to the episode problems - when Roy gets exhausted from run back and forth between Frank and Franny's games of ballet and pirate, it is combined into a ballet pirate game.
21	** In "The Hugo Express", when Esme and Roy try to tell Hugo that he needs to stop playing trains and pick up his toys, Hugo tells them that his socks want to ride the train, and so do his puppets, as well as his sock puppets.
22	* ChickenpoxEpisode: In "Swoozlepox", Simon catches the titular disease, which makes him itchy. Esme and Roy try to keep him distracted so he won't scratch himself and will be able to recover in time for a movie he wants to see the next day.
23	* ChildCareAndBabysittingStories: The series' tells the story of a human girl and her monster friend babysitting the young monsters of Monsterville and coming up with creative solutions to problems when one of the young monsters suffers from a "Monster Meltdown."
24	* CompanionCube: In "The Princess of Play", Grumbles is shown to have a pet rock named Lenny, whom he treats as his best friend.
25	* TheComplianceGame: In "A Dino-mite Lunch", [[ForgetsToEat Tillie becomes too obsessed with playing with her toy race cars and refuses to eat anything]]. As such, Esme and Roy make a pretend drive-thru so that Tillie can move the cars past it and properly have lunch.
26	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: A portion of the theme tune is used as the alert signal telling the two that they have a monster child to babysit.
27	* DisappearedDad: Snugs is never seen with his dad, [[spoiler: It’s the same with Simon but it’s taken up to eleven because his mom is not seen either.]].
28	* EdutainmentShow: Not surprising, considering who produced it.
29	* EurekaMoment: When Roy (sometimes the monster they are babysitting) gives Esme an idea, Esme get’s an idea and says “Wait a monster minute, that’s it!”
30	* ExtraLongEpisode: While the series' episodes usually consist of two eleven-minute shorts, "The Princess of Play" is a twenty-two-minute episode.
31	* FantasyHelmetEnforcement: Esme & Roy wear their helmets when riding their scooter to the home of the monster or monsters that they're monster-sitting. Roy's has a little holes for his horns to stick through, while Esme's has horns to make her look a monster.
32	* FearOfThunder: In "Dark and Stormy Knight", Snugs is revealed to be afraid of thunder.
33	* ForgetsToEat: In "A Dino-Mite Lunch," Tillie is so absorbed in her dino racing car game that she completely ignores Esme and Roy's attempts to get her to eat her lunch, despite her stomach growling in hunger. They finally get her to eat by making it part of the game, creating a pretend diner.
34	* FormulaBreakingEpisode: In "Party Time," instead of monster-sitting anyone, Esme and Roy decide to host a pool party for all of the monster kids that they know. It's Esme who has a meltdown when everything goes wrong with their preparations and Roy who helps her to calm down.
35	* FourthWallObserver: Esme. When one of the little monsters that she and Roy are monster-sitting does something especially funny or cute, she likes to comment to the viewer "Don't you just love monsters?", and faces the screen whenever she says "Uh-oh, monster meltdown!".
36	* GooGooGetup:
37	** In "Baby Hugo," Hugo is tired of his sister Fig never having to do anything for herself because she's a baby, so he dresses up as a baby and reverts to babyhood himself.
38	** In "Big Brother Snugs", Esme dresses Roy in a bonnet and bib to help Snugs be a good big brother to Fuzzy, his new baby brother.
39	* GreensPrecedeSweets: The plot of "Sofishticated Taste" involves Esme and Roy trying to get Snugs to eat a healthy dinner that includes vegetables before he can have his dessert of a slimesicle.
40	* GroceryStoreEpisode: In the episode "Supermarket Match", the two title characters take Tillie to the supermarket. While there, they have to find a way to keep Tillie from grabbing groceries that aren't on their shopping list.
41	* GrowlingGut: Simon's stomach growled five times in the episode "Lunch Crunch".
42	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Of course Roy is wearing sneakers.
43	* ICantHearYou: In "The Inside Job," Snugs is getting cold but really wants to keep playing outside. Esme and Roy bundle him up in a bunch of winter gear, so much that it completely covers his mouth. Esme asks what he thinks and he replies that "It's kind of hard to talk with all this stuff on." It comes out completely muffled, so Esme asks "What?" and he says again. She asks Roy if he caught any of that and Roy replies "He said..." and then imitates the muffled speech. Snugs then takes off the clothing and repeats it. "Hard to move too."
44	* InjuredLimbEpisode: In "Tillie's Tough Break", injures her leg when she plays on the playground, and this upsets her because she isn't able to go to the Monster Mountain amusement park like her friends.
45	* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: In "Two Can Play That Game", it's Frank, the boy, who loves ballet, and Franny, the girl, who loves to play pirates.
46	* MissingMom: Tillie’s mom is never present in an episode, [[spoiler: It’s the same with Simon but it’s taken up to eleven because his dad is not seen either.]].
47	* NameAndName
48	* NewBabyEpisode: In "Big Brother Snugs", Snugs gets a new baby brother named Fuzzy. He's worried he won't be a good big brother, so Esme and Roy help train him.
49	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: In "Monster Bash Surprise," Fig is originally dressed up as a star for a costume party, but after seeing other costumes, suddenly can't choose what costume she wants to wear. She eventually ends up combining elements of several costumes, including the original star, a ballerina, a firefighter, a superhero and a witch.
50	* NoAntagonist: The show does not usually have a BigBad or ArcVillain, but this is due to the fact that most of the conflict derives from [[SliceOfLife everyday situations where a problem could happen]] rather than an EvilPlan to TakeOverTheWorld. Some characters have been through the JerkassBall, but they're not malicious or villainous, but misunderstood. One notable exception to this trope is Grumbles from "The Princess of Play", as he starts out a monster who hates playing and plots to steal Princess Esme's magic wand so that he can use it to make everyone's toys disappear and then lock it away. He does undergo a HeelFaceTurn at the end of the story when Princess Esme teaches him that he doesn't need toys to play and that real friends are what make playtime special.
51	* OcularGushers: Pretty much any time the young monsters cry on the show, it will be this, with Snugs technically being the biggest and '''worst''' ones possible. but here are a few examples:
52	** Fig cries these in "Stroller Derby" after throwing a tantrum about not wanting to go in her stroller because she's a big girl.
53	** Snugs cries them in "The Inside Job" because of being upset about having go inside to get out of the cold, instead of being allowed to stay outside and play.
54	** Snugs also cries them in "The Case of the Missing Cuddles" because of missing his favorite stuffed toy, Sir Cuddles. Also, because he's inflated to a big size because of being upset, the gushers are correspondingly huge.
55	** Snugs is also shown crying them in the show's opening sequence after dropping an ice cream cone. Esme shows him the glitter jar to calm him down.
56	** In "Top Dog," Simon cries them because he's upset about not being able to teach his dog a trick. Somehow, they actually pool at the bottom of his glasses before simply disappearing.
57	* OncePerEpisode: The monster that Esme and Roy are monster-sitting has a "monster meltdown" and Esme and Roy have to come up with a creative solution to calm them down.
58	* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Monsters in this cartoon are more friendly. And because this is from the creators of ''Sesame Street'', and a few of our favorite characters from ''Sesame Street'' are monsters, it's {{justified\|Trope}}.
59	* PaperThinDisguise: In "The Princess of Play", Grumbles uses Princess Esme's magic wand to summon giant toy soldiers, giving them direct orders not to let Esme and Roy pass. When Hugo and Fig find out, they make dragon costumes for them to use as disguises. Despite their faces still being visible, it manages to fool the guards.
60	* ParentalAbandonment: Simon’s parents aren’t seen [[spoiler: nor mentioned]], no wonder why he only lives with his grandmother.
61	* PickyEater: In "Lunch Crunch", Simon won't eat any sandwich unless it has fish and stinky cheese in it.
62	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Fig is able to pick up Roy, despite Fig being a little monster child who comes up to about Esme's waist and Roy being taller than the average adult human.
63	* PowerOutagePlot: In "Tillie Unplugged", when the titular characters babysit Tillie, Tillie has a whole night of activities planned when the neighborhood suffers from a blackout. Esme and Roy have to show Tillie the fun things that can be done without electricity until the power comes back on.
64	* RecordNeedleScratch: In "Hugo, We Have a Problem" "The Monster Shimmy" song is record-needle scratched and ended abruptly when Esme and Roy realize despite their best song and dance efforts in getting Fig to put on her raincoat and hat, she's taken them off.
65	* RunningGag: Roy does something overly dramatic. He then asks if it's "too much" and either Esme or the monster that they're monster-sitting agrees "a little."
66	* ShoutOut:
67	** Between the love of a similar monster and a young, perky girl [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc is kinda familiar...]]
68	** One of the second season stories is titled "[[Film/FromRussiaWithLove To Cupcake with Love]]" and in it, Snugs has an action figure toy of a secret agent named "[[Franchise/JamesBond Fangs Blonde]]."
69	* StatusQuoIsGod: Between episodes, very few, if any major changes happen to the point where NegativeContinuity is in effect. Even if Snugs Muzzywump learns his lesson, [[AesopAmnesia by the next episode he forgets it]] and he goes back to being ConstantlyCurious [[ChildrenAreInnocent with a sense of innocence]].
70	* ThatCloudLooksLike: Esme and Roy do this in the opening of "Dark and Stormy Knight." Esme sees one that looks to her like a horse, and Roy sees one that reminds him of a meatball. Then another that looks like a meatball, and another that [[BigEater looks like a really big meatball]].
71	* ThirdPersonPerson: Tillie refers to herself this way. Fig as well.
72	* TitleThemeTune: "''So all you monster girls, and all you monster boys, get ready for Esme and Roy!''"
73	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Roy absolutely cannot get enough of meatballs, with or without spaghetti.
74	* VisibleOdor:
75	** Tillie gets one in "Monster Trucks" after getting very dirty and needing a bath.
76	--->'''Roy''': Monster Fact 5976: When Plink monsters get dirty, they get really stinky, like majorly monster stinky.
77	** The "scratch and stink" stickers that Tillie gets in "Supermarket Match" for winning the game of Supermarket Match have this to show their stinky odor.
78	* VocalEvolution: Esme’s voice changed in Season 2.

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