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2[[caption-width-right:350:The main cast.]]
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4''Little Robots'' is a stop-motion animated children's TV series, produced by Creator/CosgroveHall Films for Create TV and Film Limited and broadcast on Creator/CBeebies (the BBC's children's channel). The fiction series was based on the eponymous book by Mike Brownlow in 1999, published by Ragged Bears Publishing.
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6An English dub was produced in 2005 for Creator/CartoonNetwork's now-defunct Tickle-U block.
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9* CatchPhrase: The Sparky Twins have "Gimmie Three, Sparkee!"
10%% * CompanionCube: Teddy for Stripy.
11%% * HiccupHijinks: Noisy in Episode 2.
12* HighPressureEmotion: Rusty constantly steams out of her head whenever she's feeling scared or stressed.
13%% * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Sporty and Rusty.
14* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Sparky One has a pink spot on her belly and Sparky Two has a yellow spot on her belly.
15%% * TheIngenue: Rusty.
16%% * MeaningfulName: For each of the robots.
17* MrFixIt: Tiny, the ExpositoryThemeTune explains how, after repairing his own arm he fixed up everyone else. And he is the one the others go to if they are ever damaged. It helps he keeps his tools in his head so he can go anywhere.
18%% * NoIndoorVoice: Noisy.
19* NotNowWereTooBusyCryingOverYou: In "Seeing Double", when Sporty and Messy accidentally break Tiny's replica of himself into pieces, Sporty apologizes to the replica just as the real Tiny walks up behind him:
20-->'''Sporty:''' Not now Tiny, I'm talking to TINY--?! ''[{{Double Take}}s]''
21%% * ThePollyanna: Tiny.
22* ThemeTuneRollCall: "There's Tiny, Messy, Sporty, Stretchy, Rusty, Stripey, Noisy, Spotty, Scary... (Woo!) ...Flappy the bat, the Sparky twins... that's that!"
23%% * ThemeTwinNaming: Sparky 1 and Sparky 2.
24* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Sparky Twins are the tomboys to Rusty's girly girl.
25* {{Workaholic}}: Stretchy. He once twisted his long neck due to overwork.

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