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8	''Wandering Wenda'' (also known as ''[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal The Wide World of Wandering Wenda]]'') is a 2017 Canadian animated series from Creator/BreakthroughEntertainment (previously known for ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'' and ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'') that aired on Creator/{{CBC}} Kids. It is the AnimatedAdaptation of the children's book ''Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery'', which was written by the legendary Canadian author Creator/MargaretAtwood (who works on the series as an executive producer).
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10	Aimed at preschoolers and kids just learning to read, ''Wandering Wenda'' teaches kids about words, sounds, and language through the adventures of Wenda and her friends Wesley the woodchuck and Wu, as they travel the world on all sorts of wild, weird and wonderfully exciting adventures jam-packed with alliteration featuring every last bit of vocabulary from each letter in the alphabet that the writers could possibly jam into 26 episodes of 8 minutes of children's television.
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12	This was the final children's cartoon to be produced by Breakthrough Entertainment before they sold the rights to most of their animated kids' library to Creator/NineStoryMediaGroup in 2018.
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16	!!This cartoon provides examples of:
17	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Words using the featured letter are jammed into most sentences.
18	* AllThereInTheScript: In "The Obnoxious Otters of Ottawa" the female opera singer is not named but the end credits call her Olivia Orinoco.
19	* AlliterativeName: Most of each episode's one-shot characters will have a letter from their name repeated twice. Of the main characters, '''W'''esley '''W'''oodchuck has the letter "W" repeated.
20	* AlliterativeTitle: Every single episode has a repeating letter of which letter it's focused on. The series itself also qualifies, as its titled '''W'''andering '''W'''enda.
21	%%* BigHeadMode: All characters are drawn this way.
22	* BigBookOfEverything: Wu has one that literally goes by that name, which he uses to define words the other characters don't understand.
23	%%* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: One appears in "The Yarn of the Yukon Yeti".
24	* BirthdayEpisode: Intrepid Ice Explorers is about getting a birthday present for an Inuit girl named Ila.
25	%%** In "The Bewildering Balloon Bandit Burglary", it is Wu's birthday. - Needs more elaboration than just "it's a [character for the day]'s birthday"
26	* CharacterCatchphrase: Wenda has "Wordplay will save the day!", which she uses before changing a word to affect her environment in some way.
27	%%* ComedicUnderwearExposure: It repeatedly happens to Wu.
28	* CreatorCameo: Margaret Atwood herself appears in the intro and interacts with Wenda, and then appears at the end to close the book that signifies the episode is over.
29	* DisguisedInDrag: In episode D, Wu asks Wes why he is wearing a dress (it is green and has a name tag saying Debi) and Wes says it is a disguise and he likes the design.
30	* FairyGodmother: In "The Fairy Fiasco in Funland", the aforementioned godmother appears and asks Wenda to MakeAWish... and was actually created by Wenda in the first place because F is the letter of the day.
31	%%* HellHotel: It's the setting of "A Haunted Holiday at the Howling Hog Hotel".
32	* HereThereBeDragons: The episode "The Disco Dragon of Detroit" has a "HERE BE DRAGONS" sign which Wenda opens (thinking it a decoy) to find an actual dragon behind it. The Duchess of Disco emerges from the "HERE BE DRESSING ROOMS" door beside it after asking if they opened the dragon door.
33	* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Wenda and Wu are human, while Wes is a woodchuck.
34	* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: In the episode "The Zany Zookeeper's Zoo of Zombies", Wenda loses her zoom shoes as she is sucked into Dr. Zero's zeppelin through a tube. This results in Wenda being barefoot which disgust Dr. Zero to where Wenda is given bunny slippers to wear.
35	* MooseAndMapleSYrup: Wenda quips "impressive eh?" while in Iqualuit after using the gloom to create an igloo with Wordplay.
36	* TheNarrator: The show features a comedic narrator who jams in just as much alliteration as the characters do in his commentary of their adventures.
37	* OncePerEpisode: Every episode begins with "a word from our sponsor", which is the narrator showing off the featured letter of the episode.
38	%%* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Done in "The Warbling Wereworm of Wessex".
39	%%* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Wenda's tutu would be a short skirt otherwise.
40	%%* QuirkyCurls: Wenda has orange ones. - Doesn't explain the "quirky" part
41	* RealityWarper: Whenever Wenda shouts, "Wordplay will save the day," RUN. She can arbitrarily pick any word pertaining to anything in her vicinity (noun, verb, it doesn't matter) and substitute the letter (or letters, like 'qu' one time) of the day to alter its spelling and manifest whatever the new things she spells is. This can either erase the previous topic from existence or supplement it with the new topic.
42	%%* {{Sidekick}}: Wesley and Wu.

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