
Tamagotchi Friends is a 2013 webtoon adaptation of Bandai's Tamagotchi virtual pet toys, made to advertise the Tamagotchi toys of the same name. It's about series mascot Mametchi's and his friends' experiences at Dream School, where they learn about their dream jobs.
That isn't quite the end of the story (or the beginning), as Tamagotchi Friends is, in reality, a small selection of episodes from a season of a larger Tamagotchi! television series, one that had been dubbed in English before - the third Tamagotchi TV show overall, after Anime TV De Hakken Tamagotchi and Let's Go! Tamagotchi.
In 2009, Tamagotchi got adapted into a TV anime featuring the various everyday happenings in the lives of Tamagotchi mascots Mametchi, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi, Lovelitchi, and their friends on Tamagotchi Planet. The anime ran for a total of 271 episodes over a span of eleven seasons, divided into four installments each with a different name, and one additional repackaged season:
- Tamagotchi! (2009-2012, six seasons, 143 episodes total): A look at the everyday lives of Mametchi, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi, and others in Tama Town; more or less Slice of Life with a few fantasy elements mixed in. At a later point in the installment (Season 4 onwards), the characters go around Tamagotchi Planet searching for Tama-Hearts, which represent the bonds between two Tamagotchis. The first 26 episodes were dubbed into English and aired on Nine Network's 9Go! channel in Australia.
- Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream (2012-2013, two seasons, 49 episodes total): The gang travels to Dream Town to attend Dream School, where they learn about their dream jobs. The first seven episodes of this installment were dubbed into Tamagotchi Friends, with the episodes being split into two for each one.
- Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends (2013-2014, one season, 29 episodes): Twin sisters named Miraitchi and Clulutchi accidentally wind up in the past. Mametchi and the gang help them to catch creatures called the Dreambakutchis that will help them get back to the future, but a mysterious villain named Smartotchi/X-Kamen makes that difficult.
- GO-GO Tamagotchi! (2014-2015, two seasons, 50 episodes total): The gang finds themselves stuck in the Tamagottsun, a natural event that only occurs every 1,000 years that, among other things, merges Tamagotchi Town and Dream Town into one town.
- Tamagotchi! Tamatomo Daishu GO (2015, one season, 26 episodes): The repackaged season, consisting of episodes taken from the previous four installments, just with new short segments placed in them. The segments, known as "Motto! Chikiyu de Tama Talk" (もっと! ちきゅーでたまトークEnglish translation), feature live-action humans named Yuna and Mai who help a Tamagotchi spacecraft named Apollotchi to study humans and Tamagotchis, and who discuss Tamagotchi life with him.
There are also a number of adaptations that released of this adaptation during its run. There is a manga titled GOGO♪ Tamagotchi!, with two volumes that both released in 2010, that adapts stories from the anime but also has new ones. There is also a number of Licensed Games, the first being a Nintendo DS game called Tamagotchi no Narikiri Channel, released in 2010. One of the other licensed games, Ouchi Mainichi Tamagotchi from 2012, has its own page.
Shortly after it ended in 2015, the anime was replaced by Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama. In terms of Tamagotchi franchise installments, this TV show was succeeded by a short film titled "Eiga Tamagotchi: Himitsu no Otodoke Dai Sakusen!" in 2017, screened alongside Himitsu no Cocotama's theatrical movie.
The title Tamagotchi Friends is not to be confused with Tama & Friends.
Important note: Most of the tropes we're looking at here are for outside of the 2013 dubs. The trope list below, and the subpages, assume that if an episode number does not have an installment specified, it's for the 2009-2012 installment.
Tamagotchi Friends and Tamagotchi! contain the following tropes:
- Accidental Astronaut:
- In episode 133, Kuchipatchi presses the launch button on the ship the Spacy Brothers are using as a secret hideout, sending him - along with the other Tama-Friends - into space. The rest of the episode is Mametchi trying to fix the ship so that it goes back to Tamagotchi Planet.
- The setup for the "Motto! Chikiyu de Tama Talk" segments from Tamagotchi! Tamatomo Daishu GO is that Yuna and Mai, a pair of humans, enter a spacecraft called Apollotchi, who becomes startled and takes off for Tamagotchi Planet with the humans still in him. Yuna and Mai learn that Apollotchi wants to study Tamagotchis and humans and offer to help.
- Accidental Hand-Hold:
- In episode 114, Himespetchi imagines she drops her stuff by accident and Mametchi helps her pick it all back up. The two accidentally touch hands together while doing so.
- In episode 132, as Mamesaku and Mememi, Mametchi and Memetchi's Tamagotchi Village counterparts, are preparing food, Himespetchi accidentally grabs hold of Mamesaku's hand, complete with a couple of little hearts floating from the point of physical contact for a split-second, and Mamesaku notices. Himespetchi inches away awkwardly before panicking about it.
- In Yume Kira Dream episode 35, after Mametchi and Himespetchi press the button on the contraption given to them by Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi to trigger a fireworks show, Himespetchi notices she is holding Mametchi's hand and shyly lifts her arm out of the way. Mametchi is too distracted by the fireworks to notice.
- Accidental Passenger: In Tamagotchi! Tamatomo Daishu GO!'s unique segments "Motto! Chikiyu de Tama Talk", Apollotchi, a spaceship, reactivates while two humans named Yuna and Mai are inside of him, out of curiosity, leading to them being sent to space by accident, and the plot point of them helping Apollotchi to study Tamagotchis (which Yuna and Mai are also passionate about).
- Accidental Time Travel:
- The premise of Miracle Friends involves Miraitchi and Clulutchi, Tamagotchis from the future, being teleported to our present day unintentionally by a power being unleashed by a Dreambakutchi and triggering a time travel function in Watchlin. It becomes the responsibility of Mametchi and his friends to find the Dreambakutchis so that Miraitchi, Clulutchi, and Watchlin can return to the future.
- In episode 15a of GO-GO Tamagotchi!, Nandetchi discovers Miraitchi and Clulutchi's doorknob-like time-travelling machine, the Knock Tap, without knowing what it does. He accidentally creates a time-travel door with it and gets sent to prehistoric times, and he spends the rest of the episode trying to find a way back to the present.
- Acting for Two: In-universe. In episode 37a, we are shown an episode of the TAMAX-TV series Lovelin Hime which stars Lovelin in the roles of the eponymous princess and a ninja, the former helping the latter to escape from her pursuers.
- Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The web series Tamagotchi Friends has Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi's Kirakira Tamamori decorations appear on them after they transform with the Yume Kira Bags, like in Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream. In Yume Kira Dream, Kiraritchi always has the decorations applied to her and Yumemitchi after the transformation. Nowhere in Tamagotchi Friends is Kirakira Tamamori ever explained, leaving a plot hole in that the decorations now appear out of nowhere between scenes.
- Adults Are Useless: Played with. The parents and teachers are a big influence in the main cast's lives, offering effective comfort and guidance. Other adults, are more comical and unhelpful.
- Ageless Birthday Episode: There are several birthday episodes, most set during Mametchi's birthday. In none of these cases are the characters' ages given.
- Episode 6, both the first and second halves are set during Mametchi's birthday.
- Episode 54a, which is literally titled "Happy Birthday, Mametchi!"
- Episode 76b has Furawatchi eating at a fancy restaurant with her family and friends for her birthday.
- Episode 105, which aired during the franchise's 15th anniversary (November 23rd, which is also Mametchi's birthday).
- Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream episode 10, where Mametchi, Memetchi, and Kuchipatchi temporarily return to Tamagotchi Town to celebrate the former's birthday.
- Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream episode 25 for Cafe Mama.
- Toward the end of Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends episode 12, the Kira★Kira Girls sing a birthday song for Mametchi.
- Alien Episode: A weird example since the Tamagotchis already are aliens. In episode 30a, a spaceship named Cornstartchi appears out of nowhere and turns everyone on Tamagotchi Planet (except for Mametchi, Chamametchi, and Hapihapitchi) into Mamametchi.
- Alien Geometries: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 7a, when the school is turned into a maze, it contains multiple staircases that, as Mametchi notes to his Tama-Friends, are capable of being walked on upside-down in addition to being walked on right side up. Trying to find their way to the school entrance, they find this out the hard way when he makes that note - he asks if they're really going up instead of down.
- Aliens of London: Shakertchi speaks with a French accent in the Australian English dub. May be justified by the fact that Tamagotchis assimilated human culture and learned how to speak in human language after visiting Earth for the first time, evidently assimilating human accents in doing so.
- Aliens Speaking English: Justified, as they learned the language from Earth and adapted it. Initially, the Tamagotchis had a radically different language that sounded like squeaks and beeping.
- All Just a Dream: Happens in "Hic! The Hiccups Will Not Stop" in which a scene where Mametchi, Lovelitchi, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi, Makiko, and Telelin (although she's in Lovelitchi's pocket) hold hands in a circle around a book and glass, pray, and are sent flying in the sky does this straight, and said characters are still holding hands.
- Or Was It a Dream?: In said episode, everyone besides Memetchi (even Telelin) hiccup. At the end of the episode, the hiccup counter says that there are over 9,000 hiccups to go.
- All There in the Manual: The official Tama Profy toy gives a tidbit about Himespetchi that doesn't show up in the TV show and actively contradicts it: Himespetchi's crush on Mametchi reaches a point where she refers to him as "Mametchi-sama". The Japanese honorific "-sama" (様) is used by women to refer to guys they have a crush on, but its main usage is to show a high amount of respect to somebody, such as royalty for example - which creates a bit of a joke since Himespetchi is royalty, being a princess from another planet.
- Alliterative Name: Daisy Dance and Dahlia Diva, the two members of the in-universe musical duo D2.
- Alliterative Title: The Tamagotchi Friends episode "Cooking Class".
- Almost Kiss: Occurs in episode 127 during one of Himespetchi's fantasies about Mametchi. This time, she is daydreaming that she is marrying Mametchi, and Kuchipatchi (who is the priest at this wedding) says Mametchi may now kiss the bride. When he says this, Himespetchi comes close to kissing Mametchi, but she snaps out of the daydream before the deed is actually done.
- Alphabetical Theme Naming: D2, a musical duo who are referenced several times in Yume Kira Dream, consists of the members Daisy and Dalia.
- Alternative Foreign Theme Song: Tamagotchi Friends, in all its versions (English, French, German, Polish, and Russian), has an instrumental tune that is clearly not the same as what the original Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream was using at the time, "Doremi Fasorairo" by Dream5.
- Alternate Universe: Episodes 84, 88a, and 94a all mostly take place in an alternate universe where different version of Makiko, Memetchi, and Chamametchi form the Jigoku Devil San Shimainote , who plot to take over a banana-themed kingdom run by the universe's version of Kikitchi. Every character in those episodes is a variation of the Tamagotchis that can be obtained through the Henshin Jo mechanic in some of the virtual pets.
- Amnesia Episode: In episode 129, Himespetchi gets amnesia after falling down some stairs. She develops a crush on Prince Tamahiko for the first half of the episode because she remembers she had a crush on someone but doesn't remember exactly who, and assumes her crush is Prince Tamahiko... and then Prince Tamahiko himself forgets about Princess Tamako and falls in love with Himespetchi.
- And Now You Must Marry Me: The premise of episode 70b is that, in an in-universe episode of one of TAMAX-TV's series, Mametchi the Vampire decides he wants to marry Sister Lovelin and forces her to be his bride against her will. This sends the other nuns into action to save Lovelin.
- And Your Reward is Edible: In episode 20b, the reward for winning the donut contest includes a year's supply of donuts. The Tama-Friends enter the contest for different reasons, with gluttonous Kuchipatchi hoping to win the donuts.
- Animal-Eared Headband: In Miracle Friends episode 8, the Miraclise effect Clulutchi applies to Kuchipatchi gives him a bunny ears headband that makes him uncontrollably jump high like a rabbit, so that he can reach X who has Miraitchi's Pocket Designer.
- Animate Inanimate Object: Lovelitchi's phone, which she names Telelin, becomes sentient due to an incident involving the Kuchipatchi of Truth in episode 26b.
- Anxiety Dreams: In episode 6a, Lovelitchi, who starts to struggle with keeping her identity as the Idol Singer Lovelin a secret from the others, has a nightmare where her friends are shocked to hear she's been keeping the secret and voice their feelings of being betrayed, with Mametchi angrily telling her they're not Tama-Friends anymore.
- April Fools' Plot: One episode had Memetchi fooling the others into thinking she was moving away. She later admits this was a lie. Cue all of the Tama-Friends except Kuromametchi crying in a circle (Memetchi is in the middle).
- Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: In episode 4 of Miracle Friends, Miraitchi and Clulutchi are in bed, worried, and the latter asks her if she is thinking the same thing she is. Miraitchi assumes she's referring to what they want for dinner tomorrow, and Clulutchi clarifies she means fixing Madamtchi's sewing machine, which they had learned about earlier.
- Art Shift: In the ending credits. Combined with Evolving Credits and this is too many to list. One instance is the colored pencil-like art style of Miracle Friends' end credits; the show itself isn't as detailed.
- Artsy Beret: Kuyokuyotchi, an anime-exclusive character who appears in episode 6 of Miracle Friends, is an unconfident artist who wears a red beret with little splotches of differently-colored paint on the front.
- Ascended Fanboy: Episode 130 is about Mametchi debuting in GOTCHIMAN, his favorite television series. He is cast as a villain, which disappoints him because he'd rather be a hero, but with a lesson from Black Hat, Mametchi changes his judgement and does his best with his role as an evil scientist.
- Ash Face: Any time one of his inventions explodes in his face, Mametchi is left with his body, including his face, covered in gray soot.
- Aside Glance: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 7a, while working at the restaurant Dream Hanten, Kuchipatchi gives a confused look to the camera after it cuts from Lovelitchi, who is in DoriTama School, making a joke about him being hungry, as if to imply he sensed that joke.
- Astral Finale: The series finale takes place in outer space, with Mametchi and co trying to cheer up the Tamagotchi Planet, to allow Tamagottsun to end.
- Audible Gleam: In Tamagotchi Friends episode 8 and the original Yume Kira Dream episode 4, Ikaritchi opens a box containing one of his special tools for building boats, and the metallic tool has a twinkle in one corner, accompanied by a gleaming sound.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Paparighttchi, while a skilled inventor, has built a bunch of machines that fall into this category. This includes a rocket ship that can circle the earth while baking a pie, and an automated vacuum cleaner that can only clean dirt it deliberately drops in front of itself.
- Baby's First Words: When Lovesolatchi is initially born in GO-GO Tamagotchi!, the only thing he can say is "labu". Near the end of GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 17a, when Lovelitchi and Melodytchi come back home with him, Lovesolatchi says his first proper words - the names of his caretakers, "labu" ("love") and "mero" ("melo", short for "melody"). This is after his father Lovelipapatchi tries and fails to get him to say his name.Lovelitchi and Melodytchi: So cute!
- Babysitting Episode: Episode 25b of GO-GO Tamagotchi! is about Lovelin struggling to understand the Tamagotchi children she's babysitting at the Tamasitter House for Sitter Poketchi as part of a TV show.
- Back for the Finale: A number of characters make cameo appearances in the finale.
- Bad Guy Bar: There's one in Tamagotchi Town called Waru Cafe, a usual hangout for the Spacey Brothers.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- In episode 40b, Lovelin the mermaid seems to have developed a crush on Mametchi the pirate captain and tries to go find his crew so she can make these feelings clear. When she finally does and speaks her mind, it turns out the "beloved" she was referring to was Mametchi's pirate ship rather than Mametchi himself.
- In episode 121, Mametchi, with a conductor's baton in hand, looks as though he's about to sing and lead for some children, but he ends up sneezing instead.
- In episode 15 of GO-GO Tamagotchi!, Spaceytchi kidnaps Himespetchi and does something suspiciously resembling Black Comedy Rape to her. It's revealed a second later that he's actually just rubbing her back, but sheesh.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: In Tamagotchi Friends episode 12 and Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream episode 6, the owner of an unfinished building notices the art Kiramotchi painted all over it and looks angry about it, saying he thinks it's... wonderful and he loves it.
- Baku: The Dreambakutchis from Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends are based on the baku. The creatures, which have similar tapir-esque appearances to the baku and have wings as an additional feature, have power over Tamagotchis' dreams (the aspiration kind) and are drawn to them. The premise of Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends revolves around rounding them up when they are freed by Smartotchi so that Miraitchi and Clulutchi can go back to the future.
- Balloonacy: In episode 79b, Thief Papillon makes her escape by floating into the sky using a bunch of heart-shaped balloons.
- Balloon Belly: In episode 78a, Chamametchi and her gang help Perotchi look for berries. They come across a berry bush and eat all the berries on it, causing their bellies to bloat.
- Banana Peel: In episode 54b, Kuchipatchi's sentient car eats a bunch of bananas provided by its driver and spits out a peel, causing Kuromametchi's car to slip and hit Kuchipatchi's and Mametchi's cars.
- Band Land: Melody Land is inhabited by Tamagotchis who love music and has Fantastic Flora themed around music, such as plants growing musical notes and bells.
- Bare-Handed Puppetry: In episode 20a, one of the attempts to get the Tama Cherry Blossom to bloom with laughter is from Kuchipatchi, who draws a face onto his belly and moves his muscles in such a way that it makes the face move, with the face alternating between looking happy and looking sad.
- Baseball Episode: Close to one. Episode 12 of GO-GO Tamagotchi! is about the characters playing in a game of soccer.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space:
- Tomomi, a human girl who gets teleported to Tamagotchi Planet by accident at one point, does not have any problems breathing in the planet's atmosphere.
- Yuna and Mai, a pair of live-action human characters, find themselves on a Tamagotchi spaceship named Apollotchi when he goes into space, but the girls don't need spacesuits.
- Be Yourself: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 10, Lovelin is worried about not sounding good enough when she goes to sing with hitomitchi and practices with Melodytchi and Pianitchi by playing rock music and wearing matching clothes. Near the end of the episode, she loses her confidence, realizes she wasn't being herself, and regains her confidence when she performs with hitomitchi as she would at any Lovelin concert, casting aside the rock music and clothing.
- Beach Episode:
- In episode 85a, after Lovelin performs at the beach, the Tama-Friends spend the episode with Pichipitchi, who wants to help out at Tamamori Cafe which is on the beach.
- Most of the second half of episode 139 takes place at the beach, with Mametchi and friends playing volleyball before Mametchi works to help a girl when the ice cream machine at Tamamori Cafe breaks down and the girls starts crying, still determined to get ice cream.
- Beat: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 15a, Miraitchi loses the Knock Tap, a doorknob-shaped Time Machine used by her and her sister Clulutchi. Mametchi and co react to the news that it's missing with a disheartened "Awww...", wait a beat, and then react again with a much more surprised-sounding "EEEHHHHH?!"
- Beautiful All Along: A rare male example with Spacytchi. After washing himself and removing his black outfit, the females in DoriTama Town find him much more attractive.
- Bedsheet Ghost: Jacktchi from GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 30 wears a ghost costume consisting of a white sheet with a face painted on it. There's a reason why he's hiding his appearance with the costume, and not that it's Halloween (or, rather, Tamaween) - he's insecure about how he looks and is afraid his real appearance will scare everybody.
- Berserk Button: Do not mess with Memetchi's hair. She will scream and cry very angrily about it if you end up pressing it. This also includes making rumors about it.
- Bewitched Amphibians: In Miracle Friends episode 1, Miraitchi and Clulutchi call out their father Doctor Future for installing functions in his inventions without telling them, bringing up a specific incident where he added some sort of "witch" mechanism to their makeup kits that temporarily hypnotized them into thinking and acting like they're frogs.
- Big Brother Bully: Moriritchi remembers her older sister Anemoriritchi as one in episode 118, with Moriritchi's memories including Moriritchi swiping an ice cream cone from her, not letting her swim in a pool, and not letting her play outside, all for seemingly no reason. Moriritchi later discovers she didn't remember everything about those memories, and Anemoriritchi was trying to help her - Moriritchi had already eaten too many ice creams to the point she would have gotten a stomach ache before Anemoriritchi took the one she was about to eat; the pool incident was because Moriritchi was getting too cold; and Moriritchi had gotten sick, which is why Anemoriritchi didn't let her go outside.
- Big "NO!": At the end of episode 21b, Kuchipatchi claims to watch his dental hygiene well. Then, when his friends Mametchi and Memetchi leave the room, he says to himself "Not really..." and uses Mametchi's mouth-cam to check to see if he has a cavity. Sure enough, he does, and he lets out a big "NOOOOO-TCHI!" in his shock.
- The Big Race: On four occasions.
- The very first episode, "Get Ready! The Big Race on Tama Street", is about Mametchi and co participating in a race where there are several events placed along the way that the racer has to complete to move on.
- Episode 54b is also about Mametchi and co participating in a race, this time with vehicles. Lovelitchi and Melodytchi end up winning.
- Episode 94b depicts Tama-Pets participating in a race.
- "Tamagotchi Space Grand Prix", the 34th episode of GO-GO Tamagotchi!, has the characters participating in a race where they have to navigate several planets using spaceships.
- Big Storm Episode: In episode 41a, the Spacy Brothers build a secret lair, but learn that there's a typhoon coming thanks to a visit from Typhoontchi and do whatever they can to protect the lair.
- Bilingual Bonus: In episode 27a, the Tamagotchi king of the past asks Lovelitchi if mirrors are popular in the future, leading to him making a pun that the future would then be the "mira-i." "Mirai" is Japanese for future, and "mira" sounds a lot like "mirror."
- Bindle Stick: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 18b, Orenetchi carries a bindle stick when he starts to run away from home after breaking his sister Neenetchi's music box and making her mad.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: The Legendary Lifeform's innards are bizarre by the Tamagotchi species' standards. It's shown to have ruins - complete with plants growing in it - inside of it, as well as a large window that shows what the Lifeform is seeing.
- Bizarro Universe: In episode 132, Lovelitchi and a few of her friends find a secret village in the forest called Tamagotchi-mura, where all of the inhabitants are the same as Tamagotchi Town but with their personalities reversed (for example, the normal version of Mametchi is a smart Gadgeteer Genius, whereas his Tamagotchi-mura counterpart, Mamesaku, is a nerd who doesn't invent anything).
- Blow You Away: Whirltchi and his sister Winditchi have the ability to transform into a gust of wind, and back to a Tamagotchi, as they please. This makes Whirltchi harder for Hapihapitchi to find in episode 16b, as he's a gust of wind when Haphapitchi first finds him; he blends in with the wind since it's already a windy day.
- Blown Upward by a Blowhole: In episode 134, Ishipatchi's explanation about his search for his brother includes visuals where Ishipatchi, having been stuck in a whale, is blown out of its blowhole, landing on the shore of a beach afterward.
- Blue with Shock: In episode 25a, Memetchi's face goes blue when she looks in shock at the picture slideshow her friends made for her farewell party, knowing that she's not actually going anywhere and faked having to move. It happens again later in the same episode when Memetchi imagines how the others might react if they knew her claims of moving were a trick.
- Breather Episode: GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 48a is about Mametchi meeting an elderly lady who got lost during a tour, a much lighter plot than the following episode half and two full episodes afterward, all of which have an overarching plot about Tamagotchi Planet crying - which has huge ramifications if it isn't stopped. The 50th episode of GO-GO Tamagotchi! is the last new episode the series aired.
- Body of Bodies: In Miracle Friends episode 22, the gang accidentally scare a Dreambakutchi and it flies to the top of a building that's too tall for them to reach. Candy Paku Paku uses her Pocket Designer to create numerous clones of Kuchipatchi, who form into a giant Kuchipatchi that grabs the Dreambakutchi.
- Borrowed Catchphrase:
- In episode 102, after being asked by Mametchi if she can make copies of his blueprint, Tomomi uses a word that Moriritchi uses, "Chonmage!"note , in expressing that she will do it. Mametchi notices and points out she's just imitating Moriritchi.
- Himespetchi and Neenetchi have to use each others' catchphrases in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 35 to avoid suspicion, as they have swapped bodies and are pretending to be the other person. Neenetchi accidentally uses her catchphrase for when she is sad, "neeneshyun," instead of Himespetchi's version "gigashyun," and corrects herself in front of Mametchi. Seconds later, the opposite scenario happens with Himespetchi and Kuromametchi.
- "Brave the Ride" Plot: Part of episode 11b of GO-GO Tamagotchi! has Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi being made to ride a new roller coaster at the Celebria amusement park for a television show. Both of them are afraid of roller coasters and force themselves to brave it, their voices clearly indicating they're still terrified while they're singing to help them feel less scared.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: A variation. The first six seasons have Tamagotchi School as the school the Tamagotchis go to. Starting in Yume Kira Dream, they instead go to Dream School, where they learn about whatever is their dream job. GO-GO Tamagotchi! forces them to go to both simultaneously by merging them into DoriTama School.
- Broken Pedestal: In one episode of GO-GO Tamagotchi!, Orenetchi's admiration for Kuromametchi wanes when he realizes he geeks out about Lovelin. After he helps Kuromametchi and his friends save one of Lovelin's concerts, however, Orenetchi reassesses his opinion and admires him once again.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Gotchiman's shirt has a big "G" on it.
- Bullet Seed: In episode 40a, the characters participate in a contest that involves them eating watermelons and spitting out the seeds. Mametchi and Memetchi don't make much progress and Kuchipatchi swallows his watermelon whole, including the seeds, but Princess Tamako proves to be a natural and is able to not only spit the seeds out of sight, but make pictures out of them (including in a cloud).
- By the Lights of Their Eyes: In episode 41b, Mametchi and Kuchipatchi's eyes are visible for a brief period inside the dark mouth of the plant when it eats them, before the scene fades.
- By the Power of Grayskull!: In Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream, Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi have a specific incantation they say whenever they get ready to use their Yume Kira Bags to scan their Dorikawa cards and transform (the below English translation is used in Tamagotchi Friends).Yumemitchi: Dorikawa heart card!
Kiraritchi: Dorikawa item card!
Yumemitchi: For our dreams!
Kiraritchi: With hopeful hearts!
Both: Dorikawa cards! - By Wall That Is Holey: In episode 79b, a wall for a TAMAX-TV show is knocked down and falls right where Madonnatchi and Herotchi are. Madonnatchi is alright because the part of the wall with a window on it is what falls on, or rather around, her. Herotchi isn't as lucky.
- Cake Toppers: In Yume Kira Dream episode 19, Himespetchi imagines herself cutting the wedding cake with Mametchi after marrying him. There are decorations of Himespetchi and Mametchi on the top of the cake, Himespetchi on the left and Mametchi on the right.
- Call-Back: In Yume Kira Dream episode 46, Nandetchi remembers the incident with the dino robot from episode 11 of the same installment, and goes to Dream School to operate one of its other mechas to cause a similar incident, hoping it will attract Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi.
- Calling Your Attacks: Gotchiman has called his attacks several times, such as saying "Gotchi Beam!" as he is about to use his Gotchi Beam.
- Camp Gay: Dream School's dance instructor Mr. Micchi is shown to have crushes on fellow males Mr. Comb-bowie and Wagassiertchi, has long hair, can get quite emotional, and crossdresses as a meido in the Halloween Episode of GO-GO Tamagotchi!.
- CamelCase: There's camelcase in the Tamagotchi Friends episode title "YumeKira Transformation", with "YumeKira" having two capitalized letters but no spaces to separate the two words.
- Canon Foreigner: There are several characters exclusive to the show that don't appear in any releases of the toys
note , While many of them only show up in one episode, maybe two, there are more prominent ones, including the following:- Tomomi the human, who shows up in a small section of episodes (episodes 96 to 112) in the 2009 installment. She would later become a Canon Immigrant, showing up as an NPC on the Tamagotchi iDL toy.
- Ikaritchi, Mametchi's homestay parent from Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream.
- Kokubantchi, one of Dream School's teachers in Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream.
- Apollotchi, Yuna, and Mai, the three main characters of the "Motto! Chikiyu de Tama Talk" sections of Tamagotchi! Tamatomo Daishu GO.
- Cartoon Throbbing: A variation shows up in episode 33b. Kuchipatchi stops a wheelbarrow for the Eco-usatchi Triplets, in the process hurting his hands. For about a couple seconds, his hands have a red, pulsating glow.
- Cassandra Truth: Episode 46 of Yume Kira Dream is about Nandetchi accidentally discovering Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi transforming with their Yume Kira Bags. When he tries to tell Mametchi and co, they don't believe him, prompting him to go cause trouble for the duo to prove his point.
- Catapult Nightmare:
- In episode 26b, Mametchi has a nightmare where he is enveloped in weeds and jolts upright in his bed when he wakes up.
- In Miracle Friends episode 18, Smartotchi has a dream where he plays his favorite piano, but pressing one of the keys makes a strange sound and he then gets swallowed by a hole that appears in the ground. He wakes up catapulting from his bed.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 10, Lovelitchi catapults from her bed after she has a nightmare where she physically can't sing with the idol singer hitomitchi.
- Catching Some Z's: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 32, there is a brief close-up of Takoballoontchi sleeping on Mofumofutchi's head, with stylized Z's coming from Takoballoontchi as he is snoozing.
- Celebratory Body Tossing: In episode 137, the winners of the robot soccer tournament are shown having been thrown into the air by the others as a celebration of their victory.
- Celebrity Star: GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 10 features the J-pop singer hitomi as a Tamagotchi named hitomitchi and features her in a plot that involves Lovelitchi meeting her, but wondering if she'll be good enough to perform at her concert.
- Cerebus Syndrome: The final arc of the original Tamagotchi! series takes an especially dark turn; everyone is gradually turning into eggs, and Mametchi and co have to find out why it's happening and how to stop it before the entire planet is transformed. They're able to elude the curse longer than other Tamagotchis thanks to their frequent exposure to Tama Hearts, but they have to watch their friends and family become cursed. It's Moriritchi falling to the curse that nearly breaks them.
- Character Development: Many characters suffer from this.
- In the web series Let’s Go Tamagotchi, Mametchi is more energetic and would occasionally be a Large Ham, after that, he becomes somewhat less energetic and more serious, he still has a cheerful attitude though.
- In the web series Let’s Go Tamagotchi & in the first 14 episodes, Memetchi seems a lot nicer, however, by the time "The Power of Gossip!" came out, She is now very bossy and bratty and becomes more prone to anger, yet she is not truly a Jerkass.
- Chasing a Butterfly: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 26a, Lovesolatchi becomes distracted by a butterfly and chases it to a flower, wanting to touch the insect but scaring it off, and subsequently being awed by it flying. Lovelitchi and Melodytchi are themselves so distracted by how cute Lovesolatchi is that they don't notice he's gone until it's too late.
- Character in the Logo: The exclamation mark in the show's Japanese Tamagotchi! logo and most of its variations has its dot shaped like Mametchi's head.
- Cheer Them Up with Laughter: In Yume Kira Dream episode 9, Julietchi loses her ability to cry on command and becomes upset since she needs to do this for her performing class at Dream School. Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi transform into astronauts called the Space Sisters using their Yume Kira bags and try to come up with ways to make Julietchi cry tears of laughter while in these forms.
- Cheer Up Episode: In Yume Kira Dream episode 9, Julietchi is unable to create tears on her own, an ability she needs for her performing arts class, and becomes sad about it. When Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi transform with the Yume Kira Bags, their tactic is to make her laugh, following advice given to them by Cafe Mama.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Episode 14b has Papamametchi recounting the story of how he once encountered a giant rare sea creature that he has yet to catch. That sea creature, the Legendary Lifeform, takes until the final couple of episodes of GO-GO Tamagotchi!, which includes the overall anime's grand finale, to serve a proper role - specifically, it takes the Tamagotchis into space to cheer up Tamagotchi Planet.
- Cherry Blossoms: In episode 125, there are cherry blossoms surrounding Lovepapalitchi and Lovemamalitchi in a flashback where the latter holds the former's hand on a park bench, and the cherry blossoms' petals can be seen falling.
- Childish Pillow Fight: In episode 118, where Memetchi points out how she and her younger sister Imotchi (both children) sometimes fight and how it can get out of hand. In a flashback, we're shown them fighting really intensely by periodically whacking each other with pillows, to the point there's a Big Ball of Violence each time they do it.
- Chocolate of Romance: In episode 116, on Valentine's Day, Himespetchi gifts Mametchi with some chocolates as an expression of her love for him. Mametchi assumes they're being given to him as a friend, disappointing Himespetchi (for a few seconds, before she realizes Mametchi accepted the chocolates at all and hopes he will see her as more than a friend someday).
- Christmas Episode: There was at least one every year during the anime's run. The first example is the second half of episode 10, where Mametchi tries to come up with a way to help Lovelin deliver Christmas cards to the North Pole on time, for her fans there.
- Clark Kenting:
- The only thing separating Lovelitchi from Lovelin is that the latter has a little blue star on her cheek, and yet nobody connects the two together until Lovelitchi tells her Tama-Friends personally.
- In Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream, whenever Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi use their Yume Kira bags to transform, they don't use masks and their voices don't change, but people still can't tell they're Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi.
- Clear Their Name: In Tamagotchi Friends episode 8 and Yume Kira Dream episode 4, Ikaritchi accuses Mametchi of stealing his boatmaking tools. This sends Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi into action with their Yume Kira Bags, with the two intent on finding and catching the real thief and clearing Mametchi's name, knowing full well that Mametchi would never willingly steal someone else's things.
- Clingy MacGuffin: In episode 134, a stone statue shaped like Kuchipatchi gets stuck on the real Kuchipatchi, and it's up to the Tama-Friends to figure out how to get it off. The stone statue - which Kuchipatchi names Ishipatchi - turns out to be capable of speaking, but only to Kuchipatchi until Mametchi creates Translator Microbes for him, and explains that he is searching for his brother.
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: In Yume Kira Dream episode 6, after Kiraritchi makes her promise not to draw on whatever she sees when she gets inspired, Kiramotchi is walking outside and sees white canvases everywhere that tempt her into making art on them. In order, she sees a community board, the side of a truck, and an in-progress building. It's that third one that breaks her into forgetting her promise and painting on it.
- Colorful Theme Naming: The Dreambakutchis from Miracle Friends all have different names, "Dreambakutchi" with their color attached to the beginning, to differentiate them. They are named Akairobakutchi (red), Orangebakutchi, Kiirobakutchi (yellow), Midoribakutchi (green), Mizuirobakutchi (aqua), Aoibakutchi (blue), Murasakibakutchi (purple), and Pinkbakutchi.
- Commercial Break Cliffhanger: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 30, the gang being freaked out by what looks like a ghost comes before the episode's ad break. Mametchi screams as the ghost approaches him, which is repeated when the second half of the episode begins; the ghost ends up picking up the candy Mametchi dropped and giving it back to him.
- Company Cross-References: GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 12 is about the DoriTama School children playing a game of soccer in TamaGoLand and features the soccer players doing moves with elaborate animations and on-screen text similar to the special moves in the Inazuma Eleven series. This cross-reference alludes to two companies at once; the Inazuma Eleven anime, like Tamagotchi!, was animated by OLM Incorporated and aired on TV Tokyo.
- Concert Episode: A variant in that the main characters perform the concert. In the first half of episode 35 of Yume Kira Dream, after preparing in the previous episode, the KiraKira Girls perform at a concert at YUMEX-TV with multiple bands performing (including one with Mametchi and some of the other Dream School boys), with their performances judged by Startchi and idol singer duo D2.
- Confused Question Mark: Fairly often, question marks appear near the heads of characters when they are confused about something.
- Continuity Nod: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 25a, Gourmetchi and Karakutchi introduce their zombie curry with a sentence that ends in "zozombie". That was previously heard in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 20b a lot, due to it being a verbal tic of the Tamagotchi zombies.
- Contrived Coincidence: The events of episode 28b consist of Telelin's exploring the school leading to Uwasatchi thinking that the seven wonders haunting Tamagotchi School are real, as they happen one by one, because each incident with Telelin just happens to resemble one of the wonders - for instance, Telelin being stuck in a piano that is located near a picture of Tamatoven, who happens to be one of the wonders, and her making a skeleton move by accident. There's no indication Telelin knew about the wonders beforehand, and she has no malicious intent - she just wants to explore the school since it's her first time there.
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: Lovelitchi's father Lovepapalitchi loves cooking and will easily get upset if anyone tells him his food tastes terrible... which, unfortunately for him, it does since he has a thing for making very bizarre combinations of food that aren't very appealing (steak parfaits are just one example).
- Couch Gag: At the end of the credits for each episode of the first season of Yume Kira Dream, there is a shot of several characters (specifically Mametchi, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi, Yumemitchi, Kiraritchi, Himespetchi, and the Spacy Brothers). One of the characters will do a specific action, such as waving to the viewers or making some kind of happy face; the exact character changes with each episode. As these couch gags overlap with sponsorship screens exclusive to television airings, they don't appear on DVD and streaming releases.
- Couple Theme Naming: Nuttchi and Bolttchi, the latter of which wants to propose marriage to the former in their episode (Yume Kira Dream episode 44). There is also a giant metal nut on Nuttchi's head and a giant bolt on Bolttchi's head to help distinguish them.
- Creepy Crossdresser: Himespetchi's crush on Mametchi reaches the point where she crossdresses as him. While it's unsettling to everyone else, she's not being outright malicious.
- Crossdresser: Mametchi crossdresses as a girl once in a television program. Kuromametchi flirts with him, leading to an Unsettling Gender-Reveal.
- Cross-Popping Veins: In Miracle Friends episode 8, a red vein symbol appears on X when he gets angry after Enchoutchi, thinking he is a flower pot, puts flowers in him.
- Crossover: In-universe; in episode 79b, TamaPtchi tells Mametchi he is intending to produce a special TAMAX-TV program that features Gotchiman and Anpan Detective, the protagonists of two of the station's most prominent series. It isn't quite what you'd expect; it's a quiz show where the superhero and detective compete against each other, rather than a standard crossover special where one of them visits the other's world.
- Crush Filter: Himespetchi sees Mametchi as much, much more handsome than he really is. The version of him that she sees has a more detailed and handsome-looking face, longer arms and legs, a deeper voice, and a bunch of sparkles surrounding him.
- Cub Cues Protective Parent: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 2b, Mametchi sees that a baby bird has fallen from its nest and climbs a ladder to where the nest is to put it back in the nest. A pair of grown-up birds, implied to be the baby bird's parents, peck Mametchi and cause him to fall from the ladder.
- Cultural Cross-Reference:
- In a few episodes, as far back as episode 2a, there is a poster of a series called Star Tamac in the TAMAX-TV studio office, spoofing the British Star Trek franchise. A pointy-eared Tamagotchi meant to be Spock, and a spaceship meant to be the USS Enterprise, are both on the poster.
- In episode 136, one of the traps Adobentchi unintentionally sets off in the temple is a large boulder that chases after him and the others, referencing the first Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark (from the United States).
- In Yume Kira Dream episode 9, Himespetchi imagines she is on a ship with Mametchi. Mametchi holds her as she leans on the front of the boat, arms outstretched, referencing Titanic (1997) (from the United States).
- GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 23b references Ghostbusters (from the United States) in both name and basic premise. The episode, titled "結成!おばけバスターズ" ("Kessei! Obake basutāzu" or "Assemble! Ghost Busters"), is about Mametchi and the rest of the school council ridding the school of a ghost when it is believed there is one in there, Mametchi using a vacuum that looks like a Proton Pack to do it.
- Cuteness Proximity: After Yumecantchi joins Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi in Yume Kira Dream, whenever the duo transforms, she uses her cuteness to convince them that the items she summons for them to use will actually be useful. It works on Yumemitchi, who absolutely loves Yumecantchi and cannot get over how adorable she is, but it doesn't work on Kiraritchi.
- Cyber Cyclops: The robots that participate in the robot soccer tournament in episode 137 all have a single, red eye for a face.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Kuromametchi, despite being a dark version of Mametchi, is often portrayed just as heroic and charismatic as Mametchi, if not moreso.
- Dartboard of Hate: Inverted. Himespetchi has a dartboard depicting her crush Mametchi on it; it's just one of many things themed around him that she has in her house.
- Death of Personality: Victims of the egg curse in episodes 140-143 lose their personality over time, eventually becoming white eggs with no memory of who they are.
- Delayed Reaction:
- In Miracle Friends episode 3, Miraitchi and Clulutchi, who had been keeping it a secret that they are from the future so as not to change the present, feel they have no choice but to explain it to Mametchi and his other friends, and they do. Memetchi, as she is sipping a cup of tea, simply restates what Miraitchi and Clulutchi stated before realizing the weight of it and shouting "Ehhhhh?!", followed by the same reaction from the other Tama-Friends.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 15a, it takes a Beat for everyone to fully realize Miraitchi and Clulutchi's Knock Tap has gone missing. They react to the news with a disappointed "Awww..." at first before yelling "Ehhhh?!" a few seconds later.
- Delicious Distraction: In episode 94b, Spacytchi and Akaspetchi set up a grill with food cooked on it to distract the racers in the Tama-Pet race so that Pipospetchi (who is posing as a Tama-Pet) can win the event. Pipospetchi himself falls for the trap, as does Kuchipatchi who is outright not participating in the race.
- Dem Bones: In episode 28b, Uwasatchi picks up her book about the seven wonders that she thinks are haunting Tamagotchi School and finds that one of them is a living skeleton, which matches up with Telelin accidentally pushing a skeleton in Professor Flask's room which is taken as the skeleton being alive.
- Demoted to Extra: As to be expected with a show featuring such a large cast, many characters within a season gradually fade into the background, with the exception of the billed main cast.
- The Dentist Episode: No Way! Mametchi Gets a Toothache. Mametchi gets a cavity from eating a donut and is afraid of the dentist due to "that screeching drilling sound." His attempts to get rid of it himself are worthless, but he later ends up having to go after his parents find out.
- Department of Redundancy Department: In episode 102, as everyone is clapping as a prayer to the god Hatokamitchi, Melodytchi says "Onegai, please!" hoping it works. "Onegai" means "please."
- Description Cut: Played for drama. In episode 20 of Yume Kira Dream, Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi find Mametchi going back to his Dream Town house, and Kirairtchi wonders if that means he and Ikaritchi will reconcile. Yumemitchi assumes it will be fine. Cute to Mametchi sadly curling up into his blanket, implying there are still problems with him and Ikaritchi.
- Different World, Different Movies: Tamagotchi Planet has its own version of Star Trek called "Star Tamac". A poster for it, shown in a hall of the TAMAX-TV building in at least a couple episodes (episode 85b being one of them), shows a Tamagotchi version of Spock and a spaceship meant to be the USS Enterprise.
- Disguised in Drag:
- In episode 94b, Akaspetchi dresses as "Obaspetchi," the mother of one of the Tama-Pets in the race (actually Pipospetchi), and wears hair and lipstick.
- In Yume Kira Dream episode 46, one of Nandetchi's attempts to reveal Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi's identities as the magical girl duo involves him dressing up as a grandmother and setting up a gift for them to fish from the water, saying it's for "her" grandson and is very valuable.
- Disney Acid Sequence: Lovelitchi and Melodytchi's first performance of "Happy Happy Harmony", in episode 49b, features elaborate visuals such as them in front of bunches of musical notes, them holding hands as they fall into an abyss in outer space, them walking in front of visuals of amusement park rides that are themselves imposed over a night sky with fireworks, and them riding a rainbow above the ocean. Aside from the musical notes, there isn't much in the sequence that has to do with what the lyrics are describing (it's a song about enjoying music).
- Disney Death: In episode 143, Kizunatchi is overpowered when she tries to use her powers to ward off the eggification curse. Mametchi and co all express their sorrows over her as she falls to the ground, lifeless... but then she regains her consciousness, evolves, and tries again to fend off the egg curse - successfully this time.
- Disturbed Doves: There's a running gag in episode 40 of Yume Kira Dream where some dramatic scene results in a character shouting loud enough that the resulting reaction shot shows birds flying away, scared by the shouting. It happens three times: first, when Yumemitchi brings it up to Mametchi and Kuchipatchi that she suspects Benitchi of having an affair with Chukatchi; secondly, when Mametchi and Kuchipatchi are at the beach, having just found out that Yumemitchi was on to something; and the last time is when Chukatchi admits his love for Chinatchi, his actual wife, after having waved aside the accusations.
- Diving Save: In Yume Kira Dream episode 11, Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi, while they are transformed into baseball players from their Yume Kira bags, do this to save the D2 duo from the out-of-control dino-like robot, sliding them safely out of its way.
- "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: The third version of the original theme song, "GO-GO Tamagotchi!", rotates between different characters singing it throughout Season 3, with the characters being replaced each month the season was airing, and all of them voiced by their voice actors for the episodes themselves. For example, all the appearances by Lovelitchi/Lovelin in the intro are done by Kei Shindō.
- "Double, Double" Title: The end credits song for Miracle Friends is called "Itsuka Itsuka", which means "Someday, Someday" in English.
- Double Meaning Gag: In Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream, Spacytchi accidentally enrolls in Dream School's fashion class when he wants the conquest of Tamagotchi Planet, because the Japanese words for "uniform" and "conquest" are both seifuku (制服 for the former and 征服 for the latter) and he's too young to be taken seriously as a bad guy. In the later GO-GO Tamagotchi!, he attempts to start a club for world domination at DoriTama School, but Principle Omen assumes he means a uniform club based on the same pun. Spacytchi rectifies that by writing onto the door to the club's room, changing the personality of the door which is sapient.
- "Down Here!" Shot: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 36, Yukine and Suzune hear the front door of their house being knocked on and check who it is. The camera stays for a little bit on the top of the doorway before panning down to reveal Tamagotchis. As Yukine and Suzune are humans and Tamagotchis are shorter than humans, it takes them a second or so to notice how short their visitors are.
- Downer Ending: In episode 20a, everyone is making good progress getting the Tama-Cherry Blossom to bloom by doing fun activities until Mametchi starts to perform his rendition of "Every Lovely". His singing is so terrible that it makes the blossoms on the tree all fall off simultaneously. The episode ends there with everyone else shocked at the fallen blossoms while Mametchi is still moving along with his song, unaware of what his singing has done.
- Dramatic Irony:
- In "Rednosetchi is Lost!", Mametchi, Chamametchi, and Hapihapitchi help Rednosetchi to find Santaclaustchi, who is getting help from Memetchi and Kuchipatchi to find Rednosetchi. The two groups are quite close to each other as they look for each other to begin with, but later in the episode there's a scene where Santaclaustchi and Rednosetchi are sitting on opposite ends of the same fountain and never realize the other is literally right behind them as they worry that who they're looking for doesn't care about them anymore. They decide to go different directions to find each other, which somehow works as they meet at the front of the TAMAX-TV building.
- In the Miracle Friends end credits sequence, there's a point where Mametchi is looking for Dreambakutchis. One Dreambakutchi appears to his right/the viewers' left before flying away when he looks in that direction, then another one appears on the opposite side and does the same thing. When Mametchi walks away, we find there was a third Dreambakutchi behind him the entire time, that one chuckling knowingly.
- Dramatic Spotlight: One shines over Kuromametchi twice in episode 16b - once when he's embarrassed over the Eco-usatchi triplets talking about how he showed up at an ice skating event, and again after he responds to Mametchi and friends asking if he wants to try out new food at the Tama Cafe, contradicting the "lone wolf" personality he usually displays.
- Dreadful Musician: Mametchi's awful singing has his friends covering their ears in agony. Melodytchi, oddly enough, seems to like his singing. Himespetchi is also able to tolerate his singing, but only because of her crush on him.
- Dream Reality Check: Two instances where this happens:
- In episode 30a, after waking up from two nightmares related to their mother in a row, Mametchi and Chamametchi pinch each other to make sure they're not dreaming a third time.
- In Yume Kira Dream episode 11, the fictional celebrity duo D2 visits the Kira Tamamori shop and gives Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi some D2 cards. Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi pinch each other to make sure they're not dreaming, then get excited since they actually met D2 in real life.
- Dream Within a Dream: In episode 30a, Mametchi and Chamametchi have a nightmare where everyone except them and Hapihapitchi are turned into Mamametchi, and they have to find the real Mamametchi among them. When they wake up, they have another nightmare where Mamametchi serves them corn before finally waking up for real.
- Dreaming of Things to Come: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 48b, Mametchi has a dream where he's in space and sees that Tamagotchi Planet is sad. He has every right to worry about if the dream is telling him that something bad will happen, as it does foreshadow future events (Tamagotchi Planet needs to be made happy, or its crying will bring the Tamagotchis to extinction).
- Dressed to Cook: In Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream, Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi's pastry chef outfits come with the standard long, white cap and white coat, as well as neckerchiefs coded to the Tamagotchis' theme colors (pink for Yumemitchi and blue for Kiraritchi).
- Drill Mole: In episode 94b, an Onsenmoguratchi, a mole-like Tamagotchi, participates in a Tama-Pet race where one of the obstacles is to get a Tamamori makeover from Moriritchi and Anemoriritchi. Onsenmoguratchi gets a drill as part of its makeover, which proves useful in the race as it allows it to go faster when it's tunneling.
- Drool Deluge: In episode 48, Kuchipatchi sees all the food during Lovelin's performance, where she sings as a chef, and produces a waterfall of drool. He doesn't look where he's drooling - onto Kuromametchi, who isn't happy.
- Drop the Washtub:
- In episode 20a, Memetchi and Makiko's comedy routine as "Samurai Memetchi and Afro Makiko" features Makiko being by a washtub falling on her. Her afro is so bushy that it cushions the washtub and makes it have no impact on her.
- In episode 34a, one of the things done to Mametchi to unfairly make him lose at the quiz show is that a washtub is dropped on him before he can answer a question.
- Dub-Induced Plot Hole: In the Tamagotchi Friends episodes where Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi transform with the Yume Kira Bags, the parts from the original Yume Kira Dream where Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi add Tamamori decorations to their outfits after transforming is omitted, leaving no explanation as to how the decorations suddenly appear on their heads or hats between scenes.
- Dub Name Change: The Korean dub changes Mametchi's name to Kkomkkomtchi.
- Dull Surprise: In the English dub that aired on 9Go! in Australia, Spacytchi's voice acting has noticeably less emotion than the voice acting for other characters in the same dub, reaching the point where, in episode 4a, Spacytchi's screaming about being stuck on Mametchi's roller coaster and telling Pipospetchi to hang on sounds more like he's tired than panicking.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Madonnatchi and Herotchi officially make their first appearance in the series in episode 71b, but make a cameo in GOTCHIMAN in the previous part of the episode.
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- It's a series-wide tradition that at the tail ends of the episodes, a character or a kind of fashion is briefly showcased. This was not established until Season 2.
- Certain earlier holiday episodes had only their second halves dedicated to the holiday, as demonstrated by episodes 10 and 59, both for Christmas, and episode 30, for Mother's Day. All the holiday episodes after episode 59 strictly have both halves dedicated to the holiday, rather than only the second half; it returns to that second formula exactly once, for GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 44b (a Valentine's Day story), almost at the end of the series.
- Easy Amnesia: In episode 129, Himespetchi falls down some stairs and develops amnesia. She remembers she has a crush on somebody, but doesn't remember exactly who her crush is, causing her to develop a crush on Prince Tamahiko for part of that episode.
- Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: Whatever plan the Spacey Brothers have in mind, it almost always backfires.
- Eccentric Artist: Kiraritchi's little sister Kiramotchi becomes uncontrollably aggressive in drawing/painting whenever inspiration strikes her, and in the Japanese original she ends her sentences with the verbal tic "-desuno" (ですの) which is associated with aristocratic girls, implying she sees herself as a producer of fine art despite being younger than grade school.
- Effeminate Voice: Mr. Micchi is a Camp Gay dance instructor with a voice that, while still unmistakably male, is higher-pitched compared to the other adult male characters.
- Elongating Arm Gag: The person who serves food at Tamagotchi School's cafeteria does so by stretching his arms out to the students receiving their lunches.
- Emotions vs. Stoicism: At one point, Kuromametchi realizes he's losing his stoicism and acting more cheerful and emotional. It takes some soul-searching before he realizes he can be both.
- End-of-Series Awareness: The last episode of GO-GO Tamagotchi! has Mametchi thanking the viewers for watching their show at the end. He and his other Tama-Friends (including Dream School) all wave and say goodbye as the screen fades out.
- Episode of the Dead: Episode 20b of GO-GO Tamagotchi! plays down the more mature and creepy elements of the typical Zombie Apocalypse setting, this being a children's show and all. The episode is about Mametchi, Chamametchi, and Hapihapitchi being the only survivors of a zombie epidemic going around DoriTama Town, with affected Tamagotchis acting more tired than undead. And then Chamametchi and Hapihapitchi are zombified as well, leaving Mametchi entirely at the mercy of them and all of the other zombies as he tries to survive. Mametchi eventually gets zombified as well.
- Episode Title Card: A specific template is used for the title cards for most of the series, with a moving pattern consisting of the silhouette of a specific character important to the episode being used as a background. In GO-GO Tamagotchi!, it's changed so that CGI renderings of Mametchi, Memetchi, and Kuchipatchi appear at the bottom of the screen and wave at the viewers.
- Establishing Character Moment:
- In episode 114, the debut of Himespetchi, Mametchi hurriedly walks into the classroom and Himespetchi immediately develops a crush on him. You have one guess as to what Himespetchi's defining character trait is.
- In the Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream episodes introducing Kiramotchi, the first thing we see her doing is to tell everyone not to step on her chalk artwork, which she has drawn on the ground and turned out quite big, before getting inspiration and drawing more, including on Kuchipatchi. This establishes her as an eccentric artist with a passion.
- Everybody Hates Mathematics: Tamagotchi Friends episode 9 and Yume Kira Dream episode 5 are about Mametchi assembling a study group to help the other students when they feel concerned about their grades on a math test. Once they arrive at Yumemitchi's house for their first meeting, everybody aside from Mametchi quickly loses interest in the subject, preferring to do such things as have a tea party and take a nap.
- "Everyone Is Gone" Episode: In episode 13b, the Spacy Brothers find that everyone in Tamagotchi Town besides them has inexplicably disappeared and assume the rest of Tamagotchi Planet's population is gone too, giving them a chance to finally achieve their goal of conquering the planet. After some time, though, the brothers become worried about having to repopulate the planet. Eventually, they find out everyone else was actually at home, celebrating "Roll on the Floor Day" like they do at the beginning of every new year.
- Everything Dances: In one scene of the season 1 intro, the buildings dance to the show's opening song.
- Everything Is an Instrument: In Yume Kira Dream episode 36, Yumecantchi's backpack summons cooking pans, which end up being used as drums by somebody else when Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi are performing as rock stars.
- Evolving Credits: The show's opening and closing credits typically change halfway between a season, often using Art Shifts. Also, in one season, where the characters seen in the opening often varied, and what happens during a sequence where Tamagotchis hold hands on Tamagotchi Planet varies, too.
- Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name!: Done most of the time.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: In episode 120, Himespetchi has some noticeable bags under her eyes after she makes herself tired from fondly watching Mametchi sleeping all night.
- Exotic Eye Designs:
- The mysterious girl Melodytchi finds in the forest in episodes 119 and 120 has large treble clefs for eye highlights, since she is found in Melody Land. That, and she is physically the representation of Melodytchi's violin.
- Nuttchi has a hexagon-shaped highlight in both her eyes, tying into her metal nut theme that contrasts with Bolttchi's metal bolt theme.
- Explosive Results: There's a tendency for Mametchi's inventions to explode on him, leading to his black cap looking more like an afro. This is demonstrated in the first episode, as one of the first things we see happening to Mametchi.
- Expressive Hair: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 19a, hearing Boatchi mention he thinks his crush is cute gives the Tama-Friend girls enough of a Cuteness Overload that Memetchi's one curl of hair shifts into a spiraling heart shape.
- Expy Coexistence: The Santaclautchis, who are Tamagotchi versions of Santa Claus, co-exist with the human Santa Claus. Based on something one of the Santaclautchis says in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 36, there are more Santas in the universe than just them.
- Eye Catch:
- In the 2009 installment, the episode goes into a commercial break with an animation of a Tamagotchi toy device hoping onto the screen, with one of the characters looking at the viewer through the toy's screen. The series logo appears in the corner and has its eyes fall into place before blinking twice (the eyes blinking twice is kept for all subsequent eye catches); in the English dub, a voice says the series name as well. When the show switches to one 22-minute-long story per episode, on the show returning from the commercial break, a second eye catch follows that has the character emerging from the Tamagotchi toy's screen, while a bunch of voices shout the name "Tamagotchi!" in the background.
- In Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream, a short animation of Yumemitchi's pink Yume Kira Bag falling into view precedes the commercial break, while an animation of Kiraritchi's blue Yume Kira Bag opening precedes the episode's second act. Once Yumecantchi joins the magical girls, the second act's eye catch has her appear above the pink Yume Kira Bag and say her verbal tic "Kyan!" The before-commercial-break eye catch is replaced by an animation of Pianitchi's piano tablet, the Smapi, when she joins the cast; Pianitchi peeks from behind it and blinks twice along with the eyes in the series logo.
- In Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends, the animation of Pianitchi and her Smapi is kept from Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream for before ad breaks. The second eye catch is replaced by an animation of Coffretchi popping up from behind her makeup kit.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi!, a bunch of circles depicting the Tamagotchis show up, before one depicting any one of the three main characters - Mametchi, Memetchi, or Kuchipatchi - stops in the top left corner of the screen. Oyajitchi appears in the bottom right corner and gives a wink to the viewers.
- Extremely Short Intro Sequence: he opening to Tamagotchi Friends is a little over 15 seconds long, compared to the Japanese original Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream which has two openings that are both over a minute.
- Eye Pop: A variation. In episode 139, Himespetchi has a romantic fantasy where Mametchi tells her he would like her to be his lover, and Himespetchi's heart-shaped eyes pop out with a trail effect and retract as she says her catchphrase "Gigakyun!" after that.
- Eyes Always Shut: The comet partially responsible for the events of the Tamagottsun in GO-GO Tamagotchi! has a face with two eyes that are always shut, adding to its feminine, graceful appearance.
- Face Fault: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 3b, Himespetchi does one when she thinks Mametchi has just noticed her, only for her to realize he was looking at Jack the peacock and not her.
- Face, Nod, Action: Often happens whenever two or more characters are about to do something significant, but is especially common in Yume Kira Dream whenever Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi are about to run off to use their Yume Kira bags to transform and resolve whatever conflict.
- Face on the Cover: A majority of the DVD releases for the first installment have one of the characters on the cover.
- The Faceless: When Tomomi's friend Yuka is shown in a flashback, the latter always has her eyes obscured by either shading or her hair.
- Failure Montage: In Yume Kira Dream episode 46, after Nandetchi's first two attempts to snap pictures of Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi transforming fail, there is a montage of three examples of him failing again. First, he pretends to be a baseball player with stomach problems; then, he pretends to be a delivery person whose truck has run out of fuel; and finally, he pretends to be a fish who has made it onto land.
- Fairy Companion: Kizunatchi, whose wings and small size make her similar to a fairy, acts as an assistant to Lovelitchi and Melodytchi by teaching them how to collect Tama Hearts in their Tama Profys, and telling them how and when they can reveal a Tama Heart's true appearance before they collect it.
- Fang Thpeak: One episode features Mametchi as a vampire, who averts both this and Vampire Vords.
- Fantastic Fireworks:
- In episode 16a, Kikitchi watches a fireworks show from the window of his house with Chamametchi and Imotchi. Kikitchi's parents arrange for fireworks shaped like the three's heads to be set off during the show.
- In episode 119, Himespetchi imagines herself having a romantic moment with Mametchi in Melody Land, with fireworks going off above them. A heart-shaped firework goes off in the middle of the screen.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 18a, Spacytchi uses an axe to slice what he thinks is a watermelon. It's actually a firework that blasts the Spacy Brothers into the sky and creates the shape of the Gotchi King upon exploding.
- Fat and Skinny: Orenetchi is the skinny brother to the fat Neenetchi.
- Fear of Thunder: Fuwamokotchi from episode 131 visibly winces every time it hears the sound of thunder. The bird is forced to get over its fear to help Mametchi.
- Fell Asleep Crying: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 33, Lovesolatchi is sad that he can't go out to space with Mofumotchi, goes to his room, and cries on his bed while looking at a picture he drew of a rocket ship. When Lovelitchi and Melodytchi check on him later, he's sleeping and still has tears in his eyes.
- Ferris Wheel Date Moment: Subverted in episode 129, where Prince Tamahiko and an amnesiac Himespetchi are about to board a ferris wheel. Himespetchi remembers her true love is actually Mametchi at the last second, realizes what's happening, and freaks out.
- Festival Episode: The episode "Let's Celebrate! Tama-Beans Festival" has the characters celebrating a festival similar to the Japanese holiday of Setsubun, where those celebrating the festival throw beans to ceremonially expel evil spirits from their house.
- Feud Episode:
- In episode 33a, Chamametchi and Hapihapitchi fight over the latter wanting to go for a walk. Hapihapitchi goes out by herself and ends up spending time with Lovelitchi and Telelin.
- Episode 118 is about Moriritchi and Anemoriritchi getting into a fight, causing the former to move to Lovelitchi's house. Lovelitchi and a few others try to help the two to stop fighting.
- Fictional Constellations: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 31b, Mametchi's machine shows that there are different constellations on Tamagotchi Planet than on Earth, with it showing three constellations that are meant to be shaped like the egg-shaped Gotchi King, bearded Morikamitchi, and dolphin-shaped Dolphintchi.
- Fictional Holiday: The Tamagotchis celebrate "Roll on the Floor Day" at the beginning of a new year. It amounts to them lying on the floor doing nothing all day.
- The Film of the Book: In-universe. Time Love, the book based on a love letter found by Mametchi and co in episode 10b, gets adapted into a film simply titled Time Love: The Movie.
- Fingerless Hands: All Tamagotchis with limbs have no fingers, though will spontaneously produce thumbs or stubby fingers to make gestures (thumbs up, peace, etc).
- Fire-Breathing Diner:
- In episode 116, Lovepapalitchi offers the kids some sweets he made and tastes one for himself. This being Lovepapalitchi, he made them so spicy that he breathes fire afterwards.
- In Miracle Friends episode 21, Candy Pakupaku feeds the other Tama-Friends candies, one of which is hot enough that Kuchipatchi breathes fire after eating it.
- Fireworks of Love: Himespetchi's daydream about Mametchi in episode 119 involves them having a romantic moment in Melody Land, with a bunch of fireworks going off above them as they hold hands with each other.
- First Love: In episode 71a, Sunnytchi and Principal Mimizu are relaxing in a hot spring in Patchi Forest, and when how spring is the season of love is brought up, Sunnytchi asks who Principal Mimizu's first crush was. He states it was in school, and the visuals in a flashback show it was yellow girl with two curls of hair on the sides of her head, similar in her design to Memetchi.
- Fishing Episode: In episode 14b, when Mametchi asks his father Papamametchi about his ship in a bottle as they prepare to go fishing, Papamametchi tells him it's a ship he rode when he was younger. As the two are actually out fishing, Papamametchi recounts the story of when he took that boat out on a journey to find a rare sea creature.
- Flames of Love: The Tama Heart in episode 116 looks like a campfire and is summoned by getting Tamagotchis to confess their romantic love for each other.
- Flashback B-Plot: Episode 14b, "The Adventures of Young Papamametchi", is about Mametchi going fishing with Papamametchi in the present day. As they go to where they would like to fish, and during the fishing itself, Papamametchi tells Mametchi the story behind how, in the past, he has attempted to search for legendary lifeforms through fishing, making up a secondary plot told largely in flashbacks narrated by Papamametchi.
- Floating in a Bubble:
- In episode 8b, Mametchi and the other Tama-Friends escape the island by using bubble-producing flowers and a big circular bubble wand made of vines to create a giant bubble that they float in. The bubble quickly bounces through the water and back to the TAMAX-TV ship.
- In the first end credits animation for Yume Kira Dream, the characters show up floating in bubbles, wearing costumes.
- Floral Theme Naming: The two members of D2, Daisy and Dahlia, are named after different kinds of flowers.
- Flowers of Romance: In Yume Kira Dream episode 19, a rose is the item Yumecantchi summons for Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi to use to help get Righttchi's opponent Robosukitchi to a tea-serving robot competition they're facing off in. That rose ultimately ends up being used for romantic purposes; it's given as a gift to a woman Robosukitchi really admires before both he and Righttchi brought to the site of the competition.
- Follow Your Nose: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 11, Kuchipatchi does this to find Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi's missing clothes. He detours to the cafeteria first, naturally.
- Food Shove Gag: In episode 24b, as everyone is singing Shakertchi's song, Memetchi forces a banana into Mametchi's mouth to keep everyone else from having to hear his awful singing.
- Forced Transformation: The last few episodes of the first installment have the characters hurrying to cease and nullify a curse that is causing all the Tamagotchis to turn into giant eggs. Those affected slowly lose their personality.
- Foreshadowing: In episode 120, the girl in the forest displays odd behaviors such as not eating or drinking when offered food and drink by Melodytchi, demonstrating the ability to hum the rest of "Happy Heart" after hearing Melodytchi hum it when it logically should be her first time hearing it, and doesn't respond when Melodytchi tells her her parents would be worried about her. This makes sense considering what the episode is building up to: As the girl is the soul of Melodytchi's violin, she doesn't need to eat or drink, of course she would know "Happy Heart" since Melodytchi performs it on her violin, and she doesn't have parents.
- Formal Full Array of Cutlery: In episode 76b, the fancy restaurant where the Tama-Friends celebrate Furawatchi's birthday has more silverware than would be necessary at all the customers' places on the table, with three forks to the customer's left, three knives and a spoon to their right (with those arranged so that, going from left to right, the spoon is the second one), and an additional fork and spoon above the plate, with the spoon above the fork.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 35, where Himespetchi and Neenetchi inexplicably switch bodies after bumping into each other by accident.
- Freeze-Frame Ending: Yume Kira Dream episode 34 ends with a freeze-frame of Himespetchi, who is still distraught from having to return to her home planet.
- Friend-or-Idol Decision: In episode 126, Himespetchi helps Ringotchi to win over a boy the latter now has a crush on. To Himespetchi's horror, the crush turns out to be her crush Mametchi, and as she forces herself to keep helping Ringotchi, she wonders if she should tell Ringotchi she would like to stop doing it so that she doesn't feel guilty.
- Frog Ninja: Close enough. Gamanosuke the giant toad is the training partner of the ninja Gozarutchi.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Pipospetchi could possibly be considered this, if we knew what he was saying.Pipospetchi: (usual language)Spaceytchi: R-relax, you don't have to say that....
- Full-Body Disguise:
- Lovelin plays a TV character named Thief Papillon who has a tendency to wear full-body disguises of others as part of her schemes. In episode 99, it sticks out all the more, as she manages to disguise herself as a human character who's noticeably taller than her with no problems.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 40, Mametchi's character in the television show within the show turns out to be none other than Oyajitchi in a full-body disguise, to the genuine horror of Himespetchi who had been hoping to work with Mametchi in the show.
- Funny Background Event: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 36, one of Rolatchi's blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearances amounts to this. She peeks at the viewers from behind some snow in the background as Mametchi and his friends build a snowman; look to the right of the Tama-Friends and the snowman and you might see her.
- Funny Fan Voice: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 8a, Mimitchi brings a simple house fan to the invention project, and the other students have fun yelling "Ahhhhhh" into the fan as it is turned on and hearing their voice being distorted by it.
- Funny X-Ray: In original installment episode 131, Mametchi's skeleton becomes visible when he's struck by lightning. Look at his skull when that happens and you'll find an unexplained crack at the top. Tamagotchi Friends episode 14 and Yume Kira Dream episode 7 have Tropicatchi's skeleton becoming visible when she's electrocuted, with an unexplained crack also appearing on her skull.
- Fusion Dance: In episode 84, it's shown that Hell Queen, Devil Memetchi, and Hapichamatchi can fuse into a larger version of Hell Queen. This version of her looks mostly the same as when she is her normal size, except it has one of Devil Memetchi's horns sticking out from her head, and Hapichamatchi's wings sticking from her back, both their normal sizes. This turns out to be detrimental to the evil sisters, as Magical Flower notices both features and tickles them to bring the sisters back to their normal forms.
- Game Show Appearance: TAMAX-TV has a quiz show, as shown in episode 34a. In that episode, Mametchi and Gotchiman are on one of the quiz show's teams, as well as Lovelin and Memetchi. TamaPtchi, the director of TAMAX-TV's shows, insists that Lovelin win to increase ratings and keeps doing things to keep Mametchi and Gotchiman from winning, such as deliberately delaying Mametchi's answer button so that he can't answer quickly enough.
- Genre Shift: While the show retains its slice of life aspects throughout, the end of Season 4 introduces a subplot that causes the series to go in a more fantasy direction, with the Tamagotchis summoning Tama Hearts through acts of friendship. Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream shifts to magical girl elements, with Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi having transformation trinkets that let them help others, and Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends shifts to science fiction elements in the form of Miraitchi and Clulutchi, who are from the future, being sent into the present thanks to a secret time travel function on their robot buddy Watchlin. GO-GO Tamagotchi! has an overarching plot point, the Tamagottsun, that has science fiction and fantasy elements (continents and towns could merge one second, and Tamagotchis could switch bodies the next; and part of it is caused by a sentient comet), but largely focuses on slice of life again.
- Geisha: This is what Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi transform into in Yume Kira Dream episode 28, where they have to use this transformation to get Super Yadokaritchi (a giant hermit crab Tamagotchi) to leave Ikaritchi's garage, which he was using as a shell to live in. They go about it by performing an ancient dance routine to music that Pianitchi plays, the idea being to distract him so that Yumecantchi can put a translation machine on his head since the Tama-Friends can't understand what he's saying.
- Gentle Giant: An episode of the original Tamagotchi! introduces a kaiju-sized turtle creature named Pichipapatchi. The other Tamagotchis are fearful of him at first, but he turns out to be more annoying than dangerous due to his manchild tendency to cry. He doesn't mean any harm and shows he is proud that his daughter, Pichipitchi, is doing well on her own.
- Get Back to the Future: In Miracle Friends, the power of a Dreambakutchi leads to Miraitchi and Clulutchi, and their robotic Tamagotchi friend Watchlin, all of whom come from the future, to end up in the present day. Mametchi and his friends, after learning they are from the future, look for the eight Dreambakutchis who also ended up in the present so that they can help in getting the Tamagotchis back to the future.
- Giant Enemy Crab: Subverted by Super Yadokaritchi in Yume Kira Dream episode 28; while the Tamagotchis perceive him as a monster when they find him taking up space that they need in Ikaritchi's garage and are careful not to make him too angry in luring him out, he's really not a bad guy once they get to put a translator hat on him and hear what he's saying.
- Giant Woman: Used for a quick joke at the end of GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 20a, where, after they grow back to their normal size, Candy Pakupaku feeds Moriritchi and Coffretchi some more of her candies, causing all three of them to grow in size to the point where they tower over DoriTama Town.
- Glass-Shattering Sound: In episode 94a, Hapichamatchi's loud crying breaks several glass windows in the palace.
- Go-to-Sleep Ending: The original installment's last end credits song, "JankenPON!", ends with visuals of Mametchi, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi, Lovelitchi, Melodytchi, Himespetchi, Moriritchi, and Hapihapitchi having a sleepover at Mametchi's house, all seven on the floor of Mametchi's room, with pillows below their heads and all the Tamagotchis covered in blankets. Mametchi waves both his hands at the viewers to say "good-bye" before he falls asleep.
- Goggles Do Nothing: After episode 71 of Tamagotchi!, Sunopotchi's goggles never cover his eyes whenever he is seen skateboarding.
- Going in Circles: In episode 45a, the Tama-Friends are travelling to North North Point in Lovelin's van. They pass by a big tree that looks familiar before realizing they had been driving in a circle.
- Gossip Evolution: In episode 15a, Memetchi teaches Safetytchi a lesson about spreading gossip by doing just that, coming up with a rumor that Safetytchi's hair is made of cotton candy. By the time she, Mametchi, and Kuchipatchi see people chasing Safetytchi down, the rumor has changed into Safetytchi's hair containing a special lucky clover, and Mametchi explains to a confused Memetchi that people must have changed details in the original piece of gossip every time they told someone else.
- Gratuitous English: Melodytchi regularly spouts various short phrases in English ("So cute!" "Interesting!" "Good morning!") on top of her normal Japanese. Also, instead of saying "watashi wa" (Japanese for the first-person pronoun "I"), she says "mi wa", with "mi" being the English word "me".
- Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress:
- In episode 41a, the Spacy Brothers are blown to the top of their lair by the wind, Spacytchi holding onto the satellite tower that happens to be a part of the lair and holding onto the tarp that Pipospetchi and Akaspetchi are clinging to, and that blew them there in the first place. The wind stops and Spacytchi, staying completely still, gives a side glance to the "camera" for a second as he realizes he's about to fall, then does.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 7a, when Mametchi and co are traversing the maze-ified Tamagotchi School, Miraitchi walks out of a doorway and onto thin air for a couple of seconds before noticing and quickly running back through where she came, colliding into the others when she does.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Madonnatchi's motivation for sabotaging different TAMAX-TV shows is out of jealousy of the actress Lovelin, and fear that others will be more popular than Madonnatchi. Her attempts to sabotage them always end badly for her.
- Group Picture Ending: Episode 125 ends with Lovepapatchi tripping at the moment the camera goes off for a group picture of him and his wife Lovemamatchi with Mametchi and his gang, intended for Lovepapatchi and Lovemamatchi's wedding anniversary.
- Guinness Episode: In episode 104, Melodytchi finds a Tamagotchi Guinness world record book and wants to beat one of the records in it for Tamagotchi Planet's largest cake. Melodytchi works with the rest of the gang to bake the gigantic dessert, which goes pretty well until they run out of chocolate frosting. When they finally do finish the cake and beat the record, it creates a Tama Heart that looks like chocolate.
- Halloween Episode: In "Shining Smiles! Happy Tamaween", the 30th episode of GO-GO Tamagotchi!, Mametchi and his gang stumble across a house where a Tamagotchi has been trying to scare anyone who comes near it by pretending to be a ghost and get to know the costumed kid.
- Hammerspace: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 35, Neenetchi, not realizing she is in Himespetchi's body, goes to talk to her brother Orenetchi. Neenetchi gets confused when Orenetchi addresses her by Himespetchi's name, and Orenetchi pulls a mirror out of nowhere to show her what she looks like.
- Hand Gagging: In Yume Kira Dream episode 9, the Spacy Brothers are napping on top of a tower and wake up to find Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi as astronauts attempting to be comedians. They laugh at one of their jokes, but Spacytchi stops and places a hand on Pipospetchi's mouth, not wanting to be heard and found.
- Handy Mouth: In episode 41a, when the Spacy Brothers' evil lair starts to leak from rain, Spacytchi is seen holding several things to catch the water in, including one he's holding in his mouth.
- Harmless Electrocution:
- In episode 131, Mametchi is hit by lightning and leans on a rock. Mametchi finds the lightning magnetized him and he can't get off the rock, but he's not hurt badly otherwise.
- In Tamagotchi Friends episode 14 and Yume Kira Dream episode 7, while being electrocuted does have a negative effect on Tropicatchi as it ruins her hair, which she was trying to improve to win over Jack, the electrocution doesn't hurt her especially badly.
- Haunted House: In one episode, the Spacy Brothers find an old mansion with the usual moving furniture and windows that suddenly fly open. Of course, Akaspetchi is terrified, but as it turns out, the house itself is mechanical, used for a set in an episode of GOTCHIMAN.
- Headbutt Thermometer: A platonic variation is seen in episode 118, where a flashback shows Anemoriritchi using her forehead to feel her younger sister Moriritchi's forehead, and determining from there that Moriritchi is sick.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: In Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream, Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi's Yume Kira bags give them the powers of an occupation that often has no relation to the conflict they're trying to solve with the powers in the first place (for example, they transform into baseball players when they need to stop an out-of-control robot), but they make do with them and are able to put the skills to good use anyway (their baseball skills allow them to aim a ball directly at the robot's core, turning it off).
- Heartbeat Soundtrack: One of the recurring soundtracks, played during dramatic scenes, contains a heartbeat that plays to the rhythm of the music, including when the rest of the instrumentation reach a crescendo.
- Heli-Critter: The bush-like creatures Lovesolatchi discovers in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 31b have the ability to fly by twisting the hair on the tops of their heads into the shape of a propeller and spinning the propeller.
- Here We Go Again!: In episode 129, Himespetchi gets amnesia and thinks Prince Tamahiko is her crush. Then she remembers Mametchi is actually her crush, freaks out, and accidentally gives Prince Tamahiko amnesia and makes him think Himespetchi is his crush instead of Princess Tamako. When a bunch of bouncy balls hit everyone in the Gotchi King's castle near the end of the episode as Mametchi and co. are visiting, this is rectified... except now, everyone in the castle except for Himespetchi and the royal prince and princess have amnesia.
- Hero-Worshipper: Orenetchi, who idolizes Kuromametchi.
- Hiccup Hijinks: Hic! The Hiccups Will Not Stop focuses on Memetchi's bad case of this. They end up trying to find ways to get rid of it.
- Holding Hands: In Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream episode 3, Himespetchi sees Mametchi holding Yumemitchi when she almost trips, notices they're holding hands, mistakenly assumes they're doing so because they're in love with each other, and faints from seeing it. After she wakes up from fainting, she realizes the two weren't holding hands because they love each other and sighs in relief.
- Holiday Episode: Miracle Friends episode 18 is about X-Kamen interrupting the Tama-Friends' good time at a Chinese New Year's festival in Dream Town when he shows up to take a Dreambakutchi with him before they can.
- Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Mametchi. He eventually gains the ability to sing properly through the Melody Charm. Even without it before Yume Kira Dream, he has his moments - one time, his singing was so bad it caused Himespetchi's ship to crash. Later in Yume Kira Dream, however, he is finally able to sing without being tone-deaf.
- Hologram: In Miracle Friends, Miraitchi and Clulutchi's father Doctor Future communicates with them through a hologram.
- Homage Derailment: In Yume Kira Dream episode 9, Himespetchi imagines herself on a large boat with Mametchi, copying the "I'm flying" scene from Titanic (1997). Unlike the actual Titanic events, Mametchi is able to steer the ship away from the iceberg before it can hit it.
- Hong Kong Dub: Some frequent moments of this trope appear in the 9Go! English dub of Tamagotchi!.
- Human Hummingbird: In some cases, the characters' legs will be rendered as a blur of circular shapes when they are running. Kuchipatchi in particular seems prone to this.
- Humanity Ensues: Well, Tamagotchi-kind ensues. Episode 40b has the characters roleplay as pirates and sea creatures for a TV show, with Lovelin as a mermaid and Hapihapitchi as her fish friend. The two use a special heart-shaped crystal called the Marine Blue found deep in the sea to transform into land-dwelling Tamagotchis; there's also another Marine Blue shaped like a diamond and found in a cave on a forgotten island that has the opposite effect.
- Humongous Mecha: In Yume Kira Dream episode 11, Dream School's robotics class gets to watch their teacher, Robomechatchi, build a large, mostly yellow-colored robot resembling a Tyrannosaurus rex as part of their class. Thanks to Nandetchi not listening to the teacher's instructions to the end, the robot starts running around Dream School and gets a photographer's camera stuck on it, leading to Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi using their Yume Kira Bags to help stop the robot and retrieve the camera.
- Hypocritical Humor: In episode 13a, Akaspetchi freaks out when he thinks aliens have abducted on Tamagotchi Planet except for him, Spacytchi, and Pipospetchi. Spacytchi laughs at the idea, saying there is no such thing as aliens. Spacytchi and his brothers are from another planet besides Tamagotchi Planet and planning to take over it.
- I Can See My House from Here: In episode 21a, the Tamagotchi girls are looking out a balcony in the Gotchi King's castle. Memetchi says a variation of this phrase.Memetchi: Oh! I can see my house over there!
Makiko: And that big one towering over yours must be my house!
Memetchi: That's a rude way to say that... - "I Can't Look!" Gesture: In episode 99, during a TAMAX-TV show, Tomomi does a magic trick that involves her keeping Telelin in a box and putting playing cards through the slits in the box without hurting her. Lovelitchi, Melodytchi, and Mametchi, fearing for Telelin's safety, cover their eyes as Tomomi inserts the first card; Mametchi does it again when she inserts the second and final card.
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog: In "Cheery Cherry Blossoms", Chamametchi reacts to Mametchi deciding to sing by explaining she has "something to do" and making a run for it.
- Idea Bulb:
- A light bulb appears next to Mametchi in episode 125 when he thinks of an invention Lovelitchi and Melodytchi can use to measure the clothing sizes for Lovepapalitchi and Lovemamalitchi without them noticing. They need their clothing sizes for a surprise wedding anniversary party.
- There is official artwork of Nandetchi getting an idea, accompanied by a bubble with a light bulb appearing from his head and his pupils becoming light bulbs.
- Idiosyncratic Cover Art: The original saga's collection of DVD volumes features covers that have a character from the show standing below the series logo and in front of some Tamagotchi Planet location, looking at the viewer.
- Idiosyncratic Wipes:
- Yume Kira Dream's webtoon adaptation, Tamagotchi Friends, transitions between scenes by having a bunch of blue stars slide across the screen. Yume Kira Dream itself uses a different wipe with similar blue stars, but not as much.
- Miracle Friends transitions between scenes by having Dream Town's flower symbol shrinking, enveloping the previous scene within its pistil.
- I'm Your Biggest Fan: Said in at least two instances; one in episode 5a where one of Lovelitchi's former peers in a flashback asks her to sign something for her at the request of a friend, and another in episode 18b where a fan says to Lovelin as she's handing out her chocolates.
- I'm Your Worst Nightmare: In episode 14a, as he is about to deal with a gang of thieves, Mametchi no Suke the samurai introduces himself with "I'm your worst nightmare - Mametchi no Suke, the master swordsman of Gotchi Castle".
- Impairment Shot: In Miracle Friends episode 3, a flashback to Smartotchi arriving in present-day Dream Town ends with him being approached by Enchoutchi, who takes him in. Enchoutchi is shown from Smartotchi's perspective, and he becomes blurry on-and-off due to how tired Smartotchi is from having flown so far.
- Impossibly Awesome Magic Trick: In episode 99, Tomomi does a bunch of magic tricks for a TAMAX-TV show, all of which stretch the limits of reality. The first one, where she makes Melodytchi's Tama-Pets appear out of a hat, could easily be done with a mechanism in the table she has the hat on, but the table isn't large enough to hide such a mechanism. Her second trick involves her making donuts appear out of thin air. The third has her placing cards into slots in a box that contains Telelin, without harming her, and then rearranging the parts of the box several times and thus misaligning the parts of Telelin's body. Finally, she brings out a cape and has Lovelitchi and Melodytchi teleport from behind one place to behind the cape, without sufficient room for them to move to the cape without being seen.
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: Spaceytchi. Come on, he wore a dress for a costume festival once!
- Inappropriate Hunger: In Miracle Friends episode 25, the moment is ruined as Memetchi and Coffretchi are thinking about the more serious issue of Smartotchi deciding to stay in the present instead of going back to the future when it's interrupted by Kuchipatchi's stomach growling and him making a comment on it.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 20a is about Moriritchi, Candy Pakupaku, and Coffretchi mysteriously shrinking after eating some of Candy Pakupaku's candy.
- Inconsistent Dub:
- The 9Go! dub of Tamagotchi! episode 10b has the characters refer to the north point of Tamagotchi Planet as the North Pole. In Japanese, it's called North North Point, but the dub doesn't change the sign that uses the latter name.
- Tamagotchi Friends isn't consistent in translating Himespetchi's catchphrase "Gigakyun!", having her say it in English in three different ways - "Giga crush!", "Giga hearts!", and "Giga love!" She uses two of those translations, "giga love " and "giga hearts", interchangeably in the span of in one episode (episode 13, "Dance of Love").
- Inconsistent Spelling:
- Most notably Spaceytchi. His name's most commonly spelled as Spacytchi (without the e), but there are some who spell it as Spaceytchi (with the e).
- Coffretchi's name is spelled "Coffretchi" in Latin script in the second opening for Yume Kira Dream. In the Miracle Friends opening, it changes to "Coffletchi".
- Inelegant Blubbering: Characters sometimes tend to cry like this. Two examples are in episode 25a during the ending and GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 44b when Neenetchi gives Orenetchi some chocolate: Orenetchi had been deeply wishing for chocolate all day long for Valentine's Day.
- Infernal Background: Seen in a few episodes.
- In episode 7b, Furawatchi sees a flower that represents passion and instantly absorbs that personality trait, with the scene accompanied by flames in the background.
- In a later episode, flames appear behind Himespetchi when she gets angry.
- Injury Bookend:
- In episode 129, Himespetchi hurts Prince Tamahiko by accident and makes him think she, not Princess Tamako, is his crush. An incident with some bouncy balls later in the episode fixes the problem, with the prince getting by one of them and remembering his real princess upon regaining consciousness.
- Himespetchi and Neenetchi attempt to invoke this in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 35. Bumping into each other on their heads is what switches their bodies, and they keep purposefully bumping into each other to un-switch their bodies. It doesn't work.
- Ink-Suit Actor: Rolatchi, who makes brief cameos in several episodes of GO-GO Tamagotchi!, is an animated version of the Japanese fashion model Rola
. - Instant Costume Change: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 18a, Melodytchi jumps into the air, spins around, and comes back to the ground having changed from her normal outfit into her Oyamelojitchi costume, all within a few seconds.
- Instant Bandages:
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 7a, Miraitchi finds a staircase in the maze that is the Tama-Friends' school and goes up it, believing it's possibly a way out. She finds that it doesn't go anywhere and has a ceiling at the top that she bumps into, and in the next shot where she is on-screen, she has bandages covering the top of her head, where her decorative flower is.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 35, Himespetchi and Neenetchi deliberately collide into each other several times in an attempt to reverse their "Freaky Friday" Flip. They hit each other enough times that bandages spontaneously appear all over them.
- Instrumental Theme Tune: The song in the intro to the Tamagotchi Friends webtoon adaptation does not have spoken lyrics.
- Interactive Narrator: The narrator in GO-GO Tamagotchi! sometimes communicates with the characters, mainly Mametchi.
- Interrupted Declaration of Love: In episode 143, Himespetchi comes close to telling Mametchi she loves him, but a tragic event interrupts her before she can say it.
- Interspecies Friendship: In episode 40b, Lovelin is a mermaid who is best friends with Hapihapitchi, who is a fish.
- Interspecies Romance: While they're both Tamagotchis, Tropicatchi's crush on Jack is presented like an interspecies romance and is Played for Laughs to an extent, as Jack is a peacock Tamagotchi who doesn't act like a human at all, unlike Tropicatchi.
- Introductory Opening Credits: The intro for Miracle Friends features shots of some of the characters next to their names in Latin script (in order: Mametchi, Memetchi, and Kuchipatchi; Coffretchi and Pianitchi; and Miraitchi and Clulutchi).
- Invisible Parents: In Yume Kira Dream episode 34, Himespetchi's parents call her over the phone, but we never see them in person in that episode or in future ones. Their appearances weren't revealed until after the anime stopped airing.
- Involuntary Group Split: In episode 26b, Mametchi, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi, and Lovelitchi are sucked into a plant overgrowth, which they later learn is in the past, by the Kuchipatchi of Truth. As both it and episode 27 show, Mametchi and Lovelitchi are separated from each other, and from Memetchi and Kuchipatchi who did manage to stay together, and must find each other.
- Iris Out: GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 26b ends with a shot, of the Spacy Brothers walking through a hall in the YUMETAMAX-TV building, that is enveloped by a circle to transition to black.
- Is It Something You Eat?: In Yume Kira Dream episode 11, Kuchipatchi hears the name D2 for the first time and he assumes it must mean two donuts. Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi correct him, showing him a picture of the duo D2 in a magazine.
- I've Heard of That — What Is It?: In episode 26b, Lovelitchi receives an e-mail on her phone, Telelin, with a symbol of the Kuchipatchi of Truth on it. She thinks Kuchipatchi sent it and is told that it wasn't him and that it was the Kuchipatchi of Truth. When Lovelitchi expresses her relief about it in a way that sounds like she would know what it is, Mametchi asks if she knows what the Kuchipatchi of Truth is, and Lovelitchi admits she does not.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While not really a Jerkass, Memetchi can certainly be bossy and rude, however, she does mean well and is typically a nice person.
- Just Here for Godzilla: In-universe. In episode 24a, TamaPtchi notes that for recent episodes of GOTCHIMAN, people only seem to care about Gotchiman's sidekick, who is played by Lovelin. The ratings of a GOTCHIMAN episode that is being broadcasted for the first time remain quite low until Lovelin shows up, which creates a huge spike in viewership until she disappears, at which point the viewership drops to where it was before.
- Just Like Robin Hood: Thief Papillon, the main character of a TAMAX-TV series, has as her motivation for stealing treasures that she wants to sell them and give the money she gets from the sales to the less fortunate.
- Lame Pun Reaction: In episode 90a, as part of the Sparkling Tamamori Heaven show, Tanetameha Daio dons a dog costume and claims it to be a "one-piece" outfit. "One" sounds like "wan," the Japanese onomatopoeia for a dog barking. Everybody else face-faults at the pun.
- Larynx Dissonance: In the 9Go! English dub, it's clearly obvious that Furawatchi is voiced by a male. And to add onto it, KuroMametchi talks in the same voice when disguising as Lovelin in one episode, proving both are voiced by that same actor!
- Last Episode Theme Reprise: At the end of GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 50, the theme song plays over a montage of clips from previous episodes.
- The Last Title: Episode 123 is, translated from Japanese, titled "The Last Tama-Mizuki". The episode is about Mametchi and co trying to find a way to save the last remaining Tama-Mizuki tree.
- Later-Installment Weirdness:
- Episode 44 of GO-GO Tamagotchi! was aired around Valentine's Day and has its second half dedicated to the holiday, but not the first one. The "second segment = holiday" formula is one that the show hadn't touched on since episode 59 of the first installment, with all holiday episodes in-between having both halves dedicated to the holiday.
- Tamagotchi! Tamatomo Daishu GO, the final season, is the only one to consist of previously-existing episodes (not counting the segments at the end, which weren't there before).
- Lazily Gender-Flipped Name: In an episode of GO-GO Tamagotchi!, Himespetchi assumes the name "Himeboytchi" as part of her disguise as a boy to star in a television show with Mametchi. The word "hime" is Japanese for "princess", which begs the question of why she didn't change that part of her name.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In "Get Ready! The Big Race on Tama Street", Lovelin asks the audience watching the race to stay tuned. The episode cuts to a commercial break after she says this.
- Lens Flare: In episode 14b, one shot of Papamametchi's boat during one of the flashback sections features a glare from the sun with multiple hexagon shapes.
- Level Ate: In episode 40a, the gang visits a fruit-themed island where the hills are giant watermelons.
- Lie to the Beholder: The Yume Kira Bags from Tamagotchi Friends and Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream have this effect. While those watching the show don't see much of a difference in Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi's appearances when they use the bags to transform and their voices remain the same, the two figure out quickly that others think they're somebody completely different while they're transformed.
- Lighthouse Point: In episode 69b, Mametchi and his friends get lost during a trip and find a lighthouse, run by Todai Moritchi, and learn about how the lighthouse isn't needed anymore, but Todai Moritchi takes care of it anyway. The Tama-Friends help Todai Moritchi when the lighthouse is almost blown away in a typhoon.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: In episode 131, Mametchi is struck by lightning while trying to protect Furamokotchi, which leads to Mametchi being magnetized and unable to get himself off of a rock he leans on. It's up to Fuwamokotchi to brave the storm and get help for Mametchi.
- Lightning Glare: There's a running gag where Memetchi and Makiko tick each other off and then stare at each other with angry faces, a lightning bolt showing up between the rivals.
- Limited Wardrobe: In episode 15a, one of the rumors Safetytchi hears is that Necktietchi has a bunch of ties that are the same model and color so that no one will notice he's not actually wearing the same tie all the time.
- Line Boil: The second end credits sequence for Yume Kira Dream, using the song "Powerful Beat", is animated with wobbly outlines on the characters.
- Living MacGuffin: The Dreambakutchis, a bunch of winged creatures introduced in Miracle Friends. Miraritchi and Clulutchi need them as their power will help them to return to the future, but Smartotchi, also known as X-Kamen, wants them for his own personal use.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Jack is a peacock Tamagotchi, and in Japanese, the word for peacock is kujakku. The character is known as Kujakku Jack in the original Japanese.
- Lohengrin and Mendelssohn: The Lohengrin piece a.k.a. "Here Comes the Bride" plays in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 30 to accompany Himespetchi's Fairytale Wedding Dress costume for the Tamaween costume contest.
- Love at First Sight: Himespetchi develops her crush on Mametchi only a few seconds after she sees him for the first time.
- Love Bubbles: These are a common feature in Himespetchi's various daydreams about her crush, Mametchi.
- Love Confessor: In Yume Kira Dream episode 34, Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi are wondering why Himespetchi is so sad and use their Yume Kira bags to transform into samurai who are able to keep secrets. Himespetchi is able to admit to them that she has a crush on Mametchi and was very shocked when she was told she has to leave for home planet for this reason.
- Love Doodles: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 3b, during class, Neenetchi notices Himespetchi doodling her crush Mametchi.
- Love Hurts: Spacytchi had to learn that the hard way. Twice.
- When he first met Agetchi, he was instantly smitten. In fact, she was all he could think about to the point where he ended up ignoring his own brothers! But at the very end, it turns out Agetchi already had a boyfriend, much to Spacytchi's dismay.
- There was also Himespetchi, who ended up forgetting all about him even though they were together for a long time and fell in love with Mametchi.
- Love Triangle: Spacytchi has a crush on Himespetchi, but Himespetchi herself is more interested in Mametchi.
- Magical Girl: In Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream, Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi undergo magical girl-like transformations Once per Episode. In the former version, we only see their elaborate transformations in specific episodes, but they do still transform.
- Man-Eating Plant: The big flower the Tama-Friends plant and study for a school project in episode 41b slowly consumes them as they approach and stay near it. The gang walk their way around the innards of the plant and try to find a way to get out.
- Manchild: Pichipitchi's dad, Pichipapatchi, cries whenever anyone ignores or offends him, and is taken care of by Pichipitchi rather than the other way around as his child-like mind makes him unable to take care of himself.
- Marshmallow Dream: At the end of the seventh ending credits sequence, the one that plays the song "JankenPON!", the Tama-Friends have a sleepover at Mametchi's house, and Kuchipatchi is seen with his blanket in his mouth, implying a food-themed dream.
- Master of Delusion: The premise of Yume Kira Dream episode 46 is about Nandetchi figuring out Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi and the passing duos who help the other Tama-Friends are one and the same, and working to reveal their identities when nobody else believes him. When Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi decide to hide their identities by not using their Yume Kira Bags that much, Nandetchi puts his plan into action, artificially creating problems for them to solve and attempting to catch them transforming. Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi keep intercepting him by coming up with solutions that don't involve the Yume Kira Bags; for example, using a fishing pole to fish a gift out of the water.
- Match Cut:
- In episode 119, Melodytchi chases after a Tamagotchi in the musical forest. The other Tamagotchi is shown running to the viewer's right, and when they pass by a tree, it cuts to a shot of Melodytchi running in the same direction.
- In Yume Kira Dream episode 10, a shot of Himespetchi's flying saucer flying toward Tamagotchi Town fades to a shot of a more typical flying saucer that starts in a similar position as Himespetchi's flying saucer. The second spacecraft is on an arcade game Spacytchi is cleaning the screen of.
- The Maze: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 7a, the Tamagottsun causes DoriTama School to become a big maze. Mametchi and co, to make it out of the school, have to travel through narrow passageways with lots of dead ends at first, but they eventually have to walk through a massive space of rooms and staircases, and later they enter a room with a bunch of doors and have to figure out which one to go through.
- Meaningful Appearance: The girl Melodytchi makes friends with in episode 120 is music-themed, having clef note-shaped eye highlights and a shirt with thin black stripes that look like violin strings. As Melodytchi finds out later, those black stripes aren't a coincidence, nor is the girl's pink color which matches that of Melodytchi's violin, because the girl is quite literally Melodytchi's violin.
- Meaningful Name: Black Hat plays the bad guy in GOTCHIMAN. In addition to Black Hat literally wearing a black hat, his name is a term used to refer to a fictional villain.
- Meat-O-Vision: In Miracle Friends episode 8, Kuchipatchi sees the back of the yellow Dreambakutchi, thinks it looks like cotton candy, and goes forward to eat it before it goes away. Later in the same episode, Kuchipatchi sees X, thinks he looks like a mushroom, and manages to get him in his mouth before realizing he isn't a mushroom.
- Meditating Under a Waterfall: Referenced in episode 25b, where Furawatchi, under the effects of a mariland flower, becomes extremely talkative to Gozarutchi and mentions that she knows a waterfall is considered the best place to meditate by ninja masters. She then launches into some info she has about a waterfall she knows about that's far away, but very pretty.
- Medusa: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 23b, Mametchi and the student council are searching their school for ghosts to capture and think they have encountered Medusatchi, a Tamagotchi version of Medusa. They all worry as they think they're about to be Taken for Granite... except it's just Tamagotchi School's nurse Mrs. Houtaiko rather than Medusatchi.
- Merchandise-Driven: The series is based on virtual pet toys, after all.
- Message in a Bottle: Episode 10b, "A Puzzling Love Message in a Bottle", is about the gang discovering a bottle containing a message that has washed up on the shore. The message it contains catches everyone's attention for being a very, very well written love letter, up to the point that it gets turned into a novel that later gets a movie adaptation.
- Mirror Reveal:
- In "What? Swapping Personalities", Mametchi doesn't realize that he's in Chamametchi's body until he looks in a mirror.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 35, Neenetchi doesn't realize she switched bodies with Himespetchi until Orenetchi, believing Neenetchi is Himespetchi, shows her her reflection in a mirror.
- Missing Child: In episode 115, Chamametchi and Imotchi are inspired by one of Himespetchi's fortunes to go find a four-leaf clover, but they end up getting lost, sending the older Tamagotchi children into action to go find them (and giving Himespetchi some guilt, as she didn't realize the two kids might do that).
- Mistaken for Cheating: Yume Kira Dream episode 40, the Tama-Friends keep seeing Chukatchi with Benitchi in different places and suspect he is having an affair since he is already married to Chinatchi.
- Mistaken for Thief: In Tamagotchi Friends episode 8 and Yume Kira Dream episode 4, Ikaritchi notices his wood-carving tool has disappeared and snaps at Mametchi for it, thinking he's the culprit. Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi use their Yume Kira bags to transform into fisherwomen and catch the true perpetrator of the crime. As it turns out, the tool was never actually stolen and Ikaritchi had just misplaced it.
- Mistaken from Behind: In episode 65b, Doremitchi follows a girl from behind who looks exactly like Melodytchi save for her mouth, convinced it's the real Melodytchi.
- Mobile Shrubbery: Himespetchi, at one point in episode 3 of Tamagotchi Friends and of Yume Kira Dream, hides under a bush to see why Mametchi is hanging out with Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi.
- Monochrome Past: Downplayed. In Miracle Friends episode 3, a flashback of Madamtchi's memories of sewing clothes and later starting her shop is presented in color, but with noticeable sepia desaturation.
- Moonwalk Dance: In Miracle Friends episode 22, Mametchi demonstrates that he has reprogrammed one of his robots to do more things that it could, and one of those things is doing a moonwalk.
- Motivation on a Stick: In episode 54b, Kuchipatchi holds a bunch of bananas in front of his car to make it go faster during a race. The car eats the bananas and spits out a peel, causing a few race cars, including Kuchipatchi's, to slip.
- Mother's Day Celebration Plot:
- Episode 30b takes place on Mother's Day, with Lovelitchi taking her mother to various places to celebrate and getting distraught when something goes wrong in those places.
- Both halves of episode 78 are based around Mother's Day. In the first half, Chamametchi, Kikitchi, and Perotchi go to pick Tama Berries for a Mother's Day cake Perotchi wants to make. In the second, Melodytchi can't decide what to get her mother for Mother's Day.
- Multi-Character Title: Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream; the "Yume" and "Kira" are from Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi, the two major characters introduced in that story arc.
- Music Is Eighth Notes: In episode 49b, Lovelitchi and Melodytchi's first performance of "Happy Happy Harmony", which has lyrics about music and the joy it brings, has visuals prominently featuring eighth notes in the background - both individual notes and notes connected by a beam.
- Music Soothes the Savage Beast: In Tamagotchi Friends episode 12 and Yume Kira Dream episode 6, Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi are transformed into violinists by the Yume Kira Bags and come up with the idea to play music to calm down Kiramotchi, who's aggressively painting on the wall of a building after promising not to do anything like that. This has the opposite effect of energizing Kiramotchi with new inspiration, instead of calming her down (this is less obvious in Tamagotchi Friends due to it removing the explanation).
- Mustache Vandalism: In episode 71b, we're shown that in the waiting room in TAMAX-TV, there is a GOTCHIMAN poster depicting Gotchiman and Hero Lovelin. Due to Madonnatchi's hatred of the actress Lovelin, she had doodled over the poster, including drawing a curly mustache on Gotchiman.
- My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Played for Laughs in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 7a, when the Tama-Friends are climbing down a ladder trying to get out of DoriTama School which has turned into a labyrinth. Lovelitchi makes a joke at the expense of Kuchipatchi, saying he would absolutely complain about being hungry if he were stuck with them. Cut to Dream Hanten, the restaurant where Kuchipatchi works, and Kuchipatchi giving a confused glance and "Datchi?" to the camera.
- Mythology Gag:
- In episode 27, the version of the Gotchi King the Tama-Friends meet in the past has a green crown and cape, as opposed to the normal Gotchi King who has a red crown and cape. This may be a reference to how the Gotchi King had green clothes when he initially debuted in the
Licensed Game Hoshi de Hakken! Tamagotchi. - In episode 126, Himespetchi draws a drawing of Mametchi in the sand. Her Mametchi has the more simple art style of the Tamagotchi franchise in general, as opposed to the anime's art style.
- In episode 27, the version of the Gotchi King the Tama-Friends meet in the past has a green crown and cape, as opposed to the normal Gotchi King who has a red crown and cape. This may be a reference to how the Gotchi King had green clothes when he initially debuted in the
- Named by the Adaptation: Inverted. Mamaspetchi and Papaspetchi first appear through their voices only in an episode of Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream, and they are never referred to by name there. Their names are first given on the Tamagotchi m!x, one of the original virtual pets.
- Narrator: GO-GO Tamagotchi! adds a narrator to the cast.
- New Job Episode: In episode 38b of GO-GO Tamagotchi!, Orenetchi, who is a school kid who ordinarily doesn't have a job, wins a chance to work as a manager for the TamaDepa store, but finds himself struggling to do the job.
- New Powers as the Plot Demands: In Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream, Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi transform into members of a particular occupation and are given the powers of said occupation, specifically to solve a problem occurring in the episode.
- New Season, New Name: Four times, all later on in the show. What's technically Season 7 of the series as a whole is the first season to be called Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream, and the following season continues on with this title; the 9th season changes the title again, this time to Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends; the 10th and 11th seasons are labeled GO-GO Tamagotchi!; and the 12th and final season is titled Tamagotchi! Tamatomo Daishu GO.
- New Transfer Student:
- Lovelitchi gets introduced through becoming a transfer student at Tamagotchi School in episode 2.
- This is also how Himespetchi is introduced. She gets this twice, actually - her aforementioned introduction in episode 114 as a Tamagotchi School student and later in episode 3 of Yume Kira Dream as a student of Dream School.
- Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Mametchi, Memetchi and Kuchipatchi are all mostly nice, but Mametchi is the compassionate and nice hero of the show, Memetchi is downplayed as the mean one since she is also nice, but she isn’t above losing her temper and seems stubborn, and Kuchipatchi is in-between, he’s kind-hearted, but is The Ditz for 99% of the time, he can also be rude sometimes.
- Nighttime Bathroom Phobia: In episode 113, Kikitchi attempts to get over his fear of going to the bathroom at night and goes to Patchi Forest so Sebastiantchi can give him special training.
- Ninja Brat: Gozarutchi is a school-going boy who comes from Gozaru Village, which has a huge population of ninjas. Gozarutchi does have quite a few ninja techniques down, such as walking on water, but he still practices with his ninja toad friend Gamanosuke and only gets the hang of the "Art of Shadow Cloning" when he has to save Kikitchi and has no other choice.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 2b, Mametchi saves a baby bird by picking it up from the ground and putting it back in the nest it fell from. The bird's parents, not realizing what Mametchi was doing was to help the baby bird, peck him.
- No-Paper Future: In Miracle Friends, Miraitchi and Clulutchi have tablets called Pocket Designers to design fashion and credit cards for currency, and use desks that have holograms on them at school. When shown a school textbook in the present era, they immediately assume it's from the present era as they don't recognize it.
- "No Peeking!" Request: In episode 20a, Mametchi goes into the girls' room in the Lovelin Tour Bus when they are close to the Tama Plateau while Chamametchi is playing dress-up, and Chamametchi tells him that a guy should not look at a lady while she's dressing.
- No-Sell: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 29a, in an in-universe GOTCHIMAN episode, the good guys end up all eating something set up to force them into a sleep by a villain, including Miraitchi and Clulutchi's characters. Miraritchi and Clulutchi play robot characters, so they point out later that they weren't made sleepy by what they ate, unlike the other good guys.
- Not Allowed to Grow Up: Mametchi and other characters have birthdays, but they don't show any normal signs of aging throughout any of the series' almost six-year-long run and look to be the same age by the end of it. Lovesolatchi is an exception, as he's shown growing from a baby to a kid within the span of a few episodes.
- Not So Above It All: In one episode, Kuromametchi catches himself starting to act more cheerful and plucky like Mametchi.
- Not-So-Innocent Whistle: In episode 121, Fortetchi's comment that he heard the other Tama-Friends say Mametchi can't sing is met with Memetchi and Kuchipatchi whistling, hoping Mametchi will think they had nothing to do with it.
- Novelization: The entire first installment was adapted into a series of light novels.
- Numbered Sequels: The Cantonese dub aired by ViuTV separates the 271-episode, 11-season series into six segments each referred to as Tamagotchi ___, with the blank being where the number would go.
- Ocular Gushers: Usually happens when a character is exaggeratedly crying (most notably from Memetchi and Chamametchi who tends to cry a lot), oddly enough Lovelitchi does this when she's scolded by Telelin during the time when she was becoming a big sister.
- Oddly Visible Eyebrows: The human characters Tomomi, Yukine, and Suzune have eyebrows that overlap with their hair, yet have the portions that should be covered by the hair still visible.
- Oh, Crap!: Himespetchi, upon being asked by Neenetchi if she has a crush on Mametchi in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 3b, pulls a shocked blushing expression and struggles to keep herself calm for a few seconds before she admits to having the crush.
- On the Next: In the Japanese version (not the English versions), at the end of most episodes, there is a short segment where the characters explain the premise(s) of the next episode.
- Once per Episode: Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi transforming in Yume Kira Dream, followed by them attaching Tamamori to their outfits.
- One Cast Member per Cover:
- The series has multiple DVDs whose covers each put one of the characters front and center, up to Miracle Friends.
- GO-GO Tamagotchi! has multiple characters on the cover of each DVD. Since the first installment has 35 volumes, some characters are repeated in later covers.
- One, Two, Three, Four, Go!: The fifth anniversary season and its sequel are called GO-GO Tamagotchi!, while the series' fifth and final name change is Tamagotchi! Tamatomo Daishuu-GO.
- One-Letter Name: Smartotchi/X-Kamen's assistant in Miracle Friends is named X.
- One-Word Title: Like with the virtual pet series and franchise, Tamagotchi! is only one word. None of the other names Tamagotchi! has had are one word.
- One-Word Vocabulary: The Patchi tribe in episode 27 only says "datchi." Kuchipatchi is able to communicate with them by doing the same thing - he had been saying that as a verbal tic for a long time anyway.
- Onion Tears: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 40, several Tamagotchis are auditioning for a TV show and are being asked to cry on command. Spacytchi attempts to cheat by using an onion to make himself tear up, but the director discovers the onion and Spacytchi is disqualified. Spacytchi shoves the onion into Mametchi's mouth, causing him to honestly cry, and causing Himespetchi- (ahem) "Himeboytchi" to cry in turn, not wanting to see "his" crush in pain.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Cafe Mama and Candy Pakupaku.
- Open Secret: In episode 33b, Kuchipatchi becomes a superhero named Patchiman and insists his identity as Kuchipatchi be kept secret, with Kuchipatchi at one point showing fake disappointment at not being able to meet Patchiman after he helps to find candies for Gourmetchi, to uphold the masquerade. Everyone can see through Kuchipatchi's disguise, and most of them decide to pretend they have no idea Kuchipatchi and Patchiman are one and the same, to Mametchi's surprise.
- Opening Shout-Out:
- The beginning of episode 13a features what looks like the beginning of the original opening, where a narrator says no other planet is like Tamagotchi Planet. Except here, it's Spacytchi explaining he wants to take over it and rename it Spacy Planet, complete with the planet having a different face that looks like him.
- In Yume Kira Dream episode 20, Himespetchi imagines she and Mametchi are riding in the same plane that appears in the opening for the first season of that story arc. The plane has the same exaggeratedly handsome face Himespetchi imagines Mametchi with, but aside from that the animation for it is the same as in the intro.
- Outside-Context Problem: The premise of Miracle Friends; it's safe to say that Tamagotchis from the future being sent to and stuck in the present comes very out of left field for Mametchi and his other friends, and for the visitors from the future themselves, especially as time travel isn't dealt with much in the series.
- Overcomplicated Menu Order: In Yume Kira Dream episode 12, Kuchipatchi's order at Dream Cafe takes more than a few seconds and lists off things like donuts, pizza, and yakisoba, compared to his friends' orders which are a lot more reasonably short.
- Painting the Medium: In Tamagotchi!, the text in the episode title cards normally has a blue outline. In the last five episodes (episodes 139-143) of that installment, it's red instead, indicating that those episodes won't be your usual light-hearted Tama Heart searches - it instead indicates Tamagotchi Planet is in danger.
- Palm on Cheek Pose: In episode 49, Melodytchi is served cookies by Telelin and eats a round one. She then has both of her hands on her cheeks as she states how delicious she thinks the round one is that she just ate.
- "Pan Up to the Sky" Ending:
- The last shot seen in episode 112, after the episode's conflict is resolved, is the camera panning from Mametchi's house to the sky.
- The last shot of GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 26b is of the camera panning from a shot of DoriTama Town up to the sky, whose purple-and-yellow appearance indicate the time of day to be sunset.
- Paper-Thin Disguise:
- In episode 94b, Spacytchi and Akaspetchi disguise Pipospetchi as a Tama-Pet named Wan Wan Pipotchi to enter him into a Tama-Pet race, intent on him winning so that the attention he gets can help them to take over Tamagotchi Planet. He's clearly recognizable as Pipospetchi in a dog costume, yet nobody really bats an eye at that.
- Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi, while in their Yume Kira bag transformations, become completely unrecognizable to others despite still looking enough like their normal selves that they would otherwise be noticed in those forms.
- Parasol Parachute: In episode 71b, during a GOTCHIMAN episode, an explosion from Gotchiman's Gotchi Beam propels Black Hat into the air, and he floats to the ground, using the umbrella from in his hat as a parachute.
- Patchwork World: As shown in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 14a, one of the effects of the phenomenon known as the Tamagottsun is arbitrarily creating paths to different parts of Tamagotchi Planet, regardless of how much sense it makes for the places to be that easily accessible from each other. Mametchi and the rest of the student council end up in an icy climate just through entering a building, enter a canyon when they go back the way they came, submerge themselves in the ocean by entering a gap in a cloud, and so on. This makes it really hard for them to make a map for DoriTama School.
- The Phoenix: Natsutsugetchi, a bird Tamagotchi that appears in episode 131, has light yellow skin and a fire tail that evoke the appearance of a phoenix.
- Piano Key Wave: Pianitchi often does this with her Smapi when she's excited or happy.
- Picnic Episode: Subverted. In episode 132, a bunch of the female Tama-Friends intend to have a picnic with Mametchi, Memetchi, and Kuchipatchi, but they get side-tracked when they discover Tamagotchi-mura and end up having to stay there. We're ultimately never shown the picnic.
- Piggyback Cute: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 7a, Mametchi has trouble reaching a door above him in the maze of Tamagotchi School. This gets Himespetchi thinking of Mametchi helping her up and giving her a piggyback ride.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Righttchi's father and mother, Paparighttchi and Mamarighttchi, have prominent blue and pink color schemes respectively.
- Pirate Girl: In the episodes where the Tama-Friends act in the series Marine Blue, multiple female characters such as Makiko and Lovelin are cast as pirates.
- Pirate Parrot: The TAMAX-TV series Marine Blue is themed around the sea and pirates, with Mametchi playing one of the pirate captains and Telelin playing his parrot.
- Plot Allergy: Benitchi is shown to have an allergy to roses in Yume Kira Dream episode 37, where a bouquet of roses is found in the studio that causes her to start sneezing. The other Tama-Friends try to figure out where the roses came from.
- Plot Coupon: The final third of the 2009 Tamagotchi! focuses on the Tama-Friends gathering the magical Tama Hearts, which are formed after performing acts of friendship and love that result in a bond between two people. They are said to cause a miracle when all of them are gathered, that miracle - when we finally see it - being that it saves Tamagotchi Planet from being destroyed by a curse that turns everybody, possibly including the planet itself, into eggs devoid of personality.
- Pokémon Speak:
- In Miracle Friends, the only thing the Dreambakutchis can say is "baku".
- In the Thai dub, Pipospetchi can only say "pipo"; his voice is placed over his usual speaking in binary from the original Japanese dub.
- Polar Penguins: In episode 90b, Mametchi builds a machine to make it snow in the summer. The machine looks like a blue penguin with a white and yellow belly, and a yellow beak and feet like a duck. The machine's beak is a vacuum that sucks snow clouds from North North Point, the Tamagotchi Planet version of the North Pole, to Tamagotchi Town.
- Poorly Lit Pareidolia: In episode 16a, Kikitchi can't sleep because he's thinking of the scary stories his friends told. In the dark of his room which has plant life in it, he finds what looks like a scary face on a shadow, cast by the leaves of a tree, and has to remind himself that it's just a tree.
- Portmanteau: In Yume Kira Dream, Aguritchi develops a new apple he calls ikaringo, in honor of his old homestay parent Ikaritchi. Ikaringo combines two Japanese words - ikari, which means anchor, tying into Ikaritchi's name and how the fruits have anchor designs on them (Ikaritchi likes the ocean and has an anchor tattoo on one of his arms); and ringo, meaning apple.
- Post-Script Season: Tamagotchi! Tamatomo Daishu GO, the twelfth and final season, was aired after the previous seasons had wrapped up the storyline and goes further than normal in establishing how post-script it is by not having any new episodes at all. The episodes that were aired in this season were all already-existing episodes, with new segments added at the end known as "Motto! Chikiyu de Tama Talk" as the only major addition.
- Poster-Gallery Bedroom: There are a bunch of pictures of Kuromametchi in Orenetchi and Neenetchi's room, thanks to Orenetchi's admiration for him and Neenetchi's crush on him.
- The Power of Friendship: How the Tama-Hearts are collected; they form from acts of true friendship and love on the part of the main characters.
- The Power of Rock: In episode 84a, Kuromametchi's Henshin Jo world version brings a guitar to help defeat Patchizaurusu, intending to attack him with rock music. It doesn't work for two reasons: Patchizaurusu enjoys the music, and Hapichamatchi employs her incredibly loud crying as a distraction.
- Powers in the First Episode: Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi receive the Yume Kira bags which allow them to transform in the first episode of Yume Kira Dream. In the English version, Tamagotchi Friends, it's the second episode instead.
- Premiseville: Dream Town from Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream most likely gets its name from the story arc being about Mametchi and co learning about their dream jobs.
- Projectile Webbing: This is one of the ninja skills Gozarutchi demonstrates in episode 22b, where he uses it to try to save Kikitchi from a kite that's falling apart.
- Promotion to Opening Titles: The shift in theme song in Season 5 brought with it an appearance in the intro from Tomomi, who was introduced in the previous season. She is later replaced with Himespetchi in her debut episode, episode 114.
- Protagonist Title: In-universe, Mametchi's favorite television series is called GOTCHIMAN, after the superhero it stars.
- Pumpkin Person: Jacktchi, from episode 30 of GO-GO Tamagotchi! (a Halloween Episode), has a pumpkin for a head.
- Puppy-Dog Eyes: Yume Kira Dream has a running gag where, when Yumecantchi's Yume Kira Bag produces an item that seems bizarre for Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi to be using given the situation and the occupation they have transformed into, Yumecantchi makes a cute face at them - with her eyes all shiny - to convince them the item will work. Yumemitchi always falls for her cute charm, while Kiraritchi gets exasperated by it.
- Prone to Tears: Many characters have their crybaby moments, but Memetchi takes the cake for this trope.
- Pun-Based Title: The last episode of GO-GO Tamagotchi! has a pun on the Tamagottsun (たまごっつん), the occurrence that causes the events of those two seasons. The episode is called "Waratte waratte matagottsun!" (笑って笑って またごっつん!English translation) and switches two of the characters in "Tamagottsun" around to make the title read "Another Gottsun" rather than "Tamagottsun."
- Pursue the Dream Job: The premise of Dream School in Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream is that the students specifically choose what dream job they would like to learn to do. For example, Mametchi, a child inventor, goes to robotics class, Memetchi, a fashionista, goes to a hairdresser class, and Kuchipatchi, who is Obsessed with Food, goes to learn how to cook.
- Quest for a Wish: GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 5b, "Wishes Come True? Rumor of Moshimo Mountain", is about the Tamagotchis racing to the top of Moshimo Mountain after hearing a rumor that whoever climbs to the top of the mountain will be granted one wish.
- The Quiet One: The pink girl Melodytchi meets in the forest in Melody Land doesn't talk much for most of episode 120 where she has a major role, conveying that she is shy and also allowing for Melodytchi to puzzle out for herself that the girl is the soul of "My Friend", Melodytchi's violin. After that latter piece of info is revealed, the girl becomes more talkative, explaining what the motivation was for her running away.
- Raised Lighter Tribute: At the end of episode 121, the crowd at Lovelitchi and Melodytchi's performance of "Smile for Tomorrow" can be seen holding and waving lights during the song.
- Red/Green Contrast: The Show Within a Show GOTCHIMAN pits the heroic and red-accented Gotchiman against the villainous and green Black Hat.
- Red Is Heroic: The superhero character Gotchiman wears a red mask, cape, and belt.
- Red Sky, Take Warning: In episode 143, as Tamagotchi Planet comes close to turning into an egg, the sky changes to a purple color.
- Reflective Eyes: In episode 69b, a flashback shows Mametchi with his parents on a boat. Mametchi sees a lighthouse in the distance and his eyes display a reflection of it.
- Rejected Marriage Proposal: Prince Tamahiko is desperate for Princess Tamako's hand in marriage, but she has no interest in him and will gladly reject him at any opportunity. In episode 21a, after the boys crash the girls' party, the Prince asks if Tamako would like to marry him, and she responds "I'm sorry". In episode 129, no sooner than Prince Tamahiko regains his memory and sees Tamako, he asks for her hand in marriage, and the Princess refuses.
- Replaced the Theme Tune: Seven times. For the first 73 episodes, the song "GO-GO! Tamagotchi" was used for the theme song, with a few variations being used within that period. Starting from episode 74, it was replaced by "Like & Peace!"; from episode 99 it was "Kirakira Everyday"; from episode 123 it was "I★my★me★mine!"; in the first season of Yume Kira Dream it was "Doremi Fasorairo", and from the second season it was "Rock 'N' Heart!"; in Miracle Friends it was "Miracle☆Travel"; and then it finally returned to "GO-GO! Tamagotchi" in GO-GO Tamagotchi!.
- Riddle of the Sphinx: In episode 136, as Mametchi and co traverse a big temple to find the Crystal Crown to cure the Gotchi King of his Easter egg sickness, they come across a sphinx resembling Kuchipatchi. The statue gives them the "what walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, three legs in the evening, and no legs at night?" riddle, and Mametchi nearly guesses a Tamagotchi before remembering that the Gotchi King in particular never had legs, thus making that answer inaccurate, and finally answers a human.
- Riddling Sphinx: Mametchi and co come across one resembling Kuchipatchi in episode 136. It asks the standard Riddle of the Sphinx ("What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, three legs in the evening, and no legs at night?"), which Mametchi almost answers with a Tamagotchi before realizing not all Tamagotchis have legs in the first place, with the Gotchi King in particular coming to mind. He changes his guess to a human, which is the correct answer and allows him and his friends to continue their search for the Crystal Crown.
- Ride the Rainbow:
- Mametchi invents a slide called the Rainbow Sleightchi in episode 4a, which uses this trope as its motif.
- In episode 142, the gang is inside the Lovelin Bus as it, in boat mode, rides onto a rainbow to reach Heart Island.
- Road-Sign Reversal: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 34, the Spacy Brothers attempt to throw off the other racers by reversing an arrow sign pointing to which direction the racers should go. Himespetchi, Neenetchi, and Oyajitchi catch on to the trick.
- Robot Me: Mametchi makes a robot version of Papapianitchi for Cafe Mama in one episode of Yume Kira Dream.
- Roger Rabbit Effect: In the "Motto! Chikiyu de Tama Talk" segments from Tamagotchi! Tamatomo Daishu GO, live-action humans Yuna and Mai are shown next to and interacting with the Tamagotchis, who, like in the series proper, are animated.
- Romantic Spoonfeeding: In episode 129, Prince Tamahiko and an amnesiac Himespetchi go to eat some ice cream and see a couple of... well... couples who spoon-feed each other their ice cream.
- Rope Bridge: In episode 131, Mametchi crosses a rope bridge with no problem to get himself and Fuwamokotchi to the mountains to search for the latter's mother. When Fuwamokotchi has to go get help for Mametchi by itself, the same bridge is destroyed by a strike of lightning, and Fuwamokotchi has no choice but to fly across the gap - and it hasn't quite gotten the hang of flying yet.
- Royal Brat: In some of the episodes that take place in ancient Japan, Princess Lovelin is portrayed like this. She acts very spoiled and throws crybabish tantrums when she doesn't get what she wants. This is only one of the acting roles of Lovelin/Lovelitchi, who is otherwise civilized to a fault.
- Ruling Couple: As shown in episode 114, this is part of Spacytchi's childhood dream of taking over Tamagotchi Planet; he intends to do it for Himespetchi, whom he has a crush on, so that they can rule the planet together. An Imagine Spot during that flashback shows Spacytchi and Himespetchi as a king and queen, with Himespetchi shown to be holding their kid.
- Running Gag: There are several throughout the course of the anime:
- Mametchi's inventions go wrong and explode on a rather frequent basis.
- The Tamagotchis, particularly Memetchi, will sometimes comment on Kuchipatchi's food obsession.
- Whenever the Gotchi King laughs, Princess Tamako and several Royal Guards attempt to get him to stop out of fear that he'll crack up.
- The Spacy Brother's reactions to Pipospetchi's comments on their schemes.
- In Miracle Friends, Enchoutchi keeps mistaking X's disguised form for an empty vase, and puts flowers in him. Becomes a major plot point in episode 19.
- Same-Sex Triplets: The Eco Triplets are all female.
- Sapient Ship: Apollotchi from the "Motto! Chikiyu de Tama Talk" segments in Tamagotchi! Tamatomo Daishu GO is clearly a mechanical spaceship, shaped like a rocket and with two thrusters for arms, and has the ability to talk and think for himself. There is a large screen inside of him, through which he communicates with anybody who may be on board.
- Say My Name:
- At the end of GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 5b, everyone else shouts Kuchipatchi's name, and Kuchipatchi apologizes, to show how disappointed they are in him when he wastes his wish on a vending machine that gives him juice.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 18b, Orenetchi and the Gotchi King, realizing how harsh they were towards Neenetchi and Princess Tamako respectively, start to feel remorseful and shout their names. It's then and there that Neenetchi and Princess Tamako show up, having heard them.
- Scary Flashlight Face: In episode 16a, as Chamametchi, Imotchi, and Kikitchi are all telling their scary stores (or about to, in Kikitchi's case), they shine a flashlight's light in their faces.
- Scenery Censor: In episode 120, the sunlight is conveniently shining so much on a Tamagotchi that Melodytchi is chasing that it covers their face. This is more in-universe, as they had already shown what the Tamagotchi's face looks like before that episode aired.
- Scooby Stack:
- In episode 71a, the Spacy Brothers look from behind a tree at some Tamagotchis they think are suspicious. From the bottom to the top, Pipospetchi, Akaspetchi, and Spacytchi are in a column.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 5a, the Spacy Brothers form a stack while peering from the side of DoriTama School, before going out into the open.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 33, when Lovelitchi and Melodytchi check in on Lovesoratchi who had been having a fit earlier, they form a column, with Melodytchi above Lovelitchi enough to be unrealistic.
- Seamless Spontaneous Lie: Episode 25a is an April Fool's Day episode where Mametchi and his friends all come up with lies as April Fool's jokes. When Memetchi contrives a joke about having to move far away to be with her grandma, she presents it so seriously that the others believe it to the exact letter and, to Memetchi's horror, spend some effort in setting up a farewell party for her. It's finding out that even her own family believe she's moving that finally persuades her to admit the whole thing was a prank.
- Second Episode Introduction: The second episode of Tamagotchi Friends, "Kiraritchi and Yumemitchi", introduces those two characters. In the Japanese original Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream, they're introduced in the first episode instead.
- Secondary Adaptation: There are more than one.
- The series has a manga titled GOGO♪ Tamagotchi! that retells stories from the television show, but also has some unique ones.
- The first video game to be based on the series is Tamagotchi no Narikiri Channel for the Nintendo DS. It's based around the player controlling Mametchi or Lovelitchi as they act in different TAMAX-TV shows, working to become a super idol.
- Secret Chaser: Uwasatchi becomes one in episode 5b, whose premise involves her chasing after Lovelin to figure out what her secret identity is, reaching the point where she attempts to peek at the inside of the truck Lovelin is always in whenever she travels.
- Self-Duplication: The Art of Shadow Cloning, a ninja skill Gozarutchi mentions in episode 22b. It's apparently difficult to pull off, but Gozarutchi is able to save Kikitchi from floating too high in the air on a slowly-breaking kite by using the ability.
- Series Goal: The Miracle Friends arc has the goal of returning Miraitchi and Clulutchi to the future.
- Shadow of Impending Doom: In episode 41b, each time the plant eats one or more of the Tamagotchis, we're shown its shadow looming over the Tamagotchi(s) before they realize what is happening.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: In episode 13a, the Spacy Brothers find that everyone in Tamagotchi Town has seemingly disappeared and become worried they'll disappear like them too. Everyone else is still there; they were celebrating "Roll on the Floor Day", where they lie on the floor doing absolutely nothing, hence their sudden disappearance.
- Sharing a Body: In episode 7a, Chamametchi triggers a machine at Mamemame Laboratory and accidentally causes her and Mametchi to swap bodies. When Mametchi in Chamametchi's body tries to find the button to reverse it, he presses the wrong one and merges their bodies instead. The newly-formed Mamechamametchi gets locked in that room and ends up having to stay there for the day. It isn't until the Spacey Brothers appear and activate the machine that the effect is reversed, although the trio end up switching bodies as well as a result.
- She's a Man in Japan: The 9Go! English dub of Tamagotchi! turns Tamastetchi into a male.
- Shipshape Shipwreck: In episode 40b, Mermaid Lovelin hides in a mostly-intact sunken ship twice to avoid being attacked by an octopus.
- Shout-Out: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 11a, Miraitchi and Clulutchi show several outfits to Madamtchi and Watchlin to review. One of these outfits
looks like a typical hero costume from Super Sentai (or by extension its overseas counterpart Power Rangers), with the top of the helmet displaying a bird's face. Interestingly, because Power Rangers is owned by one of Bandai's market competitors, this scene could cause a conflict-of-interest if it were given an English dub. - Show Within a Show: GOTCHIMAN, Mametchi's favorite TV show about the superhero Gotchiman, is shown in quite a few episodes.
- Showdown at High Noon: Subverted in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 12, where a pair of Tamagotchi cowboys emerge from a Wild West-like building and look as though they're about to shoot each other, to the surprise of the Tamagotchi children who are watching. Dramatic music plays as the gunmen stare at each other and bring out their weapons, but when they shoot, the guns shoot decorations that read "WELCOME". The cowboys are only welcoming the children to the island they're going to have their big soccer game on.
- Sick Episode:
- In episode 67b, Mametchi gets sick and needs taken to the hospital. As a result of that, Tamagotchi School becomes less pleasant to be in, with everyone's problems not being resolved that would otherwise be resolved by Mametchi, the problems ranging from help with school math problems to the school's clock not working.
- In episode 136, the Gotchi King comes down with a sickness that causes him to develop Easter egg-like markings and have a fever severe enough for him to become hot to the touch. To cure the sickness, Mametchi and his friends have to retrieve the Crystal Crown from a temple and put it on the Gotchi King.
- Sickness Equals Redness: In episode 118, some photos and a flashback show Anemoriritchi putting Moriritchi to bed and taking care of her when she gets sick. Moriritchi has a red blush across where her nose would be if it were visible to show her sickness.
- Signature Instrument: Melodytchi takes her Melody Violin everywhere she goes and plays it at all her concerts. She also treats it as a Companion Cube, going as far as to call it "My Friend" (to her credit, it does turn out to be sentient).
- Signature Laugh: In the Japanese original, when Black Hat is playing his character in GOTCHIMAN, his laugh sounds like "Hatta-ta-ta!"
- Significant Birth Date: Mametchi's birthday is November 23rd, the same day the original Tamagotchi toys were first sold in 1996. Likewise, Kuchipatchi's birthday is May 18th, the day when Tamagotchi toys first came to the US in 1997.
- Silent Whisper: Played with. In Miracle Friends episode 13, when Watchlin whispers something to Mametchi and later Coffretchi, while her whispering is audible, what she's saying is still obfuscated because it's rendered as her repeating "tick-tock".
- "Silly Me" Gesture: In Yume Kira Dream episode 21, Pianitchi sticks out her tongue and does a soft head bonk after Mametchi brings her the luggage she forgot.
- Singing Voice Dissonance: Episode 7 of Tamagotchi Friends features a scene where Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi perform a song. Their English singing voices sound almost nothing like children, as their normal speaking voices in this dub would suggest. There's a reason for that - they're singing "We Got Energy" from the Lifetime reality series Dance Moms, and the song's vocal track wasn't changed.
- Single-Biome Planet: The racetrack for the space race in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 34 goes through a few single-biome planets. The biomes represented by the planets are, in order of appearance, a desert, a snow/ice world, and a forest.
- Single-Minded Twins: Well, triplets. The Eco-usatchi triplets all have the exact same shy personality and all have a crush on Kuromametchi (which changes to Kuchipatchi in episode 22a after a fortune-telling session directs their attention to him). Their appearances aren't much different, with the only indicator of who is who being the shapes of the curls of hair on their foreheads.
- Sinking Ship Scenario: Subverted. In Yume Kira Dream episode 9, when everyone is discussing what kind of things would make them cry, Himespetchi imagines a scenario where she and Mametchi are on a cruise ship re-enacting the famous "I'm flying" scene from Titanic (1997) when the ship starts to head right for an iceberg. Instead of the ship hitting the obstacle as in the original film, Mametchi steers everyone safely out of the way, and Himespetchi is very grateful for him saving the boat from destruction.
- Skyward Scream: In episode 21b, the cavity Tamagotchi inside Mametchi's mouth considers inviting his mother to come live with him since he thinks she'd like how comfy Mametchi's tooth is. After Mametchi imagines his cavity becoming bigger after the cavity Tamagotchi is visited by his mother and grandkids, ends up married and with his own kid, and eventually an entire cavity neighborhood forming, Mametchi looks to the sky and screams "OH NO, IT CAN'T BE!"
- Slice of Life: A combination of this and the fantasy genre. Some episodes have more of a slice of life feel to them while others steer more towards the fantasy genre.
- Slumber Party: The premise of episode 16a involves Chamametchi and Imotchi going over to Kikitchi's house for a slumber party. They tell scary stories that get to Kikitchi and make him unable to catch some sleep.
- Snowball Fight: Mametchi and co have one in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 36. Kuchipatchi tries to throw a giant snowball at the opposing team, but it's too heavy and he collapses under its weight.
- Snowed-In: In episode 109 (a Christmas Episode), Yukipatchi uses magic to make it snow. Tomomi wakes up in Lovelitchi's house and she, as well as the other Tamagotchis, find out that Yukipatchi used too much magic - all the windows and doors are blocked by snow. Tomomi and the other Tama-Friends have to exit their homes through the ceiling to go outside, where they discover the whole town is covered in a thick blanket of snow and has covered a bunch of buildings entirely. This presents a problem for Santaclautchi when he's delivering gifts, so he gets the Tama-Friends' help.
- Snowlems: Yukipatchi is of the "friendly" variety. She's a snowman built by Kuchipatchi and shaped just like him who comes to life in episode 90 and quickly bonds with her creator; both also happen to like food a lot.
- Something Person: The superhero Gotchiman.
- The Song Remains the Same: The Cantonese and Thai dubs keep the songs in Japanese. While the Cantonese dubs at least have subtitles that provide translated lyrics to the songs, the Thai dubs do not translate the lyrics in any way.
- Sparkling Eyes of Excitement: This is fairly common with the characters, particularly with Himespetchi who often has sparkly eyes whenever she's daydreaming or thinking about her crush Mametchi.
- Speaks in Binary: Pipospetchi. Though it's probably best if we don't know what he's REALLY saying...
- Special Guest: The Japanese musician Hitomi appears in episode 10 of GO-GO Tamagotchi! as an idol singer Tamagotchi named hitomitchi whom Lovelitchi likes.
- Speed Stripes: In episode 2b, a visual of the Tama-Friends running toward the TAMAX-TV building has a repeating three-frame animation of white stripe shapes behind them to indicate their speed.
- Split-Screen Phone Call: In Yume Kira Dream episode 9, Kiraritchi calls Yumemitchi about visiting Julietchi, and the former two are shown on a split screen, Kiraritchi on the left and Yumemitchi on the right. There's a moment of lightly breaking the fourth wall when they look at each other and nod understandingly, even though there shouldn't be anybody next to them.
- Squeaky Eyes: Everyone has them. In particular, Memetchi's blinking sounds like tambourines and Melodytchi's blinking sounds like glass smashing.
- Stacy's Mom: In episode 25 of Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream, Patitchi suspects Mametchi has fallen in love with Cafe Mama, though these suspicions are dismissed later on.
- Stalker Shrine: Himespetchi's Flying Saucer house is brimming with stuff themed around her crush Mametchi, including (but certainly not limited to) plushes, a dartboard, and an alarm clock. She hastily hides her Mametchi stuff whenever anybody comes to visit since she wants to keep her crush on him a secret.
- Stalker with a Crush: Himespetchi's attitude toward Mametchi. She'll easily try to follow him around at any opportunity she gets.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 31b, there is a legend that is told about the comet that causes the Tamagottsun. The legend says that two planets were in love with each other, which ticked off the strongest of the planets enough to where he put a curse on them so that they can only be together every 1,000 years, with one of them becoming a comet flying throughout space. It's believed that Tamagotchi Planet and the comet causing the Tamagottsun were those two planets.
- Status Quo Is God: Nandetchi ends GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 15a having become elderly due to plot occurrences as a one-off joke. He's back to his normal age in later episodes with no explanation.
- Stating the Simple Solution: In episode 4a, after Mametchi's roller coaster - which he has invented to help him get to school without being late - has an unsuccessful run, he says out loud to himself that getting up earlier than he has been would work a lot better.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: In episode 26a, Mametchi, Memetchi, and Kuchipatchi wonder about a large Kuchipatchi-looking rock that people are lined up for. Out of nowhere, they hear Uwasatchi's voice stating that's the Kuchipatchi of Truth and are startled to find she showed up next to them abruptly.
- Story Arc:
- Season 5 begins a story arc that lasts until the end of Season 6. The Tamagotchis collect Tama-Hearts formed by The Power of Friendship.
- The last five episodes of the original series form a five-part story arc about the Tama-Friends having to stop everyone on Tamagotchi Planet from being turned into eggs.
- Super Cell Reception: In episode 97, Mametchi gives an explanation for how Tomomi, an Earthling, got teleported to Tamagotchi Planet in the previous episode. When Mametchi and the other Tama-Friends were testing his profile machines, Tomomi just happened to be on her cell phone, and the profile machines' signals got mixed up with the signals from the phone. This caused Mametchi's machines to explode, and the explosion created enough energy to transport Tomomi.
- Superhero Episode: Episode 33b is about Kuchipatchi getting the idea to become a superhero when he thinks about how he was praised as a hero and given food for helping the Eco-usatchi Triplets. Realizing he could potentially get a lot of food as a reward for his help, Kuchipatchi takes on the alias of Patchiman.
- Surprise Party:
- In "It's a Secret! Mametchi's Birthday", Mametchi's Tama-Friends try to keep a surprise party they have planned for him a secret.
- In episode 125, Lovelitchi and Melodytchi plot to throw a surprise wedding party for the former's parents, Lovemamalitchi and Lovepapalitchi, and get the other Tama-Friends in on the action.
- Sweet Polly Oliver: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 40, Himespetchi wants to follow her crush Mametchi when he gets to audition in a television show. To do this, she masquerades as a boy named Himeboytchi to get a role as a male lead character.
- Sweetheart Sipping: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 5b, Himespetchi wants to make a wish on Moshimo Mountain to be with Mametchi. She imagines the two of them drinking from the same cup, with their bendy straws forming the shape of a heart.
- Talking in Your Sleep: In episode 120, Mametchi's gang is sleeping in a house in Melody Land while Melodytchi is out with her new friend. The Tamagotchis in the house mumble stuff in their sleep related to some character trait of theirs (e.g. Kuchipatchi mutters "Itadakimasu!"note and starts to eat his blanket, while Memetchi angrily mentions her rival Makiko). Himespetchi somehow exclaims her catchphrase "Gigakyun!" out loud without it waking her up; it does wake up Mametchi who tucks her blanket back into place before visiting Lovelitchi, who is also awake, in a nearby room.
- A Taste of Their Own Medicine: In episode 15a, Memetchi finds that Uwasatchi is spreading a rumor about the hair on the former's head being fake and doesn't take it kindly at all. It's hearing said rumor broadcasted on the radio that drives Memetchi to spread a rumor of her own to teach Uwasatchi and her mother Safetytchi not to spread gossip - namely, that Safetytchi's hair is cotton candy.
- Team Hand-Stack: In Yume Kira Dream episode 35, the KiraKira Girls stack their hands as a "we're in this together" sort of gesture as they're about to play in the band contest.
- The Teaser: The first episode of GO-GO Tamagotchi! has a scene before the theme song where the narrator expresses surprise at the continents of Tamagotchi Planet moving. After that, at least some other episodes in GO-GO Tamagotchi!'s first season have a quick explanation of the Tamagottsun, the event causing the continents to move and that caused Tamagotchi Town and Dream Town to merge, before the theme song.
- Technicolor Fire: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 32, Mofumofutchi relates a run-in he had with a dragon in a cave during one of his adventures. This Tamagotchi Planet dragon, unlike the ones you'd find on Earth, breathes blue-and-purple flames when it wakes up and chases Mofumofutchi.
- Tempting Apple: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 29b, the Tamagotchi children are told not to walk past a rope closing off a forbidden area in a forest.. While everyone else is looking for Kuchipatchi when he's missing, Furawatchi sees an apple growing on a tree and points out how it represents temptation. She then turns into her Dark Flower X persona after assimilating the meaning of the fruit, as she does with flowers and their meanings, and goes into the closed-off area.
- Tempting Fate:
- In episode 126, Himespetchi is told by Ringotchi that the boy the latter thinks she has a crush on was born on November 23rd and likes GOTCHIMAN. Himespetchi notices both, since Mametchi fits the descriptions, and dismisses them as coincidences. Then she offers Ringotchi a GOTCHIMAN keychain to give to the boy she loves. Mametchi shows up, and Ringotchi gives it to him. Himespetchi realizes she's helping Ringotchi to court the boy that, in Himespetchi's mind, rightfully belongs not to Ringotchi but to her, and chides herself for not putting attention on that birthday and favorite television series.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 27a, it makes the news when Princetchi declares he would like to marry Melodytchi against her will, but Melodytchi tells Lovelitchi that since she and Princetchi are both children, he wouldn't be able to marry her, and therefore she assumes he must be joking. Cue the voice of Lovemamalitchi coming from the other room, which is flooded with flowers from Princetchi, followed by a bunch of delivery Tamagotchis with gifts from Princetchi to Melodytchi. Sounds dead serious to us.
- Thanking the Viewer: The final episode ends with Mametchi and his friends all thanks the viewer for watching their show as they wave goodbye.
- Theme Tune Extended: An extension
of the GO-GO Tamagotchi! theme song exists which is almost four minutes long. - Theme Tune Roll Call: Most versions of the original theme song, "GO-GO Tamagotchi!", name the three main characters during a brief music break ("Mametchi, Memetchi, Kuchipatchi!").
- Third-Person Person: Hapihapitchi, Telelin, and Kizunatchi all refer to themselves in third person instead of using pronouns like "I" and "me". The first of those characters uses pronouns normally in the English dub.
- Three-Point Landing: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 31a, Spacytchi faces off against mucha libre wrestler versions of Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi, individually named Yumeyume Kamen and Kirakira Kamen respectively, and collectively named the Yumekira Sisters. They frequently land on their feet and on one hand, including when they first introduce themselves.
- Through a Face Full of Fur: At least once, in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 47b, there's a variation where Mametchi is seen blushing through the MameGotchiman mask he's wearing when he sees his hero Gotchiman has come to save the day.
- Tickle Torture: In episode 34a, one of the things ADtchi does to comply with TamaPtchi's wish to make Lovelin win the quiz show is to tickle Mametchi with a hand-shaped device before he can answer a question.
- Time Capsule: Episode 33 of Yume Kira Dream is about Mametchi and co finding out that Pianitchi buried a time capsule with a childhood friend she can't remember and going out to locate that time capsule. The childhood friend is Nandetchi.
- Time Machine: Miraitchi and Clulutchi own doorknob-shaped time machines both called Knock Taps. The machines, when attached to a wall, create a sort of door in the wall that leads into a time-travel portal.
- Time Stands Still: In episode 111, while Mametchi is repairing the satellite in the new TAMAX-TV building, it and Tomomi's phone synchronize and show the same globe pattern, causing a burst to appear from the building's satellite that freezes everything in time except for Mametchi, Tomomi, and Kizunatchi. The rest of the episode is them trying to figure out how to unfreeze time.
- Title Theme Tune: The first theme song (and by extension, its later iterations, such as in GO-GO Tamagotchi!) - "Ready, go! Hashi, go! Tamagotchi!" - and one of the later theme songs - "Dai-dai-dai-dai-daisuki, Ta-ta-ta-ta-Tamagotchi!" - play this straight. One of the other later theme songs, "Like & Peace!", has at least one mention of the show's title, but doesn't incorporate it into the song's refrain. All of the other theme songs avert this.
- Toast of Tardiness: GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 2a has Mametchi working on an invention, being warned by the DoriTama School bulding that he's late for school, and quickly run downstairs and grab a piece of toast with his mouth before going outside.
- Token Human: Tomomi, who appeared in the TV show from episode 96 to episode 112. She was accidentally transported to Tamagotchi Planet by one of Mametchi's inventions, not unlike Tanpopo in the first movie.
- Too Long; Didn't Dub: In the Tamagotchi Friends dub of Yume Kira Dream, the cards that Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi transform with are called "Dorikawa Cards" like the original version of the show. It's justified, as most characters in the Tamagotchi franchise retain their original Japanese names.
- Too Many Phones Gag: At the end of episode 34a, there is a scene where TamaPtchi and ADtchi are inundated with and stressfully answer calls from a lot of viewers complaining about TAMAX-TV's recent programming, all on a bunch of black-colored, old-fashioned telephones.
- Trademark Favorite Food: In the TAMAX-TV series starring Lovelin as Thief Papillon, Mametchi plays Anpan Detective (in Japanese, Anpan Deka), who is so named because he likes to eat anpan bread and drink milk during his investigations and breaks.
- Transformation Is a Free Action: Subverted in Yume Kira Dream episode 33, where Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi attempt to transform with their Yume Kira Bags to help fix a problem with a bus. The transformation animation plays normally until it's announced that the abnormality with the bus is fixed, interrupting the sequence before the actual transformation can take place and forcing Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi to return to the bus.
- Transformation Sequence: In Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream, Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi are given transformation sequences whenever they use the Yume Kira bags. In Tamagotchi Friends they only do it twice, in comparison to Yume Kira Dream where it's once an episode.
- Transformation Trinket: The Yume Kira bags, which transforms their user's outfit into something resembling a particular occupation, along with giving them those particular skills.
- Translator Collar: The gang uses a translation machine on the crab-like Super Yadokaritchi in Yume Kira Dream episode 28 to understand what he's saying and communicate with him, the machine being placed on his head.
- Trapped in the Past: This is the primary conflict of Miracle Friends, where Miraitchi and Clulutchi are inexplicably sent to the past and have to collect Dreambakutchis to return to the future.
- [Trope Name]: One of the Tama Hearts looks like a book and has "BOOK" written on the front cover. A variation in that this isn't done for comedic purposes, and more for indicating what the Tama Heart is based on (the spine of the "book" may not be immediately obvious).
- Tropey, Come Home: In episode 85b, Giragiratchi can't find her pet Rubytchi in her doghouse and looks for her with help from Moriritchi and Pashalin. Meanwhile, Mametchi, along with some friends, finds Rubytchi in the park, takes care of her at his home, notices she has a collar, and tries to find her owner.
- Troubled Fetal Position: Tomomi assumes the fetal position in episode 112 when she is outside of Mamemame Laboratory, having been told she will have to be returned to Planet Earth; she would rather be on Tamagotchi Planet. She's in the position by the time the Tama-Friends are with her, being told by her that she doesn't want to leave and why.
- A Twinkle in the Sky:
- In Yume Kira Dream episode 35, after Himespetchi draws a heart shape in the sky with her spaceship for Mametchi and co as they give her one last goodbye, she goes off into the distance and her ship vanishes with a twinkle.
- This happens twice in Miracle Friends episode 7. When Coffretchi applies makeup to Elephantotchi, the powder makes him want to sneeze, causing him to run around; right before he does so, he flings his owner off his back and into the sky, and he disappears with a twinkle. A few minutes later, Smartotchi and X are hit by Elephantotchi and also disappear into the sky with a twinkle.
- Twinkle Smile: In episode 16b, Kuromametchi looks into his mirror and does a few poses. One pose has him smiling, with his teeth producing a visible twinkle.
- Twitchy Eye: In episode 125, Spacytchi believes the Tama-Friends may be trying to take over Tamagotchi Planet, which is what he would like, and - along with his brothers - hides in the area where Mametchi and co. are setting up Lovepapatchi and Lovemamatchi's wedding party. When he is discovered by Mametchi and is asked what's going on, Spacytchi's eye twitches a few times before he lies that he couldn't resist the festive atmosphere.
- Two Girls to a Team: Usually inverted. Mametchi and Kuchipatchi are the only two boys in the billed main cast, especialy in the last two seasons of the original saga, Yume Kira Dream, and Miracle Friends.
- Two Shorts: Zig-zagged. The anime started out using the "two 11-minute segments per episode" format before switching to one 22-minute story per episode starting with episode 95. It returned to its original "two shorts" format in episode 1 of GO-GO Tamagotchi! and remained like that for the rest of the series, with the occasional "22-minute story" episode popping up there as well.
- Tyop on the Cover: The 9Go! English title card for episode 20a, "Cheery Cherry Blossoms", misspells the word "blossoms" as "bloosoms".
- Umbrella of Togetherness: In episode 125, a flashback shows that one of Lovepapalitchi and Lovemamalitchi's early interactions involved Lovepapalitchi offering Lovemamalitchi an umbrella while it was raining. Lovepapalitchi is blushing as he is talking to Lovemamalitchi afterward.
- Uncatty Resemblance: Doyatchi owns a pet Doyakentchi, who has the same face as he does and can only say "doya," spoofing how "doya" is Doyatchi's verbal tic.
- Unconventional Food Usage: In Yume Kira Dream episode 40, after Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi are transformed into news reporters by the Yume Kira Bags, Yumecantchi's Yume Kira Bag is activated and summons nori, a type of edible seaweed. The nori proves useful in covering the eyes of Chukatchi and Benitchi when Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi interview them for a news program - just like how black bars are sometimes used in news reports to obscure a person's eyes and make them less recognizable.
- Unnecessarily Creepy Robot: The robot duplicate of Papapianitchi that Mametchi tries to make for Cafe Mama. It targets nearby girls and thrusts flowers in their faces while frantically proclaiming its love for them.
- Unscaled Merfolk: Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi's mermaids transformations include mermaid tails that do not have visible scales.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: In episode 117, Kuromametchi's character in the TV show sees Anpan Detective in a woman's outfit and falls in love with "her," forcing the detective to have to explain who he is almost as quickly as the crush occurs, to Kuromametchi's disappointment.
- Unwanted Assistance: In episode 33b, to prove who is the true hero, Patchiman and MameGotchiman help an elderly man to get some boxes into a truck. This turns out to be unwanted by the elderly man, and negates the heroes' efforts, because he was trying to get them out of the truck.
- Valentine's Day Episode: There have been a few:
- Both parts of episode 66; in the first part, Melodytchi produces Valentine's chocolates using the Every Lovelin Chocolate Making Machine, and in the second part, Chamametchi and Imotchi secretly follow Melodytchi to see who she will give her Valentine's chocolates to.
- Episode 116, which aired a day before Valentine's Day (2/13/12), takes place around the holiday and sees Himespetchi suggesting the girls go to Tama Beach to find the legendary Love-Love Power Spot. At the beach, the gang meets a man and woman who are having trouble communicating their love for each other.
- GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 44b is one, about Orenetchi wishing Himetchi and Momotchi would give him some Valentine's chocolates.
- Vampire Vords: One episode features Mametchi as a vampire, who averts both this and Fang Thpeak.
- Vacuum Mouth: In episode 54b, Kuchipatchi's sentient car consumes some bananas he feeds it by inhaling them into its mouth.
- Verbal Tic: Has its own page.
- Verbing Nouny: The Tamagotchi Friends episode title "Introducing Kiramotchi".
- Versus Character Splash: In Yume Kira Dream episode 19, the blimp at the tea robot competition displays "VS." splashes on its screen for the students competing against each other, with one showing Mametchi and Nandetchi and one depicting Himespetchi and Hoshigirltchi.
- Versus Title: Several episodes have one.
- Episode 41a, "Go! Typhoontchi VS Secret Base"
- Episode 46a, "Datchi! Kuchipatchi VS Mecha Kuchipatchi"
- Episode 69a, "Lazy Reasoning? Detective Anpan VS Melody Investigator"
- Episode 73b, "Go Go! Gluttony! Kuchipatchi VS Kuishinbotchi"
- Episode 79b, "Dream Co-star? Gotchiman vs. Detective Anpan"
- Episode 118, "Big Fight!? Moriritchi vs. Anemoriritchi"
- Yume Kira Dream episode 9, "Queen of Tears vs. Yume Kira Comedians"
- GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 4a, "Guruguru Battle! Memetchi vs. Makiko... Again!!"
- Vertigo Effect: In Yume Kira Dream episode 37, there's a shot of a worried Benitchi that zooms in on her while the background zooms out before she explains to Coffretchi that someone put flowers that she is allergic to in the studio.
- Villain Episode: A few episodes focus on the Spacey Brothers and their villainous schemes. One of the earliest, "Beep Beep! Ready to Take Over Tamagotchi Planet" (episode 13a), has them coping with everyone in Tamagotchi Town besides them suddenly disappearing.
- Vine Swing: In episode 25b, Furawatchi swings into the school classroom on a vine when Lovelitchi picks her a flower that's supposed to represent the wilderness, but seems to have turned her into a wild savage instead.
- The Voice: Himespetchi's parents are never seen, with their voices when they call her on the phone being the only thing we ever get of them. They were eventually given physical appearances when the digital pet toyline came out with the Tamagotchi M!X, which was released after the TV show had already finished its run.
- Voiceover Letter:
- In Yume Kira Dream episode 10, Mametchi leaves Ikaritchi some cookies he brought back from Tamagotchi Town along with a letter explaining them. The brief letter is read aloud in Mametchi's voice when Ikaritchi reads it.
- In Yume Kira Dream episode 35, the farewell letter written by Himespetchi is read in her voice as the others receive it and run to say goodbye to her.
- Voices Are Mental: In episode 7a, Mametchi and Chamametchi and later on the Spacy Brothers accidentally switch bodies, and their voices are switched as well.
- Voices Are Not Mental: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 35, when Himespetchi and Neenetchi swap bodies, their voices do not change to match.
- Walk on Water: Gozarutchi has the ability to run on the surface of water down pretty nicely.
- Was Too Hard on Him: In Tamagotchi Friends episode 12 and Yume Kira Dream episode 6, Kiraritchi makes Kiramotchi promise not to passionately draw on whatever surfaces she finds outside, but ends up coming to regret it later, telling Kiramotchi she was too harsh on her after it turns out a strict boss likes the graffiti Kiramotchi painted on a building.
- Wasteful Wishing: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 5b, Mametchi and his friends all race to the top of Moshimo Mountain since it's said that if you reach the mountain's top while a ring-shaped cloud surrounds it, you'll be granted one wish. When everyone makes it to the top, Kuchipatchi wastes their wish and creates a vending machine with juice bottles in it. None of the others enjoy it.
- Water-Geyser Volley:
- In episode 34a, Mametchi is sent upward by water before he can answer a question in the quiz show, as one of ADtchi's reluctant attempts to sabotage the game in Lovelin's favor as TamaPtchi wants.
- In episode 94b, Onsenmoguratchi senses a hot spring when tunneling underground and, when it goes toward it, gets blown upward by the resulting geyser.
- In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 9b, Wagassiertchi falls into a hole and is brought back up again by a geyser of brown liquid that gushes out of it. Kuchipatchi tastes the liquid and finds out it's chocolate, leading to the creation of a chocolate hot spring in Patchi Forest.
- We Will All Fly in the Future: In Miracle Friends, it's shown that in the future, Dream Town has a heavy focus on flying vehicles, with flying police cars in particular being shown patrolling Dream Town, and a flying bus carrying passengers, in that season's first episode.
- Weapons That Suck: In GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 23b, Mametchi and co investigate whether there are ghosts in DoriTama School, and he brings a vacuum along in case he needs to capture any ghosts with it. He uses it exactly once when he sees what he and co think is Medusatchi, a Tamagotchi version of the mythical Medusa.
- Weather-Control Machine: In episode 90b, Kuchipatchi, frustrated about the summer weather and thinking out loud about how it would be cold if winter came more quickly than normal, gives Mametchi the idea to do something about it. Mametchi builds a machine, shaped like a penguin, that sucks in snow clouds from North North Point and brings the snow to Tamagotchi Town.
- Weddings in Japan: In episode 127, Himespetchi fantasizes a Western-style marriage ceremony where she's marrying Mametchi, who is wearing a white tuxedo, while she wears a Fairytale Wedding Dress.
- Weird Moon: In the in-universe TAMAX-TV series starring the characters Mametchi the Vampire and Sister Lovelin, the moon has a stitched-together appearance and has two faces, one on the front and one on the back, with pointy teeth in its mouth for the face in the front.
- Western Zodiac: The end of episode 134 has one of Moriritchi's segments about her Tamamori designs, with the Tamamori design of the week being a Western zodiac-themed one, worn by Kuchipatchi. There are Tamagotchi versions of four of the zodiac constellations in the Tamamori, each one also having a heart that shows its symbol. Going clockwise and starting from the left, the four constellations are Aries the ram, Leo the lion, Gemini the twins (represented as angels), and Taurus the bull.
- Wheel o' Feet: In Yume Kira Dream episode 7, Tropicatchi tries and fails multiple times to impress her crush, Jack the peacock Tamagotchi. Each time, Jack runs away, and his feet are represented by circular spinning shapes.
- When the Planets Align: In GO-GO Tamagotchi!, the Tamagottsun is an event that happens every 1,000 years when Tamagotchi Planet aligns with Planet Earth. The result is that the continents on Tamagotchi come together to celebrate, causing Tamagotchi Town and Dream Town to merge into a single location.
- Whole-Plot Reference: Episode 40b is about the Tama-Friends acting in a TAMAX-TV television show. The show mimics the plot of The Little Mermaid, with Lovelitchi as the mermaid who becomes lovesick after seeing Mametchi the pirate and resorting to using some kind of magic to travel onto the land and find him.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Melodytchi crossdresses as Oyajitchi during a summer festival.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
- Himespetchi has a fear of slugs and snails.
- Telelin has a fear of water and freaks out whenever she sees it. Justified in that she is an electronic phone come to life, and water would hurt her.
- Will Not Tell a Lie: Himespetchi, if episode 126 is any indication. To get Ringotchi to stop obsessing over Mametchi so that Himespetchi isn't a rival for his affections, she attempts to lie about his bad side. Feeling guilty for lying, she ends up praising him with a displeased face instead, which Ringotchi wonders about. Not only does the facial expression half of the lying (if it can be called that) not work, it backfires as Himespetchi realizes there's no bad side to Mametchi, and she legitimately praises him in front of Ringotchi and gives her the courage to confess to him.
- Wink "Ding!":
- In Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi's transformation sequence in Tamagotchi Friends and Yume Kira Dream, there's a point where Yumemitchi does a wink that's accompanied by a ding sound, shortly before she and Kiraritchi (and Yumecantchi, once she joins them) fly off-screen.
- In Yume Kira Dream episode 11, in Himespetchi's imagination, Mametchi gives her a wink with a twinkle sound after confessing his love for her.
- Wormsign: At least once, in episode 94b, the mole-like Tama-Pet called Onsenmoguratchi is seen pushing up the ground above it correlating to wherever it travels underground, creating a trail of uneven dirt.
- Would Rather Suffer: Played for Drama. In episode 143, when Kizunatchi starts to fall to the ground after she's overwhelmed trying to fend off the eggification of Tamagotchi Planet, Mametchi and co all tearfully run up to her while expressing how much Kizunatchi meant to them, and Mametchi says that he'd rather fall victim to the egg curse himself than see her die. The other Tama-Friends all agree with his statement, exclaiming they'd also rather become eggs even at the cost of sacrificing their interests.
- X-Ray Sparks: In Tamagotchi Friends episode 12 and Yume Kira Dream episode 7, while she is getting a haircut from Yumemitchi and Kiraritchi as they use their Yume Kira bag-induced hairdresser transformations, Tropicatchi sheds a tear that falls and touches the electrical outlet for the equipment they're using, giving her a shock and making her skeleton visible for a couple of seconds.
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: In episode 132, it's implied that time works differently in the ancient Tamagotchi-mura compared to the rest of Tamagotchi Planet. Lovelitchi and some of the female Tama-Friends stay in Tamagotchi-mura until late in the afternoon, but when they come back, it's still earlier in the day and they find Mametchi, Memetchi, and Kuchipatchi getting ready to head off to the picnic they had planned.
- You Can Talk?: Lovelitchi's phone Telelin was not able to speak originally, being granted that power thanks to an incident with the Kuchipatchi of Truth in episode 26b. When Lovelitchi first hears Telelin talking to her, telling her to "take that look off your face" and that she needs to help her friends, Lovelitchi's first reaction is a shocked one, to how Telelin can talk at all.Lovelitchi: T-T-T-Telelin, you can... Telelin, you can talk!
- You Mean "Xmas": The Tamagotchis celebrate a holiday called Tamaween that is completely indistinguishable from Halloween in all but name (and even then the name is similar enough!), having the same pumpkins and costumes and whatnot involved in its celebrations.
- You Wake Up in a Room: Episode 27a opens with Mametchi being surprised when he wakes up in an unfamiliar laboratory room with a Tamagotchi in it that looks like him. Mametchi later learns he and his friends were sent back in time and that he's in a past version of Tamagotchi Town.
- Zombie Apocalypse: A variation occurs in GO-GO Tamagotchi! episode 20b, a zombie apocalypse without much of an apocalypse, where Mametchi, Chamametchi, and Hapihapitchi are the only ones to not have been affected by a plague where everyone becomes zombies. The affected Tamagotchis walk and talk more slowly and weakly for the most part, don't need to eat or sleep, and routinely perform dances.
