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• Abandon Ship: In a pirate-themed role playing episode, Mr. Cat and Pretty are on a ship, and Eugly is a giant kraken. Eugly raises a fist to sink the ship. Mr. Cat refuses to abandon the ship initially when she asks him to... but bails at the last second and jumps off, leaving Pretty on board.
• Abhorrent Admirer: Pretty to Mr. Cat. Unlike most examples of this trope, she's not physically ugly, but she's an obnoxious Alpha Bitch and Stalker with a Crush who only likes him for his looks and doesn't care about him at all.
• Abnormal Ammo: Apart from missiles, Mr. Cat also launches various things from his bazooka such as books, sheep, and people who were dumb enough to mess with him.
• Accidental Hero: Stumpy in Episode 104. He manages to accidentally take control of Olaf's Mecha-Mooks, which leads to him being able to break into the lair, free his friends and blow up the building.
• Accidental Kiss: In Episode 83, Stumpy is kicked into the air by a sheep, causing him to land face first on Eugly with their lips touching.
• Accidental Pun:
  • Mr. Cat makes one in "Let's Play Scaredy Cat".
  Mr. Cat (to Stumpy): We already told you, your zombie impression bites!
  • "Let's Play at Reading Books" has an example at the beginning. Quack Quack slams a book in Mr. Cat's face by accident, causing him pain. When Mr. Cat tries to say his Catchphrase "Meow", it comes out as "Me..... OW".
• Accidental Suicide: In Episode 72, Stumpy is playing air guitar with a boombox and offers to show his friends his impression of Jimi Hendrix, which he does by biting the boombox to simulate Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth. The resulting electric shock kills Stumpy instantly, though he is brought back to life by supernatural means shortly afterwards.
• Acid Pool: Mr. Cat dunks Quack Quack in an acid tub in the episode "Let's Play Prince Charming".
• Acme Products: The unnamed online store the cast buy their stuff from sells everything from Love Potion to dangerous weapons.
• Acquired Situational Narcissism: Quack Quack gets this in "Let's Play Tennis" since he is a much better tennis player than the others.
• Acronym and Abbreviation Overload: In one episode, Stumpy tries to get a girlfriend by talking to random girls online. When one girl replies to his message, she uses a lot of acronyms like ROFL and BWL, which confuses him so much he ends up rejecting her.
• Acting Your Intellectual Age: Mr. Cat, the smartest cast member, has the intellect of an adult, and acts like one too despite being a kid. In addition, Episode 97 shows that he has apparently "lost his inner child".
• Adaptation Name Change: In the pilot episode, Kaeloo's name was "Kaelou", which was changed to "Kaeloo" for the show. In addition, Stumpy was not given a Dub Name Change in the pilot, retaining his French name "Moignon".
• Addiction Displacement: Parodied; Mr. Cat says he curbed his addiction to carrots^note the carrots in this case have the same effect as tobacco by developing an addiction to tormenting Quack Quack. He tries to justify this by saying that at least this way, he's not ruining his own health.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Kaeloo's name is the Japanese word for "frog", making her a frog named "Frog".
• Advanced Tech 2000: Subverted in the episode "Let's Play Magicians". Kaeloo buys a magic kit labeled "Magic 2000", but later reveals that the kit actually has 2000 pieces in it.
• Aerith and Bob: We have a character named "Olaf", a normal name, and characters with unusual names like "Stumpy" and "Quack Quack". This is discussed in seasons 4 and 5, which reveal that these names are considered bizarre in-universe as well. Quack-Quack was named by a young Kaeloo when she found his egg, Stumpy's family is known for giving terrible names to their children that everyone else finds ridiculous, and Mr. Cat has the fairly normal first name of Hector.
• Aesop Amnesia: Kaeloo learns that Cheaters Never Prosper in "Let's Play Golf". By the time Episode 95 rolls around, she's forgotten all about it.
• Affectionate Nickname: In "Let's Play House" and "Let's Play Babysitting", Mr. Cat gives Kaeloo the nickname "coochy-coo".
• A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: In "Let's Play Art Class", when Mr. Cat finds out that Stumpy is a brilliant artist and that he plans to auction his art, he asks him to sign a contract that gives 95% of the profits to Mr. Cat. Subverted in that they never manage to sell any of the art, an therefore never make any money for Mr. Cat to swindle.
• Afraid of Doctors: Quack Quack is terrified of them, as a result of being experimented on by scientists.
• Afraid of Needles: Stumpy is afraid of needles, and faints when he sees one in "Let's Play Spies". Kaeloo manages to use this to her advantage in one episode to get him to stop Playing Sick by threatening to give him injections to make him "get better".
• Agitated Item Stomping:
  • In Episode 82, when Pretty gets fed up with Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack, she throws her smartphone on the ground and stomps on it repeatedly. Somehow, it doesn't break.
  • In Episode 113, Stumpy loses a video game. He throws his console on the floor and stomps on it as though it was the console's fault he lost.
• Agony of the Feet:
  • In Episode 101, Kaeloo distracts Stumpy when he's trying to lift weights, and he drops the weight on his foot.
  • In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Stumpy's feet catch fire.
• Air Guitar: Stumpy and Olaf do this in Episode 72 to Jimi Hendrix's music.
• Alcohol Hic:
  • Mr. Cat does this whenever he gets drunk.
  • Kaeloo and Stumpy does this in Episode 97 when Mr. Cat's Reality Warping gets them drunk.
• Alien Abduction: Happens to Stumpy in Episode 98. The aliens abduct him from the couch he's sitting on and examine some acorns he happened to have with him. Turns out it was All Just a Dream ... Or Was It a Dream?
• Alien Animals: In Episode 98, Stumpy comes up with the idea that all of Smileyland's sheep are aliens after an incident where they abduct him, but nobody believes him. The entire episode turns out to be All Just a Dream... until Stumpy gains a strange voice and swirling eyes when he tells Kaeloo she can play leapfrog along with him and the sheep, suggesting that the sheep really are aliens and Stumpy has been hypnotized by them.
• All Animals Are Dogs: In one episode, Mr. Cat tries to "tame" Bad Kaeloo (who is a toad), who starts wagging her "tail" and panting like a dog.
• All-CGI Cartoon
• Alleged Lookalikes: In one episode, Kaeloo mentions that fraternal twins Pretty and Eugly resemble each other. Pretty is not amused.
• All Germans Are Nazis: When asked to speak German, Mr. Cat leaves and returns with a Nazi costume before he starts.
• All Girls Like Ponies: Kaeloo and Pretty once got into a huge fight over one. It turns out they like unicorns better. In addition, it's suggested in the same episode that literally all girls, everywhere, love ponies.
  Stumpy: Is that supposed to be cool? Must be a girl thing.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Kaeloo and Pretty both have crushes on Mr. Cat, the show's Big Bad.
• Alliterative Family: All of Kaeloo's cousins have names starting with the letter K, as well as some of her aunts and uncles.
• All Just a Dream: The events of " Let's Play Astronauts" turn out to be a dream Stumpy had, which he was narrating to Kaeloo.
• All Love Is Unrequited:
  • Pretty has a crush on Mr. Cat. The feeling is far from mutual; Mr. Cat loathes Pretty with every fiber of his being and wishes that she would die.
  • Kaeloo and Mr. Cat seem to have a constant Unrequited Love Switcheroo going on. Who's crushing on whom depends on the episode. When one makes advances, the other backs away, seemingly disgusted.
• All Men Are Perverts: Stumpy, Quack Quack, and especially Mr. Cat have shown themselves to be very perverted.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Olaf's backstory is that he was kicked out of the place he lived by the other emperor penguins for marrying an ice cube.]]
• Alternate Universe:
  • The cast visit one in "Let's Play Astronauts" although that was All Just a Dream, where Alternate Universe!Kaeloo transforms in reverse, Alternate Universe!Stumpy is a genius who likes math and hates comic books, and Alternate Universe!Mr. Cat and Alternate Universe!Quack Quack (known as Meow Meow and Mr. Duck) have Swapped Roles.
  • They find another one in Episode 70, the world of "Let's Learn" as opposed to their "Let's Play". The counterparts in this universe are referred to as "Interdimensional [character's name]". Interdimensional Kaeloo's transformation takes place in reverse and is activated by cuddling rather than irritation, and her frog form is a strict teacher. Interdimensional Stumpy is intelligent, and Interdimensional Mr. Cat is a quiet, Literal-Minded idiot (as opposed to Stumpy who is an idiot and Mr. Cat who is a genius).
• Always Identical Twins: Averted with Pretty and Eugly, who are fraternal twins.
• Amateur Film-Making Plot: In Episode 158, Kaeloo notices that Smileyland is falling into disrepair, so she and her friends (none of whom have any experience making movies) try to put together a movie, hoping that they'll earn money from ticket sales for the repairs. The movie ends up being so bad that it wins an award for being the worst movie ever made in history.
• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Pretty and Eugly are pink rabbits and Olaf is a blue emperor penguin. Averted with the main four, however, since they are colored like real animals.
• Ambiguous Gender: Kaeloo, in-universe, especially in later seasons. She repeatedly eludes the question (or flees when asked during a Truth or dare game). She usually insists she's part of the girls, along with Pretty and Eugly. Bad Kaeloo, on the other hand, is shown hitting on Eugly once... ^note in the French dub at least, it could be explained by the fact that the word "frog" has a female gender, while "toad" is male, but Bad Kaeloo also forcibly kissed Mr. Cat once. It was eventually confirmed by the official Facebook page that she is a Hermaphrodite.
• Ambiguous Innocence: Stumpy. As of later episodes, he's been leaning towards the antagonistic side, and showing perverted tendencies too.
• Ambiguously Bi:
  • Stumpy has a girlfriend named Ursula and likes girls in general, but he seemed to have fallen in love with Quack Quack in the episode "Let's Play Hot-Cold" and has admitted to liking crossdressing.
  • Mr. Cat, since his crush Kaeloo has an Ambiguous Gender.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • The end of "Let's Play Trap-Trap". Did Quack Quack find the yogurts Kaeloo hid or was he just hallucinating?
  • In Episode 138, Mr. Cat attempts to diagnose Stumpy with dyspraxia, although Kaeloo keeps insisting that Stumpy is just lazy. It's not really clear whether Mr. Cat actually believes that Stumpy has dyspraxia, or he's just pretending to believe so just to piss off Kaeloo.
• Amusing Injuries: The show basically revolves around this trope.
• An Ass-Kicking Christmas: Episodes 103 and 104, a Multi-Part Episode, revolve around Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat saving Quack Quack after Olaf kidnaps him to use his powers in a machine to Take Over the World.
• And This Is for...: A variant is used in one episode. Kaeloo forces Quack Quack to eat "org-yurt", a food which tastes absolutely disgusting but is good for the environment. When Quack Quack wastes it, she angrily transforms and force-feeds him org-yurt while yelling for each one.
  Bad Kaeloo: One org-yurt for the rainforest! One org-yurt for the Siberian tiger! And one org-yurt for butt-naked Indians!
• And Your Little Dog, Too!: Once an Episode, Mr. Cat tortures Quack Quack in order to make Kaeloo angry.
• Anger Born of Worry: In Episode 100, Kaeloo voluntarily gets put in a Lotus-Eater Machine which she never wants to leave. When her friends decide to get her to stop, they find out that she has undergone Sanity Slippage. Mr. Cat starts angrily screaming at her to stop using the machine because he's worried for her safety.
• Animal Gender-Bender: In the pilot, Bad Kaeloo had a vocal sac. This was fixed in later episodes.
• Animals Not to Scale: The frog is about a head taller than Stumpy the squirrel and slightly taller than Mr. Cat. Quack-Quack, who is a duckling, is in in turn half a head taller than Kaeloo. In the Making Of video, it's shown that Mr. Cat and Stumpy are actually reasonably sized for a domestic cat and a squirrel. To make things weirder, Kaeloo is often described as being little. Pretty, a rabbit, is roughly the same size as the others, Eugly, also a rabbit, is twice the size of the others, and to top it all off, a Running Gag on the show is to note that Olaf, an emperor penguin, is the shortest of them all.
• Animal Stereotypes: Mr. Cat is Smileyland's resident jerk who is extremely snarky, Stumpy the squirrel is hyperactive and not very bright, Kaeloo the frog seems to be in constant bliss and is smotheringly "friendly", and Eugly the rabbit is extremely kind. Subverted with Quack-Quack, Bad Kaeloo and Pretty as Quack-Quack is a diaper-wearing genius incapable of speech, Bad Kaeloo is a monstrous she-toad with little obvious intelligence and a horrific mean streak, and Pretty is an Alpha Bitch who is mean to everyone for no reason.
• Animate Inanimate Object: Starting from season 4 onwards, inanimate objects may have faces and the ability to speak depending on Rule of Funny.
• Animation Bump:
  • The Pilot looks nothing like the rest of the series.
  • The animation gets noticeably better from Season 2 onwards.
  • Season 4 has noticeably fluid animation compared to the ones before it.
  • Invoked in Episode 218. This being a series with No Fourth Wall, Kaeloo deliberately reduces the quality of the first half of the episode so the animation budget can go towards a fight scene between Mr. Cat and Quack-Quack near the end of the episode. The ensuing fight scene has some of the most fluid animation in the entire series.
• Animesque: The characters often use sweat drops, face faults and other anime-like things.
• Annoying Arrows: Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Pretty get impaled by arrows in one episode, but they don't take it as anything more than a minor inconvenience.
• Annoyingly Repetitive Child: In one episode, Stumpy's kid sister Nombril follows him, saying his name nonstop. Stumpy complains to Quack Quack about this and claims he can never get any peace when she's calling his name all the time.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: A slight variant is used in Episode 105. The episode had the main four use a machine to extract the bad thoughts in their head, which are then personified as miniature versions of themselves. For example, one of Mr. Cat's thoughts, which represents greed, is portrayed as a miniature version of himself holding stacks of cash and yelling about how nobody can touch any of it.
• The Anticipator: Stumpy becomes one in Episode 72 since his Sudden Intelligence allows him to use probability-based math sums to predict the future.
• Anti-Role Model: Episode 55 had Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack tell the viewers about avoiding household hazards by doing the things they said not to onscreen (such as messing with chemicals and sticking their fingers into electric sockets) and suffering.
• Appeal to Force: This trope is repeatedly Played for Laughs, as Kaeloo (who has the power of Hulking Out) and Mr. Cat (who owns several assorted weapons) will cheerfully threaten other people into doing whatever they want by threatening bodily harm if they object.
• Appendage Assimilation: In "Let's Play Peace Man", Quack Quack pulls a new head out of a suitcase and attaches it to his body after Mr. Cat blows off the old one with a bazooka.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat don't believe in magic despite living on a planet that runs on it.
• Are We There Yet?: When Kaeloo forces Stumpy, who has acrophobia, to take a plane trip, he asks her this question as soon as the plane takes off.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: After Kaeloo teaches Stumpy martial arts, he manages to beat Mr. Cat in a fight and briefly becomes very arrogant. The problem quickly fixes itself when he tries to attack Quack Quack, who manages to easily defeat him.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
  • In Episode 12, when the gang are discussing what a TV news channel needs, Mr. Cat suggests "blood, pathos, suffering... and a blonde".
  • In Episode 133, Pretty gives Kaeloo the reasons why nobody likes her: she talks to flowers, she doesn't earn money, and she wears woollen scarves.
  • In the episode "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", Kaeloo gets mad at Stumpy for not packing all the important things they needed for a camping trip: the tent, the sleeping bags, the flashlights, and the book of campfire songs.
  • In one episode, Stumpy wants to become a vampire, so Kaeloo explains to him the various downsides of being a vampire, such as that he has to sleep in a coffin, he'll be destroyed if he goes out in the sun, and that he won't be able to post selfies online anymore since vampires can't be seen in photos.
  • In Episode 72, Stumpy is turned into a genius and reveals his plans for the future: build a bomb capable of destroying the planet, Take Over the World, and change the show's name from "Kaeloo" to "Stumpy".
  • After getting hit with Truth Serum, Bad Kaeloo admits to feeling inferior and less loved than regular Kaeloo, Mr. Cat talks about the abuse he received at home and his horrible body image, and Stumpy admits that... he enjoys wearing girl clothes and makeup when nobody is looking.
  • In Episode 91, Kaeloo re-dubs a clip of Mr. Cat speaking to say that he has low self-esteem, he has an inferiority complex, and his paws smell bad.
  • Kaeloo has a nightmare about what would happen in her show if it were realistic: Stumpy would be sent to a mental hospital for being insane, Mr. Cat would be locked up in an animal shelter for being a cat, and Pretty would have to work in retail to be able to afford the things she buys on the show.
• Art Shift:
  • In Episode 104, when Olaf explains his tragic backstory to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat, the art style shifts into a series of 2D illustrations.
  • In Episode 105, Kaeloo interrupts the theme song of the show and complains about it. She then proceeds to make her own 2D animated intro for the episode.
  • In Episode 176, the main four are turned into 2-dimensional versions of themselves in various art styles for a song.
  • In Episode 218, Kaeloo turns the main four (and Pretty) into poorly drawn 2D versions of themselves for the purpose of deliberately reducing the animation budget required for this scene so she can invoke an Animation Bump later in the episode with the money they saved.
• Ascended to Carnivorism:
  • Quack Quack attempts to cannibalize Kaeloo and Stumpy in "Let's Play Trap-Trap".
  • Stumpy also attempts to eat Kaeloo in Episode 61, and is shown enjoying sausages in Episode 135.
  • Eugly's favorite food is mutton.
• Ash Face: Quite common, as the cast own weapons and explosives.
• Aside Glance:
  • In Episode 105, Mr. Cat has an Imagine Spot of himself being massaged by several clones of Kaeloo. The real Kaeloo, standing next to him, gives an annoyed look to the audience as all she can see is Mr. Cat blushing and drooling.
  • Mr. Cat does this in almost any instance where Kaeloo, Stumpy and/or Quack Quack does something he finds stupid.
• Asleep in Class: In Episode 211, the main four learn about the rules of art from Olaf. While Kaeloo, Stumpy, and Quack-Quack pay attention, Mr. Cat chooses to sleep through the lesson.
• Ass Kicks You:
  • In Episode 76, Kaeloo gets annoyed with Stumpy and uses her butt to push him into a ditch.
  • Kaeloo once does this to Pretty in an attempt to get her away from Mr. Cat.
• Ass Shove:
  • In the episode "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", Kaeloo sets up a fun game of treasure hunt for Stumpy and Quack Quack with the promise of a "surprise" at the end. Mr. Cat changes the clues to make the game so they get injured. At the end, Kaeloo gives them the "surprise" she had promised, and it turns out to be a photo of herself. Stumpy decides to shove it up his ass just to spite her, but she stops him before he does.
  • In another episode, Stumpy sticks a pencil up his butt because he thinks it's funny. To his chagrin, nobody else finds it amusing.
• Assurance Backfire:
  • One episode had Kaeloo start crying about how she always turns into a monster. Mr. Cat, in an attempt to reassure her, says everyone likes her for her "brutal, primitive-minded" self. Cue more tears.
  • In Episode 223, Mr. Cat makes a movie that bombs at the box office. His friends, the only people to buy tickets, attempt to reassure him by saying that they found the movie to be profound and that it deeply touched their emotions. Mr. Cat is touched by their kindness, but still upset by their words because he had intended the movie to be a comedy, not emotional.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Episode 65 ends with Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack chasing Mr. Cat with weapons and trying to beat him up.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Mr. Cat and Stumpy temporarily turn themselves into giants in Episode 102 in order to fight off Bad Kaeloo.
• Attack Reflector: In "Let's Play Superpowers", Quack Quack reflects all of Stumpy's attacks with his superpowers.
• Attack the Tail: Happens to Mr. Cat a lot. In one episode, he actually gets a bookshelf dropped on it.
• Attempted Rape: In "Let's Play Baby-Sitting", Kaeloo tries to seduce Mr. Cat in order to get him to have sex with her so that they can have a baby. Mr. Cat ends up getting seduced so well that he actually tries to rape her, but she manages to push him off.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!:
  • Stumpy has a very short attention span and is easily distracted.
  • In one episode Mr. Cat is magically de-aged into a little kitten and frequently gets distracted by things like butterflies in the middle of serious monologues.
  • Violasse is prone to getting distracted because of her curious nature. This is best exemplified in one episode where she falls through an interdimensional portal and Stumpy follows her to get her back, only for Violasse to enter a new portal each time Stumpy is close to reaching her (despite Stumpy instructing her to stay right where she is) because she wants to see what's on the other side.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: In Episode 60, when trying to gain access to a girls-only nightclub, Stumpy puts on a wig and knocks on the door. The bouncer immediately falls for him.
• Attractiveness Discrimination: Taken up to eleven in an episode where Stumpy, Mr. Cat, Pretty and Eugly enter a cooking competition judged by Olaf. Olaf eliminates Eugly from the contest just for being ugly.
• Audible Gleam: In "Let's Play Air Pockets", Mr. Cat smiles and his mouth shows a twinkle, complete with an audible gleam.
• Audience Surrogate:
  • If anything happens that the audience can't understand, Stumpy will ask Kaeloo what's going on so Kaeloo can explain it to him (and by proxy, the audience).
  • In the fifth season, a lot of changes were made to the show, including Character Development for various characters. In Episode 225, Mr. Cat and Rules note that the series has changed a lot, and thanks to the lack of a fourth wall Rules outright says things like "how do we keep loving you all if you stop being the way we've always known you?" and describes the changes as "violating the rules of the series", which reflects how longtime viewers may feel scared in the face of changes being made to the show.
• Audience? What Audience?: Episode 69, a Dora the Explorer parody, Kaeloo tries to teach the audience to speak foreign languages by saying a word in a different language and staring at the screen waiting for the audience to repeat after her. In the middle of one such session, Stumpy walks in, sees Kaeloo standing there staring into space since he can't see the audience, and is highly confused.
• Author Powers: One of the comics had Stumpy talking about how great the Mr. Coolskin comics are when suddenly, a giant fist crushes him. Kaeloo and Mr. Cat explain that it's the fist of the editor, who doesn't want other comic books endorsed in a comic about the Kaeloo series.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: After his I.Q. is increased in Episode 72, Stumpy manages to analyze everything around him and predict the future.
• Awful Wedded Life: Mr. Cat explains how this works to Pretty in Episode 60 by showing her what would happen if he married her. It ends with Mr. Cat sitting on the couch watching soccer and yelling at her to get some beer, and in addition she has to share her money with him so he can pay off his loans.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: The main four do have their moments.
• Ax-Crazy: Mr. Cat and, to a lesser extent, Stumpy. On some occasions, Mr. Cat even gets an actual ax.

Tropes B

• Babies Ever After: Stumpy tries to invoke this trope by setting Kaeloo and Mr. Cat up on a date so they could fall in love and have babies, which he could babysit to make money. It fails, because the date turns out to be a complete disaster.
• Babysitter from Hell: Stumpy winds up being one to Quack Quack in "Let's Play Baby-Sitting".
• Babysitting Episode: "Let's Play Babysitting", where Stumpy tries to babysit Quack Quack, who doesn't want or need a babysitter.
• Baby Talk:
  • Mr. Cat uses this when talking to a miniature version of Kaeloo in Episode 105.
  • In Episode 93, Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat when they are acting as a firefighter and stranded kitten respectively.
• Back from the Dead: Occasionally happens when Stumpy dies, for example in "Let's Play Art Class" when Quack Quack makes Stumpy a new head after he blows his old one off with a bazooka.
• Badass Arm-Fold: Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat do this in the rap music video at the end of "Let's Play Streetball".
• Bad "Bad Acting": Stumpy's idea of Playing Sick is to lie on a bed and yell "I'm suffering!" over and over again.
• Bad Impressionists: In Episode 65, Kaeloo and Quack Quack's impressions of Mr. Cat are terrible. Quack Quack performs a magic trick to transform a sheep into a chainsaw (which is not something Mr. Cat would do), and Kaeloo uses a Finger Gun while yelling that she's evil. Averted with Stumpy's impression, which was very accurate (but embarrassing)^note It involved chasing Quack Quack around with a chainsaw and then trying to make out with a picture of Kaeloo..
• Badly Battered Babysitter: Stumpy winds up as one of these in "Let's Play Babysitting".
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • In the pilot (and its remake, "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light"), Stumpy needs to beat Quack Quack to the finish line. He sees a pair of roller skates and a chainsaw nearby and gets an idea... putting the chainsaw on the ground, sitting on its handle and letting it drag him along the ground, rather than use the skates. It actually works.
  • In one episode, Olaf captures Kaeloo and Mr. Cat and tells them to prepare to suffer... and starts singing.
  • In Episode 85, Stumpy and Quack Quack, both having a Potty Emergency, reach the bathroom at the same time. Stumpy says that there is "one final solution" and they both raise their fists... to play Rock–Paper–Scissors.
  • In the episode "Let's Play Market Vendors", Mr. Cat and Stumpy rob a supermarket, and Mr. Cat threatens to shoot anyone who moves. Kaeloo starts waving her arms and yelling for help. Gunshots are heard. It's then revealed that Mr. Cat shot Quack Quack, not Kaeloo.
  • In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat says he has a surprise for Quack Quack, and leaves some yogurt on the table in front of him. Quack Quack reaches out for the yogurt, and then Mr. Cat whacks him on the head with a baseball bat and yells "Surprise!"
  • In Episode 110, Mr. Cat makes a slideshow about vampires to show to the rest of the characters. Kaeloo looks at the first slide and is absolutely horrified... not because it's a scary picture of a vampire, but because Mr. Cat accidentally put up a "private" photo of her that was supposed to be for his eyes only^note It's not a nude photo, but she's still quite embarrassed.
  • Usually, when the characters are stuck in a dark place and can't see, they yell "Quack Quack, lights!" and Quack Quack uses his Eye Beams as a light source. In Episode 79, Kaeloo yells "Quack Quack, lights!" and Quack Quack... turns on an actual lamp.
  • In Episode 180, Mr. Cat teaches Stumpy about marital disputes. Kaeloo tells Mr. Cat that he shouldn't be teaching Stumpy about marital disputes because that's not appropriate for a kid Stumpy's age. Stumpy tells Kaeloo that he watches things that "aren't for kids his age" on the internet all the time. Kaeloo angrily grabs his laptop to see what he's been watching. It turns out that he was looking at knitting tutorials for old ladies.
  • In one of the season 4 episodes, the main four are judging a singing contest. The bunny twins participate, with Pretty dancing and Eugly singing. A fight breaks out between the two and Eugly storms off, prompting this response from Mr. Cat:
  Mr. Cat: I have to admit, the ugly one really isn't nice... her sister, on the other hand, sings very well.
• Bait-and-Switch Comment: In one episode, the characters are Playing House, and among the roles are Mr. Cat as the father and Quack Quack, a Funny Animal who wears nothing but a pair of underwear, as the daughter. Mr. Cat sees Quack Quack running and turns to the audience.
  Mr. Cat: That's my little girl, running around in just her underwear... they grow up so fast.
• Ballet Episode: Episode 67 is about the cast putting on a ballet for Olga's birthday. The ballet fails in the most epic way possible.
• Balloonacy: Violasse has a Good Luck Charm in the form of a balloon with Quack-Quack's face drawn on it, and is often shown floating around while carrying the balloon, with one Running Gag on the show being Stumpy running after her to stop her from floating away.
• Balloon Belly: Happens to Quack Quack when he eats too much yogurt.
• Ballroom Blitz: The Valentine's Day party in Episode 83 ends up being a total disaster, mostly thanks to Mr. Cat.
• Bar Slide: In "Let's Play Cowboys and Indians", Kaeloo and Quack Quack visit Stumpy's bar and order a soda and a yogurt respectively, both of which Stumpy slides across the countertop. Kaeloo catches her drink just fine, but Mr. Cat shoots Quack Quack's yogurt before he can catch it.
• Baseball Episode: Episode 95, where Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat play baseball against Quack Quack, Olaf and Serguei.
• Bathroom Break-Out: In Episode 53, Stumpy claims that he has to go to the bathroom, and he slips out of the front door to bury evidence of a crime.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: All the characters can breathe in space.
• Batman Gambit:
  • In the episode "Let's Play House", Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat are Playing House, with Kaeloo as the mother, Mr. Cat as the father, and the other two as the kids. Mr. Cat, however, just wants to watch sports on TV instead of playing. First, when Kaeloo annoys the "kids" so much that they decide to run away from home, he does nothing about it and makes them even more annoyed so they leave. Then, after they leave, he says he wants to have sex with Kaeloo, who gets creeped out and leaves. As soon as all this is over, he turns the TV on to watch some sports. However, his plan fails since by the time he gets rid of them, his game is over.
  • In Episode 134, there are two consecutive Batman Gambits. Stumpy gets clones of himself and the clones annoy everyone, Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat make a plan to get rid of the clones. They claim that a package came in the mail for the real Stumpy, and only the real Stumpy can get it. All the Stumpy start fighting over who gets it. The original Stumpy opens a door to another dimension and lies that Ursula is on the other side. The clones run through and then Stumpy shuts the door, trapping them there forever.
  • In Episode 144, Quack Quack pulls one off. The plot of the episode is that Quack Quack and Stumpy are racing racecars. Due to unfair circumstances, Stumpy's car gets totaled and he can't make it to the finish line, but Quack Quack helps him push the car to the end and Stumpy wins, making Quack Quack look like a wonderful person in the eyes of his peers. Then, it's revealed that he told his girlfriend to bet a huge sum of money on Stumpy winning and he lost the game on purpose so that they could win lots of money and go on vacation.
• Batter Up!: Stumpy, Mr. Cat and Pretty will not hesitate to use baseball bats on anyone who annoys them.
• Beach Episode: Episode 80, which had the main four and the bunny twins go to the beach. Stumpy tries to get better at beach volleyball and Pretty tries to seduce Mr. Cat, with the usual results.
• Beard of Evil: Parodied in "Let's Play Spies", where Kaeloo gives Quack Quack (who is playing the villain) a fake beard to make himself look evil.
• Bear Hug: Bad Kaeloo gives one to Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat in "Let's Play Spies". Their heads explode.
• Beauty Is Bad: Mr. Cat and Pretty, both of whom are apparently very attractive but also very selfish and cruel.
• Be Careful What You Wish For:
  • In Episode 77, after Kaeloo's Heroic Sacrifice, a tearful Stumpy wishes he could have sacrificed himself instead. Suddenly, they swap places and he is left on the exploding planet. He survives, somehow.
  • In "Let’s Play Scaredy Cat", Mr. Cat says he loves scary stuff. About an hour later, he’s fighting off hordes of zombies by himself in a dark forest late at night.
• Because You Were Nice to Me:
  • It's heavily implied that the main reason Stumpy loves Ursula more than anyone else is that she accepts him despite all his flaws, while his other friends constantly make fun of and bully him.
  • It's also suggested that one of the main reasons Mr. Cat is relatively nicer to Kaeloo than anyone else and spares her from some of the more vicious things he does is that she shows him a lot of kindness.
• Bedmate Reveal: In Episode 106, Kaeloo holds a garage sale and Mr. Cat buys everything. Later, she wakes up to find Mr. Cat lying next to her in bed. Turns out he bought too much stuff at the sale and now there's no space in his room for him to sleep, so he decided to break into her room and sleep there instead.
• Beehive Hairdo: Both Kaeloo and Quack Quack own a wig with this type of hairstyle. They wear the wigs in some episodes which involve roleplaying games.
• "Begone" Bribe: Stumpy invokes this in Episode 128 by playing music horribly and threatening to continue playing if Kaeloo doesn't give him some money. Kaeloo initially refuses, but eventually decides to give it to him.
• Behavioral Conditioning: When Stumpy and Quack Quack get addicted to carrots which have the same effect as cigars, Mr. Cat attempts to cure them by whacking them on the head with a frying pan each time they took a bite out of the carrots. It fails because they're so addicted that they continue to eat the carrots regardless of the pain.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension:
  • The relationship between Kaeloo and Mr. Cat can sometimes veer into this territory.
  • Stumpy and Pretty wind up having this in Season 3, despite the fact that Stumpy already has a girlfriend.
• Berserk Button:
  • Kaeloo has several of these: stepping on flowers, hurting Quack Quack, swearing, food wastage, and being called "Priscilla".
  • Stumpy really hates it when others insult his sisters in front of him.
  • Come between Quack Quack and yogurt and You. Will. PAY!
  • Mr. Cat does NOT like it when you mess with the rest of the main four (especially Kaeloo) he Hates Being Touched and has threatened to literally murder those who dare to attempt physical contact, and he also reacts pretty badly to being called a "kitty".
  • Eugly is generally nice, but it's best if you don't hurt Quack Quack in front of her.
  • Did you just tell Pretty that her ears are asymmetrical? Hope you have insurance, buddy...
  • And Olaf hates it when is mocked for being too short.
• Beta Couple: The second season of the show introduced a new character, Eugly, who became Quack Quack's girlfriend almost instantly. Kaeloo and Mr. Cat, on the other hand, have an extremely complicated relationship with each other, though Word of God has suggested that they will be an Official Couple for sure by the end of the series.
• Be the Ball: A few episodes end with Bad Kaeloo beating Mr. Cat into the shape of a ball and then using him to play soccer, tennis, etc.
  • Bad Kaeloo does this to Quack Quack in Episode 115 and plays tennis with him. Mr. Cat is the racket.
• Better to Die than Be Killed:
  • In Episode 77, Stumpy decides to hang himself rather than get killed as the planet is destroyed. He fails, as usual.
  • In Episode 215, Mr. Cat convinces everyone in Smileyland that the end of the world is happening that day, causing multiple background characters to commit suicide before the apocalypse can get them. Of course, being Kaeloo, this is Played for Laughs.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Given the fact that Kaeloo can turn into a huge monster when angered...
• Beware the Silly Ones: At the end of Episode 105, Stumpy manages to almost erase the rest of the cast from existence, and then even though he spares them, he tricks them into thinking they've been forgiven and then takes over the animation studio making the show.
• Beyond Redemption: After over a season of trying to convince Pretty to become a better person, Kaeloo finally gives up in Episode 118, stating that Pretty will never change.
• Beyond the Impossible: A lot of people Mr. Cat knows are capable of doing insane things, like a guy who somehow swallowed 12 miles of sausage without swallowing and a guy who stuffs chickpeas with gloves.
• Be Yourself:
  • In Episode 133, Kaeloo is not invited to a party everyone else was invited to because they all thought she was weird. Mr. Cat tells her not to worry about being labeled and tells her that all she needs to do is be herself, and she goes back to the party and spreads the same message to everyone else. The episode ends with everyone, Kaeloo included, throwing another party and "being themselves" there.
  • In Episode 184, Kaeloo finds out that no matter what she does, she can never be "perfect", so she starts doing things like eating junk food, swearing out loud whenever she feels like it, and not holding her farts in, and notices that her life is much better now. Mr. Cat tells her that now, since she has accepted herself for who she really is, she is truly perfect.
• Big Ball of Violence: Any time a fight happens that's not very important to the plot, one of these is used instead of the fight being shown in detail.
• Big Brother Bully: The main reason Mr. Cat ran away from home was that he suffered constant abuse from his two older brothers, who were jealous of him for being their mother's favorite child.
• Big Brother Instinct: Stumpy's sister may or may not exist^note Word of God confirms that he has 36, actually, but he does not like hearing her be insulted.
• Big Red Button: Olaf's lair has one of these on the control panel, which Stumpy pushes.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Mr. Cat's family is one of these. His brothers would regularly beat him to the extent where he thought running away from home was better than living with them, his father was an alcoholic, and his mother was so abusive that even the sound of her voice over the phone is enough to make Mr. Cat run away screaming in terror. Mr. Cat himself is not much better, as the show itself describes him as "evil, sadistic, cruel, selfish, and psychopathic" in one episode.
• Big Word Shout: Once an Episode, "MISTER CAAAAAT!" (or occasionally, "STUMPYYYYYYYY!").
• Bilingual Bonus: One episode of Kaeloo had Mr. Cat and Stumpy watch the trailer for the in-universe Mr. Coolskin movie, which is entirely in Japanese. The trailer's credits state that the movie was made by Rémi Chapotot and Tristan Michel, who are ''Kaeloo'''s creator and art director respectively.
• Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: A variant happens in the episode "Let's Play Catch the Mailman". Stumpy receives a huge stack of mail, and everything he picks up is either a bill or an advertisement until he reaches the end of the stack and finds an actual letter.
• Billions of Buttons: The control panel for the machines in Olaf's lair. Since Stumpy doesn't know which one, he presses all of them - including the Big Red Button which will destroy the building.
• Birds of a Feather: Quack Quack and Eugly. They're both The Unintelligible, they're both much nicer than everybody else on the show and they both get horribly abused by the rest of the cast.
• Birthday Episode: Episode 191, titled "Let's Play Multibirthday", is about Kaeloo learning that Stumpy has never celebrated his birthday since he was five and giving him a "multibirthday" to make up for those birthdays.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Even on Quack Quack's birthday, Mr. Cat won't stop bullying him.
• Birthday Party Goes Wrong: One episode had the main four and the bunny twins working together on putting a recital for Olga's birthday party, which ended horribly because everyone played their part wrong and it ended with the stage being destroyed and the performers being injured.
• Bishie Sparkle: In some episodes, Pretty sees her (unrequited) crush Mr. Cat in a cloud of sparkles when she looks at him.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Kaeloo can sometimes come off as one of these. While she deliberately tries her hardest to appear "nice", when she gets annoyed, she slips up and ends up doing things like insulting Stumpy for his stupidity or yelling at people who don't deserve it. Sometimes, it's even taken to the point where Mr. Cat is legitimately nicer than Kaeloo. Episode 156 reveals that Kaeloo actually encourages Mr. Cat's villainy so she can step in and paint herself as the hero for stopping him.
• Bizarro Universe: The episode "Let's Play Astronauts" had the main four go to an alternate universe through a black hole in space. There, Kaeloo's transformation works in reverse, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat (known as Meow Meow and Mr. Duck) had each other's personalities and traits, and Stumpy was a genius who loved science and hated comic books. It turns out that Stumpy dreamed this all up.
• Black Comedy: Used quite a lot.
  • In Episode 94, the gang are roleplaying as usual. This time, Mr. Cat is the principal of a school, Quack Quack is a student at said school, and Kaeloo is Quack Quack's mother. Halfway through the episode, Kaeloo gets a call from Mr. Cat saying that Quack Quack died. Kaeloo rushes over to the school, only to find Quack Quack alive, just injured. Mr. Cat then explains to Kaeloo that if he said a child was injured, the child's parents probably wouldn't bother to show up.
• Black Comedy Animal Cruelty:
  • The series has Mr. Cat, an anthropomorphic cat, abuse non-anthropomorphic sheep by kicking them, setting them on fire and attacking them with weapons. Fortunately, the sheep in question are Made of Iron and able to survive all of this.
  • Pretty threatening to put her pet unicorn to sleep and shooting a horse in the head is also Played for Laughs^note This was cut from the Miam Animation dub
  • One episode had Stumpy play a new game where people get into cars with bleating sheep, and the object of the game is to see how long you can stand the bleating before going berserk and beating the tar out of the sheep.
• Black Eyes of Crazy:
  • Played for Laughs in "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel", where Kaeloo puts in a pair of fully black contact lenses and can't see anything because of them.
  • Played completely straight when she undergoes Sanity Slippage in Episode 100.
• The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In: Happens whenever Mr. Cat throws a knife, no matter how far the target is. If it hits a vertical surface (or a character), it hits at exactly 90 degrees. If it hits a horizontal one like the ground, it sticks either at 90 or 45 degrees.
• Blah, Blah, Blah:
  • In "Let's Play House", Stumpy hears Kaeloo's speech like this.
  • Stumpy himself uses this while singing the Happy Birthday song in one episode.
• Bland-Name Product:
  • Fakebook, the characters' favorite social network.
  • McDaube, a Take That! at McDonald's.
  • Gogol Maps, a parody of Google Maps^note "Gogol" is French for "dummy".
  • The popular game "Me-Me-Nopoly" is clearly a parody of Monopoly.
  • Designer brands in the show's universe include Chamel (for Chanel) and Loubouctin (for Louboutin).
• Blatant Lies:
  • Half the words that come out of Mr. Cat's mouth fit this trope. For example, when Kaeloo sees him holding a mallet:
  Kaeloo: What's that in your hand?
  Mr. Cat: It's a wart. I should really see a skin doctor.
  • In Episode 135, Kaeloo is exercising and she tells Stumpy that she's trying to work on her quadriceps. It's made abundantly clear that she's actually working on her glutes to get a bigger butt.
  • In one episode, Kaeloo, Stumpy, and Quack Quack are all waitstaff at a restaurant, and they're each determined to be better than the other two. When Olaf comes to their restaurant, Quack Quack goes to his table and takes his order, but Stumpy runs up, kicks Quack Quack into the air and sends him flying, and screams "FIRST!" despite clearly not having gotten there first.
  • The show's viewers ask Kaeloo and Mr. Cat if they have some kind of romantic relationship going on. Mr. Cat attempts to tell the audience that Kaeloo is definitely in love with him, given the fact that she texts him nonstop. Before he can read any of said texts to the audience, Kaeloo runs up, grabs his phone, shakes him roughly by the shoulders, and gives him a MegatonPunch which sends him flying into the air, all while screaming "I DON'T TEXT YOU AT ALL!" Mr. Cat even takes the time to point out that she's lying before he disappears as A Twinkle in the Sky.
  • In Episode 138, Kaeloo tells Stumpy to clean his room. He claims to have been paralyzed because a wizard put a curse on him.
• Blind Shoulder Toss: Stumpy does this once with a lighter. Some random guy from offscreen yells that he is on fire.
• Bloodless Carnage: Even if there are knives and chainsaws involved, not a single drop of blood is shed onscreen.
• Blunt "Yes": In "Let's Play Teachers", of the "Blunt No" variant:
  Stumpy: Have you been listening to what I said here or what?!
  Kaeloo: No.
• Body Pocket: In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Kaeloo turns her "pockets" inside out to prove to Mr. Cat that she really doesn't have money.
• Body Sled: Kaeloo uses Quack Quack as a sled in Episode 105.
• Bolt of Divine Retribution: Parodied in Episode 75. When Quack Quack leaves Smileyland, Mr. Cat decides to attack Stumpy instead. The moment he pulls out a chainsaw, he gets struck by lightning. Stumpy joyfully exclaims "God exists!" and then he is also struck by lightning and changes his mind.
• Book Burning:
  • Bad Kaeloo does this to a pile of dirty magazines and comic books in Episode 4.
  • In "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", Mr. Cat, who is too lazy to go look for actual firewood, burns Stumpy's comic books to start a campfire.
• Book Ends: The first episode where Pretty shows signs of remorse for being a bully is Episode 133. In this episode, Pretty hosts a party where Kaeloo is not invited, and Mr. Cat comforts Kaeloo about it. The episode ends with Pretty showing that she is apologetic, Mr. Cat giving Pretty an encouraging smile to show that he approves of her kind behavior, and everyone happily sitting together without any issues. The first episode where Pretty is clearly shown to have undergone a Heel–Face Turn is Episode 213, where Pretty happily invites Kaeloo to her party with no qualms and everyone starts off on good terms. This time, [1] Kaeloo uses the opportunity of being at a party to spread a rumor about Mr. Cat that the latter would have much rather kept to himself, Pretty calls Kaeloo out on her behavior and sticks up for Mr. Cat, and the episode ends with Kaeloo sitting alone, implied to have been kicked out of the party.
• Boring Insult: Kaeloo is on the receiving end of this in a letter from someone claiming to be a fan of the show in "Let's Play Catch the Mailman". It turns out that the letter was written by Mr. Cat.
• Born Unlucky:
  • For Stumpy, every day is a bad day.
  • The only person with worse luck than Stumpy is Violasse, to the point where this is her defining character trait.
• Borrowed Catchphrase:
  • In "Let's Play Golf", Kaeloo borrows one of Stumpy's myriad catchphrases:
  Kaeloo:Are you stupid or what?!
  • Mr. Cat uses Pretty's catchphrase when greeting Stumpy and Quack Quack in Episode 91.
  • In one of the season 3 episodes, a Hurricane of Puns from Mr. Cat causes Kaeloo to say "Mr. Cat... I hate your guts".
• Borrowed Without Permission: In one episode, Quack-Quack gets figurines of himself, Kaeloo, Stumpy, and Mr. Cat as a thank-you present from the yogurt company for his patronage and gives everyone the figure that looks like him. Knowing that Kaeloo, Quack-Quack, and Mr. Cat won't let him play with their figurines, Stumpy steals them for a game, and when they confront him, he tells them that he "didn't steal them, he just borrowed them long-term".
• Bottomless Pit: In an episode where Kaeloo convinces the rest of the main four to play a game where Your Mind Makes It Real, Mr. Cat pushes Quack Quack on the ground and says it's a bottomless pit. It affects Quack Quack as though it really was a bottomless pit. Somehow, despite it being a bottomless pit, it was full of alligators.
• Bothering by the Book: In Episode 216, the main four want to play a game of blind man's buff. However, a passing remark makes Rules (who is an anthropomorphic personification of the concept of rules that has a somewhat robotic form) think that the game is "unequal" since one of the players can't see everyone else, so she refuses to allow them to play until she determines a way to make it "equal". Kaeloo then insists that if Rules wants to accommodate everyone, she really has to accommodate everyone, and she assembles a diverse group of players with different needs and abilities that are impossible to adapt to at the same time and forces Rules to come up with a set of rules that this particular group can use that can truly make them all be on equal footing. Rules is overwhelmed by the increasing demands, shuts down, and restarts with no memory of what happened earlier.
• Bowdlerise:
  • In the French dub of "Let's Play Hide 'n Hunt", Stumpy tries to make Kaeloo angry by mooning her. In the English dub, it's changed to him farting at her.
  • In the French dub of "Let's Play House", Mr. Cat wants to watch a soccer game on TV, but when he turns on the TV the announcer says that one of the players' shorts fell off, and Mr. Cat turns off the TV in shock and disgust. In the English dub, this was changed to the announcer saying that the game was over and that "Desperate Housecats" would be airing next.
• Brand X: The soda brand the cast drink is called "Slurp".
• Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Done indirectly in "Let's Play Market Vendors" when Kaeloo is selling apples:
  Quack Quack: Quack.
  Kaeloo: I'm sorry, sir, we don't sell yogurt. We only sell apples!
  Quack Quack: Quack.
  Kaeloo: No, not even apple yogurt.
• Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In "Let's Play Grown-Ups", Kaeloo tells the others about things grown-ups have to deal with: taxes, bills, and divorces.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Mr. Cat frequently speaks to the audience. The other characters also often refer to the fact that they are in a cartoon, and reference the script, animation quality and other things.
• Break the Haughty:
  • Happens to Rich Bitch Pretty in many episodes, usually due to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat teaming up to set up a scenario for it to occur.
  • In Episode 26, Kaeloo herself gets a taste of this. She receives a letter in the mail, and just before she opens it, Stumpy asks what it is. Kaeloo says that it's probably a letter from an admirer or fan of the show, and explains to Stumpy in a condescending tone of voice that the reason she gets one and he doesn't is that she's the main character of the show and the show is named after her. She then proceeds to open the letter, and it turns out to be a hate letter criticizing her for being "boring". And to rub salt in the wound, the letter also says that Stumpy (and the rest of the cast) is better than her.
• Breath Weapon: Bad Kaeloo can send people flying in the air by breathing out blasts of air.
• Brick Joke:
  • At the start of the theme song, Mr. Cat crushes a flower with a mallet causing Kaeloo to get angry. At the end of the song, she finds him and beats him up for it.
  • In the middle of the episode "Let's Play Golf", Kaeloo mentions something about pennyloafers coming back in style. At the end of the episode, Mr. Cat asks her if pennyloafers are really coming back in style.
  • Near the beginning of the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", during a game of Trap-Trap, Mr. Cat asks if he can team up with Kaeloo for the game. Kaeloo happily hugs him and tells him it was very nice of him to want her on his team. Later in the episode, Kaeloo gets angry at Mr. Cat and is about to beat him up as usual, and he asks her if she can hug him again.
  • In Episode 107, Stumpy and Quack Quack are trying to break into a bank to get their stuff back and start packing the things they will need, Stumpy packs a pair of swim trunks and says they're "for the alibi". When they get caught later in the episode, Stumpy holds up the swim trunks and claims that he'd lost it inside the bank and just found it. Nobody believes them and they get arrested.
  • In "Let's Play Ecologists", at the beginning, Kaeloo tries teaching Stumpy how to recycle stuff, and Stumpy remarks "This recycling business is a nightmare!" When things descend into chaos as a result of Kaeloo taking the Green Aesop too far, Stumpy tells Mr. Cat "I told you recycling was a nightmare!"
  • In one episode, Olaf is a supervillain who wants revenge on the superhero Ratman (Stumpy) and asks Mr. Cat how to get to Ratman's apartment. Mr. Cat gives him a list of "directions" which tell him to go to the 32nd floor of the building and jump out the window. Later, the main four are having a conversation inside the building, which is interrupted by the sound of glass breaking and Olaf's screaming.
  • Early in Episode 241, Nombril is excited to get on a train and wants to be first in line so all the passengers on the train will pay attention to her. When she boards the train later in the episode, the only people inside are her and her family, and Nombril is sad that there's nobody to look at her.
• Brief Accent Imitation:
  • Mr. Cat does a horrible attempt at speaking with an Italian accent in "Let's Play Circuses". When asked why, he admits that he has no idea.
  • Kaeloo does an equally horrible job at speaking with a British accent in "Let's Play Spies".
• Broke Episode: The trope is Playedfor Laughs in Episode 138, where Stumpy is broke and needs to raise money to buy a comic book. Since he's just a kid, he doesn't need to worry about food or shelter.
• Brown Note: Mr. Cat apparently came up with a story that is so disgusting that anyone who hears it, except Mr. Cat himself and Stumpy, will immediately throw up.
• Brutal Honesty:
  • Pretty, being the Alpha Bitch, has no qualms with telling people to their faces what is wrong with them.
  • Kaeloo, to the extent that Mr. Cat has to give her lessons on how to tell lies so she doesn't lose all her friends in Episode 136. For example, she tells Stumpy that a drawing he made is ugly, and when Pretty shows Kaeloo a new bag she bought, Kaeloo tells her she hates the bag.
  • When Mr. Cat actually bothers to be honest, it tends to be the brutal kind of honesty. For example, when he gets invited to a dinner party by Kaeloo, the first thing he does is criticize the dining room's decor. He also tends to tell Stumpy to his face that he's ugly, stupid, and/or a loser.
  • The show's fifth season introduces us to Stumpy's little sisters, of whom two fit this trope. Vitamine is Innocently Insensitive and points out things like how Stumpy sucks at soccer. Cramoisie is a jerkass who labels Kaeloo and Mr. Cat "ugly and fat" and "a twisted narcissist" respectively.
• Bubblegum Popping: Happens to Kaeloo in the Baseball Episode.
• Bubble Pipe: Stumpy uses one in Episode 71 when acting as a detective.
• Bullying a Dragon:
  • Stumpy, Mr. Cat and Pretty anger Kaeloo all the time despite the fact that they are fully aware that she can transform into a giant monster who can beat them all up.
  • In Episode 213, Kaeloo mistakenly assumes that Mr. Cat has pulled a full-on Heel–Face Turn and starts telling everyone, unaware that Mr. Cat is in fact stuck in a Heel–Face Revolving Door. Having heard the rumor, a pair of sheep walk up to Mr. Cat and start trying to bully him for "going soft", only for Mr. Cat to beat them unconscious in a matter of seconds.
  • In Episode 214, Mr. Cat flicks one of Lavanade's ghosts on the forehead, which ends about as well as you'd expect.
• Bungled Suicide: A Running Gag on the show is to have this happen to Stumpy.
• Bunny Ears Picture Prank: In Episode 95, when both the baseball teams get their pictures taken, Kaeloo does this to Stumpy (who is on her team).
• Burger Fool: Episode 64 has Mr. Cat start a McDonald's parody called McDaube^note The series is French and this name is French for "McCrap and rope Stumpy into working there; throughout the episode, Stumpy is horribly abused in various ways.
• Burning Rubber:
  • In "Let's Play at Reading Books", Quack Quack does this with a motorized kick-scooter.
  • In Episode 74, Mr. Cat and Stumpy kick a soccer ball in the same direction at the same time with a lot of force, causing the ball to go super fast and leave a trail of flames behind it. It goes just to the side of the goal.
• Buses Are for Freaks: In Episode 94, Kaeloo goes around the typical work day of an adult, and Mr. Cat follows her around everywhere to mess with her. After Mr. Cat gets her car towed away, Kaeloo takes the bus, where she finds Mr. Cat (now dressed as a creepy hobo with bad hygiene) begging her for money as snot dribbles out of his nose. Kaeloo is so disgusted that she gets off the bus and chooses to take the subway instead.
• By the Lights of Their Eyes: Whenever it goes pitch dark, the only things visible are eyes and teeth.

Tropes C

• Calling Your Attacks: In the episode "Let's Play Super Powers", the characters pretend to be Mr. Coolskin characters and call the names of their attacks when they use them.
• Calling Your Bathroom Breaks: Kaeloo tells the audience that she has to pee in one episode before walking offscreen.
• Callousness Towards Emergency: In Episode 233 the main four play a life-sized board game where players are subjected to whatever their square says in real life. Stumpy winds up on a "trap" square, which leads to him being trapped on a small floating piece of gameboard on a river of lava filled with traps. Stumpy screams for help as the trap is activating, and Kaeloo suggests that everyone should finish their turns quickly so the die can be passed back to Stumpy and he can roll to escape, but Mr. Cat (the next player to roll) refuses to finish his turn because he's on the "beach" square and is enjoying the warm sunny beach. At one point Stumpy stops screaming and rather than realizing that Stumpy is in serious danger, Mr. Cat suggests that it's not worth caring about anymore.
• Came from the Sky: The episode "Let's Play the Thing From Outer Space" involved the main four finding an object from space which fell out of the sky.
• Camera Abuse:
  • At the end of Episode 74, Mr. Cat kicks Quack Quack towards the camera and this ends the episode.
  • At Stumpy's request, Mr. Cat shoots the camera out with a bazooka in Episode 139 in order to stop the annoying narrator, who is also the one filming the episode.
• Camp Gay: For the first ten episodes of the English dub, Kaeloo was accidentally dubbed as a male. Her personality fits this trope very well, as she's very touchy-feely, effeminate and has a lisp.
• Camping Episode: "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", where the main four go camping and play a game of treasure hunt. The trip is disastrous; Stumpy unpacked all their supplies so he would have room for all his comic books, and Mr. Cat ruins the game of treasure hunt as well.
• The Can Kicked Him:
  • When Stumpy tries to clean a toilet in one episode, a tentacle monster emerges from it and attacks him.
  • When the gang are playing Cluedo, Stumpy theorizes that Lady Carrot (Pretty) was murdered when someone dropped a toilet on her head.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Used as a plot point in Episode 229, where Rules hands out severe punishments for minor infractions such as Quack-Quack eating too much yogurt and Mr. Cat looking at the answer key for a crossword instead of figuring out the answer for himself.
• Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: Mr. Cat says he finds Kaeloo annoying and talkative, and tells her to leave (or at least stop talking), yet he tried his best to stop her from leaving Smileyland in "Let's Play Courtroom Drama", even if doing so meant confessing to a crime he had previously claimed to be innocent of.
• Captain Obvious: In one episode where Kaeloo, Mr. Cat and the rest of the cast are sitting in a library:
  Kaeloo: This is a library.
  Mr. Cat (deadpan): I hadn't noticed.
• Captain Ersatz: One of Stumpy's favorite superheroes is Ratman, who is a stand-in for Batman. He has a sidekick named Robquack (Robin as a Funny Animal duck) and a butler, and uses gadgets such as a grappling gun. His costume is also very similar to Batman's.
• Cargo Ship: In-universe, Olaf is "married" to an ice cube.
• Carnivore Confusion: Mr. Cat has expressed a desire to eat Stumpy and Quack Quack on more than one occasion.
• Cartoon Cheese: All cheese on the show is portrayed as a yellow wedge with holes in it.
• Cartoon Juggling: The "shower" type is used in "Let's Play Circuses" when Stumpy juggles chainsaws.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • Stumpy's claims of being abducted by aliens are true, but nobody believes him.
  • One of the season 5 episodes had Pretty try to tell a crowd that a rumor that was being spread about Mr. Cat was false, only for the crowd to call her a liar; it turns out that after three seasons of telling everyone Mr. Cat was her boyfriend, they believed her, and now they think Mr. Cat's "girlfriend" is defending him simply because they're in a "relationship".
• Cast of Snowflakes: Every single character except for the sheep has their own design, which makes sense because they're all different species. Even Stumpy's sisters, who are nearly identical due to being septuplets, have features that distinguish them from the other sisters.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: The main four do this a lot, since they are put in danger quite often.
• Catchphrase:
  • Stumpy has many, the most common being "That's nuts!", "Cooooool!", and "I hate your guts!". There's also his Mad Libs Catchphrase, "Are you [adjective] or what?"
  • Whenever somebody states a fact to Mr. Cat that he finds unbelievable or annoying, he'll respond with "What do you mean, [insert statement here]?!"
• Cathartic Scream:
  • In one episode, the main four are informed that they've been fired from their jobs and spend the whole episode feeling stressed and anxious. Once everything clears up and they get their jobs back, Kaeloo pulls a pillow out of nowhere and screams into it.
  • The buddies try to help Stumpy study for a test and he keeps failing to understand what they're teaching him. Eventually they nearly give up and Kaeloo says she's starting to feel exhausted. She asks Pretty if she feels the same way and Pretty runs away, screams angrily, and comes back saying she feels fine.
• Cats Are Mean: Played straight with Mr. Cat and his family, but averted with Ursula.
• Cats Are Superior: Mr. Cat is really the only smart person on the show; the other "smart" characters on the show are Ditzy Geniuses.
• Cats Hate Water: Averted. Mr. Cat seems to find the idea of a bath to be relaxing.
• Cats Have Nine Lives: This statement apparently holds true for Mr. Cat.
• Cerebus Call-Back: Episode 105 shows flashbacks to several episodes where Stumpy was abused or made fun of by his friends. Those episodes are funny to watch by themselves, but not when you see the poor kid remembering them with tears in his eyes and the other three realizing just how cruel they've been.
• Cerebus Retcon: In early episodes, Mr. Cat would have a Multiple-Choice Past, and some of the anecdotes he would recount would border on absurd. The show's fifth season reveals that due to the sheer amount of trauma that Mr. Cat has due to dealing with abuse in the past, he deliberately makes up ridiculous lies to avoid having to talk about what actually happened to him.
• Chair Reveal: Olaf does this when revealing to Quack Quack that he was the one who kidnapped him in Episode 103. Since the chair is much larger than Olaf, he fails to impress. Especially when he tries getting down.
• The Chain of Harm: Mr. Cat was abused by his two older brothers, causing him to run away from home and end up in Smileyland. Once in Smileyland, he became a bully and started taking out his frustrations on Quack-Quack with the same kind of physical violence his brothers used on him.
• Chain of People: When it looks like Quack Quack is about to fall off an airplane, Mr. Cat grabs his hand to save him. Pretty and Eugly also get flung off and Eugly grabs Quack Quack's foot and Pretty grabs Eugly, creating a chain of people. Since Mr. Cat hates Pretty and Eugly, he chops Quack Quack's legs off with a chainsaw and Pretty and Eugly are flung off the plane.
• Change the Uncomfortable Subject:
  • In "Let's Play Baby-Sitting", Mr. Cat reads random articles from the newspaper to Kaeloo when she asks him if they can talk (the topic of the conversation being himself).
  • In Episode 180, Kaeloo is hanging out with Pretty and Eugly. Pretty tries to ask Kaeloo to explain her "weird relationship" with Mr. Cat, to which Kaeloo responds by asking Eugly about the book she's reading and then asking where the bathroom is.
• Character Blog: The show's official Facebook page, where Kaeloo, and sometimes the other characters, regularly post stuff.
• Character in the Logo: The logo depicts the characters running on a little planet. The characters, from left to right, are Bad Kaeloo, Mr. Cat, Quack Quack, Stumpy, and normal Kaeloo.
• Character Tics: Stumpy has a Tourette's style tic, where his neck spasms while he yells gibberish which sounds like "SKBLBLBL!".
• Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: In almost every episode, the characters change their outfits or costumes between scenes, or even in the same scene, depending on Rule of Funny.
• Chased Off into the Sunset: Several episodes have ended with Bad Kaeloo chasing Mr. Cat into the distance with the intention of beating him up.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: In some episodes, like "Let's Play Golf", people who cheat get punished. Other episodes, not so much.
• Cheer Them Up with Laughter: Episode 236 reveals that Stumpy's Struggling Single Mother often cries over the hard circumstances of her life, but Stumpy often cracks jokes and acts silly to make her laugh.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • In one episode, the cast read a book series parodying Harry Potter, and Quack Quack goes into Troubled Fetal Position any time the main character's parents' death is mentioned^note Because his own parents were killed when he was a baby. Later in the episode, Kaeloo transforms and needs to beat up Mr. Cat, but he makes himself look just like Quack Quack using a magic spell so she won't know who to beat up. She mentions the parents' death and the real Quack Quack assumes Troubled Fetal Position.
  • In the Halloween Episode, Mr. Cat comes up with a terrifying and disgusting scary story, but circumstances keep preventing him from telling it. By the end of the episode, there's a bunch of zombies who have risen from the grave, Kaeloo and Quack Quack have been turned into zombies, and Stumpy is being absolutely no help whatsoever. To solve the problem, Mr. Cat tells them his story as they surround him. The story^note Which is told only to the characters and not the viewers is apparently so disgusting that everyone throws up. Kaeloo and Quack Quack revert back to normal and the other zombies die.
  • In "Let's Play Cops and Robbers", Mr. Cat gives Stumpy a banana and tells him he can use it as a fake gun. Later, during a car chase, Stumpy "shoots" the banana out of its peel and it gets stuck in Mr. Cat's nose, causing him to lose control of the car.
• Chekhov's Skill: In "Art Class", we see that Quack Quack has figured out how to make exact replicas of people's heads out of stone. When Stumpy decapitates himself near the end of the episode, Quack Quack carves him a new head and somehow uses magic to attach it to Stumpy's body and bring it back to life.
• Chess with Death: Parodied in Episode 92, when Stumpy challenges the Grim Reaper to a rap battle. It turns out that the Reaper is there for Adele the flower's soul, not Stumpy's, so she blatantly ignores Stumpy.
• Chewbacca Defense: In one episode where Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are having a debate where Quack Quack must decide the winner, Mr. Cat's only "argument" is to repeatedly call Kaeloo a liar, which convinces Quack Quack to choose Mr. Cat. Kaeloo even lampshades the fact that his victory made absolutely no sense and he never said anything in defense of the subject he was arguing about.
• Children Are Innocent: While the trope is usually heavily averted, it is occasionally played straight:
  • Stumpy is the closest thing to this trope, as he has no idea how babies are made and still believes in things like magic and Santa Claus.
  • Kaeloo has no idea how to even tell a lie until Mr. Cat gives her lessons on how to lie to people.
  • Even Mr. Cat has shown signs of this from time to time; one episode had him wear a Nazi costume when playing the bad guy in a game and suggested that he had no idea what his costume actually represents and got the idea from watching a movie.
• Children Are Special: There Are No Adults in Smileyland because only children are allowed to access the place because of their belief in magic and their innocence.
• Chippendales Dancers: In an episode parodying weddings and bachelor parties, Kaeloo, Pretty and Eugly go to a bachelorette party where Chippendales Dancers are present. They then rush onstage to grope them offscreen.
• Choosy Beggar: In episode 125, Kaeloo's having a pretty awful Potty Emergency thanks to Stumpy hogging the bathroom, but she's also being quite picky. Quack Quack offers her a diaper, but she refuses because she wants to preserve her dignity. Mr. Cat suggests that she should just go in a bush, but she turns that down as well, being a Nature Lover and all. At the very end, though, she ultimately does relieve herself in a bush.
• Christmas Episode: Episode 69, Episodes 103 and 104 (Multi-Part Episode), and Episode 105.
• Circus Episode: The episode "Let's Play Circuses" had the gang set up their own circus.
• Clark Kenting: Mr. Cat does this in "Let's Play Courtroom Drama" to become his own lawyer.
• Cluster Bleep-Bomb: Mr. Cat drops one in "Let's Play Peace, Man!". While the audience hears it like it's been bleeped out, Kaeloo and Quack Quack's horrified reactions suggest that they heard every word he said.
• Collector of the Strange: Stumpy has collections of normal things like comic books and stamps, and some unusual things as well. In one episode, Mr. Cat even manages to trick Stumpy into buying a toilet by claiming that Stumpy has a toilet collection he could add it to. Stumpy, being a complete idiot, believes this and starts a toilet collection.
• Comedic Sociopathy: Everyone displays signs of this except Quack Quack and Eugly.
• Comedic Spanking:
  • Three clones of Bad Kaeloo do this to three clones of Stumpy at the end of Episode 13 as a punishment for mooning them.
  • At the end of Episode 35, Bad Kaeloo]] does this to Mr. Cat]] offscreen.
• Comet of Doom: Smileyland almost gets hit by one in "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel"]], and actually does get hit by one in Episode 77.
• Comically Missing the Point:
  • As part of an Overly Long Gag in the episode "Let's Play Golf". Kaeloo attempts to explain the rules of golf to Stumpy and Quack Quack. First, she says that the object of the game is to put the ball in the hole. Stumpy picks up the ball, runs to the hole and puts it in. Kaeloo then tells him that he was supposed to put it in with the club, so he takes the club and drops it down the hole with the ball. Kaeloo tells him that he was supposed to hit the ball with the club, so he goes to the hole with the ball in it and starts violently shoving the club down the hole to "hit" the ball.
  • In the episode "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light", when Quack Quack is having trouble opening a yogurt container, Stumpy suggests using a chainsaw. Kaeloo tells him that chainsaws are for cutting trees, and then she proceeds to open the yogurt in a strategic manner and tell Stumpy to "use his head". Stumpy misunderstands this as "use your head to cut trees", so he runs headlong into a tree.
  • In Episode 93, when Stumpy and Quack Quack are undergoing training to become firefighters, one of the exercises involves rescuing Mr. Cat from the second floor of a building with fake flames. Stumpy tries using Quack Quack as a battering ram to open the building's door, so Kaeloo tells them to use the ladder to get to the window where Mr. Cat is standing. They climb the ladder, and Stumpy tries using Quack Quack as a battering ram to break the window sill while Mr. Cat gives the audience an Aside Glance.
  • In "Let's Play Simon Says", Kaeloo runs around greeting all the people and non-living objects with "Good day!" By the time she finally meets Mr. Cat, the last person she wanted to greet before leaving, it's nighttime. He calls her an idiot for wasting a whole day saying "good day" to a bunch of non-living objects. Kaeloo realizes that he is right... she should probably be saying "good night" instead!
• Comical Nap Drool: Nearly everyone does this when they fall asleep.
• Comical Overreacting:
  • Stumpy's reaction to anything not worth caring about. In the event he should be overreacting, he stays perfectly calm.
  • Mr. Cat's reaction to losing a whisker:
  Mr. Cat: AAAAAH! OH NO! I'm deformed!
  • The show's viewers ask Kaeloo and Mr. Cat if they have some kind of romantic relationship going on. Mr. Cat attempts to tell the audience that Kaeloo is definitely in love with him, given the fact that she texts him nonstop. Before he can read any of the texts to the audience, Kaeloo runs up, grabs his phone away, shakes him roughly by the shoulders, and gives him a Megaton Punch which sends him flying into the air, all while screaming "I DON'T TEXT YOU AT ALL!"
• Companion Cube: Literally - Olaf is "married" to an ice cube he calls Olga.
• Compelling Voice: Quack Quack develops one in Episode 97 after accidentally swallowing a spoon. It works on everyone except Mr. Cat.
• The Compliance Game: In "Let's Play Simon Says", Stumpy, Quack-Quack, and Mr. Cat make a huge mess in the living room out of discarded snack packages. Kaeloo wants them to clean it up, but they refuse, so she tries to make them clean it up via a game of Simon Says. Mr. Cat isn't fooled, but the game gets Stumpy and Quack-Quack to clean up the mess immediately.
• Confused Question Mark: In "Let's Play Teachers", several question marks appear next to Kaeloo when she asks Stumpy who Mr. Coolskin is.
• Conspicuous Gloves: Mr. Cat and Stumpy both wear dark purple fingerless gloves.
• Constantly Curious: Stumpy's sister Violasse is always curious to explore new places and try new things. This, combined with her terrible luck, is constantly landing her in trouble.
• Consuming Passion: In Episode 174, Mr. Cat gets his hands on a magic wand and turns Kaeloo, his crush, into a giant monster who tries to swallow him whole. Mr. Cat seems rather... "excited" by the prospect and actually allows her to do it. The effects of the wand are temporary, however, so it's likely that he knew that no real harm would rise from her swallowing him.
• Continuity Cavalcade: In Episode 105, Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat see a bunch of screens depicting almost every time in the show so far where they abused or made fun of Stumpy.
• Continuity Nod: Despite the huge amount of Negative Continuity, there is some continuity. In some episodes, the characters even bring in televisions and play clips from other episodes.
• Contrived Clumsiness: In "Let's Play Musical Chairs", Stumpy sticks out a leg and trips Kaeloo during a game of musical chairs so he can beat her to the last chair.
• Cool Car: The main four own several of these.
• Cooldown Hug:
  • Mr. Cat hugs Bad Kaeloo in Episode 108, with the unintended effect of Kaeloo detransforming.
  • In Episode 214, Lavanade is upset because she believes that she caused a fight between Stumpy and Quack-Quack and she breaks down in tears, making her powers go haywire and causing a storm. Stumpy, who was actually responsible for the conflict and had been mistreating Lavanade for the entire episode, has a Heel Realization and runs to the middle of the storm to give his sister a hug, which calms her down and makes the storm disappear.
• Cool Kid-and-Loser Friendship: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat's friendship is sometimes portrayed as this in Season 3, with Mr. Cat being the "cool kid" who everyone likes and Kaeloo being the "loser". Mr. Cat occasionally gives Kaeloo advice regarding her social life, like how not to lose her friends, in episodes like these.
• Copycat Mockery: Whenever Kaeloo says something that Mr. Cat finds too preachy and annoying, he'll repeat it back to her with a silly high-pitched voice and a lisp that matches hers.
• Corner of Woe: Stumpy insults Kaeloo about her lisp in Episode 109, which ends up striking a nerve and hurting her much more deeply than he had intended. Kaeloo ends up sobbing in the corner of the room, curled into a ball.
• Cosmic Plaything: Episode 72 reveals that Stumpy is literally a cosmic plaything.
• Cosplay: Several episodes have Stumpy cosplay as comic book hero Mr. Coolskin.
• Counter Zany: How Kaeloo gets Mr. Cat to admit to being guilty in "Let's Play Courtroom Drama".
• Counting Sheep: Parodied during a math lesson when Stumpy tries to prove that he's good at math.
  Stumpy: One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, four sheep...
  Stumpy falls asleep.
• Courtroom Episode:
  • The episode "Let's Play Courtroom Drama", where Mr. Cat is taken to court for attacking Quack Quack with a chainsaw. Kaeloo acts as Quack Quack's lawyer, and Stumpy is the judge. Kaeloo pulls off a Wounded Gazelle Gambit to get Mr. Cat to confess that it was him.
  • Episode 113 has Kaeloo take Stumpy to court for "mistreating" his objects, with Quack Quack as the judge and Mr. Cat as Stumpy's lawyer. Mr. Cat hoists Kaeloo by her own petard and Stumpy winds up winning.
  • In Episode 179, a pair of manipulative Amoral Attorneys convince Quack Quack and Stumpy to sue Kaeloo for "mistreating" them, which is really just her doing innocuous things like telling Quack Quack to put trash in the trashcan instead of leaving it on the floor, and threaten to have her sent to prison if she doesn't give them 2 billion bucks. This time, Mr. Cat acts as Kaeloo's lawyer and convinces Stumpy and Quack Quack to drop their lawsuit against Kaeloo.
• Covered in Gunge: In "Let's Play Market Vendors", Quack Quack blows a huge bubble out of yogurt, which pops and leaves Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat covered in yogurt.
• Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears:
  • Played for Laughs in Episode 184, where Kaeloo says a bunch of swear words and Quack-Quack covers Stumpy's eyes instead of his ears.
  • In Episode 232, a series of mishaps involving a Teleport Gun lead to Stumpy and Violasse traveling across several different dimensions and trying to find a portal that will lead them home. One of the dimensions they enter is a haunted tomb, and Stumpy covers Violasse's eyes to keep her from getting scared by the ghosts they encounter.
• Covert Pervert: Kaeloo tries to project herself as pure and innocent, but also shows a more perverted side, like when she groped Chippendales Dancers at a bachelorette party or her excited reaction to seeing... certain parts of Mr. Cat's anatomy in "Let's Play at Reading Books".
• Cowboy Episode: "Let's Play Cowboys and Indians" and Episode 88.
• Cower Power: When the characters are in danger, like being attacked by zombies or Exploring the Evil Lair, Kaeloo winds up hiding behind Mr. Cat.
• *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": In Episode 101, Stumpy tries to lift a dumbbell off the ground. All he succeeds in doing is cracking his back.
• Cranium Chase: Happens to Quack Quack quite often.
• Crapsaccharine World: Smileyland. At first glance, it seems like a nice place; there's singing, dancing flowers, you can control the weather and other things, the place is magic and you can have almost anything by wishing for it. On the other hand, its inhabitants are insane, it's a World of Jerkass and there's an apparent ongoing economic crisis.
• Crazy-Prepared: In Episode 60, the gang are playing "wedding". Pretty proclaims herself as the bride, and when Kaeloo tries to stop her since the groom is Quack Quack, and therefore the bride should be Eugly, Pretty informs her that she already bought a wedding dress and made sure she lost enough weight to be able to fit into it.
• Creator Cameo: In one episode, Mr. Cat and Stumpy watch the trailer for the in-universe Mr. Coolskin movie, which is entirely in Japanese. The trailer's credits state that the movie was made by Rémi Chapotot and Tristan Michel, who are ''Kaeloo'''s creator and art director respectively.
• Creator's Culture Carryover: The English dub is made in Australia, but the characters are supposed to act like Americans. However, they do screw up at times, like saying "rubbish" instead of "trash".
• Crossdresser: Stumpy dresses like a girl in several episodes and has admitted to liking it.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Kaeloo, a young female frog, is voiced by a man in every dub of the show (except for Polish). In the English dub, she's voiced by Doug Rand, who also voices Stumpy and Quack Quack.
• Cross-Popping Veins: When the characters are angry, this may happen to them, since the show has animesque elements in it.
• Cruel to Be Kind: Parodied. One episode had Mr. Cat go around doing horrible things to Stumpy and Quack Quack, and claims that he is "being cruel to be kind" despite literally not having any reason to do so.
• Crush Blush: In Episode 107, Mr. Cat flirts with Kaeloo, causing both of them to blush.
• Crush Filter: When someone looks at their crush, they will see him/her in a pink, fluffy cloud-filled background.
• Cry Laughing: Kaeloo does this in Episode 67 when she realizes that Eugly is now the lead ballerina in her dance performance.
• Crying Critters: The Funny Animal characters are sometimes seen crying.
• Crystal Ball:
  • In Episode 37, Kaeloo uses a crystal ball to contact spirits. It is never revealed whether the ball really works or not, since Kaeloo's "predictions" were events that happen Once an Episode on the show.
  • In Episode 90, Mr. Cat, as a sorcerer, uses a crystal ball to see where Kaeloo is and what she's doing.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: Stumpy turns out to be right about Smileyland's sheep being aliens. Not that anyone else believes him.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • In Episode 100, Kaeloo, having undergone Sanity Slippage while playing a VR game where she knows how to control everything, prepares to attack her friends; Quack Quack defeats her with just one punch.
  • In another episode, Quack Quack undergoes Demonic Possession and gets superpowers as a result. Mr. Cat goes up against him and defeats him using just a mallet.
• Curse Cut Short: When Mr. Cat is singing a rap song with words ending in "alls":
  Mr. Cat:He keeps breaking my b-
  Kaeloo: MISTER CAAAAAAT!
• Cuteness Proximity: Mr. Cat (of all people) gets this in Episode 105 when he sees miniature versions of Kaeloo.
• Cutting Corners: This being a series with No Fourth Wall, there was an episode where the main characters receive a call from the show's director explaining that they used up all the animation budget while doing an elaborate re-enactment of Les Misérables in the first scene and that they have to cut down on expenses for the rest of the episode. The characters try various methods of cutting corners such as getting rid of all the props and backgrounds, having Stumpy narrate the events of the episode instead of watching them play out on screen, and firing the voice actors and turning it into a silent cartoon.
• Cutting the Knot: Mr. Cat bypasses the barrier in Episode 105 by blasting it open with a bazooka.

Tropes D

• Dance Party Ending: Happens in a Season 3 episode, to the disappointment of Mr. Cat and Stumpy, who were expecting a fight scene ending.
• Dark and Troubled Past:
  • Most of Mr. Cat's backstory is is one big Noodle Incident, but what the show has revealed is that his past involves an alcoholic father, a mother who was so abusive that the mere sound of her voice over the phone is enough to make him run away screaming in terror, two abusive older brothers who were so cruel he had to run away from home, the death of one or more loved ones, and being forced to face life-or-death situations. These issues continue to affect Mr. Cat to this day, since his current worldview and personality were entirely shaped by the horrific experiences he faced as a young child.
  • Olaf also has one: he was exiled by other penguins for marrying an ice cube. Said ice cube then started to melt.
  • Quack Quack’s is that his parents were killed before his egg even hatched, and he was subsequently found and experimented on by scientists.
• Date Rape Averted: In "Let's Play Babysitting", Kaeloo and Mr. Cat go on a date. He gets a little carried away and tries to force himself onto her, but she transforms and beats him up.
• Dating Catwoman: Kaeloo, the protagonist, and Mr. Cat, the antagonist, are in love.
• A Day in the Limelight: Season 5 has one episode dedicated to each of Stumpy's seven little sisters.
• Death Glare:
  • Mr. Cat has managed to give out some pretty terrifying ones to people who bother him, causing the other person to quickly back off.
  • Kaeloo gives one to Stumpy in the tea party episode when he won't stop annoying her. The glare is so scary that Stumpy immediately covers his mouth with both hands and stops talking.
• Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Some of the characters have died several times^note Not just Quack Quack, only to be fine by the time the next episode rolls around. In fact, in Episode 58, Mr. Cat hangs himself, only to be fine by the very next scene.
• Death Seeker: Stumpy becomes one in Episode 92, since he wants to know what Heaven is like.
• Deal with the Devil: Stumpy makes one in "Let's Play Figurines]]" to get voodoo powers and become a witch doctor, and in Episode 89 to get the talent to write a song for Ursula.
• Deconstructive Parody: Of children's shows. It has the main character, Kaeloo, behave like a children's show character (by doing things like putting emphasis on being nice, make believe, etc.), and everyone else act like normal people would around such a person (one episode had Mr. Cat go so far as to ask whether she smoked weed).
• Deceptively Human Robot: A variant with a "Deceptively Sheep Robot" which Mr. Cat built to infiltrate a group of sheep. The robot sheep looks almost exactly like a real sheep when stationary, but bleats in a robotic voice and moves in a very robotic manner. Not that anybody realized it, since they're all idiots.
• Defeat Means Friendship: In Episode 148, Stumpy starts to hate Eugly (who until this point was merely an acquaintance) due to a Friend Versus Lover situation, so she asks to play video games with him. When she beats him, he decides that she's cool and wants to befriend her, which she gladly accepts.
• Delayed Reaction:
  • In Episode 81, Mr. Cat offers to demonstrate the ancient Egyptian technique of removing the brain through the nostrils on Stumpy, but then says he can't because Stumpy probably doesn't have a brain for him to remove. Stumpy concurs that he must be right, and Mr. Cat gets up and leaves. After he leaves, Stumpy finally realizes that he was insulting him.
  • In another episode, Stumpy is granted Sudden Intelligence and starts inventing stuff. Soon, he decides to make a bomb, and as soon as he mentions it, Olaf shows up and demands that Stumpy give him the bomb. Stumpy asks him to pay for it, and Olaf starts looking through a stack of money before realizing that Stumpy is supposed to be The Ditz and asking why he is being so smart.
  • In Episode 65, Kaeloo gets angry at Mr. Cat and starts to look for him. In this episode, everybody has Full Body Disguises of everyone else, so Mr. Cat dresses as Pretty, tells Kaeloo that he went the other way and walks off. Kaeloo thanks him, but only after he's gone does she realize that the voice she heard was clearly Mr. Cat's.
  • In the episode "Let's Play Tennis", Stumpy is sitting in a tennis umpire chair. It takes him several minutes until he realizes that he's very high up... and a few more seconds to remember that he has acrophobia.
  • In Episode 214, Lavanade enters the general vicinity of Kaeloo's bathtub, causing ghosts to pop up everywhere while Kaeloo is showering. Kaeloo thrusts open the curtains and happily greets the ghosts before freaking out about there being ghosts in her bathroom and covering her crotch with her hands.
• Deliberately Cute Child:
  • Mr. Cat puts on this ruse sometimes. Whether it works or not depends on the episode.
  • In Episode 219, Stumpy's little sister Cramoisie joins the main four in playing a game of "zompire" (a mix between zombie and vampire) where one of the participants is the zompire and must bite the other players. Cramoisie is the zompire, and attempts to fool Kaeloo and Mr. Cat into coming close to her by making Puppy-Dog Eyes and telling them that she's scared so they'll come closer to her to try to protect her and she can bite them. Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are horribly manipulative people themselves, so they see right through her though.
• Deliberately Monochrome: At the beginning of "Let's Play Detectives", everything is black and white except for the red lipstick ans high heels Stumpy is wearing (he's dressed as a girl).
• Delicious Distraction: Quack Quack is obsessed with yogurt, which is a G-Rated Drug in this universe, so he can easily be distracted by offering it to him.
• Demonic Possession: In Episode 37 and Episode 145, Quack Quack gets possessed, the first time by ghosts and the second time by a demon.
• Department of Child Disservices: In-universe, Mr. Cat tells a Fractured Fairytale version of Cinderella where young Cinderella calls the police on the stepmother. While the police at least do arrest the stepmother, instead of finding a new guardian to take care of young Cinderella, they simply leave her alone in the house with no adult supervision.
• Depending on the Writer:
  • Kaeloo can be a Nice Girl or a Manipulative Bitch who tries to project herself as pure and kind but is anything but. Her intelligence varies between episodes as well, ranging from extremely stupid and naïve to somewhat intelligent.
  • Stumpy is either a complete jerkass or is friendly but not very bright.
  • Quack Quack is either the Only Sane Man or a complete idiot. Also, whether or not he forgives Mr. Cat for constantly abusing him depends largely on the episode they're in.
  • Mr. Cat can be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Jerk with a Heart of Jerk, or a Jerkass Woobie. Also, he alternates between being extremely nice to Kaeloo while being a jerk to everyone else, and treating Kaeloo the same way he treats everyone else.
  • Pretty can either treat Kaeloo like a good friend or mercilessly bully her (the latter is used much more often).
• Description Cut: In Episode 79, the main four are pirates. Olaf, who is also a pirate, gives them the chance to split up into two teams and buy items from his store to help them find a treasure, and the first team to find the treasure not only gets to keep it, but will be crowned the "Emperor of Pirates". Kaeloo and Quack Quack take useful items such as a lantern and a compass, while Mr. Cat asks for a lawn chair, a magazine with a pin-up, and a bottle of rum. Stumpy (who is on Mr. Cat's team) is certain that being The Smart Guy, Mr. Cat has some sort of amazing plan to get there first. Scene cut to Mr. Cat, drunk off his ass, sitting on the lawn chair while singing loudly and looking at the magazine, while Stumpy carries him on his back.
  Stumpy: This isn't exactly what I had in mind.
• The Diaper Change: In "Let's Play Babysitting", Stumpy says he has to change Quack Quack's diaper in order to be done with his babysitting practice. Quack Quack initially refuses, but he winds up feeling so sorry for Stumpy that he relents and allows him to do it. Stumpy being Stumpy, he winds up putting the diaper on Quack Quack's head.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • In Episode 2, Stumpy falls severely ill and keeps trying to get Kaeloo and Mr. Cat, who are pretend-playing as doctors, to pay attention to him instead of visiting an actual doctor. When they finally do notice that something is wrong, since neither one of them is actually a doctor, they're not sure what to do with him.
  • In Episode 40, Stumpy has a nightmare with deep psychological implications which he reveals to his jerkass friends in the hopes that they'll help him; since they're jerkasses, they end up using the information to play a cruel prank on him instead of trying to help him.
  • In Episode 45, Stumpy meets Ursula on the internet for the first time and when she asks for pictures of him, he sends an edited picture that makes it look like he has abs and is tan, and he has until that evening to look like the picture since they'll be meeting in person. When he asks for help, Mr. Cat and Quack Quack admit that making him look like the picture in such a short amount of time is impossible, even for them.
  • In Episode 47, Kaeloo and Stumpy challenge Quack Quack to a game of tennis, despite both of them being horrible at it, and they enlist Mr. Cat to train them at tennis. They both practice for only a few hours at best; most of Mr. Cat's exercises are completely unrelated to tennis at all, and then once a ball touches Stumpy's racket, he decides that he's good enough. The next day, at the big game, they get beaten horribly since they're still terrible at tennis.
  • In Episode 93, Quack Quack gets stuck inside a burning building, and Stumpy rushes into the building to save him. By the time he reaches Quack Quack, the flames have spread and both of them are stuck inside together. What makes this especially ridiculous was that they were undergoing firefighter training, and had a fire engine right outside with a hose and ladder which Stumpy could have used.
  • In Episode 118, When Pretty reveals embarrassing secrets about the main four to the public on television, they sue her for slandering them.
  • In Episode 134, when Stumpy gets several clones of himself which annoy everyone else, Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat hatch a plan where they claim that Stumpy got a package in the mail from Ursula and only the real Stumpy can sign it, so the original will get rid of the clones. The plan works, but they then realize that they forgot what would happen once Stumpy asked for the package. At the end of the episode, Stumpy punishes Kaeloo and Mr. Cat for tricking him, though Quack Quack gets away.
  • In Episode 183, the main four are camping outside at night and they keep making noise and fighting with each other. They end up getting arrested because their neighbors call the police on them for disturbing the peace.
  • In a Greek mythology-themed episode, Hades steals innocent souls and puts them in Hell for no reason. Zeus demands that Hades release everyone. To spite Zeus, Hades releases literally all the souls, including the ones who deserved to be there.... including their father, Chronus, who wanted to eat his kids. Zeus sees Chronus roaming free and remarks that Hades has been really irresponsible. From inside Chronus' stomach, Hades remarks that Zeus is right.
  • In one episode, Kaeloo gets mad at Mr. Cat and goes on a rant about how she will give him the Silent Treatment; halfway through the rant, she realizes that he's a Living Emotional Crutch to her and it would break her heart if she actually stopped talking to him. She gives up on her idea within mere seconds.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Rules has the power to inflict punishments on people ranging from putting their bodies into various forms of Body Horror to destroying the planet, but that doesn't stop Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack-Quack, Mr. Cat, and Pretty from mocking her repeatedly to her face in Episode 238 and telling her that they don't care about her threats.
• Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In some of the episodes, Stumpy's Not So Innocent Whistling is to the tune of the theme song.
• Diegetic Visual Effects: In season 5, Mr. Cat's Stalker with a Crush, Pretty, realizes that Mr. Cat will never see her as anything more than an Abhorrent Admirer and she should just give up on him. In the 13th episode of this season, the characters have a discussion about love, and the camera pans to Pretty gloomily talking about heartbreak while staring out of the window as rain pours down. The camera zooms out to reveal that it wasn't raining, there was just a guy with a watering can standing on the roof and pouring water down for... some reason.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: Occasionally, Mr. Cat will attempt to flirt with Bad Kaeloo when she appears. Of course, asking to be kissed, cuddled or fed by an angry monster is not a good idea.
• Dirty Kid: Most characters count - while Mr. Cat is the most obvious, Quack Quack likes reading dirty magazines, Pretty and even Kaeloo can both be quite perverted towards Mr. Cat and Stumpy also shows his more perverted side from time to time (interestingly, towards both male and female characters).
• Disappeared Dad: Stumpy's father left the family an unspecified period of time ago, leaving his eight children to be raised by their mother.
• Disaster Dominoes:
  • In "Let's Play Bye Bye, Yoghurt", Stumpy invokes this trope when he needs to be put in danger by throwing a pebble and saying his luck should take care of the rest. Sure enough, a chain reaction takes place and he is almost crushed to death by a giant boulder.
  • It happens again in Episode 92, where a yogurt container rolls into an apple tree causing an apple to fall an so on... this eventually causes a barrage of sharp weapons to fly towards Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat, almost killing them.
• Disembodied Eyebrows: Everyone has these.
• Disguised in Drag: Stumpy does this in Episode 60 to gain access to a girls-only nightclub.
• Disowned Sibling:
  • Played for Laughs with the Alpha Bitch Pretty, who keeps threatening to disown her twin sister Eugly if she doesn't do what she says. For example, in Episode 131, Pretty is in a bad mood and refuses to allow Eugly to be happy because she herself isn't. Kaeloo asks them to smile for a picture, and Pretty says that if Eugly smiles, she will no longer accept her as her sister.
  • Played for Laughs again in Episode 209. Stumpy is forced to spend a day babysitting his annoying little sister, Nombril, who likes to spend her time following Stumpy around and trying to get his attention. When Kaeloo asks about it, Stumpy insists that he "has no sister" and spends most of the episode pretending he doesn't know who Nombril is.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • Mr. Cat does this all the time. If somebody does something that even slightly annoys him, he'll pull out a weapon and threaten to use it on them.
  • In the episode "Let's Play Ecologists", when the gang finds out that Quack Quack has been eating yogurt from non-environment friendly containers, Mr. Cat suggests tying him up in a sack full of rats and setting it on fire.
  • Also in "Let's Play Ecologists", Bad Kaeloo, a Nature Lover, sees a piece of garbage on the floor next to Mr. Cat and Stumpy and assumes that one of them must have dropped it. Mr. Cat even offers to pick it up and throw it away, but she picks them both up and throws them in a dumpster.
  • In Episode 55, Olaf blows a hairdryer in Kaeloo's eyes, causing her to scream in pain. Mr. Cat decides to avenge Kaeloo... by trying to shoot Olaf with a bazooka.
  • Downplayed in Episode 134. When Stumpy asks Mr. Cat to play with him, Mr. Cat shoots him in the face with a bazooka, with all the hurt he really gets being Ash Face. Later in the episode, Stumpy clones himself. He and the clones destroy Mr. Cat's car by crashing a bunch of other cars into it (while he's inside the car), drop a fridge on his head, and ruin his vacation to the beach.
  • In Episode 139, Olaf breaks Kaeloo's headphones. Kaeloo responds by Hulking Out, shoving Olaf inside his own robot and throwing him into space.
  • In "Let's Play Figurines", Stumpy asks his friends if he can play with his figurines. They refuse. What does he do to them? He makes a Deal with the Devil, becomes a witch doctor, learns voodoo magic and then uses it to force them to become his slaves.
  • The plot of Episode 118 revolves around the main four having a feud with Pretty where each vengeful act is worse than the one that prompted it. The feud starts when Pretty puts embarrassing pictures of them online. They retaliate by doing the same thing to her, which would have been fine if it wasn't for the fact that Stumpy decided to humiliate her by putting what are implied to be fake photoshopped nudes of her up on the internet where anyone could see them. Then, Pretty goes on TV and reveals a few of their embarrassing secrets to the public. After this, they decide to sue her for "slandering" them, and put her in a Kangaroo Court where she is given a sentence of "community service for life", and in addition, she gets beaten up by Bad Kaeloo. She then writes a tell-all book with all of their embarrassing secrets in it and publishes two million copies of it. At this point, the main four decide that things have gotten out of hand and wisely choose to go home instead of escalating the fight any further.
  • The tea party episode has Mr. Cat try to strangle Stumpy because Stumpy blamed Mr. Cat for something that he did, making him look bad in front of Kaeloo (who he has a crush on).
  • How about the time Kaeloo literally set Mr. Cat on fire for looking at inappropriate pictures in a magazine?
  • In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Mr. Cat tells Kaeloo to her face that he hates her (incredibly lame) game show and tries to make it more fun. Kaeloo beats him up with a flaming torch for having the audacity to defy her when she was very clearly doing an excellent job.
  • In Episode 139, the narrator continuously refers to Stumpy's superhero alter-ego, Ratman, as "the world's worst superhero". Stumpy gets Mr. Cat to murder the narrator.
  • While browsing the internet, Stumpy finds an unboxing video made by Quack Quack, his best friend. Stumpy hates unboxing videos, so he beats Quack Quack with a stick.
• Dissonant Serenity: Kaeloo is almost always in constant bliss, completely unaware of the chaos around her.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Invoked by Stumpy's baseball team^note consisting of Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat in the Baseball Episode, where they get Eugly to stand next to the baseball field when Quack Quack (who is playing for the opposite team) is playing. Quack Quack gets distracted and misses the ball each time.
• Distinction Without a Difference:
  • In the episode "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Kaeloo tells Mr. Cat that she and the others wanted to play poker, but Stumpy lost the cards. Stumpy explains that he didn't lose the cards, he just doesn't know where he put them.
  • In Episode 145, Kaeloo sees Stumpy playing a war-themed video game and gets mad because she'd told him not to play games based on war. Stumpy tells Kaeloo that the game isn't about war, but a game about stopping an enemy from attacking your territory, stealing your weapons, and going out with your sister.
• Do-Anything Robot: Olaf's robot, Serguei.
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength:
  • Bad Kaeloo has Super-Strength, but she often forgets about it. In "Let's Play Spies", he gives a Bear Hug to Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat. Their heads explode.
  • In one episode, Eugly gives Stumpy a high-five which sends him flying into the air and crashing into a nearby tree.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • In Episode 108, Stumpy the squirrel decides that he wants to become a cat, and he says he's a "cat trapped in a squirrel's body" and then tries to get surgery to turn himself into a cat.
  • In "Let's Play the Thing from Outer Space", the argument the main four have about keeping the titular thing from outer space in Smileyland or launching it back into space sounds like people in a country arguing about deporting immigrants.
  • In one episode, Bad Kaeloo asks Mr. Cat if she can "buy" him. He agrees, so she starts aggressively cuddling him. The whole thing plays out like a paid BDSM encounter.
  • Episode 139 follows a super hero called Ratman (Stumpy) and his sidekick (Quack Quack) who share an apartment. Their nosy neighbor assures them that she's "very open-minded" and that she's perfectly fine with the "modern" idea of a duck and a squirrel living together.
  • In Episode 110, Mr. Cat makes a slideshow to show to the rest of the characters and accidentally puts a photo of Kaeloo on the first slide. Horrified and embarrassed, Kaeloo tells him that the photo was supposed to be "private" between them and Mr. Cat apologizes, saying that the photo was "for later". The whole thing plays out as though she shared a nude photo with him and it accidentally got leaked.
  • In the English dub, Mr. Cat often refers to Quack Quack, a duck, as a platypus, implying that he thinks that all animals with webbed feet and beaks are the same.
• Domestic Abuse: Mr. Cat was a victim of this; he was constantly yelled at by his mom and beaten up by his older brothers.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Parodied. In-universe, Stumpy and Quack Quack get addicted to carrots that have the same effect on their bodies as tobacco, and Mr. Cat tells Kaeloo that he can show them a PSA that is "terribly dissuasive" against carrots. The PSA in question has a doctor start to discuss the dangers of carrots, only to be shot by a cool cowboy with a gun who says that even though carrots are bad, they're "super cool". Stumpy and Quack Quack decide that carrots are actually cool because of the PSA, and immediately buy some... from Mr. Cat himself.
• Don't Go Into the Woods: Kaeloo warns Stumpy not to go into the forest in "Let's Play Scaredy Cat", a Halloween Episode. Stumpy ignores her, finds a cemetery which for whatever reason was inside the forest, and ends up accidentally causing a Zombie Apocalypse by raising the dead.
• Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: In Episode 104, Olaf urges Stumpy not to touch the Big Red Button. Naturally, Stumpy touches it anyway. The building blows up, but everyone escapes except Olaf.
• Door Dumb: The characters on this show are so stupid that on separate occasions, three different people have managed to get themselves stuck inside a car because they tried to pull the door inwardly instead of opening it outward.
• The Door Slams You: In one episode, Kaeloo knocks on the door and Pretty goes up to answer it. Before she can open the door, Kaeloo opens it from the outside, slamming it into Pretty's face.
• Dope Slap: Pretty often does this to Stumpy when he does something stupid.
• Doppelgänger Attack:
  • Stumpy does this in "Let's Play Super-Powers", but Quack Quack destroys the clones.
  • Stumpy does it again in Episode 63, when fighting Mr. Cat. This time, it actually works.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Mr. Cat treats alternate versions of the people he knows from alternate universes the same way he treats the ones from his universe, e.g. flirting with Kaeloo, yelling at Stumpy, and beating Quack Quack up.
• Double Entendre: In one episode, Stumpy claims to have been abducted by aliens who then proceeded to examine his nuts. He's talking about acorns, but Kaeloo's reaction makes it clear she thought he was talking about the other kind of "nuts".
• Dragged into Drag: Stumpy is often forced to dress up as a girl to play a female role in a game while the others play males. He even lampshades the fact that Kaeloo is female (sort of), and could play these roles herself.
• Dragged Off to Hell: Happens to Quack Quack in "Let's Play Hopscotch", thanks to Mr. Cat.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: In Episode 17, Kaeloo forces several kisses on Mr. Cat offscreen and she thinks it's okay because "kissing isn't violent". She tries to explain this to Mr. Cat... who is sitting in Troubled Fetal Position with a disturbed facial expression, clearly feeling violated.
• The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party: Mr. Cat and Stumpy make it very clear that they don't want to be at Kaeloo's tea party in "Let's Play Tea Party". Things get even worse when they realize that there's no actual food at the party, and they're supposed to imagine the food.
• The Dreaded Toilet Duty: In Episode 64, Stumpy eats at Mr. Cat's overpriced fast food restaurant and is forced to Work Off the Debt because he can't afford the bill. One of the examples of Mr. Cat's blatant mistreatment of Stumpy is to force him to clean the toilet, which is so dirty that a tentacle monster has started growing inside it. Naturally, Stumpy is attacked by the tentacle monster while trying to clean the toilet.
• Driven to Madness: Happens to poor Kaeloo a lot, with Mr. Cat and Stumpy being the usual culprits. The Reset Button ensures that she's fine by the next episode.
• Driven to Suicide:
  • Usually happens to poor Stumpy, who fails all his attempts. Reasons include thinking he can't impress a girl he likes and finding out that magic isn't real.
  • In one episode, the trope is Played for Laughs. Mr. Cat gets so fed up with Stumpy's idiocy that he hangs himself. Since Death Is a Slap on the Wrist, he's alive and well by the next scene.
• Drives Like Crazy: Stumpy, to the extent that Bad Kaeloo finds smashing Mr. Cat into a car and allowing Stumpy to drive a better punishment than strangling or punching him.
• Driving Test: Stumpy and Quack Quack try to get their driver's licences in "Let's Play Driver's License". Both of them fail. Stumpy fails not only because he Drives Like Crazy, but because Kaeloo didn't do a very good job of teaching him how to drive. Quack Quack, on the other hand, is able to do everything perfectly well, but his driving instructor is Mr. Cat, who not only gives him negative points for ridiculous reasons, but actively tries to make him fail by doing things like shining a flashlight in his eyes and ripping out the steering wheel, finally causing him to drive off a cliff^note Mr. Cat somehow escaped the car before it fell..
• Dr. Jerk: In "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses", Mr. Cat, who went to med school (or at least claims that he did), is trying to teach Kaeloo how to be a doctor. Most of his tips involve being rude and selfish.
  Mr. Cat: Make sure your patient can pay. You're not the Salvation Army.
• Drop-In Character: Pretty, Eugly and Olaf normally just show up and join the main four in whatever they're doing despite usually having no reason to be there in the first place.
• Droste Image: In "Let's Play Paranormal Stuff", Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat find a Portal Door to the inside of Quack Quack's head. When they open it, they see themselves and this trope occurs since they're standing right in front of Quack Quack.
• Dub-Induced Plot Hole: For the first 10 episodes of the English dub, Kaeloo was referred to as male, but the 11th episode had a joke which involved her being female. From this episode on, the error was fixed, and she was referred to as a female. However, the already dubbed episodes were not fixed.
• Dub Name Change: In the original French dub, Stumpy is called Moignon, Quack Quack is called Coin Coin and Mr. Cat is called Monsieur Chat.
• Dub Personality Change:
  • The original (French) dub of the show has Mr. Cat be a super genius who is right about everything; the English dub makes him seem slightly dumber, for some reason.
  • In the English dub, Kaeloo has a Hair-Trigger Temper and is annoyed by everything the people around her do, causing her to angrily snap at them, whereas in the French dub, she's a little more patient.
• Duct Tape for Everything: In Episode 32, Stumpy blows his own head off with a bazooka after misinterpreting some advice Mr. Cat gave him. Upon witnessing Mr. Cat's apathy to this, Kaeloo is infuriated. Mr. Cat tries to calm her down by promising to bring Stumpy back to life by duct-taping his head back on.
• Dude, She's Like in a Coma:
  • The trope is discussed when the characters read Sleeping Beauty, with Mr. Cat pointing out that kissing an unconscious person is morally disgusting.
  • In Episode 61, the trope is enforced. Pretty knocks Mr. Cat out cold so that she can kiss him.
  • In one instance, the trope is Playedfor Laughs. Mr. Cat passes out after drinking and Pretty takes the opportunity to kiss him, and then post a picture of this on the internet so people will think they're a couple.
• Dumbass Has a Point: In one episode, Stumpy gives Kaeloo some "advice" that makes her start crying and curl up in a corner. Stumpy thinks that it may be a psychological problem, and decides to get Mr. Cat to help. Quack Quack points out that that may not be a good idea, since Mr. Cat is a Jerkass, but Stumpy points out that nobody other than Mr. Cat knows anything about psychology. Quack Quack admits that he's right and they get Mr. Cat to help Kaeloo. Even better, it turns out that Mr. Cat was more than willing to help Kaeloo and tried his best to make her feel better.
• Dumb Is Good: Dumb characters like Kaeloo and Stumpy are much nicer than smart ones like Mr. Cat. Though this starts to get subverted as Stumpy gets more and more antagonistic.
• Dumpster Dive: Mr. Cat and his alley cat friends are prone to having parties in alleys, where they get drunk and eat food out of the dumpsters.
• Dying Declaration of Love: Mr. Cat does this to Kaeloo in Episode 77 when he thinks that the planet is about to be destroyed.
• Dysfunctional Family: Played for Laughs in Let's Play House, where the main four are Playing House with Kaeloo as the overbearing and strict mother, Mr. Cat as the father who abuses his children and only cares about having sex with Kaeloo, Stumpy as the rude and rebellious son and Quack Quack as the "daughter" who is bossed around by Kaeloo and gets annoyed by her.
• Dysfunction Junction: Kaeloo is obsessed with being perfect, nice and cute, Stumpy is a moron who sucks at everything, Quack Quack is essentially a drug addict, Mr. Cat is an Ax-Crazy psychopath, Pretty is obsessed with beauty and fashion to the extent that it's the main focus of her life, and Olaf wants to Take Over the World.

Tropes E

• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • Pretty and Eugly appear in the theme song from the very first episode of season 2, but are only introduced in the second episode of this season.
  • Stumpy's seven younger sisters are gradually introduced throughout season 5, but all of them appear together in the theme song from the first episode of the season.
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • The Pilot suffered from this tremendously: the animation is nowhere near that of the rest of the series, and the character designs are a little off. Mr. Cat refers to the rest of the cast as "study kids", implying that he thinks that they're annoying because they're nerdy, whereas in the actual show, Mr. Cat is a highly intelligent Child Prodigy who's well-versed in science, math, psychology and engineering. Most shockingly, Stumpy wins the game, whereas the actual show has a Running Gag where Stumpy loses at everything.
  • In the first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball", Stumpy refuses to be on Mr. Cat's team because Cats Are Mean. Episodes which come a little later in the series have him willingly team up with Mr. Cat to pull off some antagonistic deed, and idolize him.
  • In "Red Light Green Light", Kaeloo says that chainsaws are for cutting trees, though future episodes portray her as a tree-hugging Nature Lover and one of the comics had her vehemently oppose the idea of even mowing the lawn because it hurts plants.
  • In the earlier episodes, Kaeloo had to translate for Quack Quack, who can only speak in quacks. In later episodes though, everyone else starts to understand him as well.
  • Season 1 episodes would occasionally refer to Mr. Cat as being ugly, as part of a joke. From season 2 onwards this is absent, with every character noting that Mr. Cat is quite attractive in-universe instead.
  • In season 1 Kaeloo was rarely a jerk to Stumpy and mostly treated him well, but after that she became one of the characters to mistreat Stumpy the most out of anyone in the cast.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: In Episode 72, Stumpy, who has been turned into a genius, plans to Take Over the World by building a bomb that could destroy the planet.
• Easily Forgiven: Notably averted. In Episode 16, Kaeloo loses her temper and beats Mr. Cat up with a flaming torch for essentially expressing an opinion which was different from hers (and was actually the same opinion the rest of the main four had too); once she calms down, she apologizes, but nobody accepts her apology since her reason for beating him up didn't seem valid to them, and they kick her out.
• Easily Impressed: Kaeloo is impressed by anything and everything, no matter how mundane it is. And this is despite the fact that she lives on a planet that runs on magic and has the power of Hulking Out when she gets angry, and on a daily basis deals with weird stuff like aliens, ghosts and interdimensional travel.
• Easter Egg: In Episode 229, the characters are forced into Sdrawkcab Speech; reversing the audio reveals that it's Kaeloo saying "you must really have time to waste!"
• Eat the Camera: Stumpy does it in Episode 77 when he panics and runs around screaming.
• Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting: In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat sees his friends playing poker completely wrong and decides to teach them, so he drags a chair to the table and sits on it backwards.
• E = MC Hammer: The cast have a board full of equations, which they use for everything from planning a wedding to teaching math. Don't ask how they use the same board for everything.
• Eldritch Abomination: In Episode 102, Mr. Cat and Stumpy fuse Quack Quack with a bunch of random objects and creatures and turn him into one of these. Thankfully, he's fine by the next episode.
• Elongating Arm Gag: In Episode 4, Mr. Cat manages to reach all the way across a very long table and tap Quack Quack, who is sitting on the other side, on the shoulder.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Mr. Cat refers to Kaeloo as "Priscilla" for most of the episode "Let's Play Air Pockets". For some reason, she finds it very embarrassing.
• Embarrassing Slide: In an attempt to explain to his friends that vampires don't exist, Mr. Cat sets up a slideshow to explain the origin of vampires in fiction, and accidentally shows everyone a photo of Kaeloo which was supposed to be "private" between the two of them. While it's not a nude photo, Kaeloo and Mr. Cat's mortified reactions to the picture showing up on screen suggests that they're treating it like one.
• Empathic Environment: In Episode 134, when everyone else is too busy doing their own thing to play with Stumpy, Stumpy becomes upset and then it suddenly starts raining.
• The End Is Nigh: In "Let's Play Ecologists", Stumpy hears about air pollution harming people, and he panics and starts to hyperventilate. He then assumes that his inability to breathe properly is because of air pollution, and he runs around yelling "We're all going to die! The end is nigh!".
• The End of the World as We Know It: At the end of Episode 77, the planet gets destroyed by a meteor, but it's back to normal by the next episode. Nobody dies, fortunately, since everyone escapes except Stumpy, who is an Iron Butt Monkey.
• Entendre Failure: In a bank-themed episode, Mr. Cat attempts to ask Kaeloo out on a date and implies that he wants to have sex with her afterwards with an Unusual Euphemism about her "cashing his checks". Naturally, given the fact that it's a very unusual way to say it, Kaeloo assumes that he's trying to bribe her into doing him some sort of favor.
• Entertainment Above Their Age:
  • In "Let's Play at Reading Books", Quack Quack of all people is shown reading a book with girls in skimpy outfits. Mr. Cat also wants that book, but Quack Quack refuses to give it to him, not even when Mr. Cat offers him loads of yogurt.
  • In one episode, Stumpy tells Kaeloo that he watches things that "aren't for kids his age" all the time, and Kaeloo is horrified for a minute until she looks at his laptop screen and realizes that he was talking about watching knitting videos for old ladies.
• Enormous Engagement Ring: In Episode 60, Quack Quack buys a wedding ring for Pretty, who he is being forced to marry. Not only is the gem incredibly huge (according to the characters, since the audience can't see it), it's also shiny enough to set someone on fire.
• Ensemble Cast: Even though the show is named after its protagonist, Kaeloo, all the main four get equal amounts of attention in the show.
• Epic Fail:
  • Stumpy trying to catch a volleyball in the Beach Episode.
  • The volleyball incident doesn't even come close to the ballet the cast put on in Episode 67, which ends with all of the performers being injured.
• Episode of the Dead: In "Let's Play Scaredy Cat", Stumpy accidentally brings everyone in a graveyard back to life by reciting a magic spell, causing a Zombie Apocalypse. Mr. Cat manages to bring everything back to normal by the end.
• Episode on a Plane: "Let's Play Air Pockets", where Stumpy and Quack Quack go on a plane piloted by Mr. Cat, with Kaeloo as an air hostess. Mr. Cat jumps out of the plane using the only parachute they had and leaves them to die.
• Equippable Ally: The others use Quack Quack as a weapon to fire objects ranging from yogurt to missiles.
• Establishing Character Moment: Several characters get one in the episode where they first appear:
  • Kaeloo is first shown in "Let's Play Prison-Ball" inviting Mr. Cat to join a game against his will because she knows that deep down he really enjoys playing games with her, establishing both the fact that Kaeloo loves fun and the fact that Kaeloo is a caring person.
  • Stumpy takes the term "prison" in "prison-ball" too literally^note Prison-ball is a game similar to dodgeball, except if a player is hit they get sent to a space at the back of the court called a "prison", and upon being sent to "prison" in the game, spends the rest of the episode plotting a jailbreak.
  • The first conversation Mr. Cat has with Kaeloo in the series is about how much he enjoys beating Quack-Quack up.
  • Pretty the Rich Bitch gets one in her debut episode, where she looks down on the main four for being poor and tries to "dare" Stumpy to buy her expensive stuff during a game of Truth or Dare.
  • The first scene we see with Olaf is him trying to get Mr. Cat to bow down before him while talking about world domination and gulags.
  • When Lavanade is introduced to the main four, the first thing she does is hug Quack-Quack, which shows that she's an affectionate person.
  • Cramoisie's first introduction into the series is when Stumpy invites her to join his friends in playing a horror game for Halloween. Kaeloo expresses her concern over such a young child playing a scary game, and Cramoisie responds with her first spoken line in the series: insulting Kaeloo about her weight and calling her ugly, which establishes that Cramoisie is a jerkass.
• Establishing Series Moment: The first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball", gives one near the end when Mr. Cat pulls out a bazooka and starts shooting spiked dodgeballs at Quack Quack.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Mr. Cat, despite being evil, really loves his mother and will not allow anyone to talk about her in a disrespectful way.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Mr. Cat, Olaf, Pretty, and Cramoisie are evil, but they all have their loved ones: Pretty has her sister, who she regularly abuses but still cares about, Cramoisie loves her siblings despite being verbally abusive to most of them, Olaf has his "wife" Olga (who is actually a Companion Cube, but he treats her like a real person), and Mr. Cat, ironically enough, has the show's heroes.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Mr. Cat may be a sick and twisted pervert, but when he reads the story of Sleeping Beauty, even he is disgusted by the idea of kissing someone while they're unconscious.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Ursula is apparently so hot that not only Mr. Cat and Stumpy find her attractive, even Kaeloo says she's very beautiful.
• Everybody Hates Hades: Episode 127, where the characters play as Greek mythology characters, has the show's most villainous character, Mr. Cat, play the part of Hades. The episode is about Zeus (played by Kaeloo), with assistance from Hermes (played by Quack Quack), trying to save the flowers of Olympus when Mr. Cat/Hades takes their souls.
• Everybody Hates Mathematics: Stumpy hates math more than any other subject and has difficulty counting higher than the number four.
• Everyone Can See It: Every single person in Smileyland (yes, even Stumpy) knows that Kaeloo and Mr. Cat have massive crushes on each other except for Kaeloo and Mr. Cat themselves. In the later seasons, several people in-universe even assume that Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are already an Official Couple because of the way they behave with each other.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Mr. Cat may be a jerk, but even he won't let Kaeloo feel bad about something which wasn't her fault.
  • In the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", Quack Quack becomes a crazy cannibal and the only way to cure him is to give him some yogurt. Mr. Cat suggests that Stumpy goes to him to give him the yogurt, but it turns out that even Stumpy isn't dumb enough to confront an insane cannibal, so Mr. Cat is forced to do it himself.
  Stumpy: I may be nuts, but I'm not crazy.
  • Mr. Cat may be extremely perverted, but he draws the line at kissing people who are unconscious.
  • In Episode 72, Stumpy gets Sudden Intelligence and decides to Take Over the World by threatening to destroy the planet with a bomb. Even Mr. Cat is unsettled by the plan.
• Everyone Is a Suspect: When someone graffitis an image of a penis onto a bathroom door, Kaeloo takes it upon herself to play detective and identify which of her friends was the party responsible. Unfortunately, as she thinks about it, she realizes that all of them have potential motivations for doing so, so they're all suspects.
• "Everyone Is Gone" Episode: In Episode 201, Kaeloo heads out to play with her friends in the morning, only to find out that none of them are there. She initially panics that something might have happened to them and tries to get in contact with them, but finds out that they're all fine but have different plans for the day; Stumpy is babysitting his sisters, Quack-Quack is at the yogurt convention, and Mr. Cat is at a party. The rest of the episode revolves around Kaeloo trying to figure out how to have fun by herself.
• Everyone Went to School Together: One flashback shows Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat being in the same class as little kids, despite the fact that other episodes have stated that Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are older than the other two.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: Nombril wears a sparkling gold outfit, to go along with her loud personality and status as an Attention Whore.
• Everything Talks: Starting in season 4, objects and food items are given the ability to talk depending on Rule of Funny.
• Everything Trying to Kill You: Seems to be the case for the perpetually unlucky Stumpy. Lampshaded in the Season 1 finale.
• Evil Chancellor: Mr. Cat to Stumpy in Episode 90.
• Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor:
  • Mr. Cat. He takes delight in tormenting other people, even his own best friends, in various ways, ranging from burning Stumpy's comic book collection^note Each comic costs 60 dollars to trying to kill people with chainsaws.
  • Olaf. In Episode 121, he tricks Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat into thinking that they've all been fired from the show, causing them great amounts of stress and worry, just so he can get a laugh out of it.
• Evil Is Hammy:
  • One of the main reasons that nobody except Stumpy and Quack Quack takes Olaf seriously is his incredible hamminess.
  • Mr. Cat was the physical embodiment of this trope in the show's second episode due to Early-Installment Weirdness.
• Evil Laugh: Mr. Cat and Olaf have the tendency to do this.
• Evil Me Scares Me: Kaeloo has often been shown to be terrified of her Bad Kaeloo side, who has a horrific mean streak and adores violently abusing people.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Mr. Cat has a deep, adult-like voice despite being less than 13 years old. Olaf also has a rather deep voice. The trope is averted with Stumpy and Pretty, whose voices are rather high pitched.
• Exact Words:
  • In "Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat", Kaeloo says that Mr. Cat will disappear. Near the end, he does - he's completely invisible, but alive and kicking.
  • In another episode, Kaeloo, as a waiter, asks Mr. Cat what he would like to drink. He asks for a "Sound-Effect Bleep with ice" (presumably an alcoholic beverage). Kaeloo says he can’t have a "Sound-Effect Bleep with ice", so he asks for one without ice.
  • In the episode "Let's Play Figurines", Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat refuse to let Stumpy play with their new figurines. Later, they realize that Stumpy has stolen the figurines. When they call him out on it and say he stole them, he says that he borrowed them. Kaeloo says borrowing is when you ask someone before taking their things, but Stumpy points put that he did ask - but they refused.
  • When the gang are playing truth or dare, Pretty "dares" Stumpy to buy her a Prada bag. Kaeloo says that the dare is supposed to be something like "walk using your hands" or "hop on one leg", so Pretty dares Stumpy to buy her a Prada bag while hopping on one leg.
  • In a season 3 episode, Mr. Cat gets angry at a bunch of sheep and decides to throw them all off a cliff. Kaeloo tells him not to throw all the sheep off the cliff, so Mr. Cat throws just one of them off and the rest of them follow the other one and jump off themselves.
  • In the episode "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat tricks Kaeloo into thinking she owes him money. When she points out that nobody has any money, he reminds her that she has a piggy bank, describing it as a "little piggy which rattles when you shake it". Kaeloo gives the piggy bank to Mr. Cat. Mr. Cat opens it and finds out that there really is no money inside... it was rattling because there was a soda can tab inside.
  • When Kaeloo and Mr. Cat get into an argument, Kaeloo goes on a rant about how she will "never talk to Mr. Cat again". Halfway through the rant, she realizes that she wouldn't be very happy if she couldn't talk to him anymore since he's her best friend, and then she decides to mime words to him because technically she wouldn't be "speaking" to him.
  • Stumpy is fed up with his sister Lavanade's supernatural powers, which he finds weird, and asks Quack-Quack (who has similar powers) to teach Lavanade to "control her powers", by which he means teach her to suppress them. Quack-Quack, who is supportive of Lavanade, decides to interpret "control her powers" as learning how to use them better, and teaches Lavanade how to do cool tricks with her powers instead.
• Executive Meddling: In-universe, the director sometimes calls the characters when the scene is getting too violent or risque to let them know that he wants them to change that part of the episode to avoid angering Moral Guardians.
• Exhausted Eye Bags: Mr. Cat spends the entirety of "Let's Play Justice Masters" with these, as a result of him being extremely stressed and tired (and unable to rest thanks to Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack's Unwanted Assistance).
• Exiled to the Couch: Olaf begs Kaeloo and her friends to help him plan a birthday party for his wife because if they don't, "I'll have to sleep in the bathtub again."
• Expendable Clone:
  • In Episode 134, Stumpy is granted a wish and gets a bunch of clones of himself. When he needs to get rid of then, he sends them through a Portal Door into another dimension forever, and nobody cares. Even before this, Mr. Cat contemplated killing them because they were annoying and hurting everyone.
  • In "Let's Play Hide 'n Hunt", Mr. Cat clones the rest of the main four so he can kill the clones.
• Exploring the Evil Lair: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat do this in Episode 104 when trying to rescue Quack Quack, who has been kidnapped by Olaf. Mr. Cat walks around with a flashlight while Kaeloo nervously walks behind him, clinging to him.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Pretty gets one in season 5 to reflect her offscreen character development.
• Expressive Ears: Both of Mr. Cat's ears move downwards during an Oh, Crap! moment.
• Expressive Shirt: The designs on Eugly's shirt change to reflect how she feels. For example, when she's sad, it changes to a picture of a broken heart.
• Extra-Long Episode: Episodes are usually seven minutes long, but Episode 105, titled "Let's Play the Very Special Episode", is 26 minutes long.
• Extreme Mêlée Revenge: This happens Once an Episode to whoever managed to piss Kaeloo off. She usually comes to regret it once she calms down.

Tropes F

• Face Fault: This being an animesque show, the characters do it quite often.
• The Face of the Sun: In "Let's Play Hide 'N' Hunt", the sun is depicted with a happy face.
• Face Palm:
  • Mr. Cat does this a lot. In Episode 105, he uses the "pinching the bridge of the nose" variant.
  • Kaeloo herself does this on occasions when Stumpy does something stupid.
• Failure Gambit: One episode has Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack-Quack, Mr. Cat, and Cramoisie playing a game where one person is secretly designated as a "zompire" (a cross between a zombie and a vampire) and the other players must avoid getting bitten by the zompire. Cramoisie is the zompire and she attempts to manipulate Mr. Cat into staying close to her by pretending to be scared. Mr. Cat sees through her guise instantly, but gladly allows her to bite him because then he can use the pretext of being part-vampire to step into a coffin and take a peaceful nap without anyone bothering him.
• Failure Is the Only Option:
  • If your name is Stumpy, don't ever expect to succeed at anything.
  • Mr. Cat's attempts to confess to Kaeloo that he is in love with her usually end on a very bad note, either due to Kaeloo's obliviousness or poor execution on Mr. Cat's part.
• Failure Montage:
  • In Episode 80, a montage is shown of Stumpy losing at beach volleyball. The final scene in the montage makes it look like he's going to finally hit the ball, but he fails that too in an Epic Fail.
  • In Episode 233, Kaeloo gets turned into a giant non-sapient frog and Mr. Cat and Quack-Quack must capture her in order to return her to her normal form. A montage ensues of them trying various methods devised by Mr. Cat, all of which fail horribly and end with Mr. Cat getting injured.
• Failures on Ice: In Episode 105, near the beginning, Kaeloo tries to show Mr. Cat all the fun activities that one can engage in during winter. She tries to show him ice skating, but he can barely move without falling.
• Faint in Shock: One of the animators faints when Stumpy walks up to them at the end of Episode 105 and informs them that he is taking over the show.
• Fake Interactivity: Parodied in Episode 69, which was a parody of Dora the Explorer. Kaeloo says random words in different languages, asks the viewers to repeat, and stares at the camera with a huge, creepy smile. Stumpy walks by and waves a hand in her face, trying to see if she is okay.
• Family of Choice: Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat are a group of best friends who see each other as a family, to the extent that even Olaf (who doesn't know them that well) sometimes calls them "the little family". As for their real families, while Stumpy still has his, Quack Quack's family is dead, Mr. Cat's family was abusive so he ran away from home at a young age and nothing is known about Kaeloo's (though her extended family is shown in one episode).
• Family-Unfriendly Death: This being a show that runs on Family-Unfriendly Violence and where Death Is a Slap on the Wrist, the characters have died in several unpleasant ways such as explosion, decapitation and suicide.
• Family-Unfriendly Violence: The show lives and breathes this trope.
• Fan Disservice: In-universe example. In one episode, Kaeloo goes on a parody of The Voice, and she tries to impress the judges by performing a sexually suggestive dance involving Shaking the Rump while wearing a revealing outfit. The judges are absolutely horrified and disgusted and they kick her off the show.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • Mr. Cat is extremely racist by these terms. One episode even had him, while trying to anger everybody else, claim that "cats are a superior race", and he claims to despise ducks and rabbits.
  • In the first episode of the series, Stumpy objects to being teamed up with Mr. Cat for a game because Cats Are Mean^note This may have been Early-Installment Weirdness, as in later episodes he willingly teams up with Mr. Cat..
  • In Episode 108, this becomes a plot point, with the main four arguing about which species is better. When Mr. Cat points out that cats were worshipped by Egyptians and get 10 million views on internet videos, Stumpy and Quack Quack get decide that they want to to become cats as well and get plastic surgery to look like cats.
• Fantasy World Map: In Episode 55, Olaf pulls out a map of Smileyland with places such as the Enchanted Forest, Narnia and Wonderland.
• Fartillery: In Episode 55, Stumpy and Quack Quack try to use this against Olaf. It fails because Olaf doesn't have a nose.
• Farts on Fire: Bad Kaeloo does this in "Let's Play at Reading Books" to light a pile of skin mags and comic books on fire.
• Fat and Skinny: The twins Pretty and Eugly, the former of whom is slim (and implied to have an eating disorder) and the latter of whom is obese.
• Fedora of Asskicking: The reason Kaeloo picks Quack Quack instead of Stumpy to be the hero in "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel" is because Quack Quack is wearing a fedora at the time.
• Fictional Social Network: The characters often use the website "Fakebook", which is an obvious parody of Facebook. In the original French dub, it's called "Face de Bouc" ("Goat Face").
• Fictional Video Game: Mr. Coolskin video games.
• Finger Gun:
  • Stumpy makes these in "Let's Play Air Pockets" and threatens to shoot everyone unless Kaeloo gives him back a video game she had taken away from him.
  • Kaeloo makes these in Episode 65 when impersonating Mr. Cat.
• Finger-Tenting: Mr. Cat does this a lot while making evil plans.
• Finger Wag: The show often has Kaeloo wagging her finger while saying "no no no!"
• Fireball Eyeballs:
  • Kaeloo gets these in one episode after Mr. Cat makes fun of her lisp.
  • In the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", this happens to Quack Quack several times over the course of the episode since he's being deprived of yogurt by Kaeloo, which is making him angry and slowly driving him insane.
• Firefighting Episode: In Episode 93, Kaeloo realizes that there are no firefighters in Smileyland and trains Stumpy and Quack-Quack to be Smileyland's first firefighters, with help from Mr. Cat. Most of the episode just focuses on them practicing but in the end, Mr. Cat sets the fake building Stumpy and Quack-Quack are using for training on fire For the Evulz and they must figure out a way to escape.
• First-Name Ultimatum: In any case where Stumpy annoys Kaeloo to the point of transforming instead of Mr. Cat: "STUMPYYYY...". The same applies to Pretty.
  • Kaeloo does this to everyone in Episode 83 (except Mr. Cat, whose first name isn't revealed to the audience, and Olaf, who wasn't in that episode).
• Fisher King: When Mr. Cat takes over Smileyland, the sky turns red.
• Flashback: In Episode 136, a flashback is shown to Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat at school in the same class as little kids. This is despite the fact that other episodes have established that Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are older than the other two.
• Flashback Twist: In one episode, Stumpy tells Kaeloo that Mr. Cat forced him to give him all his comic books. When Kaeloo asks how it happened, a flashback is shown where Mr. Cat menacingly approaches Stumpy and demands the comic books... and Stumpy nonchalantly handed him the comic books and said "Okay".
• Flirtatious Smack on the Ass: Episode 115 has Mr. Cat do this to Kaeloo. She, of course, gets angry and starts yelling at him.
• Flower from the Mountaintop: In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", the last challenge in Kaeloo's incredibly lame game show is for Mr. Cat to grab the flower from the mountaintop. The "mountaintop" is really just a rock.
• "Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: In Episode 72, Stumpy is granted intelligence by a spirit, but it turns out to be for the worse; he makes rude or brutally honest remarks (such as saying that Mr. Cat's drinking problem will make him obese), he tries to Take Over the World, and he tries to change the show's name from "Kaeloo" to "Stumpy".
• Food as Bribe: Quack Quack will do almost anything if you offer him yogurt in exchange.
• The Food Poisoning Incident: Mr. Cat owns a restaurant called McDaube^note This name means "McCrap" in the show's original language, French which is a parody of McDonald's. Anyone who eats there is prone to getting food poisoning that induces severe vomiting, the worst example of which ended with Pretty having to go to the hospital and have surgery on some of her digestive organs.
• Food Shove Gag: In Episode 106, Kaeloo tries to trick Mr. Cat into buying a painting by telling him it's valuable and that it was made by a famous artist. Stumpy pipes in to say that it was actually drawn by him, but Kaeloo shoves a banana in his mouth to make him shut up.
• Force Feeding:
  • Kaeloo does this to Quack Quack in "Let's Play Ecologists" when he refuses to eat some absolutely disgusting organic yogurt called "org-yurt".
  • Stumpy does this to Quack Quack in "Let's Play Babysitting" by putting a funnel in his mouth and using a baseball bat to push spinach down the funnel. Quack Quack retaliates by shoving the baseball bat and funnel down Stumpy's throat offscreen.
• Force-Field Door: In Episode 105, the door leading to the magical staircase is a force field door. Only the Pure of Heart may pass through it; anyone who isn't pure gets an electric shock.
• Forceful Kiss:
  • Bad Kaeloo]] does this to Mr. Cat once.
  • Stumpy does this to Kaeloo in "Let's Play Treasure Hunt" so he can find out what happens when a person kisses a frog.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Episode 63 and Episode 72 foreshadowed the events of Episode 105, namely Stumpy becoming evil and taking control of the world.
  • In Episode 121, Olaf informs the main four that they have been fired from the show and must report for a job interview the next day to see if they can be re-hired. At one point in the episode, Mr. Cat questions the logic behind firing them and immediately hiring them again. It turns out that the whole thing was a "prank" by Olaf and the main four never got fired in the first place.
  • The title card for the episode "Let's Play Hopscotch" has flames on it despite the episode seemingly having nothing to do with fire. Near the end of the episode, Mr. Cat successfully constructs a path to Hell, and Quack Quack is Dragged Off to Hell.
  • In the episode "Let's Play Catch the Mailman", Kaeloo gets a letter in the mail from someone claiming to be a fan of the show, and the letter is quite insulting. It is addressed "Dear frog" instead of "Dear Kaeloo", foreshadowing the fact that the letter was written by Mr. Cat, who often refers to Kaeloo as "frog" or "froggy".
• Forgiven, but Not Forgotten:
  • At the end of "Let's Play Golf", Stumpy and Mr. Cat forgive Kaeloo for cheating at golf, but in Episode 57, they reference the incident when trying to prove that she is a cheater.
  • Kaeloo says the trope name almost word-for-word in Episode 105 to Quack Quack.
• Four-Fingered Hands: Everybody except Olaf. Even Quack Quack, who has Feather Fingers, has four fingers. Justified, since they're all animals.
• Formal Full Array of Cutlery: Kaeloo sets out a bunch of different forks for different dishes in "Let's Play Tea Party".
• For Science!: Mr. Cat sometimes tortures Quack Quack by conducting scientific experiments on him and claiming that it's for science. (Although sometimes it's out of genuine curiosity and the desire to know more.)
• Fourth-Wall Mail Slot:
  • In-universe, in the episode "Let's Play Catch the Mailman", Kaeloo gets a letter from a fan of the show criticizing her for being annoying and boring^note This actually reflects the views of some real fans of the show. The letter turns out to have been written by Mr. Cat.
  • Parodied in one episode. Mr. Cat says that nobody has ever seen Quack Quack laugh, but nobody is sure if he's right or if they actually have seen him laugh. They tell the audience that true fans should know the answer and that the fans should mail them a letter containing the correct answer.
• Fourth-Wall Portrait: When drawing a picture of Stumpy in "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Mr. Cat draws a realistic squirrel.
• Fractured Fairytale:
  • Stumpy's version of Little Red Riding Hood, as seen in "Let's Play Once Upon a Time".
  • Episode 122, a sequel to "Let's Play Once Upon a Time", had Mr. Cat make every fairy tale in the book more realistic, for example by having Cinderella report her stepmother to the police for abuse, or having Prince Philip call a doctor to wake up Sleeping Beauty instead of just kissing her.
• Frame-Up: Played for Laughs. In Episode 18, Mr. Cat is working as a security guard at a fruit market, and Stumpy steals all the apples and bribes Mr. Cat to keep silent about it. Mr. Cat plants an apple on Quack Quack's (his most hated enemy's) person to frame him for stealing just so he can have an excuse to beat him up.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: In a Parody Episode of Harry Potter, Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack switch bodies due to using magic spells on each other, but are soon brought back to normal. Unlike most examples, it is not the main focus of the episode, but only happens for one scene.
• Free Prize at the Bottom: One episode has Stumpy buy a cereal box for the sake of a free hat, and then rip the box to shreds and let all the cereal fall on the ground, taking only the hat.
• Free-Range Children: None of the characters are more than 13 years old, yet they do random things like going to outer space, fighting aliens, buying weapons, drinking alcohol, etc. and nobody has any problem with it. Though it's somewhat justified since There Are No Adults in Smileyland, and especially in Mr. Cat and Quack Quack's cases since the former is a runaway and the latter is an orphan.
  • Averted in Episode 33, where Stumpy's mother sees him juggling chainsaws on TV and calls him so she can tell him to stop because it's too dangerous.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: In "Driver's License", Kaeloo and Mr. Cat briefly present their driver's licenses to Stumpy. Pausing this scene will show that Mr. Cat is legally authorized to use the weapons he owns, that Kaeloo's license also allows her to ride a kick-scooter, and that the cat flap is Mr. Cat's legal residence.
• Freeze Ray: Olaf owns one of these and he uses it on Kaeloo and Mr. Cat in Episode 104.
• Freeze Sneeze: In Episode 160, it's snowing outside and Mr. Cat starts sneezing from the cold. A couple of scenes later, he's perfectly fine.
• Freudian Couch:
  • At the end of "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses", Kaeloo lies on a couch and tells Mr. Cat (who is pretending to be a psychologist) about her metamorphosis from tadpole to frog.
  • Stumpy lies on a couch in "Let's Play Astronauts" when narrating a dream he had to Kaeloo.
  • In Episode 86, Mr. Cat visits an actual psychotherapist and lies on a couch.
  • Stumpy lies on one in Episode 110 when Kaeloo tries to hold a therapy session for him.
• Freudian Excuse: Implied with Mr. Cat. What we have seen of his Dark and Troubled Past involves abusive older brothers, an alcoholic father, the death of one or more loved ones, and an annoying mother who kept screaming. No wonder he’s so evil.
• Friendly Tickle Torture: When Mr. Cat is told by his doctor that he is very stressed and he needs to relax a little, Kaeloo tries to help him out by tickling him since she thinks it will make him feel better. It doesn't work.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Until Pretty's Heel–Face Turn, everyone (except maybe Eugly) absolutely despises her for being an Alpha Bitch, but they still hang out with her.
  • The Rules is one of these in season 5, as despite the main four calling her their friend, they find her irritating, spend a lot of time plotting against her, and express disappointment whenever she shows up.
• Friend Versus Lover:
  • In Episode 134, Stumpy wants to play a board game with Quack Quack, but Quack Quack is on a date with Eugly and therefore ignores Stumpy. Later, Stumpy manages to clone himself and he and the clones tease Quack Quack and Eugly until Eugly runs away crying so they can hang out with Quack Quack.
  • A one-sided example is used as a plot point in Episode 148. Stumpy and Mr. Cat feel that Quack Quack has been spending too much time with Eugly, so they try to ruin their relationship so that they break up. Eugly decides to befriend them in order to make them stop, which works.
• From Bad to Worse: In "Let's Play Scaredy Cat", Mr. Cat and Kaeloo have to fight a huge army of zombies. Mr. Cat manages to anger Kaeloo enough to transform, but just as she transforms, Kaeloo is bitten and turns into a zombie. In her transformed state.
• Frying Pan of Doom: Pretty does this a lot, and Mr. Cat also does this a few times. A variant is used in Episode 88, where Mr. Cat throws the frying pan at Stumpy to get him to stop singing.
• Full-Body Disguise: Mr. Cat disguises himself as Bad Kaeloo, and later as Pretty, in Episode 65.
• Funny Animal: The entire cast is composed of these. Kaeloo is a frog, Stumpy is a squirrel, Quack Quack is a duck, Mr. Cat and Ursula are cats, Pretty and Eugly are rabbits and Olaf is an emperor penguin.
• Funny Background Event:
  • In the episode "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses", while Quack Quack escapes, Bad Kaeloo can be seen hitting Mr. Cat over the head repeatedly with a giant thermometer.
  • In the episode "Let's Play Golf", a ball Stumpy hit with his golf club earlier in the episode returns after orbiting the planet and hits him in the head after having orbiting the planet while Mr. Cat tries playing golf.
  • In-universe example. In one episode, whenever Pretty takes a selfie and puts it on the website "Fakebook", Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack, and/or Mr. Cat are doing something embarrassing in the background of the picture. It's later revealed that being the jerkass she is, Pretty did this on purpose to humiliate them.
• Fun with Homophones: When Kaeloo tells Stumpy that he has to use a tee to play golf, he thinks she said "tea" and asks why he can't have coffee instead.
• Furry Confusion:
  • All the characters are anthropomorphic animals, but there are several ordinary sheep who also live in Smileyland with them. In Episode 132, Mr. Cat even lampshades this and says that letting the sheep hang out with the characters would be like having Snow White marry the seven dwarves.
  • Mr. Cat's dreams for his future involve himself, a Funny Animal cat, marrying Kaeloo, a Funny Animal frog, and the two of them adopting a regular dog as a pet.
• Furry Reminder: Happens quite a lot, with the cast being animals.
  • Stumpy eats a lot of acorns.
  • In "Let's Play Cops and Robbers", Kaeloo finds a hole in a yogurt container and concludes that Mr. Cat made it because he's the only one with claws.
  • In "Let's Play Simon Says", Kaeloo the frog uses her tongue to snatch Stumpy's game console. Later in the episode, she also mentions wanting money to buy herself a bowl and a ladder.
  • In "Let's Play Justice Masters" when Mr. Cat decides to take a nap on the couch, he walks around on top of it on all fours and then curls up to sleep.
  • In "Let's Play Figurines", Kaeloo takes one of Mr. Cat's whiskers.
  • In Episode 74, Mr. Cat pounces on a soccer ball and plays with it like a real cat would.
  • In Episode 83, Mr. Cat affectionately rubs his head against Kaeloo.
  • In Episode 87, Olaf slides down a hill like a penguin.
  • In Episode 143, Mr. Cat and Ursula can see in the dark because they're cats.

Tropes G

• Gag Series: The show has plots that switch halfway through the episode, one-off gags that have nothing to do with the rest of the plot of the episode, and barely any continuity between episodes. Sometimes, there isn't even continuity between scenes of the same episode. The main focus is humor.
• Gale-Force Sound: When Mr. Cat gets angry, he can yell loud enough to blow away a car with Kaeloo and Stumpy sitting in it. Both Bad Kaeloo and Mr. Cat can yell loud enough to send people flying into the air.
• Game Show Appearance: In Episode 58, Mr. Cat goes on a game show hosted by Kaeloo to prove that he's right about everything all the time. The game show appears to be rigged so he will lose. He wins, but it's a Pyrrhic Victory.
• Garage Sale: The second season 3 episode has Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack hold a garage sale with Mr. Cat as their only customer. He initially refuses to buy anything, but Kaeloo uses a psychological trick that convinces him to buy almost everything. After buying so many things, Mr. Cat winds up having his own garage sale - where he tricks them into buying their own stuff back at exorbitant prices.
• Gassy Gastronomy: Stumpy is known for belching frequently, and it gets even worse whenever he's had soda.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: In the second season, there are four males (Stumpy, Quack Quack, Mr. Cat and Olaf) and four females (Kaeloo^note She is a Hermaphrodite, but is referred to as female, Pretty, Eugly and Olga).
• Gender-Separated Ensemble Episode: Episode 60 has the boys and the girls split up and go to different places. Subverted since Stumpy winds up disguising himself as a girl and joining the girls.
• Genre Blindness: Kaeloo literally has no idea what will happen if she invites Mr. Cat to play with her, even though it happens all the time.
• Genre Savvy: In Episode 121, the gang get fired from the show and need to take a job interview with Olaf to get re-hired the whole of which turns out to be a "joke" on Olaf's part. Everyone is stressed except Stumpy, who points out that they are in a comedy show and he's the comic relief, so he'll definitely be re-hired.
• Gentleman Thief: Kaeloo and Stumpy both dress up as these in Episode 53.
• Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Mr. Cat comes up with several of these. Most of them fail, though a few of them have gone without a hitch.
• Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Apparently, in Smileyland, if your friends play Zumba music, it makes you dance along and become extremely happy and loving. Naturally, Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack do this to Mr. Cat in an attempt to make him nicer. He tries his best to resist, but ultimately fails and winds up being forced to be happy.
• Giftedly Bad: Kaeloo sucks at almost everything, but considers herself to be a very talented person. For example, she draws like a kindergartener but considers herself to be a really good artist.
• Gilligan Cut:
  • In "Let's Play Babysitting", Kaeloo blatantly tells Stumpy that she is not in love with Mr. Cat right before going on a date with him in the very next scene.
  • In the same episode, Kaeloo mentions that Quack Quack "happily accepted" when Stumpy asked if he could practice baby-sitting with Quack Quack as the baby. The scene cuts to Quack Quack in a tree trying to get away from Stumpy while the latter throws objects at him to get him to come down.
  • In the Halloween Episode, as Stumpy is walking into the forest:
  Kaeloo: If you find a book of magic spells with funny words in it, whatever you do, don't touch it! Is that clear?
  Stumpy: Yeah, whatever.
  (Scene cuts to Stumpy in the forest in front of the book)
  Stumpy: Wow! A book of magic spells with funny words in it that I mustn't touch! (reading from book) Zombie zombie zom, zombie zombie zombie woo!
• Girlfriend in Canada: Stumpy's girlfriend Ursula is never seen onscreen and he met her online, but he claims she exists. Nobody really believes him until they finally meet her in person, subverting the trope.
• Girl in the Tower: Invoked in "Let's Play Prince Charming" when Stumpy is Dragged into Drag and forced to sit in a tower so "Prince" Quack Quack can rescue him.
• Glad I Thought of It: The show has a Running Gag where Stumpy and Quack Quack get stuck in a situation, Quack Quack suggests a plan, and Stumpy pretends that he was the one who thought of it.
• Glass-Shattering Sound: In Episode 143, the gang are stuck in a situation where if all the lights go out, they get attacked by monsters, so they each hold a lightbulb, flashlight or mirror to keep some sort of light with them. Unfortunately, one of the monsters grabs Stumpy's mirror, and since he Screams Like a Little Girl, everyone else's lightbulbs, mirrors, flashlights, etc. get broken.
• Glass Smack and Slide: In Episode 104, Olaf freezes Kaeloo and Mr. Cat and keeps them in glass People Jars. Stumpy shows up to save them by swinging on a rope, but he ends up smacking face first into the glass and sliding down it.
• The Glomp: Kaeloo has done this to Mr. Cat on more than one occasion.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Mr. Cat is portrayed with these in the intro for Episode 105.
• Go Fetch: In one episode, Mr. Cat throws a yogurt in the air and Quack Quack runs to catch it. After he catches it, Mr. Cat activates the bombs he had hidden near the place where he threw the yogurt.
• Golf Clubbing: Mr. Cat sometimes does this, the usual target being Quack Quack.
• Gone Horribly Right: In "Let's Play Babysitting", Kaeloo attempts to seduce Mr. Cat so they can have sex and she can get pregnant. Let's just say he gets seduced a little too well...
• Goodbye, Cruel World!: Stumpy says this before most of his suicide attempts.
• Good Luck Charm: Violasse wards off her bad luck with a personal good luck charm, a balloon with Quack-Quack's face painted on it. The balloon has actually saved Violasse from dying several times, which means that it actually works.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!:
  • Any time Mr. Cat swears with no Sound Effect Bleeps.
  • In one episode, while impersonating Mr. Cat, Kaeloo yells out random "swear" words such as "poop" and "dang".
• G-Rated Drug: Yogurt, carrots and tomato juice.
• Gratuitous English: In the French dub^note The series' original language is French, the characters frequently use English words like "what" and "stop" instead of the French words.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: Olaf interjects random Russian words into his speech.
• Gratuitous Nazis: In the episode "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel"^note The episode parodies Indiana Jones, Mr. Cat dresses as a Nazi to look more "evil".
• Gratuitous Spanish: Parodied. When Stumpy is asked to say "the grass is green" in Spanish, his response is anything but that.
  Stumpy (singing): Tapas! Paëlla! Real Madrid, Ibiza! Movida! Conchita, corrida!
• Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: In the episode "Red Light, Green Light", Mr. Cat launches Quack Quack several feet into the air using a bazooka. Quack Quack enjoys the sensation of flying for several seconds until he looks down, at which point gravity suddenly takes over and he is sent plummeting to the ground below.
• Gray Rain of Depression:
  • In Episode 52, it rains during Yogo's funeral and the sky is gray.
  • Subverted in Episode 215. Pretty stares out of a window while gloomily talking about how love often ends in heartbreak, but the camera zooms out to show that it wasn't actually raining, there was just a guy on the roof pouring water out of a watering can in front of the window.
• Great Big Library of Everything: The main four own a library full of books on every topic available, no matter how ridiculous it may seem.
• Greater-Scope Villain: The main antagonist of season 5 is Rules, a personification of the concept of rules who keeps harassing the residents of Smileyland and messing with their games by forcing them to comply with strict rules and handing out Cool and Unusual Punishments whenever they disobeyed. At the end of the season we learn that Rules was actually sent on this mission by her parents, who are personifications of the concepts of law and order, and was only trying to please them; in comparison to what her parents have in store for Smileyland's residents, it turns out Rules was going relatively easy on them.
• Great Escape: The first episode of the series, "Let's Play Prison-Ball", parodies this trope to the extreme when Stumpy gets sent to the "prison" in a game of prison-ball. He first starts yelling how "society's the one to blame", then he gets a map of the prison tattooed on his tummy, and finally he uses a jackhammer to dig his way out. Unfortunately, this happens at the exact time Kaeloo gets mad enough to throw Mr. Cat into the air, and Mr. Cat comes crashing down on top of Stumpy's tunnel, pushing him back in. By the end of the episode, Stumpy is released anyway since it was a game, though the experience makes him hate the game of prison-ball.
• Green Aesop: Taken to parody levels in Episode 14. Kaeloo tries to convince everyone that if they aren't green, the planet could get destroyed. She ends up forcing Quack Quack to give up his Trademark Favorite Food, yogurt, and makes him eat a substitute called "org-yurt" which is organic and comes in environment-friendly containers, despite the fact that it tastes so bad that he vomits. When he vomits, she punishes him for "wasting food". She also beats up Mr. Cat and Stumpy and throws them in a nearby dumpster just because they dropped a small piece of paper on the ground, and "littering is bad".
• Green Around the Gills: Almost any time anybody feels nauseous. In Kaeloo's case, since she's already green, her face turns an odd shade of yellowish green.
• The Grim Reaper: The main four meet him in Episode 92. He's portrayed as a black sheep with a scythe.
• Groin Attack: In "Let's Play Market Vendors", Stumpy accidentally shoots the lights out with a gun. While trying to find another light switch, he accidentally grabs Mr. Cat's you-know-what, thinking it's a light switch, and pulls on it.
• Gross-Up Close-Up:
  • In Episode 34, Kaeloo informs Mr. Cat that he has a zit on his face. The audience is then treated to a close-up of the zit on Mr. Cat's face.
  • The same happens with Pretty's zit in Episode 118.
• Ground-Shattering Landing: Several episodes have at least one character doing this during a fight.
• Group Hug: Between the main four, in Episode 105.
• Growing Muscles Sequence: Kaeloo's transformation sequence which is played Once an Episode. Most of the attention is drawn to her butt.
• Growing Up Sucks: The basis of the episode "Let's Play Grown-Ups".
• G-Rated Drug: An episode has Stumpy and Quack Quack eating carrots, which are an in-universe replacement for tobacco. Stumpy was looking for something in his mother's purse and happened to accidentally find them.
• Guns Akimbo: Mr. Cat and Stumpy do this in "Let's Play Market Vendors", when they rob the supermarket.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Inverted, as Mr. Cat and Stumpy use weapons and Kaeloo, Pretty and Eugly smash stuff.

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• Hair-Trigger Temper:
  • Mr. Cat will get angry for the slightest of reasons.
  • Pretty actually makes Mr. Cat look patient.
• Half-Breed Discrimination: Downplayed. In Episode 85, during a fight, Kaeloo refers to Mr. Cat (a cat) being mixed breed instead of a pedigree cat. However, this does not ever impact him negatively in any way on the show, and none of the other major characters are cats so it has yet to be seen if this is an actual problem in the show's society.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: Mr. Cat does this to Quack Quack in several episodes.
• Halfway Plot Switch:
  • Episode 85 starts with everybody playing Rock–Paper–Scissors to see who gets to use the bathroom first. Halfway through the episode, the plot switches to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat arguing about whether Kaeloo's transformation is a good thing or not.
  • "Let's Play Hot-Cold" starts with Stumpy trying to make himself look tanned and muscular, while Kaeloo tries to find someone to play with. Halfway through, the plot becomes about the others teaching Stumpy how to impress girls.
• Halloween Episode: "Let's Play Scaredy Cat", an episode where Stumpy raises the dead and causes a zombie apocalypse.
• Hammered into the Ground: In the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", Mr. Cat gets beaten up by Quack Quack and/or Kaeloo offscreen and winds up with his entire body except his head smashed into the ground.
• Hammerspace: The characters can pull random objects, including actual hammers, from out of thin air.
• Hammerspace Hair: In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat dresses up as Jules Winnfield for most of the episode and uses a wig which he uses to store stuff.
• Hand Behind Head: Kaeloo does this sometimes when she is embarrassed or nervous.
• Hand Signals:
  • Eugly's method of communication, apart from indistinct mumbling.
  • In an Overly Long Gag in "Let's Play Cops and Robbers", Quack Quack uses these to try to communicate with Stumpy, who has no idea what he's saying.
  • Stumpy and Quack-Quack communicate this way at the library to remain in accordance with the "no making noise" rule.
• Hanlon's Razor: Stumpy is able to get away with almost anything because everyone knows he's doing it out of sheer stupidity. However, this starts to get subverted in later episodes when he actually starts to do bad things out of malice.
• Happinessis Mandatory: In Episode 123, Kaeloo takes Stumpy and Quack Quack on a tour to Heaven, where they meet an angel. The angel keeps singing about how in Heaven, there is only peace and harmony and things like that, but the angel seems to be forcing her happiness.
  • In Episode 131, Kaeloo invents a day called "Smile Day" where smiling is mandatory. By the end of the episode, everyone is upset for different reasons and they aren't smiling, so she beats them up offscreen.
• Happy Dance:
  • Kaeloo's booty dance.
  • In the Baseball Episode, Stumpy does one involving pushing his arms back and forth while walking on the spot. Later in the episode, Kaeloo joins him in doing it.
• Harmless Electrocution: Nobody on the show ever gets harmed by electrocution (even if it involves being struck by lightning or sticking their fingers in electric sockets).
  • Averted in Episode 72 when Stumpy dies after electrocuting himself and has to be brought back to life by a spirit.
• Harmless Freezing: Happens to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat in Episode 104, and they are put into People Jars.
• Harmless Liquefaction: In the Beach Episode, Stumpy takes steroids to get buff, but uses too many instead of following the instructions. As a result, he ends up getting inflated "muscles" instead of real ones. When he tries to hit a volleyball with his new muscular arms, he pops and ends up as a pile of goo on the ground. In the next scene he's back to normal, though wearing bandages.
• Harmless Villain: Olaf. All the heroes do is make fun of him. And if they decide that he's getting to be too annoying, they just beat him up.
• Harsh Word Impact: In one episode Kaeloo presents a movie script that she wrote to her friends, who react with harsh criticism; every time someone says something, Kaeloo reacts as if she's been slapped in the face.
• Hate at First Sight: Stumpy and Pretty started hating each other the moment they laid eyes on each other.
  • The climax of Episode 105 suggests that this may only be a facade.
• Hated by All: Everyone hates Pretty. Even Kaeloo doesn't like her, which is saying something.
• Head Desk: Mr. Cat does this in "Let's Play Prince Charming" after Quack Quack answers all his questions correctly. Unfortunately, he accidentally bangs it on a button on the desk which gives Quack Quack an electric shock.
• Heads or Tails?: When Stumpy and Pretty get into an argument, Stumpy pulls out a coin so they can toss it and see who wins. He then says "Heads I win, tails you lose." He wins, obviously, and Pretty tries to attack him.
• Head-Tiltingly Kinky: Minor example in "Let's Play Happy Rotter". Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack watch a documentary on crepidula, and when one of the crepidula changes sex to mate, they tilt their heads to one side.
• Heaven Seeker: In Episode 92, Stumpy becomes this when Kaeloo tells him that there are lots of acorns there. He dies at the end by committing suicide, but since suicide is a sin, he gets sent to Hell instead.
• Held Back in School: Stumpy has been held back in school so many times that he's still in kindergarten despite being a ten-year-old.
• Hello, [Insert Name Here]: One of Stumpy's video games does this. When it asks Mr. Cat for his name, he angrily yells "Shut up, stupid machine!" From that point on, the game refers to him as though his name is "Shutupstupidmachine".
• Helping Another Save Face: In Episode 213, a rumor goes around that Mr. Cat, a Card-Carrying Villain, has undergone a Heel–Face Turn, which he considers embarrassing. Pretty, having recently undergone an actual Heel–Face Turn and having become a nicer person, attempts to help him set the rumor straight by telling the crowd that the rumor is untrue.
• Helping Granny Cross the Street: In Episode 210, Mr. Cat sets up a game show that judges people based on their ability to do good deeds. One of the challenges is for Kaeloo to help an old lady cross the street. Kaeloo does this by transforming into Bad Kaeloo and using Super-Strength to reconstruct the road, thus creating a safe path for the granny to cross, but Kaeloo fails the challenge because her actions led to all the cars crashing due to the new road shape.
• Help Yourself in the Future: The gang go to the past to tell Quack Quack's past self to avoid consuming yogurt (which, in this show, is a G-Rated Drug) so he doesn't end up being addicted to it like he is in the present. Things go horribly wrong when Stumpy tells his past self everything that has happened from then until the present, making him capable of taking over the world since he has partial control over what will happen since he knows everything. Things are back to normal by the end, since the characters decided to avoid altering the timeline after witnessing the consequences.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Stumpy and Quack-Quack are inseparably close friends to the point where one episode showed that their friendship could quite literally transcend the boundaries of space and time, and another stated that they regularly hang out for more than twelve hours at a stretch. Stumpy also calls Quack-Quack his "brother" and aspires to be the best man at Quack-Quack's future wedding and be the fun uncle to his kids. In one episode he got jealous of Quack-Quack spending more time with Eugly than with him, but it is repeatedly made clear that Stumpy's feelings for Quack-Quack are only platonic.
• Here We Go Again!:
  • The end of the pilot (and of "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light") had Kaeloo transform all over again with the intention of beating Mr. Cat up.
  • After Stumpy and Quack Quack get over their addiction to carrots, they get addicted to another G-Rated Drug, tomato juice.
  • In Episode 216, the main four are playing blind man's buff and keep getting annoyed by Rules (a personification of the concept of rules), who keeps trying to alter the rules of the game to make the players more equal. The main four eventually get her to stop, and at the end of the episode, they decide to play soccer instead. Unfortunately, Stumpy asks for a reminder of the rules of soccer, and Rules shows up again to start talking about the rules of soccer, to Kaeloo's chagrin.
• Heroic Fire Rescue: In Episode 93, Stumpy rushes in to rescue Quack Quack after Mr. Cat sets a building on fire with him trapped inside. Unfortunately, it's only after he gets inside and reaches Quack Quack that he realizes that there's no way to get out. He then remembers that he can still make a birthday wish, so he wishes them to safety.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Kaeloo tries to do this in Episode 77. Stumpy accidentally winds up doing it for her. See Be Careful What You Wish For above.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Kaeloo is apparently a great martial artist and can speak many different languages.
  • Stumpy is a brilliant artist and good at jump rope. He's also dangerously smart at times, such as in Episode 105.
  • Mr. Cat is a brilliant scientist and is extremely athletic when necessary. He might have even won a few events at the Zerolympics if he hadn’t been so obsessed with hurting Quack Quack, and "Let's Play Scaredy Cat" showed him to be capable of single-handedly fighting off and stopping a zombie apocalypse.
  • Eugly is capable of singing like a professional.
  • Pretty is apparently an excellent fighter, as shown in Episode 120.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Mr. Cat, on very rare occasions, will show that he truly does care for his friends. "Let’s Play Bye Bye, Yoghurt" ended with a Pet the Dog moment between him and Quack Quack.
  • Moreover, Mr. Cat has outright confessed to Kaeloo that he has a sensitive and vulnerable side that he hides by being mean.
• High-Five Left Hanging: In Episode 121, the main four are told that they are fired from their jobs and have to do a job interview to get re-hired. All four of them succeed, and Mr. Cat attempts to high five Kaeloo, but Kaeloo is too focused on yelling at Olaf (who conducted the interview) for the way she and the others were treated and she doesn't notice his hand.
• High-Pressure Emotion: When Stumpy gets angry enough, he blows steam out of his nose.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Quack Quack the duck. When he was still in an egg, his parents were killed by a hunter. He was subsequently found by scientists and taken to a laboratory where they did weird experiments on him. Then, he moved to Smileyland, where the show takes place. His life there, which is the events of the show, is not much better as his friends just exploit the superpowers he got from the experiments, and Ax-Crazy psychopath Mr. Cat repeatedly kills him, taking advantage of his Nigh-Invulnerability.
• Hi, Mom!:
  • In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Stumpy isn't sure whether the camera is a webcam or a TV camera, but says hello to his mother anyway.
  • Inverted in "Let's Play Circuses" when Stumpy's mom sees him on TV and calls him on his phone.
• Hit Me, Dammit!: In Episode 12, the main four start a news channel and Mr. Cat is convinced that the audience will like violent news more than regular news. Later in the episode, Mr. Cat's usual antics cause Kaeloo to lose her temper and beat him up, which gets broadcasted on their channel. When Kaeloo comes to her senses and apologizes, Mr. Cat tries to convince her to continue hitting him in order to keep the viewers interested, going as far as to grab her foot and hit himself with it.
• Hockey Mask and Chainsaw: Mr. Cat uses these in the series' pilot episode when chopping off Quack Quack's arms.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • Frequently happens to Mr. Cat. For example, in the episode "Let's Play Cops and Robbers", he gives Stumpy a banana as a weapon. At the end of the episode during a car chase scene with Stumpy pursuing Mr. Cat, Stumpy launches the banana, which gets stuck in Mr. Cat's nose and causes him to lose control of the car. Sometimes it happens with even the most minor things; in one episode, he tries to hit Quack Quack on the head with a mallet, but since he is completely drunk at the time, he winds up hitting himself on the head.
  • In Episode 113, Kaeloo takes Stumpy to court, with Quack Quack as the judge, for "mistreating" objects and convinces the jury that objects have souls and therefore Stumpy should be punished. Mr. Cat, who is Stumpy's lawyer in this episode, decides to use this to his advantage. He decides to call a can of yogurt, which is Quack Quack's Trademark Favorite Food, as a witness, pointing out that if objects have souls, the yogurt counts as a witness. Quack Quack devours the "witness" almost instantly and is taken to jail by Mr. Cat, who is also a police officer in this episode. Kaeloo steps out of the courtroom to talk to some reporters about the incident, and since everyone is gone, Stumpy takes the judge's place and declares himself "not guilty", which apparently works in Smileyland's judicial system.
  • In Episode 138, Kaeloo tells Stumpy to clean his incredibly messy room, and the latter resorts to Playing Sick so he can sit around playing video games instead of cleaning. Kaeloo sees right through this, so she says that if he's sick, he must need medicines... and brings in a truckload of vaccines. Stumpy, who is terribly Afraid of Needles, says that he "got better", and is forced to clean his room.
  • Villainous example: Kaeloo tries to give Mr. Cat the Silent Treatment so he'll stop the unethical activities he's doing in the episode. Mr. Cat chooses to ignore this and continues to address her in a friendly tone of voice, asking her if she'd like to join in a fun activity he's planning. Kaeloo starts crying because her friendship with Mr. Cat is too strong to never speak to him again, and she gives up on the idea.
• Holding Hands:
  • Mr. Cat and Kaeloo do this in Episode 105.
  • In Episode 231, Kaeloo and Mr. Cat witness a bunch of happy couples together, and Kaeloo says "love is beautiful" before holding Mr. Cat's hand, showing that their relationship is leaning more towards romance than plain friendship at this point in the series.
• Hollywood Acid: Mr. Cat dunks Quack Quack into a tub full of it in "Let's Play Prince Charming".
• Hollywood Healing:
  • Bandages fix everything. Even if your head blows up, you should be fine with bandages.
  • This is averted in Episode 22 when after Stumpy, Quack Quack, and Mr. Cat are injured, Quack Quack is fine, but Stumpy and Mr. Cat need him to push them around on a hospital gurney since they haven't recovered enough to get back on their feet.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Olaf (except in the Musical Episode).
• Holy Halo: Mr. Cat puts one on while pretending to be "innocent" in Episode 102.
• Hood Ornament Hottie: When Stumpy tries to sell apples by giving away free cars with the purchase of an apple, he dresses as a girl and sits on top of the car. Nobody buys the apples anyway.
• Horrible Camping Trip: The main four's camping trip in "Let's Play Treasure Hunt". First, they find out that Stumpy unpacked all their supplies so he could have room for all his comic books. Then, Kaeloo sets up a game of treasure hunt for Stumpy and Quack Quack to play, but Mr. Cat changes all the clues and dares in the game so Stumpy and Quack Quack are horribly injured.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Kaeloo is the worst at character judgement. She believes that Mr. Cat is nice (unless he really is being nice, in which case she thinks he's being mean), and she thinks Olaf is just a Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold when he's actually evil and wants to Take Over the World.
• Hostile Show Takeover:
  • After Stumpy becomes a genius in Episode 72, he decides to Take Over the World and change the show's name from Kaeloo to Stumpy.
  • At the end of Episode 105, Stumpy breaks into the animation studio making the show and takes over script-writing.
• Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: The episode "Let's Play Babysitting" revolves around Kaeloo, a frog, trying to persuade Mr. Cat, a cat, to have sex with her. It never gets to that stage due to an emotional outburst from Kaeloo's side, but Quack Quack has an Imagine Spot showing the viewers what the resulting babies would have looked like: orange tadpoles with whiskers.
• Hourglass Plot: In Episode 209, Stumpy is saddled with watching his little sister Nombril for the day. Nombril keeps trying to get his attention with exaggerated gestures while Stumpy, who is fed up of Nombril constantly interfering with his activities, ignores her and pretends he doesn't even know who she is. Later in the episode, Stumpy annoys Nombril, causing her to start ignoring him. The episode ends with Stumpy desperately trying to get Nombril's attention while she gives him the cold shoulder, saying she doesn't talk to "strangers".
• How Did That Get in There?: In one episode, Mr. Cat is giving a presentation on vampires with a slideshow to Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack when a picture of Bad Kaeloo shows up as one of the slides.
• Huddle Shot: Used in the Baseball Episode when Stumpy's team^note consisting of Kaeloo,

Stumpy and Mr. Cat discusses strategies on how to defeat their extremely talented opponents^note Quack Quack, Olaf and Serguei.

• Hulking Out: The titular character goes through this Once an Episode.
• Human Hummingbird: In multiple episodes, running characters' feet are depicted as a blur of oval shapes.
• Humanlike Hand Anatomy: Everyone except Olaf has Four-Fingered Hands which resemble those of humans, though Quack Quack's arms are flat like wings.
• Humanoid Female Animal: The female animals shown in men's magazines are bordering on Little Bit Beastly. Even Kaeloo herself, who lacks most forms of Tertiary Sexual Characteristics has some serious junk in the trunk and has a light curve to her hips which is often accentuated in the way she stands. She is also significantly less prone to dropping a Furry Reminder than her male friends. Pretty also seems to have curvy hips as well (but no other curves).
• Humiliation Conga: In the very second episode of the show, Stumpy gets the flu, eats a poisonous mushroom, gives himself a concussion, and breaks his leg.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: Mr. Cat has an arsenal of weapons which he can randomly pull out at any time, which consists mostly of bazookas, guns, chainsaws, knives, mallets and others. Lampshaded in one episode where he says he is carrying a bazooka, a chainsaw and a cluster bomb, while his hands are completely empty.
• Hyperspace Mallet: Where exactly does Mr. Cat keep all those mallets^note He has a bunch in different sizes?
• Hypocritical Heartwarming:
  • Mr. Cat acts like a Jerkass to Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack but when somebody else decides to mess with them, he will not accept it.
  • Pretty is the ONLY one allowed to insult her sister. Notably in one episode where Stumpy insults Eugly, so Pretty punches his lights put, then turns to Eugly and says Stumpy was right.
  • Stumpy thinks Lavanade is weird and annoying because of her supernatural powers that allow her to summon spirits and levitate, and constantly complains about her to his friends. However, when Kaeloo suggests that Lavanade needs to be exorcised, Stumpy angrily tells her that he won't let her do any rituals on his sister.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • Happens twice in the same scene in "Let’s Play Scaredy Cat". Kaeloo, who is walking through a dark forest with Quack Quack and Mr. Cat, sees a door in the forest and screams in fear. Mr. Cat questions why she is scared, and opens the door to see Quack Quack on the other side. He screams. Then, Kaeloo says that he’s going overboard.
  • In "Let's Play Golf", Mr. Cat joins the others in calling Kaeloo a "dirty cheater".
  • In "Let's Play at Reading Books", Stumpy calls Mr. Cat a loser.
  • Stumpy constantly makes fun of Olaf, the shortest character on the show, for being short. Guess who's the second shortest of the cast.
  • There are episodes where Kaeloo accuses Stumpy of being stupid.
  • In Episode 82, the normally hyperactive Kaeloo, who normally spends her time dancing, singing and doing other such generally annoying things, is sitting and playing a board game. She turns around and yells at Stumpy, who is bouncing on a trampoline, for being annoying.
  • In another episode, Stumpy finds out that Kaeloo once farted and blamed him for it. He calls her a "hypocrite"... and then he farts and decides to blame Quack Quack for it.
  • In Episode 108, Kaeloo tells Mr. Cat that he is a "monster". Kaeloo herself is capable of Hulking Out and turning into a monster, and does so Once per Episode. Mr. Cat even calls her out on it.
  • In Episode 81, when Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Pretty are in a desert, Kaeloo warns them that there could be scorpions in the desert. Pretty screams in fear. Stumpy makes fun of her for getting scared, but then Kaeloo mentions that there could also be rattlesnakes. Stumpy screams even louder and starts to panic.
  • In one episode, we get a scene where the trope is used by several different people. Mr. Cat tries to run psychological tests on Stumpy. Quack Quack lampshades the fact that Mr. Cat is an Ax-Crazy psychopath and he himself qualifies for requiring such testing. Kaeloo agrees. Mr. Cat then points out that Quack Quack and Kaeloo need it too.
  • In one episode, Pretty makes fun of Stumpy for having buck teeth. Pretty also has buck teeth.
  • In "Let's Play Art Class", Kaeloo sees that Stumpy has made a painting without following the "rules of art" which she uses while painting and calls his painting "childish scribbles". Stumpy's painting is actually amazing and Kaeloo's painting looks like it was made by a kindergartener.
  • In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat, the show's biggest jerkass, calls Nice Girl Kaeloo a "she-devil".
  • In Episode 138, when Kaeloo yells at Stumpy, Mr. Cat tells her that she shouldn't be so mean to him. Mr. Cat regularly yells at, insults and even beats up Stumpy.
  • Then there was this gem from the Christmas Episode:
  Mr. Cat: Don’t tell me you still believe in Santa!
  Stumpy:: Well, yeah. Who else would bring the presents? Your parents? You’re so naive, Mr. Cat.
  • In one episode from season 4, Kaeloo confides in Pretty that she feels like her butt is shapeless and flabby. Pretty promptly blabs the secret to Mr. Cat, the boy both she and Kaeloo like. When Mr. Cat informs Kaeloo that Pretty told him her secret, Kaeloo confronts Pretty and Pretty rants about how boys can't keep secrets properly.

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• I Am Not Weasel: Olaf is an emperor penguin, not an auk. Not that anyone cares enough to remember, of course. ^note In the French dub, this also references the common mistake of calling penguins pingouins (auks) instead of manchots, due to mixing up with the English word.
• I Ate WHAT?!: Olaf, judging a cooking competition, seems fine with Pretty's dish until one of the live worms she put in it crawls out of his mouth.
• I Call It "Vera": Mr. Cat named his bazooka "Patience", of all names.
• I Can't Believe I'm Saying This: When Quack Quack does Mr. Cat a favor, Mr. Cat responds with "I never thought I'd be saying this, but thanks, duck-face."
• "I Can't Look!" Gesture:
  • Invoked and subverted. In "Let's Play Simon Says", Mr. Cat puts Quack Quack in a very humiliating situation and covers his eyes, saying "I can't look..." but then uncovers them and says "Or maybe I can."
  • Played straight in "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", when Kaeloo covers her eyes and says "I can't watch this!" when Mr. Cat tricks Stumpy and Quack Quack into jumping off a cliff.
• Iconic Item: Mr. Cat's bazooka and Stumpy's video game console.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode name starts with "Let's Play...".
• If It Bleeds, It Leads: Invoked. The main four want to start a news station, but since nothing interesting is happening, Mr. Cat deliberately instigates several violent incidents, including one with himself as the victim, and reports on these incidents on TV. The audience loves it.
• If It's You, It's Okay: Mr. Cat hates the concepts of dating and marriage and often dismisses them as a waste of time that ends poorly. However, he has repeatedly expressed that he wants to date (and eventually marry) Kaeloo.
• If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You: In "Let's Play Ecologists", Kaeloo buys Quack Quack organic yogurt to replace his regular yogurt because it is supposedly very healthy. Quack Quack vomits as soon as he eats it. Stumpy tries it and has the same reaction, and even Mr. Cat, who has eaten very questionable food before, says it's "revolting". Kaeloo winds up having to force feed the organic yogurt to Quack Quack.
• Ignoring by Singing: Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat in Episode 105 until she finds out that the real villain of the episode is Stumpy and Mr. Cat was trying to stop him.
• I Have Nothing to Say to That: When Kaeloo suddenly breaks down crying in the middle of a conversation, Stumpy thinks it must be a psychological issue, and suggests asking Mr. Cat to help Kaeloo sort it out. Quack Quack thinks this is a horrible idea, since Mr. Cat is, well, Mr. Cat, eliciting this response from Stumpy:
  Stumpy: Do YOU know anything about psychology?
  Quack Quack: Stares in silence
  Stumpy: No? Exactly.
• I Have Your Wife: In one episode of Season 1, Mr. Cat takes Quack Quack, to whom Kaeloo is a Parental Substitute, as a hostage so she'll pay him money. It turns out that she doesn't have any because of the ongoing economic crisis. Mr. Cat then threatens to shoot Kaeloo if Quack Quack doesn't pay him, which also fails because Quack Quack doesn't have any money. Mr. Cat is subsequently punished by Kaeloo for what he did.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Kaeloo has a condition where she winds up Hulking Out whenever she gets too angry and does mean and sadistic things to whoever made her angry, which seem to be beyond her conscious control. She doesn't want this "power" and has tried numerous times to get rid of it, but she never can.
• I Just Want to Be You: Stumpy really, really wishes he was Mr. Cat.
• I Kiss Your Hand: Mr. Cat does this to Kaeloo sometimes, usually followed by kissing her arm.
  • In "Let's Play Tea Party", Quack Quack tries doing this to Kaeloo, but Mr. Cat shoots his head off with a bazooka before he can.
• Ill-Fated Flowerbed: This is a Running Gag on the show, with Kaeloo's flowers constantly being destroyed by the main four's antics (either accidentally or on purpose).
• I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!: Pretty does this in one episode where she goes on a TV show and says "I'd never say..." followed by one of her friends' secrets each time. She's actually doing it on purpose, not because she's stupid.
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: The trope is used in an episode where Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are doctors, with Mr. Cat taking Dr. Jerk to a whole new level. When both of them try to "cure" Quack Quack (who isn't even sick), Kaeloo suggests homeopathic cures. Mr. Cat, eager to hurt Quack Quack, asks if she means acupuncture, and she clarifies that she meant to use herbs and flowers, eliciting this response from Mr. Cat:
  Mr. Cat: I'm a doctor, not a florist.
• Imaginary Friend: Stumpy has many of these.
• Imagine Spot:
  • Quack Quack has one in "Let's Play Babysitting" about what Kaeloo and Mr. Cat's potential offspring would look like: orange tadpoles with whiskers.
  • When Kaeloo tries to talk to her friends about growing up, Mr. Cat briefly imagines a giant Quack Quack crushing him.
• I Miss Mom: Mr. Cat admits to this after being shot with Truth Serum in "Let's Play Spies", combined with crying and thumb-sucking.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction: In one episode, in every dub except the English dub, Stumpy says he's not Afraid of Needles, then faints at the sight of a needle. Averted in the English dub where he admits that he's scared instead of denying it before passing out.
• Immortal Life Is Cheap: Mr. Cat constantly torments Quack Quack by shooting him with bazookas, cutting him in half, etc. and attempts to justify himself by saying that Quack Quack is indestructible.
• Impairment Shot:
  • In the episode "Let's Play Hopscotch", when Quack Quack is hit on the head by a boulder thanks to Stumpy, the camera blurs and everything appears as though we're seeing double.
  • In one episode where Mr. Cat gets completely drunk, the camera starts to wobble and slightly blur.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Episode 184 reveals that Mr. Cat murdered a guy called Jean-René by impaling him on the bowsprit of a ship. It's never explained how or why he did this, but he did it skillfully enough that somehow Jean-René didn't even notice.
• Implausible Deniability:
  • One episode had Mr. Cat say that he would never try to hurt Quack Quack... while chasing the duck with a mallet.
  • In another episode, Kaeloo and Stumpy both set up market stalls. Kaeloo's is full of fresh apples, and Stumpy's is full of rotten ones. Later, Kaeloo finds all her apples stolen. Stumpy says he swears he didn't steal them, even though the fresh apples are in plain view at his stand.
  • Then there's this line from Kaeloo: "I don't talk with a lithp, Mithter Cat!"
  • When asked about the chance of a romantic relationship between him and Kaeloo, Mr. Cat tells the audience that Kaeloo constantly texts him, and it is implied that the texts are somewhat flirty in nature. Before he can reveal what exactly the messages said, Kaeloo yanks the phone out of his hands, launches him offstage, and yells that she "never texts him at all", despite the fact that Mr. Cat obviously had her texts on his phone screen and was about to show them to the audience.
• Impossible Hourglass Figure: The women in men's magazines on the show have extremely narrow waists when compared to the rest of their body proportions.
• Impossible Task: In one episode, Mr. Cat gives Kaeloo the task of transforming without getting angry. Even though she has been seen doing this before, she treats it as though it is not possible. At the end of the episode, Kaeloo gives Mr. Cat another impossible task as a punishment.
• I'm Standing Right Here: In the Beach Episode, Pretty reads on the internet that boys love to comfort miserable girls and tries to get attention from Mr. Cat by telling him that she finds life with her sister unbearable and wants to commit suicide, while her sister is standing right there.
• Inadvertent Entrance Cue:
  • In Episode 72, Stumpy, who has been given Sudden Intelligence, decides to invent a bomb. When he mentions this, Olaf suddenly shows up and asks who mentioned a bomb.
  • In another episode, Kaeloo decides to play "restaurant" by playing waitress to Quack Quack and Eugly, who are on a date. After Mr. Cat ruins said date, Kaeloo laments and asks who she can play "restaurant" with now that her "customers" are gone. Suddenly, Stumpy shows up with a fork and knife and runs towards the table.
• Inanimate Competitor: In Episode 238, Stumpy tries to run a race against a rock. Stumpy trips and falls on the ground, and the impact causes the rock to fly into the air and land on the finish line, and the rock is declared the winner.
• Inappropriate Role Model: Stumpy's role model (besides comic book hero Mr. Coolskin) is, unfortunately, Mr. Cat.
• Incoming Ham:
  • Kaeloo always yells something akin to "Hello, friends/buddies/pals!" while entering the scene in extravagant ways like floating down from the sky with an umbrella, crashing a kick-scooter into the couch or suddenly popping out of a conveniently placed box.
  • In the French dub, Olaf the penguin always yells something which translates to "Bow down before your emperor!" whenever he enters the scene. Nobody ever obeys this, and in some cases Mr. Cat even goes as far as beating him up.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: In "Let's Play Happy Rotter", an episode parodying Harry Potter, Stumpy says the wrong magic spell and shrinks himself.
• Incredibly Lame Fun: A lot of Kaeloo's games are seen as "boring" by her friends, who would much rather watch TV or play video games.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Depending on the episode, Kaeloo's crying can be this.
• Infant Sibling Jealousy: When Mr. Cat was born, both of his older brothers quickly developed a hatred towards him for supposedly being their mother's favorite and would bully him as a result. Unlike most examples of the trope, the brothers continued to hate and abuse him for years until Mr. Cat got sick of the abuse and decided to run away from home entirely.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex:
  • Kaeloo claims to think of herself as cute-looking and talented, but the moment she sees a prettier girl or someone who is more talented than her, she becomes jealous of them because she actually has rather low self esteem.
  • It's heavily implied, if not outright stated, that the reason Mr. Cat constantly brags about his intelligence, strength, and other talents is because he has no self-esteem, so he inflates his ego to make himself feel better.
• Infernal Background: When Mr. Cat gets really angry, the background behind him bursts into flames.
• Informed Attractiveness: In-universe, Pretty apparently really lives up to her name. Mr. Cat is also suggested to be very attractive.
• Informed Deformity: Apparently, in-universe, Kaeloo is overweight and has cellulite, and Stumpy is hideous.
• In Medias Res: Episode 135 starts with the main four in the middle of re-enacting Les Misérables with no explanation given.
• Innocently Insensitive: During an essay contest where the participants have to write about their biggest dream, Kaeloo writes an essay about how her ideal world would be, which includes calm and peace for everyone. Since Kaeloo Mr. Cat spend most of their time bonding over fights with each other, Mr. Cat takes it to mean that Kaeloo doesn't want him in her ideal world and feels upset that his best friend seemingly doesn't care about him.
• Insane Equals Violent: Mr. Cat is an insane psychopath owns a bunch of weapons, and attacks people and objects very violently to the slightest annoyance (or even for no reason at all). Stumpy may be an aversion since he is insane, but not violent. If he is being violent, it's probably in a video game or attacking an object, but not a person.
• Insane Troll Logic:
  • Most of Stumpy's reasoning.
  Stumpy: "Life is magical, life is magical." How many times have I heard that? But if magic doesn't exist... then life itself doesn't exist!
  • In one episode, Mr. Cat says that he believes that women must stay in the kitchen and do housework. Kaeloo points out how backward his thought process is, and Mr. Cat says that he has no problem with gay couples^note The show portrays Mr. Cat as Ambiguously Bi and therefore he can't be thinking backward.
  • Stumpy tries to tan himself in Episode 45 by setting up a bunch of barbecue grills to accelerate global warming and make the planet hotter.
  • In the first episode, during a game of prison-ball, Mr. Cat sets up a basketball hoop to catch the ball in. Kaeloo says that it's cheating, and Mr. Cat explains why it isn't: The game is called "prison-ball", and "all prisoners play basketball".
  • In one episode, the main cast write a sitcom, and in the sitcom, the main characters are harboring an illegal immigrant from Mexico in their home. Their neighbor starts to suspect that they may be harboring a Mexican immigrant because... they had Mexican food for dinner one day.
• Insignificant Anniversary: In "Astronauts", Stumpy prepares to celebrate the two-week anniversary of the day when he and his girlfriend Ursula became Fakebook friends.
• Insistent Terminology:
  • In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", each time somebody says that Stumpy lost the cards, he claims that he just "forgot where he put them".
  • Stumpy's little sister Poucave is an aspiring journalist who practices for her future career by spying on people to write about them. Whenever someone calls her out on it, Poucave explains that she isn't "spying", but "investigating".
• Inspirational Insult: In the episode "Let's Play Catch the Mailman", Kaeloo receives a letter in the mail from someone claiming to be a fan of the show, who says that Stumpy, Quack Quack and especially Mr. Cat are the best characters on the show and that she is annoying, boring, serious and easily offended^note This actually does reflect the real-life feelings of some fans about her. Kaeloo decides to use this as advice and never get angry again and be calm, easygoing and cool. Of course, she gets angry beyond words at the end of the episode when she finds out that the letter was written not by a fan, but by Mr. Cat himself.
• Instant Bandages: In the pilot episode, bandages instantly appear on Mr. Cat while he is getting beaten up. Averted in the actual show, where we often see Kaeloo bandage him up after the beating.
• Instant Home Delivery: Anything the characters order immediately falls out of the sky.
• Instant Waking Skills: In one episode, Kaeloo has to wake up at 5:30. She proceeds to jump out of bed the moment the alarm clock rings, and somehow even does exercise.
• Instant Web Hit: In Episode 68, Bad Kaeloo, Quack Quack, Mr. Cat, Pretty and Eugly make a rock song. Someone puts it on the internet and they become incredibly famous overnight.
• Instant Wristwatch: The main four have these.
• Instrumental Theme Tune
• Intelligible Unintelligible: Zigzagged with Quack Quack. Sometimes everyone understands him, sometimes they don't.
• The Internet Is for Cats: Apparently, even though the show is set in a World of Funny Animals, there are still cat videos; even Mr. Cat thinks being a cat is awesome because people on the internet love cats.
• Interrupted Bath: In one episode, Kaeloo is taking a shower, but Stumpy flushes all the toilets at once and the house runs out of water, so Kaeloo's shower is cut short.
• Interrupted Suicide: In an episode where Stumpy thinks he's not going to be able to impress a girl he likes, he tries to hang himself. Before he can do it, his friends talk him down and offer him advice on how to impress the girl.
• Interspecies Romance:
  • Quack Quack, a duck, and Eugly, a rabbit, are an Official Couple.
  • Another Official Couple is Stumpy the squirrel and Ursula the cat.
  • Kaeloo, a frog, and Mr. Cat, a cat, have shown signs of attraction to each other.
  • Pretty, a rabbit, has a crush on Mr. Cat.
• Introductory Opening Credits: The opening has shots of the main characters.
• In Vino Veritas: When Mr. Cat drinks alcohol, he tends to drop the Jerkass act and be much nicer.
• Invisibility:
  • This has happened to Mr. Cat in a couple of episodes. Each time, he ended up beating up Kaeloo and Quack Quack,
  • Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack turn themselves into ghosts in Episode 123, rendering them invisible.
• Invisible Jerkass:
  • Mr. Cat was already a jerk, but in some episodes when he gets turned invisible he's even worse, and he does things like kick Kaeloo and hit Quack Quack with mallets while constantly moving so they can't get back at him.
  • When Stumpy is turned into a ghost in Episode 123, he tries to sneak into the bathroom to watch Pretty take a bath. Kaeloo stops him before he can do it.
• Invisible Parents:
  • Stumpy's mother is one of these. Stumpy and his sisters still live with her and regularly talk about her, but Stumpy's mother herself is never seen onscreen; in one episode she makes an appearance but her voice is heard from offscreen and she never appears physically.
  • Due to Mr. Cat running away from home before the start of the series, his mother is one of these as well. Her presence in the show so far is limited to one brief phone call and one scene of her yelling at Mr. Cat from offscreen.
• Involuntary Dance:
  • In Episode 132, Kaeloo forces Mr. Cat to join her and the others in having fun by turning on some Zumba music. He ties himself to a tree in order to escape, but the ropes break and he soon finds himself involuntarily doing Zumba with them.
  • In "Let's Play Super Powers", Kaeloo uses an attack on Mr. Cat that causes him to dance uncontrollably.
• Involuntary Shapeshifter: Mr. Cat is one of these, his transformations into random objects usually brought upon by Kaeloo beating the stuffing out of him.
• I Resemble That Remark!:
  • In "Let's Play Guess Who!", Kaeloo says she doesn't have a double personality... and transforms mid-sentence.
  • In another episode, she yells "I NEVER YELL!" when Mr. Cat says she should stop yelling.
  • One episode had the main four go for a job interview. In the waiting room, Mr. Cat (who is calmly reading a book) tells Kaeloo that she seems stressed. She responds by screaming "I HAVE NO REASON TO BE STRESSED!" in an extremely stressed manner and slaps the book out of his hands.
• Ironic Fear: Stumpy, a squirrel, is afraid of heights.
• Ironic Name: In one episode, it is revealed that Mr. Cat, a sadistic psychopath with a Hair-Trigger Temper whose favorite hobby is to torture people with weapons, gave his bazooka a name. Its name is "Patience".
• Irony:
  • "Let's Play Grown Ups" ends with Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack singing a song about what a wonderful friend Mr. Cat is to them. At the moment they're singing this, Mr. Cat is running around looking for a bazooka or other weapon to kill them with.
  • As the series progresses, we learn that Mr. Cat, who despises interacting with people, enjoys being alone, and is rude and snarky to everyone he meets, is popular and well-liked by everyone, while Kaeloo, a friendly extrovert who loves everyone, is generally avoided by people because they think she's weird and annoying.
  • Kaeloo and Mr. Cat both have incredibly low self-esteem, but they have very high esteem for each other.
  • Mr. Cat is the main antagonist and often tortures the rest of the main four just for the heck of it, yet he is The Leader of the main four whenever they encounter a problem that the four of them need to face together.
  • In one episode, Kaeloo's friends are all out doing their own thing and Kaeloo thinks that they've abandoned her because she's not important to them. When she makes a phone call to Mr. Cat, who is at a party, the latter tells everyone else at the party that the caller is "the frog I was telling you guys about just two seconds ago".
  • When Quack-Quack notices that Stumpy's sister Violasse carries around a balloon with his face on it, Stumpy explains that Violasse was Born Unlucky and that she sees the balloon as a Good Luck Charm that will save her from danger, as if Quack-Quack was her personal "superhero", which Stumpy dismisses as nonsense. As Stumpy (who was also Born Unlucky) is explaining this, Quack-Quack saves him from falling into a pit, being hit by a meteor, and drinking poison, proving that he is indeed a "superhero" to those who struggle with bad luck.
• Is It Something You Eat?: In Episode 210, Mr. Cat invites Kaeloo, Stumpy, and Pretty onto a game show where participants earn good karma by doing good deeds. Stumpy, being the resident moron, doesn't know what karma is and asks "What's karma? Can you eat it?"
• iSophagus: Parodied. Quack Quack manages to develop an amazing singing voice by accidentally swallowing a spoon of all things.
• It Always Rains at Funerals: In "Let's Play Bye Bye, Yoghurt", it rains at the funeral.
• It Amused Me: Unlike Mr. Cat and Olaf, who have Freudian Excuses, and Pretty, who is a Slave to PR, Stumpy has no reason to torment people other than his own amusement.
• I Taste Delicious: In one episode, Stumpy gets a job at a fast-food restaurant and starts to smell like fries after working for a long time. He then licks his arm and remarks on how good he tastes.
• It's All My Fault: In Episode 214, Stumpy repeatedly complains to Lavanade that her supernatural powers are weird and he wishes she could be normal. This sparks an argument between Stumpy and Quack-Quack, because not only is Quack-Quack appalled by Stumpy's treatment of Lavanade, but Quack-Quack has superpowers too and every insult Stumpy says to Lavanade hurts him too. Lavanade being the subject of the argument, she blames herself for upsetting the two of them and starts crying about how it was all her fault.
• I've Heard of That — What Is It?: In "Let's Play Hopscotch", Stumpy sees Kaeloo drawing on the ground with chalk and asks her what it is. She shows him that it is a game of hopscotch. Stumpy excitedly raves about how much he loves hopscotch, but he has one question: "what's hopscotch"?
• I Want My Mommy!: In one episode, Stumpy uses a Portal Door to go inside Mr. Cat's brain. Mr. Cat tells him to leave, but he refuses to, so Mr. Cat imagines something disgusting which attacks Stumpy. Stumpy runs out screaming for his mother.
• "I Want" Song: Stumpy sings one in Episode 105, with Stumpy explaining how he wants all the abuse to stop and for people to treat him better.
• I Was Just Joking: In "Let's Play Detectives", after Kaeloo finds out that Mr. Cat built a cloning machine, she complains that it feels too much like a science fiction episode instead of a detective episode, and sarcastically asks him why he doesn't add some bazookas and lasers. Which turns out to be a bad question to ask someone who owns three of them.

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• Jail Bait Wait: In Episode 191, Stumpy is magically turned into an adult and realizes that he will have to wait several more years until Ursula becomes old enough for their relationship to be legal again.
• Jaw Drop: Kaeloo's reaction to anything she finds shocking, e.g. Stumpy eating a huge pile of food at a really high speed and throwing all the packaging on the ground.
• Jekyll & Hyde: Kaeloo and Bad Kaeloo, a cute gentle frog and a huge, buffed sadistic toad respectively.
• Jerkass Has a Point: When Kaeloo tries to tell fairy tales as bedtime stories to Stumpy and Quack Quack in Episode 122, Mr. Cat interrupts each story, takes over the narration, and makes it more realistic (like having Cinderella call CPS, for example). When Kaeloo gets mad at him for "ruining" the stories, he points out that the original versions of the fairy tales would not help Stumpy and Quack Quack learn how to deal with real life problems.
• Joker Jury:
  • Episode 35 Inverts the heroic and villainous roles by having Mr. Cat, the villain, be put on trial with the judge (who is none other than Stumpy), the defense attorney (Kaeloo) and the victim (Quack Quack) all wanting him to get punished. Kaeloo wins the case by manipulating Mr. Cat into confessing that he was guilty.
  • In Episode 118, the heroic and villainous roles are inverted again. This time, the Alpha Bitch Pretty is pur on trial. Kaeloo, who hates Pretty, is the judge. Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat, who hate Pretty even more than Kaeloo does, are the jury. The lawyer provided to Pretty is a sheep. Not a Funny Animal, an ordinary sheep. Obviously, Pretty is punished.
• Judicial Wig: The trope is parodied in one episode where Quack Quack is a judge. The wig is made out of toilet paper rolls.
• Juggling Dangerously: Stumpy does this in "Let's Play Circuses". It goes well until his mother calls him on the phone, having seen this on live TV and wanting to make sure her kid is safe. He neglects the chainsaws in the air and picks up the phone.
• Just One More Level!: Stumpy suffers from a very serious video game addiction, to the extent that when Kaeloo takes his game console away from him in one episode all he can do is crawl on the ground weakly saying "My console...".
• Kafka Komedy: Almost any time Mr. Cat actually does something nice, he winds up suffering horribly as a result. The same often applies to Kaeloo.
• Karma Houdini: If Mr. Cat and Stumpy pull something off together, Stumpy almost always escapes. Pretty also doesn't receive any punishment for intentionally shooting and killing a horse and bullying Kaeloo in "What if We Played at Riding Ponies?", and Quack Quack escapes in "Let’s Play at Reading Books" for doing the exact same thing as Mr. Cat. Even Mr. Cat gets away with some things, like selling dumpster trash as food in a restaurant.
• Karma Houdini Warranty:
  • In Episode 56, the Alpha Bitch Pretty gets away with forcefully taking a horse away from Kaeloo, and shooting a horse with a gun just because she doesn't like it. In Episode 82, Kaeloo and Mr. Cat succeed in getting her humiliated on the news.
  • In Episode 118, Pretty gets away with posting embarrassing pictures of the main four online. She does this again a few episodes later to Kaeloo, but this time, she enters a competition and finds out that the judge is Kaeloo, who promptly fails her.
  • Whenever Mr. Cat is driving his car, his jerkassery levels increase. Examples of this include deliberately driving at a ridiculously slow speed in order to slow Kaeloo down when she's in a hurry since her car is behind his, or in another episode, ramming his car into Kaeloo's because she's going too slow and he's behind her. In Episode 134, Stumpy, who is angry at Mr. Cat, gets a bunch of clones of himself, who destroy the car... by holding an impromptu demolition derby while Mr. Cat is driving.
  • Cramoisie's Day in the Limelight episode has her being a huge jerk to everyone. She fat-shames Kaeloo and calls her ugly, and insults Mr. Cat as well, which she gets away with because Kaeloo forgives her due to her young age and Mr. Cat (being a Jerkass himself) finds Cramoisie's insults endearing and encourages her to continue being mean. In the last episode of season 5, Lavanade notices Cramoisie bullying Violasse and promptly summons a horde of ghosts to attack Cramoisie for being mean.
  • In seasons 2-4, Pretty is an Abhorrent Admirer to Mr. Cat and takes great pleasure in telling everyone that she and Mr. Cat are in a relationship even though Mr. Cat is disgusted by the idea. In season 5 Pretty undergoes a Heel–Face Turn and ends up falling out of love with him and becomes his friend instead. One of the season 5 episodes had Pretty try to tell a crowd that a rumor that was being spread about Mr. Cat was false, only for the crowd to call her a liar; it turns out that after three seasons of telling everyone Mr. Cat was her boyfriend, they believed her, and now they think Mr. Cat's "girlfriend" is defending him simply because they're in a "relationship".
• Karmic Nod: In Episode 231, we find out that every time Stumpy loses a sock, he throws the remaining one under his bed instead of trying to reunite them, adding to a giant mess in his room. The socks, who are sentient, are unhappy about being split from their partners, swear revenge on Stumpy. As the plot progresses, the ending moves to a happy one with everyone enjoying themselves at a party on an island. Stumpy tells the socks that this came about as a direct result of his messiness and tells them that they should thank him, prompting the irate socks to chuck him off the island. Stumpy turns to the audience and says "I admit it, I deserved that."
• Kick the Dog: "Let's Play Treasure Hunt" has the main four go camping. Mr. Cat says he will get wood for the fire. It turns out he's too lazy to go get any, so he just sets Stumpy's favorite comic books on fire. Stumpy starts crying, and Mr. Cat callously tells the "spoiled brat" to shut up.
• Kids Are Cruel: All the characters are children under thirteen, yet most of them are unspeakably cruel, with even the nice ones sometimes being mean. The most prominent examples of this trope are Mr. Cat, who finds any excuse to hurt anyone (especially Quack Quack) in horrible ways, and Pretty, who is rude, snobbish, and looks down on people with less money or who are ugly.
• Kinky Spanking: In one episode, when Kaeloo gets mad at Mr. Cat, he suggestively tells her to punish him with a spanking.
• Kiss of Life: In Episode 61, Pretty finds Mr. Cat, who has been stranded on an island, and offers to do this. He declines and points out that he's perfectly fine, so she knocks him out with a baseball bat and gives it to him anyway.
• Kiss Up the Arm: Mr. Cat does this to Kaeloo in some episodes while flirting with her.
• Klingon Promotion: Discussed in the episode "Let's Play Gangster Poker", where Mr. Cat becomes a gangster and hires Stumpy to work under him. Stumpy tries to formulate a complex plan to kill Mr. cat so he can become the boss instead, though he never gets the chance to carry it out.
• Larynx Dissonance: Since Kaeloo is voiced by a man in every dub, she often winds up sounding more like a boy. Her voice is even more boyish in the pilot.
• Last-Second Word Swap: When Mr. Cat is singing a rap song with words ending in "alls":
  Mr. Cat: He keeps breaking my b-
  Kaeloo: MISTER CAAAAAT!
  Mr. Cat: I meant walls!
• Late for School: Stumpy and Quack Quack in Episode 94. Miraculously, Kaeloo manages to drop them off on time, but she winds up being late for work as a result.
• Latex Perfection: In Episode 65, Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack have masks that make them look just like Mr. Cat.
  • Mr. Cat also wears a Full-Body Disguise of Bad Kaeloo, and later of Pretty, both of which look just like the real deal.
• Lame Pun Reaction:
  • In most cases where a character makes a pun, everyone else pulls an annoyed expression and walks away from the person who made the pun.
  • In one of the season 3 episodes, Mr. Cat and Kaeloo are walking down the street and Mr. Cat drops a Hurricane of Puns, to which Kaeloo flatly tells him "I hate your guts."
• Laugh Track: Used when the cast make their own sitcom. At one point, it plays when Stumpy walks in through the door (and does nothing else), annoying him.
• Law of Disproportionate Response: Stumpy's reaction to anything is the opposite of what it should be. Being told to take a bath? Big "NO!"! Olaf trying to attack people with a hairdryer (of all things)? Look out, it's a dangerous weapon! Mr. Cat set Quack Quack on fire? "Oh hey, Quack Quack's on fire."]]
• Leeroy Jenkins: In an episode of the second season, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Pretty are looking for a magical artifact in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. At one point, they go into a chamber with horizontally suspended ropes. Kaeloo says that if they touch the ropes, it might trigger a trap, so they have to move slowly and carefully. Stumpy picks up a knife and runs through the chamber, cutting them all and triggering the trap. Stumpy escapes the trap, but the other three are impaled by Annoying Arrows and get mad at him.
• Lethal Chef: Everybody on the show is an absolutely horrible cook.
• Lethal Eatery: In Episode 64, Mr. Cat starts a fast food restaurant where trash from the dumpster is served as food if they run out of ingredients, the toilets haven't been cleaned for so long that a giant sea monster lives inside them, and the counter is dusty.
  Pretty: (after eating there) I had a small intestine graft, a pancreas graft, and a colon ablation.
  * Let Me Get This Straight...: Mr. Cat often uses this to either Accentuate the Negative about something or make it seem Better Than It Sounds.
• Let's Meet the Meat: The yogurts Quack Quack eats are shown to be sentient.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: In one episode, Kaeloo, a hermaphrodite, and Stumpy, a boy, both enter the girls' bathroom. They both find each other there and ask what the other is doing in there. After an awkward silence, both of them silently agree not to ever speak about it again.
• Level Ate: Episode 232 has Stumpy and Violasse visit various dimensions using a portal gun, one of which is made entirely of food (the floors are made of soda cups and cake, there's a mountain made of apples, and there's popsicles and bananas floating in the air for... some reason).
• Lice Episode: In Episode 178, Stumpy wants to get infected with lice because he thinks they're cool, and he orders some off the internet. The episode ends with everyone panicking that Stumpy is going to infect them too.
• Lies to Children: In Episode 21, 10-year-old Stumpy asks his friend Mr. Cat how babies are made. Mr. Cat (who is not much older than Stumpy but still far more savvy about the world) is fully aware of the truth, but decides to tell Stumpy that babies are made by holding your nose and not breathing for two days, which Stumpy easily believes.
• Like an Old Married Couple: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat constantly bicker with each other, and they clearly have Belligerent Sexual Tension. Despite their fighting, they also have plenty of married couple-like moments, like putting Stumpy and Quack-Quack to bed with bedtime stories and then going off to do their own thing (like how parents of young children tend to do), and Kaeloo making Mr. Cat's breakfast, complete with coffee, in the mornings.
• Like Brother and Sister: Kaeloo and Stumpy, to the point that she even refers to him as her little brother in one episode.
• Limited Social Circle: In seasons 1-3, the cast only ever interact with one another. Mr. Cat and Pretty have other friends, and Stumpy has classmates at school, but these people never appear on the show.
• Literal Ass-Kicking: Stumpy does this to Kaeloo in Episode 109 in an attempt to make her angry. While it hurts her, she doesn't get mad because she knew he was trying to anger her.
• Literally Loving Thy Neighbor: Quack Quack and Eugly, who live next door to each other, are an Official Couple.
• Literal-Minded:
  • Stumpy takes the "prison" in "prison-ball" far too literally in the first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball".
  • In an episode where the main four meet their Mirror Universe counterparts and get into a fight with them, Stumpy throws books at them and yells "Eat books!". Interdimensional Mr. Cat, being the opposite of Mr. Cat and therefore a moron instead of a genius, picks up the books he threw and eats them.
• Living Emotional Crutch:
  • Kaeloo is highly dependent on her friends, especially Mr. Cat, and her entire life revolves around them. In one episode, all the characters play a VR game, and when everyone else quits and Kaeloo continues to play the game without them, she goes insane without their company and even tries to make Replacement Goldfish for them.
  • Mr. Cat feels the same way about Kaeloo, as his ideal version of the world is one where he and Kaeloo are the only ones who exist, her opinion of him matters to him more than anyone else's, and he once even claims that he "thinks about her day and night".
• Locked in the Bathroom: Stumpy locks himself in the bathroom and starts crying in the Musical Episode when Mr. Cat steals the lyrics to a song Stumpy literally had to make a Deal with the Devil to write.
• Long-Distance Relationship:
  • Stumpy and Ursula have one of these. Ursula occasionally visits, like when Stumpy is in the hospital or when she sees Smileyland submerged in darkness and believes that there's an emergency.
  • As of season 5, Quack-Quack and Eugly wind up in one of these due to Eugly being Put on a Bus.
• Long List:
  • Kaeloo's list of qualities a boy needs to impress a girl, shown in the episode "Let's Play Hot-Cold".
  • Kaeloo's even longer list of Mr. Cat's character flaws takes her an entire day to recite.
• Long-Runners: The show started airing in 2010 and as of 2023, is airing its fifth season.
• Long-Runner Tech Marches On: In early episodes, the characters own flip phones. In later episodes, they are seen using smartphones instead.
• Look Behind You: In the episode "Let's Play Golf", Kaeloo, who has the power of Hulking Out, plays golf with her friends. Each time it's her turn, she tells everyone to look at something in the distance, e.g. a "flying rhinoceros", and then Hulks Out to hit the ball. Unfortunately for her, her final attempt ends in Stumpy, who is standing behind her, witnessing everything and telling the others.
• Losing Your Head: Happens to Quack Quack a lot.
• Lost Food Grievance: Quack Quack's Berserk Button is anyone destroying yogurt or preventing him from getting it in some way. When this happens, even Mr. Cat isn't safe from his anger.
• Lots of Luggage: Pretty packs several suitcases in Episode 77 when she is told to bring a strict minimum of stuff.
• Lotus Position: In "Let's Play Catch the Mailman", Kaeloo meditates in this position to keep herself from getting angry about a fan letter she received that called her annoying.
• Lotus-Eater Machine: One episode has Kaeloo play with a virtual reality game where she can't transform as long as she plays. Having wanted to get rid of this power for a very long time, Kaeloo is finally happy and refuses to stop playing the game. Her friends have to rescue her from the game becauze it slowly starts to drive her insane. In a variant of the trope, she is fully aware of what it is, she just doesn't want to leave because she now has what she wanted the most.
• Loud of War: Several episodes have Mr. Cat pull out a megaphone and yell at the top of his lungs at someone he finds annoying.
• Love at First Sight: Quack Quack and Eugly fell in love as soon as they saw each other.
• Love Confession: Mr. Cat has done this to Kaeloo on more than one occasion. Sadly, all of them fail because she thinks he's joking.
• Love Makes You Crazy: In seasons 2-4, Pretty would go to absurd and irrational lengths to be with Mr. Cat and was utterly obsessed with him. In season 5 she says the trope name word-for-word when reflecting on her actions after falling out of love with him.
• Love Makes You Dumb: Mr. Cat is the smartest of all the characters on the show, but he does some pretty idiotic things to get the attention of his crush Kaeloo.
• Love Makes You Evil: While he wasn't exactly nice to begin with, it's heavily implied that Mr. Cat wouldn't do so many evil deeds if he didn't have a crush on Bad Kaeloo.
• Love Potion: In Episode 80, Pretty buys a love potion so she can get Mr. Cat, who absolutely despises her, to fall in love with her. She puts it in a glass and asks Mr. Cat if he is thirsty and wants a drink. Unfortunately, Stumpy, who is extremely thirsty, walks up behind her, snatches the potion and drinks it up. To Pretty's disgust and horror, Stumpy falls in love with her instead of Mr. Cat.
• Lucky Charm: Violasse wards off her bad luck with a personal good luck charm, a balloon with Quack-Quack's face painted on it.

Tropes M

• MacGyvering: Mr. Cat once built a cloning machine using a pair of toilet plungers, a cardboard box, a wooden board and some wires.
• Mad Doctor: Mr. Cat in "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses".
• Mad Libs Catchphrase:
  • If Mr. Cat hears a fact that he finds shocking or annoying, he usually yells "What do you mean, [insert fact here]?!".
  • And then there's Stumpy's "Are you [insert adjective here] or what?!"
• Mad Love: Pretty just doesn't get the fact that Mr. Cat despises her.
• The Magazine Rule: There's a magazine called "Oh La La", featuring girls in skimpy outfits.
• Magical Flutist: In Episode 132, Mr. Cat somehow gets hold of a magic flute and tries to use it to lead a bunch of sheep into a trap so he can barbecue them.
• Magic Versus Science: Mr. Cat does not believe in magic and always tries to look at things from a scientific point of view. This being a show which has a lot of Surreal Humor, he's proven wrong more often than not.
• Major Injury Underreaction: This being a Sadist Show that practically runs on Family-Unfriendly Violence, this happens with everyone. For example, in one episode, Stumpy accidentally unleashes a bunch of arrows onto Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Pretty. Rather than scream or show any signs of pain, they just glare at him, annoyed.
• Make a Wish:
  • In Episode 93, when Stumpy and Quack Quack realize that they don't know when Quack Quack's birthday is, they can call any day his birthday and blow out a candle to make a wish on that day. They decide to use it on the current day. While Quack Quack blows on the candles, Stumpy makes the wish for him and wishes for himself and their other friends to become pole dancers.
  • In Episode 129, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat try to stay up late so they can see a shooting star and make a wish on it. Kaeloo and Quack Quack fall asleep, Stumpy stays up but is so tired that he wastes his wish on asking for a bed, and Mr. Cat asks for his own bar and several clones of Kaeloo.
• The Man in the Moon: In "Let's Play Simon Says", the moon is depicted with a sleeping face.
• Mandatory Line: In one or two episodes, Mr. Cat will show up at the very end and start yelling at someone despite not having anything to do with the rest of the plot. In one episode, it's even lampshaded when his line is him asking how they made a whole episode without him.
• Marital Rape License: In "Let's Play House", when the gang are Playing House with Kaeloo as the mother and Mr. Cat as the father, Mr. Cat tries to have sex with her even though she never consented and says he is "exercising his marital rights". Fortunately, she gets up and walks away before he does anything.
• Marriage of Convenience: The show parodies the trope in one episode where Pretty decides to get married - to Quack Quack, who she doesn't even like - just to get the chance to wear a wedding dress. When the others try to call her out on this, she goes on a rant about how much pain she had to endure to lose enough weight to be able to fit into the dress.
• Massive Numbered Siblings:
  • Stumpy has 36 sisters. This means that including him, there are 37 kids in his family.
  • Exaggerated with Kaeloo's family. She says she has 134,667 siblings! The end of the episode suggests that she may have made it up, though it isn't clear whether or not she did.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": The main four do this at the end of Episode 76 when they realize that their interference with the past has somehow undone the extinction of the dinosaurs.
• Master of the Mixed Message: Sometimes it really isn't clear whether Kaeloo likes Mr. Cat back or just sees him as a friend, though there are a lot of hints she has a crush on him.
• Mature Animal Story: Despite its Funny Animal cast, the show is really quite mature.
• Mayan Doomsday: Episode 77 revolves around the cast panicking about the end of the world sonce the Mayans predicted that the world would end in 24 hours from the time of the start of that episode. Kaeloo herself launches a meteor onto the planet, but thankfully everyone escapes the planet except Stumpy, who also survives the meteor landing.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It is never quite clear whether the events in some of the games they play actually happen or take place only in their imagination. For instance, one episode where they play at being in an airliner makes it repeatedly clear that they are only sitting in chairs on the ground, even when they are supposed to be crashing, yet they flow around when the plane takes off and Mister Cat later jumps with a parachute and falls for some time before hitting the ground. However, in another episode, the same airplane actually leaves the cast stranded on an island.
• Meadow Run: The show actually managed to subvert the trope in Episode 111 by using the Bait-and-Switch trope. Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are on the beach when they turn their heads in the opposite direction and the viewers assume that they are looking at each other. They are both separately shown running with outstretched arms, leading the viewers to believe that they are running towards each other... and then the camera pans out to reveal that they're both running in the same direction, towards the bathroom.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Kaeloo means frog in Japanese.
  • Stumpy wasn't supposed to have arms in the original concept, just stumps.
  • Quack Quack can only say the word "Quack".
  • Mr. Cat is a cat.
  • Pretty is beautiful.
  • Eugly^note pronounced "ugly" is... not so beautiful.
  • Olaf means "ancestral heritage"; Olaf's desire to Take Over the World comes from his heritage as an emperor penguin.
  • Lola means "sorrow" and Felicia means "joy". Mr. Cat had a rather confusing and bittersweet relationship with Lola Felicia where he simultaneously loved and hated her, and thinking about her brings him both sorrow and joy.
• Mean Boss:
  • Mr. Cat to Stumpy in Episode 64, when Stumpy is made to Work Off the Debt at a fast food restaurant. He underpays him, mistreats him and yells at him.
  • Mr. Cat, again, to Kaeloo in Episode 94. This time, they are in an office setting, and he accuses her of being a slacker even though she's trying very hard to be a good worker. He fires her near the end of the episode.
• Meatgrinder Surgery:
  • Stumpy winds up being a victim of this in Episode 78 when Olaf tries to turn him into a cyborg by giving him surgery with no anasthetic using a drill and a chainsaw. Miraculously, he survives it, but his cyborganic implants suck. Fortunately, Negative Continuity has him back to normal by the next episode.
  • Stumpy again winds up being a victim of this when he asks Mr. Cat to help him when he has a toothache. Mr. Cat uses a chainsaw, a jackhammer and other things and somehow turns Stumpy's head into a fire extinguisher. Stumpy is back to normal in a few minutes.
• Meat-O-Vision: In "Let's Play Trap-Trap", Quack Quack hallucinates Kaeloo and Stumpy as yogurts after not eating any for nearly an hour.
• Mecha-Mooks: Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat come across a huge army of these in Episode 104.
• Medicine Show: A variant. Mr. Cat sells people medication that doesn't actually work for large sums of money through spam advertisements he puts on the internet.
• Medium Awareness: The characters are aware that they are in a cartoon, and occasionally reference it, for instance saying they don't like the current episode. In one case, Kaeloo asks the director to replay a scene backward.
  • It enters Nightmare Fuel territory at the end of Episode 105, where Stumpy breaks into the animation studio and announces to the animators that he will be writing all the episodes from that point on.
• Megaton Punch: Serguei and Bad Kaeloo have done this several times.
• The Mentally Disturbed: One episode revealed that every single person on the show is in need of intensive psychotherapy.
• Me's a Crowd:
  • Mr. Cat has the ability to clone himself at random. He also owns a cloning machine, which he invented.
  • In Episode 134, Stumpy is supernaturally granted several clones of himself, which annoy Kaeloo and Mr. Cat. At the end, Kaeloo and Mr. Cat get rid of the clones by claiming that a package in the mail came for Stumpy from Ursula, but only one Stumpy can get it. The original Stumpy opens a door to another dimension and tells the clones that Ursula is on the other side, and once they run through, he closes the door, trapping them there forever.
• Metronomic Man Mashing: Bad Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat.
• Mind-Control Eyes: If a character gets put under mind control or hypnosis, their irises shrink and they open their eyes wider.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Inverted in Episode 91. When Stumpy invokes the Personality Swap trope so he can finally be just like Mr. Cat, he gains a pair of cat-like fangs like the ones Mr. Cat has along with his personality.
• Mini-Golf Episode: The episode "Let's Play Golf".
• Minimalist Cast: In the first three seasons, the show has only seven^note  Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack, Mr. Cat, Pretty, Eugly and Olaf characters. While it could be argued that the seemingly sentient plants and the random sheep that pops up every now and then might count, they're still little more than props in terms of how they're used. This trope becomes subverted after season 4.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: Mr. Cat is capable of laughing off the pain of having a bunch of knives stuck in his body, but his reaction to having a whisker pulled off involves screaming and nursing the affected area for a long time.
• Mirror Match: Stumpy once tried playing Rock–Paper–Scissors against... his own reflection, who he thought was another squirrel.
• Mirror Monologue: Mr. Cat buys a fancy new suit and talks to his reflection about how great the suit looks on him.
• Mirror Universe:
  • "Let's Play Astronauts" shows us a universe where Kaeloo transforms from a huge hulking monster into a little girl when she gets mad, Stumpy is a math-loving genius, and Mr. Cat and Quack Quack are known as Mr. Duck and Meow Meow, and have each other's personalities.
  • Episode 70 gave us another one where Kaeloo is a Stern Teacher instead of a gentle and fun-loving person who transforms from toad to frog (her transformations are also caused by cuddling instead of irritation), Stumpy, who is an idiot, is smart and Mr. Cat, one of the smartest characters, is a moron.
• Mischief for Punishment:
  • Mr. Cat tries to make Kaeloo angry on purpose, because he likes it when she transforms.
  • Stumpy does this in an episode where Kaeloo forces him to play "school" with her as the teacher and him as one of the students, hoping that he can get kicked out of class.
• Misfit Mobilization Moment: When the main four stop fighting and actually work together, they can take down anything from an army of angry ghosts to their own Alternate Universe counterparts.
• Misleading Package Size: In "Let's Play Magicians", Kaeloo receives a giant box with nothing inside but a top hat and magic wand.
• Misplaced Sorrow: In Episode 81, Stumpy starts drowning in quicksand in the middle of the desert. Everybody panics and pulls him out... because their supplies are in his backpack.
• Missing Mom / Disappeared Dad: Kaeloo's parents have never appeared in the episodes with her family.
• Mistaken for an Imposter:
  • In Episode 65, Mr. Cat puts on a Pretty disguise and sneaks past Kaeloo, who is angrily looking for him. Kaeloo then realizes that it was Mr. Cat, so she goes looking for him. She then sees the real Pretty and tries to rip her face off thinking it's a mask.
  • Pretty becomes a victim of this trope again in Epsiode 83. Stumpy is waiting for Ursula to show up to a party, then he suddenly gets the idea that someone at the party is Ursula in disguise, spying on him. He then tries to rip Pretty's face off, again thinking it's a mask.
• Mistaken for Cheating: In Episode 83, Mr. Cat lies to Quack Quack that Eugly has been cheating on him, making him paranoid; later in the episode, Stumpy accidentally kisses Eugly, and Quack Quack assumes that this means that Mr. Cat was right and that the kiss was deliberate.
• Mistaken for Gay: Episode 139 follows a super hero called Ratman (played by Stumpy) and his sidekick (Quack Quack) who share an apartment. Their nosy neighbor visits their apartment and it's all but implied that she has mistaken them for a couple.
• Mistaken for Romance: See Mistaken for Gay above.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: In Episode 227, Mr. Cat hires Poucave, an aspiring journalist, to write articles for his tabloid site. When Mr. Cat changes the articles to include misinformation and Blatant Lies, Poucave protests, but Mr. Cat shuts her down using a combination of manipulation and threats. Eventually, Poucave gets fed up of his behavior and decides to write an embarrassing article about him instead.
• Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Hilariously subverted. Kaeloo believes this to be the case for Olaf. He actually is insane and evil, she just doesn't realize it.
• Mobile Shrubbery: In Episode 68, Stumpy tries to disguise himself as a bush to listen in on a conversation he isn't supposed to hear. The others immediately identify him, but he keeps claiming to be a bush.
• Mocking Singsong: In Episode 156, Mr. Cat falls in love with a soda can thanks to a Love Potion gone wrong. Kaeloo's behavior makes it very clear that she is jealous of the soda can, and Stumpy sings "Kaeloo has a crush on Mr. Cat!" while making kissing noises.
• Modesty Shorts: The bunny twins wear these under their skirts.
• Modesty Towel: In one episode, Kaeloo does a painting of Quack Quack wearing no clothes except a leaf covering his crotch. Once she's done, Quack Quack wraps a towel around his waist.
• Mondegreen Gag: When Kaeloo tells Stumpy that if he tried to be peaceful he could win the Nobel Peace Prize, he thinks she said "Frozen Peas Prize" and points out that he eats acorns, not frozen peas.
• Mood Whiplash:
  • From the episode "Let's Play Babysitting":
  Mr. Cat: As a kitten, I was tied up in a sack and thrown into a rushing river. I was saved by a salmon, raised like her own son. Her greatest quality... she couldn't talk at all.
  • In the episode "Let's Play Spies", everybody is injected with Truth Serum. Bad Kaeloo reveals that she considers herself to be ugly, Mr. Cat confesses that he was abused by his family, and Stumpy reveals... that he enjoys dressing as a girl when nobody else is around.
  • In Episode 104, Olaf gives Kaeloo and Mr. Cat a tragic flashback... and is interrupted by the sound of them snoring, having fallen asleep out of boredom.
  • In one episode, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack, Pretty and Eugly are watching TV. The show they're watching has a wedding scene. Pretty remarks, in admiration, that the actress playing the bride is beautiful. Then, she suddenly turns angry and calls the actress a "bitch" for being prettier than her.
  • In Episode 119, we see Mr. Cat slapping Stumpy in the face using the elastic of a pair of underwear to threaten him into not telling Kaeloo one of Mr. Cat's embarrassing secrets, which is funny until we find out that Mr. Cat's original plan was to murder Stumpy with a chainsaw so he wouldn't be alive to tattle.
  • When the main four are participating in an essay contest on the theme of "their biggest dream", Kaeloo struggles to come up with something to write and ends up churning out a very generic speech about a world where everyone is happy. This prompts Mr. Cat to go on a long and angry tirade about her not specifically mentioning him in it even though he's her best friend and ignoring her desperate attempts to reassure him that she definitely does care about him. Then, when Kaeloo gets mad, he starts flirting with her, which is Played for Laughs.
• Mooning: Stumpy does this to Kaeloo once in order to anger her because he urgently needs her to transform.
• Moral Myopia: In Episode 131, Mr. Cat blows Quack-Quack's head off with a bazooka and Kaeloo punishes him by transforming and hitting him with a mallet, repaying his violence with violence. Mr. Cat is so mad about being punished that he spends the rest of the episode in a bad mood, despite having brought it upon himself.
• Multi-Part Episode: Episodes 75 and 76 form a two-part episode about time travel.
• Multiarmed Multitasking: Invoked in one episode, where Mr. Cat operates on Quack Quack in a laboratory in order to give him this ability.
• Multiple-Choice Future: There are multiple episodes that show the futures the main four could have, and each one is different because it's based on what the characters are doing in the present. The trope is even lampshaded in Episode 30, where witnessing a Bad Future makes them promise to actively take steps to avoid what caused it.
• Multiple-Choice Past: Subverted with Mr. Cat's early childhood. In the earlier seasons he would constantly rattle off a different version of what happened to him (for example, one version says that he was tied up in a sack and thrown into a river, then subsequently rescued and raised by a salmon while another one says he ran away from home to escape from a very abusive family and wound up in Smileyland), until season 5 explained that the abusive family backstory is the only true one and Mr. Cat is prone to lying about his past to avoid having to talk to his friends about the abuse he faced.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Every episode is about the characters trying to play a simple game, which culminates in explosions, car chases, and the like.
• Muscle Angst: After being shot with Truth Serum, Mr. Cat confesses that he wishes he had bigger muscles.
• Musical Episode:
  • Episode 89 is a musical comedy revolving around Mr. Cat stealing a song that Stumpy wrote by selling his soul and turning it into a Broadway production.
  • Episode 193 starts with Stumpy wanting to buy a pair of shoes and then suddenly shifts into a musical where Mr. Cat sings about trickle-down economics and Kaeloo sings about how love is more important than money.
  • Episode 225 is about the characters noticing the Character Development that they've been going through recently, and Mr. Cat and Rules' hesitancy to accept changes in life.
• Musicalis Interruptus: In one episode, Stumpy tries to start a song, but Mr. Cat throws a frying pan at him to get him to stop.
• Must Have Caffeine: Used as a one-scene gag in one episode where Kaeloo gets addicted to coffee, which is never brought up again.
• Mutually Unequal Relation: In the early episodes, Mr. Cat is well-respected and adored by the rest of the main four, who see him as a good friend, while he sees them as annoying nuisances who ruin his life with their mere presence. This gradually gets toned down, as they start to realize that he has flaws and he comes to see them as close friends.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • Kaeloo's general reaction to hurting her friends.
  • Mr. Cat's reaction to finding out that his actions have caused Kaeloo to decide to leave Smileyland in "Let's Play Courtroom Drama".
  • Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat's reaction when they realize what bad friends they've been to Stumpy over the years in Episode 105.
  • Mr. Cat's reaction to realizing that he may have permanently killed Quack Quack in Episode 125, though he doesn't do anything to indicate that he's happy when it turns out that he didn't actually do it.
• My God, You Are Serious!: In Episode 121, Olaf informs the main four that they have been fired. They start laughing, but he then reveals that he was sent by the management, so they realize that they actually have been fired.
• My Grandma Can Do Better Than You: Stumpy tells Bad Kaeloo, who uses Hulk Speak, that "even my little sister can talk better than you."
• My New Gift Is Lame: Played for Laughs in the season 2 finale, which is a Christmas episode. The main four open the presents under their Christmas tree. Quack-Quack gets some yogurt, his Trademark Favorite Food. Mr. Cat, the local bully, gets a mallet, which he then uses to hit Quack-Quack. As for Stumpy, he got a sheep, and he complains to the audience that it isn't what he asked for.