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* [[Accidental Kiss]]: It happened with Shin-chan and Georgie/Kazama [[Ho Yay|of all people]]!

* [[Actor Existence Limbo]]: Which reduced Buriburizaemon to rare cameos after 2000.

* [[Alliteration]]: Misae/Mitsy has two sisters named Masae and Musae.

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: The story tales arcs of the manga and the movies.

* [[Art Evolution]]: The series has undergone a noticeable change in character designs since the comic started in 1992. The art shift is extremely noticeable in the dub, where they don't run episodes in any particular production order. Rather, for the sake of the [[Gag Dub]], they just looked through numerous episodes and chose ones they wanted to work with. Even for episodes that are aired in the order relating to the storylines (such as the Apartment or Kendo story arcs), a more primitive design comes back once in a while.

* [[Art Shift]]: Often [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the dub.

* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: All the male Noharas.

* [[Black Comedy Rape]]:

** It's also often suggested that Penny/Nene's mom is often raped by her husband.

* [[Book Dumb]]: Yonro, who just can't seem to get into college.

* [[Bowdlerise]]: Inverted with a vengeance in the American dub (that aired on [[Cartoon Network]]'s [[Adult Swim]] line-up), which was made more like a Japanese version of ''[[South Park]]''.

* [[Brawn Hilda]]: Nanako's German roommate Griselda. She claims her muscle mass was mostly a result of the rhinoceros hormones.

* [[Break the Haughty]]: This happens to Kazama often. They tend to be comedic (since it's Shinnosuke who tends to trigger it), but there's also times this has been played dramatically straight (Episode 553b is a good example)

** The two year [[Development Hell]] is mentioned ''seconds'' into episode 53.

** The final episode of season 3 kicks this [[Up to Eleven]] right into [[No Fourth Wall]] territory. It starts right away in "The Bitzi Saga Conclusion: Alternate Ending", when Mitzi starts talking back to the [[Lemony Narrator]]. All of this happens while the episode keeps rolling.

'''ADR Director Zach Bolton''': ''"Nah, they got like 600 of these in Japan. We'll be doing this for years!"'' }}

*** The rest of the episode just shatters what remains of the 4th wall with nothing but talk of whether Shin-Chan as a series will be cancelled or renewed for a 4th season. Numerous call-backs to previous characters, plot lines, and numerous [[Take That|Take Thats]], [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]], and parodies all over the place.

** In Episode 66, Georgie ends up crapping his underwear. Georgie remorses that he lost his 53-episode streak of clean underwear, referencing Episode 13, where Georgie also crapped himself.

* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: All the male Noharas.

* [[Catch Phrase]]:

{{quote|'''Shin''': ZO-SAN! ZO-SAN! (When doing the elephant dance)

'''Shin''': BURI BURI! BURI BURI! (ASS DANCE! ASS DANCE!)

'''Nene Sakurada''': You're not my usual mom!

'''Mitzi Nohara''': [[First Name Ultimatum|SHIN]]!!! }}

* [[Ceiling Banger]]

** In the original, Shin-chan himself is voiced by [[Akiko Yajima]].

** In the Vitello dub, Shin was voiced by Kath Soucie.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The dub version, by way of [[Dead Baby Comedy]].

** The movies in general, as they typically throw the Nohara family into a trying situation, and then mix in a liberal amount of [[Adult Fear]] and [[Fridge Horror]].

*** The 18th movie, for example, shows that not terribly long after the present day, a {{spoiler|meteor strike wipes out Tokyo as well as a large part of Japan and severely affects the climate, forcing surviving future inhabitants to constantly wear cold-weather clothing when outdoors.}}

* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Among many examples, the frequent mention of Penny's sister Caitlin who "Lives in the lake now..."

** Also heavily relied on in the American dub episode "Penny's Mom Abhors Shin".

* [[Delivery Stork]]: When playing house with Shin, Ai declares to Penny that she's pregnant. "Shin and I French-kissed and then the stork came down and knocked me up!"

* [[Development Hell]]: Season 3 of the dub. Several jokes are made regarding the "two-year summer vacation".

** [[Large Ham|ACTION BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!]]

* [[The Ditz]]: Boo

** Action ''Kamen'', on the other hand, parodies Tokusatsu heroes generally, but is a mix of [[Kamen Rider]] and [[Ultraman]].

** Kantam Robo's name is based on Gundam, of course, with elements of [[Mazinger Z]] and [[Giant Robo]], but his design was apparently altered for the anime to resemble [[Combat Mecha Xabungle|Xabungle and Walker Gallier]], since they'd cast Ootaki Shinya to voice him.

* [[Face of a Thug]]: Principal Ench, whose face convinces everyone (adults and children alike) that he is a [[Yakuza]]. He uses this on occasion.

* [[Fiction 500]]: Ai in the dub.

* [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]: If it has Shin-chan in it, then it's [[Hilarity Ensues|inevitable]].

* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: With Shin and Mitzi in "Trading Faces".

* [[The Friend Nobody Likes]]: Ai is usually incorpored in the Kasukabe Defense Organization, but no one (except [[Dogged Nice Guy|Masao]]) likes her. It doesn't help she joins them just to be with her "prince" Shinnosuke, who couldn't be less interested.

** Nene/Penny also has this going on due to her extremely bossy and annoying attitude, making her most of the time unbearable by both the boys [[The Scrappy|and the audience]] alike. Unlike Ai, though, she shows moments of kindness and friendship to them, which downplays this trope to an extent.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Shin's parents are [[Yu Yu Hakusho|Hiei and Botan]].

** Hiro is also a [[Fullmetal Alchemist|psychopath who turned his own daughter into an unholy golem.]]

*** The Vitello dub also sees Hiro, renamed Harry, played by Eric Loomis, a.k.a. [[Iron Man]] from the ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]] 2'' tie-in video game, ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'', and ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]''.

* [[Hidden Heart of Gold]]: Shin Nohara. And when he shows it, [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|awwwwwww]]!

* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Mitzi's sister Bitzi claims to be a photographer who ended up getting mixed up with the affairs of third-world hell holes like Africa and Burma. Because of it, she got addicted to drugs and is now trying to kick her habit. She was especially fond of Brown-Brown, which is mixing Cocaine with gunpowder...

* [[Jerkass]]: So many! It's a [[Sadist Show]], after all.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Hottie Nanako mentions that her boyfriend was fatally mauled.

** In the manga, {{spoiler|Miss Ume's boyfriend, Tokurou}}.

* [[Lolicon]]: Parodied in the [[Show Within a Show]] Action Bastard.

** Outright [[Lampshaded]]: "Skirt of blue! Scarf of green! When you're hit by her love beam -- tell the cop she looked eighteen!"

** Lollipop's virginity is a [[Running Gag]] throughout all of Action Bastard.

** Only present in the Funimation dub.

** She also had quite a bit of trouble warming up to The Flamer.

* [[Outlived Its Creator]]: After Usui's death it didn't take long for the announcement that the manga would be continued by his assistants and editors; even so they paid respect to his original run by ending the series at the 50th Volume, the new run not made by Usui is named ''Crayon Shin-chan Memorial'', starting from Volume 1.

* [[Pandaing to the Audience]]: Episode 67.

* [[Parental Bonus]]: The Vitello dub aired on Fox Kids in the UK was full of these.

* [[Playing with Fire]]: The Flamer, who has what are at one point described as "mutant fire powers."

* [[Plot Tailored to the Party]]: The 17th movie, "Howl! Kasukabe Wild Kingdom", has Shin-chan's friends turned into animal versions of themselves, and they discover that their new forms give them an edge in battle (Rabbits can hear well and kick like mofos', Armadillos can bounce around very effectively, and bats can apparently [[Make Me Wanna Shout|scream good]])... But Kazama-kun is turned into a [[Everything's Better with Penguins|Penguin]], and is therefore useless for the entire battle. {{spoiler|Until a crapton of water nearly drowns his friends, at which point he shows that penguins are quite fast underwater, leaving a vortex the size of a 747 in his wake.}}

{{quote|'''Shin''': You know, it's not polite to spell when some of us can't count.

'''Georgie:''' I was abbreviating!

'''Miss Anderson''': No, Penny, that's kanji, the Japanese writing we told your parents we're teaching you!

'''Georgie''': Riiight...douchebags use it for tattoos!

'''Georgie''': Stop referencing the show! }}

* [[Significant Anagram]]: In the second [[The Movie|movie]], Shin-chan meets a prince who is identical to him. His name: Sunnokeshi (anagram of Shinnosuke).

** Okay everybody, who wants to poo? We do!

* [[True Companions]]: The Kasukabe Defense Organization, consisting of Shin and friends.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Shin-chan and Kazama/Georgie. Shin loves to tease him, and Georgie wants to get away from Shin when he does, but deep down, they're the [[Heterosexual Life Partners|closest friends]] and do care for each other. Nene/Penny and Ai just as well.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: Volume 47. {{spoiler|Miss Ume falling into depression and became suicidal after her boyfriend died from a terrorist bombing attack on an Africa excavation trip. Made more tragic as he was planning to propose to her when he returned.}}

 

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