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[[File:Franklin_Turtle_-_Soccer_Heroes_8893.jpg|frame|Franklin, his friends, and their two teachers.]]

 

'''''Franklin''''' is a both a series of books and an animated children's series featuring the adventures of anthropomorphic young turtle and his group of friends. The first book in the series was released in 1986 by Kids Can Press and its popularity led to over twenty books in the original series. In 1996, [[Nelvana]] adapted the characters for an animated series that appeared on [[Nick Jr.]] in the United States, the Family Channel in Canada and has since been seen around the world. In each story, Franklin explores themes and values of importance to kids, including the first day of school, a first sleepover and the importance of perseverance and being true to one's friends.

Two ''Franklin'' CD releases are known to be available. The first, ''Hey, It's Franklin!'', was released in 2000 and includes music from the film ''Franklin and the Green Knight'', as well as two different stage shows. The second is called ''Franklin & the Adventures of the Noble Knights'' and features the music from a 2010 stage show by that name.

 

* [[An Aesop]]: Most of the stories are based on teaching one of some sort.

* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: In ''Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure'', Aunt Lucy mentions a "mystic" who lives at Turtle Lake and Mr. Turtle comments "Can't say I believe in hocus pocus myself." Apparently he has forgotten witnessing his son and daughter traveling on the back of a flying reindeer in ''Franklin's Magic Christmas''.

* [[Bill, Bill, Junk, Bill]]: In "Franklin the Spy," Mr. Turtle does this with several pieces of mail, then gets excited when he finds the new issue of his ''Gardener's Monthly'' magazine.

** Franklin also goes through a variant of this when he goes through the baby shower gifts in the Green Knight movie:

* [[Breakout Character]]: Mr. Groundhog in ''Franklin and Friends''. This character never appeared in the books and only showed up late in the original ''Franklin'' TV series, appearing in just a couple of episodes. The writers of ''Franklin and Friends'', however, seem to have taken a shine to him and have included him in many episodes, often in an at least somewhat central role.

* [[Call Back]]: Franklin's knight costume is seen in a treasure chest in ''Back to School With Franklin'' and that film also references Franklin's distaste for brussels sprouts from "Franklin's Blanket." The sixth season story "Sir Franklin's Squire" also heavily references ''Franklin and the Green Knight''.

* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Franklin is a Canadian production, and Mr. Marmot invoked the trope in ''Franklin Plays It Safe''. To be specific, Mr. Marmot punctuates the end of every other sentence with an "Eh".

* [[Character Title]], or [[Character Name and the Noun Phrase]] for ''Franklin and Friends''

* [[Christmas Episode]]: "Franklin's Christmas Gift" and the movie ''Franklin's Magic Christmas''

* [[I Can See My House From Here]]: Rabbit does this from inside a barrel in "Franklin the Planner" on ''Franklin and Friends''.

* [[I Have This Friend]]: Franklin uses this in ''Back to School With Franklin'', telling his parents that Bear has reservations about Miss Koala as the replacement teacher for Mr. Owl, when he's really the one who isn't so sure about her.

* [[I Minored in Tropology]]: The new CGI ''Franklin and Friends'' series reveals that Mrs. Turtle knows enough about teaching to occasionally serve as a substitute teacher for Mr. Owl, something which was never seen in either the books or the original TV show.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: In "Franklin Sees the Big Picture," upon seeing Franklin and Bear dressed as superheroes, the librarian Mrs. Goose suggests that maybe they'll have to help her rescue somebody who's "lost in a book."

* [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]]: Beaver. In fairness, she is smart as a whip, but she's just as often wrong as she is right.

* [[Large Ham]]: In the TV version of "Franklin's Valentines," Beaver's Valentine box is plastered with massive photos of herself. Bear jokingly asks her which box is hers.

** [[Edutainment Game|Edutainment Games]]: A few PC edutainment titles from Vivendi Universal also exists, as does a few ''educational'' electronic LCD hand-held games from Tiger Electronics.

* [[Long Running Book Series]]: The first book in the series was released in 1986. The TV series didn't first appear until 1996 and continued releasing new content as late as 2006. A new CGI television series, ''Franklin and Friends'', has been confirmed, with more merchandise and book releases likely to follow.

* [[No Export for You]]: To this day, [[Nick Jr.]] still has never shown a number of episodes from the program's sixth season. Additionally, the CGI ''Franklin and Friends'' was premiered in Canada, with no immediate word on when U.S. viewers might see it.

** Not as bad as Malaysia, which has never gotten to see the sixth season '''at all'''. Which is pretty strange considering that TV2, the primary station that airs Franklin in Malaysia, brought in the fifth season a few months before [[Nick Jr.]] did in the US.

* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: Granny's time capsule, the titular treasure in ''Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure'', along with the talisman and photograph within it.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: They managed to keep the same voice, Noah Reid, for Franklin for five seasons and two films, but then the original voice actor's voice got so deep that it just wasn't working anymore. So they got Cole Caplan, who had previously voiced a [[One-Shot Character]] named Squirrel, to do the voice. Then, for the final film, they got Cameron Ansell, one of the many voices of [[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]. They also ended up replacing the voices of several other characters in later seasons.

* [[Playful Otter]]: Otter.

* [[Prima Donna Director]]: Beaver in "Franklin and the Puppet Play." Asked to direct a puppet play of ''[[Little Red Riding Hood]]'', she assigns herself the starring role and doesn't let anyone else have any input. Things come to a head when Beaver catches the others mocking her bossiness. See also [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]] for when Beaver is asked to coach the soccer team.

* [[Puppy Love]]: In-universe example - In "Franklin and Betty," Franklin's friends try to [[Shipper on Deck|suggest this]] about Franklin and Beaver's cousin Betty. They manage to get Franklin's goat for a little while, but Bear helps him to see that if he enjoys hanging out with Betty, that's all right, and he shouldn't let it get to him.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Straight from the original books and done the exact same way in the television series-- Otter moves away to a big city fairly early on. She resurfaces for one episode in the third season and is also seen on a banner in the final season.

 

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[[Category:Canadian Series]]

[[Category:The Nineties]]

[[Category:Western Animation]]

[[Category:Nelvana]]

[[Category:Literature]]