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LeapFrog Enterprises is a toy and publishing company based in Emeryville, California. Founded by aformer attorney Michael Wood in 1995, who came up with a way to teach his son how to read. The company specializes in educational toys and electronics. They are primarily known for the LeapPad, an electronic talking book device, the Leapster - a handheld gaming console with the processing power that's about equivalent to a [[Game Boy Advance]], and the Fly Pentop computer, whichand somehowthe gainedLeapFrog popularityEpic, inan theAndroid-powered businesstablet anddesigned computingfor worldchildren.

* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]: [[Zig -Zagging Trope|Zig-Zagged]]. Averted with the ''Learning Friends'' themselves, but in their universe they have purple caterpillars, purple fireflies, green and purple dogs, purple octopi, and more. And then Edison, said purple firefly, joins the main cast just as everyone that is not Leap, Lily and Tad is [[Put Onon a Bus]]...

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Edison. Originally introduced as a minor character in a LeapPad book, he was [[Put Onon a Bus]] for a bit, and then brought back in time for A Tad Of Christmas Cheer, and then upgraded into a core character.

* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: The Violet toys are voiced by the same voice actor that voices Scout (11 year old Charlie Ibsen. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udulp08nuwU See him interviewed by a San Fransisco Chronicle reporter here]). In fact, the My Pal Scout and My Pal Violet actually shared an identical voice set to cut costs (this was possible because the toys never mention their own name). The other toys only made minor tweaks to the voice set, but Scout and Violet still sound identical on these toys.

* [[Furry Confusion]]: We have Dot and Dan, anthropomorphic dogs. Then we have Scout and Violet, zoomorphic dogs. Then to prove that it's in the same universe, have Dot and Scout appear together in the ClickStart's intro cutscene. Then take the [[Mind Screw]] up to new heights when Scout and Violet are portrayed as anthropomorphic in some of the toys as well.

* [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy]]: The ''Purple Girl Green Boy'' variant is used with Violet and Scout respectively. Also, many of their products comes in either blue and green or purple and pink.

* [[Suddenly Voiced]]: [[Zig -Zagging Trope|Currently Zig-Zagging]] for Scout. He does not talk in his first appearance on the ClickStart educational computer, but the next toy that features him, the eponymously-titled ''My Pal Scout'', has him voiced. And then he does not talk when he made his animated DVD debut in the ''The Amazing Alphabet Amusement Park'' and ''Numbers Ahoy'' DVDs, but said DVD has extras that are not part of the story where he ''sings''.

* [[Put Onon a Bus]] / [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]] / [[Ret-Gone]]: Everyone that is not Leap, Tad, Lily or Edison when ''Let's Go To School'' was produced. Heck, shortly before that point, it seemed that the entire ''Learning Friends'' crew was put on the bus in favor of keeping only Scout and Violet around. Thank goodness they had the sense to at least let the core kids off the bus before it moved off. But for the rest of the characters, they were just gone like that and have never been mentioned since. Although some did re-appear in LeapPad books that were republished and reworked for the Tag, they have never been seen in any newer toys and new Tag titles, and are not in the DVDs since ''A Tad Of Christmas Cheer''.

* [[Spinoff Babies]]: The LeapFrog Baby line of products, which is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: toys and accessories for infants. It comes with baby-fied versions of the learning friends characters.

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