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This is either impressive, as it refuses to follow 'standard' children show trends, or heartbreaking, as it is one of the ''only'' shows to do so.

 

* [[A Boy and His X]]: Austin and Boy (a dinosaur) in "Caveman's Best Friend", Tyrone and Molasses (a burro) in "Horsing Around", Pablo and Mitty (a bath mit) in "Robin Hood the Clean", and Uniqua with Sea Squirt (a dolphin) in "The Great Dolphin Race".

* [[Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal]]: Pablo only wears a cap and bowtie.

* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: Austin (on a kid's level) in "The Two Musketeers".

* [[Arabian Nights Days]]: In "Movers of Arabia".

* [[Aside Glance]]: A lot. Especially for Uniqua and Tyrone. The most noticeable one is in "Castaways" when Uniqua -- realizing that Tyrone and Pablo seriously ''don't'' realise that it was Austin who helped them -- turns to look straight at the camera and then shrugs her shoulders. Earlier in the same ep, after the coconuts roll in, Uniqua side-glances at the audience for a split second and then says "Maybe we're not alone here after all".

** Pablo shoots the camera an "I don't believe this" look after Tasha takes credit for finding the Yellow Lotus Flower in "The Key to the Nile."

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Pablo in "Pirate Camp" keeps getting distracted by the very shiny red boot.

* [[Bag of Holding]]: ''Ohhh boy.'' The ultimate example would probably be Uniqua and Pablo's trunk in "To the Center of the Earth", which could hold several inventions, a telescope, a hammer, a thermos, a lasso, a ladder, a bucket, a net, an umbrella, a sponge mop, a hat stand, a lamp, a rake, poles, skiis, a feather duster, a bike horn, wooden spoons, a large tuba, string, marshmallows, a spring, helium-filled balloons... do I need to go on?

** Tyrone and Pablo would also have costumes that apply to this trope 1/3 of the time.

* [[Beach Episode]]: The whole point of episodes such as "Surf's Up" or "Legend of the Volcano Sisters".

* [[Green Rocks]]: The flying rock in "The Quest for the Flying Rock" and the Crystal of Power in "Pablor and the Acorns".

* [[Green Thumb]] / [[Petal Power]]: Uniqua as Flower Girl in "Flower Power".

* [[Grumpy Bear]]: Queen Uniqua in "A Giant Problem", as well as Pablo, Tasha, and Tyrone in "Fly Girl".

* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: When Uniqua and Austin (as palace guards) are tricked by Musketeer Tasha in "The Two Musketeers", and guards Tyrone and Pablo in "The Masked Retriever".

* [[The Power of Rock|The Power of]] <s>Rock</s> a ''lot'' of musical genres.

* [[The Quiet One]]: Once again, Austin.

* [[Record Needle Scratch]]: In "Blazing Paddles". The exciting background music suddenly screeches to a halt when Pablo asks "Uh...when is high noon?".

* [[Red Herring]]: In "Whodunit?", {{spoiler|Austin leaves the manor saying that he has to go "feed his cat", looking very guilty indeed.}}

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Inverted with Pablo and Tyrone. Pablo is blue and panicked frequently in the first season. Tyrone is orange, but more level-headed and laidback.

* [[Wasteful Wishing]]: In "Movers of Arabia", {{spoiler|Pablo wastes a wish by saying "I wish I knew where we were." Cue Genie Austin, yelling "You're in Arabia! Boy, that was easy!"}}

* [[What Could Have Been]]: One episode was supposed to use [[wikipedia:Sun ra|Sun Ra's]] avant-garde jazz as a music genre, but the show's producers thought it would scare [[Moral Guardians|parents]] and decided not to go through with it.

* [[Whip Pan]]: Used in "The Tale of the Mighty Knights", "Le Master of Disguise", "Robin Hood the Clean", and several other episodes.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Tasha during "Chichen-Itza Pizza" -- logically enough, the Indiana Jones parody episode.

 

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