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A [[Cartoon Network]] action/comedy original series created by Jay Stephens
An [[Your Mileage May Vary|under-appreciated animated series]], ''The Secret Saturdays'' quickly became the [[Network Red Headed Stepchild]] in a matter of months. It
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▲An [[Your Mileage May Vary|under-appreciated animated series]], ''The Secret Saturdays'' quickly became the [[Network Red Headed Stepchild]] in a matter of months. It wrapped up its second and final season on [[Cartoon Network]], then showed up on Boomerang at the end of 2011, pretty much putting the lid on whether the show was going to be continued.
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Present in Kur Part 2, when the Nagas attack New York through the sewers.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Jay Stephens hangs around the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101182913/http://www.toonzone.net/ Cartoon Network forms in Toonzone answering fans' questions as well as giving insights into the show.]
* [[Ambiguously Human]]: {{spoiler|V.V. Argost, who turns out to be a super-intelligent cryptid himself.}}
* [[Acting for Two]]: Corey Burton voices both Argost & Van Rook.
* [[Action Mom]]: Drew Saturday.
* [[Affectionate Gesture to the Head]]: Zak is the frequent victim of hair-tousling by Doyle and others.
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** [[Parental Obliviousness]]: The team is the entire family so they're pretty much aware of Zak and his high-spirited hijinks.
* [[All Animals Are Domesticated]]: The Saturdays have a pet ''komodo dragon''. Though in all fairness, it is not a garden variety breed, what with being ''huge'' and part-chameleon.
** That's not an unusual size for a standard, adult Komodo monitor; [https://web.archive.org/web/20090508153604/http://www.honoluluzoo.org/komodo_dragon.htm 8 feet and 200 pounds] are considered "average".
* [[Anti-Anti-Christ]]: {{spoiler|Zak, once it's revealed that he's the reincarnation of [[God of Evil|Kur]]. He wants nothing to do with the civilization destroying thing. Could also apply with Zak Monday, who is the Anti-Kur and thus ''should'' be good but uses his powers for evil.}}
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The Kur Stone.
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** We know that Drew has some with Van Rook.
** We saw some with how Drew grew up to be an [[Action Girl]], and how her [[Long-Lost Relative]] became long lost.
* [[Badass Adorable]]:
** Zak - tiny and cute with that star shaped mop of hair, but he gets badass right as the first season comes to a close.
** Fiskerton - fluffy and cuddly and comical, but do ''not'' get between him and the family unless you ''want'' a world of hurt.
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* [[Big Applesauce]]: {{spoiler|The nagas attack Manhattan when the Saturdays are expecting them to attack Hong Kong instead.}}
* [[Big No]]: By the entire family.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The Season Two finale. {{spoiler|Sure, Argost is finally defeated and the Cryptid War ends as quickly as it began, but Zak lost his powers in the process, forcing him to be a normal boy (not that he minds) and Van Rook performs a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save Drew whom he loved. Heck, the episode ends with a funeral}}.
* [[Body Count Competition]]: Reverse example. Done with a count of saved people.
* [[Body Swap]]
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: [[Lampshaded]], since when they are faced with a robot that can fire tiny bombs from its [[Arm Cannon]], Drew complains about its seemingly limitless supply after its been firing at them continuously for a few minutes.
* [[A Boy and His X]]: Zak and Fiskerton appear to be an inseparable pair.
* [[Broken Record]]: Doc Saturday's [[Evil Twin]]. "Bad copy bad copy bad copy bad copy bad copy!"
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: In the final episode, this happens to Zak. He's not choked up about it, though.
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** Argost: "Greetings and bienvenue."
* [[Cat Suit]]: Drew Saturday's normal outfit.
* [[Charm Person]]: Zak can control cryptids, but only to do things that at least a small part of them already wanted to do.
* [[The Chosen One]]: Zak was born, his parents theorize, to counter the Kur Stone, so he can save the world if need arises.
** It ends up subverted later when it turns out that {{spoiler|Zak is actually Kur.}}.
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* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Displayed throughout the episode "Twelve Hundred Degrees Fahrenheit". Taken to a ridiculous extent when both Argost and Drew ''swim through the volcano'' (wearing fireproof lizard-skin and a heatproof suit, respectively, but ''still!''). Particularly [[Egregious]] in Argost's case, as the lava should have seeped in through the openings in the skin (eyes, mouth).
* [[The Cruella]]: In "The Return of Tsul 'Kalu", Doyle has to protect a black market cryptid dealer who eats panda dumplings.
* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|Cut Argost A Check]]: Argost was already fairly wealthy due to the fame from his show and the money brought in by the marketing of toys connected to ''Weird World''.
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Zak and Wadi early on. Also {{spoiler|Doyle and Abby.}}
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: {{spoiler|Zak's deal with Argost.}}
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* [[Flaming Sword]]: Drew's sword is a solar powered fire sword.
* [[Flash Back]]: Flashbacks to some of Doc and Drew's earlier adventures.
* [[Flying Seafood Special]]: Flying [[Electric Jellyfish]] plague the family in one episode.
* [[Foe-Tossing Charge]]: In pursuit of a mere thrown ball, Komodo clears a hallway of dangerous airborne jellyfish cryptids when the family had been having a hard time just holding them at bay.
* [[Foe Yay]]: Zak and Wadi had this going on when they first met. Also {{spoiler|Doyle and his ex-girlfriend Abby Gray after her [[Face Heel Turn]].}}
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* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Doc Saturday.
* [[George Lucas Throwback]]: Just look at [[Jonny Quest|the]] [[The Herculoids|shows]] it's compared to above.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Zak's eyes glow when he uses his powers.
** This is also true for Munya, Argost's henchman.
* [[God of Evil]]: Implied with Kur.
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* [[Gotta Get Your Head Together]]: Zak and {{spoiler|Argost}} reacting to the deadly music from the flute of Gilgamesh.
* [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]: The Claw
* [[Hair Colors]]:
** Drew is white-haired. So is Argost, though that might be age. {{spoiler|Turns out that he's actually a ''fricking Yeti!''}}
** Doc and Zak both have a variation on [[Skunk Stripe]].
** Doyle is a [[Fiery Redhead]].
* [[A Handful for
* [[Happily Married]]: Drew and Doc, and for once the parents ''aren't'' dead or [[Parental Obliviousness|oblivious!]]
* [[Hartman Hips]]: Drew Saturday's wide birthin' hips.
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** And much more, [[Fan Service|see: Most Common Superpower, Hartman Hips and Hot Shounen Mom]].
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Of all people, {{spoiler|Leonidas Van Rook does this for Drew when Rani Naga attempts to attack her with her own sword blast.}}
* [[Hot Librarian]]: Abby.
* [[Hot Shounen Mom]]: Drew. On the night of the premiere, several [[Image Boards|/co/ threads]] on Secret Saturdays had posts that just said "MILF WITH A FLAMING SWORD"
** Her evil twin is pretty much outright [[Fetish Fuel]], seeing as she has {{spoiler|a long, prehensile tongue}}.
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* [[Impossible Thief]]: Wadi. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYHXbZpF94E Watch her in action, and you'll understand (starts around 4:36).]
* [[Infant Immortality]]: {{spoiler|Both played straight and subverted in one of the most horrible ways imaginable.}} While Zak seems to live through every disaster that can possibly befall him, {{spoiler|Argost uses the Flute of Gilgamesh on Zak Monday, and it's over for the little guy. Sure, he may have been evil, ''but still...'' Zak proper ''almost'' shared the same fate, and did actually die, but got better thanks to quick medical care.}}
* [[Ironic Echo]]: In the first episode, Van Rook chastises Doyle for using several concussion grenades on Doc, claiming that "two is plenty." In the last episode {{spoiler|at his funeral, Doyle places several roses on his grave}} then takes back almost all of them, saying "two is plenty."
* [[Jerkass]]: Depending on how you view him, Doc is a serious ass {{spoiler|especially to his wife's own BROTHER}}.
** But then {{spoiler|said brother}} is no prize either.
*** And who really gets along with {{spoiler|the in-laws}}?
** Also Dr. Beeman, who seems to operate in perpetual [[Sarcasm Mode]], and has no problem with the idea of ''killing an eleven year old boy'' in cold blood.
* [[Jet Pack]]: Doyle and Van Rook's preferred mode of travel in combat.
* [[Kid Hero]]: Zak.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Van Rook and Zak Monday}}
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* [[Large Ham]]: A few of the villains are like this, but Argost is the largest and hammiest of them all.
* [[Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid]]: In "Twelve Hundred Degrees Fahrenheit", not only do Argost and Drew swim through lava, Drew actually dives into it.
* [[Little Black Dress]]: Worn by Drew Saturday in "Guess Who's Going To Be Dinner" when she and Doc go on an anniversary date.
* [[Long-Lost Relative]]: Drew discovers her long lost brother is working with the bad guys.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The opening episode's Kur Stone.
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* [[Mirror Universe]]: What the Smoke Mirror of Tezcatlipoca opens a portal to.
* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: Fiskerton, the cat-gorilla.
** Also Argost's henchman Munya who has characteristics of spider and gorilla along with human attributes.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: "Into The Mouth Of Darkness", when {{spoiler|a light-hearted filler episode does a 180 when Argost shows up and gives a [[Not So Different]] speech.}}
* [[Most Common Superpower]]: Drew [[Ms. Fanservice|has this in spades]].
* [[Murder Water]]
* [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]: In "Into the Mouth of Darkness", Drew is less than impressed by Doc's grasp of Arabic:
{{quote|'''Drew:''' "You do realise that you just promised to buy him new butter?"}}
* [[Never Say "Die"]] / [[Killed Off for Real]]: Mostly adhered to, but Drew's [[Backstory]] makes it clear they don't shy away from it when it enriches the story to say so.
** This rule is still adhered to, but with Ulraj's dad, you can tell he's obviously been killed.
** {{spoiler|And, after a few seconds, you remember that the Flute of Gilgamesh kills the Kur it drains. Argost used it on Zak Monday. You do the math.}}
** Completely subverted with {{spoiler|Leonidas Van Rook, who actually died on screen, [[He's Dead, Jim|showing us his hand falling lifelessly to the floor]] to drive the point home. Zak, too, but only for a few minutes. And just in case anybody's ''still'' not sure about Van Rook, the episode ends with his funeral.}}
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** Subverted by Komodo who is a (mostly) friendly Komodo Dragon. Same with Zon.
*** Minus the Mirror Komodo who's [[Affably Evil]] and leader of the Mondays.
* [[Revenge]]: Drew and Doyle both want it {{spoiler|from Argost, when they find out he killed their parents and separated them}}.
** Also Prince Ulraj when he {{spoiler|attempts to strike down Argost for murdering his father.}}
* [[Right Behind Me]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in "Once More To the Nightmare Factory"
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'''Doc:''' ''No.'' We won. I'm not turning around and looking at it. We ''won''. }}
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Prince Ulraj.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: The Komodo Dragon can FLY A JET. Tell me that doesn't qualify.
* [[Screwed by the Network]]: The show was moved around on the schedule every few months, and new episodes were rarely advertised. As a result, only diehard fans could actually keep track of it.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: {{spoiler|Kur's soul was sealed inside the Kur Stone and unleashed when the stone was unearthed, reincarnating in the unborn Zak.}}
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** Munya's transformation is very similar to [[The Hulk|another famous character.]]
* [[Show Within a Show]]: V.V. Argost's ''Weird World''.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Drew delivers a very nice one in the Season 2 finale to Argost when he attempts to call a truce.
* [[Sickly Green Glow]]: The Fang wielded by {{spoiler|Zak Monday}} gives off evil green light and likewise any cryptid affected by it gets [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] to match.
* [[Soul Jar]]: {{spoiler|It turns out the Kur stone actually holds Kur. When that broke, it jumped to Zak.}}
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* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]: "The Kur Guardian", a flashback showing how Fisk joined the Saturdays shows him being hunted by a mob wielding torches and pitchforks.
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: {{spoiler|Sanctuary 2, a seemingly Utopian scientist colony which is using a captured giant electric catfish as a power source}}. Also, the town from the Owl Man episode.
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: But not of the [[Magical Girl]] type. Argost's henchman turns into a [[Half-Human Hybrid|... er... man spider... gorilla... man]] who spits webbing out of his mouth.
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Fiskerton. [[Word of God]] says that his voice actor does have a real script of what he would be saying in English, but he translates it to 'Fisk-speak'. Sometimes it's possible to make out a word or two of what Fisk is saying (usually an astonished "Say what!?"; this amounts to his [[Catch Phrase]]), but for the most part it's unintelligible.
* [[Unnecessary Combat Roll]]: Zak does one in the first episode; entering a room after the combat had ended. Of course, he is only ''eleven''.
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Argost has his own TV show. Apparently it's [[All Part of the Show|intended for children]], and has a massive worldwide following. {{spoiler|Argost has disappeared, and almost ''everywhere'' has "Argost Lives!" painted on it, this is even in foreign languages.}}
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Argost had one of these in his fight against Zak in the first season finale.
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: The show's creator originally pitched it as the adventures of three animal heroes (all of them previously thought to be mythical in [[Real Life]], like the okapi) as they prevented an evil dodo bird from exposing the existence of other cryptids. Nobody wanted the show like that, so he reworked it heavily into what we know today.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: It wasn't revealed what happened to Dr. Beeman after Miranda betrayed him and knocked him out. Nor what became of Rani Nagi or what her reaction was if she learned Kur is gone.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Subverted. Cryptids are treated with respect and protecting them is the Secret Saturday's main mission.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: To Zak from {{spoiler|Argost, of all people}}.
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Argost''': You've lied to your parents, betrayed your own mother, and you're about to let the villain walk out of here so that Mummy and Daddy don't learn the truth about our business relationship.}}}}
** Drew was so obsessed with revenge on Argost for killing her parents that she ignored her son's advice of not letting her emotions get in the way. This led to {{spoiler|[[It's All My Fault|Van Rook's death]] and [[My God, What Have I Done?|almost losing her son]].}}
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Drew Saturday.
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Argost, who has impeccable manners, an appreciation of the French language, and even orders his henchman, Munya, to dogfight with restraint, on the grounds that "[They're] not savages!"
* [[Window Pain]]: Lots, starting with the first episode.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Argost's cryptid fighting ring. The Saturdays find out too late that {{spoiler|the building holding the ring was actually Kur's tomb, & Argost started these fights knowing that they would come and rescue all of the cryptids, including the guardian beast preventing him from venturing deeper into the tomb.}}
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