Totally Spies!: Difference between revisions

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* [[Distressed Dude]]: Counting this show and ''The Amazing Spiez'' spin-off, Blaine and Dean both get their fair share of scenes where they end up bound and gagged.

* [[Dueling Shows]]: Started around the time ''[[Kim Possible]]'' did.

* [[E ~~Equals~~ MC Hammer]]: [[The Movie]] has a lot of issues.

* [[E=MC Hammer]]: [[The Movie]] has a lot of issues.

* [[Embarrassing Slide]]: In the episode "Shrinking", Jerry shows the Spies footage of various landmarks being shrunken and stolen around the world. In-between, however, is a clip of himself waterskiing and waving to the camera, to which Jerry reacts in the expected way.

* [[Enemy Mime]]: "Jazz Hands".

* [[Everybody Laughs Ending]]

* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]

* [[Expy]]:

** Marco Lumière is basically a (more) unhinged version of [[Tim Burton]].

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* [[First-Name Basis]]: We never get to know most of the characters' surnames.

* [[Five-Bad Band]]: In later episodes.

* [[Four Girl Ensemble]]: What happens when Britney joins the team.

* [[Four-Girl Ensemble]]: What happens when Britney joins the team.

* [[Furry Fandom]]: Clover turning into a furry cat, not to mention all the other walking, talking, human animals in the episode "Animal World", could trigger this.

* [[Future Spandex]]

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* [[Gratuitous French]]: Clover has a habit of doing this, [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French|if only for the style]]. One episode reveals that, at most, her knowledge of French is pretty basic: she and Alex find an uncannily handsome pool cleaner guy who only speaks French. Everytime he speaks, the girls get lulled about him (after all, [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French]]), but it's only with Jerry translating for them at the end that they know: all that he was talking about was the quality of the water in the swimming pool, and all that stuff (therefore, too technical for just [[Gratuitous French]]). Luckily enough for them, he had already switched to work for Mandy, whose comprehension of the language was about in the same level.

* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: The premise around Season 4's "Déjà Cruise".

* [[Growing Muscles Sequence]]: In "The Incredible Bulk", the villain's plot revolves around health snacks that bulk up rival bodybuilders to the point their bodies explode.

* [["Growing Muscles" Sequence]]: In "The Incredible Bulk", the villain's plot revolves around health snacks that bulk up rival bodybuilders to the point their bodies explode.

* [[Heart Symbol]]: Commonly seen floating around the girls (or [[Wingding Eyes|in their eyes]]) when they locate the Boyfriend of the Week. And sometimes [[Les Yay|around each other]] too.

* [[Highly-Visible Ninja|Highly Visible Spies]]: On their missions, the girls wear neon bright jumpsuits (even if they don't actually ''need'' to) and rarely make any attempt to hide or disguise their identities. Actual sneaking around, while not uncommon, happens about as often as barging headfirst into any objective. They aren't ''really'' spies in the traditional sense; it's more of a case of [[Not Wearing Tights]].<br />Many episodes have them going undercover at whatever location they're investigating wearing clothes that fit the location and rarely, fake credentials if they can't get in by walking though the front door. They never actually hide their identiy and often use their real first names as part of whatever fake identity they're using. It's only later once they break in to snoop around or after their cover is blown do they wear the highly visible suits.

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* [[Luminescent Blush]]

* [[The Men in Black]]: The WHOOP agents.

* [[Minor Flaw Major Breakup]]: At the end of the episode where Alex gets muscular after ingesting a muscle growth formula, her boyfriend of the week dumps her because [[No Guy Wants an Amazon|he doesn't date girls more buff than him]]. She doesn't take that too well.

* [[Minor Flaw, Major Breakup]]: At the end of the episode where Alex gets muscular after ingesting a muscle growth formula, her boyfriend of the week dumps her because [[No Guy Wants an Amazon|he doesn't date girls more buff than him]]. She doesn't take that too well.

* [[Mistaken for Badass]]: In "Evil Coffee Shop Much?", Jerry hires Mandy as a spy because he thinks she somehow snuck into WHOOP HQ when in actuality she was just accidentally WHOOP'd along with the main girls and fell behind the couch.

* [[The Movie]]: A prequel released in (at least) French theaters in 2009. The movie recently aired on [[Cartoon Network]].

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* [[Plot Tailored to The Party]]: Occasionally, a completely improbable situation pops up, demanding the use of a gadget that would be unused otherwise, or an otherwise useless gadget gets a highly unusual use (such as the super-spicy gum used by Alex that allowed her to [[Refuge in Audacity|sweat enough to slip tightly-tied ropes off her, despite the fact that she was still wearing her spysuit]]).

* [[Power Trio]]:

** [[Beauty Brains and Brawn]]: Clover, Sam and Alex.

** [[Beauty, Brains, and Brawn]]: Clover, Sam and Alex.

** [[Blonde Brunette Redhead]]: Clover, Alex and Sam. And the picture even has them in order!

** [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Clover, Alex and Sam. And the picture even has them in order!

** [[Freudian Trio]]:

*** [[The Kirk]] - Alex

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* [[Shapeshifting]]

* [[Shoe Phone]]: Compact Phone, actually.

* [[Shout Out]]: Multiple times.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Multiple times.

** References to ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' are probably an inside joke, as at least one of the voice actors -- namely [[Katie Griffin]], who plays Alex -- also voiced Raye in the early DiC-dubbed episodes of that show.

** ''[[Charlies Angels]]'', when a villain impersonating Jerry accidentally calls Alex "Farrah".

** WOOHP sounds suspiciously similar to WOOC(P), the employer of the protagonist of ''The Ipcress File'' and other [[Len Deighton]] novels.

** There is a [[Shout Out]] to Tsukasa Hojo's ''[[Cat's Eye]]'' in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE. More precisely, the tomboyish brunette [[Action Girl]] with a yellow [[Spy Catsuit]] Alex is an [[Expy]] for Ai Kisugi, the youngest of the three sisters. It's much easier for the French viewers to figure it out, since Ai was named ''Alex'' (short for Alexia) in the French dub. It also helps that ''[[Cat's Eye]]'' was broadcast multiple times on French public channels in the '80s (and well beloved). And yes, it was displayed on kids programs. Which the creators of the show grew up watching. [[Values Dissonance|Explains a lot, doesn't it?]]

** There is a [[Shout-Out]] to Tsukasa Hojo's ''[[Cat's Eye]]'' in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE. More precisely, the tomboyish brunette [[Action Girl]] with a yellow [[Spy Catsuit]] Alex is an [[Expy]] for Ai Kisugi, the youngest of the three sisters. It's much easier for the French viewers to figure it out, since Ai was named ''Alex'' (short for Alexia) in the French dub. It also helps that ''[[Cat's Eye]]'' was broadcast multiple times on French public channels in the '80s (and well beloved). And yes, it was displayed on kids programs. Which the creators of the show grew up watching. [[Values Dissonance|Explains a lot, doesn't it?]]

** Also, whenever the girls are shown playing soccer, the animation draws much inspiration from ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'', from the balls taking on an oval shape after being kicked, all the way the ball spinning in the goalkeeper's hands until his gloves are fizzled out. Especially if Alex (who is a professed soccer fan, as per "Spy Soccer") is involved.

** In the episode "Miss Spirit Fingers", Alex and Clover have a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment where they crash into a ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' poster.

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* [[Sticky Situation]]: In a couple of episodes. "Creepy Crawly Much" in particular.

* [[Stock Footage]]: A pan of the crowd applauding and cheering in "Black Widows" is repeated quite a few times during the episode.

* [[Super Deformed]]: e.g. [[Martin Mystery]] (for which this is much more common) in "Totally Mystery Much?".

* [[Super-Deformed]]: e.g. [[Martin Mystery]] (for which this is much more common) in "Totally Mystery Much?".

* [[The Sweat Drop]]

* [[The Tag]]: Starting in Season 3, Sam addressed the viewer during the closing credits, often talking about something related to the theme or events of the episode.