History Literature / Barbapapa

* TitleThemeTune: All three series.

** The switch from the first season being animated in the Netherlands, to the second being animated in Japan, has lead to key differences in the design and animation of the show, such as lighter colors, lip flaps suddenly being animated and Barbamama and Barbapapa being skinnier.
** ''Around the World'', being completely animated in Japan, still has its subtle, unique differences, mainly that the colors are paler than usual.
** As animation technology has changed greatly in the 2010's, the 2019 reboot, being animated in France, is now puppet animated and has a more refined and consistent art style, while still looking faithful to the old series and retaining its general charm.

After the success of the book series, an animated series of the same name began airing on ORTF Télévision and [=TF1=] in France in 1974, and would help the franchise gain more popularity. It was animated by the Japanese animation studios KSS and Topcraft, and the Dutch studio, [=PolyScope=] BV. Every single character was voiced by the narrator, Ricet Barrier. Two seasons of the series were produced with 100 episodes in total, and every episode was also 5 minutes long. It gained a Dutch dub, and [[DuelingDubs two Japanese dubs]]; one of which aired on Creator/TVTokyo in Japan, and the other was released by Sony Music Entertainment on home media.

* ArtEvolution:
** Naturally went through this, as animation technology has changed in the 2010's than how it used to be in the 70's. The 2019 reboot is now puppet animated and has a more refined and consistent art style, while still looking faithful to the old series and retaining its general charm.
** This could also subtly be seen in the anime, as the art style still looks slightly different than the 70s series thanks to being solely animated by a Japanese studio as opposed to being co-produced with a Dutch studio.

* AdaptationalLocationChange: Strangely, the 2019 reboot changes the location of the show from France to the ''United States''. Oh, the [[NoExportForYou irony]].

After travelling around the world in order to find himself a mate, Barbapapa finally comes across a female of his species (more shapely and black-coloured) named Barbamama. They start a big family together and produce seven children; four sons -

'''''[[BrokenRecord DID YOU MISS THAT?]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment BARBAPAPA, BARBAMAMA, BARBAZOO, BARBALALA,]] [[MemeticMutation BARBALIB, BARBABEAU, BARBABELLE, BARBABRIGHT, AND BARBABRAVO!]]'''''

* CompilationMovie: In 1973 (which predates when the show premiered in France by a year), episodes of the original series were re-packaged into a full-length film in Italy titled "Le avventure di Barbapapà". When the full series aired a few years later on TV, it would be re-dubbed (and then [[DuelingDubs re-dubbed once again]] in 2006).

* SuddenlyVoiced: A literal case of this trope. Originally, the first ''Barbapapa'' TV series was done in the same vein as ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'', with all of the characters being voiced by the narrator, Ricet Barrier. Some dubs would do the same, others would give them all unique voices or a male voice actor does the men while the female voice actor does the women. By season two however, it would become a standard that all of the Barbapapas and the narrator would have their own separate voices performed by different actors, which started to make a lot of sense when one considers that this season was when they started to give characters' mouths lip flaps. This practice would continue with the two other [[SpinOff Spin-Offs]] that would come out.

* Barbabravo[[note]] "Barbidur" in French, "Barbaborre" in Dutch[[/note]], a [[LovableJock sports fan]] (red)

-->[[TheStinger Wait]], [[HereWeGoAgain what were all their names again]]?

** In the United States, the intro that aired was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ros3QribPnQ a remix]] of the original theme, taken from one of the scores of the series. It also skips the roll call.

* SameLanguageDub: As mentioned, the 70s series was dubbed in English for five markets; the US, the UK, Canada, and Japan, and South Korea.[[note]]The countries listed don't necessarily reflect where they were dubbed, however, as one of the American English dubs was only released in South Korea.[[/note]] Just as well, the series received two Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Latin American and European Spanish dubs, and three Finnish and Swedish dubs.

* SignatureSoundEffect: That one sound effect whenever the Barbapapas shapeshift into whatever they want to, used most frequently in the [=80s=] series.

* QuirkyHousehold: Basically describes the Barbapapa family perfectly; a group of multi-colored [[BlobMonster blob monsters]] who can volunteeringly shapeshift into anything they want to.

After various adventures, Barbapapa comes across a female of his species (more shapely and black-coloured) named Barbamama. They start a big family together and produce seven children; four sons -

-->[-[[TheStinger Wait]], [[HereWeGoAgain what were all their names again]]?-]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the Centauro dub, Barbapapa sees a big dam.
--> '''Barbapapa:''' Dam, dam, dam! Haha, excuse me, I didn't mean to say a bad word! Just joking.

NeedsWikiMagicLove, especially from those who have read the book series.

* SameLanguageDub: As mentioned, the 70s series was dubbed in English for five markets; the US, the UK, Canada, and Japan, and South Korea.[[note]]The countries listed don't necessarily reflect where they were dubbed, however, as the American English dub was only released in South Korea.[[/note]] Just as well, the series received two Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Latin American and European Spanish dubs, and three Finnish and Swedish dubs.

** The most popular phrase is "Clickety click, Barba trick!", which was used in the Canadian English dub.