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* ManInAKilt: The Scottish science teacher Dr. McStern wears a green kilt.

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* ManInAKilt: The Scottish science teacher Dr. McStern [=McStern=] wears a green kilt.
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* ManInAKilt: The Scottish science teacher Dr. McStern wears a green kilt.
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** "Nobody's Fools" ends with Stephanie turning the twins' own "Bees Over Bulls-eye" prank on them, leading them to get covered in flowers and chased by bees.


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* SlipperySkid: Edgar's master plan in "Nobody's Fools" involves the victims slipping on banana peels and marbles.


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* TitleDrop: As the twins are chased by a bee swarm and vow to return the next All Fools' Day at the end of "Nobody's Fools", Ellen says, "We're nobody's fools!"


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* WhoopeeCushion: Miles pulls this prank on an old lady in "Nobody's Fools", then later Pet does the same thing to the BigBad Phineas to make the bells on his hat ring and free the twins from his spell. In both cases, the whoopee cushion says "Whoopee!" when sat upon.
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* AllForNothing: "Trick or Twins" ends with Edgar and Ellen discovering that the bags the trick-or-treaters left behind only have fruit, pencils, toothbrushes and toothpaste inside them.


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* AprilFoolsPlot: "Nobody's Fools" is an April Fool's Day special.


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* HalloweenEpisode: "Trick or Twins"


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* KingKongClimb: A giant Berenice carries Stephanie to the top of the twins' mansion this way in "Trick or Twins".
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* FelonyMisdemeanor: In "Nod's Limbs' Finest", Edgar and Ellen spend a day with Officer Gomez as research for a paper on the police, and arrest a bunch of citizens on these charges, though they're not actually committing crimes.

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* ShoutOut: The following exchange from the twins in "The Battle of Nod's Limbs" is a reference to ''Film/ApocalypseNow'':

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The following exchange from the twins in "The Battle of Nod's Limbs" is a reference to ''Film/ApocalypseNow'':


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** One of the twins' schemes in "Rare Bird Fiends" is called "Operation Theatre/ByeByeBirdie".
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* SamusIsAGirl: Edgar, Ellen and Stephanie are shocked when they discover that the pranking expert Sneaks O'Dwyer is a young girl.

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* HereWeGoAgain: A few episodes end this way:
** "Baby Talk", where Edgar gets turned into a baby, ends with Heimertz receiving the same transformation.
** "A Suspect Inspection" ends with Ellen catching Edgar's cold.
** In "Attack of the Invisible Pet", after the twins turn Pet visible again, Heimertz sprays himself with Edgar's invisibility potion and turns invisible.



%%* ManChild: After the twins revise Judith Knightleigh's parenting book in "Grownups Behaving Badly", all the other grown-ups in Nod's Limbs become this.

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%%* * ManChild: After the twins revise Judith Knightleigh's parenting book in "Grownups Behaving Badly", Badly" with a rule telling adults to act like misbehaved kids, all the other grown-ups in Nod's Limbs become this.



* ShoutOut: The following exchange from the twins in "The Battle of Nod's Limbs" is a reference to ''Film/ApocalypseNow'':
-->'''Edgar''': I love the smell of cream pie in the morning.
-->'''Ellen''': It smells like victory.



* SoapWithinAShow: "Amores Peligrosos", Pet's favorite telenovela.



%%* YouNeedABreathMint: What Edgar tells Ellen when she pulls him close to her face while declaring her intent to win the Kite-stravaganza in "Flown for a Loop".

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%%* * YouNeedABreathMint: What Edgar tells When Ellen when she pulls him Edgar close to her face while declaring her intent to win the Kite-stravaganza in "Flown for a Loop".Loop", he says, "Breath mint- just a suggestion."

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* YouNeedABreathMint: What Edgar tells Ellen when she pulls him close to her face while declaring her intent to win the Kite-stravaganza in "Flown for a Loop".

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* YouNeedABreathMint: What Edgar tells Ellen when she pulls him close to her face while declaring her intent to win the Kite-stravaganza in "Flown for a Loop".
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* ArtEvolution: The original shorts (animated by Creator/StudioBProductions) used the character designs from the books. These designs were tweaked and refined in the series, which was animated by Creator/BardelEntertainment. The twins didn't change much, but the Knightleighs looked significantly different.
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* GoshDangItToHeck: Parodied in "The Manners Marathon" when Stephanie fouls Miles for using "foul language", even though he was only saying words such as "darn" and "fiddlesticks".

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* LaserGuidedKarma: ''Rare Beasts'' puts the twins through a HumiliationConga at the end, and ''Tourist Trap''-- despite the twins having far more sympathetic goals this time around-- ends with them getting caught in a rain of pigeon poop.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: LaserGuidedKarma:
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''Rare Beasts'' puts the twins through a HumiliationConga at the end, and ''Tourist Trap''-- despite the twins having far more sympathetic goals this time around-- ends with them getting caught in a rain of pigeon poop.



* FountainOfYouth: Edgar's Infantalizing Ray, which turns its targets into babies.

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* FountainOfYouth: FountainOfYouth:
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Edgar's Infantalizing Ray, which turns its targets into babies.



* ManChild: After the twins revise Judith Knightleigh's parenting book in "Grownups Behaving Badly", all the other grown-ups in Nod's Limbs become this.

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* %%* ManChild: After the twins revise Judith Knightleigh's parenting book in "Grownups Behaving Badly", all the other grown-ups in Nod's Limbs become this.

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* AccidentalTruth: In "Radio Free Nod's Limbs", Ellen tricks people into thinking there's buried treasure under the sand at the beach. At the end, however, Heimertz digs up a treasure chest.



* FountainOfYouth: Edgar's Infantalizing Ray, which turns its targets into babies.
** Played with in "Radio Free Nod's Limbs", when Ellen claims bathing in the park fountain makes one younger. An old woman bathes in the fountain and acts younger afterwards.



* ManChild: After the twins revise Judith Knightleigh's parenting book, all the other grown-ups in Nod's Limbs become this.

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* ManChild: After the twins revise Judith Knightleigh's parenting book, book in "Grownups Behaving Badly", all the other grown-ups in Nod's Limbs become this.


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* SickEpisode: "A Suspect Inspection", in which Edgar has a cold, but Ellen needs his help pranking the school's superintendent. After Edgar recovers, [[HereWeGoAgain Ellen catches his cold]].


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* UnscrewedSaltShaker: One of the pranks the twins play during the Manners Marathon.
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* ComedicUnderwearExposure: In the episode "Nobody's Fools" when Mayor Knightleigh gives a speech on the stage, his belt is stolen by a prankster and his pants fall down, exposing his polka-dot boxer shorts in public.

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* ComedicUnderwearExposure: In the episode "Nobody's Fools" Fools", when Mayor Knightleigh gives a speech on the stage, his belt is stolen by a prankster and his pants fall down, exposing his polka-dot boxer shorts in public.
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* ComedicUnderwearExposure: In the episode "Nobody's fools" when Mayor Knightleigh gives a speech on the stage, his belt is stolen by a prankster and his pants fall down, exposing his polka-dot boxer shorts in public.

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* ComedicUnderwearExposure: In the episode "Nobody's fools" Fools" when Mayor Knightleigh gives a speech on the stage, his belt is stolen by a prankster and his pants fall down, exposing his polka-dot boxer shorts in public.
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* BabyMorphEpisode: "Baby Talk" has Heimertz accidentally turn Edgar into a baby with the latter's own Infantalizing Ray, and Ellen becomes a BadlyBatteredBabysitter looking after him. In the end, after Ellen turns Edgar back to normal, she turns ''Heimertz'' into a baby and makes Edgar take care of him.



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* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Nobody in town seems to care that there are two 12 year old kids living on their own in an unhealthy place. However, the townsfolk get more involved in their lives in the TV show as they try to correct the twins bad habits at least once or twice such as their poor hygiene by bathing them.

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* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Nobody in town seems to care that there are two 12 year old kids living on their own in an unhealthy place. However, the townsfolk get more involved in their lives in the TV show as they try to correct the twins twins' bad habits at least once or twice such as their poor hygiene by bathing them.



* AdaptationalWimp: Edgar. In the books, he was usually on the same partnership level with Ellen. In the show, Ellen's more clearly the leader, and Edgar tends to be more submissives, sensitive, and unlucky.

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* AdaptationalWimp: Edgar. In the books, he was usually on the same partnership level with Ellen. In the show, Ellen's more clearly the leader, and Edgar tends to be more submissives, submissive, sensitive, and unlucky.



* BabyMorphEpisode: "Baby Talk" has Heimertz accidentally turn Edgar into a baby with the latter's own Infantalizing Ray, and Ellen becomes a BadlyBatteredBabysitter looking after him. In the end, after Ellen turns Edgar back to normal, she turns ''Heimertz'' into a baby and makes Edgar take care of him.



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