History Literature / Madeline

* SickEpisode: "Madeline and the Costume Party."

* SlasherSmile: Pepito gets a few in the "Bad Bat Hat" song.

* Karma: In "Madeline and the Costume Party," the girls contract chicken pox and Pepito laughs every time he sees them. Of course, on the eve of the party, [[spoiler: Pepito has caught the illness from the girls and fully expects them to laugh at him too. They spend the evening with him to watch the fireworks instead.]]

* AlphaBitch: Vicki in TheMovie.

** Sugar Dimples in "Madeline Goes to Hollywood."

Tristar released a live-action feature-length movie based on ''Madeline'', ''Madeline and the Bad Hat'', ''Madeline and the Gypsies'' and ''Madeline's Rescue'' in 1998. It followed the books, but also expanded the plotline, because...well, it's a picture book series. The expanded plot was for Madeline and her friends to stop Lord "Cu-Cu Face" Covington from selling the boarding school. Madeline was also turned into an orphan in this version.

In 1993, after their partnership with {{CINAR}} had ended, DiC decided to make a Madeline TV series. Reusing the character designs, some of the talents (Christopher Plummer was held back by DiC as the narrator), and the TitleThemeTune from the old specials, Madeline's other friends were given names, and had various adventures that were not present in the books. Similar to the specials, the show was filled with EarWorm music. It premiered on [[ABCFamily The Family Channel]]. Some notable differences between the {{CINAR}}-DiC Partnership version and this version were new voice actors, some girls hair colors were changed, the animation was ''much'' better, and various supporting book characters made more appearances as well. In 1995, more episodes premiered on ABC Saturday mornings, under the title ''TheNewAdventures of Madeline''. Following a second Soundtrack CD release ("Hats Off To Madeline"), the franchise went into a 4-year hiatus.

* ChannelHop: From {{HBO}} to ABCFamily to Creator/{{ABC}} to DisneyChannel.

* RedheadedHero: Madeline.

* [[TalkingToHimself Talking To Herself]]: You get that when Miss Clavel talks to Genevieve in the animated series. Although Genevieve could only bark back.

* HairOfGold: Yvette and this curly blond girl in the show (she became a brunette in 2001), and Vicki in the movie.
** That would be Sugar Dimples, the show's universe's {{Expy}} of Sherley Temple.

Although critically acclaimed animated versions of the original books were produced throughout TheFifties (the first was even nominated for an AcademyAward), it wasn't until 1989 that {{CINAR}} and DiC created the widely remembered TV special based on the first book for {{HBO}}. It gave names to three of Madeline's friends (Nicole, Danielle, and Chloe) who would be present in later TV showings. The special was a success, so {{CINAR}} and DiC created more specials based on the rest of the books. The project also saw a soundtrack CD, "Madeline's Favorite Songs", with music from the specials released.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Happened a few times, but then the series is not to be taken seriously in the first place. For example, ''Madeline In Egypt'' had the characters locked in a museum by accident, and they had ''lunch next with King Tut'', implying that they were eating lunch next to the sarcophagus. In this reality we live in, neither the sarcophagus nor King Tut's body has ever left the tomb due to the well-known curse. So it couldn't be in the museum. And outside food and drinks in a museum? Can that even happen?
** The lunchboxes aren't so unusual. Different museums would have different rules, but a school field trip might well be allowed to bring lunches.
** Most notably, the main character's name is mispronounced in order to function in the rhyme scheme--the French pronunciation of her name should be something like Mad-LEN
** And then there's the girls introducing French fries to the US. Erm, fries/chips weren't even French- they originated from Belgium.

The rest of the books were written and published in TheFifties, including ''Madeline and the Bad Hat'', ''Madeline and the Gypsies'', ''Madeline in London'', ''Madeline's Christmas'' (although it wasn't published until the `80's), and Caldecot-winner ''Madeline's Rescue''. After the death of Bemelmans, his son, John Bemelmans wrote several others, including ''Madeline in America'', ''Madeline Says Merci'', ''Madeline and the Cats of Rome'', and ''Madeline at the White House''.

Although critically acclaimed animated versions of the original books were produced throughout TheFifties (the first was even nominated for an AcademyAward), it wasn't until 1989 that {{CINAR}} and {{DiC}} created the widely remembered TV special based on the first book for {{HBO}}. It gave names to three of Madeline's friends (Nicole, Danielle, and Chloe) who would be present in later TV showings. The special was a success, so {{CINAR}} and {{DiC}} created more specials based on the rest of the books. The project also saw a soundtrack CD, "Madeline's Favorite Songs", with music from the specials released.

In 1993, after their partnership with {{CINAR}} had ended, {{DiC}} decided to make a Madeline TV series. Reusing the character designs, some of the talents (Christopher Plummer was held back by {{DiC}} as the narrator), and the TitleThemeTune from the old specials, Madeline's other friends were given names, and had various adventures that were not present in the books. Similar to the specials, the show was filled with EarWorm music. It premiered on [[ABCFamily The Family Channel]]. Some notable differences between the {{CINAR}}-{{DiC}} Partnership version and this version were new voice actors, some girls hair colors were changed, the animation was ''much'' better, and various supporting book characters made more appearances as well. In 1995, more episodes premiered on ABC Saturday mornings, under the title ''TheNewAdventures of Madeline''. Following a second Soundtrack CD release ("Hats Off To Madeline"), the franchise went into a 4-year hiatus.

The silence ended when {{DiC}} made a direct-to-video movie, known as ''Madeline: Lost in Paris''. The plot was a man posing as Madeline's uncle came to take her to a finishing school in Vienna, but it was actually a lace factory that put orphan girls to labor. This movie had a slightly different color palette than the 1993 version, and different voice actors. Released by Disney in 1999, the movie was re-released by Shout! Factory recently, but removing all Disney idents.

This was immediately followed by the 3rd series, in 2000, when {{DiC}} made more episodes, also under the title ''[[TheNewAdventures The New Adventures]] of Madeline'', with improved animation (to follow up with the direct-to-video movie). Also, the color palette changed again for a few of the girls. Many of the voice talents also changed in this version. This version of the cartoon premiered on Playhouse Disney. A third soundtrack CD was released shortly after, "Sing-A-Long with Madeline", after which the franchise once again fell silent.

Tristar released a live-action feature-length movie based on ''Madeline'', ''Madeline and the Bad Hat'', ''Madeline and the Gypsies'' and ''Madeline's Rescue'' in 1998. It followed the books, but also expanded the plotline, because...well, it's a picture book series. The expanded plot was for Madeline and her friends to stop Lord "Cu-Cu Face" Covington from selling the boarding school. Madeline was also turned into an orphan in this version.

* BraggingThemeTune: "I'm Madeline". Also counts as an IAmSong.

* ChannelHop: From {{HBO}} to ABCFamily to {{ABC}} to DisneyChannel.

** ''My Fair Madeline'' qualifies as well.

* DisneyAcidSequence: Used in every song, but much, much more in the {{DiC}} version (ironic since they used to be with Disney).
** Unsurprisingly, this show airs on the Disney channel in regions outside the US.

* HeartwarmingOrphan: Madeline in the second {{DiC}} series and TheMovie. All other adaptions have her parents alive and well (the old house is a Catholic boarding school, not an orphanage).

* HeelFaceTurn:

* LampshadeWearing: In ''Madeline and the Big Cheese''. See [[{{Funny/Madeline}} CMOF]] page for details.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: When Madeline sings ''Without You'' in ''Madeline And The Science Project''. If you're able to refrain yourself from crying, you'll notice that Madeline has suddenly lost her French accent.

** {{DiC}} brought him back.

* ShipperOnDeck: The Spanish Ambassador for Madeline and his son Pepito, mainly before Madeline visits Pepito later on in "Madeline and the Bad Hat".

** The post-Lost-in-Paris episodes of the show broadcast Asia had the theme song of ''Hats off to Madeline'', the second series theme song, replacing ''Oh Madeline'', the third series theme song.