History Literature / Madeline

* OverlyLongName: TheMovie introduces the birthday boy as ''Jose Marco Filippo Franloco Lopez de Vega Esteban Machado Jorge Santiago dela Rocha Gaspar Carlos de Fuentes Coruna Diego y Sevilla''. Of course, his friends call him ''Pepito''.

* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: The live-action movie, with the word "damn" used a few times.

* Foil: Pepito to Madeline. Both are rebellious, brave and adventurous. He's probably what she would have become without her supporting friends and Miss Clavel.

* JustAStupidAccent: Of course, Madeline speaks English with a French accent. The others characters also speak English with a French accent, except for the ones with voice actors who are NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent. In the movie, everyone has [[TheQueensLatin British accents]].

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 1988 that {{CINAR}} and DiC created the widely remembered TV special based on the first book for {{Creator/HBO}}. [[NamedByTheAdaptation 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.

* AdaptationalHeroism: The gypsies from ''Madeline and the Gypsies'' seem like kidnappers who take Madeline and Pepito into their circus, and eventually hide them in a lion's suit so that Miss Clavel can't find them. The TV special instead had the gypsies tell Madeline and Pepito to go home after bringing them down from the Ferris Wheel, only for the two of them to express a desire to join their circus. They also don't make Madeline and Pepito wear the lion's suit until after their own lion becomes too sick to perform.

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.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Chloe gets one in "Madeline and the Old Violin."

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 1988 that {{CINAR}} and DiC created the widely remembered TV special based on the first book for {{HBO}}. [[NamedByTheAdaptation 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.

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 1988 that {{CINAR}} and DiC created the widely remembered TV special based on the first book for {{HBO}}. [[NamedByTheAdaptation 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.

** His cousins, by their own admittance, are worse, but they still get chased and nearly gored by an angry full-grown bull.

''Madeline'' is a series of children's picture books first published in 1939 by Ludwig Bemelmans, about a little French boarding school student, her eleven friends, her teacher, Miss Clavel, Spanish prankster and friend Pepito (first appears in ''Madeline and the Bad Hat''), and her dog, Genevieve (first appears in ''Madeline's Rescue'').

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}}. [[NamedByTheAdaptation 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.

The latest and possibly final project involving everyone's favorite redhead is the direct-to-video movie ''My Fair Madeline'' (although it did air on Nickelodeon once), which was released silently in 2004, three years after the regular cartoon ended. The plot was Madeline and her friends going to stop a gang of thieves. There have been no new episodes of the show produced since.

Tristar released [[{{Film/Madeline}} 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.

** LaCroque of Lost in Paris has one. Downplayed in that it's [[spoiler: she lost her entire cabaret career after tripping, falling offstage, and exposing her underwear. She was forced to sell her hair to make lace, and perhaps out of revenge, began a lace-making sweatshop that imprisoned little girls.]]

* TraumaticHaircut: Downplayed. LaCroque threatens the lace shop girls with this all the time because lace is supposedly made from human hair. But [[spoiler: when she finally cuts Madeline's hair, it's a few strands on one side; this is treated as if the poor girl has been shorn. Her 11 schoolmates later copy the cut in solidarity.]] However, Fifi's haircut is much more ragged and unattractive, thus playing the trope a little straighter.

* TraumaticHaircut: Downplayed. LaCroque threatens the lace shop girls with this all the time because lace is supposedly made from human hair. But [[spoiler: when she finally cuts Madeline's hair, it's a few strands on one side; this is treated as if the poor girl has been shorn. Her 11 achoolmates later copy the cut in solidarity.]] However, Fifi's haircut is much more ragged and unattractive, thus playing the trope a little straighter.

* ChannelHop: From {{HBO}} to Creator/ABCFamily to Creator/{{ABC}} to DisneyChannel.
** In Malaysia: RTM-[=TV2=] to DisneyChannel to Playhouse Disney Channel.

* TheOtherDarrin: The cast went through a few changes in the cartoon. In particular, Madeline herself went through 4 different voice actors through the series and specials.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Playhouse Disney continued airing it long after people stopped watching it on that channel and were paying more attention to Rolie Polie Olie, PB&J Otter, Out of the Box etc.; eventually in June 2002 it was pushed back to 6 A.M. in the morning when kids weren't even awake to watch it, and eventually when block rearranged it's schedule in January 2003 it was quietly removed from the block (Though this was more likely due to their liscense expiring and them not wanting to renew).
** ABC removed the show after seven airings in 1995.

* {{Talking to H|imself}}erself: You get that when Miss Clavel talks to Genevieve in the animated series. Although Genevieve could only bark back.

* RaceLift: Nona originally had light skin, but it was changed to be dark brown in season 2 of the DiC series. Anne and Janine also had their skintones darkened.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Playhouse Disney continued airing it long after people stopped watching it on that channel and were paying more attention to Rolie Polie Olie, PB&J Otter, Out of the Box etc.; eventually in June 2002 it was pushed back to 6 A.M. in the morning when kids weren't even awake to watch it, and eventually when block rearranged it's schedule in January 2003 it was quietly removed from the block.

* ArtisticLicense--LaceMaking: Madeline: Lost in Paris would have viewers believe lace is made from human hair. It's not.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Okay, what idiot told the producers of "Lost in Paris" that lace is made from human hair? Because, you know, it's not.

* ChekhovsArmy: At the start of ''Madeline and the Fourty Thieves'', we see a pair of magpies fly briefly across the screen. [[spoiler:It turns out that they are the 40 thieves]].

* NiceHat: The girls' all wear yellow hats with black ribbons on them.

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.

* AdaptationDistillation: TheMovie managed to faithfully recreate four of the books in a span of 90 minutes: ''Madeline'', ''Madeline's Rescue'', ''Madeline and the Bad Hat'', and ''Madeline and the Gypsies''.

* AdaptationExpansion: Part of Lord Covington's gruff and almost cruel demeanor stems from his grief at [[spoiler: losing his wife early on in TheMovie.]]

* AlphaBitch: Vicki in TheMovie

* BatmanGambit: At one point in the movie, Madeline tells Pepito to be quiet and stay out of trouble while the prospective buyers are looking at the school, knowing that he'll do the exact opposite.

* BreakTheHaughty: Madeline does this to [[spoiler: Lord Covington]] at the end of the TheMovie.