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* TroublesomePet:
** Milly's cat Marmalade is often a nuisance because she knocks things over, sleeps in Milly's father's chair [[InevitablyBrokenRule despite not being allowed to]], etc.
** While Molly's cat Tom Cat isn't as much of a troublemaker as Marmalade, he still has his moments, such as when he pooped under her bed due to [[JealousPet jealousy]] of the injured cat the Horrens were looking after in "Sooty", and when he and Marmalade both [[PricelessMingVase broke Mr. Limpy's vase]] in "Mr. Limpy's Vase".
** Alf's dog Puddles is so named because of his annoying habit of peeing on things.
** Harry's pet mice Brian and Brioni often annoy, or even [[EekAMouse scare]], other characters because they keep trying to escape from their cage.
** In "Beaky", Milly tries to adopt a duck named Beaky but is not allowed to keep the duck, since Beaky [[BirdPoopGag isn't house trained]] and keeps chasing Marmalade the cat.
** In "Bunt-Me-Not", Farmer Hegardy adopts the eponymous goat, but he proves to be a nuisance due to his habit of [[IronicName bunting people]]. Luckily, however, Hegardy already has a goat, Nibbles, who teaches Bunt-Me-Not manners.
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* LearningToRideABike: The cartoon has an episode called "Ride to School Day", in which everyone in the girls' class must bike to school for the eponymous day, but [[EmbarrassmentPlot Molly is the only one who doesn't know how, which embarrasses her]]. Milly and Mr. Limpy give her lessons, with the EpisodeTagline "believe in yourself".
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* AnimalGoesToSchool:In the cartoon series, this happens twice:

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* AnimalGoesToSchool:In AnimalGoesToSchool: In the cartoon series, this happens twice:
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* AnimalGoesToSchool:In the cartoon series, this happens twice:
**The episode "Pet Day" has the girls and their classmates bring their pets to school. This leads to chaos when the pets run rampant, Puddles the dog pees on things, and Stinky the skunk sprays Humphrey twice.
**One episode has Harry bring his two mice, Brian and Brioni, to school for show and tell. They end up running rampant through the classroom and aggravating the allergies of Miss Blythe the teacher.
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* BarefootPoverty: Alf doesn't wear shoes because he can't afford them.



* DoesNotLikeShoes: Alf doesn't wear shoes [[JustifiedTrope because he can't afford them.]]

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* BetterWithNonHumanCompany: Aunt Maude is recognized by her great garden and by her ability with plants. But she's so crabby to everyone else that many of her neighbors are afraid of her.



* NotGoodWithPeople: Aunt Maude is recognized by her great garden and by her ability with plants. But she's so crabby to everyone else that many of her neighbors are afraid of her.
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* DiedOnTheirBirthday: In "Grandpa's Oak Tree", Granny Peg passes away on the evening of her birthday.
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** B B Brown is very nice and friendly, and also smart. However, [[spoiler: he is [[StickyFingers a kleptomaniac]]. Subverted because he reforms]].
** In some episodes, such as "Aunt Maude is an Alien", Milly and/or Molly has an OutOfCharacterMoment where they act mean despite generally being nice.

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** B B B.B. Brown is very nice and friendly, and also smart. However, [[spoiler: he is [[StickyFingers a kleptomaniac]]. Subverted because he reforms]].
** In some episodes, such as "Aunt Maude is an Alien", Milly and/or Molly has have an OutOfCharacterMoment where they act mean despite generally being nice.



* LivingCrashpad: During the Heidi Untidi episode, Molly climbs up a bookshelf but it topples over. She says that she landed on something soft, but it's revealed that is Milly.

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* LivingCrashpad: During the Heidi Untidi "Heidi Untidy" episode, Molly climbs up a bookshelf but it topples over. She says that she landed on something soft, but it's revealed that is Milly.



* MysteriousMiddleInitial: We don't know what the second "B" stands for in "B B Brown". Or the first "B" for that matter.

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* MysteriousMiddleInitial: We don't know what the second "B" stands for in "B B "B.B. Brown". Or the first "B" for that matter.



* ShipTease: In "Biddy Bid", Molly jokes that Humphrey is Milly's boyfriend, which Milly doesn't find funny at all.
* ShrinkingViolet: Molly is quite shy and Sophie's even shyer.

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* ShipTease: In "Biddy Bid", Molly jokes that jokingly says Humphrey is Milly's boyfriend, which Milly doesn't find funny at all.
* ShrinkingViolet: Molly is quite shy and Sophie's even shyer.shier.



** Milly, Molly, and several others get colds in "Aunt Maude".

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** Milly, Molly, and several others get colds in "Aunt Maude".Maude", to the point of being hospitalized.



* StickyFingers: [[spoiler: B B Brown, a new classmate in Milly and Molly's class, used to like stealing. Luckily, this is also a case of HeelFaceTurn.]]

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* StickyFingers: [[spoiler: B B B.B. Brown, a new classmate in Milly and Molly's class, used to like stealing. Luckily, this is also a case of HeelFaceTurn.]]



* VerySpecialEpisode: In some of the darker episodes, such as "Jimmy's Seeds" which focuses on the DeathOfAChild, the moral is a lot darker than the main show.

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* VerySpecialEpisode: In some of the darker episodes, books, such as "Jimmy's Seeds" which focuses on the DeathOfAChild, the moral is a lot darker than the main show.show. The animated series averts this for the most part.
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An animated TV series based on the books, was produced in 2006, with a second season in early 2008.

In 2021, the book series was relaunched, introducing a new character, an Asian girl named Lily.

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An animated TV series based on the books, books was produced in 2006, with a second season in early 2008.

2008. The full series is available on Website/YouTube.

In 2021, the book series was relaunched, introducing relaunched with the introduction of a new character, an Asian girl named Lily.
Lily, due to the books' high popularity in [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff China]].

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An animated TV series based on the books, was produced in 2006, witha a second season in early 2008.

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An animated TV series based on the books, was produced in 2006, witha with a second season in early 2008.2008.

In 2021, the book series was relaunched, introducing a new character, an Asian girl named Lily.



* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: "Jimmy's Seeds" ends up with Jimmy, a boy in the girls' class, dying.]]

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* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: The book "Jimmy's Seeds" ends up with Jimmy, a boy in the girls' class, dying.]]



** The titular girls has a friend named Heidi, but because she's a slob, people nickname her Heidi Untidy.

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** The titular girls has have a friend named Heidi, but because she's a slob, people nickname her Heidi Untidy.


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* ShipTease: In "Biddy Bid", Molly jokes that Humphrey is Milly's boyfriend, which Milly doesn't find funny at all.
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* FoulMedicine: Downplayed for Maude's cure for a sore throat seen in "Class Concert". Its ingredients are honey, lemon juice, ground ginger, [[HotDrinkCure hot water]], and garlic, and Milly says, "Urgh!" at the idea of it, prompting Maude to say, "It's not supposed to be tasty!". Molly doesn't seem to have any problem with it though.
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* TitleSequence: The series' intro is entirely comprised of episode clips from the first series.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Goodbye, Alf", Pepper sneezes. Later on in the episode, she falls sick.



* NeverSayDie: While the books were perfectly fine with saying words like "die" (in fact, one outright mentions that [[DeathOfAChild the girls' classmate had "died peacefully"]]), the cartoon, despite having some episodes that were borderline soap-opera-y, only said the word "die" once in "Billy Boy and Daffodil". Other episodes avoided it:

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* NeverSayDie: While the books were perfectly fine with saying words like "die" (in fact, one outright mentions that [[DeathOfAChild the girls' classmate had "died peacefully"]]), the cartoon, despite having some episodes that were borderline soap-opera-y, only said the word "die" once in "Billy Boy and Daffodil".Daffodil" and another time in "Mr. Limpy's Vase" (and in those cases the death was of a bird and a long time ago respectively). Other episodes avoided it:


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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the cartoon adaptation of "Grandpa's Oak Tree", Molly is instantly worried when Grandpa, who was normally spry, is lethargic and doesn't laugh at her joke. He turns out to be ''dying''.


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* RhymingTitle: One episode of the cartoon is called "Heidi Untidy".
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* PettyChildhoodGrudge: The cartoon adaptation has an episode called "Biddy Bid", which reveals that the rivalling old ladies Maude and Biddy Bid used to be friends as children, but they became enemies when Maude didn't use the fertiliser Biddy Bid recommended, since [[BerserkButton Biddy Bid has an irrational hatred for people not taking her advice]].
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* NamedAfterTheInjury: The cartoon features a jailed former thief named Broken Nose Bill, whose nose is bent. Despite his name and his criminal record, though, he's quite an understanding man.
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* NamedAfterTheInjury: The cartoon features a jailed former thief named Broken Nose Bill, whose nose is bent. Despite his name and his criminal record, though, he's quite an understanding man.
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* AbsentAnimalCompanion: The animated version usually has all pets stick around, but in "Billy Boy and Daffodil", Miss Blythe's budgie, that she gets to replace her dead budgie Jock, is never seen in later episodes.


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* NatureLover: Both of the eponymous girls seem to be Nature Lovers. They love spending time with animals, enjoy going to the forest, and one book has them worrying about the environment.


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* NeverSayDie: While the books were perfectly fine with saying words like "die" (in fact, one outright mentions that [[DeathOfAChild the girls' classmate had "died peacefully"]]), the cartoon, despite having some episodes that were borderline soap-opera-y, only said the word "die" once in "Billy Boy and Daffodil". Other episodes avoided it:
** In "Grandpa's Oak Tree", despite the Pegs both dying in the episode, the closest it got to mentioning death directly is Dr. Smiley telling Grandpa Peg that he may never see another winter. When he dies, Grandma mentions that he "finally wore out", and when Grandma dies, the narrator says that she began her "journey to be with Grandpa once again".
** In "Goodbye Alf", when Farmer Hegardy's pet horse Pepper has a SoapOperaDisease, there's talk about whether she'll "make it".
** In "Harry's Mouse", when the girls think that the eponymous mouse Brian was eaten by Milly's cat Marmalade, the narrator mentions that the girls felt sick because they thought that Marmalade had already "found" him.
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* ChickenpoxEpisode: In the cartoon series episode "Spots and Stripes", Milly gets chicken pox on her seventh birthday, but has her party anyway. The guests change the theme from stripes to spots to cheer her up.
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* FakeFaint: In the AnimatedAdaptation, the episode "B.B. Brown" has the eponymous boy share his lunch with the girls. He jokingly warns them that it's contaminated with "boy germs", and Molly takes a bite and pretends to pass out from said germs. B.B. Brown takes a bite of banana and pretends to pass out as well.
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* HungerCausesLethargy: In the AnimatedAdaptation, the episode "[[NeverTrustATitle Magic]] Muffins" has [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Humphrey]] falling AsleepInClass every morning due to skipping breakfast. They feed him muffins, and he stops falling asleep. Skipping breakfast also gave him WritersBlock, and Miss Blythe cites breakfast as a cure for writers' block, but that's another story.
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* StateVisit: In the book "The Queen's Visit", Queen Elizabeth II goes to visit the unnamed Australian town[[note]]Despite being written in New Zealand, ''Milly Molly'' is set in Australia[[/note]] the protagonists live in. Miss Blythe's class hurriedly clean up the entire town.
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* DangerousDrowsiness: In the animated series:
** The episode "Grandpa's Oak Tree" has Grandpa Peg being slow to wake up. Dr. Smiley says that Grandpa is "wearing out" and "may never live to see another winter" and sure enough, he dies in the episode.
** In "Goodbye, Alf", the farmer is immediately worried when he sees his horse Pepper lying down despite it being the middle of the day, and sure enough, she's somehow caught a serious illness. Alf's grandma makes her better though.
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* OnlyChildSyndrome: Oddly enough, Milly, Molly or any of their friends and classmates have never been seen with a sibling (or mentioned any at all).
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* ScaryScienceWords: In the cartoon version, one episode, titled "Investigate", shows a feral rabbit eating Aunt Maude's lettuce. Mr. Oddbottom, the ComicallySerious town planner, takes the rabbit away to a place called "Enclosure 211-B". The girls, due to the enclosure's academic-sounding name, think it's a place where the rabbit will be experimented on, put down or similar, but it turns out to just be a place where it can live in captivity.
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* NewBabyEpisode: The animated series had "Sweat Pea", in which the cops have a baby girl, but don't know what to name her. Milly and Molly babysit for them, and end up naming her Daisy Rose.

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* AlliterativeName: Billy Boy, Biddy Bid, B. B. Brown and Junior Joe.

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* GrossoutFakeout: In the AnimatedAdaptation, Marmalade the cat knocks over a vase into Milly's dad's chair. When he asks why it's wet, Milly tries to explain, but only gets as far as explaining that Marmalade was responsible before he [[UrineTrouble cringes]]. She quickly explains that it's just water from a vase.

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