History Series / AdventuresInWonderland

* Womanchild: The Queen acts like a spoiled little kid a lot of the time, behaving irresponsibly and throwing tantrums when she doesn't get her away.

** The Queen also qualifies, as long as she's not in a bad mood. She often throws parties and can be

** Take a wild guess who "Rabbit[[Creator/{{Robert De Niro}}De Niro]]" is based on.

** In ''The Bunny Who Would Be King'', the White Rabbit's brother asks for half a cup of tea and the Hatter hands him a teacup that has been cut in half, just like in the movie.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Hugh B. Happy, host of ''Lifestyles of the Royal and Famous'', is a clear parody of Robin Leach.
** Take a wild guess who "Rabbit De Niro" is based on.

* LostHimInAPokerGame: The plot of "Take the Bunny and Run". The Queen loses the Rabbit to the Duchess in a card game but ultimately manages to win him back.

** The Queen also qualifies, as long as she's not in a bad mood.

* TheGhost: Alice's parents, older sister Kathy, younger brother Brian and best friend Kim. She talks about them to Dinah, but we never see them. In a few episodes they become TheVoice, as we hear them either from offscreen or through Alice's phone. The Duchess is also mentioned but unseen for roughly the first two-thirds of the series, before she finally first appears in "Your Cheatin' Red Heart."

** The Cheshire Cat as well. He usually enjoys avoiding responsibility and messing with people but sometimes his tricks are actually meant to teach an important lesson. In "Those Tusks, Those Eyes," he intervenes at the last minute to give the Walrus his glasses.

** In addition, the Hatter will often ask Hare "Did you bring the [x]?" to which Hare will reply "I ''always'' bring the [x]" while pulling out from inside his coat.

** The Cheshire Cat as well. He usually enjoys avoiding responsibility and messing with people but sometimes his tricks are actually meant to teach an important lesson. In "Those Tusks, Those Eyes," he intervenes at the last minute to give the Walrus his glasses and avert disaster.

** The Hare gets a different, slightly less garish suit later on with stripes instead of zig-zags, as well as a new shirt and new bow tie.
** More subtle but still noticeable with the White Rabbit, who gets a plaid vest and tie as well as longer fur.

* EdutainmentShow: Downplayed. The show was partially conceived as a way to teach English language concepts, and several episodes do explain things like compound words, adverbs, and mnemonic devices to the viewer. Characters will also define complex vocabulary words and translate terms from other languages. However, these lessons are often not the focus so much as the background for the show's sitcom plots. A good example is "Metaphor Monday": while the episode does explain what metaphors are and gives several examples, the plot mainly focuses on the Tweedles trying to outdo each other before agreeing to work together.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The Queen. She's pompous, irritable and usually wants her way, but she cares about her subjects and can be very friendly and pleasant. See also PetTheDog.

* AffectionateParody: The songs, which send up everything from country and rock to jazz and the blues.
** The Queen's music video for "Red Letter Day" in the episode "A Change of Heart" references Madonna's video for "Vogue," especially in the black and white segments.
** "To Tear is Human" contains a song called "That Tears Me Up" that's a clear parody of "Achy Breaky Heart."

** The Caterpillar relating to the story he is going to read the characters ("I think you should listen to this story" or something similar).

* SitcomArchNemesis: The Duchess is this to the Queen, especially once we finally see them together onscreen.

* WorldOfPun: As you'd expect [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland given the source material]], Wonderland runs on wordplay. Characters constantly have FunWithHomophones and several episodes teach linguistic concepts, such as contractions, prefixes, compound words, and metaphors. Occasionally Lampshaded when characters call out each other for making an IncrediblyLamePun.

* WorldOfPun: As you'd expect [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland given the source material]], Wonderland runs on wordplay. Characters constantly have FunWithHomophones and several episodes teach linguistic concepts, such as contractions, prefixes, compound words, and metaphors. Occasionally Lampshaded when characters call out each other for making IncrediblyLamePuns.

** Rabbit DeNiro, introduced in "The Rabbit Who Would Be King", is mentioned as one of the stars on the Famous Bunnies of Filmland cards later in "Card 54, Where Are You?".

* HiddenDepths: Although she often acts immaturely, the Queen is sometimes shown to be quite intelligent and cunning and can even be a sort of CoolBigSis to Alice. See, for example, "Odd Woman Out", where the Queen helps Alice get back at the men of Wonderland for forming a boys-only club.

* WorldOfPun: As you'd expect [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland given the source material]], Wonderland runs on wordplay. Characters constantly have FunWithHomophones and several episodes teach linguistic concepts, such as contractions, prefixes, compound words, and metaphors.

** The Caterpillar, who usually shows up OncePerEpisode, is often introduced MultiArmMultiTasking with his three sets of hands (lifting weights, making a sandwich, playing with yo-yos, etc.).

** Subverted later on in "The Royalty Trap", when they are asked to find the Queen after she disappears. Despite what the Rabbit expects, they actually ''do'' correctly determine that the Queen is trapped in the tool shed, but refuse to help her because it isn't in their (completely fabricated) job description.

* ContinuityNod: In "Happy Boo Boo Day", Alice gives the Queen a book called "Great Thoughts of the Red Queen" where she can write down her thoughts. The Queen is seen writing in this book in a later episode "On a Roll".

* LethalChef: In the pizza contest episode, the Hatter and the Hare turn out to be this. Their attempt to make a pizza results in something closer to a meatloaf. The White Rabbit actually tries to pull this on purpose because he doesn't want to win the "prize" of becoming the Queen's royal pizza chef.

** The Caterpillar, who usually shows up OncePerEpisode, is often introduced doing something comical with his three sets of hands (lifting weights, making a sandwich, playing with yo-yos, etc.).

* BadBadActing: Happens in the episode "From Hare to Eternity", when the Queen has to pretend to be in danger so the Hare can believe he's saved her life.

* FaintInShock: The White Rabbit is prone to this in moments of extreme stress.

* DeadpanSnarker: Tweedle Dee fits this role most consistently, especially in later episodes. However, pretty much anyone can drop a snarky remark at any time depending on the situation.

** The Tweedles. In early episodes, they were interchangeable [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Manchild/ man children]] who mainly showed up to breakdance and rap. As time went on, though, they were shown to run the Wonderland Times and often turned up as reporters. They also took on their own individual traits, with Dee as a cool-headed DeadpanSnarker who was fond of teasing his brother and Dum as the cockier, more impulsive of the two. About halfway through the series they started sporting new outfits as well, featuring blue pants, red long-sleeve shirts, and colorful vests instead of the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Manchild Hammer pants and chains]] from before.

** The Hare gets a different, slightly less garish suit later on with stripes instead of zig-zags, as well as a light green shirt and new bow tie.

* DemotedToExtra: While she always appears in the intro and outro, many episodes barely focus on Alice at all, having her show up for a single scene or musical number while the other characters take center stage.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One episode, "All That Glitters," has a fruit that can make you very strong, but can make you sick if you have too much. Tweedle Dum takes it to increase his performance at a sport. This has some allusions to steroid abuse - fortunately he only "got sick", since steroid abuse can have all sorts of nasty side effects.
** The same situation also has the queen note that the plant ''with'' said fruit on it is indeed beautiful, but it is ''not'' worth having in her garden due to its risk.

* IgnoredAesop: Unlike Alice or the White Rabbit, the Hare tends to miss or disregard the point of the Caterpillar's stories. A good example is "Vanity Hare": after hearing a story about the dangers of trying to please everyone, the Hare proclaims that it has nothing to do with him. Of course, AcquiredSituationalNarcissism is in full effect in this episode.

* KarmaHoudini: In "The Rabbit Who Would Be King", Rabbit is never seen being punished for lying to his movie-star brother about being king while the Queen is away. Even after she returns in the middle of the charade. The closest thing he gets is her "accidentally" hitting him multiple times during a musical number.

* VillainSong / TheVillainSucksSong: A DistantDuet between the Mad Hatter and the Copy Catter Hatter is both of these.

* RunningGag: The Caterpillar, who usually shows up OncePerEpisode, is often introduced doing something comical with his three sets of hands (lifting weights, making a sandwich, playing with yo-yos, etc.).

* WorldOfPun: As you'd expect, [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland given the source material]], Wonderland runs on wordplay. Characters constantly have FunWithHomophones and several episodes teach linguistic concepts, such as contractions, prefixes, and figures of speech.

** The Queen's music video for "Red Letter Day" in the episode "A Change of Heart" references Madonna's video for "Vogue".

** The Hare gets a new, slightly less garish suit later on, as well as a light green shirt and new bow tie.
** More subtle but still noticeable with the White Rabbit, who gets a different pattern vest and tie as well as bushier fur.

** "Queen of the Beasts" has one character describe the wobear as having "jaws that bite and claws that catch".

** The Tweedles. In early episodes, they were interchangeable [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Manchild/ man children]] who mainly showed up to breakdance and rap. As time went on, though, they were shown to run the Wonderland Times and often turned up as reporters. They also took on their own individual traits, with Dee as the smarter, cooler-headed older brother figure (even though they were twins) and Dum as the cockier, more impulsive of the two, and Dee became especially fond of teasing Dum. About halfway through the series they started sporting new outfits as well, featuring blue dress pants and colorful vests instead of the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Manchild Hammer pants and chains]] from before.

* HiddenDepths: Although she often acts like a [[Manchild Womanchild]], the Queen is shown to be quite intelligent and cunning and can act as a sort of CoolBigSis to Alice. See, for example, "Odd Woman Out", where the Queen helps Alice get back at the men of Wonderland for forming a boys-only club.

** In "To Tear is Human", the White Rabbit assures Alice everyone's forgotten about her embarrassing pants-ripping incident. Cut to her face on the front page of the Wonderland Times.
* TheGhost: Alice's parents, older sister Kathy, younger brother Brian and best friend Kim. She talks about them to Dinah, but we never see them. In a few episodes they become TheVoice, as we hear them either from offscreen or through Alice's phone. The Duchess is also mentioned but unseen for roughly the first two-thirds of the series, before she finally first appears in "Your Cheatin' Red Heart."

** "Queen of the Beasts" has one character describe the wobear as having [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Jabberwocky "jaws that bite and claws that catch"]] .

* MythologyGag: In ''The Bunny Who Would Be King'', the White Rabbit's brother asks for half a cup of tea and the Hatter hands him a teacup that has been cut in half, just like in the movie.
** "Queen of the Beasts" has one character describe the wobear as having [[Literature/Jabberwocky "jaws that bite and claws that catch"]] .