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%%* ShesGotLegs: Allison has been a subject of this.
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* PantomimeAnimal: Both parodied ''and'' deconstructed in "Wild Ponies!". The brothers dress up as a brown stallion in order to go and meet the horses, but it gets worse when a real brown stallion neighs at them ferociously making them run away and ''destroy their horse costume''.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Played for laughs. Chris and Martin are in Canada investigating beavers and agree to “meet back at the lodge”, then start snorkeling. Cut to Chris shivering inside the beaver lodge they built earlier in the episode and wondering where Martin is. Cut to Martin kicking back in front of a fire in a hunting lodge-styled inn and wondering where Chris got to.

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* PantomimeAnimal: Both parodied ''and'' deconstructed in "Wild Ponies!". The brothers dress up as a brown zebra stallion in order to go and meet the horses, but it gets worse when a real brown stallion one neighs at them ferociously making them run away and ''destroy their horse costume''.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Played for laughs. Chris and Martin are in Canada investigating beavers and agree to “meet back at the lodge”, then start snorkeling. Cut to Chris Martin shivering inside the beaver lodge they built earlier in the episode and wondering where Martin Chris is. Cut to Martin Chris kicking back in front of a fire in a hunting lodge-styled inn and wondering where Chris Martin got to.
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Everythings Better With Monkeys has been turned into a disambiguation. Zero Context Examples and examples that don’t fit existing tropes will be removed.


%%* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: "Pan Trogiodytes: An In-depth Analysis" and "Mgobo of Baboon Mountain".
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%%* StockFootage: Most of the cutout animated cutaway shots.

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%%* * StockFootage: Most of the cutout animated cutaway shots.shots, not to mention the more exotic animal footage in general. This is a PBS show, after all.
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It ran for one season of 50 episodes from June 3, 1996 to August 9, 1996, with reruns airing until June 9, 2000.
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** The most notable episode to involve this trope is "The Great Defenders".

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** The most notable episode to involve this trope is "The Great Defenders". Martin gets stung by bees, skunked, bitten by an alligator snapping turtle, and hit by a porcupine. Then Alison and Chris walk into poison ivy, are stung by bees and skunked in turn.


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* AnAesop: The baby sea turtle episode has one: you have to understand nature before you can try to help it. Alison gets it in her head, as do Chris and Martin, that they need to save the hatching baby turtles from the natural predators. They do so by picking them up and getting them to the water, against Ttark's protests. In the end, Ttark reveals that thirty percent of the eggs survive without human interference, enough to keep the sea turtles from being endangered; the Kratt brothers admit they got carried away. What really helps is when they cleaned litter off the beach like plastic bags and netting, which can trap the turtles before they get a fair chance at life. They also note that humans love turtle eggs, so education is another way to make sure sea turtles don't become endangered.


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* ShaggyDogStory: Martin and Chris try to recreate their ancestors' journey of finding the Tasmanian Tiger. Alison helps by reading the journals their ancestors left. She finds out the Tasmanian Tiger went extinct one hundred years ago due to humans hunting them out of fear, and the last one died ill in a zoo. Alison does find video footage that showed the Kratt ancestors found the zoo before that Tiger died.


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* WhamLine: The Tasmanian Tiger episode has one for viewers that don't know Australian history. Alison finds the journals she was using of Kratt Australian explorers ended mid-sentence. After searching through the Kratts books, she finds another journal...which makes her go OhCrap. She types something into the computer and announces the Tasmanian Tiger went extinct one hundred years ago. Cue MassOhCrap from Ttark and the Kratt brothers.

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* AsHimself: Chris and Martin.

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* CartoonCreature: Ttark.

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* ClipArtAnimation: The [[ArtShift brief]] animated cutaway shots.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ttark, most of the time.

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* %%* ClipArtAnimation: The [[ArtShift brief]] animated cutaway shots.
* %%* DeadpanSnarker: Ttark, most of the time.



* EdutainmentShow
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: "Pan Trogiodytes: An In-depth Analysis" and "Mgobo of Baboon Mountain".

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* %%* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: "Pan Trogiodytes: An In-depth Analysis" and "Mgobo of Baboon Mountain".



* {{Foil}}: Allison and Ttark.
* FunnyAnimal: Ttark.
* GrandFinale: "Around Africa in Eighty Hours".
* InSeriesNickname: "Al" (Allison).
* KidSidekick: Allison.
* LandDownUnder: "Around Australia in Eight Days".

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* %%* {{Foil}}: Allison and Ttark.
* %%* FunnyAnimal: Ttark.
* %%* GrandFinale: "Around Africa in Eighty Hours".
* %%* InSeriesNickname: "Al" (Allison).
* %%* KidSidekick: Allison.
* %%* LandDownUnder: "Around Australia in Eight Days".



* MixAndMatchCritter: Ttark.

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* PreviouslyOn: In some episodes.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: According to WordOfGod, Ttark is as old as the earth itself.

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* %%* PreviouslyOn: In some episodes.
* %%* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: According to WordOfGod, Ttark is as old as the earth itself.



* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Often used by Ttark.
* SdrawkcabName: Ttark.
* SeriesMascot: Ttark.
* ShesGotLegs: Allison has been a subject of this.

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* %%* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Often used by Ttark.
* %%* SdrawkcabName: Ttark.
* %%* SeriesMascot: Ttark.
* %%* ShesGotLegs: Allison has been a subject of this.



* SiblingTeam
* StockFootage: Most of the cutout animated cutaway shots.

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* TeenGenius: Allison.

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* UnsoundEffect: Often used by Ttark.

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* %%* UnsoundEffect: Often used by Ttark.



* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Ttark is prone to this.

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* LandDownunder: "Around Australia in Eight Days".

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* LandDownunder: LandDownUnder: "Around Australia in Eight Days".
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* TastesLikePurple: Martin tries eating some marsh grass in "Marshmania" and describes the taste as "very green".
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Played for laughs. Chris and Martin are in Canada investigating beavers and agree to "meet back at the lodge, then start snorkeling. Cut to Chris shivering inside the beaver lodge they built earlier in the episode and wondering where Martin is. Cut to Martin kicking back in front of a fire in a hunting lodge-styled inn and wondering where Chris got to.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: Played for laughs. Chris and Martin are in Canada investigating beavers and agree to "meet “meet back at the lodge, lodge”, then start snorkeling. Cut to Chris shivering inside the beaver lodge they built earlier in the episode and wondering where Martin is. Cut to Martin kicking back in front of a fire in a hunting lodge-styled inn and wondering where Chris got to.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: The boys spend the cheetah episode trying to reach the sprint speed of a cheetah. Martin manages to get to about 40 mph riding a bicycle downhill before crashing in a thicket, but they decide they can't do it with person power so Chris outfits an off-road vehicle. They get up to 70 mph (''Maximum Cheetah Velocity!'') on a dirt road... and then run out of gas and are stuck pushing their 4x4 back home. Oh, and Chris messed up the alignment when he was working on it, too.


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* PoorCommunicationKills: Played for laughs. Chris and Martin are in Canada investigating beavers and agree to "meet back at the lodge, then start snorkeling. Cut to Chris shivering inside the beaver lodge they built earlier in the episode and wondering where Martin is. Cut to Martin kicking back in front of a fire in a hunting lodge-styled inn and wondering where Chris got to.
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'''''Kratts' Creatures''''' is a 1995 educational children's series hosted by Chris and Martin Kratt. In this show, the Kratt brothers travel around the world and teach children about the world of animals, with help from a fifteen year old girl named Allison (Shannon Duff) and an animated anthropomorphic. . . [[CartoonCreature something]] named Ttark.

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'''''Kratts' Creatures''''' is a 1995 1996 educational children's series hosted by Chris and Martin Kratt. In this show, the Kratt brothers travel around the world and teach children about the world of animals, with help from a fifteen year old girl named Allison (Shannon Duff) and an animated anthropomorphic. . . [[CartoonCreature something]] named Ttark.
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'''''Kratts' Creatures''''' is a 1995 educational children's series hosted by Chris and Martin Kratt. In this show, the Kratt brothers travel around the world and teach children about the world of animals, with help from a fifteen year old girl named Allison (Shannon Duff) and an animated anthropomorphic animal named Ttark.

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'''''Kratts' Creatures''''' is a 1995 educational children's series hosted by Chris and Martin Kratt. In this show, the Kratt brothers travel around the world and teach children about the world of animals, with help from a fifteen year old girl named Allison (Shannon Duff) and an animated anthropomorphic animal anthropomorphic. . . [[CartoonCreature something]] named Ttark.
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It was followed by an unofficial spin-off for preschoolers called ''{{Zoboomafoo}}'' in 1999, and an animated series called ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'' in 2011.

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It was followed by an unofficial spin-off for preschoolers called ''{{Zoboomafoo}}'' ''Series/{{Zoboomafoo}}'' in 1999, and an animated series called ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'' in 2011.
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** Some episode titles are these to movie titles, for example, [[AroundTheWorldInEightyDays "Around Australia in Eight Days" and "Around Africa in Eighty Hours"]].

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** Some episode titles are these to movie titles, for example, [[AroundTheWorldInEightyDays [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays "Around Australia in Eight Days" and "Around Africa in Eighty Hours"]].
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Hey Its That Guy cut by TRS decision. Ditto for Hey Its That Voice.


* HeyItsThatVoice: Ttark is voiced by Ron Rubin, who also voices [[Anime/SailorMoon Artemis]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} Morph]] ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] [[WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry Krusha]]).
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'''Kratts' Creatures''' is a 1995 educational children's series hosted by Chris and Martin Kratt. In this show, the Kratt brothers travel around the world and teach children about the world of animals, with help from a fifteen year old girl named Allison (Shannon Duff) and an animated anthropomorphic animal named Ttark.

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'''Kratts' Creatures''' '''''Kratts' Creatures''''' is a 1995 educational children's series hosted by Chris and Martin Kratt. In this show, the Kratt brothers travel around the world and teach children about the world of animals, with help from a fifteen year old girl named Allison (Shannon Duff) and an animated anthropomorphic animal named Ttark.
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It was followed by an unofficial spin-off for preschoolers called ''{{Zoboomafoo}}'' in 1999, and an animated series called ''WildKratts'' in 2011.

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It was followed by an unofficial spin-off for preschoolers called ''{{Zoboomafoo}}'' in 1999, and an animated series called ''WildKratts'' ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'' in 2011.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Ttark is voiced by Ron Rubin, who also voices [[SailorMoon Artemis]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} Morph]] ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] [[WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry Krusha]]).

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* HeyItsThatVoice: Ttark is voiced by Ron Rubin, who also voices [[SailorMoon [[Anime/SailorMoon Artemis]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} Morph]] ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] [[WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry Krusha]]).
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Basically the purpose of Allison, except she had a MagicalDatabase rather than the Internet. And she could somehow follow the brothers' adventures on a monitor even though they were explicitly not being followed by a camera crew in-universe. [[MagicalSecurityCam And the footage was edited in spite of it supposedly being live]].

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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Basically the purpose of Allison, except she had a MagicalDatabase an OmniscientDatabase rather than the Internet. And she could somehow follow the brothers' adventures on a monitor even though they were explicitly not being followed by a camera crew in-universe. [[MagicalSecurityCam And the footage was edited in spite of it supposedly being live]].
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'''Kratts' Creatures''' is a 1994 educational children's series hosted by Chris and Martin Kratt. In this show, the Kratt brothers travel around the world and teach children about the world of animals, with help from a fifteen year old girl named Allison and an animated anthropomorphic animal named Ttark.

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'''Kratts' Creatures''' is a 1994 1995 educational children's series hosted by Chris and Martin Kratt. In this show, the Kratt brothers travel around the world and teach children about the world of animals, with help from a fifteen year old girl named Allison (Shannon Duff) and an animated anthropomorphic animal named Ttark.
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It Got Worse de-wicking.


* PantomimeAnimal: Both parodied ''and'' deconstructed in "Wild Ponies!". The brothers dress up as a brown stallion in order to go and meet the horses, but [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]] when a real brown stallion neighs at them ferociously making them run away and ''destroy their horse costume''.

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* PantomimeAnimal: Both parodied ''and'' deconstructed in "Wild Ponies!". The brothers dress up as a brown stallion in order to go and meet the horses, but [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]] worse when a real brown stallion neighs at them ferociously making them run away and ''destroy their horse costume''.
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** "FOOTNOTES!" ([[{{Pun}} complete with an animated cutaway of]] [[GiantFootOfStomping an elephant's stomping foot]]].)

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** "FOOTNOTES!" ([[{{Pun}} complete with an animated cutaway of]] [[GiantFootOfStomping an elephant's stomping foot]]].foot]].)

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* BigWordShout: "FOOOTNOOOOTES!"



** "FOOTNOTES!"

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** "FOOTNOTES!""FOOTNOTES!" ([[{{Pun}} complete with an animated cutaway of]] [[GiantFootOfStomping an elephant's stomping foot]]].)


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* FinalExamFinale: "Around Africa in Eighty Hours", which involves the Kratts going around Africa to get their facts back (which are all from previous episodes).


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* RunningGag: One of the Kratts, Allison or Ttark would often say "Wait a minute" or "Hold on" whenever something comes to inspiration or goes too far.
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'''Kratts' Creatures''' is a 1994 educational children's series hosted by Chris and Martin Kratt. In this show, the Kratt brothers travel around the world and teach children about the world of animals, with help from a fifteen year old girl named Allison and an animated anthropomorphic animal named Ttark.

It was followed by an unofficial spin-off for preschoolers called ''{{Zoboomafoo}}'' in 1999, and an animated series called ''WildKratts'' in 2011.
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* AmusingInjuries: Usually happens to the brothers.
** The most notable episode to involve this trope is "The Great Defenders".
** And then there was the one where Allison is trying to fix her computer system, gets it working, and bangs her head on the underside of the desk.
---> '''Allison:''' Hey, I knew I could get it working if I just [[VisualPun used my head]]! ''({{beat}}) [[DontExplainTheJoke Ow.]]''
* AsHimself: Chris and Martin.
* CartoonCreature: Ttark.
* CatchPhrase: "Abso-tively" from Ttark.
** "FOOTNOTES!"
* ClipArtAnimation: The [[ArtShift brief]] animated cutaway shots.
* DeadpanSnarker: Ttark, most of the time.
* EdutainmentShow
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: "Pan Trogiodytes: An In-depth Analysis" and "Mgobo of Baboon Mountain".
* {{Foil}}: Allison and Ttark.
* FunnyAnimal: Ttark.
* GrandFinale: "Around Africa in Eighty Hours".
* HeyItsThatVoice: Ttark is voiced by Ron Rubin, who also voices [[SailorMoon Artemis]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} Morph]] ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] [[WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry Krusha]]).
* InSeriesNickname: "Al" (Allison).
* KidSidekick: Allison.
* LandDownunder: "Around Australia in Eight Days".
* MadLibsCatchphrase: Ttark's "[Verb]ing [animal]s!", with AddedAlliterativeAppeal included.
* MagicalComputer: Allison owns a computer that she can use to look for animal facts.
* MediumBlending: Ttark, who appears via TV to Allison and the Kratts.
** Also, episodes have certain cutaway shots that are made using cutout animation.
* MixAndMatchCritter: Ttark.
* PantomimeAnimal: Both parodied ''and'' deconstructed in "Wild Ponies!". The brothers dress up as a brown stallion in order to go and meet the horses, but [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]] when a real brown stallion neighs at them ferociously making them run away and ''destroy their horse costume''.
* PreviouslyOn: In some episodes.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: According to WordOfGod, Ttark is as old as the earth itself.
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: Often used by Ttark.
* SdrawkcabName: Ttark.
* SeriesMascot: Ttark.
* ShesGotLegs: Allison has been a subject of this.
* ShoutOut:
** Some episode titles are these to movie titles, for example, [[AroundTheWorldInEightyDays "Around Australia in Eight Days" and "Around Africa in Eighty Hours"]].
** At one point, in "Weird Creatures", Chris imitates Scotty from ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
* SiblingTeam
* StockFootage: Most of the cutout animated cutaway shots.
* TeenGenius: Allison.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Happens at one point in "In Search of the Tasmanian Tiger".
--> '''Allison''': It says here it took them a number of dogs...a number of ''dogs''? [[BreakingTheFourthWall Sorry, I read that wrong.]] It took them a number of ''days'' to even get near the Tasmanian tiger. That makes more sense, because dogs like dingos have absolutely nothing to do with Tasmania.
* UnsoundEffect: Often used by Ttark.
* UnusualEuphemism / EurekaMoment: Ttark's exclamations of [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal "Colliding Camels!", "Grazing Gazelles!", "Hopping Hadrosaurus!",]] etc.
* VoiceChangeling: Ttark, again. For example:
--> "This time, I'm not as angry. This time, ''(deeper voice)'' '''IT'S PERSONAL!'''"
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Basically the purpose of Allison, except she had a MagicalDatabase rather than the Internet. And she could somehow follow the brothers' adventures on a monitor even though they were explicitly not being followed by a camera crew in-universe. [[MagicalSecurityCam And the footage was edited in spite of it supposedly being live]].
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Ttark is prone to this.
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