History Series / TalesOfTheTinkerdee

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Sure, Taminella: order Charlie "smasheroonie" as soon as he sees Princess Gwendolinda, and then go in disguise ''as'' Princess Gwendolina, and approach the very window where you already know Charlie is lurking, ''while he's still under those orders''. WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong with such a plan?

* MasterOfDisguise: Apparently Taminella is this in-universe, as she successfully tricks other characters into believing she is Santa Claus, the Prime Minister, the Princess, and a sculptor. That being said, from the audience's perspective, every disguise she pulls off is a PaperThinDisguise.

* PaperThinDisguise: The audience won't be fooled by Taminella simply putting on a wig, a false beard, or a hat. But the other characters seem taken in my her disguises, with a partial exception of the prime minister noting that a [[TakenForGranite "sculpture"]] of the Princess looks more like the Princess than ''she'' does while Taminella is impersonating the Princess.

* TakenForGranite: Taminella freezes the real Gwendolinda solid with her magic, and then disguises her as a statue, then disguises herself as Gwendolinda—all to steal the valuable presents.

In this pilot, a witch named Taminella Grinderfall is the only one in the kingdom not invited to Princess Gwendolinda's birthday party at her castle. Taminella and Charlie, her idiotic ogre henchman, attempt to infiltrate the party, hoping to steal the gem-encrusted items that foreign kings are giving to the Princess as birthday gifts. Believe it or not, HilarityEnsues from this. (It's ''Franchise/TheMuppets'': what did you expect?)

In this pilot, a witch named Taminella Grinderfall and her idiotic ogre henchman attempt to infiltrate Princess Gwendolinda's birthday party at her castle, hoping to steal the gem-encrusted items that foreign kings are giving to the Princess as birthday gifts. Believe it or not, HilarityEnsues from this. (It's ''Franchise/TheMuppets'': what did you expect?)

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: King Goshposh orders five hundred peanut butter sandwiches for the party—but, due to a mix-up in the purchasing department, sixty-seven thousand are sent. After Taminella's caught at the end, the King sentences her to the dungeon. She won't be allowed out until she eats the sandwiches. "All sixty-seven ''thousand'' of 'em!"

* BadBoss: King Goshdosh can be harsh on his minstrel when he botches a rhyme or makes a bad joke, but that's about as bad as it gets for him. Taminella Grinderfall, by contrast, is outright physically abusive to her ogre minion Charlie.

* TheGoodKing: King Goshdosh can be a downplayed BadBoss at times, but what he wants is a good birthday party for his beloved daughter, and—except for Taminella—he invited the entire kingdom to the party, including the poor.

* UninvitedToTheParty: Taminella is the only one in the kingdom who didn't get invited to the party. When her letters demanding to know where her invitation is are ordered by the King to be burned, she vows to attend the party without one.

* TheGoodKing: King Goshdosh can be a downplayed BadBoss at times, but what he wants is a good birthday party for his beloved daughter, and he invited the entire kingdom to the party, including the poor.

* CardCarryingVillain: Taminella refers to herself as "The Witchiest Witch of them all!" and seems proud to have no scruples.

In this pilot, a witch named Taminella Grinderfall and her idiotic ogre henchman attempt to infiltrate Princess Gwendolinda's birthday party at her castle, hoping to steal the gem-encrusted items that foreign kings are giving to the princess as birthday gifts. Believe it or not, HilarityEnsues from this. (It's ''Franchise/TheMuppets'': what did you expect?)

* PaperThinDisguise: The audience won't be fooled by Taminella simply putting on a wig, a false beard, or a hat. But the other characters seem taken in my her disguises, with a partial exception of the prime minister noting that a [[TakenForGranite "sculpture"]] of the princess looks more like the princess than ''she'' does while Taminella is impersonating the princess.

* WouldHitAGirl: Charlie attempts to hit Princess Gwendolinda with his club twice, missing both times. He kind of succeeds the third time, ''if'' you count successfully clubbing his WickedWitch boss while she's disguised as the princess, that is. He isn't squeamish about restraining the princess while Taminella casts a petrifying spell on her, either.

* BadBoss: King Goshdosh can be harsh on his minstrel when he botches a rhyme or makes a bad joke, but that's about as bad as it gets for him. Taminella Grindenfall, by contrast, is outright physically abusive to her ogre minion Charlie.

* WickedWitch: Taminella Grindenfall is a fatter example than most, but with her dark clothing, dingy lair, magical cauldron, spellcasting skill, lack of any kind of real scruples, and the monstrous company she keeps, she definitely fits the trope!

* EldritchAbomination: It's somewhat implied that the Gruncheon, a creature Taminella keeps in her lair, is one of these—he eats kitchen chairs, is too horrible to show on-camera, and too horrible to describe.

* EldritchAbomination: It's somewhat implied that the Gruncheon, a creature Taminella keeps in her lair, is one of these—it eats kitchen chairs, is too horrible to show on-camera, and too horrible to describe.

* SurroundedByIdiots: King Goshposh orders a birthday cake with two hundred and sixty seven layers, but the chefs think he wanted two hundred and sixty seven candles, resulting in a one-layer cake resembling a porcupine. Then, instead of five hundred peanut butter sandwiches, sixty-seven thousand of them are sent to the party. The King is ''not'' happy.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: King Goshposh orders five hundred peanut butter sandwiches for the party—but, due to a mix-up in the purchasing department, sixty-seven thousand are sent. After Taminella's caught at the end, King Goshposh sentences her to the dungeon. She won't be allowed out until she eats the sandwiches. "All sixty-seven ''thousand'' of 'em!"

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Due to a mix-up in the purchasing department, sixty-seven thousand peanut butter sandwiches were sent to the party instead of five hundred. After Taminella's caught at the end, King Goshposh sentences her to the dungeon. She won't allowed out until she eats the extra peanut butter sandwiches that were ordered for the party. "All sixty-seven ''thousand'' of 'em!"

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After she's caught at the end, King Goshdosh sentences Taminella to the dungeon. She won't allowed out until she eats the extra peanut butter sandwiches that were ordered for the party. "All sixty-seven ''thousand'' of 'em!"

* TakenForGranite: Taminella freezes the real Gwendolinda solid with her magic, and then disguises her as a statue, then disguises herself as Gwendolinda---all to steal the valuable presents.

* EldritchAbomination: It's somewhat implied that a creature Taminella keeps in her lair is one of these; it eats kitchen cairs, is too horrible to show on-camera, and too horrible to describe.

--> '''Taminella''': Oooch!

* XanatosSpeedChess: Taminella's plans keep going awry, and her stint in the castle is basically a continuous streak of adjusting her plans of the fly with disguise after disguise. Though at times even she gets them mixed up, and her clumsy dunce of an ogre minion isn't always up to speed on her plan, particularly while he's ordered to club the very princess that Taminella had disguised herself as...

* TheGoodKing: King Goshdosh can be a BadBoss at times, but what he wants is a good birthday party for his beloved daughter, and he invited the entire kingdom to the party, including the poor.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Taminella disguises herself as Princess Gwendolinda at several points during the plot, and at one point, this backfires when Charlie obeys her previous orders to club Gwendolinda on the head, and she gets too close to the window where Charlie is lurking.

* NoFourthWall: Taminella and Kermit both explicitly address the audience directly, and even the king and prime minister seem to get in on that act when they crowd the camera and say the phrase that Princess Gwendolinda [[PhraseCatcher catches all the time]]. Heck, ''[[UpToEleven in-universe]]'', it's kind of implied that the king knows he's being watched by Taminella when she uses a clairvoyant spell: he says "over and out" just as the spell is ending!

* PaperThinDisguise: The audience won't be fooled by Taminella simply putting on a wig, a false beard, or a hat. But the other characters seem taken in my her disguises, with a partial exception of the king noting that a [[TakenForGranite "sculpture"]] of the princess looks more like the princess than ''she'' does while Taminella is impersonating the princess.

* ARareSentence: The spell to release Gwendolinda from her TakenForGranite spell is to say a sentence Taminella is sure no one will ever says: "My uncle was bouncing through the ice cream on his pogo stick." However, King Goshposh decides to reminiscence on the ice cream party where his uncle brought a pogo stick...