History Series / TheAquabatsSuperShow

* NiceHat: The trucker caps in "The Floating Eye of Death!".

* HotScientist: Dr. Eva Mudlark, the [[HerrDoktor Fraulein Doktor]] who creates the muck monsters in one episode. She's [[EveryoneLovesBlondes blonde]], and wears [[{{Meganekko}} glasses]] and short shorts. In addition, she is played by Katharine Towne, who played hot lesbian Sinead in ''Film/ButImACheerleader''.

* HotScientist: Dr. Eva Mudlark, the [[HerrDoktor Fraulein Doktor]] who creates the muck monsters in one episode. She's [[EveryoneLovesBlondes blonde]], and wears [[{{Meganekko}} glasses]] and [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]]. In addition, she is played by Katharine Towne, who played hot lesbian Sinead in ''Film/ButImACheerleader''.

* HotScientist: Dr. Eva Mudlark, the [[HerrDoktor Fraulein Doktor]] who creates the muck monsters in one episode. She's [[EveryoneLovesBlondes blonde]], and wears [[{{Meganekko}} glasses]] and [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]]. In addition, she is played by Katharine Towne, who played [[SchoolgirlLesbian hot lesbian]] Sinead in ''Film/ButImACheerleader''.

* EnthrallingSiren: Quera, Hera and Vera

* BadassBeard: Crash in the Web series.
* BadassMustache: The Commander's mustache may be drawn on, but it still counts.

The show is notable in that Matt Chapman, whom many people know as one of the co-creators of ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', is one of the show's directors and writers.

* ImagineSpot: Each member has one in "Mysterious Egg!".
** SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The music in Eagle Bones Falconhawk's ImagineSpot sounds a lot like "Puttin' On The Ritz"- specifically, the cover done by Taco.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In "Laundry Day!", we have a HotScientist making a tentacle monster tie the boys up and spank them, while the band whimpers "I've never felt so dirty" and "Make him stop, he's had enough". The scientist, on the other hand, is delighted to keep "schlappingk und schlappingk" them. Said monster is made of dirty clothing, so it sounds perfectly fine for the kids watching, but to the older fans...
** There's also Ricky's line "We get paid before the goat stuff, right?" in "Night Of The Cactus!"
** Zalga telling Ronmark "I'm not getting into that tent with you again!"

** "The Haunted Battletram!" is one long shout-out to ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}''.

** Played with earlier when Carl manages to get the team to watch the mandatory cartoon segment.

* IdiotHero: The MC Bat Commander

* VillainSong: "I'm a Bad Thingy."

** The origin shorts for season 2 are all set in different styles. For example: Jimmy's has a block-like 3d style.

* InstrumentOfMurder: Eaglebones Falconhawk and his brother Eagleclaw have guitars that shoot FrickinLaserBeams.

* TheSouthpaw: Eaglebones.

* {{Adorkable}}: Every single one of the Aquabats is awkward and goofy in his own endearing way.

* [ CassandraTruth: In "Summer Camp!", [spoiler:neither the rest of the Aquabats or the Aquacadets believe MC Bat Commander when he informs him that Jewel is the were-ape that's been kidnapping the fellow campers.]]

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Eaglebones gets into this in ''Return of the Aquabats'' (much to everyone else's chagrin) as he wants to help everyone and easily gives him and the others away because of him helping the townsfolk. It's deconstructed due to a) how him helping everyone else gets them spotted and b) the townsfolk want them to do very tedious things (and one wants them to hurl annoying pests to the moon), becoming angry when the Aquabats can't do as they ask for. At the end, Eaglebones eventually learns that he's unable to help everyone with their problems.

** How good are the Aquabats at fighting crime? Some episodes(''Manant, Pilgrim Boy, The Anti-Bats'') depict them as dedicated, well known and well equipped, if often bumbling. In others (''Showtime, Uberchaun'') they're seen as incompetant nobodies.

** Done in Eaglebones' motorcycle ride in "[=EagleClaw=]!", along with real time footage of him driving down the road.

*** Episodes being cleanly split between a live-action and (much longer that the ''It's a Cartoon!'' portions) animated segments.

* EmotionalPowers: Crash [=McLarson=]'s size shifting which is usually shown when he's very angry or upset. "Shark Fighter!" reveals that it also works if he's crying.

* ExcitedShowTitle: Not only the title of the series, but every episode.

* {{Expy}}: Carl in ''Cobraman!'' is [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]], right down to his unmistakeable voice and the fact that he inexplicably wears Strong Bad's Luchadore mask, despite being otherwise dressed as a magician.

* ForgotICouldFly: The 'Bats tend to forget to use their powers when most convenient. Ricky in particular only occasionally uses his super speed, despite constantly ending up in situations where being super fast would be useful.

* MadScientist: Evil example in Dr. Eva Mudlark, who kidnaps the 'Bats! and tortures them with a dirt monster. She even has an EvilLaugh!

* MoodWhiplash: "Showtime!" starts out seeming like another goofy episode...until Space Monster M shows up, which leads to much more action and much less joking around. And then the cartoon happens. Then back to the buttkicking.

** MC Bat Commander's telling of the Aquabats origins is based on the actual super hero mythology of the band from their song "Theme Song!" (right down to how there was originally eight or nine island inhabitants who survived the attack by Space Monster M).

** Former real life Aquabats Chainsaw the Prince of Karate and Catboy have cameos as fellow second-string superheroes in "Showtime!"
** In "Bad Apple!" we see the 'bats attacked by a group of nameless thugs who have black heads, derpy eyes and green and red-striped sweaters like the Sandfleas, an early group of bad guys in the band's history.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: At the start of "Cowboy Android!", a miner tells the Aquabats off for sealing a monster in the mine rather than getting rid of it, as this means they still can't work in the mine. By the end of the episode they do take care of it.
** Kitty Litter and his minions used to be a gang of giant, talking cats. However, the Aquabats tossing them into their own portal device (something Kitty Litter begged them not to do since he didn't know what would happen to living beings sent through the machine) gave them powerful (albeit flawed) teleportation abilities.

* PacManFever: Whenever the Aquabats! are playing a video game in the Battletram, though the games they play are fictional and drawn in an 8-Bit style. However you can the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' pause sound effect in "Haunted Battletram!" and {{Asteroids}} sound effects in "Pilgrim Boy!" They even play their games with wireless NES controllers!

* PreviouslyOn: Every episode has one, but only about half the clips are actually from the last episode. Most are just random quick shots that never happened, or are picked from the original pilot.
** Averted with the PreviouslyOn segment for "Night of the Cactus!" that aired with the "Cobraman!" episode. Not only did the segment only include clips that were from the episode, the majority of them were of a Jerkass supporting character getting slapped. Repeatedly.

* RecursiveCanon: Played with; the Kickstarter mini-sodes are a continuation of the Super Show, taking place in the same canon... about getting enough fan support to produce new episodes of the Super Show. [[MindScrew It's best not to dwell on it.]]

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Jimmy the Robot can crack jokes, love and play a mean keyboard.

** In "Cobraman!" the magician is a blatant live action Strong Bad expy, down to the mask and Matt Chapman portraying him. Meanwhile, the Commander being forced to fight the Cobraman in the desert is a direct reference to the ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' episode "Arena".

** The season two premiere, "The Return of the Aquabats!", features a pair of turtle-like aliens similar to the ones in ''Film/{{Laserblast}}''. The redesigned Battletram's wings have rockets on the tips with the markings [[Franchise/StarTrek NCC-1701]]. Also, Eaglebones flashback to how the band met in the epiosde is done in the style of ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal''.

-->'''MC Bat Commander:''' Oh I get it, soloing again, huh? Well why do you have to go after him alone?

** Done on purpose as part of TheEighties nature of the show.

* WhamEpisode: The first season was made up of mostly comical villains, but then there was "Showtime!", where the villain actively murders another pair of superheroes before the Aquabats' eyes and steals their powers to become a gigantic engine of destruction and immediately starts laying waste to a major city. [[spoiler: Its ending reveals that the whole ''season'' is a GroundhogDayLoop: the last cartoon segment ends at the beginning of the first episode--the pool party--while the end of the live action segment mirrors the cartoon segment's begining (the Aquabats in space)]]

* [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace MC Bat Commander Can Breathe In Space]]: In the cartoon segments.

* BeeAfraid: '''SPACE BEES'''
** [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative The deadliest bees in space!]]

* [[spoiler: CassandraTruth: In "Summer Camp!", neither the rest of the Aquabats or the Aquacadets believe MC Bat Commander when he informs him that Jewel is the were-ape that's been kidnapping the fellow campers.]]

* [[spoiler:DetonationMoon: In the cartoon segments.]]

* [[spoiler:GroundhogDayLoop: If the first season's finale is any indication.]]

* [[spoiler: KilledOffForReal]]: From the looks of things, [[spoiler:[=SuperMagic PowerMan=] and Lanolin Lady.]]

''The Aquabats! Super Show!'', starring superhero team and musicians Music/TheAquabats, airs on Hasbro's channel Creator/TheHub. It's an AffectionateParody of kids' shows from TheEighties and TheNineties with a good helping of ''Series/{{Batman}}''. It follows The Aquabats -- The MC Bat Commander, Crash [=McLarson=], Jimmy The Robot, Ricky Fitness, and Eagle Bones Falconhawk -- as they play shows, fight crime and boredom and defeat monsters.

* BerserkButton: Crash's is anyone who hurts his his friends. Eaglebones' deliberately uses this in ''Return of the Aquabats'' when [[spoiler: Ronmarc starts bullying Crash.]]

** In "Cobraman!" the magician is a blatant live action Strong Bad expy, down to the mask and Matt Chapman portraying him. Meanwhile, the Commander being forced to fight the Cobraman in the desert is a direct reference to the ''StarTrek'' episode ''Arena''.