History Series / TheBigGarage

* ColorCodedCharacters: Applies to the vehicles. London is blue, Zigzag is purple, Yorky is yellow, Mimi is red and Rusty is green.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Zigzag and Stop are easily identifiable as girls. The former is purple, has visible lips, and wears a "bow", while the latter has eyelashes. However, this trope is averted with Mimi and Flash.

''The Big Garage'' is a Canadian puppet show aimed at preschoolers, which aired from 1995 to 1996 on Creator/FamilyChannel and Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork in Canada.

* AnAesop: There's an aesop in every episode. It is a preschooler-aimed show, after all.

* BigApplesauce: Yorky, who looks like New York taxicab, speaks with a New York accent, and is even named after New York City.

* ExposedEyeballsAsEyes: In the segments featuring the various animated tools, the hammer and oil can have exposed eyeballs.

* ChainedHeat: In "First Things First", London and Rusty get stuck together after a button activating a magnet Rusty is towing gets stuck, sucking London into the magnet.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Zigzag and Stop are easily identifiable as a girls. The former is purple, has visible lips, and wears a "bow", while the latter has eyelashes. However, this trope is averted with Mimi and Flash.

* WelcomeEpisode: "Welcome to the Big Garage" is the episode that introduces Mimi, and by the end of the episode she is firmly established as a member of the Big Garage.

* AnimateInanimateObject: Of course, there are the [[SentientVehicle Sentient Vehicles]], but the show also features an anthropomorphic gas pump (Pump), trash compactor (Scrap), toolbox (Tooly), a traffic light (Flash), a stop sign (Stop), and tools (the Spanners, Saw, Hammer, Ruler, Oil Can, and Nuts & Bolts).

* AnimateInanimateObject: Of course, there are the [[SentientVehicle Sentient Vehicles]], but the show also features an anthropomorphic you gas pump (Pump), trash compactor (Scrap), toolbox (Tooly), a traffic light (Flash), a stop sign (Stop), and tools (the Spanners, Saw, Hammer, Ruler, Oil Can, and Nuts & Bolts).

* AllTheOtherReindeer: The other taxis mock London for his silly-sounding horn in "Sounds Funny to Me", with their go-to insult being "taxi clown."

* GreenIsMean: Subverted with Rusty. He's green and technically an antagonist by association, but he's too meek to actually pose a threat, even implying quite a few times that he prefers hanging out at the Big Garage over staying at Scrapland. He considers Pump and the taxis his friends, and the feeling is mutual.

** Pump and Scrap. Both are car-related objects that give jobs to vehicle characters (the taxis and Rusty, respectively) and live in distinct areas of Taxitown (The Big Garage and Scrapland). The difference is that Pump is a benevolent mentor that represents the taxis' lives as their gas provider, Scrap is a [[BadBoss Bad Boss]] that frequently alienates Rusty and represents the taxis' deaths, as a trash compactor.

* MeaningfulName: All of the non-vehicle characters qualify. As for the vehicles themselves, London and Yorky are respectively based on British and New York taxis and have the appropriate accents to boot.

* NoMouth: Stop the sentient stop sign does not have a visible mouth. Neither do the animated tools.

* SuperSpeed: Zigzag's gimmick, which London briefly assimilates into his own character in "Lickety Split."

* ADogNamedDog: A gas pump named Pump. A stop sign named Stop. A set of tools (Hammer, Saw, Oil Can, Ruler, Nuts & Bolts) named after the objects they're supposed to be.

* AnimateInanimateObject: Any character that isn't [[SentientVehicle the taxis or Rusty]] is still a sentient object in some way. Pump, the taxis' mentor, is an anthropomorphic gas pump. Scrap, the enemy of the taxis, is a trash compactor. Other characters include Tooly, a toolbox, the Spanners, the wrenches that Tooly works with, Flash, a traffic light, Stop, an animated stop sign who stars in her own short segments in the show, and various animated tools who have short segments of their own as well.

* InformedSpecies: Scrap is a trash compactor, but looks like an orange humanoid monster.

* MeaningfulName: London and Yorky are respectively based on British and New York taxis and have the appropriate accents to boot.

* NoMouth: Stop the sentient stop sign does not have a visible mouth.

* SentientVehicle: The show's main characters are taxis. There's also Rusty, a tow truck.

* SuperSpeed: Zigzag's gimmick, which London briefly assimilates into his own character in "Lickety Split".

* VerbalTic: London’s “I say”.

* BerserkButton: Scrap ''hates'' singing.

* InsistentTerminology: The team of wrenches that assist Tooly and appear in one of the toolbox animated shorts are always referred to as "spanners".

* SigningOffCatchPhrase: Or some variation thereof:
-->'''Scrap:''' [[OhCrap Oh no!]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck They're gonna sing!]] [[SayMyName RUSTYYYYY!!!]]

* ADogNamedDog: A gas pump named Pump. A stop sign named Stop. A set of tools (Hammer, Saw, Oil Can, Ruler, Nuts & Bolts) named after the objects they're supposed to be.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Zigzag’s “Zip, zap, zoom! Zigzag’s away!”

''The Big Garage'' is a Canadian puppet show aimed at preschoolers, which aired from 1995 to 1996 on Family Channel and Global Television Network in Canada.

%%* BigBad: Scrap.

%%* EdutainmentShow: Yup.

* OncePerEpisode: Every episode had a song in it, which would get a reprise near the end of the episode.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the episode "An Eensy Weensy Lie", London lies about having a flat tire to enter Scrapland and find a taxi sign to give Rusty. Scrap, who believes the lie, actually asks for help from the other taxis to aid London!

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In addition to Scrap's above-mentioned change of heart in "An Eeensy Weensy Lie", he also doesn't mind London singing in his presence as he waits for the other taxis, despite his hatred of singing. Lampshaded by Yorky.

* VerbalTic: London’s “I say”