History WesternAnimation / AngelaAnaconda

My name is Angela, hey hello! Welcome to my very own TV Tropes Page! [[DescribeTopicHere Describe Angela Anaconda here]] and don't describe Nanette Manoir here.

%%* TeachersPet: Nanette.
%%* TeenGenius: Gina.
%%* TeensAreMonsters: Mark and Derek.

Interesting to note, ''Angela Anaconda'' actually started off as a series of animated shorts on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}'s ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam''. When it was developed into its own show, it ended up airing on what was then [[Creator/ABCFamily Fox Family]] in the U.S. When Creator/{{Disney}} bought Fox Family and changed the network entirely, reruns returned to Nickelodeon (which also aired the show internationally).

* WondrousLadiesRoom: GenderInverted. Angela actually tries to see what's in the boy's bathroom because of all the lines for the girls' bathroom. It's [[RealityEnsues not much different]], just with urinals.

** [[NotSoDifferent Angela herself shows these tendencies from time to time.]] Many episodes center around her desire to be TV or even just be the center of attention in school for a day. Although she's not nearly as bad as Ninette is about it.

* NotSoDifferent: Despite Nanette being Angela's arch nemesis, both girls are a lot more alike than they realise.

** Candy Mae has been held back for her low intelligence. One example is that she refuses to believe two plus two equals four. She believes that, since two times two equals four, two plus two must equal some smaller number. She even gives ''five'' as an example.

* HeldBackInSchool: Candy Mae for her low level of intelligence.

* UncattyResemblance: the Tomboyish has King; a scraffy, friendly dog with reddish-brown fur and a GenderBlenderName, while Nanette has Ooh-La-La; a fancy purebred, heavily groomed [[DogStereotype French Poodle]].

* HeldBackInSchool: Candy May for her low level of intelligence.

** Abatti's uncle also once ''auctions off the Menorah'' that belonged to Gina's great-grandmother...and seems to get away with it.

* TheDividual: Ninette's GirlPosse, Karleen and January, and Angela's [[BigBrotherBully Big Brother Bullies]], Mark and Derek, both operate basically as a single unit and have very little distinguishing characteristics from each other. Save for the episodes [[ADayInTheSpotlight "Kar-Lean on Me" and "Derek's Better Half"]]

* ExpositoryThemeTune: the theme song seems to start like this, with Angela promising to introduce all of her friends. But then Ninette tries to pull off a HostileShowTakeover, which leads Angela to turn the song into a TheVillainSucksSong.

* {{Squick}}: In-universe example. During "Snow day", Angela sees Mrs. Brinks and her husband sledding down a hill ''naked''. And yes, before FridgeLogic sets in...the characters even ask why they would be sledding down a hill ''naked'' during a ''snow day'' and that it's just an invitation to get Hypothermia. Another episode implies they also do the same while ''ice-skating''! They also play "Naked Badminton" in their backyard.

* UncattyResemblance: the Tomboyish has King; a scraffy, friendly dog with reddish-brown fur and a GenderBlenderName, while Ninette has Ooh-La-La; a fancy purebred, heavily groomed [[DogStereotype French Poodle]].
* UnreliableNarrator: Invoked for comedy in the "Nanette lock" episode.

** She also uses [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundant words in sentences]]. Like "this week was supposed to be a big week for all us tapwaterspringsians who live in tapwater springs", or "the end of the line is at the end" and don't forget baloney and ketchup sandwiches are her "All time favourite food of all time"

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* BeYourself: The plot of an entire episode centered around Gordy and his father.
* BigBrotherBully: Angela's two brothers Derek and Mark.

* CabinFever: Angela gives ''herself'' detention when she gets CabinFever after faking agorophobia.

* CloudCuckoolander: Angela, and also her friend Gina.

* DisappearedDad: Gina.

* TheDitz: Johnny Abatti and Candy May.

* GirlPosse: Karlean and January.

* HeelRealization: Angela herself has a few of these, see MyGodWhatHaveIDone.
* HenpeckedHusband: Mr. Brinks.

* LaserGuidedKarma: This happens to Nanette now and then when she's not being a KarmaHoudini.

* LimitedWardrobe

* ManChild: Uncle Nicky.
* MissingMom: Gordy.

* TeachersPet: Nanette.
* TeenGenius: Gina.

* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Mr. and Mrs. Brinks

* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: The town's main export is broccoli, they even have a day celebrating it. Angela hates the stuff, but enters a broccoli themed art competition and wins which necessitates her to give a speech to the town extolling its taste. She tries to bluff her way through, until she's forced to eat some on stage and it turns out she does like it and has never actually tried it before. Though it could use some ketchup.

How's this show different? Well, there's the ClipArtAnimation (everyone is animated as a black-and-white cutout). There's also the fact that OnceAnEpisode, Angela would go into a long FantasySequence, which usually involves her [[PowerFantasy taking out her frustrations about the episode's conflict]] by putting her enemies (most often Ninette) through a HumiliationConga, or her bemoaning the troubles she's gotten herself into and imagining what terrible things might happen to her next, or simply describing her current situation through an imaginative metaphor, or a combination of any of those three.

My name is Angela, hey hello! Welcome to my very own Tv Tropes Page! [[DescribeTopicHere Describe Angela Anaconda here]] and don't describe Nanette Manoir here.

My name is Angela, hey hello! Welcome to my very own Tv Tropes Page! [[DescribeTopicHere Describe Angela Anaconda here]] and don't describe Nannette Manoir here.

''Angela Anaconda'' was a {{Canadian|Series}}-American AnimatedSeries starring, well, the title character. The [[MsImagination imaginative]] Angela Anaconda and her friends, Gina Lash, Johnny Abatti, and Gordy Rhinehart, go to school with [[AlphaBitch Nanette]] [[FrenchJerk Manoir]] and her GirlPosse, and get into all sorts of wacky hijinks. The series lasted from October 1999 to November 2001 with a total of 65 episodes.

* UnfortunateName: Angela ''Anaconda'', for starters. January perhaps is also worth a mention.
** [[WordOfGod according to series co-creator Joanna Ferrone]], the name was picked purely because she liked the [[AlliterativeName sound of it]] and she wasn't even aware "Anaconda" was a type of snake. If she had known at the time, she says, she would have given her a different surname.

* PuppyLove: [[CampStraight Gordy Reinhart]] is in love with Angela's best friend, Gina. Ninette is implied to have a thing for [[TheDitz Johnny Abatti]]. All of the characters involved are eight.

** The main reason people don't like this show is that, in her {{Imagine Spot}}s, Angela's fantasized punishments for whoever has ticked her off are invariably way out of proportion to what they've actually done. The episode "The Substitute" even has one infamous ImagineSpot where Angela fantasizes about visiting a cannibalism restaurant and ordering meals made out of Nanette and Angela's brothers.

* IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam: The town's main export is broccoli, they even have a day celebrating it. Angela hates the stuff, but enters a broccoli themed art competition and wins which necessitates her to give a speech to the town extolling it's taste. She tries to bluff her way through, until she's forced to eat some on stage and it turns out she does like it and has never actually tried it before. Though it could use some ketchup.

* [[WondrousLadiesRoom Wondrous Boys Bathroom]]: Angela actually tries to see what's in the boy's bathroom because of all the lines for the girls' bathroom. It's [[RealityEnsues not much different]], just with urinals.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Johnny Abatti's uncle makes a ''lot'' of allusions to crime. For example, one episode about Johnny doing magic tricks has the classic "sawing somebody in half". When Angela asks about a box, his uncle says "I know a box you can hide a body in".
** The episode "View to a Brinks" has these in spades. The premise of the Brinks playing Badminton naked is just the tip of the iceberg, as some of the dialogs between the characters are filled with more mature allusions. (See DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything and TerrifiedOfGerms for the rest):
--> '''Gordy:''' It's called a shuttlecock. (Johnny and Gina give funny glairs) ...It is!
*** In another scene:
--> '''Angela:''' How are we going to get the wood up?
--> '''Johnny:''' Well my grandpa's got a cherry picker... In Sicily. (Angela Snarls)

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Angela's best friend, Gina Lash, is much girlier than her and wears a [[PinkMeansFeminine pink dress]] and HairDecorations.

** Angela herself tries to act the part, but it [[NotSoAboveItAll hardly ever works]]. This is most cleary expressed in her VerbalTics; her tendency to speak without contractions, using 'on account of' instead of 'because', calling people by FullNameBasis and using [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundant sentences which are redundant and repeat themselves]] all give her the air of a child trying to sound more mature than she actually is.

* UncattyResemblance: [[Tomboy Angela]] has King; a scraffy, friendly dog with reddish-brown fur and a GenderBlenderName, while Ninette has Ooh-La-La; a fancy purebred, heavily groomed [[DogStereotypes French Poodle]].