History WesternAnimation / BenAndHollysLittleKingdom

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* CallingTheOldManOut: In "Gaston to the Rescue", when they're trapped in a dwarf mine, Mr. Elf and King Thistle wonder where Gaston is, and Ben and Holly rightfully scold their dads for telling Gaston to go away the night before.

* PinkGirl,BlueBoy: as in every episode holly wears a pink dress, while well dressed blue.

* Pink Girl, Blue Boy: as in every episode holly wears a pink dress, while well dressed blue.

* MagicVsScience: Often it's the magic-wielding faries against the more hands-on elves who build machines.

** In the episode "Miss Jolly's Riding Club", we discover [[AllAnimalsAreDomesticated All Snails Are Horses]]. Galloping (slowly), neighing, rearing, bucking, needing mucking out, and so on. In ''Chickens Ride West'', we find [[AllAnimalsAreDomesticated All Chickens Are Also Horses]] (or possibly buffalo).

* LongTitle: "Nanny Plum and the Wise Old Elf Swap Jobs For One Whole Day".

* CallingTheOldManOut: In "Gaston to the Rescue", when they're trapped in a dwarf, Mr. Elf and King Thistle wonder where Gaston is, and Ben and Holly rightfully scold their dads for telling Gaston to go away the night before.

'''Wise Old Elf:''' Muh-muhmuhuhmuhmuh MMMMMMMMM[[spoiler:AGIC]]!

''Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom'' is a British [[FantasyWesternAnimation fantasy]] [[WesternAnimation animated]] television series created and directed by Mark Baker and Neville Astley and produced by Phil Davies (who also make ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig''). It follows the adventures of Princess Holly and Ben Elf and their caretakers, Nanny Plum and The Wise Old Elf.

* ShoutOut: Absolutely loads of them. At least half the episodes are full of references to other works of fiction or genre tropes.

* ParentalBonus: In the episode ''Daisy and Poppy go to the Museum'', when the characters see a display about Vikings, Nanny Plum says that she knows that Vikings only ever ate [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Spam]].

** In the episode ''Miss Jolly's Riding Club'', we discover [[AllAnimalsAreDomesticated All Snails Are Horses]]. Galloping (slowly), neighing, rearing, bucking, needing mucking out, and so on. In ''Chickens Ride West'', we find [[AllAnimalsAreDomesticated All Chickens Are Also Horses]] (or possibly buffalo).

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Since everyone in the Little Kingdom is small, the humans (or what the Little Kingdom refers them to: “Big People”) are giants compared to them. In the episode “Big Ben and Holly”, both Ben and Holly accidentally grow to human size and are giants compared to the Little Kingdom.
* {{Catchphrase}}: Ben Elf often finds opportunities to explain to the fairies why elves do certain things, which he usually finishes with:
-->"And I'm an elf!" ''*blows horn*''

** Like with WesternAnimation/PeppaPig, characters often like to say “Hooray”.

** In one episode, Mrs. Elf learns that Mr. Elf has been "sentenced". She immediately starts calling for revolution and shouting slogans like "Down with the King!"]], before learning that he's been "sentenced"... to take a vacation.

* NameAndName

-->'''Nanny Plum''': It's true! Vikings ate Spam. [[http://youtu.be/anwy2MPT5RE It was on the telly]].

** {{Lampshaded}} in the episode ''Spies'': Strawberry, pretending to be an elf, gives her name as "Strawberry - I mean Alice" and Barnaby, pretending to be a fairy, gives his as "Barnaby - I mean Bamboo."

* WhamLine: In "No Magic Day," the Elf Engine has broken down for some reason. Ben offers to fix it, but the Wise Old Elf says it cannot be fixed because it's out of fuel. He refuses to tell the others what fuel it uses, because "it's a secret!"
->'''Queen Thistle:''' ''[[FullNameUltimatum Wise. Old. Elf.]]'' What fuel does the engine use!?
->'''Wise Old Elf:''' Oh... It's... M... Muh...
->'''Ben:''' Mud?
->'''Wise Old Elf:''' No, it's... Mmmmmuh… Mmmmmmuh...
->'''Elf:''' Mustard?
->'''Holly:''' Marsh''mallow?''
->'''Wise Old Elf:''' Muh-muh…
->'''Nanny Plum:''' [[CloudCuckoolander Melted cheese!]]
->'''Wise Old Elf:''' Muh-muhmuhuhmuhmuh MMMMMMMMM[[spoiler:AGIC]]!

** It's subtle, but it's there. The fairies are nothing short of patronizing to the elves (particularly the royals and more specifically Nanny Plum, who can be vocally disdainful of the non-magical using elves). On the other side, most elves (but particularly the Wise Old Elf and sometimes Mr. Elf) seem to scoff at the fairies' lack of manual abilities. This sometimes causes friction between both races and their most... vocal leaders, like Nanny Plum and the Wise Old Elf, who frequently scuffle.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Several of them, usually as a DeusExMachina. For example by halfway through the Christmas TwoPartEpisode, King Thistle is stuck in a cracker, the little castle is wrapped up as a Christmas present and the Great Elf Tree is being sold as a Christmas tree. Fortunately it works out that that cracker, that present and that tree all just happen to go to Emily, the one human girl who already knows about elves and fairies - whose house also happens to be the very last one on Santa's rounds, so he falls asleep in her living room.