History WesternAnimation / DanielTigersNeighborhood

%%* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Daniel Jr. Takes after his daddy, also ridiculously cute as a cub. He's joined later by his little sister, Margaret, and Katerina Kittycat. Awww...

* ToiletTrainingPlot: The episode pair ''Daniel Doesn't Want To Go Potty[=/=]Daniel Sits On The Potty''

* PottyTrainingPlot: The episode pair ''Daniel Doesn't Want To Go Potty[=/=]Daniel Sits On The Potty''

%%* PottyEmergency: Prince Wednesday gets one in "Prince Wednesday Goes to the Potty" and Daniel gets one in the aforementioned episode and in "Daniel Goes to the Potty", during which episode Music Man Stan has one too. It comes again with Daniel in "Daniel Doesn't Want to Go Potty."

%%* BlackBestFriend: Miss Elaina.

* GassyScare: In "Daniel Goes to the Potty", Daniel thinks he has a tummy ache, but he actually just needs to poop.

* AnAesop: Most, if not all, episodes have morals, usually delivered in song. Curiously, all of the adults seem to know these songs. It's almost as if they're teaching them to one another. This is directly [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "Something Special for Dad" when Mr. [=McFeeley=] sings one of the songs that Daniel's mom sung and then flashes a wink at her.

* BabysittingEpisode: One episode is about Prince Wednesday babysitting Daniel.

* CarnivoreConfusion: Of the type that completely ignores the issue, of course. If Katerina was ''really'' a cat and Daniel was really a tiger, O the Owl would be a meal to the former and a light snack to the latter.

** For Daniel, "Grr-iffic!"

** O the Owl's is "There's a book for that." It may be a ShoutOut to Apple's "There's an app for that."
** Prince Wednesday has, "Boopshie boo!"
** Jodi has "Neato!" Also, "Yippeee skippy!"

* FirstNameBasis: The kids are on this with Teacher Harriet, though she does at least get the title of "Teacher."

* HappilyMarried: Daniel Sr. and his wife. Also Lady Elaine and Music Man Stan.

** Daniel's plushie is named "Tigey".

** When cooking soup for Mom Tiger in "Mom Tiger is Sick," Mr. Daniel Tiger adds "Just a little Mrs. Salt and some Mr. Pepper." While it was Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper on ''Blue's Clues'', it's still very close, especially when consider that series creator Angela C. Santomero has a story credit on the episode.

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: In the time it took everybody to react to Daniel's initial allergic reaction to peaches, anaphylaxis ordinarily could have killed someone, but slowing things down allowed the young audience to better observe and understand how to react in such a situation.

* AlternateAnimalAffection: The Tigers rub noses and say "Ugga Mugga" to express familial affection.

* AreWeThereYet: In "Tiger Family Trip," Daniel asks this about halfway through his family's road trip to see Grandpere and then as the trip is almost over, he starts getting squirmy and asks "Are we there yet? Are we?" And this is just in the book version. In the television special, he does it several times throughout.

* TheDiaperChange: Margaret is shown getting her diaper changed in her first episode.

* FourFingeredHands: Everyone has these sorts of hands.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: Used somewhat oddly. We're given regular indicators that the characters are becoming older and more mature, such as them being told that they're older and big enough to think of what to do. Daniel also has a sister that is born during the series and now is supposed be 14 months old according WordOfGod and also showing signs growing, such as taking her first steps. Yet, we see no physical signs of growth in most of the characters and everyone is still attending class together with the same teacher.

* AesopAmnesia: While lessons generally seem to stick from episode-to-episode, they often seem to take a while to sink in within a particular episode. For example, in "You Are Special," O has to hear several times "''I like you / I like you / I like you / Just the way you are''" before he stops trying to do stuff to be like the other characters to be special.

** It's Margaret's birthday with no specific age given in "Margaret's Birthday Buddy / Margaret's Birthday Party," since Margaret was allowed to grow up just enough to make her a sibling for Daniel who could actually play and talk a bit.

* AnAesop: Often delivered in song. Curiously, all of the adults seem to know these songs. It's almost as if they're teaching them to one another. This is directly [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in "Something Special for Dad" when Mr. [=McFeeley=] sings one of the songs that Daniel's mom sung and then flashes a wink at her.

** It's Prince Wednesday's birthday in "Daniel Gets a Cold"

* BlackBestFriend: Miss Elaina.

* BuffySpeak: "Medium-est tower in the world!"

* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: All characters who need to go to the bathroom do this in the 'Potty' episodes.

* CaretakerReversal: This line in the song during the SickEpisode.

* CharacterTic: Katerina Kittycat pirouettes frequently and randomly.

* CuteKitten: Admit it. Katarina Kittycat had you going "dawwwwww!" the first time you saw her.

*** And Margaret Tiger, his sister.
* DaddysGirl: Miss Elaina.

* DecidedByOneVote: The outcomes of two episodes about voting. Since the kids vote, the result is 3-2.

* DiurnalNocturnalAnimal: O the Owl and his family, Katerina the cat and her family (though there is apparently some debate about whether cats are nocturnal or crepuscular), Daniel Tiger and his family (tigers in areas ''without'' humans have been observed to hunt by day)

* EndingTheme: "It's You I Like (Instrumental)"

* EveryEpisodeEnding: "Good Feeling", with lyrics refitted to suit the show's concept.

* FurryReminder: The animal characters seem to fall somewhere between being {{Civilized Animal}}s and {{Funny Animal}}s, but sometimes display animal-like tendencies like making the noises that an animal of their species would normally make ("meow meow"), or displaying other animal behaviors.

* GenkiGirl: Miss Elaina.

* GrossUpCloseUp: Surprisingly, but we get one of Miss Elaina's scraped elbow in "Miss Elaina Gets Hurt".

* IsThisThingOn: Miss Elaina in "Daniel Shares His Tigertastic Car".

* {{Leitmotif}}: King Friday has a sort of little fanfare that tends to play when he shows up on the scene.

* NonStandardKiss: At the end of every episode, Daniel rubs his nose at the screen as a sign of endearment while saying "ugga mugga".

* PantslessMalesFullyDressedFemales: Daniel compared to Katerina, for instance.

* PottyDance: All characters experiencing their Potty Emergencies do this except for Music Man Stan.
* PottyEmergency: Prince Wednesday gets one in "Prince Wednesday Goes to the Potty" and Daniel gets one in the aforementioned episode and in "Daniel Goes to the Potty", during which episode Music Man Stan has one too. It comes again with Daniel in "Daniel Doesn't Want to Go Potty."

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Daniel Jr. Takes after his daddy, also ridiculously cute as a cub. He's joined later by his little sister, Margaret, and Katerina Kittycat. Awww...

* SickEpisode: "Daniel Gets a Cold / Mom Tiger is Sick". Mom Tiger and Daniel also both get a cold in "Daniel's Neighbors Help."

* SoupIsMedicine: When Daniel and Mrs Tiger are sick, they are fed vegetable soup. Also there's this line during the song of the day.
--> Someone might help take care of you, they might tuck you in or make you soup

* SpeciesSurname: Daniel and most of the other animal characters.
* SpinOff: Of ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood''.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Prince Wednesday does this sometimes.

* ToiletTrainingPlot: Downplayed in "Prince Wednesday Goes to the Potty" and "Daniel Goes to the Potty". Prince Wednesday and Daniel are already potty-trained but they still learn the show's {{Aesop}}, which is "don't wait until your need to go to the bathroom becomes a PottyEmergency, or it might progress to PottyFailure."

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mrs. Tiger loves her some banana bread.

* VerbalTic: Most of the kids inherited them from their parents.

* YouthfulFreckles: Prince Wednesday's cousin, Chrissie, has these.

* MoodWhiplash: In "Daniel's Fish Dies," Daniel gushes over blue fish and goes into a very cutesy, upbeat fantasy sequence about him and his little sister Margaret swimming underwater alongside the family's fish friends. Then he plays a game of hide-and-seek with two of the other fish in the tank, before realizing that Blue Fish isn't moving and Dad Tiger tells him that Blue Fish has died.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: An [[http://www.pbs.org/about/blogs/news/new-daniel-tigers-neighborhood-special-created-in-response-to-covid-19-premieres-august-17-on-pbs-kids/ August 2020 special]] kicking off the program's fifth season, ''Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Won't You Sing Along With Me?'', address the COVID-19 pandemic by having Daniel learn that the Neighborhood Carnival has been canceled.

** In "A Storm in the Neighborhood," after the lights go out at the Tiger family house, Katerina Kittycat shouts "I want my mommy, meow meow!" That's easy enough, as Mom Kittycat came over with her.

* IWantMyMommy: In "The Tiger Family Babysits," Teddy and Leo Platypus cry about wanting their Mama, Dr. Platypus, after she goes away for a business trip. Fortunately, Daniel and his little sister Margaret are there to play a game with them to help calm them down.

* BilingualAnimal: The animals can speak and sometimes put their sounds in the middle of their sentences, especially Katterina Kittycat.
* BirthdayEpisode: Five.[[note]]Six, if you count "Margaret's Birthday Buddy / Margret's Birthday Party" as two, though it's really a two-part story.[[/note]]

* BlackBestFriend: Miss Elania.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In ''The Helpers in Your Neighborhood'', based on a not-yet-aired episode, Daniel Tiger and Dad Tiger venture out of the Neighborhood of Make Believe to meet real human helpers, as well as human children. Somehow, none of them are at all disturbed or surprised by the presence of sentient tiger walking in their midst. Nor, for that matter, does anyone fawn over them because they recognize them as characters from a favorite television show.

* MedleyOverture: The instrumental portion of the opening of '"The Daniel Tiger Movie: Won't You Be Our Neighbor?'' includes instrumentals of several of the songs in the story, most prominently the "New Neighbors Are Coming" theme.