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The show was created and written by Doug Langdale of ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' fame. It premiered on DisneyChannel on January 23, 2004; a year later, it began broadcasting on ToonDisney as well. In Latin America, the show is broadcast on Jetix. Sadly however, the show only lasted one season due to Disney punting the show around their schedule. The reruns now mostly show on Early Morning shifts on the weekend.
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The show was created and written by Doug Langdale of ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' fame. It premiered on DisneyChannel Creator/DisneyChannel on January 23, 2004; a year later, it began broadcasting on ToonDisney as well. In Latin America, the show is broadcast on Jetix. Sadly however, the show only lasted one season due to Disney punting the show around their schedule. The reruns now mostly show on Early Morning shifts on the weekend.
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There is a Narrator, referred to either as "the Narrator" or "the Storyteller," voiced by JeffBennett. He plays a big part in the show, as he controls what happens in the story. He is able to talk to the characters of the show, and vice versa. In fact, he was once captured by ArchEnemy '''THE DARK LORD CHUCKLES, THE SILLY PIGGY!''', and was forced to read narration where Dave loses to him.
The show was created and written by Doug Langdale of ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' and ''TheWeekenders'' fame. It premiered on DisneyChannel on January 23, 2004; a year later, it began broadcasting on ToonDisney as well. In Latin America, the show is broadcast on Jetix. Sadly however, the show only lasted one season due to Disney punting the show around their schedule. The reruns now mostly show on Early Morning shifts on the weekend.
The show was created and written by Doug Langdale of ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' and ''TheWeekenders'' fame. It premiered on DisneyChannel on January 23, 2004; a year later, it began broadcasting on ToonDisney as well. In Latin America, the show is broadcast on Jetix. Sadly however, the show only lasted one season due to Disney punting the show around their schedule. The reruns now mostly show on Early Morning shifts on the weekend.
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There is a Narrator, referred to either as "the Narrator" or "the Storyteller," voiced by JeffBennett.Creator/JeffBennett. He plays a big part in the show, as he controls what happens in the story. He is able to talk to the characters of the show, and vice versa. In fact, he was once captured by ArchEnemy '''THE DARK LORD CHUCKLES, THE SILLY PIGGY!''', and was forced to read narration where Dave loses to him.
The show was created and written by Doug Langdale of ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' and''TheWeekenders'' ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' fame. It premiered on DisneyChannel on January 23, 2004; a year later, it began broadcasting on ToonDisney as well. In Latin America, the show is broadcast on Jetix. Sadly however, the show only lasted one season due to Disney punting the show around their schedule. The reruns now mostly show on Early Morning shifts on the weekend.
The show was created and written by Doug Langdale of ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' and
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Much like its predecessors ''TheFlintstones'' and the short-lived ''TheRomanHolidays'', Dave the Barbarian juxtaposes the ancient and the modern. Candy, for example, shops in the local mall (the "Great Indoor Marketplace of Udragoth") and uses the crystal ball for online shopping sprees. Occasionally, the series even breaks the fourth wall with a character directly addressing the audience.
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Much like its predecessors ''TheFlintstones'' ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' and the short-lived ''TheRomanHolidays'', ''WesternAnimation/TheRomanHolidays'', Dave the Barbarian juxtaposes the ancient and the modern. Candy, for example, shops in the local mall (the "Great Indoor Marketplace of Udragoth") and uses the crystal ball for online shopping sprees. Occasionally, the series even breaks the fourth wall with a character directly addressing the audience.
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* YouDidntAsk: Used to an extent. After a battle with invisible warriors ([[ItMakesSenseInContext which to fight the heroes had to become invisible]]), Uncle Oswidge makes everyone visible, including the enemy, causing Dave to say:
-->'''Dave''': If you can make them visible, why didn't you do that before?!
-->'''Oswidge''': Pick, pick, pick. Get off my back.
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* DidYouGetANewHaircut: Happens when Oswidge accidentally turns himself into a newt.
-->'''Candy:''' Did you change your hair?
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->''"Dave, Fang and Candy''\\
''Brave and Bold, they're not''\\
''They ain't the greatest heroes''\\
''[[ClosestThingWeGot But they're the only ones we've got"]]''
-->--From the ThemeSong
Dave the Barbarian (2004-2005) is a {{Disney}} animated series, an AffectionateParody of the HeroicFantasy genre.
The series takes place in TheMiddleAges and centers on a powerful yet cowardly barbarian named Dave who lives in the [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield fictitious land of Udrogoth]] along with his older sister Candy and younger sister Fang. His parents, Throktar and Glimia, are the King and Queen, but are away "fighting evil" across the world (though they sometimes communicate via a magic crystal ball), and have left Candy in charge of the kingdom. Together the three siblings, along with their wizard uncle Oswidge, their pet Faffy and Dave's talking sword Lula, are left to run and protect the kingdom.
There is a Narrator, referred to either as "the Narrator" or "the Storyteller," voiced by JeffBennett. He plays a big part in the show, as he controls what happens in the story. He is able to talk to the characters of the show, and vice versa. In fact, he was once captured by ArchEnemy '''THE DARK LORD CHUCKLES, THE SILLY PIGGY!''', and was forced to read narration where Dave loses to him.
The show was created and written by Doug Langdale of ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' and ''TheWeekenders'' fame. It premiered on DisneyChannel on January 23, 2004; a year later, it began broadcasting on ToonDisney as well. In Latin America, the show is broadcast on Jetix. Sadly however, the show only lasted one season due to Disney punting the show around their schedule. The reruns now mostly show on Early Morning shifts on the weekend.
Much like its predecessors ''TheFlintstones'' and the short-lived ''TheRomanHolidays'', Dave the Barbarian juxtaposes the ancient and the modern. Candy, for example, shops in the local mall (the "Great Indoor Marketplace of Udragoth") and uses the crystal ball for online shopping sprees. Occasionally, the series even breaks the fourth wall with a character directly addressing the audience.
Critically acclaimed, but unfortunately TooGoodToLast and cancelled after one season. NeedsMoreLove.
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!!''DaveTheBarbarian'' contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Candy; sometimes parodied, sometimes played straight. Fang ''wants'' to be one, but can't quite manage.
* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals
* AmazonianBeauty: [[MeaningfulName Bicepia]]. After seeing Bicepia, Candy uses [[AppliedPhlebotinum Magic Broccoli]] to become buffer...but keeps using it and quickly goes from AmazonianBeauty to a unholy combination of {{Gonk}}, DumbMuscle and BrawnHilda (don't worry, there is a ResetButton).
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Ned Frischman.
* AmusingInjuries: Dave in particular is prone to getting burned into a pile of ash.
* AnachronismStew
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: Parodied.
* AnimatedSeries
* AntiHero: Dave is a type I, Fang is a type IV.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Parodied with respect to superhero origin stories.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: A central part of the show's humor.
* BambooTechnology
* BarbarianHero: Spoofed
* BattleCouple: King Throktar and Queen Glimia
* BigBad: '''THE DARK LORD CHUCKLES, THE SILLY PIGGY!'''
* BigNo: Parodied.
* CampStraight: Dave.
* CastingGag: The casting of Joan and Melissa Rivers.
* CatchPhrase: "Bajabbers!", "Don't mess with the Princess!", "I am not a monkey!"
* ClothesMakeTheManiac: The evil lederhosen
* CoolHorse: Spoofed in Twinkle the Marvel Horse.
* CouchGag: The collapsing castle wall in the opening credits.
* CowardlyLion: Dave
* CrazyPrepared: Ned spent hours practicing his evil laugh before he became a villain
* CuteButCacophonic: Fang's default voice is a yell.
* DatingCatwoman: Dave and Princess Irmaplotz
* DarkSecret: In one episode, when Dave was snooping around to see who stole his Cooking Book, he sees Oswidge watching a soap opera, Candy shaving her pits, Fang secretly playing with dolls, and Faffy playing poker with some other dragons, talking about how the 'Big Palooka' hasn't discovered yet. Dave doesn't even realize he's the Big Palooka being referred to...
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Fang
* DeadpanSnarker: Lula
* TheEeyore: Twinkle the Marvel Horse
* EmpathicWeapon: Subverted, Lula has very little empathy
* EpicFail: Chuckles' first use of the Pretzel Men. Not even ''Dave'' is scared by them.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Candy is a parody of this trope. Strangely this is never brought up with Fang.
** Princess Irmaplotz.
* EvilKnockoff: Mecha-Dave
* EvilLaugh: Several.
** Malsquando once mentions that Chuckles is widely considered to have the best in the business.
* EvilSorcerer: Malsquando, Princess Irmoplotz and Queen Zonthara
* ExpositoryThemeTune: Quoted above
* ExtremeOmnivore: Faffy
* FakeOutOpening: In one episode, we see what appears to be the King returning home, but after we see HowWeGotHere we know it's really Chuckles in disguise, and now "the King" suddenly has green glowing eyes and sounds like Chuckles.
* FangsAreEvil: Princess Irmoplotz and Queen Zonthara. But not Fang. Except in that one episode where she was posessed by the forces of Pure Evil In The Form Of Leiderhosen.
* FieryRedhead: Fang and, sometimes, Candy.
* FMinusMinus: Dave seems to think that a "Z" grade is worse than an "F"
* FluffyTheTerrible: The Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy, sort of. He ''is'' a cute little piggy but is also a powerful dark lord of evil.
** There was also one episode in which he turned into a giant kitty cat!
* GenderBlenderName: The Pillage Master has a very intimidating, "dark and shadowed guardian" voice. And yet...
-->'''Pillage Master''': You may call me...Gloria.
-->'''Dave''': That's a pretty name.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A Roman salute is made by one of the characters while proclaiming himself to be a dictator.
** It's time to cut a muffin!
*** "That sounds nasty for some reason."
** "First you shall lay waste here...then you shall lay waste there. Then, when you can lay NO MORE WASTE--"
* GoldenSnitch: The penmanship portion of the Rite of Pillage counts for 75% of the total mark - a result of a pen company being the major sponsor.
* GreenEyedRedhead: Fang.
* GodOfEvil: Parodied with Quosmir, the god of freshly laundered trousers and overused punctuation.
* HairTriggerTemper: Lula.
-->"You just sitting there is kinda ticking me off."
* HeroicFantasy: Relentlessly spoofed
* HighCollarOfDoom: Fang deduces that Malsquando is evil because he has a "pointy collar", among other things.
* HostileShowTakeover: Chuckles, in "A Pig's Story"
* HotMom: Queen Glimia and Queen Zonthara.
* HumorDissonance: Used in-story by Ned Frischman. The people of the past has never heard his incredibly lame futuristic "why did the chicken cross the road"-class jokes and therefore considers him to be the funniest man in existence. [[invoked]]
* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Ned Frischman and his EvilLaugh.
* IAmNotWeasel: Fang is continually mistaken for a monkey.
* [[IdeaBulb Idea Candles]]
* IneptMage: Uncle Oswidge, to the max.
* InsistentTerminology: "Not a monkey!"
* KillerRabbit: The Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy.
* JunglePrincess: Fang certainly dresses like one.
* LargeHam: Chuckles (literally, and figuratively; extra humorous because he's tiny), the Narrator, among several others.
* LateToThePunchline: The Pillage Master.
-->"Laying waste--I get it! Ha ha ha ha!"
* LaughablyEvil: All villains, especially Chuckles the Silly Piggy.
* LittleMissSnarker: Fang
* LimitedWardrobe
* LemonyNarrator
* {{Magitek}}
* MediumAwareness
* MetronomicManMashing: Amoeba wrestling.
* MistakenForGranite: A version that doesn't activate unless you touch it.
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: When Fang attempts to speak monkey while on an island of monkeys who look like her:
-->:'''Fang:'''"Which point me you to water in pants?"
* {{Narrator}}
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: Referenced.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Twinkle the Marvel Horse is a parody of Christopher Walken
* NoFourthWall: The characters interact with the narrator, occasionally pausing to check their scripts, etc.
** "The inside of this television set is filthy!"
** Chuckles even captured the Narrator at one point and forced him to read his own story, making him the new Narrator, so to speak. Whatever the Narrator [[WordOfGod said would become real]]. They held auditions for a new Narrator.
* NonHumanSidekick: Faffy and Twinkle the Marvel Horse
* NoodleImplements
** Hilariously inverted in ''Girlfriend''.
---> '''Narrator:''' Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone using only a squirrel, some string and a megaphone.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Parodied in "The Maddening Sprite of the Stump". A giant muffin that had been attacking the castle is defeated offscreen, while the narrator explains that the show's budget is too cheap to actually show the battle, but assures the audience that it was exciting.
* OpeningShoutOut: [[spoiler:When Chuckles takes over]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent
** There are plenty of standard issue dragons roaming around as well; Faffy (who is routinely mistaken for a flying potato) seems to have simply lost the genetic lottery, ''hard''.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Irmaplotz uses a werecow "to make Dave look like a dork." Afterwards, anytime Dave gets bitten by something else, he turns into that. This leads to Dave turning into a cat, Oswidge, a hamster, an egg beater, Lula and a gym teacher.
** Resolved when he is made to bite his own tongue, turning Dave into a Weredave, and everyone he bites into a weredave.
* OverlyLongGag: [[ThisIsSparta NOT. A.]][[BerserkButton MONKEY!!!]]
* PaperThinDisguise: The Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Music Producer.
-->'''Candy:''' He does look vaguely familiar.
* PaperTiger: Dave. As the Theme Song states, he's "huge but a wimp."
* ParentalAbandonment: King Throktar and Queen Glimia, as noted in the summary
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Played straight with Candy, but averted with Dave in ''Civilization'' when Dave asks if Fang realises he's not a girl--while wearing blue.
* PokeThePoodle: Dave's attempts to be just a ''little'' evil in one episode (an attempt to make his relationship with Princess Irmoplotz work) really, ''really'' emphasize ''little''. We're talking taking two free nut log samples instead of just one...then feeling so guilty he bought ten crates.
* PreviouslyOn: Parodied in one episode that opens with a montage of Dave screaming and enduring misfortune.
* PrincessesRule: Princess Candy is ruling Udrogoth until her parents come back from destroying all the evil in the world.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Evil Princess Irmaplotz to Dave.
* PurelyAestheticEra
* PygmalionPlot: Non-romantic version, in the episode where the family tried to make Fang act more ladylike.
-->'''Dave:''' ''(completely sincere)'' Because what could be more wholesome than the entire family working together as one ... to crush Fang's spirit and force her to stifle her true self?
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: Chuckles capturing the narrator
* RealLifeRelative: Princess Irmoplotz and Queen Zonthara are voiced by Melissa Rivers and Joan Rivers, respectively.
* SapientSteed: Twinkle the Marvel Horse
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show was one of Disney's most popular cartoons at the time, and had great ratings, and critics loved it. And yet without explanation they ... well, they didn't quite cancel it, but simply not make any new episodes and dropped all mention of the show off of their website. Six years later and apparently they still haven't announced whether they have officially cancelled it or not.
* ShoutOut: Fang seems to be a feral version of [[TheFlintstones Pebbles]]
** "[[{{Casablanca}} We'll always have Paris.]]" "Paris? We never went to Paris!"
** [[ScoobyDoo "Davey Dave!"]]
* SomedayThisWillComeInHandy: the TropeNamer
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Deliberately.
* SpaceX: Mocked mercilessly for ''two solid minutes'' in "A Pig's Story".
--> The space lord pursues our heroically fleeing space heroes, and thus begins a pitched space battle, in space! Just look at that exciting space action!
--> But just as it seems noone can hit the side of a space barn, the space lord scores a direct space hit on our space heroes' space generator!
--> '''Space Captain Dave''': Can our space engines power the space lasers?
--> And with a tremendous space burst of space energy, the spaceship is space destroyed! Space!
* SpikesOfVillainy: Subverted and spoofed.
* SpoiledBrat: Princess Candy.
* SuperheroOrigin: Spoofed in the creation of the Time Zipper, with everything from a strike from the Nordic Gods to a radioactive grasshopper bit in about 10 seconds
--> '''Ned Frischman''': Wow, that hardly ''ever'' happens!
* TalkingAnimal: Twinkle the Marvel Horse; in one throwaway gag, Faffy is seen talking articulately to other dragons when he thinks no human is listening
** Voiced by Frank Welker. [[SarcasmMode Because that really comes as such a surprise.]]
* TeamPet: spoofed with Faffy
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Inverted in "Shrink Rap." Dave becomes a therapist to help people, but all he does is ask "How does that make you feel?" and generally irritates everyone.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Fang and Candy, respectively.
* TopHeavyGuy: Dave.
* TheUnintelligible: Faffy.
* VillainTeamUp: In "Red Sweater Of Courage," Chuckles, Malsquando and Quosmir team-up after Dave harasses each of them without provocation.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Sort of.
-->'''Candy:''' Happy? They're going to destroy half a continent!
-->'''Fang:''' Yeah, but not the part we ''live'' on.
* WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet: Dave and his friends and family are being held against the wall by magic. "Dave, do something!" "I am... I'm trying to remember what the thing on the end of a shoelace is called, an argle?" When they are let go, but still against the wall, he suddenly remembers something. "That the the on the end of a shoelace is called an aglet?" "[[GravityIsAHarshMistress No, that gravity makes things fall."]]
* WomanScorned: Referenced.
* YouAreATreeCharlieBrown: Dave ends up casting almost everyone as a tree in the Udrogoth pageant.
** Because he's futilely trying to cast ''everyone'' in the Udrogoth pageant.
* YouMeanXmas: Harvest Day, complete with its own version of Santa Claus, the Harvest Hog.
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->''"Dave, Fang and Candy''\\
''Brave and Bold, they're not''\\
''They ain't the greatest heroes''\\
''[[ClosestThingWeGot But they're the only ones we've got"]]''
-->--From the ThemeSong
Dave the Barbarian (2004-2005) is a {{Disney}} animated series, an AffectionateParody of the HeroicFantasy genre.
The series takes place in TheMiddleAges and centers on a powerful yet cowardly barbarian named Dave who lives in the [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield fictitious land of Udrogoth]] along with his older sister Candy and younger sister Fang. His parents, Throktar and Glimia, are the King and Queen, but are away "fighting evil" across the world (though they sometimes communicate via a magic crystal ball), and have left Candy in charge of the kingdom. Together the three siblings, along with their wizard uncle Oswidge, their pet Faffy and Dave's talking sword Lula, are left to run and protect the kingdom.
There is a Narrator, referred to either as "the Narrator" or "the Storyteller," voiced by JeffBennett. He plays a big part in the show, as he controls what happens in the story. He is able to talk to the characters of the show, and vice versa. In fact, he was once captured by ArchEnemy '''THE DARK LORD CHUCKLES, THE SILLY PIGGY!''', and was forced to read narration where Dave loses to him.
The show was created and written by Doug Langdale of ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' and ''TheWeekenders'' fame. It premiered on DisneyChannel on January 23, 2004; a year later, it began broadcasting on ToonDisney as well. In Latin America, the show is broadcast on Jetix. Sadly however, the show only lasted one season due to Disney punting the show around their schedule. The reruns now mostly show on Early Morning shifts on the weekend.
Much like its predecessors ''TheFlintstones'' and the short-lived ''TheRomanHolidays'', Dave the Barbarian juxtaposes the ancient and the modern. Candy, for example, shops in the local mall (the "Great Indoor Marketplace of Udragoth") and uses the crystal ball for online shopping sprees. Occasionally, the series even breaks the fourth wall with a character directly addressing the audience.
Critically acclaimed, but unfortunately TooGoodToLast and cancelled after one season. NeedsMoreLove.
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!!''DaveTheBarbarian'' contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Candy; sometimes parodied, sometimes played straight. Fang ''wants'' to be one, but can't quite manage.
* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals
* AmazonianBeauty: [[MeaningfulName Bicepia]]. After seeing Bicepia, Candy uses [[AppliedPhlebotinum Magic Broccoli]] to become buffer...but keeps using it and quickly goes from AmazonianBeauty to a unholy combination of {{Gonk}}, DumbMuscle and BrawnHilda (don't worry, there is a ResetButton).
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Ned Frischman.
* AmusingInjuries: Dave in particular is prone to getting burned into a pile of ash.
* AnachronismStew
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: Parodied.
* AnimatedSeries
* AntiHero: Dave is a type I, Fang is a type IV.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Parodied with respect to superhero origin stories.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: A central part of the show's humor.
* BambooTechnology
* BarbarianHero: Spoofed
* BattleCouple: King Throktar and Queen Glimia
* BigBad: '''THE DARK LORD CHUCKLES, THE SILLY PIGGY!'''
* BigNo: Parodied.
* CampStraight: Dave.
* CastingGag: The casting of Joan and Melissa Rivers.
* CatchPhrase: "Bajabbers!", "Don't mess with the Princess!", "I am not a monkey!"
* ClothesMakeTheManiac: The evil lederhosen
* CoolHorse: Spoofed in Twinkle the Marvel Horse.
* CouchGag: The collapsing castle wall in the opening credits.
* CowardlyLion: Dave
* CrazyPrepared: Ned spent hours practicing his evil laugh before he became a villain
* CuteButCacophonic: Fang's default voice is a yell.
* DatingCatwoman: Dave and Princess Irmaplotz
* DarkSecret: In one episode, when Dave was snooping around to see who stole his Cooking Book, he sees Oswidge watching a soap opera, Candy shaving her pits, Fang secretly playing with dolls, and Faffy playing poker with some other dragons, talking about how the 'Big Palooka' hasn't discovered yet. Dave doesn't even realize he's the Big Palooka being referred to...
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Fang
* DeadpanSnarker: Lula
* TheEeyore: Twinkle the Marvel Horse
* EmpathicWeapon: Subverted, Lula has very little empathy
* EpicFail: Chuckles' first use of the Pretzel Men. Not even ''Dave'' is scared by them.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Candy is a parody of this trope. Strangely this is never brought up with Fang.
** Princess Irmaplotz.
* EvilKnockoff: Mecha-Dave
* EvilLaugh: Several.
** Malsquando once mentions that Chuckles is widely considered to have the best in the business.
* EvilSorcerer: Malsquando, Princess Irmoplotz and Queen Zonthara
* ExpositoryThemeTune: Quoted above
* ExtremeOmnivore: Faffy
* FakeOutOpening: In one episode, we see what appears to be the King returning home, but after we see HowWeGotHere we know it's really Chuckles in disguise, and now "the King" suddenly has green glowing eyes and sounds like Chuckles.
* FangsAreEvil: Princess Irmoplotz and Queen Zonthara. But not Fang. Except in that one episode where she was posessed by the forces of Pure Evil In The Form Of Leiderhosen.
* FieryRedhead: Fang and, sometimes, Candy.
* FMinusMinus: Dave seems to think that a "Z" grade is worse than an "F"
* FluffyTheTerrible: The Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy, sort of. He ''is'' a cute little piggy but is also a powerful dark lord of evil.
** There was also one episode in which he turned into a giant kitty cat!
* GenderBlenderName: The Pillage Master has a very intimidating, "dark and shadowed guardian" voice. And yet...
-->'''Pillage Master''': You may call me...Gloria.
-->'''Dave''': That's a pretty name.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A Roman salute is made by one of the characters while proclaiming himself to be a dictator.
** It's time to cut a muffin!
*** "That sounds nasty for some reason."
** "First you shall lay waste here...then you shall lay waste there. Then, when you can lay NO MORE WASTE--"
* GoldenSnitch: The penmanship portion of the Rite of Pillage counts for 75% of the total mark - a result of a pen company being the major sponsor.
* GreenEyedRedhead: Fang.
* GodOfEvil: Parodied with Quosmir, the god of freshly laundered trousers and overused punctuation.
* HairTriggerTemper: Lula.
-->"You just sitting there is kinda ticking me off."
* HeroicFantasy: Relentlessly spoofed
* HighCollarOfDoom: Fang deduces that Malsquando is evil because he has a "pointy collar", among other things.
* HostileShowTakeover: Chuckles, in "A Pig's Story"
* HotMom: Queen Glimia and Queen Zonthara.
* HumorDissonance: Used in-story by Ned Frischman. The people of the past has never heard his incredibly lame futuristic "why did the chicken cross the road"-class jokes and therefore considers him to be the funniest man in existence. [[invoked]]
* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Ned Frischman and his EvilLaugh.
* IAmNotWeasel: Fang is continually mistaken for a monkey.
* [[IdeaBulb Idea Candles]]
* IneptMage: Uncle Oswidge, to the max.
* InsistentTerminology: "Not a monkey!"
* KillerRabbit: The Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy.
* JunglePrincess: Fang certainly dresses like one.
* LargeHam: Chuckles (literally, and figuratively; extra humorous because he's tiny), the Narrator, among several others.
* LateToThePunchline: The Pillage Master.
-->"Laying waste--I get it! Ha ha ha ha!"
* LaughablyEvil: All villains, especially Chuckles the Silly Piggy.
* LittleMissSnarker: Fang
* LimitedWardrobe
* LemonyNarrator
* {{Magitek}}
* MediumAwareness
* MetronomicManMashing: Amoeba wrestling.
* MistakenForGranite: A version that doesn't activate unless you touch it.
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: When Fang attempts to speak monkey while on an island of monkeys who look like her:
-->:'''Fang:'''"Which point me you to water in pants?"
* {{Narrator}}
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: Referenced.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Twinkle the Marvel Horse is a parody of Christopher Walken
* NoFourthWall: The characters interact with the narrator, occasionally pausing to check their scripts, etc.
** "The inside of this television set is filthy!"
** Chuckles even captured the Narrator at one point and forced him to read his own story, making him the new Narrator, so to speak. Whatever the Narrator [[WordOfGod said would become real]]. They held auditions for a new Narrator.
* NonHumanSidekick: Faffy and Twinkle the Marvel Horse
* NoodleImplements
** Hilariously inverted in ''Girlfriend''.
---> '''Narrator:''' Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone using only a squirrel, some string and a megaphone.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Parodied in "The Maddening Sprite of the Stump". A giant muffin that had been attacking the castle is defeated offscreen, while the narrator explains that the show's budget is too cheap to actually show the battle, but assures the audience that it was exciting.
* OpeningShoutOut: [[spoiler:When Chuckles takes over]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent
** There are plenty of standard issue dragons roaming around as well; Faffy (who is routinely mistaken for a flying potato) seems to have simply lost the genetic lottery, ''hard''.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Irmaplotz uses a werecow "to make Dave look like a dork." Afterwards, anytime Dave gets bitten by something else, he turns into that. This leads to Dave turning into a cat, Oswidge, a hamster, an egg beater, Lula and a gym teacher.
** Resolved when he is made to bite his own tongue, turning Dave into a Weredave, and everyone he bites into a weredave.
* OverlyLongGag: [[ThisIsSparta NOT. A.]][[BerserkButton MONKEY!!!]]
* PaperThinDisguise: The Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Music Producer.
-->'''Candy:''' He does look vaguely familiar.
* PaperTiger: Dave. As the Theme Song states, he's "huge but a wimp."
* ParentalAbandonment: King Throktar and Queen Glimia, as noted in the summary
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Played straight with Candy, but averted with Dave in ''Civilization'' when Dave asks if Fang realises he's not a girl--while wearing blue.
* PokeThePoodle: Dave's attempts to be just a ''little'' evil in one episode (an attempt to make his relationship with Princess Irmoplotz work) really, ''really'' emphasize ''little''. We're talking taking two free nut log samples instead of just one...then feeling so guilty he bought ten crates.
* PreviouslyOn: Parodied in one episode that opens with a montage of Dave screaming and enduring misfortune.
* PrincessesRule: Princess Candy is ruling Udrogoth until her parents come back from destroying all the evil in the world.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: Evil Princess Irmaplotz to Dave.
* PurelyAestheticEra
* PygmalionPlot: Non-romantic version, in the episode where the family tried to make Fang act more ladylike.
-->'''Dave:''' ''(completely sincere)'' Because what could be more wholesome than the entire family working together as one ... to crush Fang's spirit and force her to stifle her true self?
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: Chuckles capturing the narrator
* RealLifeRelative: Princess Irmoplotz and Queen Zonthara are voiced by Melissa Rivers and Joan Rivers, respectively.
* SapientSteed: Twinkle the Marvel Horse
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show was one of Disney's most popular cartoons at the time, and had great ratings, and critics loved it. And yet without explanation they ... well, they didn't quite cancel it, but simply not make any new episodes and dropped all mention of the show off of their website. Six years later and apparently they still haven't announced whether they have officially cancelled it or not.
* ShoutOut: Fang seems to be a feral version of [[TheFlintstones Pebbles]]
** "[[{{Casablanca}} We'll always have Paris.]]" "Paris? We never went to Paris!"
** [[ScoobyDoo "Davey Dave!"]]
* SomedayThisWillComeInHandy: the TropeNamer
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Deliberately.
* SpaceX: Mocked mercilessly for ''two solid minutes'' in "A Pig's Story".
--> The space lord pursues our heroically fleeing space heroes, and thus begins a pitched space battle, in space! Just look at that exciting space action!
--> But just as it seems noone can hit the side of a space barn, the space lord scores a direct space hit on our space heroes' space generator!
--> '''Space Captain Dave''': Can our space engines power the space lasers?
--> And with a tremendous space burst of space energy, the spaceship is space destroyed! Space!
* SpikesOfVillainy: Subverted and spoofed.
* SpoiledBrat: Princess Candy.
* SuperheroOrigin: Spoofed in the creation of the Time Zipper, with everything from a strike from the Nordic Gods to a radioactive grasshopper bit in about 10 seconds
--> '''Ned Frischman''': Wow, that hardly ''ever'' happens!
* TalkingAnimal: Twinkle the Marvel Horse; in one throwaway gag, Faffy is seen talking articulately to other dragons when he thinks no human is listening
** Voiced by Frank Welker. [[SarcasmMode Because that really comes as such a surprise.]]
* TeamPet: spoofed with Faffy
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Inverted in "Shrink Rap." Dave becomes a therapist to help people, but all he does is ask "How does that make you feel?" and generally irritates everyone.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Fang and Candy, respectively.
* TopHeavyGuy: Dave.
* TheUnintelligible: Faffy.
* VillainTeamUp: In "Red Sweater Of Courage," Chuckles, Malsquando and Quosmir team-up after Dave harasses each of them without provocation.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Sort of.
-->'''Candy:''' Happy? They're going to destroy half a continent!
-->'''Fang:''' Yeah, but not the part we ''live'' on.
* WhatTheHeckIsAnAglet: Dave and his friends and family are being held against the wall by magic. "Dave, do something!" "I am... I'm trying to remember what the thing on the end of a shoelace is called, an argle?" When they are let go, but still against the wall, he suddenly remembers something. "That the the on the end of a shoelace is called an aglet?" "[[GravityIsAHarshMistress No, that gravity makes things fall."]]
* WomanScorned: Referenced.
* YouAreATreeCharlieBrown: Dave ends up casting almost everyone as a tree in the Udrogoth pageant.
** Because he's futilely trying to cast ''everyone'' in the Udrogoth pageant.
* YouMeanXmas: Harvest Day, complete with its own version of Santa Claus, the Harvest Hog.
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