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Not that I'm interested in this show, but it does give me oddly Pleasant Goat Fun Class-like vibes, probably because Fun Class has its own female white rabbit character named Earth Sister.

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* WhiteRabbit: Elinor is one.
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* StockAnimalDiet: In "No Need to Shout," Elinor, her father and mother all each have a single large carrot on their plates at dinner-time. To drive home the point further, before going to bed, Elinor puts on a pink shirt with a picture of a carrot and purple pants with a carrot pattern.
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* ChromaticArrangement: The main trio has a ''two'' chromatic arrangements (Red-Green-Blue and Magenta-Yellow-Cyan for Elinor, Ari and Olive consecutively).
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* SpeciesSurname: Elinor and her friends' teacher is named Ms. Mole.

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* SpeciesSurname: This goes for the entire cast. Elinor and her friends' teacher is named Ms. Mole. Elinor's last name is Rabbit, since her mom is Ranger Rabbit.
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''Elinor Wonders Why'' is a new animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') coming to Creator/PBSKids. It is about a young rabbit-girl named Elinor who has a lot of questions about the world around her. It has been [[https://pbsinternational.org/programs/elinor-wonders-why/ picked up]] for 37 episodes, as well as a special, and began airing on Labor Day 2020. However, [=PBSKids=] also advance-released the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMbG9MSR9E premiere episode]] of the series, "Ms. Mole's Glasses / Elinor Stops the Squish" to Website/YouTube, as well as to its online video / app service in July 2020. It has also released a number of other episodes of the series freely to [=YouTube=] since the show's premiere.

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''Elinor Wonders Why'' is a new animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') coming to airing on Creator/PBSKids. It is about a young rabbit-girl named Elinor who has a lot of questions about the world around her. It has been [[https://pbsinternational.org/programs/elinor-wonders-why/ picked up]] for 37 episodes, as well as a special, and began airing on Labor Day 2020. However, [=PBSKids=] also advance-released the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMbG9MSR9E premiere episode]] of the series, "Ms. Mole's Glasses / Elinor Stops the Squish" to Website/YouTube, as well as to its online video / app service in July 2020. It has also released a number of other episodes of the series freely to [=YouTube=] since the show's premiere.
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* HatesBaths: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in "Bath Time." Ari doesn't seem to actively hate baths, but he does consider them a waste of his time that can be better spent on playtime. After his parents allow him to go several days without bathing, apparently believing in ToughLove, he gets exactly muddy and itchy. While there's no particular indication of him coming to believe that BathsAreFun, he does realize that they are at least necessary.

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* HatesBaths: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in "Bath Time." Ari doesn't seem to actively hate baths, but he does consider them a waste of his time that can be better spent on playtime. After his parents allow him to go several days without bathing, apparently believing in ToughLove, he gets exactly very muddy and itchy. While there's no particular indication of him coming to believe that BathsAreFun, he does realize that they are at least necessary.
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''Elinor Wonders Why'' is a new animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') coming to Creator/PBSKids. It is about a young rabbit-girl named Elinor who has a lot of questions about the world around her. It has been [[https://pbsinternational.org/programs/elinor-wonders-why/ picked up]] for 37 episodes, as well as a special, and began airing on Labor Day 2020. However, [=PBSKids=] also advance-released the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMbG9MSR9E premiere episode]] of the series, "Ms. Mole's Glasses / Elinor Stops the Squish" to Website/YouTube, as well as to its online video / app service in July 2020.

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''Elinor Wonders Why'' is a new animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') coming to Creator/PBSKids. It is about a young rabbit-girl named Elinor who has a lot of questions about the world around her. It has been [[https://pbsinternational.org/programs/elinor-wonders-why/ picked up]] for 37 episodes, as well as a special, and began airing on Labor Day 2020. However, [=PBSKids=] also advance-released the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMbG9MSR9E premiere episode]] of the series, "Ms. Mole's Glasses / Elinor Stops the Squish" to Website/YouTube, as well as to its online video / app service in July 2020.
2020. It has also released a number of other episodes of the series freely to [=YouTube=] since the show's premiere.
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* HatesBaths: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in "Bath Time." Ari doesn't seem to actively hate baths, but he does consider them a waste of his time that can be better spent on playtime. After his parents allow him to go several days without bathing, apparently believing in ToughLove, he gets exactly muddy and itchy. While there's no particular indication of him coming to believe that BathsAreFun, he does realize that they are at least necessary.

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* LimitedWardrobe: The characters all have standard clothing that they normally wear. Elinor normally wears a red dress with purple stripes. Ari wears a green t-shirt and yellow shorts. Olive wears a dark-blue hairbow, blue light blue skirt with a dark-blue heart and dark-blue fringe, and light blue under-shorts. Ms. Mole wears a skirt and vest in varying shades of purple and dark purple shoes.

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* LimitedWardrobe: The characters all have standard clothing that they normally wear. Elinor normally wears a red dress with a purple stripes.stripe around the waist and purple sleeves. Ari wears a green t-shirt and yellow shorts. Olive wears a dark-blue hairbow, blue hair bow, a light blue skirt skirt, a t-shirt with a dark-blue heart and dark-blue fringe, and light blue under-shorts. Ms. Mole wears a skirt and vest in varying shades of purple and dark purple shoes.shoes.
* LostVoicePlot: The episode "No Need to Shout" revolves around Elinor's lost voice.
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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: In "One of These Goats," there is a substitute teacher, Mr. Hamster, teaching Elinor's class. He explains to Elinor and her friends how he can quickly remember the students that he meets by identifying what makes them different. It seems, however, that he may at first have trouble telling apart the goat twins Mary and Lizzie, who are identical. Mary usually wears a green dress and Lizzie a blue dress, but today they're both wearing blue dresses. Elinor, Olive and Ari, however, make careful observations of the two during playtime and discover several other subtle differences between the two, such as the slightly differing lengths of their horns and their differently-patterned hair accessories.
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* AnimalStereotypes: Played straight in many cases, averted in others. For example, Mr. Cat [[CatsHateWater does indeed hate getting wet]], but Elinor is an only child (meaning her parents have not [[ExplosiveBreeder "multiplied like rabbits"]]).
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* ButtMonkey: Elinor's dad has this role in "Bird Song." Hoping for a relaxing morning of sleeping in, he is instead rudely awakened and kept awake by a bird singing outside his window. He then ends up falling asleep from exhaustion at the breakfast table. The next morning, Elinor manages to sing the bird away from the window before it can wake her dad up, only for him to be rudely awoken instead by an alarm clock he forgot he had set.
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* ButtMonkey: Elinor's dad has this role in "Bird Song." Hoping for a relaxing morning of sleeping in, he is instead rudely awakened and kept awake by a bird singing outside his window. He then ends up falling asleep from exhaustion at the breakfast table. The next morning, Elinor manages to sing the bird away from the window before it can wake her dad up, only for him to be rudely awoken instead by an alarm clock he forgot he had set.

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* ExpressiveEars: In "Colorful and Tasty," Ari's ears droop when Elinor tells him that he can't have a cupcake because they're supposed to be selling them to their friends.

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In "Colorful and Tasty," Ari's ears droop when Elinor tells him that he can't have a cupcake because they're supposed to be selling them to their friends.friends.
** [[ConversedTrope Discussed]] in "No Need to Shout," upon hearing that Elinor has lost her voice from practicing a a song too much, Mr Dog's ears droop. Olive points it out, asking if he's sad for Elinor. He says that his ears do show how he's feeling and that he doesn't feel sad, but he does understand how he feels because dogs are very empathetic. Olive says that everyone knows how he's feeling because they see his tail and his ears.
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* ExhaustedEyeBags: Elinor's father has these in "Bird Song" after being woken up early by a bird loudly singing outside the window.


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* TalkingInYourSleep: Elinor's father tweets in his sleep in "Bird Song" after falling asleep at the table during breakfast because he was woken up early by a bird singing outside the window.
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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: In the theme song:
-->''El! In! Or! Wonders why!''
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* LimitedWardrobe: Even though the series has only released one episode so far, this and promotional spots have made it clear that the characters all have standard clothing that they normally wear. Elinor normally wears a red dress with purple stripes. Ari wears a green t-shirt and yellow shorts. Olive wears a dark-blue hairbow, blue light blue skirt with a dark-blue heart and dark-blue fringe, and light blue under-shorts. Ms. Mole wears a skirt and vest in varying shades of purple and dark purple shoes.

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* LimitedWardrobe: Even though the series has only released one episode so far, this and promotional spots have made it clear that the The characters all have standard clothing that they normally wear. Elinor normally wears a red dress with purple stripes. Ari wears a green t-shirt and yellow shorts. Olive wears a dark-blue hairbow, blue light blue skirt with a dark-blue heart and dark-blue fringe, and light blue under-shorts. Ms. Mole wears a skirt and vest in varying shades of purple and dark purple shoes.

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* CatchPhrase: After Elinor, Olive and Ari have explored something a bit, Elinor likes to declare "We need more observations!"

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After Elinor, Olive and Ari have explored something a bit, Elinor likes to declare "We need more observations!"observations!"
** After learning something cool, Elinor comments "That is ''so'' interesting!"
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* ChildishPillowFight: In "The House That Ants Built," Elinor, Olive and Ari all struggle over a bunch of pillows that they each want to try to build a castle. Ari tells them they shouldn't fight over pillows, then ends up getting buried in a bunch of them. Then, instead of fighting ''over'' the pillows, they have a pillow fight with them.
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* {{Catchphrase}}: After Elinor, Olive and Ari have explored something a bit, Elinor likes to declare "We need more observations!"

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* {{Catchphrase}}: CatchPhrase: After Elinor, Olive and Ari have explored something a bit, Elinor likes to declare "We need more observations!"
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* {{Catchphrase}}: After Elinor, Olive and Ari have explored something a bit, Elinor likes to declare "We need more observations!"

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''Elinor Wonders Why'' is a new animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') coming to Creator/PBSKids. It is about a young rabbit-girl named Elinor who has a lot of questions about the world around her. It has been [[https://pbsinternational.org/programs/elinor-wonders-why/ picked up]] for 37 episodes, as well as a special, to air beginning in September 2020. However, [=PBSKids=] advance-released the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMbG9MSR9E premiere episode]] of the series, "Ms. Mole's Glasses / Elinor Stops the Squish" to Website/YouTube, as well as to its online video / app service in July 2020.

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''Elinor Wonders Why'' is a new animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') coming to Creator/PBSKids. It is about a young rabbit-girl named Elinor who has a lot of questions about the world around her. It has been [[https://pbsinternational.org/programs/elinor-wonders-why/ picked up]] for 37 episodes, as well as a special, to air beginning in September and began airing on Labor Day 2020. However, [=PBSKids=] also advance-released the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMbG9MSR9E premiere episode]] of the series, "Ms. Mole's Glasses / Elinor Stops the Squish" to Website/YouTube, as well as to its online video / app service in July 2020.


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* ExpressiveEars: In "Colorful and Tasty," Ari's ears droop when Elinor tells him that he can't have a cupcake because they're supposed to be selling them to their friends.
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'''''Elinor Wonders Why''''' is a new animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') coming to Creator/PBSKids. It is about a young rabbit-girl named Elinor who has a lot of questions about the world around her. It has been [[https://pbsinternational.org/programs/elinor-wonders-why/ picked up]] for 37 episodes, as well as a special, to air beginning in September 2020. However, [=PBSKids=] advance-released the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMbG9MSR9E premiere episode]] of the series, "Ms. Mole's Glasses / Elinor Stops the Squish" to Website/YouTube, as well as to its online video / app service in July 2020.

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'''''Elinor ''Elinor Wonders Why''''' Why'' is a new animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') coming to Creator/PBSKids. It is about a young rabbit-girl named Elinor who has a lot of questions about the world around her. It has been [[https://pbsinternational.org/programs/elinor-wonders-why/ picked up]] for 37 episodes, as well as a special, to air beginning in September 2020. However, [=PBSKids=] advance-released the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMbG9MSR9E premiere episode]] of the series, "Ms. Mole's Glasses / Elinor Stops the Squish" to Website/YouTube, as well as to its online video / app service in July 2020.




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* CharacterActionTitle: ''Elinor Wonders Why'' certain things happen in nature and the world around her.
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*EyesAlwaysShut: Or squinted, it's hard to tell, but Ms. Mole always has her eyes closed, even with her glasses.
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* LimitedWardrobe: Even though the series has only released one episode so far, this and promotional spots have made it clear that the characters all have standard clothing that they normally wear. Elinor normally wears a red dress with purple stripes. Ari wears a green t-shirt and yellow shorts. Olive wears a [[HairDecorations dark-blue hairbow]], blue light blue skirt with a dark-blue heart and dark-blue fringe, and light blue under-shorts. Ms. Mole wears a skirt and vest in varying shades of purple and dark purple shoes.

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* LimitedWardrobe: Even though the series has only released one episode so far, this and promotional spots have made it clear that the characters all have standard clothing that they normally wear. Elinor normally wears a red dress with purple stripes. Ari wears a green t-shirt and yellow shorts. Olive wears a [[HairDecorations dark-blue hairbow]], hairbow, blue light blue skirt with a dark-blue heart and dark-blue fringe, and light blue under-shorts. Ms. Mole wears a skirt and vest in varying shades of purple and dark purple shoes.
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Something I've noticed while watching Elinor.

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* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Elinor and Olive are girls, while Ari is a guy.
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'''''Elinor Wonders Why''''' is a new animated preschool-children's show coming to Creator/PBSKids. It is about a young rabbit-girl named Elinor who has a lot of questions about the world around her. It has been [[https://pbsinternational.org/programs/elinor-wonders-why/ picked up]] for 37 episodes, as well as a special, to air beginning in September 2020. However, [=PBSKids=] advance-released the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMbG9MSR9E premiere episode]] of the series, "Ms. Mole's Glasses / Elinor Stops the Squish" to Website/YouTube, as well as to its online video / app service in July 2020.

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'''''Elinor Wonders Why''''' is a new animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') coming to Creator/PBSKids. It is about a young rabbit-girl named Elinor who has a lot of questions about the world around her. It has been [[https://pbsinternational.org/programs/elinor-wonders-why/ picked up]] for 37 episodes, as well as a special, to air beginning in September 2020. However, [=PBSKids=] advance-released the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMbG9MSR9E premiere episode]] of the series, "Ms. Mole's Glasses / Elinor Stops the Squish" to Website/YouTube, as well as to its online video / app service in July 2020.

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* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: All of the characters are animal-people of some sort. Elinor is a rabbit-person, while her best friends Ari and Olive are a bat-person and elephant-person respectively. Their teacher is a mole-person.

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* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: All of the characters are animal-people of some sort. Elinor is a rabbit-person, while her best friends Ari and Olive are a bat-person and elephant-person respectively. Their teacher is a mole-person.mole-person.
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'''''Elinor Wonders Why''''' is a new animated preschool-children's show coming to Creator/PBSKids. It is about a young rabbit-girl named Elinor who has a lot of questions about the world around her. It has been [[https://pbsinternational.org/programs/elinor-wonders-why/ picked up]] for 37 episodes, as well as a special, to air beginning in September 2020. However, [=PBSKids=] advance-released the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMbG9MSR9E premiere episode]] of the series, "Ms. Mole's Glasses / Elinor Stops the Squish" to Website/YouTube, as well as to its online video / app service in July 2020.

The series is presented in widescreen HD and is animated by Pipeline Studios and produced by Shoe Ink.

!''Elinor Wonders Why'' contains examples of the following:

* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Elinor and her friends are all normally barefoot. Their teacher Ms. Mole, however, wears purple shoes.
* BigEater: Ari is regularly snacking on something. In "Ms. Mole's Glasses," when Ms. Mole calls him out for reaching for food without waiting for the others to sit down first, Elinor and Olive wonder just what sense she used to know that he was doing it, given that she was looking in the other direction at the time. She points out that it's a matter of simple deduction that Ari is always hungry.
* ConstantlyCurious: If anyone didn't figure it out from the title, Elinor is very curious about the world around her and wants to learn as much about it as possible.
* CuteLittleFangs: Elinor's friend Ari is a bat-person and therefore sports these.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune and TitleThemeTune: Elinor herself sings every part ''except'' for the title, which is sung several times throughout by a group of kids.
* DisembodiedEyebrows: Certain characters, such as the teacher Ms. Mole, have these when shown in profile.
* EdutainmentShow: Airing on [=PBSKids=], the show has stated educational goals of encouraging children's curiosity, helping them learn more about community and the exploration of nature.
* EveryoneLaughsEnding: "Ms. Mole's Glasses" ends with everyone laughing over Ms. Mole's comment about not needing use her senses to know that Ari is always hungry.
* LimitedWardrobe: Even though the series has only released one episode so far, this and promotional spots have made it clear that the characters all have standard clothing that they normally wear. Elinor normally wears a red dress with purple stripes. Ari wears a green t-shirt and yellow shorts. Olive wears a [[HairDecorations dark-blue hairbow]], blue light blue skirt with a dark-blue heart and dark-blue fringe, and light blue under-shorts. Ms. Mole wears a skirt and vest in varying shades of purple and dark purple shoes.
* PreschoolShow: The characters are very young children and the stated target audience is children of ages 3-5.
* SpeciesSurname: Elinor and her friends' teacher is named Ms. Mole.
* TeachersOutOfSchool:
** In the premiere episode, "Ms. Mole's Glasses," Ari is astonished when the class's teacher, Ms. Mole, says that she's going shopping, and later admits he thought teachers lived inside the school. Elinor thinks this is goofy, asking where Ms. Mole would sleep if she lived inside the school.
--->'''Ari''': You mean teachers sleep, too?! Mind blowing!
** In the story that immediately follows the above, "Elinor Stops the Squish," when told that it's Ms. Mole's birthday tomorrow, Ari expresses surprise that teachers have birthdays.
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: All of the characters are animal-people of some sort. Elinor is a rabbit-person, while her best friends Ari and Olive are a bat-person and elephant-person respectively. Their teacher is a mole-person.

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