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** The title for "The House That Ants Built" references [[Film/The House That Jack Built a horror film from 2018]].

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** The title for "The House That Ants Built" references [[Film/The House That Jack Built [[Film/TheHouseThatJackBuilt a horror film from 2018]].

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* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Elinor herself sings every part ''except'' for the title, which is sung several times throughout by a group of kids.

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* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Elinor herself sings every part ''except'' for the title, which is sung several times throughout by a group of kids.few women.


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** The title for "The House That Ants Built" references [[Film/The House That Jack Built a horror film from 2018]].
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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. In 2021, [=PBSKids=] also began releasing a series of shorts under the title ''Elinor Wonders Why - That's So Interesting!''

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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. In 2021, [=PBSKids=] also began releasing a series of shorts under the title ''Elinor Wonders Why - That's So Interesting!''
Interesting!'' The series is likely confirmed for a second season.

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** In "Butterfly Party", Ari is even more surprised to see that teachers have their own houses when Elinor, Olive and Ari go out looking for butterflies and stumble across Ms. Mole's house and garden.

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** In "Rocky the Rock", while out exploring to see which things are living things with Elinor and Olive, Ari is also surprised to learn that Ms. Mole used to be a kid. Later in the episode, the rest of the class is also astonished by this fact.
** In "Butterfly Party", Ari is even more surprised to see that teachers have their own houses home when Elinor, Olive and Ari go out looking for butterflies and stumble across Ms. Mole's house and garden.
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** In "Butterfly Party", Ari is even more surprised to see that Ms. Mole has her own home when Elinor, Olive and Ari go out looking for butterflies and stumble across Ms. Mole's house and garden.

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** In "Butterfly Party", Ari is even more surprised to see that Ms. Mole has her teachers have their own home houses when Elinor, Olive and Ari go out looking for butterflies and stumble across Ms. Mole's house and garden.
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** In "Butterfly Party", Ari is even more surprised to see that Ms. Mole has her own home when Elinor, Olive and Ari go out looking for butterflies and stumble across Ms. Mole's house and garden.

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* ShoutOut: * In "A Change of Art" from ''WesternAnimation/ElinorWondersWhy'' after completing a painting, Mr. Lion tells Elinor and her friends "And [[Series/TheJoyOfPainting that's the joy of painting]]." Furthermore, the character actually looks vaguely like Creator/BobRoss, sporting an afro and goatee.

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In "A Change of Art" from ''WesternAnimation/ElinorWondersWhy'' Art", after completing a painting, Mr. Lion tells Elinor and her friends "And [[Series/TheJoyOfPainting that's the joy of painting]]." Furthermore, the character actually looks vaguely like Creator/BobRoss, sporting an afro and goatee.goatee.
** Ari, a bat, [[StealthPun has a toy]] named [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Robin]].
** "Speed Racer" shares its name with ''Anime/SpeedRacer'', the title for the English dub of ''Mach [=GoGoGo=]''.
** The title of "To Bee or Not to Bee" is a Creator/WilliamShakespeare reference.

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* FurryReminder: Olive trumpets with her trunk, to show that she's an elephant.

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Olive trumpets with her trunk, to show that she's an elephant.elephant.
** Camilla, a camel, is absent in winter episodes, because camels only live in warm climates.
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** In "Olive's Library", while making a wish on her birthday, Olive actually trumpets to blow out the candle on the cake.
* HappyBirthdayToYou: In the episode "Olive's Library", this is averted. The characters actually sing "Happy Birthday" to Olive because it was her birthday. Interestingly, though, they only sing one line of the song since the episode starts where they sing it.
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!! Let's go! Let's explore... These tropes!

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!! Let's go! Let's explore... These tropes!!!''Elinor Wonders Why'' contains examples of the following tropes:
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!!''Elinor Wonders Why'' contains examples of the following tropes:

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!!''Elinor Wonders Why'' contains examples of the following tropes:!! Let's go! Let's explore... These tropes!
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* ReverseTelescopicVision: Happens to Elinor in 'Bird Song':
--->'''Elinor''': Hmm! That doesn't look right. These are supposed to make things look closer, not further away! (looks at binoculars and realizes mistake) Oh. (giggles, then fixes it) [[BreakingTheFourthWall Oops]].

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''Elinor Wonders Why'' is an animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') 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. In 2021, [=PBSKids=] also began releasing a series of shorts under the title ''Elinor Wonders Why - That's So Interesting!''

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''Elinor Wonders Why'' is an animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') 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. In 2021, [=PBSKids=] also began releasing a series of shorts under the title ''Elinor Wonders Why - That's So Interesting!''

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** In "Olive's Library", while making a wish on her birthday, Olive actually trumpets to blow out the candle on the cake.



* YouNeverDidThatForMe: In "Olive's Library", while making a wish on her birthday, Olive actually uses a loud elephant trumpet to blow out the candle on the cake.

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* ToonPsychics: In "Olive's Library", while making a wish on her birthday, Olive actually uses a loud elephant trumpet to blow out the candle on the cake.


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* YouNeverDidThatForMe: In "Olive's Library", while making a wish on her birthday, Olive actually uses a loud elephant trumpet to blow out the candle on the cake.
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* ToonPsychics: In "Olive's Library", while making a wish on her birthday, Olive actually uses a loud elephant trumpet to blow out the candle on the cake.
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* HappyBirthdayToYou: In the episode "Olive's Library", this is averted. The characters actually sing "Happy Birthday" to Olive because it was her birthday. Interestingly, though, they only sing one line of the song since the episode starts where they sing it.
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* ShoutOut: In "A Change of Art," after completing a painting, Mr. Lion tells Elinor and her friends "And [[Series/TheJoyOfPainting that's the joy of painting]]."

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* ShoutOut: * In "A Change of Art," Art" from ''WesternAnimation/ElinorWondersWhy'' after completing a painting, Mr. Lion tells Elinor and her friends "And [[Series/TheJoyOfPainting that's the joy of painting]]."" Furthermore, the character actually looks vaguely like Creator/BobRoss, sporting an afro and goatee.
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* ShoutOut: In "A Change of Art," after completing a painting, Mr. Lion tells Elinor and her friends "And [[Series/TheJoyOfPainting that's the joy of painting]]."
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* DoItYourselfThemeTune and TitleThemeTune: Elinor herself sings every part ''except'' for the title, which is sung several times throughout by a group of kids.

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* DoItYourselfThemeTune and TitleThemeTune: DoItYourselfThemeTune: Elinor herself sings every part ''except'' for the title, which is sung several times throughout by a group of kids.
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* DiurnalNocturnalAnimal: Ari is a bat, yet he and his family tend to be awake at day and asleep at night.
** A variation in 'Owl Girl'. While in the subject of discovering animals who are awake at night, we see Mr. Raccoon (who works at day) having to go to the bakery in the middle of the night to prepare the baked goods.
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* BorrowedCatchphrase: In the short "That's So Interesting - How Do Cheetahs Run So Fast" Ari declares "We need more obsevations!" saying that it's what Elinor would say.

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* BorrowedCatchphrase: In the short "That's So Interesting - How Do Cheetahs Run So Fast" Ari declares "We need more obsevations!" observations!" saying that it's what Elinor would say.
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''Elinor Wonders Why'' is an animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') 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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''Elinor Wonders Why'' is an animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') 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.
premiere. In 2021, [=PBSKids=] also began releasing a series of shorts under the title ''Elinor Wonders Why - That's So Interesting!''
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The series is presented in widescreen HD and is animated by Pipeline Studios and produced by Shoe Ink.

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The series is presented in widescreen HD and is animated by Pipeline Studios Creator/PipelineStudios and produced by Shoe Ink.
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* BorrowedCatchphrase: In the short "That's So Interesting - How Do Cheetahs Run So Fast" Ari declares "We need more obsevations!" saying that it's what Elinor would say.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: In "Baby Steps," Ari's father tells him that he could have used padding when he was younger to keep him from falling down. He poo-poos the idea, saying that he never falls down, then immediately trips over a stick.
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* RogerRabbitEffect: PBS has made a series of shorts based on the show called "That's So Interesting", where Elinor and her friends, still in cartoon form, interact with Jorge Cham in real life and talk about science.
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* BlackBeadEyes: Everyone has this eye style.

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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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* AnimalStereotypes: Played straight in many cases, averted in others. For example, Mr. Cat [[CatsHateWater does indeed hate getting wet]], but Elinor (her dad as well) is an only child (meaning her parents have not [[ExplosiveBreeder "multiplied like rabbits"]]).



* 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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* ChromaticArrangement: The main trio has a ''two'' chromatic arrangements (Red-Green-Blue arrangements: Elinor with a red dress with magenta lines, Ari with green shirt and Magenta-Yellow-Cyan for Elinor, Ari yellow shorts and Olive consecutively).with blue skirt and cyan shirt.


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* OwlsAskWho: "Owl Girl" has Elinor waking up to someone keep saying "who" from outside. She and her mom would later find out that it was an owl who has been making that sound, the same owl Elinor has seen sleeping at day, and so she learns of its nocturnal nature.
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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}}'') 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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''Elinor Wonders Why'' is a new an animated preschool-children's show co-created by Jorge Cham (creator of webcomic series, ''Webcomic/{{PHD}}'') 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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