History WesternAnimation / Kaeloo

''Kaeloo'' is a French [[AllCGICartoon CGI cartoon]] written by Rémi Chapotot and Jean-François Henry and produced by Cube Creative. The series, which is a DeconstructiveParody of children's shows, follows the adventures of a group of {{Funny Animal}}s living in Smileyland, a CrapsaccharineWorld [[ThereAreNoAdults inhabited exclusively by kids]], as they play various games, like baseball, tea party or [[BreadEggsMilkSquick selling your soul to the Devil to become a witch doctor and torture your friends]]. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids While the premise may sound childish]], the games usually end up being taken [[SeriousBusiness so seriously]] by the group of [[WithFriendsLikeThese "friends"]] that [[AmusingInjuries injuries]], [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosions]], and all sorts of [[AffectionateParody weird]], [[SurrealHumor crazy]], and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar not very kid-friendly stuff]] end up happening quite often.

The show began as a [[{{Pilot}} 3-minute short film]] in 2007, which caught the attention of producer Cube Creative, resulting in an entire season being broadcasted on Canal+ in 2010, followed by a second season in 2012, a third season in 2017, and a fourth season in 2020. The show's official English dub was aired briefly in Australia in 2012 on ABC but was then cancelled; it continued airing on NITV in April 2018. It has been met with praise from both audiences and critics, and received several awards and nominations. It was notably complimented on its ability to entertain both [[AnimationAgeGhetto children]] [[ParentalBonus and adults]].

Not to be confused with [[Website/GoAnimate a certain internet utility's]] [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY mispronunciation]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}''.

Not to be confused with [[Website/GoAnimate a certain internet utility's]] [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY mispronunciation]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}''.

The show began as a [[{{Pilot}} 3-minute short film]] in 2007, which caught the attention of producer Cube Creative, resulting in an entire season being broadcasted on Canal+ in 2010, a second season following in 2012 and a third season in 2017. On May 12th, 2018, it was announced that the show has been renewed for a fourth season, which will air in January 2020. The show's official English dub was aired briefly in Australia in 2012 on ABC but was then cancelled; it continued airing on NITV in April 2018. It has been met with praise from both audiences and critics, and received several awards and nominations. It was notably complimented on its ability to entertain both [[AnimationAgeGhetto children]] [[ParentalBonus and adults]].

[[caption-width-right:300:WithFriendsLikeThese...[[note]]Pictured: [[NiceGirl Kae]][[AllLovingHero loo]] the frog, [[OneWingedAngel Bad]] [[DumbMuscle Kaeloo]] the toad, [[TheDitz Stu]][[CosmicPlaything mpy]] the squirrel, [[TheAce Quack]] [[NighInvulnerable Quack]] the duck, [[SurroundedByIdiots Mr.]] [[CatsAreMean Cat]] the [[SpeciesSurname cat]], [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] the rabbit, [[EmotionalBruiser Eugly]] the fat rabbit, and [[TheNapoleon Ol]][[RobotMaster af]] the emperor penguin[[/note]]]]

The show began as a [[{{Pilot}} 3-minute short film]] in 2007, which caught the attention of producer Cube Creative, resulting in an entire season being broadcasted on Canal+ in 2010, a second season following in 2012 and a third season in 2017. On May 12th, 2018, it was announced that the show has been renewed for a fourth season, though no release date has been provided yet. The show's official English dub was aired briefly in Australia in 2012 on ABC but was then cancelled; it continued airing on NITV in April 2018. It has been met with praise from both audiences and critics, and received several awards and nominations. It was notably complimented on its ability to entertain both [[AnimationAgeGhetto children]] [[ParentalBonus and adults]].

You can check out the show's character page [[Characters/{{Kaeloo}} here]]. It also has a page for [[Trivia/{{Kaeloo}} trivia]] and [[ShoutOut/{{Kaeloo}} Shout Outs]].

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''Kaeloo'' is a French [[AllCGICartoon CGI cartoon]] written by Rémi Chapotot and Jean-François Henry and produced by Cube Creative. The series, which is a DeconstructiveParody of children's shows, follows the adventures of a group of {{Funny Animal}}s living in Smileyland, a CrapsaccharineWorld [[ThereAreNoAdults inhabited exclusively by kids]], as they play various games, like baseball, tea party or [[BreadEggsMilkSquick satanic rock band]]. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids While the premise may sound childish]], the games usually end up being taken [[SeriousBusiness so seriously]] by the group of [[WithFriendsLikeThese "friends"]] that [[AmusingInjuries injuries]], [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosions]], and all sorts of [[AffectionateParody weird]], [[SurrealHumor crazy]], and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar not very kid-friendly stuff]] end up happening quite often.

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[[caption-width-right:350: WithFriendsLikeThese [[note]]Pictured: [[NiceGirl Kae]][[AllLovingHero loo]] the frog, [[OneWingedAngel Bad]] [[DumbMuscle Kaeloo]] the toad, [[TheDitz Stu]][[CosmicPlaything mpy]] the squirrel, [[TheAce Quack]] [[NighInvulnerable Quack]] the duck, [[SurroundedByIdiots Mr.]] [[CatsAreMean Cat]] the [[SpeciesSurname cat]], [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] the rabbit, [[EmotionalBruiser Eugly]] the fat rabbit, and [[TheNapoleon Ol]][[RobotMaster af]] the emperor penguin[[/note]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:WithFriendsLikeThese [[note]]From left to right: [[TheDitz Stu]][[ButtMonkey mpy]], [[NighInvulnerable Quack]] [[TheAce Quack]], [[AllLovingHero Kae]][[NiceGirl loo]], [[SurroundedByIdiots Mr.]] [[CatsAreMean Cat]], [[AlphaBitch Pretty]], and [[RobotMaster Ol]][[TheNapoleon af]]. In the back: [[EmotionalBruiser Eugly.]] Not pictured: [[OneWingedAngel Bad]] [[DumbMuscle Kaeloo]].[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:WithFriendsLikeThese [[note]]From left to right: [[TheDitz Stu]][[ButtMonkey mpy]], [[NighInvulnerable Quack]] [[TheAce Quack]], [[AllLovingHero Kae]][[NiceGirl loo]], [[SurroundedByIdiots Mr.]] [[CatsAreMean Cat]], [[AlphaBitch Pretty]], and [[TheNapoleon Olaf]]. In the back: [[EmotionalBruiser Eugly.]] Not pictured: [[OneWingedAngel Bad]] [[DumbMuscle Kaeloo]].[[/note]]]]

The show began as a [[{{Pilot}} 3-minute short film]] in 2007, which caught the attention of producer Cube Creative, resulting in an entire season being broadcasted on Canal+ in 2010, a second season following in 2012 and a third season in 2017. On May 12th, 2018, it was announced that the show has been renewed for a fourth season. The show's official English dub was aired briefly in Australia in 2012 on ABC but was then cancelled; it continued airing on NITV in April 2018. It has been met with praise from both audiences and critics, and received several awards and nominations. It was notably complimented on its ability to entertain both [[AnimationAgeGhetto children]] [[ParentalBonus and adults]].

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[[caption-width-right:350: WithFriendsLikeThese [[note]]Pictured: [[NiceGirl Kae]][[AllLovingHero loo]] the frog, [[OneWingedAngel Bad]] [[DumbMuscle Kaeloo]] the toad, [[TheDitz Stu]][[CosmicPlaything mpy]] the squirrel, [[TheAce Quack]] [[NighInvulnerable Quack]] the duck, [[SurroundedByIdiots Mr.]] [[CatsAreMean Cat]] the [[SpeciesSurname cat]], [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] the rabbit, [[EmotionalBruiser Eugly]] the fat rabbit, and [[TheNapoleon Ol]][[RobotMaster af]] the emperor penguin[[/note]]]]

The show began as a [[{{Pilot}} 3-minute short film]] in 2007, which caught the attention of producer Cube Creative, resulting in an entire season being broadcasted on Canal+ in 2010, a second season following in 2012 and a third season in 2017. The show's official English dub was aired briefly in Australia in 2012 on ABC but was then cancelled; it continued airing on NITV in April 2018. It has been met with praise from both audiences and critics, and received several awards and nominations. It was notably complimented on its ability to entertain both [[AnimationAgeGhetto children]] [[ParentalBonus and adults]].

The show began as a [[{{Pilot}} 3-minute short film]] in 2007, which caught the attention of producer Cube Creative, resulting in an entire season being broadcasted on Canal+ in 2010, a second season following in 2012 and a third season in 2017. Since then, it has been met with praise from both audiences and critics, and received several awards and nominations. It was notably complimented on its ability to entertain both [[AnimationAgeGhetto children]] [[ParentalBonus and adults]].

Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'', though it does [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY share the same name pronunciation]] as a [[Website/GoAnimate certain version]] of ''Caillou''.

Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'', though it does share the same name pronunciation as a [[Website/GoAnimate certain version]] of ''Caillou''.

''Kaeloo'' is a French [[AllCGICartoon CGI cartoon]] written by Rémi Chapotot and Jean-François Henry and produced by Cube Creative. The series, which is a DeconstructiveParody of children's shows, follows the adventure of a group of {{Funny Animal}}s living in Smileyland, a CrapsaccharineWorld available [[ThereAreNoAdults exclusively to kids]], as they play various games, like baseball, tea party or [[BreadEggsMilkSquick satanic rock band]]. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids While the premise may sound childish]], the games usually end up being taken [[SeriousBusiness so seriously]] by the group of [[WithFriendsLikeThese "friends"]] that [[AmusingInjuries injuries]], [[StuffBlowingUp huge explosions]], and all sorts of [[AffectionateParody weird]], [[SurrealHumor crazy]], and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar not very kid-friendly stuff]] end up happening quite often.

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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Everyone hates [[AlphaBitch Pretty]]. Even ''[[NiceGirl Kaeloo]]'' doesn't like her, which is saying something.
* AbandonShip: In a pirate-themed role playing episode, Mr. Cat and Pretty are on a ship, and Eugly is a giant kraken. Eugly raises a fist to sink the ship. [[spoiler: Mr. Cat refuses to abandon the ship initially when she asks him to... but bails at the last second and jumps off, leaving Pretty on board.]]
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Pretty to Mr. Cat. Unlike most examples of this trope, she's not physically ugly, but she's an obnoxious AlphaBitch and StalkerWithACrush who only likes him for his looks and doesn't care about him at all.
* AbnormalAmmo: Apart from missiles, Mr. Cat also launches various things from his bazooka such as books, sheep, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick people who were dumb enough to mess with him]].
* AccidentalHero: Stumpy in [[spoiler: Episode 104. He manages to accidentally take control of [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Olaf]]'s MechaMooks, which leads to him being able to break into the lair, free his friends and blow up the building.]]
* AccidentalKiss: In Episode 83, [[spoiler: Stumpy is kicked into the air by a sheep, causing him to land face first on Eugly with their lips touching.]]
* AccidentalPun:
** Mr. Cat makes one in "[[HalloweenEpisode Let's Play Scaredy Cat]]".
-->'''Mr. Cat (to Stumpy):''' We already told you, your zombie impression ''bites''!
** "Let's Play at Reading Books" has an example at the beginning. Quack Quack slams a book in Mr. Cat's face by accident, causing him pain. When Mr. Cat tries to say his CatchPhrase "Meow", it comes out as "Me..... OW".
* AcidPool: Mr. Cat dunks Quack Quack in an acid tub in the episode "Let's Play Prince Charming".
* AcmeProducts: The unnamed online store the cast buy their stuff from sells everything from LovePotion to dangerous weapons.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: [[TheAce Quack Quack]] gets this in "Let's Play Tennis" since he is a much better tennis player than the others.
* ActingYourIntellectualAge: Mr. Cat, the smartest cast member, has the intellect of an adult, and acts like one too despite being a kid. In addition, Episode 97 shows that he has apparently "lost his inner child".
* AdaptationNameChange: In the pilot episode, Kaeloo's name was "Kaelou", which was changed to "Kaeloo" for the show. In addition, Stumpy was not given a DubNameChange in the pilot, retaining his French name "Moignon".
* AddictionDisplacement: {{Parodied| Trope}}; Mr. Cat says he curbed his addiction to [[GRatedDrug carrots]][[note]]the carrots in this case have the same effect as tobacco[[/note]] by developing an addiction to tormenting Quack Quack. He tries to justify this by saying that at least this way, he's not ruining his own health.
* ADogNamedDog: Kaeloo's name is the Japanese word for "frog", making her a frog named "Frog".
* AdultFear: In Episode 94, the gang are roleplaying as usual. This time, Mr. Cat is the principal of a school, Quack Quack is a student at said school, and Kaeloo is Quack Quack's mother. Halfway through the episode, Kaeloo gets a call from Mr. Cat saying that Quack Quack died. Kaeloo rushes over to the school, only to find Quack Quack alive, just injured. Mr. Cat then explains to Kaeloo that if he said a child was injured, the child's parents probably wouldn't bother to show up.
* AerithAndBob: We have a character named "Olaf", a normal name, and characters with unusual names like "Stumpy" and "Quack Quack".
* AesopAmnesia: Kaeloo learns that CheatersNeverProsper in "Let's Play Golf". By the time [[BaseballEpisode Episode 95]] rolls around, she's forgotten all about it.
* AffectionateNickname: In "Let's Play House" and "Let's Play Babysitting", Mr. Cat gives Kaeloo the nickname "coochy-coo".
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: In "Let's Play Art Class", when [[TheTrickster Mr. Cat]] finds out that [[GeniusDitz Stumpy is a brilliant artist]] and that he plans to auction his art, he asks him to sign a contract that gives 95% of the profits to Mr. Cat. [[spoiler: {{Subverted| Trope}} in that they never manage to sell any of the art, an therefore never make any money for Mr. Cat to swindle.]]
* AfraidOfDoctors: Quack Quack is terrified of them, as a result of being experimented on by scientists.
* AfraidOfNeedles: Stumpy is afraid of needles, and faints when he sees one in "Let's Play Spies". Kaeloo manages to use this to her advantage in one episode to get him to stop PlayingSick by threatening to give him injections to make him "get better".
* AgitatedItemStomping:
** In Episode 82, when Pretty gets fed up with Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack, she throws her smartphone on the ground and stomps on it repeatedly. Somehow, it doesn't break.
** In Episode 113, [[TheDitz Stumpy]] loses a video game. He throws his console on the floor and stomps on it as though it was the console's fault he lost.
* AgonyOfTheFeet:
** In Episode 101, Kaeloo distracts [[CosmicPlaything Stumpy]] when he's trying to lift weights, and he drops the weight on his foot.
** In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Stumpy's feet catch fire.
* AirGuitar: Stumpy and Olaf do this in Episode 72 to Music/{{Jimi Hendrix}}'s music.
* AlcoholHic:
** Mr. Cat does this whenever he gets drunk.
** Kaeloo and Stumpy does this in Episode 97 when Mr. Cat's RealityWarping gets them drunk.
* AlienAbduction: Happens to Stumpy in Episode 98. The aliens abduct him from the couch he's sitting on and examine some acorns he happened to have with him. [[spoiler: Turns out it was AllJustADream ... OrWasItADream]]
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: In one episode, Mr. Cat tries to "tame" Bad Kaeloo (who is a toad), who starts wagging her "tail" and panting like a dog.
* AllCGICartoon
* AllegedLookalikes: In one episode, Kaeloo mentions that fraternal twins Pretty and Eugly resemble each other. Pretty is ''not'' amused.
* AllGermansAreNazis: When asked to speak German, Mr. Cat leaves and returns with a Nazi costume before he starts.
* AllGirlsLikePonies: Kaeloo and Pretty once got into a huge fight over one. It turns out they like unicorns better. In addition, it's suggested in the same episode that literally all girls, everywhere, love ponies.
-->'''Stumpy''': Is that supposed to be cool? Must be a girl thing.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Kaeloo and Pretty both have crushes on Mr. Cat, the resident {{jerkass}}.
* AllJustADream: The events of "[[spoiler: Let's Play Astronauts]]" turn out to be a dream Stumpy had, which he was narrating to Kaeloo.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
** Pretty has a crush on Mr. Cat. The feeling is far from mutual.
** Kaeloo and Mr. Cat seem to have a constant UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo going on. Who's crushing on whom depends on the episode. When one makes advances, the other backs away, seemingly disgusted.
* AllMenArePerverts: As evidenced by "Let's Play at Reading Books", Mr. Cat and Quack Quack are both perverts. Stumpy has also shown an extremely perverted side at times.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: [[spoiler: Olaf's backstory is that he was kicked out of the place he lived by the other emperor penguins for [[CargoShip marrying an ice cube.]]]]
* AlternateUniverse:
** The cast visit one in "Let's Play Astronauts" [[spoiler: although that was AllJustADream]], where AlternateUniverse!Kaeloo [[HulkingOut transforms]] in reverse, AlternateUniverse!Stumpy is a genius who likes math and hates comic books, and AlternateUniverse!Mr. Cat and AlternateUniverse!Quack Quack (known as Meow Meow and Mr. Duck) have SwappedRoles.
** They find another one in Episode 70, the world of "Let's Learn" as opposed to their "Let's Play". AlternateUniverse!Kaeloo's transformation takes place in reverse and is activated by cuddling rather than irritation, and her frog form is a strict teacher. AlternateUniverse!Stumpy is intelligent, and AlternateUniverse!Mr. Cat is a quiet, LiteralMinded idiot (as opposed to Stumpy who [[TheDitz is an idiot]] and [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat who is a genius]]).
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Averted with Pretty and Eugly, who are fraternal twins.
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Pretty and Eugly are pink rabbits and Olaf is a blue emperor penguin. {{Averted| Trope}} with the main four, however, since they are colored like real animals.
* AmbiguousDisorder: ''Everyone'' on the show has one. Or more. Kaeloo's tendency to [[HulkingOut transform when she is angry]] makes it seem like she has some sort of split personality (which Mr. Cat actually pointed out in "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses"), Stumpy has a Tourette's syndrome-esque [[CharacterTics tic]] where he spouts gibberish and his neck spasms erratically when he doesn't understand something and is said to be mentally handicapped, Quack Quack seems to be some kind of idiot savant and is speech-impaired, Mr. Cat has very obvious antisocial and sadomasochistic tendencies and is extremely prone to TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior, all of which is implied to be [[FreudianExcuse caused by his]] DysfunctionalFamily... and those are only the main four characters and their most obvious issues.
* AmbiguousGender: Kaeloo, in-universe, especially in later seasons. She repeatedly eludes the question (or flees when asked during a Truth or dare game). She usually insists she's part of the girls, along with Pretty and Eugly. Bad Kaeloo, on the other hand, is shown hitting on Eugly once... [[note]]in the French dub at least, it could be explained by the fact that the word "frog" has a female gender, while "toad" is male[[/note]], but Kaeloo also [[ForcefulKiss forcibly kissed Mr. Cat]] once. It was eventually confirmed by the official Facebook page that she is a {{Hermaphrodite}}.
* AmbiguousInnocence: Stumpy. As of later episodes, he's been leaning towards the antagonistic side, and showing perverted tendencies too.
* AmbiguouslyBi:
** Stumpy has a girlfriend named [[TheGhost Ursula]] and likes girls in general, but he seemed to have fallen in love with Quack Quack in the episode "Let's Play Hot-Cold" and has admitted to liking crossdressing.
** Mr. Cat, since his crush Kaeloo has an AmbiguousGender.
* AmbiguousSituation: The end of "Let's Play Trap-Trap". Did Quack Quack find the yogurts Kaeloo hid or was he just hallucinating?
* AmusingInjuries: The show basically revolves around this trope.
* AnAssKickingChristmas: Episodes 103 and 104, a MultiPartEpisode, revolve around Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat saving Quack Quack after [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Olaf]] kidnaps him to use his powers in a machine to TakeOverTheWorld.
* AndThisIsFor: A variant is used in one episode. Kaeloo forces Quack Quack to eat "org-yurt", a food which tastes absolutely disgusting but is good for the environment. When Quack Quack wastes it, she angrily transforms and [[ForceFeeding force-feeds]] him org-yurt while yelling for each one.
-->'''Bad Kaeloo''': One org-yurt for the rainforest! One org-yurt for the Siberian tiger! [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers And one org-yurt for butt-naked Indians!]]
* AndYourLittleDogToo: OnceAnEpisode, Mr. Cat tortures Quack Quack in order to make Kaeloo angry.
* AnimalGenderBender: In the pilot, Bad Kaeloo had a vocal sac. This was fixed in later episodes.
* AnimalsNotToScale: The frog is about a head taller than Stumpy the squirrel and slightly taller than Mr. [[SpeciesSurname Cat]]. Quack-Quack, who is a duckling, is in in turn half a head taller than ''Kaeloo''. In the [[http://www.cube-creative.fr/en/projet/356/making-of-kaeloo Making Of]] video, it's shown that Mr. Cat and Stumpy are actually reasonably sized for a domestic cat and a squirrel. To make things weirder, Kaeloo is often described as being ''little''. Pretty, a rabbit, is roughly the same size as the others, Eugly, also a rabbit, is twice the size of the others, and to top it all off, a RunningGag on the show is to note that Olaf, an emperor penguin, is the shortest of them all.
* AnimalStereotypes: [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] is Smileyland's resident jerk who is extremely [[CatsAreSnarkers snarky]], Stumpy the squirrel is hyperactive and [[TheDitz not very bright]], [[CloudCuckooLander Kaeloo]] the frog seems to be in constant bliss and is [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace smotheringly]] "friendly", and Eugly the rabbit is extremely kind. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Quack-Quack, Bad Kaeloo and Pretty as Quack-Quack is a diaper-wearing genius [[SpeechImpairedAnimal incapable of speech]], [[HulkingOut Bad Kaeloo]] is a monstrous [[GenderInvertedTrope she-toad]] with [[DumbMuscle little obvious intelligence]] and a horrific mean streak, and Pretty is an AlphaBitch who is mean to everyone for no reason.
* AnimationBump: The Pilot looks nothing like the rest of the series.
** The animation gets noticeably better from Season 2 onwards.
* {{Animesque}}
* AnnoyingArrows: Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Pretty get impaled by arrows in one episode, but they don't take it as anything more than a minor inconvenience.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification: A slight variant is used in Episode 105. The episode had the main four use a machine to extract the bad thoughts in their head, which are then personified as miniature versions of themselves. For example, one of Mr. Cat's thoughts, which represents greed, is portrayed as a miniature version of himself holding stacks of cash and yelling about how nobody can touch any of it.
* TheAnticipator: Stumpy becomes one in Episode 72 since his SuddenIntelligence allows him to use probability-based math sums to predict the future.
* AntiRoleModel: Episode 55 had [[IdiotHero Kaeloo]], [[TheDitz Stumpy]] and [[DitzyGenius Quack Quack]] tell the viewers about avoiding household hazards by doing the things they said not to onscreen (such as messing with chemicals and sticking their fingers into electric sockets) and suffering.
* AppendageAssimilation: In "Let's Play Peace Man", Quack Quack pulls a new head out of a suitcase and attaches it to his body after Mr. Cat blows off the old one with a bazooka.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat don't believe in magic despite living on a planet that ''runs on it''.
* AreWeThereYet: When Kaeloo forces Stumpy, who has acrophobia, to take a plane trip, he asks her this question ''as soon as the plane takes off''.
* ArgumentumAdNauseam: In one episode, Kaeloo and Mr. Cat get into a debate and Quack Quack must decide who the winner is. Each time Kaeloo says something, Mr. Cat simply replies "Liar". Quack Quack ends up actually taking this into consideration and deciding Mr. Cat to be the winner.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: After Kaeloo teaches Stumpy martial arts, he manages to beat Mr. Cat in a fight and briefly becomes very arrogant. The problem quickly fixes itself when he tries to attack [[TheAce Quack Quack]], who manages to easily defeat him.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** In Episode 12, when the gang are discussing what a TV news channel needs, Mr. Cat suggests "blood, pathos, suffering... and a blonde".
** In Episode 133, Pretty gives Kaeloo the reasons why nobody likes her: [[TalkingToPlants she talks to flowers]], she doesn't earn money, and she wears woollen scarves.
** In the episode "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", Kaeloo gets mad at Stumpy for not packing all the important things they needed for a camping trip: the tent, the sleeping bags, the flashlights, and the book of campfire songs.
* ArtShift:
** In Episode 104, during [[spoiler: Olaf's TroubledBackstoryFlashback]].
** In Episode 105, Kaeloo [[NoFourthWall interrupts the theme song]] and complains about it before making her own 2D intro to the show.
* AscendedToCarnivorism:
** [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty Quack Quack attempts to cannibalize Kaeloo and Stumpy in "Let's Play Trap-Trap".]]
** Stumpy also attempts to eat Kaeloo in Episode 61, and is shown enjoying sausages in Episode 135.
** Eugly's favorite food is mutton.
* AshFace: Quite common, as the cast own weapons and explosives.
* AsideGlance:
** In Episode 105, Mr. Cat has an ImagineSpot of himself being massaged by several clones of Kaeloo. The real Kaeloo, standing next to him, gives an annoyed look to the audience as all she can see is Mr. Cat [[CrushBlush blushing]] and [[PervertedDrooling drooling]].
** Mr. Cat does this in almost any instance where Kaeloo, Stumpy and/or Quack Quack does something he finds stupid.
* AssholeVictim: It's usually hard to feel sorry for Mr. Cat when bad things happen to him.
* AssKicksYou: In Episode 76, Kaeloo gets annoyed with Stumpy and uses her butt to push him into a ditch.
* AssShove: In the episode "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", Kaeloo sets up a fun game of treasure hunt for Stumpy and Quack Quack with the promise of a "surprise" at the end. Mr. Cat changes the clues to make the game so they get injured. At the end, Kaeloo gives them the "surprise" she had promised, and it turns out to be [[spoiler: a photo of herself]]. Stumpy decides to shove it up his ass just to spite her, but she stops him befofe he does.
* AssuranceBackfire: One episode had Kaeloo start crying about how [[HulkingOut she always turns into a monster]]. Mr. Cat, in an attempt to reassure her, says everyone likes her for her "brutal, primitive-minded" self. Cue more tears.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Episode 65 ends with [[spoiler: Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack chasing Mr. Cat with weapons and trying to beat him up.]]
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Mr. Cat and Stumpy temporarily [[MakesSenseInContext turn themselves into giants]] in Episode 102 in order to fight off Bad Kaeloo.
* AttackReflector: In "Let's Play Superpowers", Quack Quack reflects all of Stumpy's attacks with his superpowers.
* AttackTheTail: Happens to Mr. Cat a lot. In one episode, he actually gets a bookshelf dropped on it.
* AttemptedRape: In "Let's Play Baby-Sitting", Kaeloo tries to seduce Mr. Cat in order to get him to have sex with her so that they can have a baby. Mr. Cat ends up getting seduced so well that he actually tries to rape her, but she manages to push him off.
* AttractiveBentGender: In Episode 60, when trying to gain access to a girls-only nightclub, Stumpy [[PaperThinDisguise puts on a wig]] and knocks on the door. The bouncer immediately falls for him.
* AudienceSurrogate: If anything happens that the audience can't understand, Stumpy or Mr. Cat will ask Kaeloo what's going on.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: After his I.Q. is increased in Episode 72, Stumpy manages to analyze everything around him and predict the future.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Mr. Cat explains how this works to Pretty in Episode 60 by showing her what would happen if he married her. It ends with Mr. Cat sitting on the couch watching soccer and yelling at her to get some beer, and in addition she has to share her money with him so he can pay off his loans.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The main four do have their moments.
* AxCrazy: Mr. Cat and, to a lesser extent, Stumpy. On some occasions, Mr. Cat even gets an actual ax.
* BabiesEverAfter: Stumpy tries to invoke this trope by setting Kaeloo and Mr. Cat up on a date so they could fall in love and have babies, [[ShipperWithAnAgenda which he could babysit to make money.]] It fails, because the date turns out to be a complete disaster.
* BabysitterFromHell: Stumpy winds up being one to Quack Quack in "Let's Play Baby-Sitting".
* BabysittingEpisode: "Let's Play Babysitting", where Stumpy tries to babysit Quack Quack, who doesn't want or need a babysitter.
* BabyTalk:
** Mr. Cat uses this when talking to a miniature version of Kaeloo in Episode 105.
** In Episode 93, Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat when they are acting as a firefighter and stranded kitten respectively.
* BackFromTheDead: Occasionally happens when Stumpy dies, for example in "[[spoiler: Let's Play Art Class]]" when Quack Quack [[MakesSenseInContext makes Stumpy a new head]] after [[TooDumbToLive he blows his old one off with a bazooka.]]
* BadassArmFold: Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat do this in the rap music video at the end of "Let's Play Streetball".
* BadImpressionists: In Episode 65, Kaeloo and Quack Quack's impressions of Mr. Cat are terrible. Quack Quack performs a magic trick to transform a sheep into a chainsaw (which is not something Mr. Cat would do), and Kaeloo uses a FingerGun while yelling that she's evil. Averted with Stumpy's impression, which was very accurate (but embarrassing)[[note]]It involved chasing Quack Quack around with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] and then trying to make out with a picture of Kaeloo.[[/note]].
* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Stumpy winds up as one of these in [[BabysittingEpisode "Let's Play Babysitting"]].
* BaitAndSwitch:
** In the {{pilot}} (and its remake, "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light"), Stumpy needs to beat Quack Quack to the finish line. He sees a pair of roller skates and a chainsaw nearby and gets an idea... putting the chainsaw on the ground, sitting on its handle and letting it drag him along the ground, rather than use the skates. [[spoiler: It actually works.]]
** In one episode, [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Olaf]] captures Kaeloo and Mr. Cat and tells them to prepare to suffer... [[HollywoodToneDeaf and starts singing.]]
** In Episode 85, Stumpy and Quack Quack, both having a PottyEmergency, reach the bathroom at the same time. Stumpy says that there is "one final solution" and they both raise their fists... to play RockPaperScissors.
** In the episode "Let's Play Market Vendors", [[spoiler: [[VillainProtagonist Mr. Cat]] and [[AntiHero Stumpy]] rob a supermarket, and Mr. Cat threatens to shoot anyone who moves. Kaeloo starts waving her arms and yelling for help. Gunshots are heard. It's then revealed that Mr. Cat shot [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]], not Kaeloo.]]
** In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat says he has a surprise for Quack Quack, and leaves some yogurt on the table in front of him. Quack Quack reaches out for the yogurt, and then Mr. Cat whacks him on the head with a baseball bat and yells "Surprise!"
* BalletEpisode: Episode 67 is about the cast putting on a ballet for Olga's birthday. [[spoiler: The ballet [[EpicFail fails in the most epic way possible]].]]
* BalloonBelly: Happens to Quack Quack when he eats too much yogurt.
* BallroomBlitz: The Valentine's Day party in [[ValentinesDayEpisode Episode 83]] ends up being a total disaster, mostly thanks to Mr. Cat.
* BaseballEpisode: Episode 95, where Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat play baseball against Quack Quack, Olaf and Serguei.
* BathroomBreakOut: In Episode 53, Stumpy claims that he has to go to the bathroom, and he slips out of the front door to bury evidence of a crime.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: All the characters can breathe in space.
* BatmanGambit:
** In the episode "Let's Play House", Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat are PlayingHouse, with Kaeloo as the mother, Mr. Cat as the father, and the other two as the kids. Mr. Cat, however, just wants to watch sports on TV instead of playing. [[spoiler: First, when Kaeloo annoys the "kids" so much that they decide to run away from home, he does nothing about it and makes them even more annoyed so they leave. Then, after they leave, he says [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar he wants to have sex with Kaeloo]], who gets creeped out and leaves. As soon as all this is over, he turns the TV on to watch some sports. However, his plan fails since by the time he gets rid of them, his game is over.]]
** In Episode 134, there are two consecutive Batman Gambits. Stumpy gets clones of himself and the clones annoy everyone, Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat make a plan to get rid of the clones. They claim that a package came in the mail for the real Stumpy, and only the real Stumpy can get it. All the Stumpy start fighting over who gets it. The original Stumpy opens a PortalDoor to another dimension and lies that Ursula is on the other side. The clones run through and then Stumpy shuts the door, trapping them there forever.
* BatterUp: [[AntiHero Stumpy]], [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] and [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] will not hesitate to use baseball bats on anyone who annoys them.
* BeachEpisode: Episode 80, which had the main four and the bunny twins go to the beach. Stumpy tries to get better at beach volleyball and Pretty tries to seduce Mr. Cat, [[EpicFail with the usual results.]]
* BeardOfEvil: {{Parodied| Trope}} in "Let's Play Spies", where Kaeloo gives Quack Quack (who is playing the villain) a fake beard to make himself look evil.
* BearHug: [[DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength Bad Kaeloo]] gives one to Stumpy, Quack Quack [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther and Mr. Cat]] in "Let's Play Spies". [[spoiler: [[YourHeadAsplode Their heads explode.]]]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** In Episode 77, after [[spoiler: Kaeloo's HeroicSacrifice, a tearful Stumpy wishes he could have sacrificed himself instead. Suddenly, they swap places and he is left on the exploding planet. [[IronButtMonkey He survives, somehow.]]]]
** In [[HalloweenEpisode "Let’s Play Scaredy Cat"]], Mr. Cat says he loves scary stuff. [[spoiler: About an hour later, he’s fighting off hordes of zombies by himself in a dark forest late at night.]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe:
** It's heavily implied that the main reason Stumpy loves Ursula more than anyone else is that she accepts him despite all his flaws, while his other friends constantly make fun of and bully him.
** It's also suggested that one of the main reasons Mr. Cat is relatively nicer to Kaeloo than anyone else and spares her from some of the more vicious things he does is that she shows him a lot of kindness.
* BeehiveHairdo: Both Kaeloo and Quack Quack own a wig with this type of hairstyle. They wear the wigs in some episodes which involve roleplaying games.
* BegoneBribe: Stumpy invokes this in Episode 128 by playing music horribly and threatening to continue playing if Kaeloo doesn't give him some money. Kaeloo initially refuses, but eventually decides to give it to him.
* BehavioralConditioning: When Stumpy and Quack Quack get addicted to [[GRatedDrug carrots which have the same effect as cigars]], [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] attempts to cure them by whacking them on the head with a [[FryingPanOfDoom frying pan]] each time they took a bite out of the carrots. It fails because they're so addicted that they continue to eat the carrots regardless of the pain.
* BelligerentSexualTension:
** The relationship between Kaeloo and Mr. Cat can sometimes veer into this territory.
** Stumpy and Pretty wind up having this in Season 3, [[YourCheatingHeart despite the fact that Stumpy already has a girlfriend.]]
* BerserkButton:
** Kaeloo has several of these: stepping on flowers, hurting Quack Quack, swearing, food wastage, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking being called "Priscilla"]].
** Come between Quack Quack and [[GRatedDrug yogurt]] and [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You. Will. PAY!]]
** Mr. Cat does NOT like it [[HypocriticalHeartwarming when you mess with the rest of the main four]]. Especially [[MoralityPet Kaeloo]]. He also HatesBeingTouched and has threatened to literally murder those who dare to attempt physical contact.
** [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Eugly]] is generally nice, but it's best if you don't hurt Quack Quack.
* BetaCouple: The second season of the show introduced a new character, Eugly, who became Quack Quack's girlfriend almost instantly. Kaeloo and Mr. Cat, on the other hand, have an extremely complicated relationship with each other, though WordOfGod has suggested that they will be an OfficialCouple for sure by the end of the series.
* BeTheBall: A few episodes end with Bad Kaeloo [[InvoluntaryShapeshifter beating Mr. Cat into the shape of a ball]] and then using him to play soccer, tennis, etc.
** Bad Kaeloo does this to Quack Quack in Episode 115 and plays tennis with him. Mr. Cat is the racket.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: In Episode 77, Stumpy decides to hang himself rather than get killed as the planet is destroyed. [[BungledSuicide He fails]], [[RunningGag as usual]].
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Given the fact that Kaeloo can [[HulkingOut turn into a huge monster when angered]]...
* BewareTheSillyOnes: At the end of Episode 105, [[spoiler: Stumpy manages to almost erase the rest of the cast from existence, and then even though he spares them, he tricks them into thinking they've been forgiven and then takes over the animation studio making the show.]]
* BeyondTheImpossible: A lot of people Mr. Cat knows are capable of doing insane things, like a guy who somehow swallowed 12 miles of sausage without swallowing and a guy who stuffs chickpeas with gloves.
* BeYourself: In Episode 133, Kaeloo is not invited to a party everyone else was invited to because they all thought she was weird. [[OutOfCharacterMoment Mr. Cat tells her not to worry about being labeled and tells her that all she needs to do is be herself]], and she goes back to the party and spreads the same message to everyone else. The episode ends with everyone, Kaeloo included, throwing another party and "being themselves" there.
* BigBallOfViolence: Any time a fight happens that's not very important to the plot, one of these is used instead of the fight being shown in detail.
* BigBrotherBully: The main reason Mr. Cat ran away from home was that he suffered constant abuse from his two older brothers, who were jealous of him for [[ParentalFavoritism being their mother's favorite child]].
* BigBrotherInstinct: Stumpy's sister may or may not exist[[note]]WordOfGod confirms that he has 36, actually[[/note]], but he does not like hearing her be insulted.
* BigRedButton: [[spoiler: Olaf's lair has one of these on the control panel, which [[TheDitz Stumpy]] pushes.]]
* BigWordShout: OnceAnEpisode, "MISTER CAAAAAT!" (or occasionally, "STUMPYYYYYYYY!").
* BillBillJunkBill: A variant happens in the episode "Let's Play Catch the Mailman". Stumpy receives a huge stack of mail, and everything he picks up is either a bill or an advertisement until he reaches the end of the stack and finds an actual letter.
* BillionsOfButtons: [[spoiler: The control panel for the machines in Olaf's lair. Since Stumpy doesn't know which one, he presses all of them - including the BigRedButton which will destroy the building.]]
* BirdsOfAFeather: [[OfficialCouple Quack Quack and Eugly.]] They're both TheUnintelligible, they're both much nicer than everybody else on the show and they both get horribly abused by [[WithFriendsLikeThese the rest of the cast.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Kaeloo can sometimes come off as one of these, most notably in "[[spoiler: [[CourtroomEpisode Let's Play Courtroom Drama]]]]". While she deliberately tries her hardest to appear "nice", when she gets annoyed, she slips up and ends up doing things like insulting Stumpy for his stupidity or yelling at people who don't deserve it. Sometimes, it's even taken to the point where Mr. Cat is legitimately nicer than Kaeloo.
* BizarroUniverse: The episode "Let's Play Astronauts" had the main four go to an alternate universe through a black hole in space. There, Kaeloo's [[HulkingOut transformation]] works in reverse, [[TheWoobie Quack Quack]] and [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] (known as Meow Meow and Mr. Duck) had each other's personalities and traits, and [[TheDitz Stumpy]] was a genius who loved science and hated comic books. It turns out that [[spoiler: Stumpy [[AllJustADream dreamed this all up]].]]
* BlackComedy: Used quite a lot.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy:
** PlayedForLaughs in "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel", where Kaeloo puts in a pair of fully black contact lenses and can't see anything because of them.
** Played completely straight when she undergoes SanitySlippage in [[spoiler: Episode 100]].
* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: Happens whenever Mr. Cat throws a knife, no matter how far the target is. If it hits a vertical surface (or a character), it hits at exactly 90 degrees. If it hits a horizontal one like the ground, it sticks either at 90 or 45 degrees.
* BlahBlahBlah:
** In "Let's Play House", Stumpy hears Kaeloo's speech like this.
** Stumpy himself uses this while singing the Happy Birthday song in one episode.
* BlandNameProduct:
** [[Website/{{Facebook}} Fakebook]], the characters' favorite social network.
** [=McDaube=], a TakeThat at UsefulNotes/McDonalds.
** Gogol Maps, a parody of Google Maps[[note]]"Gogol" is French for "dummy"[[/note]].
** The popular game "Me-Me-Nopoly" is clearly a parody of TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}.
* BlatantLies: Half the words that come out of Mr. Cat's mouth fit this trope. For example, when Kaeloo sees him holding a mallet:
-->'''Kaeloo''': What's that in your hand?\\
'''Mr. Cat''': It's a wart. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I should really see a skin doctor.]]
* BlindShoulderToss: Stumpy does this once with a lighter. Some random guy from offscreen yells that [[ManOnFire he is on fire.]]
* BloodlessCarnage: Even if there are knives and chainsaws involved, not a single drop of blood is shed onscreen.
* BluntYes: In "Let's Play Teachers", of the "Blunt No" variant:
-->'''Stumpy''': Have you been listening to what I said here or what?!\\
'''Kaeloo''': No.
* BodyPocket: In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Kaeloo turns her "pockets" inside out to prove to Mr. Cat that she really doesn't have money.
* BodySled: Kaeloo uses Quack Quack as a sled in Episode 105.
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Parodied in Episode 75. When Quack Quack leaves Smileyland, Mr. Cat decides to attack Stumpy instead. The moment he pulls out a chainsaw, he gets struck by lightning. Stumpy joyfully exclaims "God exists!" and then he is also struck by lightning and changes his mind.
* BookBurning:
** Bad Kaeloo does this to a pile of dirty magazines and comic books in Episode 4.
** In "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", Mr. Cat, who is too lazy to go look for actual firewood, burns Stumpy's comic books to start a campfire.
* BoringInsult: Kaeloo is on the receiving end of this in a letter from someone claiming to be a fan of the show in "Let's Play Catch the Mailman". [[spoiler: It turns out that the letter was written by [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]].]]
* BornUnlucky: For Stumpy, every day is a bad day.
* BorrowedCatchphrase:
** In "Let's Play Golf", Kaeloo borrows one of Stumpy's myriad catchphrases:
-->'''Kaeloo''':[[HypocriticalHumor Are you stupid or what?!]]
** Mr. Cat uses Pretty's catchphrase when greeting Stumpy and Quack Quack in Episode 91.
* BottomlessPit: In an episode where Kaeloo convinces the rest of the main four to play a game where YourMindMakesItReal, Mr. Cat pushes Quack Quack on the ground and says it's a bottomless pit. It affects Quack Quack as though it really was a bottomless pit. Somehow, despite it being a ''bottomless'' pit, it was full of aligators.
* BrandX: The soda brand the cast drink is called "Slurp".
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Done indirectly in "Let's Play Market Vendors" when Kaeloo is selling apples:
-->'''Quack Quack''': [[TheUnintelligible Quack.]]\\
'''Kaeloo''': I'm sorry, sir, we don't sell yogurt. We only sell apples!\\
'''Quack Quack''': Quack.\\
'''Kaeloo''': No, not even apple yogurt.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: In "Let's Play Grown-Ups", Kaeloo tells the others about things grown-ups have to deal with: taxes, bills, and divorces.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Mr. Cat frequently speaks to the audience. The other characters also often refer to the fact that they are in a cartoon, and reference the script, animation quality and other things.
* BreakTheHaughty:
** Happens to RichBitch Pretty in many episodes, usually due to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat teaming up to set up a scenario for it to occur.
** In Episode 26, Kaeloo herself gets a taste of this. She receives a letter in the mail, and just before she opens it, Stumpy asks what it is. Kaeloo says that it's probably a letter from an admirer or fan of the show, and explains to Stumpy in a condescending tone of voice that the reason she gets one and he doesn't is that she's the main character of the show and [[ProtagonistTitle the show is named after her.]] She then proceeds to open the letter, and it turns out to be a hate letter criticizing her for being "boring". And to rub salt in the wound, the letter also says that Stumpy (and the rest of the cast) is better than her.
* BreathWeapon: Bad Kaeloo can send people flying in the air by breathing out blasts of air.
* BrickJoke:
** At the start of the theme song, Mr. Cat crushes a flower with a mallet causing Kaeloo to get angry. At the end of the song, she finds him and beats him up for it.
** In the middle of the episode "Let's Play Golf", Kaeloo mentions something about pennyloafers coming back in style. At the end of the episode, Mr. Cat asks her if pennyloafers are really coming back in style.
** Near the beginning of the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", during a game of Trap-Trap, Mr. Cat asks if he can team up with Kaeloo for the game. Kaeloo happily hugs him and tells him it was very nice of him to want her on his team. Later in the episode, Kaeloo gets angry at Mr. Cat and is about to beat him up as usual, and he asks her if she can hug him again.
** In Episode 107, [[TheDitz Stumpy]] and [[DitzyGenius Quack Quack]] are [[ItMakesSenseInContext trying to break into a bank to get their stuff back]] and start packing the things they will need, Stumpy packs a pair of swim trunks and says they're "for the alibi". [[spoiler: When they get caught later in the episode, Stumpy holds up the swim trunks and claims that he'd lost it inside the bank and just found it. [[RealityEnsues Nobody believes them and they get arrested.]]]]
** In "Let's Play Ecologists", at the beginning, Kaeloo tries teaching Stumpy how to recycle stuff, and Stumpy remarks "This recycling business is a nightmare!" When things descend into chaos as a result of Kaeloo taking the GreenAesop too far, Stumpy tells Mr. Cat "I told you recycling was a nightmare!"
* BriefAccentImitation:
** Mr. Cat does a horrible attempt at speaking with an Italian accent in "[[CircusEpisode Let's Play Circuses]]". When asked why, he admits that he has no idea.
** Kaeloo does an equally horrible job at speaking with a British accent in "Let's Play Spies".
* BrokeEpisode: The trope is PlayedforLaughs in Episode 138, where Stumpy is broke and needs to raise money to buy a comic book. Since he's just a kid, he doesn't need to worry about food or shelter.
* BrownNote: Mr. Cat apparently came up with a story that is so disgusting that anyone who hears it [[spoiler: except Mr. Cat himself and Stumpy]] will immediately throw up.
* BrutalHonesty:
** Pretty, being the AlphaBitch, has no qualms with telling people to their faces what is wrong with them.
** Kaeloo, to the extent that Mr. Cat has to give her lessons on how to tell lies so she doesn't lose all her friends in Episode 136. For example, she tells Stumpy that a drawing he made is ugly, and when Pretty shows Kaeloo a new bag she bought, Kaeloo tells her she hates the bag.
* BubblegumPopping: Happens to Kaeloo in the BaseballEpisode.
* BubblePipe: Stumpy uses one in Episode 71 when acting as a detective.
* BullyingADragon: Stumpy, Mr. Cat and Pretty anger Kaeloo all the time despite the fact that they are fully aware that she can [[HulkingOut transform into a giant monster]] who can beat them all up.
* BungledSuicide: A RunningGag on the show is to have this happen to [[CosmicPlaything Stumpy]].
* BunnyEarsPicturePrank: In [[BaseballEpisode Episode 95]], when both the baseball teams get their pictures taken, Kaeloo does this to Stumpy (who is on her team).
* BurningRubber:
** In "Let's Play at Reading Books", Quack Quack does this with a motorized kick-scooter.
** In Episode 74, Mr. Cat and Stumpy kick a soccer ball in the same direction at the same time with a lot of force, causing the ball to go super fast and leave a trail of flames behind it. [[EpicFail It goes just to the side of the goal.]]
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Whenever it goes pitch dark, the only things visible are eyes and teeth.
* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: Kaeloo tells the audience that she has to pee in one episode before walking offscreen.
* CameFromTheSky: The episode "Let's Play the Thing From Outer Space" involved the main four finding an object from space which fell out of the sky.
* CameraAbuse:
** At the end of Episode 74, Mr. Cat kicks Quack Quack towards the camera and this ends the episode.
** At Stumpy's request, Mr. Cat shoots the camera out with a bazooka in Episode 139 in order to stop the annoying {{narrator}}, who is also the one filming the episode.
* CampGay: For the first ten episodes of the English dub, Kaeloo was accidentally [[ShesAManInJapan dubbed as a male]]. Her personality fits this trope very well.
* CampingEpisode: "Let's Play Treasure Hunt", where the main four go camping and play a game of treasure hunt. The trip is disastrous; [[SkewedPriorities Stumpy unpacked all their supplies so he would have room for all his comic books]], and Mr. Cat ruins the game of treasure hunt as well.
* TheCanKickedHim:
** When Stumpy tries to clean a toilet in one episode, a tentacle monster emerges from it and attacks him.
** When the gang are playing TabletopGame/{{Cluedo}}, Stumpy theorizes that Lady Carrot (Pretty) was murdered when someone dropped a toilet on her head.
* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: Mr. Cat says he finds Kaeloo annoying and talkative, and tells her to leave (or at least stop talking), yet [[spoiler: [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther he tried his best to stop her from leaving Smileyland in "[[CourtroomEpisode Let's Play Courtroom Drama]]", even if doing so meant confessing to a crime he had previously claimed to be innocent of]].]]
* CaptainObvious: In one episode where Kaeloo, Mr. Cat and the rest of the cast are sitting in a library:
-->'''Kaeloo''': This is a library.\\
'''[[CatsAreSnarkers Mr. Cat]] (deadpan)''': [[DeadpanSnarker I hadn't noticed.]]
* CarnivoreConfusion: Mr. Cat has expressed a desire to eat Stumpy and Quack Quack on more than one occasion.
* CargoShip: In-universe, Olaf is "married" to an ice cube.
* CassandraTruth: Stumpy's claims of [[spoiler: being abducted by aliens]] are true, but nobody believes him.
* CasualDangerDialog: The main four do this a lot, since they are put in danger quite often.
* CatchPhrase:
** Stumpy has many, the most common being "That's nuts!", "Cooooool!", and "I hate your guts!". There's also his MadLibsCatchphrase, "Are you [adjective] or what?"
** Whenever somebody states a fact to Mr. Cat that he finds unbelievable or annoying, he'll respond with "What do you mean, [insert statement here]?!"
* CatsAreMean: Played straight with Mr. Cat and his family, but averted with Ursula.
* CatsAreSuperior: Mr. Cat is really the only smart person on the show; the other "smart" characters on the show are {{Ditzy Genius}}es.
* CatsHateWater: Averted. Mr. Cat seems to find the idea of a bath to be relaxing.
* CatsHaveNineLives: This statement apparently holds true for Mr. Cat.
* CerebusCallBack: Episode 105 shows [[ContinuityCavalcade flashbacks to several episodes]] where [[spoiler: [[TheChewToy Stumpy]] was abused or made fun of by his friends. Those episodes are funny to watch by themselves, but not when you see the poor kid remembering them with tears in his eyes and the other three realizing just how cruel they've been.]]
* ChairReveal: Olaf does this when revealing to Quack Quack that he was the one who kidnapped him in Episode 103. Since the chair is much larger than Olaf, he fails to impress. Especially when he tries getting down.
* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: In "Let's Play Baby-Sitting", Mr. Cat reads random articles from the newspaper to Kaeloo when she asks him if they can talk (the topic of the conversation being himself).
* CharacterBlog: The show's official Facebook page, where Kaeloo, and sometimes the other characters, regularly post stuff.
* CharacterTic: Stumpy has a Tourette's style tic, where his neck spasms while he yells gibberish which sounds like "SKBLBLBL!".
* CharacterTitle: Named after Kaeloo, the show's protagonist.
* CheatersNeverProsper: In some episodes, like "Let's Play Golf", people who cheat get punished. Other episodes, not so much.
* ChekhovsGun:
** In one episode, the cast read a book series parodying Literature/HarryPotter, and Quack Quack goes into TroubledFetalPosition any time the main character's parents' death is mentioned[[note]]Because his own parents were killed when he was a baby[[/note]]. Later in the episode, Kaeloo transforms and needs to beat up Mr. Cat, but he makes himself look just like Quack Quack using a magic spell so she won't know who to beat up. She mentions the parents' death and the real Quack Quack assumes TroubledFetalPosition.
** In the HalloweenEpisode, Mr. Cat comes up with a terrifying and disgusting scary story, but circumstances keep preventing him from telling it. By the end of the episode, there's a bunch of zombies who have risen from the grave, Kaeloo and Quack Quack have been turned into zombies, and Stumpy is being absolutely no help whatsoever. To solve the problem, Mr. Cat tells them his story as they surround him. The story[[note]]Which is told only to the characters and not the viewers[[/note]] is apparently so disgusting that everyone throws up. Kaeloo and Quack Quack revert back to normal and the other zombies die.
* ChessWithDeath: Parodied in Episode 92, when Stumpy challenges the GrimReaper to a rap battle. It turns out that the Reaper is there for [[spoiler: [[MakesSenseInContext Adele the flower]]]]'s soul, not Stumpy's, so he blatantly ignores Stumpy.
* ChewbaccaDefense: In one episode where Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are having a debate where Quack Quack must decide the winner, Mr. Cat's only "argument" is to repeatedly Kaeloo a liar, which convinces Quack Quack to choose Mr. Cat. Kaeloo even lampshades the fact that his victory made absolutely no sense and he never said anything in defense of the subject he was arguing about.
* ChippendalesDancers: In an episode parodying weddings and bachelor parties, Kaeloo, Pretty and Eugly go to a bachelorette party where Chippendales Dancers are present. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar They then rush onstage to grope them offscreen.]]
* ChristmasEpisode: Episode 69, Episodes 103 and 104 (MultiPartEpisode), and Episode 105.
* CircusEpisode: The episode "Let's Play Circuses" had the gang set up their own circus.
* ClarkKenting: Mr. Cat does this in [[CourtroomEpisode "Let's Play Courtroom Drama"]] to become his own lawyer.
* ClusterBleepBomb: Mr. Cat drops one in "Let's Play Peace, Man!". While the audience hears it like it's been bleeped out, Kaeloo and Quack Quack's horrified reactions suggest that they heard every word he said.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Stumpy has collections of normal things like comic books and stamps, and some unusual things as well. In one episode, Mr. Cat even manages to trick Stumpy into buying a toilet by claiming that Stumpy has a toilet collection he could add it to. Stumpy, being a complete idiot, believes this and starts a toilet collection.
* ComedicSociopathy: Everyone displays signs of this except Quack Quack and Eugly.
* ComedicSpanking:
** Three clones of Bad Kaeloo do this to three clones of Stumpy at the end of Episode 13 as a punishment for mooning them.
** At the end of [[CourtroomEpisode Episode 35]], [[spoiler: Bad Kaeloo]] does this to [[spoiler: Mr. Cat]] offscreen.
* CometOfDoom: Smileyland almost gets hit by one in [[spoiler: "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel"]], and actually ''does'' get hit by one in [[spoiler: Episode 77]].
* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** As part of an Overly Long Gag in the episode "Let's Play Golf". Kaeloo attempts to explain the rules of golf to Stumpy and Quack Quack. First, she says that the object of the game is to put the ball in the hole. Stumpy picks up the ball, runs to the hole and puts it in. Kaeloo then tells him that he was supposed to put it in with the club, so he takes the club and drops it down the hole with the ball. Kaeloo tells him that he was supposed to hit the ball with the club, so he goes to the hole with the ball in it and starts violently shoving the club down the hole to "hit" the ball.
** In the episode "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light", when Quack Quack is having trouble opening a yogurt container, Stumpy suggests using a chainsaw. Kaeloo tells him that chainsaws are for cutting trees, and then she proceeds to open the yogurt in a strategic manner and tell Stumpy to "use his head". Stumpy misunderstands this as "use your head to cut trees", so he runs headlong into a tree.
** In Episode 93, when Stumpy and Quack Quack are undergoing training to become firefighters, one of the exercises involves rescuing Mr. Cat from the second floor of a building with fake flames. Stumpy tries using Quack Quack as a battering ram to open the building's door, so Kaeloo tells them to use the ladder to get to the window where Mr. Cat is standing. They climb the ladder, and Stumpy tries using Quack Quack as a battering ram to break the window sill while Mr. Cat gives the audience an AsideGlance.
* ComicalNapDrool: Nearly everyone does this when they fall asleep.
* ComicalOverreacting:
** Stumpy's reaction to anything not worth caring about. In the event he ''should'' be overreacting, he stays perfectly calm.
** [[{{Narcissist}} Mr. Cat's]] reaction to losing a whisker:
-->'''Mr. Cat''': AAAAAH! OH NO! I'm deformed!
* CompanionCube: Olga, [[LiteralMetaphor literally]].
* CompellingVoice: Quack Quack develops one in Episode 97 after accidentally swallowing a spoon. It works on everyone except Mr. Cat.
* ContinuityCavalcade: In Episode 105, Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat see a bunch of screens depicting almost every time in the show so far where [[spoiler: they abused or made fun of [[TheChewToy Stumpy]]]].
* ContinuityNod: Despite the huge amount of NegativeContinuity, there is some continuity. In some episodes, the characters even bring in televisions and play clips from other episodes.
* ContrivedClumsiness: In "Let's Play Musical Chairs", Stumpy sticks out a leg and trips Kaeloo.
* CoolCar: The main four own several of these.
* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat's friendship is sometimes portrayed as this in Season 3, with Mr. Cat being the "cool kid" who everyone likes and Kaeloo being the "loser". Mr. Cat occasionally gives Kaeloo advice regarding her social life, like how not to lose her friends, in episodes like these.
* CosmicPlaything: Episode 72 reveals that Stumpy is ''literally'' a cosmic plaything.
* {{Cosplay}}: Several episodes have Stumpy cosplay as comic book hero Mr. Coolskin.
* CounterZany: [[spoiler: How Kaeloo gets Mr. Cat to admit to being guilty]] in "Let's Play Courtroom Drama".
* CountingSheep: Parodied during a math lesson when [[BookDumb Stumpy]] tries to prove that he's good at math.
-->'''Stumpy''': One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, four sheep...\\
''Stumpy falls asleep.''
* CourtroomEpisode:
** The episode "Let's Play Courtroom Drama", where Mr. Cat is taken to court for attacking Quack Quack with a chainsaw. Kaeloo acts as Quack Quack's lawyer, and Stumpy is the judge. [[spoiler: [[BitchInSheepsClothing Kaeloo]] pulls off a WoundedGazelleGambit to get Mr. Cat to confess that it was him.]]
** Episode 113 has Kaeloo take Stumpy to court for "mistreating" his objects, with Quack Quack as the judge and Mr. Cat as Stumpy's lawyer. [[spoiler: Mr. Cat [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hoists Kaeloo by her own petard]] and Stumpy winds up winning.]]
* CoveredInGunge: In "Let's Play Market Vendors", Quack Quack blows a huge bubble out of yogurt, which pops and leaves Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat covered in yogurt.
* CovertPervert: Kaeloo tries to project herself as pure and innocent, but also shows a more perverted side, like when she groped ChippendalesDancers at a bachelorette party or her excited reaction to seeing... certain parts of Mr. Cat's anatomy in "Let's Play at Reading Books".
* CowboyEpisode: "Let's Play Cowboys and Indians" and Episode 88.
* CowerPower: When the characters are in danger, like being attacked by zombies or ExploringTheEvilLair, Kaeloo winds up hiding behind Mr. Cat.
* CrackOhMyBack: In Episode 101, [[ButtMonkey Stumpy]] tries to lift a dumbbell off the ground. All he succeeds in doing is cracking his back.
* CraniumChase: Happens to Quack Quack quite often.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Smileyland. At first glance, it seems like a nice place; there's singing, dancing flowers, you can control the weather and other things, the place is magic and you can have almost anything by wishing for it. On the other hand, its inhabitants are insane, it's a WorldOfJerkass and there's an apparent ongoing economic crisis.
* CrazyPrepared: In Episode 60, the gang are playing "wedding". Pretty proclaims herself as the bride, and when Kaeloo tries to stop her since the groom is Quack Quack, and therefore the bride should be Eugly, Pretty informs her that she ''already'' bought a wedding dress and made sure she lost enough weight to be able to fit into it.
* {{Crossdresser}}: Stumpy dresses like a girl in several episodes and has admitted to liking it.
* CrossPoppingVeins: When the characters are angry, this may happen to them, since the show has {{animesque}} elements in it.
* CruelToBeKind: Parodied. One episode had Mr. Cat go around doing horrible things to Stumpy and Quack Quack, and claims that he is "being cruel to be kind" despite literally not having any reason to do so.
* CrushFilter: When someone looks at their crush, they will see him/her in a pink, fluffy cloud-filled background.
* CryCute: Depending on the episode, Kaeloo's crying can either be this or InelegantBlubbering.
* CryLaughing: Kaeloo does this in [[BalletEpisode Episode 67]] when she realizes that [[MakesSenseInContext Eugly is now the lead ballerina in her dance performance]].
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Stumpy turns out to be right about [[spoiler: Smileyland's sheep being aliens]]. [[CassandraTruth Not that anyone else believes him.]]
* CurseCutShort: When Mr. Cat is singing a rap song with words ending in "uck":
-->'''Mr. Cat''':[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar I really couldn't give a f-]]\\
'''Kaeloo''': MISTER CAAAAAAT!
* CursedWithAwesome: Quack Quack is indestructible and can survive any injury, but this also results in Mr. Cat taking all his anger out on him in extremely violent ways since he can't actually be killed.
* CuteAndPsycho: Kaeloo is a cute frog who loses her sanity semi-often.
* CuteLittleFangs: Mr. Cat has these, being a cat.
* CutenessProximity: Mr. Cat ([[OutOfCharacterMoment of all people]]) gets this in Episode 105 when he sees miniature versions of Kaeloo.
* CuttingTheKnot: Mr. Cat bypasses the barrier in Episode 105 by blasting it open with a bazooka.
* DancePartyEnding: Happens in a Season 3 episode, to the disappointment of Mr. Cat and Stumpy, who were expecting a fight scene ending.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Heavily implied with Mr. Cat, but for now most of it is a NoodleIncident.
** Olaf also has one: [[spoiler: he was [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer exiled by other penguins]] for [[CargoShip marrying an ice cube]]. Said ice cube then started to melt.]]
** Quack Quack’s is that his parents were killed before his egg even hatched, and he was subsequently found and experimented on by scientists.
* DateRapeAverted: In "Let's Play Babysitting", Kaeloo and Mr. Cat go on a date. He gets a little carried away and tries to force himself onto her, but she [[HulkingOut transforms]] and beats him up.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Some of the characters have died several times[[note]]Not just [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]][[/note]], only to be fine by the time the next episode rolls around. In fact, in Episode 58, Mr. Cat [[SuicideAsComedy hangs himself]], only to be fine by the very next scene.
* DeathSeeker: Stumpy becomes one in Episode 92, since he wants to know what Heaven is like.
* DealWithTheDevil: Stumpy makes one in "[[spoiler: Let's Play Figurines]]" to [[spoiler: get voodoo powers and become a witch doctor]] and in Episode 89 to get the talent to write a song for Ursula.
* DeconstructiveParody: Of children's shows. It has the main character, Kaeloo, behave like a children's show character (by doing things like putting emphasis on being nice, make believe, etc.), and everyone else act like normal people would around such a person (one episode had Mr. Cat go so far as to ask whether she smoked weed).
* DeceptivelyHumanRobot: A variant with a "Deceptively Sheep Robot" which [[GadgeteerGenius Mr. Cat]] built to infiltrate a group of sheep. The robot sheep looks almost exactly like a real sheep when stationary, but bleats in a robotic voice and moves in a very robotic manner. Not that anybody realized it, since they're all idiots.
* DelayedReaction:
** In Episode 81, [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] offers to demonstrate the ancient Egyptian technique of removing the brain through the nostrils on [[TheDitz Stumpy]], but then says he can't because Stumpy probably doesn't have a brain for him to remove. Stumpy concurs that he must be right, and Mr. Cat gets up and leaves. After he leaves, Stumpy finally realizes that he was insulting him.
** In another episode, Stumpy is granted SuddenIntelligence and starts inventing stuff. Soon, he decides to make a bomb, and [[InadvertentEntranceCue as soon as he mentions it]], [[HarmlessVillain Olaf]] shows up and demands that Stumpy give him the bomb. Stumpy asks him to pay for it, and Olaf starts looking through a stack of money before [[GenreSavvy realizing that]] Stumpy is supposed to be TheDitz and asking why he is being so smart.
** In Episode 65, Kaeloo gets angry at Mr. Cat and starts to look for him. In this episode, everybody has {{Full Body Disguise}}s of everyone else, so Mr. Cat dresses as Pretty, tells Kaeloo that he went the other way and walks off. Kaeloo thanks him, but only after he's gone does she realize that the voice she heard was clearly Mr. Cat's.
** In the episode "Let's Play Tennis", Stumpy is sitting in a tennis umpire chair. It takes him several minutes until he realizes that he's very high up... and a few more seconds to remember that he has acrophobia.
* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Mr. Cat puts on this ruse sometimes. Whether it works or not depends on the episode.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: At the beginning of "Let's Play Detectives", everything is black and white except for the red lipstick ans high heels Stumpy is wearing (he's dressed as a girl).
* DemonicPossession: In Episode 37 and Episode 145, Quack Quack gets possessed, the first time by ghosts and the second time by a demon.
* DependingOnTheWriter:
** Kaeloo can be a NiceGirl or a ManipulativeBitch who tries to project herself as pure and kind but is anything but. Her intelligence varies between episodes as well, ranging from extremely stupid and naïve to somewhat intelligent.
** Stumpy is either a complete {{jerkass}} or is friendly but not very bright.
** Quack Quack is either the OnlySaneMan or a complete idiot. Also, whether or not he forgives Mr. Cat for constantly abusing him depends largely on the episode they're in.
** Mr. Cat can be a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, JerkWithAHeartOfJerk, or a JerkassWoobie. Also, he alternates between being extremely nice to Kaeloo and treating her the same way he treats everyone else.
** Pretty can either treat Kaeloo like a good friend or mercilessly bully her (the latter is used much more often).
* TheDiaperChange: In "Let's Play Babysitting", Stumpy says he has to change Quack Quack's diaper in order to be done with his babysitting practice. Quack Quack initially refuses, but he winds up feeling so sorry for Stumpy that he relents and allows him to do it. [[spoiler: Stumpy being [[TheDitz Stumpy]], he winds up putting the diaper on Quack Quack's head.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough:
** In Episode 93, Quack Quack gets stuck inside a burning building, and Stumpy rushes into the building to save him. By the time he reaches Quack Quack, the flames have spread and both of them are stuck inside together. What makes this especially ridiculous was that they were undergoing firefighter training, and had a fire engine right outside with a hose and ladder which Stumpy could have used.
** In Episode 134, when Stumpy gets several clones of himself which annoy everyone else, Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat hatch a plan where they claim that Stumpy got a package in the mail from Ursula and only the real Stumpy can sign it, so the original will get rid of the clones. The plan works, but they then realize that they forgot what would happen once Stumpy asked for the package. At the end of the episode, Stumpy punishes Kaeloo and Mr. Cat for tricking him, [[KarmaHoudini though Quack Quack gets away.]]
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Occasionally, Mr. Cat will attempt to [[FoeYay flirt with Bad Kaeloo when she appears]]. Of course, asking to be kissed, cuddled or fed by an angry monster is ''not'' a good idea.
* DisasterDominoes:
** In "Let's Play Bye Bye, Yoghurt", Stumpy {{invoke|d trope}}s this trope when he needs to be put in danger by throwing a pebble and saying [[BornUnlucky his luck]] should take care of the rest. Sure enough, a chain reaction takes place and he is almost crushed to death by a giant boulder.
** It happens again in Episode 92, where a yogurt container rolls into an apple tree causing an apple to fall an so on... this eventually causes a barrage of sharp weapons to fly towards Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat, almost killing them.
* DisembodiedEyebrows: Everyone has these.
* DisguisedInDrag: Stumpy does this in Episode 60 to gain access to a girls-only nightclub.
* DisproportionateRetribution:
* Mr. Cat does this all the time. If somebody does something that even ''slightly'' annoys him, he'll pull out a weapon and threaten to use it on them.
** In the episode "Let's Play Ecologists", when the gang finds out that Quack Quack has been eating yogurt from non-environment friendly containers, Mr. Cat suggests tying him up in a sack full of rats and setting it on fire.
** In Episode 55, Olaf blows a hairdryer in Kaeloo's eyes, causing her to scream in pain. Mr. Cat decides to avenge Kaeloo... by trying to shoot Olaf with a bazooka.
** In Episode 82, [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] starts her own fashion line and refuses to accept Kaeloo as a model, and she [[BrutalHonesty insults the way she looks]]. Kaeloo's response? [[spoiler: Teaming up with Mr. Cat and getting Pretty humiliated on the news]].
** Downplayed in Episode 134. When Stumpy asks Mr. Cat to play with him, Mr. Cat shoots him in the face with a bazooka, with all the hurt he really gets being AshFace. Later in the episode, Stumpy clones himself. He and the clones destroy Mr. Cat's car by crashing a bunch of other cars into it (while he's inside the car), drop a fridge on his head, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and ruin his vacation to the beach]].
** In Episode 139, Olaf breaks Kaeloo's headphones. Kaeloo responds by HulkingOut, shoving Olaf inside his own robot and throwing him into space.
* DissonantSerenity: Kaeloo is almost always in constant bliss, completely unaware of the chaos around her.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Invoked by Stumpy's baseball team[[note]]consisting of Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat [[/note]] in the BaseballEpisode, where they get Eugly to stand next to the baseball field when Quack Quack (who is playing for the opposite team) is playing. Quack Quack gets distracted and misses the ball each time.
* DoAnythingRobot: Olaf's robot, Serguei.
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Bad Kaeloo has SuperStrength, but she often forgets about it. In "Let's Play Spies", [[spoiler: she gives a BearHug to Stumpy, Quack Quack [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther and Mr. Cat]]. [[YourHeadAsplode Their heads explode]].]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** In Episode 108, Stumpy the squirrel decides that he wants to become a cat, and he says he's a "cat trapped in a squirrel's body" and then tries to get surgery to turn himself into a cat.
** In "Let's Play the Thing from Outer Space", the argument the main four have about keeping the titular thing from outer space in Smileyland or launching it back into space sounds like people in a country arguing about deporting immigrants.
* DontGoIntoTheWoods: Kaeloo warns Stumpy not to go into the forest in "Let's Play Scaredy Cat", a HalloweenEpisode. Stumpy ignores her, finds a cemetery which for whatever reason was inside the forest, and ends up accidentally causing a ZombieApocalypse by raising the dead.
* DontTouchItYouIdiot: In Episode 104, Olaf urges Stumpy not to touch [[spoiler: the BigRedButton]]. Naturally, Stumpy touches it anyway. [[spoiler: The building blows up, but everyone escapes [[LaserGuidedKarma except Olaf]].]]
* TheDoorSlamsYou: In one episode, Kaeloo knocks on the door and Pretty goes up to answer it. [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender Before she can open the door, Kaeloo opens it from the outside, slamming it into Pretty's face.]]
* DopeSlap: [[{{Jerkass}} Pretty]] often does this to [[TheDitz Stumpy]] when he does something stupid.
* DoppelgangerAttack:
** Stumpy does this in "Let's Play Super-Powers", but Quack Quack destroys the clones.
** Stumpy does it again in [[spoiler: Episode 63, when fighting Mr. Cat]]. This time, it actually works.
* DoubleEntendre: In one episode, Stumpy claims to have been abducted by aliens who then proceeded to examine his nuts. He's talking about acorns, but Kaeloo's reaction makes it clear she thought [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar he was talking about the other kind of "nuts".]]
* DraggedIntoDrag: Stumpy is often forced to dress up as a girl to play a female role in a game while the others play males. He even {{lampshade| hanging}}s the fact that Kaeloo is female ([[{{Hermaphrodite}} sort of]]), and could play these roles herself.
* DraggedOffToHell: Happens to Quack Quack in [[spoiler: "Let's Play Hopscotch"]], thanks to [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]].
* TheDreadedPretendTeaParty: Mr. Cat and Stumpy make it very clear that they don't want to be at Kaeloo's tea party in "Let's Play Tea Party". Things get even worse when they realize that there's no actual food at the party, and they're supposed to imagine the food.
* DrivenToMadness: Happens to poor Kaeloo a lot, with Mr. Cat and Stumpy being the usual culprits. The ResetButton ensures that she's fine by the next episode.
* DrivenToSuicide:
** Usually happens to poor [[TheChewToy Stumpy]], who [[BungledSuicide fails all his attempts.]] Reasons include thinking he can't impress a girl he likes and finding out that magic isn't real.
** In one episode, the trope is PlayedForLaughs. [[SurroundedByIdiots Mr. Cat]] gets so fed up with Stumpy's idiocy that he hangs himself. Since DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, he's alive and well by the next scene.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Stumpy, to the extent that Bad Kaeloo finds smashing Mr. Cat into a car and allowing Stumpy to drive a better punishment than strangling or punching him.
* DrivingTest: Stumpy and Quack Quack try to get their driver's licences in "Let's Play Driver's License". [[spoiler: Both of them fail. [[TheDitz Stumpy]] fails not only because he DrivesLikeCrazy, but because Kaeloo didn't do a very good job of teaching him how to drive. Quack Quack, on the other hand, is able to do everything perfectly well, but his driving instructor is [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]], who not only gives him negative points for ridiculous reasons, but actively tries to make him fail by doing things like shining a flashlight in his eyes and ''[[RemovableSteeringWheel ripping out the steering wheel]]'', finally causing him to drive off a cliff[[note]][[EscapeArtist Mr. Cat somehow escaped the car before it fell.]][[/note]].]]
* DrJerk: In "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses", [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]], who went to med school (or at least claims that he did), is trying to teach Kaeloo how to be a doctor. Most of his tips involve being rude and selfish.
-->'''Mr. Cat''': Make sure your patient can pay. You're not the Salvation Army.
* DropInCharacter: Pretty, Eugly and Olaf normally just show up and join the main four in whatever they're doing despite usually having no reason to be there in the first place.
* DrosteImage: In "Let's Play Paranormal Stuff", Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat find a PortalDoor to the inside of Quack Quack's head. When they open it, they see themselves and this trope occurs since they're standing right in front of Quack Quack.
* DubInducedPlotHole: For the first 10 episodes of the English dub, Kaeloo [[ShesAManInJapan was referred to as male]], but the 11th episode had a joke which involved her being female. From this episode on, the error was fixed, and she was referred to as a female. However, the already dubbed episodes were not fixed.
* DubNameChange: In the original French dub, Stumpy is called Moignon, Quack Quack is called Coin Coin and Mr. Cat is called Monsieur Chat.
* DudeShesInLikeAComa:
** The trope is discussed when the characters read Sleeping Beauty, with [[EvenEvilHasStandards Mr. Cat]] pointing out that kissing an unconscious person is morally disgusting.
** In Episode 61, the trope is enforced. Pretty knocks Mr. Cat out cold so that she can kiss him.
** In one instance, the trope is PlayedforLaughs. [[TheAlcoholic Mr. Cat]] passes out after drinking and [[StalkerWithACrush Pretty]] takes the opportunity to kiss him, and then post a picture of this on the internet so people will think they're a couple.
* DumbassHasAPoint: In one episode, [[TheDitz Stumpy]] gives Kaeloo some "advice" that makes her start crying and curl up in a corner. Stumpy thinks that it may be a psychological problem, and decides to get Mr. Cat to help. Quack Quack points out that that may not be a good idea, since Mr. Cat is a {{Jerkass}}, but Stumpy points out that nobody other than Mr. Cat knows anything about psychology. Quack Quack admits that he's right and they get Mr. Cat to help Kaeloo. Even better, it turns out that Mr. Cat was more than willing to help Kaeloo and tried his best to make her feel better.
* DumbIsGood: Dumb characters like [[IdiotHero Kaeloo]] and [[TheDitz Stumpy]] are much nicer than smart ones like [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]]. Though this starts to get {{subverted| trope}} as Stumpy gets more and more antagonistic.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Mr. Cat]] does this to [[spoiler:Kaeloo]] in Episode 77. She thinks he's joking.
* DysfunctionalFamily:
** PlayedForLaughs in Let's Play House, where the main four are PlayingHouse with Kaeloo as the overbearing and strict mother, Mr. Cat as the father who abuses his children and only cares about having sex with Kaeloo, Stumpy as the rude and rebellious son and Quack Quack as the "daughter" who is bossed around by Kaeloo and gets annoyed by her.
** Played miserably straight with Mr. Cat's real family: An alcoholic father, a stressed out mother, two abusive and cruel children and a third, younger child with severe psychological issues (Mr. Cat).
* DysfunctionJunction: Kaeloo is obsessed with being perfect, nice and cute, Stumpy is a moron who sucks at everything, Quack Quack is essentially a drug addict, Mr. Cat is an AxCrazy psychopath, Pretty is obsessed with beauty and fashion to the extent that it's the main focus of her life, and Olaf wants to TakeOverTheWorld.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** The pilot. The animation looks nothing like what we see in the show, the characters' voices are different (Kaeloo sounds like a ''boy'') and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Bad Kaeloo had a vocal sac]].
** For the first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball", Stumpy refuses to be on Mr. Cat's team because CatsAreMean. Later episodes have him willingly team up with Mr. Cat to pull off some antagonistic deed, and he dreams of being like Mr. Cat.
** In the second episode, "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses", Mr. Cat was the perfect example of EvilIsHammy. In later episodes, he's one of the least hammy characters there is on the show.
** In early episodes, [[TranslatorBuddy Quack Quack needed Kaeloo to translate what he was saying so the others could understand]], but later they can all understand what he says.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: In Episode 72, Stumpy, who has been [[SuddenIntelligence turned into a genius]], plans to TakeOverTheWorld by building a bomb that could destroy the planet.
* EasilyImpressed: Kaeloo is impressed by anything and everything, no matter how mundane it is. And this is despite the fact that she lives on a planet that runs on magic and has the power of HulkingOut when she gets angry, and on a daily basis deals with weird stuff like aliens, ghosts and interdimensional travel.
* EatTheCamera: Stumpy does it in Episode 77 when he panics and runs around screaming.
* EEqualsMCHammer: The cast have a board full of equations, which they use for everything from planning a wedding to teaching math. Don't ask how they use the same board for everything.
* EldritchAbomination: In Episode 102, [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] and [[AntiHero Stumpy]] fuse Quack Quack with a bunch of random objects and creatures and turn him into one of these. [[ResetButton Thankfully, he's fine by the next episode.]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: Mr. Cat refers to Kaeloo as "Priscilla" for most of the episode [[EpisodeOnAPlane "Let's Play Air Pockets"]]. For some reason, she finds it very embarrassing.
* EmpathicEnvironment: In Episode 134, when everyone else is too busy doing their own thing to play with Stumpy, Stumpy becomes upset and then it suddenly starts raining.
* TheEndIsNigh: In "Let's Play Ecologists", [[TheDitz Stumpy]] hears about air pollution harming people, and he panics and starts to hyperventilate. He then assumes that his inability to breathe properly is because of air pollution, and he runs around yelling "We're all going to die! The end is nigh!".
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: At the end of [[spoiler: Episode 77]], the planet gets destroyed by a meteor, but [[StatusQuoIsGod it's back to normal by the next episode.]] Nobody dies, fortunately, since everyone escapes except Stumpy, who is an IronButtMonkey.
* EnormousEngagementRing: In Episode 60, Quack Quack buys a wedding ring for Pretty, who he is being forced to marry. Not only is the gem incredibly huge (according to the characters, since the audience can't see it), it's also shiny enough to set someone on fire.
* EnsembleCast: Even though the show is named after its protagonist, Kaeloo, all the main four get equal amounts of attention in the show.
* EpicFail:
** [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/kaeloo/images/2/21/Unnamed8.gif/revision/latest?cb=20161121131057 Stumpy trying to catch a volleyball]] in the BeachEpisode.
** The volleyball incident doesn't even come ''close'' to [[spoiler: the ballet the cast put on in [[BalletEpisode Episode 67]].]]
* EpisodeOnAPlane: "Let's Play Air Pockets", where Stumpy and Quack Quack go on a plane piloted by Mr. Cat, with Kaeloo as an air hostess. [[spoiler: [[WithFriendsLikeThese Mr. Cat jumps out of the plane using the only parachute they had and leaves them to die.]]]]
* EquippableAlly: The others use Quack Quack as a weapon to fire objects ranging from yogurt to missiles.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Some of the characters get one in the first episode they appear in:
** Kaeloo remains happy for most of the episode despite all the chaos going on around her.
** [[TheDitz Stumpy]] takes the term "prison" in "prison-ball" too literally[[note]]Prison-ball is a game similar to dodgeball, except if a player is hit they get sent to a space at the back of the court called a "prison"[[/note]].
** Mr. Cat decides that prison-ball is a fun game because the game involves hitting another person and the other person going to "prison".
** Pretty the RichBitch gets one in her debut episode, where she looks down on the main four for being poor and tries to "dare" Stumpy to buy her expensive stuff during a game of Truth or Dare.
** The first scene we see with Olaf is him trying to get Mr. Cat to bow down before him while talking about [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]].
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball", gives one near the end when Mr. Cat pulls out a bazooka and starts shooting spiked dodgeballs at Quack Quack.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Mr. Cat, despite being evil, really loves his mother and will not allow anyone to talk about her in a disrespectful way.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Mr. Cat, Olaf and Pretty[[note]]Though Pretty isn't as evil as the other two[[/note]] are evil, but they all have their loved ones: Pretty has her sister, who she regularly abuses but still cares about, Olaf has his "wife" Olga (who is actually a CompanionCube , but he treats her like a real person), and Mr. Cat, ironically enough, has the show's heroes, who are as close as family members to him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mr. Cat may be a sick and twisted pervert, but when he reads the story of Sleeping Beauty, even he is disgusted by the idea of [[DudeShesLikeInAComa kissing someone while they're unconscious.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Ursula is apparently so hot that not only Mr. Cat and Stumpy find her attractive, even Kaeloo says she's very beautiful.
* EverybodyHatesMathematics: [[BookDumb Stumpy]] hates math more than any other subject and has difficulty counting higher than the number four.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Every single person in Smileyland (yes, even [[TheDitz Stumpy]]) knows that Kaeloo and Mr. Cat have massive crushes on each other except for Kaeloo and Mr. Cat themselves.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: One flashback shows Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat being in the same class as little kids, [[NegativeContinuity despite the fact that other episodes have stated that Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are older than the other two.]]
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Olaf.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Seems to be the case for [[CosmicPlaything the perpetually unlucky Stumpy]]. {{Lampshade| Hanging}}d in the Season 1 finale.
* EvilChancellor: Mr. Cat to Stumpy in Episode 90.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor:
** Mr. Cat. He takes delight in tormenting other people, [[WithFriendsLikeThese even his own best friends]], in various ways, ranging from burning Stumpy's comic book collection[[note]]Each comic costs 60 dollars[[/note]] to trying to kill people with chainsaws.
** Olaf. In Episode 121, he tricks Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat into thinking that they've all been fired from the show, causing them great amounts of stress and worry, just so he can get a laugh out of it.
* EvilIsHammy:
** One of the main reasons that nobody except Stumpy and Quack Quack takes Olaf seriously is his incredible hamminess.
** Mr. Cat was the physical embodiment of this trope in the show's second episode due to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Mr. Cat has a deep, adult-like voice despite being less than 13 years old. Olaf also has a rather deep voice. The trope is averted with Stumpy and Pretty, whose voices are rather high pitched.
* ExactWords:
** In "Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat", Kaeloo says that Mr. Cat will disappear. Near the end, [[spoiler: he does - he's completely invisible, but alive [[LiteralMetaphor and kicking]].]]
** In another episode, Kaeloo, as a waiter, asks Mr. Cat what he would like to drink. He asks for a "SoundEffectBleep with ice" (presumably an alcoholic beverage). Kaeloo says he can’t have a "SoundEffectBleep with ice", so he asks for one without ice.
** In the episode "Let's Play Figurines", Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat refuse to let Stumpy play with their new figurines. Later, they realize that Stumpy has stolen the figurines. When they call him out on it and say he stole them, he says that he borrowed them. Kaeloo says borrowing is when you ask someone before taking their things, but Stumpy points put that he ''did'' ask - but they refused.
** When the gang are playing truth or dare, [[TheFashionista Pretty]] "dares" Stumpy to buy her a Prada bag. Kaeloo says that the dare is supposed to be something like "walk using your hands" or "hop on one leg", so Pretty dares Stumpy to buy her a Prada bag while hopping on one leg.
** In a season 3 episode, Mr. Cat gets angry at a bunch of sheep and decides to [[DisproportionateRetribution throw them all off a cliff]]. [[NiceGirl Kaeloo]] tells him not to throw all the sheep off the cliff, so Mr. Cat throws just ''one'' of them off and the rest of them follow the other one and jump off themselves.
** In the episode "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat tricks Kaeloo into thinking she owes him money. When she points out that nobody has any money, he reminds her that she has a piggy bank, describing it as a "little piggy which rattles when you shake it". [[spoiler: Kaeloo gives the piggy bank to Mr. Cat. Mr. Cat opens it and finds out that there's no money inside... it was rattling because there was a soda can tab inside.]]
* ExhaustedEyeBags: Mr. Cat spends the entirety of [[SuperheroEpisode "Let's Play Justice Masters"]] with these, as a result of him being extremely stressed and tired (and unable to rest thanks to Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack's UnwantedAssistance).
* ExpendableClone: In Episode 134, Stumpy is granted a wish and gets a bunch of clones of himself. [[spoiler: When he needs to get rid of then, he sends them through a PortalDoor into another dimension forever, and nobody cares.]] Even before this, Mr. Cat contemplated killing them because they were annoying and hurting everyone.
* ExploringTheEvilLair: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat do this in Episode 104 when trying to rescue Quack Quack, who has been kidnapped by Olaf. Mr. Cat walks around with a flashlight while Kaeloo nervously walks behind him, clinging to him.
* ExpressiveEars: Both of Mr. Cat's ears move downwards during an OhCrap moment.
* ExpressiveShirt: The designs on Eugly's shirt change to reflect how she feels. For example, when she's sad, it changes to a picture of a broken heart.
* ExtendableArms: In Episode 4, Mr. Cat manages to reach all the way across a very long table and tap Quack Quack, who is sitting on the other side, on the shoulder.
* FaceFault: This being an {{animesque}} show, the characters do it quite often.
* FacePalm:
** Mr. Cat does this a lot. In Episode 105, he uses the "pinching the bridge of the nose" variant.
** Kaeloo herself does this on occasions when [[TheDitz Stumpy]] does something stupid.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: If your name is Stumpy, don't ever expect to succeed at anything.
* {{Fainting}}: One of [[spoiler: the animators]] faints when Stumpy walks up to them at the end of Episode 105 and informs them that [[spoiler: he is taking over the show]].
* FailureMontage: In [[BeachEpisode Episode 80]], a montage is shown of Stumpy losing at beach volleyball. The final scene in the montage makes it look like he's going to finally hit the ball, but he fails that too in an EpicFail.
* FailuresOnIce: In Episode 105, near the beginning, Kaeloo tries to show Mr. Cat all the fun activities that one can engage in during winter. She tries to show him ice skating, but he can barely move without falling.
* FakeInteractivity: {{Parodied| Trope}} in Episode 69, which was a {{parody| episode}} of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer''. Kaeloo says random words in different languages, asks the viewers to repeat, and stares at the camera with a huge, creepy smile. Stumpy walks by and waves a hand in her face, trying to see if she is okay.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: This being a show that runs on FamilyUnfriendlyViolence and where DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, the characters have died in several unpleasant ways such as explosion, [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] and ''[[SuicideAsComedy suicide]]''.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: The show lives and breathes this trope.
* FantasticRacism:
** Mr. Cat is extremely racist by these terms. One episode even had him, while [[ItMakesSenseInContext trying to anger everybody else,]] claim that "cats are a superior race", and he claims to despise ducks and rabbits.
** In the first episode of the series, Stumpy objects to being teamed up with Mr. Cat for a game because CatsAreMean[[note]]This may have been EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, as in later episodes he willingly teams up with Mr. Cat.[[/note]].
** In Episode 108, this becomes a plot point, with the main four arguing about which species is better. When Mr. Cat points out that cats were worshipped by Egyptians and get 10 million views on internet videos, Stumpy and Quack Quack get decide that they want to to become cats as well and get plastic surgery to look like cats.
* FantasyWorldMap: In Episode 55, Olaf pulls out a map of Smileyland with places such as the Enchanted Forest, [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]] and [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Wonderland]].
* {{Fartillery}}: In Episode 55, Stumpy and Quack Quack try to use this against Olaf. It fails because [[TheNoseless Olaf doesn't have a nose]].
* FartsOnFire: Bad Kaeloo does this in "Let's Play at Reading Books" [[MakesSenseInContext to light a pile of skin mags and comic books on fire.]]
* FatAndSkinny: [[PolarOppositeTwins The twins]] [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] and [[ExtremeDoormat Eugly]], the former of whom is slim (and implied to have an eating disorder) and the latter of whom is obese.
* FedoraOfAsskicking: The reason Kaeloo picks Quack Quack instead of Stumpy to be the hero in "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel" is because Quack Quack is wearing a fedora at the time.
* FictionalVideoGame: Mr. Coolskin video games.
* FingerGun:
** Stumpy makes these in "Let's Play Air Pockets" and threatens to shoot everyone unless Kaeloo gives him back a video game she had taken away from him.
** Kaeloo makes these in Episode 65 when impersonating Mr. Cat.
* FingerlessGloves: Mr. Cat and Stumpy both wear dark purple fingerless gloves.
* FingerTenting: Mr. Cat does this a lot while making evil plans.
* FireballEyeballs: Kaeloo gets these in one episode after Mr. Cat makes fun of her [[SpeechImpediment lisp]].
** In the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", this happens to Quack Quack several times over the course of the episode since he's being deprived of yogurt by Kaeloo, which is making him angry [[spoiler: and slowly driving him insane.]]
* FirstNameUltimatum: In any case where [[NotMeThisTime Stumpy annoys Kaeloo to the point of transforming instead of Mr. Cat]]: "STUMPYYYY...". The same applies to Pretty.
** Kaeloo does this to everyone in Episode 83 (except [[TheyCallMeMisterTibbs Mr. Cat, whose first name isn't revealed to the audience]], and Olaf, who [[AbsenteeActor wasn't in that episode]]).
* FisherKing: When Mr. Cat takes over Smileyland, [[RedSkyTakeWarning the sky turns red]].
* {{Flashback}}: In Episode 136, a flashback is shown to Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether at school in the same class as little kids.]] [[NegativeContinuity This is despite the fact that other episodes have established that Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are older than the other two.]]
* FlashbackTwist: In one episode, Stumpy tells Kaeloo that Mr. Cat forced him to give him all his comic books. When Kaeloo asks how it happened, a flashback is shown where Mr. Cat menacingly approaches Stumpy and demands the comic books... and Stumpy nonchalantly handed him the comic books and said "Okay".
* FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss: Episode 115 has Mr. Cat do this to Kaeloo. She, of course, gets angry and starts yelling at him.
* FlowerFromTheMountaintop: In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", the last challenge in Kaeloo's incredibly lame game show is for Mr. Cat to grab the flower from the mountaintop. The "mountaintop" is really just a rock.
* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: In Episode 72, [[TheDitz Stumpy]] is [[SuddenIntelligence granted intelligence by a spirit]], but it turns out to be for the worse; he makes rude or [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]] remarks (such as saying that [[TheAlcoholic Mr. Cat]]'s drinking problem will make him obese), he tries to TakeOverTheWorld, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and he tries to change the show's name from "Kaeloo" to "Stumpy".]]
* FoodAsBribe: Quack Quack will do almost anything if you offer him [[TrademarkFavoriteFood yogurt]] in exchange.
* ForceFeeding:
** Kaeloo does this to Quack Quack in "Let's Play Ecologists" when he refuses to eat some absolutely disgusting organic yogurt called "org-yurt".
** Stumpy does this to Quack Quack in [[BabysittingEpisode "Let's Play Babysitting"]] by putting a funnel in his mouth and using a baseball bat to push spinach down the funnel. Quack Quack retaliates by shoving the baseball bat and funnel down Stumpy's throat offscreen.
* ForceFieldDoor: In Episode 105, the door leading to the [[MakesSenseInContext magical staircase]] is a force field door. OnlyThePureOfHeart may pass through it; anyone who isn't pure gets an electric shock.
* ForcefulKiss:
** [[spoiler:Bad Kaeloo]] does this to [[spoiler:Mr. Cat]] once.
** Stumpy does this to Kaeloo in "Let's Play Treasure Hunt" so he can find out what happens when a person kisses a frog.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Episode 63 and Episode 72 foreshadowed the events of Episode 105, namely [[spoiler: Stumpy [[FaceHeelTurn becoming evil]] and [[TakeOverTheWorld taking control of the world]].]]
** In Episode 121, Olaf informs the main four that they have been fired from the show and must report for a job interview the next day to see if they can be re-hired. At one point in the episode, [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] questions the logic behind firing them and immediately hiring them again. [[spoiler: It turns out that the whole thing was a [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor "prank"]] by Olaf and the main four never got fired in the first place.]]
** The title card for the episode "Let's Play Hopscotch" has flames on it despite the episode seemingly having nothing to do with fire. [[spoiler: Near the end of the episode, Mr. Cat successfully constructs a path to Hell, and Quack Quack is DraggedOffToHell.]]
* ForgivenButNotForgotten:
** At the end of "Let's Play Golf", Stumpy and Mr. Cat forgive Kaeloo for cheating at golf, but in Episode 57, they [[CallBack reference the incident]] when trying to prove that she is a cheater.
** Kaeloo says the trope name almost word-for-word in Episode 105 to [[spoiler: Quack Quack]].
* FourFingeredHands: Everybody except Olaf. Even Quack Quack, who has FeatherFingers, has four fingers. {{Justified| Trope}}, since they're all animals.
* FormalFullArrayOfCutlery: Kaeloo sets out a bunch of different forks for different dishes in "Let's Play Tea Party".
* ForScience: [[MadScientist Mr. Cat]] sometimes tortures Quack Quack by conducting scientific experiments on him and claiming that it's for science. (Although sometimes it's out of genuine curiosity and the desire to know more.)
* FourthWallMailSlot: In-universe, in the episode "Let's Play Catch the Mailman", Kaeloo gets a letter from a fan of the show criticizing her for being annoying and boring[[note]]This actually reflects the views of some real fans of the show[[/note]]. [[spoiler: The letter turns out to have been written by [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]].]]
* FourthWallPortrait: When drawing a picture of Stumpy in "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Mr. Cat draws a realistic squirrel.
* FracturedFairytale:
** [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Stumpy]]'s version of ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'', as seen in "Let's Play Once Upon a Time".
** Episode 122, a sequel to "Let's Play Once Upon a Time", had Mr. Cat make every fairy tale in the book more realistic, for example by having Cinderella report her stepmother to the police for abuse, or having Prince Philip call a doctor to wake up Sleeping Beauty instead of just kissing her.
* FreakyFridayFlip: In a ParodyEpisode of Harry Potter, Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack switch bodies due to using magic spells on each other, but are soon brought back to normal. Unlike most examples, it is not the main focus of the episode, but only happens for one scene.
* FreePrizeAtTheBottom: One episode has Stumpy buy a cereal box for the sake of a free hat, and then rip the box to shreds and let all the cereal fall on the ground, taking only the hat.
* FreeRangeChildren: None of the characters are more than 13 years old, yet they do random things like going to outer space, fighting aliens, buying weapons, drinking alcohol, etc. and nobody has any problem with it. Though it's somewhat justified since ThereAreNoAdults in [[CrapsaccharineWorld Smileyland]], and especially in Mr. Cat and Quack Quack's cases since the former is a runaway and the latter is an orphan.
** Averted in [[CircusEpisode Episode 33]], where [[TheDitz Stumpy]]'s mother sees him [[JugglingDangerously juggling chainsaws]] on TV and calls him so she can tell him to stop because it's too dangerous.
* FreezeRay: Olaf owns one of these [[spoiler: and he uses it on Kaeloo and Mr. Cat in Episode 104.]]
* FreudianCouch:
** At the end of "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses", Kaeloo lies on a couch and tells Mr. Cat (who is pretending to be a psychologist) about her metamorphosis from tadpole to frog.
** Stumpy lies on a couch in "[[spoiler:Let's Play Astronauts]]" when narrating a dream he had to Kaeloo.
** In Episode 86, Mr. Cat visits an actual psychotherapist and lies on a couch.
** Stumpy lies on one in Episode 110 when Kaeloo tries to hold a therapy session for him.
* FreudianExcuse: Implied with Mr. Cat. What we have seen of his DarkAndTroubledPast involves [[BigBrotherBully abusive older brothers]], an [[AlcoholicParent alcoholic father]], the death of one or more loved ones, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking an annoying mother who kept screaming.]] No wonder he’s so evil.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Everyone (except maybe Eugly) absolutely despises the AlphaBitch Pretty, but they still hang out with her.
* FriendVersusLover: In Episode 134, Stumpy wants to play a board game with Quack Quack, but Quack Quack is on a date with Eugly and therefore ignores Stumpy. Later, Stumpy manages to clone himself and he and the clones tease Quack Quack and Eugly until [[FragileFlower Eugly]] runs away crying so they can hang out with Quack Quack.
* FromBadToWorse: In "[[HalloweenEpisode Let's Play Scaredy Cat]]", Mr. Cat and Kaeloo have to fight a huge army of zombies. Mr. Cat manages to anger Kaeloo enough to [[HulkingOut transform]], but just as she transforms, Kaeloo is bitten and turns into a zombie. In her [[SuperStrength transformed state]].
* FryingPanOfDoom: Pretty does this a lot, and Mr. Cat also does this a few times. A variant is used in [[CowboyEpisode Episode 88]], where Mr. Cat throws the frying pan at [[HollywoodToneDeaf Stumpy]] to get him to stop singing.
* FullBodyDisguise: Mr. Cat disguises himself as Bad Kaeloo, and later as Pretty, in Episode 65.
* FunnyAnimal: [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals The entire cast is composed of these.]] Kaeloo is a frog, Stumpy is a squirrel, Quack Quack is a duck, Mr. Cat and Ursula are cats, Pretty and Eugly are rabbits and Olaf is an emperor penguin.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
** In the episode "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses", while Quack Quack escapes, Bad Kaeloo can be seen hitting Mr. Cat over the head repeatedly with a giant thermometer.
** In the episode "Let's Play Golf", [[BrickJoke a ball Stumpy hit with his golf club earlier in the episode returns after orbiting the planet]] and hits him in the head after having orbiting the planet while Mr. Cat tries playing golf.
** In-universe example. In one episode, whenever [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] takes a selfie and puts it on the website [[Website/{{Facebook}} "Fakebook"]], Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack, and/or Mr. Cat are doing something embarrassing in the background of the picture. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that being the {{jerkass}} she is, Pretty did this on purpose to humiliate them.]]
* FunWithHomophones: When Kaeloo tells [[TheDitz Stumpy]] that he has to use a tee to play golf, he thinks she said "tea" and asks why he can't have coffee instead.
* FurryConfusion: All the characters are anthropomorphic animals, but there are several ordinary sheep who also live in [[CrapsaccharineWorld Smileyland]] with them. In Episode 132, Mr. Cat even lampshades this and says that letting the sheep hang out with the characters would be like [[{{Squick}} having Snow White marry the seven dwarves]].
* FurryReminder: Happens quite a lot, with the cast being animals.
** Stumpy eats a lot of acorns.
** In "Let's Play Cops and Robbers", Kaeloo finds a hole in a yogurt container and concludes that Mr. Cat made it because he's the only one with claws.
** In "Let's Play Simon Says", Kaeloo the frog uses her tongue to snatch Stumpy's game console. Later in the episode, she also mentions wanting money to buy herself a bowl and a ladder.
** In "Let's Play Justice Masters" when Mr. Cat decides to take a nap on the couch, he walks around on top of it on all fours and then curls up to sleep.
** In "Let's Play Figurines", Kaeloo takes one of Mr. Cat's whiskers.
** In Episode 74, Mr. Cat pounces on a soccer ball and plays with it like a real cat would.
** In Episode 83, Mr. Cat affectionately rubs his head against Kaeloo.
** In Episode 87, Olaf slides down a hill like a penguin.
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[[folder: Tropes G to L]]
* GagSeries: The show has [[HalfwayPlotSwitch plots that switch halfway through the episode]], [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment one-off gags that have nothing to do with the rest of the plot of the episode]], and [[NegativeContinuity barely any continuity between episodes]]. Sometimes, there isn't even continuity ''between scenes of the same episode''. The main focus is humor.
* GaleForceSound: When Mr. Cat gets angry, he can yell loud enough to blow away a car with Kaeloo and Stumpy sitting in it.
* GameShowAppearance: In Episode 58, Mr. Cat goes on a game show hosted by [[BitchInSheepsClothing Kaeloo]] to prove that [[InsufferableGenius he's right about everything all the time]]. The game show appears to be rigged so he will lose. [[spoiler: He wins, but it's a PyrrhicVictory.]]
* GarageSale: The second season 3 episode has Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack hold a garage sale with Mr. Cat as their only customer. He initially refuses to buy anything, but Kaeloo uses a psychological trick that convinces him to buy almost everything. After buying so many things, Mr. Cat winds up having his own garage sale - where he tricks them into buying their own stuff back at exorbitant prices.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: In the second season, there are four males (Stumpy, Quack Quack, Mr. Cat and Olaf) and four females (Kaeloo[[note]]She is a {{Hermaphrodite}}, but is referred to as female[[/note]], Pretty, Eugly and Olga).
* GenderSeparatedEnsembleEpisode: Episode 60 has the boys and the girls split up and go to different places. {{Subverted| Trope}} since Stumpy winds up [[DisguisedInDrag disguising himself as a girl]] and joining the girls.
* GenreBlindness: Kaeloo literally has no idea what will happen if she invites Mr. Cat to play with her, even though it happens all the time.
* GentlemanThief: Kaeloo and Stumpy both dress up as these in Episode 53.
* GetRichQuickScheme: Mr. Cat comes up with several of these. Most of them fail, though a few of them have gone without a hitch.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: [[Radar/{{Kaeloo}} Has its own page]]. It's one of the things the show is best known for.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: Apparently, in Smileyland, if your friends play Zumba music, it makes you dance along and become extremely happy and loving. Naturally, Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack do this to Mr. Cat in an attempt to make him nicer. He tries his best to resist, but ultimately fails and winds up being forced to be happy.
* GiftedlyBad: Kaeloo sucks at almost everything, but considers herself to be a very talented person. For example, she draws like a kindergartener but considers herself to be a really good artist.
* GilliganCut:
** In "Let's Play Babysitting", Kaeloo blatantly tells Stumpy [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend that she is not in love with Mr. Cat]] right before going on a date with him in the very next scene.
** In the same episode, Kaeloo mentions that Quack Quack "happily accepted" when Stumpy asked if he could practice baby-sitting with Quack Quack as the baby. The scene cuts to Quack Quack in a tree trying to get away from Stumpy while the latter throws objects at him to get him to come down.
** In the HalloweenEpisode, as Stumpy is walking into the forest:
-->'''Kaeloo''': If you find a book of magic spells with funny words in it, whatever you do, don't touch it! Is that clear?\\
'''Stumpy''': Yeah, whatever.\\
''(Scene cuts to Stumpy in the forest in front of the book)''\\
'''Stumpy''': Wow! A book of magic spells with funny words in it that I mustn't touch! ''(reading from book)'' Zombie zombie zom, zombie zombie zombie woo!
* GirlfriendInCanada: Stumpy's girlfriend Ursula [[TheGhost is never seen onscreen]] and he met her online, but he claims she exists. Nobody really believes him until they finally meet her in person.
* GirlInTheTower: Invoked in "Let's Play Prince Charming" when Stumpy is DraggedIntoDrag and forced to sit in a tower so "Prince" Quack Quack can rescue him.
* GladIThoughtOfIt: The show has a RunningGag where Stumpy and Quack Quack get stuck in a situation, Quack Quack suggests a plan, and Stumpy pretends that he was the one who thought of it.
* TheGlomp: [[CuddleBug Kaeloo]] has done this to Mr. Cat on more than one occasion.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Mr. Cat is portrayed with these in the intro for Episode 105.
* GoFetch: In one episode, Mr. Cat throws a yogurt in the air and Quack Quack runs to catch it. After he catches it, Mr. Cat activates the bombs he had hidden near the place where he threw the yogurt.
* GolfClubbing: Mr. Cat sometimes does this, the usual target being Quack Quack.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In "Let's Play Babysitting", Kaeloo attempts to seduce Mr. Cat so they can have sex and she can get pregnant. [[spoiler: [[AttemptedRape Let's just say he gets seduced a little too well]]...]]
* GoodbyeCruelWorld: Stumpy says this before most of his suicide attempts.
* GoshDangItToHeck: Any time Mr. Cat swears with no {{Sound Effect Bleep}}s.
* GRatedDrug: Yogurt, carrots and tomato juice.
* GratuitousEnglish: In the French dub[[note]]The series' original language is French[[/note]], the characters frequently use English words like "what" and "stop" instead of the French words.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Olaf interjects random Russian words into his speech.
* GratuitousNazis: In the episode "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel"[[note]]The episode parodies Franchise/IndianaJones[[/note]], [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] dresses as a Nazi to look more "evil".
* GratuitousSpanish: Parodied. When [[TheDitz Stumpy]] is asked to say "the grass is green" in Spanish, his response is anything but that.
-->'''[[TheDitz Stumpy]] (singing)''': Tapas, parilla, grilla madre de pizza, en vida, comme cheetah gorilla!
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The main four own a library full of books on every topic available, no matter how ridiculous it may seem.
* GreatEscape: The first episode of the series, "Let's Play Prison-Ball", parodies this trope to the extreme when [[TheDitz Stumpy]] gets sent to the "prison" in a game of prison-ball. He first starts yelling how "society's the one to blame", then he gets a map of the prison tattooed on his tummy, and finally he uses a jackhammer to dig his way out. Unfortunately, this happens at the exact time Kaeloo gets mad enough to throw Mr. Cat into the air, and Mr. Cat comes crashing down on top of Stumpy's tunnel, pushing him back in. By the end of the episode, Stumpy is released anyway since it was a game, though the experience makes him hate the game of prison-ball.
* GreenAesop: Taken to parody levels in Episode 14. Kaeloo tries to convince everyone that if they aren't green, the planet could get destroyed. She ends up forcing Quack Quack to give up his TrademarkFavoriteFood, yogurt, and makes him eat a substitute called "org-yurt" which is organic and comes in environment-friendly containers, despite the fact that it tastes so bad that he vomits. When he vomits, she punishes him for "wasting food". She also beats up Mr. Cat and Stumpy ''and throws them in a nearby dumpster'' just because they dropped a small piece of paper on the ground, and "littering is bad".
* GreenAroundTheGills: Almost any time anybody feels nauseous. In Kaeloo's case, since she's already green, her face turns an odd shade of yellowish green.
* TheGrimReaper: The main four meet him in Episode 92. He's portrayed as a black sheep with a scythe.
* GroinAttack: In "Let's Play Market Vendors", [[TheDitz Stumpy]] accidentally shoots the lights out with a gun. While trying to find another light switch, he [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar accidentally grabs Mr. Cat's you-know-what, thinking it's a light switch, and pulls on it.]]
* GrossUpCloseUp:
** In Episode 34, Kaeloo informs Mr. Cat that he has a zit on his face. The audience is then treated to a close-up of the zit on Mr. Cat's face.
** The same happens with Pretty's zit in Episode 118.
* GroundShatteringLanding: Several episodes have at least one character doing this during a fight.
* GroupHug: Between the main four, in [[spoiler: Episode 105]].
* GrowingMusclesSequence: [[StockFootage Kaeloo's transformation sequence]] which is played OnceAnEpisode. [[MaleGaze Most of the attention is drawn to her butt.]]
* GrowingUpSucks: The basis of the episode "Let's Play Grown-Ups".
* GunsAkimbo: Mr. Cat and Stumpy do this in [[spoiler: "Let's Play Market Vendors", when they rob the supermarket.]]
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: {{Inverted| trope}}, as Mr. Cat and Stumpy use weapons and Kaeloo, Pretty and Eugly smash stuff.
* HairTriggerTemper:
** Mr. Cat will get angry for the slightest of reasons.
** Pretty actually makes Mr. Cat look patient.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Mr. Cat does this to Quack Quack in several episodes.
* HalfwayPlotSwitch:
** Episode 85 starts with everybody playing RockPaperScissors to see who gets to use the bathroom first. Halfway through the episode, the plot switches to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat arguing about whether Kaeloo's [[HulkingOut transformation]] is a good thing or not.
** "Let's Play Hot-Cold" starts with Stumpy trying to make himself look tanned and muscular, while Kaeloo tries to find someone to play with. Halfway through, the plot becomes about the others teaching Stumpy how to impress girls.
* HalloweenEpisode: "Let's Play Scaredy Cat", an episode where [[TheDitz Stumpy]] raises the dead and causes a zombie apocalypse.
* HammeredIntoTheGround: In the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", Mr. Cat gets beaten up by Quack Quack and/or Kaeloo offscreen and winds up with his entire body except his head smashed into the ground.
* {{Hammerspace}}: The characters can pull random objects, including actual hammers, from out of thin air.
* HammerspaceHair: In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", Mr. Cat dresses up as [[Film/PulpFiction Jules Winnfield]] for most of the episode and uses a wig which he uses to store stuff.
* HandBehindHead: Kaeloo does this sometimes when she is embarrassed or nervous.
* HandSignals:
** [[TheUnintelligible Eugly]]'s method of communication, apart from indistinct mumbling.
** In an OverlyLongGag in "Let's Play Cops and Robbers", [[TheUnintelligible Quack Quack]] uses these to try to communicate with [[TheDitz Stumpy]], who has no idea what he's saying.
* HanlonsRazor: Stumpy is able to get away with almost anything because everyone knows he's doing it out of sheer stupidity. However, this starts to get subverted in later episodes when he actually starts to do bad things out of malice.
* HappinessisMandatory: In Episode 123, Kaeloo takes Stumpy and Quack Quack on a tour to Heaven, where they meet an angel. The angel keeps singing about how in Heaven, there is only peace and harmony and things like that, but the angel seems to be forcing her happiness.
* HappyDance:
** Kaeloo's [[ShakingTheRump booty dance]].
** In the BaseballEpisode, Stumpy does one involving pushing his arms back and forth while walking on the spot. Later in the episode, Kaeloo joins him in doing it.
* HarmlessElectrocution: Nobody on the show ever gets harmed by electrocution (even if it involves being struck by lightning or sticking their fingers in electric sockets).
** Averted in Episode 72 when [[TooDumbToLive Stumpy]] dies after electrocuting himself and has to be brought back to life by a spirit.
* HarmlessFreezing: [[spoiler: Happens to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat in Episode 104, and they are put into PeopleJars]].
* HarmlessVillain: Olaf. All the heroes do is make fun of him. And if they decide that he's getting to be too annoying, they just beat him up.
* HateAtFirstSight: Stumpy and Pretty started hating each other the moment they laid eyes on each other.
** [[spoiler: The climax of Episode 105]] suggests that this may only be a part of his JerkassFacade.
* HeadDesk: Mr. Cat does this in "Let's Play Prince Charming" after Quack Quack answers all his questions correctly. Unfortunately, he accidentally bangs it on a button on the desk which gives Quack Quack an electric shock.
* HeadsOrTails: When Stumpy and [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] get into an argument, Stumpy pulls out a coin so they can toss it and see who wins. He then says "Heads I win, tails you lose." He wins, obviously, and Pretty tries to attack him.
* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Minor example in "Let's Play Happy Rotter". Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack watch a documentary on crepidula, and when one of the crepidula [[GenderBender changes sex to mate]], they tilt their heads to one side.
* HeavenSeeker: In Episode 92, Stumpy becomes this when Kaeloo tells him that there are [[TradeMarkFavoriteFood lots of acorns]] there. [[spoiler: He dies at the end by committing suicide, but since suicide is a sin, [[CruelTwistEnding he gets sent to Hell instead]].]]
* HelloInsertNameHere: One of Stumpy's video games does this. When it asks Mr. Cat for his name, he angrily yells "Shut up, stupid machine!" From that point on, the game refers to him as though his name is "Shutupstupidmachine".
* HereWeGoAgain:
** The end of the pilot (and of "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light") had Kaeloo transform all over again with the intention of beating Mr. Cat up.
** After Stumpy and Quack Quack get over their addiction to [[GRatedDrug carrots]], they get addicted to another GRatedDrug, tomato juice.
* HeroesWantRedheads: When Stumpy goes on a website to look for a girlfriend, he almost messages a redhead girl on the site, but changes his mind when he finds out that her hair is dyed. [[note]]When he does get a girlfriend, she winds up being TheUnseen, so the audience cannot tell if she is a redhead or not.[[/note]]
* HeroicFireRescue: [[spoiler: In Episode 93, Stumpy rushes in to rescue Quack Quack after [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] sets a building on fire with him trapped inside. Unfortunately, it's only after he gets inside and reaches Quack Quack that he realizes that there's no way to get out. He then remembers that [[MakesSenseInContext he can still make a birthday wish]], so he wishes them to safety.]]
* HeroicSacrifice:[[spoiler: Kaeloo tries to do this in Episode 77. Stumpy accidentally winds up doing it for her.]] See BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor above.
* HiddenDepths:
** Kaeloo is apparently a great martial artist and can speak many different languages.
** Stumpy is a brilliant artist and good at jump rope. [[spoiler: He's also dangerously smart at times, such as in Episode 105.]]
** Mr. Cat is a brilliant scientist and is extremely athletic when necessary. [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat He might have even won a few events at the Zerolympics if he hadn’t been so obsessed with hurting Quack Quack]], and [[HalloweenEpisode "Let’s Play Scaredy Cat"]] showed him to be capable of [[spoiler: single-handedly fighting off and stopping a zombie apocalypse]].
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Mr. Cat, on ''very'' rare occasions, will show that he truly does care for his friends. [[spoiler:"Let’s Play Bye Bye, Yoghurt" ended with a PetTheDog moment between him and Quack Quack]].
* HighPressureEmotion: When Stumpy gets angry enough, he blows steam out of his nose.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Quack Quack the duck. When he was still in an egg, his parents were killed by a hunter. He was subsequently found by scientists and taken to a laboratory where they did weird experiments on him. Then, he moved to Smileyland, where the show takes place. His life there, which is the events of the show, is not much better as his friends just exploit the superpowers he got from the experiments, and AxCrazy psychopath Mr. Cat repeatedly kills him, taking advantage of his NighInvulnerability.
* HiMom:
** In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Stumpy isn't sure whether the camera is a webcam or a TV camera, but says hello to his mother anyway.
** Inverted in [[CircusEpisode "Let's Play Circuses"]] when Stumpy's mom sees him on TV and calls him on his phone.
* HockeyMaskAndChainsaw: Mr. Cat uses these in the series' pilot episode when chopping off Quack Quack's arms.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Frequently happens to [[VillainProtagonist Mr. Cat]]. For example, in the episode "Let's Play Cops and Robbers", he gives Stumpy a banana as a weapon. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode during a car chase scene with Stumpy pursuing Mr. Cat, Stumpy launches the banana, which gets stuck in Mr. Cat's nose and causes him to lose control of the car.]] Sometimes it happens with even the most minor things; in one episode, he tries to hit [[TheWoobie Quack Quack]] on the head with a mallet, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar but since he is completely drunk at the time]], he winds up hitting himself on the head.
** In Episode 113, Kaeloo takes Stumpy to court, with Quack Quack as the judge, for "mistreating" objects and convinces the jury that objects have souls and therefore Stumpy should be punished. [[spoiler: Mr. Cat, who is Stumpy's lawyer in this episode, decides to use this to his advantage. He decides to call a can of yogurt, which is Quack Quack's TrademarkFavoriteFood, as a witness, pointing out that if objects have souls, the yogurt counts as a witness. Quack Quack devours the "witness" almost instantly and is taken to jail by Mr. Cat, who is also a police officer in this episode. Kaeloo steps out of the courtroom to talk to some reporters about the incident, and since everyone is gone, Stumpy takes the judge's place and declares himself "not guilty", which apparently works in [[CrapsaccharineWorld Smileyland]]'s judicial system.]]
** In Episode 138, Kaeloo tells Stumpy to clean his incredibly messy room, and the latter resorts to PlayingSick so he can sit around playing video games instead of cleaning. Kaeloo sees right through this, so she says that if he's sick, he must need medicines... and brings in a truckload of vaccines. Stumpy, who is terribly AfraidOfNeedles, says that he "got better", and is forced to clean his room.
* HoldingHands: [[spoiler: Mr. Cat and Kaeloo]] do this in Episode 105.
* HollywoodAcid: Mr. Cat dunks [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]] into a tub full of it in "Let's Play Prince Charming".
* HollywoodHealing: Bandages fix everything. Even if [[YourHeadAsplode your head blows up]], you should be fine with bandages.
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Olaf (except in the MusicalEpisode).
* HolyHalo: Mr. Cat puts one on while pretending to be "innocent" in Episode 102.
* HoodOrnamentHottie: When [[TheDitz Stumpy]] [[MakesSenseInContext tries to sell apples by giving away free cars with the purchase of an apple]], he dresses as a girl and sits on top of the car. Nobody buys the apples anyway.
* HorribleCampingTrip: The main four's camping trip in "Let's Play Treasure Hunt". First, they find out that [[TheDitz Stumpy]] unpacked all their supplies [[SkewedPriorities so he could have room for all his comic books]]. Then, Kaeloo sets up a game of treasure hunt for Stumpy and Quack Quack to play, but Mr. Cat changes all the clues and dares in the game so Stumpy and Quack Quack are horribly injured.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Kaeloo is the ''worst'' at character judgement. She believes that [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] is nice (unless he really is being nice, in which case she thinks he's being mean), and she thinks Olaf is just a MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold when he's actually evil and wants to TakeOverTheWorld.
* HostileShowTakeover:
** After [[SuddenIntelligence Stumpy becomes a genius]] in Episode 72, he decides to TakeOverTheWorld and change the show's name from ''[[ProtagonistTitle Kaeloo]]'' to ''Stumpy''.
** [[spoiler: At the end of Episode 105, Stumpy breaks into the animation studio making the show and takes over script-writing.]]
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: The episode "Let's Play Babysitting" revolves around Kaeloo, a frog, trying to persuade Mr. Cat, a cat, to have sex with her. It never gets to that stage due to an emotional outburst from Kaeloo's side, but Quack Quack has an ImagineSpot showing the viewers what the resulting babies would have looked like: [[PatchworkKids orange tadpoles with whiskers]].
* HowDidThatGetInThere: In one episode, Mr. Cat is giving a presentation on vampires with a slideshow to Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack when a picture of Bad Kaeloo shows up as one of the slides.
* HuddleShot: Used in the BaseballEpisode when Stumpy's team[[note]]consisting of Kaeloo,
Stumpy and Mr. Cat[[/note]] discusses strategies on how to defeat their extremely talented opponents[[note]][[TheAce Quack Quack]], Olaf and [[DoAnythingRobot Serguei]][[/note]].
* HulkingOut: The titular character goes through this OnceAnEpisode.
* HumanlikeHandAnatomy: Everyone except Olaf has FourFingeredHands which resemble those of humans, though Quack Quack's arms are flat like wings.
* HumanoidFemaleAnimal: The female animals shown in men's magazines are bordering on LittleBitBeastly. Even Kaeloo herself, who [[ViewerGenderConfusion lacks]] most forms of TertiarySexualCharacteristics has some serious junk in the trunk and has a light curve to her hips which is often accentuated in the way she stands. She is also significantly less prone to dropping a FurryReminder than her male friends. Pretty also seems to have curvy hips as well (but no other curves).
* HyperspaceArsenal: Mr. Cat has an arsenal of weapons which he can randomly pull out at any time, which consists mostly of bazookas, guns, chainsaws, knives, [[HyperspaceMallet mallets]] and others. {{Lampshade| hanging}}d in one episode where he says he is carrying a bazooka, a chainsaw and a cluster bomb, while his hands are completely empty.
* HyperspaceMallet: Where exactly does Mr. Cat keep all those mallets[[note]]He has a bunch in different sizes[[/note]]?
* HypocriticalHeartwarming:
** Mr. Cat acts like a {{Jerkass}} to Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack but when somebody else decides to mess with them, he will not accept it.
** Pretty is the ONLY one allowed to insult her sister. Notably in one episode where Stumpy insults Eugly, so Pretty punches his lights put, then turns to Eugly and says Stumpy was right.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** Happens twice in the same scene in "Let’s Play Scaredy Cat". Kaeloo, who is walking through a dark forest with Quack Quack and Mr. Cat, sees a door in the forest and screams in fear. Mr. Cat questions why she is scared, and opens the door to see Quack Quack on the other side. He screams. Then, Kaeloo says that he’s going overboard.
** In "Let's Play Golf", Mr. Cat joins the others in calling Kaeloo a "dirty cheater".
** In "Let's Play at Reading Books", Stumpy calls Mr. Cat a loser.
* IAmNotWeasel: Olaf is an emperor penguin, not an auk. [[RunningGag Not that anyone cares enough to remember, of course.]] [[note]]In the French dub, this also references the common mistake of calling penguins ''pingouins'' (auks) instead of ''manchots'', due to mixing up with the English word.[[/note]]
* IAteWhat: Olaf, judging a cooking competition, seems fine with [[LethalChef Pretty]]'s dish until one of the live worms she put in it crawls out of his mouth.
* ICallItVera: Mr. Cat named his bazooka "Patience", [[IronicName of all names.]]
* ICantBelieveImSayingThis: When Quack Quack does Mr. Cat a favor, Mr. Cat responds with "I never thought I'd be saying this, but thanks, duck-face."
* IconicItem: [[AxCrazy Mr. Cat]]'s bazooka and [[TheDitz Stumpy]]'s video game console.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode name starts with "Let's Play...".
* IgnoringBySinging: Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat in Episode 105 until she finds out [[spoiler: that [[NotMeThisTime the real villain of the episode is Stumpy and Mr. Cat was trying to stop him]].]]
* IHaveNoSon: PlayedForLaughs with the AlphaBitch Pretty, who keeps threatening to disown her twin sister [[ExtremeDoormat Eugly]] if she doesn't do what she says. For example, in Episode 131, Pretty is in a bad mood and refuses to allow Eugly to be happy because she herself isn't. Kaeloo asks them to smile for a picture, and Pretty says that if Eugly smiles, she will no longer accept her as her sister.
* IHaveYourWife: In one episode of Season 1, [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] takes Quack Quack, to whom Kaeloo is a ParentalSubstitute, as a hostage so she'll pay him money. It turns out that she doesn't have any [[RunningGag because of the ongoing economic crisis]]. Mr. Cat then threatens to shoot Kaeloo if Quack Quack doesn't pay him, which also fails because Quack Quack doesn't have any money. Mr. Cat is subsequently punished by Kaeloo for what he did.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Kaeloo has a condition where she winds up HulkingOut whenever she gets too angry and does mean and sadistic things to whoever made her angry, which seem to be beyond her conscious control. She doesn't want this "power" and has tried numerous times to get rid of it, but she never can.
* IJustWantToBeYou: Stumpy really, ''really'' wishes he was Mr. Cat.
* IKissYourHand: Mr. Cat does this to Kaeloo sometimes, usually followed by [[KissUpTheArm kissing her arm]].
** In "Let's Play Tea Party", Quack Quack tries doing this to Kaeloo, but [[CrazyJealousGuy Mr. Cat]] shoots his head off with a bazooka before he can.
* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: Pretty does this in one episode where she goes on a TV show and says "I'd never say..." followed by one of her friends' secrets each time. [[spoiler: She's actually doing it on purpose, not because she's stupid.]]
* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: The trope is used in an episode where [[NiceGirl Kaeloo]] and [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] are doctors, with Mr. Cat taking DrJerk to a whole new level. When both of them try to "cure" Quack Quack (who isn't even sick), Kaeloo suggests homeopathic cures. Mr. Cat, eager to hurt Quack Quack, asks if she means acupuncture, and she clarifies that she meant to use herbs and flowers, eliciting this response from [[CatsAreSnarkers Mr. Cat]]:
-->'''Mr. Cat''': I'm a doctor, not a florist.
* ImaginaryFriend: Stumpy has many of these.
* ImagineSpot:
** Quack Quack has one in "Let's Play Babysitting" about what Kaeloo and Mr. Cat's potential offspring would look like: [[PatchworkKids orange tadpoles with whiskers]].
** When Kaeloo tries to talk to her friends about growing up, Mr. Cat briefly imagines a giant Quack Quack crushing him.
* IMissMom: Mr. Cat admits to this after [[spoiler: being shot with TruthSerum]] in "Let's Play Spies", combined with crying and [[StillSucksThumb thumb-sucking]].
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: In one episode, in every dub except the English dub, Stumpy says he's not AfraidOfNeedles, then faints at the sight of a needle. Averted in the English dub where he admits that he's scared instead of denying it before passing out.
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Mr. Cat constantly torments Quack Quack by shooting him with bazookas, [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cutting him in half]], etc. and attempts to justify himself by saying that Quack Quack is indestructible.
* ImpairmentShot:
** In the episode "Let's Play Hopscotch", when [[MakesSenseInContext Quack Quack is hit on the head by a boulder thanks to Stumpy]], the camera blurs and everything appears as though we're seeing double.
** In one episode where Mr. Cat gets completely drunk, the camera starts to wobble and slightly blur.
* ImplausibleDeniability:
** One episode had Mr. Cat say that he would never try to hurt Quack Quack... ''while chasing the duck with a mallet''.
** In another episode, Kaeloo and Stumpy both set up market stalls. Kaeloo's is full of fresh apples, and Stumpy's is full of rotten ones. Later, Kaeloo finds all her apples stolen. Stumpy says he swears he didn't steal them, even though the fresh apples are in plain view at his stand.
** Then there's this line from Kaeloo: "I don't talk with a li''th''p, Mi''th''ter Cat!"
* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: The women in men's magazines on the show have extremely narrow waists when compared to the rest of their body proportions.
* ImpossibleTask: In one episode, Mr. Cat gives Kaeloo the task of transforming without getting angry. Even though [[NegativeContinuity she has been seen doing this before]], she treats it as though it is not possible. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Kaeloo gives Mr. Cat another impossible task as a punishment.]]
* InadvertentEntranceCue:
** In Episode 72, Stumpy, who has been given SuddenIntelligence, decides to invent a bomb. When he mentions this, Olaf suddenly shows up and asks who mentioned a bomb.
** In another episode, Kaeloo decides to play "restaurant" by playing waitress to [[OfficialCouple Quack Quack and Eugly]], who are on a date. After Mr. Cat ruins said date, Kaeloo laments and asks who she can play "restaurant" with now that her "customers" are gone. Suddenly, [[BigEater Stumpy]] shows up with a fork and knife and runs towards the table.
* InappropriateRoleModel: Stumpy's role model (besides comic book hero Mr. Coolskin) is, unfortunately, Mr. Cat.
* IncomingHam:
** Kaeloo always yells something akin to "Hello, friends/buddies/pals!" while entering the scene in extravagant ways like floating down from the sky with an umbrella, crashing a kick-scooter into the couch or suddenly popping out of a conveniently placed box.
** In the French dub, Olaf the penguin always yells something which translates to "Bow down before your emperor!" whenever he enters the scene. Nobody ever obeys this, and in some cases Mr. Cat even goes as far as beating him up.
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: In "Let's Play Happy Rotter", an episode parodying ''Literature/HarryPotter'', Stumpy says the wrong magic spell and shrinks himself.
* IncrediblyLameFun: A lot of Kaeloo's games are seen as "boring" by her friends, who would much rather watch TV or play video games.
* InelegantBlubbering: Depending on the episode, Kaeloo's crying can either be this or CryCute.
* InformedAttractiveness: In-universe, Pretty apparently really lives up to her name. Mr. Cat is also suggested to be very attractive.
* InformedDeformity: Apparently, in-universe, Kaeloo is overweight and has cellulite, and Stumpy is hideous.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: [[AxCrazy Mr. Cat]] is an insane psychopath owns a bunch of weapons, and attacks people and objects very violently to the slightest annoyance (or even for no reason at all). Stumpy may be an aversion since he is insane, but not violent. If he is being violent, it's probably in a video game or attacking an object, but not a person.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Most of [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Stumpy]]'s reasoning.
-->'''Stumpy''': "Life is magical, life is magical." How many times have I heard that? But if magic doesn't exist... then life itself doesn't exist!
* InsistentTerminology: In "Let's Play Gangster Poker", each time somebody says that [[TheDitz Stumpy]] lost the cards, he claims that he just "forgot where he put them".
* InspirationalInsult: In the episode "Let's Play Catch the Mailman", Kaeloo receives a letter in the mail from [[NoFourthWall someone claiming to be a fan of the show]], who says that Stumpy, Quack Quack and especially Mr. Cat are the best characters on the show and that she is annoying, boring, serious and easily offended[[note]]This actually does [[AudienceSurrogate reflect the real-life feelings of some fans about her]][[/note]]. Kaeloo decides to use this as advice and never get angry again and be calm, easygoing and cool. [[spoiler: Of course, she gets angry beyond words at the end of the episode when she finds out that the letter was written not by a fan, but by Mr. Cat himself.]]
* InstantBandages: In the pilot episode, bandages instantly appear on Mr. Cat while he is getting beaten up. Averted in the actual show, where Kaeloo is sometimes shown putting bandages on whoever got hurt.
* InstantHomeDelivery: Anything the characters order immediately falls out of the sky.
* InstantWakingSkills: In one episode, [[GenkiGirl Kaeloo]] has to wake up at 5:30. She proceeds to jump out of bed the moment the alarm clock rings, and somehow even does exercise.
* InstantWebHit: In Episode 68, Bad Kaeloo, Quack Quack, Mr. Cat, Pretty and Eugly make a rock song. Someone puts it on the internet and they become incredibly famous overnight.
* InstantWristwatch: The main four have these.
* InstrumentalThemeTune
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: {{Zigzagged| Trope}} with Quack Quack. Sometimes everyone understands him, sometimes they don't.
* InterruptedSuicide: In an episode where Stumpy thinks he's not going to be able to impress a girl he likes, he tries to hang himself. Before he can do it, his friends talk him down and offer him advice on how to impress the girl.
* InterspeciesRomance:
** Quack Quack, a duck, and Eugly, a rabbit, are an OfficialCouple.
** Another OfficialCouple is Stumpy the squirrel and Ursula the cat.
** Kaeloo, a frog, and Mr. Cat, a cat, have shown signs of attraction to each other.
** Pretty, a rabbit, has a crush on Mr. Cat.
* InVinoVeritas: When Mr. Cat drinks alcohol, he tends to drop the JerkassFacade and be much nicer.
* {{Invisibility}}:
** This has happened to Mr. Cat in a couple of episodes. Each time, he ended up beating up Kaeloo and Quack Quack,
** Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack turn themselves into ghosts in Episode 123, rendering them invisible.
* InvisibleJerkass:
** Mr. Cat was already a jerk, but in some episodes when he gets turned invisible he's even worse, and he does things like kick Kaeloo and hit Quack Quack with mallets while constantly moving so they can't get back at him.
** When Stumpy is turned into a ghost in Episode 123, [[PowerPerversionPotential he tries to sneak into the bathroom to watch Pretty take a bath.]] Kaeloo stops him before he can do it.
* InvoluntaryDance: In Episode 132, Kaeloo forces Mr. Cat to join her and the others in having fun by turning on some Zumba music. He ties himself to a tree in order to escape, but the ropes break and he soon finds himself involuntarily doing Zumba with them.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: Mr. Cat is one of these, his transformations into random objects usually brought upon by Kaeloo beating the stuffing out of him.
* IResembleThatRemark:
** In "Let's Play Guess Who!", Kaeloo says she doesn't have a double personality... and [[JekyllAndHyde transforms]] mid-sentence.
** In another episode, she yells "I NEVER YELL!" when Mr. Cat says she should stop yelling.
* IronicFear: Stumpy, a squirrel, is afraid of heights.
* IronicName: In one episode, it is revealed that Mr. Cat, a sadistic psychopath with a HairTriggerTemper whose favorite hobby is to torture people with weapons, [[ICallItVera gave his bazooka a name.]] Its name is "Patience".
* ISophagus: Parodied. Quack Quack manages to develop an amazing singing voice by accidentally swallowing a ''spoon'' of all things.
* ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals: In "Let's Play Bye Bye, Yoghurt", it rains at the funeral.
* ItAmusedMe: Unlike Mr. Cat and Olaf, who have {{Freudian Excuse}}s, Stumpy has no reason to torment people other than his own amusement.
* ITasteDelicious: In one episode, [[TheDitz Stumpy]] gets a job at a fast-food restaurant and starts to smell like fries after working for a long time. He then licks his arm and remarks on how good he tastes.
* IWantMyMommy: In one episode, Stumpy uses a PortalDoor to go inside Mr. Cat's brain. Mr. Cat tells him to leave, but he refuses to, so Mr. Cat imagines something disgusting which attacks Stumpy. Stumpy runs out screaming for his mother.
* IWantSong: [[spoiler: Stumpy sings one in Episode 105, with [[TheChewToy Stumpy]] explaining how he wants all the abuse to stop and for people to treat him better.]]
* IWasJustJoking: In "Let's Play Detectives", after Kaeloo finds out that [[spoiler: [[GadgeteerGenius Mr. Cat]] built a cloning machine]], she complains that it feels too much like a science fiction episode instead of a detective episode, and sarcastically asks him why he doesn't add some bazookas and lasers. Which turns out to be a bad question to ask someone who owns three of them.
* JawDrop: Kaeloo's reaction to anything she finds shocking, e.g. Stumpy eating a huge pile of food at a really high speed and throwing all the packaging on the ground.
* JekyllAndHyde: Kaeloo and Bad Kaeloo, a cute gentle frog and a huge, buffed sadistic toad respectively.
* JerkassFacade: Mr. Cat has outright confessed to Kaeloo that he has a sensitive and vulnerable side that he hides by being mean.
* JokerJury:
** Episode 35 Inverts the heroic and villainous roles by having Mr. Cat, the villain, be put on trial with the judge (who is none other than [[TheDitz Stumpy]]), the defense attorney ([[BitchInSheepsClothing Kaeloo]]) and the victim (Quack Quack) all wanting him to get punished. [[spoiler: [[ManipulativeBitch Kaeloo]] wins the case by manipulating Mr. Cat into confessing that he was guilty.]]
** In Episode 118, the heroic and villainous roles are inverted again. This time, the AlphaBitch Pretty is pur on trial. Kaeloo, who hates Pretty, is the judge. Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat, who hate Pretty even more than Kaeloo does, are the jury. The lawyer provided to Pretty is a sheep. Not a FunnyAnimal, an ordinary sheep. Obviously, Pretty is punished.
* JudicialWig: The trope is parodied in one episode where Quack Quack is a judge. The wig is made out of toilet paper rolls.
* JugglingDangerously: Stumpy does this in "Let's Play Circuses". It goes well until his mother calls him on the phone, having seen this on live TV and wanting to make sure her kid is safe. [[WhatAnIdiot He neglects the chainsaws in the air and picks up the phone.]]
* JustOneMoreLevel: Stumpy suffers from a very serious video game addiction, to the extent that when Kaeloo takes his game console away from him in one episode all he can do is crawl on the ground weakly saying "My console...".
* KafkaKomedy: Almost any time Mr. Cat actually does something nice, he winds up suffering horribly as a result. The same often applies to Kaeloo.
* KarmaHoudini: If Mr. Cat and Stumpy pull something off together, Stumpy almost always escapes. Pretty also doesn't receive any punishment for intentionally [[BlackComedyBurst shooting and killing a horse]] and bullying Kaeloo in "What if We Played at Riding Ponies?", and Quack Quack escapes in "Let’s Play at Reading Books" for doing the exact same thing as Mr. Cat. Even Mr. Cat gets away with some things, like selling dumpster trash as food in a restaurant.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty:
** In Episode 56, the AlphaBitch Pretty gets away with forcefully taking a horse away from Kaeloo, and shooting a horse with a gun just because she doesn't like it. In Episode 82, [[spoiler: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat succeed in getting her humiliated on the news.]]
** In Episode 118, Pretty gets away with posting embarrassing pictures of the main four online. She does this again a few episodes later to Kaeloo, but this time, she enters a competetion and finds out that the judge is Kaeloo, who promptly fails her.
** Whenever Mr. Cat is driving his car, his jerkassery levels increase. Examples of this include deliberately driving at a ridiculously slow speed in order to slow Kaeloo down when she's in a hurry since her car is behind his, or in another episode, ramming his car into Kaeloo's because she's going too slow and he's behind her. In Episode 134, Stumpy, who is angry at Mr. Cat, gets a bunch of clones of himself, who destroy the car... by holding an impromptu demolition derby while Mr. Cat is driving.
* KickTheDog: "Let's Play Treasure Hunt" has the main four go camping. Mr. Cat says he will get wood for the fire. It turns out he's too lazy to go get any, so he just sets Stumpy's favorite comic books on fire. Stumpy starts crying, and Mr. Cat callously tells the "spoiled brat" to shut up.
* KidsAreCruel: All the characters are children under thirteen, yet most of them are unspeakably cruel, with even the nice ones sometimes being mean. The most prominent examples of this trope are [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]], who finds any excuse to hurt anyone (especially Quack Quack) in horrible ways, and [[AlphaBitch Pretty]], who is rude, snobbish, and looks down on people with less money or who are ugly.
* KissOfLife: In Episode 61, Pretty finds Mr. Cat, who has been stranded on an island, and offers to do this. He declines and points out that he's perfectly fine, so [[ComedicSociopathy she knocks him out with a baseball bat and gives it to him anyway.]]
* KissUpTheArm: Mr. Cat does this to Kaeloo in some episodes.
* LarynxDissonance: Since Kaeloo is voiced by a man in every dub, she often winds up sounding more like a boy. Her voice is even more boyish in the pilot.
* LastSecondWordSwap: When Mr. Cat is singing a rap song with words ending in "uck":
-->'''Mr. Cat''': [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar I really couldn't give a f-]]\\
'''Kaeloo''': MISTER CAAAAAT!\\
'''Mr. Cat''': [[BlatantLies I meant truck!]] [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion Firetruck!]]
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In Episode 69, which is a {{parody| episode}} of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'', the main four teach the viewers to speak in different languages: Kaeloo in English, Mr. Cat in German, [[TheUnintelligible Quack Quack]] in quacks, and [[TheDitz Stumpy]] in Spanish. They decide to teach the phrase "The grass is green."
-->'''Kaeloo''': The grass is green!\\
'''Quack Quack''': Quack!\\
'''Mr. Cat''': Das gras ist grün!\\
'''Stumpy (singing)''': [[GratuitousSpanish Tapas, parilla, grilla madre de pizza, en vida, comme cheetah gorilla!]]
* LateForSchool: Stumpy and Quack Quack in Episode 94. Miraculously, Kaeloo manages to drop them off on time, but she winds up being late for work as a result.
* LatexPerfection: In Episode 65, Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack have masks that make them look just like Mr. Cat.
** Mr. Cat also wears a FullBodyDisguise of Bad Kaeloo, and later of Pretty, both of which look just like the real deal.
* LaughTrack: Used when the cast make their own sitcom. At one point, it plays when [[ButtMonkey Stumpy]] walks in through the door (and does nothing else), annoying him.
* LeeroyJenkins: In an episode of the second season, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Pretty are looking for a magical artifact in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. At one point, they go into a chamber with horizontally suspended ropes. Kaeloo says that if they touch the ropes, it might trigger a trap, so they have to move slowly and carefully. [[TheDitz Stumpy]] picks up a knife and runs through the chamber, cutting them all and triggering the trap. Stumpy escapes the trap, but the other three are impaled by Annoying Arrows and get mad at him.
* LethalChef: Everybody on the show is an absolutely horrible cook.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: Mr. Cat often uses this to either AccentuateTheNegative about something or make it seem BetterThanItSounds.
* LetsMeetTheMeat: The yogurts Quack Quack eats [[FridgeHorror are shown to be sentient.]]
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: In one episode, Kaeloo, a hermaphrodite, and Stumpy, a boy, both enter the girls' bathroom. They both find each other there and ask what the other is doing in there. After an awkward silence, both of them silently agree not to ever speak about it again.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Kaeloo and Stumpy, to the point that she even refers to him as her little brother in one episode.
* LimitedSocialCircle: The cast only ever interact with one another. It's implied that Mr. Cat and Pretty have other friends, but these people never appear on the show.
* LiteralAssKicking: Stumpy does this to Kaeloo in Episode 109 in an attempt to make her angry. While it hurts her, she doesn't get mad because she knew he was trying to anger her.
* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Quack Quack and Eugly, who live next door to each other, are an OfficialCouple.
* LiteralMinded:
** Stumpy takes the "prison" in "prison-ball" far too literally in the first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball".
** In an episode where the main four meet their MirrorUniverse counterparts and get into a fight with them, Stumpy throws books at them and yells "Eat books!". AlternateUniverse!Mr. Cat, being the opposite of Mr. Cat and therefore a moron instead of a genius, picks up the books he threw and eats them.
* LockedInTheBathroom: Stumpy locks himself in the bathroom and starts crying in the MusicalEpisode when [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] steals the lyrics to a song Stumpy literally had to make a DealWithTheDevil to write.
* LongDistanceRelationship: Stumpy and Ursula have one of these. Ursula occasionally visits, like when Stumpy is in the hospital or when she sees Smileyland submerged in darkness and believes that there's an emergency.
* LongList:
** Kaeloo's list of qualities a boy needs to impress a girl, shown in the episode "Let's Play Hot-Cold".
** Kaeloo's even longer list of Mr. Cat's character flaws takes her an entire day to recite.
* LookBehindYou: In the episode "Let's Play Golf", Kaeloo, who has the power of HulkingOut, plays golf with her friends. Each time it's her turn, she tells everyone to look at something in the distance, e.g. a "flying rhinoceros", and then Hulks Out to hit the ball. Unfortunately for her, her final attempt ends in Stumpy, who is standing behind her, witnessing everything and telling the others.
* LosingYourHead: Happens to Quack Quack a lot.
* LostFoodGrievance: Quack Quack's BerserkButton is anyone destroying yogurt or preventing him from getting it in some way. When this happens, even Mr. Cat isn't safe from his anger.
* LotsOfLuggage: Pretty packs several suitcases in Episode 77 when she is told to bring a strict minimum of stuff.
* LotusEaterMachine: One episode has Kaeloo play with a virtual reality game where she can't [[HulkingOut transform]] as long as she plays. [[IJustWantToBeNormal Having wanted to get rid of this power for a very long time]], Kaeloo is finally happy and refuses to stop playing the game. Her friends have to rescue her from the game becauze it slowly starts to drive her insane. In a variant of the trope, she is fully aware of what it is, she just doesn't ''want'' to leave because she now has what she wanted the most.
* LoudOfWar: Several episodes have Mr. Cat pull out a megaphone and yell at the top of his lungs at someone he finds annoying.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Quack Quack and Eugly fell in love as soon as they saw each other.
* LoveConfession: Mr. Cat has done this to Kaeloo on more than one occasion. Sadly, all of them fail because she thinks he's joking.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: While he wasn't exactly nice to begin with, it's heavily implied that Mr. Cat wouldn't do so many evil deeds if he didn't have a crush on Bad Kaeloo.
* LovePotion: In [[BeachEpisode Episode 80]], [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] buys a love potion so she can get Mr. Cat, who absolutely despises her, to fall in love with her. [[spoiler: She puts it in a glass and asks Mr. Cat if he is thirsty and wants a drink. Unfortunately, [[TheDitz Stumpy]], who is extremely thirsty, walks up behind her, snatches the potion and drinks it up. To Pretty's disgust and horror, Stumpy falls in love with her instead of Mr. Cat.]]
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[[folder: Tropes M to R]]
* MacGyvering: [[GadgeteerGenius Mr. Cat]] once built a [[spoiler: cloning machine]] using a pair of toilet plungers, a cardboard box, a wooden board and some wires.
* MadDoctor: Mr. Cat in [[SickEpisode "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses"]].
* MadLibsCatchphrase:
** If Mr. Cat hears a fact that he finds shocking or annoying, he usually yells "What do you mean, [insert fact here]?!".
** And then there's Stumpy's "Are you [insert adjective here] or what?!"
* MadLove: Pretty just doesn't get the fact that Mr. Cat despises her.
* TheMagazineRule: There's a magazine called "Oh La La", featuring [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar girls in skimpy outfits]].
* MagicalFlutist: In Episode 132, Mr. Cat somehow gets hold of a magic flute and tries to use it to lead a bunch of sheep into a trap so he can barbecue them.
* MagicVersusScience: Mr. Cat does not believe in magic and always tries to look at things from a scientific point of view. This being a show which has a lot of SurrealHumor, he's proven wrong more often than not.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: This being a SadistShow that practically runs on FamilyUnfriendlyViolence, this happens with everyone. For example, in one episode, Stumpy accidentally unleashes a [[AnnoyingArrows bunch of arrows]] onto Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Pretty. Rather than scream or show any signs of pain, they just glare at him, annoyed.
* MakeAWish:
** In Episode 93, when Stumpy and Quack Quack realize that they don't know when Quack Quack's birthday is, they can call any day his birthday and blow out a candle to make a wish on that day. They decide to use it on the current day. While Quack Quack blows on the candles, Stumpy makes the wish for him and wishes for [[spoiler: [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext himself and their other friends to become pole dancers.]]]]
** In Episode 129, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat try to stay up late so they can see a shooting star and make a wish on it. [[spoiler: Kaeloo and Quack Quack fall asleep, Stumpy stays up but is so tired that he wastes his wish on asking for a bed, and Mr. Cat asks for his own bar and several clones of Kaeloo.]]
* MakeMeWannaShout: Both Bad Kaeloo and Mr. Cat can yell loud enough to send people flying into the air.
* MandatoryLine: In one or two episodes, Mr. Cat will show up at the very end and start yelling at someone despite not having anything to do with the rest of the plot. In one episode, it's even lampshaded when his line is him asking how they made a whole episode without him.
* ManOnFire: Happens to Stumpy and Quack Quack all too often.
* MaritalRapeLicense: In "Let's Play House", when the gang are PlayingHouse with Kaeloo as the mother and Mr. Cat as the father, Mr. Cat tries to have sex with her even though she never consented and says he is "exercising his marital rights". Fortunately, she gets up and walks away before he does anything.
* MarriageOfConvenience: The show parodies the trope in one episode where Pretty decides to get married - to Quack Quack, who she doesn't even like - just to get the chance to wear a wedding dress. When the others try to call her out on this, she goes on a rant about how much pain she had to endure to lose enough weight to be able to fit into the dress.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: [[OutnumberedSibling Stumpy has 36 sisters.]] This means that including him, there are 37 kids in his family.
* MassOhCrap: The main four do this at the end of Episode 76 when they realize that [[spoiler: their interference with the past has somehow undone the extinction of the dinosaurs.]]
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Sometimes it really isn't clear whether Kaeloo likes Mr. Cat back or just sees him as a friend, though there ''are'' a lot of hints she has a crush on him.
* MatureAnimalStory: Despite its FunnyAnimal cast, the show is really quite mature.
* MayanDoomsday: Episode 77 revolves around the cast panicking about the end of the world sonce the Mayans predicted that the world would end in 24 hours from the time of the start of that episode. [[spoiler: Kaeloo herself launches a meteor onto the planet, but thankfully everyone escapes the planet except Stumpy, who also [[IronButtMonkey survives the meteor landing]].]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is never quite clear whether the events in some of the games they play actually happen or take place only in their imagination. For instance, one episode where they play at being in an airliner makes it repeatedly clear that they are only sitting in chairs on the ground, even when they are supposed to be crashing, yet they flow around when the plane takes off and Mister Cat later jumps with a parachute and falls for some time before hitting the ground. However, in another episode, the same airplane actually leaves the cast stranded on an island.
* MeadowRun: The show actually managed to subvert the trope in Episode 111 by using the BaitAndSwitch trope. Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are on the beach when they turn their heads in the opposite direction and the viewers assume that they are looking at each other. They are both separately shown running with outstretched arms, leading the viewers to believe that they are running towards each other... [[spoiler: and then the camera pans out to reveal that they're both running in the same direction, towards the bathroom.]]
* MeaningfulName: "Kaeloo" means frog in Japanese, Stumpy didn’t have hands in the original concept, Quack-Quack can only say quack, Mr. Cat [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is a cat]], Pretty is beautiful, and Eugly is… not so beautiful.
* MeanBoss:
** Mr. Cat to Stumpy in Episode 64, when Stumpy is made to WorkOffTheDebt at a fast food restaurant. He underpays him, mistreats him and yells at him.
** Mr. Cat, again, to Kaeloo in Episode 94. This time, they are in an office setting, and he accuses her of being a slacker even though she's trying very hard to be a good worker. [[spoiler: He fires her near the end of the episode.]]
* MeatgrinderSurgery:
** [[spoiler: Stumpy winds up being a victim of this in Episode 78 when Olaf tries to turn him into a cyborg by giving him surgery with no anasthetic using a drill and a chainsaw. Miraculously, he survives it, but his cyborganic implants suck. Fortunately, NegativeContinuity has him back to normal by the next episode.]]
** Stumpy again winds up being a victim of this when he asks [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] to help him when he has a toothache. Mr. Cat uses a chainsaw, a jackhammer and other things and somehow turns Stumpy's head into a fire extinguisher. Stumpy is back to normal in a few minutes.
* MeatOVision: In "Let's Play Trap-Trap", Quack Quack hallucinates Kaeloo and Stumpy as yogurts after not eating any for nearly an hour.
* MechaMooks: [[spoiler: Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat come across a huge army of these in Episode 104]].
* MediumAwareness: The characters are aware that they are in a cartoon, and occasionally reference it, for instance saying they don't like the current episode. In one case, Kaeloo asks the director to replay a scene backward.
** It enters NightmareFuel territory at the end of Episode 105, where [[spoiler: Stumpy breaks into the animation studio and announces to the animators that he will be writing all the episodes from that point on.]]
* MegatonPunch: Serguei and Bad Kaeloo have done this several times.
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Taken UpToEleven. One episode revealed that every single person on the show is in need of intensive psychotherapy.
* MesACrowd:
** Mr. Cat has the ability to clone himself at random. He also owns a cloning machine, which he invented.
** In Episode 134, Stumpy is supernaturally granted several clones of himself, which annoy Kaeloo and Mr. Cat. [[spoiler: At the end, Kaeloo and Mr. Cat get rid of the clones by claiming that a package in the mail came for Stumpy from Ursula, but only one Stumpy can get it. The original Stumpy opens a PortalDoor to another dimension and tells the clones that Ursula is on the other side, and once they run through, he closes the door, trapping them there forever.]]
* MetronomicManMashing: Bad Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat.
* MindControlEyes: If a character gets put under mind control or hypnosis, their irises shrink and they open their eyes wider.
* MiniGolfEpisode: The episode "Let's Play Golf".
* MinimalistCast: In the first season, the main four are the only characters. Afterwards, it's just them, Pretty, Eugly and Olaf. In the rare event that anyone else shows up, they're [[TheUnseen offscreen for their whole appearance]], such as Jean Guillaume the psychotherapist and Ursula.
* MinorInjurryOverreaction: Mr. Cat is capable of laughing off the pain of having a bunch of knives stuck in his body, but his reaction to having a whisker pulled off involves screaming and nursing the affected area for a long time.
* MirrorMatch: Stumpy once tried playing RockPaperScissors against... his own reflection, who he thought was another squirrel.
* MirrorUniverse:
** "Let's Play Astronauts" shows us a universe where Kaeloo transforms from a hige hulking monster into a little girl when she gets mad, Stumpy is a math-loving genius, and Mr. Cat and Quack Quack are known as Mr. Duck and Meow Meow, and have each other's personalities.
** Episode 70 gave us another one where Kaeloo is a SternTeacher instead of a gentle and fun-loving person who transforms from toad to frog (her transformations are also caused by cuddling instead of irritation), Stumpy, who is an idiot, is smart and Mr. Cat, one of the smartest characters, is a moron.
* MischiefForPunishment:
** Mr. Cat tries to make Kaeloo angry on purpose, because he likes it when she transforms.
** Stumpy does this in an episode where Kaeloo forces him to play "school" with her as the teacher and him as one of the students, hoping that he can get kicked out of class.
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: When the main four stop fighting and actually work together, they can take down anything from an army of angry ghosts to their own AlternateUniverse counterparts.
* MisleadingPackageSize: In "Let's Play Magicians", Kaeloo receives a giant box with nothing inside but a top hat and magic wand.
* MisplacedSorrow: In Episode 81, Stumpy starts drowning in quicksand in the middle of the desert. Everybody panics and pulls him out... because their supplies are in his backpack.
* MistakenForAnImposter:
** In Episode 65, Mr. Cat puts on a Pretty disguise and sneaks past Kaeloo, who is angrily looking for him. [[DelayedReaction Kaeloo then realizes]] that it was Mr. Cat, so she goes looking for him. She then sees the real Pretty and tries to rip her face off thinking it's a mask.
** Pretty becomes a victim of this trope again in Epsiode 83. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Stumpy]] is waiting for [[TheUnseen Ursula]] to show up to a party, then he suddenly gets the idea that someone at the party is Ursula in disguise, spying on him. He then tries to rip Pretty's face off, again thinking it's a mask.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Hilariously subverted. [[AllLovingHero Kae]][[IdiotHero loo]] believes this to be the case for [[MadScientist Olaf]]. He actually ''is'' insane and evil, [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter she just doesn't realize it.]]
* MobileShrubbery: In Episode 68, Stumpy tries to disguise himself as a bush to listen in on a conversation he isn't supposed to hear. The others immediately identify him, but he [[BlatantLies keeps claiming to be a bush]].
* ModestyShorts: [[PolarOppositeTwins The bunny twins]] wear these under their skirts.
* ModestyTowel: In one episode, Kaeloo does a painting of Quack Quack wearing no clothes except a leaf covering his crotch. Once she's done, Quack Quack wraps a towel around his waist.
* {{Mondegreen}}: When Kaeloo tells [[TheDitz Stumpy]] that if he tried to be peaceful he could win the Nobel Peace Prize, he thinks she said "Frozen Peas Prize" and points out that he eats acorns, not frozen peas.
* MoodWhiplash: If anything sad happens, it's certain to be followed by a funny moment.
** From the episode [[BabysittingEpisode "Let's Play Babysitting"]]:
-->'''Mr. Cat''': As a kitten, I was tied up in a sack and thrown into a rushing river. I was saved by a salmon, [[RaisedByWolves raised like her own son.]] Her greatest quality... she couldn't talk at all.
** In the episode "Let's Play Spies", everybody is injected with TruthSerum. Bad Kaeloo reveals that she considers herself to be ugly, Mr. Cat confesses that he was abused by his family, and Stumpy reveals... that he [[WholesomeCrossdresser enjoys dressing as a girl]] when nobody else is around.
** In Episode 104, [[spoiler: Olaf gives Kaeloo and Mr. Cat a tragic flashback... and is interrupted by the sound of them snoring, having fallen asleep out of boredom.]]
** In one episode, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack, Pretty and Eugly are watching TV. The show they're watching has a wedding scene. Pretty remarks, in admiration, that the actress playing the bride is beautiful. Then, she suddenly turns angry and calls the actress a "bitch" for being prettier than her.
* {{Mooning}}: Stumpy does this to Kaeloo once in order to anger her [[MakesSenseInContext because he urgently needs her to transform.]]
* MultiarmedMultitasking: Invoked in one episode, where [[MadScientist Mr. Cat]] operates on Quack Quack in a laboratory in order to give him this ability.
* MultipleChoicePast: Mr. Cat's early childhood. All the choices are horrible, but there are many different ones. For example, one version says that he was tied up in a sack and thrown into a river, then subsequently [[RaisedByWolves rescued and raised by a salmon]]. Another one says he ran away from home to escape from a very abusive family and wound up in Smileyland.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Every episode is about the characters trying to play a simple game, which culminates in explosions, [[ChaseScene car chases]], and the like.
* MuscleAngst: After [[spoiler: being shot with TruthSerum]], Mr. Cat confesses that he wishes he had bigger muscles.
* MusicalEpisode: Episode 89.
* MusicalisInterruptus: In one episode, [[HollywoodToneDeaf Stumpy]] tries to start a song, but Mr. Cat throws a frying pan at him to get him to stop.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Used as a one-scene gag in one episode where Kaeloo gets addicted to coffee, which is never brought up again.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Kaeloo's general reaction to hurting her friends.
** Mr. Cat's reaction to finding out that [[spoiler: his actions have caused Kaeloo to decide to leave Smileyland]] in "Let's Play Courtroom Drama".
** Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat's reaction when they realize [[spoiler: what bad friends they've been to Stumpy over the years]] in Episode 105.
* Mr. Cat's reaction to realizing that he may have [[spoiler: permanently killed Quack Quack]] in Episode 125, though he doesn't do anything to indicate that he's happy when it turns out that he didn't actually do it.
* MyGodYouAreSerious: In Episode 121, Olaf informs the main four that they have been fired. They start laughing, but he then reveals that he was sent by the management, so they realize that they actually have been fired.
* MythologyGag: Stumpy's ''name'' is a MythologyGag. In the original concept for the show, he was supposed to have stumps instead of hands.
* NailedToTheWagon: In the episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", Kaeloo hides all of Quack Quack's [[GRatedDrug yogurt]] so he can't eat it for one hour. Unfortunately, he undergoes "yogurt withdrawal", and then he [[MeatOVision hallucinates his friends as giant yogurts]] [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty and tries to cannibalize them.]]
* NapInducingSpeak: A RunningGag on the show is for someone to give a really long speech or lecture, and for one or more of the audience members to fall asleep.
* {{Narrator}}: Episode 139 featured a narrator, who the cast found so annoying that [[BlackComedyBurst Stumpy got Mr. Cat to shoot him with a bazooka at the end of the episode.]]
* NaturalSpotlight: A RunningGag in "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel" is that a person, or the Gruel itself, gets illuminated by light from the sky whenever someone says "Wholly Gruel".
* NeckLift: Bad Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat OnceAnEpisode.
* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: In one episode, Mr. Cat and Stumpy are playing soccer and will win the game if they can just score one goal. They put all their strength into one kick and kick the ball at the same time. The ball goes so fast it catches fire... and goes just to the side of the goalpost.
* NegateYourOwnSacrifice: The indestructible Quack Quack has "sacrificed" himself several times for his friends' safety.
* NegativeContinuity: Several characters have been decapitated, blown up, launched into orbit, driven to madness, turned into zombies, [[TrappedInAnotherWorld trapped in alternate dimensions]] [[TrappedInThePast or different time periods]]... Heck, [[spoiler: the world even [[EarthShatteringKaboom blew up]]]] once! Yet everything is always back to normal in the next episode.
* NeverMyFault: In the episode "Let's Play Golf", Stumpy says something to Kaeloo shortly before she hits a golf ball. When Kaeloo fails to hit the ball, rather than admit her bad golf skills, she accuses Stumpy of making her lose her concentration by talking. Stumpy even lampshades this by saying that she's just blaming him for her own mistakes.
* NewhartPhoneCall: Whenever [[TheGhost Ursula]] is talking on the phone with Stumpy, this happens so that the audience doesn't see her.
* NewNeighboursAsThePlotDemands: [[RememberTheNewGuy How Pretty and Eugly were introduced.]] Stumpy asks who they are, and Kaeloo is surprised that he doesn't know that they're their neighbors.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Stumpy tries to play a game with a bunch of figurines called "ninja terrorists".
* NoFourthWall: The characters speak directly to the audience and are fully aware of the fact that they're in a cartoon.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: OnceAnEpisode, Bad Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat as punishment for whatever evil things he did through the episode.
* NoirEpisode: "Let's Play Detectives".
* NonFatalExplosions: Stuff blows up in every episode, yet nobody dies [[TheyKilledKennyAgain (usually)]].
* NonverbalMiscommunication: Sometimes happens with Quack Quack.
* NoodleIncident:
* In the Season 1 finale, Stumpy remarks that Mr. Cat seems to know a lot about funerals. Mr. Cat replies, in a sad tone of voice, that he knows "a little too much" about them.
** In one episode, [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] mentions that some girl dared to disagree with her about something. Rather than say exactly what she did to the girl, she simply ends the story by saying "That poor girl..."
** In Episode 94, Kaeloo mentions something about Stumpy being kicked out of art class at school. She doesn't say why, and the incident is never brought up again.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty:
** Quack Quack tries to cannibalize Kaeloo and Stumpy in "Let's Play Trap-Trap" after undergoing "[[GRatedDrug yogurt]] withdrawal" and [[MeatOVision hallucinating them as giant yogurts]]. [[spoiler: [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] manages to rescue them, but not before Quack Quack eats half of Kaeloo's brain.]]
** In Episode 61, [[BigEater Stumpy]] tries to eat Kaeloo after being stranded on an island. He can later be seen gnawing on Eugly's ear.
* NotAGame: Practically everything that happens on the show is treated as a game by everyone except [[HarmlessVillain Olaf]], who winds up using this line very often.
* NotAMask:
** In Episode 65, Mr. Cat wears a disguise as Pretty. Kaeloo thinks that the real Pretty is Mr. Cat disguised as Pretty and tries to pull her face off until she sees the real Mr. Cat somewhere else.
** Happens to Pretty again in Episode 83, this time with Stumpy thinking she's Ursula in disguise.
* NotHyperbole: In one episode, [[HatesBeingTouched Mr. Cat]] threatened to [[DisproportionateRetribution kill Kaeloo and Stumpy if they touched him]]... [[MyGodYouAreSerious while holding a knife to Kaeloo's throat and a bazooka to Stumpy's head.]]
* NotMeThisTime: Some episodes have people accuse Mr. Cat of being the villain when in reality he has nothing to do with whatever happened.
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** Mr. Cat always pretends he can't be bothered to play games with the others, but when they ''don't'' invite him to join them, he gets really, really mad.
** In one episode, Mr. Cat opens a restaurant that is clearly designed to be a TakeThat at UsefulNotes/McDonalds. [[spoiler: When the food gives Pretty multiple organ failure, everybody starts protesting the restaurant, so he offers them free toys with their food. Everybody except Kaeloo rushes off to get toys while she looks on in disapproval, but when a toy lands near her feet she plays with it after making sure nobody is looking.]]
* NotSoInnocentWhistle: Stumpy does this whenever he's done something stupid or screwed something up and someone demands to know who did it.
* NumberTwoForBrains: This trope comes into play whenever Stumpy is working under Mr. Cat.
* ObliviousToLove: Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are both unaware of the fact that the other is attracted to them.
* ObfuscatingDisability: In Episode 128, while trying various methods to trick people into giving him money, Stumpy tries faking being crippled. Since the show has a MinimalistCast, everyone already knows each other, and Kaeloo tells right away that he's faking. She pays him anyway because it was such a good act it would have seemed believable to anyone else.
* OcularGushers: Everyone cries this way, most of the time.
* OddFriendship:
** Kaeloo and Mr. Cat. One is kind, friendly, cheerful and idealistic, and the other is grouchy, rude, lazy and sarcastic, yet they're still very close friends.
** Stumpy and Quack Quack are best friends. Stumpy sucks at everything, is a complete idiot and is usually a {{jerkass}} to his friends because of the way they treat him. Quack Quack, on the other hand, is a NiceGuy despite the bad treatment he receives, he is [[TheAce extremely talented at everything]] and is a [[DitzyGenius "genius"]].
* OedipusComplex: Mr. Cat apparently had one towards his mother, which he almost got over with some therapy.
* OffhandBackhand: Quack Quack does this to Mr. Cat in "Let's Play Prince Charming" after the latter pushes his BerserkButton.
* OfficialCouple:
** Quack Quack and Eugly.
** Stumpy and Ursula.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Mr. Cat is insanely capable of doing this, even without one of his cat flaps.
* OhCrapSmile: Mr. Cat usually does this when Bad Kaeloo is about to beat him up, or even when Kaeloo gets mad without transforming.
* OhNoNotAgain:
** In the HalloweenEpisode, this is everyone's reaction to Stumpy's stupid zombie impression (which involves dancing like in ''Music/{{Thriller}}'').
** In one of the earlier episodes, [[GadgeteerGenius Mr. Cat]] invents a machine which hurts Quack Quack, prompting Kaeloo to say:
-->'''Kaeloo:''' Mr. Cat, if this is another one of your mean-spirited, two-bit inventions[[note]]Later episodes have him make several more[[/note]]...
** In Episode 110, Kaeloo and Quack Quack drag [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Stumpy]] to a psychotherapist, and he starts screaming that he doesn't want to go the the psychotherapist's office "again".
* OnceAnEpisode:
** Kaeloo HulkingOut.
** Mr. Cat torturing Quack Quack with some weapon.
** Kaeloo yelling "[[SayMyName MISTER CAAAAAAAT!]]" (or "STUMPYYYYYYY!" or "PRETTYYYY!").
* OneHitWonder: In one episode from Season 2, Kaeloo, Quack Quack, Mr. Cat, Eugly and Pretty form their own rock band and make up a song that becomes very popular. The group winds up quitting the music business because at their second concert, which was also going to play the same song, the fans cheer so loudly that they (and Stumpy, who was backstage) all go deaf.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: In "Let's Play Spies", [[spoiler: Mr. Cat assures Kaeloo that he wouldn't have betrayed her if not for the fact that he badly needed the money.]]
* OnlyOneName: Everyone except Mr. Cat. Even in his case, his first name is not revealed.
* OnlySaneWoman: Eugly fills in this role. Kaeloo is a CloudCuckoolander who has no idea what's going on around her, Quack Quack is addicted to [[GRatedDrug yogurt]], Mr. Cat is AxCrazy, Pretty is a StalkerWithACrush who's also obsessed with beauty, Olaf wants to TakeOverTheWorld, and Stumpy is... Well, [[TheDitz Stumpy]]. When Eugly is absent from an episode, the role is usually shifted to Kaeloo or Mr. Cat.
* OnlyThePureOfHeart:
** In "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel", Kaeloo says that only the pure of heart can get the Gruel.
** In Episode 105, it's stated that only people with pure hearts should [[MakesSenseInContext activate the switch.]] [[spoiler: The person who does wind up activating it is anything but pure of heart - it's an angry Stumpy, out to get revenge on his friends.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Mr. Cat's voice actor sometimes slips back into his Australian accent, which results in Mr. Cat having a weird accent that sounds like a mix between American and Australian at times.
* OpenSaysMe: Mr. Cat shoots the door to [[spoiler: Olaf's lair]] open in Episode 104.
* OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople: Parodied in one episode where Stumpy opens the door and a crowd of random people start throwing things at him for ''no reason at all''. He then asks why they are there.
* OppositesAttract: Kind, friendly, cheerful Kaeloo and sarcastic, grouchy, rude Mr. Cat have crushes on each other, but they aren't aware that the feeling is mutual.
* OrphanedEtymology: The cast mention people like Music/BritneySpears, shows like Series/{{House}} and places like Hawaii... all while living on Planet Smileyland, not Earth.
** In one episode, Stumpy actually says that the cast went on vacation to ''Australia''!
* OstrichHeadHiding: Quack Quack does this when playing hide and seek in Episode 70. Despite being a duck and not an ostrich. It works on Kaeloo, AlternateUniverse!Stumpy and AlternateUniverse!Quack Quack.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: In the episode "Let's Play Astronauts", the main four go to an AlternateUniverse where Kaeloo's [[HulkingOut transformation]] happens in reverse, Mr. Cat and Quack Quack have each other's personalities and Stumpy is a genius. While Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat hit it off with the other counterparts, Stumpy's math-loving, comic-book hating InsufferableGenius counterpart annoys him to no end.
* OutnumberedSibling: Stumpy has 36 sisters and is therefore the only boy in a family with 37 kids.
* OutOfCharacterMoment:
** For whatever reason, Pretty is nice to the others in Episode 57, where she treats Kaeloo like her best friend and treats Stumpy like an actual person.
** Kaeloo cheats at golf in "Let's Play Golf", [[spoiler: [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates Mr. Cat's emotions]] and shows no remorse for it]] in [[CourtroomEpisode "Let's Play Courtroom Drama"]], and sets up a rigged game show for Mr. Cat to participate in where he would suffer even if he won in Episode 68.
** The normally intelligent Mr. Cat does unbelievably stupid things in episodes like "[[CircusEpisode Let's Play Circuses]]" and Episode 106.
** In "Let's Play Golf", Kaeloo cheats, Quack Quack gets mad at Mr. Cat instead of forgiving him, the normally intelligent Mr. Cat thinks that the planet isn't round, and the idiot Stumpy is the only one who doesn't fall for Kaeloo's trick.
** Episode 133 has Stumpy and Quack Quack act like elitist snobs, Pretty show remorse for being mean to Kaeloo and Mr. Cat being very, very nice to Kaeloo.
** Kaeloo normally tries to portray herself as pure and innocent, but in Episode 141, while on a parody of ''Series/TheVoice'', she ends up [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar wearing a revealing outfit and performing a sexually suggestive dance]] because she thinks it'll help her win.
* PainPoweredLeap:
** Mr. Cat does this in "Let's Play Figurines" when [[spoiler: Stumpy pokes a voodoo doll of him with a sharp object]].
** Kaeloo does this in Episode 77 after she is hit on the rear by a [[spoiler: tiny, burning meteorite]].
* PaintingTheFrostOnWindows: The cast have complete control over the weather, the time of day, and pretty much their whole environment.
* PaperThinDisguise: Stumpy is denied access to a girls-only nightclub by a bouncer, so he returns in a wig claiming to be a girl. This fools the bouncer despite him having seen Stumpy literally a few seconds earlier.
* ParanormalEpisode: The episode "Let's Play Paranormal Stuff" has the main four hold a séance to contact spirits. [[spoiler: Quack Quack winds up possessed.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: One of Mr. Cat's MultipleChoicePast backstories had a particularly cruel example where shortly after he was born, he was tied up in a sack and thrown into a river to drown. Fortunately, he was saved by a salmon and [[RaisedByWolves raised by her]].
* ParentalFavoritism: Mr. Cat was apparently his mother's favorite child, to the chagrin of his two older brothers.
* ParentalIncest: Mr. Cat mentions having developed an oedipus complex at some point in his life and having fallen in love with his mother.
* ParentalNeglect: Depending on the episode, Stumpy may or may not be a victim of this.
* ParentalSubstitute: Kaeloo is one to Quack Quack, who lost his parents before he was even hatched from his egg.
* ParodyEpisode: Episode 69 is a parody of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer''.
* ParodyMagicSpell: Subverted in "Let's Play Happy Rotter", an episode parodying ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Kaeloo says that there are lots of spells ending in "us" and "or", but they turn out to be legitimate-sounding magic spells instead of English words with suffixes.
* ParodyNames: One of Kaeloo's favorite book series is "[[Literature/HarryPotter Happy Rotter]]", a story in which a young wizard named Happy Rotter (Harry Potter) and his friends "Red" (Ron) and "Morpione"[[note]]The name "Morpione" is a way of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, since "morpion" means "crab louse" in French, the show's original language [[/note]] (Hermione) who go to a wizard school and face off against the evil dark wizard "Voldemob" (Voldemort), who murdered Happy's parents when he was a baby.
* PatchworkKids: Quack Quack's ImagineSpot of Kaeloo and Mr. Cat's children in "Let's Play Babysitting" depicts orange, whiskered tadpoles.
* PeopleJars: [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Olaf]] has these in his lair. [[spoiler: He [[HarmlessFreezing freezes Kaeloo and Mr. Cat alive]] and puts them inside in the second season finale.]]
* PercussiveTherapy:
** In Episode 105, when Mr. Cat gets angry at Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack, he goes around kicking sheep and smashing trees [[GolfClubbing with golf clubs]] in order to calm himself down.
** When Stumpy suffers a misfortune due to a certain object, like losing a video game or his laptop not picking up the Wifi signal, his reaction is to smash the video game console or laptop into pieces in anger.
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Stumpy frequently invents his own words, like "tentacools", and insists that they are real words.
-->'''Kaeloo''': Don't you mean "tentacles"?\\
'''Stumpy''': No, I mean "tentacools".
* PerpetualPoverty: The main four. {{Lampshade| hanging}}d by Mr. Cat when he finds out that Quack Quack has no money and asks how the heck he pays for all the yogurt he eats.
* PerpSweating: [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] does this to [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack the duck]] while trying to get him to confess to a crime he obviously didn't commit. In order to be more cruel, he turns up the lights so much that they actually burn Quack Quack, and then he decides to slam him on the head with a book each time he claims to not be guilty.
* PersonalitySwap: In one episode, Stumpy and Quack Quack get their hands on some animation software and [[MediumAwareness decide to take over the episode]]. The first thing they do is swap Kaeloo and Mr. Cat's personalities, making Mr. Cat kind, cheerful and friendly, and Kaeloo rude, grouchy, sarcastic and lazy.
* PervertedDrooling: Mr. Cat does this when having a daydream where he is being massaged by numerous clones of Kaeloo.
* PianoDrop: Invoked in one episode, where [[ButtMonkey Stumpy]] tries to prove that [[NoFourthWall he's the show's comic relief]] by dropping a piano on his own head.
* {{Pilot}}: The show started out as a three-minute short for Annecy 2007, which turned out to be so popular it was turned into a show.
* PingPongNaivete: Quack Quack and Stumpy can either be innocent children or [[DirtyKid perverts]] depending on the episode.
* PlatonicDeclarationOfLove: Stumpy gives one to the rest of the main four in the climax of [[spoiler: Episode 105]].
-->'''Stumpy:''' I love you a lot, guys... you know that, right?
* PlayingHouse: In the episode "Let's Play House".
* PlayingSick: Stumpy does this in Episode 138 in order to avoid cleaning his incredibly messy room. Kaeloo immediately sees through the ruse, but Stumpy refuses to admit he's faking. [[spoiler: Kaeloo ends up using the fact that Stumpy is AfraidOfNeedles against him by saying that if he's sick, he must need injections, and she brings in a tray full of them. Stumpy claims to have gotten better and cleans the whole room within seconds.]]
* PokemonSpeak: Quack Quack can only say his name, "Quack".
* PolarOppositeTwins: Pretty and Eugly. The former is a RichBitch who treats others horribly while Eugly is more SpoiledSweet and tends to be nice to people.
* PoliceBrutality: Mr. Cat as a police officer in "Let's Play Cops and Robbers" is extremely harsh towards Quack Quack and repeatedly hits him for not confessing to a crime Quack Quack insists he had nothing to do with.
* PolitenessJudo: When [[TheTrickster Mr. Cat]] and [[TheDitz Stumpy]] are vying for the last chair in a game of musical chairs, Mr. Cat says "after you" and offers the chair to Stumpy. Stumpy says "no, after you", and Mr. Cat accepts. Stumpy loses the game.
* PollutedWasteland: When Mr. Cat successfully takes over Smileyland in "[[spoiler: Let's Play Me-Me-Nopoly]]", he ''takes steps to ensure that Smileyland turns into a polluted wasteland''. Fortunately, Kaeloo is able to stop him.
* PopGoesTheHuman: Happens to Mr. Cat in one episode when he swells up after having an allergic reaction.
* PortalDoor: There are ''literally'' doors to other dimensions.
* PottyEmergency: Stumpy has one in Episode 85, but the bathroom is occupied. He then tries going in the bushes, but is stopped by [[NatureLover Kaeloo]]. He finally solves it by [[spoiler: stealing Kaeloo's hat and using it to do his business offscreen. And then Kaeloo, unaware of what just happened, puts the hat on her head.]]
* PowerPerversionPotential: In Episode 123, Kaeloo temporarily turns herself, Stumpy and Quack Quack into invisible ghosts who can phase through objects. Stumpy tries to use these powers to watch Pretty taking a bath, but Kaeloo stops him before he sees anything.
* ThePrecariousLedge: PlayedForLaughs. [[TheDitz Stumpy]] is asked to walk across a thin beam and balance. He's absolutely terrified... but the beam is on the ground, with his own stupidity leading him to believe that it is "too high".
* PrecisionFStrike: Stumpy yells the F word when he sees an enormous restaurant bill in Episode 64.
* PriceOnTheirHead: In [[CowboyEpisode Episode 88]], Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat find {{Wanted Poster}}s with their names and rewards: 5000 dollars for Mr. Cat, 6500 dollars for Quack Quack, and... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers 33 cents for Stumpy.]]
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Pretty, Eugly and Olaf appear in the theme song from Season 2 onwards.
* ProtagonistTitle: Named after Kaeloo, the protagonist.
* ProWrestlingEpisode: In Episode 62, Mr. Cat sets up a wrestling match and goes up against Quack Quack. [[spoiler: He ''almost'' wins, but [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Eugly]] beats the tar out of him for hurting Quack Quack, and she wins instead.]]
* PubertySuperpower: In "Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat", [[spoiler: Mr. Cat and Stumpy get invisibility powers after hitting puberty. Subverted though as it turns out that they haven't actually hit puberty, they've just temporarily contracted a disease with symptoms similar to puberty, such as acne.]]
* PullARabbitOutOfMyHat: [[TheDitz Stumpy]] tries to do this in "Let's Play Magicians". It fails because he thought magic was real and didn't have a trick prepared.
* PullingThemselvesTogether: Mr. Cat can attach and detach his body parts. The same applies to Quack Quack.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Happens to the unfortunate victims of the wrath of Serguei, Bad Kaeloo or Mr. Cat. Sometimes they may also get kicked across the room.
* PuppyDogEyes: Mr. Cat (and Stumpy on occasions) will try to use these on Kaeloo. Whether it works on her or not [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the episode.]]
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: The characters wear these once every few episodes for a variety of reasons. It's usually Kaeloo and Mr. Cat, but others have done it too.
* PutTheirHeadsTogether: Bad Kaeloo does this to Stumpy and Mr. Cat in Episode 69.
* PyrrhicVictory:
** In Episode 58, Mr. Cat goes on a game show hosted by [[BitchInSheepsClothing Kaeloo]]. [[spoiler: The final question in "What is [[CrapsaccharineWorld Smileyland]]'s number one rule?" He answers with "have fun", which turns out to be correct. Unfortunately, the others' idea of "fun" is tying him to a board and tormenting him.]]
** In "What if We Played at Riding Ponies?", [[TheChewToy Stumpy]] and [[TheAce Quack Quack]] have a horse race against each other. [[spoiler: Mr. Cat, who bet 6000 dollars on Stumpy winning, interferes with the race so Stumpy wins. Stumpy is quite happy until he remembers that he bet all of his money on Quack Quack winning and is now broke.]]
* QuicksandSucks: One episode had [[BitchInSheepsClothing Kaeloo]], [[TheChewToy Stumpy]], Quack Quack and [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] try to find the ancient tomb of a pharaoh hidden in a desert. On their journey, Stumpy falls into a pit of quicksand and starts sinking. Of course, this being a show like ''Kaeloo'', nobody cares. [[SkewedPriorities At least until he reminds them that he has their bag of supplies with him]], after which they panic and rescue him.
* RageBreakingPoint: Mr. Cat (and occasionally Stumpy) will push Kaeloo past this point OnceAnEpisode.
* RaisedByWolves: Mr. Cat was apparently raised by a salmon who saved him after his horribly abusive family tried to drown him as a newborn kitten.
* RealityEnsues: Almost every time something unrealistically nice is about to happen on this SadistShow, it will be cut short. For example, one episode has Stumpy try to get a girlfriend on [[BlandNameProduct Fakebook]] (parody of Website/{{Facebook}}), with no luck. When he finally does meet a potential match, the person asks for his bank account details (which [[TheDitz he]] gives out) and said person steals all his money. In another episode, when the resident AlphaBitch Pretty reveals Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat's embarrassing secrets on live TV, they decide to just sue her for slandering them. And in Episode 133, we find out that Kaeloo's bizarre quirks, such as TalkingToPlants, and her annoying behavior, has driven away all of her friends except Mr. Cat.
* RealityWarper: Stumpy and Quack Quack gain this ability after finding animation software and using it to control the episode.
* RedSkyTakeWarning: When things are about to get dangerous, Smileyland's sky, which is usually orange, turns red.
* RedShirt: Those poor singing flowers can never expect to make it past the end of the episode.
* RelationshipSabotage: In Episode 83, Mr. Cat tricks [[DitzyGenius Quack Quack]] into breaking up with Eugly by showing him (obviously fake) pictures of her cheating on him with other characters, as part of [[ItsAllAboutMe an elaborate scheme to get Kaeloo to kiss him.]]
* RemovableSteeringWheel: In "Let's Play Driver's License", Quack Quack takes a driving test with Mr. Cat as the driving instructor. After [[TickleTorture tickling Quack Quack]] and flashing light in his eyes, Mr. Cat finally rips off the steering wheel and [[EscapeArtist somehow escapes the car]] as Quack Quack drives off a cliff.
* RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear: Done with [[TheUnintelligible Quack Quack]].
* ReplacementGoldfish: In Episode 100, [[spoiler: Kaeloo, after undergoing SanitySlippage, grows three flowers and gives them similar names to her friends and treating them the same way as she would treat her friends.]]
* ResetButton: See NegativeContinuity above.
* RiddleOfTheSphinx: Parodied in "Let's Play Prince Charming" with Mr. Cat dressed as a sphinx:
-->'''Mr. Cat''': I have two arms in the morning, four ears in the afternoon and seven tentacles in the evening. What am I?
* RiddlingSphinx: The cast come across one when they reach the pharaoh's tomb in Episode 81.
* RightBehindMe: In Episode 91, Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack decide to [[MediumAwareness re-dub some earlier episodes of the show]] [[WhoWritesThisCrap because they thought they were badly written]]. They then start making the re-dubs insulting, and when they start arguing about what insulting way they can re-dub videos of Mr. Cat, they find out that he's standing right behind them looking more annoyed than usual.
* RiseOfZitboy: Mr. Cat gets a horrible outbreak of acne in Episode 34. Kaeloo assumes that this is because he's hit puberty. [[spoiler: It turns out that he'd just contracted a disease which makes the person get a temporary outbreak of acne.]]
* RockPaperScissors: Episode 85 [[HalfwayPlotSwitch starts with]] Stumpy playing against Quack Quack, and later Mr. Cat, to see who got to use the bathroom first. Naturally, Stumpy loses both times.
* RoguesGallery: In the first season, Mr. Cat was the only villain, but from Season 2 onwards, the villain can be [[VillainProtagonist Mr. Cat]], [[AlphaBitch Pretty]], [[MadScientist Olaf]] or even [[AntiHero Stumpy]].
* RoyalWe: Olaf, who considers himself "emperor of the world", uses "we" to refer to himself quite often, though sometimes he uses "I".
* RunningGag: The show has a whole lot of these.
** The "Stumpy’s sister" gag, which involves Stumpy’s sister being mentioned before somebody remembers he doesn’t have one[[note]] WordOfGod says he has 36 sisters[[/note]].
** Objects falling on Stumpy's head.
** Stumpy dressing as a girl.
** Somebody mistaking Olaf, who is an emperor penguin, for an auk.
** Mr. Cat making three statements, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers with the third one being completely irrelevant to the other two.]]
* Kaeloo being DrivenToMadness by Mr. Cat and/or Stumpy's antics.
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[[folder: Tropes S to V]]
* SadistShow: Every single character on the show is put through an immense amount of emotional and physical suffering purely for the sake of the audience's amusement.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Mr. Cat is an [[TheSmartGuy intelligent]], [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] and [[TheCynic cynical]] guy who is constantly dragged into games by Kaeloo, an [[GenkiGirl excitable]], [[ThePollyanna optimistic]] and [[MrImagination imaginative]] girl.
* SawAWomanInHalf: [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] picks [[TheWoobie Quack Quack]] to perform this trick on in "Let's Play Magicians", and he also sticks a bunch of knives into him. Naturally, it's not really a trick.
* SawItInAMovieOnce: In the rare event that Stumpy actually does something smart, it's probably because he saw it in a movie.
* SayMyName: The OnceAnEpisode "MISTER CAAAAAAT!"
** {{Parodied| Trope}} in "Let's Play Gangster Poker", when he yells "Kaeloo!" back to her.
* ScareEmStraight: Parodied in Episode 96, when Stumpy and Quack Quack get addicted to eating carrots which have the same effect as tobacco. Kaeloo decides to pull a scare 'em straight by lying to them that they'll turn into rabbits if they keep eating them. She also points out that Stumpy must have already begun turning into one because he has buckteeth, and ignoring the fact that Stumpy has always had buckteeth, the two boys decide to give up carrots for good. [[HereWeGoAgain And then they get addicted to something else.]]
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: In Episode 70, using {{Portal Door}}s. At one point, Stumpy's counterpart from an AlternateUniverse also joins in.
* ScoobyStack: In Episode 135, the main four are all called to the show's director's office. Feeling nervous, they all poke their heads through the door at the same time, creating a Scooby Stack.
* ScreamDiscretionShot: In "[[HalloweenEpisode Let's Play Scaredy Cat]]", Quack Quack does something scary with his face offscreen. The scene cuts to Mr. Cat hearing Kaeloo and Stumpy's screams.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Kaeloo has the tendency to do this. If anyone tries to question her behavior during a game, they'll get a response along the lines of "It's my game, and I'll do whatever I want!".
* SdrawkcabName: The main four's code names in "Let's Play Spies" are their own names backwards: Kaeloo is Ooleak, Stumpy is Ypmuts, Quack Quack is Kcauq Kcauq and Mr. Cat is Tac Retsim.
* SecurityCling:
** Kaeloo normally clings to Mr. Cat when she's scared.
** In Episode 81, Stumpy jumps into [[AlphaBitch Pretty]]'s arms after Kaeloo says there might be rattlesnakes [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes (which he is terrified of)]] in the desert they're walking in. [[{{Jerkass}} Pretty]] proceeds to throw him on the ground and wipe her feet on him.
* SentryGun: The entrance to several villain lairs is laced with these. Or worse, bazookas.
* SerenadeYourLover: In one episode, Stumpy decides to ask Kaeloo to teach him how to attract girls, since she herself is a girl and probably knows what to do. She tries to teach him by making him dress as a girl and sit on a bench, so he will understand what a girl feels like. She then starts trying to serenade him with a song, pretending to be a boy, but he cuts her short because she's [[HollywoodToneDeaf an awful singer]] and a DreadfulMusician.
* SeriesFauxnale: "Let's Play Bye Bye, Yoghurt" was intended to be the series finale, but the show was renewed for another season.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] has the tendency to do this sometimes. Of course, nobody understands what he's talking about, since he's SurroundedByIdiots, so he ends up having to explain it in simpler terms.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: In [[TimeTravelEpisode Episode 75]], Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat go back in time [[NoFourthWall to the series pilot]] to prevent Quack Quack from ever getting addicted to [[GRatedDrug yogurt]]. Unfortunately, Stumpy ignores a warning from [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] not to mess with the past, and he tells his past self everything about the future. When the gang return to the present, they find out that Stumpy is now the king of Smileyland.
* SeveredHeadSports: Happens a lot with [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Quack Quack]]'s head. For example, in Episode 74, Mr. Cat kicks a soccer ball towards Quack Quack, the goalie, who blocks it. He then activates the bomb he had hidden inside the soccer ball, so Quack Quack's head is blown off, and Stumpy plays soccer with the head.
* ShaggyFrogStory: Kaeloo giving a speech about equality in the style of "I Had A Dream":
-->'''Kaeloo''': I had a dream last night! And I dreamt that... that... that's funny, I can't remember my dream.
* ShakingTheRump: Kaeloo's "booty dance".
* ShamefulStrip: In the episode "Let's Play Simon Says", the main four play Simon Says. When Mr. Cat plays "Simon", he forces everyone to do horrible things, and the last thing he does is force Quack Quack to take off his underwear. [[spoiler: It turns out that Quack Quack is wearing a diaper underneath, which Mr. Cat laughs at once he gets the courage to actually look. Quack Quack, humiliated, lets out a SkywardScream.]]
* ShapeshifterBaggage: Nobody's sure where Kaeloo gets her extra mass from when she transforms.
* ShellShockSilence: When the gang put on a concert in one episode, their fans' cheering renders them deaf. A ringing sound is heard to the audience. At the end of the episode, Olaf tries to talk to Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack, only to get a loud "WHAT DID YOU SAY?" in response since they've gone deaf.
* ShesAManInJapan: The Italian dub, the Hindi dub and the first 10 episodes of the English dub turned Kaeloo male.
* ShipperOnDeck: Stumpy ships Kaeloo/Mr. Cat very, very hard. He even sets up a date for them in "Let's Play Babysitting".
** ShipperWithAnAgenda: The reason for said date being so that they could have [[BabiesEverAfter babies]], which Stumpy could babysit to make money.
* ShootEverythingThatMoves: The basis of Mr. Cat's game of "Hide 'n Hunt" is that he gives the others each two clones of themselves, he counts to a hundred as they try to hide in a labyrinth, and then he "shoots everything that moves".
* TheShortGuyWithGlasses: Invoked in one episode where Stumpy, the second shortest of all the show's characters, is granted SuddenIntelligence and starts [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses wearing glasses]].
* ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Averted. The characters (or at least Stumpy) do go to school, but just not onscreen.
* ShowerScene: In Episode 134, Kaeloo is shown taking a shower[[note]]She's an anthropomorphic frog who doesn't wear clothes, so there's no need to obscure nudity[[/note]]. It lasts for a few seconds before several clones of Stumpy flush all the toilets they can find and the water runs out, forcing her to cut her shower short.
* TheShowMustGoWrong: [[spoiler: The ballet the cast put on in [[BalletEpisode Episode 67]] goes horribly wrong, destroying the set and injuring them.]]
* TheShrink: Jean Guillaume varies between the different types. On occasions he is very helpful to Kaeloo and gives her good advice. However, he's useless as a psychotherapist to Mr. Cat, and instead just has lengthy conversations with him and at one point they even make fun of Kaeloo.
* SickEpisode: The episode "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses" had [[TheChewToy Stumpy]] fall sick and ask Kaeloo and Mr. Cat to help him. Of course, [[WithFriendsLikeThese they callously ignore him]] and focus on giving medical treatment to Quack Quack, who is perfectly fine.
* SilentTreatment: Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat in Episode 105 until [[spoiler: he's finally able to prove that [[NotMeThisTime the real villain of the episode is not him, it's Stumpy]].]]
* SillyWalk: Mr. Cat does this in "Let's Play Hot-Cold" while teaching Stumpy how to impress girls.
* SingingVoiceDissonance: What can be heard of Eugly's voice sounds deep and manly[[note]]Her voice actor is a man[[/note]], but her singing voice is beautiful and feminine.
* SkepticismFailure: Every time Mr. Cat is skeptical about the existence of something such as aliens or ghosts, they turn out to be real and the cast encounter them within the span of that same episode.
* SkewedPriorities:
** In the episode "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light", during a game of Red Light, Green Light, Mr. Cat fires a missile from a bazooka, and Quack Quack just stands in the path of the missile instead of running away like Kaeloo and Stumpy, because the rules of the game dictate that he shouldn't move.
** "Let's Play TV News" suggests that [[AttentionWhore Mr. Cat]] would prefer getting beaten up by [[SuperStrength Bad Kaeloo]] to losing TV ratings.
** In the episode "Let's Play Market Vendors", Stumpy offers various gifts to anyone who is willing to buy apples from him, such as a magic hat with himself inside, and even a car, but he doesn't want to give away is his collection of comic books.
** In [[CampingEpisode "Let's Play Treasure Hunt"]], the main four go camping. Kaeloo checks the supply pack and realizes that the sleeping bags, flashlights and all other necessary equipment is gone. [[TheDitz Stumpy]] reveals that he unpacked everything because there wasn't enough room to pack his comic books.
** In Episode 77, [[TheFashionista Pretty]] is upset when she hears that the world will be destroyed... because she doesn't know what to wear for the explosion.
** In Episode 98, Stumpy is sitting on the couch playing video games when aliens drag him into their spaceship using a tractor beam. He starts to panic, not because he's being abducted by aliens, but because he forgot to save his video game score.
** In Episode 102, [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] and [[AntiHero Stumpy]] turn Quack Quack into an EldritchAbomination. Kaeloo sees this and is horrified... because she was reading a book and lost her page.
** In Episode 105, when the planet gets destroyed, [[BookDumb Stumpy]] rejoices because he doesn't have to go to school anymore. And then he finally panics, because he realizes that there's no phone signal and he can't contact his girlfriend.
* SkywardScream:
** Stumpy does one in "Let's Play Hot-Cold" when he realizes he can't impress Ursula.
-->'''Stumpy:''' URSULAAAAA!
** Quack Quack does one in "Let's Play Simon Says" after everyone finds out that [[spoiler: he wears a diaper under his underwear.]]
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Since it's a SadistShow, the girls ([[NiceGirl Kaeloo]], [[AlphaBitch Pretty]] and [[ShrinkingViolet Eugly]]) are subject to an almost equal amount of abuse as the boys.
* SlasherSmile: Mr. Cat does this almost OnceAnEpisode.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Stumpy starts wearing glasses after [[SuddenIntelligence becoming a genius]] in Episode 72, and he stops wearing them after [[StatusQuoIsGod becoming stupid again]].
* SmashToBlack: Happens OnceAnEpisode, usually just after Bad Kaeloo beats Mr. Cat up.
* SmoochOfVictory: In Episode 136, [[spoiler: Stumpy saves Pretty from some aliens and she rewards him with a kiss on the lips.]]
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Kaeloo is the only female character in the show's first season.
* SnapBack: See NegativeContinuity above.
* SneezeOfDoom: Stumpy's sneezes in "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses".
* SniffSniffNom: In Episode 105, Kaeloo finds a strange white liquid on the ground. She sniffs it, and then she dips a finger in it and licks it, and she finds out that it's yogurt.
* SocialMediaBeforeReason: In Episode 61, Pretty decides to post pictures of herself crying over the main four being stranded on an island, rather than, as [[OnlySaneMan her sister]] points out, rescuing them.
* SomeonesTouchingMyButt: Invoked when [[AllMenArePerverts Mr. Cat]] takes the opportunity to grab Kaeloo's butt during a GroupHug between the main four. She then tries to beat him up.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: When Mr. Cat tries to [[AttemptedRape force himself onto Kaeloo]] in "Let's Play Babysitting", his tail stiffens and sticks up.
* SomethingWeForgot:
** At the end of Episode 61, [[spoiler: after they reach home, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Eugly realize that Mr. Cat and Pretty are still stranded on the island. The scene cuts to [[StalkerWithACrush Pretty]] chasing Mr. Cat around while the latter screams for help.]]
** In [[BalletEpisode Episode 67]], Stumpy's part in the ballet involves him "flying" by being suspended on a rope. At the end, everyone goes home but forgets to untie him.
* SoundEffectBleep:
** In "Let's Play Peace Man", Mr. Cat drops what seems to be a ClusterFBomb over a microphone, [[ClusterBleepBomb but the microphone keeps malfunctioning.]] Given Kaeloo and Quack Quack's horrified reactions, it's safe to assume that even if the audience didn't hear anything, they did.
** When Mr. Cat mentions the name of an alcoholic beverage on Episode 87, it's bleeped out with the sound of a rubber ducky. This was most likely done for laughs since Stumpy then proceeds to say a long string of names of alcoholic drinks and there's no bleep.
* SpaceEpisode: The episode "Let's Play Astronauts" had the main four go to outer space to find a star so Stumpy could name it after his girlfriend to celebrate their two-week anniversary. [[spoiler: The events of the episode turn out to be AllJustADream.]]
* SpaceIsNoisy: The cast can talk in space and be heard just fine.
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: In Episode 60 Kaeloo says this at Pretty and Quack Quack's wedding. [[spoiler: Everyone, ''including the bride and groom themselves'', objects to the wedding. This doesn't stop [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kaeloo]] from marrying them off anyway.]]
* SpeechImpediment: Kaeloo has a lisp. In the French dub, in addition to having a classic lisp, she also pronounces "J" as "Z" and "Ch" as "S".
-->'''Kaeloo''': [[BlatantLies I do not have a lisp!]]\\
'''Mr. Cat''': You're right, it's a total impediment.
* SpitTake:
** Mr. Cat does one in "Let's Play Babysitting" when Kaeloo asks him if they can talk.
** He does it again in Episode 90 when Stumpy says he won a game.
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: "Let's Play Grown-Ups" suggested that [[GrowingUpSucks this would be Kaeloo's fate in the future, with Bad Kaeloo becoming the dominant form.]]
* SplitScreenPhoneCall: In Episode 128, this happens between Kaeloo and Stumpy. When Kaeloo gets annoyed, she steps into the other side of the split, yells at Stumpy in person and then storms off.
* SpoilerOpening: The opening of the pilot gave away pretty much the whole plot.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: The show might as well be called ''The Mr. Cat Show''.
* SpotTheImpostor: See ChekhovsGun above.
* SpringtimeForHitler: In Episode 90, Kaeloo deliberately tries to lose a game so [[ThrowTheDogABone Stumpy can win]], but due to [[spoiler: Mr. Cat's interference]], Kaeloo winds up winning anyway.
* StageMagician: Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat all use top hats and magic wands to put on a magic show in "Let's Play Magicians". Kaeloo manages to pull numerous objects out of a hat while Mr. Cat boos her for perfomring cliched tricks. [[TheDitz Stumpy]]'s act fails because he didn't have a trick and thought magic was real. [[AxCrazy Mr. Cat]] gets [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]] to be his assistant and [[SawAWomanInHalf saws him in half]] [[TheyKilledKennyAgain for real]].
* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: It would probably be less funny and more creepy if Mr. Cat was the one stalking Pretty.
* StandingInTheHall: Stumpy tries to get Kaeloo, who is pretending to be a SternTeacher, to give him this punishment or send him home in "Let's Play Teachers" after he is forced to play a school-themed game. She decides to make him write lines instead.
* StayInTheKitchen: In Episode 130, Mr. Cat says that he believes that girls and women should cook and do housework. He puts a bow and an apron on Kaeloo, makes her stand in the kitchen and asks her to cook something while he sits on the couch and watches sports on TV. Kaeloo doesn't take this very well - she winds up HulkingOut and then chasing him around with the [[FryingPanOfDoom frying pan.]]
* SternTeacher: Kaeloo pretends to be one in "Let's Play Teachers".
** Kaeloo's AlternateUniverse counterpart in Episode 70 is a very strict teacher.
* StillSucksThumb:
** Mr. Cat sucks his thumb in "Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat!" to prove that he's still a kid[[note]]He actually is.[[/note]].
** He also does it in "Let's Play Spies" [[spoiler: after getting hit with TruthSerum, [[IMissMom while crying about how much he misses his mother.]]]]
* StockAnimalDiet: Kaeloo eats flies and Stumpy's TrademarkFavoriteFood is nuts.
* StockFootage: Kaeloo's GrowingMusclesSequence, which is used OnceAnEpisode.
* StreetMusician: In Episode 128, while trying to raise money to buy himself a new video game, Stumpy plays music while Kaeloo and Quack Quack are on the subway. As one would expect, he's an absolutely DreadfulMusician. Since Kaeloo already gave him money on three separate occasions in that episode, she initially refuses to pay him, but he threatens to keep playing if she doesn't, [[BegoneBribe so she reluctantly gives him more money.]]
* StrictlyFormula: The first season went mostly like this: [[GenkiGirl Kaeloo]] suggests a game, [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] tortures [[TheWoobie Quack Quack]] during said game, Kaeloo [[HulkingOut transforms into a giant monster]] and beats up Mr. Cat, and [[TheDitz Stumpy]] does something stupid along the way. {{Lampshade| Hanging}}d in the first season finale, which was ironically just before the show stopped being formulaic.
* StunnedSilence: Mr. Cat's response when one of the others does something that can be considered stupid even for their standards is normally to stare at them in complete silence.
* StylisticSelfParody:
** In "Let's Play Guess Who", Quack Quack [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/kaeloo/images/e/ec/Stumpyshead.png/revision/latest?cb=20170320050933 squashes his head into a bizarre, bean-like shape and makes his eyes bug out of the sides of his head]] while imitating Stumpy.
** Stumpy and Quack Quack attempt to use smelly gas on Olaf once, which fails because [[TheNoseless he doesn't have a nose]] to smell it with.
** In a game of "Truth or Dare", Stumpy's "truth" question to Pretty is why one of her ears is longer than the other one.
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: Used when Mr. Cat sings a rap song with words ending in "uck".
-->'''Mr. Cat''': [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar I really couldn't]] [[CurseCutShort give a f-]]\\
'''Kaeloo''': [[SayMyName MR. CAT!]]\\
''Kaeloo [[HulkingOut transforms]] and is about to beat him up''\\
'''Mr. Cat''': [[BlatantLies I meant truck!]] [[LastSecondWordSwap Firetruck!]]
* SuddenAnatomy:
** In one episode, Kaeloo needs to count to nine on her fingers. Since she has FourFingeredHands, she suddenly sprouts a third arm.
** In "Let's Play Prison-Ball", Mr. Cat suddenly grows a beak while [[MakesSenseInContext trying to convince Kaeloo that everyone would look hideous with beaks.]]
* SuddenDownerEnding:
** In Episode 118, when the AlphaBitch Pretty posts humiliating pictures of Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat on social networking site "[[BlandNameProduct Fakebook]]", they get revenge on her, and then the fight escalates until the four of them use DisproportionateRetribution to punish her. At the end of the episode, they decide that they were too harsh and go to apologize and give her some presents, [[spoiler: but before they can, they find out that she wrote a book revealing all of their embarrassing secrets and already published two million copies. They decide to leave without saying anything and accept that they'll never change her.]]
** In Episode 124, Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack play a new game that uses technology which requires an immense amount of concentration. The episode goes well and they have fun together, but at the very end of the episode, [[spoiler: since [[TheDitz Stumpy]] doesn't have much in the way of a brain, concentrating proves to be too much for him and he has to go to the hospital, and ''[[TheyKilledKennyAgain ends up flatlining]]''[[note]][[ButtMonkey Stumpy]] dies fairly often on this show, he's fine by the next episode[[/note]]. Of course, this being ''Kaeloo'', nobody cares, but it still is pretty sad.]]
** In Episode 16, the episode has a generally funny plot, but at the end, Mr. Cat suggests kicking Kaeloo out of Smileyland and everyone else agrees. The episode ends with Kaeloo's friends kicking her out.
* SuddenIntelligence: Stumpy is given intelligence by a spirit in Episode 72. [[spoiler: In the end, the spirit decides that [[CosmicPlaything Stumpy]] isn't funny as a genius, and turns the squirrel back into a moron.]]
* SuddenlyBilingual: In Episode 69, a ParodyEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' it is revealed that Mr. Cat can speak German.
* SuddenlyShouting:
** Mr. Cat does this in [[HalloweenEpisode "Let's Play Scaredy Cat"]] when he finds out that the others are playing his favorite game, "Scaredy Cat", without him.
-->'''Mr. Cat (to Kaeloo)''': So, I hear you're playing Scaredy Cat without me... WHEN IT'S MY FAVORITE GAME!
** He also did it in "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor" after finding out that the last challenge of Kaeloo's game consists of avoiding cute little sheep.
-->'''Mr. Cat''': *imitating Kaeloo* Nice little sheepie-weepies, hehe... [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar HAVE YOU BEEN SMOKING CANDY WEED?!]] TELL ME WHERE THE DANGER IS HERE!
** [[LargeHam Olaf]] does this to Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat when conveying the message that the directors have decided to fire them [[MediumAwareness from the show]] in Episode 121.
-->'''Olaf''': All of you... ARE FIRED!
** Stumpy does it very very often, almost OncePerEpisode. For example, in one episode, where he has the flu but Kaeloo and Mr. Cat decide to give a check-up to Quack Quack (who is perfectly fine).
-->'''Stumpy''': Could you please speed things up a bit? Because my flu is DRIVING ME NUTS!
* SuicideAsComedy: A RunningGag is to have Stumpy attempt suicide and [[BungledSuicide fail hilariously]].
** In one episode, [[SurroundedByIdiots Mr. Cat]] gets so fed up of [[TheDitz Stumpy]]'s stupidity that he hangs himself. Of course, since DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, he's perfectly fine by the very next scene.
* SuperheroEpisode: "Let's Play Justice Masters".
* SuperpowersForADay: If anyone gets superpowers, they're likely to lose them [[StatusQuoIsGod by the end of the episode]].
* SureLetsGoWithThat: In one episode, Mr. Cat makes a LoveConfession to Kaeloo. Unfortunately, she thinks he's making a joke in bad taste. In order to avoid being rejected, or worse, he quickly decides to pretend that it was indeed a joke.
* SurpriseCreepy: The episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap". It starts off with a seemingly normal plot where Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat play a nice game of Trap-Trap, with the beginning being so sweet that Kaeloo even gives Mr. Cat a hug. Then, halfway through the episode, Quack Quack [[MakesSenseInContext goes insane]] and tries to cannibalize Kaeloo and Stumpy, [[spoiler: and successfully eats half of Kaeloo's brain, leaving her unintelligible]], and Mr. Cat has to step in and save the day.
* SurrealHumor: Of course, it should be expected from a show about {{Funny Animal}}s living on a planet full of magic. Weird things happen, involving stuff like aliens, weapons, explosions, interdimensional travel, etc.
* SweatDrop: Quite common, as it's an {{animesque}} show. The one who gets this the most is [[SurroundedByIdiots Mr. Cat]].
* SweepingAshes: Happens to [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]] twice, courtesy of [[MadScientist Mr. Cat]]'s science experiments.
* SwissArmyAppendage: Not only do [[spoiler: the alien sheep]] have weapons for limbs, they can replace them with other weapons.
* TakeOverTheWorld: Olaf's goal in life. [[HarmlessVillain Not that he's even remotely close to achieving it]].
** [[spoiler: Stumpy somewhat manages to do this by the end of Episode 105.]]
* TakeThat:
** Episode 64 had Mr. Cat open up a fast-food restaurant which served actual trash from the dumpster as food. When everybody else starts protesting against this, he [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds offers them toys with their "food"]]. Everyone immediately stops protesting and buys more food for the sake of the toys.
** In another episode, when Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are playing a game where the object of the game is to make another person laugh, Kaeloo stands on a podium pretending to be a politician, makes a lot of promises and says she will keep all of those promises. Mr. Cat bursts out laughing.
** In one of the season 1 episodes, Stumpy is selling apples, and his apples are horribly rotten. When Mr. Cat points out that the apples are rotten, Stumpy replies "No, they're organic."
** In Episode 135, the main four try to make their own episode using figurines of themselves and a video camera. The video turns out poorly made. Mr. Cat says that the episode they made was incomprehensible, "like a Danish movie".
** Then there's this little exchange between Kaeloo and Mr. Cat in an episode where they're both doctors in a hospital:
--> '''Mr. Cat''' (''referring to Quack Quack, who is the patient''): I'm gonna book him in for surgery, but, before that... (starts throwing papers around) scanners, [=MRAs=], X-rays, colonoscopies, the whole nine yards, [[EvilLaugh muahahahaha!]]
--> '''Kaeloo''': Is all that really necessary, Mr. Cat?
--> '''Mr. Cat''': [[DrJerk No, but it earns weekends on the beach!]] [[EvilLaugh Muahahahahaha!]]
** In one episode, the characters participate on a parody of ''Series/TheVoice''. Kaeloo, who is the only female contestant, decides that the best way to win is to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar perform a sexually suggestive dance wearing an inappropriate outfit.]] After watching it, Pretty, who is one of the judges, grabs a mic, faces the camera, and criticizes Kaeloo's performance for how she just portrayed females and says that there's more to girls than that, which is a jab at how many female singers tend to sexualize themselves to get attention.
* TakeThatAudience:
** In "Let's Play Once Upon a Time", Stumpy suggests making a kids' show about a frog who [[HulkingOut transforms into a giant monster]] when she's angry. Mr. Cat's response?
-->'''Mr. Cat''': Who in their right mind would watch crap like that?
** In another episode, the main four make their own TV show and it's clearly a parody of the actual show. It makes no sense to anyone and everyone hates it except Stumpy, the resident moron. Stumpy also mentions that the only reason he liked it was shipping the characters in their show who were supposed to be based on Mr. Cat and Kaeloo, a reference to how many fans ship those two and focus exclusively on their relationship instead of the other aspects of the show[[note]]However, in-universe, [[ShipperOnDeck Stumpy has been shown to ship the real Mr. Cat and Kaeloo as well]][[/note]].
* TakingTheBullet: [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]] jumps in front of a barrage of sharp objects before they can hit and kill the rest of the main four in Episode 92. [[UngratefulBastard Mr. Cat calls him a show off.]]
* TheTalk: In "Let's Play Baby-Sitting", Mr. Cat tells [[TheDitz Stumpy]] that babies are made by holding one's nose and not breathing for two days. Kaeloo tries to give Stumpy the actual Talk, but he interrupts her by holding his nose.
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Kaeloo, Quack Quack [[TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther and Mr. Cat]] have to do this to Stumpy in "Let's Play Hot Cold".
* TalkingToPlants: Kaeloo does this a lot.
-->'''Kaeloo:''' Hello, Mrs. Flower! How are you today?
* TantrumThrowing: Mr. Cat sometimes does this when he gets really mad. On occasion, it may be accompanied by kicking objects into the air and smashing stuff.
* TeachersPet: Quack Quack becomes one in "Let's Play Teachers", mainly because he's able to answer all the questions asked in class correctly. [[BookDumb Stumpy]] gets so annoyed by this that he actually threatens to beat him up during recess.
* TearsOfJoy: When the cast go exploring outer space, Kaeloo briefly cries with joy when they find another planet that looks just like theirs.
* TechnicallyLivingZombie: In the show's HalloweenEpisode, Kaeloo and Quack Quack are turned into zombies after they are bitten by zombies. At the end, they are restored to normal [[MakesSenseInContext after they throw up.]]
* TechnoBabble: [[GadgeteerGenius Mr. Cat]] does this in "Let's Play TV News" while explaining his latest invention to [[IdiotHero Kaeloo]] and [[TheDitz Stumpy]]. Of course, they don't understand, so he shows them a demonstration.
* TemptingFate:
** In "Let's Play Musical Chairs", Stumpy [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext brings all the chairs in Smileyland to life]] and rounds them up to revolt against people who sit on chairs. Mr. Cat and Quack Quack tell him they don't care since they still have the couch. Cue the couch getting up and running towards Stumpy.
** In "Let's Play TV News", when Mr. Cat sees Kaeloo crying alone and [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther tries to comfort her]], she tells him that she needs to be alone. Just then, Stumpy and Quack Quack run up and join them.
* TentacleRope: Happens to Stumpy when he encounters a tentacle monster which emerges from a toilet he was attempting to clean in Episode 64.
* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: In Episode 121, Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat are informed that they have been fired from the show and have to take a job interview with Olaf to get their jobs back. In the montage, [[IdiotHero Kaeloo]] doesn't know how to answer the questions and randomly uses words in the hopes of making what sounds like an answer, [[ButtMonkey Stumpy]] repeatedly says that he's the show's funniest character and has random objects drop onto his head from the sky to prove it, [[DitzyGenius Quack Quack]] uses complex math equations and Mr. Cat resorts to telling BlatantLies, bribery and using random words. [[spoiler: They all get re-hired anyway, because they were never actually fired, it was just a "joke" that Olaf was playing on them.]]
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Averted with Kaeloo, who has no features to distinguish her from the males, while other females are drawn with breasts and/or curves, and eyelashes. Played straight in the games the gang play, where they often use fake mustaches, bows, etc.
* ThatPoorCat: Each time this happens, the cat in question turns out to be Mr. Cat.
* ThatsGottaHurt: Stumpy says this in "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light" after seeing Quack Quack and Mr. Cat get hurt, the former by a chainsaw and the latter by Bad Kaeloo.
* ThemeTuneRollCall: The theme song introduces all the characters, although it has no lyrics. It shows everyone with their names doing something they'd normally be doing (such as Quack Quack eating [[TrademarkFavoriteFood yogurt]] and Pretty using her phone).
* ThemeTwinNaming: Inverted with Pretty and Eugly, whose names have opposite meanings.
* ThereAreNoAdults: Adults (and teenagers) aren't allowed in Smileyland.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: In Episode 106, Mr. Cat buys too much stuff at a GarageSale from Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack, so his bedroom gets too full and he can't get inside. He tries to invoke this trope by [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar breaking into Kaeloo's bedroom and trying to sleep next to her]], but it's subverted when she makes him sleep on the couch instead, to his disappointment.
* ThermometerGag: Mr. Cat pulls out a giant thermometer and decides to use it on Quack Quack in "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses". He never gets the chance, though, since Kaeloo [[HulkingOut transforms]] and Quack Quack takes the opportunity to escape.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: Nobody ever refers to Mr. Cat by his first name.
* TheyKilledKennyAgain: See NegativeContinuity above.
* ThickerThanWater: Pretty may be mean to Eugly, but she's even willing to chew out Mr. Cat, her crush, if he insults her sister.
* ThinkOfTheCensors: Kaeloo constantly reminds her friends that they are on TV and are being watched by children, and that the viewers' parents or the censor board might get mad at them.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Mr. Cat's reaction to Kaeloo HulkingOut for the second time in "Let's Play Prison-Ball" is to put on an annoyed facial expression which pretty much says "Do I really need to put up with this?".
* ThousandYardStare: A mild example. After Kaeloo [[spoiler: [[ForcefulKiss forcibly kisses]]]] Mr. Cat in the episode "Let's Play Peace Man", he sits under a tree and stares into the distance. A few minutes later, he recovers after she asks him if [[spoiler:they can do it again]].
* TightropeWalking: In the CircusEpisode, [[TheAce Quack Quack]], who is known in-universe for doing things that are BeyondTheImpossible, manages to do this ''without a rope to walk on'', by balancing on thin air. The act is called "Tightrope walking without a tightrope".
* TimeMachine: Mr. Cat has one, which he got from a store. The main four use it to travel back and forth in time.
* TimePassageBeard: Parodied. Stumpy, who is a kid, somehow grows a gray beard after being stranded on an island for ''less than a day''. So does Kaeloo, who is also a kid... and female.
* TimeTravelEpisode: The episodes "Let's Play Time Travel", Episode 75 and Episode 76[[note]]Episodes 75 and 76 are a two-parter[[/note]].
* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Eugly is nearly twice Quack Quack's size.
* TooHungrytoBePolite: [[BigEater Stumpy]] usually isn't very polite, but he'll be even less polite if you set a plate of food in front of him, especially when he's hungry.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Mr. Cat is a horrible influence on Stumpy and often teaches him that doing bad things is a good idea, like annoying a teacher to get kicked out of class or robbing a supermarket. Kaeloo tries her best to stop Stumpy from listening to Mr. Cat, but it usually doesn't work.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Quack Quack has [[GRatedDrug yogurt]] and Stumpy has [[StockAnimalDiet nuts]]. Stumpy also seems to like paninis in the French dub and [[AscendedToCarnivorism hot dogs in the English dub.]]
* {{Tradesnark}}: "Time Machine Express™", a company that sells time machines.
* TrampolineTummy: Mr. Cat isn't fat, but that doesn't stop Bad Kaeloo from doing this to him anyway.
* TransformationSequence: Kaeloo goes through one OnceAnEpisode. Oddly, it's been shown that she can turn into [[OneWingedAngel Bad Kaeloo]] near-instantly.
* TranslationYes: A single "quack" from [[TheUnintelligible Quack Quack]] can narrate a story that takes 20 seconds to narrate in English.
* TranslatorBuddy: [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness In early episodes]], Kaeloo was one to Quack Quack. In later episodes, everyone can understand what he says.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: [[spoiler: Happens to Kaeloo in Episode 70, since Mr. Cat accidentally throws her through the PortalDoor after mistaking her for her AlternateUniverse counterpart and then smashes the door.]]
* TrappedInThePast: Happens to Mr. Cat at the end of Episode 75. [[WeWantOurJerkBack The rest of the main four travel back in time to rescue him in Episode 76.]]
* TrashOfTheTitans: Mr. Cat, Quack Quack and especially Stumpy create huge piles of trash.
* Trope2000: Subverted in the episode "Let's Play Magicians". Kaeloo buys a magic kit labeled "Magic 2000", but later reveals that the kit actually has 2000 pieces in it.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback:
** Mr. Cat has given a few of these, but not his entire past at once.
** [[spoiler: Olaf gives one to the others in Episode 104.]]
* TroubledFetalPosition: Quack Quack assumes this position and starts rocking back and forth whenever somebody mentions the death of fictional character [[Literature/Harry Potter Happy Rotter]]'s parents.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Mr. Cat is a psychopath who owns weapons (and is not afraid to use them), has tried to have sex, is alcoholic, and is less than 13 years old.
* TrouserSpace: Quack Quack can store anything in his underwear (he doesn't wear pants), from baseball bats to apples.
* TrueArtIsAngsty: In universe, Mr. Cat explains this to Stumpy, who wants to become an artist, in "Let's Play Art Class". [[spoiler: [[TooDumbToLive Stumpy decides to blow his own head off with a bazooka to feel pain.]]]]
* TrueCompanions: The main four.
* TruthSerum: [[spoiler: All four main characters get injected with this in "Let's Play Spies".]]
* TwinkleInTheSky: If Bad Kaeloo or Serguei throws someone into the air, expect this to happen.
* TwitchyEye: Happens to Mr. Cat a lot.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Episode 86 had two plots: one where Kaeloo forces Mr. Cat to see a psychotherapist and another where the rest of the cast get into a fight.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Stumpy and Ursula.
* {{Understatement}}: In one episode, Mr. Cat mentions giving Quack Quack a "teeny" electric shock. When he actually administers it, Quack Quack is reduced to SweepingAshes and Kaeloo angrily reminds him that he said it would only be a small one.
* UnexplainedAccent: Olaf has a Russian accent despite being from Smileyland's equivalent of Antarctica.
* UnexplainedRecovery: See NegativeContinuity above.
* UngratefulBastard:
** Mr. Cat in "Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat!". His friends try to help him out and he repays them by [[spoiler: beating them all up]] near the end of the episode.
** In Episode 92, after [[NighInvulnerability Quack Quack]] saves Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat from being impaled with sharp objects and then crushed to death by jumping in front of them, Mr. Cat's response is to call him a show-off. Yes, really.
** Stumpy is one to Kaeloo in Episode 128. The plot of the episode revolves around Stumpy using various schemes to trick people into giving him money to buy a video game. Each time he tries something on Kaeloo, she immediately sees through the trick, but gives him money anyway and compliments his creativity in coming upnwith the scheme. In order to get more sympathy from others and therefore more money, Stumpy goes on TV and narrates a completely false story about his life which portrays Kaeloo as a selfish and bossy {{jerkass}}.
* TheUnintelligible:
** Zigzagged with Quack Quack, who speaks entirely in quacks. Sometimes everyone understands him, sometimes they don't.
** Eugly speaks entirely in whispers, mumbles and sign language.
* {{Unishment}}: In the episode "Let's Play Teachers", Kaeloo warns Stumpy that he will get kicked out of class if he misbehaves. Mr. Cat notes that only a teacher would think that was a punishment, and Stumpy spends the rest of the episode misbehaving so he can get kicked out. It fails because she decides to make him write lines instead.
* {{Unperson}}: Happens to Ursula in Episode 105, but this is thankfully fixed. [[spoiler: Also almost happens to Kaeloo, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat in the same episode, thanks to an angry [[TheChewToy Stumpy]] wanting [[TheDogBitesBack payback]].]]
* UnprovokedPervertPayback: Bad Kaeloo throws the AmbiguouslyBi Stumpy in the air and he lands on the bathroom door just as Mr. Cat opens it. Mr. Cat [[BatterUp hits Stumpy with a baseball bat]] just for being outside the door when he was in the bathroom and accuses him of voyeurism.
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Happens on a regular basis between Kaeloo and Mr. Cat. Who's crushing on whom depends on the episode.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: The relationship between Kaeloo and Mr. Cat. It's obvious that the two of them are attracted to each other, and even ''[[TheDitz Stumpy]]'' has figured it out.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: If Mr. Cat ever wins anything, the first thing he does is yell "I WON!" and make fun of the loser(s) of the game. An example is in Episode 85 where he wins a debate against Kaeloo (by cheating), and his response is to jump up from the table, [[BullyingADragon throw a mallet at Kaeloo]], and run around yelling about how he won.
* UnwantedAssistance: All of Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack Quack's attempts to help Mr. Cat relax in "Let's Play Justice Masters" wind up stressing the poor cat even more.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Stumpy is one in the episode "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel". [[spoiler: He finds the titular Wholly Gruel, a magic crayon which can make anything it draws real, and uses it to doodle all over some hieroglyphics in a cave depicting characters who resemble him and his friends. He draws a meteorite about to strike them, and his real friends, meanwhile, almost get hit by an actual meteorite.]]
* UptightLovesWild: Uptight, stuffy Kaeloo and resident bad boy Mr. Cat who couldn't care less about the rules.
* UseYourHead:
** In the episode "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light", [[MakesSenseInContext Stumpy tries to cut a tree by ramming into it with his head.]] He fails.
** In Episode 93, when Stumpy and Quack Quack are training to be firefighters, their practice involves "saving" Mr. Cat from a building with fake flames. Stumpy tries to break down the door by using Quack Quack's head as a battering ram. It doesn't work, so Kaeloo tells them to use the ladder to get to the window Mr. Cat is at. [[TheDitz Stumpy]] then tries to smash the windowsill while continuing to use Quack Quack's head as a battering ram instead of just grabbing Mr. Cat, and Mr. Cat does an AsideGlance to the audience.
* VagueAge: "Let's Play Goodbye Mr. Cat" and "Let's Play Grown Ups" show the main cast to be children, but Mr. Cat sounds and behaves like an adult and Kaeloo is a frog, not a tadpole.
* ValentinesDayEpisode: Episode 83, where the characters have a Valentine's Day party and [[RelationshipSabotage Mr. Cat tricks Quack Quack into breaking up with Eugly]] as part of an elaborate scheme to [[ItsAllAboutMe get Kaeloo to kiss him]].
* VanityLicensePlate: Any car the main four have will have the letters PTM on its license plate. PTM stands for "Pays Trop Mignon", the name of the place the characters live in the French dub.
* VolleyingInsults: In Episode 85, Kaeloo and Mr. Cat are in a debate, and Mr. Cat constantly insults Kaeloo instead of countering her points. Kaeloo finally decides she's had enough and starts insulting him back. The fight keeps escalating, and eventually both of them start speaking {{Angrish}}. Stumpy finally steps in and breaks up the fight.
* VomitChainReaction: When Quack Quack throws up in one episode, Kaeloo sees him and she starts vomiting as well.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Any time somebody vomits, it'll be just offscreen.
* VoodooDoll: In the episode "Let's Play Figurines", the main four get figurines of themselves. Stumpy makes a DealWithTheDevil to turn them into voodoo dolls so he can inflict pain on anyone who doesn't obey him.
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[[folder: Tropes W to Z]]
* WantedPoster: In [[CowboyEpisode Episode 88]], Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat, who are dangerous bandits in this episode, see "WANTED" posters of themselves with rewards: 5000 dollars for Mr. Cat, 6500 dollars for Quack Quack, and... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers 33 cents for Stumpy.]]
* WasTooHardOnHim: Nearly every time Kaeloo beats someone up, no matter how much they deserved it, she still feels guilty about hurting them. However, Mr. Cat, the most frequent victim of her wrath, often assures her that it was his own fault that she beat him up.
* WatchOutForThatTree: The show turned this trope into a RunningGag where someone usually [[DrivesLikeCrazy Stumpy]], is driving a car and crashes it into a tree.
* WaxOnWaxOff: In "Let's Play Tennis", Mr. Cat tells Kaeloo and Stumpy to do random things like tango dancing which have nothing to do with tennis in order to make them better tennis players. The trope is subverted as they aren't actually able to do anything at the actual game, obviously.
* WeAllLiveInAmerica: The English dub is made in Australia, but the characters are supposed to act like Americans. However, they do screw up at times, like saying "rubbish" instead of "trash".
* WeddingSmashers: In Episode 60, [[spoiler: the bride, the groom and the guests get into a huge fight and ruin the wedding. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Kaeloo]], oblivious to the whole fiasco, just marries them off anyway.]]
* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: Used in an episode where Mr. Cat is [[MakesSenseInContext dressed as a Nazi]]:
-->'''Mr. Cat''': Me und mein bazooka have ways of making you talk!
* WeirdCurrency:
** {{Parodied| Trope}} in one episode where Mr. Cat is a waiter at a restaurant and Stumpy and Quack Quack eat there. When Stumpy hands him some money, Mr. Cat says that the restaurant only accepts ducks as payment, and he [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cuts Quack Quack in half]] and takes one half.
** In another episode, due to a pun being used, Mr. Cat pays for something using live sheep as currency, and the store somehow accepts this.
* WeNeedADistraction: In one episode where Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat are surrounded by [[RobotMaster Olaf]]'s MechaMooks, Stumpy mentions how in movies people create distractions to escape from situations like this. [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] uses a golf club to send [[ButtMonkey Stumpy]] flying into the distance, and all the MechaMooks follow him away.
* WeWillMeetAgain: [[HarmlessVillain Olaf]] frequently says this to whoever foils his plans to TakeOverTheWorld.
* WhamEpisode:
** The second season finale [[spoiler: proved that Olaf is a NotSoHarmlessVillain. He actually manages to kidnap Quack Quack and [[HarmlessFreezing freeze Kaeloo and Mr. Cat alive]]]].
** Episode 105, the Season 3 premiere, ends with [[spoiler: Stumpy taking over the animation studio and deciding to write all the episodes himself]].
* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Kaeloo's main BerserkButton is people stepping on flowers, even by accident, but she herself has no problems with ''jumping on and presumably killing'' a flower that isn't cute.
* WhatMeasureIsANonSuper: In "What if We Played at Riding Ponies?", Pretty and Kaeloo get into a fight [[AllGirlsLikePonies over a horse]]. Suddenly, a unicorn appears out of nowhere, and Kaeloo forgets about the horse and takes the unicorn. [[SpoiledBrat Pretty]] angrily screams and cries until another unicorn shows up, prompting her to [[BlackComedyBurst shoot the "normal" horse with a gun]].
* WhenHeSmiles: Mr. Cat's default expression is a grumpy frown and when he ''is'' smiling, it's either a creepy SlasherSmile or an arrogant and smug smile. That said, [[spoiler: when he makes a genuine smile near the end of episode 105, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/kaeloo/images/c/cd/Smiles.png/revision/latest?cb=20171215184405 it's absolutely adorable]].]] Also, his smile in Episode 129, when [[spoiler: he wakes up to find Kaeloo snuggling with him]] is a genuine smile that shows that he's touched.
* WhoEvenNeedsABrain:
** After half of Kaeloo's brain is removed in one episode, the only effect is that she can't talk properly.
** One episode implied that Stumpy doesn't have a brain.
* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: Each time Kaeloo or Mr. Cat asks the question, the answer turns out to be [[TheDitz Stumpy]].
* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: At the end of "Let's Play Once Upon A Time" when Stumpy suggests a show about a frog who transforms when angered, Mr. Cat does not seem to like the idea.
* WhoWritesThisCrap:
** Done very subtly in the episode [[ParanormalEpisode "Let's Play Paranormal Stuff"]]:
-->'''Mr. Cat (yelling)''': [[NoFourthWall I don't like this episode!]]
** The entire plot of Episode 91 revolves around Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat deciding to re-dub older episodes of the show because they think they were poorly written.
* AWildRapperAppears: Parodied in one episode where [[TheDitz Stumpy]] shows up dressed like a rapper and starts rapping... in the middle of a basketball game, confusing the others.
* WilliamTelling: [[{{Jerkass}} Mr. Cat]] tries doing this to Quack Quack. He misses the apple and shoots Quack Quack... [[WithFriendsLikeThese on purpose]].
* WillTheyOrWontThey: The relationship between Kaeloo and Mr. Cat. [[EveryoneCanSeeIt Even the other characters have figured out that they're in love with each other]], but they're both oblivious to the fact that the other likes them.
* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: In the first season finale, the soul of Yogo the sentient yogurt does this as it rises from its grave. In Episode 92, [[spoiler: Adele]]'s soul does this too, before the GrimReaper steals it.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: The main four do care for each other, but they sure don't show it that often. (Read: They're the worst friends ever.)
* WorkOffTheDebt: Stumpy is forced to do this in Episode 64 after placing a huge order at [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds McDaube]].
* WorldOfBadass: Every single inhabitant of Smileyland is a badass, from the juvenile delinquent with his own weapon arsenal to the seemingly quiet fat ugly girl.
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: Planet Smileyland only has seven inhabitants, but all of them are anthropomorphic animals with no humans in sight.
* WorldOfJerkass: While there are already [[MinimalistCast very few characters on this show]], over half of them are {{jerkass}}es, and even the nice ones sometimes act like complete jerks.
* AWorldwidePunomenon: The Wholly Gruel/ Holy Grail pun works well in French, too (Le Graal/ Le Greul).
* WorryingForTheWrongReason: Quack Quack [[MakesSenseInContext decides to leave Smileyland thanks to Kaeloo]]. After he leaves, Kaeloo starts to worry that he might not be safe. Stumpy tells her that the ''real'' reason they should be worried is that Mr. Cat seems to be going insane since [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]] isn't around to torture, and is now going to kill them.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: In the episode [[CourtroomEpisode "Let's Play Courtroom Drama"]], Mr. Cat is accused of attacking [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Quack Quack]] with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], and Kaeloo tries to prove him guilty. [[spoiler:Mr. Cat says that it was probably Kaeloo's [[JekyllAndHyde alternate form, Bad Kaeloo]], who is aggressive and does things beyond Kaeloo's conscious control. Kaeloo starts crying and says that she's going to leave Smileyland forever to keep her friends safe, and Mr. Cat, feeling guilty, confesses that it was him all along. Cue an EvilLaugh from [[BitchInSheepsClothing Kaeloo]].]]
* WrittenInAbsence: In some episodes, Mr. Cat has very minor roles, usually due to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar being heavily hungover]].
* YankTheDogsChain:
** Happens to Stumpy almost any time something nice is about to happen to him.
** Happens to [[JerkassWoobie Mr. Cat]] in [[spoiler:Episode 57]].
* YawnAndReach: Parodied in one episode where Mr. Cat uses the move to punch Quack Quack in the face.
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: In Episode 100, when attempting to persuade Kaeloo to leave [[LotusEaterMachine the video game]], [[TheNicknamer Mr. Cat]] calls her by her real name.
** However, he has referred to the others by name on occasion for no reason.
* YouAreFat: Pretty frequently criticizes Kaeloo and Eugly for their weight (although [[InformedAttribute Kaeloo really isn't that fat]]).
* YouCanTalk: Parodied. Kaeloo tells Mr. Cat that her psychotherapist can't talk, then the psychotherapist speaks up to let her know that he can. Kaeloo is shocked, and the doctor reveals that the only reason he never spoke was that Kaeloo is a talkative MotorMouth and he couldn't get a word in.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Stumpy in Episode 98. His friends wind up taking him to a doctor/psychotherapist.
* YouNeedABreathMint: In the episode "Let's Play Doctors and Nurses", Bad Kaeloo [[NeckLift lifts Mr. Cat by the neck]] and roars in his face. He then remarks about her breath:
-->'''Mr. Cat''' (looking in her mouth): Is there a skunk in there or what?
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Mr. Cat says this almost word for word to Kaeloo in the series pilot.
* YourHeadAsplode: Happens to [[spoiler: Stumpy, Quack Quack and Mr. Cat after [[DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength Bad Kaeloo]] gives them a hug]].
* YourMindMakesItReal: In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", the challenges are dangerous if you use your imagination. Stumpy's feet catch fire after he steps on "lava", which is just the ground. {{Exploited| trope}} by Mr. Cat, who pushes Quack Quack into a "precipice" and says things to fuel his imagination ("It's full of hungry alligators!")
* YourMom: Mr. Cat makes a joke about Kaeloo's mother to get her to transform in "Let's Play Scaredy Cat".
-->'''Mr. Cat''':YourMom is so ugly she'd flip put a zombie!
* YouTalkTooMuch: Mr. Cat says this to Kaeloo quite a lot, albeit indirectly.
* ZombieApocalypse: The premise of [[HalloweenEpisode "Let's Play Scaredy Cat"]].
* ZombieInfectee: In [[HalloweenEpisode "Let's Play Scaredy Cat"]], Stumpy raises the dead in a cemetery. Soon enough, Quack Quack and Kaeloo are bitten and turned into zombies. While they are infected, their skin turns bluish grey. [[spoiler: [[TheSmartGuy Mr. Cat]] finally figures out how to reverse the effects, and turns them back to normal.]]
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* FurryFemaleMane: Eugly has one, as opposed to her sister who wears EarsAsHair.

* {{Hulkspeak}}: Bad Kaeloo's default way of speaking.

* IMissMom: Mr. Cat admits to this after [[spoiler: being shot with TruthSerum]], combined with crying and [[StillSucksThumb thumb-sucking]].

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: It's hinted at that Mr. Cat always praises himself and acts superior to others due to having low self-esteem.

* TheIngenue: DependingOnTheWriter, Kaeloo may either be one of these, or a BitchInSheepsClothing who tries too hard to appear as one.

* MotorMouth: Kaeloo. In one episode, she even talks so fast that her face turns blue from lack of oxygen.

* TheNicknamer: Mr. Cat rarely ever calls the others by their real names, opting to use nicknames based on their species or its traits. For example, Kaeloo the frog is "Froggy", "Tadpole" or "Fly-nibbler", Stumpy the squirrel is "Nutcracker" and Quack Quack the duck is "Duckface".
* NighInvulnerable: Quack Quack, as a result of being the test subject of various science experiments.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Stumpy, as a result of a constant diet of violent horror movies, comic books and video games.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Olaf can be dangerously competent at times, like when he [[spoiler: turned Stumpy into a cyborg]] in Episode 78, and in the second season finale, he actually [[spoiler: kidnaps Quack Quack and [[HarmlessFreezing freezes Kaeloo and Mr. Cat alive]]]].

* OhCrapSmile: Mr. Cat usually does this when Bad Kaeloo is about to beat him up.

* AdultFear: In Episode 94, the gang are roleplaying as usual. This time, Mr. Cat is the principal of a school, Quack Quack is a student at said school, and Kaeloo is Quack Quack's mother. Halfway through the episode, Kaeloo gets a call from Mr. Cat saying that Quack Quack died. Kaeloo rushes over to the school, only to find Quack Quack alive, just injured. Mr. Cat then explains to Kaeloo that if he said a child was injured, the child's parents probably wouldn't show up.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In Episode 12, when the gang are discussing what a TV news channel needs, Mr. Cat suggests "blood, pathos, suffering... and a blonde".

* BigEater:
** Quack Quack, when it comes to yogurt. {{Exploited| Trope}} by Stumpy in "Let's Play Super-Powers" when he gets Quack Quack to eat 712 pots of yogurt to win a contest.
** Stumpy himself eats quite a lot, and a RunningGag is to have him get hungry and/or eat a lot of food.
* BigOlEyebrows: Olaf has much larger eyebrows than the rest of the cast.

* BiTheWay: Kaeloo has had crushes on both boys and girls over the course of the series.

* CardCarryingVillain: Mr. Cat takes being called "evil, sadistic, cruel, egoistic and psychopathic" as a compliment.

** Stumpy has many, the most common being "That’s nuts!", "Cooooool!", and "I hate your guts!".

* ChildProdigy: Mr. Cat and Quack Quack are both highly intelligent for their age.

* FangsAreEvil: The villain Mr. Cat has a pair of fangs, since he's a cat.

* FirstNameUltimatum: In any case where [[NotMeThisTime Stumpy annoys Kaeloo to the point of transforming instead of Mr. Cat]]: "STUMPYYYY...".

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Episode 63 and Episode 72 foreshadowed the events of Episode 105, namely [[spoiler: Stumpy [[FaceHeelTurn becoming evil]] and [[TakeOverTheWorld taking control of the world]].]]

** Episode 122, a sequel to "Let's Play Once Upon a Time", had Mr. Cat make every fairy tale in the book more realistic, for example by having Cinderella report her stepmother to the police for abuse.

* FunnyAnimal: The entire cast is composed of these. Kaeloo is a frog, Stumpy is a squirrel, Quack Quack is a duck, Mr. Cat and Ursula are cats, Pretty and Eugly are rabbits and Olaf is an emperor penguin.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Stumpy has confessed to enjoying dressing up as a girl.

* AWildRapperAppears: Parodied in one episode where [[TheDitz Stumpy]] shows uo dressed like a rapper and starts rapping in the middle of a basketball game, confusing the others.
* WilliamTelling: [[JerkAss Mr. Cat]] tries doing this to Quack Quack. He misses the apple and shoots Quack Quack... [[WithFriendsLikeThese on purpose]].

* YankTheDogsChain: Happens to Stumpy almost any time something nice is about to happen to him.

* YouAreFat: Pretty [[BrutalHonesty says this to Eugly and Kaeloo]] often.

* PoliceBrutality: Mr. Cat as a police officer in "Let's Play Cops and Robbers" is extremely harsh towards Quack Quack and repeatedly hits him.

* PopCulturedBadass: Stumpy's knowledge of movies has actually proven useful to the cast.

* PrehensileTail: Mr. Cat has one of these.

* {{Protectorate}}: Kaeloo will be absolutely furious if you hurt Quack Quack.

* RichBitch: Pretty is extremely rich, and will not hesitate to flaunt it. Averted with Eugly, who is sweet and kind despite being rich.

* RobotMaster: Olaf.

* RoyalWe: Olaf sometimes uses this.

* SadistShow: Every single character on the show is put through an immense amount of emotional and physical suffering purely for the sake of the audience’s amusement.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Apart from the fact that Eugly is Quack Quack's girlfriend, and Pretty's sister, she really has no role on the show.

** In Episode 81, Stumpy jumps into [[AlphaBitch Pretty]]'s arms after Kaeloo says there might be rattlesnakes [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes (which he is terrified of)]] in the desert they're walking in. Pretty proceeds to [[{{Jerkass}} throw him on the ground and wipe her feet on him.]]

* SpeciesSurname: Mr. Cat, as opposed to the others who have OnlyOneName.
* SpeechImpairedAnimal: The only word Quack Quack can say is "quack".

* StageMagician: Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat all use top hats and magic wands to put on a magic show in "Let's Play Magicians". Kaeloo manages to pull numerous objects out of a hat. [[TheDitz Stumpy]]'s act fails because he didn't have a trick and thought magic was real. [[AxCrazy Mr. Cat]] gets [[NighInvulnerable Quack Quack]] to be his assistant and [[SawAWomanInHalf saws him in half]] [[TheyKilledKennyAgain for real]].

* StepfordSmiler: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] with Kaeloo, who is somewhere between Depressed and Unstable. [[OnceAnEpisode Time to time]], her bottled up emotions actually [[HulkingOut change her physically into a hulking monster]], the actions of whom seem [[AndIMustScream beyond her conscious control]]. The falsity of her "cheerful" nature is often highlighted when she pushes back signs of anger with a huge, obviously forced, painful-looking smile.

* StoutStrength: Eugly may be fat, but she's incredibly strong.
* StrawLoser: Given the fact that Kaeloo has people like [[TheAce Mr. Cat and Quack Quack]] around, she would look like a complete loser if not for Stumpy.

* SuddenlyShouting: Mr. Cat does this in [[HalloweenEpisode "Let's Play Scaredy Cat"]] when he finds out that the others are playing his favorite game, "Scaredy Cat", without him.

* SuperGullible: [[TheDitz Stumpy]], and [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]], Kaeloo. Mr. Cat likes to take advantage of this.

* SuperStrength: Bad Kaeloo, to the extent that she can uproot a tree, throw a car and [[spoiler: hold off a meteor]] with her bare hands.

* SurroundedByIdiots: Mr. Cat is the ''only'' actual smart person on the show. The other "smart" characters, Quack Quack and Olaf, are just {{Ditzy Genius}}es.

* TakeThatAudience: In "Let's Play Once Upon a Time", Stumpy suggests making a kids' show about a frog who [[HulkingOut transforms into a giant monster]] when she's angry. Mr. Cat's response?

* TeachersPet: Quack Quack becomes one in "Let's Play Teachers", mainly because he's able tp amswer all the questions asked in class correctly. [[BookDumb Stumpy]] gets so annpyed by this that he actually threatens to beat him up during recess.
* TeamMom: Kaeloo is this to the rest of the main four. She takes care of them, scolds them for bad behavior, and tells them things like "clean your room".

* TemptingFate: In "Let's Play Musical Chairs", Stumpy [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext brings all the chairs in Smileyland to life]] and rounds them up to revolt against people who sit on chairs. Mr. Cat and Quack Quack tell him they don't care since they still have the couch. Cue the couch getting up and running towards Stumpy.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Mr. Cat is one of the main characters, yet he's evil.
* TooDumbToLive: Stumpy. He's eaten a poisonous toadstool, bitten a live wire and blown his own head off with a bazooka, to name a few examples.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Mr. Cat gets Kaeloo, who he has a crush on, to beat him up OnceAnEpisode and is implied to enjoy it. WordOfStPaul says he's actually a masochist.

* TrashOfTheTitans: Mr. Cat, Quack Quack and especially Stumpy create hige piles of trash.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Mr. Cat has given a few of these, but not his entire past at once.

* UngratefulBastard: Mr. Cat in “Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat!”. His friends try to help him out and he repays them by [[spoiler: beating them all up]] near the end of the episode.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Eugly to Quack Quack.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Any time somebody vomits.

* WeirdCurrency: {{Parodied| Trope}} in one episode where Mr. Cat is a waiter at a restaurant and Stumpy and Quack Quack eat there. When Stumpy hands him some money, Mr. Cat says that the restaurant only accepts ducks as payment, and he [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cuts Quack Quack in half]] and takes one half.
* WhamEpisode: The second season finale [[spoiler: proved that Olaf is a NotSoHarmlessVillain. He actually manages to kidnap Quack Quack and [[HarmlessFreezing freeze Kaeloo and Mr. Cat alive]]]].

** For the first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball", Stumpy refuses to be on Mr. Cat's team because CatsAreMean. Almost every other episode had him team up with Mr. Cat to pull off some antagonistic deed, and he dreams of being like Mr. Cat.

* {{Kawaiiko}}: Kaeloo is cute. Oh, and very obsessed with staying that way.

* LeanAndMean: Pretty, the thinnest of the three girls in the cast, is also the meanest; she's rude, [[SpoiledBrat bratty]], [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] and [[SmugSnake arrogant]].

* LoveMartyr: Kaeloo to Mr. Cat, and Mr. Cat to Bad Kaeloo.

* MotorMouth: .Kaeloo. In one episode, she even talks so fast that her face turns blue from lack of oxygen.

* NeverSayDie: Averted. The terms "die", "death" and "kill" are used on a regular basis.

** In Episode 61, [[BigEater Stumpy]] tries to eat Kaeloo after being stranded on an island.

* NotSoStoic: On rare occasions, Quack Quack will show actual emotions. This is ''very'' rare, however, as in one instance he was perfectly stoic when Kaeloo was about to ''die''.

* PolarOppositeTwins: Pretty and Eugly.

* GratuitoutEnglish: In the French dub[[note]]The series' original language is French[[/note]], the characters frequently use English words like "what" and "stop" instead of the French words.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Olaf interjects random Russian words into his speech. Justified since he's actually Russian.
* GratuitoutNazis: In the episode "Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel"[[note]]The episode parodies Franchise/IndianaJones[[/note]], [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] dresses as a Nazi to look more "evil".