History WesternAnimation / LittleDogsOnThePrairie

* HiddenDepths: The titular character of "Stanza By Me" is a mild-mannered snake who works as a telegraph operator, but secretly is a talented opera singer.

Not to be confused with ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' despite the similar sounding names.

** The owner of the traveling circus in "Have Gum, Will Travel" is more than willing to endanger his more boring performers by having them perform close to the circus's man-eating-tiger.

* AnAesop: Every short has one as can be expected in a series like this.

The series takes place in Prairie Town, an Old West town inhabited by anthropomorphic prairie dogs (Hollister, Gilroy, Patterson, the Sheriff, Darcy, Sport, and Scout) and one cat (Miss Kittey). Each short focuses on one or more of the characters learning a specific moral lesson with a music video for a song about said lesson shown afterwards. It should be noted that any mentions of God were limited to the theme song, the narration, and the music videos.

The series takes place in Prairie Town, an Old West town inhabited by anthropomorphic prairie dogs (Hollister, Gilroy, Patterson, the Sheriff, Darcy, Sport, and Scout) and one cat (Ms. Kittey). Each short focuses on one or more of the characters learning a specific moral lesson with a music video for a song about said lesson shown afterwards. It should be noted that any mentions of God were limited to the theme song, the narration, and the music videos.

** "Cheating": Ms. Kittey becomes the school's substitute teacher and accuses Scout and Sport of cheating off of Darcy on spelling tests. The former two kids get Hollister, Gilroy, and Patterson to help them figure out the identity of the real cheater.

** "A Flip, A Twirl, A Wave, and A Curl": A WholeEpisodeFlashback shows what happened when Ms. Kittey started her career as the town barber and how everyone else had to learn not to be vain.
** "For the Love of Sport": Sport gets a crush on Ms. Kittey and winds up learning a valuable lesson about love.

** Averted in "Cheating", as Hollister, Gilroy, and Patterson believe Scout and Sport when they say that they did not cheat on the spelling tests they took; the three adults then decide to take up the matter with Ms. Kittey.
** Zigzagged in "For the Love of Sport"; while Gilroy fails to keep the fact that Sport has a crush on Ms. Kittey a secret (albeit not knowing said crush is on her), he does offer good advice on what to do about it by drawing on his own experience with having unrequited love for a girl named Millie.
* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: In "Lying", it's not revealed how old Sport is turning on his birthday. However, in the later episode "For the Love of Sport" he tells Ms. Kittey that he is almost 5.

** In "Cheating", Gilroy mentions that Ms. Kittey has become the school's substitute teacher due to the previous teacher, Ms. Richardson, retiring to become an astronaut. In that same short, a hair dryer is one of the things Patterson gets from the barbershop in place of free candy.

* {{Balloonacy}}: Darcy's attempt to cheat in the sack race depicted in the music video for "Cheaters Never Really Win" is using a bunch of balloons to fly over her competitors. It almost works, but Ms. Kittey shoots her down with a pea shooter.

* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Ms. Kittey is the only main character to fit this trope.

** Averted by Ms. Kittey, whose last name is "Kat".

* LoveLetter: In "For the Love of Sport", Sport writes some love letters to Ms. Kittey (although when coming up with the first one, he keeps crumpling the letters into paper balls and tossing them aside before finally writing one that he's satisfied with).

* NotSoAboveItAll: In "A Flip, A Twirl, A Wave, and A Curl", even the Sheriff starts becoming vain after getting his hair styled by Ms. Kittey.

* PrecociousCrush: Sport, a little boy prairie dog, gets a crush on the adult Ms. Kittey in "For the Love of Sport" and sends her secret admirer letters. When he does confess his feelings to her, she gently tells him that it just wouldn't work out due to the age difference but they can still be friends.

* PronouncingMyNameForYou: Ms. Kittey Kat pronounces her first name "kit-tay" as she says to Old Bill, her predecessor as town barber, in "A Flip, A Twirl, A Wave, and A Curl". Old Bill also tells her that his last name, Coyote, is pronounced "key-oaty".

* ResignedInDisgrace: [[spoiler:Ms. Kittey quits being a substitute teacher at the end of "Cheating" after revealing that she cheated on her substitute teacher's exam and everyone else realizes that no one cheated on the spelling tests and confronts her with that knowledge.]]

** In "For the Love of Sport", Sport falling/walking into an open manhole when saying that he is Ms. Kittey's favorite (or a variation thereof).

** The barber prior to Ms. Kittey is named Old Bill Juan Coyote, which sounds very similar to Obi Wan Kenobi.
** Ms. Kittey also begs Old Bill for help in the same way Leia does in her message to Obi Wan in ''Film/ANewHope'' after the townsfolk stop going out and about due to staring at themselves in the mirror to admire their hair.
** In response to the above, Old Bill tells Ms. Kittey to use some force...to open the storage shed he got stuck in while packing up his golf clubs.

'''Patterson''': Ms. Kittey will style your hair!\\

The series takes place in Prairie Town, an Old West town inhabited by anthropomorphic prairie dogs (Hollister, Gilroy, Patterson, the Sheriff, Darcy, Sport, and Scout) and one cat (Ms. Kitty). Each short focuses on one or more of the characters learning a specific moral lesson with a music video for a song about said lesson shown afterwards. It should be noted that any mentions of God were limited to the theme song, the narration, and the music videos.

** "Cheating": Ms. Kitty becomes the school's substitute teacher and accuses Scout and Sport of cheating off of Darcy on spelling tests. The former two kids get Hollister, Gilroy, and Patterson to help them figure out the identity of the real cheater.

** "A Flip, A Twirl, A Wave, and A Curl": A WholeEpisodeFlashback shows what happened when Ms. Kitty started her career as the town barber and how everyone else had to learn not to be vain.
** "For the Love of Sport": Sport gets a crush on Ms. Kitty and winds up learning a valuable lesson about love.

** Averted in "Cheating", as Hollister, Gilroy, and Patterson believe Scout and Sport when they say that they did not cheat on the spelling tests they took; the three adults then decide to take up the matter with Ms. Kitty.
** Zigzagged in "For the Love of Sport"; while Gilroy fails to keep the fact that Sport has a crush on Ms. Kitty a secret (albeit not knowing said crush is on her), he does offer good advice on what to do about it by drawing on his own experience with having unrequited love for a girl named Millie.
* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: In "Lying", it's not revealed how old Sport is turning on his birthday. However, in the later episode "For the Love of Sport" he tells Ms. Kitty that he is almost 5.

** In "Cheating", Gilroy mentions that Ms. Kitty has become the school's substitute teacher due to the previous teacher, Ms. Richardson, retiring to become an astronaut. In that same short, a hair dryer is one of the things Patterson gets from the barbershop in place of free candy.

* {{Balloonacy}}: Darcy's attempt to cheat in the sack race depicted in the music video for "Cheaters Never Really Win" is using a bunch of balloons to fly over her competitors. It almost works, but Ms. Kitty shoots her down with a pea shooter.

* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Ms. Kitty is the only main character to fit this trope.

** Averted by Ms. Kitty, whose last name is "Cat".

* LoveLetter: In "For the Love of Sport", Sport writes some love letters to Ms. Kitty (although when coming up with the first one, he keeps crumpling the letters into paper balls and tossing them aside before finally writing one that he's satisfied with).

* NotSoAboveItAll: In "A Flip, A Twirl, A Wave, and A Curl", even the Sheriff starts becoming vain after getting his hair styled by Ms. Kitty.

* PrecociousCrush: Sport, a little boy prairie dog, gets a crush on the adult Ms. Kitty in "For the Love of Sport" and sends her secret admirer letters. When he does confess his feelings to her, she gently tells him that it just wouldn't work out due to the age difference but they can still be friends.

* PronouncingMyNameForYou: Ms. Kitty Cat pronounces her first name "kit-tay" as she says to Old Bill, her predecessor as town barber, in "A Flip, A Twirl, A Wave, and A Curl". Old Bill also tells her that his last name, Coyote, is pronounced "key-oaty".

* ResignedInDisgrace: [[spoiler:Ms. Kitty quits being a substitute teacher at the end of "Cheating" after revealing that she cheated on her substitute teacher's exam and everyone else realizes that no one cheated on the spelling tests and confronts her with that knowledge.]]

** In "For the Love of Sport", Sport falling/walking into an open manhole when saying that he is Ms. Kitty's favorite (or a variation thereof).

** The barber prior to Ms. Kitty is named Old Bill Juan Coyote, which sounds very similar to Obi Wan Kenobi.
** Ms. Kitty also begs Old Bill for help in the same way Leia does in her message to Obi Wan in ''Film/ANewHope'' after the townsfolk stop going out and about due to staring at themselves in the mirror to admire their hair.
** In response to the above, Old Bill tells Ms. Kitty to use some force...to open the storage shed he got stuck in while packing up his golf clubs.

'''Patterson''': Ms. Kitty will style your hair!\\

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Old Bill Juan Coyote from "A Flip, A Twirl, A Wave, and A Curl" is a parody of Obi-Wan Kenobi from ''Franchise/StarWars'', with his voice actor doing an impression of Creator/AlecGuinness as the character. Patterson also sounds quite similar to Walter Brennan.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The town collectively has this reaction after their prejudice ends up causing Stanza to leave in "Stanza By Me".

* CannotKeepASecret: Gilroy proves himself to be this regarding Sport having a crush in "For the Love of Sport" when Hollister points out signs saying "SPORT HAS A GIRLFRIEND"[[note]]Yes, in all caps and with one word on each sign[[/note]]. It goes up another level with the reveal that Gilroy made ''merchandise'' with the phrase printed on shirts, yo-yos, and other items.

-->--The dialogue before the theme song

* CannotKeepASecret: Gilroy proves himself to be this regarding Sport having a crush in "For the Love of Sport" when Hollister points out signs saying "SPORT HAS A GIRLFRIEND"[[note]]Yes, in all caps and with one word on each sign[[/note]].

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The theme song is mainly sung by Gilroy, Hollister, and Patterson.

* FourthWallGreeting: Gilroy and Hollister welcome the viewers to Prairie Town before the theme song starts.

* LastNameBasis: Gilroy, Hollister, and Patterson are only referred to by their surnames. Averted by Ms. Kitty, whose last name is "Cat".

* PrejudiceAesop: "Stanza By Me" is about prejudice. Unlike most kids' shows, the short doesn't end happily (see spoiler in the downer ending example).

* ThemeTuneRollCall: The main characters are listed in the second verse of the theme song.

* FakingTheDead: Patterson reveals he had to fake his own death twice to get rid of an annoying handyman... who turns out to have been Gilroy. Bizarrely, Gilroy and Patterson are still interacting with each other, [[BlatantLies with neither putting two and two together]] until "Here Comes Da Grudge" when the former is overjoyed to discover that the very same Patterson he knows is the one who supposedly died. This prompts Patterson to try faking his death a third time, but Gilroy doesn't buy it, so he [[PaperThinDisguise then claims to be his twin brother Schmatterson]]. It becomes a RunningGag for Patterson to consider faking his death to get out of difficult situations.

* FakingTheDead: Patterson reveals he had to fake his own death twice to get rid of an annoying handyman... who turns out to have been Gilroy. Bizarrely, Gilroy and Patterson are still interacting with each other, with neither putting two and two together until "Here Comes Da Grudge" when the former is overjoyed to discover that the very same Patterson he knows is the one who supposedly died. This prompts Patterson to try faking his death a third time, but Gilroy doesn't buy it, so he then claims to be his twin brother Schmatterson. It becomes a RunningGag for Patterson to consider faking his death to get out of difficult situations.

* FakingTheDead: Patterson reveals he had to fake his own death twice to get rid of an annoying handyman... who turns out to have been Gilroy. Bizarrely, Gilroy and Patterson are still interacting with each other, with neither putting two and two together until "Here Comes Da Grudge" when the former is overjoyed to discover that the very same Patterson he knows is the one who supposedly died. This prompts Patterson to try faking his death a third time, but Gilroy doesn't buy it, so he then claims to be his twin brother Schmatterson. This becomes a RunningGag as Patterson will often consider faking his own death to get out of difficult situations.

* FakingTheDead: Patterson reveals he had to fake his own death twice to get rid of an annoying handyman... who turns out to have been Gilroy. Bizarrely, Gilroy and Patterson are still interacting with each other, with neither putting two and two together until "Here Comes Da Grudge" when the former is overjoyed to discover that the very same Patterson he knows is the one who supposedly died. This prompts Patterson to try faking his death a third time, but Gilroy doesn't buy it, so he then claims to be his twin brother Schmatterson.

* FakingTheDead: Patterson reveals he had to fake his own death twice to get rid of an annoying handyman... who turns out to have been Gilroy. Bizarrely, Gilroy and Patterson are still interacting together with neither putting two and two together until "Here Comes Da Grudge" when the former is overjoyed to discover that the very same Patterson he knows is the one who supposedly died. This prompts Patterson to try faking his death a third time, but Gilroy doesn't buy it, so he then claims to be his twin brother Schmatterson.

* FakingTheDead: Patterson reveals he had to fake his own death twice to get rid of an annoying handyman... who turns out to have been Gilroy. Bizarrely, Gilroy and Patterson are still interacting together with neither having put two and two together until "Here Comes Da Grudge" when the former is overjoyed to discover that the very same Patterson he knows is the one who supposedly died. This prompts Patterson to try faking his death a third time, but Gilroy doesn't buy it, so he then claims to be his twin brother Schmatterson.