History WesternAnimation / MarthaSpeaks

* GrowlingGut: Martha's stomach growls in at least four episodes.

* CanadaEh: Daniel is from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is also a hockey coach, and many of the children love hockey, though they likely play for an American team.

* RecursiveAdaptation: A number of stories from the television show have now been released as books.

* {{Aesop}}: Many episodes have morals, but they're normally played quite realistically.

** Also subverted for an {{Aesop}} in one episode were Martha expects a kitten to be mean, but ultimately finds out it's nice and befriends it, even being heartbroken when it leaves (then overjoyed to find out she can visit it whenever she wants).

* CluelessAesop: The episodes with AnAesop against MerchandiseDriven products fall into this (As well as BrokenAesop) on a Meta-level. As the show shares some of its cast and crew members with ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', it can seem unfair and hypocritical.

* MyLittlePhony: The show has an ImagineSpot which stars "My Fluffy Puppy". It's used to give AnAesop against MerchandiseDriven products. Which is ironic, given the voice of Martha (Creator/TabithaStGermain), is most well-known for her roles in Franchise/MyLittlePony.

* AnAesop: A lesson occurs about once a book.
** ''Martha Speaks'': There's a right time, way, and amount to use words.
** ''Martha Walks the Dog'': Nice words can have beneficial effects.
** ''Martha and Skits'': Everyone has their own talent.

!!This show provides examples of

* AccidentalDownerEnding: InUniverse example in "[[Recap/MarthaSpeaksS2E17DogsInSpace Dogs from Space]]" -- Danny used to love a particular comic series as a kid, but it got cancelled before he could find out what happened to the protagonist.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: In "Verb Dog, When Action Calls!", Martha and Dr. R. try to hide in one of these (during a dream), but it doesn't work for long.

* ADogAteMyHomework: In one episode, T.D. brings Martha into school and asks her to say that she ate his homework. There's also a song sung by Helen about how Martha ate her music homework and in "Martha Sings", Martha literally eats Helen's homework by mistake.
* ADogNamedDog: The Kitten Martha meets in "There Goes the Neighbourhood" is named Kitten.

* {{Aesop}}: Many episodes have one, but they're normally played quite realistically.

** In "Verb Dog: When Action Calls", Martha gets [[AdventuresInComaland knocked out]] and dreams that she becomes a superhero with the power to make verbs come true if she commands "[noun], [verb]" (for example, if she said "book-levitate", a book would levitate).
** In "Fit Fights Fat", Martha dreams that she is being a Bookbot and the books are scrambled up, leading the Bookbots to be out of shape.

* AnIcePerson: In "Verb Dog: When Action Calls", Martha dreams that Alice is an ice person (person who can make ice) named Al Ice.

* BadBadActing: Frequently, for most instances of ShowWithinAShow.
* BadLiar: Martha. Whenever she lies, her awkward voice gives her away.

* BigFriendlyDog: Skits, sometimes Bob, and Rinty.
* BigNo:

** Alice has her birthday in "Martha Takes the Cake"

* BlindWithoutEm: Alice, Daniel, and the old man from "Skits Under the Weather".
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Alice, Carolina, and Helen.

* BrawnHilda: Brunhilde the Soprano.

%%* ButtMonkey: Milo's dad.

* CloudCuckoolander: Both Martha and T.D. sometimes go into this territory. Skits can sometimes be this too.

* ConeOfShame: The main character has to wear one of these to prevent her from scratching her ear mites. She hates it, as it makes things 'sound funny', and scares Baby Jake.

* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: TD, occasionally.

** Alice Boxwood plays as Alice from Alice In Wonderland in "Martha Acts Up".
* DeathGlare: Martha gives one to Billy Collins, thinking he's an impostor.

* DietEpisode: Martha has one in "Too Much Martha" and "Martha's Dirty Habit" has an unresolved subplot of Daniel going through one.

* DitzyGenius: TD's dad.

** One of the babies Mrs. Oatley babysits doesn't like spinach, and saying the word "spinach" counts as negative feedback from that baby.

** In "Paws and Effect".

* DreamEpisode: "Fit Fights Fat" has Martha fall asleep and dream that she and her friends are the superheroes known as Book Bots that she and the others made up a few episodes ago, and that [[BigBrotherBully Ronald Boxwood]] is an evil scientist who makes exercise books decrease fitness and yoga books tie people in knots.

* DressCodedForYourConvenience: Parodied in one of the TheMoreYouKnow segments

** The damsel in a [[ShowWithinAShow black-and-white horror film]] in the episode "Martha's Pickle" who keeps asking the macho hero the definition of some words he says.

* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: Truman was right.

* TheFlapper: Mrs. Bumblecrumb from "Martha's Life in Crime" dresses like one.

* FlashbackWithinAFlashback: "The Case of the Shattered Vase"

* FunnyForeigner: There is Helen's Hispanic Mexican mother and Caucasian Canadian father.

-->'''Helen:''' How is this different from a bathtub?\\

-->'''Carolina:''' That makes no sense. He should be afraid of ice.\\

* FunWithAlphabetSoup: The whole premise.

* JerkAss: Mr. Sterns (to a lesser extent) and Eulah Demson (extremely).

* TheKlutz: Alice
* LadyLooksLikeADude: According to Martha, she was once told "Here, boy" by a stranger despite being a girl dog.

* LargeHam: TD as "Mr. Astonishing"

** Parodied in the ''deserted'' and ''adore'' TheMoreYouKnow segments.

* LiteralMinded: Martha, justified as she's a dog. Some of the children have moments of this but [[DownplayedTrope aren't as literal minded as Martha]], which is also justified because they are kids.
* LittleNo: Martha when Kitten is about to jump on Rinty.

* LovableCoward: Truman, Carlo, Milo, John and sometimes Helen.

* MotorMouth: Martha can be this sometimes, and also Bob barks a lot.

* MusicalEpisode: The set of "Martha Sings" and "T.D. Makes the Band"

* OneSteveLimit: There's another dog named Martha in "Too Much Marthas".

* PetHeir: Sweetums

* PottyEmergency: Milo fakes several in "Milo's Reading Buddy" and T.D. gets an actual one in a TheMoreYouKnow segment about health.
* PottyFailure: Skits when he was a puppy. It is shown that Martha used to do that when she was a puppy, too. Martha also has one on purpose when she's pretending to be a puppy.

* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Helen.

* RashomonStyle: "Never Forget to Remember".

* ScaryScienceWords:
** The show sometimes employs this trope due to its habit of defining things:

* ThanksgivingEpisode: "Martha's Thanksgiving".

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Ralph [[spoiler:and her baby ducklings.]]

* TitleDrop: "The Cheating Chum Caper"
* TitleThemeTune: See theme song above.

** Martha and Helen.
** Also, Alice and Carolina.

** However, the two recurring villains in the show, Otis Weaselgraft and Pablum, constantly make plans to kidnap her to make money off of her, so at least its an interesting sight to someone.

* ValentinesDayEpisode: "Martha and the Thief of Hearts".

* MyLittlePhony: The show has an ImagineSpot which stars "My Fluffy Puppy". It's used to give an aesop against MerchandiseDriven products.

* {{Spoiler}}: In-Universe. In the first episode, Martha has already seen a ShowWithinAShow that the Lorraines were watching and tells a spoiler to it, annoying the Lorraines.