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* BigEater: Martha, of course.
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* TimeSkip: Played with in "Martha and Skits", Martha tells puppy Skits to grow up, and suddenly he's grown.
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* HairOfGold: Tiffany in "No Dogs Allowed"
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* CuteShotaroBoy: T.D.'s cousin CD.
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* ShoutOut: In "Verb Dog, When Action Calls!", Martha spins around to become a superhero like [[KryptoTheSuperdog a certain other dog]].
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** In "Milo's Reading Buddy" T.D. comes across a cop of the blue mango book referenced in "Ice Scream", he then proceeds to tell the entire plot of said episode to Milo.
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** In "Ice Scream", the picture book "Blue Mangoes" is missing its last page. In "Milo's Reading Buddy" T.D. comes across a cop copy of the blue mango the book referenced in "Ice Scream", he then and proceeds to tell recap the entire plot of said episode "Ice Scream" to Milo.Milo. In "Martha the Weather Dog", Truman finds the missing page under his bed.
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* TheTetrisEffect: In "Helen's All Thumbs", Helen becomes addicted to a video game and begins seeing sprites from the game in real life.
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* HomemadeInventions: Professor Monkey's gadgets, such as a couch-helicopter made from a couch, broomsticks, a blender, bicycle handlebars, and a rope.
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** Also subverted for an {{Aesop}} in one episode were Martha expects a kitten to be mean, but ultimately finds out its nice and befriends it, even being heartbroken when it leaves (then overjoyed to find out she can visit it whenever she wants).
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* 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 away Baby Jake.
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* 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 away Baby Jake.
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** In "Milo's Reading Buddy" T.D. comes across a cop of the blue mango book referenced in "Ice Scream", he then proceeds to tell the entire plot of said episode to Milo.
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** The ''Toil'' TheMoreYouKnow segment. The song Martha sings is pretty much reminiscent of MontyPython's Lumberjack song.
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** The ''Toil'' TheMoreYouKnow segment. The song Martha sings is pretty much reminiscent of MontyPython's Creator/MontyPython's Lumberjack song.
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* LetsMeetTheMeat: Parodied in the ''deserted'' and ''adore'' TheMoreYouKnow segments.
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* LetsMeetTheMeat: Parodied in the ''deserted'' and ''adore'' TheMoreYouKnow segments.
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* NightmareFuel: In an in-universe example, Baby Jake got scared when Martha was wearing a doggy cone to prevent her from scratching her ear... [[spoiler:Until his older sister's friend told him a story about Martha as a space dog that went to a fake moon and battled Dr. 2 arms and his cleaning robot]] The actual show averts this for the most part. Well, minus the giant clown head attempt in the aforementioned episode.
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* NightmareFuel: In an in-universe example, Baby Jake got scared when Martha was wearing a doggy cone to prevent her from scratching her ear... [[spoiler:Until his older sister's friend told him a story about Martha as a space dog that went to a fake moon and battled Dr. 2 arms and his cleaning robot]] The actual show averts this for the most part. Well, minus the giant clown head attempt in the aforementioned episode.
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*** BraggingThemeTune: Yes, we might as well throw this in as well, as part of the theme tune has Martha showing off her knowledge of words.
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--->'''Random Child:''' "WOW! A TALKING DOG!"
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--->'''Random Child:''' "WOW! A TALKING DOG!" DOG!"
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--->'''Another Random Child:''' "Yeah, she's got a point"
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--->'''Another Random Child:''' "Yeah, she's got a point" point"
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* BerserkButton: TD hates ToBeContinued and stories that end with the word "forever" (because they're not real stories to him).
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* BerserkButton: TD T.D. hates ToBeContinued and stories that end with the word "forever" (because they're not real stories to him).
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** Hilariously lampshaded in one episode where TD comes up with a [[RubeGoldbergDevice ludicrously complicated]] and unlikely scheme to explain how Nelson got into a house and dumped a birthday cake off the table to frame Martha. At the end of the episode, Nelson is seen with an item identical to one from [=TD's=] story.
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** Hilariously lampshaded in one episode where TD T.D. comes up with a [[RubeGoldbergDevice ludicrously complicated]] and unlikely scheme to explain how Nelson got into a house and dumped a birthday cake off the table to frame Martha. At the end of the episode, Nelson is seen with an item identical to one from [=TD's=] [=T.D.'s=] story.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Both Martha and TD sometimes go into this territory.
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* ChekovsGun: In "Dogs in Space," T.D. attempts to explore space using a jetpack for his report, but the jetpack takes off without him due to T.D. forgetting to use the straps.. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler: a jetpack crashes nearby the school, allowing T.D. to get a higher grade on his assignment.]]
* CloudCuckoolander: Both Martha andTD T.D. sometimes go into this territory.
* CloudCuckoolander: Both Martha and
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* CuteShotaroBoy: TD's cousin CD.
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* CuteShotaroBoy: TD's T.D.'s cousin CD.
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* DumbBlonde: TD. He does things like try to plant sausage in order to grow a sausage tree.
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* DumbBlonde: TD.T.D. He does things like try to plant sausage in order to grow a sausage tree.
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** TheBigGuy: TD
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** TheBigGuy: TDT.D.
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** In "Que Pasa, Martha?", TD thought of an idea to help Alice by giving Martha Mexican soup to speak Spanish, then Alice would record Martha when she repeats what Alice said. Alice asked why didn't TD use it himself, he never realized that.
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** In "Que Pasa, Martha?", TD T.D. thought of an idea to help Alice by giving Martha Mexican soup to speak Spanish, then Alice would record Martha when she repeats what Alice said. Alice asked why didn't TD T.D. use it himself, he never realized that.
* PlanetOfSteves: In "Dogs From Space," Martha dreams of a planet occupied nothing but Marthas.
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* ShipTease: TD and Alice
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* ShipTease: TD T.D. and Alice
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* WeWantOurJerkBack: Averted. There's a character on the show who is basically a grouchy old lady and treats everyone around her meanly. In one story, her doctor tells her she needs to adopt a positive outlook for her health, so she starts being ultra-nice to everyone, playing with the kids and Martha and everything. Nobody goes so far as to suggest that they'd prefer she'd go back to the old way, though Martha does come very close.
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* WeWantOurJerkBack: Averted.Subverted. There's a character on the show who is basically a grouchy old lady and treats everyone around her meanly. In one story, her doctor tells her she needs to adopt a positive outlook for her health, so she starts being ultra-nice to everyone, playing with the kids and Martha and everything. Nobody goes so far as to suggest that they'd prefer she'd go back to the old way, though Martha does come very close.
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* FrothyMugsOfWater: In "Martha Out West", they serve ''[[PlayedForLaugh Strawberry Milkshakes]]'' at a saloon.
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* FrothyMugsOfWater: In "Martha Out West", they serve ''[[PlayedForLaugh Strawberry Milkshakes]]'' ''[[PlayedForLaughs strawberry milkshakes]]'' at a saloon.
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* GainaxEnding: Also parodied in the ending of the ''adore'' segment, with a dash of NightmareFuel thrown in for good measure.
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* FrothyMugsOfWater: In "Martha Out West", they serve ''[[PlayedForLaugh Strawberry Milkshakes]]'' at a saloon.
* GainaxEnding:Also parodied PlayedForLaughs in the ending of the ''adore'' segment, with a dash of NightmareFuel thrown in for good measure.
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** In "Milo's Reading Buddy" T.D. comes across a cop of the blue mango book referenced in "Ice Scream", he then proceeds to tell the entire plot of said episode to Milo.
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* FracturedFairyTale: The episode "Martha Spin A Tale" spoofs everything from JackAndTheBeanstalk to AliceInWonderland, complete with characters from the show.
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* FracturedFairyTale: The episode "Martha Spin A Tale" spoofs everything from JackAndTheBeanstalk to AliceInWonderland, Literature/AliceInWonderland, complete with characters from the show.
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* SchoolPlay: The gang gets to act in a rendition of AliceInWonderland which involves Alice as Alice and Martha as the Cheshire Cat in one episode.
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* SchoolPlay: The gang gets to act in a rendition of AliceInWonderland Literature/AliceInWonderland which involves Alice as Alice and Martha as the Cheshire Cat in one episode.
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* OddCouple: Martha and TD always hang together or partnered up in "The Missing Metal Mystery", "Gopher Broke", and "Martha's No Dummy".
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* OddCouple: Martha and TD always hang together or partnered up up. As demonstrated in "The Missing Metal Mystery", "Gopher Broke", and "Martha's No Dummy".
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** [[BarackObama Of course,]] this is now TruthInTelevision.
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** [[BarackObama Of course,]] course]], this is now TruthInTelevision.
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'''''Martha Speaks''''' is an animated educational series on PBSKids adapted from a series of books of the same name by author Susan Meddaugh. Martha is an ordinary dog but, well, let's just let the show opening theme [[ExpositoryThemeTune explain the premise]]:
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'''''Martha Speaks''''' is an animated educational series on PBSKids Creator/PBSKids adapted from a series of books of the same name by author Susan Meddaugh. Martha is an ordinary dog but, well, let's just let the show opening theme [[ExpositoryThemeTune explain the premise]]:
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** Martha also (inadvertently) speaks Polish in one episode, thanks to Otis Weaselgraft sneaking Polish Alphabet Soup into her bowl.
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* DumbBlonde: TD. And the damsel in a [[ShowWithinAShow black-and-white horror film]] in the episode "Martha's Pickle" keeps asking the macho hero the definition of some words.
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* DumbBlonde: TD. And the He does things like try to plant sausage in order to grow a sausage tree.
** 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.
** 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.
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* TooDumbToLive: T.D. does things like try to plant sausage in order to grow a sausage tree.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies: The abovementioned ''My Fluffy Puppy'' ImagineSpot. In real life, there are Martha plushes, too. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint They don't talk tho]].
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* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: In "Here's Martha!", Martha asks her talk show audience if they loved llamas to assure a llama who heard camels were better than llamas. The audience responds enthusiastically.
* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies: The abovementioned ''My Fluffy Puppy'' ImagineSpot. In real life, there are Martha plushes, too. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint They don't talktho]].though]].
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* OurPresidentIsDifferent: In "Martha in the White House", a new president is sworn in. And he's black.
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** [[BarackObama Of course,]] this is now TruthInTelevision.
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* TooDumbToLive The kid with the tomato on his shirt does things like try to plant sausage in order to grow a sausage tree.
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*** In that same episode, she said Nelson 'Drop down from heaven'. Care to guess what she really was trying to say?
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* MusicalEpisode: The set of "Martha Sings" and "T.D. Makes the Band"
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* SesameStreetCred: Billy Collins and Kit Luntanne in different episodes
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* SuperheroEpisode: In a ContinuityNod to "Martha's Show", the episode of "Return of the Bookbots" revolves around one of the show ideas discussed before. "Verb Dog, When Action Calls" is another superhero episode.
** The Bookbot episode [[ParodyEpisode parodies]] common [[EdutainmentShow edutainment]] and superhero tropes such as NonInteractivity.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"And now she's got a lot to say!"]]
'''''Martha Speaks''''' is an animated educational series on PBSKids adapted from a series of books of the same name by author Susan Meddaugh. Martha is an ordinary dog but, well, let's just let the show opening theme [[ExpositoryThemeTune explain the premise]]:
--> Martha was an average dog. She went
--> "'''Bark'''" And- "'''Woof'''" And- "'''Grrrrrr'''"
--> But when she ate some alphabet soup,
--> then what happened was bizarre.
--> '''Narrator:''' On the way to Martha's stomach, the letters lost their way. They traveled to her brain and now-
--> She's got a lot to say. Now she speaks.
--> '''Martha:''' How now brown cow?
--> Martha speaks. Yeah, she speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks...
An educational show disguised as a kids cartoon (not that the network affiliation is fooling anyone), it's probably one of the better kids shows currently on TV, as it doesn't treat [[ViewersAreMorons the viewers like idiots]] and actually has quite complex plots for a kids show.
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!!This show provides examples of
* ActorAllusion: The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LXXSY4mhBk My Fluffy Puppy]]" ImagineSpot is a clear parody of MyLittlePony, and even has a SuspiciouslySimilarSong version of the classic commercial theme song. Martha's voice actress TabithaStGermain has voiced several ponies over the years, including Minty from the G3 series and Rarity from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
** Doubly hilarious when you realize that ''Martha Speaks'' was animated by Vancouver-based Studio B. [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Guess which show that crew would be working on next.]]
* AdaptationExpansion / AdaptationDisplacement: A couple of the early stories from the show are almost note-for-note like the original books on which they are based. Additionally, even though this show is still relatively new, it has probably already displaced the original books by Meddaugh in terms of attention received.
** RecursiveAdaptation: A number of stories from the television show have now been released as books.
* AllJustADream: In one episode, Martha [[spoiler: [[NiceJobBreakingItHero is tricked into helping steal the recipe for the alphabet soup allowing her to talk.]]]] She seems to go on a heroic adventure and defeat the villains in a spy parody...but wakes up and finds its all a dream. Though it actually does help her solve the real crime.
* {{Aesop}}: Many episodes have one, but they're normally played quite realistically and aren't extremely {{Anvilicious}}.
* AnimalJingoism: Downplayed for the most part as dogs and cats dislike each other but for one instance it was subverted.
* BadBadActing: Frequently, for most instances of ShowWithinAShow.
* BerserkButton: TD hates ToBeContinued and stories that end with the word "forever" (because they're not real stories to him).
* BlackAndNerdy: Truman
* BreatheOnTheFan: Done once during a HeatWave episode.
* CatsAreMean: Nelson is something of an EvilGenius who plots ways to get Martha in trouble, leaving her to defend her innocence. Martha is invariably [[HoistByHisOwnPetard vindicated]] by the end of the episode.
** Hilariously lampshaded in one episode where TD comes up with a [[RubeGoldbergDevice ludicrously complicated]] and unlikely scheme to explain how Nelson got into a house and dumped a birthday cake off the table to frame Martha. At the end of the episode, Nelson is seen with an item identical to one from [=TD's=] story.
** Also subverted for an {{Aesop}} in one episode were Martha expects a kitten to be mean, but ultimately finds out its nice and befriends it, even being heartbroken when it leaves (then overjoyed to find out she can visit it whenever she wants).
* CerealInducedSuperpowers: Soup, actually. Though for some reason, it only works on Martha and no other dog.
* CloudCuckoolander: Both Martha and TD sometimes go into this territory.
* 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 away Baby Jake.
* ContinuityNod: In "Martha Gets Spooked", Mrs. Parker mentioned the "pickle incident" (from the episode "Martha's Pickle").
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Not exactly, but: Granny Flo, the owner of the soup company that makes Martha's alphabet soup decides to cut costs by removing half the letters from her soup, which leaves Martha only able to speak words using those letters. They convince Granny Flo to put the letters back in and Martha gets better.
* CourtroomEpisode: The one where Martha testifies in court about a traffic accident.
* CuteShotaroBoy: TD's cousin CD.
* DramaticThunder: In "Paws and Effect".
* DressCodedForYourConvenience: Parodied in one of the TheMoreYouKnow segments
* DumbBlonde: TD. And the damsel in a [[ShowWithinAShow black-and-white horror film]] in the episode "Martha's Pickle" keeps asking the macho hero the definition of some words.
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom
* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies: The abovementioned ''My Fluffy Puppy'' ImagineSpot. In real life, there are Martha plushes, too. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint They don't talk tho]].
* FantasyHelmetEnforcement
* FieryRedhead: Mr. Sterns, the school janitor.
** Helen, often.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Martha
** TheLancer: Helen
** TheSmartGuy: Truman
** TheBigGuy: TD
** TheChick: Alice
** TeamPet: Skits
** SixthRanger: Carolina
* FridgeLogic: In-universe, In "Alice Covers Up", Martha is enjoying having fun splashing in a kiddy cool.
-->'''Helen:''' How is this different from a bathtub?\\
'''Martha:''' It's a different sort of experience all together.\\
'''Helen:''' How? It's water from a faucet in a rafting.\\
'''Martha:''' Don't ruin this for me. Okay?
* FracturedFairyTale: The episode "Martha Spin A Tale" spoofs everything from JackAndTheBeanstalk to AliceInWonderland, complete with characters from the show.
* GainaxEnding: Also parodied in the ending of the ''adore'' segment, with a dash of NightmareFuel thrown in for good measure.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In "What's Bothering Bob", Truman has a handheld talking dictionary that gives definitions to words that people say aloud. One of the characters says "Bob has gone nuts!" and the device proceeds to give various definitions of the word nut. The first is "a seed borne within a fruit", the second was "a metal piece with a threaded hole", the third was "an expression used to display sadness (Aw Nuts!). It attempts to give a fourth definition, but the kids tell Truman to turn it off. [[spoiler:He can't turn it off, because it's stuck, but he does place his hand over the speaker preventing the audience from hearing what was stated]].
** In the story in which Martha is saying the opposite of what she means, Martha and Helen find Truman and T.D. at a pie shop, smelling pies. One of them states that "it costs money to eat, but inhaling is nearly as good, and it's free."
** The ''Toil'' TheMoreYouKnow segment. The song Martha sings is pretty much reminiscent of MontyPython's Lumberjack song.
** "Hades" was mentioned in one episode. The episode was about Greek mythology, so there is context, but it's still a little shocking.
** In one episode, Helen is going to see a movie that has "curse" on the title. Martha is worried Helen would get in trouble seeing a movie with "bad words" in it.
* GratuitousSpanish: Carolina uses some Spanish words and phrases here. Helen's mom does this as well, but much less frequently.
* HairOfGold: Tiffany in "No Dogs Allowed"
* IncrediblyLamePun: "Martha, can I have your PAW-tograph?"
* IngestingKnowledge: The show's premise. Aside from ordinary Alphabet Soup, Martha has also eaten Spanish Alphabet Soup to speak Spanish. She also once ate a paper of SpySpeak definitions, which caused her to talk in code.
* JerkAss: Mr. Sterns (to a lesser extent) and Eulah Demson (extremely).
* LampshadeHanging: In "Martha's Pickles", Truman points out how often the hero of the movie defines words.
** In "Que Pasa, Martha?", TD thought of an idea to help Alice by giving Martha Mexican soup to speak Spanish, then Alice would record Martha when she repeats what Alice said. Alice asked why didn't TD use it himself, he never realized that.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: and RippedFromTheHeadlines: One whole episode revolves around every dog in Martha's town wanting to be Obama's family dog. While the president portrayed is black and uses Obama's speech patterns, Obama's name is never used.
** The episode when they compete in a talent show to meet Ryan Oceancrest and appear on [[AmericanIdol International Icon]].
* LetsMeetTheMeat: Parodied in the ''deserted'' and ''adore'' TheMoreYouKnow segments.
* LostInTransmission: See the "Headscratchers" page.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Tiffany
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: In a TheMoreYouKnow segment, it is explained how actors are different from the characters they play by showing that Mrs. Demson's actress is nice while her character is mean.
* {{Meganekko}}: Alice Boxwood, Mrs. Boxwood, and Mrs. Clusky.
* MerchandiseDriven: Averted. Aside from the books, there's only two Martha plush designs (a beanie, and a regular plush), and none of them talk.
* MindControl: When ''The Perfect Pup'' obedience school comes to town and starts training dogs to behave perfectly, Martha gets suspicious that it's working ''too'' well. She discovers that the school using collars with mind-control devices installed to make the dogs obey every order their owner gives them.
* TheMusical: "Ain't Nuthin' But a Pound Dog"
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: In "Martha's Life of Crime," Kazuo calls a mean woman who comes into the animal shelter looking to adopt Martha "Mrs. Crumblebum." Her name is actually Mrs. Bumblecrumb. Later, a man that she's trying to fence a stolen baseball to calls her "Stumblebum." Finally, the police officer that arrests her calls her "Fumblethumb" and she laments that she wishes someone would get it right.
* NeverSayDie: Averted hilariously in "Alice Covers Up".
-->'''Mrs. Boxwood:''' It's not sunburn. It's dye.\\
'''Martha:''' She's gonna die?! Nooooo!!
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Martha tends to get into this a good bit, though normally due to someone taking advantage of her good nature. Still, she always tries hard to fix it in the end.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In the first episode, the cat burglar gave Martha food to shut her up. What he gave her is alphabet soup.
* NightmareFuel: In an in-universe example, Baby Jake got scared when Martha was wearing a doggy cone to prevent her from scratching her ear... [[spoiler:Until his older sister's friend told him a story about Martha as a space dog that went to a fake moon and battled Dr. 2 arms and his cleaning robot]] The actual show averts this for the most part. Well, minus the giant clown head attempt in the aforementioned episode.
* NoFourthWall: Obviously in the TheMoreYouKnow segments, but occasionally the Narrator is addressed directly.
* OddCouple: Martha and TD always hang together or partnered up in "The Missing Metal Mystery", "Gopher Broke", and "Martha's No Dummy".
* ParentalBonus: There are more than a few subtle jokes that only the grown-ups will get.
* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons: Averted in "Ain't Nuthin' But a Pound Dog" in that it actually provides a fairly realistic portrayal of an animal shelter-- it's not an easy life, but it's not "a smelly, damp concrete prison with no food or water" either.
* RecurringExtra: A married couple that wears fishing hats, cargo shorts, and sandals.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: A story in which Helen and Martha discover a dog locked in a car on a hot day. Unfortunately very much TruthInTelevision, although there are many dogs like this who sadly perish before anyone can find them. The episode featured a non-malicious variant, however. The dog in question was trying to sneak a treat and got locked in the car only because the owner of the car didn't know he was there.
* RuleOfCool: T.D.'s last-ditch reason for allowing aliens to be included in a western-themed movie. It works.
* RunningGag: Martha has many dream jobs. She first dream about them ever since he first heard of them.
* SadlyMythtaken: The episode "Myth Me?" removes the endings of the myths, even in the case of Prometheus, which had a happy ending.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Truman.
* SecretIdentity: When Martha gets to be host of a call-in radio advice show, she starts giving some strange advice to the callers. She becomes extraordinarily popular and everyone finds themselves extremely happy by following her advice, until at her first live appearance, everyone finds out she's a dog and everyone promptly loses interest in her and her advice. ''[There is probably a better trope for this]''
** TomatoSurprise, perhaps?
* ShipTease: TD and Alice
* SmellySkunk: In the Pleasant/Unpleasant segment of the show, Martha is explaining things that are Pleasant and Unpleasant, getting sprayed by a skunk is one of the unpleasant things. Being Martha, she goes onto describe getting a bath after being sprayed by a skunk as even more unpleasant. Helen agrees.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Martha is also able to talk to other animals (except for monkeys). Some of the other animals are able to speak certain animal languages.
* SpoofAesop: As already described, in "Martha's Steamed," there was a dog who got locked in a car by accident because it was trying to sneak a snack, but the owner of the car was accused of doing it on purpose. At the end of the story, Helen asks Martha if she learned anything and Martha says that it's to not jump to conclusions. Helen, however, suggests that the Aesop of the story is to not go digging everywhere for food, which Martha promptly ignores and starts eating out of a garbage bin.
* StealthHiBye: Truman in "Martha's Life n Crime", at least once in each part. Martha wondered [[LampshadeHanging how he did that]].
* TalkingAnimal: Martha, obviously.
** In one episode, Martha claimed that all animals could talk since the Dawn of Man but lost their ability over time.
* {{Tearjerker}}: "Martha Runs Away"
** In the first episode, Martha doesn't talk after Helen said she wished she didn't talk.
* TheMoreYouKnow: Appropriately for an educational show, before and after each episode members of the cast (including the Narrator) talk about the vocabulary words that will be or had been used in the episode.
** In the newest episodes, words that are being defined are actually displayed on-screen as they're being defined. A bit distracting at first, but probably not a bad idea, as it helps visual learners and allows viewers to not only learn the definition of the word, but see how it looks in print.
* TitleThemeTune: See theme song above.
** ExpositoryThemeTune: Again, see theme song above.
*** BraggingThemeTune: Yes, we might as well throw this in as well, as part of the theme tune has Martha showing off her knowledge of words.
---> '''Martha:''' Communicates, enumerates, elucidates, exaggerates, indicates, and explicates, bloviates, and overstates and ''(pant, pant, pant)'' hyperventilates!
* {{Tomboy}}: Alice Boxwood
* TooDumbToLive The kid with the tomato on his shirt does things like try to plant sausage in order to grow a sausage tree.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Despite the fact that Martha is the only known talking dog in her world, in general, nobody seems freaked by it. The most common reaction to her talking is no reaction, though sometimes people may be mildly surprised, then simply decide to just go with it. In "Ain't Nuthin' But a Pound Dog," Kazuo of the animal shelter thinks that he's having a joke played on him when Martha's dad calls up asking if a talking dog has been taken into the animal shelter, but when he actually does finally hear Martha talk, he just takes it in stride. Oh, and you would think that if there were a talking dog in town, everyone would know about it, but apparently not.
** Lampshaded in an episode where Martha goes to see a famous television dog visiting the town.
--->'''Random Child:''' "WOW! A TALKING DOG!"
--->'''Martha (not wanting to take the attention off the famous dog):''' "Yeah. But, this one's ON TV!!"
--->*beat*
--->'''Another Random Child:''' "Yeah, she's got a point"
--->Everyone looks back at the famous dog.
** 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.
** The episode where she became a host of a radio advice show, she makes her first public appearance. This would explain why not a lot of people were freaked out in later episodes, since the people already known about it from this episode.
*** Also in the first episode, a few people in Helen's neighborhood noticed Martha talked for the first time.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Averted. There's a character on the show who is basically a grouchy old lady and treats everyone around her meanly. In one story, her doctor tells her she needs to adopt a positive outlook for her health, so she starts being ultra-nice to everyone, playing with the kids and Martha and everything. Nobody goes so far as to suggest that they'd prefer she'd go back to the old way, though Martha does come very close.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Several, including covering the birth of Helen's baby brother (in a kid friendly manner), [[MakesSenseInContext Martha being kidnapped and used for crime by a one-shot villain]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking why Skits is afraid of hocky pucks]]
* YouthfulFreckles: TD and Alice.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"And now she's got a lot to say!"]]
'''''Martha Speaks''''' is an animated educational series on PBSKids adapted from a series of books of the same name by author Susan Meddaugh. Martha is an ordinary dog but, well, let's just let the show opening theme [[ExpositoryThemeTune explain the premise]]:
--> Martha was an average dog. She went
--> "'''Bark'''" And- "'''Woof'''" And- "'''Grrrrrr'''"
--> But when she ate some alphabet soup,
--> then what happened was bizarre.
--> '''Narrator:''' On the way to Martha's stomach, the letters lost their way. They traveled to her brain and now-
--> She's got a lot to say. Now she speaks.
--> '''Martha:''' How now brown cow?
--> Martha speaks. Yeah, she speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks...
An educational show disguised as a kids cartoon (not that the network affiliation is fooling anyone), it's probably one of the better kids shows currently on TV, as it doesn't treat [[ViewersAreMorons the viewers like idiots]] and actually has quite complex plots for a kids show.
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!!This show provides examples of
* ActorAllusion: The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LXXSY4mhBk My Fluffy Puppy]]" ImagineSpot is a clear parody of MyLittlePony, and even has a SuspiciouslySimilarSong version of the classic commercial theme song. Martha's voice actress TabithaStGermain has voiced several ponies over the years, including Minty from the G3 series and Rarity from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
** Doubly hilarious when you realize that ''Martha Speaks'' was animated by Vancouver-based Studio B. [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Guess which show that crew would be working on next.]]
* AdaptationExpansion / AdaptationDisplacement: A couple of the early stories from the show are almost note-for-note like the original books on which they are based. Additionally, even though this show is still relatively new, it has probably already displaced the original books by Meddaugh in terms of attention received.
** RecursiveAdaptation: A number of stories from the television show have now been released as books.
* AllJustADream: In one episode, Martha [[spoiler: [[NiceJobBreakingItHero is tricked into helping steal the recipe for the alphabet soup allowing her to talk.]]]] She seems to go on a heroic adventure and defeat the villains in a spy parody...but wakes up and finds its all a dream. Though it actually does help her solve the real crime.
* {{Aesop}}: Many episodes have one, but they're normally played quite realistically and aren't extremely {{Anvilicious}}.
* AnimalJingoism: Downplayed for the most part as dogs and cats dislike each other but for one instance it was subverted.
* BadBadActing: Frequently, for most instances of ShowWithinAShow.
* BerserkButton: TD hates ToBeContinued and stories that end with the word "forever" (because they're not real stories to him).
* BlackAndNerdy: Truman
* BreatheOnTheFan: Done once during a HeatWave episode.
* CatsAreMean: Nelson is something of an EvilGenius who plots ways to get Martha in trouble, leaving her to defend her innocence. Martha is invariably [[HoistByHisOwnPetard vindicated]] by the end of the episode.
** Hilariously lampshaded in one episode where TD comes up with a [[RubeGoldbergDevice ludicrously complicated]] and unlikely scheme to explain how Nelson got into a house and dumped a birthday cake off the table to frame Martha. At the end of the episode, Nelson is seen with an item identical to one from [=TD's=] story.
** Also subverted for an {{Aesop}} in one episode were Martha expects a kitten to be mean, but ultimately finds out its nice and befriends it, even being heartbroken when it leaves (then overjoyed to find out she can visit it whenever she wants).
* CerealInducedSuperpowers: Soup, actually. Though for some reason, it only works on Martha and no other dog.
* CloudCuckoolander: Both Martha and TD sometimes go into this territory.
* 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 away Baby Jake.
* ContinuityNod: In "Martha Gets Spooked", Mrs. Parker mentioned the "pickle incident" (from the episode "Martha's Pickle").
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Not exactly, but: Granny Flo, the owner of the soup company that makes Martha's alphabet soup decides to cut costs by removing half the letters from her soup, which leaves Martha only able to speak words using those letters. They convince Granny Flo to put the letters back in and Martha gets better.
* CourtroomEpisode: The one where Martha testifies in court about a traffic accident.
* CuteShotaroBoy: TD's cousin CD.
* DramaticThunder: In "Paws and Effect".
* DressCodedForYourConvenience: Parodied in one of the TheMoreYouKnow segments
* DumbBlonde: TD. And the damsel in a [[ShowWithinAShow black-and-white horror film]] in the episode "Martha's Pickle" keeps asking the macho hero the definition of some words.
* ElephantInTheLivingRoom
* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies: The abovementioned ''My Fluffy Puppy'' ImagineSpot. In real life, there are Martha plushes, too. [[CompletelyMissingThePoint They don't talk tho]].
* FantasyHelmetEnforcement
* FieryRedhead: Mr. Sterns, the school janitor.
** Helen, often.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Martha
** TheLancer: Helen
** TheSmartGuy: Truman
** TheBigGuy: TD
** TheChick: Alice
** TeamPet: Skits
** SixthRanger: Carolina
* FridgeLogic: In-universe, In "Alice Covers Up", Martha is enjoying having fun splashing in a kiddy cool.
-->'''Helen:''' How is this different from a bathtub?\\
'''Martha:''' It's a different sort of experience all together.\\
'''Helen:''' How? It's water from a faucet in a rafting.\\
'''Martha:''' Don't ruin this for me. Okay?
* FracturedFairyTale: The episode "Martha Spin A Tale" spoofs everything from JackAndTheBeanstalk to AliceInWonderland, complete with characters from the show.
* GainaxEnding: Also parodied in the ending of the ''adore'' segment, with a dash of NightmareFuel thrown in for good measure.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In "What's Bothering Bob", Truman has a handheld talking dictionary that gives definitions to words that people say aloud. One of the characters says "Bob has gone nuts!" and the device proceeds to give various definitions of the word nut. The first is "a seed borne within a fruit", the second was "a metal piece with a threaded hole", the third was "an expression used to display sadness (Aw Nuts!). It attempts to give a fourth definition, but the kids tell Truman to turn it off. [[spoiler:He can't turn it off, because it's stuck, but he does place his hand over the speaker preventing the audience from hearing what was stated]].
** In the story in which Martha is saying the opposite of what she means, Martha and Helen find Truman and T.D. at a pie shop, smelling pies. One of them states that "it costs money to eat, but inhaling is nearly as good, and it's free."
** The ''Toil'' TheMoreYouKnow segment. The song Martha sings is pretty much reminiscent of MontyPython's Lumberjack song.
** "Hades" was mentioned in one episode. The episode was about Greek mythology, so there is context, but it's still a little shocking.
** In one episode, Helen is going to see a movie that has "curse" on the title. Martha is worried Helen would get in trouble seeing a movie with "bad words" in it.
* GratuitousSpanish: Carolina uses some Spanish words and phrases here. Helen's mom does this as well, but much less frequently.
* HairOfGold: Tiffany in "No Dogs Allowed"
* IncrediblyLamePun: "Martha, can I have your PAW-tograph?"
* IngestingKnowledge: The show's premise. Aside from ordinary Alphabet Soup, Martha has also eaten Spanish Alphabet Soup to speak Spanish. She also once ate a paper of SpySpeak definitions, which caused her to talk in code.
* JerkAss: Mr. Sterns (to a lesser extent) and Eulah Demson (extremely).
* LampshadeHanging: In "Martha's Pickles", Truman points out how often the hero of the movie defines words.
** In "Que Pasa, Martha?", TD thought of an idea to help Alice by giving Martha Mexican soup to speak Spanish, then Alice would record Martha when she repeats what Alice said. Alice asked why didn't TD use it himself, he never realized that.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: and RippedFromTheHeadlines: One whole episode revolves around every dog in Martha's town wanting to be Obama's family dog. While the president portrayed is black and uses Obama's speech patterns, Obama's name is never used.
** The episode when they compete in a talent show to meet Ryan Oceancrest and appear on [[AmericanIdol International Icon]].
* LetsMeetTheMeat: Parodied in the ''deserted'' and ''adore'' TheMoreYouKnow segments.
* LostInTransmission: See the "Headscratchers" page.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Tiffany
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: In a TheMoreYouKnow segment, it is explained how actors are different from the characters they play by showing that Mrs. Demson's actress is nice while her character is mean.
* {{Meganekko}}: Alice Boxwood, Mrs. Boxwood, and Mrs. Clusky.
* MerchandiseDriven: Averted. Aside from the books, there's only two Martha plush designs (a beanie, and a regular plush), and none of them talk.
* MindControl: When ''The Perfect Pup'' obedience school comes to town and starts training dogs to behave perfectly, Martha gets suspicious that it's working ''too'' well. She discovers that the school using collars with mind-control devices installed to make the dogs obey every order their owner gives them.
* TheMusical: "Ain't Nuthin' But a Pound Dog"
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: In "Martha's Life of Crime," Kazuo calls a mean woman who comes into the animal shelter looking to adopt Martha "Mrs. Crumblebum." Her name is actually Mrs. Bumblecrumb. Later, a man that she's trying to fence a stolen baseball to calls her "Stumblebum." Finally, the police officer that arrests her calls her "Fumblethumb" and she laments that she wishes someone would get it right.
* NeverSayDie: Averted hilariously in "Alice Covers Up".
-->'''Mrs. Boxwood:''' It's not sunburn. It's dye.\\
'''Martha:''' She's gonna die?! Nooooo!!
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Martha tends to get into this a good bit, though normally due to someone taking advantage of her good nature. Still, she always tries hard to fix it in the end.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In the first episode, the cat burglar gave Martha food to shut her up. What he gave her is alphabet soup.
* NightmareFuel: In an in-universe example, Baby Jake got scared when Martha was wearing a doggy cone to prevent her from scratching her ear... [[spoiler:Until his older sister's friend told him a story about Martha as a space dog that went to a fake moon and battled Dr. 2 arms and his cleaning robot]] The actual show averts this for the most part. Well, minus the giant clown head attempt in the aforementioned episode.
* NoFourthWall: Obviously in the TheMoreYouKnow segments, but occasionally the Narrator is addressed directly.
* OddCouple: Martha and TD always hang together or partnered up in "The Missing Metal Mystery", "Gopher Broke", and "Martha's No Dummy".
* ParentalBonus: There are more than a few subtle jokes that only the grown-ups will get.
* PoundsAreAnimalPrisons: Averted in "Ain't Nuthin' But a Pound Dog" in that it actually provides a fairly realistic portrayal of an animal shelter-- it's not an easy life, but it's not "a smelly, damp concrete prison with no food or water" either.
* RecurringExtra: A married couple that wears fishing hats, cargo shorts, and sandals.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: A story in which Helen and Martha discover a dog locked in a car on a hot day. Unfortunately very much TruthInTelevision, although there are many dogs like this who sadly perish before anyone can find them. The episode featured a non-malicious variant, however. The dog in question was trying to sneak a treat and got locked in the car only because the owner of the car didn't know he was there.
* RuleOfCool: T.D.'s last-ditch reason for allowing aliens to be included in a western-themed movie. It works.
* RunningGag: Martha has many dream jobs. She first dream about them ever since he first heard of them.
* SadlyMythtaken: The episode "Myth Me?" removes the endings of the myths, even in the case of Prometheus, which had a happy ending.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Truman.
* SecretIdentity: When Martha gets to be host of a call-in radio advice show, she starts giving some strange advice to the callers. She becomes extraordinarily popular and everyone finds themselves extremely happy by following her advice, until at her first live appearance, everyone finds out she's a dog and everyone promptly loses interest in her and her advice. ''[There is probably a better trope for this]''
** TomatoSurprise, perhaps?
* ShipTease: TD and Alice
* SmellySkunk: In the Pleasant/Unpleasant segment of the show, Martha is explaining things that are Pleasant and Unpleasant, getting sprayed by a skunk is one of the unpleasant things. Being Martha, she goes onto describe getting a bath after being sprayed by a skunk as even more unpleasant. Helen agrees.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Martha is also able to talk to other animals (except for monkeys). Some of the other animals are able to speak certain animal languages.
* SpoofAesop: As already described, in "Martha's Steamed," there was a dog who got locked in a car by accident because it was trying to sneak a snack, but the owner of the car was accused of doing it on purpose. At the end of the story, Helen asks Martha if she learned anything and Martha says that it's to not jump to conclusions. Helen, however, suggests that the Aesop of the story is to not go digging everywhere for food, which Martha promptly ignores and starts eating out of a garbage bin.
* StealthHiBye: Truman in "Martha's Life n Crime", at least once in each part. Martha wondered [[LampshadeHanging how he did that]].
* TalkingAnimal: Martha, obviously.
** In one episode, Martha claimed that all animals could talk since the Dawn of Man but lost their ability over time.
* {{Tearjerker}}: "Martha Runs Away"
** In the first episode, Martha doesn't talk after Helen said she wished she didn't talk.
* TheMoreYouKnow: Appropriately for an educational show, before and after each episode members of the cast (including the Narrator) talk about the vocabulary words that will be or had been used in the episode.
** In the newest episodes, words that are being defined are actually displayed on-screen as they're being defined. A bit distracting at first, but probably not a bad idea, as it helps visual learners and allows viewers to not only learn the definition of the word, but see how it looks in print.
* TitleThemeTune: See theme song above.
** ExpositoryThemeTune: Again, see theme song above.
*** BraggingThemeTune: Yes, we might as well throw this in as well, as part of the theme tune has Martha showing off her knowledge of words.
---> '''Martha:''' Communicates, enumerates, elucidates, exaggerates, indicates, and explicates, bloviates, and overstates and ''(pant, pant, pant)'' hyperventilates!
* {{Tomboy}}: Alice Boxwood
* TooDumbToLive The kid with the tomato on his shirt does things like try to plant sausage in order to grow a sausage tree.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Despite the fact that Martha is the only known talking dog in her world, in general, nobody seems freaked by it. The most common reaction to her talking is no reaction, though sometimes people may be mildly surprised, then simply decide to just go with it. In "Ain't Nuthin' But a Pound Dog," Kazuo of the animal shelter thinks that he's having a joke played on him when Martha's dad calls up asking if a talking dog has been taken into the animal shelter, but when he actually does finally hear Martha talk, he just takes it in stride. Oh, and you would think that if there were a talking dog in town, everyone would know about it, but apparently not.
** Lampshaded in an episode where Martha goes to see a famous television dog visiting the town.
--->'''Random Child:''' "WOW! A TALKING DOG!"
--->'''Martha (not wanting to take the attention off the famous dog):''' "Yeah. But, this one's ON TV!!"
--->*beat*
--->'''Another Random Child:''' "Yeah, she's got a point"
--->Everyone looks back at the famous dog.
** 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.
** The episode where she became a host of a radio advice show, she makes her first public appearance. This would explain why not a lot of people were freaked out in later episodes, since the people already known about it from this episode.
*** Also in the first episode, a few people in Helen's neighborhood noticed Martha talked for the first time.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Averted. There's a character on the show who is basically a grouchy old lady and treats everyone around her meanly. In one story, her doctor tells her she needs to adopt a positive outlook for her health, so she starts being ultra-nice to everyone, playing with the kids and Martha and everything. Nobody goes so far as to suggest that they'd prefer she'd go back to the old way, though Martha does come very close.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Several, including covering the birth of Helen's baby brother (in a kid friendly manner), [[MakesSenseInContext Martha being kidnapped and used for crime by a one-shot villain]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking why Skits is afraid of hocky pucks]]
* YouthfulFreckles: TD and Alice.
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