History WesternAnimation / OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries

* MythologyGag: At one point, in "No Train, No Gain", Cruella calls Roger "Radcliffe". In the [[WesternAnimation/101Dalmatians original movie]], Radcliffe is Roger's surname.

* NeverTrustATrailer: Before the series premiered, there was a promo of it at the beginning of the 1996 movies' VHS release, and a few VHS tapes of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' showing clips that were never on the show (apparently from an unaired pilot); one sketch was shown of a female puppy named Penny who got cut out completely. Some promos on TV (including idents used by then ABC-owned WTVG-13, in Toledo, OH on Saturday mornings) showed unseen clips (presumably also from the pilot) as well.

* MoodRingEyes: In the episode "[=DeVil-Age Elder=]", Rebecca has light pink eyes while hypnotized under the curse put on [=DeVil=] Ville, and blue eyes when the curse is lifted from her.

* CurseEscapeClause: The cursed village of [=DeVil=] Ville from "DeVil-Age Elder" curses anyone who enters to be mindlessly happy and refuse to leave; however, it has no effect on chickens, Spot to be precise; and anyone kissed by a chicken will be released from the curse.

* DevilInPlainSight: Cruella's niece, Ivy, comes across as a sweet innocent little girl when around other human characters outside her family, but is actually more devious and twisted than her own aunt. Her dolls and baby stroller are actually disguised machinations of destruction and although her plans are nearly always foiled, her evil nature is never discovered by the human characters.

** Rebecca's [[RegalRuff neck ruff]] is pink, has pink eyes when hypnotized ([[EyeColorChange they turn blue when she snaps out]]), and has a pink spot on her cheek shaped like a heart

** In the episode "Snow Pups", when the pups are denied permission by Pongo to go on the mountain camping trip with him and Roger, they stow away to prove that they can survive. But things go south when they encounter Cruella, who is also camping out in the cold, and a huge blizzard strikes. HilarityEnsues from there, but the pups still manage to survive the blizzard. But in the morning, Pongo and Roger discover Cruella and the puppies asleep in a cave. When Pongo demands to know what they're doing there, Lucky points out that they ''were'' capable of surviving in the wilderness. But Pongo claims that they ''also'' disobeyed him, and grounds them for a week, smugly adding that they'll survive if it if they [[IronicEcho "work together".]]

* ExactWords: In "Devil Age Elder", [[spoiler: ehen Judge Dimsdale [=DeVil=] betrays Cruella, he mentions that when the town was cursed, the Witch said that "The Evil [=DeVil=] shall be bound within the town's borders". She did not, however, specify ''which'' Evil [=DeVil=], so Judge Dimsdale plots to have Cruella take his place in the town]].

** Lucky does not have any lines in; "A Christmas Cruella".
** In Episodes, such as "Smoke Detectors", "Frisky Business" & "Cadet of The Month", Horace appears, but not Jasper?

* ExactWords: In "Devil Age Elder", [[spoiler: When Judge Dimsdale [=DeVil=] betrays Cruella, he mentions that when the Town was cursed, the Witch said that "The Evil [=DeVil=] Shall Be Bound Within The Towns Boarders". She did not, however, specify ''which'' Evil [=DeVil=], so Judge Dimsdale plots to have Cruella take his place in the Town]].

* ExpressiveHair: Cruella De Ville's niece, Ivy, has two pigtails that stick upward and curve like devil horns whenever her bad side shows.

* FirstPetStory: Somewhat unusual since the main characters are themselves pets, but in the episode "He Followed Me Home", the pups take in a stray baby elephant that got seperated from a circus. They treat the elephant as their pet and they try to feed it, clean it, and keep it out of trouble all while keeping it's existence a secret from Cruella. In the end, they realize that keeping a pet is too much responsibility for them, and let it return to the circus.

* GilliganCut
** In the pilot episode. when the pups hear they are moving to the farm:

* HandicappedBadass: Tripod, the three-legged dog. Despite missing a leg, is clearly the most athletic and determined of the puppies.

* HarmlessFreezing

* HypnoPendulum: Cadpig attempts to use this on Leitunant Pug in "Howl Noon" to get him to face his fears and stand up to his childhood bully, Persian Pete. In the end, Pug uses Cadpig (Who has been strapped to him with handcuffs) as a pendulum to hypnotize and defeat Persian Pete.

** Dumpling in "Hog Tied" who forces herself into the dalmatian's group because she saw how much fun and excitement they were having on their adventures. In the end, she forms her own group with new friends.
** Also Cruella on the rare occassion, [[{{Tsundere}} even if she doesn't want to admit it.]] As seen in "Valentine Daze" when she feels depressed because no one ever sends her valentines.

* IronicHell: [[spoiler: [=DeVil=] Ville is this to Judge Dimsdale [=DeVil=]. As part of the punishment for his crimes of tormenting the Towns People and to keep the World safe from the Evil [=DeVil=], a Witch casts a spell on the Towns People, whose misery Dimsdale [=DeVil=] lived for, to be mindlessly happy to make the Evil [=DeVil=] all the more miserable in comparison]].

** Cruella, on the other hand, was quite clearly a lonely Jerk With A Heart Of Gold.

* NoirEpisode: The episodes "The Maltese Chicken" And "K Is For Kibble" feature Spot in her Pullet Marlow persona trying to solve a mystery, in a parody of classic film noir mysteries.

** In "Purred It Through The Grape Vine", Swamp Rat tries to sell a Magazine called "Eratica", with an image of a rat model. It is a play on the term; "erotica", which is another name for a pornographic magazine.
** In "Cupid Pups", Cruella refers to some one as a; "Silicone Squeak Toy"...Which is another term for a breast job.
* PetContestEpisode: The episode "Best of Show", in which Roger enteres Lucky, Rolly, and Cadpig in a dog show. Due to them not showing up on time, Spot had to enter in their place.

* PottyFailure: Wizzer's main character trait is his constant need to relieve himself, sometimes at the worse possible times in the worst possible places. He ends up relieving himself on Cruella in "A Christmas Cruella" and "Dalmatian Vacation Part 1".

* PyrrhicVictory: In the episode "Fungus Among Us", Cruella succeeds in stealing the mushrooms under the Dearly's barn despite the pups trying everything in their power to stop her. Turns out, it was a good thing she took all the mushrooms, as they give off a horrific scent at night, which Cruella learns the hard way.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Spot only appeared in one scene of Home is Where the Bark Is (asleep, no less) then in the next episode, she was friends with the main trio.

* ShakingTheRump: Lucky and Rolly do this to taunt a Sheriff. Lucky, Rolly, Cadpig and Spot later do this together.

** While she doesn't refer to it, by name, Cadpig refers to seeing ''{{WesternAnimation/Cinderella}}'' when she suggests that the Pups should make a dress for Amber, Roger & Anita's Niece?

** The episode "The Making of..." has several shout-outs to other shows, movies and cartoons, like [[Series/TheBradyBunch The Dearly Bunch]], [[Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII First Bloodhound: Part Two]], [[Series/DoogieHowserMD Doggie Houser, M.D. (Medical Dog)]], [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001 Dalmatians]], a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]-styled [[CouchGag couch gag]], a [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner]] mockup and [[Creator/DavidLetterman The Cruella Show]].
* SingleIssueLandlord: Though Cruella isn't technically the Dearly's landlord, she nonetheless owns a copy of their deed and has on at least one occassion tried to prove that they have broken the terms of the deed so that she can buy the farm herself by proving that they have more animals than the number allowed by their contract. (101 plus the farm animals).

** In the episode "Home Is Where the Bark Is", Lucky, Cadpig and Rolly make many attempts to escape from their old house (which they are trapped inside). In one of these attempts, they form a Human Ladder to get out through the chimeny. However, the second after their totem was formed, Lucky (at the top) loosened some soot, which got into Rolly's nose, and his sneeze caused the totem to collapse.

** In the Episode “Film Fatale”, The Dalmatians learn from a Newspaper that the Thunderbolt Movie is playing at the Cruellaplex Theater; however, said Theater does not allow animals in. Spot suggests simply checking to see if the Film is also playing at an Animal Friendly Theater, but Lucky’s impulsiveness interrupts her before she gets a chance to check. After their misadventures in the Cruellaplex, they find the other Dalmatians watching the Film at a Drive-In Theater, with Pongo showing them that the Newspaper also said it was playing there.

** Characters tend sprout thumbs whenever a pose or action requires them.

* SurpriseParty: In the episode "You Say It's Your Birthday", Roger and Anita decide to throw one for all of the dalmatian pups to celebrate the 101st day since their adoption. Though a series of misunderstandings occur leading the pups into believing that they're being given away to Crueall, while Cruella believes that Anita is moonlighting for her rival.
* SweetHomeAlabama: Parodied in "Southern Fried Cruella," in which Cruella De'vil tried to convince a magazine editor giving out an award for humanitarianism that she was just a "good ol' sugar borrowing neighbor" of the Dearlys and failing miserably.

* TitleTheAdaptation: By adding "The Series" to the end of Franchise/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians

* UnwantedAssistance: Cadpig sees an argument between the cows, Duchess & Princess, about room in their stalls. She tries to help, just as the two are apologsing to each other, asking them to express themselves. This help soon causes the entire Dearly Farm to be at each others throat's, to Cadpig's horror, before Spot just suggests Duchess & Princess [[StatingTheSimpleSolution open their stall up]], a bit, which they agree would work, which then causes a MediationBackfire from the Dalmatians and Animals of the Dearly Farm, on Cadpig?

* WaxingLyrical: When Rolly is Egg Sitting, the Eggs, he is laying on, begin to hatch. Rolly panics and tries to get the Eggs back together, barking; "[[Music/TheBeatles Get back! Get back! Get back to where you once belong!]]"

* WholePlotReference: "Devil Age Elder" is one to Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}, with a town and its people vanishing from the outside world, and returning only for one day every one hundred years.

* AnimalTalk: Played straight for the most part, just like in the original novel and animated movie, but the episode "Virtual Lucky" both averted ''and'' played this trope straight. At the beginning of the episode, when Lucky is yelling at Cruella for ruining his stunt, all she hears is barking. But then when [[InsideAComputerSystem Cruella and Lucky get sucked into Roger's new computer game]] Cruella hears Lucky speaking and is shocked (Lucky tells her that this is because they're in a video game, where anything can happen), and outside of the computer, when Cadpig tries to tell Roger what happened, all he hears is barking.

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!!This cartoon contains examples of:

** Cruella De Ville towards any man that she may develop a fancy for, particularly towards the sailor, Starbuck, as seen in the episodes "Shipwrecked" and "Valentine's Daze" as he is absolutely frightened of her. In the final episode "Dalmatian Vacation Part 3" however, he does admit to having feelings towards her.

* IdeaBulb: Lucky gets one in Barnboozled when he figures out to drive Cruella out of the barn.

** Cruella Devil and her entire family. Cruella is completely narcissistic and self-serving, and when she's not plotting to steal the farm, she's taking advantage of her employees, mistreating her underlings, or trying to swindle her customers with some zany scheme. Her mother and niece are shown to be just as wicked, if not moreso than her. Her cousin P.H. Devil regularly performs horrific experiments on animals.

* TitleMontage: The show's opening sequence had the main characters running through a spotted background (Six variants were used with purple, blue, red, teal, orange, and magenta backgrounds) with TVs showing clips from various episodes. The episodes used (Not every episode was used in each variant) were "Dough The Right Thing", "Love 'Em and Flea 'Em", "An Officer and a Gentledog", "The Dogs of [=DeVil=]", "You Slipped a Disk", "Chow About That?", "Tic Track Toe", "Lucky All-Star", "Shake, Rattle, and Woof", "Cadpig Behind Bars", "Leisure Lawsuit", "You Say It's Your Birthday", "Two Faces of Anita", "Lucky to be Alone", "Four Stories Up", "It's a Swamp Thing", "Roll Out the Pork Barrel", "Prima Doggy", and "Frisky Business".

** What happened when Cruella's cousin Dinah missed one of their family reunions. Cecil B. de Vil mentioned "Nothing a couple of rabies shots couldn't fix," with the strong implication she was mauled by Malevola de Vil's dogs.

* NoodleIncident: Cadpig refers to Spot's "ugly Swiss bell-ringing incident" in "The Maltese Chicken".

* LargeHam: Cruella |=DeVil=| has a flair for the dramatic, wearing over the top outfits, and throwing major tantrums when she doesn't get her way.

* BalloonBelly: Happens a number of times with Rolly in "DeVil-Age Elder", "Double Dog Dare" & "Two For The Show" and with Spot in "Alive 'N Chicken"

* MoodRingEyes: In the episode "DeVil-Age Elder", Rebecca has light pink eyes while hypnotized under the curse put on [=DeVil=] Ville, and blue eyes when the curse is lifted from her.

* TimeTravelRomance: "DeVil-Age Elder" features the main cast (and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Cruella]]) arriving in a time and space-transcending village cursed by a witch as a response to Cruella's ancestor's harshness. The witch's spell reduces all [[ItMakesSenseInContext but Cruella and Spot]] to become mindlessly happy and never want to leave. During their stay, Lucky meets up with a carriage pup named Rebecca and becomes smitten with her. When the spell is broken and the main cast are making their escape before the village disappears, Lucky still shows legitimate feelings for Rebecca and asks her to come with them. While the feeling is mutual, Rebecca chooses to remain to keep an eye on Cruella's ancestor. And because it wasn't enough of a BittersweetEnding, LaserGuidedAmnesia kicks in, leaving Lucky completely unaware of her existence not long afterwards.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Jasper and Horace, the two goons who are always working for Cruella doing odd jobs for her, and are usually called in to do some illegal activity to help Cruella achieve her evil plots. The jobs they do usually involve some sort of theft or sabotage, though they usually screw up the job in large part due to the interference of the pups.

* FraudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: In "A Christmas Cruella", while Cadpig as the Ghost of Christmas Past does pty Cruella for how her parents were nevr home for Christmas, she still points out that does not excuse the younger Cruella for taking her anger out on others.