History WesternAnimation / RoliePolieOlie

* AnimationBump: The framerate of the animation becomes noticeably slower in the 6th season.

* YouMeanXmas: The characters celebrate "Jingle-Jangle-Day", which is indistinguishable from Christmas in its secular trappings. There's also Spooky Ooky Day (Halloween) and Gooey Harts Day (Valentine's Day).

* AllJustADream: "The Lie". Olie has a bizarre dream about the Brussels sprout he lied to his mother about eating, which leads him to admit that he was [[AnAesop wrong to lie]].

* OutOfControlPopcorn: When Olie and Billy were making popcorn for the monster movie marathon on tv, they accidentally forgot about the popcorn and soon Olie's kitchen is full of popcorn.

* StopCopyingMe: Once, the little Zowie begins to parrot Olie, much to his annoyance. He eventually {{exploit|edtrope}}s this to make her go to bed.

* YouNoTakeCandle: Zowie talks like this.

* OverlyLongTitle: "The Best Doggone Show In The World", "Showdown At the Ol' Polie Corral", "Scruba-dub-dubby-A Spot In The Tubby" (yes, that's the name of an episode), "Lady Bug Lady Bug Fly Away Home", and so on.

''William Joyce's Rolie Polie Olie'' is a computer-animated Canadian PreschoolShow created by American illustrator Creator/WilliamJoyce (who also helped out with the show's production) and produced and distributed by animation studio Creator/{{Nelvana}}. It ran from 1998 to 2004 for a total 78 episodes, as well as two direct-to-video movies. It ran on Creator/{{CBC}} and later re-aired on [[Creator/{{TreehouseTV}} Treehouse]] in its home country, while in the United States, it aired on Creator/DisneyChannel's preschool block Playhouse Disney.

''William Joyce's Rolie Polie Olie'' is a computer-animated Canadian PreschoolShow created by illustrator Creator/WilliamJoyce (who also helped out with the show's production) and produced and distributed by animation studio Creator/{{Nelvana}}. It ran from 1998 to 2004 for a total 78 episodes, as well as two direct-to-video movies. It ran on Creator/{{CBC}} and later re-aired on [[Creator/{{TreehouseTV}} Treehouse]] in its home country, while in the United States, it aired on Creator/DisneyChannel's preschool block Playhouse Disney.

* BareYourMidriff: Mrs. Ethel Triangle, Olie's teacher. Also Mrs. Bevel.

* TheBully: Screwie in his debut episode, spending most of it teasing Olie and Billy about how much better he is at all the things the latter two do.

is a little round planet with a little nice guy.\\

He's Rolie Polie Olie, he's small and spurt and round.\\

* AllJustADream: "The Lie". Olie has a bizarre dream about the brussel sprout he lied to his mother about eating, which leads him to admit that he was [[AnAesop wrong to lie]].

* BirthdayEpisode: The entire ''Great Defender of Fun'' movie is about Zowie trying to have a birthday party, while Gloomius Maximus tries to stop it.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Screwie becomes this after his introductory episode. He retains his grouchy and abrasive demeanour and is not above making a narcissistic comment about something ("I'm best at everything" being a great example), but he does care about Olie and the others to some extent. The episode "Orb's Well that Ends Well" has him express his feelings of insecurity to Mrs. Triangle about how other people would perceive him due to being different, and at the end, he's seen playing with everyone else and getting along perfectly fine with them.

* MiddleChildSyndrome: In "The Coochie Coochie Coo Blues", Zowie realizes that she is now the middle child of the family because Coochie and Coo are younger than her. She feels ignored and left out. She wants to be a baby again and starts throwing a tantrum, but her family tells her that if she's a baby, then she can't do fun things like eat ice cream. Zowie learns that she will always be her family's little bot whether she's big or small, and the episode ends with a heartwarming little song about how it's just fine to be in the middle.

* PanFromTheSkyBeginning: The intro begins in space, then pans down to Earth, to go along with the theme tune lyrics "Way up high in the rolie-polie sky".

* ExpressiveMask: Like ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', faces turn up in some unusual places, like Olie's teapot house.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
%%** In a flashback in "Blinkin' Beacon Day", Young!Percy, Young!Uncle Gizmo, and Young!Pappy are all shown "steely-dipping", which is the bot equivalent of skinny-dipping.

* StopCopyingMe: Once, the little Zowie begins to parrot Olie, much to his annoyance. He eventually exploits this to make her go to bed.

->''Way up high in the Rolie Polie sky, is a little round planet with a little nice guy.''\\
''He's Rolie Polie Olie, he's small and spurt and round.''\\
''And in the land of curves and curls, he's the swellest kid around!''

William Joyce is working [[https://twitter.com/heybilljoyce/status/1343960090026635268?s=21 on new episodes]] of the series but it was unknown if it was going to be a revival or a continuation of the original series.

* MesACrowd: In "1 Olie, 2 Olie, 3 Olie, 4", Olie duplicates himself and makes the duplicate do his homework, but the duplicate ends up making ''more'' duplicates to do the homework. [[spoiler:It gets to the point where there are ''[[UpToEleven 99]]'' Olies, including the original!]]

* MindScrew: Everything has a face. ''[[UpToEleven Everything.]]'' [[UpToEleven Even the silverware.]]

* RetroUniverse: One that seems to be equal parts 1920s, 1940s, and 1950s.

''William Joyce's Rolie Polie Olie'' is a computer-animated Canadian PreschoolShow created by illustrator Creator/WilliamJoyce and produced and distributed by animation studio Creator/{{Nelvana}}. It ran from 1998 to 2004 for a total 78 episodes, as well as two direct-to-video movies. It ran on Creator/{{CBC}} and later re-aired on [[Creator/{{TreehouseTV}} Treehouse]] in its home country, while in the United States, it aired on Creator/DisneyChannel's preschool block Playhouse Disney.

* AnimationBump: The framerate of the animation becomes noticeably slower in the later seasons.