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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: While the three big Shallots usually say the same thing one after the other, the smallest Shallot will always say something different.
--> '''Shallots''': Hello. Hello. Hello. Cheers!
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* FooledByTheSound: In "Tummy Talk", Sarah's [[GrowlingGut stomach is very noisy]] due to not having had lunch yet. A frog is heard croaking and the InteractiveNarrator wonders if that came out of her stomach as well.
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* OffModel: In the episode "Duck's Birthday", Sarah and Duck are drawn with slightly thinner outlines.
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Sprout was replaced by Universal Kids in 2017 (though Sarah & Duck can still be watched through VOD and the Universal Kids App)


Airs on Creator/{{Sprout}} in the United States and is also available worldwide on Netflix.

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Airs Aired on Creator/{{Sprout}} in the United States and is also available worldwide on Netflix.
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* NiceHat: Sarah is rarely seen without her trademark green beanie hat. In some episodes where she dresses up, she'll swap her hat for one that matches whatever costume she's wearing.
** The Librarian also wears an open book on his head and Scooter Boy has his helmet.
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* LetsMeetTheMeat: Sarah makes a cake, guided by the cake itself. When finished, the Narrator asks if they're going to eat said cake. Sarah is unnerved, but the cake doesn't seem to care at all.

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--> '''Scarf Lady''': Good morning! Hope we're not too early!
--> '''Bag''': It's the ''evening'', and we're ''late''!

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--> ---> '''Scarf Lady''': Good morning! Hope we're not too early!
--> ---> '''Bag''': It's the ''evening'', and we're ''late''!



--> '''Narrator''': Very eloquent, Duck.
--> '''Sarah''': Yes, very elephants.

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--> ---> '''Narrator''': Very eloquent, Duck.
--> ---> '''Sarah''': Yes, very elephants.elephants.
* MistakenForBrooding: In one episode, called "Cheer Up, Donkey", the main characters meet a donkey, who they believe is sad. After several failed attempts at cheering him up, however, it turns out that he just looks that way all the time (which, according to the book Sarah was reading, is normal for donkeys).
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* FoulWaterfowl: While this is averted for Duck, when he meets some swans, they are mean and won't let him swim in their pond.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Frequently, and typically it's treated as Sarah having met them some time earlier.
** Bug is seen in almost every scene in the living room, but isn't treated as part of the household until "Woolen Music".
** Scooter Boy is often seen walking his scooter around. Sarah trades hello's with him in "Big Shop" and "Sarah Gets a Cold", and he's finally a character in "Puncture Pump".
** Plate Girl has a quick little news story introducing her in "Stargazing", and we get introduced to her in "Pond Princess".
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* DubNameChange: Bizarrely, the Hebrew dub renamed Sarah "Raz", perhaps in order to make the show's name a nice-sounding rhyme ("Raz Ve'Barvaz", Hebrew for "Raz and Duck"). This had the unusual side effect of making a lot of Israeli kids mistake Sarah for a boy - she's obviously too young to have very feminine character traits and Raz is [[TomboyishName far more usually a boy's name in Israel]].
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* GrowsOnTrees: Often. Scarf Lady has her Weeping Woolen Tree, which grows a fair bit of her wool supply, and nests nightpuffs for filling pillows. Umbrellas grow like mushrooms from the ground given enough water. Bug leads Sarah to a quite magical wild garden that grows a variety of Christmas decorations when all of the store offerings don't suit.
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* MobileMaze: In "Train Fudge", the duo are chasing the snack trolley through a luggage compartment, only to find the bags move around and give them a few dead ends when they're not looking.

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* AnimateInanimateObject: A lot of them. From a vegetable patch, to a knitting bag, to a rainbow, to an umbrella, to a cake.....you name it!

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* AnimateInanimateObject: A lot Not everything, but a ''lot'' of them. From a vegetable patch, to a knitting bag, to a rainbow, to an umbrella, to a cake.....you name it!it! Even objects not drawn with a face are often animate and capable of expression. Eventually in "Donkey Jump", Sarah and Duck are trying to catch their toys moving, and it's hard to say whether they or the audience are more disappointed they don't.



* CharacterizationMarchesOn:
** In "Sarah, Duck, and the Penguins", Sarah suggests figure skating as one of the things they could do. Later episodes show her as increasingly bored and frustrated whenever figure skating actually comes on.
** Duck originally had a taste for lemon water right along with Sarah, but as early as "Rainbow Lemon" is seen shaking off the lemon sour instead of enjoying it.



* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most of the other human characters: Scarf Lady, Scooter Boy, Plate Girl, etc.

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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most of the other human characters: Scarf Lady, Scooter Boy, Plate Girl, etc. Even the adults are in on it - Scarf Lady calls Bus Man by "Bus Chappie", and lots of people use "Scarfie" for Scarf Lady.



* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: For "Boo Night", Sarah makes a crayon outfit, then adds a visor, some wings, and a wand, dubbing herself a "future fairy crayon". Duck and Bug get similar mashed up outfits. After running into Scarf Lady and Bag, dressed as a pirate and parrot...
--> '''Scarf Lady''': Arrr! And what be you?
--> '''Bag''': She's a future fairy crayon! Obviously!



* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Cherry tomatoes for Sarah and bread for Duck. They both like lemon water too.

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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Cherry tomatoes for Sarah and bread for Duck. They both like lemon water too.for Sarah. Any and all bread for Duck, including Sarah's.

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%%* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The train that Sarah and Duck ride in "Train Fudge". %%No context, and I'm not sure how it fits or what context to add.%%



* CoolOldLady: Scarf Lady, once more. Knitting an enormous hot air balloon to enter (and win) a "Balloon Race" really brings out the awesome in mundane old-lady tasks!

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** Duck's birthday cake Cake was made (born), uneaten since he was talking, and then forgotten. He later came back for Sarah's birthday, came back again to lampshade how boring it is staying in the fridge, and then became Bread Man's recurring assistant in his shop.
* CoolOldLady: Scarf Lady, once more. more.
** Her knitting acts like a superpower from time to time.
Knitting an enormous hot air balloon to enter (and win) a "Balloon Race" really brings out the awesome in mundane old-lady tasks!



** When Sarah and Duck get interested in bobsleigh, she also turns out to have been a former winter sports competitor and bobsleigh champion.



* InteractiveNarrator: The Narrator helps and makes suggestions for Sarah and Duck.
* LimitedWardrobe: The characters never change clothes.

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* InteractiveNarrator: The Narrator helps and makes suggestions for Sarah and Duck.
Duck, serving as a sort of father figure. He's treated like a just offscreen character by everyone, tagging along as the peanut gallery for their adventures.
* InvisibleParents: Sarah and Duck - and every other child in the show - appear to live alone. This trope is played to let the young characters have agency and do things for themselves - adults are everywhere as neighbors and shopkeeps, just not parents, and it's never suggested they're abandoned. Later episodes do make clear the [[InteractiveNarrator Narrator]] also lives with Sarah, but his presence is limited to some boxes in the attic and tending the kitchen offscreen. Cake even enforces it once when the Narrator tries to get on screen.
--> ''Sarah, Duck, and Bread Man set up for baking, with Cake directing.''
--> '''Narrator''': What can I do?
--> '''Cake''': Uhhhh... you just stay nice and quiet.
* LimitedWardrobe: The characters never rarely change clothes.clothes. Sarah has an entire set of green hats with nubs on.



* ParentalAbandonment: Sarah and Duck appear to live alone; nothing is said or heard about her parents. [[WildMassGuessing Though it's possible the]] InteractiveNarrator [[ParentalSubstitute takes care of them.]]



* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: While the three big Shallots usually make the same sound together, the smallest Shallot will sometimes spout a completely unrelated sound or word.

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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: While the three big Shallots usually make say the same sound together, thing one after the other, the smallest Shallot will sometimes spout a completely unrelated sound or word.always say something different.
--> '''Shallots''': Hello. Hello. Hello. Cheers!
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* SwansASwimming: Averted in "Fancy Park". Pretty as the swans at the titular park are, they're portrayed as greedy and snobby. When they see Sarah giving Duck some bread, they start quacking for some, she tosses a slice in the pool -- and then they turn up their beaks at it, apparently seeing it as "common". A slight case of ShowingTheirWork, as real swans are not as friendly as people assume.

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* SwansASwimming: Averted in "Fancy Park". Pretty as the swans at the titular park are, they're portrayed as greedy and snobby. When they see Sarah giving Duck some bread, they start quacking for some, she tosses a slice in the pool -- and then they turn up their beaks at it, apparently seeing it as "common". A slight case of ShowingTheirWork, ShownTheirWork, as real swans are not as friendly as people assume.
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* CannotTellAJoke: The Narrator, befitting his father role to Sarah, is very very fond of Dad Joke level puns, with delivery so hammy you can hear the cheesy grin and waggling eyebrows. Sarah and Duck never get any of them.
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''Sarah & Duck'' is a [[Creator/TheBBC CBeebies]] animated series that follows the adventures of Sarah, a 7 year old girl, and her best friend Duck, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a Mallard duck]] in a quirky neighborhood. Narrated by Creator/RogerAllam and launched in 18 February 2013, its first series of 40 7-minute shorts did well enough that two more were promised, concluding on 15 December 2017.

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''Sarah & Duck'' is a [[Creator/TheBBC CBeebies]] SliceOfLife animated series that follows the adventures of Sarah, a 7 year old girl, and her best friend Duck, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a Mallard duck]] in a quirky neighborhood. Narrated by Creator/RogerAllam and launched in 18 February 2013, its first series of 40 7-minute shorts did well enough that two more were promised, concluding on 15 December 2017.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Subverted in "Pond Princess", in which the other ducks at the park pond crown Sarah as one. She's initially flattered, but spends most of the episode trying to figure out what they actually want her to ''do'' and becomes rather bored. As it turns out, they just want her to name a king or queen to look after them, and she's freed from her title once she does (she has Rainbow take over for her).
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* SeriousBusiness: To Sarah, her favorite bench in the park. It's the only thing that helped inspire her to poetry. When she's showing the shallots around, the bench takes priority over the playground. Finally, when one day she finds it occupied by someone napping, she spends the rest of the episode trying to wake them, two attempted leg bites included.
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* CloudCuckooLander: [[ScatterbrainedSenior Scarf]] [[CoolHouse Lady]] certainly qualifies.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: And Bag is this to Scarf Lady.

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* CloudCuckooLander: [[ScatterbrainedSenior Scarf]] [[CoolHouse Scarf Lady]] certainly qualifies.
qualifies. {{Malaproper}} aside, she's often forgetful and scatterbrained, and when we see her younger days, is implied to always have been. On good days, she seems to take it in stride and even seems to throw in some intentional mistakes to keep people guessing. On bad days, she can forget what's going on three times in three minutes.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: And Bag is this to Scarf Lady.Lady, acting as constant wrong-word translator, reminder service, and memory bank.

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* BiggerOnTheInside: When Sarah buys a ball that won't bounce, the bouncy ball vending machine turns out to have a giant testing chamber with hundreds of balls bouncing around inside, and in a later episode, a lab for balls that bounce differently, and another vending machine inside that lab to dispense help for said balls.

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* BiggerOnTheInside: BiggerOnTheInside:
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When Sarah buys a ball that won't bounce, the bouncy ball vending machine turns out to have a giant testing chamber with hundreds of balls bouncing around inside, and in a later episode, a lab for balls that bounce differently, and another vending machine inside that lab to dispense help for said balls.balls.
** The underside of the Librarian's desk is an endless crawlspace that doesn't end where the desk does. He calls it the "Lost Book Section".

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* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The train that Sarah and Duck ride in "Train Fudge".

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* BiggerOnTheInside: When Sarah buys a ball that won't bounce, the bouncy ball vending machine turns out to have a giant testing chamber with hundreds of balls bouncing around inside, and in a later episode, a lab for balls that bounce differently, and another vending machine inside that lab to dispense help for said balls.
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%% * ABoyAndHisX: A Girl and Her Duck. %% Add more context to describe their relationship and what effect it has on them. %%

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%% * ABoyAndHisX: A Girl and Her Duck. %% Add Duck. A younger Sarah met a very young Duck in the park in the middle of winter, and after a fun day together in the snow, took her new friend home rather than leave him alone in the cold. They're inseparable, and more context to describe their relationship and what effect it has on them. %%than once noticeably distraught without the other.

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* {{Malaproper}}: Scarf Lady, ''constantly''. It's half her charm. Sometimes it's a closely pronounced word, sometimes she has the right concept but wrong idea, and sometimes [[CloudCuckooLander there's no telling]].

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* {{Malaproper}}: {{Malaproper}}:
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Scarf Lady, ''constantly''. It's half her charm. Sometimes it's a closely pronounced word, sometimes she has the right concept but wrong idea, and sometimes [[CloudCuckooLander there's no telling]].


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** From time to time, Sarah too, as only a young kid can.
--> '''Narrator''': Very eloquent, Duck.
--> '''Sarah''': Yes, very elephants.
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* HalloweenEpisode: "Boo Night", where the characters dress up and attempt to scare each other.


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* OffModel: In the episode "Duck's Birthday", Sarah and Duck are drawn with slightly thinner outlines.
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* {{Malaproper}}: Scarf Lady, ''constantly''. It's half her charm. Sometimes it's a closely pronounced word, sometimes she has the right concept but wrong idea, and sometimes [[CloudCuckooLander there's no telling]].
--> '''Scarf Lady''': Good morning! Hope we're not too early!
--> '''Bag''': It's the ''evening'', and we're ''late''!

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* AllJustADream: The "Strawberry Souffle" episode, although the true surrealness of the episode doesn't stand out until a bit further in it.

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* AllJustADream: Once a season.
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The "Strawberry Souffle" episode, although the true surrealness of the episode doesn't stand out until a bit further in it.it.
** "Toggle Tangle" has a lot more fun with it, with Sarah helping Scarf Lady knit a roof, only to drift off and dream she has knitted ''everything'', the house, the sinks, the water, the fruit, the sky...
** "Old Toys" lets Duck have a turn, falling asleep in his robot costume to dream up a techno wonderland he's chasing some digital bread through.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The faces Bag makes when Scarf Lady pulls something out of him are actually quite disturbing.
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* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The Library that the characters frequently visit is this, where thereare sections for every kind of book possible. There's even an Underwater Section where the books float in water!

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* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The Library that the characters frequently visit is this, where thereare there are sections for every kind of book possible. There's even an Underwater Section where the books float in water!
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* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The Library that the characters frequently visit is this, where thereare sections for every kind of book possible. There's even an Underwater Section where the books float in water!

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