History WesternAnimation / TheAlvinShow

* AllJustADream: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" musical segment in which the stage where Dave gets annoyed by the chipmunks goofing up the song doesn't happen for real. Dave wakes up in bed with his hand in the air at the end.

* ComedicSpanking: Clyde does this to Leonardo in "Clyde Crashcup Invents the Birthday Party", then Leonard and his mother does it to Clyde at the end.

* SixIsNine: In "Crashcup Invents Do-It-Yourself", Crashcup decides to paint a room by numbers and asks Leonardo to hand him the 9 can. Leonardo brings a 6 can by mistake, and when Clyde asks, "That's a 9?" Leonardo turns the can upside down, pouring paint on Clyde by accident.

''The Alvin Show'' is a short-lived primetime {{animated series}} from the early 1960s, based on the highly successful "David Seville and the Chipmunks" records by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., produced in association Format Films for Bagdasarian Film Corporation. It is the first animated series to feature ''Music/AlvinAndTheChipmunks''.

* ComedicSpanking: Clyde does this to Leonardo in "Clyde Crashcup Invents the Birthday Party", then Leonardo's mother does it to Clyde at the end.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: At the beginning of "Working on the Railroad", Simon (of all people) and Alvin do this to Dave with sledgehammers. Thankfully, Theodore misses Dave's foot.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: At the beginning of "Working on the Railroad", Simon (of all people) and Alvin do this to Dave with sledgehammers. Thankfully, Theodore misses Dave's foot.

* AmbiguousSyntax: In "Clyde Crashcup Invents the Boat" after Clyde calls the front part of his boat "[[BuffySpeak the pointy part]]", Leonardo whispers in his ear, and Clyde replies, "Bow? Alright, Leonardo, if you insist.", and [[ComicallyMissingThePoint bows to him]].

* ChickenJoke: Clyde invokes this in "Clyde Crashcup Invents Jokes".

* The 1994 "Working On the Railroad" sing-along video shortened the ending and replaced the director's dialogue. In the original, the director accused Dave and the Chipmunks of bad acting, while in the 1994 video version they cut because the crew forgot to put film in the camera. Regardless, both still end with Alvin saying to the audience, "Well, that's showbiz."
* The 1994 sing-along video also censors the gunshots from "Ragtime Cowboy Joe", replacing three of them with whistles and the fourth with a musical chord.

* {{Bowdlerise}} / LighterAndSofter: The 1994 "Working On the Railroad" sing-along video shortened the ending and replaced the director's dialogue. In the original, the director accused Dave and the Chipmunks of bad acting, while in the 1994 video version they cut because the crew forgot to put film in the camera. Regardless, both still end with Alvin saying to the audience, "Well, that's showbiz."

Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} picked up broadcast rights for the show in 1994 and ran the episodes daily until early 1995. During that time as well as sometime afterwards, the individual cartoons and musical segments were inserted into episodes of ''Series/{{Weinerville}}''. The show ultimately vanished from the airways.

** Clyde Crashcup's own persona and voice, in addition, are inspired by unique character actor Richard Haydn, as "Prof. Edwin Carp".

* AmbiguousSyntax: In "Crashcup Invents the Boat" after Clyde calls the front part of his boat "[[BuffySpeak the pointy part]]", Leonardo whispers in his ear, and Clyde replies, "Bow? Alright, Leonardo, if you insist.", and [[ComicallyMissingThePoint bows to him]].

* BabiesEverAfter: PlayedForLaughs in "Crashcup Invents the Baby" when the stork Clyde "invented" keeps bringing more babies to his place, against the scientist's protests.

* BaseballEpisode: "Crashcup Invents Baseball" and "Little League"

* BigBallOfViolence: After Clyde strikes out in "Crashcup Invents Baseball", the umpire and baseball fan get into a fight involving this, with Clyde getting caught up in it. When Leonardo tries to save Clyde, he winds up in the fight as well.

* EyePoke: Leonardo does this to Clyde in "Crashcup Invents Glass".

* InkSuitActor: As drawn, Clyde Crashcup somewhat resembles the physical appearance of his voice actor, Stephen Menken.

* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In "Crashcup Invents the Boat" after Clyde calls the front part of his boat "[[BuffySpeak the pointy part]]", Leonardo whispers in his ear, and Clyde replies, "Bow? Alright, Leonardo, if you insist.", and bows to him.

* DoubleTake

Aside from the seven-minute Chipmunk segments, the show also had segments featuring the misadventures of bumbling inventor Clyde Crashcup voiced by Shepard Menken who essentially re-invented various items and took credit for dreaming it up in the first place. His “creations” often backfired on him until his [[TheSpeechless silent]] [[HypercompetentSidekick hyper competent assistant]] Leonardo saves him from any further self-destruction.

* [[ByWallThatIsHoley By Tree That Is Holey]]: Theodor is asked to swing on a rope, which is tied to a very old tree with a gaping hole. When Theodore tugs at the rope, the tree topples over but Theodore is unharmed because he slipped through said hole.

* BirthdayEpisode: In the Clyde Crashcup segment "Birthday Party", Clyde thinks it's Leonardo's birthday and sets up a party for him. Near the end, however, Clyde finds out [[ForgotTheirOwnBirthday it's actually his own birthday]].