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''The Babaloos'' (or ''Les Babalous'', in the original French) was a 1996 Canadian-French animated TV series co-produced by [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment [=CINAR=]]] and Creator/{{Moonscoop}}. The show is based on [[https://www.goodreads.com/series/261757-les-babalous an obscure series of children's books]] written by Jean-Luc Morel.
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''The Babaloos'' (or ''Les Babalous'', in the original French) was a 1996 Canadian-French animated TV series co-produced by [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment [=CINAR=]]] and Creator/{{Moonscoop}}. The show is based on [[https://www.goodreads.com/series/261757-les-babalous an obscure series of children's [[https://hippopolivre.blogspot.com/2014/02/madame-casserole-monsieur-bouchon.html books]] written by Jean-Luc Morel.
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* FloatingInABubble: In “A High-Flying Rescue”, Cork somehow becomes trapped inside a stray soap bubble and is carried around the house until the bubble pops, depositing him on top of Kevin’s bookshelf.
* FlyingSaucer: One episode involves a mysterious disc-shaped object who crash-lands into Kevin’s house through an open window. The Babaloos are convinced that he’s from outer space, and he is unable to refute that due to having gotten amnesia from the crash. [[spoiler:Once he gets his memory back, he turns out to be a Frisbee.]]
* FlyingSaucer: One episode involves a mysterious disc-shaped object who crash-lands into Kevin’s house through an open window. The Babaloos are convinced that he’s from outer space, and he is unable to refute that due to having gotten amnesia from the crash. [[spoiler:Once he gets his memory back, he turns out to be a Frisbee.]]
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''The Babaloos'' (or ''Les Babalous'', in the original French) was a 1996 Canadian-French animated TV series co-produced by [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment [=CINAR=]]] and Creator/{{Moonscoop}}.
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''The Babaloos'' (or ''Les Babalous'', in the original French) was a 1996 Canadian-French animated TV series co-produced by [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment [=CINAR=]]] and Creator/{{Moonscoop}}.
Creator/{{Moonscoop}}. The show is based on [[https://www.goodreads.com/series/261757-les-babalous an obscure series of children's books]] written by Jean-Luc Morel.
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* AnimatedAdaptation: Of the book series of the same name by Jean-Luc Morel.
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* InstantIceJustAddCold: In “Big Chill For Baby Towel”, somehow spending a brief amount of time in the freezer traps Baby Towel in a giant block of ice.
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''The Babaloos'' (or ''Les Babalous'', in the original French) was a 1996 Canadian-French animated TV series co-produced by [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment [=CINAR=]]] and Creator/Moonscoop.
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* DrippingDisturbance: One episode involves the kitchen faucet, ([[SeriesContinuityError suddenly a Babaloo despite having been an inanimate background prop in previous episodes]]) developing a drip that the Tools from the garage have to fix.
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* DrippingDisturbance: One episode involves the kitchen faucet, faucet ([[SeriesContinuityError suddenly a Babaloo despite having been an inanimate background prop in previous episodes]]) developing a drip that the Tools from the garage have to fix.
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* FlyingSaucer: In one episode, a mysterious disc-shaped Babaloo who loves zipping through the air crash-lands into Kevin’s house through an open window. The crash has left him unable to remember who or what he is or where he comes from, and much speculation about him being an alien ensues. [[spoiler:A blow from Hammer allows him to recall that he’s a Frisbee.]]
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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: In “The Abominable Yeti” Teddy poses as one in an attempt to scare the other Babaloos.
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* ADogNamedDog: Most of Babaloos are just named after what they are- Baby Towel, Teaspoon, Mr. Bowl, Mrs. Coffeepot, Mr. Vac- although there are exceptions (such as Victor the trophy).
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* ADogNamedDog: Most of the Babaloos are just named after what they are- Baby Towel, Teaspoon, Mr. Bowl, Mrs. Coffeepot, Mr. Vac- although there are exceptions (such as Victor the trophy).
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-> ''We’re the Babaloos!\\
When the day is done\\
And you’re sleeping\\
We’ll be having fun!''
-->-- The show’s TitleThemeTune
''The Babaloos'' (or ''Les Babalous'', in the original French) was a 1996 Canadian-French animated TV series co-produced by [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment [=CINAR=]]] and Creator/Moonscoop.
Set in the house of a young boy called Kevin and his unnamed parents, the show revolves around the adventures of the titular beings- small household objects that come to life at night while Kevin and his parents sleep obliviously. The main cast of Babaloos includes the childish Baby Towel and Teaspoon (the closest the series has to specific protagonists), the warm Mother Towel, haughty Mrs. Fork, clever Little Pencil, his LoveInterest Miss Toothbrush, the gossipy Slipper sisters, Mr. Bowl, and Sponge; in addition, there is a ''large'' number of minor recurring characters (such as the Tools), one-offs (such as Mr. I-Can-Do-Everything), and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs characters who were originally one-offs but eventually returned as recurring extras]], such as Mr. Lighter. Each episode was approximately five minutes long.
In 1999 a second season, entitled ''The Babaloos On Vacation'', began airing. In it, the Babaloos were brought to the great outdoors, as Kevin and his family went on a road trip across… [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield whatever country the show is supposed to take place in.]] This was supposed to add variety to the settings explored in the show; in practice, all it did was produce a surfeit of [[BeachEpisode Beach Episodes]].
!! ''The Babaloos'' provides examples of:
* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: The show’s two seasons have 65 episodes each.
* ADogNamedCat: Due to some [[Memes/PokemonTheSeries “jelly donut”]]-style CulturalTranslation, the teakettle Babaloo is consistently referred to as “Mrs. Coffeepot”.
* ADogNamedDog: Most of Babaloos are just named after what they are- Baby Towel, Teaspoon, Mr. Bowl, Mrs. Coffeepot, Mr. Vac- although there are exceptions (such as Victor the trophy).
* AllClothUnravels: In “Wrong Stitch”, Baby Towel and Teaspoon’s fooling around manages to not only unravel one of Kevin’s wool socks, but also wrap the resulting string around most of the living room.
* AmateurFilmMakingPlot: “The Babaloos Make Movies”
* AnimateInanimateObject: The titular characters are small household items that come to life at night.
* BeachEpisode: A beach was one of the stock outdoor settings visited in quite a few episodes of ''The Babaloos On Vacation''; plots in that season involved fighting crabs (twice!), finding an abandoned ship, driving Kevin’s remote-control car straight into the water, cleaning up garbage that had been dumped on one, searching for a wedding ring lost in the sand, and finding a MessageInABottle, along with a few episodes that happen to take place on a beach but don’t have beach-related plots.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: In “The Abominable Yeti” Teddy poses as one in an attempt to scare the other Babaloos.
* BirthdayEpisode: “Kevin’s Surprise” revolves around the Babaloos having to deal with Kevin’s poorly-thought-out plan to give his mother a birthday surprise; unusually, it doesn’t actually take place ''on'' her birthday, but rather the night before.
* ChristmasEpisode: “Is That Santa?”
* CockADoodleDawn: One Season 2 episode involves a(n apparently wild) rooster whose cries constantly wake up Kevin and his parents (who would rather sleep in past dawn). Alarm Clock is also annoyed because waking them up when they’d rather be asleep is ''his'' job.
* ColdSnap: A few episodes involve sudden cold weather, both in the first season and in ''On Vacation''.
* DeusExScuseMe: An early episode involves Baby Towel having to do the dishes by himself because Mother Towel is unavailable. Why was she unavailable? Because Kevin thought a random dishcloth from the kitchen would be a fine SecurityBlanket to sleep with.
* DrippingDisturbance: One episode involves the kitchen faucet, ([[SeriesContinuityError suddenly a Babaloo despite having been an inanimate background prop in previous episodes]]) developing a drip that the Tools from the garage have to fix.
* EasterEpisode: “Easter Egg”
* EasyAmnesia: In “Unidentified Flying Object”, a mysterious flying disc-shaped Babaloo is unable to remember who or what he is after bumping his “head” in a crash landing. Another blow (courtesy of Hammer) allows him to remember his name: [[spoiler:[[ADogNamedDog “Frisbee”]]]].
* EverythingTalks: Just about any object can be a Babaloo, so long as it’s man-made and reasonably small.
* {{Expy}}: Baby Towel is awfully similar to [[WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster Blanky]], being a cloth-based AnimateInanimateObject with the personality of a child and a light yellow color scheme.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Each episode takes place over the course of a single night.
* FailuresOnIce: In “Slippery Stars”, the Babaloos attempt to go ice-skating on a frozen-over pool in the garden. Key word being “attempt”- Mrs. Fork slides wildly out of control, Hammer keeps falling and cracking the ice, and after seeing their performance no one else wants to give it a try. [[spoiler:Except the Slippers, who reveal themselves to be actually good at skating, hence the episode’s title.]]
* FearOfThunder: Baby Towel is revealed to have this phobia in “Baby Towel’s First Storm”, but gets over it by the end of the episode. Then in “A Stormy Night” in Season 2 [[AesopAmnesia he’s back to being afraid again.]]
* FlyingSaucer: In one episode, a mysterious disc-shaped Babaloo who loves zipping through the air crash-lands into Kevin’s house through an open window. The crash has left him unable to remember who or what he is or where he comes from, and much speculation about him being an alien ensues. [[spoiler:A blow from Hammer allows him to recall that he’s a Frisbee.]]
* FoodComa: In “Enjoy Your Meal, Mr. Vac”, Mr. Vac curls up to sleep after having sucked up enough to sate his appetite.
* ForcedBath: The Slippers are subjected to one in “S.O.S. Slippers”, as part of a ploy by the other Babaloos to prevent them from being replaced by Kevin’s mom. (Why they couldn’t just ''tell'' the slippers that Kevin’s mom was planning to throw them out for being too old and dirty is unknown).
* FourLeafClover: In one episode, a lucky clover Kevin picked sometime during the day is thrown out by Broom and Dustpan (who mistook it for stray plant matter that had somehow gotten indoors), necessitating the location of a replacement.
* FurryConfusion: It’s fairly common for there to be both Babaloo and normal versions of objects (for instance, one episode involves living keys causing chaos while another involves the main cast searching in the sandbox for inanimate keys), or even specific objects that are alive in some episodes but inanimate set dressing in others (Faucet is perhaps the biggest offender here).
* GossipyHens: The Slippers act like this in certain dubs of the show.
* GhostShip: The Babaloos encounter an abandoned, apparently haunted ship in one episode of Season 2. [[spoiler:The “ghost” haunting it is actually another AnimateInanimateObject like them (a boot, to be specific).]]
* GiantEnemyCrab: In “Castle Under Siege”, the Babaloos have to defend a sand castle from a crab intent on destroying it. This trope is subverted a bit in the sense that the crab isn’t actually larger than normal; the Babaloos are just tiny.
* GreenAesop: The ''On Vacation'' episode “Save The Beach” has one about littering, with the Babaloos finding the beach covered in trash and having to clean it up.
* HaplesslyHiding: In one episode, Baby Towel is playing hide-and-seek and decides to hide in the washing machine. Then someone, unaware that he’s hiding there, turned the machine on. Eh, he was getting kinda dirty anyway.
* HarmlessFreezing: In “Big Chill For Baby Towel”, the titular character is frozen after he climbs into the freezer, but is perfectly fine once thawed out.
* InstantIceJustAddCold: In “Big Chill For Baby Towel”, somehow spending a brief amount of time in the freezer traps Baby Towel in a giant block of ice.
* KidnappingBirdOfPrey: A ThievingMagpie serves this role in “The Adventurers” by carrying Mrs. Fork off to add to its collection of shiny things.
* LaughingMad: Mrs. Coffeepot acts like this after losing her lid in “Mrs. Coffeepot Blows Her Top”.
* LiteralMetaphor: The episode titled “Needle In A Haystack” literally involves searching in a haystack for the Compass’s lost needle.
* LivingToys: A few Babaloos are toys of some sort, including Teddy (a teddy bear) and Frisbee (guess).
* LostWeddingRing: In “Moon Gems”, the Babaloos have to comb the beach to find Kevin’s mother’s wedding ring.
* LoveTriangle: One of these forms in “Moonlight Romance”- Party Hat developed a crush on Mrs. Fork and sang a serenade for her with the aid of Harmonica, but due to some poorly-phrased lyrics Mrs. Fork believed that Harmonica was the one who was in love with her, and fell for him in turn.
* {{Masquerade}}: For unspecified reasons, the Babaloos have to hide the fact that they’re alive from humans, only coming to life at night when Kevin and his parents are asleep.
* MessageInABottle: One episode in Season 2 involves the Babaloos spotting one of these floating in the sea- given the show, the bottle is sentient.
* MinisculeRocking: The show’s TitleThemeTune is only 20 seconds long, but those 20 seconds are [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic pure, concentrated awesome]].
* MotorMouth: OneShotCharacter Cell Phone (seen in “We’ll Call Each Other”) talks like this. And he never stops talking.
* NewSeasonNewName: The series’ second season saw its name changed to “The Babaloos On Vacation”, to go with its focus on bringing the characters into new environments beyond Kevin’s house.
* TheNoseKnows: In “The Departure”, Perfume Bottle manages to track down Baby Towel (and Mr. Lighter) by the scent of the perfume he sprayed on them earlier.
* NoSenseOfDirection: The Compass acts like this after losing her needle in “Needle In A Haystack”.
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The original French title of “The Adventurers” translates to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk “Raiders Of The Lost Star”]].
* PunnyName: One guest-star Babaloo is a trophy named Victor.
* TheRunaway: Baby Towel and Teaspoon attempt to run away in “Freedom At Last”. This… does not last very long.
* RustRemovingOil: In “Slip-Sliding Away”, the Babaloos attempt to use some oil to de-rustify the Tools, who rusted up after falling in water. For extra nonsense points, the oil they try to use is ''suntan'' oil.
* ScalingTheSummit: This happens in “An Infernal Climb”. Technically, it’s not even a very tall hill, but given the Babaloos’ size it might as well be Mount Everest.
* ScaryScarecrow: In one episode in ''On Vacation'', the Babaloos come across a sentient scarecrow who’s in danger of being replaced because he’s not scary enough. They can help with that… sorta.
* ScaryStingingSwarm: In “The Bees’ Wrath”, Baby Towel and Teaspoon provoke one of these by attempting to snack on honey from a beehive.
* ScrewballSquirrel: One of these kidnaps Mrs. Fork in “The Artist”
* SecurityBlanket: In “Baby Towel Does The Dishes” Kevin, for some inexplicable reason, decides to use Mother Towel as one.
* SockSlideRink: In one episode, the Babaloos find that the kitchen floor has been freshly polished and is thus very slippery; they decide to use the lack of friction to put on a game of hockey.
* StrikeEpisode: Two of them.
** In “Sponge’s Clean Break”, Sponge refuses to wash dishes because Mrs. Fork refused to acknowledge how hard she works.
** In the ''On Vacation'' episode “Trouble’s A-Brewing At The Babaloos”, the camper van’s window is stuck open during a pouring rainstorm. The Tools are the only ones who can fix it, but they’re on strike because they’ve been insulted… by none other than Mrs. Fork.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Every single female character in the show has very visible eyelashes, and most of them also either have permanent blush spots or inexplicably look like they’re wearing lipstick. This makes it very obvious when [[ShesAManInJapan a character’s gender has been changed in a dub.]]
* ThievingMagpie: In “The Adventurers”, one of these snatches first Kevin’s toy sheriff badge and then Mrs. Fork.
* TitleThemeTune: It’s short (only a little over 20 seconds), but catchy.
--> ♪ We’re the Babaloos! ♪
--> ♪ We’re the Babaloos! ♪
--> ♪ When the lights go out, that’s when we’re on the loose! ♪
* TreasureHuntEpisode: “The Treasure Hunt”, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as you may be able to tell by the title.]]
* ViciousVac: Mr. Vac spends the first half of “Enjoy Your Meal, Mr. Vac” roaming around the house indiscriminately sucking up anything in sight, even swallowing Baby Towel and Teaspoon. [[spoiler:Then in the second half it turns out he’s actually a nice guy who just can’t control himself when he’s hungry, and he’s even willing to allow Screwdriver to open up his case to free the trapped Babaloos.]]
* TheVoice: Kevin’s parents are never seen, and only occasionally heard. Kevin would qualify himself as well if not for a few episodes where we see him asleep in bed.
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-> ''We’re the Babaloos!\\
When the day is done\\
And you’re sleeping\\
We’ll be having fun!''
-->-- The show’s TitleThemeTune
''The Babaloos'' (or ''Les Babalous'', in the original French) was a 1996 Canadian-French animated TV series co-produced by [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment [=CINAR=]]] and Creator/Moonscoop.
Set in the house of a young boy called Kevin and his unnamed parents, the show revolves around the adventures of the titular beings- small household objects that come to life at night while Kevin and his parents sleep obliviously. The main cast of Babaloos includes the childish Baby Towel and Teaspoon (the closest the series has to specific protagonists), the warm Mother Towel, haughty Mrs. Fork, clever Little Pencil, his LoveInterest Miss Toothbrush, the gossipy Slipper sisters, Mr. Bowl, and Sponge; in addition, there is a ''large'' number of minor recurring characters (such as the Tools), one-offs (such as Mr. I-Can-Do-Everything), and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs characters who were originally one-offs but eventually returned as recurring extras]], such as Mr. Lighter. Each episode was approximately five minutes long.
In 1999 a second season, entitled ''The Babaloos On Vacation'', began airing. In it, the Babaloos were brought to the great outdoors, as Kevin and his family went on a road trip across… [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield whatever country the show is supposed to take place in.]] This was supposed to add variety to the settings explored in the show; in practice, all it did was produce a surfeit of [[BeachEpisode Beach Episodes]].
!! ''The Babaloos'' provides examples of:
* SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon: The show’s two seasons have 65 episodes each.
* ADogNamedCat: Due to some [[Memes/PokemonTheSeries “jelly donut”]]-style CulturalTranslation, the teakettle Babaloo is consistently referred to as “Mrs. Coffeepot”.
* ADogNamedDog: Most of Babaloos are just named after what they are- Baby Towel, Teaspoon, Mr. Bowl, Mrs. Coffeepot, Mr. Vac- although there are exceptions (such as Victor the trophy).
* AllClothUnravels: In “Wrong Stitch”, Baby Towel and Teaspoon’s fooling around manages to not only unravel one of Kevin’s wool socks, but also wrap the resulting string around most of the living room.
* AmateurFilmMakingPlot: “The Babaloos Make Movies”
* AnimateInanimateObject: The titular characters are small household items that come to life at night.
* BeachEpisode: A beach was one of the stock outdoor settings visited in quite a few episodes of ''The Babaloos On Vacation''; plots in that season involved fighting crabs (twice!), finding an abandoned ship, driving Kevin’s remote-control car straight into the water, cleaning up garbage that had been dumped on one, searching for a wedding ring lost in the sand, and finding a MessageInABottle, along with a few episodes that happen to take place on a beach but don’t have beach-related plots.
* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: In “The Abominable Yeti” Teddy poses as one in an attempt to scare the other Babaloos.
* BirthdayEpisode: “Kevin’s Surprise” revolves around the Babaloos having to deal with Kevin’s poorly-thought-out plan to give his mother a birthday surprise; unusually, it doesn’t actually take place ''on'' her birthday, but rather the night before.
* ChristmasEpisode: “Is That Santa?”
* CockADoodleDawn: One Season 2 episode involves a(n apparently wild) rooster whose cries constantly wake up Kevin and his parents (who would rather sleep in past dawn). Alarm Clock is also annoyed because waking them up when they’d rather be asleep is ''his'' job.
* ColdSnap: A few episodes involve sudden cold weather, both in the first season and in ''On Vacation''.
* DeusExScuseMe: An early episode involves Baby Towel having to do the dishes by himself because Mother Towel is unavailable. Why was she unavailable? Because Kevin thought a random dishcloth from the kitchen would be a fine SecurityBlanket to sleep with.
* DrippingDisturbance: One episode involves the kitchen faucet, ([[SeriesContinuityError suddenly a Babaloo despite having been an inanimate background prop in previous episodes]]) developing a drip that the Tools from the garage have to fix.
* EasterEpisode: “Easter Egg”
* EasyAmnesia: In “Unidentified Flying Object”, a mysterious flying disc-shaped Babaloo is unable to remember who or what he is after bumping his “head” in a crash landing. Another blow (courtesy of Hammer) allows him to remember his name: [[spoiler:[[ADogNamedDog “Frisbee”]]]].
* EverythingTalks: Just about any object can be a Babaloo, so long as it’s man-made and reasonably small.
* {{Expy}}: Baby Towel is awfully similar to [[WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster Blanky]], being a cloth-based AnimateInanimateObject with the personality of a child and a light yellow color scheme.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Each episode takes place over the course of a single night.
* FailuresOnIce: In “Slippery Stars”, the Babaloos attempt to go ice-skating on a frozen-over pool in the garden. Key word being “attempt”- Mrs. Fork slides wildly out of control, Hammer keeps falling and cracking the ice, and after seeing their performance no one else wants to give it a try. [[spoiler:Except the Slippers, who reveal themselves to be actually good at skating, hence the episode’s title.]]
* FearOfThunder: Baby Towel is revealed to have this phobia in “Baby Towel’s First Storm”, but gets over it by the end of the episode. Then in “A Stormy Night” in Season 2 [[AesopAmnesia he’s back to being afraid again.]]
* FlyingSaucer: In one episode, a mysterious disc-shaped Babaloo who loves zipping through the air crash-lands into Kevin’s house through an open window. The crash has left him unable to remember who or what he is or where he comes from, and much speculation about him being an alien ensues. [[spoiler:A blow from Hammer allows him to recall that he’s a Frisbee.]]
* FoodComa: In “Enjoy Your Meal, Mr. Vac”, Mr. Vac curls up to sleep after having sucked up enough to sate his appetite.
* ForcedBath: The Slippers are subjected to one in “S.O.S. Slippers”, as part of a ploy by the other Babaloos to prevent them from being replaced by Kevin’s mom. (Why they couldn’t just ''tell'' the slippers that Kevin’s mom was planning to throw them out for being too old and dirty is unknown).
* FourLeafClover: In one episode, a lucky clover Kevin picked sometime during the day is thrown out by Broom and Dustpan (who mistook it for stray plant matter that had somehow gotten indoors), necessitating the location of a replacement.
* FurryConfusion: It’s fairly common for there to be both Babaloo and normal versions of objects (for instance, one episode involves living keys causing chaos while another involves the main cast searching in the sandbox for inanimate keys), or even specific objects that are alive in some episodes but inanimate set dressing in others (Faucet is perhaps the biggest offender here).
* GossipyHens: The Slippers act like this in certain dubs of the show.
* GhostShip: The Babaloos encounter an abandoned, apparently haunted ship in one episode of Season 2. [[spoiler:The “ghost” haunting it is actually another AnimateInanimateObject like them (a boot, to be specific).]]
* GiantEnemyCrab: In “Castle Under Siege”, the Babaloos have to defend a sand castle from a crab intent on destroying it. This trope is subverted a bit in the sense that the crab isn’t actually larger than normal; the Babaloos are just tiny.
* GreenAesop: The ''On Vacation'' episode “Save The Beach” has one about littering, with the Babaloos finding the beach covered in trash and having to clean it up.
* HaplesslyHiding: In one episode, Baby Towel is playing hide-and-seek and decides to hide in the washing machine. Then someone, unaware that he’s hiding there, turned the machine on. Eh, he was getting kinda dirty anyway.
* HarmlessFreezing: In “Big Chill For Baby Towel”, the titular character is frozen after he climbs into the freezer, but is perfectly fine once thawed out.
* InstantIceJustAddCold: In “Big Chill For Baby Towel”, somehow spending a brief amount of time in the freezer traps Baby Towel in a giant block of ice.
* KidnappingBirdOfPrey: A ThievingMagpie serves this role in “The Adventurers” by carrying Mrs. Fork off to add to its collection of shiny things.
* LaughingMad: Mrs. Coffeepot acts like this after losing her lid in “Mrs. Coffeepot Blows Her Top”.
* LiteralMetaphor: The episode titled “Needle In A Haystack” literally involves searching in a haystack for the Compass’s lost needle.
* LivingToys: A few Babaloos are toys of some sort, including Teddy (a teddy bear) and Frisbee (guess).
* LostWeddingRing: In “Moon Gems”, the Babaloos have to comb the beach to find Kevin’s mother’s wedding ring.
* LoveTriangle: One of these forms in “Moonlight Romance”- Party Hat developed a crush on Mrs. Fork and sang a serenade for her with the aid of Harmonica, but due to some poorly-phrased lyrics Mrs. Fork believed that Harmonica was the one who was in love with her, and fell for him in turn.
* {{Masquerade}}: For unspecified reasons, the Babaloos have to hide the fact that they’re alive from humans, only coming to life at night when Kevin and his parents are asleep.
* MessageInABottle: One episode in Season 2 involves the Babaloos spotting one of these floating in the sea- given the show, the bottle is sentient.
* MinisculeRocking: The show’s TitleThemeTune is only 20 seconds long, but those 20 seconds are [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic pure, concentrated awesome]].
* MotorMouth: OneShotCharacter Cell Phone (seen in “We’ll Call Each Other”) talks like this. And he never stops talking.
* NewSeasonNewName: The series’ second season saw its name changed to “The Babaloos On Vacation”, to go with its focus on bringing the characters into new environments beyond Kevin’s house.
* TheNoseKnows: In “The Departure”, Perfume Bottle manages to track down Baby Towel (and Mr. Lighter) by the scent of the perfume he sprayed on them earlier.
* NoSenseOfDirection: The Compass acts like this after losing her needle in “Needle In A Haystack”.
* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The original French title of “The Adventurers” translates to [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk “Raiders Of The Lost Star”]].
* PunnyName: One guest-star Babaloo is a trophy named Victor.
* TheRunaway: Baby Towel and Teaspoon attempt to run away in “Freedom At Last”. This… does not last very long.
* RustRemovingOil: In “Slip-Sliding Away”, the Babaloos attempt to use some oil to de-rustify the Tools, who rusted up after falling in water. For extra nonsense points, the oil they try to use is ''suntan'' oil.
* ScalingTheSummit: This happens in “An Infernal Climb”. Technically, it’s not even a very tall hill, but given the Babaloos’ size it might as well be Mount Everest.
* ScaryScarecrow: In one episode in ''On Vacation'', the Babaloos come across a sentient scarecrow who’s in danger of being replaced because he’s not scary enough. They can help with that… sorta.
* ScaryStingingSwarm: In “The Bees’ Wrath”, Baby Towel and Teaspoon provoke one of these by attempting to snack on honey from a beehive.
* ScrewballSquirrel: One of these kidnaps Mrs. Fork in “The Artist”
* SecurityBlanket: In “Baby Towel Does The Dishes” Kevin, for some inexplicable reason, decides to use Mother Towel as one.
* SockSlideRink: In one episode, the Babaloos find that the kitchen floor has been freshly polished and is thus very slippery; they decide to use the lack of friction to put on a game of hockey.
* StrikeEpisode: Two of them.
** In “Sponge’s Clean Break”, Sponge refuses to wash dishes because Mrs. Fork refused to acknowledge how hard she works.
** In the ''On Vacation'' episode “Trouble’s A-Brewing At The Babaloos”, the camper van’s window is stuck open during a pouring rainstorm. The Tools are the only ones who can fix it, but they’re on strike because they’ve been insulted… by none other than Mrs. Fork.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Every single female character in the show has very visible eyelashes, and most of them also either have permanent blush spots or inexplicably look like they’re wearing lipstick. This makes it very obvious when [[ShesAManInJapan a character’s gender has been changed in a dub.]]
* ThievingMagpie: In “The Adventurers”, one of these snatches first Kevin’s toy sheriff badge and then Mrs. Fork.
* TitleThemeTune: It’s short (only a little over 20 seconds), but catchy.
--> ♪ We’re the Babaloos! ♪
--> ♪ We’re the Babaloos! ♪
--> ♪ When the lights go out, that’s when we’re on the loose! ♪
* TreasureHuntEpisode: “The Treasure Hunt”, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as you may be able to tell by the title.]]
* ViciousVac: Mr. Vac spends the first half of “Enjoy Your Meal, Mr. Vac” roaming around the house indiscriminately sucking up anything in sight, even swallowing Baby Towel and Teaspoon. [[spoiler:Then in the second half it turns out he’s actually a nice guy who just can’t control himself when he’s hungry, and he’s even willing to allow Screwdriver to open up his case to free the trapped Babaloos.]]
* TheVoice: Kevin’s parents are never seen, and only occasionally heard. Kevin would qualify himself as well if not for a few episodes where we see him asleep in bed.
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