History WesternAnimation / TheCrumpets

* BeachEpisode: Pool variant: "Dried Water", which takes place during a global shortage of water. The Crumpet kids go swimming their flooded house, which is stor* BedsheetLadder: Pa and Cassandra use these for their escapes in "The Terrible Teens" and "Family Be Gone!" respectively.
* BearTrap: In "Croco-Deal", L'il-One puts one in Renato's mouth and goes in it so he can divert Ma to rush to him. When Granny tries to kill Renato, she inadvertently frees the crocodile. The bear trap catches Granny's head, and she keeps it on by the next day.

* BirthdayEpisode: "Sticks Stink", "[=CrumStep=]", "Murder Everywhere", and "Puppy Love" contain the birthdays of Li'l-One, Ma, Caprice, Granny, and Aunt Harried (who shares Ma's in the last of these episodes).

* PlaceboEffect: In "Addicted", the greenhouse gas remedy is a temporary cure to Ms. [=McBrisk=]'s allergies, and she becomes addicted to the substance. Cassandra warns her mother about a placebo effect.

ing the water stashed by Hurry and Harried.

* PottyFailure: L'il-One did this in a family photo seen in "Granny's Twin Sister", and in a previous horror movie showing according to "Hairifying". [[spoiler:After the twins failed to make him do this again, it finally happens again once the ZombieApocalypse is resolved.]]

* RedSkyTakeWarning: The endings of "Cheep Shot" and "Hairifying" has a silhouette of the Crumpet house under a red sky due to [[spoiler:serious life-death threats to the family.]]

* ReligionIsWrong: It's proven in "Belief Relief" that [[spoiler:science trumps religion in rejuvenating Pa's lunar leeks]] and that there are no gods living in the sky. The episode however deliberately attacks a fundamentalist religion established to financially benefit its "prophet", and the faithless Ma gives her family the message that people should believe what's personally best for them, including religion.

** Also for Ditzy, in "Addiction", when she [[EverybodyMustGetStoned inhales her first dose of the greenhouse gas]], her head went ''high''.
* VocalEvolution: In the English dub of the second episode "Sticks Stink", Cassandra has a softer voice than usual.

* YourMum: In "Addiction", Ma, as one in an angry crowd, only says this to Pa while being one of the complainers of Granny's behavior.

* VisualPun: Ditzy ascends her head and says "The telly can make nearly anybody ''lose their head'', Mummy" in "Pity The Prize".

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: While the show is of French origin, the roads are of right hand traffic, and the ending of "Going Viral" shows that [[spoiler:L'il-One flies out of France as seen from space]], ScotlandYard is mentioned as a legitimate authority in "Ransoming Dad", the quid is mentioned at times (despite the euro also appearing elsewhere), and all characters in the first and second seasons dub have British accents.
* {{Whodunnit}}: Caprice's birthday party game in "Murder Everywhere" was supposed to give a random player a murder contract to kill Pa's character, and the others must investigate and arrest that player. Instead, Li'l-One violates the rules, "joins" the game and acts to be Pa's "killer" in the dark against Caprice's will before running away, and all the players' cards are copies of the murder contract. She concentrates finding the one who ruined the card printing while being stuck in the giant gelatin dessert.

* BeYourself: In "Puppy Love", this is a moral from Caprice's story once she reverts from having the fashion tastes and appreciation of wealthy living like Aunt Harried.
* BedsheetLadder: Pa and Cassandra use these for their escapes in "The Terrible Teens" and "Family Be Gone!" respectively.
* {{BFG}}: In "My Family's Full of Losers", Ohoh uses a machine gun to shoot [[spoiler:and seemingly kill his siblings in the darkness in a game show round. He fails to eliminate one, although he injured Pfff]]. When Ohoh is declared winner, he says the machine gun is the winner.

* PoolEpisode: "Dried Water", which takes place during a global shortage of water. The Crumpet kids go swimming their flooded house, which is storing the water stashed by Hurry and Harried.

* DivorceIsTemporary: In "The Divorce", Hurry is kicked out by his wife because the former had overspent. [spoiler:In the court, once Ms. [=McBrisk=] the judge points out that Hurry and Harried are being "horrible" in their arguments against the other, the two reconcile and become a couple again. [Unfortunately, the wedding ring is with T-Bone.]]

* LovePotion: In "Ghost In The Attic", a supposed one is partially made from Li'l One's urinal waste. [spoiler:The twins steals it and applies it to [Ms. [=McBrisk=]'s mouth]].

* AdamAndEvePlot: In "Prehistoric Crumpets", the Crumpets and the [=McBrisks=] survive a meteor crash. Due to the impact site's magnetic ray repelling the rescuers, the rest of the episode treats the cast as sole survivors of the incident, the family splitting to pro-nature or pro-rebuilding camps led by Pa or Ma respectively, and the [=McBrisks=] and Pfff hiding in an underground shelter and proposing to reproduce to save the population. The episode even references the Biblical story, as the family witnesses an instantly grown forest, Pa and Ditzy hold apples, and the former calls the site a Garden of Eden.

* AIIsACrapshoot: In "Cheep Shot", the intruder identification component of Ma's greenhouse defense system detects Pa because his crouch position looks like a cooked poultry (the system may as well detect any kind ''and'' form of bird), but it didn't shoot him. [[spoiler:He returns to the greenhouse one night and the system identifies him as an intruder, leading to his stranding and surrender. The other family members become trapped with Pa once they found him. The system identifies Steve as a flamingo and tries to shoot him. In the end, the wounded bird flies in front of the Crumpets, and it seems the family's doomed.]]
** In "Mum's Double", Ma builds a robot clone of herself that likes to play cymbals rather than being a reliable substitute, which also creates a robot clone of her husband.

* AnthropomorphicFood: In "Octosquito", the beer yeast syrup brew Pa gives to the sick, big tongued Crumpet children transforms their heads into the Crumpet ''food''. One of Ma's machines revert them to normal and extract the crumpets for food, although Bother was already bitten in the head by José and keeps this wound after returning to normal.

* AshesToCrashes: In "Murder Everywhere", the ashes of Rudy Swan are missing from his urn. [[spoiler:Ditzy found the urn in a cupboard and poured the ashes to a sugar container by mistake, leading to the hallucinations of the others. But when the winner of the auction for the urn arrives, Granny burns the inflatable "Jolly John" to ashes and pours the remains to the urn in addition to Rudy's glasses.]]

** In "Granny Strip", Granny also ends up having a bear trap clung to her head by accident in the ending.

* {{BFG}}: In "My Family's Full of Losers", Ohoh uses a machine gun to shoot [[spoiler:and seemingly kill his siblings in the darkness in a game show round. He fails to eliminate one, although he injured Pfff]]. When Ohoh is declared winner, he says the gun is the winner.

* {{Bizzarchitecture}}: The Crumpets' house. An odd towering structure with disjointed roofs, a variety of windows, a network of balconies, and a giant windmill.

* BookEnds: In the beginning and ending of "My Family's Full of Losers", [[spoiler:Li'l One looks at his parents together in their bed and whines, calling it "horrible". First, through their bedroom door's keyhole, and last, through a scope when he's on the moon.]]

* BleakAbyssRetirementHome: In "Shake It Up", Ma and Pa refuses to bring Granny to a retiree resort or home. Ma tells L'il-One that going to a retirement home is like going to a scrapyard.

* ABloodyMess: Blister drops a bucket of red paint to L'il-One during the horror movie showing in "Hairifying".

** In "Li'l Wonder", there's brief sequence with Li'l-One's siblings as bowling pins with heads that get bowled over by his head when he believes that his [[HappyFunBall magic tablet]] can eliminate them.

* ClownCarBase: As most of the Crumpet family take protection from the falling meteor in "Prehistoric Crumpets", they cram to T-Bone's doghouse. It only lasted about two seconds, leaving the crowd piled below the lifted doghouse just before impact.

** In "Family Secrets", Pa and Ms. [=McBrisk=] are putting wallpaper on the latter's house exterior, looking like its plant overgrown state at the end of "Taxidermama".

* ConveyorBeltODoom: In "Dried Water", Uncle Hurry, Aunt Harried, Granny, and L'il-One fall to the dehydrated water tank where they sink to the packaging process at the bottom and are sealed in the small dehydrated water packs adorning art of their heads in the packaging.
* CoolAirship: Caprice's fans dispatch a blimp decorated after her, and it rescues their idol from her final suicide attempt in "Going Viral".

* CountingToThree: Although she can count to ten to pressure her daughter to return home, Ms. [=McBrisk=]'s punishment to Cassandra for her relationship with Pfff in "No Pffuture" is offered by a count to three (including 2.8 and 2.9). [[spoiler:At three, she can't force Cassandra to her bedroom because the tangled red thread had split their house in two.]]
* CourtroomEpisode: "Belief Relief" and "The Divorce" have court scenes.

* DivingSave: Ma does this to Granny in "Taxidermama" when the latter was on the way of Fynartz riding the lawnmower towards [[spoiler:the stacks of his paintings]].

* DivorceIsTemporary: In "The Divorce", Hurry is kicked out by his wife because the former had overspent. In the court, once Ms. [=McBrisk=] the judge points out that Hurry and Harried are being "horrible" in their arguments against the other, the two reconcile and become a couple again. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the wedding ring is with T-Bone.]]

* EekAMouse: Caprice freakishly reacts that there's mice in "Ghost In The Attic" where it's actually the twins sneaking between her legs. Inverted later in that episode when she looks at an actual captive mouse prior to the voodoo ceremony and finds it cute.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Pink penguins exist, such as the ones Grownboy owns or the ones rescued from a zoo in "Road Stories".

* FictionalVideoGame: Granny's computer games.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Granny is about to babysit Renato in "Croco-Deal", she dreams of cutting and selling or processing parts of the crocodile into clothing and accessories so she can get rich. [[spoiler: Ma skins Renato into the clothes she wears in the episode's ending.]]

* GatlingGood: The greenhouse defense system in "Cheep Shot" uses a gatling cannon to kill intrusive birds. [[spoiler:The automatic detection system threatens and strands Pa and the family in the greenhouse, and the arrival of the wounded bird in the end might have exterminated everyone.]]

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Ma's duplicating machine in "Taxidermama" malfunctions as a result of T-Bone stealing the power cord. It distorts its output rather than merely cloning them. She grows her worthlessness as she can't figure out how to make it function normal.
** In "Hairifying", the power outage triggered by the twins occurs during Caprice's turn in Ma's wax machine. Caprice, and later the girls after her, leave the machine with longer body hair, and the former looks at a mirror to her horror.

** "Inside Li'l One's Brain":

* HollywoodExorcism: In "Hairifying", the twins give Ohoh a green tablet that's supposed to cure his "night terrors". But the latter's mouth gets green foam, bubbles, and vomit coming out, and Triceps does an unsuccessful attempt to free him from a demon she suspects is in him. L'il-One would summon Ms. [=McBrisk=] to perform the exorcist ritual and give Ohoh a green substance that stops his condition. Unfortunately, said substance (in the form of a green-colored odor) turns girls and women into zombies.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Caprice, Granny, and L'il-One participate in their own voodoo ceremony one night in "Ghost In The Attic", where they destroy dozens of {{Voodoo Doll}}s, and allegedly hear voices which in reality come from Ma and Pa making out and Ms. [=McBrisk=] complaining.
* HumongousMecha: It's revealed in "Pong! The Menace" that with the press of a button in the secret security room, the Crumpet house can transform to a giant robot. Dwarfing Ma's vehicular robot, the house robot is controlled by Granny by using a video game controller, and the transmitted voice she gives out comes with an added evil deep voice effect. She would fight the other robot controlled by Pfff as he tries to rescue his worm friend.

* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: In "Octosquito", Pa admits that his beer yeast syrup tastes like rotting rubber, but praises it for being natural, containing no negative side effects, and not produced by a big-name pharmaceutical company. [[InstantlyProvenWrong He's immediately proven wrong on the side effects by his kids' heads turning to literal crumpets.]]

* IncrediblyLameFun: As true to the title of "Sticks Stink", the Crumpets create a set of mikado sticks as their birthday present to Li'l One. In the ending, when Pa is starting to play them, no one joins him outside.

* InstantWebHit: In "[=CrumStep=]", the video of the dance concert Caprice shares becomes extremely popular, and the episode's second half deals with L'il-One's and Granny's new fame and the business Caprice has to manage and host. The siblings adore the famous duo so much they have to be separated from them and clamor even the filthiest objects they interacted.
** Caprice's shocking social media picture postings in "A Grave Affair" grant her thousands of likes, even if she began from having no likes at the start of the episode.
* InternalReveal: At the end of "A Grave Affair", the picture of Pa and the nondead Granny, taken with Caprice's phone and uploaded by her father, turns the social media against Caprice and calls her the "biggest liar on the web", despite that she didn't have knowledge of Granny being alive all the time. Caprice did stage the other shocking pictures she shared, on the other hand.
* InterruptedSuicide: In "Going Viral", Caprice tries to [[BuriedAlive bury herself alive]] in a dug plot with the help of T-Bone the dog, but a fan-dispatched blimp that looks like her drops a hook-attached rope that she grabs and lifts.
* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: In "Addicted", the anti-addiction remedy placed for sale by Granny is immediately discovered by Ms. [=McBrisk=] online, who sees it as a cure for her allergy.

* ItsQuietTooQuiet: In "Amnesia", King looks around a hallway and notices the quietness just before his siblings start chasing him.

* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: Although most of his sons are permitted, Pa refuses to let L'il-One watch ''Werezombies and Chainsaws'', and he throws him to his crib in "Hairifying". L'il-One secretly watches the movie from a plant pot and is bothered by the movie's scary content. Ohoh, who sits at the front, does too, obviously.

* LastDisrespects: When the not-quite-dead Granny is buried and surrounded by her family in "A Grave Affair", Caprice exclaims that Granny's post-mortem picture earned 12,500 likes, and apologizes.

* LieDetector: Ma builds one in "Ransoming Dad" for the family to find out who snatched Pa.

** In "Ghost In The Attic", Granny names the people who are represented by the voodoo dolls she pulls from the bag. Some of these names return in "Granny's Twin Sister" when she recounts the past boyfriends she plans to forgive on the internet.

* LovePotion: In "Ghost In The Attic", a supposed one is partially made from L'il-One's urinal waste. The twins steals it and applies it to [[spoiler:Ms. [=McBrisk=]'s mouth]].
* LoveTriangle: In "The Courting Of Ms. [=McBrisk=]", Cassandra has a developed romantic relationship with Marylin even though her friend Caprice deeply admires him, and upon Caprice's discovery, the two fall to a fight. It's resolved in the episode's end as Cassandra allows a fainted Caprice to replace her for Marylin.
** Cassandra's rivalry with the weather girl(s) over Pfff, notably in "Super Pfff" and "Pity The Prize". The story for the former keeps changing which girl is inevitable, but at the end [[spoiler:the car-trapped weather girl stays near him]].

* MadeInChina: In "Pong! The Menace", Li'l-One says the trope name once he gets interested in the electronic tablet he finds on TV, and Granny says to mention the reward to Li'l-One if he delivers the fake pink diamond to Pong. [[spoiler:After Pong rewards him the tablet, the display scrambles as Li'l-One is using it, and Caprice remarks "made in China".]]
* MagicalDefibrillator: Ms. [=McBrisk=] rips the wire of a toaster and shocks an unconscious bird to get its heart beating in "Cheep Shot".
* MagnificentMoustachesOfMexico: The twins wear fake ones whenever they wear stereotypical Mexican accessories such as a sombrero. Li'l One does this too in "Gambled Gables" when they sabotage the machines in their uncle-controlled house.

* MegaCorp: Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harried appear to operate one according to their multiple businesses, under the emblem of a snake dollar sign. One of their biggest restraints to society is their theft of the world's water and selling the (largely) useless "dried water" powder rather than the liquid.
* MementoMacguffin: The Kun Yun Yun, a pink diamond with a worm sealed inside, in "Pong! The Menace!". Granny stole it from Pong as a consequence of his relationship with another woman, and it reminds her of their working romantic relationship. Before revealing that truth, she lied to her family that she gambled it away in Monte Carlo in 1969. Under the command of his mother, Pa creates a replica of the diamond through sculpting clay and inserting Pfff's worm via a straw so Pong can get fooled in having the diamond back. The replica doesn't hold up due to the worm eating it out, and [[spoiler:the real diamond is successfully delivered to Pong at the end]].
* MirandaRights: Caprice raises them when she catches L'il-One and Granny for the forged ransom note. L'il-One doesn't remain silent and responds that she can't arrest anyone.
* MisplacedWildlife: Lampshaded in "Disassister" as once [[spoiler:the plane-piloting King]] rescues Grownboy's animals from being transported to a lab, he desires having the pink penguins move to Africa. However, [[spoiler:the plane crashes just outside his house]].

* MixAndMatchCritters: José the octopus in "Octosquito" fuses with a mosquito in one of Ma's machines into the titular creature.

* MonumentalTheft: Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harried in "Dried Water" steals the world's water supply (including the oceans) so they can sell (except that it's in "dried" form) and monopolize it.
* MovingBuildings: In "No Pffuture", Pfff's unraveled red thread is all over the Crumpet and [=McBrisks=] houses, and the thread's external forces causes the structures to move closer.

* MusicalEpisode: "[=CrumStep=]", "Gambled Gables", "Crumpity Pity", "Drive Away", "Prehistoric Crumpets", "The Divorce", and "Sound The Alarm" contain songs sung by some of the cast.
* {{Mutants}}: The leeks exposed to the radiation in "Acne Dents Happen".

* NatureIsBoring: In "Li'l One All Alone", the whole family except Li'l-One and Granny go on to explore the woods not too far from home. Pa leads a trip to seek an underground multi-tentacle mushroom known as manolita, and making mundane facts and appreciations of nature at the search. After finding manolita's extensions above the ground, they have Triceps cut the trees in order to benefit the mushroom. The wait becomes unexciting to the children, and by [[spoiler:Li'l-One's arrival]], they start to walk home before Triceps reveals that manolita is a [[spoiler:mustached mushroom, and they're still greatly unimpressed]].

* NightmareSequence: In "Sticks Stink", when L'il-One sleeps in King's bed, he dreams of an African landscape hit by falling bombs followed by skeletal ghosts that look like King rising up in a red sky.

* NostalgicMusicbox: In "Family Secrets", the letter from the dug music box [[spoiler:is an old gift to Granny by Ma's grandfather, her "first loverboy"]].

* OnTheMoney: In "Ransoming Dad", Granny wins a ticket to a poker cruise ship, but she lacks the money for the trip.

* OurGnomesAreWeirder: Ms. [=McBrisk=]'s garden gnome "Sneezy" in "The Mix-Up" is an ornament who gives an eerie stare and holds an axe. Concerned with her mother's obsession with the gnome, Cassandra hides it, and bags and delivers it to Caprice for it to remain hidden. After Caprice looks at it and is bothered, few family members found use of the gnome, but when she finds Pa using it as a juicer, she jumps on the gnome she loathes and damages the hat. "Sneezy" [[spoiler:unintentionally take part of the reverse body swap, resulting in T-Bone staring like the gnome, and it's revealed that "Sneezy" has an evil mind when speaking from T-Bone's body to Caprice, and the T-Bone-minded ornament killed birds near [=McBrisk=]]].

* PlotAllergy: In "Addicted", Ms. [=McBrisk=] alleges that she's allergic to the Crumpets or dust mites now that zits are all over her head. She buys what's actually Pa's anti-addiction solution from Granny through the internet and her zits disappear for a while, and becomes addicted to it once she buys more. After realizing that Granny scammed her and that the solution doesn't treat allergies for the long term, [[spoiler:this condition is left untreated by the episode's end.]]
* PoolEpisode: "Dried Water", which takes place during a global shortage of water.
* PopulationControl: In "Family Be Gone!", a disgruntled Ms. [=McBrisk=] finds a Hurry and Harried population redistribution program known as PERP, which she and Li'l-One agree to exploit to get rid of the Crumpet family. [[spoiler:Ultimately, it's hardly terrible to the Crumpet family than what was expected.]]

* PrankCall: In "The Divorce", the first phone call to Ms. [=McBrisk=]'s new business is a prank from Bother and Blister. Bother tells her that he is lost at a stormy sea, his belongings are gone, and claims to be drowning before the call ends, leaving [=McBrisk=] guilty.

** The ''Once Upon A Time In The Van'' show is featured in "Road Stories" to broadcast Granny and Caprice's world road adventure, even when they unsuspect that the trip is actually a hoax.

* TheRemake: In-universe in "Hairifying". Granny films the hairy zombie Crumpet girls as if it's her remake of ''Werezombies and Chainsaws''. The twins hook her Ditzy-held camera to the TV so her version can be viewed live by the male Crumpets who intend to watch the original movie.

* RiseOfZitboy: The main plot in "Acne Dents Happen" is about Cordless trying to cure his zits with the radioactive acne treatment cream given by his parents to experiment.
* RoadTripPlot: Subverted and parodied in "Road Stories", which is about Granny and Caprice faking their trip across the world for the "Once Upon A Time In The Van" reality TV show, although they departed from the house as if they're going to an actual road trip.

* ScamReligion: In "Belief Relief", Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harried opens their "Paymeism" religion to the Crumpets, where [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin payments]] are exchanged for teachings, books, and "blessings" such as mobile phones and falsely cured leeks; the uncle proclaims to be divine, threatens that nonbelievers will perish, and wants [[NoQuestionsAsked "no crazy questions"]]. Due to Pa being the brother of "God", Uncle Hurry forces Pa to avoid marrying any "infidels", leaving him an option to divorce the irreligious Ma.

* SilenceYouFool: Ma quiets all the children who want her attention at a time in "No Pffuture".

* SomethingWeForgot: The family outing in "Li'l One All Alone" realizes that somebody was forgotten in two occasions. T-Bone responded and joined them in the first one, and Ma realizes that Li'l One isn't with them after thinking it's too quiet. Ma rushes back to the house [[spoiler:while Li'l-One and Granny drive the opposite direction]].
* SoundEffectBleep: The SceneTransition heads imitate one to [[CurseCutShort censor Caprice's insult]] at Pfff in "Gentlemanly Modified Organism".

* SpotTheImposter: In "Mum's Double", after the kids encounter two Ma's, Triceps holds a contest where they can prove to be the real Ma. Robot Ma appears to have beaten real Ma when it shoots pies and muffins at the kids' mouth. When it's her turn, real Ma presents her [[ChekhovsGun blender]] which doesn't excite her kids. After its liquid output gets rejected by the kids, she wins by splashing it to robot Ma, which would malfunction and turn [[CrushKillDestroy hostile at them]].

* SurpriseCarCrash: In "Lil Winkly One", L'il One calls and discusses the driving Uncle Hurry about the latter's reduced share of inheritance from Granny during her alleged pregnancy. The uncle [[BrakeAngrily brakes at displeasure]], and a freight truck rear-end collides and lands on the car upside-down. Hurry and Harried would call Granny immediately without signs of harm.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: In "My Family's Full of Losers", all families wanting to join the GameShow are surveilled by flying cameras. L'il-One suddenly finds one inside the house as Aunt Harried announces the Crumpets' entry and as the house's windows are shutting.

** Ma briefly does this for a non-sexual purpose in "Octosquito" when her machine produces a domed suit with a fishbowl and her dress input.

* TalkingAnimal: In "Inside Li'l One's Brain", when Ma tries to save Pa from the episode's namesake, she retrieves an imaginary pig who talks eerily and disappears.

* ToiletHumour: A recurring element in the show. Moments include T-Bone the dog farting bubblegum bubbles, flatulence required to reverse bloating caused by a certain chocolate, Ma getting thrown to a pile of manure, and Li'l One wetting himself.

* UnfortunateItemSwap: In "Pong! The Menace!", after Granny receives the fake pink diamond from Li'l-One and removes the real one from a vault, she juggles them before giving the supposed fake one to her grandson that he can deliver to Pong. She realizes that the fake one is with her when Pfff's worm inside it was eating the diamond-shaped material like an apple, and she throws and shatters the fake diamond, the worm surviving. This begins her pursuit on Li'l-One to get back the real diamond.
* UrbanSegregation: In "Gambled Gables", Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harried transform the neighborhood overnight into a massive series of roads and bridges leading to a busy fast food drive thru that was the old Crumpet house, and a barrier is also erected. The shanty house where most of the Crumpets reside becomes the recipient of automobile air pollution.

* {{Whodunnit}}: Caprice's birthday party game in "Murder Everywhere" was supposed to give a random player a murder contract to kill Pa's character, and the others must investigate and arrest that player. Instead, Lil-One violates the rules, "joins" the game and acts to be Pa's "killer" against Caprice's will before running away, and all the players' cards are copies of the murder contract. She concentrates finding the one who ruined the card printing while being stuck in the giant gelatin dessert.
* WidgetSeries: A Weird Thing from France example. The show is filled with a strange yet adorable substitute for actual humans, a massive family, peculiar stories, a dress tummy hatch, a balloon-head girl, and a grandmother with a giant WindupKey.
* WildTeenParty: There's one in "The Mix-Up" themed on socks and held in the [=McBrisk=] house while Ms. [=McBrisk=] and T-Bone's bodies are still swapped.

Despite the somewhat innocent adaptation source, colorful visuals, adorable characters, and being broadcast in children's programming, the show contains a hefty amount of inappropriate material to kids such as sexual themes, suicidal behavior, animal cruelty, and rare gruesome violence.

** "Girls On Holiday": [[spoiler:Cassandra departs on her own vacation with Pfff and Pa drives the two, but Caprice doesn't go with them. Caprice however goes to a different trip to cheer up Ms. [=McBrisk=] and they ride on a flamingo.]]

* BloodlessCarnage: Blood isn't shown in acts of violence, except in "Octosquito" when [[spoiler:José dies]]. This doesn't count the instances of fake blood (immediately below).

* CartoonCreature: The people in the show are primarily differentiated from real humans by their squeaky oval-shaped pink or blue noses (also shared with certain creatures in the show), a philtrum line from nose to mouth, and pale skin (darker skin rarely appears). To the face, it's a bit reminiscent to certain mammals such as rabbits, otters, or weasels. The episode "Hairifying" shows that they naturally have as much hair as humans do. Their three-toe feet, more unusually, are either sloped and stubby (Li'l-One, King, Ma, and "Acne Dents Happen" Pa) or like that of real humans (most other characters, and perhaps erroneously to "Prehistoric Crumpets" Pa). Most characters don't have visible ear structures, but others like Bother, Ohoh, and King have transparent swirl-like ears, that when viewing the former two's paper cutouts they appear to be cartoon human ears. And the word "human" is used, and Ms. [=McBrisk=] mentions "paws" near the end of "Supernawak".
* ChainedToARailway: Parodied in "Going Viral", as a suicidal Caprice brings and lays on a railway track piece as long as her height. Unfortunately for her, the track's detachment means no train will arrive to kill her.

** In "Pity The Prize", when Ma is about to throw [[spoiler:the Weather Girl, and Pa by accident,]] to the moon, she unforgivably bids goodbye and also wishes to know if the moon's made of cheese.

* DescentIntoAddiction: The primary conflict in "Addicted". Pa gives his mother a greenhouse gas remedy to cure her worsening gambling and onion crisp addiction, but Granny doesn't use it, sells the gas to Ms. [=McBrisk=], lies to her family that she took it, demands more and sells them to the neighbor, and preserves her addiction. Not only [=McBrisk=] becomes addicted to this temporary cure for her allergies, [[spoiler:the Crumpet children also jump the bandwagon and develop addiction, and they destroy the machine producing the substance, act like zombies to their parents, and seize [=McBrisk=]'s supply. After that, the children immediately got over their addictions to the gas.]]

* ParodyNames: In "Crumpity Pity", Cassandra assumes at her mother if she missed an episode of ''[[{{Series/Eastenders}} Eastvenders]]''.

* StripPoker: Granny and Magic Marvin play a game of strip poker in "Granny Strip".

The show's first season closely highlights several family members, but the actual central characters are the youngest child Li'l One and the family's gambling matriarch Granny. Ma is an inventor and Pa is a gardener, and they adore each other. Their other children include the tall and sleepy Pfff, the gothic bipolar Caprice, the physically strong Triceps, the head-losing thinker Ditzy, the eccentric artist Fynartz, the mischievous twins Bother and Blister, the scaredy cat Ohoh, and the lion costumed King. The Crumpets' irritable neighbor is Ms. [=McBrisk=], who lives with her beautiful daughter Cassandra. Pa's rich fleecing brother is Uncle Hurry, whose wife is Aunt Harried and their adopted nerd son is Cordless.

''The Crumpets'' originally consists of 52 episodes. On 2015-2018, 52 more episodes that are also known as ''Teen Crumpets'' debuted, because [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm feedback]] for the first season summarizes that the teens and tweens are the show's most popular characters. In April 2018, ''Teen Crumpets'' won the "12+" category award in that year's Cartoons On The Bay in Italy, and the show's [[https://www.facebook.com/pff.crumpet behind-the-scenes Facebook profile]] hinted more episodes to come. A jury prize award was also earned by ''Teen Crumpets'' in a Georgian animation festival in October 2018.

* ArtImitatesArt: There is a [[http://eleonore-mantelle.com/?page_id=268 parody]] of the Girl with a Pearl Earring in one background for the show. It's not seen in season 1.

* GroupHug: Some main characters in addition to Bother and Blister hug each in a promotional image for "Teen Crumpets".

* HandOrObjectUnderwear: L'il One does this by hand or object. He uses one of the floating "LIKE" messages when he loses his diaper in "Going Viral".

* MagnificentMoustachesOfMexico: The twins wear fake ones whenever they wear stereotypical Mexican accessories such as a sombrero, as well as L'il-One in "Gambled Gables" when they sabotage the machines in their uncle-controlled house.

* MatterReplicator: Ma builds one in "Taxidermama", which malfunctions in most of the episode thanks to T-Bone stealing a power cord from it.

* NakedpeopleAreFunny: Nude characters typically appear for comedic situations, such as L'il-One losing his nappy and one of the crowds in the ending of "Save Granny".

* {{Pilot}}: There was one from 2007 centering on Li'l One's birthday,

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: While the show is of French origin, the roads are of right hand traffic, and the ending of "Going Viral" shows that [[spoiler:L'il-One flies out of France as seen from space]], ScotlandYard is mentioned as a legitimate authority in "Ransoming Dad", the quid is mentioned at times (despite the euro also appearing elsewhere), and all characters in the first season dub have British accents.

* AdoptionDiss: In "Green Pastures", Hurry and Harried despises Cordless upon comparing him with the kids in the ''Gloser'' magazine and finding him ineffective to their business. They look at adopting a better looking child, and treats their [[TheRunaway runaway]] niece Caprice as one until the discovery of their unauthorized appearance in the fashion magazine that led the couple reconsider and kick their spoiled niece out the house. [[spoier:However, Cordless abandons Hurry and Harried to live with the Crumpets, and that couple wants him or Caprice back, but Pa lies to them that they're not in his proximity.]]

The show's first season closely highlights several family members, but the actual central characters are the youngest child Li'l One and the family's gambling matriarch Granny. Ma is an inventor and Pa is a gardener, and they adore each other. Their other children include the tall and sleepy Pfff, the gothic bipolar Caprice, the physically strong Triceps, the head-losing thinker Ditzy, the eccentric artist Fynartz, the mischievous twins Bother and Blister, the scaredy cat Ohoh, and the lion costumed King. The Crumpets' irritable neighbor is Ms. [=McBrisk=], who lives with her beautiful daughter Cassandra. Pa's rich fleecing brother is Uncle Hurried, whose wife is Aunt Harried and their adopted nerd son is Cordless.

* AdoptionDiss: In "Green Pastures", Hurried and Harried despises Cordless upon comparing him with the kids in the ''Gloser'' magazine and finding him ineffective to their business. They look at adopting a better looking child, and treats their [[TheRunaway runaway]] niece Caprice as one until the discovery of their unauthorized appearance in the fashion magazine that led the couple reconsider and kick their spoiled niece out the house. However, Cordless abandons Hurried and Harried to live with the Crumpets, and that couple wants him or Caprice back, but Pa lies to them that they're not in his proximity.

* AttackAnimal: Ironically for a girl who hates animals, Caprice commands a small flock of birds to attack the Hurried plane lifting the animal cage in "Disassister".

* BigFancyHouse: Hurried and Harried's residence is one big mansion.

** "Gambled Gables": [[spoiler:The Crumpets reclaimed their house from Hurried and Harried, but a falling bomb causes the family to evacuate and the explosion destroying the house.]]

** "Acne Dents Happen": [[spoiler:The radioactive acne cream and the power generator destroys the Crumpet house. Uncle Hurried's plot to have Cordless test the cream in that house succeeds. Cordless though gets cured of his zits.]]

** "The Divorce": [[spoiler:Hurried and Harried are reconciled, but the wedding ring is missing because T-Bone took it after it was thrown.]]

* ContinuityNod: In "My Family's Full of Losers", a commercial for the radioactive acne cream featuring Cordless is broadcast in one of the game show's breaks. Another commercial promotes Hurried and Harried's [[ScamReligion Paymeism]].

* ConveyorBeltODoom: In "Dried Water", Uncle Hurried, Aunt Harried, Granny, and L'il-One fall to the dehydrated water tank where they sink to the packaging process at the bottom and are sealed in the small dehydrated water packs adorning art of their heads in the packaging.

* DatingServiceDisaster: In "The Courting Of Ms. [=McBrisk=]", Cordless tries to captivate the episode's namesake by utilizing a standing cutout model of an actor in his dating alias "Furious Bull". After buying and delivering gifts to her home, she wants to meet him in person, which makes Cordless reluctant to meet her again (When they met, [=McBrisk=] was angry at him). Following a failed physical meeting, he promises to see her again, but afterwards Granny and the kids hijacks his side of the chat and delivers some bothersome messages to [=McBrisk=]. The cutout is displayed in the window to lure [=McBrisk=], but once she gets to the room she chokes the handsomely-dressed Cordless regarding where "Furious Bull" is. Granny takes the cutout to Hurried and Harried's helicopter, and by its departure, [=McBrisk=] continues to believe it's a real person.

* DivorceIsTemporary: In "The Divorce", Hurried is kicked out by his wife because the former had overspent. In the court, once Ms. [=McBrisk=] the judge points out that Hurried and Harried are being "horrible" in their arguments against the other, the two reconcile and become a couple again. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the wedding ring is with T-Bone.]]

* TheEndIsNigh: Uncle Hurried warns that the end of the world is nigh when he delivers a reason for the Crumpets to convert to his [[ScamReligion Paymeism]] religion in "Belief Relief".

* FantasticDrug: In "Octosquito", Uncle Hurried gives the family drugs for their containment against José. When L'il-One tries one, he instantly grows big whiskers like Pa's. Another one of those drugs cause the children to have huge tongues.

* FunnyOctopus: Grownboy's pet José in "Octosquito", who fuses with a mosquito in a machine and creates trouble by shooting ink at the Crumpets. There's also another octopus owned by Grownboy in "Disassister" that lands on and splats ink on Hurried and Harried's plane windshield.

* GameShow: The namesake one in "My Family's Full of Losers" is an Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried hosted game show that promises participant families to kick out and send their members to the moon to become "nobodies".

* HelicopterBlender: In "Octosquito", [[spoiler:Granny throws José to Uncle Hurried's helicopter and the creature gets killed by this]].

** The Spanish sardine fan/twirly twirlita and octopus pictures seen during the bait designing in "Octosquito", the fish in Ditzy's bedroom wallpaper, the "real" humans in Triceps' wallpaper, the class picture background in "The Courting Of Ms. [=McBrisk=]", the objects in a Hurried shot in "Belief Relief", the posters in Ma's workshop, and the meteorite's texture in "Prehistoric Crumpets" are also realistic looking.

* MegaCorp: Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried appear to operate one according to their multiple businesses, under the emblem of a snake dollar sign. One of their biggest restraints to society is their theft of the world's water and selling the (largely) useless "dried water" powder rather than the liquid.

* MonumentalTheft: Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried in "Dried Water" steals the world's water supply (including the oceans) so they can sell (except that it's in "dried" form) and monopolize it.

--> "You saw it on Hurried and Harried TV!"

* PopulationControl: In "Family Be Gone!", a disgruntled Ms. [=McBrisk=] finds a Hurried and Harried population redistribution program known as PERP, which she and Li'l-One agree to exploit to get rid of the Crumpet family. [[spoiler:Ultimately, it's hardly terrible to the Crumpet family than what was expected.]]

** Uncle Hurried's helicopter crashing.

* ScamReligion: In "Belief Relief", Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried opens their "Paymeism" religion to the Crumpets, where [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin payments]] are exchanged for teachings, books, and "blessings" such as mobile phones and falsely cured leeks; the uncle proclaims to be divine, threatens that nonbelievers will perish, and wants [[NoQuestionsAsked "no crazy questions"]]. Due to Pa being the brother of "God", Uncle Hurried forces Pa to avoid marrying any "infidels", leaving him an option to divorce the irreligious Ma.

* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: In "My Family's Full of Losers", Uncle Hurried charges television viewers 50 quid per second to any phone call that votes which Crumpet member should lose the game show.

* SplitScreenPhoneCall: This happens in many phone calls, especially between one of the Crumpets and Uncle Hurried, and between Caprice and Cassandra.

* SurpriseCarCrash: In "Lil Winkly One", L'il One calls and discusses the driving Uncle Hurried about the latter's reduced share of inheritance from Granny during her alleged pregnancy. The uncle [[BrakeAngrily brakes at displeasure]], and a freight truck rear-end collides and lands on the car upside-down. Hurried and Harried would call Granny immediately without signs of harm.

* ToylessToylineCharacter: Although no toys for the show were produced for sale, there are printable paper toy cutouts of some characters available, including Marylin and Larry for ''Teen Crumpets''. Unfortunately, it appears that L'il-One, Pa, Caprice, Pfff, Triceps, Ditzy, Fynartz, Cordless, and Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried have none. The Kickstarter for the third season English dub, however, previewed a couple of cutout diagrams that would be given to backers, including those that never got released to the public.

* UrbanSegregation: In "Gambled Gables", Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried transform the neighborhood overnight into a massive series of roads and bridges leading to a busy fast food drive thru that was the old Crumpet house, and a barrier is also erected. The shanty house where most of the Crumpets reside becomes the recipient of automobile air pollution.

* WeddingRingRemoval: Harried removes her tight wedding ring around the time she kicks her husband out their home in "The Divorce". In the Crumpet house, a hopeless Hurried throws it out a window. [[spoiler:T-Bone finds and makes use of it by the time Hurried wants it back.]]

The show's first season closely highlights several family members, but the actual central characters are the youngest child Li'l One and the family's gambling matriarch Granny. Ma is an inventor and Pa is a gardener, and they adore each other. Their other children include the tall and sleepy Pfff, the gothic bipolar Caprice, the physically strong Triceps, the head-losing thinker Ditzy, the eccentric artist Fynartz, the mischievous twins Bother and Blister, the scaredy cat Ohoh, and the lion costumed King. The Crumpets' irritable neighbor is Ms. [=McBrisk=], who lives with her beautiful daughter Cassandra. Pa's rich fleecing brother is Uncle Hurried, whose wife is Aunt Harried and their adopted nerd son is Gorgeous Cordless.

Season One consists of 52 episodes. On 2015-2018, 52 more episodes that are also known as ''Teen Crumpets'' debuted, because [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm feedback]] for the first season summarizes that the teens and tweens are the show's most popular characters. In April 2018, ''Teen Crumpets'' won the "12+" category award in that year's Cartoons On The Bay in Italy, and the show's [[https://www.facebook.com/pff.crumpet behind-the-scenes Facebook profile]] hinted more episodes to come. A jury prize award was also earned by ''Teen Crumpets'' in a Georgian animation festival in October 2018.

The first twenty episodes dubbed in English (plus [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/35740477/the-crumpets-the-animated-series/?ref=kicktraq "The Mix-Up"]]) are officially available for free in [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DR5zFtL-TbGZmIdDsZkww YouTube]]. A trailer and an English dubbed episode (with a presumably different voice cast) of ''Teen Crumpets'' are viewable in the [[http://www.c21media.net/screenings/mediatoon/teen-crumpets/ C21Media website]].

Despite the quite innocent adaptation source, colorful visuals, adorable characters, and being broadcast in children's programming, the show contains a hefty amount of inappropriate material to kids such as sexual themes, suicidal behavior, animal cruelty, and rare gruesome violence.

* AnthropomorphicFood: In "Octosquito", [[spoiler:The beer yeast syrup brew Pa gives to the sick, big tongued Crumpet children transforms their heads into the Crumpet ''food''. One of Ma's machines revert them to normal and extract the crumpets for food, although Bother was already bitten in the head by José and keeps this wound.]]

* ArtShift: The art style for a character changes to a black and white, minimal, and geometric design when they get zapped, though in "Ransoming Dad" [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness it retains color]].

* {{Auction}}: Granny often lists items for online auctions. In "Taxidermama", she places to an eBay-like website hundreds of Fynartz' paintings she stole for her personal benefit. [[spoiler: After Fynartz mows his paintings and modifies the house to look like Ma, Granny changes her listing to the house and the bidding price skyrockets. The listing is thwarted once Ma duplicates the house across the globe, diminishing its value.]]

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: In "My Family's Full of Losers" and "Pity The Prize", this happens to anyone on the moon.

** In "Granny Strip", Granny also ends up having a bear trap clung to her head by accident at the ending.
* {{Beat}}: When Granny complains that finding and forgiving her ex-boyfriends on the internet would drain her laptop's power in "Granny's Twin Sister", a beat occurs when Lil-One gives her the charging cord and when she looks at her observers, until she starts saying the names of the men.

* {{BFG}}: In "My Family's Full of Losers", Ohoh uses a machine gun to shoot [[spoiler:and seemingly kill his siblings in the darkness in a game show round. He fails to eliminate one, including the injured Pfff. When Ohoh is declared winner, he says the gun is the winner.]]

* BigFancyHouse: Hurried and Harried's residence is one.

** Happens again at the beginning of "Li'l One All Alone", also towards an angry Li'l-One by the family/siblings.

** "Shake It Up" has Lil-One and one poor bird getting Fynartz' red paint.

* BolivianArmyEnding: In "Cheep Shot", [[spoiler:the family is about to get shot by the flawed greenhouse defense system's gatling cannon]].

* BrickJoke: In "Acne Dents Happen", Ms. [=McBrisk=] complains without evidence that it's the 327th time Cassandra left the lights on in the house. At the very end, she complains it's the 328th time.

* CallASmeerpARabbit: Grownboy says the word "human" in referring to people (who don't look exactly like real humans) in "Cheep Shot". Caprice also says the word when during a phone call in "Pong! The Menace!"

* CartoonCreature: The people in the show are primarily differentiated from real humans by their squeaky oval-shaped pink or blue noses (also shared with certain creatures), a philtrum line from nose to mouth, and pale skin (darker skin is hinted in "Family Secrets"). To the face, it's reminiscent to certain mammals such as rabbits, otters, or weasels. The episode "Hairifying" shows that they have as much hair as humans do. Their three-toe feet, more unusually, are either sloped and stubby (Li'l-One, King, Ma, and "Acne Dents Happen" Pa) or like that of real humans (most others and perhaps erroneously to "Prehistoric Crumpets" Pa). Most characters don't have visible ear structures, but others like Bother, Ohoh, and King have transparent swirl-like ears, that when viewing the former two's paper cutouts they appear to be cartoon human ears. And the word "human" is used, and Ms. [=McBrisk=] mentions "paws" near the end of "Supernawak".

* ChainsawGood: Chainsaws are a recurring prop and weapon, especially for Granny, such as the one she uses when she tries to kill Renato in "Croco-Deal", and when she punctures Pa in "Murder Everywhere".

* ConcertClimax: A concert with the stage being [[spoiler:on the [=McBrisk=] house lodged between the halves of the Crumpet house]] with Pfff playing the guitar and Cassandra singing occurs in the ending of the SeriesFauxnale "Sound The Alarm". Caprice originally sings but [[spoiler:gets pulled down by Cassandra from the roof to the interior of the [=McBrisk=] house with Ms. [=McBrisk=], because Caprice betrayed Cassandra by lying to Pfff that she wrote Cassandra's poem and rehearsed it so she can entice Marylin, rather than having the poem going only for Pfff.]]

* CountingToThree: Although she's more likely to count to ten to pressure her daughter to return home, Ms. [=McBrisk=]'s punishment to Cassandra for her relationship with Pfff in "No Pffuture" is offered by a count to three (including 2.8 and 2.9). [[spoiler:At three, she can't force Cassandra to her bedroom because the tangled red thread had split their house in two.]]
* CringeComedy: A common element in the show's humor.
* CrushKillDestroy: In "Mum's Double", Ma splashes a liquid at her robot clone to prove her children who's the real Ma. In response to its own malfunction, the robot shifts to "Destroy and Murder Mode" and shoots metal nuts, but [[spoiler:robot clone Pa switches the robot off]] before it could whack Ma with her blender.

* DatingServiceDisaster: In "The Courting Of Ms. [=McBrisk=]", Cordless tries to captivate the episode's namesake by utilizing a standing cutout model of an actor in his dating alias "Furious Bull". After buying and delivering gifts to her home, she wants to meet him in person, which makes Cordless reluctant to meet her again. Following a failed physical meeting, he promises to see her again, but afterwards Granny and the kids hijacks his side of the chat and delivers some bothersome messages. The cutout is displayed in the window to lure [=McBrisk=], but she chokes the handsomely-dressed Cordless regarding where "Furious Bull" is. Granny takes the cutout to Hurried and Harried's helicopter and by its departure [=McBrisk=] continues to believe he's a real person.

* DescentIntoAddiction: The primary conflict in "Addicted". Pa gives his mother a greenhouse gas remedy to cure her worsening gambling and onion crisp addiction, but Granny doesn't use it, sells the gas to Ms. [=McBrisk=], lies to her family that she took it, demands more and sells them to the neighbor, and resumes her addiction. Not only [=McBrisk=] becomes addicted to this temporary cure for her allergies, the Crumpet children also jump the bandwagon and develop addiction, and they [[spoiler:destroy the machine producing the substance, act like zombies to their parents, and seize [=McBrisk=]'s supply. After that, the children immediately got over their addictions to the gas.]]

* DivingSave: Ma does this to Granny in "Taxidermama" when the latter was on the way of Fynartz riding the lawnmower [[spoiler:towards the stacks of his paintings]].

* DrivingStick: As the DrivingTest in "Drive Away" is about to begin, Pa tells Pfff that real driving involves with a shift stick, not a video game.

* EatingTheEnemy: In "Octosquito", Granny's avatar does this to defeat José the octosquito in a simulated fight.

* TheEndOrIsIt: In "Hairifying", [[spoiler:Ms. [=McBrisk=] is still a zombie after the others are cured of the condition]].

* EyesAreUnbreakable: The shattered animals in "Drive Away" have their eyes living and intact. [[spoiler:It turns out at the ending that they died.]]
* FacelessMasses: Most Crumpet children are background, completely red haired people of identical simple or massed clothing, different hair styles, and other features. They're usually behind the main characters and are absent in some family gatherings.

* FatalFireworks: In the end of "Ghost In The Attic", [[spoiler:Caprice, Granny, and Bother and Blister are perished by the latter two's fireworks, a while after the first batch blew up and [[AshFace ashed]] the women.]]

* FoodFight: One started by Li'l-One happens between him and his siblings in "Man Up!".

* FurryReminder: Although the characters may not have fur according to "Hairifying", the Crumpets' similarity to rabbits (at least to their faces) makes sense for their huge number of children.

** In "Octosquito", Grownboy's octopus pet José fuses with a mosquito in one of Ma's machines, and he brings havoc to the Crumpet house.

** In the end of "Save Granny", L'il One uses a small piece of toilet paper, and Pfff uses his hands due to the theft of his underwear by L'il One.

* HappyFunBall: Subverted in "Li'l Wonder". Bother gives Li'l-One a drawing tablet and have him showcase that it's a "magic tablet" when Li'l-One draws him and Blister (who suddenly arrives just after Li'l-One's drawing of her began). The twins help (or fool) their youngest brother by doing tricks that would make the tablet appear to work by luring Granny with cash once Li'l-One draws her. Granny steals it by providing its "receipt", (actually a casino checkout repeats Granny uses as a ticket to acquire anything she wishes), but she makes a deal with Li'l-One to share the tablet. Granny and Li'l-One would then dress like [[FortuneTeller Fortune Tellers]], run a fortune telling service outside the house, and use the drawing tablet to force most other children out the house. Although Blister warned them that the family and house can banish with "one wrong swipe", Li'l-One scribbles his drawing of Pa when he returns home and Pa doesn't get eliminated. Therefore Li'l-One loses trust of Granny, who told him that Pa will end up lost and eaten by rabbits.

* ImmoralRealityShow: The titular game show in "My Family's Full of losers" pits a family to a slap fight, one member can [[spoiler:gun down others]], and losers are kicked out to the moon.

* KillerRabbit: Subverted in "Li'l Wonder". Trying to continue the trend of eliminating family members, Granny lies to Li'l-One that Pa is kidnapped by rabbits in the forest. Pa and Ma return home safely as Li'l-One thought his father was in the "bunny's tummy".

** The Spanish sardine fan/twirly twirlita and octopus pictures seen during the bait designing in "Octosquito", the fish in Ditzy's bedroom wallpaper, the "real" humans in Triceps' wallpaper, the class picture background in "The Courting Of Ms. [=McBrisk=]", the objects in a Hurried shot in "Belief Relief", and the meteorite's texture in "Prehistoric Crumpets" are also realistic looking.
** In "Octosquito", the [[spoiler:[[AnthropomorphicFood heads of the Crumpet children that in the form of the crumpet food]] are based on real pictures of the food.]]

* MudWrestling: Between Caprice and Cassandra over getting Marylin's love in "The Courting Of Ms. [=McBrisk=]".

* NakedpeopleAreFunny: Nude characters typically appear for comedic situations, such as L'il-One losing his nappy.

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Renato in "Croco-Deal" is the beloved pet of Grownboy who gets Granny to babysit due to an ultimatum between Renato and his best friend Steve. [[spoiler:After Renato jumps to Ma's tummy hatch, she kills him off screen and wears his crocodile skin and body parts.]]

* NostalgicMusicbox: In "Family Secrets", the dug music box and attached letter [[spoiler:is an old gift to Granny by Ma's father (or grandfather), her "first loverboy"]].

* NumberOfTheBeast: During the first TV show broadcast of the hoax journey in "Road Stories", the fake desert background has a highway sign numbered 666.

* OurGnomesAreWeirder: Ms. [=McBrisk=]'s garden gnome "Sneezy" in "The Mix-Up" is an ornament who gives an eerie stare and holds an axe. Concerned with her mother's obsession with the gnome, Cassandra hides it, and bags and delivers it to Caprice for it to remain hidden. After Caprice looks at it and is bothered, few family members found use of the gnome, but when she finds Pa using it as a juicer, she jumps on the gnome she loathes and damages the hat. "Sneezy" [[spoiler:unintentionally take part of the reverse body swap, resulting in T-Bone staring like the gnome, and it's revealed that "Sneezy" has an evil mind when speaking from T-Bone's body to Caprice, and the T-Bone-minded ornament having killed birds near [=McBrisk=]]].

** There exists a {{Website/Facebook}} parody known as "Facedebook".

* {{Prison}}: [[spoiler:Several members of the Crumpet family and Ms. [=McBrisk=] are sent to a massive prison for the crimes they committed]] at the end of "Road Stories".

** Grownboy's crammed animals in "Drive Away" disintegrate upon being thrown from his trailer to hitting a brick wall and return to normal. [[spoiler:Unlike Cordless' instance, they ultimately die]].
* QuirkyHousehold: The Crumpet family, who can have strange members yet the family is firm.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The species being that of the Crumpets and others.
** The ball-shaped puppies Granny obtains as food for Renato in "Croco-Deal", as well as the ones owned by Grownboy.

* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: In "My Family's Full of Losers", Uncle Hurried charges television viewers 50 quid per second to any phone call that determines which Crumpet member should lose the game show.

* ShoutOut: One of L'il-One's plushes bears a striking resemblance to an {{Toys/Uglydolls}} character.

** In "Save Granny", when Pa chases Granny for her laptop, there's an arcade Videogame/PacMan styled shot showing them in a Pac-Man maze. In "Gambled Gables", Cordless proposes an arcade and explicitly wants a Pac-Man game in the Crumpets' house. A man seen on television [[FreezeFrameBonus as the power goes off]] in "Acne Dents Happen" and in the show in "Road Stories" has a Pac-Man eating dots t-shirt.

* SicklyGreenGlow: The radioactive acne cream and Cordless in "Acne Dents Happen" have these, plus its flashes of X-rays.

* {{Smurfing}}: Downplayed for "crumpet", which is primarily adapted for Ma and Pa's [[AffectionateNickname Affectionate Nickname]]s and the parodies of real rock music artists in Pfff's posters.

* SomethingWeForgot: The family outing in "Li'l One All Alone" realizes that somebody was forgotten in two occasions. T-Bone responded and joined them in the first one, and Ma realizes that Li'l One isn't with them when thinking it's too quiet for her, and she rushes back to the house [[spoiler:while Li'l-One and Granny drive the opposite direction]].

* SuicideAsComedy: Suicide is played for laughs as it's contemplated or unsuccessfully attempted.

* TalentShow: In "My Family's Full of Losers", [[spoiler:the final round of the game show is a singing competition between L'il-One and Pa. The father wins.]]

* ToylessToylineCharacter: Although no toys for the show were produced for sale, there are printable paper toy cutouts of some characters available, including Marylin and Larry for season 2. Unfortunately, it appears that L'il-One, Pa, Caprice, Pfff, Triceps, Ditzy, Fynartz, Cordless, and Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried have none. The Kickstarter for the second season English dub, however, previewed a couple of cutout diagrams that would be given to backers, including those that never got released to the public.

* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: "Pong! The Menace!" has the mostly unseen rich and "very, very unforgiving" titular character and his gang in their limousines intimidating the Crumpets so they can retrieve a pink diamond from Granny. Pong kidnaps Pfff to a movable bush and shaves all his hair from the top of his head, as well as restraining parts of his body and attaching a note in Chinese. Granny explains to her family that they she and Pong were partners until she "borrowed" his pink diamond, but when she talks to Pong in the phone, she reveals that he dumped her for a blonde, giving her the motive to steal the diamond. Granny assigns Li'l-One to deliver the fake diamond to Pong for the reward of cash and two electronic tablets, but her juggling led to the real one taken instead. [[spoiler:Li'l-One and an unknowing Pfff succeed in returning the pink diamond to Pong, and the episode ends with Granny in the house robot chasing him.]]
* ToiletTrainingPlot: "Inside Li'l-One's Brain" is about Pa's quest to fix Li'l One's alleged "pee-pee gland" in his brain.

* WeaponForIntimidation: In "Lil Wrinkly One", L'il-One uses Granny's big key and aims at her in a dispute about her supposed FakePregnancy.

* {{Whodunnit}}: Caprice's birthday party game in "Murder Everywhere" was supposed to give a random player a murder contract to kill Pa's character, and the others must investigate and arrest that player. Instead, Lil-One violates the rules, "joins" the game and acts to be Pa's "killer" against Caprice's will before running away, and all the players' cards are copies of the murder contract, so she concentrates finding the one who ruined the card printing while being stuck in the giant gelatin dessert.

''The Crumpets'' (''Les Crumpets'') is a French [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] comedy animated series debuted in 2013 about a huge family of white, pink nosed CartoonCreature people, based on the ''Petit Dernier'' preschool PictureBooks by Didier Lévy and Frédéric Benaglia, adapted by Virginie Boda, and produced by 4.21 Productions.

The show's first season closely highlights several family members, but the actual central characters are the youngest child L'il-One and the family's gambling matriarch Granny. Ma is an inventor and Pa is a gardener, and they adore each other. Their other children include the tall and sleepy Pfff, the gothic bipolar Caprice, the physically strong Triceps, the head-losing thinker Ditzy, the eccentric artist Fynartz, the mischievous twins Bother and Blister, the scaredy cat Ohoh, and the lion costumed King. The Crumpets' irritable neighbor is Ms. [=McBrisk=], who lives with her beautiful daughter Cassandra. Pa's rich fleecing brother is Uncle Hurried, whose wife is Aunt Harried and their adopted nerd son is Gorgeous Cordless.

Season One consists of 52 episodes. On 2017, a new season with 52 more episodes and also known as ''Teen Crumpets'' debuted, because [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm feedback]] for the first season summarizes that the teens and tweens are the show's most popular characters. In April 2018, the show won the "12+" category award in that year's Cartoons On The Bay in Italy, and the show's [[https://www.facebook.com/pff.crumpet behind-the-scenes Facebook profile]] hinted more episodes to come.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not about a bunch of bread]][[note]]unless if you count the side effect of eating a certain brew[[/note]] or a 2015 food ad campaign using ''Series/TheMuppetShow''.

* AdamAndEvePlot: In "Prehistoric Crumpets", the family survive the meteor crash, and a flying helicopter surveys the site. The rest of the episode however treats the cast as sole survivors of the incident, the family splitting to pro-nature or pro-rebuilding camps led by Pa or Ma respectively, and the [=McBrisks=] and Pfff hiding in an underground shelter and proposing to reproduce to save the population. The episode even references the Biblical story, as the family witnesses an instantly grown forest, Pa and Ditzy hold apples, and the former calls the site a Garden of Eden.

* AdaptationExpansion: The show has more detail on members of the Crumpet family who appeared in the books or are introduced in the show, and their friends.
* AdoptionDiss: In "Green Pastures", Hurried and Harried despises Cordless upon comparing him with the kids in the ''Gloser'' magazine and finding him ineffective to their business. They look at adopting a better looking child, and treats their [[TheRunaway runaway]] niece Caprice as one until the discovery of their appearances and description in the fashion magazine that make the couple reconsider and kick their spoiled niece out the house. However, Cordless abandons Hurried and Harried to live with the Crumpets, and that couple want him or Caprice back, but Pa lies to them that they're not in his proximity.

* BalloonBelly: In "Lil Wrinkly One", Granny gets one after she eats some of her chocolate cigarettes she took out of storage. The other characters eating the confection get these too.

* BattleOfTheBands: After L'il-One and Granny end their partnership as a popular music stage act in "[=CrumStep=]", they lead and assemble competing bands for a concert battle. Ma ends the show because the family failed to celebrate her birthday, having all the performers sing for her and return to peace.

* BeYourself: In "Puppy Love", this is a message from Caprice's story once she reverts from having the fashion tastes and appreciation of wealthy living like Aunt Harried.

* BigNo: At the very end of "Cheep Shot" shouted by [[spoiler:the family stranded in the greenhouse, when a wounded bird arrives in front of them and the garden defense system is about to shoot them.]]

** Nearly everyone who showered in the greenhouse in "Hairifying" says one due to [[spoiler:the instant loss of their hair]].

* BlankWhiteEyes: Usually shown when a character gets surprised. It is also how Granny's eyes look when they're open.

* BrickJoke: In "Acne Dents Happen", Ms. [=McBrisk=] complains without evidence that it's the 327th time Cassandra left the lights on in the house. At the very end, she complains that it's the 328th time.
* UsefulNotes/BritishAccents: The English dub of the original episodes has all characters speaking with these and with British vocabulary, while some credited voice actors are American and one is Australian. However, the dub of ''Teen Crumpets'' according to the one viewable episode has the characters speak in American accents, likely due to recasting.
* CallASmeerpARabbit: Grownboy says the word "human" in referring to people in "Cheep Shot". Caprice also says the word when during a phone call she doesn't describe somebody named Chloe as a human in "Pong! The Menace!"

* CartoonCreature: The people in the show are primarily differentiated from real humans by their squeaky oval-shaped pink or blue noses (also shared with certain creatures), a philtrum line from nose to mouth, and pale skin (darker skin is hinted in "Family Secrets"). To the face, it's reminiscent to certain mammals such as rabbits, otters, or weasels. The episode "Hairifying" shows that they have as much hair as humans do. Their three-toe feet, more unusually, are either sloped and stubby (Li'l-One, King, Ma, and "Acne Dents Happen" Pa) or like that of real humans (most others and perhaps erroneously to "Prehistoric Crumpets" Pa). Most characters don't have visible ear structures, but others like Bother, Ohoh, and King have transparent swirl-like ears, that when viewing the former two's paper cutouts they appear to be cartoon human ears. And the word "human" is heard for two or more times, and Ms. [=McBrisk=] mentions "paws" near the end of "Supernawak".

* CheekyMouth: The characters can show these, notably L'il-One, King, and the twins.

** "Li'l One All Alone" has a couple. Li'l-One eats cocoa-patches, and shouts "You're dead" during his home alone time.

* CoolAirship: Caprice's fans dispatch a blimp decorated after her, which rescues their idol from her final suicide attempt in "Going Viral".

* DatingServiceDisaster: In "The Courting Of Ms. [=McBrisk=]", Cordless tries to captivate the episode's namesake by utilizing a handsome standing cutout model in his dating alias "Furious Bull". After buying and delivering gifts to her home, she wants to meet him in person, which makes Cordless reluctant to meet her again. Following a failed physical meeting, he promises to see her again, but afterwards Granny and the kids hijacks his side of the chat and delivers some bothersome messages. The cutout is displayed in the window to lure [=McBrisk=], but she chokes the handsomely-dressed Cordless regarding where "Furious Bull" is. Granny takes the cutout to Hurried and Harried's helicopter and by its departure [=McBrisk=] continues to believe he's a real person.

* DescentIntoAddiction: The primary conflict in "Addicted". Pa gives his mother a greenhouse gas remedy to cure her worsening gambling and onion crisp addiction, but Granny doesn't use it, sells the gas to Ms. [=McBrisk=], lies to her family that she took it, demands more and sells them to the neighbor, and resumes her addiction. Not only [=McBrisk=] becomes addicted to this temporary cure for her allergies, the Crumpet children also jump the bandwagon and develop addiction, and they [[spoiler:destroy the machine producing the substance, act like zombies to their parents, and seize [=McBrisk=]'s supply.]]

* {{Documentary}}: When Ma watches a tape called ''Heroic Females'' in "Croco-Deal", there's a narrative about a charging rhinoceros getting kicked by a mother giraffe. The same documentary returns for a few occasions in the show.
* DramaticDrop: Pa drops a tray as he heard Ma appreciating the masculine traits of the man in a magazine in "Man Up!"

* EldritchAbomination: Subverted in "Li'l One All Alone". [[spoiler:Manolita the mushroom is not one, to the children's disappointment]].

* EverybodyDoTheEndlessLoop: The Crumpets dancing to Pfff's new song in "Gambled Gables", except for the dance between L'il-One and Granny.

* FacelessMasses: Most Crumpet children are background, completely red haired people of identical simple or massed clothing, different hair styles, and other features. They're usually behind the main characters and they are absent in some family gatherings.

* FashionMagazine: ''Gloser'', which often features Cradley Booper and the weather girl, and plays a role in few episodes like "Green Pastures".

* FoodPills: Ms. [=McBrisk=], who is devastated by her unemployment, eats a sandwich with a huge pill in "Crumpity Pity".

* ForgedMessage: In "Ransoming Dad", Granny leaves out a crude one to fool the family that Pa is kidnapped and that a ransom needs to get paid for his return. Caprice suspects that a fairy-tale book is the source of the letter's characters.

* GirlsNightOutEpisode: Inverted to males in "Hairifying" when Pa hosts a horror movie showing for all the boys except L'il-One. Ma invites all to her waxing machine, with only girls going there.

* GrossoutShow: The show has a number of disgusting moments, including but not limited to Li'l-One's potty issues.

* HandOrObjectUnderwear: L'il-One does this by hand or object. He uses one of the floating "LIKE" messages when he loses his diaper in "Going Viral".
** In the end of "Save Granny", L'il-One uses a small piece of toilet paper, and Pfff uses his hands due to the theft of his underwear by L'il-One.
* HappyBirthdayToYou: Caprice's rendition to L'il-One ([[spoiler:King actually]]) includes the first two lines of the song in "Sticks Stink".
* HappyFunBall: Subverted in "Li'l Wonder". Bother gives Li'l-One a drawing tablet and have him showcase that it's a "magic tablet" when Li'l-One draws him and Blister (who suddenly arrives just after Li'l-One's drawing of her began). The twins help (or fool) their youngest brother by doing tricks that would make the tablet appear to work by luring Granny with cash once Li'l-One draws her. Granny steals it by providing its "receipt", (actually a casino checkout repeats Granny uses as a ticket to acquire anything she wishes), but she makes a deal with Li'l-One to share the tablet. Granny and Li'l-One would then dress like [[FortuneTeller Fortune Tellers]], run a fortune telling service outside the house, and use the drawing tablet to force most other children out the house. Although Blister warned them that the family and house can banish with "one wrong swipe", Li'l-One scribbles his drawing of Pa when he returns home and Pa doesn't get eliminated. Therefore Li'l-One loses trust of Granny, which told him that Pa will end up lost and eaten by rabbits.

* KillerRabbit: Subverted in "Li'l Wonder". In continuing the trend of eliminating family members, Granny lies to Li'l-One that Pa is kidnapped by rabbits in the forest. Pa and Ma return home safely as Li'l-One thought his father was in the "bunny's tummy".

* MementoMacguffin: The pink diamond with the worm in "Pong! The Menace!". Granny stole it from Pong as a consequence of his relationship with another woman, and it reminds her of their working romantic relationship. Before revealing that truth, she lied to her family that she gambled it away in Monte Carlo in 1969. Under the command of his mother, Pa creates a replica of the diamond through sculpting clay and inserting Pfff's worm via a straw so Pong can get fooled in having the diamond back. The replica doesn't hold up due to the worm eating it out, and [[spoiler:the real diamond is successfully delivered to Pong at the end]].

* SeasonFinale: "Sound The Alarm"

* SomethingWeForgot: The family outing in "Li'l One All Alone" realizes that somebody was forgotten in two occasions. T-Bone responded and joined them in the first one, and Ma realizes that Li'l-One isn't with them at one point, and she rushes back to the house [[spoiler:while Li'l-One and Granny drive the opposite direction]].

* StopSayingThat: In "Road Stories", Pa's admirations for Granny and Caprice when they're on TV get put down by Ma.
* StripPoker: Between Granny and Magic Marvin in "Granny Strip".
* SuicideAsComedy: Suicide is played for laughs, as it's contemplated or unsuccessfully attempted.
* SurpriseCarCrash: In "Lil Winkly One", L'il-One calls and discusses the driving Uncle Hurried about the latter's reduced share of inheritance from Granny during her alleged pregnancy. The uncle [[BrakeAngrily brakes at displeasure]], and a freight truck rear-end collides and lands on the car upside-down. Hurried and Harried would call Granny immediately without signs of harm.

* ToiletHumour: A recurring element in the show. Moments include T-Bone the dog farting bubblegum bubbles, flatulence required to reverse a certain chocolate's bloating, Ma getting thrown to a pile of manure, and Li'l-One wetting himself.
* ToothyBird: The worm in "Pong! The Menace!" is shown to have human-like teeth.
* ToylessToylineCharacter: Although no toys for the show were produced for sale, there are printable paper toy cutouts of some characters available, including Marylin and Larry for season 2. Unfortunately, it appears that L'il-One, Pa, Caprice, Pfff, Triceps, Ditzy, Fynartz, Cordless, and Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried have none. The Kickstarter for the second season English dub, however, promised cutouts for all family characters.

* TwinkleInTheEye: The worm inside the pink diamond in the web search picture in "Pong! The Menace!" gives one.

* VisibleOdor: The stenches from Granny's onion crisps, the odor inside the van in "Road Stories", and the dirty-smelling King at the beginning of "Amnesia", for example.

* WeddingRingRemoval: Harried removes her tight wedding ring around the time she kicks her husband out their home in "The Divorce". In the Crumpet house, a hopeless Hurried throws it wedding ring out a window. [[spoiler:T-Bone finds and makes use of it by the time Hurried wants it back.]]

The first twenty episodes dubbed in English (plus [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/35740477/the-crumpets-the-animated-series/?ref=kicktraq "The Mix-Up"]]) are officially available for free in the Anglosphere in [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DR5zFtL-TbGZmIdDsZkww YouTube]]. A trailer and an English dubbed episode (with a presumably different voice cast) of ''Teen Crumpets'' are viewable in the [[http://www.c21media.net/screenings/mediatoon/teen-crumpets/ C21Media website]].

* BeYourself: In "Super Pfff", Pa speculates that Pfff sleeps to hide his insecurities, and later reminds him to love himself when learning of his love of the weather girl. [[spoiler:At the climax, Pfff gets tricked to love "himself" (who is actually Cassandra looking like him) in the tornado.]]

* HollywoodExorcism: In "Hairifying", the twins give Ohoh a green tablet that supposes to cure his "night terrors". The latter's mouth has green foam, bubbles, and vomit coming out, and Triceps does an unsuccessful attempt to free him from a demon she suspects is in him. L'il-One summons Ms. [=McBrisk=] to perform the excorcist ritual, who gives Ohoh a green substance that's supposed to recover him. Unfortunately, said substance turns girls and women into zombies.

* HumansAreWhite: Pale-skinned people are extremely common in the show. But "Family Secrets" hints the existence of dark-skinned ones with the rotating girl in the music box.

-->'''Ms. [=McBrisk=]:''' Reality TV! [[MoralGuardians They promote anti-educational and anti-family values!]] I won't let the telly interfere in how I raise my child!

* StockYuck: The kids are disgusted upon hearing Pa's plan to serve leek and turnip pie in "Crumpity Pity". But the next shot shows them enjoying their meals except Caprice, who is more concerned with the widespread issue of poverty at the moment.

* {{Whodunnit}}: Caprice's birthday party game in "Murder Everywhere" was supposed to give a random player a murder contract to kill Pa's character, and the others must investigate whom. Instead, Lil-One violates the rules, "joins" the game and acts to be Pa's "killer" against Caprice's will before running away, and all the players' cards are copies of the murder contract, so she concentrates finding the one who ruined the card printing while being stuck in the giant gelatin dessert.

The show's first season closely highlights several family members, but the actual central characters are the youngest child L'il-One and the family's gambling matriarch Granny. Ma is an inventor and Pa is a gardener, and they adore each other. Their other children include the tall and sleepy Pfff, the gothic bipolar Caprice, the physically strong Triceps, the head-losing thinker Ditzy, the eccentric artist Fynartz, the mischievous twins Bother and Blister, the scaredy cat Ohoh, and the lion costumed King. The Crumpets' neighbor is Ms. [=McBrisk=], who lives with her beautiful daughter Cassandra. Pa's rich fleecing brother is Uncle Hurried, whose wife is Aunt Harried and their adopted nerd son is Gorgeous Cordless.

Season One consists of 52 episodes. On 2017, a new season with 52 more episodes and also known as ''Teen Crumpets'' debuted, because [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm feedback]] for the first season summarizes that the teens and tweens are the show's most popular characters. In April 2018, the show won the "12+" category award in that year's Cartoons On The Bay in Italy, and their [[https://www.facebook.com/pff.crumpet Facebook profile]] hinted more episodes to come.

The first twenty episodes dubbed in English (plus [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/35740477/the-crumpets-the-animated-series/?ref=kicktraq "The Mix-Up"]]) are officially available for free in the Anglosphere in [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DR5zFtL-TbGZmIdDsZkww YouTube]]. Alternatively, the whole first season English dub can be viewed in the Chinese video site [[http://list.youku.com/show/id_z45d58218c6b14bca8e46.html Youku]]. A trailer and an English dubbed episode (with a presumably different voice cast) of ''Teen Crumpets'' are viewable in the [[http://www.c21media.net/screenings/mediatoon/teen-crumpets/ C21Media website]].

** Also subverted for Ms. [=McBrisk=] in "Crumpity Pity" once [[spoiler:her job will return]]. In "The Divorce", she forms a business that helps reconcile couples.

* NotHimself: Pa in "The Terrible Teens" acts and dresses like an aggressive, old-school teenager as a result of an electrocution. Same goes to Ms. [=McBrisk=] turning into a NewAgeRetroHippie after Pa kisses her, but lasts until she gets zapped in her house, as well as Pfff who sucks his thumb. [[spoiler:At the end, when Ma touches the lightbulb and zaps everyone, Pa returns to normal, but Ma becomes very hostile at Pa, Granny is romantically attracted to Pa, and all the children except Pfff (who now acts normal)[[EverybodyCries are acting like crying babies!]]]]

* SomethingWeForgot: The family outing in "Li'l One All Alone" forgot somebody in two occasions. T-Bone responded and joined them in the first one, and Ma realizes that Li'l-One isn't with them at one point, and she rushes back to the house [[spoiler:while Li'l-One and Granny drive the opposite direction]].

The first twenty episodes dubbed in English (plus [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/35740477/the-crumpets-the-animated-series/?ref=kicktraq "The Mix-Up"]]) are officially available for free in the Anglosphere in [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DR5zFtL-TbGZmIdDsZkww YouTube]]. Alternatively, the whole first season English dub can be viewed in the Chinese video site [[http://list.youku.com/show/id_z45d58218c6b14bca8e46.html Youku]]. A trailer and an English dubbed episode (with a different voice cast) of ''Teen Crumpets'' are viewable in the [[http://www.c21media.net/screenings/mediatoon/teen-crumpets/ C21Media website]].

Despite the innocent adaptation source, colorful visuals, adorable characters, and being broadcast in children's programming, the show contains a hefty amount of inappropriate material to kids such as sexual themes, suicidal behavior, animal cruelty, and rare gruesome violence.

* AdamAndEvePlot: In "Prehistoric Crumpets", the family survive the meteor crash, and a flying helicopter surveys the site. The rest of the episode however treats the cast as sole survivors of the incident, the family splitting to pro-nature or pro-rebuilding camps led by Pa or Ma respectively, and the [=McBrisks=] and Pfff hiding in an underground shelter and proposing to reproduce to save the population. The episode even references the Biblical story, as the family witnesses an instantly grown forest, Pa and Ditzy hold apples, and he calls the site a Garden of Eden.

* ArtShift: The art style for a character changes to a black and white, minimal, and geometric design when they get zapped.
* AshesToCrashes: In "Murder Everywhere", the ashes of Rudy Swan are missing from his urn. [[spoiler:Ditzy found the urn in a cupboard and pours the ashes to a sugar container, leading to the hallucinations of the others. But when the winner of the auction for the urn arrives, Granny burns the inflatable "Jolly John" to ashes and pours the remains to the urn in addition to Rudy's glasses.]]

* BirthdayEpisode: "Sticks Stink", "[=CrumStep=]", "Murder Everywhere", and "Puppy Love" contain the birthdays of Li'l-One, Ma, Caprice, Granny, and Aunt Harried (who is revealed to share Ma's in the last of these episodes).

* DramaticUnmask: Parodied in "Supernawak". Superhero Ohoh wishes to have the defeated supervillain Ms. [=McBrisk=] unmasked on her rooftop, and his partner and her AbhorrentAdmirer Cordless gets this opportunity. [=McBrisk=] tells them to leave her mask on, then she lifts hers to reveal her eyes. However, they don't share her identity with the Crumpet family because removing her mask is "against basic superhero ethics". [[spoiler:The family gets this unveiled after Cordless and [=McBrisk=] fall through the collapsing roof together to the oil barrel.]]

* FacelessMasses: Most Crumpet children are background, completely red haired people of identical simple or massed clothing, different hair styles, and other features. They're usually behind the main characters, and they are absent in some family gatherings.

* {{Handguns}}: Ma fires a starting pistol twice during Triceps' reshuffle of the house in "Shake It Up", hitting three birds.

* MadeInChina: In "Pong! The Menace", Li'l-One says the trope name once he gets interested in having the electronic tablet he finds on TV, and Granny says it to mention the reward to Li'l-One if he delivers the fake pink diamond to Pong. [[spoiler:After Pong rewards him the tablet, the display scrambles as Li'l-One is using it, and Caprice remarks "made in China".]]

* NatureIsBoring: In "Li'l One All Alone", the whole family except Li'l-One go on to explore the woods not too far from home. Pa leads a trip to seek an underground multi-tentacle mushroom known as manolita, and making mundane facts and appreciations of nature at the search. After finding manolita's extensions above the ground, they have Triceps cut the trees in order to benefit the mushroom. The wait becomes unexciting to the children, and by [[spoiler:Li'l-One's arrival]], they start to walk home before Triceps reveals that manolita is a [[spoiler:mustached mushroom, and they're still greatly unimpressed]].

* PlotAllergy: In "Addicted", Ms. [=McBrisk=] alleges that she's allergic to the Crumpets or dust mites now that zits are all over her head. She buys what's actually Pa's anti-addiction solution from Granny through the internet and her zits disappear for a while, and becomes addicted to it once she buys more. After realizing that Granny scammed her and that the solution doesn't treat allergies for the long term, this condition is left untreated by the episode's end.

* PottyFailure: L'il-One did this in a previous horror movie showing according to "Hairifying". [[spoiler:After the twins failed to make him do this again, it finally happens again once the ZombieApocalypse is resolved.]]
* PrankCall: In "The Divorce", the first phone call to Ms. [=McBrisk=]'s new business is a prank from Bother and Blister. Bother tells her that he is lost at a stormy sea and his belongings are gone and claims to be drowning before the call ends, leaving [=McBrisk=] guilty.

** Grownboy's crammed animals in "Drive Away" disintegrate upon being thrown from his trailer to hitting a brick wall and returning to normal, [[spoiler:but unlike Cordless' instance, it turns out to be fatal]].

* RoadTripPlot: Parodied in "Road Stories", which is about Granny and Caprice faking their trip across the world for the "Once Upon A Time In The Van" reality TV show.

* SurpriseCarCrash: In "Lil Winkly One", L'il-One calls and discusses the driving Uncle Hurried about the latter's reduced share of inheritance from Granny during her alleged pregnancy. The uncle [[BrakeAngrily brakes at displeasure]], and a freight truck rear-end collides and lands on the car upside-down. Hurried and Harried calls Granny immediately without signs of harm.

* WidgetSeries: A Weird Thing from France example. The show is filled with a strange yet adorable substitute for actual humans, peculiar stories, a dress tummy hatch, a balloon-head girl, and a grandmother with a giant WindupKey.

The first twenty episodes dubbed in English (plus [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/35740477/the-crumpets-the-animated-series/?ref=kicktraq "The Mix-Up"]]) are officially available for free in the Anglosphere in [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DR5zFtL-TbGZmIdDsZkww YouTube]]. A trailer and an English dubbed episode (with a different voice cast) of ''Teen Crumpets'' are viewable in the [[http://www.c21media.net/screenings/mediatoon/teen-crumpets/ C21Media website]].

* ArtShift: The art style changes to a black and white, minimal, and geometric design when any character gets zapped.

* ClownCar: All members of the Crumpet family except Li'l-One fit in their van as seen in "Li'l One All Alone". Ironically, the characters resemble clowns.
* ClownCarBase: As most of the Crumpet family take protection from the falling meteor in "Prehistoric Crumpets", they cram to T-Bone's doghouse. It only lasted about a second, leaving the crowd piled below the lifted doghouse.

* EldritchAbomination: Subverted in "Li'l One All Alone". [[spoiler:Manolita the mushroom is not one, to the children's disappointment]].

* EverybodyCries: The Crumpet family members who listened to the story of Pong breaking up from her do this in "Pong! The Menace!"

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Pink penguins exist, such as the ones Grownboy rescued from a zoo in "Road Stories".

* FacelessMasses: Most Crumpet children are background, completely red haired people of identical simple or massed clothing, different hair styles, and other features. They're usually behind the main characters, and are absent in some family gatherings.

* FallingChandelierOfDoom: A chain of events from others lead to Pfff hitting Ditzy's head, which shoots up to a chandelier that would drop to the bench sat by Caprice and launch her to the giant gelatin in "Murder Everywhere".

** There's two when Cordless remembers Caprice bullying him in "Disassister".

* InternalReveal: At the end of "A Grave Affair", the picture of Pa and the nondead Granny, taken with Caprice's phone and uploaded by her father, turns the social media against Caprice and calls her the "biggest liar on the web", despite that she didn't have knowledge of Granny being alive all the time.

* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: Although most of his sons are permitted, Pa refuses to let L'il-One watch ''Werezombies and Chainsaws'', and throws him to his crib in "Hairifying". L'il-One secretly watches the movie from a plant pot and is bothered by the movie's scary content. Ohoh, who sits at the front, does too, obviously.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The show has approximately 20 regular roles, lots of background Crumpet children, and over a dozen minor characters.
* LookBothWays: In "[=CrumStep=]", after Pa is hypnotized by L'il-One and Granny in their new concert room, he walks outside to the road and a car driven by Uncle Hurried collides him, but he survives.

A French [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] comedy animated series debuted in 2013 about a huge family of white, pink nosed CartoonCreature people, based on the ''Petit Dernier'' preschool PictureBooks by Didier Lévy and Frédéric Benaglia, adapted by Virginie Boda, and produced by 4.21 Productions.

The show closely highlights several family members, but the actual central characters are the youngest child L'il-One and the family's gambling matriarch Granny. Ma is an inventor and Pa is a gardener, and they frequently cuddle in bed. Their other children include the tall and sleepy Pfff, the fashionable bipolar Caprice, the physically strong Triceps, the head-loosing thinker Ditzy, the eccentric artist Fynartz, the mischievous twins Bother and Blister, the scaredy cat Ohoh, and the lion costumed King. The Crumpets' neighbor is Ms. [=McBrisk=], who lives with her beautiful daughter Cassandra. Pa's rich swindling brother is Uncle Hurried, whose wife is Aunt Harried and their adopted geek son is Gorgeous Cordless.

Season One consists of 52 episodes. On 2017, a new season with 52 more episodes and also known as ''Teen Crumpets'' debuted, because [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm feedback]] for the first season summarizes that the teens and tweens are the show's most popular characters. In April 2018, the show won the "12+" category award in that year's Cartoons On The Bay in Italy.

The first twenty episodes dubbed in English (plus [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/35740477/the-crumpets-the-animated-series/?ref=kicktraq "The Mix-Up"]]) are officially available for free in [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DR5zFtL-TbGZmIdDsZkww YouTube]]. A trailer and an English dubbed episode (with a different voice cast) of ''Teen Crumpets'' are viewable in the [[http://www.c21media.net/screenings/mediatoon/teen-crumpets/ C21Media website]].

Despite the innocent adaptation source, [[CrapsaccharineWorld colorful visuals, adorable characters]], and being broadcast in children's programming, the show contains a hefty amount of inappropriate material to kids such as sexual themes, suicidal behavior, animal cruelty, and rare gruesome violence.

* AccidentalAimingSkills: Blister accidentally fires a syringe at Grownboy's bicycle tire instead of José in "Octosquito".

* ArtImitatesArt: There is a [[http://eleonore-mantelle.com/?page_id=268 parody]] of the Girl with a Pearl Earring in one background for the show.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: In "My Family's Full of Losers", this happens to anyone on the moon.

* BearTrap: In "Croco-Deal", L'il-One puts one in Renato's mouth and goes in it so he can divert Ma to rush to him. When Granny tries to kill Renato, she inadvertently frees the crocodile. The bear trap catches Granny's head, who keeps it on by the next day.

** Everyone who showered in the greenhouse in "Hairifying" says one due to [[spoiler:the instant loss of their hair]].

** In "A Grave Affair", one of Caprice's stunts at her siblings is squirting ketchup at Ditzy's head and body, and taking and sharing to social media a picture of her as if she's decapitated.

* UsefulNotes/BritishAccents: The English dub of the original episodes has all characters speaking with these and with British vocabulary, despite that some credited voice actors are American, and one is Australian. However, the dub of ''Teen Crumpets'' according to the one viewable episode has the characters speak in American accents, likely due to [[TheOtherDarrin recasting]].
* CallASmeerpARabbit: Grownboy says the word "human" in referring to people in "Cheep Shot".
* CardboardPal: Cordless uses an attractive man cutout as the image of his dating service alias "Furious Bull". Ms. [=McBrisk=] never gets to realize the man's cutout every time she sees it.

* CheekyMouth: L'il-One, King, and the twins notably show these.

* ContinuityNod: In "My Family's Full of Losers", a commercial for the radioactive acne cream featuring Cordless is broadcast in the game show's break. Another commercial promotes Hurried and Harried's [[ScamReligion "Paymeism"]].

* ConveyorBeltODoom: In "Dried Water", Uncle Hurried, Aunt Harried, Granny, and L'il-One fall to the dehydrated water tank where they end of going through the packaging process at the bottom and are sealed in the small dehydrated water packs adorning art of their heads in the packaging.

* CountingToThree: Ms. [=McBrisk=]'s punishment to Cassandra for her relationship with Pfff in "No Pffuture" is offered by a count to three (including 2.8 and 2.9). [[spoiler:At three, she can't force Cassandra to her bedroom because the tangled red thread had split their house in two.]]

* CrushKillDestroy: In "Mum's Double", Ma splashes a liquid at her clone robot to prove her children who's the real Ma. In response to its own malfunction, the robot shifts to "Destroy and Murder Mode" and shoots metal nuts, but [[spoiler:robot clone Pa switches the robot off before it could whack Ma with her blender]].
* CueTheFlyingPigs: In "Save Granny", L'il-One says that only when pigs will fly would be the condition he can leave Ma's tummy hatch.

* ExactEavesDropping: L'il-One happens to be outside near Ditzy and Cassandra, and he eavesdrops his sister sharing secrets in "Family Secrets".
* EverybodyDoTheEndlessLoop: The Crumpets dancing to Pfffs' new song in "Gambled Gables", except for the dance between L'il-One and Granny.

* FacelessMasses: The majority of the Crumpet children are background, completely red haired people of identical simple or massed clothing, different hair styles, and other features. They're usually behind the main characters, and are absent in some family gatherings.

* FatalFireworks: In the end of "Ghost In The Attic", [[spoiler:Caprice, Granny, and L'il-One are perished by the twins' fireworks, after the first batch blew up and [[AshFace ashed]] the women.]]
* FlamingMeteor: "Prehistoric Crumpets" is about the impact and aftermath of a fiery meteorite crash that's correctly projected by a WeatherReport to crash on the Crumpet house.

** The lawnmower man Ms. [=McBrisk=] gets attracted to in "Taxidermama"; only his arm is seen.
* GirlsAreReallyScaredOfHorrorMovies: In "Hairifying", the females in the family aren't allowed to watch the cult horror movie ''[[ShowWithinAShow Werezombies and Chainsaws]]'' with the males. Ironically, in the course of the episode some females end up having long body hair like werewolves in Ma's wax machine, and virtually all females turn into zombies.

* {{Handguns}}: Ma fires a starting pistol to commence Triceps' reshuffle of the house in "Shake It Up", hitting a bird above.

* HarmlessElectrocution: Normal in cases of electrocution. Averted in "The Terrible Teens" where electricity does dramatically alter personalities, and in "Li'l Wonder" which it faints T-Bone..

* InstantMessengerPigeon: Grownboy dispatches Lulu the pigeon to deliver a letter to the Crumpets on having his menagerie babysitted in his house in "Disassister". The bird is grabbed in the neck by Caprice in her bedroom and finds the note. Lulu gets grabbed again while Caprice lies at King that she loves animals, before Caprice releases Lulu out the window and the weak bird drops to a pile of fish. Later, Granny discovers the note from the bird to look at the opportunity of exploiting the menagerie for money.

* InternalReveal: At the end of "A Grave Affair", the picture of Pa and the nondead Granny, taken with Caprice's phone and uploaded by her father, turns the social media against Caprice and calls her the "biggest liar on the web", despite that she didn't have knowledge of Granny faking her death.

** Cassandra's rivalry with the weather girl over Pfff, notably in "Super Pfff". The story keeps changing which girl is inevitable, but at the end [[spoiler:the car-trapped weather girl stays near him]].
** Caprice and the weather girl over Cradley Booper in "Super Pfff".

* MegaCorp: Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried appear to operate one according to their multiple businesses, under the emblem of a snake dollar sign.

* MonumentalTheft: Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried in "Dried Water" steals the world's water supply (including the oceans) so they can sell and monopolize it.
* MovingBuildings: In "No Pffuture", Pfff's unraveled red thread is all over the Crumpet and[=McBrisks=] houses, and forces interactive the thread move them closer.

* MusicalEpisode: "[=CrumStep=]", "Gambled Gables", and "Crumpity Pity" contain songs sung by the cast.
* MyNaymeIs: Pfff is pronounced "Pffeuh" according to the French official site.
* NakedpeopleAreFunny: Especially L'il-One.
* NegativeContinuity: The show goes like this, especially the episodes where something substantial happens to the house or any character (including fame). However, the radioactive acne cream, which is tested and [[spoiler:destroys the Crumpets' house]] in its own episode, is promoted in-universe in "My Family's Full of Losers".

* NotDrawnToScale: In "The Mix-Up", T-Bone in Ms. [=McBrisk=]'s body is noticeably smaller than Caprice when passing her at one shot.

* NotInFrontOfTheKid: In "Croco-Deal", Ma scolds Caprice for saying "crappy" in front of L'il-One.

* PacManFever: Granny's video games in her laptop look antiquated, although the avatars of her and Lil-One don't have poor detail.

** There exists a Website/Facebook parody known as "Facedebook".
* PinballGag: In "Granny's Twin Sister", a rocket-fired T-Bone collides the parents' balcony door and bounces over the house roof like a pinball.

* PlotAllergy: In "Addicted", Ms. [=McBrisk=] alleges that she's allergic to the Crumpets or dust mites, now that zits are all over her head. She buys what's actually Pa's anti-addiction solution from Granny through the internet and her zits disappear for a while, and becomes addicted to it once she buys more. After realizing that Granny exploited her and that the solution doesn't treat allergies for the long term, this condition is left untreated by the episode's end.

* PullingThemselvesTogether: Cordless returns to normal in the aftermath of his disintegration, upon hearing Harried not accepting his video arcade plan for the controlled Crumpet house in "Gambled Gables".

* RadiationImmuneMutants: The leeks in "Acne Dents Happen".

** The ''Once Upon A Time In The Van'' show is featured in "Road Stories" to broadcast Granny and Caprice's world road adventure, even when they're unsuspected that the trip is actually a hoax.
* TheRemake: In-universe in "Hairifying". Granny films the hairy zombie Crumpet girls as if it's her remake of ''Werezombies and Chainsaws''. The twins hook her camera to the TV so her version can be viewed live by the male Crumpets who intend to watch the original movie.
* RememberTheAlamo: L'il-One mentions the Alamo (but saying "defend" rather than "remember") as he rally the Crumpets to fight for their home in "Gambled Gables".

* RiseOfZitboy: The main plot in "Acne Dents Happen" is about Cordless trying to cure his zits with the radioactive acne treatment cream given by Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried to experiment.

* SceneTransition: As this occurs at some transitions to the next scene, the screen is populated with genericized copies of the Crumpets' heads expressing a phase or effect suited for the scenes before and/or after, notably "What's next! What's next!".

** One of the items the Crumpet children trade with Granny for cocoa-patches in "Lil Wrinkly One" looks like a Videogame/NintendoDS.

* SickEpisode: "Sticks Stink" (due to the cold) and "Octosquito" (the monster making people sick by his ink).
* SilenceYouFool: Ma to all the children who want her attention at a time in "No Pffuture".

* SinisterSurveillance: In "My Family's Full of Losers", all families wanting to join the GameShow are surveilled by flying cameras. L'il-One finds one suddenly inside the house as Aunt Harried announces the Crumpets' entry and as the house's windows are shutting.

* SleepingDummy: Bother and Blister fools their parents with these in "Ghost In The Attic". Ma thinks her TricksterTwins are sleeping this time.

* StomachOfHolding: Granny's ultrasound in "Lil Wrinkly One" reveals that she has a teddy bear rather than a fetus the other Crumpets expect, although this doesn't dash their hopes.

* TeenPregnancy: In "Lil Wrinkly One", Caprice appears to become this, as so as the other teens (including Pfff), but this is due to the BalloonBelly side-effect of eating the cocoa-patches.
* {{Theremin}}: It's heard throughout "Prehistoric Crumpets", especially at the scenes with the meteorite crystals.

* ToiletHumour: A recurring element in the show.
* ToylessToylineCharacter: Although no toys for the show have been available for sale, there are printable paper toy cutouts of some characters available. Unfortunately, it appears that L'il-One, Pa, Caprice, Pfff, Triceps, Ditzy, Fynartz, Cordless, and Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried have none. The Kickstarter for the second season English dub, however, promised cutouts for all family characters.
* UrbanSegregation: In "Gambled Gables", Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried transform the neighborhood overnight into a massive series of roads and bridges leading to a busy fast food drive thru that was the old Crumpet house. The shanty house where most of the Crumpets reside becomes the recipient of automobile air pollution and an adjacent barrier was erected.

Despite the innocent adaptation source, [[CrapsaccharineWorld colorful visuals, adorable characters]], and being broadcast in children's programming, the show contains a hefty amount of inappropriate material to kids such as sexual themes, suicidal behavior, animal cruelty, and occasional gruesome violence.

* AnthropomorphicFood: In "Octosquito", [[spoiler:The beer yeast syrup brew Pa gives to the sick, big tounged Crumpet children transforms their heads into the Crumpet ''food''. One of Ma's machines revert them to normal and extract the crumpets for food, although Bother was already bitten in the head by José and keeps this wound.]]

* ArtShift: The art style changes to a black and white, minimal, and geometric design when the characters are zapped.
* AttackAnimal: Caprice commands a small flock of birds to attack the Hurried plane lifting the animal cage in "Disassister".
* {{Auction}}: Granny places one in an eBay-like website in a listing of hundreds of Fynartz' paintings she stole for her personal benefit. [[spoiler: After Fynartz mows his paintings and modifies the house to look like Ma, Granny changes her listing to the house and the bidding price skyrockets. The listing is thwarted once Ma duplicates the house across the globe, diminishing its value.]]

* BanisterSlide: King does this on two staircases during his family's chase at him in the beginning of "Amnesia".

* BigFancyHouse: Hurried and Harried's residence.

* BlandNameProduct: There exists a Website/Facebook parody known as "Facedebook".

* ChainedToARailway: Parodied in "Going Viral" as Caprice brings and lays on a railway track piece as long as her height. The track's detachment means no train will arrive to kill her.

* ConveyorBeltODoom: In "Dried Water", Uncle Hurried, Aunt Harried, Granny, and L'il-One fall to the dehydrated water tank where they end of going through the packaging process at the bottom and are sealed in the small dehydrated water packs adorning art of their faces in the packaging.

* {{Documentary}}: When Ma watches a tape called ''Heroic Females'' in "Croco-Deal", there's a narrative about a charging rhinoceros getting kicked by a mother giraffe.

* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Blister accidentally fires a syringe at Grownboy's bicycle tire instead of José in "Octosquito".

* FacelessMasses: The majority of the Crumpet children are background, completely blonde people of identical clothing and different hair styles that are normally grouped together. They're usually behind the main characters, and are absent in some family gatherings.
* FakePregnancy: In "Lil Wrinkly One", when Granny's consumption of cigarette-like coco-patches makes her bloated, everyone assumes she's pregnant. [[spoiler:Almost everyone eats the cocoa-patches and are mistakened to be pregnant, but L'il-One reverses this condition to the others by pressing their bellies so they can break wind.]]

* FantasticNuke: The explosion obliterating [[spoiler:the Crumpet house]] at the end of "Acne Dents Happen".

* FreakyFridayFlip: The main plot in "The Mix-Up" is about Ms. [=McBrisk=] and T-Bone the dog swapping their bodies, when the former tried to use the ElectronicTelepathy machine to read his mind to seek her garden gnome's whereabouts.

* GameOver: At least two of Granny's computer games including the poker game have a digitized "Game over, you're dead" voice effect.

* HarmlessElectrocution: Normal in cases of electrocution. Averted in "The Terrible Teens" where electricity does dramatically alter personalities.

* HollywoodExorcism: In "Hairifying", the twins give Ohoh a green tablet that supposes to cure his "night terrors". The latter's mouth has green foam, bubbles, and vomit coming out, and Triceps does an unsuccessful attempt to free him from a demon she suspects is in him. L'il-One summons Ms. [=McBrisk=] to perform the excorcist ritual, who gives Ohoh a green substance that's supposed to recover him. Said substance turns girls and women into zombies.

* InterruptedSuicide: In "[=Going Viral=]", Caprice tries to [[BuriedAlive bury herself alive]] in a dug plot with the help of T-Bone the dog, but a fan-dispatched blimp that looks like her drops a hook-attached rope that she grabs and lifts.

* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: Although most of his sons are permitted, Pa refuses to let L'il-One watch ''Werezombies and Chainsaws'', and throws him to his crib in "Hairifying". L'il-One secretly watches the movie from a plant pot and is bothered by the movie's scary content. Ohoh, who sits at the front, does too obviously.

** Cassandra's rivalry with the weather girl over Pfff, notably in "Super Pfff". The story keeps changing which one is inevitable, but at the end [[spoiler:the car-trapped weather girl stays near him]].

** The Spanish sardine fan/twirly twirlita and octopus pictures seen during the bait designing in "Octosquito", the fish in Ditzy's bedroom wallpaper, the "real" humans in Triceps' wallpaper, the class picture background in "The Courting Of Ms. [=McBrisk=]", and the objects in a Hurried shot in "Belief Relief" are also realistic looking.

* MirandaRights: Caprice raises them when she catches L'il-One and Granny for the forged ransom note. L'il-One doesn't become silent and responds that she can't arrest anyone.
* MisplacedWildlife: Lampshaded in "Disassister" as once [[spoiler:the plane piloting King]] rescues Grownboy's animals from being transported to a lab, he desires having the pink penguins move to Africa. However, [[spoiler:he crashes the plane just outside his house]].

* ScamReligion: In "Belief Relief", Uncle Hurried and Aunt Harried opens their "Paymeism" religion to the Crumpets, where [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin payments]] are exchanged for teachings and "blessings" such as mobile phones and falsely cured leeks; the uncle proclaims to be divine, threatens that nonbelievers will perish, and wants [[NoQuestionsAsked "no crazy questions"]]. Due to Pa being the brother of "God", Uncle Hurried forces Pa to avoid marrying any "infidels", leaving him an option to divorce the irreligious Ma.

* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: In "My Family's Full of Losers", Uncle Hurried charges television viewers 50 quid per second to any phone call that determines which Crumpet member will lose the game show.

** In "Booty for Beauty", the words Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey are heard.

* SuicideAsComedy: Suicide is played for laughs when it's contemplated or unsuccessfully attempted.

* WeatherReport: In "Dried Water", Pfff watches a couple of these reporting the global drought due to the attractive weather girl. He also watches another one in "Family Secrets".

* WidgetSeries

* InterruptedSuicide: In "[=CrumStep=]", Caprice tries to [[BuriedAlive bury herself alive]] in a dug plot with the help of T-Bone the dog, but a fan-dispatched blimp that looks like her drops a hook-attached rope that she grabs and lifts.

* FakePregnancy: In "Lil Wrinkly One", when Granny's consumption of cigarette-like coco-patches makes her fat, everyone assumes she's pregnant. [[spoiler:Almost everyone eats the cocoa-patches and are mistakened to be pregnant, but L'il-One reverses this condition to the others by pressing their bellies so they can break wind.]]

A French [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] comedy animated series debuted in 2013 about a huge family of white, big nosed CartoonCreature people, based on the ''Petit Dernier'' preschool PictureBooks by Didier Lévy and Frédéric Benaglia, adapted by Virginie Boda, and produced by 4.21 Productions.

The show closely highlights several family members, but the actual central characters are the youngest child L'il-One and the family's gambling matriarch Granny. Ma is an inventor and Pa is a gardener, and they frequently cuddle in bed. Their other children include the tall and tired Pfff, the fashionable melancholic Caprice, the physically strong Triceps, the head-loosing thinker Ditzy, the eccentric artist Fynartz, the mischievous twins Bother and Blister, the scaredy cat Ohoh, and the lion costumed King. The Crumpets' neighbor is Ms. [=McBrisk=], who lives with her beautiful daughter Cassandra. Pa's rich swindling brother is Uncle Hurried, whose wife is Aunt Harried and their adopted son is Gorgeous Cordless.

Season One consists of 52 episodes. On 2017, a new season with 52 more episodes and known as ''Teen Crumpets'' debuted, because [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm feedback]] for the first season summarizes that the teens and tweens are the show's most popular characters. In April 2018, the show won the "12+" category award in that year's Cartoons On The Bay in Italy.

Despite the adaptation source, [[CrapsaccharineWorld colorful visuals, adorable characters]], and being broadcast in children's programming, the show contains a hefty amount of inappropriate material to kids such as sexual themes, suicidal behavior, animal cruelty, and occasional gruesome violence.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not about a loaf of bread]][[note]]unless if you count the side effect of eating a certain brew[[/note]] or a 2015 food ad campaign using ''Series/TheMuppetShow''.

* AdaptationExpansion: The show has more detail on members of the Crumpet family, having way more members than in the books, and their relatives and friends.

* AshesToCrashes: In "Murder Everywhere", the ashes of Rudy Swan is missing from his urn. [[spoiler:Ditzy found the urn in a cupboard and pours the ashes to a sugar container, leading to the hallucinations of the others. But when the winner of the auction for the urn arrives, Granny burns the inflatable "Jolly John" to ashes and pours the remains to the urn in addition to Rudy's glasses.]]

* BalloonBelly: In "Lil Wrinkly One", Granny gets one after she eats some of her chocolate cigarettes she took out of storage. [[spoiler:The other characters eating the confection get these too.]]

* BeYourself: In "Super Pfff", Pa speculates that Pfff sleeps to hide his insecurities, and that if he loves himself he can be a successful person. [[spoiler:Pfff gets to love "himself" (who is actually Cassandra looking like him) in the tornado.]]

* BrickJoke: In "Acne Dents Happen", Ms. [=McBrisk=] complains without evidence that it's the 327th time Cassandra left the lights on in the house. At the very end, she complains that it's the 328th time .

* CoolAirship: Caprice's fans dispatch a blimp decorated after her so they can rescue their idol from her final suicide attempt in "Going Viral".

* ForgottenBirthday: In "[=CrumStep=]", Ma's birthday is forgotten by the children and Granny despite Pa making a couple of reminders. Lasts until the BattleOfTheBands, when Ma halts the concert and she and Pa directs everyone to celebrate her birthday.
* FunnyOctopus: Grownboy's pet José in "Octosquito", who fuses with a mosquito in a machine and creates trouble by shooting ink at the Crumpets.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Ma's duplicating machine in "Taxidermama" malfunctions as a result of T-Bone stealing the power cord. It distorts its output rather than merely cloning them. She grows her worthlessness as she can't figure out how to make it act normal.

* {{Handguns}}: Ma fires a starting pistol to commence Triceps' reshuffle of the house in "Shake It Up", hitting two birds above.

* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:A gay example, between Grownboy and Steve]] in "Cheep Shot". [[spoiler:Even the computer assisting the wedding recognizes the actual sexes of the married couple.]]

* HollywoodVoodoo: Caprice, Granny, and L'il-One participate in their own voodoo ceremony one night in "Ghost In The Attic", where they destroy dozens of {{Voodoo Doll}}s representing the former's classmates and families, and allegedly hear voices which in reality come from Ma and Pa making out and Ms. [=McBrisk=] complaining.

* ImmoralRealityShow: The titular game show in "My Family's Full of losers" pits a family to a slap fight and one member can [[spoiler:gun down others]], and losers are kicked out to the moon.
* InstantHomeDelivery: Cordless' orders of fast food and gifts for Ms. [=McBrisk=] have gone through this in seconds by helicopter in "The Courting Of Ms. [=McBrisk=]".

* InterruptedSuicide: In "[=CrumStep=]", Caprice tries to get herself hit by lightning but it strikes and injures Pfff. She also tries to [[BuriedAlive bury herself alive]] in a dug plot with the help of T-Bone the dog, but a fan-dispatched blimp that looks like her drops a hook-attached rope that she grabs and lifts.

* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: Pa refuses to let L'il-One watch ''Werezombies and Chainsaws'', and throws him to his crib in "Hairifying". L'il-One secretly watches the movie from a plant pot and is bothered by the movie's scary content. Ohoh, who sits at the front, does too obviously.
* LandfillBeyondTheStars: In "My Family's Full of Losers", the moon is littered with junk from the Earth.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The show has approximately 20 regular roles and lots of background Crumpet children.

* LookMaIAmOnTV: In "Road Stories", Caprice does this to her family and Cassandra when she and Granny appear in the group of incoming participants in the TV show.