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I took a look the final episode and see that it's a clip show.

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*ClipShow' During the final episode it begin with witch remembering painful moments she had with scenes from past episodes later in the episode all the characters from the stories the triplets were sent talk about what the witch did with clips from past episodes.
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* ButtMonkey: The Bored Witch is this alongside her pet Owl Ocho

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* ButtMonkey: The Bored Witch is this alongside and sometime her pet Owl OchoBuho
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* Butt Monkey: The Bored Witch is this alongside her pet Owl Ocho

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* Butt Monkey: ButtMonkey: The Bored Witch is this alongside her pet Owl Ocho
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I took a look at the series and noticed the Bored Witch is a Butt Monkey.

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*Butt Monkey: The Bored Witch is this alongside her pet Owl Ocho
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* FriendlyEnemy: Even though she sends the Triplets to fairytales when they misbehave, on the rare instances the kids are in actual danger she either rescues them or looks genuinelly worried about them.

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* FriendlyEnemy: Even though she the Bored Witch sends the Triplets to fairytales when they misbehave, on the rare instances the kids are in actual danger she either rescues them or looks genuinelly worried about them.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Teresa, The Bored Witch, Anna and Helena.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Teresa, The Bored Witch, Owl, Anna and Helena.]]
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The show features a trio of mice whose role more or less boils down to this. They can often be seen humorously re-enacting scenes from the various stories, but don't really have much significance beyond that.
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* LighterAndSofter: The episodes exclude or severely tone down any violence or other dark elements from the stories they adapt to keep it child friendly.

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* LighterAndSofter: The episodes exclude or either severely tone down or entirely remove any violence or other dark elements from the stories they adapt to keep it child friendly. child-friendly.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the episode adapting Oliver Twist, Fagin is changed from a shady guy that only takes in Oliver to make him part of his gang of young thieves to a wealthy man that adopts Oliver after saving him from Sikes.


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* LighterAndSofter: The episodes exclude or severely tone down any violence or other dark elements from the stories they adapt to keep it child friendly.
* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: The episode that adapts ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' has guest appearances of characters from many other stories, whom The Triplets already encountered in previous episodes based on those stories.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Technically she's the villain of the show, but the purpose of The Bored Witch's punishments to the triplets is to make them learn their lessons, and she always keeps her word of bringing them back when the tale reaches its ending. On the other hand, she's not above [[VillainTeamUp teaming up with the]] VillainOfTheWeek from time to time...

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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Technically she's the villain of the show, but the purpose of The Bored Witch's punishments to the triplets is to make them learn their lessons, and she always keeps her word of bringing them back when the tale reaches its ending. On the other hand, she's not above [[VillainTeamUp teaming up with the]] VillainOfTheWeek from time to time... Averted in her spin off, however, where she is straight up good.
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* FriendlyEnemy: Even though she sends the Triplets to fairytales when they misbehave, on the rare instances the kids are in actual danger she either rescues them or looks genuinelly worried about them.
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* AesopEnforcer: The Bored Witch always punishes the Triplets by sending them to stories so they learn their lesson.
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* SettingUpdate: The adaptation of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'' has cars rather than wagons.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Technically she's the villain of the show, but the purpose of The Bored Witch's punishments to the triplets is to make them learn their lessons, and she always keeps her word of bringing them back when the tale reaches its ending. On the other hand, she's not above teaming up with the VillainOfTheWeek from time to time...

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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Technically she's the villain of the show, but the purpose of The Bored Witch's punishments to the triplets is to make them learn their lessons, and she always keeps her word of bringing them back when the tale reaches its ending. On the other hand, she's not above [[VillainTeamUp teaming up with the the]] VillainOfTheWeek from time to time...
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The Bored Witch would eventually get her own short-lived spinoff series, also called ''La Bruixa Avorrida''.


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* EvilerThanThou: The Queen of Night towards the Bored Witch.


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* FatBastard: The Bored Witch, who is both rotund and nasty.
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* ChristmasEpisode: Episode 56, "Santa Claus".
* CircusEpisode: Episoded 57, "In the Circus".
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The few episodes that weren't really based on a [[PublicDomainStories Public Domain Story]] instead featured historical characters such as Cleopatra, UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus or Antoni Gaudí.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The few episodes that weren't really based on a [[PublicDomainStories Public {{Public Domain Story]] Stor|ies}}y instead featured historical characters such as Cleopatra, UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus or Antoni Gaudí.
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* SameSexTriplets: Anna, Teresa and Helena.
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** In the he episode about ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' the three protagonists themselves are tickled by a group of natives before Robinson rescues them.

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** In the he episode about ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' the three protagonists themselves are tickled by a group of natives before Robinson rescues them.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Teresa, The Bored Witch, Anna and Helena.]]
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** The episode about ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' the three protagonists themselves are tickled by a group of natives before Robinson rescues them.

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** The In the he episode about ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' the three protagonists themselves are tickled by a group of natives before Robinson rescues them.
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* TalkingAnimal: The witch's pet owl, who often acts as TheConscience for her.

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* TalkingAnimal: The witch's pet owl, who often acts as TheConscience for her.her.
* TickleTorture: Used twice.
** The episode about ''Literature/OliverTwist'' has Oliver tortured this way by Sikes for information about a stolen clock.
** The episode about ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' the three protagonists themselves are tickled by a group of natives before Robinson rescues them.
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* PublicDomainStories: Most episodes were based on one.

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* PublicDomainStories: Most episodes were based on one. During the series' run the triplets found themselves in ''Literature/AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves'', ''Literature/DonQuixote'', ''Literature/TheBremenTownMusicians'' and ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' to name a few.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Technically she's the villain of the show, but the purpose of The Bored Witch's punishments to the triplets is to make them learn their lessons, and she always keeps her word of bringing them back when the tale reaches its ending.

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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Technically she's the villain of the show, but the purpose of The Bored Witch's punishments to the triplets is to make them learn their lessons, and she always keeps her word of bringing them back when the tale reaches its ending. On the other hand, she's not above teaming up with the VillainOfTheWeek from time to time...
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* ExpositoryThemeTune: One of the lines from the theme tune perfectly sums up the whole concept: "If the witch punishes us, there's another story to tell."
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: Technically she's the villain of the show, but the purpose of The Bored Witch's punishments to the triplets is to make them learn their lessons, and she always keeps her word of bringing them back when the tale reaches its ending.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The few episodes that weren't really based on a [[PublicDomainStories Public Domain Story]] instead featured historical characters such as Cleopatra, UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus or Antoni Gaudí.



* PublicDomainStories: Pretty much every episode is based on one.

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* AnachronismStew: Mostly PlayedForLaughs. Could you imagine Ali Baba's forty thieves getting distracted by a camel race on TV or Dr. Frankenstein working as a veterinarian? Well, those two happened on this show.



* DubNameChange: For the English dub, Anna, Teresa and Helena were renamed Annie, Tessa and Nellie respectively.

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For the English dub, Anna, Teresa and Helena were renamed Annie, Tessa and Nellie respectively.respectively.
** The Bored Witch was known as Camomille in the French dub.
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'''''The Triplets''''' (original title in Catalan: ''Les tres bessones'') was a Catalan animated series created by Roser Capdevila and produced by Cromosoma and Televisió de Catalunya, also aired dubbed to Spanish for the rest of Spain on TVE.

The main characters were the titular triplets, Anna, Teresa and Helena, who were punished by The Bored Witch ("La Bruixa Avorrida"), who worked as their day sitter, every time she caught them making a mischief. Her method of punishment? Sending them into a popular tale where they would have to help the protagonists to get out of it and learn their lesson.

!!This series provides examples of:
* BigEater: Helena, whose love for food and sweets in particular sometimes meant trouble for the triplets.
* BreakoutVillain: The Bored Witch was popular enough to land her own SpinOff.
* ColorCodedCharacters / IdenticalTwinIDTag: The triplets' ribbons, and the shirts they wore under their overalls: pink for Teresa, blue for Anna, green for Helena.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: As mentioned, the favorite method of The Bored Witch to punish the triplets is to make them live out a tale.
* DubNameChange: For the English dub, Anna, Teresa and Helena were renamed Annie, Tessa and Nellie respectively.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: It is explicitly mentioned that The Bored Witch's first name really is Bored.
* MustHaveCaffeine: The owl needs coffee to stay awake during the day.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: It's implied that the witch's age is literally 700.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The three mice that always accompanied the triplets, and could often be seen parodying a scene from the tale of the week.
* TalkingAnimal: The witch's pet owl, who often acts as TheConscience for her.

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