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* HatePlague: Guysborough's first appearance had this effect.
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* HatePlague: Guysborough's first appearance had this effect.known for causing everyone to be grouchy that in "Grumpy Garbage Barge" caused everyone in the Big Harbour to be grumpy. Ever since then, Theodore who usually takes Guysborough has to tow him quickly out of everyone's way before his grouchiness affects anyone.
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* JerkAss: Guysborough the Garbage Barge.
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* JerkAss: JerkAss:
** Guysborough the Garbage Barge.
** Guysborough the Garbage Barge.
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* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Nautilus is clearly meant to be a destroyer escort, but has no visible gun turrets, likely for this reason.
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* FeudEpisode: In "Theodore in the Middle", George and Emily have a feud when George makes an official complaint of Emily for her constant lateness to the morning work meeting.
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* AnAesopAnAesop: The overall goal of the show.
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* TrueCompanionsTrueCompanions: The tugs, no matter what conflict comes between them, are loyal to each other to the end.
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* WelcomeEpisodeWelcomeEpisode: "Theodore and the Big Harbor." Unusually, it was the ''last'' episode aired for Season 1.
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*ButtMonkey: Digby the cable ship, who tends to get himself stuck frequently.
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* FunnyForeigner: Snorri the Viking Ship.
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** ''Emily and the Sleep-Over'' has Emily, Carla, and Dorothy telling spooky stories.
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** ''Emily and the Sleep-Over'' has Emily, Carla, and Dorothy telling spooky stories. A series of coincidences caused them to believe that they were reliving one of the stories.
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* MeaningfulName: The fact that shifty ship from ''Hank's Funny Feeling'' is called S.S."''Malarkey''" should be a clear sign that he's not being entirely truthful.
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**Cabot from "Theodore and the Unsafe Ship". Not only was he incredibly careless with his cargo and disobeyed Theodore, but he recklessly sailed around the Big Harbor and endangered the other ships. It takes Theodore tricking him into beaching himself and forcibly towing him from behind to get Cabot to learn his lesson.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: in ''Theodore In The Middle'' George puts in an official complaint about Emily being late. In any workplace, being late for work is a problem, especially since the morning work meeting was often delayed due to Emily's lateness.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: in ''Theodore In The Middle'' George puts in an official complaint about Emily being late. In any workplace, being late for work is a problem, especially since While George was most likely motivated by his own pride, Emily's lateness ''was'' delaying the morning work meeting was often delayed due to Emily's lateness.meeting.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: in ''Theodore In The Middle'' George puts in an official complaint about Emily being late. In any workplace, being late for work is a problem, especially since the morning work meeting was often delayed due to Emily's lateness.
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''Theodore Tugboat'' is a children's show about the adventures of Theodore Tugboat and his friends George, Emily, Foduck, and Hank. The Harbourmaster (played by Denny Doherty of TheMamasAndThePapas) introduces the stories.
It was produced by Robert Cardona, co-producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}'', making this a SpiritualSuccessor of said show. Both are centered on the harbour activities of a fleet of tugboats who wear hats. Unlike TUGS, which was set in TheRoaringTwenties and were essentially models mounted on trolleys pulled by fishing line, the setting of ''Theodore'' is much more modern and the characters are radio-controlled.
It was produced by Robert Cardona, co-producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}'', making this a SpiritualSuccessor of said show. Both are centered on the harbour activities of a fleet of tugboats who wear hats. Unlike TUGS, which was set in TheRoaringTwenties and were essentially models mounted on trolleys pulled by fishing line, the setting of ''Theodore'' is much more modern and the characters are radio-controlled.
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''Theodore Tugboat'' is a children's show about the adventures of Theodore Tugboat and his friends George, Emily, Foduck, and Hank. The Harbourmaster (played by Denny Doherty of TheMamasAndThePapas) Music/TheMamasAndThePapas) introduces the stories.
It was produced by Robert Cardona, co-producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}'', making this a SpiritualSuccessor of said show. Both are centered on the harbour activities of a fleet of tugboats who wear hats. UnlikeTUGS, ''TUGS'', which was set in TheRoaringTwenties and were essentially models mounted on trolleys pulled by fishing line, the setting of ''Theodore'' is much more modern and the characters are radio-controlled.
It was produced by Robert Cardona, co-producer of ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}'', making this a SpiritualSuccessor of said show. Both are centered on the harbour activities of a fleet of tugboats who wear hats. Unlike
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* FramingDevice: Each episode began and ended with the Harbourmaster telling the viewers about a problem he's having that's similar to the story he is going to tell.
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* FramingDevice: Each episode began and ended with the Harbourmaster telling talking to the viewers the viewers. In the first segment, he would tell them about a problem he's having that's similar to the story he is going to tell.tell, and in the second segment he summed up the story's moral.
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* HiccupHijinks: In "Hank's Hiccups", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hank gets a case of the hiccups]] and accidentally bumps into Jennifer, a cargo ship he and his friends are pulling into the loading dock. Hank decides not to work until his hiccups are cured, so his friends try different ways to cure his hiccups, all of which were met with dead ends. His hiccups disappear when he and Bobby pull a fishing net out of Theodore and Emily's path ([[ChekhovsGag which had earlier been knocked off of Fundy the Fishing boat during one of Hank's attempts to get rid of his hiccups]]).
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** ''Emily and the Sleep-Over'' has Emily, Carla, and Dorothy telling spooky stories.
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* GhostStory: ''George's Ghost'' starts out with the Harbourmaster telling the story of the FlyingDutchman. It also deals with Theodore and George seeing a ghost ship
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* GhostStory: ''George's Ghost'' starts out with the Harbourmaster telling the story of the FlyingDutchman. It also deals with Theodore and George seeing a ghost shipship [[spoiler: which turns out to be Digby, who ran aground in a storm.]]
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* FreudianSlip: ''George's Ghost'' is full of them.
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-->Thanks for visiting us here at The Big Harbor. We'll see you all again next time!
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* ShoutOut: In the episode "Bedford's Big Move", the Harbourmaster receives cookies from his mother that are shaped like Sunshine from ''{{TUGS}}''. Some of the character names coincide with other characters' names in ''TUGS'', such as Lilly Lighthouse (Lillie Lightship).
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* ShoutOut: In the episode "Bedford's Big Move", the Harbourmaster receives cookies from his mother that are shaped like Sunshine from ''{{TUGS}}''.''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}''. Some of the character names coincide with other characters' names in ''TUGS'', such as Lilly Lighthouse (Lillie Lightship). Theodore himself also resembles Sunshine quite a bit.
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* HatesBaths: Guysborough loves garbage and hates being cleaned. When Foduck tried to clean him in "Foduck and the Shy Ship", Guysborough thought he was melting.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Theodore and the Boat Bully", the normally [[NoIndoorVoice loud and easily excited]] Owan becomes very quiet and unenthusiastic when he finds out that Oliver the Vast, a visiting JerkJock tug, is coming to the big harbor to take him to the ocean to work.
* ThePigPen: Guysborough. Though being a garbage barge, it isn't surprising.
* ThePigPen: Guysborough. Though being a garbage barge, it isn't surprising.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: The stuff the tugs get when a ship named Scally comes to visit, who likes to collect lots of weird knick-knacks.
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* SleepyHead: Northumberland Submarine. However, he only does so in the daytime, as he works primarily at night.
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It was produced by Robert Cardona, co-producer of ''{{TUGS}}'', making this a SpiritualSuccessor of said show. Both are centered on the harbour activities of a fleet of tugboats who wear hats. Unlike TUGS, which was set in TheRoaringTwenties and were essentially models mounted on trolleys pulled by fishing line, the setting of ''Theodore'' is much more modern and the characters are radio-controlled.
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It was produced by Robert Cardona, co-producer of ''{{TUGS}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}'', making this a SpiritualSuccessor of said show. Both are centered on the harbour activities of a fleet of tugboats who wear hats. Unlike TUGS, which was set in TheRoaringTwenties and were essentially models mounted on trolleys pulled by fishing line, the setting of ''Theodore'' is much more modern and the characters are radio-controlled.
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* TheGhost: The Harbormaster's friend Rodney, who often has something to do with whatever is going on but never really shows up, along with any other humans in the show.
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* PokemonSpeak: Donald Dock. All he can say is "Uh-huh".
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* PokemonSpeak: Donald Dock. All he can say is "Uh-huh". The junk dock Jasper can only say "nope". Apparently it's common for docks to only be able to say one word.
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''Theodore Tugboat'' is a children's show about the adventures of Theodore Tugboat and his friends George, Emily, Foduck, and Hank. The Harbourmaster (played by Denny Doherty of TheMamasAndThePapas) introduces the stories.
It was produced by Robert Cardona, co-producer of ''{{TUGS}}'', making this a SpiritualSuccessor of said show. Both are centered on the harbour activities of a fleet of tugboats who wear hats. Unlike TUGS, which was set in TheRoaringTwenties and were essentially models mounted on trolleys pulled by fishing line, the setting of ''Theodore'' is much more modern and the characters are radio-controlled.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AchillesInHisTent: Two occasions. Once with Hank and once with Guysborough the Garbage Barge.
* AnAesop
* CanadaEh: The show takes place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with many characters named after places around Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, the Maritimes, and Atlantic Canada.
* TheCaptain
* {{Comrades}}
* CoolBigSis: Emily.
* CoolBoat
* FearlessFool: Carla the Cabin Cruiser.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Theodore.
** TheLancer: Hank.
** TheBigGuy: George.
** TheSmartGuy: Foduck.
** TheChick: Emily.
* HatePlague: Guysborough's first appearance had this effect.
* HeavySleeper: Northumberland the Submarine.
* JerkAss: Guysborough the Garbage Barge.
* JerkassFacade: Theodore in episode ''Bumper Buddies''.
* JerkJock: One shot character Oliver The Vast.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: George.
* KidAppealCharacter: Hank.
* LargeHam: Owan the Oil Rig.
* NiceHat: The entire tugboat fleet are identified by them.
* PokemonSpeak: Donald Dock. All he can say is "Uh-huh".
* RookieRedRanger: Theodore.
* ShoutOut: In the episode "Bedford's Big Move", the Harbourmaster receives cookies from his mother that are shaped like Sunshine from ''{{TUGS}}''. Some of the character names coincide with other characters' names in ''TUGS'', such as Lilly Lighthouse (Lillie Lightship).
* SuperSpeed: ''Hank, you're the fastest Tug in the big harbour!''
* TheMagnificent: Emily the Vigorous, George the Valiant, and Foduck The Vigilant.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: An instrumental of the main theme starts blaring as Theodore is doing something heroic/cool.
* ThemeTuneRollCall
* {{Tsundere}}: Emily is a good example of a Type-B Tsundere.
* TwinSwitch: Phillip and Philmore the ferry twins do it often as a joke.
* WelcomeEpisode
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It was produced by Robert Cardona, co-producer of ''{{TUGS}}'', making this a SpiritualSuccessor of said show. Both are centered on the harbour activities of a fleet of tugboats who wear hats. Unlike TUGS, which was set in TheRoaringTwenties and were essentially models mounted on trolleys pulled by fishing line, the setting of ''Theodore'' is much more modern and the characters are radio-controlled.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AchillesInHisTent: Two occasions. Once with Hank and once with Guysborough the Garbage Barge.
* AnAesop
* CanadaEh: The show takes place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with many characters named after places around Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, the Maritimes, and Atlantic Canada.
* TheCaptain
* {{Comrades}}
* CoolBigSis: Emily.
* CoolBoat
* FearlessFool: Carla the Cabin Cruiser.
* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Theodore.
** TheLancer: Hank.
** TheBigGuy: George.
** TheSmartGuy: Foduck.
** TheChick: Emily.
* HatePlague: Guysborough's first appearance had this effect.
* HeavySleeper: Northumberland the Submarine.
* JerkAss: Guysborough the Garbage Barge.
* JerkassFacade: Theodore in episode ''Bumper Buddies''.
* JerkJock: One shot character Oliver The Vast.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: George.
* KidAppealCharacter: Hank.
* LargeHam: Owan the Oil Rig.
* NiceHat: The entire tugboat fleet are identified by them.
* PokemonSpeak: Donald Dock. All he can say is "Uh-huh".
* RookieRedRanger: Theodore.
* ShoutOut: In the episode "Bedford's Big Move", the Harbourmaster receives cookies from his mother that are shaped like Sunshine from ''{{TUGS}}''. Some of the character names coincide with other characters' names in ''TUGS'', such as Lilly Lighthouse (Lillie Lightship).
* SuperSpeed: ''Hank, you're the fastest Tug in the big harbour!''
* TheMagnificent: Emily the Vigorous, George the Valiant, and Foduck The Vigilant.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: An instrumental of the main theme starts blaring as Theodore is doing something heroic/cool.
* ThemeTuneRollCall
* {{Tsundere}}: Emily is a good example of a Type-B Tsundere.
* TwinSwitch: Phillip and Philmore the ferry twins do it often as a joke.
* WelcomeEpisode
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