History WesternAnimation / TimothyGoesToSchool

* AbsenteeActor: Lilly is curiously absent in ''The Treefort and the Sandcastle''. In this story, the boys split into one club in a treefort, while the girls take over the sandbox and build a sandcastle, but Lilly is not part of the group of girls, nor is she even mentioned, despite the events of the story taking place over at least two days.

* AdaptedOut: Hazel was one of the students in the books but she doesn't appear in the show at all. Nora's sister is also absent even though she was in the original ''Noisy Nora'' book (she, however, is mentioned by Nora on the episode "My Family").

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the series some of Wells characters act a lot nicer than in the books that they appeared in.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Charles' father has brown coloured fur while he was grey in the original ''Shy Charles'' book.

*** On the topic of Nora and Charles fur color in the show and books. In some of the books their ears would sometimes be completely pink or mostly colored gray.
* AdaptationExpansion: In the first episode which adapts the original "Timothy Goes To School" book. While not that much changes were made the most notable is the ending. The original ending has Violet (who doesn't appear in the series) and Timothy becoming friends and the last page shows Claude and Grace (a bunny who is also exclusive to the book, not the cat character from the series) laughing at them but both end up ignoring them. The ending in the series shows Timothy and Yoko playing tag after Yoko tells Timothy about Claude's showoff behavior.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Timothy's personality was changed a little on the series. In the original book, he was seen crying a few times and even wishing something bad would happen to Claude.

* [[AllThereInTheManual All There In The Books]]: Yoko's mother would sometimes bring up the other family members who are still living in Japan along with mentioning her daughter's early memories of living in Japan as a toddler. While we do see a glimpse of Yoko's grandfather in the episode ''The Taketombo'', we never actually see the other family members of Yoko in the show or even see the rest of Japan in general. In 2001, Wells made a book called "Yoko's Paper Cranes" where you can actually see Yoko as a very young kitten still living with her grandma and grandpa along with seeing cranes. We also see Yoko and her grandmother Obaasan feeding cranes, having tea, and her grandfather Ojisaan showing her how to make paper cranes. This is also the only time Yoko's grandmother and grandfather is actually seen until their reappearance 10 years later, in the 2011 book ''Yoko's Show-And-Tell'' where her grandparents are visiting Yoko's home for Girls Day.

* AlphaBitch: Grace can be this sometimes but [[LovableAlphaBitch she means well]].
* AlternateContinuity: The ''Yoko and Friends'' beginning reader books have many of the same characters, but cast Yoko in central role and eliminate at least a couple of the characters. Certain stories are versions of the TV episodes, but cast different characters in the main roles and have other variations. The ''Yoko'' picture books go even further. Mrs. Jenkins is still the teacher, but most of the other major characters from the TV series are absent and Yoko's mother is depicted differently. For example, in the TV show, she reluctantly allows Yoko to bring special toys to school, only for bad stuff to happen to them. In the ''Yoko's Show-and-Tell'' picture book, her mother disallows her to bring a special toy to school, but she disobeys and it gets wrecked and has to go to a doll hospital.

* ArgumentOfContradictions: In "Rocky Friendship," Fritz and Charles have an argument that eventually descends into this when they each find a rock at the same time and are unsuccessful in sharing it.

* AsideGlance: In the end of the episode ''Frankless Frank'' Timothy looks at the audience and says "Here We Go Again" when one of the Franks get sick after the other is now better.

* BirdsOfAFeather: Timothy and Yoko, Charles and Lilly, and Claude and Grace tend to hang around each other a lot.
* TheBully: Claude is a much LighterAndSofter variant, especially in the first episode.

* CanonImmigrant[=/=]CanonForeigner: Juanita was exclusive to AnimatedAdaptation, only showing up in the final two episodes. After the show ended in 2004, Juanita showed up in more of the ''Yoko & Friends'' books such as [[http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1178318816l/784677.jpg "Make New Friends"]] and "Timothy's Tales At Hilltop School", which features Juanita making a cameo in one page.
* CharacterActionTitle

* CuteKitten: Yoko, Juanita, and oddly Grace.
* DisappearedDad: Yoko, Lilly and Fritz (although, according to several of the original books, Yoko's father lives in Japan).
* EdutainmentShow

* ExpositoryThemeTune:

* FantasyHelmetEnforcement

* {{Funny Animal}}s

* FurryReminder: These are pretty rare, the cast generally behaves like humans. Frank and Frank, who are anthropomorphic dogs, are the only characters where this is treated a bit more loosely. They tend to be rather messy in eating their food, and in ''Get Well Soon'' they try to drink water directly out of the faucet at school. When Mrs. Appleberry tells them not to, they tell her that "[[BlatantLies Mrs. Jenkins lets us do it]]", only for her to pull out a letter from Mrs. Jenkins-- "Dear Frank and Frank, Please listen to Mrs. Appleberry and no drinking from the faucet. Signed, Mrs. Jenkins."

* GentleGiant: Doris in episode ''You're Invited''.

* GoodParents: Every parent of each student at Hilltop School is this. But especially the mothers such as Timothy's mom, Yoko's mother, and later Juanita's mother.
* {{Half Dressed Cartoon Animal}}s: [[PantslessMalesFullyDressedFemales The male cast]], except Charles and Timothy when he wore suspenders in the first episode [[note]] he also wears these in the original 1981 book and 1998's "Yoko" [[/note]].

* HugeGirlTinyGuy: Doris and Charles in "Paint By Numbers" and "Measuring Up".

* IronicEchoCut: "Get Well Soon" opens with Timothy, Nora, Frank, and Frank all telling their parents that "Mrs. Jenkins is the best!"

* MissingMom: The Franks and Claude.
* MythologyGag: In the episode "The Music Tree" Nora can be seen wearing a pot on her heard. This is a reference to one of the ways of getting her mother's attention in the original book "Noisy Nora".

* NeverSayDie: In "Lifesaver Lilly", Doris begins to suggest that Goldie the goldfish might be dead, but is interrupted by Lilly coming in with Goldie before she says it.

* NoCartoonFish

* TheOneWhoWearsShoes: Lilly and Mrs. Jenkins.

* PutOnABus: Fritz, but [[TheBusCameBack the bus comes back]]. Also Mrs. Appleberry.
* RecapEpisode: "Many Happy Returns". The second story of the episode also has some flashbacks.

* TheRival: Claude can be this to Timothy until after "Taking the Plunge."
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Charles in class; Doris at home.

** PlayingATree: Almost all of the characters play fictionalized, anthropomorphized versions of things like toothbrushes, toothpaste and teeth.

* SliceOfLife

* StartMyOwn: "The Treefort and the Sandcastle".

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Happens when Frank and Frank try to avoid telling their father that they broke one of Yoko's toys.

* TalkingAnimal

* ThemeTuneCameo: The show's theme tune is used for the "Welcome Song" performed in the show's premiere episode.
* TitleCharacter: Yoko of the second episode.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Doris and Grace, when they go to dancing classes together.

* ValentinesDayEpisode: "Be My Valentine".
* VocalEvolution: In the episode where the school is having a day where two team members race, both Claude and Grace's voices sound deep and a little older.

* WorldOfFunnyAnimals

* DisappearedDad: Yoko and Lilly (although, according to several of the original books, Yoko's father lives in Japan).

''Timothy Goes To School'' is a children's animated series that ran from 2000 to 2001. Produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}}, it follows the day-to-day life of Timothy, a 5-year-old raccoon who attends kindergarten, and the rest of his classmates. Once seen on Creator/PBSKids Bookworm Bunch, it later aired on Discovery Kids until 2006. Most if not all installments of the series are available on DVD. Some were U.S. releases, others were in Canada, which makes them region 1, but potentially challenging to find. The series was later added to Creator/{{Qubo}} in the United States and the show has also been made available freely in many regions by Creator/TreehouseTV on Creator/YouTube.

* CanonImmigrant[=/=]CanonForeigner: Juanita was exclusive to AnimatedAdaptation of TimothyGoesToSchool only showing up in the final two episodes. After the show ended in 2004, Juanita showed up in more of the ''Yoko & Friends'' books such as [[http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1178318816l/784677.jpg "Make New Friends"]] and "Timothy's Tales At Hilltop School", which features Juanita making a cameo in one page.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Charle's father has brown colored fur while he was grey in the original ''Shy Charles'' book.

''Timothy Goes To School'' is a children's animated series that ran from 2000 to 2001. Produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}}, it follows the day-to-day life of Timothy, a 5-year-old raccoon who attends kindergarten, and the rest of his classmates. Once seen on Creator/PBSKids Bookworm Bunch, it later aired on Discovery Kids until 2006. Most if not all installments of the series are available on DVD. Some were U.S. releases, others were in Canada, which makes them region 1, but potentially challenging to find. The series was later added to {{Qubo}} in the United States and the show has also been made available freely in many regions by Creator/TreehouseTV on Creator/YouTube.

[[caption-width-right:350:''Timothy Goes to School'' main cast[[note]]From left to right: Lilly, Claude, Timothy, Doris, Charles, Yoko. (Not pictured: Fritz, Nora, Grace, The Franks, Mrs. Jenkins)[[/note]]]]

''Timothy Goes To School'' is a children's animated series that ran from 2000 to 2001. Produced by {{Nelvana}}, it follows the day-to-day life of Timothy, a 5-year-old raccoon who attends kindergarten, and the rest of his classmates. Once seen on Creator/PBSKids Bookworm Bunch, it later aired on Discovery Kids until 2006. Most if not all installments of the series are available on DVD. Some were U.S. releases, others were in Canada, which makes them region 1, but potentially challenging to find. The series was later added to {{Qubo}} in the United States and the show has also been made available freely in many regions by Creator/TreehouseTV on Creator/YouTube.

This is also the first AnimatedAdaptation by {{Creator/Nelvana}} based on Creator/RosemaryWells characters, with the second being ''WesternAnimation/MaxAndRuby''.

* TheRival: Claude can be this to Timothy until after "Taking the Plunge."

* SuddenlyVoiced: Charles never talked in the original ''Shy Charles'' story, and some of the Yoko and Friends books. He's more vocal in the show compared to his debut appearance.

* ShortRunner: Since it was a weekend show, it only had 2 seasons with 13 episodes.

* TheArtifact: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/timothy_school.jpg The logo for the animated series features Timothy carrying a book in his hand without a backpack]]. In the show, Timothy is actually seen wearing a backpack along with the other students. The logo could also be a reference to the original book, where Timothy is seen carrying a book without a backpack. However since the series was created in 2000, at this point in time this hasn't been in use in school, as backpacks were easier for children to carry instead of a pile of books.

* WorldOfFunnyAnimals

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the book "The Halloween Parade", Doris' fifth-grade brother is dressed as "''Snells'' Angels", [[ParentalBonus complete with a fake motorcycle.]]
* GoodParents: Every parent of each student at Hilltop School is this. But especially the mothers such as Timothy's mom, Yoko's mother, and later Juanita's mother.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: As seen in the first episode starring Doris. It appears that Doris's tendency to talk loud and get annoyed easily appears to run in her family. As seen by Doris's mother who yells for her brothers to get downstairs but requests Doris to do it for her since she's the loudest.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Juanita, a Spanish cat, is introduced in the last two episodes.

* MeaningfulName: Nora [[NoIndoorVoice talks very loud]] which is reference to the book she debuted called Noisy Nora.

* NoCartoonFish

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the first episode Timothy is getting ready for his first day of school. When he goes on the bus for the first time, he sees a female cat who kindly says hello to him while the others are mostly quiet. This character is Yoko who would later become Timothy's best friend. In the same scene, before Timothy sees Yoko, he sees Doris, whom Timothy considers to be quite annoying and loudmouthed. In the same episode, when the class introduced themselves, Charles said his name before quickly sitting down in silence, due to his shyness. Lilly was also shown, having to think about her own name for a moment before she responded.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: It's about a raccoon named Timothy who goes to school. Averted, though, to the degree that at times it was about the activities of Timothy's friends/classmates, with Timothy only barely appearing in certain stories and said activities not always taking place at school either.

* FoodPorn: In the episode "Yoko" just about every food shown during the day when the class allowed any student to try out different foods from different cultures, including Yoko's sushi, despite what the rest of the class had to say. You don't blame Timothy for getting distracted by different smells during that day.
* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: The Franks are both male dogs while the rest of the female students (Yoko, Grace, and Juanita) are all cats. Most of the cat characters seen in the series are mostly female minus Juanita's father and Yoko's grandfather seen briefly in one episode.

* {{Funny Animal}}s

* CuteKitten: Yoko, Juanita, and oddly Grace.
* CallBack: When Fritz moves away, two of the characters give him artwork that match their art style displayed in "Paint by Numbers."

* ChildrenVoicingChildren: A total of 4 child characters are voiced by actual children.

* CityWithNoName: The town where the series is set wasn't ever identified with a name.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Timothy's personality was changed a little on the series. In the original book, he was seen crying a few times and even wishing something bad would happen to Claude.
** Nora was mischievous in the books (such as ''Noisy Nora'') but is more of a BrattyHalfPint in the show.

* AdultFear: In ''Shy Charles'' where Timothy gets locked behind a door. He starts calling out for help with only Charles to notify the entire school by ringing the bell when he hears his voice. It's currently recess and the other students and Miss Jenkins are outside and Henry the janitor has walked off. Now imagine that happening to your child at a store or school with nobody around and being left all alone for a very long time.
* AdaptedOut: Hazel was one of the students in the books but she doesn't appear in the show at all. Nora's sister is also absent even though she was in the original ''Noisy Nora'' book (she, however, is mentioned by Nora on the episode "My Family").
** Violet (Timothy's original first friend) from the original book is absent in the show and later books, being replaced by Yoko.
* AbsenteeActor: Lilly is curiously absent in ''The Treefort and the Sandcastle''. In this story, the boys split into one club in a treefort, while the girls take over the sandbox and build a sandcastle, but Lilly is not part of the group of girls, nor is she even mentioned, despite the events of the story taking place over at least two days.
** It also happens in ''Paint by Numbers'' in which Fritz doesn't appear at all, nor is he mentioned.
* AesopAmnesia: Generally averted. When the kids learned a lesson on the show, it tended to stick. For example, in ''On the Fritz'', Fritz realized that there was no mess fairy and he needed to clean up after himself. Him being messy was never shown as an issue again in the series, despite the story's HereWeGoAgain ending with Fritz having made another mess with the cleaning supplies in the process of cleaning Timothy's seashells. In ''Small Change'', Nora learns to accept and even like change and she is never shown having an issue with it again. And if Lilly still sometimes forgets things, it can be [[JustifiedTrope forgiven]], as it's difficult for her, and she does try very hard, sometimes succeeding.
* AlphaBitch: Grace can be this sometimes but [[LovableAlphaBitch she means well]].
* AlternateContinuity: The ''Yoko and Friends'' beginning reader books have many of the same characters, but cast Yoko in central role and eliminate at least a couple of the characters. Certain stories are versions of the TV episodes, but cast different characters in the main roles and have other variations. The ''Yoko'' picture books go even further. Mrs. Jenkins is still the teacher, but most of the other major characters from the TV series are absent and Yoko's mother is depicted differently. For example, in the TV show, she reluctantly allows Yoko to bring special toys to school, only for bad stuff to happen to them. In the ''Yoko's Show-and-Tell'' picture book, her mother disallows her to bring a special toy to school, but she disobeys and it gets wrecked and has to go to a doll hospital.
** The original 1981 book ''Timothy Goes To School'' takes this further. In it Claude makes fun of what Timothy wears on the first few days of school, like in the series, but to the point that Timothy cries and wants bad things to happen to him. Yoko and many of the other kids also aren't at the school (Timothy makes friends with a bunny named Violet at the end of the story, though), and Mrs. Jenkins is unnamed (in the original version).
* AnAesop: Pretty much every episode has one. But the show is rarely {{Anvilicious}}.
* AnachronicOrder: The show jumps from one season to another almost at random, but at least can be said that it's not [[ItsAlwaysSpring always spring]]. A special note, though, goes to the fact that ''The Big Snowfall'', which featured Lilly having her first snow day was aired after ''Lifesaver Lilly," in which Lilly rescued Goldie from the cold school building with no power after school was canceled due to a big snowfall.

* AnimatedAdaptation: Of Creator/RosemaryWells's books which separately starred several of the show's characters, such as Timothy, Yoko, Fritz, Charles and Nora. Recursively, some episodes were loosely adapted as books under the "Yoko and Friends" name, with Yoko as main character, in some cases replacing another character who was the main one in the series.
* ArgumentOfContradictions: In "Rocky Friendship," Fritz and Charles have an argument that eventually descends into this when they each find a rock at the same time and are unsuccessful in sharing it.
** Timothy and Fritz have one in "Abracadabra" after Fritz accuses Timothy of teaching Grace his magic trick, until Grace puts a stop to it by revealing that she peeked at Fritz's book.
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: In ''Scary Monsters'' when Nora is afraid of dinosaurs because she thinks they're big and scary monsters, Timothy shows her a fossil of ''Megazostrodon'' at the museum, which, while having a big-sounding name is actually very small. It was a nice lesson, but ''Megazostrodon'' wasn't actually a type of dinosaur and basically resembled a modern-day shrew. However, given that the characters are children, this can be forgiven; also Nora was generalizing "dinosaur" herself so if Timothy (and Yoko, who found the creature in question in a book) knew she was wrong, he was using her own logic to prove her wrong.

* AdaptationExpansion: In the first episode which adapts the original "Timothy Goes To School" book. While not that much changes were made the most notable is the ending. The original ending has Violet (who doesn't appear in the series) and Timothy becoming friends and the last page shows Claude and Grace (a bunny who is also exclusive to the book, not the cat character from the series) laughing at them but both end up ignoring them. The ending in the series shows Timothy and Yoko playing tag after Yoko tells Timothy about Claude's showoff behavior.
** While not that much changed in the episode "Yoko", the opening in the episode shows Yoko getting ready for school showing her putting on her dress, waking up, and looking out the windows. She also forgets her lunch made by her mother when she is about to get on the bus. The original book opening shows Yoko's mother asking about what she wants for lunch for school and shows her mother making the sushi for Yoko.

* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where The Heck is Hilltop School?]]: No clue. Given the show's focus and somewhat short run, it's somewhat understandable that the location of the school and the characters' homes wouldn't be identified.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the series some of Wells characters act a lot more nicer than in the books that they appeared in.
** Charles's parents (mainly his father) are a lot more nicer than they were in the original book version "Shy Charles" [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_inline_nl7l95uje51s8t8db.jpg where his father starts harshly calling him out on his shyness during a game of football causing Charles to cry.]]

''Timothy Goes To School'' is a children's animated series that ran from 2000 to 2001. Produced by {{Nelvana}}, it follows the day-to-day life of Timothy, a 5-year-old raccoon who attends kindergarten, and the rest of his classmates. Once seen on Creator/PBSKids Bookworm Bunch, it later aired on Discovery Kids until 2006. Most if not all installments of the series are available on DVD. Some were U.S. releases, others were in Canada, which makes them region 1, but potentially challenging to find. The series was later added to {{Qubo}} in the United States.

* RetroUniverse: Standard for a Rosemary Wells-based work; the cars look vaguely 50s/60s-ish, the clothes are more like late 90s/2000s, and TVs aren't seen.

* RetroUniverse: The show ran from 2000 - 2001 and seems to take place in that time, but the characters are dressed in clothes that would come straight out of something from the 1950s and 1960s, in addition to live in what looks like a small, rural town from that time.

->''"Anything can happen, when Timothy Goes To School''

This is also the first AnimatedAdaptation by {{Creator/Nelvana}} based on Rosemary Wells characters, with the second being ''WesternAnimation/MaxAndRuby''.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Timothy's personality was change a little on the series. In the original book, he was seen crying a few times and even wishing something bad would happen to Claude.

* AdaptedOut: Hazel was one of the students in the books but she doesn't appear in the show at all. Nora's sister is also absent even though she was in the original ''Noisy Nora'' book.

* AnimatedAdaptation: Of Creator/RosemaryWells's ''Timothy Goes to School'', and ''Yoko & Friends'' books, which cast Yoko as the main character. Additionally, two other stories, 1991's "Fritz and The Mess Fairy" and "Shy Charles," inspired some of the episodes.

* ChildrenVoicingChildren: A total of 4 child characters are voiced by actual children.
* DisappearedDad: Yoko and Lilly.

** In one episode, Timothy actually says "They died a long time ago" referring to the extinction of dinosaurs to his friends due to Nora's fear of dinosaurs.

* PutOnABus: Fritz, but [[TheBusCameBack the bus comes back]].

* RetroUniverse: The show ran from 2000 - 2001 and seems to take place in that time, but the characters are dressed in clothes that would come straight out of something from the 1950s and 1960s.

''Timothy Goes To School'' is a childrens' animated program that ran from 2000 to 2004. A {{Nelvana}} show, it follows the day-to-day life of Timothy, a 5-year-old raccoon who attends Kindergarten, and the rest of his classmates. Once seen on Creator/PBSKids Bookworm Bunch, it later aired on Discovery Kids until sometime before it was replaced by Creator/TheHub. Most if not all installments of the series are available on DVD. Some were U.S. releases, others were in Canada, which makes them region 1, but potentially challenging to find. The series was later added to {{Qubo}} in the United States.

This is also the first AnimatedAdaptation by {{Creator/Nelvana}} based on Rosemary Well's characters with the second being WesternAnimation/MaxAndRuby which came out two years later in 2002.

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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: While Timothy's personality hasn't changed that much. He was seen crying a few times in the original book version mainly in the 1981 version. He even wished something bad would happened with Claude.
** Nora was mischievous in the books (Mainly in Noisy Nora) but is more of a BrattyHalfPint in the show.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the series some of Wells characters act alot more nicer than there were in the books that they appeared in.
** Charles's parents (Mainly his father) are alot more nicer than they were in the original book version "Shy Charles" [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_inline_nl7l95uje51s8t8db.jpg where his father starts harshly calling him out on his shyness during a game of Football causing Charles to cry.]]
** Claude actually becomes friends with Timothy later in the series while in the original book version (Especially the 1981 version) never becomes friends with Timothy and continues not liking him.
* AdaptationExpansion: In the first episode which adapts the original "Timothy Goes To School" book. While not that much changes were made the most notable is the ending. The original ending (At least in the 1981 version) has Violet and Timothy becoming friends and the last page shows Claude and Grace The Bunny laughing at them but both end up ignoring them. The ending in this version shows Timothy and Yoko playing tag after Yoko tells Timothy about Claude's behavior after Timothy gets pushed by Claude since he was trying to catch the football to protect Yoko from getting hit.
** While not that much changed in the episode "Yoko", the opening in the episode shows Yoko getting ready for school showing her putting on her dress,waking up, and looking out the windows. She also forgets her lunch made by her mother when she is about to get on the bus. The original 1998 opening shows Yoko's mother asking about what she wants for lunch for school and shows her mother making the sushi for her daughter.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Charle's father has brown colored fur while he was grey in the original Shy Charles book.
** Nora is an odd example, while she is brown in the original books and in the show. She is sometimes depicated with grey fur instead of brown.
*** On the topic of Nora and Charles fur color in the show and books. In some of the Yoko & Friends and a few Timothy books. There ears would sometimes be completely pink or mostly colored grey.
* [[AllThereInTheManual All There In The Books]]: Yoko's mother would sometimes bring up the other family members who are still living in Japan along with mentioning her daughters early memories of living in Japan as a toddler. While we do see a glimpse of Yoko's grandfather in the episode "The Takatombo". We never actually see the other family members of Yoko in the show or even see the rest of Japan in general. In 2001, Wells made a book called "Yoko's Paper Cranes" where you can actually see Yoko as a very young kitten still living with her grandma and grandpa along with seeing cranes. We also see Yoko and her grandmother Obaasan feeding cranes,having tea, and her grandfather Ojisaan showing her how to make paper cranes. This is also the only time Yoko's grandmother and grandfather is actually seen until there reappearance 10 years later in the 2011 book "Yoko's Show-And-Tell" where her grandparents are visiting Yoko's home for Girls Day.
** While most fans will remember Fritz bringing up The Mess Fairy, his imagination of it [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DYKNXWR8L.jpg is actually seen]] in the original 1991 book version [[SeldomSeenSpecies as a pig.]] The book also explains how Fritz came up with the mess fairy concept in the first place.
* AscendedExtra: Some of the characters that were in "Yoko & Friends" and the Yoko series has gotten their own set of episodes compared to their roles in some of the books.
** While Lilly hasn't been seen the most in some of the books. She has around 4 or 5 episodes where she's the main character of the episode or a secondary character. The most notable would be "Don't Lost It Lilly" and "Lifesaver Lilly" both dealing with her forgetfulness problem. "Lifesaver Lilly" is the best example, which takes that issue more seriously unlike "Don't Lost It Lilly" since she really wants to take care of the school's class pet but some of the students think she wouldn't do well as a pet owner despite the fact that Lilly herself owns a pet goldfish named Treasure. She even talks to herself alone on her bed about admitting that she's too forgetful to take care of the class pet.
** Grace also shown up more often than in the books similar to Claude. Due to her being a ballet dancer and two episodes shown her in ballet class with Doris and Yoko. One of Grace's more notable appearances in the books is the Yoko & Friends book "The Secret Birthday" and "Timothy's Tales From Hilltop School
* AdultFear: In "Shy Charles" where Timothy gets locked behind a door. He starts calling out for help with only Charles to notify the entire school by ringing the bell when he hears his voice. It's currently recess and the other students and Miss Jenkins are outside and the Janitor walks off. Now imagine that happening to your child at a store or school and nobody is around except you left all alone for a very long time.
* AdaptedOut: Hazel was one of the students in the "Yoko & Series" but she doesn't appear in the show at all. Nora's sister is also absent even though she was in the original Noisy Nora book.
** Violet (Timothy's original first friend) from the 1981 version of Timothy Goes To School is absent in the show and Yoko & Friends series due to Yoko replacing her as Timothy's best friend since her debut in 1998.
* AbsenteeActor: Lilly is curiously absent in "The Treefort and the Sandcastle." In this story, the boys split into one club in a treefort, while the girls take over the sandbox and build a sandcastle, but Lilly is not part of the group of girls, nor is she even mentioned, despite the events of the story taking place over at least two days.
** It also happens in "Paint by Numbers" in which Fritz doesn't appear at all, nor is he mentioned either but he appears in the episode afterward.
* AesopAmnesia: Generally averted. When the kids learned a lesson on the show, it tended to stick. For example, in "Fritz in the Mess Fairy," Fritz realized that there was no mess fairy and he needed to clean up after himself. Him being messy was never shown as an issue again in the series, despite the story's HereWeGoAgain ending with Fritz having made another mess with the cleaning supplies in the process of cleaning Timothy's seashells. In "Small Change," Nora learns to accept and even like change and she is never shown having an issue with it again. And if Lilly still sometimes forgets things, it can be [[JustifiedTrope forgiven]], as it's difficult for her, and she does try very hard, sometimes succeeding.

** The 1981 book "Timothy Goes To School" takes this further. In it Claude makes fun of what Timothy wears on the first few days of school, like in the series, but to the point that Timothy cries and wants bad things to happen to him. Yoko and many of the other kids also aren't at the school (Timothy makes friends with a bunny named Violet at the end of the story, though), and Mrs. Jenkins is unnamed (in the original version).

* AnachronicOrder: The show jumps from one season to another almost at random, but at least can be said that it's not [[ItsAlwaysSpring always spring]]. A special note, though, goes to the fact that "The Big Snowfall," which featured Lilly having her first snow day was aired after "Lifesaver Lilly," in which Lilly rescued Goldie from the cold school building with no power after school was canceled due to a big snowfall.
* AsideGlance: In the end of the episode "Frankless Frank" Timothy looks at the audience and says "Here We Go Again" when one of the Franks get sick after the other is now better.
** In the end of the episode "Shy Charles", Charles look at the audience after he received a medal after rescuing Timothy from getting locked behind a door.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: In "Scary Monsters," when Nora is afraid of dinosaurs because she thinks they're big and scary monsters, Timothy shows her a fossil of ''Megazostrodon'' at the museum, which, while having a big-sounding name is actually very small. It was a nice lesson, but ''Megazostrodon'' wasn't actually a type of dinosaur and basically resembled a modern-day shrew. However, given that the characters are children, this can be forgiven; also Nora was generalizing "dinosaur" herself so if Timothy (and Yoko, who found the creature in question in a book) knew she was wrong, he was using her own logic to prove her wrong.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Timothy & Yoko, Charles & Lilly, and Claude & Grace tend to hang around each other a lot.

* CanonImmigrant[=/=]CanonForeigner: Juanita was exclusive to AnimatedAdaptation of TimothyGoesToSchool only showing up in the final two episodes. After the show ended in 2004, Juanita showed up in more of the Yoko & Friends books such as [[http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1178318816l/784677.jpg "Make New Friends"]] and "Timothy's Tales At Hilltop School", which features Juanita making a cameo in one page.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the first episode Timothy is getting ready for his first day of school. When he goes on the bus for the first time, he sees a female cat who kindly says "Hello" to him while the others are mostly quiet. This character is Yoko who would later become Timothy's best friend and is very friendly. In the same scene, before Timothy sees Yoko, he sees Doris who is viewed by Timothy to be quite annoying and loudmouthed. In the same episode, when the class introduced themselves, Charles said his name before quickly sitting down in silence, due to his shyness. Lilly was also shown, having to think about her own name for a moment before she responded.

* FirstSnow: In "The Big Snowfall" Lilly experiences the joys of her first snow day, having moved from a climate where it was warm and never snowed.

* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: The Franks are both male dogs while the rest of the female students (Yoko,Grace, and Juanita) are all cats. Most of the cat characters seen in the series are mostly female minus Juanita's father and Yoko's Grandfather seen briefly in one episode.

* FurryReminder: These are pretty rare, the cast generally behaves like humans. Frank and Frank, who are anthropomorphic dogs, are the only characters where this is treated a bit more loosely. They tend to be rather messy in eating their food, and in "Get Well, Soon," they try to drink water directly out of the faucet at school. When Mrs. Appleberry tells them not to, they tell her that "[[BlatantLies Mrs. Jenkins lets us do it]]", only for her to pull out a letter from Mrs. Jenkins-- "Dear Frank and Frank, Please listen to Mrs. Appleberry and no drinking from the faucet. Signed, Mrs. Jenkins."

** Yoko loves sushi; in the original 1998 version of "Yoko", one of the foods contained inside her sushi is tuna which cats really love eating.
** In the episode where the Franks have a sleepover with Timothy. There is a scene before all of them go to bed where Timothy is seen brushing his teeth. He later makes a growling noise pretending he's a monster with foam from his toothpaste in his mouth. While this is PlayedForLaughs, it's also a reminder that raccoon's also carry rabies.

** In the original books version of "Timothy Goes To School", and "Yoko & Friends". Timothy's mother is seen wearing slippers while Yoko's mother is seen wearing Getas which is part of her Kimono. This is absent in the show.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the book "The Halloween Parade", Doris' Fifth-Grade brother is dressed as "''Snells'' Angels", [[ParentalBonus complete with a fake motorcycle.]]
* GoodParents: Every parent of each student of Hilltop School is this. But especially the mothers such as Timothy's mom, Yoko's mother, and later Juanita's mother.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: As seen in the first episode starring Doris. It appears that Doris's tendenc to talk loud and get annoyed easily appears to run in her family. As seen by Doris's mother who yells for her brothers to get downstairs but requests Doris to do it for her since she's the loudest.

* LimitedWardrobe: With the exception of the stuff in the first episode with Claude and Timothy wearing special clothes for the first two days of school, and winter clothing / special events, the characters are always shown wearing the same clothes to school. In the "Yoko & Friends" books most of the characters are seen wearing different outfits. Most notable is [[https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1185761460l/1604734.jpg Lilly whose dress is completely different than how her outfit in the show.]]
* MissingMom: Frank & Frank, and Claude.

** In the episode "Mama Don't Go" after Juanita's mother leaves the class to get more orange juice. Juanita get's sad and Yoko is the first student to comfort her and tells her to don't feel sad and tells her that her mother will be back. [[http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1171565442l/106539.jpg This is a reference to the Yoko & Friends book called "Mama Don't Go!"]] where Yoko is thrown in the same situation as Juanita.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Charles never talked in the original Shy Charles story, and some of the Yoko and Friends books. He's more vocal in the show compared to his debut appearance.

* TheArtifact: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/timothy_school.jpg The logo for the animated series features Timothy carrying a book in his hand without a backpack]]. In the show, Timothy is actually seen wearing a backpack along with the other students. The logo could also be a reference to the original 1981 version of "Timothy Goes To School" where Timothy is seen carrying a book and isn't seen wearing a backpack. However since the series was created in 2000, at this point in time this hasn't been in use in school since the mid 70's and early 80's when backpacks were easier for children to carry instead of a pile of books.

** Lilly's voice in "Lifesaver Lilly" when she gets very upset or depressed sounds more monotone and serious. Most notable in the scene where she admits she's too forgetful to take care of their class pet. Her voice also starts cracking when she cries in that episode.