History WesternAnimation / TucaAndBertie

* NoAntagonist: Season 3. Both season 1 and season 2 had unsympathetic characters who helped drive the personal conflicts of the show, such as the familially/finanically abusive Auntie Tallulah, the patriarchally abusive Pastry Pete, and emotional abuser Kara. Season 3 largely does away with overt HateSink antagonists (the central cause of conflict in the season are Tuca's own biological issues) and in fact fact dedicates episodes to [rounding out previously two-dimensional abusers such as Kara and Tallulah, giving them shades of sympathy they'd never had before.

* {{Gainaxing}}: A pair of bare breasts on a building bounce up and down in the first shot of the Netflix opening sequence, which really sets the tone for the series.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: Bare breasts have not appeared on the Creator/AdultSwim run of the series, in line with the network's established standards.

The show's first season premiered on Creator/{{Netflix}} on May 3rd, 2019, with ten episodes. Two months later, Netflix announced its cancellation. A year later, Creator/AdultSwim announced on its Twitter that it would be [[UnCancelled producing a second season]], which began airing on June 13, 2021. It is the second series to make the jump from a streaming network to linear television, following ''[[Series/OneDayAtATime2017 One Day at a Time]]'' (cancelled by Netflix earlier the same year), and the first animated series to do so. Ahead of the second season finale, a third season was ordered for the network.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The animal cast is made up largely of birds and consist of everything from common chickens and penguins to cassowaries and red crested turacos. Bertie is a song thrush and Speckle is a European robin.

* BaitTheDog: Pastry Pete is pretty reasonable when Tuca and Bertie ask for her boyfriend's sugar bowl back, accepting Tuca's ridiculous croissant cookoff; he's impressed when he tastes Bertie's croissants, asking why she's just a "data controller" and offering her a job on the spot. When she politely declines, he gives her an edible business card in case she changes her mind. [[spoiler:Turns out he is a giant jerk that even manhandles Bertie, manipulating her rush on him]].

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "The One Where Bertie Gets Eaten by a Snake".

* DenserAndWackier: When compared to ''[=BoJack=]'', this series is far more animated and contains zanier scenarios. It also features a greater variety of anthropomorphic creatures, including plants and inanimate objects, with humans being much rarer or nonexistent.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first season, the show had a population of both animals, plants, and the occasional human. But starting with the second season, the humans are a lot less prominent, not appearing at all until "Salad Days" in season three (barring a mention in "Corpse Week" as part of a mythical MixAndMatchMonster).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first season, the show had a population of both animals, plants, and the occasional human. But starting with the second season, the humans have all disappeared, with them only being mentioned as part of a mythical MixAndMatch monster.

* DenserAndWackier: When compared to ''[=BoJack=]'', this series is far more animated and contains zanier scenarios. It also features a greater variety of anthropomorphic creatures, including plants and inanimate objects, with humans being much rarer.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first season, the show had a population of both animals, plants, and humans. But starting with the second season, the humans have all disappeared, with only being mentioned as part of a mythical MixAndMatch monster.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first season the show had a population of both animals, plants and humans. But starting with the second season the humans have all disappeared with only being mentioned as part of a mythical MixAndMatch monster.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "[[TheOneWith The One Where]] Bertie Gets Eaten by a Snake".

** Bertie goes on an impromptu, days-long road trip in the middle of the night to deal with some complicated emotions, ends up facing a childhood fear and rekindling her friendship with both Tuca and a former camp councilor, then returns home feeling invigorated and confident to her loving, supportive boyfriend...whom she didn't contact at all during said trip. This causes an AngerBornOfWorry FreakOut from Speckle, who's sick of having to shoulder the burden of every emotional hangup his girlfriend has and doesn't automatically stop being mad when he sees her again. It's what makes Bertie realize that she has to deal with her emotional problems in a way that doesn't hurt her loved ones in the process.

** Bertie goes on an impromptu, days-long road trip in the middle of the night to deal with some complicated emotions, ends up facing a childhood fear and rekindling her friendship with both Tuca and a former camp councilor, then returns home feeling invigorated and confident to her loving, supportive boyfriend...whom she didn't contact at all during said trip. This causes a FreakOut from Speckle, who's sick of having to shoulder the burden of every emotional hangup his girlfriend has and doesn't automatically stop being mad when he sees her again. It's what makes Bertie realize that she has to deal with her emotional problems in a way that doesn't hurt her loved ones in the process.

** Bertie goes on an impromptu, days-long road trip in the middle of the night to deal with some complicated emotions, ends up facing a childhood fear and rekindling her friendship with both Tuca and a former camp councilor, then returns home feeling invigorated and confident... to her boyfriend, who's sick of having to shoulder the burden of every emotional hangup his girlfriend has and doesn't automatically stop being mad when he sees her again. It's what makes Bertie realize that she has to deal with her emotional problems in a way that doesn't hurt her loved ones in the process.

** Earlier, Bertie has to choose between attending an extremely exclusive dinner with Pastry Pete and the rest of the baking world elite or rushing home to Tuca, who's in the hospital having emergency surgery. [[spoiler:She chooses the latter, but she's not happy about it in the slightest, and the realization that Tuca lives in a chaotic, disgusting mess of an apartment is the last straw that tips them over into a vicious argument.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Both Tuca and Bertie's {{dark and troubled past}}s are hinted at throughout the series before they're revealed.
** When her boss asks if she went to the beach over the weekend, Bertie says she didn't because she's afraid that a giant crab might have tried grab her butt. As it turns out, she has a history of being afraid of swimming due to having her butt grabbed ''and'' giant crabs.
** At one point, Bertie gets Speckle to spank her and call her a bad girl to spice up their sex life, but she ends up crying in the middle of that play. At another point, when Pastry Pete is inappropriate to her, she jerks off to it. [[spoiler:These are hints to some psycho-sexual trouble and her RapeAsABackstory plot revealed near the end of season one.]]

** Lisa Hanawalt's adoration for horses pops up numerous times throughout the show with Tuca ''and'' Bertie acting especially ecstatic for horseback riding, and becoming extremely emotional when watching commercials involving horses.

* AuthorAppeal: In her New York Times article, "Pride and Pestilence," Lisa Hanawalt revealed that she, like Bertie, is obsessively aroused by chaste romantic movies.

* AdultFear: A CentralTheme of the show is the ups and downs of "adulting" as a thirty-something, especially for women. Not only does it touch on uglier problems like sexual harassment and financial stability, but also more banal ones like long-term commitment, abandonment issues and putting your life back together after making a lot of mistakes in your youth.

* HardTruthAesop: Navigating sexism in the adult world is not as easy as it looks. Bertie even mentions that it would be easier if guys were brimming with red flags, but most aren't. Dirk gets away with StealingTheCredit and fondling women in the workplace because the HR representative has a crush on him and says that he was "just joking" when Bertie reports him; Bertie has to call a sexual harassment seminar and loudly accuse him for every other woman to reveal he also "goosed" them as well. Then there is Pete, a VillainWithGoodPublicity that uses his status to take advantage of Bertie.