History WesternAnimation / TucaAndBertie

* VisualPun: When Bertie goes to confront the biker, Tuca tells her to watch out in case they have a ButterflyKnife ("The most dangerous, yet adorable type of knife!"). In a later scene, the same biker is seen carrying a shopping bag with a picture of an actual butterfly knife... With butterfly wings.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In the season 2 premiere, the therapist believe that Tuca and Bertie's names sound wrong together and rambles about their names sounding terrible together...cue theme song.

* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: The series is mostly populated by {{Funny Animal}}s (and Funny Plants, and Funny Inanimate Objects. . .), but humans occasionally pop up (Lisa Hanawalt has admitted that FurriesAreEasierToDraw for her).

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* CouchGag: The first dance that Tuca and Bertie does in the opening title sequence changes from episode to episode. [[EvolvingCredits This is particularly noticeable in the gag for "The New Bird"]], where Tuca and Bertie's dancing is ''much'' more subdued, with the two [[spoiler: glaring at each other angrily, reflecting the fight they had in the previous episode.]]

The show follows the friendship between Tuca (Haddish), a cocky, care-free toucan, and Bertie (Creator/AliWong), an anxious, daydreaming songbird, two thirtysomething bird women who live in the same apartment building. As their lives begin to grow in different directions, they learn about the struggles and sacrifices that come with becoming an adult while holding onto old relationships.

* NonMammalianHair: {{ZigZagged|Trope}}. Owing to Hanawalt's drawing style and the characters' real-world counterparts, neither Tuca nor Bertie have hair. On the other hand, "Sex Bugs" pretty much confirms that Tuca has pubic hair. It goes with the sexual freedom tone of the show. Come season 2, and several more exceptions pop up: Speckle's sister Dottie is a robin with a hair bun, Tuca's twin siblings Tim and Tam both have black moppy hairstyles, and Kara has a pony tail. Justified with the family members, who would otherwise look identical to the main cast. It also seems that this "hair" is more highly stylized feathers than actual hair.

* AllegoricalCharacter: The moss is one for gentrification. It spreads all through the apartment building of Tuca and Bertie as people are being forced to move out, and is used more generally to show corruption affecting the lower-income people of Bird town, like [[spoiler:it lobbying for moving the money that would be used to help the citizens after a flood to revitalization]].

* NonMammalianHair: {{ZigZagged|Trope}}. Owing to Hanawalt's drawing style and the characters' real-world counterparts, neither Tuca nor Bertie have hair. On the other hand, "Sex Bugs" pretty much confirms that Tuca has pubic hair. It goes with the sexual freedom tone of the show. Come season 2, and several more exceptions pop up: Speckle's sister Dottie is a robin with a hair bun, Tuca's twin siblings Tim and Tam both have black moppy hairstyles, and Kara has a pony tail. Justified with the family members, who would otherwise look identical to the main cast.

* NonMammalianHair: {{Averted|Trope}}. Owing to Hanawalt's drawing style and the characters' real-world counterparts, neither Tuca nor Bertie have hair. On the other hand, "Sex Bugs" pretty much confirms that Tuca has pubic hair. It goes with the sexual freedom tone of the show.

* NotSoDifferent: Both Pastry Pete and Dirk are arrogant {{jerkass}}es who get into Bertie's personal space and talk over her. The difference is that Pete is a suave, accomplished chef whom Bertie admires while Dirk is a loudmouthed loser peer whom she finds irritating. However, while both men sexually harass her, it's ironically [[BewareTheNiceOnes the one whom Bertie likes who actually puts his hands on her without asking]] while Dirk's offensive comment was actually a failed compliment and while a couple of her co-workers claim that he groped them, there's no indication that he would ever genuinely flirt with Bertie, let alone put his hands on her.

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 new network.

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.

* RealityEnsues:
** One episode has Bertie pining to get a higher position in her office, but she has to overcome workplace sexism and her own shyness. She finally prevails in the end... only to find out that the higher position leaves her very busy and keeps her in her office, away from everyone else.
** In that same episode, Bertie hosts a mandatory presentation on sexual harassment at her job under the assumption that all of the women Dirk has hit on will come forward about his inappropriate behavior and he'll be guilt-stricken enough to confess all of his crimes then and there. Not only does Dirk have no remorse for anything he's done, but none of her female co-workers feel any obligation to speak up until Bertie tells them they can.
** Another episode has Tuca using the boba from a bubble tea as {{bullet seed}}s which, from her perspective, shoot out like regular bullets. Cut to reality, where they all land less than a foot away from her.
** 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.
** Acknowledged when Speckle and Bertie have make-up sex in "[=SweetBeak=]." Speckle tells Bertie that their relationship isn't automatically "fixed" with make-up sex and that he needs some time, letting her know that she's still going to have to work on her personal issues from here on out.
** 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.]]
** At the end of season 1, Pastry Pete has been outed for being a total creep and for manhandling several women. [[spoiler: In season 2, it's revealed that he did a half-assed online "apology" and is back in business, having suffered [[KarmaHoudini no apparent long-term consequences for his actions.]]]]
* 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.

* ChristmasEpisode: The final episode is a [[YouMeanXMas Molting Day]] episode that takes place in the winter (which is interesting for a show released in May).

* DogFaces: Dapper T. Dog, Tuca's upstairs neighbor, is an anthropomorphic dog.

* SpeciesSurname: Bertie's full name is Roberta Songthrush.

** Pastry Pete's immoral behavior eventually catches up with him when Tuca posts a video of him abusing Bertie, resulting in his bakery getting boycotted. [[HumiliationConga And then he]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext gets shit on by a giant hawk]].

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

* {{Bowdlerize}}: The ''Creator/AdultSwim'' version of the title sequence cuts the building with bouncing breasts, though this may be for time constraints rather than nudity concerns.

* CountryMatters: Per the {{unfortunate name}}s of Pastry Pete's two signature creations, the crunt (a cruller crossed with a bundt cake) and the [[SarcasmMode wildly different]] crünt (a bundt cake and a croissant).

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The world of the show has some... strangely built buildings, in comparison to the real world, particularly the buildings with bouncing breasts in the netflix intro.

** Tuca's Aunt Tallulah has non-anthropomorphic birds in her enclosed garden. Additionally, her butler is an anthropomorphic borzoi ([[FurryReminder who barks excitedly when her guests arrive)]] while she has numerous pet Maltese dogs.

* {{Gainaxing}}: Done with bare breasts on a building in the first shot of the opening sequence, which really sets the tone for the series.