Line #25 Series/LilHorrors


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Back row: [[{{Mummy}} Cleo Patra]], [[FrankensteinsMonster Duncan Stein]], [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Abercrombie Necros]]\
3	Middle: [[{{Dracula}} Vladamir Bloode]], [[FishPeople Webster Swampson]], [[GorgeousGorgon Medusilla Venimski]], [[WolfMan Claudia Howell]]\
4	Front: Quasi Modo]]
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6	''Li'l Horrors'' is an Australian children's comedy puppetry television series which screened on the Seven Network in 2001. The series contained 52 episodes: each 12 minute, 30 seconds in length, with double episodes usually screened in a 30-minute timeslot.
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8	Set in a spooky Gothic school run by retired horror movie actress Morbidda Bates, the series features the (mis)adventures of a group of children who just happen to be rather familiar monsters as well.
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10	There’s Vlad, the mischievous little schemer who thinks he’s too cool for school. Strong and trusting Duncan Stein was not so much born yesterday as born today. Bossy and vain Medusilla has unruly snakes for hair and a lot of very bad hair days. New age, bandage-bound mummy Cleo sometimes seems just a little wrapped-up in herself. Abercrombie the zombie doesn’t need food or sleep, which means he doesn’t have to interrupt his TV viewing. Werewolfish tomboy Claudia lives in fear of transforming into a sweet little girl every full moon. Webster Swampson is the creature from the Mauve Lagoon, who’s really just a scaredy swamp thing and is frightened of everything, especially water.
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12	!!Li'l tropes:
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14	* AbsurdPhobia: Webster Swampson is a [[FishPeople fish man]] who is afraid of water.
15	* AcademyOfAdventure: The action never moves outside the grounds of Maug Stone Hall.
16	* AllGhoulsSchool: The series in a set in an academy for young monsters.
17	* BigEater: Aside from his stupidity, Duncan's other major character trait is his gluttony.
18	* DumbMuscle: Duncan Stein is easily the strongest and dumbest of the Horrors.
19	* FishPeople: Webster Swampson is a piscine boy based on various sea monsters.
20	* FrankensteinsMonster: Duncan Stein, based on Frankenstein's monster from the 1931 film ''[[Film/Frankenstein1931 Frankenstein]]''. [[BigEater Gluttonous]] yet friendly, and yet also [[DumbMuscle dim-witted]] and sorely lacking in social skills.
21	* GorgeousGorgon: Medusilla Venimski, a pretty monster based on (and named for) the youngest of three gorgons, Medusa. Very vain as she often admires her beauty, which does not turn others (or herself) to stone, unlike the ugliness of her namesake. Her hair can talk as well, as evidenced in several episodes.
22	* GranolaGirl: Cleo is deeply into things like crystals and auras.
23	* {{Medusa}}: Medusilla Venimski, a pretty monster based on (and named for) the youngest of three gorgons, Medusa. Very vain as she often admires her beauty, which does not turn others (or herself) to stone, unlike the ugliness of her namesake. Her hair can talk as well, as evidenced in several episodes.
24	* MonsterMash: The student body consists of a [[VegetarianVampire vampire]]; a FrankensteinMonster; a {{Mummy}}; a [[FishPeople gill man]]; a GorgeousGorgon; a [[WolfMan werewolf]]; a [[TheIgor hunchback]]; and two [[OurGargoylesRock grotesques/gargoyles]].
25	* {{Mummy}}: Cleo Patra, an Egyptian mummy based on modern pop culture. Uses a lot of ValleyGirl filler in her speech.
26	* NoSocialSkills: Duncan Stein is friendly, but also [[DumbMuscle dim-witted]] and sorely lacking in social skills.
27	* OurGargoylesRock: Garg and goyle were a pair of grotesques who would observe and comment on the action going on.
28	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Claudia seems to exist permanently in her WolfMan form, but lives in fear of transforming into a sweet little girl every full moon.
29	* ThePrankster: Vlad. A notorious trickster around Maug Stone Hall, his favourite pastime is to pull practical jokes at the other Horrors' expense.
30	* RhymingNames: Abercrombie Necros, a.k.a. 'Abercrombie the Zombie'.
31	* SpeaksInShoutOuts: Abercrombie Necros is a zombie who does little more than watch television. When the set is faulty, broken, or otherwise out of order, he often melts down, simply by repeating phrases often appearing on television sets without reliable signals.
32	* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: The {{tomboy}}ish werewolf Claudia wears a pink bow in her fur.
33	* {{Tomboy}}: Claudia, the werewolf girl, dresses in overalls and is very rough and tumble. Especially compared to GirlyGirl Medusilla and GranolaGirl Cleo.
34	* ValleyGirl: Cleo is a mixture of New Age GranolaGirl and this, and uses a lot of of Valley Girl filler in her speech.
35	* VegetarianVampire: Being a kids show, Vlad is never shown feeding on blood.
36	* TheVoice. Miss Morbidda never appears in the episodes, but her voice is heard addressing the Horrors during the opening credits.
37	* WerewolfThemeNaming: The werewolf girl at the AllGhoulsSchool of Maug Stone Hall is named [[PunnyName Claudia Howell]].
38	* WolfMan: Claudia Howell, the resident werewolf, is permanently in a human/wolf hybrid form (presumably so they didn't have to construct extra puppets). However, she does live in fear of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent transforming into a sweet little girl every full moon]].
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Context Series / LilHorrors