Line #31 WesternAnimation/TrashTruck


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3	''Trash Truck'' (also known as ''Giant Jack'' outside the USA) is a Creator/{{Netflix}} animated PreschoolShow created by Max Keane, son of the animation legend Creator/GlenKeane, who is also an executive producer on the series.
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5	Hank is a an imaginative {{Free Range Child\|ren}}, who tackles hilarious everyday situations with his best pal -- a gigantic trash truck properly named Trash Truck. Accompanying them are talking animals -- Walter, Donny, and Mona.
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7	The series premiered on the platform on November 10, 2020 and also released a ChristmasSpecial on December 11. A second season of the program released on May 4, 2021.
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9	!!''Trash Truck'' contains examples of:
10	* ADogNamedDog: A trash truck named Trash Truck.
11	* AllCGICartoon: The series is animated in CGI.
12	* AlliterativeTitle: '''T'''rash '''T'''ruck.
13	* BiggerOnTheInside: Hank's house, which is big enough inside that Trash Truck can fit inside it.
14	* ChildishToothGap: Hank has a gap in his teeth.
15	* EpisodeTitleCard: The title cards for each episode are intricate, hand-painted pieces.
16	* FriendOrIdolDecision: In "Freeze Tag," Donny has to choose between hanging on to the smartphone that everyone's been fighting over or rescuing Walter from falling from a tree. He hesitates only briefly before rescuing Walter.
17	* GoodParents: Hank's parents, who are nice enough to let their son befriend a bunch of talking animals and a trash truck, and let them stay over at their house whenever they please.
18	* InstrumentalThemeTune: Sort of. The show's theme song is just whistling, but with some spoken dialogue over it.
19	* InterspeciesFriendship: Hank's best friends are a bear, a raccoon, a mouse, and a trash truck.
20	* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: In "Sleepover", Hank and his friends try to watch TV, but they accidentally stumble upon a channel showing a horror movie, which scares them.
21	* ListOfTransgressions: In "A Trash Truck Christmas," Hank is trying to find out if his friends are naughty or nice. Trash Truck, Walter and Mona all have some small incidents that are easily excused. Donny asks "Where do I begin?" and declares "I guess we'll start from January last year..." and begins long-winded recitation with several perspective shifts to the various characters and trailing-off sentences before "And lastly, that brings us to this morning, I rolled in something brown. I don't know what it was," and Hank telling him he doesn't think it's all bad so much as "raccoon stuff."
22	* NonHumanSidekick: All of Hank's friends are non-human. He has three animal friends and one vehicle friend.
23	* NotSoAboveItAll: In "Freeze Tag," Hank and his friends are all playing a game of freeze tag when they discover a smartphone with a catchy game inside it inside Trash Truck. They all start fighting over it until finally Mona takes it away, saying that it's caused quite enough trouble for one day, then heads off inside her home. They then start bickering with each other over who's to blame for this... only to hear the sounds of the game and discover that Mona is now playing the game.
24	* ObscuredSpecialEffects: CheatedAngle and OffscreenTeleportation are used to hide the fact that Trash Truck is getting through doors he should not be able to fit into.
25	* QuarterHourShort: The episodes are basically standalone increments running 10-17 minutes long.
26	* SavingChristmas: "A Trash Truck Christmas" is about Hank volunteering for Trash Truck to fill in after Santa's sleigh crashes due to being too overloaded with toys.
27	* SentientVehicle: Trash Truck is a talking trash truck who is Hank's best friend.
28	* ShoutOut: Hank's Bear and Raccoon friends are named [[Film/TheBigLebowski Walter and Donny]].
29	* SliceOfLife: Talking vehicles and animals notwithstanding, the show has simple plots focusing on the everyday aspects of childhood.
30	* SlumberParty: Hank and his friends have a sleepover together in "Sleepover".
31	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Miss Mona is the only girl in Hank's group of friends.
32	* StylisticSuck: The opening has a card stating that the show is "A Glen Keane Productions."
33	* TalkingAnimal: Apart from Trash Truck, Hank also has several talking animal friends, including Walter the bear, Miss Mona the mouse, and Donny the raccoon.
34	* TheUnintelligible: Trash Truck only communicates through vrooms, but Hank can still understand him.
35	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: None of the cast finds anything odd about Hank's group of three talking animals and one SentientVehicle, though the doctor in the poison ivy episode does [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] that it shouldn't be possible for a trash truck to have a poison ivy rash.

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