Tickety Toc is a Korean-British CGI animated childrens' show following the adventures of Tommy and Tallulah, two kids who live in the world that exists behind the clock in an old shop. Every hour they must make it back to the clock for 'Chime Time' so they can take their place as the drummer boy and trumpeter of the clock's platform, or else, as the theme song says, "the clock will never chime."
It aired on Nick Jr. from 2012 to 2015.
Tickety-tockety tropes include:
- Alliterative Title: Tickety Toc repeats the letter "T".
- Ambiguously Absent Parent: Tommy and Tallulah's parents are nowhere to be seen.
- Animal-Vehicle Hybrid: Pufferty, the train/dog hybrid.
- Bigger on the Inside: Apparently there's a whole village of living toys that's large enough to require commute by train inside that one cuckoo clock.
- Butt-Monkey: Tootero, the owl guy that appears in brief segments. He's always the victim of some misfortune.
- Ditzy Genius: McCoggins is quite slow-witted despite being the mechanic.
- Dog Stereotype: Pufferty, the dog train, is excited by any toy balls that he can play with.
- Edutainment Show: The show teaches moral lessons.
- Every Episode Ending: Every episode ends with Tommy and Tallulah making it to Chime Time and taking part in the proceedings.
- Expository Theme Tune: "In a very special shop, there's a very special clock..."
- Hollywood Genetics: Tommy has brown skin and brown hair. Tallulah has white skin and red hair. They are twins. And since their parents are never shown, it's unknown if their family is multiracial.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The series uses the pattern of "_____ Time" to reference the characters living in a clock.
- The Kiddie Ride: There's apparently one for Pufferty, the dog-train hybrid who carries Tommy and Tallulah to Chime Time.
- Leitmotif:
- Pufferty has an energetic signature tune play whenever he's operating inside of the land within the clock.
- Tootero has a goofy-sounding song with owl hoots as some of the main instrumentation when he is on-screen.
- Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: Humans live among owls, snails, chickens, bats, cows, jaguars, and a bunny-human thing.
- Little Bit Beastly: Hopperoo is some sort of rabbit-human hybrid.
- Living Toys: Naturally, given all of the characters live inside a clock, they're all toys in some form.
- Mr. Fixit: McCoggins is the maintenance jaguar.
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Tallulah wears pink and Tommy wears blue.
- Sentient Vehicle: Pufferty, who is a hybrid dog-train.
- Sliding Scale of Living Toys: The "Seem So Real and Living" variety. The toys are fully sentient and have lives like their human counterparts, and yet are still clearly toys in their world. Interaction with humans are not observed because they only come out for a brief period during chime time.
- Theme Tune Roll Call: For Tommy and Tallulah.
- Vagueness Is Coming: Something bad will happen if Tommy and Tallulah don't make it to Chime Time, but it's never specified what. The theme song says that the clock won't chime anymore if they miss Chime Time, but we don't know what happens to the inhabitants of the clock.
- Water-Geyser Volley: In "Bake a Cake Time", while trying to take a bath in the town fountain that McCoggins is fixing, Tootero ends up being blasted by a water geyser that comes out of the fountain.
