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The Bananas
- B1 voiced by: Duncan Wass (1992 series, Season 1), Ken Radley (1992 series, Season 2 onwards)B2 voiced by: Nicholas Opolski (1992 series)
Tropes applying to both of them
- Always Identical Twins: Twin brothers who look exactly alike, down to wearing the same striped pyjamas.
- Amusing Injuries: They are both very clumsy and tend to suffer a lot of these as a result.
- Black Bead Eyes: Both sported these in the 1992 series.
- Cactus Cushion: While waiting for their pyjamas to dry in one episode, they hide behind a pricklebush and get covered in prickles.
- Clothes Make the Legend: Their iconic blue and white striped pyjamas.
- Clothing Switch: Swap pyjamas to confuse their friends in one episode. Nobody is fooled, with Rat even wondering why they're wearing each other's pyjamas.
- Curtain Clothing: Are forced to sew their curtains into clothes in one episode when their pyjamas go missing. Predictably, they were not very fond of these curtains and sprinted off to change back into their pyjamas once they found out where they were.
- Dressed in Layers: While they do wear other uniforms/ costumes depending on the situation, they are always wearing their pyjamas underneath.
- Embarrassing Pyjamas: Averted. They happily wear their pyjamas everywhere, regardless of the occasion with absolutely no trace of embarrassment.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: They are anthropomorphic bananas who are always wearing pyjamas.
- Fashion Hurts: Completely averted in their case. They love their pyjamas so much because of how comfortable they are, to the point that they only want to wear said pyjamas.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Downplayed. While they are very similar in personality, usually B1 is the smarter of the two, while B2 is the more imaginative.
- Forced into Their Sunday Best: A downplayed example, but Rat does try to get the Bananas to buy some chic new suits from him once, so that they don't have to wear pyjamas all the time. While the Bananas initially protest, stating that they like wearing their pyjamas because of how comfortable they are, they eventually relent. Of course, Rat manages to get their measurements wrong, and the suits go to the Teddies instead.
- Hanging Our Clothes to Dry: After washing every set of pyjamas they own (including the ones they had been wearing at that point) the Bananas hang them on the clothesline and wait for them to dry. Strangely, they seem perfectly ok with seeing each other naked,although they do spend the episode hiding from everyone else.
- Hiccup Hijinks: B1 gets the hiccups in one episode and each Teddy tries a different method to cure it. Morgan eventually scares him so hard they stop.Unfortunately, B2 then gets said hiccups.
- Identical Twin ID Tag: Their pyjama collars have name tags so the other characters (and the audience) can tell them apart. Plays a role in one episode when the Bananas swap their pyjamas to trick their friends.* Notably, the Bananas are still wearing collars in the episode Bananas Without Pyjamas, even though they are not their pyjamas.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Both sported these in the 2011 series.
- Limited Wardrobe: Pyjamas, as you would expect. Played very straight in that their pyjamas are all virtually identical, with their blue and white stripes.
- Mobile Shrubbery: When hiding from Amy due to being naked after washing all of their pyjamas.
- Naked People Are Funny: One episode has the Bananas run out of clean pyjamas to wear and have to wait for their washed pyjamas to dry. Since they don't have anything else to wear, hilarity ensues.
- Person with the Clothing: Everyone in Cuddles Avenue knows them as the Bananas in Pyjamas, based on their signature outfit.
- Pajama-Clad Hero: They wouldn't be called the Bananas in Pyjamas for nothing. Unlike most examples of this trope, this is intentional on their part.
- Red Sock Ruins the Laundry: They discover their pyjamas have turned pink in one episode and try to find the responsible party. As it turns out, they were washing their new red socks with their pyjamas.
- Same Clothes, Different Year: Some episodes show the Bananas holding up smaller sets of their same pyjamas (the original series) or flashback to younger versions of themselves in smaller pyjamas (the animated series), showing that they have only been wearing their pyjamas for years.
- Scenery Censor: As a result of washing all their pyjamas in one go, the Bananas end up naked, bringing this trope into effect.
- Single-Minded Twins: They rarely do anything separately, and like most of the same things.
- Underdressed for the Occasion: They are perfectly happy wearing their pyjamas to formal events such as a fancy dinner or a WEDDING (although they do wear coats/ hats over them on occasion).
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Nobody else in town seems to find it unusual that they are always wearing pyjamas.
- Wardrobe Wound: Are practically in tears when Rat's laundry service turn B1's pyjamas pink and covers B2's pyjamas with pink spots.
Tropes specific to B1
- Catchphrase: "I think I am, B2! It's (insert topic) time!"
- Pain to the Ass: While both Bananas are prone to suffering Amusing Injuries, B1 usually ends up suffering from these.
- In addition to the above incident with the pricklebush, he also set up his hammock above a pricklebush once and got pricked, with a few prickles getting stuck to him through his pyjama bottoms.
- In the episode Crab Catchers, he accidentally sits on a crab, which predictably starts pinching him through his pyjamas.
- The Smart Guy: Is the smarter of the two.
Tropes specific to B2
- Catchphrase: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking, B1? ... It's (insert topic) time!"
- Dragged into Drag: In "Goldilocks Bananas", where he is reluctantly cast as Goldilocks in a production of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".
The Teddies
- Amy voiced by: Sandie Lillingston (1992 series, Season 1), Mary-Ann Henshaw (1992 series, Season 2 onwards)Morgan voiced by: Jeremy Scrivener (1992 series)Lulu voiced by: Taylor Owynns (1992 series)
Tropes applying to all of them
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Amy is blonde, Lulu is brunette, and Morgan is ginger-furred.
- Color-Coded Characters: Amy wears blue, Morgan wears green (red in the 2011 series), and Lulu wears pink.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Like all residents of Cuddles Avenue, they each have a full set of clothing.
- Only Sane Man: A very mild version, but compared to Rat and the Bananas in the original series, they fit this trope.
- Two Girls and a Guy: Amy and Lulu are the two girls to Morgan's guy.
Tropes specific to Amy
- Sick Episode: Loses her voice in one episode and is shown with other cold-like symptoms.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Lulu's girly girl.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: A rough-and-tumble gal who wears a dress and bows.
- True Blue Femininity: Wears a blue dress.
Tropes specific to Morgan
- Cheer Up Episode: "Grumpy Wumpy" was about him needing to be cheered up when he woke up grumpy on a cold morning.
- Sick Episode: Catches a cold in one episode and the Bananas have to nurse him back to health. Predictably, the Bananas catch his cold afterwards.
Tropes specific to Lulu
- Pink Means Feminine: Wears a pink dress.
- Robot Maid: Pretends to be one but gets annoyed when the Bananas order her around too much.
- Shrunk in the Wash: Sends her tutu to Rat to wash. He ends up causing this and has to make her a new one.
Rat in a Hat
The owner of the town's store, Rat is, as his name suggest, a Rat who wears a hat.
- Black Bead Eyes: As with all the characters in the 1992 series.
- Catchphrase: Multiple* Trust me (character he is interacting with), I'm a rat* Cheese and Whiskers* I'm a rat, I'm a rat, I'm a clever clever rat
- Clothes Make the Legend: Rarely seen without his hat and is extremely upset when it goes missing.
- Doomed New Clothes: Rat gets himself an elegant new suit for a fancy dinner with the Teddies and is very proud of it. By the time he arrives at the dinner, he's wearing a pair of the Bananas' pyjamas as the suit is completely ruined.
- Fat Bastard: He's shown to be quite large relative to the other residents and causes the most trouble in Cuddles Avenue, and is also shown to be quite lazy, often taking shortcuts with his work.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Like everyone else in Cuddles avenue, including his iconic hat.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Tends to play a lot of tricks on the other residents but is not shown to be actively malicious and has his nice moments.
- Moustache Twirling Villain: Downplayed, he isn't exactly a villain, and he doesn't exactly have a moustache, but he does twirl his whiskers when trying to con somebody.
- Person with the Clothing: Always seen with his hat, as his name suggests.
- Requisite Royal Regalia: Dresses as a king to fool the Bananas in one episode.
- Rhyming Names: Rat in a hat.
- Running Gag: He is always trying to set up some business or the other but always forgets some crucial element (such as food for his cafe), and usually ends up needing the other characters to bail him out.
- You Dirty Rat!: Downplayed. While he is a bit of a trickster, he’s not a bad person.
