Literature / Roys Bedoys

Roys Bedoys (pronounced "Roys Buh-DOYCE") is a series of children's books by Christine and Eric Ha.

The series centers around a young boy named Roys Bedoys, who is about kindergarten age. In most stories, he does something wrong one or more times, only to eventually learn better (usually accompanied by the phrase "Roys Bedoys, make a smart choice"), resulting in An Aesop.

Recurring characters include Roys's friends Maker (a somewhat intellectual boy with glasses), Wen (a redheaded girl who's sometimes stated to be poor), Truly (an active girl), and Flora (a demure girl who was introduced later in the series), his parents, and his younger brother Loys.

A web animation adaptation of the series, which is done with paper doll-like animation, can be found here.

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Roys Bedoys provides examples of:

• Absurd Phobia: “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Roys Bedoys!” reveals that Loys is scared of feathers (or at least one particular feather).
• Academic Athlete: Maker seems to be the most academically-focused out of the kid group, and he’s also seen playing sports with the others and “Don’t Be Jealous, Roys Bedoys!” reveals that he’s the fastest runner out of them.
• Actually Pretty Funny: Roys is initially angry when a seagull poops on him in “Let’s Go on a Road Trip, Roys Bedoys!”, but he later sees the funny side of it and asks for a photo of it.
• Aerith and Bob: Generally speaking, the male characters have made-up names (Roys, Loys, Maker, etc) while the females have real names (Wen, Truly, Flora, etc.) Joys and Hopper are exceptions to the gender rule.
• An Aesop: The vast majority of the stories have morals, and the series as a whole has a theme of making good choices.
• Aesop Amnesia:
  • Roys occasionally lies, despite learning not to lie in “Stop Lying, Roys Bedoys”. Perhaps justified due to his young age.
  • In “Don’t Be a Sore Loser, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys learns not to be a sore loser, but in later stories, he goes back to being one.
  • “Stop Blaming People, Roys Bedoys!” and “It’s Your Fault, Roys Bedoys!” both have the moral of accepting that things are your fault.
• Agony of the Feet: In “That’s Dangerous, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys’s foot ends up feeling sore when he lands abruptly on it.
• Alien Abduction: Discussed in “Where Are You, Roys Bedoys?”, where Roys stays at Maker’s house for about three hours, and Loys wonders if Roys was kidnapped by aliens.
• All Girls Like Ponies: In “Forgive People, Roys Bedoys!”, the girls are seen playing with toy unicorns.
• Animate Inanimate Object: In “Behave at the Library, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys and his friends listen to a story that involves a talking hat.
• Annoyingly Repetitive Child: In "Y is Not for Why, Roys Bedoys!", Roys's classmates are annoyed by him singing, "Why, why, tell me why" over and over again.
• April Fools' Plot: In “It’s April Fool’s Day, Roys Bedoys!”, the kids prank one another on April Fool’s Day, and Roys tricks Wen into thinking there is free food, which he learns is inappropriate due to her informed poverty.
• Are We There Yet?:
  • In “Let’s Go on a Road Trip, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys is impatient in the car and asks several times whether they’re at the dinosaur theme park yet.
  • In “It’s Christmas, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys asks, “Are we there yet?” when driving to his grandparents’ house.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In “Don’t Feed Wildlife, Roys Bedoys!”, the park ranger says that the things wild animals can do involve damaging property, biting, scratching, and leaving poop.
• Artistic License – Animal Care: In “No Cookies, Roys Bedoys”, Panther eats a cookie. Cookies are bad for cats, and chocolate chip ones are very toxic to them.
• Asian and Nerdy: Downplayed on both counts for Maker, who seems to be part Asian (his dad’s last name is Chan and looks like he could be Asian, while his mom is clearly white) and is the best student and sometimes has general knowledge the others don’t.
• Asleep in Class: In “Don’t Stay Up Late, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys stays up late playing a video game and falls asleep at his desk the next day.
• Baby See, Baby Do: In “Don’t Say Bad Words, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys swears in front of his two-year-old brother Loys, who later swears.
• Baby Talk: In “Don’t Feed Wildlife, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys calls a squirrel “squirrely whirly”.
• Baffled by Own Biology:
  • In "Stay at Home, Roys Bedoys!", Roys is congested and out of breath and thinks he must have COVID-19. As it turns out, there was no particular reason why he had boogers in his nose, and was only out of breath because he'd been running.
  • In one story, Roys thinks he's sick when he's actually dehydrated.
  • In "Christmas is the Season of Loving, Roys Bedoys", Roys doesn't understand why his back's sore. It turns out that he's turned into an old man overnight (though this later turns out to be All Just a Dream).
• Banana Peel: In “No Littering, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker slips on a banana peel while skating.
• Bathroom Search Excuse: In “Roys Bedoys & the Three Little Pigs”, Roys, playing the Big Bad Wolf, pretends he needs to use the second pig (played by Truly)’s bathroom to try to get her to let him in.
• Beach Episode:
  • In “Let’s Go to the Beach, Roys Bedoys!”, the Bedoyses (including Charlie, but excluding Panther) go to the beach.
  • Attempted in “We Can’t Go to the Beach, Roys Bedoys!”, where the Bedoyses try to go to the beach, but can’t, because first Joys gets an upset stomach, then it rains.
• Bears Are Bad News: In “Don’t Feed the Wildlife, Roys Bedoys!”, a grizzly bear shows up, scaring all of the kids.
• Bewildering Punishment: Justified in “Stop Lying, Roys Bedoys!”, where Roys lies that Wen is in trouble and needs to stand against the wall, leaving her wondering what she did.
• The Big Bad Wolf:
  • In “Roys Bedoys & the Three Little Pigs”, Roys plays the big bad wolf in his class’s play of The Three Little Pigs.
  • In “Roys Bedoys and Little Red Riding Hood”, he (reluctantly) plays the wolf again when he and his friends reenact Little Red Riding Hood.
• Bait-and-Switch Sentiment: In “Stop Jumping to Conclusions, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys says to Coder, “There’s no way you could kick the ball at my head on purpose. You’re not that good at kicking the ball.”
• Big Eater: Downplayed for Roys himself, who sometimes takes more than his fair share of food or eagerly anticipates food.
• Big "NO!":
  • Roys shouts, “Noooo!” upon hearing that he and his family will be moving house in “We’re Moving, Roys Bedoys!”.
  • He shouts, “NO!” upon learning that there’s going to be another Friday the 13th in March.
  • He also shouts, “NO!” upon losing the paper airplane race in “Don’t Stay Upset, Roys Bedoys!”.
  • He shouts, “Nooooo!” when his pencil breaks in “Stop Blaming People, Roys Bedoys!”.
  • He shouts, “NO!” when Mrs. Bedoys reveals that they will have broccoli for dinner at the end of “It’s Your Fault, Roys Bedoys!”.
  • Maker shouts, “Noooo!” in “Distance Learning Has Rules, Roys Bedoys!” when the internet cuts out.
  • Roys says, “No!!” in “Manage Your Anger, Roys Bedoys!” when Mr. Bedoys tells him it’s too late to go to the park.
  • Roys shouts, “Noooo!!!” in “Stop Changing the Rules, Roys Bedoys!” when he loses a card game.
  • In “We Can’t Go to the Beach Roys, Bedoys!”, when the titular revelation is made, the Bedoys brothers shout, “Nooo!”.
  • Roys says, “Noooo!” when he thinks Loys is going to click on a suspicious link at the end of “That Website’s Not Safe, Roys Bedoys!”.
• Big "WHAT?!": Roys shouts, “What???” when he learns there is another Friday the 13th coming in March at the end of “It’s Friday the 13th, Roys Bedoys!”.
• Bird-Poop Gag: In “Let’s Go on a Road Trip, Roys Bedoys!”, a seagull poops on Roys’s head.
• Birthday Episode:
  • In “Be Grateful, Roys Bedoys!”, it’s Roys’s birthday (supposedly turning five since it’s his first year at school) and he has to learn to be grateful despite not getting all he wanted.
  • In “Keep Your Word, Roys Bedoys!”, it’s Ms. H’s birthday, and the kids make her a card, but Roys didn’t get to add to it because he had a haphazard schedule.
  • It’s Roys’s birthday again in “Stop Wasting Money, Roys Bedoys!”, where he wastes money while trying to save up for a bubble machine so that he can have a “bubble party”.
  • In “Let Others Shine, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys has to learn not to hog the spotlight on Loys’s birthday.
  • “Don’t Spoil Surprises, Roys Bedoys!” focuses on Wen’s friends throwing her a birthday party.
• Bittersweet Ending:
  • At the end of “You’re Grounded, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys apologises to his mother and Loys, but he’s still grounded and can’t go to Maker’s party. However, Maker brings the Bedoys brothers a donut each.
  • “Roys Bedoys Goes to the Hospital” ends with Roys watching a movie with his friends and brother, but still bedridden in the hospital.
  • At the end of “Get Well Soon, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys is starting to recover from his respiratory virus, but hasn’t yet.
  • “Easter is Cancelled, Roys Bedoys!” ends on the Bedoys brothers getting candy and money, but their parents not getting any prizes and Mr. Bedoys being made to sniff Roys’s dirty sock.
  • At the end of “Just Tell the Truth, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys gets punished for throwing his controller, but Loys gets punished for blackmailing his brother and Roys is still happy that he isn’t a “slave” anymore.
  • At the end of “Where Are You, Roys Bedoys?”, Roys is grounded for not asking permission to go to Maker’s house, but the family is happy to have him back.
  • In “Don’t Be Late, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys never gets the gingerbread house kit he wanted, but he can help Loys build one.
• Book Dumb: Roys often complains about having to study and procrastinates studying, which makes him somewhat of a bad student until he steps his game up.
• Book Smart: Maker has the most general knowledge out of the kids, having a larger vocabulary and knowing, for instance, how rainbows work.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end of “That’s Dangerous, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys tells the audience to stay safe.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Roys and Loys can sometimes be rude in their dialogue, calling names and making rude jokes.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": In “Roys Bedoys Saves the Day”, Roys wears a shirt like his normal one but with an “S” on the front when playing superhero.
• Buffy Speak: In “Stop Being Selfish, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys refers to two days ago as “the other yesterday”. Justified, since Loys is only about two.
• Calling Your Bathroom Breaks:
  • In “Stop Wasting Money, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys claims he will need to “go home and poop”.
  • He says, “I need to use the bathroom” in “Let’s Go Camping, Roys Bedoys!”.
  • In “Bring a Sweater, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys claims he needs to poop.
  • In “Stop Jumping to Conclusions, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys says that he’s going to use the bathroom.
• Camping Episode: In “Let’s Go Camping, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys learns a lesson about being prepared while on a camping trip with his friends, parents, and Loys.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin':
  • In “Too Much Candy, Roys Bedoys”, Roys eats two extra candies when he was supposed to only eat one and immediately gets a toothache.
  • In “That Website’s Not Safe, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys clicks on one link without checking it first and it turns out to contain a virus.
• Character Tics: Mr. Master points to the sky very often, for no apparent reason.
• Child Naming Request: Implied to have been the case in "Meet The Baby, Roys Bedoys!" At the beginning, a pregnant Mrs. Bedoys asks Roys and Loys for potential baby names, with one of Roys' being the name Joys. When the baby is born later on, Mrs. Bedoys introduces the newborn with the name Joys Bedoys.
• Christmas Episode:
  • In “It’s Christmas, Roys Bedoys!”, the Bedoys family celebrates Christmas together. Roys is disappointed that he didn’t get anything on his wishlist, but Mrs. Bedoys teaches him that it’s not the gift itself that matters, but rather the fact that someone was kind enough to give any gift at all.
  • In “Let’s Get Ready for Christmas, Roys Bedoys!”, the Bedoys family (except for Joys, since she’s too young) decorates for Christmas.
  • In “Christmas is the Season of Giving, Roys Bedoys!”, Wen’s friends give up some of their Christmas presents when she doesn’t receive any.
  • In “Look on the Bright Side, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys has to learn to be more optimistic on a Christmas Eve party.
• Christmas in July: In “Stop Wasting Water, Roys Bedoys!”, this is downplayed when the class is asked to paint a tree for an art project, and Roys paints a Christmas tree even though it isn’t Christmas.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure:
  • In “Don’t Be Greedy, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys plays video games in his undies and doesn’t see why he can’t just go to the store without getting dressed first.
  • In “Distance Learning Has Rules, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys walks up to Roys in his underwear while Roys is doing online schooling with his classmates.
• Comfort Food: In “What’s Your Talent, Roys Bedoys?”, Roys eats a cupcake to cheer himself up when he feels talentless.
• Compressed Vice: In “What’s That Smell, Roys Bedoys?”, Roys has to learn to brush his teeth before bed, despite never having that problem in previous stories.
• Conflict Ball: In “You Have No Friends, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys’s friends, even Maker who’s his best friend, avoid him for just over a week, just because he flicks his boogers.
• Continuity Nod:
  • In “What’s Your Talent, Roys Bedoys?”, Roys makes the same cupcakes he made in “It’s the Last Day of School, Roys Bedoys!” (putting a scoop of ice cream on top).
  • In “It’s St. Patrick’s Day, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker wears his green shirt with the white stripes he wore back in “It’s Spirit Week, Roys Bedoys!”.
  • In “Roys Bedoys and Little Red Riding Hood”, the kids acknowledge that they’ve put on a play before (back in “Roys Bedoys and the Three Little Pigs”).
  • In “Don’t Exclude Your Friend, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys and Maker remember when they went camping and Flora told a story which made Wen laugh, which happened in “Let’s Go Camping, Roys Bedoys!”.
  • “Christmas is the Season of Giving, Roys Bedoys!” reveals that the Bedoys boys eventually managed to get the video game that sold out in “It’s Black Friday, Roys Bedoys”.
  • The helmet from “Don’t Exclude Your Friend, Roys Bedoys!” appears again in “Manage Your Anger, Roys Bedoys!”.
  • In “Read a Book, Roys Bedoys!”, Flora reads The Hat on the Cat, which is the same book from “Behave at the Library, Roys Bedoys!”.
• Copycat Mockery: In “You’re Grounded, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys teases his brother Loys by repeating everything he says, then he mimics his mother, causing her to punish him by making him stand in the corner.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: In “It’s the Last Day of School, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys knows how to make cupcakes, but he wants to add mac and cheese, broccoli, or hot dog pieces into them to make them “unique”.
• Cowboys and Indians: Discussed in “Do Your Homework, Roys Bedoys!”, where Maker wants to play cops and robbers with his friends.
• Crying Wolf: After Roys tells one lie to each of his friends in “Stop Lying, Roys Bedoys!”, they believe he is lying again when he is stuck in the slide.
• Cyberbullying: In “Stop Cyberbullying, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys gets angry at Hopper after losing to several online card games, so he shares an embarrassing photo of Hopper with bedhead and claims he sniffs dirty socks to fall asleep.
• Debating Names: In "Meet the Baby, Roys Bedoys!", when the Bedoys brothers learn that their mother is pregnant, they try to think of a name. Roys thinks of "Toyler" for a boy, but Loys thinks that sounds too much like "toilet". Then, Loys suggests "Toys" if it's a girl to rhyme with their names, but Roys thinks that's ridiculous and thinks Joys would be a better name. This does end up being her name.
• Dem Bones: Maker dresses as a skeleton for Halloween in “Let’s Go Trick-or-Treating, Roys Bedoys!”.
• The Dentist Episode: “Let’s Go to the Dentist, Roys Bedoys!” is all about Roys going to the dentist against his will.
• The Diaper Change: In “Meet the Baby, Roys Bedoys!”, baby Joys soils her diaper and Mrs. Bedoys changes her, while Roys complains that Joys “stinks up the house”.
• Disease-Prevention Aesop:
  • Downplayed in “That’s Bad Manners, Roys Bedoys!”, where one of the lessons is covering your mouth when you sneeze.
  • In “That’s Dirty, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys learns to stay clean so he doesn’t get sick.
  • “Stay at Home, Roys Bedoys!” is a Very Special Episode about following Covid-19 regulations.
  • In “Don’t Share Personal Items, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys learns his lesson about sharing things that have been in people’s mouths, after he gets sick from using a sick Loys’s toothbrush.
• Does Not Like Spam:
  • Roys doesn’t like strawberry icing, fried fish, broccoli, mushrooms, or barbecue sauce.
  • Flora doesn’t like plain yogurt.
  • Loys doesn’t like lettuce sandwiches.
• A Dog Ate My Homework: In “Stop Blaming People, Roys Bedoys!”, when Roys starts blaming others for why he didn’t do his homework, Truly jokingly asks if his dog (Charlie) ate it. Roys says, “Maybe he did”.
• A Dog Named "Cat": The Bedoyses have a house cat named Panther.
• Downer Beginning:
  • “Get Well Soon, Roys Bedoys!” begins with Roys telling Mrs. Bedoys that he feels unwell.
  • “Easter is Cancelled, Roys Bedoys!” begins with Roys and Loys crying about an Easter egg hunt being cancelled.
  • “You Have No Friends, Roys Bedoys!” begins with Roys crying about his friends allegedly ignoring him.
• Downer Ending: “Don’t Share Personal Items, Roys Bedoys!” ends with both of the Bedoys brothers sick.
• Dressed to Plunder: In “Roys Bedoys’s Spectacular Halloween Zoom Party!”, Maker wears a pirate hat and a striped shirt for Halloween.
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • Early stories would have the phrase “Good choice, Roys Bedoys” used when Roys finally made a good choice. Later stories omitted the phrase.
  • In one early story, Roys insults Loys by saying that the latter “has stinky diapers”. Later stories would establish that Loys is already toilet trained.
• Easter Episode: Despite none of the characters getting any older, this series actually has two – “Let’s Go Easter Egg Hunting, Roys Bedoys!” (in which Roys takes more than his share of Easter eggs and must give some of them up for his friends) and “Easter is Cancelled, Roys Bedoys!” (in which the Bedoys brothers take matters into their own hands when an Easter egg hunt gets cancelled.)
• Eat Dirt, Cheap:
  • In “I Dare You, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys claims that dirt is delicious, seemingly just to be contrary, so Wen dares him to eat some, which he ends up disliking.
  • Discussed in “It’s Your Fault, Roys Bedoys!”, where Flora asks, “If someone told you to eat dirt, would you eat it?”.
• Episode Tagline:
  • Roys exclaims, “Owwy!” frequently in “That’s Dangerous, Roys Bedoys!”.
  • In “Too Much Drama, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys keeps threatening his friends with “I won’t be your friend anymore”.
  • In “Y is Not for Why, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys keeps singing, “Why, why, tell me why”.
  • In “Where Are You, Roys Bedoys?”, Roys says, “Oooooh!” whenever he thinks about space.
• "Everybody Laughs" Ending:
  • “You Have No Friends, Roys Bedoys!” ends on Roys, his friends, and Loys all laughing.
  • “Read a Book, Roys Bedoys!” ends on Roys and his classmates laughing because of a funny book they read.
  • “It’s April Fool’s Day, Roys Bedoys!” ends on everyone laughing at Wen’s prank.
• Evil Laugh:
  • In “Roys Bedoys & the Three Little Pigs” and “Roys Bedoys and Little Red Riding Hood”, Roys says, “Muahahaha!” when playing the Big Bad Wolf.
  • In “It’s St. Patrick’s Day, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys’s friends laugh evilly when telling him to wear green on St. Patrick’s Day “or else”.
• Exhausted Eye Bags: In “Don’t Stay Up Late, Roys Bedoys”, Roys gets bags under his eyes when he’s sleep-deprived.
• Extreme Omnivore: Discussed when Mr. Bedoys asks Roys, “Did you eat my iPhone?” as a joke, and Roys joins in on the joke by claiming he did.
• Eye Scream: Discussed in “It’s a Blackout, Roys Bedoys!”, where Loys gets the terms “blackout” and “black eye” confused.
• Feud Episode: In “Forgive People, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys refuses to play with Maker after the latter dirties the former’s toy truck.
• Fingore: In “That’s Dangerous, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys slams his fingers in the door.
• Fishing Episode: In “Let’s Go Fishing, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys and Loys’s grandpa takes them fishing.
• Fishing for Sole: In “Let’s Go Fishing, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys goes fishing and while he does manage to catch a fish eventually, he first catches some seaweed and a shoe.
• Food as Bribe:
  • In “Stop Lying, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys goads Maker out of his favourite pencil, lying that he will give him candy.
  • In “‘CAN’ You Play with Me?”, Loys tries to get Roys to play with him by offering him candy and ice cream.
  • In “Beware of Strangers, Roys Bedoys!”, an evil man tries to trick the Bedoys brothers into letting him in by offering them ice cream.
• The Food Poisoning Incident:
  • In “Don’t Be Greedy, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys gets food poisoning after eating too much at a buffet.
  • In “Stop Wasting Money, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys claims he needs to “go home and poop” after eating three ice cream sandwiches.
• Formula-Breaking Episode: Occasionally, a story or video will deviate from the usual formula.
  • In one video, the family parodies the Baby Shark song and in another, Roys and his friends and teacher parody “The Wheels on the Bus”.
  • “Let’s Make a Rainbow, Roys Bedoys” doesn’t really have a moral like most of the stories, and neither does “Roys Bedoys’s Spectacular Halloween Party!”.
  • “Roys Bedoys & the Three Little Pigs” is just a retelling of The Three Little Pigs done with a school play. Similarly, “Roys Bedoys and Little Red Riding Hood” is just the kids reenacting Little Red Riding Hood.
  • “‘CAN’ You Play with Me?” doesn’t teach a moral; it just teaches the vocabulary word “can”.
• Friendship Denial: Loys claims to have no friends and that Roys’s friends aren’t his own, but they seem very close to him. He hangs out with them a lot, and he even invites them to his birthday party.
• Full-Name Basis: Everyone calls Roys by his full name, even his family and his closest friends.
• Fun with Acronyms: In “Let’s Make a Rainbow, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker teaches Roys the acronym Roy G. Biv for the colours of the rainbow (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet).
• Gasshole:
  • A running gag in the series is that Roys farts a lot.
  • Conversed in “Read a Book, Roys Bedoys!”, where Roys reads a book about a cat with “explosive flatulence”.
• Genius Sweet Tooth: Downplayed for the “genius” part in regards to Maker. He’s more knowledgeable and a slightly better student than his peers, and he’s occasionally seen eating desserts and candy.
• Genki Boy: Zigzagged for Roys himself. Sometimes he seems very energetic, running and jumping, and other times he’s more grumpy.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Truly likes ponies and a lot of her things are pink, but she also plays sports.
• Go to Your Room!: In “You’re Grounded, Roys Bedoys!”, Mrs. Bedoys sends Roys to his room for stealing an eraser.
• Great Accomplishment, Weak Credibility: In one story, Roys tells Coder that he couldn't have thrown the ball at him on purpose because Coder's aim isn't that good.
• Green Aesop:
  • Downplayed in “No Littering, Roys Bedoys!”, where Roys learns not to litter, but the focus is more on how trash is ugly and gets in the way than on the environmental impact.
  • Downplayed again in “Stop Wasting Water, Roys Bedoys!”, where Roys learns not to waste water, partly because of what Maker said about how only 1% of water on Earth is usable, but partly to save money.
• Green-Eyed Monster:
  • In “Don’t Be Jealous, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys envies Truly’s scooter, Wen’s trip to a theme park, and Maker’s skills.
  • In “What’s Your Talent, Roys Bedoys?”, Roys envies his friends and brother because they’re all good at something (Wen can sing, Truly can do ballet, Flora can do stage magic, Maker can play yo-yo, Loys can balance a toy dinosaur on his nose, and Charlie can do a flip) but he feels he isn’t.
• Group Costume Fail: Played for drama in "It's Spirit Week, Roys Bedoys!", when Wen doesn't dress up for the eponymous celebration alongside her classmates, because she can't afford costumes.
• Halloween Episode:
  • Downplayed in “Don’t Watch Grown-Up Movies, Roys Bedoys!”, where Roys and Maker watch a horror movie because Halloween is “around the corner”.
  • Played straight in “Let’s Go Trick-or-Treating, Roys Bedoys!”, where the kids trick-or-treat.
  • Played straight again in “Roys Bedoys’s Spectacular Halloween Zoom Party”, where the kids talk to one another online, while dressed up, on Halloween.
• Happy Dance:
  • In “Just Tell the Truth, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys dances to celebrate winning at a video game.
  • Loys starts dancing with joy in “Meet the Baby, Roys Bedoys!” when he realises he’s no longer the youngest.
  • In “Let’s Get Ready for Christmas, Roys Bedoys!”, when Mr. Bedoys asks his sons to help him put up the Christmas tree, the boys start dancing around and singing “Jingle Bells”.
  • In “Do Your Chores, Roys Bedoys!”, the Bedoys brothers start dancing in unison at the idea of getting an allowance.
  • Loys dances happily on his birthday in “Let Others Shine, Roys Bedoys!”.
  • In “Stop Changing the Rules, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys dances in joy when he wins the board game illegally.
  • In “Let’s Go Fishing, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys and Loys dance for joy when Grandpa takes them fishing.
  • In “What’s Your New Year’s Resolution, Roys Bedoys?”, Roys dances to celebrate getting an A+.
• Heh Heh, You Said "X": In “Stop Being Stubborn, Roys Bedoys!”, when Roys thinks the rocky road ice cream is poop, Loys says, “Ha ha, he said poop!”.
• Height Angst: In “Don’t Stay Up Late, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys temporarily becomes shorter than his friends due to sleep deprivation and is frustrated at being unable to play sports with them due to the height difference.
• Here We Go Again!: Subverted at the end of “That Website’s Not Safe, Roys Bedoys!”, where the computer has just been cleared of a virus that Roys accidentally downloaded, but Loys claims to have just clicked on another shady link. However, he was just joking.
• Hidden Depths: Mr. Master seems like a generic karate teacher, but “It’s Black Friday, Roys Bedoys!” reveals that he also plays video games.
• Honesty Aesop: In “Stop Lying, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys lies to Truly that there is a spider, to Wen that she is in trouble, and to Maker that he will give him candy. When they don’t believe him when he tells them he’s stuck, he apologises and promises to stop lying.
• Hot-Blooded: Roys tends to be both the most easily-angered and the most excitable of the kids. He gets very loud and snappy when things don’t go his way, but at the same time, he’s also quite bubbly.
• The Hyena: Mr. Sprinkles laughs a lot for no apparent reason.
• Hypochondria: In “Stay at Home, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys thinks he has Covid-19 after getting a snotty nose and being out of breath. Actually, he was fine. There was no particular reason for his snotty nose and he was out of breath because he’d been running.
• Hypocrite:
  • In “Don’t Gossip, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys and Maker judge Wen for always wearing the same clothes, despite always wearing the same clothes themselves.
  • In “It’s Christmas, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys chastises Loys for wanting a pet hippo despite wanting a rocketship himself.
• I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham:
  • In “Don’t Be a Picky Eater, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys doesn’t want to try some shrimp balls and dumplings, but once he eats them, he enjoys them.
  • In “Stop Being Stubborn, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys initially thinks rocky road ice cream looks terrible since he thinks it’s made of poop, but when he tastes some, he thinks it’s the “best ice cream ever”.
• I Don't Think That's Such a Good Idea:
  • In “Don’t Watch Grown-Up Movies, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker thinks that Roys’s suggestion of watching a “grown-up movie” is a bad idea.
  • In “Let’s Go Trick-or-Treating, Roys Bedoys!”, Truly thinks it’s a bad idea when Roys suggests going back to Mr. Master’s house for more candy.
  • In “That Website’s Not Safe, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys expresses hesitancy about Roys clicking on the link to the eponymous website.
• Ignorant About Fire: In “That’s Dangerous, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys plays with a lit match and ends up burning his thumb.
• Inevitably Broken Rule: In “Don’t Feed Wildlife, Roys Bedoys!”, Mrs. Bedoys tells Roys, Loys, and Roys’s friends not to feed the wild animals. Later, they do, and end up getting in trouble.
• Infant Sibling Jealousy: Downplayed in “Meet the Baby, Roys Bedoys!”, where part of Roys’s reason for finding the newborn Joys annoying is because Mrs. Bedoys is spending more time with her than with him, but mostly, he’s just annoyed because she sleeps a lot and isn’t toilet trained.
• Infection Scene: In “Don’t Share Personal Items, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys uses the toothbrush of his brother Loys, who’d been uncharacteristically lethargic. The next morning, Roys gets sick, and it’s revealed that Loys’s lethargy was caused by the disease which the brothers now both have.
• Informed Attribute: In “Don’t Gossip, Roys Bedoys!”, Wen apparently eats different food from her friends, yet when the kids are all seen eating together, she eats the same food as them.
• Informed Poverty: Wen is occasionally stated to be poor, even to the point of struggling to afford food in “It’s April Fool’s Day, Roys Bedoys!”. However, she can afford to have a cell phone (despite being only about five) and never seems to struggle unless the plot calls for it.
• Injured Limb Episode: In “Roys Bedoys Goes to the Hospital”, Roys falls downstairs and breaks his arm.
• Insomnia Episode: In “Go to Sleep, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys has trouble sleeping because he hears the wind and mistakes it for a monster, gets hungry, gets thirsty, wants his zombie plush, and then gets a stuffy nose.
• Instantly Proven Wrong:
  • In “Can You Lick Your Elbow, Roys Bedoys?”, Roys says that licking one’s elbow is “easy peasy”, but then tries it and has trouble.
  • In “Look Before You Leave, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys says he never forgets his backpack, only for Loys to instantly reveal that he did forget it.
• Internet Safety Aesop: In “That App is Not for Kids, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys downloads a social media app and adds 500 strangers as friends. His actual friends tell him that it isn’t safe and when one of them wants to meet in real life, he deletes the app.
• Irony: In “Happy New Year, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys is the first one to fall asleep despite having recently complained about Flora getting sleepy, then Loys is the only one not to fall asleep despite being the youngest.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Roys is sometimes disobedient or rude, but he never means to be truly bad and always makes up for his misdeeds.
• Joke and Receive: In “Stop Blaming People, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys keeps blaming other people for his mistakes, and Maker jokes that he would blame his little brother Loys if he could. Roys then says, “Now that you mention it, it is Loys’s fault.” Then, when Truly jokes that Roys might blame Charlie for eating his homework, Roys says, “Maybe he did.”
• Karma Houdini: Justified to an extent in “No Cookies, Roys Bedoys”, where the Bedoys brothers and their pets all take cookies before dinner despite not being allowed. Only Roys makes up for it (by helping to bake some more), but then, Loys is only two and the pets didn’t know better.
• Kids Love Dinosaurs:
  • Roys is sometimes seen playing with toy dinosaurs, and in “Learn to Share, Roys Bedoys!”, he draws a dinosaur.
  • Loys also sometimes plays with toy dinosaurs.
  • In “We Have Guests, Roys Bedoys!”, Hopper wants to play with Roys’s toy T-Rex.
• Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: In “Don’t Watch Grown-Up Movies, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys and Maker get scared after watching a scary “grown-up movie”.
• Lab Coat Of Science And Medicine: In “What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up, Roys Bedoys?”, Maker wears a lab coat when explaining that he wants to grow up to be an epidemiologist.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
  • In “We’re Moving, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker says that Roys can’t leave them because “Who else is going to be bad and then make a smart choice?”.
  • In “Roys Bedoys and Little Red Riding Hood”, Wen tells Roys that he can play the big bad wolf since he makes bad choices. Roys retorts, “No I don’t. I make good choices after I make the bad choices”.
  • In “That Website’s Not Safe, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys claims that he always “makes smart choices” and Loys thinks he’s joking.
• Limited Wardrobe: Everyone usually wears the same outfits.
• Literal-Minded: Justified in “That Website’s Not Safe, Roys Bedoys!”, when Loys (who is only about two) asks if the computer can get sick when Mrs. Bedoys mentions the computer possibly getting a “virus”.
• Little Brother Is Watching: An example involving an actual little brother occurs in “Don’t Say Bad Words, Roys Bedoys!”, when Roys instantly changes his mind about swearing when Loys learns a swear word from him.
• Little Professor Dialogue: Downplayed. All of the kids (though Roys is the least likely to do it) occasionally use big words, most often Maker (who, in fact, once expressed a desire to “learn all the big words”), but none of them make a habit out of it.
• Loophole Abuse: In “Can You Lick Your Elbow, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys bets Maker he can lick his elbow. When he finds himself unable, he cheats by licking the inside of it.
• Loose Tooth Episode: In "Roys Bedoys and the Tooth Fairy", Roys loses his first tooth and is told about the Tooth Fairy. He puts the tooth under his pillow, but his brother Loys gets money instead, so he writes to the Tooth Fairy saying she made a mistake. It's left ambiguous as to whether the Tooth Fairy exists or if it was one of the parents.
• Lost Food Grievance:
  • In “No Stealing, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys cries when Roys steals his chocolate bar. Justified in that Loys is only two.
  • In “It’s a Blackout, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys cries at the prospect of ice cream melting.
• Lost Toy Grievance: In “No Stealing, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker declares it “the worst day of [his] life” when he can’t find his toy car.
• Ludicrous Gift Request: In “It’s Christmas, Roys Bedoys!”, the Bedoys brothers want a rocketship (Roys) and a hippopotamus (Loys) for Christmas.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In “Roys Bedoys and the Tooth Fairy”, Roys wonders if the tooth fairy is real. He (and Loys by accident) get money, but it’s left unclear whether it was the tooth fairy or one of the parents who left it.
• Meaningful Name:
  • The karate teacher’s name is Mr. Master.
  • Downplayed for Mr. Sprinkles, who’s an ice cream truck driver but mainly a bus driver.
• Messy Pig: Discussed in “Roys Bedoys & the Three Little Pigs”, where Maker and Wen are playing two of the Three Little Pigs and claim they are going to play in the mud.
• Misspelling Out Loud: In “Respect People’s Opinions, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys says, “You’re wrong. R-O-N-G, wrong!”
• Mistaken for Destitute: Subverted in "Don't Gossip, Roys Bedoys!", where Roys thinks Wen is poor because she always wears the same clothes. Everyone in the whole series wears the same clothes, which the others point out, but later it turns out that Wen is poor anyway.
• Mistakes Are Not the End of the World: The moral of “Don’t Give Up, Roys Bedoys!” is not to give up something just because you failed the first time, since everything takes practice.
• Most Writers Are Adults: Roys and his classmates are about five, yet they use social media and can visit each other unsupervised. Loys is about two, but he’s very articulate.
• Mundane Made Awesome: In “Don’t Throw Tantrums at the Store, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys gets very excited over a simple trip to the store.
• Must Be This Tall To Ride: In “Roys Bedoys Gets Lost!”, the Bedoys brothers are disappointed at being too short to ride a carnival ride.
• My Nayme Is: Roys' and Joys’ names are pronounced the same as the real names Royce and Joyce.
• My New Gift Is Lame: In “Be Grateful, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys receives as presents for his birthday, a toy dinosaur he already has, a toy truck he dislikes, and a shirt he finds boring.
• Never Trust a Title: In “Roys Bedoys Saves the Day”, he never actually does any grand-scale heroism; he just does kind, but relatively mundane, acts such as cleaning his brother’s grazed hand.
• New Baby Episode: In “Meet the Baby, Roys Bedoys!”, Mrs. Bedoys gives birth to a third child; a girl named Joys. Loys is excited that he’s no longer “the baby”, but Roys finds her annoying.
• No Full Name Given: The Bedoys siblings and Maker Chan are the only characters with their full names known; most of the others only have first names, while Roys’ parents, Mr. Sprinkles, Mr. Master, Mr. Wisely, and Maker’s father have only a last name, and Ms. H and Ms. R have only an initial.
• Noodle Incident: In “That’s Dirty, Roys Bedoys!”, when Wen informs Roys that Maker is sick (explaining why he isn’t at school) she adds that you can get sick if you’re not clean, implying that Maker got sick from doing something unhygienic. We never find out what it was.
• Nose Nuggets:
  • In “That’s Bad Manners, Roys Bedoys!”, “Go to Sleep, Roys Bedoys!”, and “Put on Your Thinking Cap, Roys Bedoys!’, Roys picks his nose.
  • In “That’s Dirty, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys is seen with a booger on his face.
  • In “Get Well Soon, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys is sick, which gives him a runny nose, so he wakes up covered in snot and then sneezes on Loys.
  • In “Stay at Home, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys gets a booger in his nose (which causes him to worry that he's contracted Covid-19).
  • In “You Have No Friends, Roys Bedoys!”, it’s revealed that the whole reason Roys’s friends were avoiding him was because he flicked his boogers.
  • In “Don’t Hog All the Attention, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys picks his nose, amusing Roys’s friends who were video chatting with him.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: Despite years passing, no one gets any older.
• Not a Morning Person: Roys sometimes appears a bit groggy in the mornings.
• No, You!: In “Stop Bullying, Roys Bedoys!”, when Roys calls Truly, “Truly the Bully”, she says, “You’re the bully, Roys Bedoys”.
• Nursery Rhymes: In one video, Roys and his friends, plus Ms. H, parody “The Wheels on the Bus”.
• Obsessive Hobby Episode: In “Roys Bedoys Loves Video Games”, Roys starts wanting to only play video games to the exclusion of all else.
• Odd Name Out: Joys is the only female character to have a made-up name, while Hopper is the only male character to have a real name.
• Ode to Food: In “That’s an Opinion, Not a Fact, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys starts singing a little song about ice cream when the ice cream truck shows up.
• One-Letter Pun: In "Y is Not for Why, Roys Bedoys!", Roys forgets to bring something to school for a Y-themed Show and Tell, so he sings, "Why, why, tell me why" over and over again, to the annoyance of his classmates and teacher.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • In “Stop Cyberbullying, Roys Bedoys!”, Hopper’s mother can tell he is sad when he spends all day and night in his room.
  • In “Don’t Share Personal Items, Roys Bedoys!”, the first sign Loys is sick is when he’s taking a nap even though it isn’t his usual nap time.
• Out-of-Character Moment: In “Let Others Shine, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys is somehow able to paint a very intricate painting, despite most stories showing him as being rather bad at drawing, as is typical for a kid his age.
• Out Sick: Maker is absent from school due to being sick in “That’s Dirty, Roys Bedoys!”.
• Ow, My Body Part!: In “That’s Dangerous, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys exclaims, “Owwy, my foot!” after landing on it painfully, “Owwy, my head!” after falling over backwards, and “Owwy, my leg!” when Maker bumps into him.
• Pain to the Ass: In “What Does Mommy Want for Mother’s Day, Roys Bedoys?”, Roys accidentally sits on a lego piece, hurting himself.
• Picky Eater: Zigzagged for Roys himself. In “Be Grateful, Roys Bedoys”, he claims to only like chocolate for his cake, in “Respect People’s Opinions, Roys Bedoys!”, he gets angry over whether red or purple ice pops are better, and in “Don’t Be a Picky Eater, Roys Bedoys”, he refuses to eat unfamiliar-looking food. On the other hand, in “It’s the Last Day of School, Roys Bedoys”, he wants to eat cupcakes with mac and cheese, broccoli, and hot dogs!
• The Pig-Pen: Discussed in “Don’t Gossip, Roys Bedoys!” where the boys wonder if Wen never showers, but it turns out that she does.
• Plot Hole: In “Stop Bullying, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys’s friends introduce themselves to him despite him already having been friends with them for seven episodes.
• Potty Dance: In “Stop Being Stubborn, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys fidgets on the couch and Loys thinks it’s because he has to pee. He turns out to be right when Roys wets his pants.
• Potty Failure:
  • In “Meet the New Student, Roys Bedoys!”, Flora pees her pants because she was too shy to ask where the bathroom was.
  • In “Stop Being Stubborn, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys wets his pants on the couch.
• Power Outage Plot: In “It’s a Blackout, Roys Bedoys!”, a blackout hits due to a storm, but Mr. Bedoys and Roys forget to buy supplies.
• Pregnancy Makes You Crazy: Downplayed in “Mommy is Pregnant, Roys Bedoys!”, where Mrs. Bedoys is pregnant and it makes her moody and spacey and she gets a hot flush at one point.
• Prone to Tears: Not usually, but in “Stop Crying, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys temporarily becomes prone to tears when he cries at every minor insult.
• Rapid-Fire "No!": In “Christmas is the Season of Giving, Roys Bedoys!”, when Loys offers Wen his video game for Christmas, everyone else says, “Nononono.”
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: In “Don’t Gossip, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys thinks Wen is poor because she always wears the same clothes. Later stories reveal that she is poor, but everyone in the whole series wears the same clothes.
• Road Apples:
  • In “Let’s Go to the Beach, Roys Bedoys!”, Charlie the dog poops on the beach and Roys buries it, then later digs it up mistaking it for treasure.
  • In “It’s Friday the 13th, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys steps on cat poop.
  • In “Don’t Feed Wildlife, Roys Bedoys!”, the wild animals poop on the ground.
• Road Trip Plot: The plot of “Let’s Go on a Road Trip, Roys Bedoys!” is Roys and his family going on a road trip to a dinosaur theme park.
• Rhyme Theme Naming: The three Bedoys siblings are Roys, Loys, and Joys.
• Rhyming Names: The main character is named Roys Bedoys, and he has siblings named Loys and Joys.
• Questioning Title?: There are stories called “What’s Your Talent, Roys Bedoys?”, “Can You Lick Your Elbow, Roys Bedoys?”,“‘CAN’ You Play with Me?”, “Where Are You, Roys Bedoys?”, “What’s Your New Year’s Resolution, Roys Bedoys?”, and “What’s That Smell, Roys Bedoys?”.
• Shared Family Quirks: The Bedoys brothers both have a sweet tooth and they’re both gamers.
• Shock-and-Switch Ending: “That Website’s Not Safe, Roys Bedoys!” ends on the computer being fixed after it got a virus, but Loys claiming to have clicked on another suspicious link. However, he then reveals that he was only kidding.
• Shout-Out:
  • In one video, the family does a parody of the song “Baby Shark”. They also sing the song upon seeing a young shark in “Respect Your Elders, Roys Bedoys!”.
  • In “Roys Bedoys Loves Video Games” and "Be Patient with Your Little Brother, Roys Bedoys!", Roys plays a parody of Minecraft, called Blockcraft.
  • In “Roys Bedoys Goes to the Hospital”, Roys mentions a movie called “Toy Adventure 4”, which references Toy Story 4. This movie is also mentioned by Maker in “Don’t Watch Grown-Up Movies, Roys Bedoys!”.
  • In “Behave at the Library, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys and his friends listen to a parody of The Cat in the Hat called The Hat on the Cat (which later appears again in “Read a Book, Roys Bedoys!”), and the librarian holds up a book called Don’t Let the Penguin Drive the School Bus, parodying "Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus", which is the first book in Pigeon Series.
  • In “What’s Your Talent, Roys Bedoys?”, Wen dresses up as Elsa from Frozen (2013) and sings a parody of “Let it Go”.
  • In “It’s Spirit Week, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys mentions a parody of Star Wars called “Starry Wars”.
  • In “Don’t Get Distracted, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys invents a superhero called Superbat which seems like a cross between Superman and Batman}, while Maker invents one called Captain Iron, who seems like a cross between Captain America and Iron Man.
  • In “What’s Your New Year’s Resolution, Roys Bedoys?”, Roys tries to resolve to be Spiderman.
• Sick Episode:
  • In “Get Well Soon, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys is sick with a respiratory virus.
  • Downplayed in “We Can’t Go to the Beach, Roys Bedoys!”, where they can’t go to the beach because according to Mrs. Bedoys, Joys has “been having diarrhea the whole day”, but it’s left ambiguous as to why.
  • In “Don’t Share Personal Items, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys is sick, and then Roys catches it after using his toothbrush.
• Sickness Equals Redness:
  • Subverted in “Let’s Go Hiking, Roys Bedoys!”, where Roys is flushed and seems out of sorts, but it turns out he’s just dehydrated.
  • Played straight in “Don’t Share Personal Items, Roys Bedoys!”, where Roys and Loys are sick and the bridges of their noses turn red.
• Silent Treatment: Discussed in “Stop Jumping to Conclusions, Roys Bedoys!” where Roys thinks that Maker is mad at him when he doesn’t respond to his text.
• Sixth Ranger:
  • Roys’s friend group was initially him, Wen, Truly, and Maker. Since “Meet the New Student, Roys Bedoys”, Flora joined the group.
  • Downplayed for Hopper and Coder, who became Roys’s friends in later stories, but they never became members of the main group.
• Sleep Aesop: In “Don’t Stay Up Late, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys stays up late playing video games and ends up learning the importance of sleep when he becomes unable to study and then doesn’t grow as fast as his friends.
• Sleep Deprivation:
  • In “Don’t Stay Up Late, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys stays up late playing a video game and is very sluggish the next day.
  • In “Distance Learning Has Rules, Roys Bedoys!”, Truly is tired while doing homeschooling, ostensibly because she had a late night.
• Sleepyhead: Downplayed for Mrs. Bedoys, who always seems to get tired and need a nap after doing chores, but is alert if she doesn’t have to do chores.
• Smart Ball: In “Read a Book, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys, a toddler, mentions looking forward to learning to read because “whole new worlds will open up for [him] to explore”.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Downplayed for Maker. He wears glasses, and seems to have a bit more general knowledge and be slightly more academically inclined than his friends.
• Smelly Feet Gag:
  • In “It’s Spirit Week, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys tries to give Wen one of his socks when she can’t afford some crazy socks, but she refuses since it smells bad.
  • In “Easter is Cancelled, Roys Bedoys!”, the Bedoys brothers make Mr. Bedoys smell Roys’s sock, which he claims smells of rotten eggs.
  • In “Stop Cyberbullying, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys slanders Hopper by claiming the latter smells sweaty socks in order to fall asleep.
• Snap Back: In “Don’t Stay Up Late, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys, due to sleeplessness stunting his growth, becomes shorter than his friends. However, by the next story, they’re back to being all the same height.
• Sophisticated as Hell: In “No Littering, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker mentions “evidence”, but calls Roys a “litterbug” in the same sentence.
• Sore Loser: Roys is known for getting a bit grumpy whenever he loses at games, particularly if he thought he was going to win.
• Soup Is Medicine: In “Get Well Soon, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys is sick with what appears to be a cold or the flu, so Mrs. Bedoys gives him chicken soup.
• Speak in Unison:
  • In “No Name-Calling, Roys Bedoys!”, when Roys’s friends ask Roys and Coder if they want to be friends, both boys say at once, “No!”.
  • In “Stop Changing the Rules, Roys Bedoys!”, when Roys says that it isn’t his fault if his friends can’t win with his new rules, they say, “It IS your fault!” in unison.
• Species Surname: The story the librarian reads in “Behave at the Library, Roys Bedoys!” has a character called Mr. Rat.
• Spelling for Emphasis:
  • In “Respect People’s Opinions, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys says to Wen, “You’re wrong! R-O-N-G, wrong!”.
  • In “Don’t Be Late, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker, excited about free gingerbread house kits, says, “It’s free, Roys Bedoys! F-R-E-E!”.
• Staircase Tumble: In “Roys Bedoys Goes to the Hospital”, Roys falls down a staircase and breaks his arm.
• Sticky Fingers: In “No Stealing, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys keeps stealing food and toys from the other kids.
• Stink Snub: In “Don’t Gossip, Roys Bedoys!”, Wen’s friends claim that she never showers and smells bad.
• Stock "Yuck!": Loys doesn’t like drinking water in “Your Brother’s Too Shy, Roys Bedoys!”.
• Storybook Episode:
  • In “Roys Bedoys and the Three Little Pigs”, Roys plays the Big Bad Wolf and his friends play the pigs in a school play of The Three Little Pigs.
  • In “Roys Bedoys and Little Red Riding Hood”, the kids reenact Little Red Riding Hood, with Wen as Red Riding Hood, Truly as the mother, Flora as the grandmother, Maker as the farmer, and Roys as the wolf again.
• Superheroes Wear Capes:
  • In “Roys Bedoys Saves the Day”, Roys wears a superhero cape.
  • In “Manage Your Anger, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys draws Roys in a superhero cape.
• Superstition Episode: In “It’s Friday the 13th, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys wakes up on Friday the 13th and realises he’s forgotten to do his laundry, steps on cat poop, finds the lunch lady has run out of chocolate milk and apple juice, and then forgets to tie his shoe, tripping up. His friends assure him that these were just the result of carelessness or coincidence, and then his luck turns around when he gets invited to a pizza party.
• Surprise Party: In “Don’t Spoil Surprises, Roys Bedoys!”, Wen’s friends plan to throw her a surprise party for her birthday, but Roys spoils the surprise when she pressures him to tell the secret. She tries to feign surprise, but is too bad of an actress, so Roys has to admit he spoiled the surprise.
• Surprisingly Happy Ending: In “Don’t Spoil Surprises, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys spoils Wen’s surprise party and she fails at convincing her friends she’s surprised, but then she becomes genuinely surprised when she gets earrings as a present rather than the necklace Roys thought he was going to buy her.
• Swear Word Plot: In “Don’t Say Bad Words, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys learns some swear words from the horror movie he watched in the last story. He ends up saying them on the playground and then Loys overhears one and says it while playing video games because he’s frustrated and so the boys have to learn that it’s not okay to swear.
• Sweet Tooth:
  • Roys is seen enjoying or coveting cookies, candy, and other sugary foods on various occasions (though he does reject a strawberry-frosted birthday cake in “Be Grateful, Roys Bedoys!”) and he claims sprinkled donuts are his favourite snack.
  • Loys is also shown to have a sweet tooth, since he’s been seen eating cookies, chocolate, ice cream, and donuts occasionally, and cried when Roys stole his chocolate bar in “No Stealing, Roys Bedoys!’.
  • Roys’s friends also seem to have a sweet tooth, since they’re all seen eating candy and dessert on occasion, and all seem to get excited when something sweet is on offer.
• Symbol Swearing: When Roys swears in “Don’t Say Bad Words, Roys Bedoys!”, his swearing is subtitled with grawlixes.
• Take That!:
  • Roys hates a movie called “The Lion Prince”, which is a parody of The Lion King.
  • In “It’s Spirit Week, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys hates a Star Trek parody called “Starry Trek”.
  • In “Don’t Get Distracted, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys is seen disliking a Spider-Man parody called Webman.
• Take Our Word for It: In “Let’s Go Camping, Roys Bedoys!”, we’re told that Flora’s story is hilarious, but we never hear the story or anything about it.
• Tastes Like Feet: In “Stop Wasting Money, Roys Bedoys!”, Truly thinks some gum tastes like cardboard.
• Tears of Joy: Mrs. Bedoys wells up a bit when her husband and sons surprise her with dinner, balloons, flowers, and a drawing on Mother’s Day in “It’s Mother’s Day, Roys Bedoys!”.
• Temporarily Exaggerated Trait: The kids tease occasionally, but they’re not usually outright mean. Yet, in “Don’t Gossip, Roys Bedoys!”, when Roys and Maker suspect that Wen may be poor, they tease her for her alleged poverty.
• Temporary Bulk Change: In “Roys Bedoys Loves Video Games”, when Roys starts playing his video game too much, he becomes fatter due to lack of activity. He’s back to normal size by the next story.
• Tempting Fate:
  • In “Roys Bedoys Saves the Day”, Roys declares no one will recognise him in his domino mask, but Maker and Wen do.
  • In “Don’t Be a Sore Loser, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys says that Loys can never beat him at his favourite video game, but Loys does.
  • In “Let’s Go Trick-or-Treating, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys assures Loys that no one will laugh at his costume (a ghost costume made of a grocery bag) but then everyone else does.
  • In “Stop Being Stubborn, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys claims he will not spill his hot chocolate, but seconds later, it does spill.
  • In “Bring a Sweater, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys claims he won’t need a sweater at the movies since it’s sunny, but at the movies, he does need one since they have AC.
• Thanksgiving Episode: In “Roys Bedoys Saves Thanksgiving!”, Roys’s grandparents and uncle think they can’t make it for Thanksgiving, so Roys has to convince them to change their minds.
• That Cloud Looks Like...: In “You Can Touch the Cloud, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys, his friends, and Loys see a cloud. Flora thinks it looks like a hat, Maker thinks it looks like a duck, and Loys thinks it looks like cotton candy. Then, they see another cloud, which Maker and Roys think looks like an ice cream, but Loys thinks it also looks like cotton candy.
• Things That Go "Bump" in the Night:
  • In “Go to Sleep, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys thinks there is a monster under his bed due to hearing noises, but it turns out to only be the wind.
  • In “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys mistakes the shadow of a tree branch in his room for that of a monster hand, then later thinks he can hear the monster but it’s just the ice machine, the wind, and a pigeon.
• Toilet Humour:
  • Roys farting is a running gag.
  • In “Roys Bedoys & the Three Little Pigs”, Roys, playing the Big Bad Wolf, threatens to fart in the second pig (played by Truly)’s house.
  • In “Stop Bragging, Roys Bedoys!”, the Bedoys brothers tease each other with “Roys has stinky farts” and “Loys has stinky diapers”.
  • In “We’re Moving, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys tells his friends that he’s so close to them, he can fart around them and not be embarrassed.
  • In “Stay at Home, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker farts.
  • In “Y is Not for Why, Roys Bedoys!”, Wen, while demonstrating yoga, says, “Don’t stretch too far or you’ll fart.”
  • In “Roys Bedoys’s Spectacular Halloween Party!”, one of the clues for the scavenger hunt is something that’s white, can only be used once, and has to do with poop. It turns out to be toilet paper.
  • In “Meet the Baby, Roys Bedoys!”, when Mrs. Bedoys is pregnant, Roys wants to name the baby Toyler if it’s a boy. Loys rejects the idea because it “sounds like toilet”.
  • In “Be Patient with Your Little Brother, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys thinks the pyramid Roys built in his video game looks like poop.
  • In “Stop Wasting Water, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys’s first idea for saving water is not flushing after peeing.
  • In “Bring a Sweater, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys poops despite not needing to, so he can eat more (biologically inaccurate, since poop is stored in the lower intestine, not the stomach, but he might not know any better since he’s only about five).
  • In “Stop Making Excuses, Roys Bedoys!”, when Roys wants to be reminded for various things, Loys says, “Do you want me to remind you to go potty?”.
• Too Much Information: When Flora reveals that she sometimes wears the same socks two days in a row in “What’s Your New Year’s Resolution, Roys Bedoys?”, Truly says, “Ew, Flora. That is TMI. Too much information!”.
• Too Smart for Strangers:
  • In “That’s Dangerous, Roys Bedoys!”, a strange man offers Roys candy, so he yells for Mrs. Bedoys.
  • In “Roys Bedoys Gets Lost!”, another strange man tries to get Roys to follow him by offering ice cream, but Roys refuses.
  • In “Beware of Strangers, Roys Bedoys!”, another strange man offers Roys a ride home in his car, claiming that Mrs. Bedoys is in the hospital, then another one knocks on the Bedoyses’ door and tries to get the boys to let him in, only to run away upon finding out Mrs. Bedoys is at home, and then a third one tries to show the boys a puppy on the playground but they refuse.
• Tooth Fairy: In “Roys Bedoys and the Tooth Fairy”, Roys loses a tooth and wonders if the tooth fairy is real. Loys ends up getting the money instead, so Roys writes a note and then gets money, but it’s left ambiguous whether the fairy is real.
• Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: In “Stop Cyberbullying, Roys Bedoys!”, Hopper is so embarrassed about having been cyberbullied that he doesn’t want to eat his favourite food.
• Twisted Christmas: Downplayed in “Christmas is the Season of Giving, Roys Bedoys!”, where Wen mainly has a happy Christmas, but one downside is that she receives no presents (until her friends sacrifice part of their own presents).
• Unexpectedly Dark Episode:
  • In “Be Grateful, Roys Bedoys!”, Wen, who’s sometimes stated to be poor, reveals that she’s never had a birthday party, in “It’s Spirit Week, Roys Bedoys!”, she can’t afford fancy clothes, and in “It’s April Fool’s Day, Roys Bedoys!”, she’s implied to be so poor that free food is a big deal for her.
  • “Stay at Home, Roys Bedoys!” involves the children having to stay inside during the Covid-19 pandemic. Downplayed for “Distance Learning Has Rules, Roys Bedoys!” and “Distance Learning is Not Always Fun, Roys Bedoys!”, where the kids are homeschooling because of Covid-19, but it’s still largely played for laughs.
• Unconventional Food Usage: In “Don’t Do That at School, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys smashes two crackers together just for kicks.
• Unnamed Parent: None of the parents have known first names, Mr. and Mrs. Bedoys and Mr. Chan are the only ones with known last names.
• Unsound Effect: There are a few “sound effects” that aren’t onomatopoeic, such as “snore” and “fart”.
• Valentine's Day Episode: In “It’s Valentine’s Day, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys and his classmates decorate some paper bags for Valentine’s Day.
• Very Special Episode: “Stay at Home, Roys Bedoys!”, “Distance Learning Has Rules, Roys Bedoys!”, and “Distance Learning is Not Always Fun, Roys Bedoys!” were written in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and involve the characters having to stay at home.
• Video Call Fail: In "Distance Learning Has Rules, Roys Bedoys!", Ms. H tries to teach her class through video chat, but then the wi-fi drops out. The girls speculate on what could have caused it, Roys suggests maybe it was aliens, and Maker does a Big "NO!" at the prospect of not learning anything.
• Water Guns and Balloons:
  • In “Do Your Homework, Roys Bedoys!”, the kids want to have a water balloon fight, but everyone except Roys becomes too busy studying. Roys tries to fight with Loys instead but Loys isn’t very good at it.
  • In "Don't Spoil Surprises, Roys Bedoys!", Wen's friends think of buying her some water balloons, but they can't afford it, so they just use the hose.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: In "Meet The Baby, Roys Bedoys!", Loys makes fun of Roys' suggestion to name their baby sibling Toyler if it's a boy because "it sounds like toilet", while Roys laughs at Loys' suggestion to name the baby Toys if it's a girl.
• Whoopee Cushion: In “Christmas is the Season of Giving, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys gets a whoopee cushion for Christmas.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
  • In “Stop Lying, Roys Bedoys!”, Truly runs away screaming at the thought of a spider.
  • “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, Roys Bedoys!” reveals that Loys is afraid of the lawnmower, the vacuum, and the shadows in his room.
• Would Rather Suffer: In “Respect People’s Opinions, Roys Bedoys!”, Roys claims he would rather not wear shoes than wear Maker’s.
• You Are Fat: In “Mommy is Pregnant, Roys Bedoys!”, the Bedoys brothers call Mrs. Bedoys fat when they notice her baby bump.
• You Are Grounded!:
  • In the aptly-named “You’re Grounded, Roys Bedoys!”, Mrs. Bedoys grounds Roys for stealing an eraser.
  • In “Don’t Watch Grown-Up Movies, Roys Bedoys!”, Maker’s mother grounds him for watching a “grown-up movie”.
  • At the end of “Where Are You, Roys Bedoys?”, Mr. Bedoys grounds Roys for not asking permission to go to Maker’s house.
• You Need a Breath Mint: In “What’s That Smell, Roys Bedoys?”, everyone gags and runs away when Roys has bad breath.

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