The Naughty Naughty Pets was a cartoon adaptation of a series of children's books by Wendy Ann Gardner. It was a Canadian production made by Decode Entertainment (now part of WildBrain) and the now-defunct C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures. It followed the adventures of Windywoo, and her mischievous cabal of pets. The show aired on CBC Kids in 2006 for a single season of 26 episodes.
Tropes present in the series:
- Adaptational Jerkass: Princess Victoria (here she is called Vicki and is voiced by Julie Lemieux) was nice in the source material, but it's downplayed in that she has her moments of meanness, assertiveness and dominance over other characters.
- Adaptational Villainy: Although Princess Victoria is still technically a good character, it's downplayed in that she's made slightly more of a Jerkass with moments of meanness.
- Aerith and Bob: The protagonist is named Windywoo, which unless it's a nickname, seems unconventional, unless her parents were hippies and her real name isn't revealed.
- Aesop Amnesia: Ivan and Princess Victoria learn the lesson in their focus episodes, but seem to forget it in later episodes.
- Broad Strokes: Being an adaptation of a series of children's books, it doesn't follow the work 1:1 as some adaptations of children's work try to, and some elements don't quite match up with the source material, especially with regard to characterization.
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Broken Aesop: The episode "Shopping Spree" was supposed to have the moral about living within your means and not buying everything you see, but it ended up being contradicted by the show of wealth and informercials throughout the episode (it de facto glamorized them, unintentionally) and bling being seen throughout the episode. The episode's focus character, Princess Victoria, didn't learn the moral of the episode anyway, effectively rendering the episode pointless in some ways. - Canines Gambling in a Card Game: The episode "Dig Ivan Dig" and the episode "Dogs Playing Poker" both feature these, although they are incidental to the story rather than relevant to the plot.
- Edutainment Show: Of a sort; its aim is to provide morals to kids, with music.
- Filler: There are 26 episodes in the series, and around 7-8 are filler episodes, but it's not continuity-heavy anyway.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ivan, the pug, may seem to be a tough Jerkass but he's not actually that bad, he is kind to his fellow dogs.
- Minimalist Cast: Only Windywoo and her pets appear in every episode, no guest characters at all. The sole exceptions are an episode focusing on cats and an episode focusing on rabbits.
- Snap Back: Everything reverts back to normal at the end of the previous episode, even if there's severe damage to the house.
- Status Quo Is God: No matter what happens at the end of the story, everything returns to normal by the start of the next episode.
