History Animation / TayoTheLittleBus

* AnAesop: Being a kid's show, almost every episode contains one.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yseBONS6rQc "I Can't Sleep!"]]: Don't stay up so late watching TV, or your entire sleep schedule will be off for days.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWiUzT__tY "Laugh, Pat"]]: Pat the police car does a great job enforcing traffic rules with Rookie the police officer, but the former is getting a little overbearing. One day, a wayward feather gets stuck in Pat's rear window, forcing the straight-laced Pat to laugh uncontrollably (and at inconvenient times). Pat eventually learns that traffic safety is important, but delivering reminders in a harsh manner can alienate (and even frighten) your fellow citizens.

* CountryMouse: "Nana Visits the City"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlHDSDPBI7o]] is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Nana, a rural bus, is invited to visit Tayo and his friends in the city. She and her pick-up truck friend subsequently get lost and make other obvious tourist mistakes.
* DayInTheLife: The very first episode of Season One is even called "A Day in the Life of Tayo[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYieYerOfaw]]."

* SnowedIn: Averted in "Tayo's First Snow Day[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smErPvYGJXM]]." The buses still have to work.

* GoodAngelBadAngel: "Joey the Magician" when Tayo stops & says that he doesn't like being late, His devil tells that to skip a bus stop just to see a show & his angel tells to pick up Joey and go back for the show. Which makes him obey his devil to go back for the show leaving Joey behind.

* GoodAngelBadAngel: "Joey the Magician" when Tayo stops & says that he doesn't like being late, His devil tells that to get across the street & his angel tells to wait for the green light.

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* MistakenForServant: Not so much servant, but student: On Tayo's first day of school, he runs into a new car and he immediately assumes she's a fellow new classmate. The entire episode features Tayo taking her around the city and treating her as a peer. When school starts, the kids anxiously wait to meet their teacher and it turns out to be Tayo's new "friend." HilarityEnsues.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Not so much in the beginning of the series, but they definitely add up over time.

* NeverSayDie: In the first episode, it is established that buses don't die when they get old - they get scrapped. This leads to the same FridgeHorror that it does in ''Thomas the Tank Engine''.
* NobodyCanDie: No matter how bad the accident or crash, everyone can be fixed. Confusing, though, when you consider NeverSayDie above.

* NotSoDifferent: The buses attend school, learn to drive, play on a playground, go to work, ask for days off, get sick, suffer from insomnia (no kidding) - just like the people in the show.

* SnotBubble: Well, it IS am Asian show, after all.
* ToiletHumour: Buses "fart" by visibly straining to release exhaust fumes from their tailpipes. Yep. It's even used as a problem-solving device when a little boy is too afraid to ride a bus: Tayo farts and the little boy thinks it's just hilarious, and eventually rides the bus. Though considered crude in the Western world, it's quite funny for its native audience.
* TrueCompanions: A great example of this trope. From the minute they meet each other, they're welcoming and supportive.

* Workaholic: Citu the older bus is shown to be this when the little buses beg him to take them on a picnic one weekend. He initially resists, but decides to go anyway.

* NeverSayDie: In the first episode, it is established that buses don't die when they get old - they get scrapped.

[[caption-width-right:350:"With his friends by his side, Tayo's always having fun" Now it's in your head. You're welcome.]]

A South Korean kid's show about a bus named Tayo and his friends. It is so popular in its home country that the South Korean government turned real city buses into characters from the show[[http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2987621]] in order to teach kids how to ride the bus. Human characters play a large role in-universe, both as friends and riders of the buses.

** "I Can't Sleep!"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yseBONS6rQc]]: Don't stay up so late watching TV, or your entire sleep schedule will be off for days.
** "Laugh, Pat"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFWiUzT__tY]]: Pat the police car does a great job enforcing traffic rules with Rookie the police officer, but the former is getting a little overbearing. One day, a wayward feather gets stuck in Pat's rear window, forcing the straight-laced Pat to laugh uncontrollably (and at inconvenient times). Pat eventually learns that traffic safety is important, but delivering reminders in a harsh manner can alienate (and even frighten) your fellow citizens.

** "Tiny Tayo"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg74Xja7bmE]]: After Tayo gets shrunk by Hana's experimental shrink ray, he gets accidentally taken home by a young boy. To eventually switch Tayo with the boy's real toy bus, the adults don't just grab the kid's bus and try to switch it - they use clever negotiation to get Tayo back.

* ToiletHumour: Buses "fart" by visibly straining to release exhaust fumes from their tailpipes. Yep. It's even used as a problem-solving device when a little boy is too afraid to ride a bus: Tayo farts and the little boy thinks it's just hilarious, and eventually rides the bus.