History WesternAnimation / AdventuresInOdyssey

* CanonForeigner: Whit, Connie, and Eugene (and Bernard Walton when he appeared in "The Last Days Of Eugene Meltsner") are the only characters who appear both here and the radio series. Everyone else originated here, but didn't eventually make appearances in the radio series.

* AnimatedAdaptation: Of the radio series. There is also one specifically of the radio episode "Someone To Watch Over Me", with Dylan replacing Jimmy Barclay. (Though there are a few changes. Dylan's head injury is caused by falling out of the Imagination Station rather than the Wonderworld Treehouse, for example.) "Escape From The Forbidden Matrix" is also inspired by the radio episode "Gloobers".

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Doug, TheBully from "In Harm's Way" and "Electric Christmas", for Rodney Rathbone (and effectively the rest of the Bones of Rath) from the radio series.

* KidsAreCruel: Holly Ferguson, Dylan's new neighbor in "Flight to the Finish", spends the entire episode tormenting him and Sherman with her cat Jasper. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Dylan risks his life to save her from certain doom, and they soon become friends.
** Played straight with Doug Harding, the bully in the episodes "Electric Christmas" and "In Harm's Way". In the latter, he tries to get a deaf kid named Elliot killed.

* LanternJawOfJustice: There are... ''multiple'' characters with huge, pronounced chins if they're meant to be intimidating. Inspector Stark in "Shadow of a Doubt" may be closest to playing the whole deal straight, but is more comically inept than anything.

* ArtShift: Many of the episodes look quite distinct from each other, either for the better for the...slightly less better. For example, "The Knight Travelers" is almost on par with a typical 90s Disney TV show[[note]] Incidentally, the animation company used for all episodes was Creator/HanhoHeungUp, which did do work on a number of Disney Afternoon shows, such as WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck[[/note]], while "Flight to the Finish" is heavy on the squash-and-stretch and is a bit more OffModel.

* ChekhovsGun: In "Electric Christmas", Dyllan points out to Doug that the competition is about which house captures the "spirit of Christmas" the best, not how many lights their display has. [[spoiler:He ends up being correct; when both of their work ends up in ruins because of Dyllan and Doug taking things too far, Dyllan's family's nativity scene, despite its simplicity, wins the competition due to capturing the (biblical) spirit of Christmas better than either of theirs.]]

** Played straight with Doug Harding, the bully in the episodes "Electric Christmas" and "In Harm's Way". In the latter, he tries to get a deaf kid name Elliot killed.
* LatexPerfection: The cat burglar in "Shadow of a Doubt" frames Whit for robbery by wearing a rubber mask modeled after his face. In fact, when the mask lands on Sherman's face, he blinks with the mask's eyelids!

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:In "The Last Days of Eugene Meltsner", Eugene mistakenly assumes he's contracted a fatal disease. This happens due to a mix-up when Dyllan is seen playing with his new invention earlier in the episode; it turns out the disease he's "contracted" is only fatal to insects, and Eugene will be just fine.]]

* VillainBall: The cat burglar in "Shadow of a Doubt" may be one of the single worst examples of this trope. Considering his entire purpose is to ''not'' get caught, it's pretty insane that he goes so far to trap Dyllan and spell out his ''entire EvilPlan right in his face''. And his reasoning? To destroy Dyllan's footage, which had no reasonable proof of him being the cat burglar to begin with. Had he just kept his quiet and moved along when he bumped into Dyllan in the park, his plot would never have been foiled.
* XMustNotWin: In "Electric Christmas", Dyllan spends more time trying to make sure Doug doesn't win the competition by outdoing him rather than trying to win it on his own merit. The prize of the competition is [[CoolToy an XR-7 bike]] that Dyllan nearly went greedy for at the beginning of the episode, which is what Doug also was competing for.

* ABoyAndHisX: Dylan and Sherman.

* BookEnds: "The Knight Travellers", the very first episode of the series, introduces the original Imagination Station, which is stolen by Dr. Faustus and made into "the Manipulation Station". The last video, "Race to Freedom", has the same character and invention in its plot.

* ChekovsGun: In "Electric Christmas", Dyllan points out to Doug that the competition is about which house captures the "spirit of Christmas" the best, not how many lights their display has. [[spoiler:He ends up being correct; when both of their work ends up in ruins because of Dyllan and Doug taking things too far, Dyllan's family's nativity scene, despite its simplicity, wins the competition due to capturing the (biblical) spirit of Christmas better than either of theirs.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: The [[HumongousMecha giant robot]] in "Star Quest" that was created by Whittaker for the StarTrek spoof of the same name gets Eugene's game disc installed by mistake and goes on a rampage with Dylan and Sal inside it, even after the disk is removed.

** Played straight with Doug Harding, the bully in the episodes "Electric Christmas" and "In Harm's Way". In the later, he tries to get a deaf kid name Elliot killed.
* LatexPerfection: The cat burglar in "Shadow of a Doubt" frames Whit for robbery by wearing a rubber mask modeled after his face. Heck, when the mask lands on Sherman's face, he blinks with the mask's eyelids!

* BearsAreBadNews: Occurs in "Once Upon an Avalanche". [[spoiler:Fortunately, Jess is able to scare it away before it can do any real harm.]]

** Played straight with Doug Harding, the bully in the episodes "Electric Christmas" and "In Harm's Way".

* LoudGulp: One of neighborhood kids, who pushed new kid Elliot into going down a steep slope on a bike with decayed brakes is laughing about it. Dylan snaps at him [[DudeNotFunny for laughing about something that almost got Elliot (and himself) killed]], to which the boy simply brings up one of Dylan's earlier semi-nasty comments about Elliot to shift the blame. Eventually, he walks off, but stops in his tracks and gulps loudly when Whit sternly says that they'll see how funny his ''mother'' thinks it is.

* AllJustADream: "Someone To Watch Over Me", as with the original radio episode, and the events of "[[spoiler: A Twist in Time]]" turn out to be a simulation in the Room Of Consequences.

* ArtShift: Many of the episodes look quite distinct from each other, either for the better for the...slightly less better. For example, "The Knight Travelers" is almost on par with a typical 90s Disney TV show, while "Flight to the Finish" is heavy on the squash-and-stretch and is a bit more OffModel.