History WesternAnimation / LiloAndStitchTheSeries

* LighterAndSofter: This show compared to the original [[{{Dramedy}} comedy-drama]] film it follows up on. None of the conflicts in this series get anywhere near as dramatic as the original film.

* LovePotion: In the form of a hummingbird-like experiment pecking people - Hunkahunka (323).

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'''Gantu:''' I heard that!

->'''Music/Jump5:''' ''Aloha, e komo mai!''

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* HateSink: Mertle, as usual, though she's more sympathetic than she is in the movie.

* MonsterRoommate: Stitch and his cousins.

* VocalEvolution: Lilo's voice is noticeably deeper in much of season two as Creator/DavieghChase got older.

* EveryEpisodeEnding: The featured experiment in their one true place, except if Gantu captures them.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* ComicBookTime: Several later episodes mention that it has been approximately three years or so since the experiment hunt began with Sparky, which would make the time since Stitch first landed in Hawaii only slightly longer, but it seems more for setting than anything. Despite this, nothing of consequence changes in the characters' lives. This can likely be attributed to the fact that the show's run was three years.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Many Hawaiians mistake Stitch and other experiments for normal Earth animals. They also mistake Gantu for a human foreigner [[WeirdnessCensor even when he's not]] wearing a PaperThinDisguise. Only two American tourists noticed Gantu and the experiments were aliens and when they complained to the mayor, even giving photographic evidence, he just shrugs it off as a hoax.
** In "Frenchfry", Kumu doesn't seem to find it odd that the now-fat Lilo is shaped so unrealistically or how she gained so much weight in so little time.

* VerbalTic: Mertle has a habit of putting emphasis on words like me and my, [[FreudianSlip showing how conceited she is]]. It's pretty subtle, but it's made more apparent when Lilo does it when she's hypnotised into acting like Mertle.

** In “627”, both Pleakley and Lilo tear into Jumba for creating the eponymous experiment.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Pleakley enjoys his diguise as Lilo's aunt.

As ''The Series'' begins, it is revealed that [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments many other experiments of Stitch's lineage]], of which he is number 626, have landed near Hawaii by accident (as shown in the direct-to-video {{pilot|Movie}} ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie''). Stored in pods that activate one by one in freak occurrences (usually by dropping into water), each specialized experiment uses its unique power to wreak havoc on the island until it is captured. Lilo and Stitch's goal is to find a place in which each of Stitch's "cousins" can be useful and happy. Competing with them for each capture is movie bad guy Gantu, the now disgraced former galactic captain guard, who seeks to enslave the experiments for the even-eviler Doctor Hämsterviel, with the ever-reluctant assistance of Stitch's lazy, cowardly, sarcastic, sandwich-loving predecessor Experiment 625 (now known today as Reuben). After [[SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon 65 episodes]] over two seasons,[[note]]The first season, consisting of the first 39 episodes, aired in a condensed time frame of less than six months, but the remaining 26 episodes representing the second season took nearly two years to get through for whatever reason.[[/note]] ''The Series'' closed out with the fourth[[note]]''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch'', which is separate from the show but released in 2005 during the show's run, is the third released film in the franchise[[/note]] and final movie, ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch''. It has since be followed by two different spin-off shows each on their own [[AlternateTimeline timeline]] set after the last film; a Japanese anime called ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' from 2008 to 2015, and a Chinese animated series titled ''Animation/StitchAndAi'' in 2017.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The final experiment's name is Snafu. Anyone with a tie to the military knows that this is an acronym for Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.

** In "627", Gantu loses the initial fight when the newly-reformed Deforestator shreds his clothes, and he runs away out of embarrassment.

* FrickinLaserBeams: The only type of firearms that appear in ''The Series'', being a kids' show and all. Technically averted in that they aren't really lasers, but "plasma". At least two of the experiments have this power as well.

* TitlePlease: The only place where you can see the episode titles is in cable descriptions.

* ClipShow: "Ace" is about Jumba showing footage of his experiments doing evil things to the head of the Evil Genius Organization. This is to convince the head of E.G.O. that Jumba is still evil and his membership should not be revoked. Notably, the segment shows nearly the entirety of Slushy (523) and Splodyhead (619)'s epic fight from the former experiment's episode, and in that episode Jumba stated that he forgot to bring his camera. It should also be noted that "Ace" was originally supposed to have [[http://www.ersoz.com/storyboard/sb_pages/ls_ace.htm a much more substantial plot]] and not be a clip show, but [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents it was changed in the wake of a then-recent tsunami]].

* ClipShow: The "Ace" segment of "Mrs. Hasagawa's Cats/Ace".

* InkSuitActor: Music/WeirdAlYankovic as a minstrel at a medieval festival.
** Regis Philbin and Glenn Shadix in other episodes.

* OffModel: Gantu's height can range from just over twice Jumba's size to taller than two stories, and everything in between. It was stated by [[WordOfGod the producers]] that Gantu's sudden shrinkage between [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch the original movie]] and ''The Series'' was so that Gantu could appear in frame without ridiculously dwarfing anything he stood over. (That doesn't explain the variance in ''The Series'' itself, however...)

As ''The Series'' begins, it is revealed that [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments many other experiments of Stitch's lineage]], of which he is number 626, have landed near Hawaii by accident (as shown in the direct-to-video {{pilot|Movie}} ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie''). Stored in pods that activate one by one in freak occurrences (usually by dropping into water), each specialized experiment uses its unique power to wreak havoc on the island until it is captured. Lilo and Stitch's goal is to find a place in which each of Stitch's "cousins" can be useful and happy. Competing with them for each capture is movie bad guy Gantu, the now disgraced former galactic captain guard, who seeks to enslave the experiments for the even-eviler Doctor Hämsterviel. After two seasons (the first season was largely extended to fill the [[SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon 65-episode]] count), ''The Series'' closed out with the fourth[[note]]''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch'', which is separate from the show but released in 2005 during the show's run, is the third released film in the franchise[[/note]] and final movie, ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'', which was followed by the anime ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' two years later in Japan.[[note]]Though it's still debatable if that series--and [[Animation/StitchAndAi the series succeeding]] ''that'' one--is canon with this one.[[/note]]

* AlienAnimals: Mertle's pet Shih-Tzu dog Gigi, designed to annoy people with its constant yapping, is revealed to be Jumba's Experiment 007 (a.k.a. Yapper).