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* ColoringInTheWorld: One of the stories concerns a world where colour comes from the Painting Elves, with an elf dedicated to each color and named accordingly. For example, the color yellow is handled by the Yellow Elf, green is handled by the Green Elf, etc.
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A children's television show created by Novel Entertainment for Creator/CBeebies, featuring the three creatures called "fimbles"- Fimbo, Baby Pom and Florrie, and their friends Rockit (a frog), Roly Mo (a mole), Bessie (a bird) and Ribble (her son). The show follows the lives of the these characters, with each episode also including a "storytime" or short often moral story in a different animation style told by Roly Mo, as well as real life footage of children playing shown in universe by Bessie.

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A children's television show created produced by Novel Entertainment Creator/NovelEntertainment for Creator/CBeebies, featuring the three creatures called "fimbles"- Fimbo, Baby Pom and Florrie, and their friends Rockit (a frog), Roly Mo (a mole), Bessie (a bird) and Ribble (her son). The show follows the lives of the these characters, with each episode also including a "storytime" or short often moral story in a different animation style told by Roly Mo, as well as real life footage of children playing shown in universe by Bessie.
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The fimbles also have a thing where a tree called the Tinkling Tree makes ringing sounds with its blossoms, prompting the fimbles to get the "Fimbling Feeling" which seems to be a psychic sense that allows them to search for something. Once the thing is found, that becomes a theme for the episode.

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The fimbles Fimbles also have a thing where a tree called the Tinkling Tree makes ringing sounds with its blossoms, prompting the fimbles to get the "Fimbling Feeling" which seems to be a psychic sense that allows them to search for something. Once the thing is found, that becomes a theme for the episode.



* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the book ''Lucy Anna and the Finders'' by Sarah Hayes, the inspiration for the series, the Fimbles are similar in appearance, but very different in personality, threatening to eat the title character, Lucy Anna, multiple times, whereas in the series they are friendly and vegetarian.

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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the book ''Lucy Anna and the Finders'' by Sarah Hayes, the inspiration for the series, the Fimbles Finders are similar in appearance, appearance to the Fimbles, but very different in personality, threatening to eat the title character, Lucy Anna, multiple times, whereas in the series they are friendly and vegetarian.vegetarian. And rather than an innate ability to sense that something interesting is around, the Finders "finding" things is just outright theft.
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A children's television show created by Novel Entertainment for CBeebies, featuring the three creatures called "fimbles"- Fimbo, Baby Pom and Florrie, and their friends Rockit (a frog), Roly Mo (a mole), Bessie (a bird) and Ribble (her son). The show follows the lives of the these characters, with each episode also including a "storytime" or short often moral story in a different animation style told by Roly Mo, as well as real life footage of children playing shown in universe by Bessie.

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A children's television show created by Novel Entertainment for CBeebies, Creator/CBeebies, featuring the three creatures called "fimbles"- Fimbo, Baby Pom and Florrie, and their friends Rockit (a frog), Roly Mo (a mole), Bessie (a bird) and Ribble (her son). The show follows the lives of the these characters, with each episode also including a "storytime" or short often moral story in a different animation style told by Roly Mo, as well as real life footage of children playing shown in universe by Bessie.
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A children's television show created by Cbeebies, featuring the three creatures called "fimbles"- Fimbo, Baby Pom and Florrie, and their friends Rockit (a frog), Roly Mo (a mole), Bessie (a bird) and Ribble (her son). The show follows the lives of the these characters, with each episode also including a "storytime" or short often moral story in a different animation style told by Roly Mo, as well as real life footage of children playing shown in universe by Bessie.

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A children's television show created by Cbeebies, Novel Entertainment for CBeebies, featuring the three creatures called "fimbles"- Fimbo, Baby Pom and Florrie, and their friends Rockit (a frog), Roly Mo (a mole), Bessie (a bird) and Ribble (her son). The show follows the lives of the these characters, with each episode also including a "storytime" or short often moral story in a different animation style told by Roly Mo, as well as real life footage of children playing shown in universe by Bessie.
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* TransformationSequence: Subverted. The Fimbling Feeling is sort of like this as it gives the Fimbles power to find something and is followed with the same exact stock footage of their fingers, nose and topknot wiggling, but it doesn't change their appearance in any way.

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* GenkiBoy: Rockit spends most of his time jumping and leaping.


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* {{Keet}}: Rockit spends most of his time jumping and leaping.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Episodes are generally named after the object the Fimbles find, which can range from 1-2 words.


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* OncePerEpisode: The Fimbles getting the Fimbling Feeling meaning there's a new object nearby, followed by them singing the Fimbling Feeling song.


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* StockFootage: The scenes where the Fimbles have the Fimbling Feeling followed by its song are used virtually every episode.
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* ThemeTuneRollCall: The theme song introduces the Fimble trio.
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* AdaptationalSympathy: Roly Mo tells a story that's a version of ''Literature/{{Goldilocks}}''. In the original story, the bears are an example of BearsAreBadNews, but in this version, they're friendly, and Baby Bear in particular wants someone to play with and ends up making friends with Goldilocks.
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** ''The Roly Mo Show'', which added his [[{{Nephewism}} neice]], Little Bo, and two ferret-like creatures called Snoots.
** Rockitt got a radio series in BBC 7's short-lived ''Radio Cbeebies'' strand called ''Rockit's Pocket''.

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** ''The Roly Mo Show'', a ReadingIsCool series which added his [[{{Nephewism}} neice]], Little Bo, and two ferret-like creatures called Snoots.
** Rockitt got a ScienceShow radio series in BBC 7's short-lived ''Radio Cbeebies'' strand called ''Rockit's Pocket''.
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** ''The Roley Mo Show'', which added his [[{{Nephewism}} neice]], Little Bo, and two ferret-like creatures called Snoots.

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** ''The Roley Roly Mo Show'', which added his [[{{Nephewism}} neice]], Little Bo, and two ferret-like creatures called Snoots.
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* BabyTalk: Baby Pom talks less clearly than the other Fimbles, and occasionally has her pronounciation corrected by Florrie.


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* SpinOff: There were two, both more blatantly {{Edutainment Show}}s than the original:
** ''The Roley Mo Show'', which added his [[{{Nephewism}} neice]], Little Bo, and two ferret-like creatures called Snoots.
** Rockitt got a radio series in BBC 7's short-lived ''Radio Cbeebies'' strand called ''Rockit's Pocket''.
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• AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the book ''Lucy Anna and the Finders'' by Sarah Hayes, the inspiration for the series, the Fimbles are similar in appearance, but very different in personality, threatening to eat the title character, Lucy Anna, multiple times, whereas in the series they are friendly and vegetarian.

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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the book ''Lucy Anna and the Finders'' by Sarah Hayes, the inspiration for the series, the Fimbles are similar in appearance, but very different in personality, threatening to eat the title character, Lucy Anna, multiple times, whereas in the series they are friendly and vegetarian.



• AmazingTechnicolorWorld: The entire world is colourful and magical, from the bubble waterful, to all the brightly coloured plants and rock structures.

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* AmazingTechnicolorWorld: The entire world is colourful and magical, from the bubble waterful, to all the brightly coloured plants and rock structures.



• PowerTrio: The three main characters, Fimbo, Florrie, and Pom, make up a power trio.

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* PowerTrio: The three main characters, Fimbo, Florrie, and Pom, make up a power trio.
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• AdaptationPersonalityChange : In the book ''Lucy Anna and the Finders'' by Sarah Hayes, the inspiration for the series, the Fimbles similar in appearance, but very different in personality, threatening to eat the title character Lucy Anna multiple times, whereas in the series they are friendly and vegetarian.

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AdaptationPersonalityChange : AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the book ''Lucy Anna and the Finders'' by Sarah Hayes, the inspiration for the series, the Fimbles are similar in appearance, but very different in personality, threatening to eat the title character character, Lucy Anna Anna, multiple times, whereas in the series they are friendly and vegetarian.



• AmazingTechnicolorWorld : The entire world is colourful and magical, from the bubble waterful, to all the brightly coloured plants and rock structures.

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AmazingTechnicolorWorld : AmazingTechnicolorWorld: The entire world is colourful and magical, from the bubble waterful, to all the brightly coloured plants and rock structures.



• PowerTrio: The three main characters, Fimbo, Florrie, and Pom make up a power trio.

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• PowerTrio: The three main characters, Fimbo, Florrie, and Pom Pom, make up a power trio.

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A Children's television show created by Cbeebies, featuring the three fimbles- Fimbo, Baby Pom and Florrie, and their friends Ribbit, Roly Mole, Bessie and Bibble. The show follows the lives of the these characters, with each episode also including a "storytime" or short often moral story in a different animation style told by Roly Mole, as well as real life footage of children playing shown in universe by Bessie.


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A Children's children's television show created by Cbeebies, featuring the three fimbles- creatures called "fimbles"- Fimbo, Baby Pom and Florrie, and their friends Ribbit, Rockit (a frog), Roly Mole, Mo (a mole), Bessie (a bird) and Bibble. Ribble (her son). The show follows the lives of the these characters, with each episode also including a "storytime" or short often moral story in a different animation style told by Roly Mole, Mo, as well as real life footage of children playing shown in universe by Bessie.

The fimbles also have a thing where a tree called the Tinkling Tree makes ringing sounds with its blossoms, prompting the fimbles to get the "Fimbling Feeling" which seems to be a psychic sense that allows them to search for something. Once the thing is found, that becomes a theme for the episode.



!! The Fimbles contains examples of:
• AdaptationPersonalityChange : In the book Lucy Anna and the Finders by Sarah Hayes, the inspiration for the series, the Fimbles similar in appearence, but very different in personality, threatening to eat the title character Lucy Anna multiple times, whereas in the series they are friendly and vegetarian.

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!! The Fimbles ''The Fimbles'' contains examples of:
• AdaptationPersonalityChange : In the book Lucy ''Lucy Anna and the Finders Finders'' by Sarah Hayes, the inspiration for the series, the Fimbles similar in appearence, appearance, but very different in personality, threatening to eat the title character Lucy Anna multiple times, whereas in the series they are friendly and vegetarian.
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife:
** Roly Mo is a mole, but he is green with purple stripes.
** Rockit is a frog, yet he is blue with red stripes.




• PowerTrio: The three main characters, Fimbo, Florrie, and Pom make up a power trio.

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\n* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: We never see Ribble's dad.
* {{Bookworm}}: Roly Mo spends most of his time reading and has a library in his house.
* CharacterTics: Ribble shakes when he's happy.
* GenkiBoy: Rockit spends most of his time jumping and leaping.
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Ribble only squeaks, but other characters can understand him.
• PowerTrio: The three main characters, Fimbo, Florrie, and Pom make up a power trio.trio.
* PsychicPowers: The Fimbles have the ability to locate objects through an intuition called the "Fimbling Feeling", though that only activates when the Tinkling Tree makes noise.
* ShoutOut: In one episode, Bessie says, "Ribble, Ribble, your face is a mess", which is a reference to a song by Music/DavidBowie called "Rebel Rebel".
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: A recurring theme is Fimbo's love for something called "crumble crackers".
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• (PowerTrio): The three main characters, Fimbo, Florrie, and Pom make up a power trio.

• AdaptationPersonalityChange : In the book Lucy Anna and the Finders by Sarah Hayes, the inspiration for the series, the Fimbles similar in appearence, but very different in personality, threatening to eat the title character Lucy Anna multiple times, whereas in the series they are friendly and vegetarian.

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• (PowerTrio): The three main characters, Fimbo, Florrie, and Pom make up a power trio.

• AdaptationPersonalityChange : In the book Lucy Anna and the Finders by Sarah Hayes, the inspiration for the series, the Fimbles similar in appearence, but very different in personality, threatening to eat the title character Lucy Anna multiple times, whereas in the series they are friendly and vegetarian.vegetarian.

• AmazingTechnicolorWorld : The entire world is colourful and magical, from the bubble waterful, to all the brightly coloured plants and rock structures.

• PowerTrio: The three main characters, Fimbo, Florrie, and Pom make up a power trio.

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• AdaptationPersonalityChange : In the book Lucy Anna and the Finders by Sarah Hayes, the inspiration for the series, the Fimbles similar in appearence, but very different in personality, threatening to eat the title character Lucy Anna multiple times, whereas in the series they are friendly and vegetarian.
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A Children's television show created by Cbeebies, featuring the three fimbles- Fimbo, Baby Pom and Florrie, and their friends Ribbit, Roly Mole, Bessie and Bibble. The show follows the lives of the these characters, with each episode also including a "storytime" or short often moral story in a different animation style told by Roly Mole, as well as real life footage of children playing shown in universe by Bessie.

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A Children's television show created by Cbeebies, featuring the three fimbles- Fimbo, Baby Pom and Florrie, and their friends Ribbit, Roly Mole, Bessie and Bibble. The show follows the lives of the these characters, with each episode also including a "storytime" or short often moral story in a different animation style told by Roly Mole, as well as real life footage of children playing shown in universe by Bessie.Bessie.


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!! The Fimbles contains examples of:
• (PowerTrio): The three main characters, Fimbo, Florrie, and Pom make up a power trio.
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A Children's television show created by Cbeebies, featuring the three fimbles- Fimbo, Baby Pom and Florrie, and their friends Ribbit, Roly Mole, Bessie and Bibble. The show follows the lives of the these characters, with each episode also including a "storytime" or short often moral story in a different animation style told by Roly Mole, as well as real life footage of children playing shown in universe by Bessie.

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