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7	->''Hey, look, it's Lamput! He may be small, but he's as clever as they come! He loves to hide and he's always on the go, so you have to be quick! Think you can keep up with him?''
8	-->--'''Official [[https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1520074770775265280 trailer]]''' from Max America.
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10	''Lamput'' is a Creator/CartoonNetwork India animated series created by Vaibhav Kumaresh. It began as a series of 15-second micro-shorts before it was expanded into longer 2-minute and 5-minute episodes.
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12	When the creature Lamput escapes from a lab, Skinny Doc and Specs Doc try to catch him. Thanks to Lamput's trickery and VoluntaryShapeshifting, the doctors always fail in the end, and Lamput always escapes.
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14	The series premiered in 2017 in India, with numerous international premieres occurring at different points in time afterward. The series is available in the United States via Creator/{{Max}} as of 2022, with airings on the United States Cartoon Network broadcast station following not long after.
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17	!!''Lamput'' provides examples of:
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21	* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The docs go into a noticeably roomy sewer in one episode to locate Lamput. They think they've caught him in their net, only to realize they've caught a sewer rat instead and have angered it and the other rats.
22	* AccidentalArt: In the episode "Musical", the docs rhythmically bang trash cans as they chase Lamput, creating a drum solo in the process without meaning to. Some other people cheer for them at the end of the episode, carrying them in their arms.
23	* AccidentalHandHold:
24	** One episode has Specs Doc mistake Skinny Doc for a woman when Lamput shapeshifts into a long hairdo on his head, and Specs Doc falls in love with "her". The two accidentally hold hands as they walk around a tree, and they roll onto the ground looking at each other romantically until Lamput leaves.
25	** In "Date Night", Lamput purposefully makes Specs Doc and his date hold hands while they're not paying attention.
26	* AccidentalProposal: In "Date Night", Specs Doc's date is about to be ruined when he hurts Lamput and his date gets angry. Lamput morphs into a wedding ring at the last moment to make it look like Specs Doc is proposing to her. It works, much to Specs Doc's joy.
27	* AirVentPassageway: In "Lamput Meets Tuzki", Lamput and Tuzki travel through a ventilation passage in the laboratory as they try to escape from the docs. The docs use a hose to spray water through the vent to get them out.
28	* AlienAmongUs: In "Alien Again", Skinny Doc and an alien who looks a lot like him inadvertently switch places. The alien, after realizing he can mimic Skinny's appearance easily, does a good enough job at blending in with the other docs that nobody notices he's an alien by the time he and the actual Skinny return to their proper places.
29	* AlienEpisode:
30	** The episode "Alien" has Lamput and the docs accidentally find their way into a spaceship that an alien was trying to repair.
31	** "Alien Again" has Skinny Doc being mistaken for an alien, while an actual alien fills in for him after discovering they look similar enough.
32	* AlienGeometries: The staircase room in "Art Gallery" has weird geometry like the M.C. Escher work "Relativity", with Lamput and the docs defying gravity as they walk around it. In one scene, there are two staircases next to each other, one appearing to go up and one going down; Specs Doc and Lamput walk on different staircases and the latter ends up larger after reaching the other side while Specs Doc somehow shrinks. They return to their normal sizes when they walk the other way.
33	* AllThereInTheScript: As no dialogue is spoken in this show, names like "Specs Doc", "Skinny Doc", and "Mr. Moustache" are only known through supporting materials such as the various international Cartoon Network websites.
34	* AlliterativeTitle: The episodes "Diet Doc" and "Doc Dog".
35	* AmbulanceCut: In "Gym", Lamput makes the docs trip by setting up the treadmills they're on to go faster than they can run. The docs are sent flying to the other side of the room, and the scene cuts to an ambulance that is just arriving at the gym. The docs are brought into the gym in wheelchairs and with an impressive display of muscles from all that running.
36	* {{Animorphism}}: At the end of "Invisible Necklace", the magician whom the docs stole the invisibility necklace from finds them, takes the necklace back from them, and uses it to transform them and Lamput into bunnies. This, of course, does not stop the docs from going to chase Lamput when he hops off, as per usual.
37	* AsideGlance: In "Guilt", Specs Doc gives a brief sad glance to the camera after he realizes he just killed Lamput (or, rather, destroyed his decoy).
38	* AttractiveBentSpecies: The episode "Doc Dog" has Lamput transforming himself into a cute female dog to get the Docs' attack dog off his back. [[spoiler:This causes the dog to go after the Docs instead, and also brings the attraction of other dogs in the park as well.]]
39	* AudibleGleam: In "Rival Doc", Rival Doc's glasses and headset gleam with an audible effect, the former twice - once when he enters the laboratory for the first time, and again when he's looking for Lamput in a bunch of orange objects.
40	* BabyMorphEpisode: "Memory Loss" is a mental variation. An accidental injury causes Specs Doc to think he's a baby, so Skinny Doc and Lamput take it upon themselves to be his caretakers.
41	* BagOfKidnapping: In "Houdini", this one of the methods the docs use to catch Lamput. Lamput morphs into a pair of scissors and cuts his way out of the bag.
42	* {{Balloonacy}}: In one episode, Skinny Doc attempts to trade a big balloon for a smaller one a kid is holding, which is actually Lamput in disguise. Lamput inflates himself bigger, making the kid decline the offer and causing Skinny Doc to return with a balloon that's so big that it makes him float into the air.
43	* BananaPeel: In "The Chase", Lamput morphs into a banana peel and makes Specs Doc and Skinny Doc slip into some trash cans.
44	* BeachEpisode: "Evolution" takes place on the beach, where Lamput tries to mold his body to look more appealing when a boy makes fun of his normal self's walking.
45	* BearsAreBadNews: In "Skinny Monster", Specs Doc tries to get the attention of a creature he thinks is Skinny Doc as a monster. Skinny Doc comes back a few seconds later and demonstrates his monster potion has worn off; the creature Specs Doc poked turns out to be a bear and chases the two for having pestered it.
46	* {{Beat}}: In "Fracture", Lamput goes off free and the docs chase him about a beat later.
47	* BewitchedAmphibians: "Witch" ends with the witch turning the docs and Lamput into frogs. That doesn't stop the docs from chasing after Lamput as usual when the latter starts to run off.
48	* BigBallOfViolence:
49	** The episode "Carrot" has Specs Doc scour a patch of carrots on a farm to find Lamput. The farm's owner attacks Specs Doc for picking his carrots without permission, producing a cloud of smoke that obscures the two from sight.
50	** In the episode "The Split", after too many issues catching Lamput cause the Docs to break their friendship, the two of them attack each other in a cloud of violence. Lamput finds it funny at first, but slowly grows concerned the longer it goes on.
51	* BilingualBonus: One of Specs Doc's lines of gibberish in "Martial Art" is accompanied by Chinese subtitles. The line means, "We're talking nonsense."
52	* BindleStick:
53	** In "Dr. Lamput", Specs Doc and Skinny Doc grab bindle sticks and carry them with them when they leave the lab after reporting they still don't have Lamput.
54	** At the end of "Lamput Meets Tuzki", Lamput is seen carrying a bindle stick as he walks away from the school bus and the docs' van.
55	* BinocularShot: A brief one appears in "The Chase" when the docs see Lamput through their binoculars.
56	* BinomiumRidiculus: In "Fish Tank", Lamput hides in a tank for a species of animal called "Ganeshikus Kotalus", a reference to one of the show's background artists, Ganesh Kotale.
57	* BlandNameProduct: In "Diet Doc", Specs Doc gets fit and tries to avoid fried chicken since it'll ruin his diet, but Lamput manages to distract him into visiting a fried chicken restaurant anyway. The restaurant he visits is called "MFC", a reference to the UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken (KFC) chain of fast food restaurants.
58	* BodyHorror: At the end of "Animal X", Lamput teases the docs, who he has trapped inside the creature-merging machine alongside a gorilla and a banana, by bait-and-switching them into believing he's going to press the button on the machine to merge them all together. Then the docs' winged cat falls on the button by accident, creating a doc monkey wearing a banana peel skirt. The docs and gorilla are not pleased with it at all.
59	* TheBoxingEpisode: In the episode "Boxing", the docs chase Lamput into a boxing arena. Lamput morphs into a pair of boxing gloves around Skinny Doc's hands, dragging him into a boxing match with a much stronger boxer.
60	* BulletSeed: In "Witch", as the docs ride the flying broomstick, Specs Doc scoops up some grapes from a bowl, eats them, and spits their seeds at Lamput.
61	* BullyTurnedBuddy: "Origins" reveals that Specs Doc and Skinny Doc originally had a rocky relationship when they first met in lab school, with the latter constantly tormenting the former for amusement. It isn't until both end up involved in an accident in the teacher's science experiment that they finally become friends.
62	* BurningRubber: In "Arm Wrestling", the docs' boss arrives at the sight arm wrestling matches on his motorcycle, which he rides fast enough that it leaves a trail of flames behind it.
63	* BusinessOfGenericImportance: The laboratory where the docs work doesn't seem to have a name ''at all'', with its exterior sign simply saying "LAB" and all mentions of it in official materials calling it "the lab/laboratory". Likewise, the lab school in "Origins" has a sign on the outside that reads "LAB SCHOOL".
64	* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: In "Cast Away", Lamput's and Specs Doc's eyeballs can be seen bouncing around the interior of the dark cargo crate as it floats away.
65	* CallBack: Several quick clips from earlier episodes showing the docs catching Lamput play in quick succession at the beginning of "Fracture". All the times they caught him ultimately culminated in him fracturing a bone in his skeleton.
66	* CartoonBomb: Writing on the wall of Lamput's prison cell in "Prison Cell" features his escape plan #534, which involves him turning into a spherical bomb with a fuse to destroy the cell and get out of there.
67	* CartoonJuggling: In Season 3's "Reward", during the montage where the docs find different ways to earn money, Specs Doc is seen juggling balls in the "shower" fashion while riding a unicycle.
68	* CatapultNightmare: In "Meet the Shrink", the docs have a dream where they're struggling to keep up with Lamput and jolt into an upright position when they wake up.
69	* CatapultToGlory: In the episode "Hilltop", Lamput escapes from the docs by stretching his arms around some nearby trees and catapulting himself back to the hilltop where he was relaxing before the docs appeared.
70	* CatchingSomeZs: In a couple of the Season 3 episodes, sleeping characters have a trail of Z's near them.
71	* CharacterInTheLogo: Lamput is in the show's logo. Specifically, he's the "T" in the word "Lamput".
72	* TheChase: Besides the overall plot of Lamput being chased by a pair of docs, the episode "Alien" has an alien take over the docs' car when the the three main characters enter its spaceship uninvited. The docs keep triggering buttons in the ship by accident, causing the UFO to shoot at the alien as it's driving.
73	* ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: The episode "Fracture" ends with the docs chasing Lamput.
74	* CherryBlossoms: A cherry blossom tree is the setting of the Season 1 episode "Wig". This works well for the episode's premise; Specs Doc mistakes Skinny Doc for a woman and falls in love with him after Lamput turns into a wig of long, flowing hair on his head, and cherry blossoms are often thought to signify romance.
75	* CirclingBirdies: In "Alien", when the alien accidentally destroys the control panel of his ship, it goes flying right up into space and bounces off of several planets. All of the planets except for Saturn get a visible ring of circling stars around them upon being hit, the joke being that Saturn already had a ring.
76	* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: In "Dr. Lamput", Lamput is covered in gray paint and is dragged to the docs' laboratory, being mistaken for one of the docs himself. This works out quite well for Lamput, who pretends to be one of them and even becomes the #1 doc in the lab.
77	* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: In "Diet Doc", as Specs Doc is driving, he tries not to let nearby fast food restaurants ruin his diet. Lamput, in a move that only he would have seen coming, abuses this to his advantage by shapeshifting into a chicken drumstick. Sure enough, Specs Doc finds himself unable to resist some fried chicken seconds later.
78	* ComedicUnderwearExposure: In one episode taking place at a dance club, Lamput pretends to be an outfit on Specs Doc and the clothes grab the attention of women who think it looks cool. The episode ends with Lamput escaping while Specs Doc is in the middle of dancing, revealing his underwear.
79	* CompanyCrossReferences:
80	** In "Super Docs", Skinny Doc mixes up his bag of clothes with someone else's at the laundromat. When he gets home, he and Specs Doc use the superhero outfits they find in the bag Skinny Doc did bring with him to go after Lamput; Skinny Doc wears a blue outfit with a red cape and triangle-shaped ChestInsignia clearly meant to be Franchise/{{Superman}}'s costume, and Specs Doc dons a black costume with little pointy ears at the top and a yellow belt, meant to be iconic getup of Franchise/{{Batman}} (both franchises are owned by Creator/DCComics, itself owned by Creator/WarnerMedia who also owns ''Lamput'''s broadcast channel Creator/CartoonNetwork India).
81	** In "Lamput Checks In", Skinny Doc turns on the TV in the hotel room and watches a cartoon where a brown mouse is chased by a gray cat. This is a nod to ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', another [=WarnerMedia=] property.
82	* ConcealingCanvas:
83	** In "Boss'stache", the Boss keeps [[spoiler:the recipe for his mustache-growing formula]] in a safe hidden behind a painting in his office at the lab.
84	** In "Jamput", Specs Doc keeps his decoy of Lamput in a safe hidden behind a Lamput dartboard in his house.
85	* ConcertEpisode: "Rock Concert", as you'd probably expect from the title, is about Lamput and the docs happening upon a rock concert. The docs accidentally play the instruments and manage to entertain the audience enough that nobody can tell the difference between them and the actual band that was supposed to play there.
86	* CranialEruption:
87	** In the episode "Flicker", Specs Doc hits Skinny Doc on the head with the gun containing the color-changing serum when the latter accidentally squirts the former's eyes with it. The resulting bump on Skinny Doc's head constantly changes color due to being hit with the serum.
88	** Skinny Doc gets a cranial bump again in "Alien Again". The bump looks like the aliens' antennae; that, combined with the rest of Skinny's similar appearance, gets him mistaken for one of them.
89	* {{Crossover}}: "Lamput Meets Tuzki" is about Lamput meeting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuzki Tuzki]], a Chinese character featured in emoticons, when they show up during a field trip to the lab.
90	* CrossPoppingVeins:
91	** In "Martial Art", Lamput briefly gets a cross-popping vein on his face as he gets angry at the docs for destroying his popcorn.
92	** In "Boss's Mom", the Boss has a vein when he yells at the docs for bringing the wrong women to the lab.
93	* CrushBlush: Specs Doc blushes in one episode as he is admiring a woman he sees who is actually Skinny Doc with Lamput on his head morphed into the shape of long hair.
94	* CryingCritters:
95	** In "Age Remote", Lamput and the docs are fighting over a remote the latter duo invented that can increase or decrease the age of any living thing. They keep firing it off in different directions, and one of the shots hits an egg in a bird's nest. The egg turns into a full-grown bird that flies away, and the bird's parent can be seen shedding a tear as it witnesses its child leaving.
96	** In "Lamput & the Elephant", the baby elephant is constantly shedding tears because of how much it misses its mother.
97	* CucumberFacial: When we first see the witch in "Witch", she is soaking up the moon's rays and has cucumber slices covering her eyes.
98	* DangerThinIce: In "Snow", the combined weight of Specs Doc and half of Lamput causes the ice below them to start to crack. Lamput taunts Specs Doc by nearly letting the ice crack, but he goes away and [[TheLastStraw a single leaf is what makes Specs Doc fall into the cold water below instead]].
99	* DartboardOfHate:
100	** In "The Split", after the docs get in a fight, Specs Doc has used pictures of Skinny Doc as dartboards, and the darts are there when the inside of his house is shown.
101	** In "Dr. Lamput", the docs' laboratory has a dartboard of Lamput that the workers shoot darts at with toy guns.
102	* DelayedReaction: In "Fracture", it takes a few seconds before the docs realize that they let Lamput get away.
103	* DeliciousDistraction: In "Dr. Lamput", Lamput is posing as one of the many docs at the lab and, when he sees the others are coming up with a plan to catch him, proposes his own plan - just set up a trail of candy for Lamput to follow that leads to a jar to imprison him in.
104	* DependingOnTheWriter: The living situations of the Docs varies per episode, depending on what works for the episode proper. Some episodes have them living in separate houses, which also becomes inconsistent if the two of them are neighbors or not. Other times they're roommates living in the same house, which then becomes inconsistent if they have their own rooms or share one.
105	* DidntThinkThisThrough: The episode "Houdini" has the docs come up with various plans to catch Lamput and putting them to good use, only for all of them to fall flat. First, they place a cage over Lamput, who, being a little blob and all, can easily slide through the gaps and escape. Then they lock him in a chest, but he shapeshifts into a key to free himself. After that, they throw him into a sack, and he gets out by morphing into a pair of scissors and cutting through the sack. It's only after they trap him in a jar that they finally have him... but even ''then'' the jar doesn't have air holes, so Lamput seemingly dies of suffocation, thus getting the docs arrested for hurting someone. Though [[DisneyDeath Lamput turns out perfectly fine]] seconds later after he's out of the jar, thankfully.
106	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Lamput tends to whistle what little there is of a theme song on occasion. For one example, in "Origins", after Mr. Moustache gets the docs into his car to be arrested, Lamput walks away and whistles the theme song as if nothing happened.
107	* DietEpisode: "Diet Doc" is about Specs Doc getting fit and going on a diet.
108	* DinnerDeformation: In "Lamput & the Elephant", the baby elephant thinks a snake is its mother and gets eaten by the reptile, which has a large, bulging bump in its stomach afterwards. Lamput morphs into a cookie dough roller to push the elephant out of the snake.
109	* DogsLoveFireHydrants: In "Flicker", the docs keep finding Lamput trying to camouflage as different orange objects since their flicker serum is making him flash all sorts of colors besides his usual orange. Right before the docs find Lamput morphed into a fire hydrant, a dog is seen about to pee on him but gets scared by his color changing and runs away.
110	* DoubleTake: In "Zoom Oil", the docs find Lamput snacking. He opens his eyes, sees the docs, closes his eyes, then gasps a second later and runs.
111	* DramaticIrony: In Season 3's "Wig", the audience is shown that Specs Doc's "crush" is just Skinny Doc with Lamput for hair, while Specs Doc himself doesn't know and is legitimately frustrated when his love is seemingly nowhere to be seen.
112	* DreamIntro: "Meet the Shrink" begins with the docs having a dream where they're chasing after Lamput. The two have trouble catching up with him as usual and [[CatapultNightmare are distressed enough when they wake up to jolt themselves upright]].
113	* DressingAsTheEnemy: In "Dr. Lamput", this happens accidentally when Lamput gets drenched in gray paint, making him look like one of the scientists going after him. Surely enough, Skinny Doc mistakes him for one of the scientists and drags him to the lab, where he runs with the accidental disguise and soon becomes the most popular doc in the lab.
114	* TheDogBitesBack: Literally. In "Doc Dog", Specs Doc and Skinny Doc train a big dog to go after Lamput, which gets distracted when Lamput disguises himself as a female dog. Then the docs try to get his attention by grabbing his love interest, causing Lamput the "dog" to [[CrocodileTears pretend to cry]]. The big dog gets angry at the docs for messing with his crush and chases after them for it.
115	* EarlyBirdCameo: The emoticon character Tuzki has two cameos before officially showing up in "Lamput Meets Tuzki" - in "Boss's Mom" on a book and in "Jamput" on a poster.
116	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Season 1 is the only season with 15-second-long episodes. Season 2 expands the episodes to their signature minimum length of two minutes; Season 3 introduces episodes that are five minutes long, if not longer.
117	* EiffelTowerEffect: In "Zoom Oil", when Lamput steps aside to dodge the docs, the latter characters end up realizing too late that they've got too much of their speed potions on them and start running so fast that they reach different countries entirely. The most prominent features in each country as the docs completely lose control is the countries' most famous landmarks; they find their way to the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, the Eiffel Tower in France, the Statue of Liberty in the United States, the pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt, and the Taj Mahal in India before finally landing face first in a rice field in Japan.
118	* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The episode "Origins" reveals that Specs Doc and Skinny Doc first met during their childhood at school, where their teacher would eventually become their current boss. [[spoiler:Mr. Mustache also went to school with them, as the bully victim of the Docs, while the Docs were also responsible for accidentally creating Lamput.]]
119	* EverythingHasRhythm: In "Skinny's Dance Night", Skinny Doc practices for a dance with his girlfriend by grooving to some music with a surrogate partner, a hat hanging pole with a picture of his crush placed on top.
120	* ExitPursuedByABear: "Skinny Monster" ends with a bear getting angry at the docs for bothering him and chasing them into the distance.
121	* ExpositoryThemeTune: The opening, as short as it is, still visually conveys the most important information about the show. You see an orange blob who shapeshifts to avoid being captured by two scientists.
122	* ExtremelyShortIntroSequence: The intro lasts about 3 seconds before the episode begins.
123	* EyesOutOfSight: One of the soccer players in "Soccer Punch" has hair that goes over his eyes, preventing him from seeing and making it hard for him to play soccer. [[spoiler:Eventually, Lamput pulls back his hair, and he can see again.]]
124	* FacePalm: In "Opera", the docs both do a face palm when Specs Doc spills his chloroform all over the opera's audience, sending them to sleep. [[spoiler:Skinny Doc has a tissue in his hand when he face palms, which wouldn't be a problem if not for the fact that the tissue had some of the liquid on it.]]
125	* FacelessEye: In "Shape Shift", after the docs gain a shapeshifting ability, they take on the form of flowers to track Lamput. Both have no mouth visible when they are transformed, and Specs Doc takes on the form of a one-eyed flower.
126	* FailedASpotCheck: One episode has Specs Doc pop a balloon decoy set up by Lamput, which leads him to believe he's accidentally killed him. Lamput himself appears to give the crying Specs Doc a handkerchief, but Specs Doc fails to notice who gives it to him.
127	* FaintInShock:
128	** Skinny Doc faints upon seeing a muscular Specs Doc in "Diet Doc".
129	** At the end of "Sleepwalking", Skinny Doc and Lamput both faint after seeing a fainted Specs Doc [[spoiler:with a drink resembling blood spilled all over him]].
130	* FairyTaleEpisode: "Robinput" has Lamput tell the docs the story of Myth/RobinHood, casting him, Specs Doc, and Skinny Doc as Robin Hood and his merry men and explaining how they stole treasure from an evil king.
131	* FalseCameraEffects: The montage in the beginning of "Fracture" uses film grain.
132	* FashionShow: Naturally, this is the setting of "Fashion Show", where the docs chase Lamput into a fashion show and are forced into participating.
133	* FastAsLightning: In "Zoom Oil", the docs creating lightning bolts around themselves as they move extremely fast after applying their zoom oil.
134	* FeudEpisode: "The Split" is about Specs Doc and Skinny Doc getting into a tiff after they unintentionally hurt each other trying to catch Lamput, with the two going their separate ways and ignoring each other as Lamput tries to get them to make up. When Lamput annoys them too much, they unite once more to go after him.
135	* FishingForSole: In "Everyone Needs Friends", a fisherman is seen fishing a boot out of the water. Lamput tries to cheer him up by having his monster friend give him a bunch of fishes.
136	* FlowersOfRomance:
137	** In one episode, Lamput morphs into a flower while he is held by Skinny Doc, who is standing right next to a pretty woman. The woman thinks Skinny Doc is offering the flower out of an affection for her and accepts the gift.
138	** In "Date Night", Lamput morphs into a bouquet of flowers again, this time to help Specs Doc impress a woman he's gone out for a romantic dinner with.
139	* FlyingBroomstick: The docs find one in the castle in "Witch" and fly around on it to aid in their pursuit of Lamput.
140	* FlyingSaucer:
141	** Lamput and the scientists find themselves in one in "Alien".
142	** Skinny Doc is trapped in another saucer in "Alien Again".
143	* FormerlyFat: "Origins" reveals that [[spoiler:the round boy that the Docs constantly tormented in their childhood eventually grew up to be the tall and muscular Mr. Mustache]].
144	* FortuneTeller: A palm-reading fortune teller is important to the plot of "Future Tense". Skinny Doc has him tell his fortune before Lamput passes by, and the doc chases after him, with the fortune teller predicting various misfortunes aimed at Skinny by reading his palm-''prints'' (such as an imprint of his hand in cement and a print of his hand in a foggy window) and coming to rescue him.
145	* FourLeggedInsect: The spider in "Lamput & The Spider" has six legs instead of the eight that real-life arachnids have.
146	* FreakyFridayFlip: In "Transfer Gun", the Boss invents a ray gun with this effect. The Boss and Lamput get hit by shots from the gun by accident, and the Boss in Lamput's body initially has trouble getting the docs to believe he's not actually Lamput.
147	* FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider: Lamput meets one in "Lamput and the Spider". It has trouble making its own web and Lamput helps by improvising one himself, and the spider later defends Lamput (who has gone to sleep) from a swarm of mosquitos who want to suck his blood.
148	* FullMoonSilhouette: In "Sleepwalking", Skinny Doc's silhouette is seen in front of the moon for a second after Lamput flings him back onto the balcony of the house.
149	* FunnyPhoneMisunderstanding: In "Love Chat", Specs Doc is talking to his girlfriend on the phone, with Lamput being grabbed by him by accident. Specs Doc shouts at Lamput, but his girlfriend thinks he's shouting at her, creating unnecessary, comedic drama between them as Specs Doc struggles to convince her that yelling wasn't directed at her.
150	* FuzzballSpider: The spider in "Lamput and the Spider" is a simple sphere shape with six legs.
151	* {{Gasp}}: In "Fracture", the docs gasp after they realize they let Lamput go off free.
152	* GettingTheBoot:
153	** In "Rival Doc", Rival Doc is kicked out of the laboratory at the end of the episode when [[spoiler:the docs "capture" Lamput so that they can get their jobs back]].
154	** At the end of "Fashion Show", a security guard catches up with the docs, who ignored a "no entry" sign on the door, and proceeds to kick them out the way they came.
155	* GiantSpider: Among Lamput's transformations in "Shape Shift" is a giant spider. The docs turn into a fly swatter afterwards to squash him.
156	* GlassesOfAging: In the episode "Age Remote", when Lamput is changed to a senior citizen by the age remote, he spontaneously gains glasses.
157	* GoofyPrintUnderwear: In "Airport", one of the items in the docs' suitcase is a pair of underwear with a heart-pattern print on them.
158	* GratuitousForeignLanguage: One of Specs Doc's lines of gibberish in "Martial Art" is accompanied by Chinese subtitles.
159	* GrayRainOfDepression: In "The Split", it starts to rain after Specs Doc and Skinny Doc decide to leave each other as a result of their feud. There's also sad music playing in the background as this is happening.
160	* GreenAroundTheGills: In "Alien Again", Skinny Doc's reaction to the taste of alien food is nausea, green face included.
161	* GrievousHarmWithABody: In "Robinput", the evil king uses his assistant, who happens to have the right shape, as a boomerang as a way to attack Robin Hood Lamput's merry men while defending from a barrage of arrows. It hits them both, and they fall off the platfornm where Robin Hood Lamput's execution is taking place.
162	* GroceryStoreEpisode: The episode "Superstore" takes place in a supermarket and is about Specs Doc trying to purchase a bottle of fuel, which is Lamput in disguise. Lamput keeps making himself bigger to amp up his price and eventually cause Specs Doc to not have enough money to buy him.
163	* HandsPlayInTheater: Type B - the "character X wraps their arm around character Y" variant - appears in Season 3's "Wig", where Specs Doc is at a movie theater and tries to wrap his arm around Skinny Doc, whom he thinks is a woman. Skinny sees him moving, and the two stare at each other awkwardly for a few seconds before Skinny happily grabs Specs in his own arm (out of platonic friendship, in his case).
164	* HauntedHouse: The docs go to a haunted house on their search for Lamput in the appropriately-titled episode "Haunted House". Lamput creeps out the docs by making several ominous distractions to keep with the theme of the location, such as making fake walking sounds to make it sound like someone else is in the house with them.
165	* HawaiianShirtedTourist: In "Lamput Checks In", the docs see a Hawaiian-shirted tourist entering a fancy hotel they've been denied entry to. This gives Specs Doc the idea to pretend to be a tourist himself - complete with Hawaiian flower short - and carry Skinny Doc in his bag, which works.
166	* HeartBeatsOutOfChest: In Season 3's "Wig", at one point Specs Doc's heart reaches all the way to Skinny Doc (whom he thinks is a woman) and the rest of his body is brought to that spot.
167	* HiddenEyes: In "Sleepwalking", Specs Doc gets angry at Skinny Doc for making noise while he's trying to watch a movie. Specs Doc's mad face is tinted red and does not have his eyes visible.
168	* HumanSnowman: At the end of "Snow", Specs Doc and Skinny Doc are each on the top of a snowy hill, with their hills right next to each other. The two decide to roll to the bottom of the hills as snowballs to catch up with Lamput, but when they collide they end up forming a snowman instead. Lamput comes back and places a carrot nose on the snowman's head.
169	* HumanoidAliens: In "Alien Again", the blue-gray-skinned aliens in white clothing look remarkably like the scientists after Lamput, leading to one assuming Skinny Doc should be with them. However, the extraterrestrials also have only one eye, as well as an antenna on their heads.
170	* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Despite being a BlobMonster, Lamput doesn't cause trouble and goes out of his way to help others. This makes the human scientists seem like jerks trying to capture him, even when they're only capturing him as [[PunchClockVillain part of their job]].
171	* HypnoPendulum:
172	** In the episode "Hypnosis", Specs Doc sees a hypnotist use a swinging pocket watch to hypnotize someone in a TV show, and he and Skinny Doc use this idea to hypnotize Lamput into doing their bidding.
173	** In "Meet the Shrink", the shrink resorts to hypnotizing Lamput, Specs Doc, and Skinny Doc via a pocketwatch to deal with the latter two's nightmares about chasing Lamput.
174	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: The sea monster in "Everyone Needs Friends" can't make many friends besides Lamput due to everyone else being scared by him. [[spoiler:It isn't until the end of the episode, when the sea monster saves the townspeople from sinking on a boat, that he proves his worth as an ally.]]
175	* IdeaBulb:
176	** In "Houdini", a light bulb appears next to Skinny Doc when he comes up with an idea on how to capture Lamput.
177	** Lamput briefly morphs into a light bulb in "The Chase" when he gets an idea while being chased by the docs.
178	** In "Dr. Lamput", Lamput gets a normal idea bulb when he has an idea on what to draw on the chalkboard the scientists are using to map out a plan to capture him.
179	* ImagineSpotting: In "Boss'stache", the Boss remembers [[spoiler:he made a secret formula to grow his mustache]] and that it's at the laboratory. Lamput sees the lab in the Boss's thought bubble and confirms if that's where he wants to go.
180	* IncredibleShrinkingMan: In "Shrunk Doc", the docs use a shrink ray to make Lamput tiny. A bump during the drive back to the lab causes the ray to shrink their vehicle; Lamput is still inside the car and drives it to evade his pursuers.
181	* InfernalBackground: In "Martial Art", Lamput gets angry at Specs Doc and Skinny Doc after his bag of popcorn is destroyed. As he gives a yell at them, both the hero from the martial arts movie the theater room is playing and a bunch of flames appear in the background.
182	* InjuryBookend: The plot of "Memory Loss" starts with Specs Doc accidentally getting himself whacked with his net, giving him amnesia and making him act like a baby. The problem is reversed when baby Specs Doc causes a book to fall on himself.
183	* InstantWristwatch:
184	** In "Airport", Specs Doc looks at his watch along with Skinny Doc while both are on the airplane. The watch appears out of nowhere since Specs Doc typically has nothing around his arms.
185	** In "Lamput & the Elephant", while the docs are waiting for Lamput to fall into their pitfall, a watch once again spontaneously appears on Specs Doc's arm so he can check the time.
186	** In "Animal X", a wristwatch appears on Specs Doc's arm out of nowhere as he waits for Skinny Doc to stop struggling to lure the gorilla out of the cage.
187	* InstrumentalThemeTune: The short theme song has no vocals.
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190	[[folder:Tropes J-Z]]
191	* JawDrop: In "Rival Doc", this is Specs Doc and Skinny Doc's reaction to the rival doc actually managing to capture Lamput by getting him to climb into his suitcase with minimal effort. The stunned scientists promptly push each other's jaws back into place.
192	* LampshadeHanging: One of Specs Doc's lines of gibberish in "Martial Art" is accompanied by Chinese subtitles. The line means, "We're talking nonsense." This lampshades how all of their dialogue is SpeakingSimlish.
193	* TheLastStraw: In "Snow", Specs Doc lands on a patch of thin ice while holding one half of Lamput. The added weight of Lamput causes the ice to start cracking, and Specs Doc throw him to the side and tries to convince him against pressing on the cracking ice. After Lamput leaves, a leaf falls onto the ice patch and makes it break completely, causing Specs Doc to fall into the water below.
194	* LittleGreenMen: The alien in the episode "Alien" is a light green, one-eyed alien who owns a FlyingSaucer.
195	* LongPants: Thanks to the lineless style of the show, the uniform that all the scientists wear appear as a full white jumpsuit. However, multiple episodes show that they're actually a separate top and bottom.
196	* MeadowRun: "Boss's Mom" has a scene in the laboratory where the Boss and his mother happily run towards each other to share a hug. The scene cuts to a flashback of a baby Boss and his younger mother approaching each other in the same way, but in a field of flowers.
197	* MediumAwareness: In "The Split", Lamput's attempts to get the docs to get together again involve him going back and forth to each of them on a split-screen shot. He resorts to getting rid of the line splitting the screen so that the docs are right next to one another.
198	* MediumBlending: The horror film Specs Doc watches in "Sleepwalking" is live-action footage of animated puppets interacting with each other, in contrast to the rest of the show being 2D animation.
199	* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: No actual dialogue besides SpeakingSimlish.
200	* MistakenForAliens: In "Alien Again", Skinny Doc is blue-gray and wears white clothes just like the extraterrestrial visitors. One of those visitors immediately thinks Skinny is one of their group, leading to him being trapped in their spaceship.
201	* MistakenForDog: The plot of "Pup Mix" revolves around Lamput and the docs winding up in an old lady's house, where the lady keeps mistaking all three of them for her dog and treats them as if they were her dog.
202	* MistakenForExhibit:
203	** In "Art Gallery", Specs Doc and Skinny Doc, while at an art gallery, are compressed into each other and land in a room full of visitors in this state. The visitors immediately take a liking to their abstract shape and snap pictures of them.
204	** In "Thief in the Museum", after being kicked out too many times from an ancient Egyptian museum while trying to catch Lamput, the docs eventually disguise themselves as mummies to get in. Once they catch Lamput, he disguises himself as a piece of jewelry, causing the three of them to be mistaken for an exhibit, being put under a glass case until the museum closes.
205	* MistakenForThief: At the beginning of "Origins", Lamput shapeshifts into a crown and hides behind the window of a jewelry store. The docs go into the store and grab him, only for the window glass to break and make the docs look like they just tried to rob that shop. Cue police car.
206	* MixAndMatchCritters: In "Animal X", the docs invoke this trope by testing their creature-merging machine using a cat and a bird, creating a winged feline. Specs Doc then uses the machine to merge himself with a multitude of animals that he captures, so that he can get past certain obstacles preventing him from catching Lamput.
207	* MonochromePast: The episode "Origins" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback where the flashback parts are presented in a much more muted color scheme than usual.
208	* MovieTheaterEpisode:
209	** The episode "Martial Art" is about Skinny Doc and Specs Doc encountering Lamput in a theater while he's watching a martial arts film. He ends up fighting the two docs in the same style as the film.
210	** An earlier 15-second episode features the docs watching a film at a movie theater. Lamput surprises them by mimicking the spooky sounds made in the film, causing Specs Doc to scream and get shushed by the other theatergoers.
211	* {{Mummy}}: In "Thief in the Museum", the docs disguise as mummies to get back into the ancient Egyptian museum after they are thrown out due to being [[MistakenForThief mistaken for thieves]]. When the two catch Lamput, he turns into a piece of jewelry, and the museum official [[MistakenForExhibit assumes they are part of the exhibit]] and puts them on display.
212	* MundaneUtility: In "Super Docs", the first things the docs do after they find superhero costumes is to use their respective abilities to do household things like use the one outfit's magnet shoes to collect and throw away some pieces of paper and use the other costume's laser vision to toast a piece of bread.
213	* MusicalEpisode: One early 15-second episode is a non-dialogue variant where the docs (unintentionally) create a drum solo with some trash cans in their endeavor to catch Lamput. The episode ends with the docs being carried by some people who heard the drumming and loved it.
214	* MustacheVandalism: In "The Split", Skinny Doc has scribbled a mustache on Specs Doc in a picture of both of them he has in his house.
215	* NearVillainVictory: One episode has Specs Doc in the laboratory, storing the newly-captured Lamput away in a room that's mostly empty save for the presence of a cardboard box. Lamput hides himself by sticking to Specs Doc's bottom as he walks away, thus narrowly escaping from losing to the docs.
216	* NoNeckChump: None of the scientists at the lab have visible necks, with their heads seemingly melded with their bodies.
217	* NoOntologicalInertia: In "Transfer Gun", the body-swapping gun being destroyed is what reverses its effect, returning everyone to their original bodies.
218	* NobodyHereButUsStatues: In "Art Gallery", Lamput, masquerading as one of the small sculptures at a museum, points Skinny Doc to where he can find him to distract him. Specs Doc notices Lamput and grabs him, only to be told by a museum employee unaware of it not being a statue to put it back.
219	* NotNowWereTooBusyCryingOverYou: Played with. In one episode, Lamput creates a decoy of himself using a balloon that Specs Doc accidentally pops, and he thinks he accidentally killed Lamput and starts crying. Lamput himself shows up to give him a handkerchief to use; Specs Doc is too busy mourning his "death" to notice who gave him the handkerchief.
220	* NumberedSequels: "Glasses" has a follow-up called "Glasses 2" which has a similar setup - Lamput takes off Specs Doc's glasses, but this time he puts them on Skinny Doc to distract him, whereas he simply took them on and off of Specs Doc multiple times in the previous episode (Skinny Doc doesn't appear in "Glasses").
221	* OffscreenTeleportation: In "Boxing", after the boxing match, Skinny Doc waves to the arena spectators and the frame cuts to a closer shot of him, causing his hand to go off-screen. When his hand is on-screen again, Lamput, who was shaped as boxing gloves on his hands, has already disappeared; he's at the arena's exit.
222	* OneWordTitle: ''Lamput'' is only one word.
223	* TheOner:
224	** Many of the Season 1 episodes have no shifts in camera whatsoever, being that their 15-second-long length doesn't make room for many camera changes. The very first episode is one such instance, assuming the HitFlash briefly concealing the sidewalk doesn't count towards anything.
225	** Most of "Water" takes place in one shot, most of it being in the docs' van.
226	* OpaqueLenses: The thief from the episode "Thief" wears glasses with lenses that completely obscure his eyes.
227	* OpeningShoutOut: One of the Season 1 episodes takes place within the series intro, where Lamput blends in with the series logo to avoid the docs. Specs Doc reappears and double-checks the "t" that Lamput morphs into, only to destroy the rest of the logo in the process.
228	* OriginsEpisode: The Season 3 episode "Origins" has the docs reminisce about how they met when they find a picture of themselves when they were younger in Skinny Doc's shirt while stuck in a police car. The flashback reveals several important details about their past and those of others they knew:
229	** Skinny Doc was quite a bully to Specs Doc when he arrived at the school Specs Doc went to, only making friends with him after an incident where they accidentally ruined a science experiment their teacher was working on. [[spoiler:That experiment being ruined is what caused Lamput to form.]]
230	** That round kid Specs Doc and Skinny Doc bullied upon making friends with each other? [[spoiler:He grew up to be Mr. Moustache, the policeman who makes recurring appearances throughout the series and often tries to arrest or beat up the docs. He's held a grudge on the docs ever since they bullied him as a kid.]]
231	* PachelbelsCanonProgression: Music [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong noticeably resembling the]] TropeNamer can be heard in "Boss's Mom" during the scene where a young Boss and his mom run towards each other.
232	* PaperPeople: In "Shape Shift", Lamput gets the docs to transform into a flat sheet resembling a crosswalk, getting them walked on by multiple people crossing the street at once. A few seconds later, it skips to nighttime where they shapeshift out of that form, revealing those people left them flattened.
233	* ParasolParachute: In "Opera", Specs Doc tries to scoop up Lamput from below him using an umbrella. He accidentally drops the umbrella, which opens while Lamput is clinging to it and floats slowly towards the audience below until Mr. Moustache grabs it.
234	* PassThePopcorn: In "Animal X", as the docs have trouble getting their captured gorilla to calm down, Lamput sits back and watches the chaos, eating some popcorn with the winged feline the docs created earlier.
235	* PinballGag: In "Alien", the alien spacecraft launches into space and ricochets off the planets of the solar system, with pinball sounds as it does so. All the planets it hits end up with rings of stars circling around them (except for Saturn, the one planet it doesn't hit - it had a ring already).
236	* {{Portmantitle}}:
237	** [=S1E7=], "Vegetrouble" = "vegetable" and "trouble". The episode is about Specs Doc thinking Lamput is hidden in some pumpkins, a kind of vegetable.
238	** [=S3E37=], "Jamput" = "Lamput" and "jam". The episode is about Specs Doc taking a jar of orange jam, sticking fake eyeballs into it, and claiming it's Lamput.
239	* PrimalChestPound:
240	** Specs Doc and Skinny Doc pound their chest while morphed into a gorilla in "Shape Shift".
241	** In "Animal X", the gorilla in the cage Specs Doc brings to the lab pounds his chest at one point.
242	* PrisonEpisode: "Doc & The Thief" has Specs Doc mistaken for a thief and arrested.
243	* PrisonersWork: In "Doc & The Thief", an arrested Specs Doc is made to chip big rocks with several other prisoners. Specs Doc misses Skinny Doc and Lamput so much that he shapes his rock to look like them.
244	* ProtagonistTitle: The show's title refers to the main character, Lamput.
245	* PunBasedTitle: The episode title "Soccer Punch" is a pun on "sucker punch". The episode itself is about Lamput messing up a game of soccer that the docs are playing in.
246	* RakeTake: In "Sleepwalking", a sleepwalking Skinny Doc steps towards a rake on the ground. Lamput shapeshifts into a helmet to protect Skinny Doc, leading to Lamput getting hurt by the rake when it's stepped on.
247	* RecycledTitle: Seasons 1 and 3 both have episodes called "Reward" and "Wig".
248	* RedEyesTakeWarning: In "Signs", when Mr. Moustache has finally had enough of Specs Doc and Skinny Doc disregarding the "no [whatever]" signs they come across one too many times, his eyes turn red.
249	* RingRingCRUNCH: In "Diet Doc", when the alarm clock rings the morning Specs Doc goes to exercise and get fit, he crushes the clock with his fist.
250	* {{Robinsonade}}: In "Cast Away", Specs Doc and Lamput accidentally end up in a cargo crate that floats away from the boat that was carrying it during a storm, while Skinny Doc remains where they all were. Specs Doc is stranded on an island with Lamput and works with him to survive as Skinny Doc realizes what's going on and looks for the two.
251	* RoadRunnerVsCoyote: The docs constantly chase after and attempt to catch Lamput, only to fail every time.
252	* TheScreamParody: In the episode "Art Gallery", Lamput sees ''Art/TheScream'' in an art gallery and morphs into the shape of the person on the art. The docs appear behind him, and when Lamput turns around, he morphs back to his normal blob form and actually screams.
253	* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: In "Diet Doc", Skinny Doc's reaction to seeing a muscular Specs Doc is to let out a high-pitched girl shriek and faint.
254	* SeaMonster: In "Everyone Needs Friends", Lamput helps a four-eyed, vaguely octopus-like sea monster to make friends, but everything he does backfires since the monster only scares everybody he tries to be friends with.
255	* SequelEscalation: The expanded element is the length, in this case. Season 1 has 15-second microshorts, season 2 introduces 2-minute episodes, and season 3 introduces 5-minute episodes.
256	* SeriesGoal: The docs' goal is to capture Lamput and return him to the lab.
257	* SecondPersonAttack: In "Superstore", a lady gets mad at Specs Doc for almost stealing her groceries and hits him with a bag of chips she has in her hand. The attack is shown from Specs Doc's view.
258	* ShapeShifterShowdown: In "Shape Shift", the docs give themselves the ability to shapeshift and do their best to outmatch Lamput in his transformations. A downplayed example as no physical combat is involved.
259	* ShapeshiftingFailure:
260	** The episode "Flicker" has Lamput doused in a chemical that causes him to flip through every color except his trademark orange, thus leaving his transformations utterly worthless since the docs can spot him attempting to blend in with the environment. [[spoiler:He eventually finds himself in a city street loaded with neon signs and flashy street performers, letting him blend in until the serum wears off.]]
261	** The episode "Evolution" has Lamput growing ashamed of his pudgy body after being mocked for it while at the beach. Seeing others with different body styles causes him to piece-by-piece morph his body to conform to others. Eventually, giving himself a muscular form wears himself out too much, leaving him immobile.
262	* ShoutOut:
263	** The episode "Fracture" features a song which sounds extremely similar to "[[Music/SurvivorBand Eye of the Tiger]]" during the montage where the docs help get the fractured Lamput back into good condition.
264	** Creator/MCEscher is referenced in "Art Gallery", where Specs Doc and Skinny Doc chase Lamput into a room of the museum with [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} gravity-defying and logic-bending staircases]] resembling the artist's famous "Relativity" work.
265	** The rock concert in "Rock Concert" is for a musical group named [[Music/{{ACDC}} AB/CD]].
266	** "Alien Again" features the Boss on a cover for ''Magazine/TimeMagazine''.
267	** Season 3's "Wig" features a musical cue that sounds exactly like the beginning of Music/MarvinGaye's song "Let's Get It On". The cue plays three times, first when Specs Doc initially sees Skinny Doc with a woman's hair, again when Skinny Doc grabs Specs Doc's hand as they prepare to go get some ice cream, and once more after Lamput repositions himself to look like Skinny Doc's hair.
268	** An official [=YouTube=] upload featuring the episode "Doc Dog" (which features a dog chasing after Lamput, who himself turns into a dog to distract him) has "Who Let the Docs Out" in its title, referencing the Music/BahaMen song "Who Let the Dogs Out?".
269	* ShrinkRay: The docs invent one in "Shrunk Doc" and use it to shrink Lamput, whom they stick into a vial to prevent him from escaping.
270	* {{Sleepwalking}}: "Sleepwalking" is actually the name of a Season 3 episode. Fittingly, it's about Lamput watching over a sleepwalking Skinny Doc while Specs Doc, who watched a scary film earlier, worries about the sounds his friend is making.
271	* SlidingScaleOfVisualsVersusDialogue: Far on the "visuals" side. The show purposefully does not have the characters speaking coherently and focuses its attention on their actions.
272	* SlippingAMickey: In "Shrunk Doc", the docs find their shrunken van in their boss's mustache. To keep the boss from scolding them for not catching Lamput (who is in the tiny car), Specs Doc laces the boss's drink with a sleeping serum.
273	* SlowMotionDrop: In "Boss'stache", the Boss accidentally shaves off his mustache, leading to a slow-motion scene where he and Lamput react in shock and the Boss drops his razor, which falls slowly to the floor.
274	* SpeakingSimlish:
275	** The characters speak gibberish instead of any actual language. Some words can clearly be made out in at least one episode (such as the names Lamput and Tuzki), but no dialogue of actual substance shows up.
276	** Averted in "Superstore", where the lady on the intercom can plainly be heard saying that stuff is for sale in English.
277	* SpeedySnail: Invoked by the docs in "Zoom Oil"; a snail is the test subject for their speed potion, and it works, causing the snail to zoom into the distance and hit a radio tower.
278	* SplashOfColor: The clips from earlier episodes shown at the beginning of "Fracture" are all presented in black and white, save for Lamput who is still orange as well as all other objects that were originally orange in those episodes.
279	* SplitScreenPhoneCall: In "Arm Wrestling", Specs Doc calls the boss of the laboratory on the phone about Lamput posing as a trophy for a arm wrestling competition, with the doc and the boss being on a split screen.
280	* StatusQuoIsGod: "Fracture" has the docs outright ''help'' Lamput when he gets a fracture and can't shapeshift properly. Any compassion the docs have for Lamput is gone by the end of the episode and they go back to chasing him.
281	* StockFemurBone: Lamput morphs into the shape of a stock femur bone in one episode while he is being held by Specs Doc right next to a dog. Predictably, the dog starts to chase after Specs Doc thinking Lamput is a real bone.
282	* StockingMask: In Season 3's "Reward", the docs resort to robbing bank to earn money to give to the lady asking for a reward for capturing Lamput. The docs wear black socks as masks with holes cut in them and find another crook wearing the same kind of mask.
283	* SuperSpeed: In "Zoom Oil", the docs concoct a liquid that lets them run super fast.
284	* SuperheroEpisode: "Super Docs" is about Specs Doc and Skinny Doc discovering the latter inadvertently brought superhero clothes home from the laundromat by mistake and using their abilities to aid in their chase after Lamput.
285	* SweetieGraffiti: In "Cat", the building in the background has a heart symbol containing the text "T + M" etched into it. The people it refers to are unknown.
286	* TallyMarksOnThePrisonWall:
287	** In the Season 1 episode "Bank Robbery", Specs Doc is thrown into a prison cell whose back wall has tally marks scrawled onto it.
288	** Two episodes later in "Prison Cell", the cell Lamput is put in has various writings from him on the wall, including tally marks indicating his number of near-escapes.
289	* TechnicolorScience: The various potions and serums that are created and used by the docs and their fellow lab workers come in vivid colors.
290	* ThatCloudLooksLike: In Season 3's "Wig", the docs watch clouds together. Skinny Doc thinks one cloud looks like Lamput, while Specs Doc thinks it looks like a heart.
291	* ThiefBag: The robber the docs find in the Season 3 episode "Reward" stashes a big bag of cash into his van [[spoiler:(actually the docs' van; the docs reluctantly let him have the vehicle in exchange for some money earlier)]].
292	* ThirdPartyPeacekeeper: In the episode "The Split", Specs Doc and Skinny Doc become irritated over how many times they've failed to catch Lamput and officially end their friendship, leaving Lamput himself to find a way to bring them back together. He tries to remind the docs how much they love each other, to no avail until they're stranded on an island by Lamput's antics.
293	* ThreePointLanding:
294	** In "Martial Art", Lamput lands on both of his legs and an arm after he jumps behind the movie theater screen from the ceiling fan to grab his popcorn.
295	** In "Diet Doc", Specs Doc lands this way when he puts his stronger muscles to good use chasing Lamput.
296	* ThroatSlittingGesture: In "Basketball", Specs Doc makes this gesture at Mr. Moustache and his friend to say "you're going down" when Mr. Moustache challenges them to a basketball match.
297	* TickleTorture: In "Martial Art", Lamput tickles Skinny Doc's armpit to fend him off as the former is fighting the latter and Specs Doc martial arts-style.
298	* TimePassageBeard: In "Cast Away", Skinny Doc grows a beard as he spends time looking for the island where Specs Doc and Lamput are stranded.
299	* TitleThemeDrop: The melody of what little there is of a theme song shows up as background music in a few episodes, usually at the end of the episode.
300	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: It's implied that fried chicken is Specs Doc's favorite food. In "Diet Doc", he resists the temptation to eat fried chicken to avoid ruining his diet before caving in, and in "Cast Away", one of the photos he carries with him shows him with a big bucket of fried chicken.
301	* TrainingMontage: Much of "Fracture" is built around the docs training Lamput back into health when he gets a fracture, which is presented as a montage complete with a song that sounds like "[[Music/SurvivorBand Eye of the Tiger]]" playing in the background.
302	* TrappedInASinkingCar: The episode "Water", which mostly takes place in the docs' car with Lamput in the back, eventually has the car fall into the ocean. The docs are stuck with Lamput as the back of their vehicle fills with water, which a thirsty Lamput is quick to consume; the docs follow suit and the car soon surfaces to the top of the sea, where Lamput and the scientists continue their chase swimming.
303	* TrashCanBand: One episode consists almost entirely of the docs banging on trash cans in a music-like rhythm trying to catch Lamput.
304	* TreadmillTrauma: In "Gym", Lamput is grabbed by the docs, who are both standing on treadmills. When Lamput turns the treadmills on and then amps up their speed, the docs can't keep up and are flung to the other side of the room.
305	* TripTrap:
306	** In one episode, Lamput stretches himself into a shape similar to a rope or tripwire to make Specs Doc trip.
307	** In "Zoom Oil", Lamput uses his tripwire shape to stop the docs from catching him, causing them to roll as they lose control of themselves while their speed potions are at work.
308	* TwinkleSmile: One of the 15-second episodes has Specs Doc's mouth twinkling when he smiles as he is walking across a dance floor with some ladies who are impressed by his clothing (which is actually Lamput in disguise).
309	* UnderwearSwimsuit: The episode "Skinny at the Pool" features an accidental version of this trope. Skinny Doc, yet again attempting to catch Lamput, leaps over the wall of a barbed-wire topped pool wall, accidentally ripping off his uniform. This causes him to look like he's wearing a speedo, thus getting him mistaken for a contestant at a swimming race.
310	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Lamput encounters a monster hiding in a coffin in "Haunted House". He's scared of it, but the docs are too busy searching for him to even notice and be scared as well.
311	* VillainousGoldTooth: The recurring glasses-wearing thief, in his first appearance in "Rifle", has a gold tooth. He doesn't have one later on.
312	* VisibleInvisibility: Zigzagged. In "Invisible Necklace", the docs steal a special necklace from a magician to turn themselves invisible. As they each take a turn wearing the necklace, they alternate between being visible as white dotted lines and being just plain invisible. When Lamput winds up with the magic item himself, though, he stays more consistently portrayed with white dotted lines.
313	* VoicesAreMental: In "Transfer Gun", the Boss and Lamput get their bodies swapped, and Lamput gains the Boss's deep-pitched [[SpeakingSimlish gibberish speech]] while the Boss gets Lamput's higher-pitched voice.
314	* VolumetricMouth: At the beginning of "Thief", when the thief steals Ms. Lipstick's purse, she screams and her mouth covers her entire face.
315	* VoluntaryShapeshifting:
316	** Lamput can change the shape of his body to escape from the scientists.
317	** The scientists themselves create and use a liquid that gives them this same shapeshifting ability in the episode "Shape Shift".
318	* WalkLikeAnEgyptian: In "Zoom Oil", the docs end up going so fast with their super speed that they start moving to different countries entirely. When they pass by the Sphinx and some pyramids in Egypt, they're seen striking the Egyptian pose.
319	* WalkOnWater: In "Zoom Oil", the docs pass by the Statue of Liberty in the United States so fast that they're able to skim on the water below them.
320	* WantedPoster: Several episodes feature Lamput on a wanted poster. In one episode, Lamput writes "REWARD $$$" on the bottom of one of these posters and causes Specs Doc and Skinny Doc to fight over who should get the money for turning him in.
321	* WholeEpisodeFlashback: The episode "Origins" consists primarily of a flashback showing how the docs met when they were young.
322	* WingdingEyes:
323	** In one episode, Specs Doc's eyes become X's when Skinny Doc hits him with a bat, mistaking him for Lamput since he accidentally covered himself in orange paint.
324	** There are several episodes that have "heart eyes = in love". In "Orange Rose", Lamput admires a woman on the bus and has heart-shaped eyes; in "Doc Dog", the docs' dog has heart-shaped eyes after he sees Lamput, who has transformed into a feminine dog; and in both episodes called "Wig", Specs Doc has heart-shaped eyes around Skinny Doc when he mistakes him for a female due to Lamput masquerading as a feminine wig on his head.
325	* WorkOffTheDebt: At the end of "Lamput Checks In", Lamput escapes from the docs once more, but the docs themselves, who are in a hotel diner, are held off by hotel officials who notice they had ordered a chicken and ask them to pay. The docs don't have any money, so they're forced to wash dishes to pay off the debt.
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