PBS Kids Movies/Tropes

* **A Wild Rapper Appears!**: Their movies' soundtracks featured this at times:
	+ A remix of Stevie Nicks' "Every Day" created as a promo single for *Sagwa: The Movie* has a rap verse provided by The Beastie Boys, of all people. Mike D stated in an interview that they only did the rap verse because a friend of MCA had a niece who liked *Sagwa*.
	+ Too Cuddly's "Dragon Twins" from *Zak and Wheezie's Big Circus Adventure*, a mostly Retraux psychedelic rock song, is interrupted by Pansauran rapper Arban Feng laying down a few lines.
* **Award Bait Song**:
	+ Stevie Nicks' "Every Day" and Hiro Rocko's "My Friend/Love" from *Sagwa: The Movie*.
	+ "Cross That Line" by Stan Bush and Barrage from *Redwall: The Movie*.
* **Avoid the Dreaded G Rating**: Everywhere in the films, as much of them are based off brainless toddler shows older kids wouldn't be interested in (and unsurprisingly, the majority of these examples were cut from TV airings):
	+ *In the Mix: The Trouble with Young Leaders* has a lot of swearing, yet got rated PG.
	+ *Sagwa: The Movie* added the words "Darn", "Damn", "Hell", Dongwa saying "Holy sh\*\*!", and references to Chinese folk religion in order to bump the rating up to PG and to get the regular fans of Amy Tan's work to attend screenings. The MPAA PG rating ended up warning for "Cartoon violence and some mild language."
	+ *Dragon Tales: The Search for the 15 Keys* had Zak saying "Damn! That almost was the end of us!" after he and Wheezie nearly fell into a ravine. This was added to force families to bring older children who'd either hate *Dragon Tales* or not be interested in it to screenings of *The Search for the 15 Keys*, according to Word of God. Despite that, the film wound up being rated PG for "Some mild peril"
	+ *Between the Lions: Share a Story* has the farmer in the *Click, Clack, Moo* segment yelling "Damn it!". The film was *still* rated G.
	+ *Liberty's Kids: The Movie* pumped up the language and violence, and wound up getting rated PG for "Strong violence and mild language - all involving animated interpretations of historical figures".
	+ *Redwall: The Movie* had the typical *Redwall* violence plus a couple of Damns, a single "B\*\*\*h", and Tim Churchmouse yelling "HOLY SH\*\*!" when the second raid on the abbey begins, but despite all this got rated PG for "strong cartoon violence". Did we also mention that one of the writers went on to write *The Hunger Games*?
	+ *Arthur's BIG Movie* has Mr. Ratburn crossdressing and Slink pulling out a BB gun at one point to bump the rating up to PG. It wound up being rated that for "Extreme sillyness throughout." One wonders if the MPAA were paid to keep those two things a secret, *and* to insert that stupid description.
	+ *Cyberchase: The Movie* has a single use of the word "Damn" and Inez saying "This is like Hell on earth" and pumps up the violence. It's rated PG for "Fantasy violence."
	+ Originally, *Angelina Ballerina: The Movie* (which was rated G) was going have Mrs. Hodgepodge yelling "Damn it!" upon her fence being destroyed. In the final cut, she lets out a Big "NO!" instead.
	+ *Redwall II: Heroes of the Sword* kept the pumped-up violence and a PG rating but had less swearing compared to it's predessecor.
* **Big Budget Beef-Up**: In a nutshell, *everything* the banner put out.
* **Box Office Bomb**:
	+ *The Big Comfy Couch Goes West* - Budget, $23 million. Box office, $12 million. The film was able to recoup due to box office earnings in the original show's native Canada, where it earned $26 million.
	+ *Zoboomafoo: Jungle Tracks!* - Budget, $6 million. Box office, $2.5 million.
	+ *Whodunnit? A Share A Story Musical Mystery* - Budget, $65 million. Box office, $42 million. Almost everyone involved's careers were able to recover, but it led to a switch of distributor for PBS Kids Movies.
* **Early Installment Weirdness**:
	+ The first movie *In the Mix: The Trouble with Young Leaders* didn't have the logo, and was mostly filmed on Betacam cameras instead of film stock. It was also part-documentary.
* **Massive Multiplayer Crossover**:
	+ *Zak and Wheezie's Big Circus Adventure* states that *Dragon Tales* and *Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat* are in a Shared Universe due to Nai-Nai and Fu-Fu's supporting roles in the film. As if Nai-Nai saying "There are many, many other Dragon Tales!" in one episode ("The Four Dragons", to boot) of the latter show didn't help.
	+ *Whodunnit? A Share A Story Musical Mystery* and *It's Magic!*, full stop.
* **He's Back**:
	+ *Redwall: The Movie* has Slagar the Cruel and his mother Sela brought back from the dead by Urgan Nagru to fight with him.
* **What Could Have Been**:
	+ *Clifford's Really Big Movie* was supposed to be released as part of the banner. However Samuel Goldwyn Films and PBS put the film into turnaround midway through post-production. Instead, Warner Bros. picked up the distribution rights to the movie without neither's knowledge, however they turned a blind eye to the release of the film.
	+ The 2006 film *Curious George* was planned on to be released under the banner. However Samuel Goldwyn and PBS cancelled the movie following the box office failure of *Whodunnit? A Share A Story Musical Mystery* and the United States distribution rights handed over to Universal Studios, who was planning on to distribute the film in overseas markets and on home video.
* **Written by Cast Member**:
	+ *Zak and Wheezie's Big Circus Adventure* was co-written by Wheezie's voice actress Kathleen Barr.