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Wakfu

A videogame and cartoon by Ankama, spun-off from the much-more-obscure *Dofus*, releasing in 2012 (though the cartoon started earlier, in 2008).

The game is about Yugo, trying to take down an ogre named Ogrest.

The cartoon takes place 12 years later, after Ogrest is defeated.

The English dub (well, the first two seasons of it, anyway) was funded through Kickstarter and released on Netflix.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Downplayed example in its native France. While seasons 1-2 were broadcast by France 3, the third season aired on France 4, a sister channel to France 3, with season 4 (the final season) potentially moving *back* to France 3 following the shutdown of France 4.
* Animal World: Level 2. Some of the races featured in this game (as well as *Dofus*) are based off of animals, both wild and domestic.
* Size Changing: Ruel's dog in one episode.
	+ Rubilax can usually grow to the size of a longsword.
	+ Speaking of Rubilax, in one episode his monster form does this whenever Percedal attacks him. Percedal decides to use it to his advantage to bring Rubilax back to his true form.
* Fauxnime: It's a French cartoon. This is to be expected.
* Obscurity, much?: Oddly enough, its predecessor *Dofus* suffers from this trope outside of its native France, despite it being a prequel.
* Dubless Series: So much so, Ankama had to go onto Kickstarter in order to fund an English dub. The result? The goal to dub seasons 1-2 was smashed, finally subverting this, and the rest is history. Since season 3 was co-produced by Netflix, it was pretty much *guaranteed* an English dub. However, the OVAs still lack an English dub.
	+ The German and Polish dubs only cover the first season.
* Satisfactory Conclusion: Yugo vs. Qilby at the end of season 2. Surprisingly, it's not the True ending.
You Are Fired/Corus Entertainment

Examples of You Are Fired from shows from the Corus-owned Teletoon and YTV.

* In *Jimmy Two-Shoes*, Jimmy is told he's fired from Misery, Inc., only for Jimmy to reply that he doesn't work there. He gets a ton of paperwork, and a calendar. *Then* he's fired.
	+ Right after Jimmy gets fired, Heloise also gets fired.
	+ In another episode, Jimmy and Beezy try to deliver a bunch of Misery Inc. packages before Heloise gets fired again.
* *Edgar & Ellen* manage to get the mailman fired in one episode. Of course, said mailman later gets his job back while the new mailman himself got fired (and a lot of humiliation to go with his firing).
* *6teen*: While Jonesy's already been fired enough times to be an example of "Jetson, You're Fired!", Jude was once fired from the Penalty Box because of the status quo.
* *Total Drama*: Chris McLean fired Owen from his job as a spy when he's found out near the end of *Action*. So much so, his firing was treated as an elimination (as the job was the only reason Owen stayed in the game in the first place).
* Several characters in *Freaky Stories* (maybe even the friend of the friend of the friend of the narrator) get fired since their actions generally disgust, or even *scare*, people.
* Conversed and then subverted in one episode of *My Life Me*; Birch suspects this happened to Mr. Towes, but it turns out he was on vacation.
* Gorgool fires The Servant in the *Monster by Mistake* episode "Home Alone" after being told that the latter let go of the Jewel of Fenrath. It's likely the status quo was restored after that episode, though.
Adaptational Stereotype

When an adaptation makes a character, usually a person of color, more stereotypical than their original incarnation. This can range from changing a character's clothing to replacing their entire personality.

This is an Adaptation Deviation trope, a variant of Character Exaggeration, and an inversion of Culturally Sensitive Adaptation. Some changes can include:

* Accent Adaptation
* Adaptational Diversity
* Adaptation Name Change
* Adaptation Personality Change
* Adaptational Job Change
* Adaptational Nationality
What's with Andy?

What's with Andy? is a Teletoon cartoon that ran from 2001 to 2007.

The show focuses on the titular Andy Larkin, who goes around pranking people around East Gackle, only for his pranks to backfire.

The first season was the only season that aired in America; however, The Mysterious Mr. Enter used footage of the series in his re-reviews of Wayside and Rocket Monkeys.

## Tropes

* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: The Trope Namer, since it's not mentioned *why* Andy wants to be a master prankster other than the fact that nothing weird usually happens in East Gackle.
* Innocent punishment: The *entire* voice cast (save for Andy's VA) was replaced starting with season 2, though this trope isn't really to blame. Disney had just bought Fox Kids and Saban Entertainment at the time.
	+ Happened to Jervis during one of Andy's pranks. It eventually got to the point where Jervis was not only chewed out for *not* stopping Andy, but it's implied he was *banned* from the country club he mentioned.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: The first season aired on ABC Family and Toon Disney in the United States, with the show being sold to Fox Kids elsewhere outside Canada. This is justified because Disney had bought Fox Kids Worldwide, where international Fox Kids channels wouldn't rebrand as Jetix until later on.
* To Riches and Back: The basis of one of Andy's pranks.

TBA.
X-Ray and Vav

X-Ray and Vav was a Rooster Teeth original cartoon that aired between 2014 and 2015.

Ray Narvaez, Jr. left Rooster Teeth in 2015, thus causing the cancellation of the series (in part; Rooster Teeth also wanted to focus on *Red vs. Blue*, *RT Animated Adventures*, *RWBY*, *RWBY Chibi*, and X-Ray and Vav's replacement series *Camp Camp*).

## Tropes

* This gave us inspiration: Technically, the series already *was* in production by the time Volume 2 of *RWBY* started coming out, but in the second episode of the latter, Jaune was reading a comic book also titled "X-Ray and Vav".
* Obscurity, much?: Semi-obscure. Contrast Rooster Teeth's other series, such as *Red vs. Blue* or *RWBY*.
* Super Evil: All of the villains throughout the series.
* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: Whatever happened to X-Ray and Vav after they continued to fight crime?
* Satisfactory Conclusion: The finale of the second (and so far final) season.

TBA.
Died before Retirement

Normally Americans retire before they die. These are the exceptions.

For clarity's sake, don't put in examples unless a person already planned their retirement.

Also, examples where a person has retired, but dies before their last work is released, are also listed.

## Examples

* Michael Jackson, known for "Billie Jean", "Thriller", "Beat It", and other songs, died before his "This is It" tour began.
* Charles Schulz retired after drawing the final strip. Several weeks later, he died before the strip was published.
* John Perry made the mistake of filing some retirement papers on the morning of 9/11. Guess what happened besides him finding out about the attacks?
* George Jones. Country music legend. Recorded plenty of songs, put plenty of fiddlers on his backup band over the years, and he announced he was gonna retire. He died in April 2013.

TBA.
Teletoon Originals

Teletoon produces so many originals (even more originals than its American counterpart Cartoon Network for a reason) that its list of originals has its own page. Keep in mind that this only includes originals aired on either English Teletoon or both versions.

Please list Teletoon at Night originals here also.

#

* The English version of 1001 Nights
* 6teen

A

* The Amazing Spiez!
* Animal Crackers
* Atomic Puppet

B

* The English version of Bakugan
* Best Ed

C

* Caillou
* Class of the Titans
* Clone High
* Creepschool
* Cybersix

D

* The Day My Butt Went Psycho!
* Delilah and Julius
* Detentionaire
* Di-Gata Defenders
* Donkey Kong Country
* Doodlez
* Dr. Dimensionpants

F

* Freaktown
* The Future is Wild (2007)

G

* Gerald McBoing-Boing (2005)
* Grojband

H

* Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs (season 1 only)
* Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5

I

* Inspector Gadget (2015)

J

* Jimmy Two-Shoes
* Johnny Test

L

* Looped

M

* Maggie and the Ferocious Beast
* MetaJets
* My Babysitter's a Vampire (2011)
* My Dad the Rock Star
* My Life Me

N

* Ned's Newt
* Night Sweats

P

* Packages from Planet X
* Pecola

R

* Rocket Monkeys

S

* Skatoony (2010)
* Station X
* Stoked
* Supernoobs

T

* Total Drama
* Totally Spies!

U

* Undergrads
* Untalkative Bunny

Z

* Zeroman
* The Zimmer Twins (TV version)

TBA.
You Are Fired/Videogames

Even videogames can have points where a character is fired (maybe even the protagonist).

* In one mode of *MLB Power Pros*, the player character can get fired if he doesn't play his baseball games hard enough. This can happen even if he was benched. Otherwise averted.
* Nintendo pretty much confirmed that due to the autosave function in *Animal Crossing: New Horizons*, there was no need for the Reset Surveillance Center anymore. In other words, Resetti got fired from his old job and was put into a new one.
* In *Donkey Kong*, Mario (then known as Jumpman) was a carpenter. But from *Mario Bros.* onward, he's a plumber. Meaning either he quit his carpenting job or got fired from it.
* Mess up in *Night of the Consumers*, and given it's a horror game, you'll be treated to the *scariest firing in fiction*. Not a joke, given several Let's Players' reactions.
* *Five Nights at Freddy's*: Mike Schmidt (the protagonist of the first game) gets fired for tampering with the animatronics, general unprofessionalism, and odor.
	+ In the second game, Fritz Smith, the *third* protagonist of the franchise (the second, Jeremy Fitzgerald, had been moved to a day job by that point) gets fired *on his first day*.
	+ In *Pizzeria Simulator*, you can get fired for not salvaging all the animatronics.
* In *Clarence's Big Chance*, have a low enough productivity by the time you see the boss and Clarence will get fired. Unfortunately, it's an instance that can lead to a Super Breakup.
* The player character of *Bugsnax* lost his job "the second you walked out that door", because Clumby didn't expect him to come back.
* In one of the *Reincarnation* games, one reason for one person drinking until he ran out of money was losing his job. Ironically, the bartender himself averts this due to being killed before he could be fired (he was the reincarnated soul of the game).
* Four words: *Don't Whack Your Boss*. Because in one scenario, he will fire you and threaten to call the cops on you.
* In the first *Harvest Moon* game, if you don't make the farm nice (that is, do nothing to clean it up), you get booted out of the farm. Otherwise, you own it for the rest of the game.
	+ In *Back to Nature* (but surprisingly, not *Friends of Mineral Town*), you get subject to this by the Mayor after the town gets angry at you for not taking care of your farm.
* In *Cookie Clicker*, the player can sell a building. Unfortunately, selling an employee (to make it worse, the employees are grandmothers) triggers something similar to this trope and the game won't let you forget about it either.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

*The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim* is a very popular game by Bethesda, as well as the most-popular installment of the *Elder Scrolls* franchise, releasing in 2011.

You play as the Dragonborn Dohvakiin, who has to defeat a dragon named Alduin for the second time (for some reason, Alduin was defeated once before).

The tropes below are spoiler-heavy, so for those who haven't played the game yet, read them at your own risk. No links to play the game will be provided; let's just say it's available on Steam and leave it at that.

## Tropes

* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: First off, why didn't anyone think about putting an end to Alduin's plan *permanently*? Is Bethesda wanting to bring Alduin back for the sixth Elder Scrolls game?
	+ Also, Bethesda's "Dohvakiin" promotion, described in This gave us inspiration and Downwards Funnel below.
* Pop culture: The *best-selling* *Elder Scrolls* title of all time, and one of the best-selling videogames in Bethesda's history.
* Innocent punishment: Downplayed and exaggerated at the same time. As with other *Elder Scrolls* games, resisting arrest by guards will leave the player character dead, no matter how petty the actual crime. However, this can also be inverted; the player can make Dohvakiin do all sorts of evil and have him get away with little more than a fine... provided he has the gold to pay it.
* This gave us inspiration: On *both ends* of this trope. Bethesda accidentally made a lot of the plot for *Chrysanthemum* *more* relevant than it was (even though they weren't inspired by the book) when they announced that anyone who named their child "Dohvakiin" would receive download codes for Bethesda's entire game library on Steam. You can only guess what happened.
	+ To add insult to more insult, *South Park* ended up parodying the entire ordeal in *The Stick of Truth*, with the New Kid's true name being "Dohvakiin".
* Downwards Funnel: Again, the entire "Dohvakiin" promotion. It doesn't help that the unfortunate child being named that was doomed "to a lifetime of bullying".
You Are Fired/Fox cartoons

* Besides Homer Simpson often being fired (he's an example of "Jetson, You're Fired!"), Gil gets fired in the episode "Kill Gil Simpson".
	+ Comic Book Guy gets fired from his directorial role in the Everyman movie.
	+ In "Bart Gets a Z", Ms. Krabappel ends up being fired all due to a prank involving Bart spiking up her coffee. Zach ends up fired himself because he spiked his own energy drink.
* In the very first episode of *Family Guy*, Peter gets fired from the toy factory. He's been fired multiple times since (though his firings beyond that are under "Jetson, You're Fired!").
* Fox Kids cartoon *Life with Louie* had an episode where Louie confronted his dad's boss about his dad's firing.
* *Futurama*: Apparently, the executives who cancelled the Planet Express crew's license were "themselves fired for incompetence".
* *American Dad!* uses this trope in an episode. Though they have to pay Trump to use his catchphrase. Stan would count for "Jetson, You're Fired!", though.
* Double subverted: Because Bob Belcher owns his restaurant, he is never fired even if he commits what is seen as a fireable offense by employees. That said, neither are the rest of the Belchers. Then where does the double subversion come into play? It comes into play when, while he was teaching, he's forced to shut down his Home Ec-staurant *and* gets fired from teaching in the process.
Staying Up Late (song)

Staying Up Late is a song that was performed by the ZingZillas in the episode Staying Up Late featuring Simon Finch.

## Lyrics

Staying up late

Past bedtime is exciting and it's great

And I almost cannot wait

For the stars above to shine.

Wondering why

Gazing up to the sky

There's a comet so high, fizzing by

It seems like a dream or a lullaby.

Staying up late

Beyond when you're not normally awake

In this extraordinary state

I'll blissfully remain

I'm staying up late

I'm staying up late.
You Are Fired/Nickelodeon

Even the first kids' network can deal with this trope, but it usually happens to the adult characters.

* In *SpongeBob SquarePants*, Patrick is once told he was fired, only for him to reply with "I don't even work here". He's offered a job, accepts, and *then* is immediately fired.
	+ Even if Patrick secured the job without an immediate firing, due to the status quo, anytime he works at the Krusty Krab, expect him to be jobless again by the end of the episode.
	+ Even SpongeBob got fired a few times. Mr. Krabs was even cheap enough to fire him in one episode just to *save one nickel*.
	+ Squidward also gets fired a few times, but not as many times as SpongeBob was.
* In *The Fairly OddParents*:
	+ Right after being hired, Timmy is instructed by Mr. Ed Leadly to fire everyone else due to his Ever-leady pencils. Timmy then turns to his fairies to wish that the Ever-leady pencils gave people really big muscles upon hearing Cosmo's idea.
		- After he hired everyone back, his dad subsequently fires him for inventing the defective pencils in the first place.
	+ Speaking of Mr. Turner, while Cosmo believes himself to be a genie, Mr. Turner wishes he wouldn't have to work again (while having waffles). Mr. Ed Leadly calls him up to tell him he's fired.
	+ Vicky sometimes gets fired. In *Channel Chasers*, this was believable given the torture she's done to Timmy over the course of the series, but in "Vicky Gets Fired", the thing that got her fired was recording over the Turners' entry in a contest. Of course, the firings never stick in her case.
	+ From the home console/PC version of *Breakin' Da Rules*: failing an Ultimate Challenge means a godchild's fairies will be subject to this via their fairy licenses being taken away. Luckily, Timmy passes it and avoids losing his fairies for good. Unfortunately, it's implied several godkids have failed to do this.
* In *My Life as a Teenage Robot*, after Jenny is taken on as the school quarterback, the previous quarterback gets cut.
* In one episode of *The Loud House*, it's implied Leni got fired from her job.
* April O'Neil is fired from the Chuck E. Cheese's parody in *Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*, and she does, in fact, know she is fired because she cuts off her boss before he can say "fired".
* In *The Legend of Korra* (the sequel to *Avatar: The Last Airbender*), Varrick found out he wasn't levitating. Because of this fact, Swami is fired.
Teletoon Isn't Cartoon Network

Often, Canadian networks (mostly those with a US counterpart) often think that Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon and make deals with other networks not related to the network they're based on. This term is for the inverse- *American* networks doing the same to their Canadian (and other foreign) counterparts.

Making Canadian media is hard for said industry, due to a law regulating that industry. US media, however, is not bound by these restrictions (the US doesn't have restrictions on foreign content being broadcast; in fact, the 1st amendment bans the introduction of such measures, meaning if it's not legally obscene, cable networks can play *anything* related to their niche and get away with it, such as Cartoon Network airing anime during the 2000s).

However, given the influence of United States media, even US broadcasters sell their shows to networks different from their Canadian counterparts for foreign broadcasts. This is due to the fact that there's a ton of US media (though most US animation has their animation outsourced to South Korea nowadays), and the ever-going fight amongst Canadian broadcasters for simulcast rights to US shows, thanks to a widely-known rule in Canada.

As of March 27th, 2023, the name of this trope would become outdated as, on that same date, the English feed of Teletoon would *become* a feed of Cartoon Network. However, the name of this trope will be kept, simply because it's an inverse of a staple of Tropes Fanon.

## Examples with their own pages

As examples of this would be redundant to Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon at best and exactly the same examples as the aforementioned trope at worst, **Teletoon isn't Cartoon Network** is an Exampleless Trope; the example subpages are subpages of said trope and not this trope.

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon/Cartoon Network
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon/Disney
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon/ViacomCBS
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon/Teletoon has its own section about American shows (that aren't from CN) airing on the network.
Unlucky Creator

## Western Animation

* Mickey Mouse and Oswald The Lucky Rabbit: Walt Disney lost the rights to Oswald The Lucky Rabbit. Charles Mintz had a poor relationship with Disney and ended up hiring most of Disney's staff and firing him, leading him and his remaining staff to create Mickey Mouse and Universal buying the rights of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit.
* Tom and Jerry: Gene Deitch doesn't like Tom and Jerry because it's violent but he was forced to work on the cartoons.

## Related Tropes

* Creator Backlash
* Creator Breakdown
* Descended Creator
* Missing Episodes
Orangutango

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Orangutango is the 22nd episode from Series 3.

## Plot

A band of primate friends play music in their tropical island paradise. Drum wants Tang to dance a tango with her in the Big Zing, but Tang insists that he can't dance.

Guest performers: Tango Siempre with Alex and Giraldo

Big Zing: Orangutango (song)

## Trivia

* Tang went to the glade.
* Instead of "then let's do it", the ZingZillas say "then let's play Tango".
* The song will be heard but shorter in the ZingBop episode.
Statues (song)

Statues is a song that was performed by the ZingZillas in the episode Statues featuring Sharon Shannon, Jim Murray, Dezi Donnelly, Michael McGoldrick & the North West Celtic Dance Ladies.

## Lyrics

Will you dance in time with the band?

To a lilting Irish melody

When they stop be still as you can

It's a game we like to pla-a-a-a-ay

Oooh-oooh!

Statue, statue

Standing stiller than a

Statue, statue

Orangutan, gorilla or a

Statue, statue

Standing stiller than a

Statue, statue

That's the name of the game.

Statue, statue

Standing stiller than a

Statue, statue

Orangutan, gorilla or a

Statue, statue

Standing stiller than a

Statue, statue

That's the name of the game.

Statue, statue

Standing stiller than a

Statue, statue

Orangutan, gorilla or a

Statue, statue

Standing stiller than a

Statue, statue

That's the name of the game.

Statue, statue

Standing stiller than a

Statue, statue

Orangutan, gorilla or a

Statue, statue

Standing stiller than a

Statue, statue

That's the name of the game.
Total Drama

Total Drama is a franchise of television series for Teletoon in Canada and Cartoon Network in the United States.

The show follows two teams of contestants (which change every season, even if not dramatically) and the show's host, Chris McLean, as well as his Chef (whose purpose is to make stuff that is rarely edible; the "rarely" part kicks in whenever he's cooking for Chris and/or himself, or when the challenge calls for it).

That's not all; the contestants have to go through painful challenges, and the losing team *has* to eliminate someone.

How does this process happen? Chris gives out marshmallows the night following the last challenge, and whoever doesn't get a marshmallow is sent home through various means (but those various means always have "of Shame" written in), so they can never come back. *Ever*.

Due to the sheer amount of Innocent punishment examples for *this show alone* (mostly eliminations), it is a likely candidate (along with Nickelodeon's The Loud House) to get its own "Innocent punishment" page.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Even if this is subverted in America, there's still some countries that play this trope straight; for example, in the United Kingdom and Ireland it aired on Disney XD.
	+ Speaking of which, Skatoony (2010), which contained Total Drama characters, was seen on Toon Goggles due to the appearance of Jimmy Two-Shoes characters in Skatoony.
* Wacky Science: Lindsay said she *took* Biology, but it's implied she *failed* it. With a *big* F- on her final exam.
	+ Bridgette, however, subverts this trope.
* Innocent punishment: Almost any time a character gets eliminated. The biggest offender is Sierra's elimination; even though she gained immunity, Chris just sent her out of the game for blowing up his plane.
	+ Subverted with Duncan, since he deserved it anyway, even with Chris mistaking his mansion for a cottage.
	+ Lindsay took Biology and it's implied she *failed* it. So it wouldn't be a surprise that she accidentally poisoned Trent.
	+ Didn't get a marshmallow/trophy/bag of peanuts during the ceremonies? Well, you'll get sent home. The reasons may fall into this trope.
	+ Chef usually makes usually-unedible slop for the contestants to tell them how unlucky they are to join the game. This comes into fair play in "Brunch of Disgustingness", the *only* time that his usual cooking doesn't fit this trope.
		- And even then, the eponymous Brunch of Disgustingness only avoids this trope due to the fact that the challenge called for it.
	+ Owen gets fired from his job as Chris' spy due to being found out towards the end of *Action*. Chris saw no reason to keep Owen in the game since he was fired, so sent him home.
* What Did he Make?: Oh dear, Chef's usual cooking is rarely edible, if at all. And then "Brunch of Disgustingness" took it to another level.
* Cartoons Mean They're For Kids: Not even close. Even if you got around the censors for both Teletoon *and* Cartoon Network, the show is clearly for teens and adults.
	+ "Brunch of Disgustingness" was once aired with the Teletoon Detour screen bug seen in the first half of the episode in Canada.
Everybody Bogle to the Island Beat

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Everybody Bogle to the Island Beat is the 23rd episode from Series 4.

## Plot

Panzee asks Todd for a musical style for the Big Zing. Todd asks the machine, but it goes haywire, spitting out musical style after musical style. Eventually the ZingZillas give up. In the glade, the ZingZillas are gathered with their instruments. Panzee says they need to think of a song and there is a cough behind them. They turn to see Granite and Gravel, who announce that they would like to sing their song. The ZingZillas happily play along while Granite and Gravel sing, but when they have finished Granite and Gravel aren't happy. They didn't like the musical style that the song was sung in. Zak rushes in with Todd's enormous piece of paper with all the musical styles the machine printed out earlier. Now they can choose a style that will suit the Granite and Gravel song. They try thrash metal, bossa nova and reggae. Granite and Gravel like reggae best. Gravel suggests that they all bogle to the beat. He explains that bogelling is a type of dance for reggae music. Zak says that everyone must bogle to the island beat!

Big Zing: Everybody Bogle to the Island Beat (song)
Suburban Hellscape

The opposite of Urban Hellscape.
A surburban town that looks nice but it's actually terrible place inhabited by mean people, criminals and a corrupt mayor.

## Examples

* *Family Guy*: Quahog
* *Little Rogues* : Truth in Television, Hong Kong has mean people and criminals and also street fights.
* *The Simpsons*: Springfield
To the Beat of a Drum (song)

To the Beat of a Drum is a song that was performed by the ZingZillas in the episode To the Beat of a Drum featuring the Hertfordshire Showband.

## Lyrics

Gonna march to a drum to the beat of a drum

Gonna march to a drum

When they drum in the jungle and everybody comes

To the beat of the drum to the beat of the drum

Gonna march to a drum

When they drum in the jungle and everybody comes

To the beat of a drum

To the beat of a drum.

Now do a march with your head held low

Now do a march with your head held high

Now do a march very stiff and slow

When you march in time

Now do a march very tight and small

Now do a march very straight and tall

Now do a march that is fun and free

When you march with me.

Gonna march to a drum to the beat of a drum

Gonna march to a drum

When they drum in the jungle and everybody comes

To the beat of the drum to the beat of the drum

Gonna march to a drum

When they drum in the jungle and everybody comes

To the beat of a drum

To the beat of a drum.

Now do a march with your head held low

Now do a march with your head held high

Now do a march very stiff and slow

When you march in time

Now do a march very tight and small

Now do a march very straight and tall

Now do a march that is fun and free

When you march with me.

Gonna march to a drum to the beat of a drum

Gonna march to a drum

When they drum in the jungle and everybody comes

To the beat of the drum to the beat of the drum

Gonna march to a drum

When they drum in the jungle and everybody comes

To the beat of a drum

To the beat of a drum

To the beat of a drum.
Statues

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Statues is the 11th episode from Series 4.

## Plot

The ZingZillas wake up and ask Todd for an idea for a song. Todd's ideas machine stops working, and suddenly the picture freezes. Zak thinks Todd looks like a statue, and Panzee says she likes statues - she plays musical statues all the time. Zak says there is no time to play musical statues.

In the glade, DJ Loose introduces Sharon Shannon, Jim Murray, Dezi Donnelly, Michael McGoldrick and the North West Celtic Dance Ladies. They play traditional Irish music and dance to it too. Zak thinks that Panzee will love the music.

Panzee is getting a little tired being a statue, but she is still determined to be a statue all day. Then Tang has an idea! The Irish dancers will solve the problem! They watch the dancers on the TV. Tang explains that Irish dancers move their legs really fast but they keep their top halves still like statues. If Panzee does some Irish dancing, she can dance and be a statue at the same time.

Guest performers: Sharon Shannon, Jim Murray, Dezi Donnelly, Michael McGoldrick, The North West Celtic Dance Ladies

Big Zing: Statues (song)
Chugging on a Train (song)

Chugging on a Train is a song that was performed by the ZingZillas in the episode Chugging on a Train featuring the BBC Big Band.

## Lyrics

Huffing and a puffing and a chuffin' and a chuggin'

On a choo choo!

A honking' and a tonkin' and a ringin' and a singin'

With a woo-woo!

It’s so much fun

When you’re chuggin' on a train

So much fun

When you're chuggin' on a train.

Huffing and a puffing and a chuffin' and a chuggin'

On a choo choo!

A honking' and a tonkin' and a ringin' and a singin'

With a woo-woo!

It’s so much fun

When you’re chuggin' on a train

So much fun

When you're chuggin' on a train.

Jump on, ride the rails

Where we going?

Hold tight

Watch the world pass by

In the blink of an eye.

Huffing and a puffing and a chuffin' and a chuggin'

On a choo choo!

A honking' and a tonkin' and a ringin' and a singin'

With a woo-woo!

It’s so much fun

When you’re chuggin' on a train

So much fun

When you're chuggin' on a train

Yes it’s fun

When you’re chuggin' on a train.
Home is Where My Heart is

Home is Where My Heart is is a song that was performed by the ZingZillas in the episode Home featuring Michael Messer.

## Lyrics

Home is on the island, tropical and free

Home's the only place where I'm longing to be

Home is so amazing, bursting with sound

Home is what I miss when I travel around

It's where my heart is

Woah

It's where my heart is.

Home is on the island, home is where I love

To be swinging with the trees with the sun up above

Strumming in the clubhouse, making up a song

Playing in the glade and singing along

It's where my heart is

Woah

It's where my heart is.

Home is where the heart is, it's where I love

Home is where the heart is

Woah

Home is where the heart is, it's where I love

Home is where the heart is

It's where my heart is

Woah, it's where my heart is.

Home is where the heart is, it's where I love

Home is where the heart is

Woah

Home is where the heart is, it's where I love

Home is where the heart is

It's where my heart is

Woah, it's where my heart is.
The Red Button

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The Red Button is the 12th episode from Series 2.

## Plot

Todd is playing skittles in the garden and, having knocked them all over, he is keen to show Drum his new invention, which will automatically stand the skittles back up. All he has to do is press the big red button. However, when he does so Drum sits down and the skittles don't move. Todd realises that he has invented a sitting down machine rather than a standing up machine. Drum thinks the machine is great fun, and while Todd's back is turned, she rushes off to have some fun with it around the island. They head to the glade, where they watch Matt Gooderson playing keyboards and making lots of sounds and music with lots of different switches and buttons. Drum loves it and wants to press buttons to make sounds in the Big Zing. Todd rushes off to invent something with sound-making buttons on it.

Guest performer: Matt Gooderson

Big Zing: Todd's Technology
Villainous

*Villainous* is a show created by Alan Ituriel for the Latin American branch of Cartoon Network. The show stars a group of villains led by Black Hat, as they attempt to unleash evil on the world, which has a chance of failing.

The series is produced in English first, then dubbed into Spanish later. Because of this, it's the only show produced by the Latin American branch of Cartoon Network to even have an English dub.

Characters from the show appeared in *OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes* and *Victor and Valentino*, two shows from the *US* branch of Cartoon Network.

## Tropes

* Unrealistic stuff: Par for the course, as it's about supervillains.
* Cute Mascot: 5.0.5. Also notable since he's voiced by Markiplier.
* Downwards Funnel: In the pilot, the hero not only loses, he gets eaten by Demencia. In every other piece of fiction, should a hero lose, there's always a next time for him. If not that, there's a successor to him. However, due to the protagonists being villains (obviously), neither are true in *Villainous*. That said, Black Hat's scolding of his team, especially towards Dr. Flug and Demencia, makes this a pyrrhic victory *at best*.
* The Colbert Effect: Of the various CN Latin America productions, this was the only one to gain attention outside of Latin America (mainly through word-of-mouth) because it was seen as a fresh take on supervillains (remember, this was when the anime fandom catapulted *My Hero Academia* into the mainstream).
* Dubless Series: Averted. Because of it being produced in English to begin with, *Villainous* is the only show produced by the Latin American branch of Cartoon Network to have an English dub.
* Size Changing: One of Dr. Flug's inventions can cause this.
* Loads and Loads of Irony: The villain protagonists (save Black Hat) are only about as evil as the League of Super Evil (except out of clumsiness rather than pettiness). That said, unlike *that* villain team, *this* team doesn't use Super Evil anywhere in its name...
* Super Evil: Black Hat.
Bhangra Beats

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Bhangra Beats is the 8th episode from Series 1.

## Plot

Zak decides that the ZingZillas should start the day with some exercise. Drum wants to stay and help Todd with his new clothes dryer so just Panzee, Tang and Zak jog off into the jungle. While doing their exercises Zak makes up a tune and some words for them to exercise to. It's the perfect jogging and moving, dancing and grooving song for the Big Zing so they decide to head back to the clubhouse to practise it with Drum.

Zak knows a short cut so they jog off. Unfortunately Zak's shortcut takes them in completely the wrong direction and they end up on the far side of the island. All the time coconuts are falling in the coconut clock and the ZingZillas don't have their song ready for the Big Zing.

In the meantime Drum has enjoyed watching a Bhangra group performing in the glade. The group consists of a few musicians plus a lot of dancers. One of the musicians is playing the dhol drum and the beat of the drum tells the dancers to do a different step. Drum loves the dancing and is soon joining in.

DJ is getting very worried about the other ZingZillas, especially when he finds out they are on the far side of the island. He tells them the quickest way back but even so he's not sure they'll make it in time for the Big Zing. He thinks Drum should prepare to do the Big Zing by herself so she suggests doing a Bhangra Big Zing. She uses one of Todd's clean sheets as a costume and, with the help of the Beach Byrds, starts to practise.

They combine Drum's Bhangra dancing with Zak's bouncing exercise song to create a magnificent Bhangra Big Zing. Todd even has enough sheets for them to have a costume each.

Guest performers: Jugnu Bhangra

Big Zing: Bhangra Beat

## Trivia

* Drum said goodnight to Todd
* This episode featured in the World Music Tour DVD
Boogie Woogie Bubbly Time

Boogie Woogie Bubbly Time is a song that was performed by the ZingZillas in the episode Bubble Trouble featuring Elio Pace.

## Lyrics

Bubbly pop bubbly pop

All around the island they'll be blowing

Bubbly pop bubbly pop

It’s a mystery where they'll be going

Have a boogie woogie bubbly time

Yes, a boogie woogie bubbly time.

Bubbly pop bubbly pop

Floating in the air and disappearing

Bubbly pop bubbly pop

Love the boogie woogie that I'm hearing

Have a boogie woogie bubbly time

Yes, a boogie woogie bubbly time.

Bubbles in the breeze have never been

A very easy thing to think of

Bubbles in your tummy and you’re feeling

Kind of funny make you hiccup.

Woo-hoo

Bubbly pop bubbly pop

It’s a funny thing to have a drink of

Bubbly pop bubbly pop

They‘re the only words that I can think of

Have a boogie woogie bubbly time

Yes, a boogie woogie bubbly time.

Ah-aah

Ooh-ooh

Bubbly pop bubbly pop

Put your lips together and you blow it

Bubbly pop bubbly pop

Join me in the chorus if you know it

Have a boogie woogie bubbly time

Yes, a boogie woogie bubbly time

Such a boogie woogie bubbly time

Yes, a boogie woogie bubbly time.
All the Fun of the Fair

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All the Fun of the Fair is the 8th episode from Series 4.

## Plot

Todd is very excited because it is the day of the Island Fair, and he needs to find some good dancers for it.

In the jungle, Panzee and Zak find DJ. DJ introduces them to Boggart's Breakfast who perform morris dancing. They wear blue face make-up and dance with sticks and bells. Zak thinks they look really cool. After they have listened to the morris music, Zak gets very excited about dancing a morris dance. He and Panzee rush off to write the song.

The ZingZillas rehearse on the beach. They think of a song while they are listing all the fun things you can do at a fair. Zak wants to dance with bells on his ankles - just like a morris dancer - so Panzee dashes off to see if there are any in the dressing up box.

Guest performers: Boggart's Breakfast

Big Zing: All the Fun of the Fair (song)
Catch That Beat (song)

Catch That Beat is a song that was performed by the ZingZillas in the episode Catch That Beat featuring the Dance Off Crew.

## Lyrics

Feel it in your body from your head to your feet

I betting you’re sweating in the island heat

It’s the rhythm of the jungle and the sound of the street

It was made in the glade got to catch that beat

It doesn’t really matter you've got nothing to prove

Do whatever you like just get into the groove

Try a little bit of trickery your own cool moves - street dance!

Remember you got to catch the beat.

Catch the beat

It’s the way, it’s the way, it’s the way, it's the way you dance

Catch the beat

Got to take, got to take, got to take, got to take a chance

Catch the beat

Make it up, make it up, make it up ZingZillas style

Catch the beat

Gonna make, gonna make, gonna make, gonna make, gonna make, gonna make you smile.

Gonna catch it

Gonna catch it

Feel it in your body from your head to your feet

I betting you’re sweating in the island heat

It’s the rhythm of the jungle and the sound of the street

It was made in the glade got to catch that beat

It doesn’t really matter you've got nothing to prove

Do whatever you like just get into the groove

Try a little bit of trickery your own cool moves - street dance!

Remember you got to catch the beat.

Catch the beat

It’s the way, it’s the way, it’s the way, it's the way you dance

Catch the beat

Got to take, got to take, got to take, got to take a chance

Catch the beat

Make it up, make it up, make it up ZingZillas style

Catch the beat

Gonna make, gonna make, gonna make, gonna make, gonna make, gonna make you smile.

Catch the beat

It’s the way, it’s the way, it’s the way, it's the way you dance

Catch the beat

Got to take, got to take, got to take, got to take a chance

Catch the beat

Make it up, make it up, make it up ZingZillas style

Catch the beat

Gonna make, gonna make, gonna make, gonna make, gonna make, gonna make you smile.

Catch the beat!
On the Drums

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On the Drums is the 6th episode from Series 3.

## Plot

Zak wants to sing a song that names all the ZingZillas' instruments, but Drum has so many drums with different names, Zak can't remember them all. Drums sees Cherisse Osei in the glade. But then back at the clubhouse the ZingZillas tease Drum with the Fuzzy and Lily guitar; it is then that Drum says she wants proper names, or she won't play the Big Zing - which turns the big problem into a disaster. Then Zak has an idea to help him remember - the snare and toms are drums to beat, and the hats and crash are cymbals to hit. Now they are ready to play!

Guest performer: Cherisse Osei

Big Zing: On the Drums (song)

## Trivia

* Drum went to the glade
* Cherisse Osei has the ZingZillas title card on the big bass drum in this episode
Catch That Beat

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Catch That Beat is the 4th episode from Series 3.

## Plot

The ZingZillas wake up and ask Todd for an idea for the day's song. Todd uses his ideas machine but it doesn't want to work and the paper gets jammed. When Todd tries to get the paper out, he falls over. Panzee decides she'd better try the glade for an idea.

In the glade, Panzee watches Dance Off Crew doing some street dancing. They make up their own dance moves, spinning, tumbling and jumping. Panzee loves them so much she invents her own street dance move, the Winning Spinning. That gives her an idea for the day's song.

The ZingZillas gather together in the clubhouse to rehearse Panzee's street dance song. Zak and Drum both demonstrate cool dance moves and then they play their new song Catch That Beat. After they have practised the song, they ask Tang which cool dance he is going to do. But he can't think of one. What are they going to do? If Tang doesn't come up with a street dance move, they won't be able to perform the Big Zing.

The ZingZillas all scratch their heads, trying to come up with a solution. Then Panzee gets it! She watches Tang scratching and realises that scratching could be a really cool dance move - especially if you do it in an orangutan-type way. So Tang tries out the scratching move and it works! Now the ZingZillas are ready to play.

Guest performers: DanceOff Crew

Big Zing: Catch That Beat (song)
ZingZillas Zingbop

On 28 February 2011 Cbeebies began broadcasting a 40 part series of 5 minute spinoff programmes entitled "Zingzillas Zingbop" which is hosted by DJ Loose, where a small group of children (known as Zingboppers) go to Zingzilla Island and are taught to dance to a Zingzillas song. The Zingboppers then participate in the final Zingbop. Every Zingbop performed is of course "the best Zingbop ever".

There are 40 episodes altogether.

## Series 1

1. Superheroes Doing Super Things (Zingbop episode)
2. Dreamin' About Bananas (Zingbop episode)
3. The Great ZingZilla Band (Zingbop episode)
4. Do You Didgeridoo? (Zingbop episode)
5. Ding Dong (Zingbop episode)
6. Bhangra Beat (Zingbop episode)
7. Happy Day (Zingbop episode)
8. Pirate Song (Zingbop episode)
9. My Special Friend (Zingbop episode)
10. Litter Litter Litter (Zingbop episode)
11. Look You'll Discover (Zingbop episode)
12. Everywhere You Go (Zingbop episode)
13. Making a Big Noise (Zingbop episode)
14. Trombone (Zingbop episode)
15. It's Just a Noise (Zingbop episode)
16. Going On a Hunt (Zingbop episode)
17. Drift Away (Zingbop episode)
18. Todd's Technology (Zingbop episode)
19. Animals (Zingbop episode)
20. Moving House (Zingbop episode)

## Series 2

1. Thunder and Lightning (Zingbop episode)
2. Panzee's Family Show (Zingbop episode)
3. My Lazy Afternoon (Zingbop episode)
4. Chugging On a Train (Zingbop episode)
5. Catch That Beat (Zingbop episode)
6. To the Beat of a Drum (Zingbop episode)
7. Brush Your Teeth (Zingbop episode)
8. Panzee I'm Sorry (Zingbop episode)
9. Shake It (Zingbop episode)
10. Like a Firefly (Zingbop episode)
11. Giddy Up and Go (Zingbop episode)
12. Beatbox (Zingbop episode)
13. Tiny or Tall (Zingbop episode)
14. Orangutango (Zingbop episode)
15. Disco Lights (Zingbop episode)
16. On the Drums (Zingbop episode)
17. I'll Grow Flowers For You (Zingbop episode)
18. It's Fun to Be a One Man Band (Zingbop episode)
19. Pause for a Moment (Zingbop episode)
20. ZingZilla Rock 'n' Rollin' (Zingbop episode)
A Ballad and a Touch of Jazz

*A Ballad and a Touch of Jazz* is an instrumental score from the ZingZillas episode, Tang's Hooter. It is played by Sir James Galway on his flute. If we hear these 2, Sir James' flute evokes a spirited, silvery tone.

## Background

When the ZingZillas go to the glade, they hear Sir James play a slow and sweetly melodic ballad - they knew it was the flute. When DJ Loose asks Sir James to change the tempo, he plays an upbeat, jazzy number - which in fact is the tune of "Do You Want to Have Fun?".

## Trivia

* This is the melody that was used for "Do You Want to Have Fun?".
Look You'll Discover

Look You'll Discover is a song that was performed by the ZingZillas in the episode Music Box featuring Roderick Elms.

## Lyrics

Sometimes it seems they may be far away

But special moments come every day

So leave all your worries behind

I wonder what you're going to find

You never know when unexpectedly

You'll make a zinging discovery

It's wonderful, special and you

Believe in it, whatever you do.

If you look you discover there’s a world like no other

In the land of your dreams where nothing’s impossible

Look you discover there’s a world like no other

Where as strange as it seems

The land of your dreams can come true

Ahhh-ahhh

Your dreams can come true

Ah-ha-ha ha-ha-ha ah

Your dreams can come true.

If you look you discover there’s a world like no other

In the land of your dreams where nothing’s impossible

Look you discover there’s a world like no other

Where as strange as it seems

The land of your dreams can come true

Look you discover there’s a world like no other

Look you discover there’s a world like no other

If you look you discover there’s a world like no other

Your dreams would come true.
Beatbox

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Beatbox is the 8th episode from Series 3.

## Plot

The ZingZillas wake up and ask Todd for an idea for the day's song. But Todd's TV doesn't seem to be working properly and it keeps going wrong - making Todd sound like he is stuttering and stumbling. Although Todd can't actually communicate with them, the ZingZillas like the beat of Todd's bumpy speech and they wonder if they should do a song that has bumpy beats in it for the Big Zing.

In the glade, Tang sees Bellatrix, a beatboxer, performing a beatbox song. Bellatrix makes all the beaty noises with her mouth. Tang is inspired to write a beatboxing song.

The ZingZillas gather together in the clubhouse to rehearse the beatboxing song. Drum is feeling naughty and she hides under a pile of clothes and sneaks out before the band start. So Zak, Tang and Panzee rehearse without her. The beatboxing song is a great success but the ZingZillas realise that they need their drummer to play the Big Zing. Where has she gone?

Guest performer: Bellatrix

Big Zing: Beatbox (song)
Cinema Day

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Cinema Day is the 15th episode from Series 2.

## Plot

A band of primate friends play music in their tropical island paradise and meet different musical guests.

The ZingZillas have decided to take the day off and visit the cinema. Drum doesn't know what a cinema is. The others explain it is a place where you go to see your favourite films. However, Granite and Gravel are worried - if the ZingZillas are spending the day at the cinema who is going to play the Big Zing?

Meanwhile, the ZingZillas have gone into the jungle, found the cinema and are ready to watch the film. Todd, the projectionist, tells them they are going to watch their favourite Big Zings. Todd presses the remote, there is a loud explosion and the projector blows up! They can't watch any more films, but DJ appears with a solution.

Big Zings:

* It's Your Birthday (From Birthday Todd)
* Bluegrass, Bluegrass (From Squeaky Boots)
* Playing a Solo (From Tang's Clubhouse)
* Can You Guess? (From The Golden Coconut)