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The Trap Door
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The Trap Door was a British Claymation show that first aired in 1984. The show is set in a Haunted Castle owned by an unseen creature known only as the Thing Upstairs. The main character is this creature's servant, a blue blob named Berk, who lives in the castle's lower floors and does his master's bidding, such as tidying up and cooking his various disgusting meals. Living with Berk is his pet spider-like bug named Drutt, and a snarky talking skull named Boni who is constantly annoyed, mostly due to being unable to move on his own power.The titular trapdoor is a big wooden trap door in the castle's lower floors leading to a massive underground cave system full of monsters. At least once an episode the trap door opens up and releases a monster for Berk and his friends to deal with as it causes chaos around the castle. Typically they manage to get rid of the monster by the end of the episode, but they have befriended one, a big dim-witted red monster named Rogg, who regularly pops out of the trap door to visit. All the characters — except Drutt, who is instead voiced by Nick Shipley — are voiced by comedian Willie Rushton.The show's creators, CMTB Animation and Queensgate Productions, later made Stoppit and Tidyup and Bump. | |
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Jekyll & Hyde | |
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Jekyll & Hyde: One episode's titular "Nasty stuff" unleashes the three main characters' Evil Twin. | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: In episode 6, Boni tries to warn Berk that what to the audience is obviously a giant spider just crawled out of The Trap Door, but Berk things he's "just 'avin [him] on." | |
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Instantly Proven Wrong | |
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Instantly Proven Wrong: In "The Thingy" Berk nails a board over the Trap Door, and tells Boni that this way he'll never have to deal with strange things escaping and bothering him. Just as he's finished talking, the Monster of the Week bursts out. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: "The Thingy" has the titular monster zap zap Berk and Drutt, changing their sizes and shapes. Boni expresses relief it hasn't zapped him yet. Guess what happens next. | |
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The Voice | |
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The Voice: 'Im Upstairs, who is never seen on-screen, but is always present with his loud, booming voice. A few episodes hint at what he looks like — including a giant eyeball, the sound of wings beating as he returns home from a trip, and most notably a briefly-illuminated sickly yellow mass that's either a bunch of amorphous tentacles or VERY lumpy skin in "The Little Thing". His eyes appear to be detachable, and on separate occasions we get to see both a tooth and an eye of his, both of which are about the size of Berk himself. We're also told that he has Extra Eyes, multiple heads, and "various nostrils". | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end of the episode "Don't Open That Trap Door", Berk wonders if they'll play the song they heard on the radio (the show's theme song) again. Cue the end credits, which plays that exact song. | |
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Cousin Oliver | |
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Cousin Oliver: Drutt had babies that became regular characters. | |
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Cordon Bleugh Chef | |
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Cordon Bleugh Chef: Berk often cooks with such ingredients as live worms, bugs, eyeballs and other gross things. Justified, since he's cooking for a monster. Taken to extremes in the first episode when a yellow monster emerges from the trap door and eats Berk's carefully prepared dinner. Berk improvises and serves Yellow Monster Surprisenote As in, shoving the bloated, still-living monster into the dumbwaiter and sending it up. instead. The thing congratulated him on the texture. | |
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Bedsheet Ghost | |
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Bedsheet Ghost: Berk gets haunted by loads of these in 'Boo!' | |
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Defanged Horrors | |
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Defanged Horrors: Some monsters, like Rogg, can be quite nice. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Berk's master, the Thing Upstairs. While the opening narration claims he's nothing compared to what's lurking under the Trap Door, the end of "Don't You Open That Trap Door" shows all the aforementioned things fleeing when 'Im Upstairs bellows about the noise. | |
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Low Culture, High Tech | |
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Low Culture, High Tech: Berk lives in an actual stone castle, and addresses Him Upstairs in terms that imply the latter is actual Feudal Nobility. And yet, in one episode Berk comes across a radio while digging through the cupboard (while Berk doesn't know what it is at first, Boni explains it to him in terms that suggest it's a normal, if uncommon and recently developed, household item rather than some sort of "artifact from the future"). | |
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Your Tomcat Is Pregnant | |
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Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Drutt has babies. They still refer to them with male pronouns. | |
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Leaking Can of Evil | |
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Leaking Can of Evil: The Trap Door is all that stands between the castle and an underground cavern of weird monsters. A trap door that is never locked, mind you. | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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No Fourth Wall: Berk often addresses the kids directly. Boni sometimes explains what's going on at an episode's beginning, 'Allo 'Allo! style. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: Berk lives in an actual stone castle under what is implied to be an actual feudal noble, and yet said castle contains a fully functional radio, which is treated as a normal, if uncommon and recently developed, household object. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Berk, for as much as he complains and snarks at them while trying to do his job, does legitimately care about Boni, Drutt and Rogg. | |
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The Stinger | |
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The Stinger: In both season finales to undo any changes they have done. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At the end of the episode "Don't You Open That Trap Door", in which Berk finds a radio that plays the theme tune, he wonders if they'll play it again. Cue the end credits. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Bond One-Liner: Berk drops a good one when he deals with The Splund in his self-named episode, via a giant sewing needle he brought with him from having just finished repairing 'Im Upstairs' torn pyjamas. | |
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Recurring Character | |
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Recurring Character: Besides the main trio of Berk, Boni and Drutt; Rogg, Bubo, and the Big Red Thing are the most notable recurring monsters that appear. | |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out | |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out: At the end of the first season Berk decides he's finally had it with monsters always escaping into his kitchen and 'Im Upstairs yelling at him all the time and leaves. But then the credits finish and he's back. | |
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Music Soothes the Savage Beast | |
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Music Soothes the Savage Beast: Subverted in 'Don't You Open That Trap Door,' Berk turns on the radio, leading nearly every monster from the series to pop up and run rampant in the kitchen. They scurry back in when I'm Upstairs bellows about the noise. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: Drutt... maybe. Although they had a litter of baby spiders, they are often referred to as "he", so it's pretty unclear what Drutt actually is. | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: 'Im Upstairs can really pack it away. In "The Splund", he eats so much food that his pajamas split. | |
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Bottle Episode | |
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Bottle Episode: Almost every episode takes place fully in the castle of The Thing Upstairs, mostly within Berk's kitchen, where the trap door resides — ironically, only a couple actually show what's inside it. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Rogg, in the final episode. He gets better. | |
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British Brevity | |
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British Brevity: There are only two seasons, both with fewer than thirty episodes, and each episode is under five minutes. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Berk is British slang for a stupid, often easy to manipulate person. | |
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Covered in Gunge | |
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Covered in Gunge: Several of the monsters would either throw handfuls of the stuff around, or explode in showers of yellow goo. | |
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Theme Tune Extended | |
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Theme Tune Extended: As revealed in "Don't Open That Trap Door", there are two additional verses to the theme after the one in the closing credits. | |
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Extreme Omnivore | |
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Extreme Omnivore: One monster that came out of the trap door was a brown one with nothing but a trumpet mouth for a head. It swallowed Boni (who Berk rescued by bonking the thing) and then swallowed another monster that was all eyes (and roughly the same size). Berk used it to clear the drain he was trying to unblock. | |
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The Comically Serious | |
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The Comically Serious: Boni, though usually much more level headed (no pun intended) than Berk, is very neurotic and occasionally prone to bursts of childish excitement. | |
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Combat Tentacles | |
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Combat Tentacles: Some of the monsters, like whatever's attached to those orange ones in the first episode. Fortunately for those ones at least, they prove susceptible to bonking. | |
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Bolivian Army Ending | |
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Bolivian Army Ending: The last episode of the series has the Big Red Thing, one of the nastiest creatures to come through the trap door, jump out and attack Berk and his friends only for the show to cut out. | |
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New Media Are Evil | |
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New Media Are Evil: Downplayed. In one episode Berk comes across a radio, and doesn't know what it is at first. Boni explains it to him, but comments that he thinks radios are "horrible, noisy things," which doesn't suggest he holds any sort of ethical objection to radios, but does suggest a personal distaste for such newfangled devices. | |
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Summon Bigger Fish | |
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Summon Bigger Fish: In "Food for Thorp", after figuring out that the eponymous carnivorous plant likes eating the flying insects that came out of the trapdoor, Berk simply pushes it to the kitchen and waits until it's snatched and eaten them all. | |
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ChewToy | |
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Chew Toy: Boni, thanks to his stuffy attitude and how easily he can be picked up, tends to be on the receiving end of most of the show's physical comedy. Berk gets it pretty bad at times as well. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A few times, it's Berk who opens the Trap Door and forgets to shut it. | |
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Sdrawkcab Name | |
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Sdrawkcab Name: Drutt. More commonly spelled Drut. Turd. | |
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Eye Beams | |
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Eye Beams: In "The Thingy", the monster can shoot a beam from its eyes that causes random transformations in its targets. | |
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Battle Discretion Shot | |
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Battle Discretion Shot: More often than not, violence occurs in another room, complete with Screen Shake. | |
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Art Shift | |
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Art Shift: The Stop Motion animation is occasionally briefly replaced by such hand drawn images as Berk's blinking eyes in the title sequence, and a lightning-lit shot of the lower body of The Thing Upstairs. | |
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Faux Affably Evil | |
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Faux Affably Evil: The Splund. He cheerfully threatens to eat Boni and Drut and laughs maniacally as they become increasingly frightened from him doing so and teleporting around the kitchen. | |
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Creepy Basement | |
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Creepy Basement: The trope the series is built around. Whatever is below the trap door is seriously creepy and it is full of monsters. | |
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The Trap Door / int_95be648c | |
The Trap Door / int_973291cd | type |
Pardon My Klingon | |
The Trap Door / int_973291cd | comment |
Pardon My Klingon: "Globbits!" "Great Grumfuttoks Tusks!" | |
The Trap Door / int_973291cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door / int_973291cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_973291cd | |
The Trap Door / int_9be7c205 | type |
Giant Spider | |
The Trap Door / int_9be7c205 | comment |
Giant Spider: The monster in "Creepy Crawlies" is a huge black spider bigger than Berk. In "The Thingy", the monster briefly turns Berk's pet spider gigantic. | |
The Trap Door / int_9be7c205 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door / int_9be7c205 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_9be7c205 | |
The Trap Door / int_9d0bd3f0 | type |
Eye Spy | |
The Trap Door / int_9d0bd3f0 | comment |
Eye Spy: The Thing's eyes still function when they're detached. | |
The Trap Door / int_9d0bd3f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door / int_9d0bd3f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_9d0bd3f0 | |
The Trap Door / int_a9de87d2 | type |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
The Trap Door / int_a9de87d2 | comment |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: A good few of the monsters actually find out the hard way not to mess with Berk. Rogg also deals with some rather swiftly. In "The Midnight Snack" he actually wins a four-on-one fight. Pretty impressive. | |
The Trap Door / int_a9de87d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door / int_a9de87d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_a9de87d2 | |
The Trap Door / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
The Trap Door / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Boni. Berk, too, at times. | |
The Trap Door / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_ae3d6438 | |
The Trap Door / int_b01abe4f | type |
Catchphrase | |
The Trap Door / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: "Oh Globbits!" "It's bonking time!" | |
The Trap Door / int_b01abe4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door / int_b01abe4f | featureConfidence |
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The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_b01abe4f | |
The Trap Door / int_b3c0ed0c | type |
Spoof Aesop | |
The Trap Door / int_b3c0ed0c | comment |
Spoof Aesop: "If you've got a problem, stuff a worm in it." "The moral of this story is 'don't mess with Berk and don't sing like Boni'". | |
The Trap Door / int_b3c0ed0c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_b3c0ed0c | |
The Trap Door / int_b58b7975 | type |
Kindhearted Simpleton | |
The Trap Door / int_b58b7975 | comment |
Kindhearted Simpleton: Rogg is one of the friendlier creatures to come out of the trap door. It may come from the fact he is a complete ditz. | |
The Trap Door / int_b58b7975 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_b58b7975 | |
The Trap Door / int_b9085a47 | type |
Summon Magic | |
The Trap Door / int_b9085a47 | comment |
Summon Magic: In "Ghoulies", while rummaging around an old room, Berk finds a book of spells and incautiously decides to read one at random, summoning the titular monsters. | |
The Trap Door / int_b9085a47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_b9085a47 | |
The Trap Door / int_b97a2fa7 | type |
Forced Transformation | |
The Trap Door / int_b97a2fa7 | comment |
Forced Transformation: In "The Thingy", the monster starts randomly transforming the characters into various bizarre forms for its own entertainment. | |
The Trap Door / int_b97a2fa7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door / int_b97a2fa7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_b97a2fa7 | |
The Trap Door / int_ba236071 | type |
It Makes Sense in Context | |
The Trap Door / int_ba236071 | comment |
"The moral of this story is 'don't mess with Berk and don't sing like Boni'". | |
The Trap Door / int_ba236071 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_ba236071 | |
The Trap Door / int_bda3d68a | type |
Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu? | |
The Trap Door / int_bda3d68a | comment |
Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In "Junk Food" Rogg gets into the Thing Upstairs' room. 'Im Upstairs was already upset about it ("BERK, WHAT'S THIS?! IT'S NOT EVEN COOKED PROPERLY!"), but Rogg's unthinking comments made the situation worse; | |
The Trap Door / int_bda3d68a | featureApplicability |
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The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_bda3d68a | |
The Trap Door / int_bf1f379a | type |
Sense Freak | |
The Trap Door / int_bf1f379a | comment |
Sense Freak: When a monster from the trap door transforms Boni into a goat-like creature, Boni spends the remainder of the episode running around in his new body and trying to show it off to Berk and Drutt. | |
The Trap Door / int_bf1f379a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_bf1f379a | |
The Trap Door / int_bfc2ec8a | type |
That Makes Me Feel Angry | |
The Trap Door / int_bfc2ec8a | comment |
That Makes Me Feel Angry: Rogg is prone to this when pushed too far. As seen in the last episode, when The Big Angry Red Thing comes and causes mayhem: | |
The Trap Door / int_bfc2ec8a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_bfc2ec8a | |
The Trap Door / int_c0b66f61 | type |
Invisible Monsters | |
The Trap Door / int_c0b66f61 | comment |
Invisible Monsters: The creature that comes out from the trapdoor in "Gourmet's Delight" is invisible, and can only be tracked by its footprints until Berk splats food all over it and thus renders it visible. | |
The Trap Door / int_c0b66f61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_c0b66f61 | |
The Trap Door / int_c0f2df68 | type |
Cute Creature, Creepy Mouth | |
The Trap Door / int_c0f2df68 | comment |
Cute Creature, Creepy Mouth: The small orange monster Berk fishes out of the trap door while trying to rescue Drutt. It looks and sounds incredibly cute. Then it opens its mouth and reveals a large, sharp set of gnashers. | |
The Trap Door / int_c0f2df68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_c0f2df68 | |
The Trap Door / int_c25f7913 | type |
By the Lights of Their Eyes | |
The Trap Door / int_c25f7913 | comment |
By the Lights of Their Eyes: This was often used for when the characters were in a dark place — like Berk hiding in the room with the mirror to get away from the Big Red Angry Thing in 'Breakfast Time'. It also features heavily in the credits, where it's all we can see of the trap door denizens (and one of them has three). In fact the title animation is actually called "Eyes in the Dark" in the closing credits. | |
The Trap Door / int_c25f7913 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_c25f7913 | |
The Trap Door / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
The Trap Door / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The Thing, after eating his breakfast in "Breakfast Time", declares "Parts of that were excellent!" This is a reference to the Curate's Egg cartoon from Punch!. | |
The Trap Door / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_c75df49a | |
The Trap Door / int_d7512543 | type |
Friendly Neighborhood Spider | |
The Trap Door / int_d7512543 | comment |
Friendly Neighborhood Spider: Drutt, Berk and Boni's pet spider. Besides one time where they morphed into a frightening Giant Spider that nearly ate Berk in "Nasty Stuff", they generally gets on well with their companions. | |
The Trap Door / int_d7512543 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door / int_d7512543 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_d7512543 | |
The Trap Door / int_d7fc9fd0 | type |
Vitriolic Best Buds | |
The Trap Door / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: Berk and Boni. Berk also ends up one to the obliviously friendly Rogg, though seems to lighten up by Season Two. Point in case: To be fair, Rogg had just knocked Berk out of a window. Well above the ground floor. | |
The Trap Door / int_d7fc9fd0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_d7fc9fd0 | |
The Trap Door / int_d99a228f | type |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
The Trap Door / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Some of the horrors Berk and the others meet are treated in a light-hearted manner. Though granted they do deal with them on a very regular basis. | |
The Trap Door / int_d99a228f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_d99a228f | |
The Trap Door / int_e1f59bf0 | type |
Musical Episode | |
The Trap Door / int_e1f59bf0 | comment |
Musical Episode: An entire episode was dedicated to an extended version of the theme tune. Aptly named Don't You Open That Trap Door, which is the first lyric of the theme song. | |
The Trap Door / int_e1f59bf0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door / int_e1f59bf0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_e1f59bf0 | |
The Trap Door / int_e2d457 | type |
The Ditz | |
The Trap Door / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: Berk has moments of inspiration, but is a fairly careless guy. | |
The Trap Door / int_e2d457 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door / int_e2d457 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_e2d457 | |
The Trap Door / int_ea85d6ea | type |
All Just a Dream | |
The Trap Door / int_ea85d6ea | comment |
All Just a Dream: 'Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite' and 'Moany Boni' | |
The Trap Door / int_ea85d6ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door / int_ea85d6ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_ea85d6ea | |
The Trap Door / int_eb8ec7c8 | type |
Jerkass | |
The Trap Door / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Bubo, one of the few recurring monsters in the series, is this; revelling in causing chaos and taunting everyone when they unsuccessfully try to stop him. It's a wonder Berk never tried feeding him to 'Im upstairs. | |
The Trap Door / int_eb8ec7c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_eb8ec7c8 | |
The Trap Door / int_ebfaf704 | type |
Scary Stinging Swarm | |
The Trap Door / int_ebfaf704 | comment |
Scary Stinging Swarm: In "Food for Thort", a swarm of hornet-like monsters get into the castle. One gives Berk a sting, leaving a yellow welt, and he feeds them to Thort, a plant monster from the Thing Upstairs's garden. | |
The Trap Door / int_ebfaf704 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_ebfaf704 | |
The Trap Door / int_f0089082 | type |
Early-Bird Cameo | |
The Trap Door / int_f0089082 | comment |
Early-Bird Cameo: A few monsters, such as The Splund, cameo in the episode "Don't Open That Trap Door", before getting their own spotlight episode. | |
The Trap Door / int_f0089082 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_f0089082 | |
The Trap Door / int_f05444a4 | type |
Once per Episode | |
The Trap Door / int_f05444a4 | comment |
Once per Episode: The Trap Door unleashes a fearsome monster or several once in every episode. Lampshaded in "The Dose": | |
The Trap Door / int_f05444a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_f05444a4 | |
The Trap Door / int_f3fd818b | type |
Dark Reprise | |
The Trap Door / int_f3fd818b | comment |
Dark Reprise: a slower, sadder version of the theme song plays in the season finales. | |
The Trap Door / int_f3fd818b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door / int_f3fd818b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_f3fd818b | |
The Trap Door / int_f651b980 | type |
Forbidden Zone | |
The Trap Door / int_f651b980 | comment |
Forbidden Zone: The area would seem to be one, being out "somewhere in the dark and nasty reaches, where nobody goes," and for good reason. | |
The Trap Door / int_f651b980 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_f651b980 | |
The Trap Door / int_f9facc81 | type |
Grotesque Cute | |
The Trap Door / int_f9facc81 | comment |
Grotesque Cute: A cute little monster opens his mouth to reveal rows of jagged fangs. | |
The Trap Door / int_f9facc81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
The Trap Door | hasFeature |
The Trap Door / int_f9facc81 | |
The Trap Door / int_fccd06b6 | type |
Beware the Nice Ones | |
The Trap Door / int_fccd06b6 | comment |
Beware the Nice Ones: Although Rogg is generally considered to be one of the nicest and most easygoing characters, he can descend into this if pushed far enough, as seen in 'Junk Food': Amusingly in this case though, it was also subverted in a way: given that immediately afterwards, Rogg stops being angry, wanders over and cheerily waves to Berk from the window, and then speaks to the audience about how much he likes him. Played more straight when Rogg helps deal with any of the monsters from the trap door. Especially so in "Scunge", where he uses the same trick on Bubo after he starts heckling them: | |
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