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The Triplets

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The Triplets (original title in Catalan Les tres bessones, in Spanish Las tres mellizas) is a Catalan animated series created by Roser Capdevila and produced by Cromosoma and Televisió de Catalunya. Its original run lasted from 1996 to 2003.The main characters are the titular triplets, Anna, Teresa and Helena, who get punished by The Bored Witch ("La Bruixa Avorrida"), their day sitter whenever she catches them making mischief. Her method of punishment is to send them into a popular tale where they would have to help the protagonists to get out of it and learn their lesson.Due to the success of The Triplets, the Bored Witch got her own short-lived spinoff series called La Bruixa Avorrida or The Bored Witch.
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Same-Sex Triplets
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Same-Sex Triplets: Anna, Teresa and Helena.
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Talking Animal
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Talking Animal: The witch's pet owl, who often acts as The Conscience for her.
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Wizard Duel
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Wizard Duel: The Bored Witch loses one against the Man of Mayapan, who keeps turning her into a statue because she wastes time in verbally insulting him rather than fighting back.
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Palette Swap
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Palette Swap: While it's justified due to them being identical triplets, Anna, Helena, and Teresa look exactly the same other than different-colored shirts and hair bows.
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Anachronism Stew
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Anachronism Stew: Mostly Played for Laughs. Could you imagine Ali Baba's forty thieves getting distracted by a camel race on TV or Dr. Frankenstein working as a veterinarian? Well, those two happened on this show.
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Funny Background Event: The show features a trio of mice whose role more or less boils down to this. They can often be seen humorously re-enacting scenes from the various stories, but don't really have much significance beyond that.
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Massive Multiplayer Crossover
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Massive Multiplayer Crossover: The episode that adapts Around the World in Eighty Days has guest appearances of characters from many other stories, whom The Triplets already encountered in previous episodes based on those stories.
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Distaff Counterpart
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Distaff Counterpart: An episode reveals there are three male triplets who are punished by a character named the Tired Warlock.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: The Bored Witch is horrified when she sees Pinocchio and several other children turned into donkeys and kidnapped, and genuinely hopes the girls would save them (she only intervenes personally at the very end, though). The Bored Witch often teams up with other villains to prevent the Triplets progress, but even she despises the idea of working with an evil toymaker who wants to force Santa into delivering violent toys.
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Bittersweet Ending: The Little Mermaid episode maintains the bittersweet ending of the original book with the titular mermaid deciding to spare the prince's life at the last moment, giving up her only chance to return to the sea and regain her mermaid form, choosing to die instead. However, her sacrifice earns her a place in the afterlife as the daughters of the air carry her to heaven, where she becomes a bright star.
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: The Bored Witch is this and sometimes her pet Owl Buho
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Fat Bastard
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Fat Bastard: The Bored Witch is quite rotund and not any less nasty.
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Chromatic Arrangement
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Chromatic Arrangement/Color-Coded Characters/Identical Twin ID Tag: Each of the triplets has a specific color for her ribbon and the shirt she wears under their overalls: pink for Teresa, blue for Anna and green for Helena.
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Eviler than Thou
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Eviler than Thou: The Queen of Night towards the Bored Witch.
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Friendly Enemy
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Friendly Enemy: Half of the time. Even though the Bored Witch sends the Triplets to fairytales when they misbehave, on the rare instances the kids are in actual danger she either rescues them or looks genuinely worried about them.
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Really 700 Years Old
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Really 700 Years Old: The final episode has the Bored Witch celebrating her 700th birthday.
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Big Eater: Helena, whose love for food and sweets in particular sometimes means trouble for the triplets.
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Fractured Fairy Tale
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Fractured Fairy Tale: Some of the episodes are parodies of the fairytales. For example, the cinderella one has the twist that the titular protagonist married a broke prince from the start.
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Christmas Episode
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Christmas Episode: Episode 56, "Santa Claus", where the girls help Santa Claus to prevent a toymaker to arrive at his factory with the intention of enforcing Santa into delivering his warfare-themed toys.
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Unishment: The girls consider the Bored Witch punishments as these, as while they ultimately learn an aesop, it allows them to visit the worlds of fairytales and interact with the characters of said stories. Sometimes they even provoke the Bored Witch by misbehaving on purpose so she can have an excuse to punish them. In the finale episode, the witch discovers the girls purposely planning to get in trouble in order to draw her attention and decides to not punish them anymore.
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Breakout Villain
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Breakout Villain: The Bored Witch was popular enough to land her own Spin-Off.
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Adaptational Nice Guy: In the episode adapting Oliver Twist, Fagin is changed from a shady guy that only takes in Oliver to make him part of his gang of young thieves to a wealthy man that adopts Oliver after saving him from Sikes.
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Ambiguously Evil: Technically she's the villain of the show, but the Bored Witch's level of antagonism to the Triplets varies heavily Depending on the Writer. The official purpose of her punishments to the triplets is to make them learn their lessons, and accordingly, she sometimes worries whenever the girls are under too much danger, and always keeps her word of bringing them back when the tale reaches its ending. On the other hand, she doesn't play fair and instead actively hinders the Triplets, not being above teaming up with the Villain of the Week from time to time to do so, and sometimes comes up with evil schemes that would have very deadly results for the Triplets if successful. Averted in her spin-off, however, where she is straight-up good.
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Aesop Enforcer
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Aesop Enforcer: The Bored Witch always punishes the Triplets by sending them to stories so they learn their lesson.
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"Blind Idiot" Translation: The Spanish dub title is a literal translation from its original Catalan language. "Les Tres Bessones" translates to "Las Tres Mellizas" (The Three Twins) which refers to two set of twins rather than one set of triplets. In fact, there is a simple spanish word for triplets: "Trillizas".
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Tickle Torture: Used twice. The episode about Oliver Twist has Oliver tortured this way by Sykes for information about a stolen clock. In the episode about Robinson Crusoe the three protagonists themselves are tickled by a group of natives before Robinson rescues them.
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Circus Episode
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Circus Episode: Episoded 57, "In the Circus".
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Expository Theme Tune: One of the lines from the theme tune perfectly sums up the whole concept: "If the witch punishes us, there's another story to tell."
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Setting Update: The adaptation of The Adventures of Pinocchio has cars rather than wagons.
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Must Have Caffeine
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Must Have Caffeine: The owl needs coffee to stay awake during the day.
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Cool and Unusual Punishment
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Cool and Unusual Punishment: As mentioned, the favorite method of the Bored Witch to punish the triplets is to make them live out a tale.
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Black Bead Eyes: Much of the cast has eyes like this. Occasionally, though, there's some with Black Dot Pupils, like the Bored Witch whenever shocked.
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Public Domain Stories
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Public Domain Stories: Most episodes were based on one. During the series' run the triplets found themselves in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Don Quixote, The Bremen Town Musicians and Sleeping Beauty to name a few.
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In the Italian dub, Anna and Teresa keep their original names, but Helena is changed to its Italian equivalent "Elena", with the stress on the first syllable.
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Lighter and Softer: The episodes either severely tone down or entirely remove any violence or other dark elements from the stories they adapt to keep it child-friendly.
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Continuity Snarl
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Continuity Snarl: The Bored Witch covers her hair with a purple headscarf, but whenever she removes it, depending on the episode, she is either blonde or a brunette.
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Dub Name Change: For the English dub, Anna, Teresa and Helena were renamed Annie, Tessa and Nellie respectively. In Dutch the triplets are known as Anna, Tessa and Heleen. In the Italian dub, Anna and Teresa keep their original names, but Helena is changed to its Italian equivalent "Elena", with the stress on the first syllable. The Bored Witch was known as Camomille in the French dub.
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Unexplained Recovery
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Unexplained Recovery: Despite dying at the end of her episode, the Little Mermaid attends the Bored Witch's 700th birthday party in the finale.
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Blue-and-Orange Morality
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Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Witch's can come across as this the way she is written, as in some episodes she abhors any real danger for the Triplets and only wants them to learn, while in other occasions she doesn't care whether they survive her lessons and even outright attempts to murder them in convoluted, Bond villain-esque ways.
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Exact Words: When the Triplets and Raoul from The Phantom of the Opera fall on a pit of gunpowder, the Bored Witch maliciously promises to neutralize the gunpowder with water. She then completely fills the pit with water in an attempt to drown them.
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His Name Really Is "Barkeep"
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His Name Really Is "Barkeep": It is explicitly mentioned that the Bored Witch's first name really is Bored.
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Ridiculously Cute Critter: The three mice that always accompanied the triplets, and could often be seen parodying a scene from the tale of the week.
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