Kratts' Creatures

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Kratts' Creatures is a 1994 educational children's series hosted by Chris and Martin Kratt. In this show, the Kratt brothers travel around the world and teach children about the world of animals, with help from a fifteen year old girl named Allison and an animated anthropomorphic animal named Ttark.

It was followed by an unofficial spin-off for preschoolers called Zoboomafoo in 1999, and an animated series called Wild Kratts in 2011.

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Tropes

• Amusing Injuries: Usually happens to the brothers.
  • The most notable episode to involve this trope is "The Great Defenders".
  • And then there was the one where Allison is trying to fix her computer system, gets it working, and bangs her head on the underside of the desk.

Allison: Hey, I knew I could get it working if I just used my head! (Beat) Ow.

• As Himself: Chris and Martin.
• Cartoon Creature: Ttark.
• Catch Phrase: "Abso-tively" from Ttark.
  • "FOOTNOTES!"
• Clip Art Animation: The brief animated cutaway shots.
• Deadpan Snarker: Ttark, most of the time.
• Edutainment Show
• Everything's Better with Monkeys: "Pan Trogiodytes: An In-depth Analysis" and "Mgobo of Baboon Mountain".
• Foil: Allison and Ttark.
• Funny Animal: Ttark.
• Grand Finale: "Around Africa in Eighty Hours".
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Ttark is voiced by Ron Rubin, who also voices Artemis and Morph (and Krusha).
• In-Series Nickname: "Al" (Allison).
• Kid Sidekick: Allison.
• Land Down Under: "Around Australia in Eight Days".
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: Ttark's "[Verb]ing [animal]s!", with Added Alliterative Appeal included.
• Magical Computer: Allison owns a computer that she can use to look for animal facts.
• Medium Blending: Ttark, who appears via TV to Allison and the Kratts.
  • Also, episodes have certain cutaway shots that are made using cutout animation.
• Mix and Match Critter: Ttark.
• Pantomime Animal: Both parodied and deconstructed in "Wild Ponies!". The brothers dress up as a brown stallion in order to go and meet the horses, but it gets worse when a real brown stallion neighs at them ferociously making them run away and destroy their horse costume.
• "Previously On...": In some episodes.
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: According to Word of God, Ttark is as old as the earth itself.
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Often used by Ttark.
• Sdrawkcab Name: Ttark.
• Series Mascot: Ttark.
• She's Got Legs: Allison has been a subject of this.
• Shout-Out:
  • Some episode titles are these to movie titles, for example, "Around Australia in Eight Days" and "Around Africa in Eighty Hours".
  • At one point, in "Weird Creatures", Chris imitates Scotty from Star Trek.
• Sibling Team
• Stock Footage: Most of the cutout animated cutaway shots.
• Teen Genius: Allison.
• That Came Out Wrong: Happens at one point in "In Search of the Tasmanian Tiger".

Allison: It says here it took them a number of dogs...a number of dogs? Sorry, I read that wrong. It took them a number of days to even get near the Tasmanian tiger. That makes more sense, because dogs like dingos have absolutely nothing to do with Tasmania.

• Unsound Effect: Often used by Ttark.
• Unusual Euphemism / Eureka Moment: Ttark's exclamations of "Colliding Camels!", "Grazing Gazelles!", "Hopping Hadrosaurus!", etc.
• Voice Changeling: Ttark, again. For example:

"This time, I'm not as angry. This time, (deeper voice) IT'S PERSONAL!"

• Voice with an Internet Connection: Basically the purpose of Allison, except she had a Magical Database rather than the Internet. And she could somehow follow the brothers' adventures on a monitor even though they were explicitly not being followed by a camera crew in-universe. And the footage was edited in spite of it supposedly being live.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Ttark is prone to this.