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This is a show about two beavers, Norbert and Daggett, who are brothers and share a home. Norb is actually relatively easy-going (or was early on), and Daggett is the angry one.
This is a Two Shorts [[Animated Show]] which aired on [[Nickelodeon]]. [[Hilarity Ensues]] there regularly, often in a highly absurd way crammed full of dialogue both fantastically witty and ridiculously dim.
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Perhaps the only cartoon in the universe in which a clock on the wall visible in most episodes ''[[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|updates in real time]]''.
Recaps of the show can be found [[The Angry Beavers
Now has a growing [[The Angry Beavers
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▲* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Norbert, Daggett, Trucky, Stump, Treeflower, and Bing. And Barry.
* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: Norbert at the start of the series.
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: The Raccoon Girls.
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Daggett.
* [[Art Shift]]: Everyone's addition to the campfire story in ''Pass It On''. Norb's version is a [[James Bond|Bond-esque]] spy thriller. Barry does the story over as a '70s exploitation movie. Bing's is just a series of doodles running around frantically. Stump's version is a letterboxed black-and-white drama with Scottish accents. Treeflower's is a [[Magical Girl]] anime. And Dag's is just all the different styles floating in a white void.
* [[Attack of the 50
* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: [[There's No B in Movie|Oxnard Montalvo]] and all his co-stars. Also Daggett, Barry, and Bing when the beavers complete a '[[Missing Episode|lost film]]' of his.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Norbert doesn't like having his hair messed with.
** Both beavers get annoyed whenever they are mistakenly identified as weasels.
* [[Bigger Than Jesus]]: In ''Beaver Fever'', the beavers become [[One
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Yahoo for Yoo-hoo. Also Ho-Humms snack cakes.
* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Both beavers used the word "thingy" repeatedly. One of the episodes is actually titled "Big Round Sticky Fish Thingy".
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Dagget tends to suffer a lot throughout episodes. Eventually it catches up to Norb as well.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: Norbert and his brother Daggett are always arguing, bickering, fighting with each other.
* [[The Cameo]]: The Beavers obtain a box of movie masks, one of them is [[Hey Arnold!|Helga Pataki]]
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: ''Canucks Amuck''
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Daggett claims [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|Big Byoo-tox]] is teaching him how to hide; Norbert, of course, doesn't believe a word of it. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Norbert turns out to be correct]], since it wasn't Big Byoo-tox, just a big, hairy, naked Canadian.}}
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Daggett: That was ''nuts''!, Norbert: ''BIIIG'' Hug!
** And the [[Unusual Euphemism]] "spoot," which is something of a joint catchphrase for the two.
* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: In "Tree of Hearts," the brothers receive an announcement in the mail about the birth of [[Richard Steven Horvitz]]'s son, Jack:
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'''Norbert:''' I think so.
'''Daggett:''' Who's Richard Horvitz?
'''Norbert:''' Nobody. }}
* [[Chased
* [[Chaste Toons]]: Averted. In the first episode, we see Norbert and Daggett's pregnant mother. Not even a minute after her introduction, she goes off-screen to give birth to their little sisters.
** Averted in "Big Round Sticky Fish Thingy", where the brothers witness a rare sticky sturgeon lay an egg. {{spoiler|Towards the end of the episode, a fully formed baby sturgeon comes out. Well, it's not like they could show a male fertilizing the undeveloped egg...}}
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* [[Credits Gag]]: Many of the staff got goofy nicknames.
* [[Cryptid Episode]]: Daggett meets "Big Byoo-tocks".
* [[Desperately Looking for
* [[Different As Night and Day]]: The brothers each have their own special traits, this eventually passed down to their younger sisters.
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: Norbert and Treeflower's duet in ''Bummer of Love''.
* [[Do
* [[Ending Theme]]: An organ theme, still upbeat but noticeably different in tone from the brassy opening theme.
* [[Episode Title Card]]: Each card is accompanied by the recurring theme and an illustration. A few episodes lack the title card sequence.
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* [[Funny Afro]]: Daggett has one in ''Beaver Fever'' after he and Norb become disco stars. It's later confiscated when they fail to fulfill their recording contract.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]
** ''Slap Happy'', where beaver tail slapping (which is [[Shown Their Work|something beavers actually do in real life to warn others of danger]]) and the discussion on not abusing it comes off more as a metaphor for [[A Date
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'''Norbert's Dad''': Ease up, Norb, I heard you slapping before you left home! You used to do it in the bathtub ''all'' the time!
'''Norbert''': I was just washing my tail, I swear! }}
** The name of the series itself.
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** The incidental musical bits accompanying Barry Bear are reminiscent of Barry White's music, which are very, ''very'' sensuous (particularly "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe").
** Daggett calls Norbert "weasel weenie" on the first episode.
* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: Norbert's helmet in "Muscular Beaver 2" either falls off him before sustaining a head injury or just fails to protect his head at all.
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''Norbert throws the helmet which in turn [[Subverted Trope|hits the giant splinter monster and knocks it down a deep abandoned mine shaft]].'' }}
* [[Gonk]]: The vast majority of the human cast looks downright hideous.
* [[A Good Name for
* [[Got Me Doing It]]: In ''My Bunnyguard'', both Daggett and Norbert end up copying Big Rabbit's Brooklyn accent.
* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: El Grapadura, with Norb translating. The episode ''Norberto y Daggetto en El Grapadura y el Castor Malo'' is ''entirely'' in Spanish, with English subtitles.
* [[Gross
* [[Gross Up Close
* [[Halloween Episode]]: The Day the World Got Really Screwed Up!
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Parodied with Baron Once-Bad-Then-Good-Then-Bad-Again-Then Good-And-Now-Something-That's-Neither Beaver, Norb's reluctant nemesis/sidekick to Dag's Muscular Beaver.
* [[Hollywood Science]]: Anything those two scientists cook up.
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* [[Hot Amazon]]: The Girl Raccoons from "The Mighty Knothead"
* [[I Am Not Weasel]]
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* [[Instrumental Theme Tune]]
* [[Insult Misfire]]: When their sisters are spending the day, Dag and Norb start arguing about how to look after them, Dag with planning and a chart, Norb with a "let them run free" attitude. Dag eventually does this:
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* [[It's Always Spring]]: Most episodes seem to be set in early spring, with little patches of snow strewn about.
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Stump has a crush on his cousin Vanity, who was carved into a, well, vanity. At a family reunion, they overcome the objections of her brother Butch (a butcher's table) and get together.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Both brothers. And many other characters. [[World of Ham|Pretty much everyone actually]].
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]
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* [[Leitmotif]]: For a few characters, including Barry, Treeflower, Bing, and El Grapadura.
* [[Masked Luchador]]: El Grapadura ([[Gratuitous Spanish]] [[Played for Laughs]]; this really means "Hard Staple", and it also [[Mondegreen|sounds similar]] to "grapadora", which is Spanish for "Stapler").
* [[Matchlight Danger Revelation]]: You never actually get to see from Dag's point of view, but when Dag spies on Norb in ''Gonna Getcha'' from under the floorboards, he keeps noticing bugs and shoving them out the spyhole, until he finally decides to light a match and see where the bugs are coming from.
* [[The Moving Experience]]: "Pack Your Dags"
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* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: An entire episode revolves around this trope after the brothers lose all their fur (minus their head fur) after Dag's misshap with an extremely complicated magical spell book.
* [[Negative Continuity]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: ''Lumberjack's Delight'', where after exhausting every other option, Norb decides the only way to save the forest and get rid of the Lumberjacks is via a competition. A tree felling competition. Norb wins, but realizes that in the process, they've felled the entire forest, which the Lumberjacks gladly take with them.
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* [[No Dialogue Episode]]: ''Silent But Deadly'', justified in that the beavers have woken up with their bedroom infested with sleeping beaver-eating wolverines. The only real line of dialogue in the episode is thought, as they don't want to risk waking them up by talking.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: ''Bye Bye Beavers'' tears it to pieces.
* [[Non
* [[Noodle Incident]]: In the episode "Slap Happy", the Beavers' father claims that the story of Slap Johnson was made up by their mother because she never forgave him for the bachelor party that was thrown. Slap merely says, "It's okay, it was worth it."
* [[One
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: In ''Spookyspoots'', the dam is inexplicably haunted by good, friendly ghosts who cater to the brothers' every whim and let them use portals to teleport around the house. Dag and Norb are quite fond of the ghosts, until the two annoying scientists show up to exorcise the ghosts against Dag and Norb's wishes. They then team up with the ghosts to get rid of the scientists.
* [[Out
* [[Paranoia Gambit]]: Norbert uses this in ''Gonna Getcha''. {{spoiler|of course, as soon as Norbert explains he was using this, he then proceeds to actually get Daggett back anyways}}.
* [[Parental Favoritism]]: Both of the brothers' parents apparently favor Daggett. Norbert is far from [[The Unfavourite]], but he visibly loses his cool whenever Dag's getting pampered.
* [[Potty Emergency]]: Dag's part of ''Too Loose Latrine''.
* [[Prank Call]]: In the episode "Up All Night", Daggett tries to make a prank call. Not only does he botch the delivery, he accidentally calls his mom.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Daggett and Norbert.
* [[The Renaissance Age of Animation]]
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* The Seventies: Tends to pop up occasionally, whether through the music, fashion, or Barry Bear. And it's so well done, it doesn't seem at all out of place. In fact, it ''adds'' to the show's charm.
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: "Pass It On"
* [[Shout
** Barry the Bear's doorbell is [[
*** And Treeflower's doorbell is "In A Gadda Da Vida".
** Norb also does the [[Star Trek|Captain Kirk]] voice. Quite a few times.
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** Norb carves a statue of Treeflower looking like Princess Leah in one episode.
** The "cyclops" in "Friends, Romans, Beavers!" is one big shout-out to [[Ray Harryhausen]], between being a Roman monster and his unusually abrupt manner of moving to mimic stop-motion animation.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Every once in a while something that is in fact true about real-life beavers is thrown at you, like the already mentioned [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Tail-Slapping]].
** The third eyelids mentioned in the [[Staring Contest]] and the "Slave-for-a-day" episodes on the other hand do exist: they're the "nictating membrane" and the primary function in beavers is to protect the eyes while they are diving underwater.
** The fact that a beaver's front teeth do indeed continue growing throughout their lives is true. And, yes, beavers do need to constantly chew on things to wear the teeth down, or else their teeth really ''will'' grow through their skulls and kill them.
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* [[Stupid Scientist]]: Two of em!
* [[Stylistic Self Parody]]: A throwaway line in ''Slap Happy'':
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** [[The Fairly
* [[Stylistic Suck]]: The beavers love terrible B-movies. They even make one.
** And yet [[Animation Bump]]. The movies in question are drawn much more realistically than the rest of the show.
* [[Sudden Anatomy]]: The beavers only have webbed toes when swimming.
* [[Superhero Episode]]: Dag deludes himself into thinking he's a superhero, with awesome tools like the ''Cloak of Near-Invisibility''("it's just nearly visible!")
** Also, the dramatic score playing as the camera pans up to reveal Dag standing atop a cliff overlooking the forest seems [[Batman (
** Everyone gets in on it in one episode. And Bing shows up a few times as "Most Potent Bug".
* [[Suspiciously Similar Song]]: The show's soundtrack is practically a "Best of". One example is an instrumental that sounds like the beginning of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E9XUkoJH5I Andy Williams' song, "Can't Get Used to Losing You"].
* [[The Talk]]: "The salmon are ''spawning''?!"
** But of course! {{smallcaps|[[Fun
* [[Taxonomic Term Confusion]]: One episode incorrectly refers to rabbits as rodents, when in reality they are of the lagomorph, not rodent, order.
** Of course, in that same episode ("Long in the Teeth"), it shows all sorts of animals growing giant teeth, including, IIRC, ''a frog and a deer''. So perhaps their grasp of taxonomy should be taken with a good heapin' pinch of salt.
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