I Want My Potty! (Little Princess)

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Shout-Out: In "I Don't Want to Comb My Hair", when the Admiral thinks a comb is a fish that's been mutilated by a sea monster, a bit of the Jaws theme plays. Not Allowed to Grow Up: Zigzagged. The Princess stays four, while her brother (who does not appear in the show) seems to have aged two years. Inelegant Blubbering: Whenever the Princess or her baby cousin cries, they'll usually be sobbing and have loud, impeded speech, although occasionally, the Princess cries silently when she's in a more sulky mood.

The Little Princess hates nappies, and thinks there must be something better. At first she thinks the Royal potty is even worse - but she soon learns to love it, even if it isn't always there exactly when she needs it.Animated Adaptation: "I Want My Potty" was the first book of the series and came first, and the TV series came much later. This book is ideal for younger children learning how to use the potty and go to the toilet independently. The book allows the reader to use a variety of voices and actions to match the desperate staff and residents of the castle to rush to the princess in time. After Liverpool College of Art, Tony became an art director at an Advertising Agency but after a particularly bad day in the office he gave up his job to go into teaching at Manchester Polytechnic. Innocently Insensitive: When the Princess wants to win at a game and tests the adults with board games, she asks them which game they want to "lose at".

Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The episode titles are usually in first person POV. For example, "I Want My Potty". The show seems to favor this a bit less the longer it goes on. The first episode to break format is the eighteenth, "What's Wrong with Gilbert?" This is followed with "Maid's Day Off?" as the twenty-second episode and "Can I Keep It?" as the twenty-third. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. I Don't Want Nits" ends with Puss and several of the adults scratching themselves. It's unclear whether the humans caught the Princess's lice and Puss caught Scruff's fleas, or if they're imagining an itch due to their already-established fear of the insects. At the end, it's rendered moot, since they get shampooed anyway. Everyone Knew Already: In "I Want to Play Hide and Seek," Princess is highly impressed at herself for finding a dusty, cobwebby storage closet and nobody thinking to look in there to find her. She's so impressed that she decides she's going to make it into her special "secret room." It later turns out that pretty much everyone in the castle already did know about the room, it's just that they didn't think to look for her there the first time because they didn't think she would want to hide in such a dismal, dusty room.

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At the end of "I Don't Want a Cold", the Princess is happy, yet the adults might have caught her cold and the picnic is off. Nearly Normal Animal: Little Princess's cat, Puss, looks like a cat, pretty much behaves like a cat and can't talk or anything. However, he sometimes reacts as if he understands stuff that the humans are saying or doing. Also, he is sometimes shown doing stuff like holding popcorn and giggling while Scruff is getting a bath, or dressing up as a cat burglar to try to swipe Little Princess's tadpole. Somewhere between a Mostly Normal Animal and a Largely Normal Animal, though exactly where on the Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism, it's hard to pin down exactly. Scruff occasionally shows shades of this as well, but his general behavior is much closer to that of garden-variety dog than Puss's is that of a cat. Nappies are YUUECH! said the Little Princess. There must be something better! At first, the Little Princess thinks the royal potty is even worse, but she soon learns to love it... even if it isn't always there when she needs it! Literal-Minded: When the Princess is told she's in charge of combing, she thinks that she's in charge of combing everyone's hair. Pan from the Sky" Beginning: One episode begins in the sky with a closeup of the flag and the narrator notes, "The flag's up; that means the family is at home".

I had learnt to talk, walk and read before I had been potty-trained and I think my parents gave me this in hopes of me understanding why I was to use the potty. Serious Business: The Princess takes everything she dislikes (new shoes, dance class etc) very seriously. In "I Didn't Do It", the Princess spills some water on the ground. The adults see it and think Scruff peed on the floor. Eek, a Mouse!!: In "I Want a Sleepover" when the "dragon" that Algie and Little Princess discover actually turns out to be a family of mice, Maid screams as if there actually is a dragon. Puss also seems to be startled when the mice pull funny faces.

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Getting Ready for Bed" Plot: Despite the title, "I Don't Want to Go to Bed" is not an example of the trope because it focuses more on the Princess when she's already in bed. There are, however, two stories that play this trope straight. In "I Want to Be a Detective", Scruff eats some biscuits the Princess made and she thinks Puss did it. Friendly Pirate: In "I Want to Be a Pirate", the Princess becomes a pirate and is just as genial as normal, if a bit mischievous. Creative Closing Credits: In "I Want to be a Cavegirl," the instrumental of the show theme used in the closing credits has the cavegirl drumbeat heard within the episode mixed into it. Not Listening to Me, Are You?: In "I Want a Trumpet," when the King becomes absorbed in a music box with a little toy that plays a trumpet, Little Princess says that she wants a trumpet too, but the King doesn't even hear her, as he's completely absorbed in the music box. So she asks him "Can I have lots of ice cream... for breakfast?" and he just replies "Whatever you say, poppet." In the next scene, she's not eating ice cream, she's just irritated because she wants a trumpet but doesn't have one.