Alvin and the Chipmunks (1998 Paramount TV series)/Tropes

Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated television series featuring The Chipmunks, produced by Bagdasarian Productions in association with Paramount Television Animation. It was the first incarnation of The Chipmunks to be presented in Dolby Surround.

It aired on CBS and Nickelodeon (despite that Nickelodeon Animation Studios was not being involved with the show's production) from May 7, 1998 to April 18, 2005.

General

 * Animation Bump: The episodes animated by TMS, Rough Draft Korea and Wang Film Productions.
 * Also, the Halloween specials (in a similar manner to The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror) were animated by PTA's Canadian subsidary for the first one.
 * Art Evolution: The show started off with Disney style-animation. But by the third season, the animation started to take a noticable downgrade in quality throughout the end of the series run.
 * Cerebus Syndrome: The episodes started off the same as the later Ruby-Spears episodes, but the writing quality got better and the plots began to be more serious, realistic, and story-driven.
 * Character Development:
 * Clip Show: A Chipmunk Clip Show
 * Deranged Animation: The Chipmunks and Chipettes' dream sequences in Cartoonland brings back memories to Fleischer cartoons of the late 20s to the early 30s.
 * Downer Ending:
 * Flashback with the Other Darrin:
 * Future Me Scares Me: The 60s Chipmunks and 60s Dave meeting up with the modern Chipmunks and modern Dave in the episode, Blast From The Past.
 * Off-Model: 
 * Recycled Script: A few Chipmunks musical segments, such as "Swanee River" and "Chipmunk Fun", were inserted into the half-hour episodes of the series.
 * Also, the two latter segments featuring Sam Valiant are "Sam Valiant, Real Estate" and "Dude Ranch", but were extended to 22 minutes.
 * Recycled Soundtrack: Many episodes have cues reused from the 1987 film The Chipmunk Adventure and the MWS/DiC episodes of Alvin and the Chipmunks.
 * Stock Footage:
 * Vocal Evolution: Tom Kenny's voice started out as rough for Sam Valiant, but noticeably got better by the end of the series' run.
 * We Need A Distraction:
 * Who Writes This Crap?!:

Trivia

 * Cross-Dressing Voices: Janice Karman as Theodore.
 * Keep Circulating the Tapes:
 * The Other Darrin: Brian Cummings took over as Clyde Crashcup after Shepard Menken's death in 1999.
 * Talking to Himself:

YMMV

 * Awesome Music:
 * Fanon:
 * Growing the Beard:
 * Harsher in Hindsight:
 * Hilarious in Hindsight:
 * Narm:
 * Nightmare Fuel:
 * Screwed by the Network:
 * Shipping: