Sly (Noddy and Friends Character Books)

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Officer Carl Spiffy (played by Dan Redican) is Littleton Falls' senior crossing guard. He is often confident in some suspicious activities. He then retired at the end of the first season. Noddy ( Noddy in Toyland and The Noddy Shop) is a live-action/animated children's television series based on Enid Blyton's children's book series of the same name featuring the animated episodes from Noddy's Toyland Adventures. The show was broadcast from 7 September 1998 to 11 December 1999 and broadcast on TVOntario and CBC Television in Canada. In the 70's stop-motion series, Big Ears was grouchy and sometimes rude around Noddy and the other citizens of Toytown. In one commercial from the 70's, he and Noddy started a fight over Big Ears' new wallpaper. Villain Team-Up: Technically they are this, since they acted separately in the original books. Toyland Adventures onwards they became a double act with all adaptations after keeping it, making for a rare case the trope became the default. Noddy has a bad cold, but Sly and Gobbo persuade him that his medicine Dinah Doll bought will have awful side effects.

Adaptation Name Change: In the 70's stop-motion series, he's called "Mr. Polly" or "Monsieur Polly".Tessie's personality in Toyland Adventures is similar to her book counterpart but is more reasonable but equally naive as Noddy. The American dub gives her a much older sounding voice impling that she has feelings for Noddy. Vocal Dissonance: In Noddy In Toyland, he's given a high pitch male voice while he was voiced by a female in the stop-motion series and Make Way For Noddy. Pet the Dog: According to Make Way For Noddy, goblins have to do at least one good deed per year or their magic powers would be revoked from them. The two, with some expected struggling, manage to get it over with (they get Noddy's kite out of a tree, which they caused in the first place). They do have the occasional other nice moment in this and other adaptations as well. Villain Episode: They are given A Day in the Limelight at times in Make Way For Noddy, some episodes barely even featuring Noddy.

Rox (played by Lauren Collins) is a girl who, along with Grit, challenged Kate and D.J. to a race in Sports Day. Vocal Dissonance: In the 1974 vinyl album "Noddy's Magic Holiday", Big Ears has a high-pitched/chipmunkish voice. Gobbo and Sly (voiced by Ben Small in the UK and Don Brown and Doug Parker in the US) are two goblins who serve as the series' antagonists. Gobbo is the more conniving and intelligent one while Sly is the more airheaded and curious of the two members. Noddy (voiced by Martin Skews in the UK and David A. Kaye/Alberto Ghisi in the US) is the protagonist of the series. Noddy is an imaginative wooden boy who lives in Toyland. Although Noddy is characterised as a child, he also serves as the main taxi driver. He sometimes begins nodding uncontrollably, such as after sneezing, and has to physically stop himself from nodding.Adapted Out: In the original books, Mr. Plod wasn't the only police officer in Toytown. As seen in "Hurrah For Little Noddy" there were six other policemen with Mr. Plod scolding the goblins. ◊ In all incarnations, Gobbo is grouchy, stern, and takes his mischief making skill very seriously. In his book debut, he isn't grouchy but described as braver than the goblins and instantly lessons to Mr. Plod asking him where all the cars in ToyTown was hidden in. His yellow car with its red bumpers has been recreated in dozens of different toys spanning several decades. Noddy has lots of friends and all of them feature in the hundreds of TV episodes that have been shown with hardly a break, since 1953.

Villain Decay: While they were always bungling troublemakers to some level, they were more thuggish and creepy in the books and earlier works. Each adaptation gradually made them more into clownish Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains. Deadpan Snarker: In the original books and older animations up till Toyland Adventures, Noddy was prone to making sarcastic comments when he gets very annoyed and upset. Especially around Master Tubby, Martha Monkey, and Bert Monkey. Dinah Doll, a china doll who sells all kinds of everything in the market. She is a later addition, previously written out of the original books. Green and Mean: In the 70's stop-motion series, the goblins had green skin alongside goblins containing orange and red skin. Nice Girl: In Make Way For Noddy she along with Big Ears serve as the voice of reason and help solve Noddy's problems mainly with the goblins.

This show contains the following tropes:

Voiced by: Jimmy Hibbert ( Toyland Adventures), Michael Stark (US Toyland Adventures)A toy elephant that would sometimes accidentally mess stuff up due to his weight. Noddy and Master Tubby Bear want to compete in the flower contest against Tessie Bear and Dinah Doll. They forget to seed their flower, so they take a gigantic one from the town square. Miss Pink Cat must get milk so she can make ice cream in her parlour, but she doesn't know where milk comes from so Noddy helps her. Aunt Agatha's grandson, Itchy, brings his bully friends to the Noddy Shop. Both Grit and Rox want to show up Kate, D.J. and Truman at Sports Day. Parental Substitute: While he isn't Noddy's father. He pretty much helped give Noddy his name in the first book and even gave him some clothes and his signature blue hat ◊.

Dumbass Has a Point: Even in his later more bungling incarnations, Sly has a habit of sometimes pointing out holes in Gobbo's schemes, or making ideas that the latter then passes as his own. Laughably Evil: They are portrayed as this in most of the modern adaptations, while the same can't be said for their original appearances in the earlier Noddy books and the 70s stop-motion series where they were more creepy and unnerving (if still usually punished in a comical way). Disrupto is a robot who appears in "Big Bullies" and "The Human Touch". In the latter episode, it is revealed that he is capable of interacting with a computer. He then appeared in the series finale "Closing Up Shop", where he informs Seymour Polutski that smoking is not permitted in the shop before confiscating the cigar with his left claw and using the new toy Goopy Gary as a trap, prompting Polutski to escape and withdrawing from his proposal.Adaptational Early Appearance: She makes non-speaking cameos in the 1963 "Noddy Goes To Toyland" short alongside appearing in the short's opening credits. She similarly cameos in the first episodes of the 1975 series before she is introduced properly. In Noddy In Toyland, Big Ears makes sporadic appearances and gets the least amount of screen time compared to previous incarnations. French Jerk: In the UK dub of Toyland Adventures and both dubs of Make Way For Noddy, though she's more consistently a French Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Bratty Half-Pint: While not to the level as Master Tubby, in the original books as well as Toyland Adventures he was prone to throwing tantrums when things don't work out well for him, getting scolded by Mr Plod, and other terrible situations he ends up in. In the original books, he would break down in tears as a result of his misfortune.