Pond Life

They don't actually live in a pond.

Pond Life was a British animated television series created by Candy Guard. It ran for two seasons in 1996 and 2000 on Channel 4, and, despite being a cartoon, its target audience was women.

The series revolves around Dolly Pond (hence the title Pond Life) and the trouble she has living in an unnamed cul-de-sac, in a flat below her ex-boyfriend Nobby, with a job at the local shop due to never having gone to college. The worst part? She's in her 30s!

Tropes used in Pond Life include:

• A-Cup Angst: Dolly is often made fun of for her small assets.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Dolly's best friend, Belle.
  • Dolly becomes one herself in the episode Fat.
• Blind Without'Em: Dolly's father.
• Butt Monkey: Dolly
• Casanova Wannabe: Nobby can be this at times.
• Cool Old Lady: Mrs A, the shopkeeper.
• Deadpan Snarker: Dolly
• Everyone Looks Sexier If French: The episode Good-Looking Boyfriend introduced two French characters, Didier and Michelle, whom every other character perceived as being drop-dead gorgeous.
• Eye Glasses: Dolly never takes her glasses off.
  • The only episode where she does is Fit, although even then we never see her face.
• First Name Ultimatum: Nobby gets this a lot.
• Groin Attack: Dolly's father gets this in Bitter and Twisted.
• Mistaken for Gay: In Bitter and Twisted, when Dolly's therapist stands outside her flat serenading her, one of the other characters enters and mistakes Dolly and the Therapist for being a lesbian couple.

Gloria: Dolly! I never would've thought... a woman!

• Mistaken for Pregnant: A shop assistant does it to Dolly in the episode Birthday Suit.
• My Name Is Not Durwood: When Dolly's mother gets arrested during Birthday Suit, she gets identified as "Fingers Pond".

Ivy Pond: She's delirious, my name's Ivy!

• You're Just Jealous: In the episode Mr Wrong, Nobby says this to Dolly.