Sarah Gilbertson often calls out "Mr Pringle, Mr Pringle!" when trying to answer a question or show off her knowledge in class.For example, in "Sheep in the Clover Field", Pat gets out his walking stick he got from Farmer Alf in "Postman Pat's Birthday", and in "Postman Pat's Thirsty Day", he gets a digital watch that Granny Dryden ordered for him from a catalog in "Postman Pat's Tractor Express". Call-Back: Throughout Season 1, there would be little references to previous episodes.Averted with all subsequent revivals, which have brought the series up to over 100 episodes altogether. British Brevity: Both the original 80s series and the 90s revival only lasted one season of 13 episodes each (though with a few individual specials made in between).As Pat can't see to drive, Ted drives him in his lorry and reads the addresses out for Pat. Also played slightly more seriously in the episode Postman Pat in a muddle where his glasses are seemingly broken.Blind Without 'Em: Happens in this Specsavers advert.Big Damn Movie: Postman Pat: The Movie has Pat foiling a plot to Take Over the World with robotic postmen.When Cosgrove Hall took over animation duties after the revival, the character were now animated with properly moving mouths. In terms of the stop-motion, the Woodland-animated episodes had the characters' mouths remain static when they spoke, necessitating the need for a narrator.This only applied to The Movie, however, and later produced episodes of the series returned to the traditional stop-motion format. It's kind of running parallel to the likes of Thomas & Friends, Noddy and Fireman Sam. Art Evolution: From stop-motion models in the early 80s to fully-rendered CGI in 2014.Is a Crapshoot: Pat's copies in the Big Damn Movie. Ageless Birthday Episode: Postman Pat's Birthday sees Pat keeping his birthday a secret, up until he finds out that everyone knows about it, but they wouldn't tell him how!.Later Enfield would make another one with Paul Whitehouse, titled Parking Pattaweyo, starring a mild-mannered (or not) African traffic warden named, well, Pattaweyo.And his black and white cattaweyo.Bonus points for having the same awkward walk and jerky movements of the stop motion animation transferred to the live actors. Harry Enfield made a version titled Il Postino Pat (Which is also the title of the actual Italian dub of the show), which changes the style to that of an Italian opera.Due to the British Brevity ongoing with the original seasons, this meant Cunliffe actually wrote far more Pat stories in book form than for the show itself.
Adaptation Expansion: John Cunliffe adapted some of the early Pat stories into books, as well as making tons of original stories (Ken Barrie even narrates most of the audiobooks).Actor Allusion: In the movie, Wilf (one of the bad guys), who is about to be shot by an evil robot, says "I don't want to go".
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