Tracey McBean is an Australian animated children's television series produced by Southern Star Entertainment and Film Australia.

Jake McConnolly is the obese and usually dim-witted brother who sometimes displays an odd amount of intelligence, but only briefly for an amusing value.

McBeans' arch-rival, with equal or lower intelligence, though less morals, is Laszlo, a boy science club member.

In most episodes, Tracey invents a device to help her or her friends and family in a situation with good intention but this leads to a minor disaster or failure and she must work out a solution.

Although based on her abilities in science and her technical knowledge the show rarely features any scientific basis for her inventions and many take on a fantastic amount of power or extremely exaggerated function.