History Anime / LittleLulu

* {{Fainting}}: Tubby did this at the end of Episode 20, in response to his mother telling him that he'll be spending extra time on his violin lessons.

* SneakingSnacks: Tubby did this in Episode 4, with apples, bananas, sausages, crackers, and potato chips, which hen hides in different ares of the woods.

* AndYourRewardIsEdible: Tubby was subjected to this reward after inadvertently locating Lulu's Pop's lucky gold piece in Episode 15.
* AnnoyingLaugh: Tubby has one in this version, [[SarcasmMode as demonstrated nicely in Episode 2.]]

* BanisterSlide: Lulu and the others did this in Episodes 11 and 12.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Lulu, as seen in Episode 3, when she tore down the clubhouse in anger after Tubby and the others boys refused to let her join the club.

* BigThinShortTrio: Tubby, Wilbur, and Iggy, respectively.

* CryingWolf: In Episode 3, this was the bane of what Lulu went through while guarding Tubby's clubhouse from the Westside Gang.
* DeadpanSnarker: This trope was highly evident in Tubby, though Lulu does occasionally have her moments.

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Some episodes ended this way.
* {{Expy}} [=/=] CaptainErsatz: One member of the Westside Gang actually bears an astonishingly strong resemblance to [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Peppermint Patty]]. Also, Tubby could very well most likely have been the character design inspiration for the character of [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Junpei]].

* FollowYourNose: This trope was used very frequently by Tubby, whenever there was food involved.

* FranticObjectConcealment: Tubby did this twice in Episode 10.
* GardenHoseSquirtSurprise: This happened to Tubby in Episode 6.

* HuddleShot: Tubby, Wilbur, and Iggy did this in Episode 8.

* TheKlutz: Tubby, in some episodes.

* OhCrap: This has showed up in a few episodes, mostly to Tubby.

* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Tubby screamed this way in most episodes, especially in Episode 2.

* TerribleTrio: The Westside Gang in shades.

* WhoAreYouCallingNames: Alvin, from Episode 3:
-->'''Alvin''': Who are you calling a little kid?!?!?

* IsolationDespondency: Episode 11 had this happen to Wilbur, after an incident involving a frog.

In 1976, ''ComicStrip/LittleLulu'' was adapted by NipponAnimation into a 26-episode anime titled ''Little Lulu and Her Little Friends''.

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Lulu
** TheLancer: Tubby
** TheBigGuy: Both Willy and Eddy
** TheSmartGuy: Wilbur
** KidAppealCharacter: Iggy
** TheChick: Annie
** TheHeart: Gloria
** TagalongKid: Alvin

In 1976, ''LittleLulu'' was adapted by NipponAnimation into a 26-episode anime titled ''Little Lulu and Her Little Friends''.

* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: In Episode 2, this happened to both Lulu and Tubby. When Tubby laced a bowl of cereal that Lulu was fixing for him with different sauces and seasonings to get back at her, Lulu, not realizing what Tubby did, offered the bowl to him. Tubby reluctantly takes a bite of the cereal, but because he laced it with hot sauce, he turns red in the face for a few seconds. Lulu also turned red in the face afterwards, when she also took a bite of the cereal to find out what was wrong with it. Also, in Episode 10, Tubby turned red-faced in anger after the flowers that Lulu gave him were discovered by the others.

* {{Agitated Item Stomping}}: Tubby did this in Episode 10 out of anger when the flowers he was given by Lulu were discovered by Wilbur, Iggy, and Alvin.
* {{And Your Reward Is Edible}}: Tubby was subjected to this reward after inadvertently locating Lulu's Pop's lucky gold piece in Episode 15.
* {{Art Shift}}: In this version, the main child characters were given slightly modified designs. The most particular example is Tubby, who had a mild color change of clothes as well as being slightly bigger than Lulu, in contrast with the original comics where he was the same height as her. Even the Westside Gang had character designs that differed greatly from how they appeared in the original comics.
* {{Banister Slide}}: Lulu and the others did this in Episodes 11 and 12.
* {{Batman Gambit}}: This was how Lulu was able to end the snowball fight between Tubby's gang and the Westside Gang in Episode 13. [[spoiler: She tricked both sides into throwing excess amounts of firewood into the fires that they had both built in an attempt to bribe Lulu about which side will win, which caused their respected snow forts to melt and collapse from the immense heat.]]
* {{Beware The Nice Ones}}: Lulu, as seen in Episode 3, when she tore down the clubhouse in anger after Tubby and the others boys refused to let her join the club.
* {{Big Eater}}: As in the original comics and the tv series, Tubby has a fairly large appetite. In fact, a couple of episodes were actually based around this character trait.
* {{Big Thin Short Trio}}: Tubby, Wilbur, and Iggy, respectively.
* {{Crying Wolf}}: In Episode 3, this was the bane of what Lulu went through while guarding Tubby's clubhouse from the Westside Gang.
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: This trope was highly evident in Tubby, though Lulu does occasionally have her moments.
* {{Demoted To Extra}}: Both Willy and Eddy did not appear very often in the anime.
* {{Everybody Laughs Ending}}: Some episodes ended this way.
* {{Expy}}/{{Captain Ersatz}}: One member of the Westside Gang actually bears an astonishingly strong resemblance to [[{{Peanuts}} Peppermint Patty]]. Also, Tubby could very well most likely have been the character design inspiration for the character of [[{{Digimon Frontier}} Junpei]].

* {{Feud Episode}}: Episode 9 was based around this trope, with Tubby and Willy being the ones feuding against each other.
* {{Five Man Band}}:
** [[{{The Hero}} The Heroine]]: Lulu
** {{The Lancer}}: Tubby
** {{The Big Guy}}: Both Willy and Eddy
** {{The Smart Guy}}: Wilbur
** {{Kid Appeal Character}}: Iggy
** {{The Chick}}: Annie
** {{The Heart}}: Gloria
** {{Tagalong Kid}}: Alvin
* {{Follow Your Nose}}: This trope was used very frequently by Tubby, whenever there was food involved.
* FoodAndAnimalAttraction: Used in Episode 12 to get rid of the mean butler that replaced Wilbur's butler. [[spoiler: While the mean butler was drying off his clothes after sinking in the lake and trying to dry off while standing in nothing but his {{Goofy Print Underwear}}, Tubby snuck around from behind in the bushes and placed a few handfuls of dog food in the butler's coat pockets. Later, when Lulu and the others followed by the butler return to town, the smell of the dog food in his coat pockets have attracted a small band of dogs that immediately begin chasing him to get at the dog food that he had in his coat]].
* {{Frantic Object Concealment}}: Tubby did this twice in Episode 10.
* {{Garden Hose Squirt Surprise}}: This happened to Tubby in Episode 6.
* {{Hand Behind Head}}: Since this version of Little Lulu was anime, the characters, mostly Tubby, did this very often whenever they were embarrassed, like most other anime characters.
* {{Help Im Stuck}}: This happened to Tubby in Episode 14, when Lulu coaxed him into crawling into a rabbit's burrow, in an attempt to lure the rabbit out.
* {{Hoist By His Own Petard}}: In Episode 6, Tubby's attempt to make a fool out of Lulu by tricking her into thinking that the fire chief was sending his firemen to save Lulu from a tree while mimicking a cat backfired when a small crowd of people discovered Lulu meowing in the tree, leading to one man to call the fire department to get Lulu down. This led to Lulu finally getting her much-deserved ride on the fire truck, while Tubby and the other boys wound up with nothing.
* {{Huddle Shot}}: Tubby, Wilbur, and Iggy did this in Episode 8.
* {{Isolation Despondency}}: Episode 11 had this happen to Wilbur, after an incident involving a frog.
* {{The Klutz}}: Tubby, in some episodes.

* {{Oh Crap}}: This has showed up in a few episodes, mostly to Tubby.
* {{Produce Pelting}}: Lulu and the others did this in Episode 12, to a picture of Wilbur's butler that was doodled on the side of the clubhouse, with tomatoes, no less.
* {{Terrible Trio}}: The Westside Gang in shades.
* {{Through A Face Full Of Fur}}: In Episode 2, this happened to both Lulu and Tubby. When Tubby laced a bowl of cereal that Lulu was fixing for him with different sauces and seasonings to get back at her, Lulu, not realizing what Tubby did, offered the bowl to him. Tubby reluctantly takes a bite of the cereal, but because he laced it with hot sauce, he turns red in the face for a few seconds. Lulu also turned red in the face afterwards, when she also took a bite of the cereal to find out what was wrong with it. Also, in Episode 10, Tubby turned red-faced in anger after the flowers that Lulu gave him were discovered by the others.
* {{What The Hell Hero}}: In Episode 20, Wilbur calls Tubby out for selfishly turning over his violin to Lulu.
* {{Who Are You Calling Names}}: Alvin, from Episode 3:

** {{The Bumblebee}}: Iggy

* {{Expy}}/{{Captain Ersatz}}: One member of the Westside Gang actually bears an astonishingly strong resemblance to [[{{Peanuts}} Peppermint Patty]]. Also, Tubby could very well mostly likely have been the character design inspiration for the character of [[{{Digimon Frontier}} Junpei]].

* {{Agitated Item Stomping}}: Tubby did this in Episode 10 out of anger when the flowers he was given by Lulu were discovered by Wilbur, Iggy, and Alvin.

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-->''Oh, Luuuuuuuuluuuuuuuuuu. [harp plays]''
-->''Little Lulu, Little Lulu, with freckles on your chin, always in and out of trouble, but mostly always in.''
-->''Using Daddy's necktie for the tail on your kite, using Mommy's lipstick for the letters you write.''
-->''Though the clock says 7:30, it's really after 10; Looks like Lulu's been repairing it again.''
-->''Though you're wild as any Zulu and you're just as hard to tame''
-->''Little Lulu, I love you-Lu just the same, the same''
-->''Little Lulu, I love you-Lu just the same.''
-->— '''Little Lulu Theme Song'''

Created by Marjorie Henderson Buell, ''Little Lulu'' is a comic strip series from the magazine publication "The Saturday Evening Post" which began in the 1930s. The series follows the titular Lulu Moppet and her various exploits. The supporting cast includes "Tubby" Thomas Tompkins, her friend and sometimes tormentor; Alvin Jones, a neighborhood BrattyHalfPint; Annie Inch, Lulu's best friend, and George and Martha Moppet, Lulu's parents.

The character had been adapted into theatrical shorts by FamousStudios in the [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1940s]]. She has also appeared in some television cartoons in addition to two live-action specials in the 1970s, ''Little Lulu'' and ''The Big Hex of Little Lulu'', with Lauri Hendler playing Lulu. In 1976, a 26-episode anime adaptation titled ''Little Lulu and Her Little Friends'' was created. ''The Little Lulu Show'', an American animated series, aired from 1995 to 1999 on {{HBO}} with a total of 52 episodes.

[[folder: Famous Studios Filmography]]
* Eggs Don't Bounce (1943)
* Hullaba-Lulu (1944)
* Lulu Gets the Birdie (1944)
* Lulu in Hollywood (1944)
* Lucky Lulu (1944)
* It's Nifty to Be Thrifty (1944)
* I'm Just Curious (1944)
* Lulu's Indoor Outing (1944)
* Lulu at the Zoo (1944)
* Lulu's Birthday Party (1944)
* Magica-Lulu (1945)
* Beau Ties (1945)
* Daffydilly Daddy (1945)
* Snap Happy (1945)
* Man's Pest Friend (1945)
* Bargain Counter Attack (1946)
* Bored of Education (1946)
* Chick and Double Chick (1946)
* Musica-Lulu (1946)
* A Scout with the Gout (1947)
* Loose in a Caboose (1947)
* Cad and Caddy (1947)
* A Bout with a Trout (1947)
* Super Lulu (1947)
* The Baby Sitter (1947)
* The Dog Show-Off (1948)
* Alvin's Solo Flight (1961)
* Frog's Legs (1961)
[[/folder]]

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!!Tropes
* AfraidOfNeedles: In an episode of the 1990s ''Little Lulu'', a BadassBiker has been trying to summon the courage to get a tattoo. Near the end of the episode, he observes kids and their mothers coming out of the tattoo parlor with (painted-on) tattoos and nearly collapses on his bike with shame.
* AllJustADream: In the cartoon "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EM9DL_Guh4 Musica-Lulu]]", Lulu sneaks out to play baseball instead of practicing her violin, and when knocked out by a foul ball, she wakes up in a land of musical instruments, [[KangarooCourt who arrest, try and imprison her]] for her misdeed. When she breaks out of the jail, she is [[NightmareFuel chased and terrorized by the musical instruments]]. It turns out to be a dream.
* BlackBeadEyes
* {{Crossdresser}}: In "The Little Lulu Show" episode "Mimibur", Wilbur wants new clothes after he got his clothes torn off by a bear. Lulu helps by giving him girls clothes and a blonde wig.
* DreamSequence: A number of the classic ''Little Lulu'' cartoons from the 1940s contain dream sequences, such as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EM9DL_Guh4 this one]].
* GossipyHens: Martha Moppet, Lulu's Mom, shows this.
* GoToYourRoom: Lulu's father gives her this command in "Super Lulu".
* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Almost everytime Lulu tells Alvin a story, a poor little girl who resembles Lulu appears.
* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: Tracey Ullman, star of several sketch comedy programs and voice of the Emily Winthrop character in ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Bart's Dog Gets an F", plays the role of Lulu in the 1990s {{HBO}} series ''The Little Lulu Show''. Also from the 90's show, Tubby is voiced by the same voice actor who played Binky from the PBS animated TV show ''{{Arthur}}''.
* InNameOnly: Brazil [[http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/luluzinhateen002.jpg apparently]] has made an {{Animesque}} ''Little Lulu'' spin-off of sorts where the characters in question are teens. The core characters of the cast seem to have been changed as well. Teen!Lulu is apparently the leader of a clique composed of Tubby, who has been slimmed down and left his violin to lead a rock band; Annie, the gang's geek and a video game freak; Gloria, the fashion expert, and Alvin, who has become a skater and surfer.
* InnocentPanties
* KangarooCourt: "Musica-Lulu" features this trope in Lulu's dream in which she is tried by a courtroom by musical instruments.
* KidDetective: Tubby himself; nicknamed "The Spider".
* TheMovingExperience: The TropeNamer is a Little Lulu cartoon that had this premise.
* PrincessCurls: Lulu herself has curls on the sides of her head.
* ISeeLondon: Relatively common with Tubby and the other boys in ''Little Lulu''.
* SpankTheCutie: Offscreen, Tubby experiences this in "Bored of Education" after he attempts to give an apple, which he stole from Lulu's desk, to the teacher and Lulu herself substitutes a frog.
* SilenceYouFool: "Musica-Lulu" has one from the Judge:
-->'''Lulu:''' He's a liar, awful liar!
-->'''Judge:''' Silence is what I desire!
* SnowballFight: Often occurs in ''Little Lulu''. In most of these, the boys (led by Tubby), attack the girls (led by Lulu) unprovoked, and the girls exact revenge by outwitting the boys.
* WritingLines: Lulu's punishment at the end of "A Bout with the Trout".

!!'''The 1976 anime contains examples of:'''