History Anime / PuiPuiMolcar

* AnAesop: They sometimes work morals into the episodes:
** Episode 1's is a SafeDrivingAesop: don't text and drive and don't hold up traffic, because you never know who or what you might be holding up while you're fooling around.
** Episode 3: Don't leave your pets unattended in hot weather. Not only did the cat suffer, but Abbey and the other Molcars weren't doing much better, with only one small awning to keep cool.
** Episode 4: Don't feed your pets trash.
** Episode 10: You don't have to look strong and tough to be a hero.
** ''Driving School'' Episode 4: Don't leave Guinea Pigs around with live cables.
** ''Driving School'' Episode 8: Disabilities may not be visible.
** ''Driving School'' Episode 10: Disabled pets deserve love too.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Who drives in Abbey depends on the episode. In episode 3, it's a cat owner with a yellow polka dot apron. Episode 5 instead uses a racecar driver, while episode 10 features an {{Otaku}} man. However, the rocket in the latter's room implies the two may be the same person and in ''Driving School'' Episode 1, the Otaku being the racing driver is more heavily implied as he bought a pair of rockets and attached them to Abbey.

* AerithAndBob: The range of Molcar names leans heavily towards nonsense and regular pet names (Popomu, Potato, Shiromo) if they're not [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin outright description names]] (Wasabi, for instance), but actual names sneak by sometimes. Even those range from somewhat rare (Teddy, Cher) to normal (Peter).

Due to the short length of the episodes, all spoilers are unmarked.

* TwoGirlsToATeam: the series has Teddy and Choco as the two girls among the five main Molcars. Season 2 upgrades this into a Gender-Equal Ensemble with the addition of the AscendedExtra Rose.

* SignatureSoundEffect: "Pui", as written in the title, is how the series transcribes a guinea pig's squeaks. And since the Molcars are rather noisy creatures, you'll be hearing it a lot.

* SignatureSoundEffect: the titular characters squeak so much it's right in the title. It's written out as "Pui"

''Pui Pui Molcar'' is a StopMotion series of shorts created by Creator/ShinEiAnimation and directed by Tomoki Misato (previously known for his Tokyo University of the Arts short films ''Atashi Dake wo Mite'' and ''Anime/MyLittleGoat''). The series began airing during the Winter 2021 season, with episodes uploaded weekly onto the [[Creator/BandaiNamcoPictures Bandai Namco Arts]] Website/YouTube channel.

** The genders of the main Molcars are given in their descriptions. Potato and Shiromo are boys, and Teddy and Choco are girls. Abbey was unidentified but was revealed to be male in an article in ''Animage'' magazine.

* {{Homage}}: Episode 11 is a sendup of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', with its own doctor and spunky kid and a Molcar styled like a [=DeLorean=] (it lifts its curly hair to let people in and out, mimicking the [=DeLorean's=] gullwing doors).

* SignificantBirthDate: Cher was born on December 7th, which happens to be the same day ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' was released in Japan. Given that she and the Time Machine Molcar look very similar, one doesn't have to guess hard to see the connections.

* ActionGirl: Over the course of the series, Teddy slowly became this. By Episode 6, she's willing to throw down with zombies, and in Episode 8, she's the main fighter of the two Molcar spies.

* {{Crossover}}: Along with the ''Jujutsu Kaisen'' crossover in April 2022, ''Molcar'' collaborated with fellow Shin-Ei and similarly cutesy property ''Chimimo'' towards the end of the year and ''Toys/{{Tamagotchi}}'' for both seasons.

* {{Crossover}}: Along with the ''Jujutsu Kaisen'' crossover in April 2022, ''Molcar'' collaborated with fellow Shin-Ei and similarly cutesy property ''Chimimo'' towards the end of the year and ''Toy/{{Tamagotchi}}'' for both seasons.

* {{Crossover}}: Along with the ''Jujutsu Kaisen'' crossover in April 2022, ''Molcar'' collaborated with fellow Shin-Ei and similarly cutesy property ''Chimimo'' towards the end of the year.

* ContrivedCoincidence: In ''Driving School'' episode 8, focus is put on Molcar Doohoo who keeps screwing up all of their driving tests. That same day, we see a woman who ''also'' is repeatedly failing all of her own driving tests, when she simply wants a Molcar to spend time with (and who, also coincidentally, imagines her ideal Molcar to look just like the episode's focus Molcar even having a stuffed toy of her ideal one). The two encounter each other, hit it off, and the Molcar gets adopted by her as a pet.

* FurryReminder: The series shows that the Molcars are basically giant guinea pigs in different ways:
** See ToiletHumor below.
** In Episode 1, The Ambulance Molcar wheeled around to show Potato her rear window. Many guinea pig owners would've thought she would pee in his face.
** ''Driving School'' episode 1 begins with Rose running right up Abbey's butt, with similarly accurate jumpy reactions from the latter.
** ''Driving School'' episode 3 has Shiromo's driver pulling out the Mol-Lettuce with the Molcars behaving like they were in a real-life guinea pig herd.
** In '' Driving School'' Episode 4, Potato chews on the cable connecting to the simulator, mistaking it for a carrot. This is in line with real-life guinea pigs, where if left in an area with cables, they chew on them.

* IdenticalStranger: The one-eyed Molcar Cher looks an awful lot like the Time Machine Molcar, despite none of Cher's backstory hinting towards science fiction being involved. Though it's implied that they are the same Molcar as in ''Driving School'' episode 12, Time Machine Molcar snuggles up to Peter despite Peter never meeting them before, which can only happen if the latter is familiar with the former.

** ''Driving School'' episode 11 repeats the climax of the first season's first episode by having Peter at the center of a Molcar stampede whilst the female Driving School instructor sticks out of the window like Potato's owner does, even having the song ''Run, Molcar!'' play. In the background, Ponta gets hijacked and used as a getaway car like Shiromo in episode 2, and the next time that Molcar is shown, he has a medal commending his bravery (again, like Shiromo).

* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Episode 1 has the series theme, ''Run Molcar!'', kick in when Potato helps the ambulance and starts a stampede to clear the traffic jam.

* TriumphantReprise: The theme, ''Run, Molcar!'', gets one of these titled "Then, and the Future us and You" in ''Driving School'' episode 12 when the Oni instructor feeds Hi/Thumb a boost carrot and then gets in, both reliving the days of an action movie they were cast in.