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Lulu 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 ''[[Anime/LittleLulu Little Lulu and Her Little Friends]]'' was produced by Creator/NipponAnimation. ''The Little Lulu Show'', a Canadian animated series produced by [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment Cinar]], aired from 1995 to 1999 on {{Creator/HBO}} with a total of 52 episodes (airing in Canada at first on Creator/{{CTV}}, then on Creator/FamilyChannel).

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Lulu 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 ''[[Anime/LittleLulu Little Lulu and Her Little Friends]]'' was produced by Creator/NipponAnimation. And in 1995, Canadian studio Creator/{{Cinar}} produced ''The Little Lulu Show'', a Canadian animated series produced by [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment Cinar]], aired from 1995 to 1999 which ran for 52 episodes on {{Creator/HBO}} with a total of 52 episodes (airing in the States and in Canada at first on Creator/{{CTV}}, then on Creator/FamilyChannel).Creator/FamilyChannel.

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** Pretty much sums up ''A Bout with the Trout'' as well- Lulu plays truant and goes fishing instead, and bumped herself unconscious into the surreal music video while struggling to reel a fish in. She then dreams about how skipping school is bad for her.

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** Pretty much sums up ''A Bout with the Trout'' as well- well-- Lulu plays truant and goes fishing instead, and bumped herself unconscious into the surreal music video while struggling to reel a fish in. She then dreams about how skipping school is bad for her.



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%%* * FatBestFriend: Tubby.Tubby's defining traits are a) he's Lulu's best friend, and b) as his nickname suggests, he's rather overweight, with a tendency to get himself into trouble because of his focus on food and eating.



* GoodAngelBadAngel: Lulu deals with her own pair of shoulder angel and devil in “About with a Trout”. The angel chastises her for skipping school and tries to encourage her to go back while the devil encourages Lulu to go fishing and gets rid of the angel.

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* GoodAngelBadAngel: Lulu deals with her own pair of shoulder angel and devil in “About “A Bout with a Trout”. The angel chastises her for skipping school and tries to encourage her to go back while the devil encourages Lulu to go fishing and gets rid of the angel.


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* SkippingSchool: The plot of "A Bout with a Trout" is that Lulu plays hooky from school to go fishing in the local pond for trout. There, she has a NightmareSequence where a talking schoolhouse scolds her about playing hooky, comparing her to a mule, a pig, a fish and a monkey if she doesn't get an education -- all set to the song "Swing on a Star". Waking up, the chastised Lulu goes to school and takes her punishment for playing hooky.


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* {{Tomboy}}: Lulu is quite the boyish little girl, even in the classic cartoons, where we have episodes like "A Bout for a Trout" (Lulu skips school to go fishing, a vice usually associated with little boys) and "A Scout with the Gout", where she ends up being more wilderness savvy than her father, who she ends up having to take home for medical treatment after he continually gets injured.
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* WartimeCartoon: "It's Nifty to Be Thrifty" grazes upon this territory. Lulu asks her father, who has is being hammered by the increased taxes of the war, for money to buy candy, and he tells Lulu the story of "The Grasshopper and the Ants" to impress the importance of thrift upon.

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* WartimeCartoon: "It's Nifty to Be Thrifty" grazes upon this territory. Lulu asks her father, who has is being hammered by the increased taxes of the war, for money to buy candy, and he tells Lulu the story of "The Grasshopper and the Ants" to impress the importance of thrift upon.
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* WartimeCartoon: "It's Nifty to Be Thrifty" grazes upon this territory. Lulu asks her father, who has is being hammered by the increased taxes of the war, for money to buy candy, and he tells Lulu the story of "The Grasshopper and the Ants" to impress the importance of thrift upon.
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Created by Marjorie Henderson Buell in 1935, ''Little Lulu'' is a comic strip series from the magazine publication "The Saturday Evening Post". The series follows the titular Lulu Moppet and her several exploits. The supporting cast includes "Tubby" Thomas Tompkins, her friend and sometimes tormentor; Alvin Jones, a neighborhood BrattyHalfPint; Annie Inch, Lulu's best friend, her brother Iggy Inch, Tubby's friends Willie Wilkins and Eddie Stimson, and George and Martha Moppet, Lulu's parents.

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Created by Marjorie Henderson "Marge" Buell in 1935, ''Little Lulu'' is a comic strip series from the magazine publication "The Saturday Evening Post". The series follows the titular Lulu Moppet and her several exploits. The supporting cast includes "Tubby" Thomas Tompkins, her friend and sometimes tormentor; Alvin Jones, a neighborhood BrattyHalfPint; Annie Inch, Lulu's best friend, her brother Iggy Inch, Tubby's friends Willie Wilkins and Eddie Stimson, and George and Martha Moppet, Lulu's parents.
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Using Daddy's necktie for the tail on your kite\\

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Using Daddy's necktie for the tail on of your kite\\
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* BandLand: Lulu dreams she visits one populated by AnimateInanimateObject instruments in the cartoon episode "Musica-Lulu".
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* AnimateInanimateObject: Lulu encounters living musical instruments in "Musica-Lulu", but they turn out to have been AllJustADream.
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* TreatedWorseThanThePet:
** [[AlphaBitch Gloria]] occasionally uses the trope to humiliate Tubby. In one story, she asks him to give [[MisterMuffykins her dog]] a bath when he is showing her his new sweater, and won't let him go home to change for the task. The result is not pretty, because Wilbur pushes him into the soapy water. Guess who Gloria invites for an ice cream and who has to go back home soaked and gets in trouble with his mother?
** In another story, Tubby escapes from Lulu's babysitting (he asked her to play hide-and-seek, knowing that Lulu would invariably hide in the closet and fall asleep) to take Gloria to a movie. Actually, she is going with Wilbur and wants Tubby to pay company to her canary, so the latter won't feel lonely. Tubby goes back home, deciding that spending time with Lulu is not that bad and leaves his glasses with painted eyes watching the bird.

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** Played straight in the 1940s comics, when Lulu tells Alvin stories. Several of them involve a "little girl" (drawn as Lulu herself) meeting a witch named Hazel, who then turns her into something (animate or inanimate). Lulu (sorry, the "little girl") has been turned into a mermaid, a parrot, a mouse (at least twice), a weathervane, and more.* GirlsHaveCooties: Invoked sometimes by the boys.

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** Played straight in the 1940s comics, when Lulu tells Alvin stories. Several of them involve a "little girl" (drawn as Lulu herself) meeting a witch named Hazel, who then turns her into something (animate or inanimate). Lulu (sorry, the "little girl") has been turned into a mermaid, a parrot, a mouse (at least twice), a weathervane, and more.more.
* GirlsHaveCooties: Invoked sometimes by the boys.

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* BalefulPolymorph:
** Played with and averted. One 1990s episode, after the boys pranked the girls, trying to make them think they have a curse that would turn them into mice. The girls pranked them back by placing mice inside spare sets of their clothes placing them on the sidewalk as Tubby and Iggy are coming around a corner, making them think the curse they made up was in fact real.
** Played straight in the 1940s comics, when Lulu tells Alvin stories. Several of them involve a "little girl" (drawn as Lulu herself) meeting a witch named Hazel, who then turns her into something (animate or inanimate). Lulu (sorry, the "little girl") has been turned into a mermaid, a parrot, a mouse (at least twice), a weathervane, and more.



* GirlsHaveCooties: Invoked sometimes by the boys.

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* ForcedTransformation:
** Played with and averted. One 1990s episode, after the boys pranked the girls, trying to make them think they have a curse that would turn them into mice. The girls pranked them back by placing mice inside spare sets of their clothes placing them on the sidewalk as Tubby and Iggy are coming around a corner, making them think the curse they made up was in fact real.
** Played straight in the 1940s comics, when Lulu tells Alvin stories. Several of them involve a "little girl" (drawn as Lulu herself) meeting a witch named Hazel, who then turns her into something (animate or inanimate). Lulu (sorry, the "little girl") has been turned into a mermaid, a parrot, a mouse (at least twice), a weathervane, and more.
* GirlsHaveCooties: Invoked sometimes by the boys.

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* CouchGag: In the later 1940's shorts that retain the original opening title cards, when the theme song reaches the verse "''Though you're wild as any Zulu and you're just as hard to tame''", an illustration is shown of Lulu doing something in relation to the short.



* CouchGag: In the later 1940's shorts that retain the original opening title cards, when the theme song reaches the verse "''Though you're wild as any Zulu and you're just as hard to tame''", an illustration is shown of Lulu doing something in relation to the short.

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