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** Multiple animators were either fired or quit mid-production, either for political reasons (some refused to draw exposed breasts, and one didn't want to draw a black crow shooting a pig cop), or vulgar reasons (such as those who only joined to draw sleazy animal pornography). Veteran animator Ted Bonnicksen ended up dying from leukemia during production. When Bakshi relocated his studio to Los Angeles, he was greeted with both praise and hate from various animators, with the latter camp even posting unwelcoming ads about him in ''The Hollywood Reporter''.
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** Multiple animators were either fired or quit mid-production, either for political reasons (some refused to draw exposed breasts, and one didn't want to draw a black crow shooting a pig cop), or vulgar reasons (such as those who only joined to draw sleazy animal pornography). Veteran animator Ted Bonnicksen ended up dying from leukemia during production. When Bakshi relocated his studio to Los Angeles, he was greeted with both praise and hate from various animators, with the latter camp even posting unwelcoming ads about him in ''The Hollywood Reporter''.Reporter''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: R. Crumb's only contribution to the film was his suggestion that Ralph Bakshi himself voice Fritz, but Bakshi though his own voice was "too Brooklyn" and thought Fritz should sound more like a milquetoast midwesterner being culture shocked by New York.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: R. Crumb's only contribution to the film was his suggestion that Ralph Bakshi himself voice Fritz, but Bakshi though his own voice was "too Brooklyn" and thought Fritz should sound more like a milquetoast midwesterner being culture shocked by New York.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/RobertCrumb hated the film, claiming it put words in the character's mouth that he never would have said, and later drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" to kill him off.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/RobertCrumb hated the film, claiming it put words in the character's mouth that he never would have said, and later drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" to kill him off. However, he and Bakshi are still good friends.
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* TheDanza: Humorously inverted. Creator/RalphBakshi plays the nameless partner of the rookie cop named Ralph.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Fritz is voiced by Skip Hinnant, who at the same time was a cast member of ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971''.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Fritz is voiced by Skip Hinnant, who at the same time was a cast member of Fargo North on ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971''.
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* RealLifeRelative: The three old Jewish men in the synagogue scene are voiced by Ralph Bakshi's father and two uncles.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/RobertCrumb drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" in order to kill off Fritz because of the political viewpoint of the movie.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/RobertCrumb hated the film, claiming it put words in the character's mouth that he never would have said, and later drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" in order to kill off Fritz because of him off.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Steve Krantz objected to thepolitical viewpoint of original ending in which [[spoiler:Fritz would have been KilledOffForReal by the movie.neo-Nazi's bomb]] and convinced Bakshi to give the character a happy ending. Bakshi complied and later claimed that he liked this ending better.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Steve Krantz objected to the
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* ChannelHop: The film was distributed by Cinemation Industries, before the rights were bought by Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures to produce the sequel, ''WesternAnimation/TheNineLivesOfFritzTheCat''. Both films are owned by MGM through AIP's legal successor, Creator/OrionPictures.
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* BreakthroughHit: For Creator/RalphBakshi.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Fritz is voiced by Skip Hinnant, who at the same time was a cast member of ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971''.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Fritz is voiced by Skip Hinnant, who at the same time was a cast member of ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971''.''Series/TheElectricCompany1971''.
* TroubledProduction: The film had a whale of a time getting made, mainly due to Creator/RobertCrumb's hatred for the project, and Creator/RalphBakshi's then-inexperience at directing a feature-length animated movie:
** It took forever for Bakshi and producer Steve Krantz to find a distributor, due to its premise of being an animated film filled with sex, drugs, political themes, and graphic violence. Warner Bros. had originally funded the film, but backed out after Bakshi refused to cast big-named actors and tone down the sexual content. Even after he did get funding, Bakshi still wasn't safe from ExecutiveMeddling, as Krantz forced him to change the original ending where [[spoiler:Fritz would have died from the Neo-Nazis' bomb]].
** Multiple animators were either fired or quit mid-production, either for political reasons (some refused to draw exposed breasts, and one didn't want to draw a black crow shooting a pig cop), or vulgar reasons (such as those who only joined to draw sleazy animal pornography). Veteran animator Ted Bonnicksen ended up dying from leukemia during production. When Bakshi relocated his studio to Los Angeles, he was greeted with both praise and hate from various animators, with the latter camp even posting unwelcoming ads about him in ''The Hollywood Reporter''.
* TroubledProduction: The film had a whale of a time getting made, mainly due to Creator/RobertCrumb's hatred for the project, and Creator/RalphBakshi's then-inexperience at directing a feature-length animated movie:
** It took forever for Bakshi and producer Steve Krantz to find a distributor, due to its premise of being an animated film filled with sex, drugs, political themes, and graphic violence. Warner Bros. had originally funded the film, but backed out after Bakshi refused to cast big-named actors and tone down the sexual content. Even after he did get funding, Bakshi still wasn't safe from ExecutiveMeddling, as Krantz forced him to change the original ending where [[spoiler:Fritz would have died from the Neo-Nazis' bomb]].
** Multiple animators were either fired or quit mid-production, either for political reasons (some refused to draw exposed breasts, and one didn't want to draw a black crow shooting a pig cop), or vulgar reasons (such as those who only joined to draw sleazy animal pornography). Veteran animator Ted Bonnicksen ended up dying from leukemia during production. When Bakshi relocated his studio to Los Angeles, he was greeted with both praise and hate from various animators, with the latter camp even posting unwelcoming ads about him in ''The Hollywood Reporter''.
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* DescendedCreator: Ralph Bakshi is the more competent pig-cop.
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* DescendedCreator: Ralph Bakshi Creator/RalphBakshi is the more competent pig-cop.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/RobertCrumb drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" in order to kill off Fritz because of the political viewpoint of [[WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat the movie]].
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* DisownedAdaptation: Creator/RobertCrumb drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" in order to kill off Fritz because of the political viewpoint of [[WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat the movie]].movie.
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* FollowTheLeader: A slew of cheaply-produced, quickly-forgotten animated films for adults which weren't much more than cartoon porn came (no pun intended) in the wake of this film's success, many of which had taglines that read as some variation of "IF YOU LIKED ''FRITZ THE CAT'', THEN YOU'LL LOVE..!"
** ''WesternAnimation/DownAndDirtyDuck'' was probably the most well known of these films, but much like ''Fritz'', it has a cult following, just not as big.
** ''WesternAnimation/DownAndDirtyDuck'' was probably the most well known of these films, but much like ''Fritz'', it has a cult following, just not as big.
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* FollowTheLeader: A slew of cheaply-produced, quickly-forgotten animated films for adults which weren't much more than cartoon porn came (no pun intended) in the wake of this film's success, many of which had taglines that read as some variation of "IF YOU LIKED ''FRITZ THE CAT'', THEN YOU'LL LOVE..!"
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** ''WesternAnimation/DownAndDirtyDuck'' was probably the most well known of these films, but much like ''Fritz'', it has a cult following, just not as big.
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* NamestheSame: Blue Bunny shares his name with a popular, long-running, American brand of ice cream. And no, it's unlikely that the latter is laced with drugs, no matter how addictive it is to eat.
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* NamestheSame: NamesTheSame: Blue Bunny shares his name with a popular, long-running, American brand of ice cream. And no, it's unlikely that the latter is laced with drugs, no matter how addictive it is to eat.
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* NamestheSame: Blue Bunny shares his name with a popular, long-running, American brand of ice cream. And no, it's unlikely that the latter is laced with drugs, no matter how addictive it is to eat.
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* PlayingAgainstType: Fritz is voiced by Skip Hinnant, who at the same time was a cast member of ''TheElectricCompany''.
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* FollowTheLeader: The film did so well, it made other studios to make cartoons for adults at the time. Even though most of them tried to copy Fritz.
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* FollowTheLeader: The film did so well, it made other studios to make cartoons A slew of cheaply-produced, quickly-forgotten animated films for adults at which weren't much more than cartoon porn came (no pun intended) in the time. Even though most wake of them tried to copy Fritz.this film's success, many of which had taglines that read as some variation of "IF YOU LIKED ''FRITZ THE CAT'', THEN YOU'LL LOVE..!"
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* FollowTheLeader: The film did so well, it made other studios to make cartoons for adults at the time. Even though most of them tried to copy Fritz.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Yes, that is indeed [[TheElectricCompany Fargo North, Decoder]] as the depraved protagonist in an X-rated cartoon film.
** Big Bertha, the crow Fritz has sex with at one point, is played by Rosetta [=LeNoire=], aka [[Series/FamilyMatters Estelle "Mother" Winslow]]. Yeah.
** In the French dubbing, Fritz is '''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Carel Really]]
* PlayingAgainstType: Fritz is voiced by Skip Hinnant, who at the same time was a cast member of ''TheElectricCompany''.
** Big Bertha, the crow Fritz has sex with at one point, is played by Rosetta [=LeNoire=], aka [[Series/FamilyMatters Estelle "Mother" Winslow]]. Yeah.
** In the French dubbing, Fritz is '''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Carel Really]]
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** Big Bertha, the crow Fritz has sex with at one point, is played by Rosetta [=LeNoire=], aka [[Series/FamilyMatters Estelle "Mother" Winslow]]. Yeah.
** In the French dubbing, Fritz is '''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Carel Really]]
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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/RobertCrumb drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" in order to kill off Fritz because of the political viewpoint of [[WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat the movie]].
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** Big Bertha, the crow Fritz has sex with at one point, is played by Rosetta [[=LeNoire=]], aka [[Series/FamilyMatters Estelle "Mother" Winslow]]. Yeah.
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** Big Bertha, the crow Fritz has sex with at one point, is played by Rosetta [[=LeNoire=]], [=LeNoire=], aka [[Series/FamilyMatters Estelle "Mother" Winslow]]. Yeah.
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** Big Bertha, the crow Fritz has sex with at one point, is played by Rosetta LeNoire, aka [[Series/FamilyMatters Estelle "Mother" Winslow]]. Yeah.
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** Big Bertha, the crow Fritz has sex with at one point, is played by Rosetta LeNoire, [[=LeNoire=]], aka [[Series/FamilyMatters Estelle "Mother" Winslow]]. Yeah.
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* CreatorBacklash: RobertCrumb drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" in order to kill off Fritz because of the political viewpoint of [[WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat the movie]].
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* CreatorBacklash: RobertCrumb Creator/RobertCrumb drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" in order to kill off Fritz because of the political viewpoint of [[WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat the movie]].
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* CreatorBacklash[=/=]DisownedAdaptation: RobertCrumb drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" in order to kill off Fritz because of the political viewpoint of [[WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat the movie]].
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* CreatorBacklash[=/=]DisownedAdaptation: CreatorBacklash: RobertCrumb drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" in order to kill off Fritz because of the political viewpoint of [[WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat the movie]].
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** In the French dubbing, Fritz is '''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Carel Really]]
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* PlayingAgainstType: Fritz is voiced by Skip Hinnant, who at the same time was a cast member of ''TheElectricCompany''.
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* DescendedCreator: Ralph Bakshi is the more competent pig-cop.
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** In the French dubbing, Fritz is '''WinnieThePooh'''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Carel Really]]
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** In the French dubbing, Fritz is '''WinnieThePooh'''.'''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Carel Really]]
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* CreatorBackLash: RobertCrumb drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" in order to kill off Fritz because of the political viewpoint of [[Film/FritzTheCat the movie]].
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* CreatorBackLash: CreatorBacklash[=/=]DisownedAdaptation: RobertCrumb drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" in order to kill off Fritz because of the political viewpoint of [[Film/FritzTheCat [[WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat the movie]].
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Yes, that is indeed [[TheElectricCompany Fargo North, Decoder]] in an X-rated cartoon film.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Yes, folks, that is indeed [[TheElectricCompany Fargo North, Decoder]] saying all those naughty words.
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* CreatorBackLash: RobertCrumb drew the comic "Fritz the Superstar" in order to kill off Fritz because of the political viewpoint of [[Film/FritzTheCat the movie]].movie]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: Yes, folks, that is indeed [[TheElectricCompany Fargo North, Decoder]] saying all those naughty words.
** In the French dubbing, Fritz is '''WinnieThePooh'''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Carel Really]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: Yes, folks, that is indeed [[TheElectricCompany Fargo North, Decoder]] saying all those naughty words.
** In the French dubbing, Fritz is '''WinnieThePooh'''. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Carel Really]]
