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* CoversAlwaysLie: Disney's 1985 VHS series of the series (as ''The Fabulous Flesicher Folio'') is an aversion; the covers of the tapes in the series feature a collage of characters from the different featured cartoons. When Disney re-released the tapes under their Buena Vista Home Video label in 1990 (as ''Max Fleischer's Cartoon Capers''), the number of cartoons on each tape was indiscriminately halved, meaning the covers now featured characters from cartoons no longer on the tapes.

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* CoversAlwaysLie: Disney's 1985 VHS series of the series (as ''The Fabulous Flesicher Folio'') is an aversion; the covers of the tapes in the series feature a collage of characters from the different featured cartoons. When Disney re-released the tapes under their Buena Vista Home Video label in 1990 (as ''Max Fleischer's Cartoon Capers''), the number of cartoons on each tape was indiscriminately halved, halved despite using the same cover art, meaning the covers now featured characters from cartoons no longer on the tapes.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Disney's 1985 VHS series "The Fabulous Flesicher Folio" is an aversion; the covers of the tapes in the series feature a collage of characters from the different featured cartoons. When Disney re-released the tapes under their Buena Vista Home Video label in 1990 (as "Max Fleischer's Cartoon Capers"), the number of cartoons on each tape was halved, meaning the covers now featured characters from cartoons no longer on the tapes.

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* CoversAlwaysLie: Disney's 1985 VHS series "The of the series (as ''The Fabulous Flesicher Folio" Folio'') is an aversion; the covers of the tapes in the series feature a collage of characters from the different featured cartoons. When Disney re-released the tapes under their Buena Vista Home Video label in 1990 (as "Max ''Max Fleischer's Cartoon Capers"), Capers''), the number of cartoons on each tape was indiscriminately halved, meaning the covers now featured characters from cartoons no longer on the tapes.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: Disney's 1985 VHS series "The Fabulous Flesicher Folio" is an aversion; the covers of the tapes in the series feature a collage of characters from the different featured cartoons. When Disney re-released the tapes under their Buena Vista Home Video label in 1990 (as "Max Fleischer's Cartoon Capers"), the number of cartoons on each tape was halved, meaning the covers now featured characters from cartoons no longer on the tapes.
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: At the end of ''Peeping Penguins'', the penguins vow to their mother that they will never be curious again, but afterward they find something moving in the snow and look at it, wondering with what couldn't be anything other than curiosity what it could be, with their mother doing the same thing.
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* AnAesop: Not uncommon due to the fairy-tale nature of the shorts.
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* MicroDieting: In "Somewhere in Dreamland," an impoverished mother breaks a piece of hard bread in half, giving one to each of her two children. After eating this tiny portion, the son complains that he's still hungry. Having no more food to give him, the mother just cries, and the son comforts her by pretending that he didn't really mean it.

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* OhCrap: The fly couple when they realize the Cobweb Hotel is a trap upon seeing another fly stuck on a web bed.

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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
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The fly couple when they realize the Cobweb Hotel is a trap upon seeing another fly stuck on a web bed.bed.
** Both the blue streamline engine and the red streamline engine had this when they are about to crash into each other!

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** In "Little Lamby", the entire village chases after the fox after he takes the lamb.



* DisappearedDad: It's implied that the father in "Small Fry" is dead, seeing as the mother is seen sobbing next to a photograph of a fish at one point.



* DistressedDude: I Fly in "Cobweb Hotel" gets a paperclip put on his wings and cornered into a spider web. His wife saves him and other flies in the hotel.



* HellHotel: In "Cobweb Hotel". Well, it's a Hell Hotel to flies, anyway.

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* HellHotel: In "Cobweb Hotel". Well, it's a Hell Hotel to flies, anyway. It seems to be an abandoned office.


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* NoAntagonist: Some of the shorts have no villains, such as "Small Fry" and "Somewhere in Dreamland".
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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: The short "Peeping Penguins", where a flock of curious penguins explore a cabin.

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* ChristmasEpisode: "Christmas Comes But Once a Year", where Grampy plays Santa for an orphanage.



%%* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: The short "Peeping Penguins".

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%%* * EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: The short "Peeping Penguins".Penguins", where a flock of curious penguins explore a cabin.
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* HumiliationConga: How Humpty Dumpty's "great fall" is depicted in "Greedy Humpty Dumpty". He receives a ComedicSpanking from a lightning being after he tries to cut open the sun with an axe. His tower is hit by fireballs launched from the sun, destroying not only it, but also Humpty Dumpty's castle. Any attempts for Humpty to hitch a ride on the debris is also thwarted by the sun, leaving him with only a single brick to hang onto before he hits the ground. Finally, while his royal subjects are able to put him back together initally, Humpty is no longer able to handle the weight of his crown, with an attempt to put it back on his head shattering him beyond repair.

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* HumiliationConga: How Humpty Dumpty's "great fall" is depicted in "Greedy Humpty Dumpty". He receives a ComedicSpanking from a lightning being after he tries to cut open the sun with an axe. His tower is hit by fireballs launched from the sun, destroying not only it, but also Humpty Dumpty's castle. Any attempts for Humpty to hitch a ride on the debris is also thwarted by the sun, leaving him with only a single brick to hang onto before he hits the ground. Finally, while his royal subjects are able to put him back together initally, initially, Humpty is no longer able to handle the weight of his crown, with an attempt to put it back on his head shattering him beyond repair.
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* HumiliationConga: How Humpty Dumpty's "great fall" is depicted in "Greedy Humpty Dumpty". He receives a ComedicSpanking from a lightning being after he tries to cut open the sun with an axe. His tower is hit by fireballs launched from the sun, destroying not only it, but also Humpty Dumpty's castle. Any attempts for Humpty to hitch a ride on the debris is also thwarted by the sun, leaving him with only a single brick to hang onto before he hits the ground. Finally, while his royal subjects are able to put him back together initally, Humpty is no longer able to handle the weight of his crown, with an attempt to put it back on his head shattering him beyond repair.
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* BananaPeel: In "Tears of an Onion", a banana takes off its peel to swim, then comes out and slips on its own peel.
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* AssholeVictim: Humpty Dumpty. He ignored everyone's warnings and made everyone work on his wall by threatening their lives.

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* AssholeVictim: Humpty Dumpty. He ignored everyone's warnings and made everyone work on his wall by threatening their lives.lives, so his ultimate fate of being spanked by the lightning inside the sun before plummeting to the earth and breaking is hardly undeserved.
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* SwissArmyTears: ''The Playful Polar Bears'' handles this in a way that treats it seriously while also serving as a punchline to a RunningGag. Early on in the short, a recurring bit involves the main baby polar bear getting the urge to sneeze whenever a drop of water enters its nose, with the sneeze being powerful enough to send it into the sea (which it tries to avoid, as it doesn't like to be in the water). After an icicle knocks it out, the rest of the polar bears assume that the young cub was killed by a group of hunters. As [[OutlivingOnesOffspring the parent bears mourns the supposed death of its child]], one of its tears falls into the young cub's nose, waking it up from its bout of unconsciousness and causing it to sneeze and fall into the sea, where it finally catches the fish its been chasing during the first half of the short.

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* SwissArmyTears: ''The Playful Polar Bears'' handles this in a way that treats it seriously while also serving as a punchline to a RunningGag. Early on in the short, a recurring bit involves the main baby polar bear getting the urge to sneeze whenever a drop of water enters its nose, with the sneeze being powerful enough to send it into the sea (which it tries to avoid, as it doesn't like to be in the water). After an icicle knocks it out, the rest of the polar bears assume that the young cub was killed by a group of hunters. As [[OutlivingOnesOffspring the parent bears bear mourns the supposed death of its child]], one of its tears falls into the young cub's nose, waking it up from its bout of unconsciousness and causing it to sneeze and fall into the sea, where it finally catches the fish its been chasing during the first half of the short.
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* SwissArmyTears: ''The Playful Polar Bears'' handles this in a way that treats it seriously while also serving as a punchline to a RunningGag. Early on in the short, a recurring bit involves the main baby polar bear getting the urge to sneeze whenever a drop of water enters its nose, with the sneeze being powerful enough to send it into the sea (which it tries to avoid, as it doesn't like to be in the water). After an icicle knocks it out, the rest of the polar bears assume that the young cub was killed by a group of hunters. As [[OutlivingOnesOffspring the parent bears mourns the supposed death of its child]], one of its tears falls into the young cub's nose, waking it up from its bout of unconsciousness and causing it to sneeze and fall into the sea, where it finally catches the fish its been chasing during the first half of the short.
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* ComedicSpanking: In "Greedy Humpty Dumpty", King Humpty Dumpty's comeuppance for forcing everyone to build a wall high enough to reach the sun so he can get the gold he believes lies within starts when he cuts the sun open with an axe and a lightning being comes out to spank him.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: ''The Song of the Birds'' and ''The Playful Polar Bears'' both feature young animals are nearly killed by gunfire (''The Song of the Birds'' has a baby bird getting shot by a boy's BB gun, while ''The Playful Polar Bears'' has a young polar bear get hit on the head by a giant icicle that fell due to gunfire by a hunter, knocking it out), with their parents (and all the other adults of their respective species) mourning their supposed deaths.

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: ''The Song of the Birds'' and ''The Playful Polar Bears'' both feature young animals are nearly killed by gunfire (''The Song of the Birds'' has a baby bird getting shot by a boy's BB gun, while ''The Playful Polar Bears'' has a young polar bear get hit on the head by a giant icicle that fell due to gunfire by a hunter, knocking it out), with their parents (and all the other adults of their respective species) mourning their supposed deaths.[[DisneyDeath deaths]].

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