History WesternAnimation / FlyTales

* CloningBlues: The first episode, "The Clones".

''Fly Tales'' is a really damned obscure Canadian AnimatedSeries. '''Really''' obscure. As in, "it only aired in France and Eastern Europe properly, recently came out on DVD in France and its pages on Website/{{IMDb}} and Wiki/TheOtherWiki are anorexic" obscure. And it has different names according to which part of the world it was broadcast in. Yeah, that kind. It was so obscure that kids living in New Zealand knew about it too.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The Fly.

The series itself was based on a comic book by Creator/LewisTrondheim called ''La Mouche'', and got adapted to 65 episodes worth of animation in 1999 by Futurikon, with the results being aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}}. Presumably its title was changed for the English translation to not be confused with [[Film/TheFly1986 that movie]]. The scripts were written by Trondheim and a bunch of other people you've likely never heard of [[note]]Samuel Kaminka, Sacha Jamet, Laurent Turner (his first writing credit, later wrote for ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''), Isabelle De Catalogne, Françoise Boubil, Jean Helpert (worked on the 1995 ''Literature/MrMen And Little Miss'' series with Boubil) and Alexandre Reverend (went on to ''WesternAnimation/TheMysteriesOfAlfredHedgehog)''[[/note]], and the series as a whole was directed by Norman [=LeBlanc=] (who went on to work on ''[[http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0383718/ W.I.T.C.H.]]'') and Charlie Sansonetti (fresh off directing ''WesternAnimation/GadgetBoyAndHeather''). All episodes are 5 minutes long, and were broadcast either as standalone 5-minute shorts (Australia) or multiple episodes one after another to add up to a 27-minute block (France).

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And the funny thing is? It's way better than it sounds. Starting from our CaptainOblivious protagonist who often [[NiceJobBreakingItHero manages to screw up something]] and then just [[CompletelyMissingThePoint misses the point completely]], the {{Slapstick}} and the occasional bouts of [[SurrealHumour surreal]] and [[BlackComedy darker humour]], the one thing that's clear is that ''Fly Tales'' is, above all, funny. And occasionally depressing, scary or fluffy too.

The series itself was based on a comic book by Creator/LewisTrondheim called ''La Mouche'', and got adapted to 65 episodes worth of animation in 1999 by Creator/{{Teletoon}} [[note]]Well, actually by both Canadian Teletoon and Teletoon France which is operated by [=CanalSat=] and shares very little with its Canadian counterpart[[/note]]. Presumably its title was changed for the English translation to not be confused with [[Film/TheFly1986 that movie]]. The scripts were written by Trondheim and a bunch of other people you've likely never heard of [[note]]Samuel Kaminka, Sacha Jamet, Laurent Turner (his first writing credit, later wrote for ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''), Isabelle De Catalogne, Françoise Boubil, Jean Helpert (worked on the 1995 ''Literature/MrMen And Little Miss'' series with Boubil) and Alexandre Reverend (went on to ''WesternAnimation/TheMysteriesOfAlfredHedgehog)''[[/note]], and the series as a whole was directed by Norman [=LeBlanc=] (who went on to work on ''[[http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0383718/ W.I.T.C.H.]]'') and Charlie Sansonetti (fresh off directing ''WesternAnimation/GadgetBoyAndHeather''). All episodes are 5 minutes long, and were broadcast either as standalone 5-minute shorts (Australia) or multiple episodes one after another to add up to a 27-minute block (France).

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: played straight for the Fly and aliens in "The Cosmos and Beyond", averted for the Human, who wore a suit.

* DungFu: The Ants from the episode "Ants" fires a pink goo at training targets.

* ChainedToARailway: In The Fly, the Brute and The Beetle. The Beetle is tied to a (Toy) Traintrack.

* DisabilitySuperpower: in the The Blind Fly, a one-eyed moth teaches The Fly to use his sense of smell and hearing to compensate for his temporary blindness.

* DrivenToSuicide: in Money, the Fly walks past an insect holding a noose, whilst looking for the chocolate coin, you do see the very same insect near the end of the episode however.

* FantasticVoyagePlot: In the apply named Inside a Dog, The Fly gets [[SwallowedWhole inhaled]] by (who knew) a Dog, inside the Dog is a factory manned by insects cutting up food, the Fly exits out the most obvious exit.

* MurderByMistake: in The Ghost, The Fly attempts (and fails) to play Fan Chicken with a stationary ventilation fan, accidentally turning it on which killed the Wasp (Offscreen), the episode is about the Fly being haunted by his ghost, attempting to exact his revenge. At the end of the episode the Wasp switched on the fan but accidentally killed a Grasshopper. (who is then chased off by his ghost)

* SealedEvilInACan: "Tornado", arguably.

* SuperSerum: The Fly drinks one of these during "Superfly", only powers shown was [[SuperStrength super strength]] and [[SuperSenses super hearing]]
* TelephoneTeleport, In The Fax Machine, being teleported via signals through space, bouncing on a satellite then bouncing back to Earth where he ends up at another building. the 2nd time however was when the Fax was receiving a fax, being pressed on the paper to be mailed to home.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: In Money, the Fly tries to gather the Chocolate Coin, which is mistaken for a real one, the fly does a spit shine job for a (real) coin, which he attempted to eat, not knowing its value, he throwing it aside, causing a chain reaction of riots.

* AmbiguousGender: The fly is voiced by [[CrossDressingVoices a woman]], but is implied in "The Factory" to be male.

The series itself was based on a comic book by Creator/LewisTrondheim called ''La Mouche'', and got adapted to 65 episodes worth of animation in 1999 by Creator/{{Teletoon}} [[note]]Well, actually by Teletoon France which is operated by [=CanalSat=] and shares very little with its Canadian counterpart[[/note]]. Presumably its title was changed for the English translation to not be confused with [[Film/TheFly1986 that movie]]. The scripts were written by Trondheim and a bunch of other people you've likely never heard of [[note]]Samuel Kaminka, Sacha Jamet, Laurent Turner (his first writing credit, later wrote for ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''), Isabelle De Catalogne, Françoise Boubil, Jean Helpert (worked on the 1995 ''Literature/MrMen And Little Miss'' series with Boubil) and Alexandre Reverend (went on to ''WesternAnimation/TheMysteriesOfAlfredHedgehog)''[[/note]], and the series as a whole was directed by Norman [=LeBlanc=] (who went on to work on ''[[http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0383718/ W.I.T.C.H.]]'') and Charlie Sansonetti (fresh off directing ''WesternAnimation/GadgetBoyAndHeather''). All episodes are 5 minutes long, and were broadcast either as standalone 5-minute shorts (Australia) or multiple episodes one after another to add up to a 27-minute block (France).

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "The Factory" uses [[FrothyMugsOfWater orange soda]] as a replacement for alcoholic drinks, and also features a scene with two insects sitting on the factory's smoke stack, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything huffing fumes through a wire]].

And the funny thing is? It's way better than it sounds. Starting from our CaptainOblivious protagonist who often [[NiceJobBreakingItHero manages to screw up something]] and then just [[CompletelyMissingThePoint misses the point completely]], the {{Slapstick}} and the occasional bouts of [[SurrealHumour surreal]] and [[BlackComedy darker BlackComedy humour]].

And the funny thing is? It's way better than it sounds. Starting from our CaptainOblivious protagonist who often [[NiceJobBreakingItHero manages to screw up something]] and then just [[CompletelyMissingThePoint misses the point completely]], the {{Slapstick}} and the occasional bouts of [[SurrealHumour surreal]] and [[BlackComedy darker]] [[BlackComedy humour]], the one thing that's clear is that ''Fly Tales'' is, above all, funny. And occasionally [[TearJerker depressing]], [[NightmareFuel scary]] or [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming fluffy]] too.

The series itself was based on a comic book by Creator/LewisTrondheim called ''La Mouche'', and got adapted to 65 episodes worth of animation in 1999 by Creator/{{Teletoon}} [[note]]Well, actually by Teletoon France which is operated by [=CanalSat=] and shares very little with its Canadian counterpart[[/note]]. Presumably its title was changed for the English translation to not be confused with [[Film/TheFly1986 that movie]]. The scripts were written by Trondheim and a bunch of other people you've likely never heard of [[note]]Samuel Kaminka, Sacha Jamet, Laurent Turner (his first writing credit, later wrote for ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''), Isabelle De Catalogne, Françoise Boubil, Jean Helpert (worked on the 1995 ''Literature/MrMen And Little Miss'' series with Boubil) and Alexandre Reverend (went on to ''{{The Mysteries Of Alfred Hedgehog}})''[[/note]], and the series as a whole was directed by Norman [=LeBlanc=] (who went on to work on ''[[http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0383718/ W.I.T.C.H.]]'') and Charlie Sansonetti (fresh off directing ''WesternAnimation/GadgetBoyAndHeather''). All episodes are 5 minutes long, and were broadcast either as standalone 5-minute shorts (Australia) or multiple episodes one after another to add up to a 27-minute block (France).

''Fly Tales'' is a really damned obscure Canadian AnimatedSeries. '''Really''' obscure. As in, "it only aired in France and Eastern Europe properly, recently came out on DVD in France and its pages on Website/{{IMDb}} and TheOtherWiki are anorexic" obscure. And it has different names according to which part of the world it was broadcast in. Yeah, that kind. It was so obscure that kids living in New Zealand knew about it too.

The series itself was based on a comic book by Creator/LewisTrondheim called ''La Mouche'', and got adapted to 65 episodes worth of animation in 1999 by Creator/{{Teletoon}} [[note]]Well, actually by Teletoon France which is operated by [=CanalSat=] and shares very little with its Canadian counterpart[[/note]]. Presumably its title was changed for the English translation to not be confused with [[Film/TheFly1986 that movie]]. The scripts were written by Trondheim and a bunch of other people you've likely never heard of [[note]]Samuel Kaminka, Sacha Jamet, Laurent Turner (his first writing credit, later wrote for ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''), Isabelle De Catalogne, Françoise Boubil, Jean Helpert (worked on the 1995 ''Literature/MrMen And Little Miss'' series with Boubil) and Alexandre Reverend (went on to ''{{The Mysteries Of Alfred Hedgehog}})''[[/note]], and the series as a whole was directed by Norman [=LeBlanc=] (who went on to work on ''[[http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0383718/ W.I.T.C.H.]]'') and Charlie Sansonetti (fresh off directing ''GadgetBoyAndHeather''). All episodes are 5 minutes long, and were broadcast either as standalone 5-minute shorts (Australia) or multiple episodes one after another to add up to a 27-minute block (France).

The series itself was based on a comic book by Creator/LewisTrondheim called ''La Mouche'', and got adapted to 65 episodes worth of animation in 1999 by Creator/{{Teletoon}} [[note]]Well, actually by Teletoon France which is operated by [=CanalSat=] and shares very little with its Canadian counterpart[[/note]]. Presumably its title was changed for the English translation to not be confused with [[Film/TheFly that movie]]. The scripts were written by Trondheim and a bunch of other people you've likely never heard of [[note]]Samuel Kaminka, Sacha Jamet, Laurent Turner (his first writing credit, later wrote for ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''), Isabelle De Catalogne, Françoise Boubil, Jean Helpert (worked on the 1995 ''Literature/MrMen And Little Miss'' series with Boubil) and Alexandre Reverend (went on to ''{{The Mysteries Of Alfred Hedgehog}})''[[/note]], and the series as a whole was directed by Norman [=LeBlanc=] (who went on to work on ''[[http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0383718/ W.I.T.C.H.]]'') and Charlie Sansonetti (fresh off directing ''GadgetBoyAndHeather''). All episodes are 5 minutes long, and were broadcast either as standalone 5-minute shorts (Australia) or multiple episodes one after another to add up to a 27-minute block (France).

* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: "The Genius", where the fly realises it was better off and having more fun when its usual stupid self.