History WesternAnimation / FritzTheCat

* TheSixties: Roughly 1966, considering that most of the comics by Crumb were written in the mid-60s, and we see a billboard advertising JohnHuston's film ''Literature/TheBible'', which was released in 1966.

The movie follows Fritz as he [[BigApplesauce roams New York]] (and later takes a roadtrip to SanFrancisco) in TheSixties, ostensibly looking for a cause to join in. Over the course of the movie he spends time hanging out with stoners, talking to black people (represented by crows) in Harlem where he meets Duke, very briefly meeting with some Rabbis, going on a road trip with his girlfriend Winston, and ultimately meeting with [[spoiler:extremists who blow up a power plant]]. Unsurprisingly, he spends most of the movie running from the police (represented as, of course, pigs). Of course, his goal of finding himself always seems to take a back seat to more immediate gratification in the form of [[AllMenArePerverts carnal pleasures]] or [[StonerFlick good ol' fashioned weed]].

* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Subverted at the beginning, when one of the girls in the park mentions she is Jewish and doesn't look at all stereotypical, but played very straight in the Synagogue where all the Rabbis even look identical.

The movie follows Fritz as he [[BigApplesauce roams New York]] (and later takes a roadtrip to SanFrancisco) in TheSixties, ostensibly looking for a cause to join in. Over the course of the movie he spends time hanging out with stoners, talking to black people (represented by crows) in Harlem where he meets Duke, very briefly meeting with some Rabbis, going on a road trip with his girlfriend Winston, and ultimately meeting with [[spoiler:extremists who blow up a power plant]]. Unsurprisingly, he spends most of the movie running from the police (represented as, of course, pigs). Of course, his goal of finding himself always seems to take a back seat to more immediate gratification in the form of [[AllMenArePerverts carnal pleasures]] or [[StonerFlick good ol' fashion weed]].

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Fritz tries and often succeeds at having sex with every female character in the film.

* AllMenArePerverts

-->What's a prevert?

* RememberTheNewGuy: Fritz's girlfriend, Winston Schwartz, isn't even mentioned until her appearance in the last third of the film. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Her disappearance from the film is just as abrupt]].

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Fritz when he and Duke steal a car.

* ''SubvertedKidsShow'': See the YMMV page

* KarmaHoudini: The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Sadistic Neo-Nazi Junkie Terrorists]] who made Fritz plant the bomb inside the power plant near the end of the movie and made it explode along with Fritz still in there, and beat poor Harriet pretty bad. We just never hear of them again.

* KarmaHoudini: The [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Sadistic Neo-Nazi Junkie Terrorists]] who made Fritz plant the bomb inside the power plant near the end of the movie and made it explode along with Fritz still in there, and beat pretty bad por Harriet. We just never hear of them again.

* KarmaHoudini: The '[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Sadistic Neo-Nazi Junkie Terrorists]]' who made Fritz plant the bomb inside the power plant near the end of the movie and made it explode along with Fritz still in there, and beat pretty bad por Harriet. We just never hear of them again.

* AllWomenAreLustful

RalphBakshi's 1972 feature film adaptation of RobertCrumb's comic strip ''[[ComicBook/FritzTheCat Fritz The Cat]]''. Famous for being the first X-rated animation in the United States, it is an amalgamation of many plotlines from the comic into a feature film. It was more overt in its political and social commentary than the comics, which were largely light entertainment.

* FurryDenial: RalphBakshi's reasoning for why the anthropomorphic characters in this film never act like animals is that it would ruin what he was trying to create, which was a more realistic and mature form of animation. This is specifically the reason why the scene where Duke the Crow saves Fritz was changed from [[ComicBook/FritzTheCat R. Crumb's comic]]; Crumb had Duke flying Fritz away from a car crash, whereas he grabs a railing in the film. Bakshi admits that he wasn't entirely satisfied with the solution, but it kept him from using any "animal" behavior to further the plot.

[[caption-width-right:347:Pictured: Not ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''. '''''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Really.]]''''']]

* CoversAlwaysLie: Whille Fritz appears pretty much as depicted in [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/Fritz_the_Cat_(film).jpg/220px-Fritz_the_Cat_(film).jpg posters]], the female (or {{catwoman}} [[IncrediblyLamePun if you will]]) cat never appears in the film.

* CrapsackWorld / TheBigRottenApple: New York in the early '70s. Not unusual for a Ralph Bakshi movie, however.

* CrapsackWorld / BigRottenApple: New York in the early '70s. Not unusualy for a Ralph Bakshi movie, however.

Because of this film's politics, Crumb killed off the character in the comic "Fritz the Cat, Superstar". Later, Steve Krantz produced a sequel, ''TheNineLivesOfFritzTheCat'', released in 1974, which largely consists of scenarios in which [[ResetButton Fritz repeatedly dies]].

!!''Film/FritzTheCat'' provides examples of:

* AccidentalMurder: In a surprisingly sudden and sad turn of events, [[spoiler:Duke is shot by a stray bullet while attempting to keep Fritz safe from the gunfire. However, he appears as a ghost playing pool in [[TheNineLivesOfFritzTheCat the]] [[CanonDiscontinuity sequel]].]]