History WesternAnimation / RogerRamjet

** In "Hoop de Doop", the wife of the Runovian basketball team's coach is described by the in-universe announcer as "7ft tall, 300 pounds, with large, muscular arms and a tremendous mustache". Cue a shot of the woman and she looks just like the male Runovian basketball polayers, but dressed in a purple dress and a curly blonde wig and an even more exaggerated TopHeavyBuild design. [[TinyGuyHugeGirl She is shown to tower over her husband, who is far more normal (if nerdy) looking.]]

* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure: The proton pill gives "The strength of twenty atom bombs for twenty seconds." No word on the explosive yield of those nukes, though. 20 1-kiloton bombs isn't as much as a single 1-megaton bomb, for example.

* BananaRepublic - San Domino
* BewareTheNiceOnes - Dee, the littlest and youngest of the American Eagles, typically serves as the sweet, happy homemaker. Intelligent and often matching the boys in joke-telling. When an episode focuses on her, she will often be kidnapped or otherwise seized by baddies. Usually the kidnapper is Noodles Romanoff. One time she was assisted by a genie, however, she TookALevelInBadass when bound and helpless, her only weapon being an earth-shattering scream that she can hold indefinitely until the No Goods from N.A.S.T.Y. give up. Then there was the show where she sensed a miscarriage of justice when her homemade Cherry Berry pie wasn't even sampled by the spy judge in a contest. So she takes said pie and proceeds to rapid-fire hammer into the ground the four spies on their heads like nails. Gotta wonder what that pie was really baked with.

* CatchPhrase - "As today's [''insert random adjective''] episode begins ..."

* CreatorProvincialism - There was a good reason for the [[ShoutOut constant references]] to Lompoc. A number of the staff behind the show were actually from Lompoc, California![[note]]Lompoc is right next to Vandenburg Air Force Base, which served as inspiration for the series.[[/note]]

* ForgottenBirthday - The American Eagles kids surprised Roger during a nap that scared him enough to jump out the window. Everybody came to the surprise party: even his arch-rival Lance Crossfire, and his arch-nemeses Noodles Romanoff and the No-Goods [[spoiler:who rigged his birthday cake to explode on Ramjet, harmlessly, because Ramjet's birthday also falls on April Fools' Day.]]
* FunWithAcronyms - N.A.S.T.Y., the National Association of Spies, Traitors and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Yahoos]].

* HourOfPower - Roger Ramjet's proton pills gave him "the strength of 20 atom bombs for a period of 20 seconds".
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame - Roger and his sidekicks meet up with one of these hunters. They deduce that the hunter is, in fact, afraid of animals, so they defeat him by wearing animal costumes. Ramjet wears a bunny suit. It works.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed - In "The Shaft", Roger accidentally drills a hole through the Earth, creating a whistling noise as the planet rotates. Several people are shown complaining about the noise, including a stereotypical Texan shouting "Yahoo! Heck of a noise, ain't it, Hubert?" (Think about who the [[UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson president]] was in the mid-1960s.)

* APirate400YearsTooLate - Red Dog
* PirateParrot - Red Dog the Pirate is a short, squat scourge of the seven seas with a wise acre parrot named Carl Bob for a sidekick.

* PunnyName - Jaqueline Hyde; Yank, Doodle, Dan and Dee; Lotta Love; the list goes on.

* SoOnceAgainTheDayIsSaved
* SuperHero
* SuperSerum

* IncrediblyLamePun: About 80% of the show's humor came from the abundance of these, everything from PunnyNames to word puns.

** In "Hoop de Doop", the wife of the Runovian basketball team's coach is described by the in-universe announcer as "7ft tall, 300 pounds, with large, muscular arms and a tremendous mustache". Cue a shot of the woman and she looks just like the male Runovian basketball polayers, but dressed in a purple dress and a curly blonde wig and an even more exaggerated TopHeavyBehemoth design. [[TinyGuyHugeGirl She is shown to tower over her husband, who is far more normal (if nerdy) looking.]]

* BlindingBangs - Roger's girlfriend, Lotta Love

* FiveManBand
** TheLeader - Roger, of course.
** TheLancer - Yank, level-headed contrast to Roger's cluelessness.
** TheBigGuy - Doodle (more fat than big, although he did once take one of Roger's proton pills).
** TheSmartGuy - Dan, with the obligatory coke-bottle glasses.
** TheChick - Dee (see BewareTheNiceOnes, above).

** One episode had aliens capturing one of the kids and preparing to dissect him. The aliens [[FridgeHorror try to explain that they just wanted to cut open the kid]] to see what was inside him -- [[spoiler:but they get [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pounded unmercifully]] by a supercharged Roger Ramjet]].

* InherentlyFunnyWords - A parrot called ''Carlbob''

** Not to mention 'Lompoc'.

In the early 1990s, the PBS series ''Series/SquareOneTV'' featured a character named Dirk Niblick, whose segment used much of the same personnel as ''Roger Ramjet'', including animation director Fred Crippen, writer Jim Thurman, and voice actor Gary Owens.

-->'''Sheila:''' We missed them! \\

* AnimatedSeries

* ComedicHero

* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasurement: The proton pill gives "The strength of twenty atom bombs for twenty seconds." No word on the explosive yield of those nukes, though. 20 1-kiloton bombs isn't as much as a single 1-megaton bomb, for example.

* LemonyNarrator

* OneWheeledWonder: The Solenoid robots.

* WrittenSoundEffect

* BewareTheNiceOnes - Dee, the littlest and youngest of the American Eagles, typically serves as the sweet, happy homemaker. Intellegent and often matching the boys in joke-telling. When an episode focuses on her, she will often be kidnapped or otherwise seized by baddies. Usually the kidnapper is Noodles Romanoff. One time she was assisted by a genie, however, she TookALevelInBadass when bound and helpless, her only weapon being an earth-shattering scream that she can hold indefinitely until the No Goods from N.A.S.T.Y. give up. Then there was the show where she sensed a miscarriage of justice when her homemade Cherry Berry pie wasn't even sampled by the spy judge in a contest. So she takes said pie and proceeds to rapid-fire hammer into the ground the four spies on their heads like nails. Gotta wonder what that pie was really baked with.

* FunWithAcronyms - N.A.S.T.Y., the National Association of Spies, Traitors and Yahoos.
* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasurement: The proton pill gives "The strength of twenty atom bombs for twenty seconds." No word on the explosive yeild of those nukes, though. 20 1-kiloton bombs isn't as much as a single 1-megaton bomb, for example.

* FunWithAcronyms - N.A.S.T.Y., the National Association of Spies, Traitors and Yahoos

* CreatorProvincialism - There was a good reason for the [[ShoutOut constant references]] to Lompoc. A number of the staff behind the show were actually from Lompoc, California![note]Lompoc is right next to Vandenburg Air Force Base, which served as inspiration for the series.[/note]

* CreatorProvincialism - There was a good reason for the [[ShoutOut constant references]] to Lompoc. A number of the staff behind the show were actually from Lompoc, California!

* TalkToTheFist: One episode had aliens capturing one of the kids and preparing to dissect him. The aliens [[FridgeHorror try to explain that they just wanted to cut open the kid]] to see what was inside him -- [[spoiler:but they get [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pounded unmercifully]] by a supercharged Roger Ramjet]].

* OutlawTown: Boot Heel, Montana, who Roger was sent in to clean up. It's portrayed as a classic Western outlaw town despite the episode taking place in the ''1960's!''.
--> '''Narrator''': Where the men were men, and the women were men and that got pretty old after a while.

* TheRival - Lance Crossfire
* RunningGag - Every time Roger took off for a mission, his commander was standing directly behind the jet engine (which had a chicken nesting in it).

--->'''Ramjet:''' Say, General. You do a wonderful impression of me. Can you do Lionel Barrymore?

** Ramjet reads ''Nancy'' in the funnies page.

** The ending to the episode ''Hi Noon'' is a parody of the ending from {{Shane}}.

* LimitedAnimation - The frames of animation in a typical shot can be counted on one hand. In fact, the show almost seems to revel in its low production values.

'''Shiela:''' Poor animation?