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* TheCatfish: In "Hoppily Ever After", after Packbat & Gatorpossum steal the wedding feast of Hickory & Lily, Preston, Rusty & the episode's human Evan, go out to catch a large bass named "The Grandaddy Bass" to replace it. In a subverison of this trope, not only is the bass caught, but it isn't even caught by the main characters. Instead, Packbat & Gatorpossum catch it first to use in a trap and when that fails, the boys bring it back to be cooked (it also turns out to have swallowed the wedding rings Packbat had stolen & lost in "Here Come the Brides").



** In "The Wheel Thing", Packbat plots to get through the Golden Door to get to the Woodkeeper. To do this, he disguises himself as the episode's human, a paraplegic girl named Chrissie. All he does is put on a wig and dress, doing nothing to hide his ratlike face and wingcape, yet thinks that all he needs to complete the disguise is Chrissie's wheelchair which he tries to steal. We never get to see if it would've worked as he fails to acquire said wheelchair. The main Sylvanians of the episode certainly aren't fooled, mainly as the real Chrissie is with them the whole time.
** In "Boy's Intuition", Packbat & Gatorpossum try to capture Buster's baby siblings to hold them in exchange for Buster's new spy kit (though obviously, Gatorpossum is more intrested in eating said babies). To do this, Gatorposssum disguises himself as a woman and claims to be a friend of the family. His disguise simply consists of a dress, wig and a pair of glasses yet all of the characters don't recognise him until one of the babies pulls the wig off. Later, Packbat, using a false orange beard that had fallen out of the spy kit, disguises himself as the Woodkeeper, going so far as to stuff himself with straw to resemble his physique. Again the disguise does little to hide his ratlike face, claws & feet. While the boys aren't entirely fooled (Mikey notes that the Woodkeeper never leaves his cabin), they only recognise him when one of the babies pulls his beard off.

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** In "The Wheel Thing", Packbat plots to get through the Golden Door to get to the Woodkeeper. To do this, he disguises himself as the episode's human, a paraplegic girl named Chrissie. All he does is put on a wig and dress, doing nothing to hide his ratlike face face, claws, feet and wingcape, yet thinks that all he needs to complete the disguise is Chrissie's wheelchair which he tries to steal. We never get to see if it would've worked as he fails to acquire said wheelchair. The main Sylvanians of the episode certainly aren't fooled, mainly as the real Chrissie is with them the whole time.
** In "Boy's Intuition", Packbat & Gatorpossum try to capture Buster's baby siblings to hold them in exchange for Buster's new spy kit (though obviously, Gatorpossum is more intrested in eating said babies). To do this, Gatorposssum disguises himself as a woman and claims to be a friend of the family. His disguise simply consists of a dress, wig and a pair of glasses yet all of the characters don't recognise him until one of the babies pulls the wig off. Later, Packbat, using a false orange beard that had fallen out of the spy kit, disguises himself as the Woodkeeper, going so far as to stuff Woodkeeper. He actually puts a bit more effort into this one, stuffing himself with straw to resemble his the Woodkeeper's physique. Again Though again the disguise does little to hide his ratlike face, claws & feet. While the boys aren't entirely fooled (Mikey notes that the Woodkeeper never leaves his cabin), they only recognise him when one of the babies pulls his beard off.
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* NoMoney: Apparently, the Sylvanians don't have a concept of money as in "Fool's Gold", Penny has to explain it to Rusty & Grover as being like treasure. Despite that, they still have shops & stores. Considering they store their crops in bank vaults, their economy is probably based on that somehow.
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* NoMoney: Apparently, the Sylvanians don't have a concept of money as in "Fool's Gold", Penny has to explain it to Rusty & Grover as being like treasure. Despite that, they still have shops & stores. Considering they store their crops in bank vaults, their economy is probably based on that somehow.


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**In "The Wheel Thing", Packbat plots to get through the Golden Door to get to the Woodkeeper. To do this, he disguises himself as the episode's human, a paraplegic girl named Chrissie. All he does is put on a wig and dress, doing nothing to hide his ratlike face and wingcape, yet thinks that all he needs to complete the disguise is Chrissie's wheelchair which he tries to steal. We never get to see if it would've worked as he fails to acquire said wheelchair. The main Sylvanians of the episode certainly aren't fooled, mainly as the real Chrissie is with them the whole time.
**In "Boy's Intuition", Packbat & Gatorpossum try to capture Buster's baby siblings to hold them in exchange for Buster's new spy kit (though obviously, Gatorpossum is more intrested in eating said babies). To do this, Gatorposssum disguises himself as a woman and claims to be a friend of the family. His disguise simply consists of a dress, wig and a pair of glasses yet all of the characters don't recognise him until one of the babies pulls the wig off. Later, Packbat, using a false orange beard that had fallen out of the spy kit, disguises himself as the Woodkeeper, going so far as to stuff himself with straw to resemble his physique. Again the disguise does little to hide his ratlike face, claws & feet. While the boys aren't entirely fooled (Mikey notes that the Woodkeeper never leaves his cabin), they only recognise him when one of the babies pulls his beard off.
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* AdaptedOut: The older siblings for the Evergreen, Wildwood, Babblebrook and Timbertop families are absent and in some cases, they're merged with the younger siblings. Some other prominent characters who were in the toyline at the time such as the Treefellow family, also don't appear.


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* FreeRangeChildren:The Sylvanian adults don't seem to have much of a problem letting their children and their human friends roam the forest unsupervised despite there being a carnivorous monster with a taste for children and another monster who wouldn't hesitate to hold them hostage. In "Fool's Gold", Rusty, Grover & Penny decide to scope out Packbat's house for treasure, stating their plans in full earshot of Rusty's grandparents who do nothing to stop them. Predictably, one of them (Grover) gets captured and held hostage.
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''Sylvanian Families'' (1987) is an animated series produced by Creator/DiCEntertainment to cash in on the ''Franchise/SylvanianFamilies'' franchise which was reaching the peak of its popularity at the time. Each episode, a small child with a problem makes a wish about something that might cause AnAesop, and then meets a magic woodkeeper who opens a door to Sylvanian Forest and shrinks them. They enter and meet a few of the Sylvanian Families, after which they learn the Aesop of the episode, which usually has something to do with either how you should have been happy all along, or that you should quit being such a JerkAss.

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''Sylvanian Families'' (1987) is an animated series produced by Creator/DiCEntertainment to cash in on the ''Franchise/SylvanianFamilies'' franchise which was reaching the peak of its popularity at the time. Each episode, a small child with a problem makes a wish about something that might cause AnAesop, a message to be delivered, and then meets a magic woodkeeper who opens a door to Sylvanian Forest and shrinks them. They enter and meet a few of the Sylvanian Families, after which they learn the Aesop of the episode, which usually has something to do with either how you should have been happy all along, or that you should quit being such a JerkAss.
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* AnAesop: OnceAnEpisode. The episodes' plots are triggered by children being sent to the Sylvanian Forest, where they encounter a situation that helps them learn more about a problem they were having beforehand, ultimately resulting in them learning a lesson by the end of the episode.

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