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* CreepyJazzMusic: B.L. has a minor-key swing tune as his {{Leitmotif}}, playing almost every time he appears in his "default" form.

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* CreepyJazzMusic: B.L. has a minor-key minor-[[{{Scales}} key]] swing tune as his {{Leitmotif}}, playing almost every time he appears in his "default" form.

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* PerpetuallyProtean: B.L. has a habit of constantly changing his form when excited or in the midst of a mental breakdown when he isn't attempting to keep himself stable in a suave facade.



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When Dan tries to talk to Jan one of the doorknockers on her mansion shapeshifts into Weez Weezel's face, which taunts him and tells him to go away. Dan reacts with annoyance instead of the shock and confusion most people would.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When Dan tries to talk to Jan one of the doorknockers on in her mansion shapeshifts into Weez Weezel's face, which taunts him and tells him to go away. Dan reacts with annoyance instead of the shock and confusion most people would.would.
* VillainousBreakdown: When Dan outsmarts him via the InsaneTrollLogic of his song, B.L. first punishes Weez and the jurors out of spite of siding with Jan and Dan before making a threat about not playing the nice guy anymore. It's also reflected in his physical appearance as he's so infuriated that his face is warping at a rapid pace.



* WickedWeasel: Weez Weezel, B.L.'s right hand man.

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* WickedWeasel: Weez Weezel, B.L.'s right hand right-hand man.

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%%* EvilSoundsDeep: But of course!
* ExactWords: Jan manages to buy a little more time by saying her soul isn't forfeit until midnight, which fortunately gives her enough time to find Dan.

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%%* * EvilSoundsDeep: But B.L. has a suitably demonic voice, which gets much deeper when he decides to do away with his facade of course!
a suave businessman is broken out of sadism or amidst his VillainousBreakdown.
* ExactWords: Jan manages to buy a little more time by saying her soul isn't forfeit forfeited until midnight, which fortunately gives her enough time to find Dan.


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* KickTheDog: B.L.'s intense chase of Jan out of her concert in the form of various dangerous animals putting her life in danger while understandably terrifying her. He already had a claim to her soul anyway, so B.L. doing the brief cat-and-mouse chase comes cross as unnecessarily cruel and pointless except for his own sick amusement.
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* ImprobableHairstyleSequence: Jan is a redhead with a typical [[SeventiesHair late 1970s-style curly hairdo]]. At one point during her period of peak fame, she is shown giving an interview sporting an altogether different look, platinum blonde and heavily styled. In the very next scene, however, her hair looks exactly as before (while another character holds a magazine with her picture from the interview on the cover). It's possible that she was wearing a wig or that, this being a cartoon with a metaphysical theme, magical shapeshifting was involved, but this is never explained.
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* BareYourMidriff: Jan twice in her performance attire.

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It is about a pair of folk-singing country mice, Dan and Jan, who aren't pulling in money. However, Jan makes a contract with a shady... Reptile... Thing named [[LouisCypher B.L. Zebub]] and becomes a rock superstar. It turns out B.L. is really [[{{Satan}} The Devil]], and after Jan's greatest success, he comes for her soul at midnight.

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It is about a pair of folk-singing country mice, Dan and Jan, who aren't pulling in money. However, Jan makes a contract with a shady... Reptile... Thing shady LouisCypher-type named [[LouisCypher B.L. Zebub]] Zebub and becomes a rock superstar. It turns out B.L. is really [[{{Satan}} The Devil]], and after Jan's greatest success, he comes for her soul at midnight.


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* AnimationBump: Though the film's already fairly good by the standards of UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation, B.L.'s animation is especially detailed, [[NonStandardCharacterDesign with a multitude of complicated facial features that makes him seem especially distinct to the more simplistic]] FunnyAnimal designs of the main characters. This is particularly shown during his VillainousBreakdown, where B.L. undergoes a series of monstrous, incredibly fluid transformations.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: But of course!

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* %%* EvilSoundsDeep: But of course!
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Animation Bump is about specific scenes having more work put into them than the rest of the movie, not about the movie as a whole being better-animated than other cartoons from the same time


* AnimationBump: The special is REALLY well-animated for something from UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation produced for TV!
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: It just ''oozes'' the 70's.

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