History WesternAnimation / TheFoxAndTheCrow

* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The UPA shorts are drastically more fantastical or imagination-based than all the other shorts.

The first film in the series, ''The Fox and the Grapes'', was directed by ex-WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes veteran Creator/FrankTashlin, and was an experimental short in using a classic "blackout gag" format: this makes it feel like a woodland precursor to Creator/ChuckJones' later [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner]] cartoons--Jones even cited that short as an influence on his series! The short's plot established the relationship between the duo, with the dim-witted Fauntleroy going about his business, only for the crow to decide to pester him for the sake of it.

!Tropes:

* {{Alliterative Name}}s: The eponymous duo.

* NiceHat: Fauntleroy's boater hat and Crawford's derby hat.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The three UPA shorts completely disregarded the series' established formula. "Robin Hoodlum" is a Robin Hood parody with Fauntleroy as Robin; "The Magic Fluke" has Crawford being loyal to Fauntleroy, even after he rejects him; and "Punchy De Leon" has the duo as con artists, rather than just Crawford.

* LimitedAnimation: The UPA shorts.

[[caption-width-right:350:Fauntleroy Fox and Crawford Fox, in a scene from the 1942 short ''Toll Bridge Troubles'']]

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[[caption-width-right:260:Fauntleroy Fox and Crawford Crow, in a scene from the 1945 short ''Phoney Baloney'']]

* StiffUpperLip: Parodied on "Robin Hoodlum". Robin's Merry Men act like stuffy upper class Brits, and they only get alarmed when Robin is [[ASpotOfTea late for tea]].

* TheDeterminator: Fauntleroy, in the first short anyway.

* AnimationBump: The earlier shorts boast moderately fluid (for a relatively low-budget studio) character animation by the likes of Disney alumni (inclusive of Emery Hawkins, Bob Wickersham and Louie Schmitt) displaced by the infamous 1941 strike befalling said studio; such fluidity is generally aided by the more cinematic direction (influenced by supervising director Frank Tashlin's surprisingly sophisticated filmic sensibilities) defining Screen Gems' 1942-43 output. Following the departure of Tashlin (and, within the following year, several key animators), the raw quality of animation increasingly stagnates into a blander and more slapdash form, attaining a crux during the final group of shorts (released circa 1946-49) by the studio. Conversely, the three UPA-produced shorts largely evoke this trope courtesy of their top-flight crew of animators, among them [[Creator/WalterLantz Walter Lantz]] veteran Pat Matthews and [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Warner Bros.]] mainstays Robert 'Bobe' Cannon and Bill Melendez.

* AnimationBump: The earlier shorts boast moderately fluid (for a relatively low-budget studio) character animation by the likes of Disney alumni (inclusive of Emery Hawkins, Bob Wickersham and Louie Schmitt) displaced by the infamous 1941 strike befalling said studio; such fluidity is generally aided by the more cinematic direction (influenced by supervising director Frank Tashlin's surprisingly sophisticated filmic sensibilities) defining Screen Gems' 1942-43 output. Following the departure of Tashlin (and, within the following year, several key animators), the raw quality of animation increasingly stagnates into a blander and more slapdash form, attaining a crux during the final group of shorts (released circa 1946-49) by the studio. Conversely, the three UPA-produced shorts largely evoke this trope courtesy of their top-flight crew of animators, among them Waltz Lantz veteran Pat Matthews and [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes&MerrieMelodies Warner Bros.]] mainstays Robert 'Bobe' Cannon and Bill Melendez.

* AnimationBump: The earlier shorts boast moderately fluid (for a relatively low-budget studio) character animation by the likes of Disney alumni (inclusive of Emery Hawkins, Bob Wickersham and Louie Schmitt) displaced by the infamous 1941 strike befalling said studio; such fluidity is generally aided by the more cinematic direction (influenced by supervising director Frank Tashlin's surprisingly sophisticated filmic sensibilities) defining Screen Gems' 1942-43 output. Following the departure of Tashlin (and, within the following year, several key animators), the raw quality of animation increasingly stagnates into a blander and more slapdash form, attaining a crux during the final group of shorts (released circa 1946-49) by the studio. Conversely, the three UPA-produced shorts largely evoke this trope courtesy of their top-flight crew of animators, among them Waltz Lantz veteran Pat Matthews and [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesAndMerrieMelodies Warner Bros.]] mainstays Robert 'Bobe' Cannon and Bill Melendez.

* AnimationBump: The earlier shorts boast moderately fluid (for a relatively low-budget studio) character animation by the likes of Disney alumni (inclusive of Emery Hawkins, Bob Wickersham and Louie Schmitt) displaced by the infamous 1941 strike befalling said studio; such fluidity is generally aided by the more cinematic direction (influenced by supervising director Frank Tashlin's surprisingly sophisticated filmic sensibilities) defining Screen Gems' 1942-43 output. Following the departure of Tashlin (and, within the following year, several key animators), the raw quality of animation increasingly stagnates into a blander and more slapdash form, attaining a crux during the final group of shorts (released circa 1946-49) by the studio. Conversely, the three UPA-produced shorts largely evoke this trope courtesy of their top-flight crew of animators, among them Waltz Lantz veteran Pat Matthews and [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunexsAndMerrieMelodies Warner Bros.]] mainstays Robert 'Bobe' Cannon and Bill Melendez.

[[caption-width-right:260:Fauntleroy Fox and Crawford Crow, in a scene from one of their early shorts.]]

** Because of this, they're probably the only characters to exist within the DC Universe that don't actually belong to DC Comics.
*** Oddly enough, they also make an appearance in Inferior Five #7, leading one to speculate if they have counterparts on Earth-12.

* NonhumansLackAttributes: In "Mr. Moocher", when Fauntleroy is taking a bath, he stands up revealing his green GoofyPrintUnderwear...and ''covers his crotch in embarrassment'' as if he's naked (while he's not). Then he gets out and puts a towel around his waist ''with his underwear still on''.

* CunningLikeAFox: Fauntleroy.