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* ShaggyDogStory: In the episode "[=WereGranny=]", Igor and Phil panic after believing that they've turned Dr. Vic's grandmother into a werewolf and make desperate attempts at finding a cure while preventing Dr. Vic from finding out that his grandmother is a werewolf. After Granny Frankenstein leaves, Dr. Vic reveals to Igor and Phil that his grandmother was always a werewolf, meaning that the pair's efforts in curing her of her lycanthropy and hiding her transformations from her grandson were all for nothing.
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* ShaggyDogStory: In the episode "[=WereGranny=]", Igor and Phil panic after believing that they've turned Dr. Vic's grandmother into a werewolf and make desperate attempts at finding a cure while preventing Dr. Vic from finding out that his grandmother is a werewolf. After Granny Frankenstein leaves, Dr. Vic reveals to Igor and Phil that his grandmother was always a werewolf, werewolf and was ''disappointed'' when he thinks she never turned, meaning that the pair's efforts in curing her of her lycanthropy and hiding her transformations from her grandson were all for nothing.
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* AccidentalAstronaut: In an episode where Melissa Screech goes on a field trip to the launch site, she goes on a space shuttle and presses a button, which told her not to touch, which launches her into space. Melissa arrived on a distant planet and insulted the queen of that planet, demanded the alien race to send her back to Earth.
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* TheCheerleader: In the ''Night of the Living Fred'' segment "Football and Other Body Parts", Ashley Deadman is confronted by a stuck-up cheerleader named Heather.
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* FormulaBreakingEpisode:
** "Built for Speed" was a full-episode parody of ''Speed''
** "Love Hurts" took place on a sadistic ''Dating Game'' style game show
** The episodes in season one that had a B-movie parody rather than a "Night of the Living Fred" cartoon.
** All of season two's episodes (except for "Phil's Brain" and "The Inferior Decorator," which were season one episodes that aired in season two), which got rid of the "Science Minute" segments, doubled the length of the "Igor, Dr. Vic, and Phil" cartoons, and sometimes don't show the "Night of the Living Fred" or "Melissa Screetch" cartoons.
** "Built for Speed" was a full-episode parody of ''Speed''
** "Love Hurts" took place on a sadistic ''Dating Game'' style game show
** The episodes in season one that had a B-movie parody rather than a "Night of the Living Fred" cartoon.
** All of season two's episodes (except for "Phil's Brain" and "The Inferior Decorator," which were season one episodes that aired in season two), which got rid of the "Science Minute" segments, doubled the length of the "Igor, Dr. Vic, and Phil" cartoons, and sometimes don't show the "Night of the Living Fred" or "Melissa Screetch" cartoons.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** "Built for Speed" was a full-episode parody of ''Speed''
** "Love Hurts" took place on a sadistic ''Dating Game'' style game show
** The episodes in season one that had a B-movie parody rather than a "Night of the Living Fred" cartoon.
** All of season two's episodes (except for "Phil's Brain" and "The Inferior Decorator," which were season one episodes that aired in season two), which got rid of the "Science Minute" segments, doubled the length of the "Igor, Dr. Vic, and Phil" cartoons, and sometimes don't show the "Night of the Living Fred" or "Melissa Screetch" cartoons.
** "Built for Speed" was a full-episode parody of ''Speed''
** "Love Hurts" took place on a sadistic ''Dating Game'' style game show
** The episodes in season one that had a B-movie parody rather than a "Night of the Living Fred" cartoon.
** All of season two's episodes (except for "Phil's Brain" and "The Inferior Decorator," which were season one episodes that aired in season two), which got rid of the "Science Minute" segments, doubled the length of the "Igor, Dr. Vic, and Phil" cartoons, and sometimes don't show the "Night of the Living Fred" or "Melissa Screetch" cartoons.
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* WholePlotReference: "Built For Speed", as mentioned under the SomethingCompletelyDifferent entry, is a send-up of the movie ''Speed''.
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* WholePlotReference: "Built For Speed", as mentioned under the SomethingCompletelyDifferent entry, Speed" is a send-up of the movie ''Speed''.
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** In the ''Night of the Living Fred'' segment "In Or Out", the principal, during a yearly visit to Fred Deadman's classroom, he figured out Fred is, as his surname suggests, dead and decided to expell him for that. After he was told there's no rule against dead kids attending school, he simply establish the rule, [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] the trope.
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** In the ''Night of the Living Fred'' segment "In Or Out", the principal, during a yearly visit to Fred Deadman's classroom, he figured out Fred is, as his surname suggests, dead and decided to expell him for that. After he was told there's no rule against dead kids attending school, he simply establish establishes the rule, [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] the trope.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "Darla Doily: Demon Doll" included Dr. Vic reading a book of pick-up lines to use on women and a scene of Igor, Dr. Vic, and Phil drooling over a SexySilhouette of a woman showering...until they draw back the curtain and find the Darla Doily doll ready to kill him.
** During Phil's montage of cleaning up the castle in "Phil's Brain", he at one point mops up a painting of a woman, which removes her clothes and leaves her naked while covering herself.
** Lampshaded in "[=WereGranny=]". Phil suggests that they simply deal with Dr. Vic's werewolf grandmother via the trademark silver bullet, and [[NoFourthWall Igor sharply reminds him]] [[ThinkOfTheCensors this is a kids show]].
-->'''Igor''': Ix-nay on the gun talk! This kid's watching.
-->'''Phil''': (''[[AsideGlance looks at audience]]'') Phil sorry!
** "Darla Doily: Demon Doll" included Dr. Vic reading a book of pick-up lines to use on women and a scene of Igor, Dr. Vic, and Phil drooling over a SexySilhouette of a woman showering...until they draw back the curtain and find the Darla Doily doll ready to kill him.
** During Phil's montage of cleaning up the castle in "Phil's Brain", he at one point mops up a painting of a woman, which removes her clothes and leaves her naked while covering herself.
** Lampshaded in "[=WereGranny=]". Phil suggests that they simply deal with Dr. Vic's werewolf grandmother via the trademark silver bullet, and [[NoFourthWall Igor sharply reminds him]] [[ThinkOfTheCensors this is a kids show]].
-->'''Igor''': Ix-nay on the gun talk! This kid's watching.
-->'''Phil''': (''[[AsideGlance looks at audience]]'') Phil sorry!
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "Darla Doily: Demon Doll" included Dr. VicGettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading a book of pick-up lines to use on women and a scene of Igor, Dr. Vic, and Phil drooling over a SexySilhouette of a woman showering...until they draw back the curtain and find the Darla Doily doll ready to kill him.
** During Phil's montage of cleaning up the castle in "Phil's Brain", he at one point mops up a painting of a woman, which removes her clothes and leaves her naked while covering herself.
** Lampshaded in "[=WereGranny=]". Phil suggests that they simply deal with Dr. Vic's werewolf grandmother via the trademark silver bullet, and [[NoFourthWall Igor sharply reminds him]] [[ThinkOfTheCensorsthis is a kids show]].
-->'''Igor''': Ix-nay onin the gun talk! This kid's watching.
-->'''Phil''': (''[[AsideGlance looks at audience]]'') Phil sorry!future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
** "Darla Doily: Demon Doll" included Dr. Vic
** During Phil's montage of cleaning up the castle in "Phil's Brain", he at one point mops up a painting of a woman, which removes her clothes and leaves her naked while covering herself.
** Lampshaded in "[=WereGranny=]". Phil suggests that they simply deal with Dr. Vic's werewolf grandmother via the trademark silver bullet, and [[NoFourthWall Igor sharply reminds him]] [[ThinkOfTheCensors
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-->'''Phil''': (''[[AsideGlance looks at audience]]'') Phil sorry!
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Only after they've destroyed much of human civilization do the aliens shamefully realize that they were mistaken in believing that Melissa Screetch represented the entire human race]].
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* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Switch the channel on Bunny Wunny at your own peril. Right, Igor?]]
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* CreepyFamily: The Deadmans from the ''Night of the Living Fred'' segments are a family of zombies.
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* CreepyFamily: The Deadmans from the ''Night of the Living Fred'' segments are a family of zombies.zombies, albeit harmless ones. At least, [[TooDumbToLive they try to be harmless]].
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** The episode "Phil's Brain" has Phil's brain Larry Cortex carry another brain named Sarah Bellum (a play on cerebellum).
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** The episode "Phil's Brain" has Phil's brain Larry Cortex carry marry another brain named Sarah Bellum (a play on cerebellum).
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* IAteWhat: The ''Night of the Living Fred'' segment "Bang!" at one point has the Deadmans throw a dinner party for their new neighbors the Baffs, who are grossed out when they are told that the food they're being served with is made of maggots.
-->'''Mrs. Baff''': Now, Mr. Deadman, what is this Hawaiian dish? Is it some kind of macaroni?\\
'''Dedgar Deadman''': Close, it's ''maggot''-roni.\\
'''Mr. Baff''': You mean ''rigatoni''.\\
'''Stiffany Deadman''': Oh, no. Maggot-roni, with fresh Maui maggots. (''The Baff kids make disgusted faces and Mrs. Baff spits her food into Mr. Baff's face'')
-->'''Mrs. Baff''': Now, Mr. Deadman, what is this Hawaiian dish? Is it some kind of macaroni?\\
'''Dedgar Deadman''': Close, it's ''maggot''-roni.\\
'''Mr. Baff''': You mean ''rigatoni''.\\
'''Stiffany Deadman''': Oh, no. Maggot-roni, with fresh Maui maggots. (''The Baff kids make disgusted faces and Mrs. Baff spits her food into Mr. Baff's face'')
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I've rewatched the episode in question and on closer inspection Phil doesn't appear to be leering at the nude portrait. My mistake.
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** During Phil's montage of cleaning up the castle in "Phil's Brain", he at one point mops up a painting of a woman, which removes her clothes and leaves her naked while covering herself. Phil even leers at her before moving on.
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** During Phil's montage of cleaning up the castle in "Phil's Brain", he at one point mops up a painting of a woman, which removes her clothes and leaves her naked while covering herself. Phil even leers at her before moving on.
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* TakeThat: In "Darla Doily: Demon Doll", WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's skeleton can be seen chained up in a dungeon for a split second.
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* WiltingOdor: In the ''Night of the Living Fred'' segment "Dead Dog Day Afternoon", the smell of Fred Deadman's dead dog Frisky at one point causes all the birds to fall out of a tree and the tree to subsequently lose all its leaves.
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* LicensedGame: The cartoon had a video game for the Game Boy Color, where the objective was for Igor to find Phil's scattered body parts so he could rebuild him after accidentally blowing him to pieces.
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* PerpetualSmiler: The Deadmans are constantly seen grinning.
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* RewatchBonus: In "[=WereGranny=]", Igor and Phil believe they've accidentally turned Dr. Vic's grandmother into a werewolf and do whatever they can to hide her transformations from her grandson and try to cure her. At one point, Dr. Vic offers to use his telescope to show his grandmother the moon. Granny Frankenstein responds "Sure, sonny. You know me". On a second viewing, this is a hint early on that Granny Frankenstein was already a werewolf before she came to visit the castle and that Dr. Vic was already aware of it.
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Fanservice Pack applies to a character becoming more fanservicey during the run of the show. I don't think a child turning into a beautiful woman briefly counts.
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* FanservicePack: Melissa Screetch gets this in the Melissarella segment.
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* HereWeGoAgain: "Darla Doily: Demon Doll" has Phil menaced by the Darla Doily doll Igor bought him for his birthday. After the Darla Doily doll is defeated, Phil accepts the Sergeant Kilko action figure Igor made to fight the doll as his new toy, but is unable to go to bed when it turns out that Sergeant Kilko also wants to kill him.
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* FriendlyZombie: The Deadmans are actually quite good-natured and amiable for a family of walking, decaying corpses.
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* MusicalEpisode: "My Fair Monster" has several scenes of the characters singing.
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* ShoutOut: Igor once greets a rival mad scientist's assistant with a disgusted "Hello, Renfield." [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} A very familiar guitar strain plays]]. Wayne "Newman" Knight, of course, voiced Igor.
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* ShoutOut: In "My Fair Monster", Igor once greets a rival mad scientist's assistant with a disgusted "Hello, Renfield." [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} A very familiar guitar strain plays]]. Wayne "Newman" Knight, of course, voiced Igor.
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* WholePlotReference: "Built For Speed", as mentioned under the ShoutOut entry, is a send-up of the movie ''Speed''.
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* WholePlotReference: "Built For Speed", as mentioned under the ShoutOut SomethingCompletelyDifferent entry, is a send-up of the movie ''Speed''.
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* TheCheerleader: In the ''Night of the Living Fred'' segment "Football and Other Body Parts", Ashley Deadman is confronted by a stuck-up cheerleader named Heather.
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* LookBehindYou: In the ''Night of the Living Fred'' segment "Football and Other Body Parts", Ashley is dared to prove that she can do the splits better than Heather. Ashley shouts "Look, touchdown" to distract Heather and her clique long enough that they don't see her cheat by removing her leg and reattaching it after her body collapses.
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* UncattyResemblance: In the ''Night of the Living Fred'' segment "Dead Dog Day Afternoon", several of the participants of the dog show Fred entered his dog Frisky into happened to resemble their owners.
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** In another ''Night of the Living Fred'' segment titled "Dead Dog Day Afternoon", Fred took his dead and stuffed dog Frisky to a dog show. Frisky was allowed in because [[AintNoRule there was no rule]] against dead dogs entering. Frisky won because the last event was a "stay" and the points for it were more than any other dog had got after the other events.
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** In another ''Night of the Living Fred'' segment titled "Dead Dog Day Afternoon", Fred took his dead and stuffed dog Frisky to a dog show. Frisky was allowed in because [[AintNoRule there was no rule]] rule against dead dogs entering. Frisky won because the last event was a "stay" and the points for it were more than any other dog had got after the other events.
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* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: "Phil's Brain" has Igor communicate with his reflection in the castle's moat, who acts as if he's a completely separate character from Igor.
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* IronicName: Fred Deadman's dog is named Frisky. The word "frisky" means full of energy, while Frisky is an immobile corpse, the exact opposite of frisky.
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* PunnyName:
** The episode "Phil's Brain" has Phil's brain Larry Cortex carry another brain named Sarah Bellum (a play on cerebellum).
** Most of the Deadmans have a name having to do with being deceased. The father's name is Dedgar (a play on "dead" and the name Edgar), the mother is named Stiffany (a play on the name Tiffany and "stiff" being slang for corpse) and the daughter is named Ashley (as in "ashes to ashes").
** The episode "Phil's Brain" has Phil's brain Larry Cortex carry another brain named Sarah Bellum (a play on cerebellum).
** Most of the Deadmans have a name having to do with being deceased. The father's name is Dedgar (a play on "dead" and the name Edgar), the mother is named Stiffany (a play on the name Tiffany and "stiff" being slang for corpse) and the daughter is named Ashley (as in "ashes to ashes").
