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* FairForItsDay: "Uncle Toms Crabbin". While the blackface designs would turn heads today, its surprising in that it clearly shows Felix on the side of a sympathetically portrayed Uncle Tom against Simon Legree (with his race and plight ''not'' being played for laughs), with Felix even helping Tom against Legree and coming out on top in the end.
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* FairForItsDay: "Uncle Toms Crabbin". While the blackface designs and deep south slavery setting would turn heads today, its surprising in that it clearly shows Felix on the side of a sympathetically portrayed Uncle Tom against Simon Legree (with his race and plight ''not'' being played for laughs), with Felix even helping Tom against Legree and coming out on top in the end.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Felix gets one of his shining moments in the silent short "Uncle Tom's Crabbin", a short that is a surprising example of FairForItsDay--Felix travels to the deep south and finds the eponymous [[Literature/UncleTomsCabin Uncle Tom]], who is antagonized by [[DastardlyWhiplash Simon Legree]] by [[KickTheDog whipping him and smashing apart his banjo]] for keeping him awake with his music. While Tom is drawn in stereotypical cartoon blackface of the time, his race and plight is not played for laughs at all, and Felix is clearly on his side. He not only [[PetTheDog improvises a new banjo for Tom]], but when Simon Legree shows up again, Felix distracts him into chasing after him and even hurls rocks back at Legree while he gives chase. And when Legree sicks a hunting dog after him, [[CurbStompBattle Felix proceeds to beat the animal into a limp noodle.]] Considering the institutionalized racism of the 1920's, its amazing that they were able to get away with making a cartoon like this.
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* FairForItsDay: "Uncle Toms Crabbin". While the blackface designs would turn heads today, its surprising in that it clearly shows Felix on the side of a sympathetically portrayed Uncle Tom against Simon Legree (with his race and plight ''not'' being played for laughs), with Felix even helping Tom against Legree and coming out on top in the end.
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* BrokenBase: The reception of the post-silent era Felix cartoons are contested among the fanbase, particularly in regards to the TV-era Felix cartoons and [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie the movie adaptation based on it.]]
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* BrokenBase: The reception of the post-silent era Felix cartoons are contested among the fanbase, particularly in regards to the TV-era Felix cartoons and [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie the movie adaptation based on it.]]]] Some fans champion the Silent cartoons as untouchable masterpieces and consider the Trans-Lux Felix to be where the series entered a DorkAge, while some nostalgic fans unapologetically love the TV Felix cartoons and consider the silent shorts [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny to be mostly dated and boring.]] ''Twisted Tales of Felix'', for better or worse, tends to land somewhere in the middle in reception.
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* AwesomeArt: The the silent cartoons were some of the earliest rubberhose cartoons ever made, and they still hold up as appealing to look at and smoothly animated. Shorts like "Felix Woos Whoopee" are as great as anything Creator/FleischerStudios ever did.
** The [[Creator/VanBeurenStudios three Van Beuren Felix the Cat cartoons]] have some splendid cartoon animation and downright ''gorgeous'' background art and colors.
** The [[Creator/VanBeurenStudios three Van Beuren Felix the Cat cartoons]] have some splendid cartoon animation and downright ''gorgeous'' background art and colors.
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* EarWorm: The very catchy Felix the Cat theme song is one of the things people remember most about the character.
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* EarWorm: The very catchy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5t9SxWk7Qc Felix the Cat theme song song]] is one of the things people remember most about the character.character.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeAaTgZNHH4 90's syndicated opening for the TV cartoons]] is pretty catchy, too.
** Then there's the ''original'' Felix the Cat theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dia8g9q1SdU "Felix Kept On Walking".]]
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeAaTgZNHH4 90's syndicated opening for the TV cartoons]] is pretty catchy, too.
** Then there's the ''original'' Felix the Cat theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dia8g9q1SdU "Felix Kept On Walking".]]
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* EarWorm: The very catchy Felix the Cat theme song is one of the things people remember most about the character.
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* IdiotPlot: "Blubberino the Whale", one of the Trans-Lux era cartoons, has the plot centered on Felix stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean and starving. The thing is, Felix has his Magic Bag on hand, which he can use for any situation or purpose he needs--in fact, he turns the bag into a gyrocopter at the end to defeat the eponymous whale. Why didn't he just use the bag to return back to the mainland in the first place?
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** One of the series recurring characters, Poindexter, is a kid scientist who has [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dexter as (part) of his name...]]
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* MyRealDaddy: While the bulk of the franchise up to the TV shorts attributes Felix as a creation of cartoonist Pat Sullivan, almost everybody today recognizes Creator/OttoMessmer as the real person behind Felix's creation and success.
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* MyRealDaddy: While the bulk of the franchise up to the TV shorts attributes Felix as a creation of cartoonist Pat Sullivan, almost everybody today recognizes Creator/OttoMessmer as the real person behind Felix's creation and success. The credits for ''The Twisted Tales of Felix'' go as far as to credit both Otto Messmer ''and'' Joe Oriolo as the creators of Felix, but completely leaves out mentioning Pat Sullivan.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Felix the Cat pioneered so many of what are now standard cartoon tools and cliches, being the forerunners for cartoons that took its foundation and considerably built on it, like Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes and Betty Boop, that it can rather hard to appreciate just how innovative and creative the original silent cartoons were at the time.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Felix the Cat pioneered so was considered very smoothly animated for its time, and its personality based visual humor and impossible cartoon gags were very unique compared to other early animated cartoons, pioneering many of what are now standard cartoon tools and cliches, cliches (with the rubberhose art style becoming the cartoon industry standard for decades), and he was also the first cartoon character to achieve significant popularity, being the forerunners forerunner for cartoons that took its foundation and considerably built on it, like Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes and Betty Boop, that so it can rather hard to appreciate just how innovative and creative the original silent cartoons were at the time.time. The rather slow pacing of the cartoons and Felix being the only central character the bulk of the time doesn't really help matters, either.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Felix the Cat pioneered so many of what are now standard cartoon tools and cliches, being the forerunners for cartoons that took its foundation and considerably built on it, like Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes and Betty Boop, that it can rather hard to appreciate just how innovative and creative the original silent cartoons were at the time.
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* BrokenBase: The reception of the post-silent era Felix cartoons are contested among the fanbase, particularly in regards to the TV-era Felix cartoons.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Felix is remembered as one of ''the first'' television stars. How? In the form of an Creator/{{NBC}} test pattern featuring [[http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/felix-the-cat-pictured-felix-the-cat-formerly-used-by-nbc-as-a-test-picture-id138452532 Felix as a doll]]. It's significance comes from being one of the first images to be broadcast on the then-fledging medium of television, when NBC was just a decade old. 85 years later, NBC parent NBC Universal acquired Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, the current rights-holder of Felix, ultimately bringing his legacy back to NBC after more than a century.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Felix is remembered as one of ''the first'' television stars. How? In the form of an Creator/{{NBC}} test pattern featuring [[http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/felix-the-cat-pictured-felix-the-cat-formerly-used-by-nbc-as-a-test-picture-id138452532 Felix as a doll]]. It's Its significance comes from being one of the first images to be broadcast on the then-fledging medium of television, when NBC was just a decade old. 85 years later, NBC parent NBC Universal acquired Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, the current rights-holder of Felix, ultimately bringing his legacy back to NBC after more than a century.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Felix is remembered as one of ''the first'' television stars. How? In the form of an Creator/{{NBC}} test pattern featuring [[http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/felix-the-cat-pictured-felix-the-cat-formerly-used-by-nbc-as-a-test-picture-id138452532 Felix as a doll]]. It's significance comes from being one of the first images to be broadcast on the then-fledging medium of television, when NBC was just a decade old. 85 years later, NBC parent NBCUniversal acquired Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, the current rights-holder of Felix, ultimately bringing his legacy back to NBC after more than a century.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Felix is remembered as one of ''the first'' television stars. How? In the form of an Creator/{{NBC}} test pattern featuring [[http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/felix-the-cat-pictured-felix-the-cat-formerly-used-by-nbc-as-a-test-picture-id138452532 Felix as a doll]]. It's significance comes from being one of the first images to be broadcast on the then-fledging medium of television, when NBC was just a decade old. 85 years later, NBC parent NBCUniversal NBC Universal acquired Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, the current rights-holder of Felix, ultimately bringing his legacy back to NBC after more than a century.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Felix is remembered as one of ''the first'' television stars. How? In the form of an Creator/{{NBC}} test pattern featuring [[http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/felix-the-cat-pictured-felix-the-cat-formerly-used-by-nbc-as-a-test-picture-id138452532 Felix as a doll]]. It's significance comes from being one of the first images to be broadcast on the then-fledging medium of television, when NBC was just a decade old. 85 years later, NBC parent NBCUniversal acquired Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, the current rights-holder of Felix, ultimately bringing his legacy back to NBC after more than a century.
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* NewerThanTheyThink: The Professor's nephew Poindexter is actually the progenitor of the term "poindexter" being a synonym for "geek" or "nerd"!
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* MyRealDaddy: While the bulk of the franchise up to the TV shorts attributes Felix as a creation of cartoonist Pat Sullivan, almost everybody today recognizes OttoMessmer as the real person behind Felix's creation and success.
* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: There exists a Felix video game for the {{NES}} and GameBoy, and both happen to be surprisingly enjoyable Mario clones, with fun gameplay and appealing graphics and music.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Winston Sharples's energetic and dramatic music scores are considered one of the best elements of the Van Beuren and TV Felix cartoons.
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* SignatureScene: Felix's "Thinking Walk", which is frequently used throughout his cartoons. It was even reused in the [[VanBeurenStudios Van Beuren]] and Joe Oriolo TV cartoons!
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* MainstreamObscurity: Felix is far from a forgotten character today, but not that many people have seen his cartoons outside of baby boomers and animation buffs, not helping that he hasn't starred in any major new works in decades.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Winston Sharples energetic, dramatic music scores are considered one of the best elements of the Van Beuren and TV Felix cartoons.
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* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: There exists a Felix video game for the {{NES}} and GameBoy, and both happen to be surprisingly enjoyable Mario clones, with fun gameplay and appealing graphics and music.
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* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: There exists a Felix video game for the {{NES}} and GameBoy, and both happen to be surprisingly enjoyable Mario clones, with fun gameplay and appealing graphics and music.music.
* SignatureScene: Felix's "Thinking Walk", which is frequently used throughout his cartoons. It was even reused in the [[VanBeurenStudios Van Beuren]] and Joe Oriolo TV cartoons!
* SignatureScene: Felix's "Thinking Walk", which is frequently used throughout his cartoons. It was even reused in the [[VanBeurenStudios Van Beuren]] and Joe Oriolo TV cartoons!
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* MyRealDaddy: While the bulk of the franchise up to the TV shorts attributes Felix as a creation of cartoonist Pat Sullivan, almost everybody today recognizes OttoMessmer as the real person behind Felix's creation and success.
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