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* AnticlimaxBoss: Professor's Spaceship is a ridiculously easy final boss if you know what you're doing. While he can be somewhat irritating if you fight him without power-ups, the room he's in gives, you ''three'' opportunities to power-up off the bat, meaning you can get the tank and mop the floor with him in a hurry. On top of that, he has a very simplistic A.I. that moves in a figure 8 pattern [[ArtificialStupidity that is very easy for Felix to exploit]], and he only has a slow firing attack that, while not telegraphed, is fairly easy to dodge due to it flying in an arc. In the Game Boy version, he's even ''easier'' due to how slow both he and his attacks move.
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* AnticlimaxBoss: Professor's Spaceship is a ridiculously easy final boss if you know what you're doing. While he can be somewhat irritating if you fight him without power-ups, the room he's in gives, gives you ''three'' opportunities to power-up off the bat, meaning you can get the tank and mop the floor with him in a hurry. On top of that, he has a very simplistic A.I. that moves in a figure 8 pattern [[ArtificialStupidity that is very easy for Felix to exploit]], and he only has a slow firing attack that, while not telegraphed, is fairly easy to dodge due to it flying in an arc. In the Game Boy version, he's even ''easier'' due to how slow both he and his attacks move.
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* AnticlimaxBoss: Professor's Spaceship is a ridiculously easy final boss if you know what you're doing. While he can be somewhat challenging if you fight him without power-ups, the room he's in gives you ''three'' opportunities to power-up off the bat, meaning you can get the tank and mop the floor with him in a hurry. On top of that, he has a very simplistic flight pattern and a slow firing attack that are very easy to dodge. In the Game Boy version, he's even ''easier'' due to how slow both he and his attacks move.
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* AnticlimaxBoss: Professor's Spaceship is a ridiculously easy final boss if you know what you're doing. While he can be somewhat challenging irritating if you fight him without power-ups, the room he's in gives gives, you ''three'' opportunities to power-up off the bat, meaning you can get the tank and mop the floor with him in a hurry. On top of that, he has a very simplistic flight A.I. that moves in a figure 8 pattern [[ArtificialStupidity that is very easy for Felix to exploit]], and he only has a slow firing attack that are very that, while not telegraphed, is fairly easy to dodge.dodge due to it flying in an arc. In the Game Boy version, he's even ''easier'' due to how slow both he and his attacks move.
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** Master Cylinder is a joke when you fight him with power-ups, but he becomes a nasty WakeUpCallBoss if you don't fight him with them. While he has a very simplistic attack pattern (float up and down and occasionally shoot a laser), he has no telegraphing for his laser attack, and since you'll only have your boxing glove without power-ups, that means you have to put yourself right in his line of fire in order to hit him. Combined with the floaty umbrella controls and the fact that its very easy to collide into Master Cylinder, and this fight will really test your skills.
** The rematch against him in 6-3 manages to be even ''more'' of a slog to fight if fought without power ups. He gets a new bubble attack that fires much more frequently than his lasers and moves at a ''much'' slower speed, only leaving you small windows to attack him at close range and little to no time to dodge the bubbles if they pop up in your path. To make matters worse, the pattern he likes to shoot his bubbles in along with the direction the bubbles move is very inconsistent.
** The rematch against him in 6-3 manages to be even ''more'' of a slog to fight if fought without power ups. He gets a new bubble attack that fires much more frequently than his lasers and moves at a ''much'' slower speed, only leaving you small windows to attack him at close range and little to no time to dodge the bubbles if they pop up in your path. To make matters worse, the pattern he likes to shoot his bubbles in along with the direction the bubbles move is very inconsistent.
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** Master Cylinder is a joke when you fight him with power-ups, but he becomes a nasty WakeUpCallBoss if you don't fight him with them. While he has a very simplistic attack pattern (float up and down and occasionally shoot a laser), he has no telegraphing for his laser attack, and since you'll only have your boxing glove without power-ups, that means you have to put yourself right in his line of fire in order to hit him. Combined with the floaty umbrella controls and the fact that its very easy to collide into Master Cylinder, along with the fact that Master Cylinder can always move up and down at a consistent speed while Felix descends much slower, and this fight will really test your skills.
** The rematch against him in 6-3 manages to be even ''more'' of a slog to fight if fought without power ups. He gets a new bubble attack that fires much more frequently than his lasers and moves at a ''much'' slower speed, only leaving you small windows to attack him at close range and little to no time to dodge the bubbles if they pop up in your path. To make matters worse, the pattern he likes to shoot his bubbles in along with the direction the bubbles move is veryinconsistent.inconsistent, and the fact that he can still move faster than Felix can descend in water only adds to the frustration.
** The rematch against him in 6-3 manages to be even ''more'' of a slog to fight if fought without power ups. He gets a new bubble attack that fires much more frequently than his lasers and moves at a ''much'' slower speed, only leaving you small windows to attack him at close range and little to no time to dodge the bubbles if they pop up in your path. To make matters worse, the pattern he likes to shoot his bubbles in along with the direction the bubbles move is very
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** Master Cylinder is a joke when you fight him with power-ups, but he becomes a pain in the ass if you don't fight him with them. While he has a very simplistic attack pattern (float up and down and occasionally shoot a laser), he has no telegraphing for his laser attack, and since you'll only have your boxing glove without power-ups, that means you have to put yourself right in his line of fire in order to hit him. Combined with the floaty umbrella controls and the fact that its very easy to collide into Master Cylinder, and this fight will really test your skills.
** The rematch against him in world six manages to be even ''more'' of a slog to fight if fought without power ups. He gets a new bubble attack that fires much more frequently than his lasers and moves at a ''much'' slower speed, only leaving you small windows to attack him at close range and little to no time to dodge the bubbles if they pop up in your path. To make matters worse, the pattern he likes to shoot his bubbles in along with the direction the bubbles move is very inconsistent.
** Poindexter, in stark contrast to how ridiculously easy he is to fight in 1-3, is much harder in the rematch with him in 7-3 without power-ups. His giant snowballs are very hard to dodge, and he constantly throws them and keeps a couple on screen at once, so unless you have their pattern down and have extremely quick reflexes, you will get overwhelmed in a hurry. While you can jump on them, it's very easy to fall off them or unwittingly collide into Poindexter if you stick around on them, and you can accidentally buffet Felix into the snowballs if you don't ''precisely'' land on top of them. He's not quite as hard as the Master Cylinder encounters, but the fight can still be a pain in the ass.
** The rematch against him in world six manages to be even ''more'' of a slog to fight if fought without power ups. He gets a new bubble attack that fires much more frequently than his lasers and moves at a ''much'' slower speed, only leaving you small windows to attack him at close range and little to no time to dodge the bubbles if they pop up in your path. To make matters worse, the pattern he likes to shoot his bubbles in along with the direction the bubbles move is very inconsistent.
** Poindexter, in stark contrast to how ridiculously easy he is to fight in 1-3, is much harder in the rematch with him in 7-3 without power-ups. His giant snowballs are very hard to dodge, and he constantly throws them and keeps a couple on screen at once, so unless you have their pattern down and have extremely quick reflexes, you will get overwhelmed in a hurry. While you can jump on them, it's very easy to fall off them or unwittingly collide into Poindexter if you stick around on them, and you can accidentally buffet Felix into the snowballs if you don't ''precisely'' land on top of them. He's not quite as hard as the Master Cylinder encounters, but the fight can still be a pain in the ass.
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** Master Cylinder is a joke when you fight him with power-ups, but he becomes a pain in the ass nasty WakeUpCallBoss if you don't fight him with them. While he has a very simplistic attack pattern (float up and down and occasionally shoot a laser), he has no telegraphing for his laser attack, and since you'll only have your boxing glove without power-ups, that means you have to put yourself right in his line of fire in order to hit him. Combined with the floaty umbrella controls and the fact that its very easy to collide into Master Cylinder, and this fight will really test your skills.
** The rematch against him inworld six 6-3 manages to be even ''more'' of a slog to fight if fought without power ups. He gets a new bubble attack that fires much more frequently than his lasers and moves at a ''much'' slower speed, only leaving you small windows to attack him at close range and little to no time to dodge the bubbles if they pop up in your path. To make matters worse, the pattern he likes to shoot his bubbles in along with the direction the bubbles move is very inconsistent.
** Poindexter, in stark contrast to how [[WarmUpBoss ridiculously easy he is to fight in1-3, 1-3]], is much harder in the rematch with him in 7-3 7-2 without power-ups. His giant snowballs are very hard to dodge, and he constantly throws them and keeps a couple on screen at once, so unless you have their pattern down and have extremely quick reflexes, you will get overwhelmed in a hurry. While you can jump on them, it's very easy to fall off them or unwittingly collide into Poindexter if you stick around on them, and you can accidentally buffet Felix into the snowballs if you don't ''precisely'' land on top of them. He's not quite as hard as the Master Cylinder encounters, but the fight with him can still be a serious pain in the ass.
** The rematch against him in
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** Poindexter, in stark contrast to how ridiculously easy he is to fight in 1-3, is much harder in the rematch with him in 7-3 without power-ups. His giant snowballs are very hard to dodge, and he constantly throws them and keeps a couple on screen at once, so unless you have their pattern down and have extremely quick reflexes, you will get overwhelmed in a hurry. While you can jump on them, it's very easy to fall off them or unwittingly collide into Poindexter if you stick around on them, and you can accidentally buffet Felix into the snowballs if you don't ''precisely'' land on top of them. He's not quite as hard as the Master Cylinder encounters, but it can still be a pain in the ass.
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** Poindexter, in stark contrast to how ridiculously easy he is to fight in 1-3, is much harder in the rematch with him in 7-3 without power-ups. His giant snowballs are very hard to dodge, and he constantly throws them and keeps a couple on screen at once, so unless you have their pattern down and have extremely quick reflexes, you will get overwhelmed in a hurry. While you can jump on them, it's very easy to fall off them or unwittingly collide into Poindexter if you stick around on them, and you can accidentally buffet Felix into the snowballs if you don't ''precisely'' land on top of them. He's not quite as hard as the Master Cylinder encounters, but it the fight can still be a pain in the ass.
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** Poindexter, in stark contrast to how ridiculously easy he is to fight in 1-3, is much harder in the rematch with him in 7-3 without power-ups. His giant snowballs are very hard to dodge, and he constantly throws them and keeps a couple on screen at once, so unless you have their pattern down and have extremely quick reflexes, you will get overwhelmed in a hurry. While you can jump on them, it's very easy to fall off them or unwittingly collide into Poindexter if you stick around on them, and you can accidentally buffet Felix into the snowballs if you don't ''precisely'' land on top of the snowballs.
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** Poindexter, in stark contrast to how ridiculously easy he is to fight in 1-3, is much harder in the rematch with him in 7-3 without power-ups. His giant snowballs are very hard to dodge, and he constantly throws them and keeps a couple on screen at once, so unless you have their pattern down and have extremely quick reflexes, you will get overwhelmed in a hurry. While you can jump on them, it's very easy to fall off them or unwittingly collide into Poindexter if you stick around on them, and you can accidentally buffet Felix into the snowballs if you don't ''precisely'' land on top of them. He's not quite as hard as the snowballs.Master Cylinder encounters, but it can still be a pain in the ass.
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** Poindexter, in stark contrast to how ridiculously easy he is to fight in 1-3, is much harder in the rematch with him in 7-3 without power-ups. His giant snowballs are very hard to dodge, and he constantly throws them and keeps a couple on screen at once, so unless you have their pattern down and have extremely quick reflexes, you will get overwhelmed in a hurry. While you can jump on them, it's very easy to fall off them or unwittingly collide into Poindexter if you stick around on them, and you can accidentally buffet Felix into the snowballs if you don't ''precisely'' land on top of the snowballs.
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** The rematch against him in world six manages to be even ''more'' of a slog to fight if fought without power ups. He gets a new bubble attack that fires much more frequently than his lasers and moves at a ''much'' slower speed, only leaving you small windows to attack him at close range and little to no time to dodge the bubbles if they pop up in your path.
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** The rematch against him in world six manages to be even ''more'' of a slog to fight if fought without power ups. He gets a new bubble attack that fires much more frequently than his lasers and moves at a ''much'' slower speed, only leaving you small windows to attack him at close range and little to no time to dodge the bubbles if they pop up in your path. To make matters worse, the pattern he likes to shoot his bubbles in along with the direction the bubbles move is very inconsistent.
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* ThatOneBoss: Master Cylinder is a joke when you fight him with power-ups, but he becomes a pain in the ass if you don't fight him with them. While he has a very simplistic attack pattern (float up and down and occasionally shoot a laser), he has no telegraphing for his laser attack, and since you'll only have your boxing glove without power-ups, that means you have to put yourself right in his line of fire in order to hit him. Combined with the floaty umbrella controls and the fact that its very easy to collide into Master Cylinder, and this fight will really test your skills.
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** Master Cylinder is a joke when you fight him with power-ups, but he becomes a pain in the ass if you don't fight him with them. While he has a very simplistic attack pattern (float up and down and occasionally shoot a laser), he has no telegraphing for his laser attack, and since you'll only have your boxing glove without power-ups, that means you have to put yourself right in his line of fire in order to hit him. Combined with the floaty umbrella controls and the fact that its very easy to collide into Master Cylinder, and this fight will really test your skills.
** The rematch against him in world six manages to be even ''more'' of a slog to fight if fought without power ups. He gets a new bubble attack that fires much more frequently than his lasers and moves at a ''much'' slower speed, only leaving you small windows to attack him at close range and little to no time to dodge the bubbles if they pop up in your path.
** Master Cylinder is a joke when you fight him with power-ups, but he becomes a pain in the ass if you don't fight him with them. While he has a very simplistic attack pattern (float up and down and occasionally shoot a laser), he has no telegraphing for his laser attack, and since you'll only have your boxing glove without power-ups, that means you have to put yourself right in his line of fire in order to hit him. Combined with the floaty umbrella controls and the fact that its very easy to collide into Master Cylinder, and this fight will really test your skills.
** The rematch against him in world six manages to be even ''more'' of a slog to fight if fought without power ups. He gets a new bubble attack that fires much more frequently than his lasers and moves at a ''much'' slower speed, only leaving you small windows to attack him at close range and little to no time to dodge the bubbles if they pop up in your path.
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* ThatOneBoss: Master Cylinder is a joke when you fight him with power-ups, but he becomes a pain in the ass if you don't fight him with them. While he has a very simplistic attack pattern (float up and down and occasionally shoot a laser), he has no telegraphing for his laser attack, and since you'll only have your boxing glove without power-ups, that means you have to put yourself right in his line of fire in order to hit him. Combined with the floaty umbrella controls and the fact that its very easy to collide into Master Cylinder, and this fight will really test your skills.
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* PortingDisaster: The Game Boy port of the game isn't unplayable, but it's vastly inferior to the NES version. It cuts out more than half of the levels (11 as opposed to 23), dumbs down the existing levels, has noticeably stiffer controls and is loaded with slowdown problems that hurt the flow of the game.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: At the end of World 5, Felix randomly fights an EvilDoppelganger of himself. No explanation is given for who the impostor is, where he came from of if he's even affiliated with Professor. Not even the manual mentions who or what he is.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: At the end of World 5, Felix randomly fights an EvilDoppelganger of himself. No explanation is given for who the impostor is, where he came from of or if he's even affiliated with Professor. Not even the manual mentions who or what he is.
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* DisappointingLastLevel: World 9 is a rather generic, short space themed level that doesn't offer any new gimmicks. The third act lazily reuses the pyramid aesthetic from World 2-2 and 2-3, even though it's set on the moon and clashes with the previous two acts and final boss.
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* DisappointingLastLevel: World 9 (World 6 in the Game Boy version) is a rather generic, short space themed level that doesn't offer any new gimmicks. The third act lazily reuses the pyramid aesthetic from World 2-2 and 2-3, even though it's set on the moon and clashes with the previous two acts and final boss. The Game Boy version also cuts out the second act, making it even shorter.
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* PortingDisaster: The Game Boy port of the game isn't unplayable, but it's vastly inferior to the NES version. It cuts out more than half of the levels (11 as opposed to 23), dumbs down the exist levels,has noticeably stiffer controls and is loaded with slowdown problems that hurt the flow of the game.
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* PortingDisaster: The Game Boy port of the game isn't unplayable, but it's vastly inferior to the NES version. It cuts out more than half of the levels (11 as opposed to 23), dumbs down the exist levels,has existing levels, has noticeably stiffer controls and is loaded with slowdown problems that hurt the flow of the game.
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* PortingDisaster: The Game Boy port of the game isn't unplayable, but it's vastly inferior to the NES version. It cuts out more than half of the levels (11 as opposed to 23), has noticeably stiffer controls and is loaded with slowdown problems that hurt the flow of the game.
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* PortingDisaster: The Game Boy port of the game isn't unplayable, but it's vastly inferior to the NES version. It cuts out more than half of the levels (11 as opposed to 23), has dumbs down the exist levels,has noticeably stiffer controls and is loaded with slowdown problems that hurt the flow of the game.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: At the end of World 5, Felix randomly fights an EvilDoppelganger of himself. No explanation is given for who the impostor is, where he came from of if he's even affiliated with Professor. Not even the manual mentions who or what he is.
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YMMV for the [[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons]] goes [[YMMV/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat here]]. YMMV for ''[[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie Felix The Cat: The Movie]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas'' goes [[YMMV/FelixTheCatTheMovie here]] and [[YMMV/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas here.]]
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YMMV for the [[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons]] (sans the game tie-in) goes [[YMMV/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat here]]. YMMV for ''[[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie Felix The Cat: The Movie]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas'' goes [[YMMV/FelixTheCatTheMovie here]] and [[YMMV/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas here.]]
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!!YMMV:
!!YMMV for the [[VideoGame/FelixTheCat NES/Game Boy Game Based on This Series]]:
* AnticlimaxBoss: Professor's Spaceship is a ridiculously easy final boss if you know what you're doing. While he can be somewhat challenging if you fight him without power-ups, the room he's in gives you ''three'' opportunities to power-up off the bat, meaning you can get the tank and mop the floor with him in a hurry. On top of that, he has a very simplistic flight pattern and a slow firing attack that are very easy to dodge. In the Game Boy version, he's even ''easier'' due to how slow both he and his attacks move.
* DisappointingLastLevel: World 9 is a rather generic, short space themed level that doesn't offer any new gimmicks. The third act lazily reuses the pyramid aesthetic from World 2-2 and 2-3, even though it's set on the moon and clashes with the previous two acts and final boss.
* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The Hudson Soft video game adaptation is a surprisingly enjoyable Mario clone, with fun gameplay and appealing graphics and music, with it's only real flaw being its very easy difficulty, underwhelming final level and very easy final boss. [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames The same cannot be said]] for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis [[https://youtu.be/pqbuW7KPVaM?t=7m22s bootleg of it]], which is a PortingDisaster with bad controls, and inexplicably features a [[NightmareFuel frightening game over screen]] where Felix ''rips his face off''.
* PortingDisaster: The Game Boy port of the game isn't unplayable, but it's vastly inferior to the NES version. It cuts out more than half of the levels (11 as opposed to 23), has noticeably stiffer controls and is loaded with slowdown problems that hurt the flow of the game.
!!YMMV:
!!YMMV for the [[VideoGame/FelixTheCat NES/Game Boy Game Based on This Series]]:
* AnticlimaxBoss: Professor's Spaceship is a ridiculously easy final boss if you know what you're doing. While he can be somewhat challenging if you fight him without power-ups, the room he's in gives you ''three'' opportunities to power-up off the bat, meaning you can get the tank and mop the floor with him in a hurry. On top of that, he has a very simplistic flight pattern and a slow firing attack that are very easy to dodge. In the Game Boy version, he's even ''easier'' due to how slow both he and his attacks move.
* DisappointingLastLevel: World 9 is a rather generic, short space themed level that doesn't offer any new gimmicks. The third act lazily reuses the pyramid aesthetic from World 2-2 and 2-3, even though it's set on the moon and clashes with the previous two acts and final boss.
* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The Hudson Soft video game adaptation is a surprisingly enjoyable Mario clone, with fun gameplay and appealing graphics and music, with it's only real flaw being its very easy difficulty, underwhelming final level and very easy final boss. [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames The same cannot be said]] for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis [[https://youtu.be/pqbuW7KPVaM?t=7m22s bootleg of it]], which is a PortingDisaster with bad controls, and inexplicably features a [[NightmareFuel frightening game over screen]] where Felix ''rips his face off''.
* PortingDisaster: The Game Boy port of the game isn't unplayable, but it's vastly inferior to the NES version. It cuts out more than half of the levels (11 as opposed to 23), has noticeably stiffer controls and is loaded with slowdown problems that hurt the flow of the game.
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YMMV for the [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatClassic Silent and Golden Age Felix cartoons]] goes [[YMMV/FelixTheCatClassic here.]]
YMMV for the [[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons]] goes [[YMMV/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat here]]. YMMV for [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie The Movie]] and ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas'' goes [[YMMV/FelixTheCatTheMovie here]] and [[YMMV/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas here.]]
YMMV for the [[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons]] goes [[YMMV/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat here]]. YMMV for [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie The Movie]] and ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas'' goes [[YMMV/FelixTheCatTheMovie here]] and [[YMMV/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas here.]]
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YMMV for the [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatClassic Silent Silent/Golden Age and Golden Age Van Beuren Felix cartoons]] goes [[YMMV/FelixTheCatClassic here.]]
YMMV for the [[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons]] goes [[YMMV/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat here]]. YMMV for[[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie ''[[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie Felix The Movie]] Cat: The Movie]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas'' goes [[YMMV/FelixTheCatTheMovie here]] and [[YMMV/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas here.]]
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YMMV for Anime/BabyFelixAndFriends ''Anime/BabyFelixAndFriends'' goes [[YMMV/BabyFelixAndFriends here.]]
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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 (and, to a lesser degree, [[StillbornFranchise the very short lived Van Beuren Felix]]) to be where the series entered a DorkAge, while some nostalgic fans unapologetically love the Van Beuren and 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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* BrokenBase: The reception of the post-silent era Felix cartoons are contested among the fanbase, particularly in regards to the [[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat TV-era Felix cartoons 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 (and, to a lesser degree, [[StillbornFranchise the very short lived Van Beuren Felix]]) to be where the series entered a DorkAge, while some nostalgic fans unapologetically love the Van Beuren and 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.
* DorkAge: The franchise is considered to have gone into this post-''Twisted Tales'' by fans, due to Felix lingering through generally mediocre spinoffs and tie-ins.
* DorkAge: The franchise is considered to have gone into this post-''Twisted Tales'' by fans, due to Felix lingering through generally mediocre spinoffs and tie-ins.
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YMMV for the [[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons]] goes [[YMMV/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat here]]. YMMV for [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie the movie based on it]] and ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas'' go [[YMMV/FelixTheCatTheMovie here]] and [[YMMV/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas here.]]
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YMMV for the [[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat Joe Oriolo Felix cartoons]] goes [[YMMV/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat here]]. YMMV for [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie the movie based on it]] The Movie]] and ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas'' go goes [[YMMV/FelixTheCatTheMovie here]] and [[YMMV/FelixTheCatSavesChristmas here.]]
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* ArchivePanic: The series has been around [[LongRunner for 97 years]], so there's a lot of ground to cover if you want to experience the whole series. For animation, you have the original silent theatrical cartoons and the three Van Beuren era shorts (while many of the silent shorts are lost, quite a few survive and it can take a while to sit through the surviving ones), the 260 made-for-TV cartoons by Joe Oriolo (which run six to seven minutes each), [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie a theatrical movie]], the mid 90's revival cartoon series ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat'' (which ran for 21 episodes, with three shorts in each one), the [[SpinoffBabies toddler aimed spinoff]] ''Baby Felix & Friends'' (which ran for 65 five minute episodes), and a 2004 direct to video Christmas special ''Felix the Cat Saves Christmas''. The comics are where one will really start running into trouble--the Felix comics started in 1923, with the newspaper comics and comic books running a solid 40 year run up to the 1960's. And then you have the 80's newspaper comic crossover with WesternAnimation/BettyBoop to look out for (which has never been reprinted), and a short lived early 90's comic book revival. After that, you have a history book and some comic compilations, three video game tie-ins, the very obscure live action TV series ''Felix the Cat Live'', and a monstrous amount of toys and merchandise to wrap it all up. Good luck!
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* ArchivePanic: The series has been around [[LongRunner for 97 98 years]], so there's a lot of ground to cover if you want to experience the whole series. For animation, you have the original silent theatrical cartoons and the three Van Beuren era shorts (while many of the silent shorts are lost, quite a few survive and it can take a while to sit through the surviving ones), the 260 made-for-TV cartoons by Joe Oriolo (which run six to seven minutes each), [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie a theatrical movie]], the mid 90's revival cartoon series ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat'' (which ran for 21 episodes, with three shorts in each one), the [[SpinoffBabies toddler aimed spinoff]] ''Baby Felix & Friends'' (which ran for 65 five minute episodes), and a 2004 direct to video Christmas special ''Felix the Cat Saves Christmas''. The comics are where one will really start running into trouble--the Felix comics started in 1923, with the newspaper comics and comic books running a solid 40 year run up to the 1960's. And then you have the 80's newspaper comic crossover with WesternAnimation/BettyBoop to look out for (which has never been reprinted), and a short lived early 90's comic book revival. After that, you have a history book and some comic compilations, three video game tie-ins, the very obscure live action TV series ''Felix the Cat Live'', and a monstrous amount of toys and merchandise to wrap it all up. Good luck!
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: While Felix is still modestly popular in the US, he is ''very'' popular in Japan to this day, to the point that an entire spinoff, ''Baby Felix'', was made just for that country.
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!!YMMV Tropes for the Silent and Golden Age Felix Cartoons and Comics
* AwesomeArt: 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. Later shorts like "Felix Woos Whoopee" are just 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. Makes sense, considering they were spearheaded by Disney alumni Burt Gillett, the director of Disney's WesternAnimation/ThreeLittlePigs!
** The artwork Otto Messmer did for the newspaper comics and comic books is just as great, if not ''better'' than the animated cartoons. One has to read a Felix Sunday strip or read one of the 40's/50's comics to really see Messmer's drawing chops and super appealing rubberhose drawing style in action.
* 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 (and that other Felix cartoons sometimes used unfortunate black stereotypes), its amazing that they were able to get away with making a cartoon like this.
** In both an awesome and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funny moment]], in "Felix Turns the Tide", Felix defeats the enemy army by [[GondorCallsForAid sending a wire]] to his [[ChekhovsGunman old friend, an owner of a Deli shop]], who proceeds to [[TheCavalry send an army of living hot dogs]] [[ReachingBetweenTheLines directly through the landlines,]] which Felix uses to, as the title tells, completely turn the tide of the war.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Winston Sharples' energetic and dramatic music scores are considered one of the best elements of the Van Beuren Felix cartoons. Fittingly, he would be hired by Joe Oriolo to compose music for his TV Felix cartoons decades later.
* EarWorm: The ''original'' Felix the Cat theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dia8g9q1SdU "Felix Kept On Walking".]]
* 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.
* GrowingTheBeard: The silent films got off to a good start, but the 1922-1924 period, when Creator/BillNolan worked at the studio for a couple years, redesigning Felix and started introducing smoother animation in the cartoons, was when the series really started getting great.
** The newspaper comics greatly improved over time, too. Before 1929, the comics were only partly drawn by Otto Messmer, with a lot of the art being recycled from the cartoons by artist Jack Bogle, resulting in enjoyable but fairly straightforward adaptations of the cartoons. Ironically, the dearth of new cartoon material to adapt by 1929 proved to be a creative boon for the Felix comics, even as the animated cartoons went into a decline. Messmer, who finally took over all art duties for the daily newspaper comic, starts getting more experimental and ambitious with his artwork, redesigning Felix and the other characters to look more funny and detailed than in the cartoons, and he even began to creative beautifully illustrated, full blown cartoon story arcs for the funny pages, such as the 17 week "Felix's Ark" storyline, and with some storylines like "Felix the Cat on Cannibal Island" that run as long as a whopping eight months in length.
* 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]]. 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.
** Felix's original name in ''WesternAnimation/FelineFollies'' was Tom, a name that would be taken up by [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry another cartoon cat]] many years later.
* NightmareFuel: The bizarre climax of "Felix Dines and Pines", where Felix has a truly deranged stream of conscious nightmare induced by eating an old shoe.
* SeasonalRot: While the post-B&W Felix shorts have a divided reception, one point of the series that no fans will defend is the brief period when the original cartoons tried to upgrade to sound, and failed ''miserably''. Cartoons like ''April Maze'' and ''Skulls and Sculls'' had post-synchronized soundtracks slapped onto them in a half-assed attempt by Pat Sullivan to cash in on the sound cartoon craze started by Disney's WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse a few years too late, and Otto Messmer was forced to pad out the length and scenes of the sound cartoons to [[LeaveTheCameraRunning excruciatingly long periods of time]] so that it would be easier for the soundtracks to be added on afterward, making the cartoons extremely slow paced and poorly timed.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The silent Felix the Cat cartoons were considered very smoothly animated for their 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 (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 forerunner for cartoons that took its foundation and considerably built on it, like Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes and Betty Boop, so it can rather hard to appreciate just how innovative and creative the original silent cartoons were at the 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.
* ValuesDissonance: In spite of the FairForItsDay example cited above, the silent shorts tended to have some unfortunate racist gags and cannibalistic depictions of African natives sprinkled throughout them, such as in WesternAnimation/FelixSavesTheDay and WesternAnimation/TeeTime, and even the occasional sexist gag too, like in WesternAnimation/FelixLendsAHand.
* WereStillRelevantDammit: The later B&W Felix the Cat cartoons upgrade to sound was a very obvious attempt by producer Pat Sullivan to try and [[FollowTheLeader cash in on]] the sound cartoon craze started by WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, a series that had not only usurped the cats popularity, but was unwittingly aided by Sullivan's own reluctance to upgrade the Felix cartoons to sound in the past, which was what got his original distribution contract for Felix cancelled. Sullivan not only missed the boat, but the new Felix sound cartoons were so poorly done, that it only guaranteed that Mickey Mouse would remain the heir apparent to Felix, while the Felix theatrical cartoons that inspired Mickey in the first place would be sent to an early grave.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Fans only familiar with the TV era Felix will be surprised to find out that the Silent era Felix has subject matter that is definetely not kid friendly--like Felix's womanizing and suicide in ''WesternAnimation/FelineFollies'', Felix partying hard and getting drunk out of his skull in ''Felix Woos Whoopee'', and the grim, war torn setting of ''Felix Turns the Tide'', complete with dead corpses of animals laying around--and it is not played for humor. John Canemaker's Felix the Cat history book makes it clear that the early cartoons were ''not'' made for kids.
* AwesomeArt: 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. Later shorts like "Felix Woos Whoopee" are just 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. Makes sense, considering they were spearheaded by Disney alumni Burt Gillett, the director of Disney's WesternAnimation/ThreeLittlePigs!
** The artwork Otto Messmer did for the newspaper comics and comic books is just as great, if not ''better'' than the animated cartoons. One has to read a Felix Sunday strip or read one of the 40's/50's comics to really see Messmer's drawing chops and super appealing rubberhose drawing style in action.
* 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 (and that other Felix cartoons sometimes used unfortunate black stereotypes), its amazing that they were able to get away with making a cartoon like this.
** In both an awesome and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funny moment]], in "Felix Turns the Tide", Felix defeats the enemy army by [[GondorCallsForAid sending a wire]] to his [[ChekhovsGunman old friend, an owner of a Deli shop]], who proceeds to [[TheCavalry send an army of living hot dogs]] [[ReachingBetweenTheLines directly through the landlines,]] which Felix uses to, as the title tells, completely turn the tide of the war.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Winston Sharples' energetic and dramatic music scores are considered one of the best elements of the Van Beuren Felix cartoons. Fittingly, he would be hired by Joe Oriolo to compose music for his TV Felix cartoons decades later.
* EarWorm: The ''original'' Felix the Cat theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dia8g9q1SdU "Felix Kept On Walking".]]
* 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.
* GrowingTheBeard: The silent films got off to a good start, but the 1922-1924 period, when Creator/BillNolan worked at the studio for a couple years, redesigning Felix and started introducing smoother animation in the cartoons, was when the series really started getting great.
** The newspaper comics greatly improved over time, too. Before 1929, the comics were only partly drawn by Otto Messmer, with a lot of the art being recycled from the cartoons by artist Jack Bogle, resulting in enjoyable but fairly straightforward adaptations of the cartoons. Ironically, the dearth of new cartoon material to adapt by 1929 proved to be a creative boon for the Felix comics, even as the animated cartoons went into a decline. Messmer, who finally took over all art duties for the daily newspaper comic, starts getting more experimental and ambitious with his artwork, redesigning Felix and the other characters to look more funny and detailed than in the cartoons, and he even began to creative beautifully illustrated, full blown cartoon story arcs for the funny pages, such as the 17 week "Felix's Ark" storyline, and with some storylines like "Felix the Cat on Cannibal Island" that run as long as a whopping eight months in length.
* 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]]. 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.
** Felix's original name in ''WesternAnimation/FelineFollies'' was Tom, a name that would be taken up by [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry another cartoon cat]] many years later.
* NightmareFuel: The bizarre climax of "Felix Dines and Pines", where Felix has a truly deranged stream of conscious nightmare induced by eating an old shoe.
* SeasonalRot: While the post-B&W Felix shorts have a divided reception, one point of the series that no fans will defend is the brief period when the original cartoons tried to upgrade to sound, and failed ''miserably''. Cartoons like ''April Maze'' and ''Skulls and Sculls'' had post-synchronized soundtracks slapped onto them in a half-assed attempt by Pat Sullivan to cash in on the sound cartoon craze started by Disney's WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse a few years too late, and Otto Messmer was forced to pad out the length and scenes of the sound cartoons to [[LeaveTheCameraRunning excruciatingly long periods of time]] so that it would be easier for the soundtracks to be added on afterward, making the cartoons extremely slow paced and poorly timed.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The silent Felix the Cat cartoons were considered very smoothly animated for their 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 (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 forerunner for cartoons that took its foundation and considerably built on it, like Mickey Mouse, Looney Tunes and Betty Boop, so it can rather hard to appreciate just how innovative and creative the original silent cartoons were at the 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.
* ValuesDissonance: In spite of the FairForItsDay example cited above, the silent shorts tended to have some unfortunate racist gags and cannibalistic depictions of African natives sprinkled throughout them, such as in WesternAnimation/FelixSavesTheDay and WesternAnimation/TeeTime, and even the occasional sexist gag too, like in WesternAnimation/FelixLendsAHand.
* WereStillRelevantDammit: The later B&W Felix the Cat cartoons upgrade to sound was a very obvious attempt by producer Pat Sullivan to try and [[FollowTheLeader cash in on]] the sound cartoon craze started by WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, a series that had not only usurped the cats popularity, but was unwittingly aided by Sullivan's own reluctance to upgrade the Felix cartoons to sound in the past, which was what got his original distribution contract for Felix cancelled. Sullivan not only missed the boat, but the new Felix sound cartoons were so poorly done, that it only guaranteed that Mickey Mouse would remain the heir apparent to Felix, while the Felix theatrical cartoons that inspired Mickey in the first place would be sent to an early grave.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Fans only familiar with the TV era Felix will be surprised to find out that the Silent era Felix has subject matter that is definetely not kid friendly--like Felix's womanizing and suicide in ''WesternAnimation/FelineFollies'', Felix partying hard and getting drunk out of his skull in ''Felix Woos Whoopee'', and the grim, war torn setting of ''Felix Turns the Tide'', complete with dead corpses of animals laying around--and it is not played for humor. John Canemaker's Felix the Cat history book makes it clear that the early cartoons were ''not'' made for kids.
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!!YMMV Tropes for the Joe Oriolo / Don Oriolo Felix Cartoons and Comics
* AnticlimaxBoss: King Gulpo in "Felix Babysits". The setup is that Poindexter, after restoring Felix to his original size from under the microscope, unwittingly gets some of it on the evil amoeba that was hounding Felix. It goes from bad to worse when Gulpo drinks more of the same growth formula, making him big enough to barely fit in the Professor's lab. It seems like it'd be a good setup for a climatic fight, but Felix easily defeats him just seconds afterward by throwing Poindexter's shrinking formula (which got Felix into this mess in the first place) at the behemoth, reducing Gulpo back to his original microscopic size.
* AssPull: The Professor's airplane abruptly coming to life and turning against him in the ending of ''The Professors Committed No Crime!''.
* AudienceColoringAdaptation: The Trans-Lux series tends to be considered this by fans of the Silent Era Felix, mainly for being the most well known and longest supported incarnation of the character, despite some fans considering the TV cartoons inferior to the Silent cartoons due to their [[LighterAndSofter more childish tone and stories]] and very cheap animation.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: In "Felix Babysits", Felix [[TalkToTheFist socking King Gulpo with a brutal punch to the stomach]] when Gulpo tries to eat him alive. Felix was no coward before, but this was the first time in the Trans-Lux series where he directly fought back against an opponent! And without his Magic Bag of Tricks, at that!
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Having worked on the Van Beuren era Felix, Winston Sharples once again returned to compose for the series, and his dynamic musical scores are considered some of the best things about the cartoons. There's a reason he was nicknamed "The East Coast Carl Stalling!"
* EarWorm: The very catchy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5t9SxWk7Qc Felix the Cat theme song]] is one of the things people remember most about the character.
** [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie The Movie's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD_Jk8G5imk cover of the song]] isn't bad either.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeAaTgZNHH4 90's syndicated opening for the TV cartoons]] is pretty catchy, too.
* HilariousInHindsight: One of the series recurring characters, Poindexter, is a kid scientist who has [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dexter as (part) of his name...]]
* IdiotPlot: The Trans-Lux series had such a hectic production schedule and so little time to write the stories, that subpar story material would easily slip through, resulting in both Felix and the Professor sharing the IdiotBall (Rock Bottom is exempt, [[DumbMuscle as he's already an idiot]]) For example;
** "Into Outer Space", which has the Professor successfully trapping Felix in his lab so he can get the Magic Bag...only to do the exact opposite of what would help him and stuff Felix ''and'' the bag into a satellite and launch them both into outer space, which not only robs Professor of the bag, but ends up making Felix a national hero for travelling into space.
** "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?
* NewerThanTheyThink: The Professor's nephew Poindexter is actually the progenitor of the term "poindexter" being a synonym for "geek" or "nerd"!
* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: There exists a Felix video game for the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] and UsefulNotes/GameBoy, and both happen to be surprisingly enjoyable Mario clones, with fun gameplay and appealing graphics and music. [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames The same cannot be said]] for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis [[https://youtu.be/pqbuW7KPVaM?t=7m22s bootleg of it]], which is a PortingDisaster with bad controls, and inexplicably features a [[NightmareFuel frightening game over screen]] where Felix ''rips his face off''.
* ValuesDissonance: The Joe Oriolo cartoons are comparatively very free of this compared to the silent cartoons, but the stereotypical use of indians in some of the episodes (i.e. "Felix Out West") definitely wouldn't fly in contemporary cartoons either.
* VanillaProtagonist: This is part of why some fans prefer the Silent Era Felix over the Oriolo Felix. Joe Oriolo's Felix is a nice, fun loving guy, but compared to how wild and rascally Felix [[AntiHero was portrayed in]] [[MrViceGuy his original cartoons,]] he comes off as very milquetoast in contrast. Making matters worse is that the Oriolo Felix is rarely the one who drives the plots in his own cartoons, [[TheHeavy which are usually instigated]] by Professor and Rock Bottom instead.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** In "Into Outer Space", the Professor has Felix trapped inside of his laboratory and has a clear shot at getting the bag from him, so what does he do? Trap Felix ''and'' the bag in a satellite and launch him out into outer space, the ''exact opposite'' of what would've helped get the bag. On top of that, it gets Felix recognized as a worldwide hero by being launched into space. And Professor decides to go to the trouble of travelling all the way to the antarctic where Felix landed to steal the bag anyway. Even the Professor [[DidntThinkThisThrough realizes he didn't think things through by the end.]]
** Professor makes another boo boo in "Venus and the Master Cylinder", where he sends away Poindexter to live with Master Cylinder as his pupil in exchange for a 1,000,000$ reward, only for it to immediately blow up in his face when Cylinder enslaves Poindexter and scoffs at the idea of offering Professor any money, tying him to a rocket and sending him away. Unless his absentmindedness made him forget how hostile Master Cylinder was to both him and his nephew in "Master Cylinder, King of the Moon", there was absolutely no reason he should have trusted Cylinder.
** As we can see in the ending of "Out West with Big Brownie", Bart the ranch owner rigs the boulder trap for Big Brownie on a cliff that's ''directly above his house''. Even if his trap had succeeded in killing the bears, [[PyrrhicVictory it would have destroyed his cabin along with them anyway!]]
* AnticlimaxBoss: King Gulpo in "Felix Babysits". The setup is that Poindexter, after restoring Felix to his original size from under the microscope, unwittingly gets some of it on the evil amoeba that was hounding Felix. It goes from bad to worse when Gulpo drinks more of the same growth formula, making him big enough to barely fit in the Professor's lab. It seems like it'd be a good setup for a climatic fight, but Felix easily defeats him just seconds afterward by throwing Poindexter's shrinking formula (which got Felix into this mess in the first place) at the behemoth, reducing Gulpo back to his original microscopic size.
* AssPull: The Professor's airplane abruptly coming to life and turning against him in the ending of ''The Professors Committed No Crime!''.
* AudienceColoringAdaptation: The Trans-Lux series tends to be considered this by fans of the Silent Era Felix, mainly for being the most well known and longest supported incarnation of the character, despite some fans considering the TV cartoons inferior to the Silent cartoons due to their [[LighterAndSofter more childish tone and stories]] and very cheap animation.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: In "Felix Babysits", Felix [[TalkToTheFist socking King Gulpo with a brutal punch to the stomach]] when Gulpo tries to eat him alive. Felix was no coward before, but this was the first time in the Trans-Lux series where he directly fought back against an opponent! And without his Magic Bag of Tricks, at that!
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Having worked on the Van Beuren era Felix, Winston Sharples once again returned to compose for the series, and his dynamic musical scores are considered some of the best things about the cartoons. There's a reason he was nicknamed "The East Coast Carl Stalling!"
* EarWorm: The very catchy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5t9SxWk7Qc Felix the Cat theme song]] is one of the things people remember most about the character.
** [[WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie The Movie's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD_Jk8G5imk cover of the song]] isn't bad either.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeAaTgZNHH4 90's syndicated opening for the TV cartoons]] is pretty catchy, too.
* HilariousInHindsight: One of the series recurring characters, Poindexter, is a kid scientist who has [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dexter as (part) of his name...]]
* IdiotPlot: The Trans-Lux series had such a hectic production schedule and so little time to write the stories, that subpar story material would easily slip through, resulting in both Felix and the Professor sharing the IdiotBall (Rock Bottom is exempt, [[DumbMuscle as he's already an idiot]]) For example;
** "Into Outer Space", which has the Professor successfully trapping Felix in his lab so he can get the Magic Bag...only to do the exact opposite of what would help him and stuff Felix ''and'' the bag into a satellite and launch them both into outer space, which not only robs Professor of the bag, but ends up making Felix a national hero for travelling into space.
** "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?
* NewerThanTheyThink: The Professor's nephew Poindexter is actually the progenitor of the term "poindexter" being a synonym for "geek" or "nerd"!
* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: There exists a Felix video game for the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] and UsefulNotes/GameBoy, and both happen to be surprisingly enjoyable Mario clones, with fun gameplay and appealing graphics and music. [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames The same cannot be said]] for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis [[https://youtu.be/pqbuW7KPVaM?t=7m22s bootleg of it]], which is a PortingDisaster with bad controls, and inexplicably features a [[NightmareFuel frightening game over screen]] where Felix ''rips his face off''.
* ValuesDissonance: The Joe Oriolo cartoons are comparatively very free of this compared to the silent cartoons, but the stereotypical use of indians in some of the episodes (i.e. "Felix Out West") definitely wouldn't fly in contemporary cartoons either.
* VanillaProtagonist: This is part of why some fans prefer the Silent Era Felix over the Oriolo Felix. Joe Oriolo's Felix is a nice, fun loving guy, but compared to how wild and rascally Felix [[AntiHero was portrayed in]] [[MrViceGuy his original cartoons,]] he comes off as very milquetoast in contrast. Making matters worse is that the Oriolo Felix is rarely the one who drives the plots in his own cartoons, [[TheHeavy which are usually instigated]] by Professor and Rock Bottom instead.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** In "Into Outer Space", the Professor has Felix trapped inside of his laboratory and has a clear shot at getting the bag from him, so what does he do? Trap Felix ''and'' the bag in a satellite and launch him out into outer space, the ''exact opposite'' of what would've helped get the bag. On top of that, it gets Felix recognized as a worldwide hero by being launched into space. And Professor decides to go to the trouble of travelling all the way to the antarctic where Felix landed to steal the bag anyway. Even the Professor [[DidntThinkThisThrough realizes he didn't think things through by the end.]]
** Professor makes another boo boo in "Venus and the Master Cylinder", where he sends away Poindexter to live with Master Cylinder as his pupil in exchange for a 1,000,000$ reward, only for it to immediately blow up in his face when Cylinder enslaves Poindexter and scoffs at the idea of offering Professor any money, tying him to a rocket and sending him away. Unless his absentmindedness made him forget how hostile Master Cylinder was to both him and his nephew in "Master Cylinder, King of the Moon", there was absolutely no reason he should have trusted Cylinder.
** As we can see in the ending of "Out West with Big Brownie", Bart the ranch owner rigs the boulder trap for Big Brownie on a cliff that's ''directly above his house''. Even if his trap had succeeded in killing the bears, [[PyrrhicVictory it would have destroyed his cabin along with them anyway!]]
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Modern audiences are far more familiar with the Oriolo incarnation of Felix the Cat than the silent-era Otto Messmer cartoons.
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