Line #5 ComicStrip/Ottifanten


1	''Ottifanten'' are a German comic strip by Creator/OttoWaalkes with [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic elephants]]. Many of them are centered on the family [[InherentlyFunnyWords Bommel]]: The hapless father Paul, his wife, baby Bruno, his two siblings, and Paul's wacky 90-year-old father. Or Bommel's boss Kaluppke, his lazy secretary and the cigar-puffing cleaning lady Erna Hoppmann. Others parody superheroes or celebrities. Or are just funny stories in general.
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3	!!Examples:
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5	* AreWeThereYet: They start it ''[[ExaggeratedTrope before the car has left the garage]]''.
6	* BaitAndSwitch: Typical for a comical series. Like here: A coach is training some guys, as it seems. He commands them: "Stretch out your arms! Lift... and lower! And again! Now put your head back! Open your mouth wide!" (wait, what?) Then we see what the guys are training for: The very {{Oktoberfest}}.
7	%%* ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily: The Bommels, initially.
8	%%* BumblingDad: Paul, oh so much.
9	* TheCameo: Other Ully Arndt characters, Larry and Rolf, can be seen as hand puppets.
10	* CasualDangerDialogue: One strip is about two parachuters, one of which [[TooDumbToLive doesn't have his parachute on]], but doesn't care at all that he'll die in a few seconds [[ComicallyMissingThePoint because he's insured]] (as we learn from the dialogue).
11	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The siblings of Baby Bruno
12	* CourtJester: A recurring character in the medieval stories, of course. Has to deal with his king, who's a BadBoss.
13	* DartboardOfHate: The king notices that his jester hanged a picture of him (the king) on the wall and is pleased. Then immediately, the jester uses the picture as... guess what.
14	* DeliveryStork: When a father has to give his kids TheTalk, he prefers to disguise himself as this and give them a little show. Predictably, the children find he's simply embarrassing.
15	* DinosaurDoggieBone: Subverted. When the teacher with his unruly class visits a museum, he thinks that the bones they took as a "souvenir" are this. (Truth is, they took them from the AngryGuardDog.)
16	* DittoAliens: Or rather, Ditto Ottifants. Once lampshaded by one of them. The other one claims he's perfectly able to tell them apart - and then calls the other one by the wrong name.
17	* EmbarrassingNickname: Subverted. When Erna calls the boss "Chefchen" (Lil' boss) he protests she can't call him that. Then he tells her to use the nickname his friends call him instead - which is "Pupsi" (Fart-y).
18	* TheExitIsThatWay: In one story, [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Superphant]] and [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batphant]] have to cooperate. Superphant declines, stating that he's the smartest man in the world and doesn't need anyone's help, leaving through the door.
19	-->'''Batphant:''' And what do we do now?"
20	-->'''Police chief:''' Now we wait until the smartest man in the world will come out of the cabinet!
21	* GoodAngelBadAngel: Parodied. They conspire with each other when their ottifant finds a wallet, so ''they'' can take it instead. And the shoulder devil states that he has to be more careful, because the guy almost took the wallet for himself.
22	* TheGrimReaper: PlayedForLaughs, of course. Like when he meets an old farmer who thinks he was the new farmhand, for the scythe.
23	* GuardianAngel: One suicidal guy (who never pulls it through, so he can stay a RunningGag) has one. Who doesn't really look very angelic, with his five-o-clock-shadow and cheap cigar. But he has some great references - in the past, he used to protect UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, MartinLutherKing, Music/JohnLennon... OhCrap.
24	* LandslideElection: When Paul and his grandpa are competing who should be head of the family, they decide to make an election. Since you shouldn't vote for yourself, they both vote for Honk the teddy -- who ends up elected with 100%.
25	* LineOfSightName: Kind of. When Bruno gets his teddy bear, he mistakes the label "made in Hong Kong" for the teddy's name. Later shortened to "Honk".
26	%%* TheMovie: Was made in 2001 in Germany.
27	* NoArcInArchery: A master archer shoots his arrow... which misses the target; but instead pierces a farmer's cigar (while not stopping); and the sausage one guy had just picked up; and a tennis ball from the hand of the player; and a canary which was sitting in the cage; until the arrow finally hits an imbiss booth. Where a guy had just ordered a kebab with everything, and snappy! All without changing the direction.
28	* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Caesar breaks in Cleopatra's room, suspecting that she hides her lover there. He looks everywhere, can't find anyone, forgives her and leaves. Cleo is visibly relieved. So are her [[ReallyGetsAround four lovers]] who pretended to be fountain statues all the time.
29	%%* NotSoDire: Quite elaborate:%%Quotes alone are not acceptable as context.
30	%%--> Bommel (offscreen, as are the others): "[[BigNo NO]]!"
31	%%--> Boss: "Oh yes! [[EvilLaugh Heh, heh, heh!]]"
32	%%--> Bommel: "But boss - I thought you were standing behind me!"
33	%%--> Boss: "I ''was'', Bommel - I ''was''!"
34	%%--> Coworker: "Excuse me, boss - but I think you went too far!"
35	%%--> Boss: "I know the rules of the game! I know how far I can go!"
36	%%--> Coworker: "But colleague Bommel was..."
37	%%--> Boss: "He was a [[DirtyCommies red guy]]! And he was in my way! So, out with him!"\
38	%%Bommel comes out crying.
39	%%--> Bommel: "The boss kicked me out! And I was so close to it!"
40	%%--> Secretary: "Yeah, yeah, Herr Bommel!"
41	%%--> Bommel: "That's the last time I played Ludo with him!"
42	%%--> Secretary: "Yeah, yeah, Herr Bommel!"
43	* OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList: A pirate captain with a TreasureMap: "Two steps, turn right, and... cha-cha-cha?"
44	-->'''Pirate mook:''' Sorry captain, that's from my dancing course!
45	* PerpSweating: One not-that-smart cop does it wrong. How so? By pointing the lamp into ''his own face.''
46	* PinkIsForSissies: Once Bruno's parents put him into pink panties, because it doesn't matter with babies, right?
47	-->'''Bruno:''' Only warning, Hong Kong -- call me a faggot, and you die!
48	* RunningGag: The Bohrschleck contracts are most vital for the firm Father Bommel works for. Consequently they get misplaced, destroyed or screwed up all the time, sometimes by Bommel, mostly by his completely inept secretary [[MeaningfulName Fräulein Lusch]].[[note]] "Miss Twit" or so[[/note]]
49	* StockingMask: One HarmlessVillain is doing it wrong.
50	--> Partner in crime: "A nylon stocking, I said! Not a tennis sock!"
51	* TakeThat: One guy is looking for a crossword - "hairy ape", ten letters, starts with "Schim" (Schimpanse = chimpanzee). They think for a while and come up with [[Series/{{Tatort}} Schimanski]].
52	** We also see the producer of ''Series/TheBlackForestClinic'' arriving in FireAndBrimstoneHell.
53	** [[FirstContact An astronaut meets extraterrestrials]] and alienates them (no pun intended) by giving them a Music/ModernTalking record. He himself loves it, though.
54	* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Friday the 13th aspect of it is parodied. According to grandpa, sunday the 15th is ''the'' unlucky day for the Bommels.
55	* TotemPoleTrench: Two kids try this trope, but since the lower one has his trunk sticking out, they're mistaken for a flasher.
56	* WhatAreYouInFor: Bruno asks this to his teddy. Who doesn't answer of course.
57	--> Bruno: "You're right -- don't say anything they could use against you!"
58	* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses: Parodied with a student who has enraged his teacher and puts on his swimming glasses, to exploit this trope.

Context ComicStrip / Ottifanten