| 1 | !!Fridge Brilliance |
| 2 | * "Lost in Paris" has a rather brilliant detail: Pepito is [[SpannerInTheWorks the reason Madeline was ultimately found]]. At first, his [[TheDeterminator insistence]] to give Madeline her parting gift (the shrunken head) seems pointless and even [[PlayedForLaughs silly]]. But in the grand scheme of things, it set off a butterfly effect. Before he came along, Miss Clavel and the collective girls were [[DespairEventHorizon sadly resigned]] to the idea that Madeline was off to a better life without them. If he hadn't convinced them to take them to Madeline, they wouldn't have gone to the train station to see her off. And if they hadn't driven him to the train station, they wouldn't have learned she never boarded the train nor discovered Genevieve at the Metro. Without Pepito, the metaphorical alarm bells wouldn't have gone off, and nobody would've come to Madeline's rescue. |
| 3 | ** What's more, Pepito's shrunken head played a part in Madeline and her new friends overpowering Madame [=LaCroc=] in the climax. On so many levels, he played a big part in Madeline's triumph over the villains. |
| 4 | * In the original 1988 [[Creator/CookieJarEntertainment CINAR]] special, Madeline is a prankster who loves to play tricks on her friends, but then CharacterizationMarchesOn, and she becomes [[MenaceDecay less mischievous]] and just a [[PluckyGirl Plucky]] GenkiGirl instead. Could there be an in-universe reason for this change? Possibly! The next two specials released after the original, in order, were ''Madeline's Christmas'' and ''Madeline and the Bad Hat.'' In the Christmas special, all the other girls and Miss Clavel get sick and Madeline has to take care of them by herself: that experience probably helps to mature her. Then in ''Bad Hat'', Pepito is introduced, and for the first time Madeline becomes a target of someone else's pranks, which she realizes isn't much fun. |
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| 6 | !!Fridge Horror |
| 7 | * How do you suppose [=LaCroque=] and Henri learned of Madeline and her fortune? |
| 8 | * In ''Madeline at the Ballet'', Madeline is upset because the ballet teacher completely ignores her and tries to impress him by wearing pointe shoes during rehearsal. While she causes a disaster, she is lucky that she didn't seriously hurt herself wearing the pointe shoes--essentially, a dancer younger than 12 shouldn't go en pointe because the bones in her feet haven't fully formed and may be damaged from the physical stress that comes from pointe technique. If your feet aren't strong enough, you can break an ankle trying to go on pointe for the first time. |
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