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1	'''Basic Trope''': [[FunWithAcronyms A Company Making Everything]] that the main characters use.
2	* '''Straight''': In the ''[[ZanyCartoon Zany Avenue]]'' cartoon series, [[AlliterativeName Charlie]] [[SpeciesSurname the Cat]] buys all sorts of items to aid him in his schemes, all made by [[AnvilOnHead Anvil Industries]].
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Literally ''everything'' that ever appears on the show (and, according to the WordOfGod, everything that is left out of frame too) is made by Anvil Industries.
5	** In one episode, Charlie buys a Build-Your-Own-Starship kit from the Anvil catalog and goes on a tour of the Solar system - and even on UsefulNotes/TheMoonsOfSaturn, Anvil Industries is the go-to company for the inhabitants' ZanyScheme needs.
6	** In another episode, it is revealed that the whole ''universe'' was created by Anvil Industries. Seeing as Anvil Industries was founded in [[YearX 26xx]], [[TemporalParadox one can't help but wonder how Anvil Industries came to exist in the first place.]]
7	* '''Downplayed''': The characters get their items from several different firms - Anvil Industries, General Supplies[[note]]Led by [[LiteralMinded an actual general]], no less![[/note]], [[InherentlyFunnyWords Mumpitz]] [[BilingualBonus Enterprises]], and [[MeaningfulName Grayvale Market]] chain of stores - however, those are the only brands that ever appear.
8	* '''Justified''': Anvil Industries are famous for InstantHomeDelivery, huge assortment of items, and affordable prices, and Charlie, [[TheDitz not being too smart]], disregards [[RuleOfFunny the inevitable]] quality [[HonestJohnsDealership issues]] when he needs something for a ZanyScheme right this instant.
9	* '''Inverted''': Every time Charlie or some other character needs something, they buy it [[SeverelySpecializedStore from a different, overspecialized venture]].
10	* '''Subverted''':
11	** At first, it looks like Anvil Industries makes everything... but then it turns out they mainly deal in things like construction supplies and industrial equipment, and don't make things like consumer electronics, food products, or firearms.
12	** Charlie buys his stuff from Anvil Industries when he's conducting {{Zany Scheme}}s in his home town - however, when he goes to visit his British cousin in [[{{Barsetshire}} Northeastern Westernshire]], he has to buy stuff from a British mail-order company instead, and when he goes on vacation to the [[BananaRepublic People's Republic of]] [[MeaningfulName San Estupido]], he gives up [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill after seeing the delivery prices for Anvil products]] and heads to the local junkyard [[MacGyvering to do some improvisation]] instead.
13	* '''Double Subverted''': However, it then turns out that they're a subsidiary of TropeCo/TropeCo, an umbrella corporation that owns dozens of other, smaller corporations that, together, do make absolutely everything.
14	* '''Parodied''':
15	** Charlie and his friends react with genuine shock when they find out that there are, in fact, other companies that aren't Anvil Industries.
16	** The story of ''Zany Avenue'' is sometimes interrupted by {{Parody Commercial}}s for Anvil Industries, trying to sell various improbable wares and gadgets to the audience.
17	* '''Zig Zagged''':
18	** In some episodes, Anvil Industries is Charlie's one-stop-shop for everything he needs, and in others, he has to go hunt for gadget-of-the-day in small mom-and-pop stores.
19	** Whenever Charlie needs something, he buys it from a different overspecialized store... [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands which are all run]] [[RecurringExtra by the same person]], [[HollywoodChameleon Lizzie the Chameleon]], who is a [[OneManArmy one-man]] [[MegaCorp multinational corporation]] in her own right.
20	* '''Averted''': When Charlie needs something, he goes to buy it from a place that would be expected to hold it, or more likely, [[BunglingInventor just makes it himself]].
21	* '''Enforced''': ''Zany Avenue'' is [[InTheStyleOf a throwback to]] classic hand-animated cartoons, so a single company that produces everything Charlie needs is required in order to complete the show's nostalgic atmosphere.
22	* '''Lampshaded''': "Ah, the Anvil catalog... the bread and butter of a {{Zany Scheme}}r!"
23	* '''Invoked''': Charlie and his friends are extremely loyal to Anvil Industries.
24	* '''Exploited''': Charlie, sick of being a ButtMonkey, takes a crash course in MacGyvering, and that, combined with his access to Anvil catalog [[WeSellEverything which offers him literally anything he could need]], makes him [[WhosLaughingNow truly a force to be reckoned with]].
25	* '''Defied''': Charlie buys his stuff from several different companies, refusing to stay loyal to only one of them.
26	* '''Discussed''': "Um... Charlie? [[GoshDangItToHeck Where in the heck]] did you find RocketBoots and a bucket of jellied eels?" "I bought them from the Anvil catalog, duh! They have everything a guy like me might ever need..." "And you never wondered how they became so prominent?" "Not really, no... oh look, there he comes! Stand aside, [[CharacterCatchphrase it's scheme-o-clock!]]"
27	* '''Conversed''': "You noticed how in these cartoons, the characters always get their wares from a single company, no matter how improbable it would be?" "[[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary Rule of Funny, dude]]. RuleOfFunny."
28	* '''Implied''':
29	** When [[TheAllegedCar Charlie's rustbucket of a car breaks down]] in the middle of [[DownOnTheFarm Poweshiek County, Iowa]], he mutters: "Dang it... I really ought to get my wares from some other company...", prompting a quizzical look from his passenger, [[CunningLikeAFox Henry the Fox]]: "What other company?"
30	** It's never brought up where Charlie gets his stuff from, but in a [[PlayedForLaughs parodic]] VerySpecialEpisode about Charlie [[IntimidatingRevenueService doing his taxes]], we get a look at his ledgers, and the majority of his transactions and possessions are related exclusively to Anvil Industries.
31	* '''Deconstructed''': In a "WhatIf" storyline, the writer explores the way Anvil Industries would function in real life, and lists off [[CorruptCorporateExecutive all the unethical methods they would likely use]] to destroy the competition and make themselves a monopoly, as well as the [[VastBureaucracy myriad ramifications]] of a company being so huge that it literally makes everything.
32	* '''Reconstructed''': Later, the same writer does a "{{canon}}ical" take on how Anvil Industries operates: the company is not the only company in the world, just the most popular and largest mail-order company, it rose to the top simply by virtue of InstantHomeDelivery, is run by UnclePennybags who is not greedy and bears no ill will towards the common man, and the bureaucracy is no more tangled than would be expected of its cartoon world.
33	* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ''Zany Avenue'' starts out as a GenreThrowback to the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation Golden Age cartoons]], so the appearance of Anvil Industries as a company that sells everything to the main characters doesn't raise any eyebrows - but as [[ContinuityCreep continuity and setting details pile up]], the astute viewers notice that Anvil Industries' products with oddly specific uses and employees willing to help out for a modest fee always seem to appear where they are needed...
34	* '''Played For Laughs''': Fed up with endemic defects, Charlie pays a visit to Anvil Industries, and sees that it is the epitome of IncompetenceInc, with employees no better off than he is in regards to reliability of their products.
35	* '''Played For Drama''': Fed up with endemic defects, Charlie tries to switch to products from some other company, which won't result in as many painful failures - but he discovers that Anvil Industries is literally the only company out there and that he has no choice in the matter.
36	* '''Played For Horror''': In a HalloweenEpisode, Anvil Industries accidentally mails out a batch of items that turn out to be '''''[[ArtifactOfDoom severely]]''''' [[MayContainEvil cursed]], and LightmareFuel abounds for Charlie and the main cast.
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