Line #14 WesternAnimation/IceAgeScratTales


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: Parenting's NUTS!!]]
3	''Ice Age: Scrat Tales'' is the first TV series of the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' franchise. It also marks the last production completed by Creator/BlueSkyStudios before its closure in 2021. [[note]] Their actual final project, the initially incomplete ''WesternAnimation/{{Nimona\|2023}}'', would be picked up and completed by Creator/AnnapurnaPictures and [[Creator/DoubleNegativeVFX DNEG]] and released nearly a year and a half later. [[/note]]
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5	The series depicts Scrat the Saber-toothed Squirrel on his wildest adventure yet...raising an adopted baby prehistoric squirrel. While Scrat loves his child, major issues arise between them when Scrat realizes Baby Scrat has inherited his exact same love of acorns. In the vein of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', each three to four-minute episode depicts Scrat bonding with Baby Scrat, while also arguing over who gets the acorn. It's as crazy as it is heartfelt.
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7	The series premiered on Creator/DisneyPlus in 2022. Its release was accompanied by a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuua5lVrdP0 short piece of animation]] featuring Scrat that the animators put together as a final send-off both to Scrat and to Blue Sky Studios.
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9	!!Tropes:
10	* AbortedArc: Scratte was intended to appear again, and Baby Scrat is heavily implied to be her son (take a guess who’s the father). However, Disney only greenlit six shorts, effectively preventing the shorts later down in production that would feature this arc from seeing the light of day.
11	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Scrat and Baby Scrat fight each other for the acorn, but they still love each other like a family.
12	* CompanyCrossReferences: Since Disney owns the rights to ''Ice Age'', the official poster depicts Scrat performing a LionKingLift on his acorn with Baby Scrat clinging to it.
13	* EarnYourHappyEnding: After going through hell just to get his acorn, Scrat finally gets it at the end.
14	* GainaxEnding: "Nut the End" ends with [[spoiler: Scrat discovering his son hided the Acorn to eated after he died and coming back to life as a zombie to chase him]].
15	* LikeFatherLikeSon: Scrat and Baby Scrat share the same obsession of getting the acorn.
16	* LionKingLift: Scrat does this with the acorn and Baby Scrat on the poster. Then again, Disney ''does'' own the rights to ''Ice Age''.
17	* MythologyGag: The plot of the series revolves around the trouble an animal gets into while taking care of a baby, just like the first ''WesternAnimation/IceAge''. Scrat even plays his own variant of "Where's the Baby" with Baby Scrat, just like Diego did with Roshan.
18	* PapaWolf: Scrat, well, sort of. He still cares about the acorn, but there are moments where you can tell he still loves and cares for Baby Scrat. The episode "Nutty Reflections" shows this as an example.
19	* ParentalSubstitute: Since Baby Scrat's real parents are nowhere found in the show, Scrat raises Baby Scrat like his own son.
20	* SeriesContinuityError: A young Dodo appears in the series despite the fact all female dodos died out in the events of the first film, meaning the Dodo race would've been unable to reproduce more younglings.
21	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Let’s see. We have a red-orange colored saber-tooth squirrel that rivals with Scrat over the acorn, as well as being voiced by a woman. Wait, what do you mean that it’s not Scratte?

Context WesternAnimation / IceAgeScratTales