1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maxhqdefault_0.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:350:Wait, 40 B.C. and 1969 are ''more'' than 2000 years apart!]] |
3 | ''MAX the 2000-Year-Old Mouse'' was a series of animated shorts from Krantz Films (also see ''WesternAnimation/RocketRobinHood'' and the [[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 first Spider-Man).]] |
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5 | Each episode – 104 in total, at roughly five minutes each – began with a depiction of a museum of historical artifacts, supposedly collected over a stretch of two millennia (hence the subtitle). The narrator (Bernard Cowan) announced a specific display, upon which a series of still art and lithographs were used to indicate the events that involved the display in question. |
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7 | Along the way, a sentient white rodent (voiced by Creator/PaulSoles), who made his home in a little hole on the museum grounds, would provide commentary and at-best dubious claims to being at the actual event. Max’s comedic asides stood in sharp contrast to the serious narration of the timeline. |
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9 | Co-created by Stephen Krantz and Creator/RalphBakshi. A subsidiary of Vikoa Entertainment Corp. (New York City). |
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11 | !! Tropes: |
12 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The only garment Max normally wore was an unbuttoned vest. |
13 | * ArtifactTitle: When an episode involved the Bible or any prehistoric times (meaning well over 2,000 years ago). |
14 | * LimitedAnimation: It was 1967, what did you expect? |
15 | * MinimalistCast: One guess. |
16 | * SmallNameBigEgo: "And Max!" |
17 | * UnreliableNarrator: Cowan’s voice-over is an aversion; Max plays it straight ''most'' of the time. |
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