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8	[[caption-width-right:256:Denmark loves it! Everyone else... is pretty much unaware the thing exists.]]
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10	''Jungledyret Hugo'' (also known as ''Go Hugo Go'' in the English version) is a Danish animated film series by Creator/AFilm about a little mammal named Hugo, who is one of a kind.
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12	The first film introduces us to Hugo, an apparently one-of-a-kind anthropomorphic animal who lives in a jungle. Youthful and carefree, Hugo is prone to playing practical jokes on his friends, Zig and Zag the monkeys. His idyllic lifestyle is interrupted when he is captured by the CEO of a famed movie company, Conrad Cupmann, to be a co-star in a Hollywood-style film. In order to return from Copenhagen to his jungle home, he must escape with the help of a newly found friend, Rita the fox.
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14	The sequel, '''Jungledyret 2 - den store filmhelt''' (''Hugo the Movie Star'' in the English version), picks up where the first movie left off. Hugo and Rita each tell their friends about how much they miss one another. Meanwhile, the CEO of the movie studio still wants to catch him. His plan is to have Hugo co-star in a film, and then earn lots of money through merchandising.
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16	In 2003, the franchise was made into an animated TV series. It led up to the events of the third film. Thirteen episodes of 26 minutes were produced, and originally aired 2003-2004.
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18	The third film, '''Jungledyret 3 - Fræk Flabet og fri''', continues where the animated series left off, which in turn is a sequel to the second movie. It is a CGI film. The plot again involves Hugo being captured, this time by several competing groups of humans who are all after Hugo for their own reasons.
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21	!!This series contains examples of:
22	* AllCGICartoon: The third one.
23	%%* AmusingInjuries
24	%%* AlmostKiss: Twice in the second film.
25	* ArtEvolution: The first film looks like a Creator/DonBluth film, but the second has its own style.
26	** Rita's design in particular changes with each film.
27	* ArtisticAge: See OlderThanTheyLook below.
28	* BeYourself:
29	--> '''Hugo''': They want me to be completely different from what I am. Why do I have to be different? Why can't they just be different themselves??
30	--> '''Rita''': I like you the way you are.
31	--> '''Hugo''': You're my... best friend too.
32	* BigBad: In each of the films, Hugo has to face the main human antagonist who wants to capture him for their own ends. In the first movie, Izabella Scorpio is the most active antagonist while her husband Conrad is her reluctant [[TheDragon dragon]]. Conrad himself gets promoted to the next big bad in the sequel, becoming a rather unusual [[KnightOfCerebus ruthless and efficient villain for the mostly light-heartened franchise]]. For the TV-series and the third movie, General Maximus is the most recurrent antagonist.
33	* BigDamnHeroes: The leader of the pigs tries to do this to save Hugo and Rita from Cupmann and his henchmen, charging full speed ahead from the snowy hill at them. Unforunately, he trips and goes down rolling, but it does manages to break the ice they were standing at and give Hugo and Rita a short opportunity to escape. A more straight exemple happens right after, as Cupmann emerges out of the water, points his gun directly at Hugo and is about to shoot, when Sensuella arrives along with the police, who soon arrests Cupmann, allowing Hugo and Rita to finally escape him.
34	%%* BigEater: Hugo.
35	%%** ExtremeOmnivore: That poor candle.
36	* BittersweetEnding: To a minor degree in the first movie. Hugo manages to escape into the ferry that will take him back to the jungle, but he'd to leave Rita, whom he'd bonded with, with the uncertainty of if he'll ever see her again.
37	* BookEnds: The first film begins with a musical number about Hugo's daily routine, which consists of playing in the jungle with his friends. It ends with the same musical number, but now Meatball Charlie is playing too.
38	** In the beginning of the third film, Hugo and his old friends are singing in the jungle... in Hugo's dreams. At the end, the song is reprised, this time in Junglandia's nature reserve with Rita and the pup present.
39	%%* {{Bowdlerise}}: The English versions by Miramax.
40	* BoyMeetsGirl: Hugo meets Rita when he's locked inside the zoo cage while she visits the zoo during one of her night walks, where they've a short conversation before Rita leaves right before Cupmann and his henchman breaks in to steal Hugo. They meet up again after Hugo escapes and begins to develop a friendship that soon grows into young love.
41	* BrandishmentBluff: Hugo repeatedly claims that he is poisonous or diseased to scare off predators, to varying degrees of success.
42	* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: Hugo's dissatisfaction with his new life in the colder and harsher Denmark and consideration of returning back to Cupmann because of it causes an upset Rita to break up with him and storm off in a huff, leaving him to angrily try to go back to Cupmann. They soon reunites and escapes together just when Cupmann begins his final chase for them.
43	* {{Bulungi}}: Junglandia. As seen in the third film, it is actually in South America, somewhere around Peru, Bolivia, and Chile.
44	* CatchPhrase: Hugo's is "Wulle wulle wah!"
45	** Rita's is "You're impossible!"
46	* CartoonCreature: Hugo, who resembles a cross between a koala and a monkey.
47	* CatsAreMean: All over the series. Alleycats in the first film, a jaguar and a lynx during the TV series, and another jaguar in the third film.
48	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Conrad Cupmann. The dude burns down a forest just to lure out Hugo.
49	* CuteLittleFangs: Both the main leads.
50	* DarkerAndEdgier: The second film features much more emotional drama than the other installments.
51	* DeadpanSnarker: Rita and Hugo. [[LittleMissSnarker Mostly Rita.]]
52	* DenserAndWackier: The animated series starts off mundane enough, but during the final few episodes Hugo and Rita travel to the North Pole with one of Santa's elves, and encounter a tribe of troll-like creatures along the way.
53	* DisneyAcidSequence: When Izabella [[SanitySlippage loses her marbles]] over her obsession with catching Hugo, the scene transitions into her imagination, in which she repeatedly grabs Hugo only for him to transform into strange things, including ''herself'', all while she [[LaughingMad giggles unsettlingly]]. This scene was cut out of the English dub.
54	%%* DumbBlonde: Barbie Turner.
55	* DumbMuscle: The snake has only a certain type of muscles that are stronger than any of Hugo's other adversaries but fortunately his brain isn't included (either as a muscle or something generally strong) and he is the only one who easily falls for his ostensible prey's lies.
56	* EarnYourHappyEnding: After enduring a lot of hardships due to Cupmann's obsession with him, as well having a hard time adapting to the colder climate of Denmark, which causes a temporary break-up with an upset Rita, Hugo manages to escape with her on a train toward the south there they can live a new and happy life together.
57	* EasyAmnesia: The first episode of the animated series involves Hugo getting hit by a church bell and forgetting that he's not in the jungle anymore (and also Rita's name).
58	* EveryoneCanSeeIt: The relationship between Hugo and Rita is obvious to everyone and many characters lampshade on it. Even [[BigBad Cupmann]] can see it, and so he decides to send bloodhounds to kill Rita due to her "bad influence" over Hugo.
59	%%* EvilIsHammy: Izabella.
60	* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: In the second film, Conrad tries to shoot Hugo with [[TranquilizerDart Tranquilizer Darts]]. In the third film, the gun is replaced with a crossbow, but there is a statue of General Maximus wielding a rifle. Averted in the animated series, however.
61	%%* FriendlyTickleTorture
62	%%* FunnyAnimal
63	%%* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The sole purpose of the rat in the third film.
64	%%* UsefulNotes/FurryFandom: You know it!
65	%%* GospelRevivalNumber: The pig song.
66	%%* GravityIsAHarshMistress
67	* HakunaMatata: ''Wulle Wulle Wap Wap'' in the first film, ''Frank, Cheeky, and Free'' in the third.
68	%%* HalfIdenticalTwins: Zig and [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics Zag]].
69	%%* HartmanHips: Izabella.
70	%%* HeelFaceTurn: Most of the antagonists of the third film, except for Professor Strix.
71	%%** [[spoiler: Barbie Turner in the second film.]]
72	%%* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Conrad Cupmann.
73	%%* HumanlikeFootAnatomy: Hugo.
74	* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Hugo looks upon mankind with great distrust, with the exception of Meatball Charlie.
75	%%* [[HumanSnowball Pig Snowball]]
76	%%* IdleRich: Croesus.
77	* InterspeciesRomance: Hugo and Rita. One is a LastOfItsKind type of rare jungle animal and the other one is a regular street fox. And despite it, they manages to form a growing romantic relationship that even if it faces some downturns due to their different personalities now and than remains strong and unmoved by the challenges they face.
78	%%* InsistentTerminology: ... though they are still referred to as ''best friends''. [[JustifiedTrope Understandable]], since this ''is'' a children's cartoon, and [[HeldGaze on top of]] [[HoldingHands everything]] [[AccidentalKiss else]] [[AlternateAnimalAffection already]] [[AnywhereButTheirLips there]], more could be [[SickeninglySweethearts too much]].
79	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While being kind and loyal, Hugo can be also selfish and childish at times, much to the chagrin of Rita who nearly breaks things off with him because it, but he eventually realizes his mistakes and tries to make up for it.
80	* KnightOfCerebus: Cupmann (in the second movie) is the only main antagonist who's played as a genuine, serious threat. While the other antagonists are more comical and inefficient in nature, Cupmann is a ruthless and cold-hearted man who'll even resort to ''killing'' if he's to get what he wants. Just the gleeful way he orders the bloodhounds to rip that foxfur apart in preparation for killing Rita is downright disturbing.
81	* LanguageFluencyDenial: Hugo [[TalkingAnimal can talk intelligently]], but rarely talks to humans and the one time he does talk to a human all he says is his name, almost inaudibly. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as he doesn't hide his ability to understand what humans are saying.
82	%%* LivingCrashpad: Rita in the first TV series episode.
83	%%* MadeMyselfSad: Hugo misses Rita so badly that just mentioning her kills his storytelling mood.
84	%%* MadScientist: Professor Strix.
85	* ModernMajorGeneral: Generalissimo Maximillion Maximus: Skilled ruler, smooth negotiator... never once seen actually leading an army, nor is it even confirmed that Junglandia ''has'' an army.
86	* MovieMakingMess: In the first take for his movie, Cupmann has deal with an EpicFail of this when a defiant Hugo refuses to cooperate. It becomes much more successful the second time the next day, if only because Hugo has been promised to be rewarded with food if he does play along.
87	%%* MeatgrinderSurgery: Nearly happens to Hugo during the Very Lame Strix's VillainSong.
88	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Izabella Scorpio. Izabella Dehavalot in the English dub.
89	** General Maximus' dog is named {{Satan}}.
90	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[Music/MichaelJackson Michael Snackson]] (Jack Michaelson in the English version)
91	* OlderThanTheyLook: Rita comments on several occasions that soon she will be old enough to have her own den. And Hugo, despite his "cute and fuzzy" look, talks and acts like someone clearly in his teens.
92	%%* {{Paparazzi}}: Blitz and Smuds.
93	%%* PricelessMingVase: "And now the ugly one!" ''CRASH!''
94	* ProductPlacement: Extremely subtle. While Hugo is being driven to the harbor on the banana truck, a Coca-Cola sign can be seen. The same sign is seen again at the end, when Meatball Charlie is taking Hugo back to the jungle.
95	* PunchClockVillain: Donna Prima. She is the only antagonist who likes Hugo from the start and wants to see him treated well.
96	* PutOnABus: Rita's family, whom she repeatedly voices concern over during the first two films, then abandons almost without noticing.
97	** Dellekaj don't appear in the sequel movie, but returns half-way into the TV-series.
98	%%* ReluctantMadScientist: Professor Sturmdrang. (Doctor Loongkoffer in the English dub)
99	* RubberMan: Chief Iztintatel has the ability to stretch his body into the shapes of various animals, including a bird and a snake.
100	* RubeGoldbergDevice: Used to catch Hugo in the beginning of the third movie.
101	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Several characters pulls this thought the films.
102	** In the first movie, Conrad finally has enough of Izabelle's obsession with Hugo and her disreceptful treatment of him, flips out on her and leaves her on the port while she has her [[VillainousBreakdown psychotic episode]].
103	** Rita does this in the sequel when Hugo complains about the hardships of his new life with her in Denmark, causing her to run away upset when she thinks that he'd rather choose the humans before her. Hugo himself tries to do this right after when he tries to return to Conrad, only to return back to her when he finds out that Conrad plans to kill her with his new hunting dogs.
104	** Rita's mother does this while she escort Hugo to the harbour when they're suddenly being followed by one of Izabelle's bounty hunters, abandoning him to search for the harbour himself.
105	* ShoutOut: The motivational song Hugo sings to the pigs is obviously a Baptist gospel.
106	** In one episode of the animated series, Hugo puts on a red shirt to keep warm in the Arctic. He looks almost exactly like Franchise/WinnieThePooh.
107	%%* SkywardScream: "''RITA!''"
108	* StarCrossedLovers: Hugo and Rita have this scenario at the beginning of the second movie, when Hugo is back in the jungle. They both miss each other, to the point of depression in Hugo's case, until they eventually reunite, and even then, they have to face a lot of obstacles that try to keep them apart.
109	* TheStoner: There's a butterfly in the third movie that is quite clearly high as a kite.
110	%%* StupidCrooks: The recurring gangsters in the animated series.
111	* ThatPoorPlant: A flower gets hit with a TranquilizerDart in the third film, causing it to droop pitifully.
112	* ThroughHisStomach: It's when Hugo offers his food to a hungry Rita when they meet in the zoo that plants the seed to their future relationship.
113	* TookALevelInBadass: Cupmann sure did in the second movie. In the first, he was just Izabelle's bumbling husband who could care less about Hugo. In the second movie, he becomes an efficient, cunning, and ruthless antagonist who will do anything to capture Hugo, turning him into Hugo's most terrifying enemy. [[note]] Maybe divorcing Izabelle between movies had something to do with it. [[/note]]
114	%%* TheLoad: The jungle pup.
115	* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge: Every antagonist's motivation for catching Hugo. Movies, and movie merchandise, and perfume, and cloned pets, and and and...
116	%%* ThoseTwoGuys: Zig and Zag.
117	%%* TheTrickster: Hugo.
118	%%* [[TotemPoleTrench Totem Pole Scarecrow]]
119	%%* {{Tsundere}}: Rita.
120	* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Barbie Turner retrieves a cigar from her cleavage.
121	* VillainousBreakdown: Both Izabella and Cupmann get this.
122	** For the former's case, the failure of capturing Hugo causes her to finally snap into hysterical, weeping cries and maddened shrieks on the port.
123	** For the second, Hugo and Rita's persistence to escape him causes him to lose his calculating cunning and quickly reduces him into an enraged, crazed hunter.
124	* VillainSong: ''And I Will Be The Star of Science'' from the third movie.
125	* VomitDiscretionShot: In the first movie, Hugo gets seasick inside a burlap sack, but it's too dark to see. In the third movie, the comic relief rat gets airsick and throws up in Strix's boot... while he's wearing it. [[FailedASpotCheck He doesn't notice.]]
126	* WalkingTheEarth: The premise of the TV series is that Hugo and Rita are traveling the world in search of a place of their own to live on, and during their adventures, they manages to travel all across Europe, South America and even to the North Pole.
127	* WhatTheHellHero: Hugo's antics and behavior tends to invoke this from Rita. One example is when Hugo manages to antagonize a pack of feral street cats and barely gets away from taking a beating from them by Rita's timely rescue, in which she right after calls him out of his impulsive actions. Another, more serious, example is when Hugo seemingly has allowed himself to be Cupmann's obedient movie pet in exchange for food and fame, to which Rita calls him out for sacrificing his own freedom away. Her calling out becomes even more harsh when she thinks that Hugo has cheated on her with Miss Nutzi.

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