Line #12 WesternAnimation/KiddVideo


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6	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kidd_video_title.jpg]]
7	->''It's getting me going\
8	It's keeping me moving on!\
9	Hooked on my system,\
10	I'm playing on and on!\
11	People say I'm crazy,\
12	'Cause I'm always on my own!\
13	Hi-fi's around me,\
14	Hi-tech just turns me on!\
15	From my video to my radio!''
16	-->-- "Video to Radio", the series' opening theme
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19	This cult favorite originally ran from 1984-85 on Creator/{{NBC}} and produced by Creator/DiCEntertainment and Creator/SabanEntertainment (with [[Creator/WangFilmProductions Cuckoo's Nest Studio]] in season 1). It involved a GarageBand who were brought to a [[CloudCuckooland very strange magical land]] called the Flip Side by the evil [[BigBad Master Blaster]][[note]]not to be confused with the Music/StevieWonder song, especially considering it got airplay on this show, or the villain from ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'', or VideoGame/BlasterMaster, for that matter[[/note]]. Master Blaster wishes to kidnap all the musicians from our world (it's never really explained ''why''; perhaps he had hit upon the idea of using ThePowerOfRock for evil). The band escapes with the help of the [[FairyCompanion good Fairy]], Glitter, and the rest of the series involves them getting into [[AdventureTowns adventures in every city]] and battling Master Blaster and his Copy Cats.
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21	As with the ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983'' series, they're also [[TrappedInAnotherWorld ostensibly looking for a way to get back to the real world]]... but not really. The fact that '''everyone''' in the Flip Side loves their music relieves the sting of FailureIsTheOnlyOption.
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23	Much, much more importantly, this series is remembered for being a truly ''glorious'' perfect storm of RuleOfCool, DerangedAnimation, and TheEighties. ''Mass quantities'' of TheEighties.
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25	The show was canceled for being too costly for [=NBC=] to produce.
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27	Compare ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''. An extensive website, with episode guides, is maintained by [[http://www.kvflipside.org/ Toolbot,]] who has also been kind enough to upload [[https://www.youtube.com/user/toolbot several episodes]] to Website/YouTube. Which is good, because trying to describe the show is nothing compared to actually watching it.[[note]]That, and until [[ScrewedByTheLawyers the problem with the music]] is resolved, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes there may not be a home video release for quite a while]]...[[/note]]
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29	!!Tropes appearing in ''Kidd Video'' include:
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31	* AdventureTowns: A different week, a different town.
32	* {{Animesque}}: The intro for Season 1 and Season 2 as a whole have shades of this, as per the norm of [=DiC=] cartoons of the time.
33	* ArtEvolution: Season 1 -> Season 2, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQKhL1jE5yw demonstrated here.]] Also counts as an ArtShift.
34	* BigBad: Master Blaster, although he's [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption rather incompetent]].
35	%%* BigEater: Fat Cat. Duh.
36	* BandToon: While not based on a real band, it otherwise fits the description to a "t".
37	* CactusPerson: Ash is turned into one of these when a plant monster takes over the Kiddmobile and emits a pollen that induces {{Transflormation}}s (Carla is turned into a flower). Fortunately, the effects are undone by the end of the episode.
38	* CaptainObvious
39	-->'''Master Blaster''': They're getting away!\
40	'''Copycat''': Thanks for the news flash, Your Obviousness.
41	* CatsAreMean: Subverted. The Copy Cats are just {{Punch Clock Villain}}s; Master Blaster is the real meanie.
42	* CloudCuckooland: The Flipside, a bizarre alternate dimension where nothing makes sense. As noted by the characters in the intro ("We look like..." "Cartoons!"), it doesn't look like a cartoon for the show - a cartoon really ''is'' how the Flipside and anyone in it looks.
43	* CoolCar: The bizarre tour bus that must have been designed as a tribute to ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine''. Somehow created out of a Subaru Brat.
44	* CuteBruiser: Glitter gains super-strength (enough to ''toss buildings around''), and other magical powers any time she sneezes.
45	* DependingOnTheWriter: The goals of Master Blaster fluctuated. At times, he wanted to take over the Flip Side, but other times, he just wanted to control its music. Sometimes, he tried to amass wealth. Then there were times where MB actively tried to recapture or eliminate Kidd Video.
46	* DerangedAnimation: See page quote. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v4_EazSgKE Any questions?]] Somehow, it manages to get even more trippy come season 2.
47	* DisneyAcidSequence: The whole series, really. The page quote pretty much describes the series for you.
48	%%* DoAnythingRobot: Toolbot
49	* DownTheRabbitHole: As explained in the opening sequence, they were rehearsing in a storage room, when Master Blaster suddenly appears and brings them to the flipside, likely through the mirror that he appeared on.
50	* EatTheCamera: Absolute ending of "Grooveyard City" (which showed the "Ghostbusters" clip).
51	* TheEighties: Oh God yes. Did we mention Glitter wears ''legwarmers''?
52	%%* EightiesHair: Carla
53	* ExpositoryThemeTune: Complete with live action footage of the origin story.
54	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Both ways. The gang can't get home, nor can the Master Blaster capture them, or we have no more show.
55	* FairyCompanion: Glitter, who guides them throughout the Flipside, and helps them (or tries to) with her powers.
56	* FakeBand: Inverted. The four main actors who played the heroes also sang ''and played'' the band's songs.
57	* ForTheEvulz: It's never explained why Master Blaster wanted to kidnap all the musicians from our world and send them to the Flip Side.
58	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: The Copycats only wear jackets. (She-Lion, in addition, [[TheOneWhoWearsShoes wears sandals]])
59	* InkSuitActor: Besides doing their own singing and playing their own instruments, the cast members also voice their animated versions.
60	* InsertSong: Action sequences tended to have songs, either original to the show or licensed music of the day, played over them. In the second season sometimes actual music videos would be shown, InUniverse to create a distraction so the band could escape a tricky situation.
61	* InterspeciesRomance: The last episode, "Who's In the Kitchen With Dinah?", has the Master Blaster fall in love with a hippo-woman.
62	* JustEatGilligan: Carla screwed up their rescues more often than not but never got yelled at for it.
63	* MaleBandFemaleSinger: For two of the band's songs. "Turn Me Up" and "It's Over When the Phone Stops Ringing" have Carla on the vocals.
64	* MeaningfulName: Kidd Video, Whiz, Master Blaster, She-Lion, Kool Kitty. And those are just the recurring characters.
65	* NonHumanSidekick: {{Inverted}}. The pirate captain is a parrot who carries a miniature human on his shoulder.
66	* OdeToFood: One episode begins with Whiz making a pizza and singing and dancing to celebrate the pizza. Unfortunately, he gets distracted and burns it.
67	* OminousFloatingCastle: The Master Blaster's lair is a cross between this and AirBorneAircraftCarrier, although it mostly looks like a jukebox.
68	* ThePowerOfRock: The Flipside is basically an entire universe that runs on rock music.
69	* ThePsychoRangers: The Copy Cats, the enemy band to the Good Guys' band. Part GoldfishPoopGang.
70	* {{Punch Clock Villain}}s: The Copy Cats are only following Master Blaster's orders. Otherwise, they're not really evil.
71	* RaceLift: The live-action Carla is black, but her Flipside counterpart is white.
72	* RomanticRideSharing: The show's intro includes the live-action Kidd and Carla doing this. This being a 1980s Saturday morning cartoon, however, [[DownplayedTrope the romance is largely implied]].
73	* RuleOfCool: The only excuse for the show's premise.
74	* SuperStrength: Making Glitter sneeze would, for some reason, give her a burst of incredible strength. A DeusExMachina that was always used to get the kids out of life-threatening situations.
75	* TelephoneSong: "It's Over When the Phone Stops Ringing".
76	%%* TerribleTrio: The Copy Cats.
77	* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Using popular radio hits of the day, sometimes including snippets from the music videos.
78	* TitleThemeTune: One of the few western productions to play with this trope. The chorus has the line "from my '''video''' to my radio", while the second verse (which only appears in the full version of the song) has the line "this '''kidd''' is up a tree", but it never actually gives the full name of the show.
79	* {{Transflormation}}: One episode has Carla and Ash turned into plants -- she turns into a flower, and he turns into a cactus.
80	* TrappedInAnotherWorld: The Flipside. They're trapped in it.
81	* VocalTagTeam: All four band members got to sing on various songs, even though Kidd was signposted as the bandleader.
82	* WalkingTheEarth: Okay, they ride a bus-car-submarine-thing, and it's [[CloudCuckooland not the Earth,]] exactly, but the trope still applies.

Context WesternAnimation / KiddVideo