Line #5 WesternAnimation/KokosEarthControl


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3	'''''Koko's Earth Control''''' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation 1928]] [[Creator/FleischerStudios Max Fleischer]] cartoon, starring WesternAnimation/KokoTheClown and Fitz the Dog.
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5	The short begins with Max at his drawing board, inking in Koko and Fitz running across an animated earth, until they find the "Control of Earth" station. Inside, the duo begin carelessly toying around with its controls, with Koko trying to stop Fitz from pulling the lever that will end the earth. Naturally, he fails, resulting in the sun melting the moon with a breath, and the sun getting blown up by a comet. This results in recurring flashes of lightning, and Koko and Fitz getting seperated and winding up in their own escapades, until these devastating effects of their mishaps [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou extends into the real world]]!
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7	This short is in the PublicDomain and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ysCS1NB0zE here.]]
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9	!!Tropes:
10	* ApocalypseHow: The cartoon world undergoes a Class X, as the cartoon Earth and most of its celestial bodies are destroyed. The real world is shown to be undergoing a disaster of its own as well, with floods, earthquakes and collapsing buildings.
11	* ApocalypseWow: The cartoon apocalypse is a drawn-out and dramatic thing, with flashes of lighting, fighting celestial bodies, demons coming out of the earth, chasms opening in the ground, erupting volcanoes, and the world's colors flickering on and off until reality collapses entirely.
12	* AGodAmI: The characters play with the control of the Earth.
13	* BabyPlanet: The cartoon world is small enough for the characters to see it curving.
14	* BigElectricSwitch: The world-ending lever in the "Control of Earth" station doesn't fully ''look'' like this trope, but it's just as important.
15	* CastingAShadow: Fitz hides under Koko's shadow as if it were a carpet.
16	* DeclarativeFinger: Used by Koko to chastise Fitz, and even inflates it to spank him!
17	* DerangedAnimation: Particularly the scene where a volcano morphs into the face of a man smoking a cigar!
18	* DownerEnding: The short ends with buildings collapsing, cities disappearing underwater, the earth still shaking, and Koko and Fitz melting into a puddle of ink.
19	* DramaticThunder: The most recurring sign of the apocalypse are dramatic flashes of lightning.
20	* EarthShatteringKaboom: Not the ending, but the toon Earth the characters start out on blows up, throwing Koko back into the real world. This dosen't stop the effects from [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou going into the real world to wreak havoc as well]]!
21	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Fritz pulling the end-of-the-world lever causes the cartoon world to be destroyed. When they're thrown into the real world, it's shown to be collapsing as well.
22	* TheFaceOfTheSun: An anthropomorphic sun melts the TheManInTheMoon by blowing on it before being hit by a comet and swallowing it.
23	* FunnyAnimal: Fitz the dog, a cartoony, anthropomorphic animal character.
24	* GeniusLoci: The volcano morphs into the face of a man smoking a cigar.
25	* {{Hammerspace}}: How Fitz gets an ax out of thin air to chop apart a tree he is fighting.
26	* HaveYouSeenMyGod: There is a control room for the Earth with a lever to destroy it, but nobody watches over it.
27	* HellOnEarth: One of the symptoms of the apocalypse, with demonheads living slightly under the ground level and volcanos turning into faces.
28	* LosingYourHead: When Koko's sticks his head underground, it remains trapped in the earth when he first comes up. When he first tries to pull it up, he grabs a demon's head instead, but finds his normal head soon after.
29	* TheManInTheMoon: When the apocalypse begins, an anthropomorphic moon rises in the day and is promptly melted by TheFaceOfTheSun.
30	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Fitz causes the destruction of their cartoon world and of the real world.
31	* OhCrap: Koko has a moment of absolute terror when he reads what the lever that Fitz is trying to pull does.
32	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: There is a horned demon head coming out of the ground, and, when Koko looses his head, he grabs into the hole and accidentally takes the demon head, which seems to be just a head.
33	%%* PublicDomainAnimation:
34	* RogerRabbitEffect: During the ending, Koko and Fritz are present as thumb-sized animated figures in a live-action world.
35	* SchmuckBait: Whoever gave a big lever a warning sign like ''that'' was just begging to have it pulled.
36	* ScreenShake: In the life action apocalypse scenes, the screen is visibly shaking to display the earthquakes rocking the world.
37	%% ThickLineAnimation
38	* TooDumbToLive: When the two enter the world control station, Fitz sees a lever that will destroy the Earth if pulled. He promptly decides to do everything in his power to pull it. He succeeds and, sure enough, the world and everything in it ends.
39	* WeatherControlMachine: One of the functions of the eponymous Earth Control is WeatherManipulation.
40	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Max Fleischer appears at the beginning to startle animation, but disappears after the intro and is nowhere to be seen when Koko and Fitz are having their escapades.
41	* WhenTreesAttack: During the cartoon apocalypse, Fitz is attacked by an old, animated tree that starts trying to pummel him.

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