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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[ThemeTune Friends for life, through thick and thin]].]] |
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| 4 | ->''"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! SPIN IT!"'' |
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| 6 | Another Creator/{{Disney}} adventure cartoon from ''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'' era, this 1990 series transplants several characters from [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Disney's adaptation of]] ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' into a show about the golden age of seaplane travel, featuring a WorldOfFunnyAnimals. Essentially an animated ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey'' - especially as the heroes have Franchise/IndianaJones-style adventures and one of the key locations is Louie's, an island bar run by the titular orangutan. Also has elements of a LighterAndSofter Disney version of ''TabletopGame/CrimsonSkies'' (particularly the Air Pirates; see below). |
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| 8 | Baloo the bear is a seaplane cargo-for-hire operator from the port city of Cape Suzette in a time not unlike the 1930s or TheForties. His twin-engine flying boat, the ''Sea Duck'', is his most prized possession, and he favors his freedom over all else, including paying his bills. When the bank forecloses on his debts, a young entrepreneur/lady bear/single mother named Rebecca Cunningham snaps up his business, his plane, and his home, and opens the "Higher-For-Hire" air cargo service. Rather than abandon his "baby" to her and whatever low-rent pilot she may hire, he stays on, working for the day when he can buy back the ''Sea Duck'' and be rid of her. |
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| 10 | Early on, he picks up a young stowaway, Kit Cloudkicker, who eventually earns the post of Baloo's navigator and sidekick. A daring barnstormer and aspiring pilot, Kit uses a collapsible airfoil to glide behind the ''Sea Duck'' on a line, and is responsible for much of the derring-do of the series in contrast to his overweight chum. |
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| 12 | [[ShipTease Outside the odd subtle occasion,]] there's not a lot of romance between Becky and Baloo: their relationship smacks more of SiblingRivalry. Baloo, Kit, Becky, and Becky's [[CheerfulChild adorable daughter Molly]] form a definite sitcom family dynamic, with the practical, strait-laced Becky faced off against her lazy, easygoing, roguish pilot. |
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| 14 | Allies of the crew include Louie (the orangutan monarch from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'') who operates a seaplane truckstop of sorts out in the ocean that is Baloo's favorite hangout; and Wildcat, a seemingly slow-witted mechanic with incredible skills. |
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| 16 | There are three major antagonists: the Air Pirates, led by Don Karnage, who operate from a [[AirborneAircraftCarrier giant flying aircraft carrier]] called the ''Iron Vulture'' (and would have long ago plundered Cape Suzette, had it not been for all those big honkin' guns on the nearby cliffs); the country of Thembria, a pseudo-Soviet totalitarian state full of snow and blue warthogs, home to the [[TheNapoleon napoleonic]] Col. Spigot and his [[Series/HogansHeroes Sergeant Schultz]]-like sidekick, Sgt. Dunder; and Shere Khan, the most feared predator of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'', transformed into a NobleDemon business executive. |
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| 18 | The series is animated by five different studios: Sunwoo, South-Korea (twenty-five episodes), Walt Disney Japan (twenty-four episodes), Wang, Taiwan (eight episodes), Walt Disney France (six episodes) and Hanho, South-Korea (two episodes). |
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| 20 | Refer to the [[Characters/TaleSpin Character Sheet]] for more details. |
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| 22 | The ''[=TaleSpin=]'' series is considered, to a point, canon to the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' series. Don Karnage and his pirates have been recurring villains in every season. As well, Kit and Molly appear in Season 3, both of them older and Kit now the pilot of the Sea Duck. |
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| 24 | The show's version of Baloo shows up as a playable character in ''VideoGame/DisneyMirrorverse'' and Baloo, Kit Cloudkicker, Louie and Thaddeus E. Klang appear as cards in wave 3 of the Lorcana trading card game. |
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| 27 | !!"Tropes for life, through thick and thin": |
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| 29 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 31 | [[folder:#-A]] |
| 32 | * SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon |
| 33 | * AbnormalAmmo: |
| 34 | ** The Thembrian air defenses consist of catapults launching bathtubs, pianos, and other random objects, because the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat paperwork]] for getting actual ammo for their AA cannons is more of a nightmare than the [[TheGulag Thembrian prisons]]. |
| 35 | ** In part two of "Plunder and Lightning", Baloo escapes an attack by dumping a load of fruit on the air pirates. |
| 36 | ** Similarly, in "Citizen Khan", Kit and Wildcat throw rotten fruit on the corrupt sheriff and his sidekick, causing them to crash. |
| 37 | ** This is pretty much how Baloo always fights back any time the Sea Duck is attacked; he does fly a cargo plane with no guns after all. |
| 38 | * AbsentMindedProfessor: |
| 39 | ** Baloo's friend Buzz from "Baloo Thunder" and "Bullethead Baloo" counts for this in spades. He gets so many ideas so frequently that he can't think most of them through properly. |
| 40 | ** Dr. Zivaldo from "The Incredible Shrinking Molly" is another example; Molly confuses him with a MadScientist at first. |
| 41 | * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The sewer in "Bringing Down Babyface" is (just barely) big enough for Baloo to fly the Sea Duck through. |
| 42 | * AccidentalMisnaming: |
| 43 | ** Colonel ''Spigot''! |
| 44 | ** Also "it's Rebecca, not Becky", though she grows attached to the nickname later on. |
| 45 | * BanteringBaddieBuddies: The two raccoon goons in "Vowel Play" are a bit more witty and competent than BanteringBaddieBuddies like Mad Dog and Dumptruck and have a casual banter. When they receive instructions to surround City Hall during an extortion scene, one of them jokes "Who says you can't fight City Hall?" |
| 46 | * TheAce: Whistlestop Jackson, hero to millions! |
| 47 | ** BrokenAce: Whistlestop apparently has been struggling ever since aviation vehicles started evolving and becoming too complex for him to properly handle and briefly considers dissolving into obscurity until Baloo snaps him out of it. |
| 48 | ** Inverted with the {{iron|y}}ically named character [[{{Jerkass}} Ace London]]. |
| 49 | * AceCustom: The ''Sea Duck'', a hydroplane freighter that Baloo and Wildcat customized up the gazoo. Which includes, of course, the OverDrive system. |
| 50 | ** Don Karnage also flies a custom C-37 with an extra set of wings. |
| 51 | * {{Acrofatic}}: Although Baloo isn't a particularly skilled fighter, he can deal a mean punch, and he's quite agile considering his size. |
| 52 | * ActionFigureFileCard: The toys had them. |
| 53 | * AdaptedOut: |
| 54 | ** All of the major non-human characters from ''The Jungle Book'' appear in ''[=TaleSpin=]'' save Bagheera. It seems that the "big cat best buddy" role went to Wildcat, and it's hard to imagine Bagheera playing ''him''. |
| 55 | ** However, Shere Khan's elite pilot squad, and the members of his executive board, ''and'' most of the law enforcement professionals are all panthers who ''all'' look suspiciously like Bagheera. |
| 56 | * AdventurerArchaeologist: Three of them, all guest stars. |
| 57 | * AdventurerOutfit: It's part of the genre. Worn by various professors, a GirlOfTheWeek or two, and even Rebecca during one of her odder get-rich-quick expeditions. |
| 58 | * AffablyEvil: Both Shere Khan and Don Karnage. |
| 59 | * AffectionateNickname: [[TheNicknamer Baloo]] dishes out a lot of these, but perhaps the most notable are "Lil' Britches" (for Kit; {{iron|y}}ically Kit [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal doesn't normally wear britches]]) and "Becky" (for Rebecca). Rebecca's treatment of her nickname also mirrors the trope, only accepting it when she is on happy terms with Baloo. Kit calls Baloo Mowgli's nickname from the original Disney movie, "Papa Bear". |
| 60 | * AirborneAircraftCarrier: The ''Iron Vulture''. |
| 61 | * AIIsACrapShoot: In "From Here to Machinery", Auto-Aviators do exactly what they're programmed to do -- that is, they fly a plane from one location to another in the most efficient manner possible. They don't evade danger, they ignore contrary orders (even from their owner or inventor), and they react to attempts to be manually shut down or reprogrammed by shocking anyone who touches them. |
| 62 | * AlienInvasion: Baloo and Kit fake one in "War of the Weirds". |
| 63 | * TheAllegedBoss: Rebecca Cunningham plays with this. She has ControlFreak issues and is perfectly willing to push Baloo and others around in her schemes; however, she is usually all bark and no bite, and usually acts more as a bossy childish friend than an authority figure, something Baloo takes advantage of time and time again. |
| 64 | * AllThereInTheManual: The short-lived comic series confirms Becky's [[spoiler: status as a widow]] and goes into some detail about Kit's life before linking up with Don Karnage. |
| 65 | * AllWomenAreLustful: Louie's aunt, Louise in "The Ransom of Red Chimp", who is attracted to men with accents and goes after Don Karnage, and later her flying rival, a French pilot named Jacques Toujour. |
| 66 | * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: |
| 67 | ** The Thembrians are purple warthogs, and are the only anthropomorphic race in the series to sport unrealistic colors. |
| 68 | ** The color of Molly's fur tends to be inconsistent between episodes. In some, her fur is either tan or beige. In others, it can be a vibrant yellow. |
| 69 | ** In "Stuck on You", there is a rabbit employee at the glue factory that could almost be [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit's]] cousin. In addition to having blue fur, his [[NonStandardCharacterDesign appearance is much more cartoonish than most other characters]], including other rabbits that have shown up. |
| 70 | * AnchoviesAreAbhorrent: Louie mentions to Baloo and Kit that he hates anchovies, but unfortunately doesn't get to explain why to them. When Baloo and Kit have to find some anchovies for Louie's pizza delivery business, they get irregular ones from a discount fish market. Just one whiff of them makes Louie severely ill. Rebecca, on the other hand, loves anchovies and sure enough, the pizza with anchovies is to be delivered to her. |
| 71 | * AnimalGenderBender: In "Sheepskin Deep", there is a male kangaroo postal worker who carries mail in his pouch. |
| 72 | * AnimationBump: To an extent, due to the animation being exported from six different studios [[note]]The Creator/WaltDisneyAnimationUnits in Japan and France, Creator/SunwooEntertainment and Creator/WangFilmProductions. With help from Creator/PacificRimAnimation (France, uncredited); and Creator/TamaProductions, Creator/JadeAnimation & Creator/HanhoHeungUp (Japan)[[/note]], the style and quality varied to rather noticeable degrees on occasion. This was common with most Disney cartoons at this point. |
| 73 | ** Some of the high points are in the four part pilot "Plunder And Lightning" and "Pizza Pie In The Sky", which were animated by Disney France. |
| 74 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Rebecca to Baloo. At the end of "Last Horizons", Rebecca clearly shouts with joy at Baloo's escape from certain death, "I love you, Baloo!". |
| 75 | * AntiVillain: Shere Khan. Sure, he engages in {{Evil Plan}}s from time to time and can be ruthless when he needs to, but he is genuinely fond of the heroes and certainly has a conscience, and generally doesn't cross any lines that there's no going back from. Think [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} David Xanatos]], but nicer. |
| 76 | * AnthropomorphicShift: From ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}''. |
| 77 | ** Louie can be considered an inversion of sorts. He is given an anthropomorphic role and wears a human attire, though his design and proportions are actually more hunched over and simian-like than his original ''Jungle Book'' counterpart. |
| 78 | * AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: The vast majority of the scenes with Don Karnage and Gibber, and some dialogues between Baloo and Wildcat. |
| 79 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: |
| 80 | ** In "Louie's Last Stand", Dougie Benson, a minor businessman in Shere Khan's company, attempts to evict Louie from his property by forging Khan's signature on documents that mobilize his company pilots into a makeshift mook-army. When Khan finds out, he dresses Dougie down for forgery, misuse of company property, and his now soot-stained coat not being up to company dress code. |
| 81 | ** In the episode, "Bringing Down Babyface", after Baloo and Babyface Half-Nelson escape from the police, Officer Malarkey calls for backup, telling them, "Suspects are armed, dangerous, and wearing festive party hats." |
| 82 | ** In "The Balooest of the Bluebloods", when asked on what charge the servants of Castle Von Bruinwald should be arrested, Rebecca says "Attempted Murder!" Baloo adds: "And bad cookin'!" |
| 83 | * ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: In ''"On a Wing and a Bear,"'' the instructor Ralph Throgmorton yells at Baloo for his dangerous flight maneuvers, but finally admits that they saved them from Don Karnage and his men, so Baloo gets his license back. |
| 84 | * AssKicksYou: Kitten Kaboodle hip-bumps Rebecca away numerous times in "A Star is Torn". |
| 85 | * ATeamFiring: But at least they use real bullets, [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms unlike some cartoons]]. |
| 86 | * AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: Don Karnage's favored strategy: |
| 87 | ** From "Plunder and Lightning": |
| 88 | --->'''Don Karnage''': To your posts, men! We will fight to the last man!\ |
| 89 | ''[The Iron Vulture gets perforated by gunfire from the attacking fighter planes, including several rounds into the bridge.]''\ |
| 90 | '''Don Karnage''': Then again... RETREAT! RETREAT! FULL SPEED BEHIND! |
| 91 | ** From "Jumping the Guns": |
| 92 | --->'''Don Karnage''': Today, Cape Suzette, tomorrow...! ''(anti-aircraft fire)'' Tomorrow's another day! RETREAT! |
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| 95 | [[folder:B]] |
| 96 | * TheBadGuyWins: Happens with Shere Khan at least twice. |
| 97 | ** "Whistlestop Jackson, Legend" ends with the titular famous pilot retiring after the satisfaction of one last heroic feat, but it is revealed that Khan, who held a grudge against Jackson, had intended for him to retire all along. |
| 98 | ** "Save the Tiger" ends with the reveal that Khan was secretly behind Baloo's kidnapping. To be fair, he was getting annoyed by Baloo's constant demands. |
| 99 | * BadassAdorable: Kit, and to a lesser extent Molly. |
| 100 | ** Oscar from "Captain Outrageous" earns this status at the end of the episode when he TakesALevelInBadass and saves Baloo, Kit, and Wildcat from the pirates. |
| 101 | * BadassBookworm: Myra from "In Search of Ancient Blunders". She doesn't really fight, but she does [[PianoDrop drop a piano]] on Dumptruck's head--and then there's her BewareTheNiceOnes moment with the mummy. |
| 102 | * BarefootCartoonAnimal: Too many characters to list, including Rebecca, Molly, Wildcat and Shere Khan in the main cast. |
| 103 | * BavarianFireDrill: In "Louie's Last Stand", Dougie Benson, a member of Shere Khan's executive board, uses his stolen signature to commandeer his squad of elite pilots as flunkies to try to steal Louie's island (and business). |
| 104 | * BearyFriendly[=/=]BearyFunny: Baloo, Rebecca, Molly and Kit. |
| 105 | * BeleagueredAssistant: Kit sometimes is this due to Baloo's occasional idiocies and {{Jerkass}} tendencies. Rebecca and Baloo himself often play this trope as well, depending on who is [[IdiotBall leading the madness]]. |
| 106 | * BelligerentSexualTension: Baloo and Rebecca are all over this, being patterned after Sam and Diane from ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. |
| 107 | * BenevolentBoss[=/=]MeanBoss[=/=]PointyHairedBoss: Rebecca can be considered an unusual mix of all three tropes in one. While she mostly leaned towards the first due to her protagonist role and viewing her employees more as her friends, her occasional temperament, [[ControlFreak superiority complex]] and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} outright quirkiness]] leads to her being less than pleasant to work with [[DependingOnTheWriter on occasion]], especially in early episodes. |
| 108 | ** Shere Khan himself was a mix of the first two of those. He is deadly serious, hates having his time wasted and is extremely strict, but he values hard work and is quite demanding, albeit fair to his employees. |
| 109 | * BerserkButton: The pig from "The Bigger They Are, The Louder They Oink" goes on a ballistic rampage whenever it hears the word 'bacon'. It becomes a ChekhovsGag when Baloo and Rebecca weaponize it to escape from natives. |
| 110 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Myra from "In Search of Ancient Blunders". |
| 111 | ** Also Wildcat, Rebecca, Kit, and even Molly fit this trope most of the time. |
| 112 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Don Karnage. |
| 113 | ** The majority of villains for that matter. While they are nearly all bumbling wackos the majority of them do at least pose as a sort of plausible threat. |
| 114 | * BigBadEnsemble: [[SkyPirate Don Karnage]], [[TheNapoleon Col. Spigot]], and [[TheChessmaster Shere Khan]] act as the series' primary antagonists. |
| 115 | * BigBeautifulWoman: Two examples of significant note and numerous examples seen in background characters, namely Plane Jane, a pilot from the episode 'Waiders of the Wost Tweasure' whose aviation and adventuring skill rivals Baloo's and Sally, the sultry-voiced DJ from the episode 'The Time Bandits'. |
| 116 | * BigDamnHeroes: Baloo is known for doing this in quite a few episodes with "Plunder And Lightning" and "Last Horizons" being some of the most famous examples. |
| 117 | ** Also Oscar does this in the episode "Captains Outrageous" when he blows the cell wall open in the Iron Vulture to save Baloo, Kit, and Wildcat from the pirates. |
| 118 | ** ''Shere Khan'' of all people does this at the end of "Louie's Last Stand" when he stops a corrupt employee from blowing up Louie's club. |
| 119 | * BizarreBeverageUse: "From Here To Machinery" has a robot act as pilot of Shere Khan's private plane. When air pirates attack the plane, the robot refuses to change course or relinquish control. Baloo jiggles a bottle of carbonated soda, then sprays the robot with fizzy discharge. This shorts out the robot, allowing Baloo to pilot Khan's plane to safety. |
| 120 | * BoatsIntoBuildings: The episode "Her Chance To Dream" reveals that Louie's bar is a derelict ship that he remodeled. The ghost of the ship's captain then tries to take it back while romancing Rebecca. |
| 121 | * BodySwap: "A Baloo Switcheroo". |
| 122 | * BookDumb: Baloo to a ridiculous extent. |
| 123 | * BoundAndGagged: Happens to both Baloo and Rebecca on a few odd occasions, as well as to Shere Khan of all people, in "Bullethead Baloo". |
| 124 | * BrainyBrunette: Rebecca, of course. |
| 125 | * BrattyHalfPint: Either Kit or Molly, DependingOnTheWriter. |
| 126 | ** Kit's friend Ernie definitely counts. He's such an entitled little maggot that it's a wonder Kit is even friends with him. |
| 127 | * BreakingBadNewsGently: Parodied in "Bearly Alive". |
| 128 | --> '''Doctor''' ''(over the phone):'' You'd better sit down. |
| 129 | --> '''Rebecca:''' I am sitting down. |
| 130 | --> '''Doctor:''' Then stand up. |
| 131 | --> '''Rebecca''' ''(standing):'' Okay, now I'm standing up. |
| 132 | --> '''Doctor:''' ''Now'' you'd better sit down. |
| 133 | * BreakTheHaughty: Both Baloo and Rebecca fall victim to this, [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism over and over and over...]] |
| 134 | * TheBrigadier: Ace London's boss has some BlingOfWar and is an encouraging, somewhat dedicated, but ultimately reasonable guy. |
| 135 | * BrokenAesop: "War of the Weirds" sees Baloo stage a Martian invasion to get out of working. Then along comes Army Intelligence officer Colonel Grogg who thinks the invasion is real. So the gang further trick Grogg by scaring him so badly he runs away, and while he's gone, they dispose of all of the props and costumes, so that when he returns, it appears to his superior General Tumult that he's going insane, and Tumult demotes him. The unfortunate implication being that lying is bad, but lying to get out of trouble ''for'' lying is fine, even if it ruins someone's life. |
| 136 | ** Of course, Grogg ''is'' a trigger-happy idiot. |
| 137 | * BumblingDad: Baloo, of the surrogate variety. |
| 138 | * BumblingHenchmenDuo: |
| 139 | ** Mad Dog and Dump Truck are a pair of bumbling pirates working for Don Karnage. |
| 140 | ** Colonel Spigot and Sergeant Dunder are a duo of comical military officers from the despotic pseuodo-Soviet state of Thembria. |
| 141 | ** Trader Moe has a pair of large but dumb goons, a rhino and a gorilla. |
| 142 | * [[BunnyEarsLawyer Bunny Ears Mechanic]]: Wildcat. A cheerful {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and generally unaware of social niceties, true. But he was also a genius mechanic, a competent pilot ([[CaptainCrash albeit with few directional skills]]), and (on occasion, such as in "The Flight of the Snow Duck") surprisingly perceptive regarding matters of the heart. |
| 143 | ** Baloo can be considered something of a "Bunny Ears Pilot" as well, slovenly, obnoxious and BookDumb, but is an ingenious and versatile flyer (including piloting prototype helicopters and a bare jet engine!). One could argue whether Rebecca's quirks make her a "Bunny Ears Businesswoman" as well. |
| 144 | * ButtMonkey: Colonel Spigot and Douglas Benson from "Louie's Last Stand". Baloo and Rebecca also have some moments. |
| 145 | * BuzzingTheDeck: |
| 146 | ** Baloo is known to do this literally, using his propeller to trim hedges at times, as seen in the show's opening, upside-down, no less. |
| 147 | ** Baloo got buzzed himself once in flight and was not happy about it, especially when he found out who he'd just been buzzed by, [[TheRival Ace London]]. In Baloo's case, however, he had very legit reason to be angry. Wildcat was performing essential repairs ''outside the plane'' while in flight, and Ace London's carelessness nearly caused the poor mechanic to fall off, not to mention causing the Sea Duck to spin. |
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| 150 | [[folder:C]] |
| 151 | * CallOfTheWildBlueYonder: Kit Cloudkicker admires his mentor, Baloo, and hopes to become a remarkable pilot some day. The few times that Kit has taken the controls have overwhelmed him, though. However, as far as riding an airfoil goes, Kit takes to "cloudsurfing" like a bird to the sky. |
| 152 | * CapturedByCannibals: In "The Bigger They Are, the Louder They Oink", Becky's truffle hunting expedition turns sour when they're found by "pygmies" who try to cook her and the pig she brought to sniff the valuable fungus out. The biggest irony is, the pygmies seem to have plenty of truffles; they use them in the soup that Becky nearly becomes a part of. |
| 153 | * CastingGag: |
| 154 | ** The decision to cast Ed Gilbert and R.J. Williams as Baloo and Kit, respectively. They had previously been cast as a father-and-son bear duo in the mid-1980s Creator/{{NBC}} cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Kissyfur}}''. |
| 155 | ** Similarly, casting Ed Gilbert aa main character Baloo and Pat Fraley as secondary character Wildcat. The two had previously worked together on several series, including ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' (Gilbert as Hawk, Fraley as Ace), ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'' (Fraley as Max Ray, Gilbert as Hacker), and ''WesternAnimation/BraveStarr'' (Fraley as [=BraveStarr=] himself [as well as recurring villains Thunderstick and Cactushead], Gilbert as 30/30 and Shaman). |
| 156 | * CatchPhrase: Downplayed, but Kit and Baloo generally say "pull chocks!" (aviator slang) instead of "let's go." |
| 157 | * CatFight: Rebecca had them with some female villains. Mainly [[spoiler: Kitten Kaboodle]] in "A Star Is Torn" and [[spoiler: Muffy Vanderschmeer]] in "A Touch Of Glass". |
| 158 | * ChainOfDeals: The plot of "Double or Nothing". |
| 159 | * ChainedHeat: "Stuck on You". Except with superglue instead of handcuffs. |
| 160 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Kit's history with Don Karnage and the Sky Pirates seems to be all but forgotten in episodes following the pilot, to the point the two seem rather inept about each other outside their connections with Baloo. Karnage rarely refers to Kit as anything outside the generic label of "Baloo's little friend". This is because the pilot was actually rather late in production order, with the creators brainstorming several planned backstories for Kit before sticking to that one (one being Rebecca's son). |
| 161 | ** Ironically Col. Spigot's first appearance in "The Idol Rich" is about the one time he and Baloo instantly recognize each other. |
| 162 | * CheerfulChild: Molly Cunningham. She's rambunctious and not above a little blackmail to get what she wants. However, in the major incident she did that, she didn't hesitate afterward to bail out Baloo when her mother threatened to fire him. |
| 163 | * ChekhovsGun: In "Feminine Air", Rebecca accidentally dropped one of her earrings in the pile of scavenger items. Cool Hands then cheats and steals the items to win the contest. To prove he stole the items from her and Baloo, Rebecca points out to the judge that within the items were a nail file, silk stockings, and finally her missing earring. |
| 164 | * TheChessmaster: Shere Khan. |
| 165 | * ChickMagnet: Baloo has won affection and attention from Katie Dodd, Princess Lotta Lamour, Kitten Caboodle, Myra, Plane Jane, Sally the radio host, and even Rebecca herself, so he definitely deserves a spot here. |
| 166 | * ChristmasEpisode: "A Jolly Molly Christmas". |
| 167 | * CityOfAdventure: Cape Suzette. |
| 168 | * ClipItsWings: In "Flight of the Snow Duck", Baloo, Wildcat and Molly escape from a Thembrian prison by flying a plane made completely out of ice, while being pursued by military fighters. When one of the wings gets shot off, Wildcat scoops some water out of a lake and tosses over the wing's stub, instantly repairing it. |
| 169 | * ClockTampering: |
| 170 | ** In "The Time Bandit", Baloo alters the clocks and calendars (and even bribes a radio show host to say the incorrect day) to trick Rebecca into thinking it's Saturday and pay him so he can attend a party at Louie's. HilarityEnsues. |
| 171 | ** In "Flying Dupes", Baloo is tasked with delivering a package to the Thembrian High Marshall by 3:00, unaware that the package contains a bomb. When he, Col. Spigot and Sgt. Dunder stop at Ivan's bar, Spigot refuses to leave until after 3:00, when the showgirls perform. Baloo alters the clock at Ivan's to 3:00 and [[DisguisedInDrag disguises himself and Dunder as the showgirls]]. |
| 172 | * {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Thembria. |
| 173 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Wildcat. Baloo and even Rebecca [[DependingOnTheWriter on occasion]] have lighter bouts of this too. |
| 174 | %%* CluelessDeputy: Wendell from ''Citizen Khan'' is one, although he is a decent slingshot shot. |
| 175 | * ComicallySerious: Shere Khan (somewhat in contrast to the [[LargeHam hammier]] SmugSnake he was in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}''). The odd occasions a smile does appear on his face [[OhCrap usually spells big trouble for someone]]. |
| 176 | * CommissarCap: Baloo wears one of these. |
| 177 | ** Also part of Spigot's military uniform - as with all the Thembrian military. |
| 178 | * CompanyTown: "Citizen Khan" takes place in a small western mining town occupied solely by Khan Industries employees and a service establishment provider. The mine workers are stuck in indentured servitude, but this is because of the overseers (who are also robbing Khan) and Khan himself puts a stop to their theft and slave labor as soon as he finds out what's going on and visits the town. |
| 179 | * ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Baloo and Kit get this a lot due to their occasionally haphazard manner of saving the day, though they're usually rather open about [[UngratefulBastard what they think of the situation]]. |
| 180 | -->'''Kit:''' [[WellExcuseMePrincess Well excuse me]] for saving your tail. |
| 181 | * ContagiousCassandraTruth: In "It Came from Beneath the Sea Duck", Kit is chewed out by Rebecca for taking Molly outside the apartment while babysitting (in reality this was for a load of convoluted reasons). Baloo suggests letting Kit explain what happened, however Rebecca just assumes that Kit learned his irresponsible behaviour from him and shushes him too. |
| 182 | * ContinuityCameo: A lot of supposed OneSceneWonder characters from specific episodes make background cameos in others (even previous villains such as Kitten Caboodle and Muffy and Buffy oddly enough). Sometimes counts as an EarlyBirdCameo. |
| 183 | * ControlFreak: Rebecca plays with this. While she has a rather shrill attitude and frequently manipulates or bullies Baloo and the others into following her schemes, she fails to have much intimidation over them or take much action against their own incompetent or obnoxious habits, leading her to come off more as a bossy friend than a domineering boss. |
| 184 | * ConjunctionInterruption[=/=]NotNowKiddo: Often the bane of Molly and Kit's lives, usually issued by Rebecca (Baloo even notes a couple of occasions it might be worth listening to them). |
| 185 | * ConvectionShmonvection: Baloo has flown into a volcano several times before with the Sea Duck escaping with only mild burns on the plane. |
| 186 | * CookedToDeath: The villains attempt to eliminate Rebecca in the episode "The Balooest of the Bluebloods" by tying her to a spit above an absurdly deep fire pit. She gets rescued after becoming no worse than uncomfortably warm. |
| 187 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Don Karnage is fond of these. For example, in "Captains Outrageous" he uses tiger claws for NailsOnABlackboard torture to pry information from his prisoners. |
| 188 | * CoolPlane: The ''Sea Duck'', natch: a rare case of a [[TheAllegedCar beat-up, unarmed cargo hauler]] getting the kind of love usually reserved for fighter planes. There are many, ''many'' other examples - stunt planes, crop-dusters, a multitude of flying boats - some pulled from genuine aviation history and others seeming to parody it. |
| 189 | ** Curiously, the ''Sea Duck'' seems to be based in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_G-21_Goose G-21 Goose]] (with the twin-boom layout of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_C-82_Packet Fairchild C-82 Packet]] thrown in), an amphibious plane used during the 30s and 40s and still used today. Even more funnier that in the Mexican Spanish dub, the ''Sea Duck'' was renamed in Spanish as ''El Ganso'' (The Goose), as possibly [[ShownTheirWork the Mexican translator did know the correct name of the plane]]. |
| 190 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Zigzagged by Shere Khan. Khan is ruthless and can be quite vicious and vindictive. However, he has a moral code and a sense of honor, and his rivals are usually much worse than he is. Many of his appearances have him as a protagonist, and his antagonist appearances frequently end with him saying something along the lines of "You are right and I will stop taking the action you are opposing. Now get out before I change my mind". Furthermore, if he hires you for a job and knows your moral principles, the job will likely be dangerous, but it will be doable, agree with your conscience, and he pays ''very'' well in the end. |
| 191 | ** Whether or not it's subverted or not is completely up to the episode. In one episode he'll recruit the sky pirates to attack planes and create a fake fuel shortage. In another he'll swear a life debt. The most consistent thing about this show is its inconsistency. |
| 192 | ** He's also surprisingly concerned about overworking. One episode had him rethink the care of his lower workers, as poor, unpresentable employees give him neither money or power. |
| 193 | * [[CoversAlwaysLie Title Cards Always Lie]]: The title card of the episode "The Ransom of Red Chimp" has Don Karnage in his signature air pirate uniform, while in the actual episode he's wearing a bathing costume all throughout the episode. |
| 194 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Baloo always manages to save the day. |
| 195 | * CuteBruiser: Rebecca earned this status at the end of the episode "A Touch Of Glass". |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder:D]] |
| 199 | * DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Trader Moe and his lackeys. |
| 200 | * DamselInDistress: Happens to Rebecca and Molly on occasion. Baloo and Kit aren't immune to the trope either. |
| 201 | ** Also Katie Dodd when she is kidnapped. |
| 202 | * DashingHispanic: Don Karnage fancies himself as one of these, but invariably comes off as just buffoonish. Note, though, that, while he may not be badass per se, he's ''still'' very dangerous. |
| 203 | * ADayInTheLimelight: "Flight School Confidential" is focused largely on Kit venturing to Thembria, with Baloo only having a brief role in the opening and closing moments. A couple of episodes also focus primarily on Rebecca and Molly's relationship. |
| 204 | * DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:"The Old Man and the Sea Duck" ends with Baloo discovering that the man that had taught him to fly again had been dead and gone for 20 years, and that the airfield he trained at was a broken-down husk of its former self.]] |
| 205 | ** [[spoiler:Also in "Her Chance To Dream", Rebecca's new love interest Captain William Stansbury is revealed to be the ghost of the captain who crashed his boat on Louie's island centuries ago.]] |
| 206 | * DeadpanSnarker: Both Rebecca and Baloo to extremes. |
| 207 | ** Also Shere Khan has his moments. |
| 208 | ** ServileSnarker: Kit on occasion. |
| 209 | ** LittleMissSnarker: Molly at times. |
| 210 | * DeathGlare: Despite Rebecca's appearance, she actually has given Baloo a pretty scary one from time to time. |
| 211 | * DependingOnTheWriter: |
| 212 | ** Both Baloo and Rebecca's personalities occasionally come off as erratic due to constantly passing off the SanityBall (eg. one can be completely gullible or arrogant towards a situation identical to one they were totally wary of in a previous episode). Their similar tendencies also shift from episode to episode (sometimes Rebecca is Baloo's polar opposite, others they are borderline {{Distaff Counterpart}}s for each other). |
| 213 | ** Shere Khan is mostly a AffablyEvil AntiVillain interested in gaining wealth and power, but is a NobleDemon who won't cross the line and is a FriendlyEnemy to Baloo. In other episodes he's a AmbiguouslyEvil AntiHero who teams up with Baloo, but usually for his own gain. In one episode he's a FauxAffablyEvil villain largely responsible for the troubles. |
| 214 | ** Colonel Spigot varied in that he can be a straight villain who gleefully leaves Baloo and Kit to burn alive in one episode or direct Rebecca through her own execution in another while other episodes have him as more or less one of the gang. |
| 215 | * DespairEventHorizon: "Stormy Weather" has Baloo's fear of Kit leaving him to participate in life threatening stunts, completely giving up the will to live when he thinks Kit's left for good. |
| 216 | * {{Determinator}}: In both a negative and positive sense, Baloo and Rebecca are very stubborn individuals, be it for {{Zany Scheme}}s or heroics. Rebecca is also shown to be very protective of Baloo, to the point of potential [[HeroicSacrifice self-sacrifice]]; Baloo, in turn, will go to great lengths to aid or protect her. |
| 217 | * DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: In "Bygones", the English pilot Rick Sky actually says the word "Bloody". |
| 218 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: In "Louie's Last Stand", Dougie Benson, an executive of Shere Khan's forges his signature in order to use one of his squadrons to get Louie off his island so Khan can re-take it, as per the details of Louie's ownership contract. When Shere Khan finds out, the executive claims he did it for Khan's best interests. Khan points out that Benson forged his name, misused his employees (getting several badly injured in the process) and broke a verbal contract, and that his best interests are served by firing him. |
| 219 | * DieselPunk |
| 220 | * DirtyCommunists: Not explicitly said to be communist, but Thembria is obviously meant to be a stand in for the Soviet Union. |
| 221 | ** In one episode, Baloo actually refers to the Thembrians as "commies," and Colonel Spigot also refers to Cape Suzette citizens as "capitalist swine"[[note]]which is ironic considering Spigot is literally a swine[[/note]]. |
| 222 | * DisappearedDad: Molly's. Kit's missing ''both'' parents. |
| 223 | ** In the comics it explains that Molly's father [[spoiler:is deceased and that Rebecca is unfortunately a widow.]] |
| 224 | *** The show itself leaves Rebecca's status up for the audience to guess. Gets confusing when a woman in the 30's can be a single mom [[EternalSexualFreedom and nobody cares]]. |
| 225 | *** Not so much to guess as she's call ''Ms.'' Cunningham. |
| 226 | * DiscoTech: Tinabula. |
| 227 | * DisguisedInDrag: Baloo dresses as a female pilot in "Feminine Air" in order to compete in a plane scavenger race. |
| 228 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Decades ago, Whistlestop Jackson beat out Shere Khan for a profitable airmail job. Rather than letting bygones be bygones, when Whistlestop comes out of retirement, the now-multimillionaire Khan demonstrates what holding a grudge means by ''trying to have him shot down and killed''. |
| 229 | * DistractedByTheSexy: The reason Baloo and Louie help Katie find the lost city of Tinabula, even though they didn't want to go treasure hunting in the episode "For Whom The Bell Klangs". |
| 230 | ** This also happens to Baloo and Louie when they help Princess Lotta Lamour in "The Road to Macadamia". |
| 231 | ** This is the main reason that Baloo won't listen to Rebecca [[spoiler:when she tells Baloo that Kitten Kaboodle is responsible for the "accidents" that have been happening on the movie set]] in the episode "A Star Is Torn". |
| 232 | ** "Cool Hands" Luke is obviously smitten by "[[WholesomeCrossdresser Tan-Margaret]]" (aka Baloo) in "Feminine Air", even though they are competitors in an air race. |
| 233 | * DitzyGenius: Rebecca. |
| 234 | * TheDon: Gangster [[PunnyName Owl Capone.]] Sadly, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter he only appeared in]] [[OneSceneWonder one episode.]] |
| 235 | * DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Rebecca's treatment of Baloo leans towards this on occasion (though granted Baloo can find lots of non-violent methods of dishing it back out). |
| 236 | * DownerEnding: "Your Baloo's In The Mail", albeit PlayedForLaughs (though apparently a few fans insist otherwise). |
| 237 | * TheDragAlong: Rebecca on some occasions, who doesn't appreciate Baloo's tendency to turn a simple cargo mission into a dangerous adventure or ZanyScheme ([[NotSoAboveItAll not that she doesn't force Baloo into a few badly thought ones as well at times]]). |
| 238 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: No matter how many crises Higher for Hire proves essential in averting, no matter how many times Baloo proves he's the best darn pilot in the sky, they all remain in a barely acknowledged fringe business that has to struggle to find anyone willing to pay them for work. Shere Khan at least seems to know and respect their potential by the end of the series, but as they're still his competition he has a vested interest in keeping them on the dregs ([[AffablyEvil even if he's very civil about it]]). |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:E]] |
| 242 | * EarAche: Rebecca frequently drags Baloo away by his ear in an argument. |
| 243 | * EarNotch: Don Karnage has one. |
| 244 | * EarsAsHair: With bows around them, Molly's ears become GirlishPigtails. |
| 245 | * EasyAmnesia: In "The Old Man and the Sea Duck", with a dose of LaserGuidedAmnesia too; it only affects Baloo's piloting skills, forcing him to re-learn them. However, the cliche of the second blow is avoided as Baloo's memory returns when he [[spoiler:re-experiences the joy of flying again.]] |
| 246 | * EasyComeEasyGo: Several episodes. Even lampshaded. |
| 247 | * ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Played with in "Waiders of the Wost Tweasure". [[spoiler:"Wuby Wings" wasn't a mispronunciation of "Ruby ''Rings''", rather, it was "Ruby ''Wings''".]] |
| 248 | * EnemyEatsYourLunch: In "Plunder and Lighting", Don Karnage intimidates the customers of Louie's through drinking someone's drink. |
| 249 | * EpisodeTitleCard: Done for only two episodes, "The Ransom of Red Chimp" and "Jolly Molly Christmas". |
| 250 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Shere Khan has several moments of this. He knows the consequences of [[KickTheDog Kicking The Dog]] too many times. |
| 251 | ** A particularly good example of this is in the end of the episode "Citizen Khan". |
| 252 | --->'''Clementine:''' So you never told the sheriff to mistreat the miners?\ |
| 253 | '''Shere Khan:''' My dear, I desire only money and power. Unpresentable employees provide me with neither. |
| 254 | ** Don Karnage as well [[DependingOnTheWriter on occasion]]. |
| 255 | * EveryoneLovesBlondes: Baloo for Kitten Kaboodle in "A Star Is Torn" and Wildcat for Clementine Clevenger in "Citizen Khan". |
| 256 | * EvilChancellor: Chancellor Trample from "The Road to Macadamia". |
| 257 | * EvilIsHammy: Don Karnage. |
| 258 | * ExactWords: "When I say 'FIRE', then you FIRE!" |
| 259 | * {{Expy}}: Rebecca, according to WordOfGod is based on Rebecca Howe of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' in both aspects of personality and [[VitriolicBestBuds her chemistry with]] [[WillTheyOrWontThey the main protagonist]].[[note]]The show debuted long before Rebecca became a ButtMonkey and extreme GoldDigger in later seasons, and not the businesswoman Rebecca tried to be in early seasons.[[/note]] |
| 260 | ** The business situation is very similar to ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' as well: Entrepreneurial businesswoman takes over a failing business run by a laid-back owner and attempts to change his ways to make the business profitable, HilarityEnsues. |
| 261 | ** Kit is also obviously meant to be an Expy for [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Mowgli]] in places. While he has enough unique traits to differentiate the two, his relationship with [[ParentalSubstitute Baloo]] is very similar (right down to using the same [[TheNicknamer affectionate nicknames]] for each other). |
| 262 | ** The three major Thembrians: Col. Spigot, Sgt. Dunder and the High Marshall are Expies (and parodies) of Col. Wilhelm Klink, Sgt. Hans Schultz, and General Albert Burkhalter from ''Series/HogansHeroes''. |
| 263 | *** Although the High Marshall is also a very obvious visual Expy of UsefulNotes/LeonidBrezhnev. |
| 264 | ** And as mentioned above, the show is based loosely on ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey'', making Baloo, Wildcat and Louie expies of Jake, Corky and, er, Louie. |
| 265 | *** Shere Khan as an AntiVillain and a NobleDemon who often as not helps out the heroes, serves a similar role as [[DragonLady Princess Koji]]. |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:F]] |
| 269 | * FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Baloo's goal: to buy his plane back from Becky. |
| 270 | ** He did buy it back once, though handed back the rights after realising the process was destroying Becky's business, implying he is pretty much set to work at Higher For Hire, willingly or not. |
| 271 | * FakeDefector: At one point in "Plunder & Lightning" Kit rejoins the pirates, regaining Karnage's trust by pretending he didn't really care about his new friends, so he can convince Karnage to let his friends go. This is PlayedForDrama, with Baloo convinced that Kit has betrayed him until later in the story. |
| 272 | * FakedRipVanWinkle: The plot of "The Time Bandit". |
| 273 | * FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Interestingly enough, almost utterly averted. Don Karnage's men fire what appear to be real tracers out of their machine guns, the Cape Suzette anti-aircraft guns are firing real flak shells, and in one episode Baloo is chased by gangsters with very realistic-looking revolvers that fire real bullets. The few exceptions are justified, such as AA guns that shoot pies during an air race, since they are designed to hinder the racing pilots, not kill them. |
| 274 | ** The Thembrians have antiaircraft guns, but getting ammo for them is a red-tape nightmare. |
| 275 | * {{Fanfare}}: There is a leitmotif for the heroic moments. |
| 276 | * FanOfTheUnderdog: Baloo, for all his faults, is idolized greatly by Kit. |
| 277 | -->'''Kit:''' You're "somebody" to '''me'''. |
| 278 | * FantasyCounterpartCulture: Thembria is the Soviet Union with boars. |
| 279 | ** Apparently also the country in which Cape Suzette is located. While clearly modeled on the United States, the more one watches the show, the more one sees signs that it may not actually be set there (e.g. air force planes that do not bear any distinguishable markings; use of both dollars and the currencies "torbits" and "shaboozies", the latter name being applied to a desert country's currency in one episode but seemingly a slang term for "dollars" in another). WordOfGod eventually placed it in "Usland". |
| 280 | ** Look for other examples among the various fictional places portrayed in this series. |
| 281 | * FatBastard: The High Marshall, no question about it. |
| 282 | * FieryRedhead: Katie Dodd. |
| 283 | * FishOutOfWater: Rebecca to an extent. Though one could argue it's the one element preventing her from being Baloo's DistaffCounterpart. |
| 284 | * [[FiveEpisodePilot Four-Episode Pilot]] |
| 285 | * AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: |
| 286 | ** In "Save the Tiger", Baloo saves Shere Khan's life and Khan owes him a debt in return. At first, Baloo asks for a few simple things, but when he realizes that Shere Khan is one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, he buys back his plane, isolates most of his friends, and eventually becomes bored with his new wealth and gifts. His endless lists of demands end up irritating Khan, who secretly arranges for Baloo to be kidnapped and held for ransom that equals the amount of all the things Baloo asked from Khan [[spoiler:and Higher for Hire]]. Towards the end of the episode, Rebecca and Kit save Baloo, and Baloo's final request is to have everything back to the way it was before. |
| 287 | ** In "The Balooest of the Blue Bloods", Baloo inherits a mansion [[spoiler:and the butler and maid try to kill him so they can inherit it for themselves]]. The mansion gets repossessed at the end of the episode. |
| 288 | * ForgedMessage: In one episode one of Shere Khan's executives, Benson, tried to force Louie out of his club by writing a letter that said, "Do whatever Mr. Benson says." and forging Khan's signature, thus making the Khan pilot force think they were on a sanctioned assignment. |
| 289 | * [[FourTemperamentEnsemble Five-Temperament Ensemble]]: Rebecca (choleric), Kit (melancholic), Wildcat (leuquine), Baloo (sanguine), and Molly (phlegmatic). |
| 290 | * ForTheEvulz: Don Karnage and Shere Khan, though usually more ambitious villains, occasionally are guilty of this. |
| 291 | ** Thembria seems to be an entire population enforced by "evil" standards and customs. Acts such as fun and laughter can land you a hefty jail sentence. |
| 292 | * FourFingeredHands: Almost all characters have them, but there are a (very) few exceptions, such as the five-fingered Princess Lotta Lamour and Kitten Kaboodle. |
| 293 | ** Some inconsistencies have also occurred in this area, like Shere Khan having four fingers in one episode and five fingers in another episode. |
| 294 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: See Five-Temperament above. |
| 295 | * TheFreelanceShameSquad: In "A Jolly Molly Christmas" a rowdy group catches Louie posing as Santa for Molly, taking off his disguise and cackling insanely, completely ignorant of [[TearJerker the disillusioned six year old running out of the bar in tears]]. |
| 296 | * FriendOrIdolDecision: Baloo has an almost unhealthy obsession with the Sea Duck and will scold anyone for laying a finger on it without permission. Nevertheless, it's established from the very first episode that he would sacrifice it in an instant to save his friends and surrogate family. |
| 297 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Wildcat proves that this description fits him in "Paradise Lost" and "The Sound And The Furry". Also Kit in "All's Whale That Ends Whale" and Molly in "Mommy For A Day". |
| 298 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: In one episode, while there's a conversation going on in the foreground, in the background we see Wildcat repeatedly try and fail to fit a propeller through the door in the shed and ultimately throw it into the sea in frustration. |
| 299 | * FunnyForeigner: Several, including the Thembrians and Don Karnage... [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent wherever he's from.]] |
| 300 | * FurryConfusion: The setting is a WorldOfFunnyAnimals with all sorts of anthropomorphic species - but the pilot episode shows that regular animals also exist, including seagulls, crocodiles and large flightless "gorilla birds". The most confusing character in this respect is probably Ignatz the parrot from "Polly Wants A Treasure" - he is a parrot who can talk fluently and is just as sapient as the anthropomorphic characters, but is still treated as an animal rather than a person. |
| 301 | ** In "Feminine Air", there is a goat character who behaves relatively normally, except for when he casually takes a bite out of a mattress. |
| 302 | * FurryFemaleMane: Fairly standard for the female characters, with the exception of Muffy Vanderschmeer. |
| 303 | * FutileHandReach: Myra and Baloo do this during "In Search of Ancient Blunders". |
| 304 | [[/folder]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[folder:G]] |
| 307 | * GainaxEnding: Arguable example with "Flying Dupes". Like most WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon shows, the series is left open ended, with the finale focusing near solely on Baloo attempting to give Col. Spigot flying lessons. It doesn't help that this episode was banned on certain networks. |
| 308 | * GeniusDitz: Wildcat, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} of the highest order who can fix a high number of mechanical issues in a matter of seconds (at least for what his provided apparatus allows). |
| 309 | ** WordOfGod claims Baloo and Rebecca were meant to foil each other in this regard. Baloo is extremely BookDumb and slovenly, but also streetwise and resourceful due to his adventuring (as well as being a grade A AcePilot). In contrast Rebecca is well educated and has profound business ethics, but due to her pampered lifestyle is somewhat naive and inept to the outside world. Depending on what the scenario fit, either character would play TheDitz while another would act as TheStraightMan. |
| 310 | * GenreRoulette: The cartoon combines characters from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'', dogfighting, [[TheThirties 1930s]] FilmNoir, TwoFistedTales-style adventures, the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, the occasional supernatural curse/mummy/valley of dinosaurs, and ScrewballComedy in one cartoon. Can be equal parts comic, dramatic, action-filled or suspenseful, often just in one episode. |
| 311 | * GenreThrowback: This show is like watching a Republic Pictures serial film... except everyone is a FunnyAnimal. |
| 312 | ** Baloo's pilot outfit and [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]]-like personality are almost identical to that of the protagonist of ''Film/DakotaHarris.'' Even the VHS cover artwork is similar. |
| 313 | * GentleGiant: |
| 314 | ** Baloo, at least when not in {{Jerkass}} mode. |
| 315 | ** Sgt. Dunder, [[MinionWithAnFInEvil despite his occupation]], also seems to apply. |
| 316 | ** Also Moby Dimple from "All's Whale That Ends Whale". |
| 317 | ** Henry the Yencara when he's wet (his species grows to 12 feet tall when wet, but shrinks to 6 inches when dry). |
| 318 | * GentlemanThief: Subverted with Covington from "Molly Coddled." He's a handsome, charming gentleman after a valuable idol who easily wins Rebecca over. But instead of a cunning thief, he turns out to be a slimy, ineffectual coward who [[WouldHurtAChild would hurt Molly]] to get what he wants. |
| 319 | * GetItOverWith: In "The Time Bandit", Rebecca eventually finds [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment the long drawn execution ceremony]] more torturous than death itself. |
| 320 | -->'''Rebecca:''' ''[sobs]'' JUST GET IT OVER WITH! SHOOT ME!!! |
| 321 | * GiantMook: Spigot has a pair in his first episode. Arguably Dumptruck for the Air Pirates. |
| 322 | * GirlOfTheWeek: This was a standard theme in the show, and many of them have pretty generous fan bases. |
| 323 | * GirlsWithMoustaches: Rebecca disguises herself with a moustache and beard in both "Plunder and Lightning" and "The Balooest of the Bluebloods". |
| 324 | * GooGooGetup: In "The Bigger They Are, The Louder They Oink", as part of her plan to retrieve truffles from the Island of Zibaldo, Rebecca disguises a large ugly pig (not-so-affectionately named "Hogzilla" by Baloo) as a baby in order to get him past a security checkpoint that doesn't allow pigs. |
| 325 | * TheGrinch: In "Jolly Molly Christmas", Don Karnage decides the Sky Pirates will show the true spirit of giving; by making others give presents to them. |
| 326 | -->'''Don Karnage:''' I am not usually this generous, but Christmas comes only once a year. |
| 327 | [[/folder]] |
| 328 | |
| 329 | [[folder:H]] |
| 330 | * HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Baloo, Kit and Louie, among others. Baloo calls Kit "Little Britches" (breeches) in spite of neither of them wearing pants at all, presumably as a ShoutOut to the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Jungle Book]]'' Baloo calling Mowgli by the same nickname. |
| 331 | ** This even applies to the one episode where Baloo has to wear a tuxedo. Said tuxedo consists of a jacket, shirt, tie, cummerbund... and that's it. |
| 332 | * HardTruthAesop: The message in "Save the Tiger": Be careful with what you promise. People might exploit the hell out of it. |
| 333 | * HarmlessFreezing: In "Bygones", Rick Sky and the rest of his squadron survived being frozen in ice for twenty years. |
| 334 | * HateSink: The High Marshal of Thembria is the one character that's unanimously disliked among the fanbase. His whole purpose is to make Colonel Spigot slightly sympathetic by comparison. |
| 335 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: In “The Balooest of the Bluebloods”, Rebecca finds out the reason behind the mysterious deaths of the castle’s previous owners was not a curse, but were murders committed by the servants and their descendants in order to claim the inheritance. Unfortunately, Rebecca gets caught listening in by the latest servants and decide to kill her along with Baloo. |
| 336 | * HeelFaceTurn: Kit, who leaves the Air Pirates before the series begins. |
| 337 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: The pilot and "Jumping the Guns" make it clear that the cliff gunners have thwarted several of Karnage's attempts to sneak into the city or attack it by force without any help from Baloo. In the latter episode, two guards playing checkers easily see through Karnage's latest disguise (covering his airship in smoke to seem like a cloud) and casually load their cannon to drive him off while laughing about a NoodleIncident where Karnage tried to sneak past them disguised as a parade float. |
| 338 | * HeroicBSOD: Baloo does this in "A Bad Reflection On You". |
| 339 | ** Rebecca has a lighter variant in "I Only Have Ice For You". |
| 340 | * HeroicSacrifice: Baloo does this in the end of "Plunder And Lightning" where he [[spoiler:rams the Sea Duck into Don Karnage's lightning gun and destroys it along with his plane that he had just reclaimed ownership for.]] |
| 341 | ** Rebecca also attempts this in "A Star Is Torn" by [[spoiler: driving a booby trapped plane that Baloo was intended to fly for a stunt. However, Baloo saves her in time]]. She also does so in "Save The Tiger" by [[spoiler:selling Higher For Hire to pay for ransom money after Baloo is supposedly kidnapped in Shere Khan's EvilPlan.]] |
| 342 | * HeroInsurance: Subverted, this is often the reason Baloo comes off just as penniless following his good deeds than beforehand, with him often being rewarded, ''and then charged'' for his rather hazardous acts of heroism. Depending on how neccessary his acts of destruction were, this can lead some of his clients to come off as {{Ungrateful Bastard}}s. |
| 343 | * HighClassGlass: Rich Baloo in "Save the Tiger" acquires a monocle along with his fancy suit. |
| 344 | * HindenburgIncendiaryPrinciple: In one episode, the villain specifically mentions that his fleet of zeppelins currently holding the city hostage is filled with highly explosive hydrogen, and therefore attempting to shoot them down would destroy the town as surely as not meeting his demands would. |
| 345 | * HoardingTheProfits: In "Stormy Weather", Kit joins Daring Dan Dawson's air circus show to show off his cloudsurfing stunts against Baloo's wishes. Dan makes a lot of money from his air show, but gives Kit a single dollar as his pay. When Kit asks Dan if that dollar is all he gets, Dan passes it off by saying that he needs most of the money to pay for Kit's dressing room and new uniform. |
| 346 | * {{Homage}}: Thembria, the USSR {{Expy}}, is populated by warthogs. Anyone remember ''Literature/AnimalFarm?'' |
| 347 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Rebecca occasionally takes deals from rather shifty clients to say the least. |
| 348 | -->'''Rebecca:''' Jack is on a mission for the government, can't you understand?\ |
| 349 | '''Baloo:''' Oh I understand, I just don't believe. I don't think he's really a spy.\ |
| 350 | '''Rebecca:''' Oh? Then how do you explain the trench coat, huh? That's a spy's trench coat! |
| 351 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Considering Baloo's size, this is a given with most females on the show, but he and Rebecca are the most common example. (Rebecca sometimes goes from being "relatively-tall-but-not-as-tall-as-Baloo" to being positively short overall and ''miniscule'' standing next to him, in part due to their exact sizes shifting sometimes [[OffModel when animated by different studios]].) |
| 352 | * HumanoidFemaleAnimal: |
| 353 | ** Kitten Kaboodle and Clementine Clevenger look more humanoid than the others. |
| 354 | ** Rebecca, a female bear, has more human-like body proportions than Baloo, a male bear. |
| 355 | * HurricaneOfPuns: Much like ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'', everything original to the series has a name which has some level of puniness to it. |
| 356 | * HypocriticalHumor: |
| 357 | ** "From Here to Machinery" has Rebecca telling Baloo he shouldn't lose his cool at every insult, rather he should be "calm and composed like her". When Baloo tells her seconds later that the same guy who insulted him is stealing her client, Rebecca loses it. |
| 358 | ** This starts the plot in "A Spy In The Ointment". Rebecca chastises Baloo for trusting her car to a "valet" (really a thief) without asking for credentials. Not five minutes later, she accepts the job of Jack Case, who says he's a secret agent, without asking for credentials. Baloo calls her out on this. |
| 359 | ** "Sheepskin Deep" has a kangaroo mailman insist that the postal service never loses letters...right before dropping several letters as he hops away. |
| 360 | ** "The Incredible Shrinking Molly" ends with the scientist having an idea to invent television, with [[ItWillNeverCatchOn Baloo, Rebecca, and Kit immediately ridiculing the idea]], unaware that their adventures are a television show. Keep in mind that the series takes place in an era similar to the 1930s, when television was a laboratory stunt. |
| 361 | [[/folder]] |
| 362 | |
| 363 | [[folder:I]] |
| 364 | * IfICantHaveYou: Done rather ridiculously in "Feminine Air", an episode where Baloo [[WholesomeCrossDresser dresses as a woman]] in order to enter a females-only flying contest. One of his rivals is [[SweetOnPollyOliver so besotted with his female persona that he proposes]] and, when he's turned down, invokes this trope and starts trying to kill "her". |
| 365 | * IgnoredExpert: Dr. Debolt (for about two seconds) in the pilot after saying Karnage may have built a lightning gun. |
| 366 | * IKnowYouKnowIKnow: In "Waiders of the Wost Tweasure": |
| 367 | -->'''Baloo:''' You're the one with the map. Which is the door to the treasure?\ |
| 368 | '''Plane Jane:''' That one.\ |
| 369 | '''Baloo:''' Hold it! You wouldn't tell me the right door. But you know that I know that you wouldn't tell me the right door, so this is the right door. |
| 370 | * ImpoverishedPatrician: In "The Balooest of the Bluebloods" Baloo discovers that he's the heir to the Von Bruinwald Barony, which comes with a mansion, lands...[[spoiler:and ''incredible'' debt.]] |
| 371 | * ImprobablePilotingSkills: Baloo is so good a pilot he can pilot a plane even if he has to resort to directly manipulating the control cables to a craft's flaps and rudder when the yoke was broke. Furthermore, in one episode, he was able to quickly learn how to fly a prototype helicopter, despite the fact that operating that kind of vehicle is a completely different (not to mention ''revolutionary'' for the 1930s) concept in aviation. And don't forget, he was able to successfully "pilot" a prototype ''jet engine'' merely by hanging on to it and tugging on it real hard. No wings, no rudder, no ''plane''. Just the engine. He even broke the sound barrier while riding it. |
| 372 | * IncredibleShrinkingMan: Molly (and later Baloo and Rebecca) in "The Incredible Shrinking Molly". |
| 373 | * IncrediblyLamePun: The following exchange from "In Search of Ancient Blunders": |
| 374 | -->'''Don Karnage:''' Fire at will!\ |
| 375 | (Will runs away, screaming, as the other pirates try to shoot him)\ |
| 376 | '''Don Karnage:''' No, no, no, don't fire at Will, he is my second mate. ''Fire at the Sea Duck!'' |
| 377 | ** And of course, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepe_suzette Cape Suzette]]. |
| 378 | * InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Rebecca is something of a [[SmallNameBigEgo pompous]] [[KnowNothingKnowItAll know-it-all]] who has nothing against [[BecauseISaidSo pushing her weight around]] to get Baloo to follow orders. Whenever Baloo is taken out of the picture, however, [[CantStandThemCantLiveWithoutThem things often fall apart]] due to Rebecca's physical and emotional dependance on him to help run the company. Some obvious dents left from being a single mother are also apparent. |
| 379 | * InferredSurvival: Due to the setting, airplanes crashing down happens quite often. Due to the fact that this is a Disney series aimed at kids, you can always see the pilots escaping just in time via parachute. [[FridgeLogic Even though they didn't wear a parachute-backpack before and didn't have time to put one on...]] (Granted, the slapstick tone means any exceptions to this merely lead to AmusingInjuries). |
| 380 | * InnocentProdigy: Kit has his moments of this. |
| 381 | * InsistentTerminology: |
| 382 | ** Baloo prefers to call Rebecca "Becky;" early episodes show her arguing with him about it, wanting him to call her Rebecca, but when he finally does she says "It's Becky." |
| 383 | ** According to Don Karnage, he and his men don't rob. They plunder. Why? Because they are pirates, not robbers. |
| 384 | * InstantlyProvenWrong: In one episode Baloo decides to do the one thing left he wants to do, fly across the [[TheBermudaTriangle Bearmuda Trapezoid]]. At the end, Rebecca assured him that she knew he'd come back and never doubted him for a moment, right before another pilot comes in asking about the job she had listed for Baloo's replacement. |
| 385 | * InterspeciesRomance |
| 386 | ** There are three or four episodes which cast Baloo and Louie as competing, bumbling suitors for the GirlOfTheWeek, who is neither a bear nor an orangutan. |
| 387 | ** Implied by Princess Lotta Lamour's father, a rabbit. She is a fox, meaning that her mother must be a fox also. |
| 388 | *** Unless Lotta was adopted. |
| 389 | * ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: |
| 390 | -->'''Baloo:''' Because, [the pig is] messy, loud, obnoxious, ugly, and... ''*sniff*'' smelly.\ |
| 391 | '''Rebecca:''' Well, so are you. Besides, it's my plane.\ |
| 392 | '''Baloo:''' Who is she callin' messy? |
| 393 | * ItWillNeverCatchOn: At the end of "The Incredible Shrinking Molly", the episode's MadScientist mentions that he's working on a new medium called "television", and Baloo scoffs at the notion of "Radio with pictures". Curiously, movie serials and newsreels are shown to be a legitimate medium in the show. Said mad scientist may actually be the inventor of Television in their world. However, due to him being a one-off character, it's anyone's guess, especially seeing as the show has long since gone off the air. |
| 394 | [[/folder]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[folder:J-K]] |
| 397 | * {{Jerkass}}: |
| 398 | ** Ace London is an arrogant blowhard who believes himself the best pilot ever and demeans everyone else. |
| 399 | ** Dan Dawson, who takes on Kit to be the star of his air circus with talks of fame and fortune. In reality, he purposely skimps him on the promised payment in order to keep the biggest cuts for himself, then later revealed he doesn't mind getting people hurt or worse in doing his insanely dangerous stunts if it gets him big money. |
| 400 | ** Cool Hands is a sexist prick who demeans Baloo simply for having a woman for a boss and paints him and Higher for Hire in a bad light for the very same reason. |
| 401 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Both Baloo and Rebecca, though the extent of both the "{{Jerk|ass}}" and the [[HiddenHeartOfGold "heart of gold"]] element for both [[DependingOnTheWriter varies from episode to episode]]. |
| 402 | * JobStealingRobot: Baloo deals with one in "From Here to Machinery". |
| 403 | * KangarooCourt: This is apparently the preferred "justice" system of the warthog-run Soviet Union expy Thembria. As Colonel Spigot explains to Rebecca Cunningham at one point (when she's just been arrested), the system is very simple and efficient: "First you will be given a [[BlatantLies fair]] trial. [[ShotAtDawn Then you will be shot.]]" |
| 404 | * KitchenSinkIncluded: |
| 405 | ** In the episode, "Bringing Down Babyface", Baloo, Kit, and Rebecca are on the run from the law and are being chased through the sewers. The police try to stop them by stuffing items from stop signs and lights to a tree down the manholes. Baloo comments that the police used everything but the kitchen sink. They then dodge a kitchen sink, after which, Rebecca tells Baloo not to give them any more ideas. Baloo then comments that they didn't use a bathtub, and a bathtub falls on the Sea Duck. After which, Rebecca tells Baloo to be quiet. |
| 406 | ** In the episode, "It Came From Beneath the Sea Duck", Don Karnage sends Mad Dog and Dump Truck into the city, telling them to steal everything, including the kitchen sink. Later, when the heroes have a confrontation with a giant squid, the squid accidentally rips the sink from Rebecca's kitchen and drops it into Mad Dog and Dump Truck's submarine. Don Karnage is not amused when they bring it to him. |
| 407 | * KnightInShiningArmor: An amusing literal example in "The Balooest of the Blue Bloods". Paranoid about inheriting a bad-luck curse, Baloo protects himself with medieval armor. This later becomes pivotal in saving Rebecca after [[YouKnowTooMuch she learns the truth behind]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse the supposed curse]]. |
| 408 | * KnightInSourArmor: Baloo on occasion acts as this. In "My Fair Baloo", for example, he is chastised for acting like a "buffoon" at a high-class ball in the [[IncrediblyLamePun Spruce Moose]]. Almost immediately following this, he saves the guests from ''two'' attempted hijackings, a plane crash and being stranded on an isolated island. |
| 409 | -->'''Baloo:''' Now give me one good reason why I should bail those snot nosed money-grubbers.\ |
| 410 | '''Rebecca:''' Because you're better than them?\ |
| 411 | '''Baloo:''' ...Hmm, good answer. Let's go. |
| 412 | ** He and Rebecca often trade this role with each other. For all they suffer from each other, [[{{Determinator}} they will go to great lengths]] to keep the other safe. |
| 413 | * KnightOfCerebus: Shere Khan is far less bumbling compared to the rest of the RoguesGallery and can be pretty effective and dangerous if pushed hard enough. Of course, the show did like to [[TheComicallySerious poke fun of his supposed "seriousness" at times]]. Interestingly, this trope [[CanonForeigner made its way into]] his ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Jungle Book]]'' incarnation for [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook2 the sequel]] (in contrast to his counterpart in the original film, who was fearsome but [[LaughablyEvil too hammy and whimsical to count]]). |
| 414 | ** Klang in "From Whom the Bell Klangs" seeking out a weapon of mass destruction with the intention of selling it off to the highest bidder, [[EvilSoundsDeep being voiced]] by Creator/TimCurry, and resembling a [[SnakesAreEvil serpentine]] version of [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]]. |
| 415 | [[/folder]] |
| 416 | |
| 417 | [[folder:L]] |
| 418 | * LargeHam: As is the case with most Disney Afternoon characters voiced by Creator/JimCummings, Don Karnage (Speaking to you now! In his own voice!) fits this to a tee. |
| 419 | ** About half the cast fits this trope to an extent, even some of the more CloserToEarth characters can't help hamming it up at times. |
| 420 | * LaserGuidedAmnesia: "The Old Man and the Sea Duck". |
| 421 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Happens quite a few times in the series, and when it strikes, it strikes hard. |
| 422 | * LaughablyEvil: |
| 423 | ** Don Karnage, who -- despite nearly every one of his scenes being hilarious in some way (mostly due to the [[FunnyForeigner funny accent]], eccentric antics, and [[ChewingTheScenery a marked tendency to eat sets]]) -- is one of the most legitimately dangerous bad guys on the show. |
| 424 | ** The show's entire RoguesGallery counts to an extent, with the arguable exception of Shere Khan, (arguable due to the occasionally over-the-top extent his ComicallySerious role is taken, as well as [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 being based on a rather valid example]]). |
| 425 | * LavaPotVolcano: "Pizza Pie in the Sky" has Baloo team up with Louie to run a pizza delivery service, using the Sea Duck as a flying kitchen. When Baloo loses the pizza oven out the loading ramp, he decides to cook the pizzas by flying around in an active volcano's caldera, depicted as a rocky bowl filled with a large lake of molten rock. Baloo and Kit survive the process with ice blocks tied to their heads. ConvectionSchmonvection proves highly arbitrary, as the volcano's heat does indeed cook the pizzas, but doesn't make the Sea Duck's hull sizzling hot, overheat its engines, nor set ablaze its tanks of aviation fuel. ToonPhysics at their finest. |
| 426 | * {{Leitmotif}}: |
| 427 | ** Wildcat frequently has a quirky flute melody accompany many of his appearances. ''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'' OST disk also includes numerous one shot tracks that signaled different characters and locations. |
| 428 | ** The Seaduck itself has a recurring heroic swell that plays nearly every episode, typically when either Baloo's pulling off an impressive stunt or the characters return to it for an escape. |
| 429 | * LetThereBeSnow: Molly's wish in "Jolly Molly Christmas". |
| 430 | * LineOfSightName: While trying to come up with a name for the "deceased uncle" that left him $50,000, Baloo's eyes alight upon a vacuum cleaner and goes with "Hoover". |
| 431 | * LiteralMetaphor: When Don Karnage tells his crew to "fire at will", they first shoot at Will, the second mate. |
| 432 | * LittleMissBadass: Molly in several episodes. Some of them being "Molly Coddled", "Mommy For A Day", and "The Incredible Shrinking Molly". |
| 433 | * LocalHangout: Louie's is this for pilots, except that it's not really local, being out in the middle of the ocean. This gets justified in one episode, where it turns out that Louie's is about one tankful of airplane fuel away from Cape Suzette (and presumably near a major air route.) |
| 434 | * LonelyRichKid: Oscar Vandershnoot in "Captains Outrageous". |
| 435 | * LovesOnlyGold: The episode "Vowel Play" has the villain Heimlich Minudo, a FunnyAnimal leopard with an obsession for diamonds, to the point where he has implanted diamonds in place of his teeth. His EvilPlan involves holding Cape Suzette hostage unless he's given all of its diamonds. |
| 436 | * LukeNounVerber: Kit Cloudkicker. |
| 437 | ** They poke a little fun at the naming convention when Kit reads it from the local newspaper: |
| 438 | --> '''Kit''' ''(reading):'' "Kit ''CLOWN-KICKER?!"'' |
| 439 | [[/folder]] |
| 440 | |
| 441 | [[folder:M]] |
| 442 | * MacrossMissileMassacre: The pandas try this on Baloo. However, the missiles don't lock on the Sea Duck to perform a full-fledged Itano Circus because they're heat-seeking, and Baloo has loaded his plane with ice. |
| 443 | * MadScientist: At least three of them. |
| 444 | * {{Malaproper}}: Much of Don Karnage's dialogue fits the trope. |
| 445 | * MamaBear: Rebecca is a literal example to Molly. |
| 446 | * ManChild: Wildcat. There are also times when Baloo and Rebecca don't quite act their age. |
| 447 | ** PsychopathicManChild: A few villains (given their LaughablyEvil tone) tend to lean into this vein. |
| 448 | * MathematiciansAnswer: Whenever it would be funny. |
| 449 | --> '''Kit''' ''(viewing a pair of 400'-tall mirrors):'' How did you build such ''enormous'' mirrors?? |
| 450 | --> '''Don Karnage:''' We did not "build" them... we ''stole'' them! |
| 451 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 452 | ** Kit Cloudkicker. "Kit" can mean both "kite" (as he is when SkySurfing and towed by the Sea Duck) and "small animal," which he is. "Cloudkicker" refers more overtly to his SkySurfing. |
| 453 | *** It also harkens to how he wants to kick the clouds of his troubled past away. |
| 454 | ** Don Karnage, a pirate lord whose name evokes "carnage." Also overlaps with NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast. |
| 455 | * MegaMawManeuver: In the first episode, the air pirates are harassing a Khan cargo plane, which ducks into a cloud bank, only to be swallowed by the ''Iron Vulture''. |
| 456 | * MenOfSherwood: |
| 457 | ** Cape Suzette has a large staff of artillery gunners stationed on the cliffs outside the city to fight invaders. They don’t appear often, but when they do, they’re just as likely to drive invaders (usually Karnage and his air pirates) away as they are to fail due to some trick or super weapon. Even when they are defeated, they always survive. The airplane pilots who make up the city’s second line of defense are also quite competent, but whenever a threat is dire enough to send them against it, it will also be formidable enough to shoot down the planes (although the pilots always bail out) and require Baloo to save the day. |
| 458 | ** Shere Khan's private air force tends to be defeated, either by Baloo or the air pirates, but his navy is an impressive force in "A Bad Reflection on You." The villains' only hope of bating them is a minefield trick, and when that fails, they play a decent role in routing their enemies. |
| 459 | ** Rick Sky's old military squadron from "Bygones" only show up at the end of the episode, after [[spoiler:being thawed out of an iceberg]], and only have two or three lines of dialogue between them. However, when they fight the Air Pirates in their antique planes, they subject Don Karnage to a devastating defeat and only one squadron member is (non-fatally) shot down. |
| 460 | --> '''Baloo''': There's five times as many of them as you. |
| 461 | --> '''Sky''': I know it seems a tad unfair, [[BaitAndSwitchComment but we'll let them have the first shot]]. |
| 462 | * MilesGloriosus: Colonel Spigot and ACE LONDON! |
| 463 | ** [[CatchPhrase You got that right!]] |
| 464 | * MilitariesAreUseless: Zigzagged. The first episode establishes that the Cape Suzette cliff guns are a credible defense capable of driving back Don Karnage. Karnage (and the Panda-La army) are able to get past them from time to time with significant trickery or a super-weapon of some kind but in general the cliff gunners are portrayed as brave in the middle of battle and savvy enough to see through a lot of Karnage's attempts to get past them (like by covering the Iron Vulture in a cloud of smoke). The pilots for the city's air defense are also no slouches fighting bravely in the face of danger (with one making a particularly good showing in the Panda-La episode until the heat-seeking rockets come out) but in the end they'll get overwhelmed and Baloo is the one who will save the day with a flying trick. |
| 465 | * TheMillstone: Played around with Baloo. Though genuinely heroic, he is often as much the [[IdiotBall cause of the show's problems]] as he is the savior of them. |
| 466 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: Sgt. Dunder, though astoundingly loyal to Col. Spigot, has [[GentleGiant a meek, friendly disposition]] and [[GoKartingWithBowser is friendly towards Baloo and Kit when he's on his own time]]. Spigot himself (as a minion to [[InsistentTerminology the glorious Peoples' Republic of]] '''[[InsistentTerminology Thembria!)]]''' is more of a {{Jerkass}}, a WellIntentionedExtremist and/or a PunchClockVillain than outright evil. |
| 467 | %%* MirrorRoutine: Used in "A Bad Reflection on You". |
| 468 | * MissingMom: Both of Kit's parents are missing and Princess Lotta Lamour's mother also. |
| 469 | * MisterBig: Trader Moe, a diminutive alligator mafia boss with two DumbMuscle goons. |
| 470 | %%* MistakenForDying: Used in "Bearly Alive", ''twice over''. |
| 471 | %%* TheMole: [[spoiler:Perry]] in "Baloo Thunder". |
| 472 | * MobileCity: Panda-La can rise off the ground using giant balloons and fly through the air. This was done to suit its inhabitants' taste for conquest -- when the pandas decided they wanted to take over a new land, they moved their city to their target location, subjugated it, and landed there until they set their eyes somewhere else. |
| 473 | * MoodWhiplash: "Her Chance To Dream" is fairly light hearted and comical for the most part, with Rebecca obliviously becoming infatuated with a ghost that is tormenting Baloo and Louie. However, when Baloo finally convinces her who he is, [[TearJerker he realises the terrible decision she now has to make...]] |
| 474 | * MoralityPet: Molly to Rebecca. WordOfGod says that Molly was written essentially to offset Rebecca's [[ControlFreak nagging tendencies]] towards Baloo, and bring out her softer and [[MamaBear often more protective sides]]. Kit often brings out this element in Baloo as well. |
| 475 | * MoreDakka: Don Karnage's Tri-Wing Terror consists of little more than an engine, a small cockpit, and six stubby wings which seem to be little more than mounts for the six large-caliber machine guns. |
| 476 | * MotiveDecay: Somewhat. DependingOnTheWriter, Baloo could be insistent on working for Higher For Hire solely to get the Sea Duck back from Rebecca, or has grown accustomed to (if not outright enjoys) working for her. In "Save The Tiger", he basically {{retcon}}s his insured wealth and ownership of the plane just so she can have her business back. |
| 477 | * {{Mummy}}: "In Search of Ancient Blunders". |
| 478 | * TheMutiny: Karnage's men try to overthrow their captain on a couple odd occasions, though they admittedly aren't brilliant at it. |
| 479 | * MythologyGag: |
| 480 | ** Baloo and Kit refer to each other as "Papa Bear" and "Little Britches" respectively, the names he and Mowgli used for each other. |
| 481 | ** In "On a Wing and a Bear", Baloo uses the phrase "Bear Necessities", which calls back to the song of the same name he sung in ''The Jungle Book''. |
| 482 | ** In his first appearance in "Plunder and Lightning Part 1", Baloo sings a song about how great his life is without any resposibilities, which is broadly the same theme as "Bear Necessities". He also dons a makeshift skirt and hat to do so, similar to his disguise when he joins in "I Wanna Be Like You". |
| 483 | [[/folder]] |
| 484 | |
| 485 | [[folder:N-O]] |
| 486 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Don Karnage. |
| 487 | * TheNapoleon: Colonel Spigot. |
| 488 | ** Also Trader Moe. |
| 489 | * NationalAnimalStereotypes: |
| 490 | ** Thembrians ([[HuskyRusskie Russians]]) are boars. |
| 491 | ** Panda-La (YellowPeril Chinese) are pandas; notability this got the episode pulled from official releases. |
| 492 | * NerdsAreSexy: Between [[BrainyBrunette Rebecca Cunningham]], Katie Dodd, and Myra, this was inevitable. |
| 493 | * NeverMyFault: The punishment for lot of offenses in Thembria, regardless of who is responsible for them, tend involve Spigot getting shot, who in turn blames a lot of his blunders on Dunder. |
| 494 | * NeverWinTheLottery: In "Your Baloo's in the Mail", Rebecca wins a big prize from a radio station, then trusts lazy Baloo to deliver her winning ticket--without telling him how important it is. HilarityEnsues. [[spoiler:..but as noted above, some fans don't appreciate that the DownerEnding, where Baloo delivers the ticket just ''a few seconds'' too late, is PlayedForLaughs.]] |
| 495 | ** Or for that matter, [[spoiler:the same radio station offering to purchase the one-of-a-kind stamp on the ticket's envelope for the cost of the prize... which they discover ''after'' Baloo throws it away - and ''just'' as the garbage truck pulls away after collecting it.]] |
| 496 | * NiceMeanAndInBetween: The Thembrians, Sgt. Dunder, the High Marshall, and Col. Spigot have this respective dynamic. Dunder is gregarious and respectful to Baloo and his friends. The High Marshall is a BadBoss who threatens to shoot those who fail their task and disappoint him in any way, most commonly Spigot. Spigot is short and ill-tempered, but does everything he can to please the High Marshall and has a frenemy relationship with Baloo. |
| 497 | * TheNicknamer: Baloo. |
| 498 | * NoAntagonist: There are a few episodes that lack a proper villain. |
| 499 | ** "For a Fuel Dollars More" is about a rivalry between Baloo and Louie, after Rebecca's new middair refuelling station takes business away from Louie's place. |
| 500 | ** "The Old Man and the Sea Duck" involves Baloo getting [[EasyAmnesia amnesia]] and trying to relearn how to fly. |
| 501 | ** "Sheepskin Deep" has Principal Pomeroy, who at worst comes off as "annoying". He's really just a stickler for rules who doesn't think highly of Baloo and his shenanigans. |
| 502 | ** "Pizza Pie in the Sky" has the health inspector. He gives Baloo a hard time and ultimately fines him, but in actuality he's just doing his job. |
| 503 | ** "Your Baloo's in the Mail" is about Baloo struggling to get a letter delivered on time after not paying for express shipping. |
| 504 | ** "The Incredible Shrinking Molly" has a [[YouDirtyRat rat]] that terrorizes the shrunken characters. However, it comes off as being a wild animal and not a proper villain. |
| 505 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In "A Star Is Torn", several celebrities from TheThirties (or at least their UsefulNotes/{{furry| fandom}} equivalents) make [[TheCameo cameos]]. |
| 506 | * NoKillLikeOverkill: Thembria's preferred method of execution is the six-gun salute. Said guns come in the form of either cannons or ''tanks''. And then they just might hang you afterwards. |
| 507 | --> '''Spigot:''' We're very thorough. |
| 508 | * NoWaterproofingInTheFuture: Martin Torque's Auto-Aviators may by decades ahead of their time, but one soda bottle's enough to put them down for the count. |
| 509 | * NonIndicativeName: The "gorilla birds" from the first half of the pilot aren't the MixAndMatchCritters their names would suggest - they are just large flightless vulture-like birds. The only thing they have in common with gorillas is their size and their tropical habitat. |
| 510 | * NoodleImplements: In the pilot Don Karnage plans to... somehow... use turnips and sandpaper to get Kit to talk. Naturally he is rescued before we can find out the details. |
| 511 | ** Just before the rescue takes effect, however, Kit throws out an angry retort to the implied threat; Karnage responds by dropping these items and drawing his sword, which suggests he may have been bluffing up until that point. |
| 512 | --> '''Karnage:''' Now, my boy, I want some answers. |
| 513 | --> '''Kit:''' Stuff it in your windsock! |
| 514 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Rebecca in a rather extensive manner (though she is toned down slightly in later episodes). |
| 515 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Similarly, the Thembrian military usually consisted largely of bumblers whose favored ammunition is stacks of bologna; however, when set on actually offing someone, they take it to [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment torturous]] [[NoKillLikeOverkill extremes]]. |
| 516 | * NotWhereTheyThought: |
| 517 | ** In "Gruel and Unusual Punishment", Baloo decides to visit a weight loss clinic so he can lose enough weight to escort Rebecca to the Pilot's Ball in a slimming tuxedo. However, due to having mistaken a guacamole stain on the map for the location, he ends up in a Thembrian prison, which he mistakes for the weight loss clinic. |
| 518 | ** Invoked in "A Jolly Molly Christmas"; Baloo gets Louie to disguise his nightclub as Santa's workshop, himself as Santa Claus, and his employees as Santa's elves to trick Molly into thinking she's at the North Pole. For a while, this works, but once Louie's customers end up exposing his ruse, Molly runs out of the club crying. |
| 519 | * ObjectShapedLandmass: {{Inverted}} in "The Idol Rich" when Baloo and Kit take part in a treasure hunt. The treasure is said to be "right under your nose." A map of the area shows a lake that's shaped like a moose's head. An exchange with Colonel Spigot and some troops from Thembria results in Baloo being held upside down. When they do, Baloo sees that Moose Lake resembles a nose with a moustache under it. |
| 520 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "From Here to Machinery", Baloo fails a contest that decides a mass buyout of a mechanical pilot. Since Higher For Hire is consequently out of business, Rebecca notes sadly that she has to sell the Sea Duck, Baloo's beloved plane, in order to keep a roof under her and Molly's head. While Kit is mortified, a guilt ridden Baloo just solemnly tells him to let it go. |
| 521 | * OffscreenVillainy: During the pilot there are more than a few mentions of Don Karnage being famous for never letting anyone go, never taking anyone prisoner, and never leaving any evidence, the time he did let some pilots alive being due to him wanting to send a message. Of course, he never kills anyone over the course of the show (unless you count collateral damage from the LightningGun), mostly either due to his men's incompetence (or his own, occasionally), or Baloo and the gang being just that good. |
| 522 | * OldFashionedFruitStomping: A variant in the episode; when Louie turns his nightclub into a pizza air delivery service, he puts tomatoes in a vat and stomps on them to make pizza sauce. |
| 523 | * OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList |
| 524 | * OnOneCondition: "The Balooest of the Bluebloods". |
| 525 | * TheOneWhoWearsShoes: Don Karnage and Gibber of the Air Pirates, as well as some guest star characters such as Katie Dodd ("For Whom the Bell Klangs") and Clementine Clevenger ("Citizen Khan"). |
| 526 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Baloo insists to Becky he's only working at Higher For Hire until he's earned enough to buy back the Sea Duck. While he [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere holds up to that deal]] a couple of times he earns big, it's often implied to be [[TrueCompanions a bit more complex than that]]. |
| 527 | * [[OrMyNameIsnt Or My Name's Not]]: "...[[PhraseCatcher Ace London]]!" "Ya got ''that'' right." |
| 528 | * OutOfFocus[=/=]SpotlightStealingSquad: Many of the later episodes stray from the goings on of Higher For Hire and focus more on Baloo adventuring outside Cape Suzette. While Rebecca, Molly and Kit feature less as a result, Wildcat and Louie gain more prominent roles in later episodes. |
| 529 | * OverDrive: Used in the first episode. Combines NitroBoost with ExplosiveOverclocking if left on too long. |
| 530 | ** The Iron Vulture has Full Throttle mode, which gives it extra lift and is needed when it's carrying something extremely heavy (like a pyramid or iceberg) but causes the ship to rocket out of control if used during normal flight. Naturally the extra weight is always ejected before they can shut it off, sending them comically blasting off. |
| 531 | * OverlyPolitePals: Baloo and Kit have one of these moments in one episode. |
| 532 | [[/folder]] |
| 533 | |
| 534 | [[folder:P-Q]] |
| 535 | * [[PapaWolf Papa Bear]]: Baloo, of the surrogate kind to Kit (and to a lesser extent Molly). Kit even calls him Papa Bear, as Mowgli did in ''The Jungle Book''. |
| 536 | * PaperThinDisguise: |
| 537 | ** Rebecca tries to enter a restaurant exclusive to movie stars and is immediately booted out by the doorman. She managed to get in seconds later by simply adding a feather boa to herself. |
| 538 | ** Baloo tends to be very successful with these. |
| 539 | * ParentalSubstitute: Baloo and to a much lesser extent Rebecca, to Kit. Baloo also has moments with Molly. |
| 540 | * PerilousOldFool: Whistlestop Jack was the best pilot in the world...at the very dawn of aviation. Some twenty or thirtyish years later, his inability to adapt to those strange new monowing aircraft (even relics like the Sea Duck) makes his piloting dangerous. Notably, Rebecca had him in a publicity position until he offered to help out/cover for Baloo. After nearly getting shot down by Khan's men, he comes to his senses. |
| 541 | * PingPongNaivete: Kit's view of Baloo [[DependingOnTheWriter varies from episode to episode]], in some episodes he is completely oblivious to Baloo's faults and idolizes him blindly; in others he is the OnlySaneMan and TheSmartGuy of the team; in others still he's easily manipulated by con men or "too good to be true" deals that even Baloo sees right through. |
| 542 | * PityTheKidnapper: Karnage in "The Ransom of Red Chimp". |
| 543 | * PlatonicCoParenting: Baloo and Rebecca Cunningham are not a married couple and on many occasions are at each other's throats, especially when running Hire for Hire, with Rebecca being bossy and Baloo being lazy. Nonetheless, they both act as parental figures to Baloo's adopted son, Kit, and Rebecca's biological daughter, Molly. |
| 544 | * PokeThePoodle: Both Don Karnage and the Thembrian Army have shown occasional tactics such as this. Subverted slightly as acts such as scratching your nails on a chalkboard and forcing you through a cheesy chat show ''are'' actually considered all manner of hell for their hostages. |
| 545 | * PollyWantsAMicrophone: Ignatz in "Polly Wants a Treasure". |
| 546 | * PoorCommunicationKills: The entire episode "Your Baloo's In The Mail" proves this. |
| 547 | * PortalStatuePairs: The lost city of Tenabulon has a giant pair of stone scarabs on either side of its main entry. The wings of the scarabs function as the city's gates and will open or close depending on what notes are played on the control bells. |
| 548 | * PovertyFood: The staple diet of Thembria is "gruel", it looks like something used as glue more than food. When Baloo is trapped in a Thembrian prison camp, he's roped into a plot by one of the inmates to blow off Thembria's "Strategic Gruel Reserves". |
| 549 | * PrestigePeril: In "The Balooest of the Bluebloods", work-a-day pilot Baloo learns that he's the last survivor of the Bruinwald bloodline, and thus, heir to a barony. Suddenly, Baloo is living large, and loving it. However, Baloo is shown portraits of his predecessors, each of whom died under peculiar circumstances. It's revealed that the Bruinwalds were all murdered by the one who would have stewardship of the barony in the absence of any Bruinwald. |
| 550 | * PretentiousPronunciation: Mr. Weasel in "Vowel Play" demands people pronounce it wee-ZEL, not WEE-sel. |
| 551 | * PrettyPrincessPowerhouse: Princess Lotta Lamour from "The Road to Macadamia". She's not afraid to confront her kingdom's EvilChancellor ("Touch me and you're dust, buster!"), and during a fight she knocks out several of the chancellor's {{Mooks}} with a big mallet. |
| 552 | * ProductDeliveryOrdeal: The episode "A Spy In The Ointment" involves Jack Case as a covert agent charged with delivering a package to the Thembrian High Marshall. Case hires Higher For Hire to fly himself into hostile Thembria, which is modeled somewhat after the Soviet Union, paranoia included. During the process, it's discovered that the package meant for the High Marshall is just fishing lures, and that Case isn't a covert agent. [[spoiler:He's just a mailman that screwed up his deliveries, and is trying to right his wrong without anyone finding out.]] |
| 553 | * PronouncingMyNameForYou: One episode features a weasel client named Weezelle. He insists that his name be properly pronounced ("''wee-ZEL!''"). Naturally, everyone just called him "Weasel". Eventually, this annoys him so much that he refuses to do any more work until his name is correctly pronounced. |
| 554 | * ProperlyParanoid: In "The Balooest of the Bluebloods," someone is clearly trying to kill Baloo after he's inherited a vast mansion and fortune so he asks Rebecca and Wildcat to spend the night at his place for safety. Rebecca doesn't believe Baloo until she hears his screaming and, intending to give him shit for imagining things, is horrified when she enters the room and finds Baloo pinned to the wall with arrows and about to be impaled. |
| 555 | * PunBasedTitle: In the ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'' tradition, ''Tale Spin'' is a pun on "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailspin Tailspin]]". |
| 556 | * PunishmentBox: Baloo stays at a Thembrian penal colony which he has mistaken for a fitness camp. He is frequently sent to what he calls a "solar powered sauna." |
| 557 | * PunnyName: All over the place. For starters, {{lampshaded}} by Baloo that Rebecca renaming his business "Higher for Hire" was an IncrediblyLamePun. Then there are area names like Cape Suzette (CrĂŞpe Suzette), episode titles like "The Idol Rich" (The Idle Rich) and "The Sound and the Furry", and some major and minor characters' names. |
| 558 | * PuttingOnTheReich: The nation of Thembria resembles the Soviet Union. |
| 559 | [[/folder]] |
| 560 | |
| 561 | [[folder:R]] |
| 562 | * RammingAlwaysWorks: How the [[spoiler:Lightning Gun from "Plunder and Lightning"]] was destroyed. |
| 563 | ** Averted a few minutes earlier when the Sky Pirates attempt to ram the door in order to prevent Kit from sending the message to Baloo about his efforts to sabotage the LightningGun. |
| 564 | * RashPromise: Done by Shere Khan in "Save the Tiger" after Baloo saves his life and he promises to repay Baloo's act under his personal code to "Always repay your debts, and never go back on a deal." Unfortunately, Baloo begins milking Khan's generosity for all it's worth and demands all sorts of exorbitant favors from Khan. Khan ends up having to manipulate events to have Baloo kidnapped so he would willingly ask Khan to return things to normal and demand no further favors. |
| 565 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Captain William Stansbury]] from "Her Chance To Dream". |
| 566 | * RefuseToRescueTheDisliked: |
| 567 | ** The manipulative Covington from the episode "Molly Coddled" makes an AccidentalPublicConfession that he's been courting Rebecca solely to gain access to Molly's new doll, which is actually the key to a treasure cave. After dressing Covington down for toying with her, Rebecca and company leave Covington to the mercy of his two accomplices, who have had an ax to grind with Covington since the episode's outset. |
| 568 | ** In "My Fair Baloo", after a snobby dinner party throws out Baloo for [[UngratefulBastard rescuing them in a hap hazardous manner]] they are captured again. Baloo pulls off this trope, but is convinced out of it rather quickly by Rebecca. |
| 569 | * ReminderFailure: In the episode "Vowel Play", Kit Cloudkicker helps Baloo skywrite the message "Weight until dark" [sic], but remembers only half the spelling mnemonic of I before E except after C. The message appears as "Wieght until dark," which would be the code for "bombard City Hall." Fortunately, Kit [[SubvertedTrope remembers]] the second half of the mnemonic in time: "Or when sounding like A, as in neighbor or weigh." Baloo deftly corrects the fault in time. |
| 570 | * ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Klang, the KnightOfCerebus villain in the two-part episode "For Whom the Bell Klangs," who is revealed at the end of the episode to be a snake, rather than a lizard as he first appeared. Another recurring reptile villain was Trader Moe, a crocodile. |
| 571 | ** The episode "Bullethead Baloo" featured a oneshot villain named Dr. Axolotl, a mad scientist salamander who created a robot to kidnap Shere Khan. |
| 572 | * RequisiteRoyalRegalia: The land of Wallawallabingbang has a pair of "ruby wings". [[spoiler:They really are wings, but some assumed they were rings due to the dialect of the kingdom's people.]] |
| 573 | * ResetButton: Baloo has managed to save up enough money to buy back his plane more than a few times, but even when events ''didn't'' conspire to put him back to work for Becky, the fact of the matter is that he is a ''lousy'' businessman and usually ends up asking for his job back anyway. On the other hand, after an early episode ("I Only Have Ice for You") where Rebecca has trouble learning how to pilot a plane (from a ''book''), a later story shows that she's learned a lot from Baloo and is now a capable pilot on her own. Of course, she still gladly hands the controls to the AcePilot when there's any crazy stunts to be pulled. |
| 574 | * RestaurantOwningEpisode: In "Pizza Pie in the Sky", Baloo and Kit decide to turn Louie's nightclub into a pizza air delivery business called Pizza Pie in the Sky. The business gets an order for 200 pizzas, one of which has anchovies. When the irregular anchovies that Baloo and Kit get make Louie sick, Baloo and Kit are left to try and make the pizzas themselves. In the end, it is revealed that the delivery was for the Better Business seminar that Rebecca was attending, and Rebecca was the one who ordered the anchovy pizza. Baloo and Kit make $500.00 from the delivery, but are forced to pay $499.00 worth of fines to the Health Inspector for all the health and safety violations they racked up. |
| 575 | * ReusedCharacterDesign: The kitten that appears at the beginning of "Paradise Lost" is identical to Spunky, who is from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' entitled "Catteries Not Included". |
| 576 | * RidiculousExchangeRates: When Baloo recovers an idol from Colonel Spigot he trades it in for a 13 million torbit reward. He calls Rebecca, bragging that he's going to buy the Sea Duck back, while Louie figures out the exchange rate from torbits to shaboozis (Cape Suzette currency). Eight shaboozis worth of gas (plus ice cream tab, tax, and tip) wipes out the whole reward. Suddenly completely broke, Baloo is forced to do an immediate about-face, meekly telling Rebecca he'll be back to work tomorrow and asking if he can reverse charges on the call. |
| 577 | * TheRival: Plane Jane and Ace London to Baloo. |
| 578 | * RocketRide: In "Mach One for the Gipper", Baloo flies a newly invented jet engine. No, not a plane with a jet engine--literally ''just'' the engine. |
| 579 | * RottenRoboticReplacement: "From Here to Machinery" revolves around an attempt by Khan Industries to [[JobStealingRobot replace all pilots with a robot]], the "Auto-Aviator", and Baloo's fight to not be put out of business. While he's unfortunately unable to beat the Auto-Aviator in a ManVersusMachine competition, the Auto-Aviator showcases a ''very'' fatal flaw on in the episode's final act: it is ''completely unable'' to change from its preset course and ''will not'' accept orders to do so, even when not doing so endangers the plane and everybody in it from ''being shot down by air pirates''. |
| 580 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Princess Lotta Lamour helps Baloo and Louie save her kingdom from [[EvilChancellor Chancellor Trample.]] |
| 581 | * RuleOfCool: A general staple of the show, but most evident with Kit's airfoil. To be clear, it assumes a 12 year-old boy can hang on to a rope behind an airplane (travelling at a minimum of 150 mph), while coordinating a piece of metal below his feet. |
| 582 | * {{Ruritania}}: Thembria. |
| 583 | [[/folder]] |
| 584 | |
| 585 | [[folder:S]] |
| 586 | * SafeUnderBlankets: At the end of "For a Fuel Dollars More", Baloo is recovering in the hospital after Rebecca's last great idea literally blew up (albeit with some help from him). When she starts going on about ''another'' crazy scheme, he moans and pulls his blanket up over his head. |
| 587 | * SanityBall: Thrown around frequently, usually between Baloo, Rebecca or Kit for a StraightManAndWiseGuy scenario. |
| 588 | * ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Baloo is often shown to be rather overambitious with money, and is dead set on buying back the Sea Duck from Rebecca, however when he realises some immoral and harmful undertone in a scheme or investment, he turns it down immediately. |
| 589 | ** A frequent scruple for Shere Khan, his moral code preventing him from doing anything truly irredeemable. |
| 590 | * ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: This is the basis behind several of his more petty schemes however. |
| 591 | * TheShangriLa: Subverted in the TV episode "Last Horizons", used straight in the ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' comic "The Gates of Shambala". |
| 592 | * SheCleansUpNicely: Rebecca looks disturbingly good in a fancy dress. |
| 593 | ** Also Katie Dodd when she is having dinner at the restaurant in "For Whom The Bell Klangs". |
| 594 | * ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Kit is only seen attending school twice, though one has to wonder when he has time to what with all the adventures he goes on. |
| 595 | * ShoutOut: |
| 596 | ** "Polly Wants A Treasure": Polly is called a "[[Creator/MontyPython rare Norwegian Blue]]". |
| 597 | ** Also, in one episode a character warns that "no one dares to face ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan The Wrath of Khan]]''!" |
| 598 | ** And who could forget the "This ''Was'' Your Life" execution ceremony in "The Time Bandit", complete with cheesy host and aquaintances from the guest's past. |
| 599 | ** Very frequently in the episode titles. "Citizen Khan", "The Old Man and the Sea Duck", "Last Horizons", the list goes on for miles. |
| 600 | *** The episodes "The Road To Macadamia" and "For Whom the Bell Klangs" are straight up homages to the "[[Film/RoadTo Road]]" movies, with Baloo and Louie taking the places of Creator/BobHope and Music/BingCrosby. |
| 601 | ** Baloo's gypsy costume in the episode "A Spy In The Ointment" is extremely similar to Little John's costume from an early scene in ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973''. This is actually FridgeBrilliance when you consider that Phil Harris was both the original voice actor for Baloo and the voice actor for Little John in the movie where the costume originated from. |
| 602 | ** Naturally, the show features a good few {{Shout Out}}s to ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}''. Baloo's aforementioned tendency to disguise himself in drag is also likely a reference to a similar scene in the movie. "My Fair Baloo" also has Rebecca caught by a large (somewhat familiar-looking) constrictor snake. Shere Khan's panther pilots bear a striking resemblance to Bagheera. |
| 603 | ** Also in "Gruel And Unusual Punishment", when Baloo lands on Bedevilled Island, he floats on his back in a stream eating food off of his stomach, much like he did in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}''. |
| 604 | ** In "For Whom The Bell Klangs, Part 1", the restaurant Baloo and Louie visit bears a strong resemblance to [[Film/{{Casablanca}} Rick's Café Américain]]. |
| 605 | ** And a blink and you'll miss it moment in "It Came from Beneath the Sea Duck": Becky is unloading her groceries, including a bucket of Pep (from the ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'' episode "The Big Flub"). (Yes, "Pep" can also also be peppermint, but seeing that they're both Disney cartoons...) |
| 606 | *** The title of the episode is a reference to ''Film/ItCameFromBeneathTheSea''. |
| 607 | ** Don Karnage's "[[CatchPhrase Let us]] [[{{Spoonerism}} not be the]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasty_Pudding_Club hasty puddings!!]]" |
| 608 | ** An episode about a prototype helicopter is called "[[Film/BlueThunder Baloo Thunder]]". |
| 609 | ** "Bullethead Baloo" is an homage to ''Comicbook/TheRocketeer''. Note that this episode came out shortly before Disney released their [[Film/TheRocketeer theatrical adaptation]]. |
| 610 | *** Also, when Baloo speaks to Dr. Axolotl on the phone, he claims to be [[Theatre/WestSideStory Officer Krupke]]. |
| 611 | ** In at least one story from the ComicBookAdaptation, Danger Woman is described as ''[[Franchise/{{Superman}} "faster than a speeding airship, more powerful than a turbine, able to leap city blocks in a single bound"]]''. |
| 612 | * SingingTelegram: In the episode, "On a Wing and a Bear", Shere Khan [[VillainTeamUp hires Don Karnage]] to fake a fuel shortage so he can raise gas prices. When his plan succeeds, Khan orders his assistant, [=McWhirtley=], to send a telegram to Karnage congratulating him on the highjacking. When [=McWhirtley=] arrives at Karnage's hideout, Karnage asks [=McWhirtley=] if he will sing the telegram for him, and [=McWhirtley=] tells him he can't, as it doesn't even rhyme. Karnage then holds [=McWhirtley=] at swordpoint, telling him to make it rhyme and sing it, which [=McWhirtley=] does. At the end of the episode, when Khan's plan is foiled by Baloo, Khan orders [=McWhirtley=] to send Karnage another telegram. [=McWhirtley=] asks Khan if it should be a singing one, but Khan tells him, "Not this time". The telegram Khan has [=McWhirtley=] send Karnage is an explosive that explodes when Karnage opens the envelope. |
| 613 | * ShowWithinAShow: ''Danger Woman'', Molly's favorite radio series. |
| 614 | * SingleSeasonCountry: The nation of Thembria, a rough expy of the Soviet Union, with an ongoing winter and a military bent. Most of Thembria's landscape is snow and ice, and one of their national holidays is the Slush Festival. Happy slush, comrade. |
| 615 | * {{Sizeshifter}}: The Yencara species are size-shifting animals. When dehydrated, they shrink to 6 inches, but grow to gigantic size when water touches them. |
| 616 | * SkyHeist: |
| 617 | ** Don Karnage and his {{Sky Pirate}}s routinely intercept cargo planes, seize control of them via grappling hooks, board the cargo plane in mid-air, and abscond with its goodies. Karnage prefers to leave the pilot alive and the plane functional so that the two can "bring me more treasures and knickety-knacks, yes?" To judge by the pilot episode "Plunder and Lightning," the air pirates are fearsomely good at airborne piracy. |
| 618 | ** "In Search of Ancient Blunders" takes this up to eleven. Baloo, Wildcat, and Myra the archaeologist discover the legendary upside down pyramid of King Utmost, but end up leading the Sky Pirates to it. When Myra voices her concern about the pirates, Baloo dismissively says "[[TemptingFate What are they going to do? Take the whole pyramid?]]". Just as they find their way out, they see the Iron Vulture above using strong cables to tote the entire pyramid out of the ground. |
| 619 | * TheSkyIsAnOcean |
| 620 | * SkyPirates: Don Karnage and his crew. |
| 621 | * SkySurfing: Hence "[[MeaningfulName Cloudkicker]]". |
| 622 | * TheSlacker: As competent a pilot as he is, Baloo is not a devoted worker. |
| 623 | * SlapSlapKiss: Baloo and Rebecca have this going on big time in several episodes. |
| 624 | * SlaveToPR: [[GloryHound Ace London]] in "Mach One For The Gipper" has it all: worldwide fame, legions of adoring fans, and first in line for testing an experimental jet engine that will make history. One little mistake - ordering the engine loaded aboard Baloo's plane - could have been easily corrected if he'd admitted his mistake, but he has to fix it himself, without anybody knowing. It doesn't turn out well for him. |
| 625 | -->'''Ace''': No! No, no, no, no! '''I'm''' the one who should be famous! Not him! |
| 626 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Rebecca [[DependingOnTheWriter a lot of times]]. Baloo also frequently fell victim to AcquiredSituationalNarcissism. Colonel Spigot as well. |
| 627 | * SnapBack: At the end of "A Baloo Switcheroo", a [[BodySwap body-switching idol]] accidentally causes Mad Dog and Dump Truck to switch bodies before falling out of the Iron Vulture and into the sea. The idol had been said to be the only thing capable of undoing its own power, and that its effect will be permanent if not used within a day's time. Mad Dog and Dump Truck are somehow back to normal in their next appearance, so ''maybe'' the pirates actually recovered it. Either way, the idol is never seen or mentioned outside of this sole episode. |
| 628 | * SnobsVsSlobs: Quite a bit, whether it's between Rebecca and Baloo or someone else and Baloo or Rebecca and someone else. |
| 629 | * TheSociopath: Daring Dan Dawson from ''Stormy Weather.'' LackOfEmpathy? He doesn't care if Kit gets hurt or killed during a stunt, cutting his straps and forcing him out of the plane during the climax and it's not the first time this has happened. Manipultive? Constantly feeds off Kit's ego and forces him to do the climactic stunt by pretending to take him home. Need for stimulation? An aerial daredevil by profession. Grandiose sense of self worth? Doesn't have much respect for non-daredevils, using terms like "little people" or "rubes." Shallow emotions? Painfully sycophantic when Kit threatens to quit. |
| 630 | * SomethingWeForgot: A Main/RunningGag throughout the episode, "The Balooest of the Blue Bloods" is Wildcat looking for the bathroom in Baloo's inherited mansion. At the end of the episode, the mansion gets repossessed, and when Baloo and Rebecca have lunch, they realize they left Wildcat behind at the mansion (who is still looking for the bathroom at that point). |
| 631 | * SpareAMessenger: In "Plunder and Lightning Part 3", Karnage looks like he's subjecting two captured Khan fliers to a DisneyVillainDeath, but they land harmlessly in the ocean because the Iron Vulture is hovering only a few yard above the sea. Mad Dog asks why he let them live, and Karnage says he wants them to tell Khan about the mysterious items he's stealing to worry the business magnate. |
| 632 | * SpecsOfAwesome: Myra wears them. |
| 633 | * SpottingTheThread: Detective Thursday in "Vowel Play" when he begins to notice the misspelled sky writing in the midst of a criminal conspiracy. |
| 634 | * StealthPun: The Sky Pirates are anthropomorphic canines who engage in aerial combat. They are ''dogfighters''. |
| 635 | * StewedAlive: In "The Bigger They Are, the Louder They Oink", Rebecca Cunningham, while on a truffle-hunting expedition, is captured by pygmies who try to cook her together with her truffle-hunting pig in a stew with plenty of truffle. |
| 636 | * StickySituation: "Stuck on You", in which Baloo and Don Karnage are glued together. The trope name even appears in the dialogue. |
| 637 | * TheStoic: Shere Khan, to extremes. Even when abducted by a psychopathic robot, his reaction is to merely fold his arms and groan "I am not amused". |
| 638 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Don Karnage is pretty much the only competent Air Pirate ([[LaughablyEvil or the nearest to one]]). This tends to put a damper on his plans. |
| 639 | ** There are of course occasions Karnage's [[NotSoAboveItAll own bumbling tendencies]] [[BeleagueredAssistant are noted by his minions]] as well however. |
| 640 | [[/folder]] |
| 641 | |
| 642 | [[folder:T]] |
| 643 | * TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: In one episode, Baloo saves Shere Khan, and Khan says he owes Baloo "everything", which Baloo takes almost literally in making demands. |
| 644 | * TaxmanTakesTheWinnings: The ending of "The Balooest of the Blue Bloods". Baloo stands to inherit a ton of money from a distant relative, [[spoiler:while the servants try to kill him]]. After he survives the night, all the money is lost due to the "real family curse" - decades of unpaid land taxes. |
| 645 | ** Similarly, when he manages to claim a huge reward for a recovered artifact, the bulk of it is taken up by the ''bar tab'' he ran up at Louie's. Though considering that Louie regularly ''lets him'' run up a tab that size, it's still a net gain. |
| 646 | ** Again, Baloo receives a huge cash reward for the capture of Babyface Halfnelson, but then the police immediately takes it back to evenly cover all his unpaid parking tickets he's accumulated. |
| 647 | ** And again, Baloo gets a huge cash reward from Shere Khan for recovering his company's top secret project and keeping it from getting stolen by a rival. Then he gives a silent command to his secretary, who takes it all back from Baloo to cover the collateral damages done on his building. |
| 648 | * ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: His specific way of announcing this is one of Don Carnage's [[CatchPhrase catch phrases]]. |
| 649 | * TheCameo: Other than the reuse of Kaa's design for certain snakes, [[WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp Jock]] appears as one of Don Karnage's pirates and [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Tick-Tock]] appears in the episode "The Sound and the Furry" as Crazy Edie's pet alligator. |
| 650 | * ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines: As should be expected from a show starring an AcePilot who pilots all sorts of crazy machines and regularly contends with SkyPirates. Airplanes and airships are so prominent in the setting, that a guy can run a successful hangout for pilots in the middle of the ocean. |
| 651 | * ThoseWackyNazis: In one Magazine/DisneyAdventures comic story, "The Dogs of War", Baloo and Kit were briefly held hostage by a zeppelin full of smug, militaristic, German-accented dogs who kept mixing up their "v's" and their "w's". |
| 652 | * TickleTorture: Don Karnage does it to Kit in "Polly Wants a Treasure". |
| 653 | * TitleThemeTune: Played with. While the song itself is a straight example, it's actually called "Spin it". |
| 654 | * TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In "The Ransom of Red Chimp", Don Karnage kidnaps Louie's aunt and tries to ransom her for an insane amount of money. However, she develops an irresistible attraction to him becoming a crazed StalkerWithACrush, much to Karnage's horror. He's spent a good portion of the episode trying to get away from her, trapped in his own airship. When Baloo and Louie arrive to rescue Louie's aunt, Karnage begs them to take her back, even paying them to do so. |
| 655 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Baloo is often shown to act more [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] and [[SmallNameBigEgo egotistical]] than his original ''[[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Jungle Book]]'' interpretation (albeit DependingOnTheWriter and balanced by [[TheAce his role]] [[KnightInShiningArmor in some]] [[PapaWolf other episodes]]). |
| 656 | * TotalEclipseOfThePlot: In "The Time Bandit". |
| 657 | * TribalCarry: Rebecca when captured by pygmies in "The Bigger They Are, the Louder They Oink". |
| 658 | * TropicalIslandAdventure: Cape Suzette and Louie's are both located on tropical islands. |
| 659 | * TrueCompanions: Baloo and his friends. Best shown in ''Lost Horizons'' where Cape Suzette was on the verge of a total invasion by Panda-La. While the city was set to surrender to the invaders, Baloo launches a lone strike against them. He gets captured, but is saved by Kit, then later by Louie, then by Rebecca, and finally by Wildcat, who all had secretly followed him to help take down the Panda-La invaders. |
| 660 | * TVGenius: Rebecca, in contrast to BookDumb but streetwise Baloo, has an MBA and is refined in terms of social inequity, but is a borderline [[TheDitz Ditz]] in terms of the outside world. |
| 661 | * TwoFistedTales: A LighterAndSofter example. |
| 662 | [[/folder]] |
| 663 | |
| 664 | [[folder:U-V]] |
| 665 | * UnconventionalFoodUsage: When not at war, Thembrians drop bologna on enemy planes instead of bombs. |
| 666 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: Plenty of people towards the Higher for Hire crew. In the final part of Plunder and lightning Karnage also has this towers the ordinary pilots for a moment, mocking the idea that their "puny type planes" are daring to come after him before having to dive for cover when they make a firing run. |
| 667 | * TheUnintelligible: Gibber didn't speak out loud, he whispered into people's ears. All the viewer heard was a bit of, well, gibberish. Since his name is [[MeaningfulName Gibber]]... yeah. |
| 668 | ** He said one intelligible word in the entire show, calling Karnage "crazy" in "Stuck On You". Needless to say, [[BerserkButton it was a poor choice]]. |
| 669 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Though the characters are generally loveable and redeemable, they have their moments of this, Baloo and occasionally Rebecca are perhaps the biggest players. |
| 670 | * {{UST}}: A number of fans saw this in Baloo and Becky's interaction, despite having nothing outright romantic in the series. |
| 671 | ** Well, some episodes did show some obvious ShipTease (Baloo's PostKissCatatonia in "Your Baloo's In The Mail" may be a plausible canon example). |
| 672 | *** WordOfGod claims they intended to show infatuation between the two, though the creators admit it may have ultimately came out "lop-sided" in Rebecca's favor, who is occasionally shown to take bigger extremes in her devotion to Baloo. |
| 673 | * UpsideDownBlueprints: In "In Search Of Ancient Blunders", Baloo and Wildcat encounter a mummy inside an upside down pyramid. It's revealed that the mummy was the pyramid's foreman, having read the blueprints wrong, and as such was cursed by the embarrassed Pharaoh. |
| 674 | * VerbThis: Baloo in "From Here to Machinery". |
| 675 | --> '''Martin Torque:''' You and your [normal pilot] kind are like the dinosaurs: decaying, defective, and defunct! |
| 676 | --> '''Baloo:''' Oh yeah? Well defunct THIS! |
| 677 | --> ''(Baloo [[MegatonPunch punches]] Torque, which gets caught on camera and put on the front page of the newspaper)'' |
| 678 | * VillainSong: "Sky Pirates," performed by Don Karnage and his crew during the pilot. |
| 679 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Baloo and Louie's friendship is often shown to be this, particularly in "buddy" episodes like "For Whom the Bell Klangs" and "The Road to Macadamia". They even have a fairly catchy tune dedicated to their status as such in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgg2sfmkf0 Friends for Life]]," but it never made it into the show, just the soundtrack. |
| 680 | -->'''Baloo:''' I got moves, son--\ |
| 681 | '''Louie:''' You learned from me, I got a song to sing--\ |
| 682 | '''Baloo:''' If you can find the key\ |
| 683 | '''Both:''' Whatever he's got, I've got more of\ |
| 684 | But there's one thing we both are sure of, we're\ |
| 685 | Friends for life [etc.] |
| 686 | [[/folder]] |
| 687 | |
| 688 | [[folder:W-Z]] |
| 689 | * WalkIntoMordor: Funnily enough, Baloo once mentions that 'you don't just flit into Thembria!' And, sure enough, the Sea Duck is attacked within seconds of intruding in Thembrian airspace. |
| 690 | * WaveMotionGun: The [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Gun]] from "Plunder and Lightning". |
| 691 | ** Also the weapon from Tinabula in the episode "For Whom The Bell Klangs". |
| 692 | * WeaksauceWeakness: Louie is usually an active and healthy guy, until he's exposed to his one weakness, [[spoiler:anchovies]] in "Pizza Pie in the Sky" and instantly becomes sick and delusional. |
| 693 | * WellExcuseMePrincess: Arguably happens in multiple scenarios between Baloo and Rebecca. Kit and Molly actually have a brief similar moment in "Mommy For A Day". |
| 694 | * WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The impression one gets of Cape Suzette while watching the show. The warm climate and the decor at Louie's would seem to place it somewhere not unlike Hawaii, yet the episode "The Balooest of the Bluebloods" shows that it is within driving distance of Germany or a place akin to it. The best explanation of this ambiguous location may be that the country itself is not the actual United States, as one would be likely to assume initially, but a fictional counterpart thereof, a point confirmed by WordOfGod - Baloo and his friends are supposed to live in "Usland". |
| 695 | * WhiteCollarCrime: In "Baloo Thunder" one of Shere Khan's executives, Mr. Perry, is secretly TheMole for a rival company known as the Miniversal Corporation, who frames Buzz the inventor for stealing their top-secret project. |
| 696 | * WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: |
| 697 | -->'''Don Karnage:''' Fools! Surely they would not be so stupid as to attack the ''Iron Vulture''! ''(Ship rocks with impact)'' ...They are more stupid than I thought! |
| 698 | ** Also in "Polly Wants a Treasure" |
| 699 | -->'''Ignatz:''' We gotta get Kit outta there before one of those idiots [the pirates] sets off Captain [[PunnyName Juan Toomanie's]] ''big'' trap!\ |
| 700 | '''Baloo:''' ''(leaning backwards)'' Relax, that would take somebody ''really'' dumb.\ |
| 701 | ''(the stalagmite he's leaning against falls back with a click)''\ |
| 702 | '''Ignatz:''' ''([[InsufferableGenius Long-suffering sigh]])'' Right again, Baloo. |
| 703 | * WholePlotReference: |
| 704 | ** "The Time Bandit" follows many of the same plot points the ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|1987}}'' episode "[[Recap/DuckTalesAllowanceDay Allowance Day]]" did. Both involve a character making everyone believe that a day has passed in order to get paid sooner which results in another believing it's cost them an important business deal, eventually spiraling into a disaster that nearly gets them executed by a firing squad. |
| 705 | ** "Her Chance to Dream" uses the plot of ''Film/TheGhostAndMrsMuir''. |
| 706 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: Baloo as "[[PunnyName Tan-Margaret]]" in "Feminine Air". Feminine clothes are, in fact, one of his go-to disguises. |
| 707 | * WhosLaughingNow: Dougie Benson, the diminutive CorruptCorporateExecutive in "Louie's Last Stand". Averted by episode's end where he winds up blowing himself off the island. |
| 708 | * WickedCultured: Shere Khan was the page picture for a reason. |
| 709 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: Kit often comes off as the most sensible member of Higher For Hire. That said [[PingPongNaivete there are several points]] [[BrattyHalfPint his childishness]] [[NotSoAboveItAll does come into play]]. |
| 710 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: Used a fair few times, usually with [[LoveableRogue Baloo]] or [[ControlFreak Rebecca]]. |
| 711 | * WomenAreWiser: Becky, [[NotSoAboveItAll to an extent]] - especially since a lot of her chemistry with Baloo came from [[MirrorCharacter sharing the same character flaws]]. |
| 712 | * WorldOfFunnyAnimals: The cast consists of a broad range of anthropomorphic animals ([[FurryConfusion who coexist with non-anthropomorphic ones]]) with not a single human in sight. |
| 713 | ** Although "The Old Man & the Sea Duck" and "Flight of the Snow Duck" had a few humans. |
| 714 | * UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: Part of the Squadron of Seven's {{backstory}} in "Bygones". |
| 715 | * WronskiFeint[=/=]AerialCanyonChase: Baloo's main defense against attackers in the air since his cargo plane is unarmed. |
| 716 | * XanatosGambit: Shere Khan always finds some measure of victory even in defeat - even in plots ''that don't involve him''. |
| 717 | * YankTheDogsChain: Many of Baloo's Get Rich Quick Schemes are successful, but the prize is always taken away by some unfortunate stroke of luck. "Your Baloo's In The Mail" is a particularly cruel example. |
| 718 | * YellowPeril: In "Last Horizons", Baloo ventures to discover a lost Shambhala-like civilization known as Panda-La, and, upon finding it, is treated as a welcome guest, but the inhabitants secretly plan to invade Cape Suzette upon hearing about it from Baloo, clearly jibing at Pearl Harbor. There ''is'' a line indicating that other pandas ''hate'' Panda-la, however. |
| 719 | * YouDidntAsk: Wildcat uses this exact phrase during "In Search of Ancient Blunders". |
| 720 | * YouGoGirl: "Feminine Air" may count as a mercifully non-{{Anvilicious}} example, with Baloo pulling his own male to-female-variation of a SweetPollyOliver. |
| 721 | * YouOweMe: "Save the Tiger" both subverts this and plays it straight. |
| 722 | * YoureNotMyFather: Played ''very'' seriously in "Stormy Weather". |
| 723 | * ZanyScheme: |
| 724 | ** Baloo was a big fan of the get-rich-quick scheme. |
| 725 | ** Rebecca was no slouch herself. Remember "The Bigger They Are, The Louder They Oink", the Truffle-hunt episode? |
| 726 | * ZeroApprovalGambit: In the episode "Plunder And Lightning", [[spoiler:Kit]] pretends to betray Baloo, Rebecca, and Molly to gain Don Karnage's trust and allow them to escape the air pirates. |
| 727 | [[/folder]] |
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