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1	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
2	** Given that attempting to catch a pigeon is preferable to fighting in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, the Vulture Squadron's failures may be on purpose.
3	** In "Fur Out Furlough", when the General offered a 30-day furlough to whoever caught Yankee Doodle Pigeon, Zilly planned to spend it in {{UsefulNotes/Miami}} and Klunk planned to spend it in {{UsefulNotes/Hawaii}}. [[FridgeBrilliance Furlough where you don't have to fight for thirty days, or internment in an enemy country where you don't have to fight for the rest of the war?]]
4	** If the Vulture Squadron are on the side of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Powers Central Powers]], it's possible that Klunk is from a non-German speaking nationality, most likely Hungarian, who knows enough conversational German to get by but not enough to communicate technical details. Therefore, his random sound effects may simply be him speaking broken German and using words from his native language, which Dastardly doesn't understand but Zilly does.
5	*** The Gold Key comic book stories give Klunk a fractured German dialect in lieu of his speech idiosyncrasy on the show.
6	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
7	** When Dick Dastardly leaves Muttley to drop to the crocodiles in the ''Magnificent Muttley'' short "Movie Stuntman", such music starts to play.
8	** That was a snatch of background music from ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop''. The ep also uses background music from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou''
9	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdkLH9boFP0 The Japanese theme song]], which is based on Japanese traditional [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awa_Dance_Festival Awa-Odori dance]], is surprisingly fitting to the slapstick tone of the show.
10	* HarsherInHindsight: An easter egg in the animated film ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}}'' reveals [[spoiler: they finally stopped the pigeon and stuffed it.]] That said, it's contradicted by the 2017 ''[[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces2017 Wacky Races]]'' reboot, [[spoiler: since ''that'' reveals that the pigeon is still very much alive. And still being pursued by ''this'' series' Dick Dastardly (father to the original ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' Dastardly and grandfather to the reboot's), apparently.]] The pigeon's cameos in the series ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'' further contradicts this.
11	* HilariousInHindsight: Muttley growling at Dastardly to be included at a furlough Dastardly had just claimed as his became even funnier with how Muttley would later react in ''WesternAnimation/YogisTreasureHunt'' whenever Dastardly claimed the treasure of the week as all his.
12	* MandelaEffect: There are a number of people who misremember the "stop the pigeon" line as "'''catch''' the pigeon."
13	* MemeticMutation: For some reason, Website/{{Twitter}} managed to get this show trending as a joke topic just after the 2020 United States Presidential election.
14	* RefrainFromAssuming: Many people still call this show by its working name and theme song, ''Stop That Pigeon''. Lampshaded in the ''WesternAnimation/YogisTreasureHunt'' episode "Yogi's Heroes," where Dick and Muttley capture Snooper and Blabber and force them to watch old D&M cartoons, which Snooper called "Stop That Pigeon-type cartoons."
15	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The main theme is a pastiche of "Hold That Tiger".

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