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''Rasmus Klump'' is a Danish text comic strip for young children, launched in 1951 by wife-and-husband duo Carla and Vilhelm Hansen. The main characters are a bear cub, Rasmus Klump, and his friends Pingo the penguin, Pelle the pelican, Pilskaden the turtle and Captain Skæg the seal who travel around the world in their steam boat ''Mary''.

In English, the strips were published under two names: ''Barnaby Bear'' (published by Random House), and ''Bruin'' (published during the Seventies in Glasgow's Evening News).

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!!Tropes in this work:

* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Pingo, with his bowtie.
* AllJustADream: The Doggerland, a place with dinosaurs and other strange beings.
* AnimatedAdaptation: It has been adapted into cartoon form in the 1960s, 1984, 1997 and 2014.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: All of them are barefoot. Captain Skæg started this way too, but gained boots later on.
* BearyFriendly: The bears are all very nice.
* BigEater: Knalle the ostrich. Also an ExtremeOmnivore.
* TheBlacksmith: Rasmus' Grandpa is one, though while we see him in his smithy he seems more a mechanic and handyman. (He is also the town ''icecream salesman'', unlike most examples of the trope.)
* CarnivoreConfusion: Eating fish or stew is OK for the characters.
* ChildProdigy: Rasmus' little brother, who is very good at designing and building things. Rasmus comes home from one journey and discovers he became a big brother while he was gone, so the little guy might even qualify for BrainyBaby.
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: Rasmus and the daughter of the bears' king.
* CoolShip: The Mary.
* CrazyPrepared: It rarely happens that Pelle can't find anything they need in his beak.
* DisappearedDad: Rasmus' father never shows up and also isn't mentioned.
* DubNameChange: Rasmus Klump has different names in other languages.
** In Dutch ''Pol''.
** In English he is named ''Barnaby'' or ''Bruin''.
** In French ''Petzi''.
** In Faroer ''Rasmus Tøppur''.
** In Finnish and Swedish ''Rasmus Nalle''.
** In Icelandic ''Rasmus Klumpur''
** In Norwegian ''Bamse Bjørn'', not to be confused with another Scandinavian comic strip bear of the same name: ComicBook/{{Bamse}}.
** In Spanish ''Pechi''.
* FreeRangeChildren: Rasmus is a kid, and the other guys are his friends. Not only are they on free range, but they travel all over the world.
* FunnyAnimal
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Done by the little rascals (the turtle, the frog and the parrot).
* GirlsHaveCooties: Averted, Rasmus and Pingo both find little girlfriends.
* TheGoodCaptain: Captain Skæg.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Skaeg / Old Salt smokes pipe. Probably today this would be impossible, and in the animated series the pipe was removed.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Rasmus, Skaeg, Knalle. Pelle and Pingo don't need clothes at all (not counting Pingo's bowtie here).
* HammerSpace: The pelican Pelle surely can store a lot of useful stuff in his beak.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Rasmus and his friends meet a lion and a lamb who are a couple.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: All the penguins.
* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock
* LazyBum: Skaeg / Old Salt mostly likes to sleep.
* LimitedWardrobe
* MeaningfulName: ''Mary'', Rasmus' ship, is named after his mother's name.
* MommasBoy: Rasmus loves his mother, Mary.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: The captain enjoys telling stories, especially about his adventures in the Bay of Biscay.
* NoAntagonist: Nobody in this comic strip is evil, bad or a threat.
* NoodleIncident: Old Salt often tries to tell about the great storm in Biskaya, but we never find out the details.
* [[SpeciesSurname Species Name]]: For Pelle and Pingo
* ShoutOut: The captain often offers to tell Rasmus and his friends stories about "Franchise/{{Tintin}} and Captain Haddock".
** In one story they gang end up shipwrecked on the same island as Literature/RobinsonCrusoe.
* SpeechBubbles: Averted in most comics - the text of whoever is speaking is under the pictures and usually accompanied by a small icon of the character's face to indicate who is speaking. Newer albums tend to use text balloons more.
* StealthPun: In the German translation, one ostrich (German: Strauß) character (not Knalle) was named Franz Josef. In other words, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strauss Franz Josef Strauß]].
* TattooAsCharacterType: Sea captain Skæg has an anchor tattoed on his chest.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Rasmus loves pancakes with jam.
** Skæg enjoys eating pickerels.
* TreasureIsBiggerInFiction
* WalkLikeAnEgyptian: When they visit the pyramids in the album set in Egypt, they find paintings like this. Strangely, they don't notice that they're the ones depicted.
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: The entire world is inhabited by funny animals.
* WorldOfWeirdness: The Doggerland, where they meet dinosaurs first (with Skaeg lampshading that they should have died out long ago) and many even weirder creatures later.

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