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A cult British cartoon and a ''very'' loose AnimatedAdaptation of Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's ''Literature/TreasureIsland''.

Jim Hawkins' father, having been issued a death threat by pirates over the ownership of a treasure map, hands it to his son so he may search for the treasure and thus keep it out of the hands of the ruthless Long John Silver. With the assistance of old sea dog ([[FunnyAnimal literally]]) Captain Smollett, Jim gathers a crew and finds his way to mysterious island, albeit with Long John's crew at his tail and the island's numerous supernatural forces hindering their search.

Alongside its FunnyAnimal premise, the show deviates greatly from the novel due to the heavy use of magical elements and a few extra cast additions (most notably Jane, a young hostage-turned-{{Mook|s}} of Silver's that joins Jim on his quest). Noted for its high quality animation, and a rather notable voice cast (including Dawn French and Hugh Laurie).

Two seasons were made within 1993-1995.

Not to be confused with the anime ''Animal Treasure Island'', a similar loosely based FunnyAnimal adaptation.
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!!Tropes employed include:

* AbhorrentAdmirer: During the episode where the Squire is mistaken for a god, he gets this in the form of a chubby monkey woman from the natives.
* ActionGirl: Jane, though she does pick up the DistressBall a lot, was obviously created with this in mind, so much that [[spoiler: it is her who defeats [[BigBad Pew]] in the finale]].
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** The show converts Long John Silver, one of the most morally ambiguous antagonists in fiction, into a straight played ForTheEvulz villain that antagonizes Jim from the very start.
** In the book, Pew is a henchman who dies before they even get to the island; in ''Legends'', he becomes the BigBad, and is portrayed as a black magician on top of his blindness.
* AdaptationalWimp: As with several adaptations, Squire Trelawney goes from a fairly competent swashbuckler to an UpperClassTwit and often TheLoad in this rendition.
* AnimationBump: The show switched studios from Creator/MovingImagesInternational in most of the first (with Creator/JadeAnimation taking episodes 2 and 6 of the series) to Creator/FilCartoons in the second, the latter having a slightly cruder style, with stiffer animation and more cartoony backgrounds.
* AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation: Of ''Literature/TreasureIsland''.
* AppeaseTheVolcanoGod: In one episode, Squire Trelawney is mistaken for a god called "The Great Kaloomba" and he with Jim, Jane, and Ben are nearly sacrificed to the volcano to stop the lava from burning their village.
* AscendedExtra: In the original book, Pew was simply a blind former pirate who hands Billy Bones the Black Spot and ends up trampled to death by horses before the journey even begins. Here he's turned into a sinister HiddenAgendaVillain with magical powers who in the final episode [[spoiler:gets his hands on a magical AmplifierArtifact lying among the treasure (his plan all along) and even manages to kill Captain Smollett]].
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Captain Smollett]], who reappears in the finale after being absent through the majority of Season Two, only to be killed off [[spoiler:by Pew]].
* BarbieDollAnatomy: The series portrays merpeople and demons with visible nipples, except for mermaids who all have GodivaHair, but then, chapter 12 has this (in)famous example: Jane, of all people, decides to take a swim in a lake, but first she takes off her coat and her shirt, keeping on her breeches, stockings and for some reason, her shoes. Thankfully, being an anthropomorphic [[InformedSpecies cat/vixen/squirrel/whatever]], helps her being covered in fur, but viewers still were taken by surprise.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Long John, his henchmen and Pew are barefoot, unlike the [[FullyDressedCartoonAnimal fully-clothed]] heroes.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: In "The Oracle", when Silver and Jim with his friends get transported to an undersea kingdom, they're able to breathe in the waters due to the magic that brought and kidnapped them to Galathea's kingdom where they are to be fed to a kracken.
* BigRedDevil: The devil and Silver's demon henchmen in series 2.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jim and friends have finally found the treasure and can now finally go home without worry. Plus both Pew and Long John Silver are finally gone for good. However, they have sadly lost Captain Smollett at the hands of Pew.]]
* BlindWeaponmaster: Pew's weapons of choice seem to mostly be his staff in Season 1 while at the end of Season 2, he uses his sword for fighting.
* BoundAndGagged: The show seemed to have an almost unhealthy obsession with this. Almost every main character is tied up on a frequent basis, and sometimes for a lengthy portion of the episode. [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1281269248/tt0188249 Even some of it's promotional artwork uses it prominently.]]
* BrattyHalfPint: Apparently Jane was such an insufferable example in her early life that when Silver kidnapped her for ransom, ''he ended up stuck with her''. Comes off more as an InformedFlaw on screen, since while her [[DeadpanSnarker bad]] [[WellExcuseMePrincess attitude]] perks up at times, she's far more benevolent to the team most of the time.
* ButtMonkey: Squire Trelawney, with Jim and Jane having the occasional moments. Rat and most of the other underling pirates are this to Silver.
* CannotTalkToWomen: Played with. Jim usually acts very casual towards Jane, however at one point she seems to get somewhat affectionate and he makes a hasty exit.
* CirclingVultures: In Season 2, Pew has his own demonic-looking vultures that sometimes attack Jim and his friends.
* CompositeCharacter: Here, Jim's father plays both his own role and that of Billy Bones, former member of Captain Flint's crew and keeper of the map of Treasure Island. [[spoiler:Sure enough, his later appearance as a spirit strongly implies that he met the same tragic fate as both characters.]]
* CunningLikeAFox: Long John Silver is depicted as a fox and is also very snide.
* DarkestHour: [[spoiler:In the final episode of the series, Pew enters the Hispaniola, knocks out most of the crew, kills Smollett, holds Jim at sword point, and becomes invulnerable with the AmplifierArtifact he has searched for all along. Were it not for Jane arriving and assisting Jim, [[TheBadGuyWins Pew would have won]].]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: In Season 1's episode, "The Cave of Babel", there is a bit more focus on the pirate crew member, Rat alongside Silver. In Season 2, Jane has a near entire episode to herself in "Reunion" while the Squire gets two for both "Forest of Darkness" and "City in the Sky" where he gets his TemporaryLoveInterest.
* DealWithTheDevil: Silver coerces the devil to let him escape the Underworld, but on the condition that he bring Jim to him as a replacement. [[spoiler: In the end, Satan decides to take him back.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Captain Smollett, who is killed by Pew in the final episode. Also, Long John Silver as well.]]
* TheDevilIsALoser: When Silver is sent to the Underworld following his death in the first season finale, he manages to rather handily outgambit the LaughablyEvil Devil and his MinionWithAnFInEvil into giving him the means to escape. [[spoiler: He gets sent back by the finale however.]]
* DiedHappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler: The ending to the episode "Emily", with her and her father ascending into the sky waving]].
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the original book, Pew dies by being trampled to death by horses. Here, [[spoiler:he is killed by Jane tossing the strange artifact that gives him power at his head, killing his body and turning him into smoke before light flashes and his remains disappear.]]
* DisneyDeath: Done in excess, albeit not always through the audience's perspective. It's ultimately [[AvertedTrope averted]] in the final episode with [[spoiler:Captain Smollett.]]
* DisneyVillainDeath:
** Long John Silver, into a volcano, he gets better though.
** [[spoiler:In the final episode, as Pew gains the artifact once more, Pew is pushed from the crow's nest by Jane, heading down. Although it's [[AvertedTrope averted]] in that he doesn't die right away, it takes Jane tossing the artifact at Pew's head that kills him.]]
* DistressBall: Done frequently with most of the main crew. Jane in particular switches erratically between being [[FlawlessToken the most capable member of the team]] or being Jim's personal DamselInDistress.
* DragonsAreDemonic: Late in series 2, Pew summons a small dragon which later [[MakeMyMonsterGrow grows gigantic]] and swallows Jim whole. The way it's summoned is implied to be through some sort of satanic ritual.
* EmptyPilesOfClothing: [[spoiler:What remains of Pew after he is struck dead and disintegrates. This is before it and the artifact both are destroyed in a flash.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Long John to the highest degree. He has zero scruples and is a merciless sadist, but has a palpable charm and wit. He's able to brown nose ''the devil himself'' to achieve his own means.
* {{Flanderization}}: Reversed for some characters. Ben Gunn goes from a kooky rambling old hermit to more lucid and self preservational in later episodes. Similarly Jane starts off more moody and sarcastic, but becomes more soft spoken and friendly.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: When aligned with Silver in Season One, Pew very easily keeps the former's treacherous streak at bay with his deadly sorcery. By the time they reacquaint in Season Two, Pew actually has to sweet talk Silver into sparing his life and rejoining forces, and when old habits return between them, he instead engages in a slapstick fistfight with Silver and loses. This doesn't seem to be excused through VillainDecay since the very next episode Pew is as deadly as ever.
* FunnyAnimal: The whole cast.
* FurryFemaleMane: Jane, who is a GreeneyedRedhead (the green eyes appear in Season 2), though all the male characters tend to wear either hats or powdered wigs. Well, aside from Ben's castaway beard. Emily, the ghost girl, also has this.
* HandicappedBadass: Both Silver, who uses a peg leg as a replacement and he can still fight, and Pew who, despite being blind, can conjure up spells and [[spoiler:kill one of the main protagonists.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Pew killing Smollett in the final episode of the series.]]
* IndustrializedEvil: Silver convinces the devil that the torments in Hell are pathetic and to allow him to institute better ones. He turns the place into a big factory where the inmates work moving lava to produce "absolutely nothing" and builds a self-destruct switch to blackmail Satan into letting him leave.
* InformedSpecies: Is Jane a vixen or a cat? It's even harder to tell in the second series where her bushy tail is missing. While a few claim to her being a cat, vixen, or even [[MixAndMatchCritter a mixture of both species]], at one point in episode 2, Trelawney calls Jane a "puppy" as they temporarily get their memories erased.
* InexplicablyTailless: In Series 2 most of the cast except for Silver and Pew have no tails for some reason.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jane [[DependingOnTheWriter at her worst]]. Also Squire Trelawney, who is even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] as such in the first episode.
* KnightOfCerebus: Pew is this due to posing as an actual threat to the main cast. He even almost wins near the end if not for Jane's interference.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: One episode, "The Oracle" involves Jim and friends nearly being eaten alive by a witch's monstrous kraken.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The second season throws any remaining links to novel completely out of the window, with the focus now entirely on supernatural or cartoony scenarios and half the cast being put OutOfFocus. The episodes are noticeably lower quality cosmetically, with changes in animation studios, voice actors and music to accommodate the lower budget, as well as an unusually upbeat new title theme.
* LaughablyEvil: Arguably the one remaining redeeming aspect of Silver's is that he still retains a high degree of whimsy within all his bloodlust. He and his pirate mooks often act as {{Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain}}s.
* LovableCoward: Squire Trelawney.
* MacGuffinMelee: The opening titles showcase one over the map to the treasure.
* MoleMen: Featured in the episode "Antidote", where they (even though they look like anthro moles rather than mole people) mine coal under a mountain and grow a medicinal herb that Jim and Ben need for Jane (hence the title).
* MoodWhiplash: The show has surprisingly dark elements and a creepy amount of supernatural twists on the original story, though it's merged within a lot of cartoon slapstick.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:When Pew is killed by Jane hitting him with his powered artifact, Pew is evaporated into smoke, leaving the artifact and his robe behind. However, when a flash happens, both have disappeared as well.]]
* NoodleIncident: Dr. Livesey starts to mention a little bit of what his and Smollett's island was about [[spoiler:after Smollett ends up being KilledOffForReal]] before everyone else looks stunned with horror and the Squire, putting it best, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere never wants to see another island as long as he lives]] before they finally sail for home.
* PetTheDog: Despite being a villain, Silver does save Jim once or twice in the series (if only for his own selfish reasons).
* PlotDetour: A surprising number of episodes don't involve searching for Flint's treasure at all, and focus more on the characters getting into some sort of misadventure.
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: In the first season, Silver is Pew's Dragon and completely dominated and intimidated by his magical strength. In the second season, Silver works for another cohort, with Pew having to sweet talk ''him'' into a deal. He even loses to Silver in comedic fisticuffs in episode 25. In the second half of the final episode, however, [[spoiler:Pew kills Smollett and gains the artifact that powers him, showing that despite the effects of the previous episode, he's still dangerous!]]
* PutOnTheBus: Captain Smollett and Dr Livesey are left tending to the ship while the others search the island in season two. Silver's mooks are also OutOfFocus and have disappeared after "Silver's Bond". However, [[spoiler:TheBusCameBack for the former two in the [[BackForTheFinale final episode]].]]
* RecycledInSpace: It's ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' with {{Funny Animal}}s, meets ''Series/{{Lost}}''.
* ReplacedTheThemeTune: Both the orchestrated opening and closing themes are replaced with a vocal song in season two, due to a change in music composers.
* RiddleForTheAges: The mysteries of what Treasure Island really is are not truly revealed within the series and there is no clear case on why there are things like magic or MoleMen or mer creatures. Let alone Pew's powers or [[spoiler:what the artifact he obtains does besides protect him from being killed.]]
* RockMonster: One episode has several of these. Like many things on the island, it's not clear why they're there.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Despite being a rat, Pew is larger and the same size as most of the other adult characters due to being a villainous sorcerer. It's even more ironic when his size contrasts with the smaller, normal-sized character Rat.
* RollercoasterMine: The episode with the MoleMen has a mine cart sequence and as Jim and Ben chase after Silver who steals their life crystal, the trio in mine carts give chase while riding the rails in a rollercoaster-type fashion.
* ShooOutTheClowns: [[spoiler:In the final episode, Silver is defeated, but it isn't over yet. At night, Pew knocks out most of the crew, including the Squire, who is a large part of the humor of the show. Things get more serious after Smollett is killed before the final battle between Pew, Jim, and Jane commences.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: What happens to Jim's father isn't shown but Dr. Livesey tells Jim that "he's fine". He's also a CompositeCharacter with Billy Bones (both of whom died in the original). It may be [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when [[spoiler:Jim sees the spirit of his father in episode 13, implying that Jim's father may have passed away while Jim has been on the island.]]
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Jim and Jane get many episodes near completely to themselves (both together and individually). Doubles as SmurfetteBreakout for Jane.
* TheStarscream: Long John will usually double cross anyone he strikes a bargain with. He tries to get rid of Pew on a couple of occasions (this becomes [[XanatosSpeedChess complicated]] in the penultimate episode, since Pew intends to do just the same to him).
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Pew's [[ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes pupil-less]] eyes tend to [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glow brightly]] sometimes, despite him blind.
* SwallowedWhole: Late in series 2, Jim gets swallowed by a dragon Pew summons, and Silver gets teleported into the bowels of the beast by his "boss" to retrieve him.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: When it comes to Silver and Pew working together, they obviously despise one another, trying to secretly backstab one another.
* TropicalIslandAdventure: The series takes place on the titular tropical island.
* TwinkleInTheEye: [[spoiler:Pew's eyes twinkle when he's hit by the stave Jane throws at him, just before he slumps over and dies.]]
* UpperClassTwit: Squire Trelawney remains true to his novel rendition for the large part. His actor Hugh Laurie basically reuses his [[Series/BlackAdder George]] persona suitingly enough.
* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse:
** For some odd reason, in the penultimate episode, one before [[spoiler:Captain Smollett and Dr. Livesey return to help save Jim from Pew's grasp]], the devil sidekicks Silver has accompanying him disappear and aren't referenced again once Silver, Pew, Jim, and Ben enter the cave.
** Also, Pew's baby dragon after the events of "Dragon".
** In "Silver's Bond", the three surviving pirates, Morgan the Warthog, Nebbich the Hyena, and Rat are last seen burying the Squire up to his neck before they leave him for dead. We never see either of the three in the series again.
** In the episode "Return to Sender", we meet a friend of Ben's named Black Jack, who lives on an adjacent island and plays long-distance chess with him. This is the only episode we see him in, and presumably he's still on the island by the end of the series (if he isn't killed by one of the various natural disasters).
* WickedWeasel: At least two of the pirates are weasels, who, being pirates, aren't very nice.
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: Mostly. While almost all the cast are anthropomorphic animals, the merpeople, bird people, possibly the ghost in "Reunion" and even a pirate in "Silver in the Island's Underworld" are more human/humanoid than animal-based.
* YouDirtyRat: [[BigBad Pew]] is the main rat in the series, and there is also a smaller rat named [[ADogNamedDog Rat]].
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