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* BrooklynRage: Spooky is much more "tuff" than spooky (since he looks about as cuddly as Casper), is somewhat of a hothead, and even his "Boos" look more he's flipping out. He speaks with a Brooklyn-style FunetikAksent: his girlfriend Pearl is "Poil" and his derby hat is a "doiby".

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* BrooklynRage: Spooky is much more "tuff" than spooky (since he looks about as cuddly as Casper), is somewhat of a hothead, and even his "Boos" look more he's like he is flipping out. He speaks with a Brooklyn-style FunetikAksent: his girlfriend Pearl is "Poil" and his derby hat is a "doiby".

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* DumbBlonde: Some versions of Pearl.

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* JuvenileDelinquent: Spooky is a mid-20th century American ghost version.



* CostumeEvolution: In "Casper and the Spetrals" Wendy and Hot Stuff's outfits were totally redesigned, Wendy doesn't wear her pijama-like red robe, instead she is more of a modern goth witch, and Hot Stuff changed his classic asbestos diaper for a punk outfit.

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* CostumeEvolution: In "Casper and the Spetrals" Wendy and Hot Stuff's outfits were totally redesigned, Wendy doesn't wear her pijama-like pajama-like red robe, instead she is more of a modern goth witch, and Hot Stuff changed his classic asbestos diaper for a punk outfit.

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* CaptainErsatz: Casper has inspired more than a few knockoff comics featuring friendly ghosts as the lead character, including Creator/CharltonComics' Timmy the Timid Ghost, Atlas Comic's Homer the Happy Ghost, and Fawcett's downright plagiaristic Spunky the Smiling Spook, who has the ''exact'' same design as Casper.

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* BrownNote: The word "Boo" seems to magically fill people with fear when said by a ghost.
* CaptainErsatz: Casper has inspired more than a few knockoff comics featuring friendly ghosts as the lead character, including Creator/CharltonComics' Timmy ''Timmy the Timid Ghost, Ghost'', Fago Publications' ''Li'l Ghost (He's So Cute)'', Atlas Comic's Homer Comics' ''Homer the Happy Ghost, Ghost'', and Fawcett's downright plagiaristic Spunky ''Spunky the Smiling Spook, Spook'', who has the ''exact'' same design as Casper.
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* {{Expy}}: King Luna of "Boo Moon" is a ringer for King Bombo from ''WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels'' in both design and temperament. Fittingly, as the short itself is a sci-fi take on ''Gulliver's Travels''.
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* ClipShow: "Ghost Writers" is a clip show, with the ideas the writers come up for Casper represented with clips of earlier Casper cartoons (specifically "Once Upon a Rhyme', 'To Boo or Not To Boo" and "Casper's Spree Under the Sea").

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* SmellySkunk: "Spunky Skunky" is centered around Casper befriending a skunk who is spurned from playing baseball with some local animals, prompting him to try to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, only to fall into a white can of paint and think he's become a ghost. Casper rolls with it just so he can have a friend, but the act is up when the skunk falls into water and washes off the paint--and realizes that Casper is a ghost and flees. Later on, the skunk tries to save his other friends from a hungry wolf, but to no avail, as the wolf puts on a gas mask. Casper, of course, arrives to save the day, earning the skunks friendship back and also earning the respect of the others, who wear clothespins on their noses for the skunk's sake when they play baseball.

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* SmellySkunk: "Spunky Skunky" is centered around Casper befriending a skunk who is spurned from playing baseball with some local animals, prompting him to try to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, only to fall into a white can of paint and think he's become a ghost. Casper rolls with it just so he can have a friend, but the act is up when the skunk falls into water and washes off the paint--and realizes that Casper is a ghost and flees. Later on, the skunk tries to save his other friends from a hungry wolf, wolf by spraying him, but to no avail, as the wolf puts on a gas mask. Casper, of course, arrives to save the day, earning the skunks friendship back and also earning the respect of the others, who wear clothespins on their noses for the skunk's sake when they play baseball.baseball.
** "There's Good Boos Tonight" and "Boo Scout" have Casper getting sprayed by a skunk accidentally.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In early shorts, before he was established to live with The Ghostly Trio, Casper was shown to have ghost parents.


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* HappilyAdopted: Casper's debut short ends with him being adopted by the mother of the two kids he befriended.
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* ReReleaseSoundtrack: When the Casper cartoons and many other Harveytoons shorts were packaged together for the syndicated ''Casper and Friends'' TV series in 1990, due to conflicting music rights with Winston Sharples (composer of the original shorts), the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXLtE8xw1s cartoons' soundtracks were completely redubbed]] with new voice actors, synthesized multi-purpose music tracks and more "modern" StockSoundEffects.

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* ReReleaseSoundtrack: When the Casper cartoons and many other Harveytoons shorts were packaged together for the syndicated ''Casper and Friends'' TV series in 1990, due to conflicting music rights with Winston Sharples (composer of the original shorts), the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXLtE8xw1s cartoons' soundtracks were completely redubbed]] with new voice actors, synthesized multi-purpose music tracks and more "modern" StockSoundEffects. Averted by the ''Casper and Friends'' episodes uploaded by the official Casper [=YouTube=] channel, which preserve the original soundtracks.
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Though grownups might look at him with fright\\

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* CostumeEvolution: In "Casper and the Spetrals" Wendy and Hot Stuff's outfits were totally redesigned, Wendy doesn't wear her pijama-like red robe, instaed she is more of a modern goth witch, and Hot Stuff changed his classic asbestos diaper for a punk outfit.

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* CostumeEvolution: In "Casper and the Spetrals" Wendy and Hot Stuff's outfits were totally redesigned, Wendy doesn't wear her pijama-like red robe, instaed instead she is more of a modern goth witch, and Hot Stuff changed his classic asbestos diaper for a punk outfit.
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* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Wolfie the wolf, who had been the antagonist of Blackie the Sheep in earlier ''Noveltoons'' cartoons, appears as an antagonist to Casper in two cartoons: "Once Upon a Rhyme" and "Pig A Boo".

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* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Wolfie the wolf, who had been the antagonist of Blackie the Sheep in earlier ''Noveltoons'' cartoons, appears as an antagonist to Casper in two five cartoons: "Once Upon a Rhyme" and Rhyme", "Pig A Boo".Boo", "Spunky Skunky", "Little Boo Peep" and "By The Old Mill Scream".



* SmellySkunk: "Spunky Skunky" is centered around Casper befriending a skunk who is spurned from playing baseball with some local animals, prompting him to try to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, only to fall into a white can of paint and think he's become a ghost. Casper rolls with it just so he can have a friend, but the act is up when the skunk falls into water and washes off the paint--and realizes that Casper is a ghost and flees. Later on, the skunk tries to save his other friends from a hungry wolf, and Casper of course arrives to save the day, earning the skunks friendship back (and also earning the respect of the others, who wear clothespins on their noses for the skunks sake when they play baseball).

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* SmellySkunk: "Spunky Skunky" is centered around Casper befriending a skunk who is spurned from playing baseball with some local animals, prompting him to try to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, only to fall into a white can of paint and think he's become a ghost. Casper rolls with it just so he can have a friend, but the act is up when the skunk falls into water and washes off the paint--and realizes that Casper is a ghost and flees. Later on, the skunk tries to save his other friends from a hungry wolf, and Casper but to no avail, as the wolf puts on a gas mask. Casper, of course course, arrives to save the day, earning the skunks friendship back (and and also earning the respect of the others, who wear clothespins on their noses for the skunks skunk's sake when they play baseball).baseball.

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* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Wolfie the wolf, who had been the antagonist of Blackie the Sheep in earlier ''Noveltoons'' cartoons, appears as an antagonist to Casper in two cartoons: "Once Upon a Rhyme" and "Pig A Boo".
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* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: One animated cartoon opens with Casper being exiled by his fellow ghosts for refusing to scare people.
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* TheRemake: "True Boo" is a remake of the [[MaxAndDaveFleischer Max Fleischer]] [[WesternAnimation/ColorClassics Color Classic]] "Christmas Comes But Once A Year", with Casper filling in for [[WesternAnimation/BettyBoop Betty Boop's]] Grampy.

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* TheRemake: "True Boo" is a remake of the [[MaxAndDaveFleischer [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Max Fleischer]] [[WesternAnimation/ColorClassics Color Classic]] "Christmas Comes But Once A Year", with Casper filling in for [[WesternAnimation/BettyBoop Betty Boop's]] Grampy.
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* TheRemake: "True Boo" is a remake of the [[MaxAndDaveFleischer Max Fleischer]] [[WesternAnimation/ColorClassics Color Classic]] "Christmas Comes But Once A Year", with Casper filling in for [[WesternAnimation/BettyBoop Betty Boop's]] Grampy.

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* InterspeciesFriendship: Casper, Wendy, Hot Stuff and Spooky are good friends despite being different creatures.

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* InCaseOfXBreakGlass: In the short "Ghost Writers", there is a glass case at the Paramount cartoon studio reading "In Case If You're Fired--" [[BlackComedy and containing]] [[DrivenToSuicide a gun]].
* InterspeciesFriendship: Casper, Wendy, Hot Stuff Stuff, and Spooky are good friends despite being different creatures.
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* SweetSheep: In the 1953 cartoon "Little Boo Peep", the eponymous ghost befriends Little Bo Peep after getting kicked out of the Scare Force by the other ghosts. He promises to help her find her lost sheep as he travels across [[FairyTaleFreeForAll a world inhabited by famous nursery rhyme characters]]. After unintentionally scaring the inhabitants, he discovers that Bo Peep's three sheep had been kidnapped by Wolfie the Wolf, who prepares to have them for dinner. Once Casper rescues her sheep and scaring Wolfie, Bo Peep is seen giving each of her sheep a kiss before [[SmoochOfVictory finally giving Casper one for helping her]], which causes [[HighPressureEmotion Casper to turn red.]]

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