History WesternAnimation / FILLMORE

* RaceAgainstTheClock: In "Masterstroke of Malevolence", someone has defaced the ''Lobsterman at Port'' oil painting with a black marker. The art restorator tells Fillmore and Ingrid they need to find the specific marker used for the crime within twenty minutes so he can undo the damage before the ink dries and permanently ruins the painting.

* RaceAgainstTheClock: In ''Masterstroke of Malevolence'', someone has defaced the ''Lobsterman at Port'' oil painting with a black marker. The art restorator tells Fillmore and Ingrid they need to find the specific marker used for the crime within twenty minutes so he can undo the damage before the ink dries and permanently ruins the painting.

* AnAesop: In "South of Friendship, North of Honor", Wayne [[BrokenBird is broken]] after his partner Emily was bullied off the force and out of their school, an event for which he blames himself and that he deals with by looking the other way no matter what the rest of the corrupt Safety Patrol do. Through Fillmore's encouragement, Wayne (and the audience) realize that lying down and watching wrongdoing be done is not only a surefire way for a place to become unsafe for citizens, but also a way to turn you into something you don't like and can't respect.

* BullyHunter: An episode had the Safety Patrol tracking down someone targeting bullies for humiliation, ending with AnAesop about there being better ways to deal with bullies.

* ChekhovsGunman: Several minor characters from earlier episodes later have guest starring roles later on, although whether the creators always meant to use them that way or not is unclear. For example, episode 2, "Test of the Tested," has Augie Salmon (who is put in witness protection as the main plotline of episode 24, "This Savior, a Snitch") as a minor suspect and also features background cameos from Lorranie Almaden (a major suspect in episode 7, "Nappers Never Sleep" after also getting a notable but incidental cameo in episode 3) and Maryanne Green (a cheerleader who witnesses the opening crime in episode 15, "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes", and is the best friend of the girl who goes missing in episode 22, "Codename Electric Haircut").

* ChekhovsGunman: Several minor characters from earlier episodes later have guest starring roles later on, although whether the creators always meant to use them that way or not is unclear. For example, episode 2, "Test of the Tested," has Augie Salmon (who is put in witness protection as the main plotline of episode 24, "This Savior, a Snitch") as a minor suspect and also features background cameos from Lorranie Almaden (a major suspect in episode 7, "Nappers Never Sleep") and Maryanne Green (a cheerleader who witnesses the opening crime in episode 15, "The Shreds Fell Like Snowflakes", and is the best friend of the girl who goes missing in episode 22, "Codename Electric Haircut").

* TheCameo: [[WesternAnimation/{{Recess}} Spinelli]] makes a brief cameo in one episode.

* HeroesWantRedheads: The closest thing Fillmore has to a love interest is the redheaded Penny Madrid. Averted when he rejects her.

* ChekhovsGun: Being a crime show, there's usually at least one per episode.

* EEqualsMCHammer In episode 9, Fillmore and Ingrid visit a pre-algebra class, after the teacher pulls up a screen, there are several problems displayed on the board, none of which are pre-algebra problems, such as "x-y=16" which has infinite solutions and other complex, multi-variable solutions that would be ''way'' too complex for a middle school pre-algebra class.

** Checkmatey in "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields" is something of a seventh-grade expy of Music/Eminem, minus the profanity.

''Fillmore!'' is an American animated television series produced by Creator/DisneyTelevisionAnimation for [[Creator/OneSaturdayMorningAndABCKids ABC Kids]].[[note]]The final five episodes aired on Creator/ToonDisney.[[/note]] Created by Scott M. Gimple (''Series/TheWalkingDead''), the series was an {{affectionate parody}} of [[TheSeventies 1970s]] {{Cop Show}}s, following reformed juvenile delinquents Cornelius Fillmore and Ingrid Third as they work for the X Middle School Safety Patrol, cracking cases and solving mysteries around the secondary school's bizarrely large Minnesotan campus. It ran from September 2002 to January 2004 for a total of 26 episodes.

In addition to the cartoon emulating the tone of police dramas in general, with episode plots being child-friendly versions of topics such as police brutality to political assassinations, the show also tends to parody various films and television series more directly, such as ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' or ''Film/DieHard''. The series' stanch dedication to its cop show premise would garner the show a large PeripheryDemographic... and few viewers within the actual target demographic, leading to the show's cancellation.

''Fillmore!'' is an American animated television series produced by Creator/DisneyTelevisionAnimation for [[Creator/OneSaturdayMorningAndABCKids ABC Kids]].[[note]]The final five episodes aired on Creator/ToonDisney.[[/note]] Created by Scott M. Gimple (''Series/TheWalkingDead''), the series was an {{affectionate parody}} of [[TheSeventies 1970s]] {{Cop Show}}s, the show follows reformed juvenile delinquents Cornelius Fillmore and Ingrid Third as they work for the Safety Patrol, cracking cases and solving mysteries around X Middle School. It ran from September 2002 to January 2004 for a total of 26 episodes.

''Fillmore!'' is an animated television series, that ran from September 2002 to January 2004 for a total of 26 episodes. An animated {{parody}} of/{{homage}} to [[TheSeventies 1970s]] {{Cop Show}}s, produced by Disney for Creator/{{ABC}} Kids and then briefly shown in reruns on Creator/ToonDisney, this show features Safety Patrol officers Cornelius Fillmore and Ingrid Third cracking cases around middle school. Many episodes also parody various films and television series including ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''.

The show was cancelled before its time, for one of the very reasons that made it so good: the entire premise rests on smartly parodying a genre that children wouldn't be familiar with. Like ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' before it, the watching demographics skewed older than desired, and the rest is history.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse, several of the artistic children are presented as eccentric and unusual. One kid even dumps paint on himself as a form of art.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: While in-episode [[spoiler: Ingrid terrorizing Jamie is seen as a sign of her possibly BecomingTheMask to get in with the Red Robins]] and is played as a KickTheDog moment, the victim is later found to be the mastermind behind a major lunch-stealing ring and almost gets Fillmore expelled, making the scene more than a little satisfying on re-watch.

** In "Next Stop: Armageddon", the perpetrator of the train convention disaster is [[spoiler: a beloved train enthusiast]] whose only motivation for doing so was to [[spoiler:get his father's store enough business so that they wouldn't have to close down and move away]]. When the truth comes out, the perpetrator is kicked out of the train club and blacklisted from ever being involved again.

''Fillmore!'' is an animated television series, that ran from September 2002 to January 2004 for a total of 26 episodes. An animated {{homage}} to [[TheSeventies 1970s]] {{Cop Show}}s, produced by Disney for Creator/{{ABC}} Kids and then briefly shown in reruns on Creator/ToonDisney, this show features Safety Patrol officers Cornelius Fillmore and Ingrid Third cracking cases around middle school. Many episodes also parody various films and television series including ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''.

** Nelson Kelloch, Checkmatey's opponent in "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields", likes a ''boy band'' called the Dancey Lads, makes collages of them from magazines in his spare time, and claims he wouldn't give up playing chess for anything "save maybe front-row tickets to Dancey Lads."