Mr. Magoo is a French-American reboot of the original Mr. Magoo cartoon, produced by Xilam with the help of Classic Media. Although technically the series premiered in Portugal in December 2018, it had its official premiere in France on May 4, 2019.note
The series follows the eponymous kind-hearted fellow who is always happy to lend a hand — but often causes disasters instead, as without his glasses he makes all kinds of chaotic mix-ups. Despite this, his only enemy is Fizz, a megalomaniacal hamster who is somehow always accidentally thwarted by Magoo. As usual, most of the humor in Mr. Magoo's cartoons come from his visual handicap and his staunch refusal to acknowledge it.
In the US, the series was released on CBS All Access on January 16, 2020.
Mr. Magoo (2019) provides examples of:
- The Ace: The President is depicted as this, being well-loved by the public, and winning several contests over the course of the series.
- Achievements in Ignorance: Magoo often foils Fizz's schemes completely by accident.
- Adapted Out: Waldo, Mr. Magoo's nephew from the original series, doesn't exist in this continuity at all. Justified, as Mr. Magoo isn't an uncle here, but younger than before.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Compared to the original Mr. Magoo, who had his nice moments, this one's kindness is taken up to eleven, bordering on All-Loving Hero, and he is not a Grumpy Old Man.
- Alternate Continuity: This is a completely separate continuity to the original shorts, and very different in style and tone.
- Artistic Licence – Biology: In "Free The Rabbit", Magoo claims that rabbits are rodents. They are not - rabbits are part of the Lagomorpha family.
- Art Shift: It's a little more closer to the style of shows such as Zig & Sharko, but justified as it's produced by the same people as that show.
- Asshole Victim: Fizz deserves his status as a Butt-Monkey due to his megalomaniac personality and actively trying to annihilate Magoo despite knowing he's blind.
- Blind Without 'Em: Well, duh, this is Mr. Magoo, after all. The intro has Mr. Cat trying to get him to wear his glasses, but he's so blind that he uses them as a toothbrush, a tie, and even a bike when Mr. Cat gives him a giant pair.
- Butt-Monkey: Fizz and Weasel. Mr. Cat too, as he often suffers trying to keep Magoo safe and foil Fizz's plans.
- Cartoon Creature: Fizz may be a hamster, but he has tiger-esque coloring and facial features.
- City with No Name: The city in the new setting doesn't even have a name.
- Continuity Reboot: This show starts entirely from a clean slate, with the only thing remaining from the original being Mr. Magoo's visual handicap.
- Didn't Think This Through: A lot of Fizz's plans suffer from this, due to being rooted in his egotiscal narcissism. He's convinced simple accomplishments like winning a cooking contest or changing a statue's head to resemble his own will earn him the adoration and worship of the entire world. In "Lost in the Subway", he makes a fake cave painting to try and trick people into thinking he was once worshipped by humans, unaware that science has ways of identifying the age of cave drawings (thereby proving his is a fake).
- Denser and Wackier: The original series was Darker and Edgier at times, but this falls right into this trope by virtue of a megalomaniac hamster and emphasis on outright comedy as compared to the source material.
- Everyone Has Standards: In one episode, Magoo unknowingly hires Weasel as a pest control man to get what he thinks is a rat (but is actually a robot) out of his apartment. But when Weasel disposes of the pest by smashing it, Magoo is disgusted by his inhumane methods and orders him to leave.
- Evil Is Petty: Fizz will sometimes try to eliminate Magoo despite being aware that he's blind and only foils his plots through dumb luck.
- Fake Muscles: Fizz often relies on an inflatable muscle suit to attack Magoo. But as Mr. Cat proves almost as often, said suit is highly vulnerable to being punctured.
- Fluffy the Terrible: Would you really expect Fizz as a name for a megalomaniac hamster?
- Formally-Named Pet: Magoo's dog's name is Mr. Cat.
- Friendly Enemy: There are times when Weasel can be quite civil to Magoo and even help him in a situation. In general, it's an on-off relationship.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: So far, Fizz seems to get caught in his own traps - one example was him getting injured while trying to infiltrate a Bland-Name Product Oscars counterpart, and getting injured during filming.
- Hypocrite: In "Hornets Attack", Fizz admonishes Weasel for "always making things all about [you]", in spite of his own It's All About Me mindset.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Fizz tries to succeed, but fails every so often that it's probably easy to root for him, though this is challenged by the fact that he wants Magoo out of the picture despite being aware of his extreme short-sightedness.
- In Medias Res: The series begins with everything already in place, with no Origins Episode regarding how Fizz got so intelligent, how Weasel became so utterly devoted to him, or even their first encounter with Magoo.
- It's All About Me: Fizz hates the idea of anyone other than himself being called a genius.
- Insufferable Genius: Because of his intelligence, Fizz thinks himself better than everyone else
- Lighter and Softer: Compared to the 1959-1977 originals, this is more focused on Slapstick and outright comedy.
- Minion with an F in Evil: Weasel isn't that evil compared to Fizz, although he is sometimes subservient to him.
- Narcissist: Fizz. The majority of his inventions are named after him, he has his face on his airship and submarine, and he even has portraits and statues of himself looking taller and buffer than he really is all around his house.
- Nice Guy: This incarnation of Magoo is this to a tee. Weasel can also be this when he's off the clock.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: The president looks like Barack Obama, but does not have his name revealed.
- Oblivious to Hatred: Magoo treats Weasel like a friendly neighbor, unaware that, as Fizz's devoted servant, Weasel sees him as nothing but an obstacle to his boss's goals.
- Off Screen Villain Dark Matter: Fizz seems to have no end of resources or funding to build all his inventions.
- Pro Wrestling Episode: Parodied. In fact, it ends up being more like Mistaken For Magician when Mr. Magoo assumes the wrestling ring is actually a magician's arena!
- Punch-Clock Villain: Weasel, Fizz's assistant, isn't really that evil and seems to be good off the clock as evidenced by the times he hangs out with Magoo.
- Running Gag: Fizz would often end up screaming "MAGOO!", in/at Every Episode Ending, typically whenever his plans, plots, and schemes result in failure out of defeat.
- Shout-Out: In the episode "Kung Fu Fizz", Magoo appears fighting Kung Fu, which he has also done in the film Kung Fu Magoo (2010).
- Talking Animal: Fizz is a talking hamster with genius-level intelligence. How he got to be this way is unexplained.
- Undying Loyalty: Weasel adores Fizz, and will do anything for him, to the point of being a Sycophantic Servant.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Weasel is totally devoted to Fizz, doing everything for him. Fizz shows no gratitude for any of this, regularly mocking and talking down to him.
- Unknown Rival: Magoo is completely unaware of Fizz's existence and anything he does to foil his schemes is done by accident.
- Vague Age: How old Magoo is in this canon is not confirmed, but the evidence of a younger girlfriend who looks in her 30s, suggests Magoo could be this age, unless it's an Age-Gap Romance.
- Younger and Hipper: This iteration of Mr. Magoo is slightly younger, but still has the same core characteristics aside from the grumpiness of his previous self.
