History WesternAnimation / PinchcliffeGrandPrix

This movie is one of the (if not THE) biggest successes in Norwegian film: It's popular enough that it has sold more tickets within Norway than the entire Norwegian population.

* BellyDancer: A belly-dancing ''bird'' (in more than one sense of the word).

Solan and Ludvig would go on to star in many books by Aukrust, usually composed of small humorous SliceOfLife vignettes, and the pair would return to the movie world in the hand-drawn animated movie ''Solan, Ludvig og Gurin med Reverompa'' ("Solan, Ludvig and Gurin with the Fox Tail") in 1998, in which Reodor had a minor role. In this story, Solan is an Oslo private detective, with Ludvig as his assistant, and they are tasked with finding a ''nisse'' (sort of a Norwegian gnome) named Gurin, who has grown a fox's tail.

* ThrowItIn: When the Ill Tempo Gigante got stuck just as the race started was unscripted - the small-scale model used for the shot where the other racers start driving got hung up on a mechanism, which was then worked into the script as Reodor having last-minute engine problems.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Rudolf Blodstrupmoen -- ''Rudolph Gore-Slimey'' in the English dub.

* WidgetSeries: Arguably a Weird Scandinavian Thing.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Emanuel Desperados, Ben Redic's driver, is a gorilla.

* SocietyMarchesOn: The fact that Norway had to rely on Arabian oil reserves in a movie made in the early seventies. {{Lampshaded}} by the official giving the speech when the car is revealed for the first time:
-->"Since we do not yet have access to our own oil reserves..."

* CartoonCreature: There's a bit of confusion in the movie as to what sort of animal Ludvig really is; the narrator doesn't seem to be sure and Solan refers to him as a mole. After the movie, in subsequent books, Ludwig is firmly established as a hedgehog.

* TheEeyore: Ludvig has traces of this, though he completely lacks the trademark gloom and depression of the traditional Eeyore. He is definitely low-key and pessimistic, though, usually as a result of his generally timid nature.

* GadgeteerGenius: Reodor, whose many inventions are on display and in function around his house.

* LovableCoward: Ludvig, with traces of CowardlyLion. He's very shy around strangers and pessimistic about everything, but he's a gentle soul who still musters enough courage to save the day.

[[caption-width-right:300:37 miles north, a bit east and upwards, there’s Flåklypa.]]

* AllDrummersAreAnimals: As a literal example, Emanuel Desperados, aside from being a gorilla driver, also guest stars in a human band at the unveiling of the [[CoolCar Il Tempo Gigante]], naturally as a drummer.

* BurningRubber: The Il Tempo Gigante is a fast and powerful car, to the degree that the ''asphalt itself'' gets roasted and curls off the ground when it takes off.

* HeroicSecondWind: Because of Rudolf Blodstrupmoen damaging the Il Tempo Gigante's engine, Reodor frequently falls behind the other racers. It's when Ludvig holds the car's engine together with his own hands that Reodor zooms past his competitors, complete with ThemeMusicPowerUp.

* LiveMinkCoat: The fox Enkefru Stengelføhn-Glad has around her neck is obviously alive enough to bob its head in accord with the music during the unveiling of the Il Tempo Gigante.

* BurningRubber: To the degree that the ''asphalt itself'' gets roasted and curls off the ground.

* FunnyAnimal: A hedgehog and morning birds.

* LiveMinkCoat: The fox Enkefru Stengelføhn-Glad has around her neck is obviously alive enough to bob its head in accord with the music during the unveiling of the car.
* LovableCoward: Ludvig, with traces of CowardlyLion.
* PitGirls: Actually a ''guy'' - none other than the ButtMonkey Gudleik Knotten, who delivers the mail, and is known for being hit by cars over and over. A bit of FridgeLogic occurs when you realize ''he'' is the guy with the flag...

** In ''Gurin med Reverompa'' it's the widow Stengelføhn-Glad, who comes across as a bit of a [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil knockoff]] and even gets Rudolf Blodstrupmoen as her sidekick.

* TheNorwegianLanguageStruggle: Strongly on the dialectal side. The protagonists all use some form of the "eastern valley" mode, justified because of the rural setting. Blodstrupmoen, the antagonist, has clearly brushed up his language to more "posh" Norwegian, but his accent slips when he delivers his challenge. And then, there is the ''genuine'' language struggler, personified in the poet Hallstein Bronskimlet from the western parts of Norway.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Just like in the first movie, both the follow-up movie takes an established Aukrust character and puts them in an antagonistic role.
* * In ''Gurin med Reverompa'' it's the widow Stengelføhn-Glad, who comes across as a bit of a [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil knockoff]] and even gets Rudolf Blodstrupmoen as her sidekick.

In 2013, a new stop-motion animated movie with the characters and setting (but with a different design and a different cast and crew) was released, named ''Jul i Flåklypa'' (English title: "Louis & Luca and the Snow Machine"). This was followed up by two more movies in the same style; ''Herfra til Flåklypa'' ("Louis & Luca -- The Big Cheese Race") in 2015, and ''Månelyst i Flåklypa'' ("Louis & Luca -- Mission to the Moon") in 2018. These three movies see Solan and Ludvig (here renamed "Luca" and "Louis" in the English version) back to living with Reodor, and each movie would heavily involve Reodor's inventions... from a snow machine in the first movie to a moon rocket in the third.

** In ''The Big Cheese Race'' it's dairy owner Ollvar O. Kleppvold, whose goal is partly to discredit the town of Flåklypa in the big cheese race and partly to get his hands on Reodor's workshop and inventions. (He also provides a few obstacles in ''Mission to the Moon'' when his plot to smuggle a cheese to the moon leads to some complications for the heroes.)

* AdaptationalVillainy: Just like in the first movie, both the follow-up movie takes an established Aukrust character and puts them in an antagonistic role. In ''Gurin'' it's the widow Stengelføhn-Glad, who comes across as a bit of a [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil knockoff]] and even gets Rudolf Blodstrupmoen as her sidekick. In ''Jul i Flåklypa'' its Frimand Pløsen, the chief editor of the local newspaper, who is a lot more sympathetic but goes just a bit too far in order to get the news story he wants.
* AdaptationExpansion: Both movies were based on short stories by Aukrust, but since these stories were... well, ''short,'' they had to expand them with a lot of extra materials and plotlines.
* ArtShiftedSequel: Both the follow-up movies look notably different than the first. ''Gurin'' sticks out the most, being hand-drawn animation rather than stop motion, but ''Jul'' which returns to the stop-motion medium, has notably different designs and puppets.
* BigDamnHeroes: Ludvig in ''Jul i Flåklypa,'' who saves Reodor and Solan when they're in danger and ultimately ends up being the one to resolve the main plot.

* DemotedToExtra: Reodor, in ''Gurin,'' is only in a few scenes (though he does help Solan and Ludvig with their quest to find Gurin). He's back as a major character in ''Jul.'' though.

* FakeUltimateHero: Solan, in ''Gurin.'' He narrates the story and tries to present himself as the hero, but he doesn't actually contribute anything to the resolution of the story. He still gets to share in the glory afterwards, though.
* {{Invisibility}}: Reodor accidentally turns himself invisible in ''Jul''. Uniquely, being invisible also renders him unable to talk, so he can't tell Solan and Ludvig what happened to him (trying to communicate through written notes just makes them think there is a ghost around when they see notepads and pencils fly by themselves.) Later in the movie, Solan's ''beak'' is accidentally turned invisible, which means he can't talk either.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Though ultimately a good person, Solan is notably more jerkish in these movies than he is in the original. This is of course because the follow-up movies are based on Aukrust's writings rather than the first movie, and so use the books' characterizations of Solan rather than the LighterAndSofter one from ''Flåklypa Grand Prix''.
* NarrativeProfanityFilter: A variant in ''Jul.'' When Reodor turns hinself invisible, the narrator steps in to tell the audience that the reason we're not hearing the many inventive swearwords Reodor is currently using, is that he's turned inaudible as well as invisible.

* SanitySlippage: Frimand Pløsen gradually undergoes this over the course of ''Jul'' as he keeps looking for ways to save the local newspaper after most of the population has turned against him because he keeps reporting that it'll snow, yet there's no snow in sight. It's by the time he leaves the snow machine on to break an old snow record that he really starts going overboard in looking for bigger news stories, to the point where he doesn't care that Flåklypa might disappear entirely in all the snow because it'd make such an amazing news story. By the end of the movie he has returned to his senses, though, and decided to stop focusing so much on the weather and look for other news stories.

In 2013, a new stop-motion animated movie with the characters and setting was released, named ''Jul i Flåklypa'' ("Christmas at Pinchcliffe"). Here, Solan and Ludvig are back to living with Reodor, and the plot revolves around Reodor inventing a snow machine in order to get snow for Christmas, but things get out of hand.

* PettingZooPeople: A hedgehog and morning birds.

* {{Defictionalization}}: Of all things, the ''Il Tempo Gigante'' itself. A real Il tempo gigante car was used to promote the film, e.g. driving around the Hockenheimring between races. The car originally had an 250 hp Cadillac engine but when Niki Lauda saw it he provided them with an 7,6 ltr, 550 hp, big-block Chevrolet engine. The car also has an auxiliary jet engine, but due to EU restrictions the vehicle is barely permitted to be used at all save for exclusive TV cameos.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Reodor, when asked about the fuel for his CoolCar, states that apart from the regular gasoline, the car also works fine on "home brew". So, our bicycle repair man and GadgeteerGenius is into bootlegging? Who could have known? To be fair, the location for this movie ''is'' a part of Norway where people still sing about the "most important industry" in the area. ''Guess what...''
** During the race sequence, when the car temporarily breaks down, one guy (Kleppvold) tests out the fuel reserve ''and tastes it''. His reaction implies that Felgen actually ''runs'' his car on said home brew rather than the Arabian oil. A hilarious FridgeLogic sets in when you realize it probably works better than regular petrol.