History WesternAnimation / TheHarlemGlobetrotters

%%* ArtisticLicenseSports: It is the Globetrotters, but the cartoon takes it UpToEleven in such episodes as "Football Zeros" and "Bad News Cruise".

* FiveManBand: Technically six, since there are six Globetrotters--plus Granny and their pet dog.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: It is the Globetrotters, but the cartoon takes it UpToEleven in such episodes as "Football Zeros" and "Bad News Cruise".

* {{Leitmotif}}: "Sweet Georgia Brown"

Their two other shows were ''The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine'', also on CBS, in 1975, and ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperGlobetrotters'' on NBC in 1979. In the 1977-78 midseason, NBC replayed episodes as part of the two-hour ''Go-Go Globetrotters'' umbrella title (which included elements from that season's ''WesternAnimation/CBBears'', plus ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids'', ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/TheCattanoogaCats Motormouse and Autocat]]''). They also appeared in 1979 on ''Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo'' in a four-part story arc, ''The Harlem Globetrotters Meet Snow White''.

* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty: The Globetrotters cheat ''a lot'' in their games (including kicking and headbutting the ball and using foreign objects) but usually only after their opponents cheat. [[ScrewTheRulesTheyBrokeThemFirst Neither side is ever penalized.]]
** The referee has called a foul on Meadowlark on some occasions.
-->'''Meadowlark:''' What do you mean "Foul on Meadowlark"? I'm innocent. I demand a trial.
-->'''Curly:''' (''disguised as a court judge'') Objection overruled. Three shots for Meadowlark! (''bangs gavel'')

* CompositeCharacter: The Prince in the Snow White episode is also ''Literature/TheFrogPrince'', as the Queen transforms him into a frog in an attempt to stop him from reaching Snow White. With the Globetrotters' help, he reaches her and wakes her with his kiss, and her kiss changes him back to normal.

* DudeShesLikeInAComa: The Globetrotters angrily stop the Prince from kissing Snow White the first time, assuming that he's just some punk trying to get fresh with an unconscious and not an actual prince.
* EasilyForgiven: The Evil Queen gets off scot-free and is treated as a friend by the others after her scheme is foiled.
* FairestOfThemAll: Just as in the original ''Snow White'' story, the Evil Queen tries to do away with Snow White for this reason. Later, after the Prince wakes her from her enchanted sleep, the Globetrotters point out that if Snow White leaves with the Prince to his home country, the Queen will regain her title as the land's most beautiful woman as Snow White will no longer be in it. The Queen agrees and allows them to leave. Later, the Queen consults her magic mirror, but it says ''Curly'' is the fairest of them all. As she storms off in a huff, it turns out that Curly and the others were just pulling a prank on her.

* GenreSavvy: In the Snow White episode, ''Snow White'' seems to not be a story in this world and its events are happening for the first time. The Globetrotters nonetheless know a lot of fairy tale tropes, like how Snow White needs to be woken by a prince because they have read other fairy tales like ''Literature/SleepingBeauty''.
* TheGhost: Snow White mentions that the Seven Dwarves are away in their mines. For this reason, they never appear in the episode and the Globetrotters pretty much take their place.

* KingIncognito: The Evil Queen disguises herself as an old woman to trick Snow White into eating a poisoned apple. The Prince is introduced pretending to be a traveling salesman in order to escape boring palace life and move freely amongst the people. Unfortunately, this means the Globetrotters don't believe he's really a prince, and they boot him out of the cottage when he tries to wake Snow White the first time.

* SchizoTech: The land that Snow White and the Evil Queen hail from (and its neighboring country that the Prince comes from) is one where everybody talks, dresses and acts like it's the Middle Ages and the buildings are either stone castles or thatched cottages. However, it also has a few motorized vehicles, electronic lights and gates, and even a modern basketball court, and the Queen's MagicMirror seems to really be a computer. It is also clearly set in the late 1970s, as several of the characters are fans of the Globetrotters and the Queen invited them to come and put on an exhibition game.

* DudeShesLikeInAComa: The Globetrotters angrily stop the Prince from kissing Snow White the first time, not believing that he's an actual prince but rather just some punk trying to get fresh with an unconscious chick.