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-->'''Claw:''' Who did you expect? [[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Dick Dastardly?]] (Also serves as CompanyCrossReferences]].)

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-->'''Claw:''' Who did you expect? [[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Dick Dastardly?]] (Also Dastardly?]]
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-->'''Claw:''' Who did you expect? [[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Dick Dastardly?]]

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-->'''Claw:''' Who did you expect? [[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Dick Dastardly?]]Dastardly?]] (Also serves as CompanyCrossReferences]].)
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*** It's been said that the Claw's line was predicated on originally in development having Dick Dastardly on the show first as the villain then as the [[HeelFaceTurn protector of Penelope's brother.]]

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*** ** It's been said that the Claw's line was predicated on originally in development having Dick Dastardly on the show first as the villain then as the [[HeelFaceTurn protector of Penelope's brother.]]
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: The Anthill Mob dresses as cops in two different episodes.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'll get you, Penelope Pitstop!"'']]



->''"I'll get you, Penelope Pitstop!"''

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->''"I'll get you, Penelope Pitstop!"''
->''"Penelope Pitstop, heiress to a vast fortune is in perpetual peril from her fortune-seeking guardian, Sylvester Sneekly, who unknown to her, is really the Hooded Claw! But foiling this fiend's foul plots are Penelope's ever-present protectors, The Ant Hill Mob!"''
-->--'''Narrator''', intro
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* ClamTrap: Penelope gets trapped inside a clam in "Bad Fortune in a Chinese Fortune Cookie". She is soon freed when Dum-Dum tells a joke to make the clam laugh.
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* AdultsDressedAsChildren: The Hooded Claw disguises himself as a little boy at one point in "GameOfPeril".


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** The Hooded Claw avoids getting arrested in "Game of Peril" by pretending to be an actor named Long Changey, a nod to Creator/LonChaney.

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* IllegalGuardian: Sylvester Sneekly is Penelope Pitstop's guardian, secretly planning to do her in as the Hooded Claw so he can get his hands on her family fortune.



* InstrumentOfMurder: One of the Hooded Claw's plans to get rid of Penelope involves a pipe organ, which when played, causes a chandelier to fall and the ceiling of the decrepit opera house to give way.



* IllegalGuardian: Sylvester Sneekly is Penelope Pitstop's guardian, secretly planning to do her in as the Hooded Claw so he can get his hands on her family fortune.


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* WaxingLyrical: This line from Penelope in "Big Top Trap":
-->'''Penelope''': Give my regards to Broadway! Remember me to Harold Square! He was my botany teacher, you know.
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* BuriedAlive: One of the Hooded Claw's schemes to off Penelope is to literally send her to an early grave.



* FlyInTheSoup: This exchange in "Bad. Fortune in a Chinese Fortune Cookie":
-->'''Customer''': Waiter, what's this fly doing in my soup?
-->'''Yak-Yak''': ''(giggling)'' The backstroke.



* ICantLookGesture: While the Anthill Mob is working at a restaurant to pay for the damage caused when Chuggaboom crashed into it, Softy covers his eyes when Snoozy drops the dishes he was supposed to put away.



** It's been said that the Claw's line was predicated on originally in development having Dick Dastardly on the show first as the villain then as the [[HeelFaceTurn protector of Penelope's brother.]]

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** *** It's been said that the Claw's line was predicated on originally in development having Dick Dastardly on the show first as the villain then as the [[HeelFaceTurn protector of Penelope's brother.]]


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** One of the Hooded Claw's disguises is "Charlie Chin", an {{Expy}} of Film/CharlieChan.


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* SquashedFlat: Happens to the heroes and villains on various occasions.


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* TemptingFate: The heroes and villains do this every once in a while.


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* ThisIsNoTimeForKnitting: When Penelope decides to chew some gum as part of a plan to escape one of her perils, the narrator's first response is "How can you think of gum at a time like this?"
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* BagOfKidnapping: The Hooded Claw and his minions The Bully Brothers do this to Penelope in "Big Baghdad Danger" and "Big Top Trap".

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* BagOfKidnapping: The Hooded Claw and his minions The minions, the Bully Brothers Brothers, do this to Penelope in "Big Baghdad Danger" and "Big Top Trap".
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: The Bully Brothers.

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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: The Bully Brothers.Brothers look exactly alike.

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* ShoutOut: From the debut episode, "Jungle Jeopardy":

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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From the debut episode, "Jungle Jeopardy":


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** In "Big Bagdad Danger", there's this line from the Hooded Claw after the narrator mentions "ta-tas" and "boo-boos" when telling him that the Anthill Mob is coming to save Penelope:
--->'''Hooded Claw''': "Ta-tas"? "Boo-boos"? What is this, "Baby Snooks"?
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* BorrowedCatchphrase: The Bully Brothers have borrowed "Blast!" from the Hooded Claw a few times when their schemes went away.


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** "Cross-Country Double Cross" also has a scene where one of the Bully Brothers dresses in drag to pose as a nurse.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: While dressed as a yeti, the Hooded Claw gains one in a female yeti.


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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: The Hooded Claw runs afoul of two yeti in "North Pole Peril" after he disguises himself as one.


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* SneezeOfDoom: The Hooded Claw gives Penelope a noseful of pepper to invoke thisand make her fall in mud in "Tall Timber Treachery". She tries to prevent it with an AntiSneezeFinger, but it doesn't last.


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* TitleDrop: A few episodes have these, such as "Tall Timber Treachery" and "The Treacherous Movie Lot Plot".
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* WatchOutForThatTree: In "North Pole Peril", the Bully Brothers push down a tree on a pair of skis to crash into Chuggaboom, and Dum-Dum warns the rest of the Anthill Mob about the tree too late.
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* ProneToTears: Softy, it seems, just can't help crying nearly all the time.

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* ProneToTears: Softy, it seems, Softy just can't help crying nearly all the time.
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* SimpletonVoice: Dum-Dum has this, of course.
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** Several episodes have these, too.


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* BrickJoke: At one point in "Hair-Raising Harness Race", the Bully Brothers tell the Hooded Claw that they want to go to Coney Island. At the end of the episode, they ask again if they can go there.


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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In "Hair-Raising Harness Race", after the Hooded Claw quips that Penelope would soon be a "peck of pickled Pitstops", the Bully Brothers ask if they're going to a pickle factory.


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* IWillShowYouX: At the end of "Hair-Raising Harness Race", after the Hooded Claw's latest scheme fails and the Bully Brothers ask if they can go to Coney Island, he chases after them, saying, "I'll 'Coney Island' you, you bungling Bully Brothers!"
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: The Bully Brothers.
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* NonindicativeName: The Hooded Claw. No hood, no claw. I guess he just thought the name [[RuleOfCool sounded cool]].

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* NonindicativeName: NonIndicativeName: The Hooded Claw. No hood, no claw. I guess he just thought the name [[RuleOfCool sounded cool]].
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* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: After Penelope discovers that the "director" of her movie is really the Hooded Claw:
-->'''Penelope''': ''(shocked)'' Oh, and those must be...
-->'''Bully Brothers''': ''(take off their monster masks)'' The Bully Brothers.



* FriendToAllLivingThings: Animals have helped Penelope escape several times, and with little wonder; "Arabian Desert Danger" she seems far more concerned about a camel (whose legs have been bound by Sneeky) than her own life (her ''whole body'' has been bound by Sneeky to be BuriedAlive).

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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Animals have helped Penelope escape several times, and with little wonder; "Arabian Desert Danger" she seems far more concerned about a camel (whose legs have been bound by Sneeky) Sneekly) than her own life (her ''whole body'' has been bound by Sneeky Sneekly to be BuriedAlive).
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* WalkLikeAnEgyptian[=/=]WalkThisWay: In "Big Bagdad Danger", the Bully Brothers, disguised as maidservants, do this as they lead Penelope into a trap, telling her, "Walk this way, please." Penelope and even the Hooded Claw follow suit.

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* WalkLikeAnEgyptian[=/=]WalkThisWay: WalkLikeAnEgyptian: In "Big Bagdad Danger", the Bully Brothers, disguised as maidservants, do this as they lead Penelope into a trap, telling her, "Walk this way, please." [[WalkThisWay Penelope and even the Hooded Claw follow suit.]]

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