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* ForciblyFormedPhysique: At one point, the fox and raccoon need to get into a guarded building, so the fox [[BagOfHolding pulls a jackhammer from her pocket]] and makes a hole in the wall, in the exact shape of her silhouette: tall and skinny. After stepping through the hole with no problem, she pulls the raccoon (who's shorter and much stouter) through after her--stretching the raccoon into a palette-swapped duplicate of the fox. Then it gets flipped on its head at the end of the cartoon, when the duo need to dig through another wall. Obviously not wanting a repeat of last time, the raccoon takes the jackhammer from the fox, and makes a hole in her own exact shape instead. [[RuleOfFunny It stretches her into the same shape as the fox again, anyway.]]
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* ForciblyFormedPhysique: At one point, the The fox and raccoon need to get into a guarded building, so the fox [[BagOfHolding pulls a jackhammer from her pocket]] and makes jackhammers a hole in the a wall, in [[ImpactSilhouette the exact shape of her silhouette: tall silhouette]]--tall and skinny. After stepping skinny--and steps through the hole it with no problem, issue. Then she pulls the raccoon (who's shorter and much stouter) through the hole after her--stretching the raccoon into a palette-swapped duplicate of the fox. Then it herself. This gets flipped on its head at much later in the end of cartoon: the cartoon, when the duo next time they need to dig get through another wall. Obviously a wall, the raccoon insists on making the hole, obviously not wanting a repeat of last time, the raccoon takes the jackhammer from the fox, and makes time. She jackhammers a hole in her own exact shape instead. shape--but when she goes through [[RuleOfFunny It it inexplicably stretches her into the same shape as of the fox again, anyway.again.]]
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* ImpactSilhouette: The fox makes one for herself in the wall of the gang's hideout with a jackhammer, so she can pass though — but the raccoon is unable to. (This also occurs later, but turns into a DoubleSubversion.)
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* ImpactSilhouette: The When the fox makes one for herself in uses her jackhammer to make an impromptu entrance to the wall of building, the gang's hideout hole she drills is her exact size and shape. She has no trouble stepping through--[[ForciblyFormedPhysique the raccoon, not so much]]. It happens again later, with a jackhammer, so she can pass though — but the raccoon is unable to. (This also occurs later, but turns into drilling her exact silhouette through a DoubleSubversion.)wall. Somehow, she still has trouble passing through this hole, while the fox still steps through easily.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Kouka and Bibi are female, and if anything, they're on the receiving end of even more AmusingInjuries than the male characters.
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* MetaphoricMetamorphosis: When Kouka convinces her to track the murderer by smell, Bibi rushes across the city to arrive at a several-store building. There, her body is shaped like an arrow with the head pointing to said building.
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* NoNameGiven: While we know what names the main characters could ''technically'' have, whether each character is named Bibi or Kouka is anybody's guess — [[ShrugOfGod even the creator's]].
** Their names are a play on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect 'bouba/kiki' effect]], which illustrates that people universally give similar names to shapes and forms [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance simply from their appearance]]. How's that for FridgeBrilliance?
** Their names are a play on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect 'bouba/kiki' effect]], which illustrates that people universally give similar names to shapes and forms [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance simply from their appearance]]. How's that for FridgeBrilliance?
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* NoNameGiven: While we know what names the main characters could ''technically'' have, whether each character is named Bibi or Kouka is anybody's guess — [[ShrugOfGod even the creator's]].
**creator's]]. Their names are a play on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect 'bouba/kiki' effect]], which illustrates that people universally give similar names to shapes and forms [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance simply from their appearance]]. How's that for FridgeBrilliance?
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* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: With the occasional exception.
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* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: With the occasional exception.exception (such as the very English "GTFO" on a doormat).
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* ForciblyFormedPhysique: At one point, the fox and raccoon need to get into a guarded building, so the fox [[BagOfHolding pulls a jackhammer from her pocket]] and makes a hole in the wall, in the exact shape of her silhouette: tall and skinny. After stepping through the hole with no problem, she pulls the raccoon (who's shorter and much stouter) through after her--stretching the raccoon into a palette-swapped duplicate of the fox. Then it gets flipped on its head at the end of the cartoon, when the duo need to dig through another wall. Obviously not wanting a repeat of last time, the raccoon takes the jackhammer from the fox, and makes a hole in her own exact shape instead. [[RuleOfFunny It stretches her into the same shape as the fox again, anyway.]]
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* WheelOFeet: The mice gain these as they flee from the fox's steamroller feet. And as the raccoon flees from the police at the end, her legs spin so fast they transform into rubber tires.
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* WheelOFeet: The mice gain these as they flee from the fox's steamroller feet. And as the raccoon flees from [[spoiler:from the police police]] at the very end, her legs spin so fast they transform into rubber tires.
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* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: All of the mice smoke during their card game, and their increasingly elaborate tobacco products are a visual EscalatingPunchline. In contrast, the raccoon has a pipe to go with her HyperspaceHolmesHat, but she just uses it as a prop and doesn't actually smoke.
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* DepthDeception: The fox poses for a photo as if she's leaning against a distant skyscraper. When that photo blows away in the wind, the fox tries to catch it--by climbing up that same skyscraper, which is suddenly in the foreground with her and now supports her weight.
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* DepthDeception: DepthPerplexion: The fox poses for a photo as if she's leaning against a distant skyscraper. When that photo blows away in the wind, the fox tries to catch it--by climbing up that same skyscraper, which is suddenly now supports her weight as if it were in the foreground with her and now supports her weight.her.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Subverted as a funny background detail. The gangster mice have a portrait labeled "Mother" hanging in their meeting place. It's riddled with darts.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Subverted as a funny background detail. The gangster mice have a portrait labeled "Mother" hanging in their meeting place. It's riddled with darts.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Kouka and Bibi are female, and if anything, they're on the receiving end of even more slapstick jokes than the male characters.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Kouka and Bibi are female, and if anything, they're on the receiving end of even more slapstick jokes AmusingInjuries than the male characters.
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* BagOfHolding: The fox keeps a jackhammer--several times thicker than she is--in her pants pockets.
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* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: [[spoiler:The mouse gangster whose fingerprints are all over the murder weapons? He wasn't the actual killer. He just happened to be walking by the crime scene, tripped onto the body, and accidentally grabbed all the weapons as he went.]]
* BilingualBonus: In the opening scene, Kouka and Bibi walk past a four-star restaurant named ''Chez Hors de Votre Gammes de Prix'', or [[spoiler:"House of Out of Your Price Range"]].
* BodyPocket: The foxhas one, which is wearing pants, but they're almost the same color as her fur coat. So when she uses to pull pulls a massive jackhammer out a jackhammer.of her pants pocket, it looks like the pocket spontaneously appeared in her fur.
* BilingualBonus: In the opening scene, Kouka and Bibi walk past a four-star restaurant named ''Chez Hors de Votre Gammes de Prix'', or [[spoiler:"House of Out of Your Price Range"]].
* BodyPocket: The fox
* ChalkOutline: When the raccoon starts investigating the crime scene, the murder victim suddenly gains a chalk outline around his body.
* DelayedReaction: The wayward photograph lands right in a dead dog's hand. The fox picks up the photo, turns to leave... and pauses as she slowly realizes that's a dead body in the alley with her.
* DepthDeception: The fox poses for a photo as if she's leaning against a distant skyscraper. When that photo blows away in the wind, the fox tries to catch it--by climbing up that same skyscraper, which is suddenly in the foreground with her and now supports her weight.
* DepthDeception: The fox poses for a photo as if she's leaning against a distant skyscraper. When that photo blows away in the wind, the fox tries to catch it--by climbing up that same skyscraper, which is suddenly in the foreground with her and now supports her weight.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Played with. The characters are all fully clothed, but the fox's pants are nearly the same color as her fur, so at first glance she appears to be wearing the classic shirt-with-no-pants ensemble.
* HyperspaceWardrobe: When the fox [[BeTheBall uses the raccoon as a bowling ball]], her ensemble instantly transforms into a professional bowler uniform.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: All of the mice smoke during their card game, and their increasingly elaborate tobacco products are a visual EscalatingPunchline.
* KnifeOutline: Inverted, when all six mouse gangsters get the drop on the raccoon. She runs away, just before the mice riddle the space she'd been standing with bullet holes, filling in her exact silhouette (rather than just the outline).
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* [[spoiler: NotQuiteDead]]: [[spoiler: The murder victim, who simply wakes up at the end and reveals what really happened.]]
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* TheyHaveTheScent: The fox senses the murder victim's trail, and she zooms all over the city searching for its source.
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* PortableHole: After taking refuge from the mouse gangsters in a room, the fox slams the door, locks it several times--then pulls the entire doorway off the wall, leaving a completely solid wall behind.
* SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere: Kouka and Bibi trap themselves in one, when the fox [[PortableHole removes the room's only door]]. Fortunately, the fox has her jackhammer to make a new exit.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Kouka and Bibi are female, and if anything, they're on the receiving end of even more slapstick jokes than the male characters.
* SquashedFlat:
** When the fox gets yanked away from the cop, she slams into the pavement so hard that she briefly becomes just a fox-colored puddle on the ground.
** The gang of mice leave their apartment and slam the door into Kouka and Bibi, flattening them against the wall.
** The raccoon accidentally squashes three mice when she slams into a wall, reducing them to folded paper dolls.
** The fox turns her feet into steam rollers and tries to flatten the gang of mice, but rolls over the raccoon instead. Then she uses the flattened raccoon as a parachute in the next scene.
* TheyHaveTheScent: The foxsenses picks up a scent from the fingerprints on the murder victim's trail, weapons, and she zooms all over the city searching for its source.
* SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere: Kouka and Bibi trap themselves in one, when the fox [[PortableHole removes the room's only door]]. Fortunately, the fox has her jackhammer to make a new exit.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Kouka and Bibi are female, and if anything, they're on the receiving end of even more slapstick jokes than the male characters.
* SquashedFlat:
** When the fox gets yanked away from the cop, she slams into the pavement so hard that she briefly becomes just a fox-colored puddle on the ground.
** The gang of mice leave their apartment and slam the door into Kouka and Bibi, flattening them against the wall.
** The raccoon accidentally squashes three mice when she slams into a wall, reducing them to folded paper dolls.
** The fox turns her feet into steam rollers and tries to flatten the gang of mice, but rolls over the raccoon instead. Then she uses the flattened raccoon as a parachute in the next scene.
* TheyHaveTheScent: The fox
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* WheelOFeet: The mice gain these as they flee from the fox's steamroller feet. And as the raccoon flees from the police at the end, her legs spin so fast they transform into rubber tires.
* WildTake: The fox's reaction when she notices the dead body, complete with [[EyePop her eyes popping out and growing several times larger than her whole body]].
* WingdingEyes: The radiator turns on while Kouka and Bibi are hiding inside it, and their pupils turn into X's from the extreme heat. Then the fox grows tiny windshield wipers to clean the steam off her pupils.
* WildTake: The fox's reaction when she notices the dead body, complete with [[EyePop her eyes popping out and growing several times larger than her whole body]].
* WingdingEyes: The radiator turns on while Kouka and Bibi are hiding inside it, and their pupils turn into X's from the extreme heat. Then the fox grows tiny windshield wipers to clean the steam off her pupils.
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* ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: [[spoiler: The main characters are chased off into the distance by the police in the final scene.]]
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* ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: [[spoiler: The main characters Kouka and Bibi are chased off into the distance by the police in the final scene.]]
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making a page for a short i really enjoy and feel is pretty troperrific!
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[[caption-width-right:300:From left to right: Kouka and Bibi. Or is it Bibi and Kouka? [[NoNameGiven Who knows?]]]]
A 16-minute animated short film by webcartoonist Dan Variano, ''Kouka and Bibi'' [[note]][[OneEpisodeWonder episode name:]] "Murder in the Big City"[[/note]] is an AffectionateParody of the [[MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon Silent]] ZanyCartoon, set in a FilmNoir universe and starring the titular characters — [[FatAndSkinny one a tall, lanky fox, the other a short, stout raccoon]]. (It's [[NoNameGiven never shown]] which one has which name.)
While taking pictures of each other in the city, Kouka and Bibi stumble across a [[AlwaysMurder murder victim]] in an alleyway. They don't know why he was killed, and [[PoliceAreUseless the cops are no help]] — they've got to find out [[MysteryFiction whodunnit]] by themselves! Plenty of [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]], [[ToonPhysics classic]] [[AmusingInjuries animation]] [[MetaphoricMetamorphosis tropes]], and [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] ensues.
You can watch the cartoon [[https://vimeo.com/198610792 here.]]
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!!''Kouka and Bibi'' contains examples of:
* AmusingInjuries: No shortage of these!
* AntiSneezeFinger: Used on the fox to stop from alerting the gang of mice to the duo's presence: surprisingly, it works. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope But not for long...]]]]
* BadCopIncompetentCop: The cop that the fox consults immediately [[StopOrIWillShoot draws a gun on her]] and tries to [[FrameUp frame her by placing assorted illegal objects at her feet]] before she manages to escape.
** [[spoiler: He also turns out to have been the one who attacked the victim [[TheBadGuysAreCops in the first place]].]]
* BeTheBall: [[spoiler: To defeat the gang]], the fox decides to play bowling with them — using the raccoon as the bowling ball.
* BodyPocket: The fox has one, which she uses to pull out a jackhammer.
* ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: [[spoiler: The main characters are chased off into the distance by the police in the final scene.]]
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: The gang of mice all wear these.
* FatAndSkinny: The main duo.
* HyperspaceHolmesHat: Pulled out by the raccoon as she prepares to start her investigation. (Though later thrown in the trash by the fox when she decides to simply go to the police.)
* ImpactSilhouette: The fox makes one for herself in the wall of the gang's hideout with a jackhammer, so she can pass though — but the raccoon is unable to. (This also occurs later, but turns into a DoubleSubversion.)
* JerkAss: The cop, who seems like his main purpose in life is to inflict misery and frame people for carrying drugs.
* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: With the occasional exception.
* NoNameGiven: While we know what names the main characters could ''technically'' have, whether each character is named Bibi or Kouka is anybody's guess — [[ShrugOfGod even the creator's]].
**Their names are a play on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect 'bouba/kiki' effect]], which illustrates that people universally give similar names to shapes and forms [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance simply from their appearance]]. How's that for FridgeBrilliance?
* [[spoiler: NotQuiteDead]]: [[spoiler: The murder victim, who simply wakes up at the end and reveals what really happened.]]
* OverlyLongGag: The raccoon waiting for her instant camera to develop the photo.
* TheyHaveTheScent: The fox senses the murder victim's trail, and she zooms all over the city searching for its source.
* ToonPhysics: Characters regularly change shape and stature or [[MetaphoricMetamorphosis morph into entirely different objects]] for visual gags - these jokes become [[SerialEscalation more and more extreme]] as time goes on.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: The raccoon pulls several important items out from... in there.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Happens with the fox after discovering the murder victim.
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: In keeping with Variano's other creations.
[[caption-width-right:300:From left to right: Kouka and Bibi. Or is it Bibi and Kouka? [[NoNameGiven Who knows?]]]]
A 16-minute animated short film by webcartoonist Dan Variano, ''Kouka and Bibi'' [[note]][[OneEpisodeWonder episode name:]] "Murder in the Big City"[[/note]] is an AffectionateParody of the [[MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon Silent]] ZanyCartoon, set in a FilmNoir universe and starring the titular characters — [[FatAndSkinny one a tall, lanky fox, the other a short, stout raccoon]]. (It's [[NoNameGiven never shown]] which one has which name.)
While taking pictures of each other in the city, Kouka and Bibi stumble across a [[AlwaysMurder murder victim]] in an alleyway. They don't know why he was killed, and [[PoliceAreUseless the cops are no help]] — they've got to find out [[MysteryFiction whodunnit]] by themselves! Plenty of [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]], [[ToonPhysics classic]] [[AmusingInjuries animation]] [[MetaphoricMetamorphosis tropes]], and [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] ensues.
You can watch the cartoon [[https://vimeo.com/198610792 here.]]
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!!''Kouka and Bibi'' contains examples of:
* AmusingInjuries: No shortage of these!
* AntiSneezeFinger: Used on the fox to stop from alerting the gang of mice to the duo's presence: surprisingly, it works. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope But not for long...]]]]
* BadCopIncompetentCop: The cop that the fox consults immediately [[StopOrIWillShoot draws a gun on her]] and tries to [[FrameUp frame her by placing assorted illegal objects at her feet]] before she manages to escape.
** [[spoiler: He also turns out to have been the one who attacked the victim [[TheBadGuysAreCops in the first place]].]]
* BeTheBall: [[spoiler: To defeat the gang]], the fox decides to play bowling with them — using the raccoon as the bowling ball.
* BodyPocket: The fox has one, which she uses to pull out a jackhammer.
* ChasedOffIntoTheSunset: [[spoiler: The main characters are chased off into the distance by the police in the final scene.]]
* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: The gang of mice all wear these.
* FatAndSkinny: The main duo.
* HyperspaceHolmesHat: Pulled out by the raccoon as she prepares to start her investigation. (Though later thrown in the trash by the fox when she decides to simply go to the police.)
* ImpactSilhouette: The fox makes one for herself in the wall of the gang's hideout with a jackhammer, so she can pass though — but the raccoon is unable to. (This also occurs later, but turns into a DoubleSubversion.)
* JerkAss: The cop, who seems like his main purpose in life is to inflict misery and frame people for carrying drugs.
* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: With the occasional exception.
* NoNameGiven: While we know what names the main characters could ''technically'' have, whether each character is named Bibi or Kouka is anybody's guess — [[ShrugOfGod even the creator's]].
**Their names are a play on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect 'bouba/kiki' effect]], which illustrates that people universally give similar names to shapes and forms [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance simply from their appearance]]. How's that for FridgeBrilliance?
* [[spoiler: NotQuiteDead]]: [[spoiler: The murder victim, who simply wakes up at the end and reveals what really happened.]]
* OverlyLongGag: The raccoon waiting for her instant camera to develop the photo.
* TheyHaveTheScent: The fox senses the murder victim's trail, and she zooms all over the city searching for its source.
* ToonPhysics: Characters regularly change shape and stature or [[MetaphoricMetamorphosis morph into entirely different objects]] for visual gags - these jokes become [[SerialEscalation more and more extreme]] as time goes on.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: The raccoon pulls several important items out from... in there.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Happens with the fox after discovering the murder victim.
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: In keeping with Variano's other creations.
