History WesternAnimation / CaptainStar

* RightForTheWrongReasons: In ''The Gravity of the Situation'', Star receives a teddy bear which he thinks has his orders, and spends the episode interrogating the stuffed animal, while everyone else assumes it's because the captain is suffering from boredom-induced depression. At the end of the episode when Star cheers up, he throws the bear away, and it turns out the bear was a scout for an alien invasion; so everyone was wrong about the bear, but Star's attempted interrogation was right anyway. The bears then have their own example when the scout tells his commanders that Star is a major {{Badass}} and should be avoided; he's right that Star is a badass, but was wrong in thinking Star was onto them.

!!''CaptainStar'' provides examples of:

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* PlanetSpaceship: Mission Control is implied to be this from [[http://i.imgur.com/MNUDrAa.png?1 the image shown on the atomic alarm clock]], and Scarlette's description of it as "the largest object in Creation".

* MultipleHeadCase: Jones has nine heads.

Not to be confused with the [[WesternAnimation/TUGS Tugs]] character of the same name.

* {{Chickification}}: in-universe. Scarlette is portrayed as a bimbo in the ShowWithinAShow that dramatises Star's adventures. Subverted in that the actress dislikes having to play her that way and is in fact an avid reader of Scarlette's scientific works.

* CoolShip: The Boiling Hell, along with virtually every other ship we see.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Halibut Surprise, which appears to be the only dish served at Black's Cafe.

Not to be confused with the [[TUGS]] character of the same name.

The actual work is done by his second in command [[TheXFiles Dana Scully]]-[[CaptainErsatz Ersatz]] (just look at that hair), OnlySaneWoman First Officer Scarlette. She is sort of helped by the multi-limbed, multi-headed engineer "Limbs" Jones and navigator Black, a fish-obsessed cook.

* {{Chickification}}: in-universe. Scarlette is portrayed as a bimbo in the ShowWithinAShow. Subverted in that the actress dislikes having to play her that way and is in fact an avid reader of Scarlette's scientific works.

* GeniusDitz: Jones. An extremely talented engineer and inventor; a bumbling moron and complete idiot in every other aspect of life, with a particularly horrible track record on pets.

* TheCaptain: Star, in functioning as one of these, also doubles as a skewed parody of [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]], though an oddly asexual one.

* TheCaptain: Star, in functioning as one of these, also doubles as a skewed parody of [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]].

* MegaCorp: Mission Control appears to be the military arm of one of these, known only as "Arc". Presumably "Arc" is also OneNationUnderCopyright, though this is never explicitly stated.

A quirky Anglo-Canadian cartoon parody of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' that ran for only 13 episodes. Captain Star's mission is to visit exotic planets, name them after himself, and sell stuff. However his superiors have stuck him on a nameless planet at the ragged edge of the universe where he naively waits for his next orders, his ego oblivious to the implications that he has been KickedUpstairs.

A quirky Anglo-Canadian cartoon parody of ''StarTrek'' that ran for only 13 episodes. Captain Star's mission is to visit exotic planets, name them after himself, and sell stuff. However his superiors have stuck him on a nameless planet at the ragged edge of the universe where he naively waits for his next orders, his ego oblivious to the implications that he has been KickedUpstairs.

* HeyItsThatVoice: RichardEGrant voices the titular character, and [[TheYoungOnes Adrian]] [[{{Bottom}} Edmondson]] voices Jones (all nine heads).
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Rumor has it that the first three episodes were released on VHS, but nothing more.