History WesternAnimation / Dougs1stMovie

* DigitalDestruction: The Disney Movie Club DVD of the film uses the ToonDisney edit of the film, making it one of the few instances where the ''tape'' has better quality than the DVD.

* IdiotBall: Doug and the Mayor toss this to each other in the film, from Doug talking about exposing Mr. Bluff's plot in front of Guy who happens to be good friends with Mr. Bluff and thinking that Herman is dead despite knowing that said death is in next week's paper, to the Mayor, despite being, y'know, the Mayor and knowing that Mr. Bluff is polluting the lake and had hired goons to capture Herman, doesn't do anything about it. Though with the latter, you can justify it with the good ol' ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney trope.

Notably, this was also the last traditionally-animated American film to use cels before digital ink and paint (briefly) became industry standard.

The movie, originally intended for a DirectToVideo release, was released in theaters to replicate the success of Nickelodeon's ''The Rugrats Movie''. Unfortunately, the film was not changed visually in any way to appeal to a theatrical presentation. Critics bashed the movie for, appropriately enough, looking like a hackneyed DTV movie, and for being too much like an extended version of an episode. And while it did recoup it's small budget, it still didn't make a lot of money[[note]]A contributing factor could've been that ''Doug'' was on its last leg. The show was about to hit sixty-five episodes (the episode limit), the production staff was busy with ''PBAndJOtter'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' was quickly becoming the most popular show on OneSaturdayMorning. It also [[InvisibleAdvertising barely got any advertisement]].[[/note]]. Fittingly, it sold quite well on video.

* AbsenteeActor: Neither Sally nor Skunky appear at all in the film.

** The movie wasn't the end of the series; a few months after the movie was released, the last episode premiered and Doug and Patti became an OfficialCouple.

* Flanderization: The movie is pretty exaggerated in comparison with the cartoon series. Doug's universe is almost a copy of the real universe but in the movie there is a StockNessMonster and a robot with a ShrinkRay. There is even a dancing party with swat levels of security.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: The movie ends without resolving the romance between Doug and Patti. They ended together or not? Is very likely we never know.

* AwardBaitSong: "Someone Like Me"

* TheMovie

''Doug's 1st Movie'' (Originally ''The First Doug Movie Ever'' and ''Doug: The Movie'') is a 1999 animated film based off the animated series, ''{{Doug}}'' (released during its third and final season of its Disney era, and its seventh and final season altogether), produced by [=DisneyToon=] Studios and Jumbo Pictures. It was the third movie based off a Disney television series to be released theatrically, and the first movie based off a OneSaturdayMorning show.

* GreenAesop: While not quite as in-your-face as other examples, this is a major plot point. Mr. Bluff's pollution of Lucky Duck Lake results in the creation of a monster, which he then wants to kill to cover up his tracks. [[spoiler: In the end, the monster escapes, Mr. Bluff's actions are exposed and he then volunteers to clean up his mess.]]

* KarmaHoudini: How was Mr. Bluff '''''not''''' arrested at the end? Yes, he did get comeuppance but he broke so many U.S. laws it's ridiculous. He polluted a lake he didn't even own, he bribes the police, he bribes the media. He bribes everyone! That's just the beginning.

* DemotedToExtra: Chalky has ''one line'' in the film, and then appears very briefly in the Weekly Beebe office with no lines in a flashback.

* DirectToVideo: What the movie was originally going to be.

* KarmaHoudini:
** Slightly. How was Mr. Bluff '''''not''''' arrested at the end? Yes, he did get comeuppance but he broke so many U.S. laws it's ridiculous. He polluted a lake he didn't even own, he bribes the police, he bribes the media. He bribes everyone! That's just the beginning.
** He now has to devote his time and effort to clean up the messes he made, and probably a lot of other messes as well. It's either that or Mrs. Dink could probably have him hauled off to jail after he just plainly threatened to destroy the lives of two innocent young men in front of a ''lot'' of witnesses. It just makes more sense that someone with his power and money could get a lot more done in terms of cleaning up pollution then if he was behind bars. Not to mention, added to the fact of his verbal threats to Doug and Skeeter, that he was just emasculated by his own daughter in front of said witnesses, so at this point it's pretty obvious how petty and spineless he really is, so he's got a ton of work to do to clean up his image.

The movie, originally intended for a DirectToVideo release, was released in theaters to replicate the success of Nickelodeon's ''The Rugrats Movie''. Unfortunately for Disney, they decided to release the movie as-is, with no editing to spruce it up for the theater. Critics bashed the movie for being too much like an extended version of an episode, as well as for the direct-to-video look. And while the film did make over its budget in the office (as the movie had a small, direct-to-video budget), it still didn't make a lot of money[[note]]A contributing factor could've been that ''Doug'' was on its last leg. The show was about to hit sixty-five episodes (the episode limit), the production staff was busy with ''PBAndJOtter'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' was quickly becoming the most popular show on OneSaturdayMorning. Another factor was most likely due to the low advertising campaign[[/note]]. Fittingly, it sold quite well on video.

The movie, originally intended for a DirectToVideo release, was released in theaters to replicate the success of Nickelodeon's ''The Rugrats Movie''. Unfortunately for Disney, they decided to release the movie as-is, with no editing to spruce it up for the theater. Critics bashed the movie for being too much like an extended version of an episode, as well as for the direct-to-video look. And while the film did make over its budget in the office (as the movie had a small, direct-to-video budget), it still didn't make a lot of money[[note]]A contributing factor could've been that ''Doug'' was on its last leg. The show was about to hit sixty-five episodes (the episode limit), the production staff was busy with ''PBAndJOtter'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' was quickly becoming the most popular show on OneSaturdayMorning. Another factor was most likely due to the low advertising campaign[[/note]]. However, it sold quite well on video.

Notably, it was the very last American animated theatrical film to be animated with traditional cel animation as opposed to digital 2D animation or CGI.

'''''Doug's 1st Movie''''' (Originally '''''The First Doug Movie Ever''''' and '''''Doug: The Movie''''') is a 1999 animated film based off the animated series, ''{{Doug}}'' (released during its third and final season of its Disney era, and its seventh and final season altogether), produced by [=DisneyToon=] Studios and Jumbo Pictures. It was the third movie based off a Disney television series to be released theatrically, and the first movie based off a OneSaturdayMorning show.

The movie, originally intended for a DirectToVideo release, was released in theaters to replicate the success of Nickelodeon's ''The Rugrats Movie''. Unfortunately for Disney, they decided to release the movie as-is, with no editing to spruce it up for the theater. Critics bashed the movie for being too much like an extended version of an episode, as well as for the direct-to-video look. And while the film did make over its budget in the office (as the movie had a small, direct-to-video budget), it still didn't make a lot of money[[hottip:*:A contributing factor could've been that ''Doug'' was on its last leg. The show was about to hit sixty-five episodes (the episode limit), the production staff was busy with ''PBAndJOtter'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' was quickly becoming the most popular show on OneSaturdayMorning. Another factor was most likely due to the low advertising campaign]]. However, it sold quite well on video.

* FanNickname: ''Doug's Only Movie'', as a sequel was never made nor in production.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The movie was released on video in September 1999 and was quietly re-issued in mid-2000, and ''only'' on video, despite the fact that Disney had entered the DVD market by then. The film went out of print around 2001, when ''Doug'' was removed from ABC's lineup. For a while, the film wasn't available, aside from being shown on ToonDisney often. Then, in 2011, the film was put onto iTunes (Rental only) and Amazon Instant Video. Thirteen years after the video release, Disney ''finally'' released the movie on DVD in 2012, though with two drawbacks - the first being that it was exclusive to the Disney Movie Club, and the second being that instead of remastering the film, Disney used the TV edit master, with various fade out / fade ins in between various scenes, and speeding up the credits, featuring only half of "Someone Like Me".

* HypotheticalFightDebate: Two cops debate who would win in a fight between {{Batman}} and {{Superman}}.

* {{Leitmotif}}: An instrumental of the ''DougLive'' song "Someone Like Me" plays during Doug and Patti's moments.

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Doug's 1st Movie (also known as The First Doug Movie Ever) is a 1999 animated film based on the Disney version of the {{Nickelodeon}} television series. The film was directed by Maurice Joyce, and stars the regular television cast of Tom McHugh, Fred Newman, Chris Phillips, Constance Shulman, Frank Welker, Alice Playten, and [[TheDanza Guy Hadley]]. It was produced by Jumbo Pictures and Buena Vista, and released by {{Walt Disney Pictures}} on March 26, 1999.

The film delivers a GreenAesop and revolves around [[CoolLoser Doug Funnie]] and his best friend Skeeter Valentine rescueing the
[[StocknessMonster The Monster of Lucky Duck Lake]], Herman, from a polluted lake which has been polluted by [[SouthGentleman Bill Bluff]].

However, Doug gets sidetracked once he finds out that [[SchoolNewspaperNewsHound Guy Graham]] has intentions of asking his biggest crush, Patti Mayonaise, to the [[HighSchoolDance school dance]] before him. Now Doug is stuck between his true love and avoiding exposing Herman.

What will he choose? [[SarcasmMode THAT should be hard to figure out]].

The film begins when [[TheBully Roger]] and his [[GangOfBullies gang]] (and later Doug and Skeeter) are out the forest, Roger plays a prank on Doug by dressing up like the monster they're hunting and everything's going as usual until they hear a noise in the bushes, everyone takes off as fast as they could but Skeeter manages to take a picture of a mysterious foot print with his camera.

The next day, all everyone can talk about is the upcoming dance, Connie mentions that no one has offered to sign up to help plan it and naturally Doug starts daydreaming what it would be like to plan the dance with Patti Mayonnaise. As Doug suggests the idea of her working on the dance to her, the two are interrupted by Guy Graham who begs Patti to attend the upperclassman dance instead of the lower grade one, but she refuses. Doug grows angry with Guy for interrupting.

Meanwhile, Roger and his gang are discussing the events of the previous night and the gang tries to convince Roger that the reason the monsters started roaring at them was because it was protecting Skeeter. Paranoid, Roger hatches a plan of building his own robot to protect him from the monster if it ever came back.

Meanwhile, Doug and Skeeter are talking about the photo the camera took but are interrupted by Beebe who tells Doug that he can no longer help with the dance because Guy changed his mind about attending the eighth grade dance so he could be with Patti. Doug grows jealous and disappointed, and Beebe explains how Guy decided on helping out with the dance. Beebe reminds Doug how Guy has far more accomplishments than him and how he knows her father, Bill Bluff.

After that, Doug imagines how famous he will get once he shows the world he has a snapshot of the Lucky Duck Lake Monster....in the stylings of a Quailman day dream of course! In this dream it features Guy who is hypnotizing Patti into dancing until Quailman rescues the city from a giant monster and he earns praises from her.

Meanwhile, Roger is planning on building his robot to protect him from the monster, with the help.of Al, Moo, and the AV Nerds.

Later, Skeeter and Doug are in the woods, inspecting the footprints of the monster and Patti calls them with big, big, big news- Guy has asked Mr. Bluff to pay for the dance, and they're having it in Funkytown! Doug says the news is great but he can't talk right now and promises Patti that he'll meet her at Swirly's in an hour.

When the two boys get back to the house they finally find the monster in Doug's bedroom, at first they are terrified but realize he's friendly. When the monster tries eating the book "Moby Dick" they come up with the name Herman Melville for him, and the monster loves it!

Later, Doug and Skeeter visits the Dinks house to tell them the big news but Tippy suggests they keep everything about Herman a secret for his own safety and tells them about how Bill Bluff has been polluting the lake.

When Doug enters Mr. Swirly's
he goes to tell Guy about Mr. Bluff polluting the lake but Mr. Swirly says he left with Patti and went to Funkytown. When Doug finds Guy and confronts him about the situation, Guy denies it being true due to his friendship with Mr. Bluff. Annoyed at Guy, Doug leaves but the picture of the foot print falls out of his pocket and Guy picks it up and calls Mr. Bluff right away.

Meahwhile, Doug throws a press conference to expose the truth about Herman but when the monster doesn't show up, Patti believes Doug is a liar.

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