History WesternAnimation / FievelsAmericanTails

* AscendedExtra: A few of the extras from the series went on to become recurring characters in ''Fievel's American Tails''.

* HiccupHijinks: The episode "A Case Of the Hiccups", where the whole town gets hiccups due to a candy that Dr. Travis T. Hippocrates had Fievel pass around to everyone. Unknown to FIevel, this is part of a scheme to get everyone in town to buy his placebo hiccup cure.

%%* BabysittingEpisode: "Babysitting Blues".
* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: In the aforementioned BabysittingEpisode, Fievel is put in charge of babysitting his baby sister. She escapes and almost gets eaten by cats several times.

%%* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Wylie Burp gets this.
%%* EvilLaugh: Cat R. Waul does these. Part of his DiminishingVillainThreat.

%%* HiccupHijinks: The episode "A Case Of the Hiccups".

%%* LongLostUncleAesop: Fievel's Aunt Sophie from Russia in one episode of ''Fievel's American Tails''.

* BabysittingEpisode: "Babysitting Blues".

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Wylie Burp gets this.
* EvilLaugh: Cat R. Waul does these. Part of his DiminishingVillainThreat.

* HiccupHijinks: The episode "A Case Of the Hiccups".

* LongLostUncleAesop: Fievel's Aunt Sophie from Russia in one episode of ''Fievel's American Tails''.

** TheBusCameBack: Miss Kitty shows up for one episode, apparently touring the country as a singer and having seemingly broke up with Tiger.

* AesopAmnesia: Everyone from ''Fievel's American Tails'' has this condition, because it hardly even acts like ''Fievel Goes West'' happened.
* AscendedExtra: A few of the extras from ''Fievel Goes West'' went on to become recurring characters in ''Fievel's American Tails''.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Wylie Burp gets this for ''Fievel's American Tails''.
* EvilLaugh: Cat R. Waul does these in ''Fievel's American Tails''. Part of his DiminishingVillainThreat.
* FantasticRacism: Played with in ''Fievel's American Tails'', where Cat R. Waul seems to adopt this attitude towards mice in general, frequently referring to them as "furballs", like a slur.
* {{Flanderization}}: Just everyone in ''Fievel's American Tails''. Fievel becomes so obsessed with cowboys that it's all he ever talks about, Tiger just becomes [[TooDumbToLive completely stupid]], Waul loses almost all his FauxAffablyEvil characteristics and becomes a ButtMonkey, Tanya is DemotedToExtra in most episodes and the {{A|nAesop}}esops everyone learned at the end of ''Fievel Goes West'' are all completely forgotten... about the only character who actually sees some CharacterDevelopment is Yasha, ironically, due to her being SuddenlyVoiced.

* HiccupHijinks: The ''Fievel's American Tails'' episode "A Case Of the Hiccups".
* LimitedAnimation: ''Fievel's American Tails'', which is animated even worse than the later direct-to-video sequels.

* MaintainTheLie: The ''Fievel's American Tails'' episode "Law and Disorder" involves Fievel helping Tiger do this after he lied to Miss Kitty about becoming the Marshall of Green River while she was away on tour. She catches on, of course.
* PutOnABus: Miss Kitty is put on a bus for much of ''Fievel's American Tails'', which perhaps aided Tiger's {{Flanderization}} into a dopey bum who has nothing better to do but play with Fievel.

* TooSmartForStrangers: The ''Fievel's American Tails'' episode "A Case of the Hiccups" utterly averts this trope. When a strange [[SnakeOilSalesman doctor named Travis T. Hippocrates]] comes to town offering free candy, Fievel's mother ''allows'' Fievel to become the doctor's assistant, and pass out free candy to everyone in town which gives mice hiccups so he can sell them a placebo "cure". After Fievel figures out what the candy is doing he tries to back out of his "partnership", but the doctor kidnaps Fievel and traps him in a jar. FridgeHorror ensues if you consider how the real life, non G-Rated-version of this scenario would likely play out.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: In "That's What Friends Are For", after mishearing Fievel's father say Tiger was a bad influence on Fievel (he was actually saying Cat R. Waul was a bad influence on Chula), Tiger decides to break off their friendship, avoiding him and actually using the "furball" slur against Fievel. By the end of the episode, Tiger rescues Fievel from Cat R. Waul and learns it was all a misunderstanding.

* GoldFever: This overcomes the residents of Green Rover in "The Lost Mother Lode" after the discovery of Jeremiah's lost gold mine.

** TheBusComesBack: Miss Kitty shows up for one episode, apparently touring the country as a singer and having seemingly broke up with Tiger.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: In "That's What Friends Are For", after mishearing Fievel's father say Tiger was a bad influence on Fievel (he was actually saying Cat R. Waul was a bad influence on Chula), Tiger decides to break off their friendship, avoiding him and actually using the "furball" slur against Fievel.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: In "That'sWhat Friends Are For", after mishearing Fievel's father say Tiger was a bad influence on Fievel (he was actually saying Cat R. Waul was a bad influence on Chula), Tiger decides to break off their friendship, avoiding him and actually using the "furball" slur against Fievel.

* TooSmartForStrangers: The ''Fievel's American Tails'' episode "A Case of the Hiccups" utterly averts this trope. When a strange [[SnakeOilSalesman doctor named Travis T. Hippocrates]] comes to town offering free candy, Fievel's mother ''allows'' Fievel to become the doctor's assistant, and pass out free candy to everyone in town which gives mice hiccups so he can sell them a placebo "cure". After Fievel figures out what the candy is doing he tries to back out of his "partnership", but the doctor kidnaps Fievel and traps him in a jar. FridgeHorror ensues if you consider how the real life, non G-Rated-version of this scenario would likely play out.

* BabysittingEpisode: "Babysitting Blues" from ''Fievel's American Tails''.
* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: ''Fievel's American Tails'' devotes an episode to this trope.

In the show, Cat R. Waul has returned to Green River to carry out more evil schemes, and like the film, Fievel is usually the only one who sees through them. Other villains Fievel must contend with include Sweet William's cat gang (former members of Waul's gang that have splintered off on their own) and some one-off villains. Phillip Glasser, Cathy Cavadini and Creator/DomDeLuise reprise their roles as Fievel, Tanya and Tiger respectively.

In 1993 and 1994, MCA/Universal Home Video released eight episodes on four VHS video-cassettes and two Laserdisc volumes. These have been the only home video release of the cartoon in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the 13-episode series was released on six video-cassettes in 1995, which enabled the full series to surface on the internet in English a decade or so later. Episodes have been released on DVD in France, Germany, and Italy. Universal currently has no plans to release the show on DVD in the United States. At the end of each episode, Fievel, who is the national "spokesmouse" for the Reading Is Fundamental Foundation, did a "Reading Buddy" spot to encourage children to read. These public service announcements were not preserved on the VHS releases and may be considered lost, only existing through [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes surviving TV recordings]].

''Fievel's American Tails'' was a short-lived animated cartoon series, based on ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'', that ran for 13 episodes in 1992. It was produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, Nelvana, and Universal Cartoon Studios. It aired for one season, and continued Fievel's adventures living in the sleepy town of Green River in the American West.

* PutOnABus:
** Cat R. Waul is defeated by being put on a train, much like how Warren was shipped off to Hong Kong. Almost all the villains in the ''An American Tail'' series are always defeated non-lethally. The exception being the spy and the corrupt police chief in the third movie, who are implied to have drowned.
** Miss Kitty is put on a bus for much of ''Fievel's American Tails'', which perhaps aided Tiger's {{Flanderization}} into a dopey bum who has nothing better to do but play with Fievel.

In the show, Cat R. Waul has returned to Green River to carry out more evil schemes, and like the film, Fievel is usually the only one who sees through them. Other villains Fievel must contend with include Sweet William's cat gang, former members of Waul's gang that have splintered off on their own, and some one-off villains. Phillip Glasser, Cathy Cavadini and Creator/DomDeLuise reprise their roles as Fievel, Tanya and Tiger respectively.

In the show, Cat R. Waul has returned to Green River to carry out more evil schemes, and like the film, Fievel is usually the only one who sees through them. Other villains Fievel must contend with include Sweet William's cat gang, former members of Waul's gang that have splintered off on their own, and some one-off villains. Phillip Glasser, cathy Cavadini and Creator/DomDeLuise reprise their roles as Fievel, Tanya and Tiger respectively.

In the show, Cat R. Waul has returned to Green River to carry out more evil schemes, and like the film, Fievel is usually the only one who sees through them. Other villains Fievel must contend with include Sweet William's cat gang, former members of Waul's gang that have splintered off on their own, and some one-off villains. Phillip Glasser, cathy Cavadini and Creator/DomDeLouise reprise their roles as Fievel, Tanya and Tiger respectively.

In 1993 and 1994, MCA/Universal Home Video released eight episodes on four VHS video-cassettes and two Laserdisc volumes. These have been the only home video release of the cartoon in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the 13-episode series was released on six video-cassettes in 1995, which enabled the full series to surface on the internet in English a decade or so later. Episodes have been released on DVD in France, Germany, and Italy. Universal currently has no plans to release the show on DVD in the United States. At the end of each episode, Fievel, who is the national "spokesmouse" for the Reading Is Fundamental Foundation, did a "Reading Buddy" spot to encourage children to read. These PSAs were not preserved on the VHS releases and may be considered lost, only existing through surviving TV recordings.

* RecycledTheSeries: ''Fievel's American Tails''.

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