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* CupidsArrow: This applies to Fraidy, Ant, and Chuck in “Cupid and the Cat”. Cupid shoots his arrow on Fraidy at the beginning, and later has Fraidy falling in love for Lulu. Then, Cupid misfires and shoots Ant and Chuck, causing them to fall in love.



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* ImpostorExposingTest: In “A Small Star is Born”, Lawrence the lop-sided lion catches both Boris and Fraidy and has Cling-Clong test and see which one is real and fake. Both Boris and Fraidy are given food, and Boris, being the picky eater he is, puts his nose up to the food. Fraidy, however gorges upon the dish, and he is ''literally'' kicked back to the city.
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* OneShotCharacter: Every single character except for Fraidy and his lives.

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* OneShotCharacter: Every single character except for Fraidy and his lives.lives, and Ant the dinosaur.
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** In fact, some one-shot characters get little to no dialogue all for the purpose of filler, such as a poetic crow, a parody of Lassie named “Laffy”, and a pirate pelican which has only one line, that is unintelligible.

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* OffModel: Some coloring errors occur in a few episodes, but the characters hardly had any off-model moments due to how much attention the animators paid to the models.

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* OffModel: Some coloring errors occur in a few episodes, but the characters hardly had any off-model off-
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* OneShotCharacter: Every single character except for Fraidy and his lives.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: "Love is a Many Feathered Thing" has Fraidy hiding from a dog in an exotic pet shop, where he's being romanced by a comically overweight cockatoo who won't stop hugging him. Fortunately for Fraidy, as soon as the dog makes its way in, the cockatoo finds a new object for her affections.
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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for ''WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock''. The series was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}} and lasted for only 12 episodes. The series follows an anxiety-prone cat named Fraidy (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer) meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods (all of which are voiced by Lennie Weinrib[[note]]Who also provided a [[CrossDressingVoices voice for a white female cat]][[/note]]), but they cause trouble for him rather than help him out of situations.

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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for ''WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock''. The series was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}} and lasted for only 12 episodes. 6 other episodes were planned, but were scrapped. The series follows an anxiety-prone cat named Fraidy (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer) meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods (all of which are voiced by Lennie Weinrib[[note]]Who also provided a [[CrossDressingVoices voice for a white female cat]][[/note]]), but they cause trouble for him rather than help him out of situations.
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* CatsHaveNineLives: The premise of the show. Fraidy is already nervous because he's on his final life, and it doesn't help that the ghosts of his eight previous incarnations keep appearing to him if he (even accidentally) intones their number or says a word that sounds like or rhymes with the numbers, even if it’s in another language. At least one of these ghosts, who was an undertaker in life, hopes to bring Fraidy over to the afterlife. The worst one is [[{{Cumulonemesis}} Cloud Nine]], a psychotic storm cloud who tries to electrocute poor Fraidy.

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* CatsHaveNineLives: The premise of the show. Fraidy is already nervous because he's on his final life, and it doesn't help that the ghosts of his eight previous incarnations keep appearing to him if he (even accidentally) intones their number or says a word that sounds like or rhymes with the numbers, even if it’s in another language. At least one of these ghosts, who was an undertaker in life, hopes to bring Fraidy over to the afterlife. The worst one is [[{{Cumulonemesis}} Cloud Nine]], a psychotic storm cloud who tries to electrocute poor Fraidy.
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* CatsHaveNineLives: The premise of the show. Fraidy is already nervous because he's on his final life, and it doesn't help that the ghosts of his eight previous incarnations keep appearing to him if he (even accidentally) intones their number. At least one of these ghosts, who was an undertaker in life, hopes to bring Fraidy over to the afterlife. The worst one is [[{{Cumulonemesis}} Cloud Nine]], a psychotic storm cloud who tries to electrocute poor Fraidy.

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* CatsHaveNineLives: The premise of the show. Fraidy is already nervous because he's on his final life, and it doesn't help that the ghosts of his eight previous incarnations keep appearing to him if he (even accidentally) intones their number.number or says a word that sounds like or rhymes with the numbers, even if it’s in another language. At least one of these ghosts, who was an undertaker in life, hopes to bring Fraidy over to the afterlife. The worst one is [[{{Cumulonemesis}} Cloud Nine]], a psychotic storm cloud who tries to electrocute poor Fraidy.
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**Lulu the cat is the worst offender, as her model’s pose ''never changes''.
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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for ''WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock''. The series was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}} and lasted for only 12 episodes. The series follows an anxiety-prone cat named Fraidy (Alan Oppenheimer) meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods (Lennie Weinrib), but they cause trouble for him rather than help him out of situations.

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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for ''WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock''. The series was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}} and lasted for only 12 episodes. The series follows an anxiety-prone cat named Fraidy (Alan (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer) meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods (Lennie Weinrib), (all of which are voiced by Lennie Weinrib[[note]]Who also provided a [[CrossDressingVoices voice for a white female cat]][[/note]]), but they cause trouble for him rather than help him out of situations.
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* ShrinkingViolet: The titular character's name is a cat based {{pun}} based on this trope purely because of his sheer timidity and cowardice.

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* ShrinkingViolet: The titular character's name is a cat based {{pun}} based on [[MeaningfulName this trope trope]] purely because of his sheer timidity and cowardice.timidity.
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* NervousWreck: Reasonably with [[ButtMonkey the titular character.]] He's always having the expression of anxiety and for everything that always goes wrong for him.

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* NervousWreck: Reasonably with [[ButtMonkey the titular character.]] He's always having the expression of anxiety (this is better shown on the page's image above) and for how much everything that always goes wrong for him.

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* ButtMonkey: Take one guess. Not only does Fraidy have to be wary of the ghosts of his past lives, but he also has to deal with being frequently chased by dogs, along with encountering other animals who always put him in life-threatening situations.

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* ButtMonkey: Take one an guess. Not only does Fraidy have to be wary of the ghosts of his past lives, but he also has to deal with being frequently chased by dogs, along with encountering other animals who always put him in life-threatening situations.


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* NervousWreck: Reasonably with [[ButtMonkey the titular character.]] He's always having the expression of anxiety and for everything that always goes wrong for him.


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* ShrinkingViolet: The titular character's name is a cat based {{pun}} based on this trope purely because of his sheer timidity and cowardice.
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* ButtMonkey: Take one guess. Not only does Fraidy have to be wary of the ghosts of his past lives, but he also has to deal with being frequently chased by dogs, along with encountering other animals who always put him in life-threatening situations.
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* TrainEscape: When Fraidy stows away on a train, it slowly picks up speed and heads into a desert. Fraidy wakes up and then finds a tunnel and calls it a "low bridge", and tries to run from getting his head chopped off. He falls into a “green-ink” car, and a chicken coop car before jumping off the caboose.

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* TrainEscape: When Fraidy stows away on {{Cumulonemesis}}: Whenever the titular cat says a train, it slowly picks up speed number from 1 to 8, a ghost of one of his previous lives would appear, and heads into saying the number 9 (his current life) summons a desert. Fraidy wakes up and then finds a tunnel and calls it a "low bridge", small cloud that chases him and tries to run kill him with lighting. While the ghosts can be helpful from getting his head chopped off. He falls into a “green-ink” car, and a chicken coop car before jumping off time to time, the caboose.cloud is always evil towards Fraidy.


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* TrainEscape: When Fraidy stows away on a train, it slowly picks up speed and heads into a desert. Fraidy wakes up and then finds a tunnel and calls it a "low bridge", and tries to run from getting his head chopped off. He falls into a “green-ink” car, and a chicken coop car before jumping off the caboose.

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* CatsHaveNineLives: The premise of the show. Fraidy is already nervous because he's on his final life, and it doesn't help that the ghosts of his eight previous incarnations keep appearing to him if he (even accidentally) intones their number. At least one of these ghosts, who was an undertaker in life, hopes to bring Fraidy over to the afterlife. The worst one is [[{{Cumulonemesis}} Cloud Nine]], a psychotic storm cloud who tries to electrocute poor Fraidy. Pretty morbid for a kids' show, eh?
* TrainEscape: When Fraidy stows away on a train, it slowly picks up speed and heads into a desert. Fraidy wakes up and then finds a tunnel and calls it a “low bridge”, and tries to run from getting his head chopped off. He falls into a “green-ink” car, and a chicken coop car before jumping off the caboose.

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* CatsHaveNineLives: The premise of the show. Fraidy is already nervous because he's on his final life, and it doesn't help that the ghosts of his eight previous incarnations keep appearing to him if he (even accidentally) intones their number. At least one of these ghosts, who was an undertaker in life, hopes to bring Fraidy over to the afterlife. The worst one is [[{{Cumulonemesis}} Cloud Nine]], a psychotic storm cloud who tries to electrocute poor Fraidy. Pretty morbid for a kids' show, eh?
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* TrainEscape: When Fraidy stows away on a train, it slowly picks up speed and heads into a desert. Fraidy wakes up and then finds a tunnel and calls it a “low bridge”, "low bridge", and tries to run from getting his head chopped off. He falls into a “green-ink” car, and a chicken coop car before jumping off the caboose.



* RunningGag: Fraidy Cat accidentally saying the numbers of his previous eight lives in nearly every episode. Other times when he says "nine", a thunder cloud known as Cloud Nine appears to strike Fraidy for a while and disappears afterwards.

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* RunningGag: Fraidy Cat accidentally saying the numbers of his previous eight lives in nearly every episode. Other times when he says "nine", a thunder cloud known as Cloud Nine appears to strike Fraidy for a while and disappears afterwards.afterwards.
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* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Seven of the nine lives of ''Fraidy Cat'' have costumes that apply to this trope: #2 Kitty Wizard; #3 Captain Kitt, a pirate; #4 Sir Walter Cat, a noble cat; #5 Billy the Kit, a cowboy; #6 Jasper Catdaver, an undertaker; #7 Captain Eddie Cattenbakker, a pilot; #8 Hep Cat, a cat in a zoot suit. The only one who doesn’t is #1, Tinker Elephunt Cat, a caveman who isn’t dressed enough to count.
* CatsHaveNineLives: The premise of the show. Fraidy is already nervous because he's on his final life, and it doesn't help that the ghosts of his eight previous incarnations keep appearing to him if he (even accidentally) intones their number. At least one of these ghosts, who was an undertaker in life, hopes to bring Fraidy over to the afterlife. The worst one is [[{{Cumulonemesis}} Cloud Nine]], a psychotic storm cloud who tries to electrocute poor Fraidy. Pretty morbid for a kids' show, eh?
* TrainEscape: When Fraidy stows away on a train, it slowly picks up speed and heads into a desert. Fraidy wakes up and then finds a tunnel and calls it a “low bridge”, and tries to run from getting his head chopped off. He falls into a “green-ink” car, and a chicken coop car before jumping off the caboose.
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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for ''WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock''. The series was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}} and lasted for only 10 episodes. The series follows an anxiety-prone cat named Fraidy (Alan Oppenheimer) meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods (Lennie Weinrib), but they cause trouble for him rather than help him out of situations.

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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for ''WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock''. The series was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}} and lasted for only 10 12 episodes. The series follows an anxiety-prone cat named Fraidy (Alan Oppenheimer) meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods (Lennie Weinrib), but they cause trouble for him rather than help him out of situations.
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Not to be confused with the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' episode with the same name.
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* RunningGag: Fraidy Cat accidentally saying the numbers of his previous eight lives in nearly every episode. Other times when he says "nine", a thunder cloud appears to strike Fraidy for a while and disappears afterwards.

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* RunningGag: Fraidy Cat accidentally saying the numbers of his previous eight lives in nearly every episode. Other times when he says "nine", a thunder cloud known as Cloud Nine appears to strike Fraidy for a while and disappears afterwards.
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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock. The series was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}} and lasted for only 10 episodes. The series follows an anxiety-prone cat named Fraidy (Alan Oppenheimer) meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods (Lennie Weinrib), but they cause trouble for him rather than help him out of situations.

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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock.''WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock''. The series was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}} and lasted for only 10 episodes. The series follows an anxiety-prone cat named Fraidy (Alan Oppenheimer) meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods (Lennie Weinrib), but they cause trouble for him rather than help him out of situations.



* OffModel: Some coloring errors occur in a few episodes, but the characters hardly had any off-model moments due to how much attention they paid to the models.
* RunningGag: Fraidy Cat accidentally saying the numbers of his previous eight lives in nearly every episode. Other times when he says nine, a thunder cloud appears to strike Fraidy for a while and disappears afterwards.

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* OffModel: Some coloring errors occur in a few episodes, but the characters hardly had any off-model moments due to how much attention they the animators paid to the models.
* RunningGag: Fraidy Cat accidentally saying the numbers of his previous eight lives in nearly every episode. Other times when he says nine, "nine", a thunder cloud appears to strike Fraidy for a while and disappears afterwards.
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* LimitedAnimation: The characters would move their mouths a lot with little to no character acting. None of them bob their heads like in the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, due to Filmation having a threadbare budget.

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* LimitedAnimation: The characters would move their mouths a lot with little to no character acting. None of them bob their heads like in the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, due to Filmation having a threadbare shoestring budget.
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* LimitedAnimation: The characters would move their mouths a lot with little to no character acting. None of them bob their heads like in the Hanna-Barbera cartoons, due to Filmation having a threadbare budget.
* OffModel: Some coloring errors occur in a few episodes, but the characters hardly had any off-model moments due to how much attention they paid to the models.
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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock. The series was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}} and lasted for only 10 episodes. The series follows a cat meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods, but they cause trouble for Fraidy rather than help.

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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock. The series was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}} and lasted for only 10 episodes. The series follows a an anxiety-prone cat named Fraidy (Alan Oppenheimer) meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods, periods (Lennie Weinrib), but they cause trouble for Fraidy him rather than help.
help him out of situations.
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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock. The series was produced by Creator/Filmation and lasted for only 10 episodes. The series follows a cat meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods, but they cause trouble for Fraidy rather than help.

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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock. The series was produced by Creator/Filmation Creator/{{Filmation}} and lasted for only 10 episodes. The series follows a cat meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods, but they cause trouble for Fraidy rather than help.
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''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 animated segment made for WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock. The series was produced by Creator/Filmation and lasted for only 10 episodes. The series follows a cat meeting up with his previous eight lives that are from different time periods, but they cause trouble for Fraidy rather than help.

Despite being one of the more original shows of the 1970s, it suffered from poor animation and formulaic storylines. It almost caused Filmation to close down their studio and ABC ditched them in favor of Hanna-Barbera.

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*RunningGag: Fraidy Cat accidentally saying the numbers of his previous eight lives in nearly every episode. Other times when he says nine, a thunder cloud appears to strike Fraidy for a while and disappears afterwards.

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