History WesternAnimation / FraidyCat

* FluffyTheTerrible: Tiny, the oversized, overall-bearing, helicopter beanie-wearing mouse.

* InconsistentColoring: A few of the characters sometimes have their body parts being painted incorrectly, most notoriously in "Meaner Than a Junkyard Cat", in which the fur surrounding Fraidy's mouth is sometimes colored white throughout the episode.

** “A Scaredy Fraidy” has Edgar Allen Crow, a poetic crow-based pun of Edgar Allen Poe.

* {{Jerkass}}: Nearly all of the dogs seen in the show are bent on chasing Fraidy with little to no remorse, and then you have Cloud Nine whose purpose is to electrocute Fraidy with no rhyme or reason, plus there's Fatty Catty and Long Tail who bully Fraidy into saying "nine", Chuck, and the gang of mice who threaten to kill Fraidy after he runs away from them.

* DigitalDestruction: This happens to be a more literal and ''deliberate'' example than others. All modern releases of ''Fraidy Cat'' are slightly sped up, with the reason being that in 1995, the card company [[Creator/HallmarkChannel Hallmark]] acquired Filmation, but only for the singular purpose of international distribution. Other than that, the company detested Filmation's work, and after the master negatives were converted from NTSC to PAL format, Hallmark '''disposed of the original negative masters'', which explains why not just ''Fraidy Cat'', but nearly ALL of Filmation's cartoons are not in their original formats.

''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 children's cartoon that was aired on a syndication program named ''WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock'', which aired on Creator/{{ABC}}. It was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}}, and is one of their only original (original as in "not based off an existing IP") cartoons that are known to exist. 18 episodes were commissioned for the network, but only 12 completed production.

''Fraidy Cat'' is a 1975 children's cartoon that was aired on a syndication program named ''WesternAnimation/UncleCrocsBlock''. It was produced by Creator/{{Filmation}}, and is one of their only original (original as in "not based off an existing IP") cartoons that are known to exist. 18 episodes were commissioned for the network, but only 12 completed production.

* CatsHateWater: In "Love is a Many Feathered Thing", Mary Tyler Too the cockatoo tries to soak Fraidy in the bird bath, but once Fraidy hears the word "bath", he flails and flies onto the top of the building which gets the savage dog's attention.

The premise revolves around the titular Fraidy Cat, an anxiety-struck feline who has the ability to involuntarily release the ghosts of his past, who also happen to be his previous eight lives he has already lived. Every time a ghost is released, it tries to help Fraidy in a predicament, but it unknowingly hinders the troubled cat into making his situation worse than before.

* 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.

* CupidsArrow: This applies to Fraidy, Ant, and Chuck in “Cupid and the Cat”. Danny Cupid shoots his arrow at Fraidy at the beginning, and later has Fraidy falling in love with Lulu. Later, Cupid misfires and accidentally shoots a “double-whammy” at Ant and Chuck, causing them to fall in love.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: In "Love is a Many Feathered Thing", Fraidy has to not only go through the cockatoos constantly hugging him, but he also has to deal with his lives goofing things up, and a stray dog that's on his tail. In the end though, Fraidy takes a risk in letting the dog into the bird shop, in which it gets caught inside the cockatoos' cage, with the birds switching their affections over to it, and Fraidy remains victorious.

* ButtMonkey: Take a guess who it is. 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.

* 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.

* ShoutOut: A majority of the jokes in the show are references to media that was popular during its original run.

* ShoutOut: “Love is a Many Feathered Thing” is a reference to the movie “Love is a Many Splendored Thing”.
** In the final episode, “A Semi-Star is Born”, some of the animal actors are based off real-life animal icons (whom are dated by today's standards). Boris the Cat is based off of ''Advertising/MorrisTheCat'', Mister Fred is ''Series/MrEd'', Laffy is ''Series/{{Lassie}}'' (ironically enough Lassie had a series made by Filmation), Cling Clong is ''Franchise/KingKong'', Lawrence the Lop-Sided Lion is ''Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion'', and Gentle Babs is ''Gentle Ben''.
** “Choo Choo Fraidy” has a direct reference to ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', with Smile E. Coyote, with him directly saying “I prefer roadrunners”, with a fat roadrunner jogging right beside him.

[[caption-width-right:350:"All cats have nine lives, but eight of mine went fast! Now there’s only one life left, and I wanna make it last!"]]

** In the final episode, “A Semi-Star is Born”, some of the animal actors are based off real-life animal icons. Mister Fred is based off of ''Series/MrEd'', and Laffy is based off of ''Series/{{Lassie}}'' (ironically enough Lassie had a series made by Filmation).