History WesternAnimation / FraidyCat

* {{Jerkass}}: While a majority of the characters Fraidy encounters are unpleasant at most, some of them outright harm or relentlessly bully Fraidy with little rhyme or reason. For example, 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.

* PetContestEpisode: A hunt motivated by food leads Fraidy into a dog show in "It's a Dog's Life," and unsurprisingly, eats the contestants' food. The contestants are furious and chase the poor feline across the building, and right after paint splatters onto himself, Fraidy is mistaken as a Dalmatian by both the contestants and the judge, which in turn leads him into winning first prize.

* SpeciesSurname: The title character's name is, in fact, Fraidy Cat.

Compare and contrast ''WesternAnimation/TheNinthLifeOfShermanPhelps'', a show that shares extreme similarities with this series.

* MistakenForCheating: Downplayed, as Lulu meets Fraidy after he saves her from a dog, which eventually leads to Chuck walking in, thinking Fraidy is "messing around" with Lulu.

*** Several other characters in the episode reference comedians and actors. Ruth Buzzard is to Ruth Buzzi; J. Edgar Cougar is to Colonel Sanders; and a prairie dog has a voiced modelled after a high-pitched Don Rickles.
** 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.

During its original run on ''Uncle Croc's Block'', it was heavily unpopular with critics, audiences, and even the producers themselves, and it, along with the rest of Croc's roster, nearly made Filmation shut down and lose money as [=ABC=] severed all ties with Filmation due to the show's bad performance. The show was later re-syndicated on ''The Groovie Goolies and Friends'' in 1977.

During its original run on ''Uncle Croc's Block'', it was heavily unpopular with critics, audiences, and even the producers themselves, and it, along with the rest of Croc's roster, nearly made Filmation shut down and lose money as [=ABC=] severed all ties with Filmation due to the show's bad performance.

* 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 shoestring budget.
** Lulu the cat is the worst offender, as her model’s pose ''never changes''.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Fraidy has two: "This kitten's splittin'!" when he decides it’s time to leave, and "Oops, I said [x]!" whenever he says a number and summons a previous life or Cloud Nine.

* KafkaComedy: The show is centered around Fraidy's woes whenever his lives make things worse or when he gets tormened by his peers.

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; past incarnations of himself he has already lived through. 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.

* {{Catchprhase}}: Fraidy has two: "This kitten's splittin'!" when he decides it’s time to leave, and "Oops, I said [x]!" whenever he says a number and summons a previous life.

* {{Cumulonemesis}}: The numbers from "one" to "eight" give Fraidy a ghost, but "nine" however summons an extremely short-tempered storm cloud in the shape of the number nine. The cloud also has the ability to spit out lightning, and reform itself back into one if it itself is electrocuted.

* EekAMouse: Upon the sight of seeing one of Boss Mouse's cronies in "The Not-so-Nice Mice", Elafunt and Ant both get so frightened of him to the point that they disappear.

* ImpostorExposingTest: In “A Semi-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.