History WesternAnimation / HulkHogansRockNWrestling

* YourTomcatIsPregnant: "Small But Mighty" had Hulk and the gang trying to both retrieve Hulk's car and rescue Hillbilly Jim's pet raccoon Mortimer from a gang of car thieves. At the end, Mortimer is revealed to be female and haven given birth to kits.

The show went as followed: Wrestling/HulkHogan and a few other {{face}} [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] wrestlers (Wrestling/JunkyardDog, Wrestling/CaptainLouAlbano, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, Wrestling/WendiRichter, [[Wrestling/JimmySnuka Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka]], Wrestling/HillbillyJim, and Wrestling/TitoSantana), [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg along with]] Wrestling/MeanGeneOkerlund fought against several {{heel}} wrestlers, whom were led by Wrestling/RoddyPiper (Wrestling/TheIronSheik, Wrestling/NikolaiVolkoff, Wrestling/TheFabulousMoolah, Wrestling/BigJohnStudd, Wrestling/MrFuji, and [[Wrestling/BobbyHeenan Bobby "The Brain" Heenan]]).

Because of how long it takes to animate a cartoon, let alone 26 episodes, [[ScheduleSlip the show was often behind the times]] and ended in 1986. It's also worth pointing out that '''''none''''' of the wrestlers played their animated counterparts. Instead, the show featured well-known voice actors of that particular time -- for instance, a young Creator/BradGarrett voiced Hulk Hogan, and Creator/CharlieAdler was Roddy Piper -- not counting that Mean Gene Okerlund and many of the aforementioned wrestlers themselves appeared in the live action skits.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Here and there: for example, Hulk has a full hairline, not the skullet that he had even back then... Roddy is muscular and large, when he was slightly-built and a bit overweight in real life.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: In "Driving Me Crazy", Nikolai Volkoff uses a remote control to help his cohort, the Iron Shiek, pass a driver's test, even though Shiek has less than zero idea how to drive. Things work fine ... until Nikolai is distracted by a young boy flying a remote-control airplane and wants to try.

* CorruptPolitician: "Ballot Box Boneheads" has this as the lead antagonist.

* DrivingTest: The Iron Sheik went through one in "Driving Me Crazy". Nikolai Volkoff was assisting him via a remote control (hidden in the engine)... but [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny it does not end well]].

* GentleGiant: Andre is extremely mellow and kind, although he will use his size and might as a trump if the situation calls for it.
* HammerSpace: The intro sequence has all of Hogan's buddies (all *six* of them) popping up from the backseat when the heels menace Hogan. And it was obvious from previous shots that the backseat was empty.

** Wrestling/BobbyHeenan only appears in "Driving Me Crazy" and "Rock N Zombies", but he's an underhanded cheapskate that even the heels find despicable -- which perfectly summed up his real-life character.

* OnceAnEpisode: Mean Gene Okerlund will appear out of nowhere and comment on the current situation [[FourthWall to the audience watching]], microphone and all... even in places that make no sense for him to be there(in the sea, in deep space, etc.)

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: "Wrestling Roommates" has Captain Lou thrown out of his apartment and staying with Hulk Hogan and making a mess overnight. Eventually, Junkyard Dog needs someone to look after his junkyard while he heads out of town for a match, so Hulk lets Lou stay there as his part-time home. But then, just as Hulk has finished cleaning up his place, [[HereWeGoAgain Hillbilly Jim pops by to stay with him]].

* YourTomcatIsPregnant: "Small But Mighty" had Hulk and the gang trying to both retrieve Hulk's car and rescue Hillbilly Jim's pet raccoon Mortimer from a gang of car thieves. At the end, Mortimer is revealed to be female and haven given birth to cubs.

* OffModel: This was a [=DiC=] series after all. Though the fact they shipped it to three studios (mentioned at top) doesn't really help matters much.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Rowdy Roddy Reforms", Roddy is brainwashed into being a good guy. Not only does it cause his fellow heels much concern, even Hulk Hogan is puzzled that Roddy can be nice. [[Foreshadowing Ironically, Piper would turn face just about the time the series ended, and one brief stint in 2003 aside, would be a face for the rest of his career.]]

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: In "Driving Me Crazy," Nikolai Volkoff uses a remote control to help his cohort, the Iron Shiek, pass a driver's test, even though Shiek has less than zero idea how to drive. Things work fine ... until Nikolai is distracted by a young boy flying a remote-control airplane and wants to try.

** Captain Lou. He literally lives to eat. In one episode where he has to struggle to lose weight to make his weigh-in for a match, he manages to get his weight down at the last second by going through his clothing and dropping a small mountain of food he'd stashed about his person.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Averted in "Big John's Car Lot." When John Studd's father finds out the heels made him significant money by cheating his customers, he's outraged and returns the ill-gotten spoils to the customers immediately.

* MythologyGag: Possible: In the "Roddy Reforms" title card, Roddy is shown tossing daises out of a basket. The real-life Roddy Piper tossed daisies from a basket into the crowd in his debut match as a pro wrestler (against Larry Hennig).

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Roddy Reforms," Roddy is brainwashed into being a good guy. Not only does it cause his fellow heels much concern, even Hulk Hogan is puzzled that Roddy can be nice. [[Foreshadowing Ironically, Piper would turn face just about the time the series ended, and one brief stint in 2003 aside, would be a face for the rest of his career.]]

* SamusIsAGirl: In the "Duke of Piperton", Roddy has to compete against his cousin Ronnie in a series of knight tourneys to claim a castle in Scotland. Ronnie bests Roddy, despite his cheating. When he (uncharacteristically) graciously concedes defeat, ''she'' removes ''her'' helmet at last.

* SpinOffBabies: "Small But Mighty" was the word for one episode when the face wrestlers try Junkyard Dog's secret-recipe chili sprinkled with some of Hillbilly Jim's granny's magical herbs, and all the gang transform into 10-year-olds. Before all is said and done, young Hulk and his buddies are able to stop a car-stripping ring.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In "Roddy Reforms," Roddy is brainwashed into being a good guy. Not only does it cause his fellow heels much concern, even Hulk Hogan is puzzled that Roddy can be nice.

** UpToEleven with Captain Lou. He literally lives to eat. In one episode where he has to struggle to lose weight to make his weigh-in for a match, he manages to get his weight down at the last second by going through his clothing and dropping a small mountain of food he'd stashed about his person.

In other words, it [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero followed]] [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers every]] [[WesternAnimation/{{MASK}} other]] [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985 children]] [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 show]] [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 plot]] [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends at]] [[WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots the]] [[Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow time]].

Because of how long it takes to animate a cartoon, let alone 26 episodes, [[ScheduleSlip the show was often behind the times]] and ended in 1986. It's also worth pointing out that '''''none''''' of the wrestlers played their animated counterparts. Instead, the show featured well-known voice actors of that particular time (for instance, a young Creator/BradGarrett voiced Hulk Hogan), not counting that Mean Gene Okerlund and many of the aforementioned wrestlers themselves appeared in the live action skits.

* RunningGag: Andre doesn't know his own strength, JYD will start dancing for any reason, and Nikolai is... well, [[WhatAnIdiot Nikolai]].

* IDrankWhat: One live-action bit has a thirsty Big John Studd persuade a lady into letting him gulp up a pitcher of liquid that she was carrying for someone else--[[spoiler:Hillbilly Jim's possum porridge.]]

In other words, it followed [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers every]] [[WesternAnimation/{{MASK}} other]] [[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats children]] [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 show]] [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 plot]] [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends at]] [[WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots the]] [[Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow time]].

* GagHaircut: Moolah and Volkoff end up giving customers at Moolah's sister's beauty salon a lot of these in "Moolah's Ugly Salon".

* BagOfKidnapping: In "Superfly Express", a woman named Lenora is kidnapped by her cousin's men so that she can take her ring and take over her kingdom she then orders her men to get rid of her, Superfly later finds her in a sack amongst a pile of sacks full of potatoes.

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Subverted somewhat. The wrestlers on Roddy Piper's side can be competent; but it's not often.

* OOCisSeriousBusiness: In "Roddy Reforms," Roddy is brainwashed into being a good guy. Not only does it cause his fellow heels much concern, even Hulk Hogan is puzzled that Roddy can be nice.

* RecycledInSpace: uses the same good-defeats-evil plot of practically every other 80s action cartoon. There was even an episode, titled "The Wrong Stuff", where Hulk Hogan and Nikolai Volkoff go into space, literally.[[note]]''Franchise/GIJoe'' did an episode with the same theme--[[SimilarlyNamedWorks and the same title.]](Because both shows were riffing the film Film/TheRightStuff)[[/note]]

* SpinoffBabies: "Small But Mighty" was the word for one episode when the face wrestlers try Junkyard Dog's secret-recipe chili sprinkled with some of Hillbilly Jim's granny's magical herbs, and all the gang transform into 10-year-olds. Before all is said and done, young Hulk and his buddies are able to stop a car-stripping ring.