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* BatDeduction: "The Sinister Sea Saucer" has the boys doing this exchange when they notice a space capsule making splashdown nearby.
-->'''Tubb''': Maybe some evil force is guiding it into this area!
-->'''Tom''': That's ''exactly'' what I was thinking!

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* BlackKnight: Probably the most unusual threat the boys faced, what with the environment the show chose. One of them shows up with an underwater castle, an army of soldiers and trying to capture a mermaid [[GirlInTheTower to lock her up in his tallest tower]]. From the episode "The Shimmering Screen".

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: In "The Shimmering Screen", Tom doesn't believe that Tubb has seen a mermaid, and then barely believes his own eyes when he sees the Manta Knight chasing her. This despite routinely encountering other aquatic humanoids (the Gillmen, the Iguana Men, etc) and even multiple encounters with aliens.
* BlackKnight: Probably the most unusual threat the boys faced, what with the environment the show chose. One of them In the episode "The Shimmering Screen" (which took place in another dimension, connected to the real world by the aforementioned screen), a "manta knight" shows up with an underwater castle, castle and an army of soldiers and while trying to capture a mermaid [[GirlInTheTower to lock her up in his tallest tower]]. From the episode "The Shimmering Screen".tower]].



* CharacterCatchphrase: "Gerono-Moby!"

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* CharacterCatchphrase: "Gerono-Moby!""Gerono-Moby!" Usually spoken by Tubb, but even Moby himself utters it (though his voice is badly garbled).



* NonHumanSidekick: Scooby the Seal is one, as Moby himself is the star. The rest of the cast are his sidekicks.

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* NonHumanSidekick: Scooby the Seal is one, as Moby himself is the star. The rest of the cast are his sidekicks.Moby's sidekicks (as well as exposition-spouters, since Moby can't talk).



* SwallowedWhole: Both in a more "protect us Moby" fashion and in a more nefarious one where in the episode "The Sea Monster". Tug is swallowed by the title monster and finds that its interior is hollow.

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* SwallowedWhole: Both in a more "protect us Moby" fashion and in a more nefarious one where in the episode "The Sea Monster". Tug Tubb is swallowed by the title monster and finds that its interior is hollow.



* ThreeShorts: The show ran on this format. This was the middle segment between two ''WesternAnimation/MightyMightor'' cartoons.

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* ThreeShorts: The show ran on this format. This was the middle segment between two ''WesternAnimation/MightyMightor'' cartoons. Unusually, Moby got top billing even though Mightor dominated the show.


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** In the "Shimmering Screen", this is taken to the next level, as the titular Screen is a portal between dimensions that only opens only once every hundred years, and they're in danger or becoming trapped on the other side. At the end of the episode, the mermaid they rescue chooses to stay on their side of the portal as it closes.
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* OriginStory: As detailed before each episode, Tom and Tubb get stranded from their uncle's ship and are surrounded by menacing sharks, but Moby comes to their rescue and befriends them. How exactly they meet Scooby is never stated.

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