History WesternAnimation / MrIncredibleAndPals

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The cartoon Frozone's writing suggests a lot of the usual racism of the era: [[ButNotTooBlack his skin color is lightened considerably]], his dialogue is a mess of TotallyRadical beatnik slang, [[AdaptationalWimp he's given equal billing to Mr. Skipperdoo]], and [[BlackDudeDiesFirst he immediately gets disabled when the fight breaks out.]] Naturally, the actual Frozone is disgusted.

* ShowWithinAShow: ''Mr. Incredible and Pals'', the (horrible) pilot to an unproduced show that Mr. Incredible and Frozone licensed to use their images.
* StylisticSuck: It copies the LimitedAnimation and bad writing of particularly ''low-budget'' cartoons from the 60s, with dumb plots, dumb animal sidekicks, and barely any action.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The 'live-action-lips-on-2d-animated-characters' technique actually existed, and was called Synchro-Vox.

* AnimationAgeGhetto: InUniverse, Mr. Incredible is willing to forgive the cartoon's flaws because it was produced for kids. Frozone, however, is less forgiving.

* RaceLift: It's [[AmbiguouslyBrown dubious]] as to whether cartoon Frozone is a tanned white guy or just [[ButNotTooBlack a very pale black guy]], but he's definitely about ten shades lighter than the real thing (though his voice in real life is done by Michael Asberry, who is indeed black).

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Lady Lightbug has green skin and a very developed figure.

* InsaneTrollLogic: How does Mr. Incredible know an abandoned amusement park is Lady Lightbug's lair? Because "evil lurks in dark remote places. And this abandoned fairground is certainly dark and remote."

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Lady Lightbug's radioactive silk; Mr. Incredible suggests the existence of fictional "blue radioactivity", and the radiation itself seems to do nothing, with Frozone being wrapped in radioactive silk with no implication that it caused lasting injury. ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation Cherenkov radiation]] does glow blue (the speed of light is only a constant in a vacuum; particles in water can travel faster than light in water, giving cooling pools of reactors an eerie blue glow), but if you see this in ''air'', it's already too late for you.

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Lady Lightbug's radioactive silk; Mr. Incredible suggests the existence of fictional "blue radioactivity", and the radiation itself seems to do nothing, with Frozone being wrapped in radioactive silk with no implication that it caused lasting injury. ([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation Cherenkov radiation]] does glow blue. The speed of light is only a constant in a vacuum; particles in water can travel faster than light in water, giving cooling pools of reactors an eerie blue glow. However, if you see this in ''air'', it's already too late for you.)

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* OneEpisodeWonder: In-universe. The show only had one episode produced before Supers fell out of favor with the public and were forced to go into hiding, at which point the pilot remained unaired and the show was cancelled.

* DarkIsEvil: Cartoon! states that the reason Lady Lightbug would hide at an abandoned amusement park is that "evil is attracted to dark, remote places".

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Cartoon!'s first line repeats all the points covered in the narrator's recap.

* TheVoiceless: Mr. Skipperdoo can't speak. He just bounces up and down and the human heroes take it as something meaningful.

!!Contains examples of:

-->'''Frozone''': Oh, oh, oh, ''I'' get caught. The ''black'' superhero gets caught.
-->'''Mr. Incredible''': Well, a minute ago, you were complaining [[ButNotTooBlack they made you white!]]
-->'''Frozone''': Oh, that's right; the ''tan'' superhero gets caught!

* ClicheStorm: [[InvokedTrope Invoked.]] It's a parody of cartoons from UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation, and includes all their cliches (still shots instead of frame-by-frame animation, sidekick is immediately taken out of action to focus on the main hero, a vaguely communist villain, UnfortunateImplications, and a cute animal sidekick [[KidAppealCharacter only there to appeal to the kids]]).

* DarkIsEvil: Cartoon!Mr. Incredible states that the reason Lady Lightbug would hide at an abandoned amusement park is that "evil is attracted to dark, remote places".

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Cartoon!Mr. Incredible's first line repeats all the points covered in the narrator's recap.

* FightSceneFailure: [[InvokedTrope Invoked.]] The final fight with Lady Lightbug goes like this: Lady Lightbug traps Frozone with radioactive silk. Mr. Incredible throws a ferris wheel at her, but misses. Mr. Incredible leaps off a roller coaster at a crest to tackle Lady Lightbug, who just stands still and screams instead of dodging. Lady Lightbug down for the count.

* LimitedAnimation: Parodying the style of ''WesternAnimation/ClutchCargo''. Movement only happens when characters or objects slide across the frame, and actual moments of action (like Frozone creating a bridge with ice, or Frozone getting tied up with silk) are reduced to still pictures. The short has a very low framerate, and SynchroVox is used to save the trouble of animating lip flaps.

* RedScare: It's very heavily implied Lady Lightbug is a communist, between her motivation being to destroy "the economies of the free world" and her claiming "Your ferris wheel attack is as pathetic and weak as your system of government!"

* SynchroVox: Dialogue is shown by realistic lips moving on totally-still 2d characters. Frozone commenting on ''Mr. Incredible and Pals'''s usage of it is the page quote.

* KidAppealCharacter: Parodied by the GratuitousAnimalSidekick, the rabbit Mr. Skipperdoo. Frozone complains; Mr. Incredible tries to defend it on the grounds that kids love this stuff before admitting that "the rabbit bites."

-->'''Frozone''': Oh, that's right; the ''TAN'' superhero gets caught!

-->'''Frozone''': Oh, that's right; the ''TANNED'' superhero gets caught!

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* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Lady Lightbug's radioactive silk; Mr. Incredible suggests the existence of fictional "blue radioactivity", and the radiation itself seems to do nothing, with Frozone being wrapped in radioactive silk with no implication that it caused lasting injury. (Cherenkov radiation does glow blue. The speed of light is only a constant in a vacuum, and particles can travel faster than light in water, giving cooling pools of reactors an eerie blue glow. However, if you see this in ''air'', it's already too late for you.)

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Lady Lightbug's radioactive silk; Mr. Incredible suggests the existence of fictional "blue radoactivity", and the radiation itself seems to do nothing, with Frozone being wrapped in radioactive silk with no implication that it caused lasting injury. (Cherenkov radiation does glow blue. The speed of light is only a constant in a vacuum, and particles can travel faster than light in water, giving cooling pools of reactors an erie blue glow. However, if you see this in ''air'', [[NightmareFuel it's already too late for you]] )

* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: Lady Lightbug's radioactive silk; Mr. Incredible suggests the existence of fictional "blue radoactivity", and the radiation itself seems to do nothing, with Frozone being wrapped in radioactive silk with no implication that it caused lasting injury. (Funnily, certain kinds of radiation can glow blue.)

* AccentOnTheWrongSyllable: You can tell that Frozone's voice actor isn't familiar with most of his TotallyRadical slang, which comes out when he pronounces "daddy-o"--rather than saying it as one word, he says them as two separate words.

* OneEpisodeWonder: [[invoked]] The show only had one episode produced before Supers fell out of favor with the public and were forced to go into hiding, at which point the pilot remained unaired and the show was cancelled.

* AdaptationalWimp: Cartoon Frozone is Mr. Incredible's sidekick and is quickly taken out of action by Lady Lightbug. The cartoon can't even [[CoconutSuperpowers depict his superpower properly]]. Real Frozone was a longtime independent hero who participated in the final battle against [[spoiler: the Omnidroid]] and helped out quite a lot.

* TheScrappy: InUniverse, neither Mr. Incredible or Frozone like Mr. Skipperdoo.

* SmallAnnoyingCreature: Upon seeing that the cartoon versions of them somehow have a cute rabbit sidekick, Frozone immediately reacts with hatred. Mr. Incredible tries to defend the rabbit's inclusion, but quickly gives up.
-->'''Mr. Incredible:''' [[LampshadeHanging The rabbit is cuddly! Kids like little cuddly sidekicks! I mean, the rabbit... it's a time-tested...]] okay, the rabbit bites.

* AdaptationalWimp: Cartoon Frozone is Mr. Incredible's sidekick and is quickly taken out of action by Lady Lightbug. The cartoon can't even [[CoconutSuperpowers depict his superpower properly]]. Real Frozone participated in the final battle against [[spoiler: the Omnidroid]] and helped out quite a lot.

* RaceLift: While it's [[AmbiguouslyBrown dubious]] as to whether cartoon Frozone is a tanned white guy or just [[ButNotTooBlack a very pale black guy]], his voice and mouth actor is ''definitely'' white.

-->'''Mr. Incredible''': Well, a minute ago, you were complaining they made you white!

-->'''Frozone''': Oh, ''I'' get caught. The ''black'' superhero gets caught.
-->'''Mr. Incredible''': A minute ago, you were complaining they made you white!

'''Frozone:''' And what would that new process be, Mr. I? ''Cheap''-o-Rama?

-->-- [[InCharacterCommentary Commentary]]