History WesternAnimation / OggyAndTheCockroaches

* SupermodelStrut: Gender-swapped in "Crazy Shoplifting" when Oggy shakes his hips back and forth while DisguisedInDrag, which seems to be intentional on his part.

* TantrumThrowing: While pitching a fit in "Crazy Shoplifting", Joey throws a frozen turkey.

* DrillSergeantNasty: Oggy ends up with one in "Soldier For A Day."

* TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay: A variation is seen near the end of the episode "Cockroaches Play Cricket." Oggie goes with Jack to India to see the Cricket finals, and Olivia tags along as she wanted to meet a Yogi and see the country. Joey, Marky, and Dee Dee stow away with the cats, with the latter wanting to meet their favorite Bollywood actress, while the former wanted to steal her priced jeweled necklace. Near the end, after Joey manages to steal the necklace, Marky and Dee Dee, who wanted to make good with the actress, demand Joey hand it over so they can return it. When Joey makes it clear they think he's crazy to just hand over a jewel he worked so hard to steal, Marky and Dee Dee decide that since Joey won't hand it over willingly, they beat him up and give the necklace back.

* EarthShatteringKaboom: At the end of "Soldier For A Day".

* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: In the "Soldier For A Day", the cockroaches accidentally destroy the Earth when they fire all torpedoes from a submarine.

The slapstick trickster cartoon. You know the drill: some character pulls a mean one on another. [[ThisMeansWar The victim retaliates]]. [[CycleOfRevenge Both parties get caught up]] in an [[SerialEscalation escalating spiral]] of [[AmusingInjuries cartoon violence]]. HilarityEnsues, until houses are leveled, forests are ravaged, cities are lain waste, [[EarthShatteringKaboom and the world goes "KABOOM"]]! [[StatusQuoIsGod Then they start it all over again in the next episode]].

* PicnicEpisode: "Picnic Panic" has Oggy, Olivia and Jack going on a picnic, and when the cockroaches become aware of it, HilarityEnsues.

The slapstick trickster cartoon. You know the drill: some character pulls a mean one on another. [[ThisMeansWar The victim retaliates]]. [[CycleOfRevenge Both parties get caught up]] in an [[SerialEscalation escalating spiral]] of [[AmusingInjuries cartoon violence]]. HilarityEnsues, until houses are leveled, forests are ravaged, cities are lain waste, [[EarthShatteringKaboom and the world goes]] [[EarthShatteringKaboom KABOOM]]!! [[StatusQuoIsGod Then they start it all over again in the next episode]].

The slapstick trickster cartoon. You know the drill: some character pulls a mean one on another. [[ThisMeansWar The victim retaliates]]. [[CycleOfRevenge Both parties get caught up]] in an [[SerialEscalation escalating spiral]] of [[AmusingInjuries cartoon violence]]. HilarityEnsues, until houses are leveled, forests are ravaged, cities are lain waste, [[EarthShatteringKaboom and the world goes]] ''[[EarthShatteringKaboom Kaboom]]''!! [[StatusQuoIsGod Then they start it all over again in the next episode]].

The slapstick trickster cartoon. You know the drill: some character pulls a mean one on another. [[ThisMeansWar The victim retaliates]]. [[CycleOfRevenge Both parties get caught up]] in an [[SerialEscalation escalating spiral]] of [[AmusingInjuries cartoon violence]]. HilarityEnsues, until houses are leveled, forests are ravaged, cities are lain waste, [[EarthShatteringKaboom and the world goes]] ''[[EarthShatteringKaboom Kaboom!!]]'' [[StatusQuoIsGod Then they start it all over again in the next episode]].

The slapstick trickster cartoon. You know the drill: some character pulls a mean one on another. [[ThisMeansWar The victim retaliates]]. [[CycleOfRevenge Both parties get caught up in an]] [[SerialEscalation escalating spiral of]] [[AmusingInjuries cartoon violence]]. HilarityEnsues, until houses are leveled, forests are ravaged, cities are lain waste, [[EarthShatteringKaboom and the world goes]] ''[[EarthShatteringKaboom Kaboom!!]]'' [[StatusQuoIsGod Then they start it all over again in the next episode]].

The slapstick trickster cartoon. You know the drill: some character pulls a mean one on another. The victim retaliates. Both parties get caught up in an escalating spiral of cartoon violence. Hilarity ensues, until houses are leveled, forests are ravaged, cities are lain waste, and the world goes ''Kaboom!!'' Then they start it all over again in the next episode.

* DeathIsCheap: It didn't last when [[spoiler:Oggy and the roaches died in "Soldier for a Day".]]

''Oggy and the Cockroaches'' is renowned for its expressive use of mime -- the show relies heavily on non-verbal expression, minimizing both spoken dialogue (which are [[SpeakingSimlish in Simlish]]) and written text. Without the need for dubbing, the show is able to appeal to a diverse international audience. However, a short-lived airing on Creator/FoxKids in the late 90s in the United States yielded little success, and its revival on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the 2010s sparked a censorship controversy, leading to its [[ScrewedByTheNetwork swift removal from the network]].

But all hope is not lost; in 2021, the show was UnCanceled when a revival known as ''Oggy and the Cockroaches: Next Generation'' debuted on Gulli. This time, Oggy now has to take care of an elephant named Piya but still has to deal with his mischievous rivals. A SpinoffBabies called ''Oggy Oggy'' also aired around this time.

''Oggy and the Cockroaches'' is renowned for its expressive use of mime -- the cats may make cat sounds or (rarely) speak in gibberish, but there is no dialog, and written words are kept to a minimum. Without the need for dubbing, the show is able to reach a wide international audience. Except in the US, where the show ran briefly on Creator/FoxKids in the late 90s without success, and returned in the 2010s on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} only to run into a controversy involving censorship which led to the show's quick removal.

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This time-honored formula, featured in many ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' shorts, gets a revival in the Creator/{{Gaumont}} (France's premier film studio) production ''Oggy and the Cockroaches'' (''Oggy et les Cafards''- 1998-1999, 2008, 2013, 2017), believed to have debuted in ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'' episode "Venus Junior". Each 7-minute short (There are over 500 and counting of them. Often aired in the ThreeShorts format or as hour long compilations featuring 6 or 7) follows the life of the rotund blue cat Oggy, who has the misfortune to share the same house with three cute but exceptionally mischievous roaches: [[Music/TheRamones Dee Dee, Marky and Joey]]. Their sole purpose of existence is to have fun with Oggy by pulling a series of practical jokes. Oggy is sometimes helped by his cousin Jack, a green cat with a knack for mechanics and a short fuse. Factor in a burly neighborhood bulldog named Bob and a LoveInterest named Olivia (introduced in later seasons), and you have a great slapstick set-up. The show debuted on France 3 in 1998 and originally ended in 1999. Things changed up during that same year when Marc du Pontavice left Gaumont to form Creator/{{Xilam}} which later acquired all of Gaumont Multimedia's properties the following year. In 2008, the show was revived for a third and a fourth season in 2008 and 2012 respectively which [[ChannelHop moved]] from France 3 to [=Canal+=] Family and was later renewed for a additional three seasons, this time on Gulli until production axed in 2019. In 2021, the show was UnCanceled when a revival known as ''Oggy and the Cockroaches: Next Generation'' debuted on Gulli. This time, Oggy now has to take care of an elephant named Piya but still has to deal with his mischievous rivals. A SpinoffBabies called ''Oggy Oggy'' also aired around this time.

A [[WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroachesTheMovie movie]] detailing the characters' adventures through the ages was released in 2013. Most episodes in their remastered form can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/@oggy/featured either Oggy's own]] or with other Xilam shows on their [[https://www.youtube.com/@OggyandhisFriends YouTube channel]]. And if the remasters aren't your style, there exists also [[https://www.youtube.com/@Oggy_Cartoon a fan channel]] hosting the original episodes.

* BellyDancer: Three belly dancers are conjured by a genie in "3 Wishes and You're Out".

* LeeroyJenkins: In "Oggy's Puzzle'', Oggy tries to clime across a rope to insert the last piece into his enormous puzzle. However, he ends up accidentally using Bob's washing line as the rope, and the cockroaches pull the rest of it into the house, taking Bob in with it. At first, the dog seems to let them off with mild disapproval over them using his washing line... only for Jack to not realize this and hit him in the head with a hammer, angering him into attacking him and Oggy.

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ-lp2BeFok description]] for [[AlliterativeTitle "Party Pooper"]] says Oggy throws a party for himself and Olivia "to try and seduce her". Hopefully, the person who wrote that simply meant "impress"...

** Some season 3 episodes have been remastered, though not as much as the season 1 and 2 episodes. A big change, however, is that firearms now shoot plungers instead of bullets and female characters with large breasts have been either drawn with less revealing clothing or replaced with different characters entirely. A notable one is "Formula 1", wherein two cheerleaders were replaced with Oggy's sister and grandmother, and the BadassBiker babe that Jack was talking to was replaced with ''Olivia.''

** The Next Generation brought back the black outlines not seen since season 4, [[ThickLineAnimation but now much thinker than before]]. It also simplified the character models and generally made everything look flatter by dialing down on the shading and background details.

* GainaxEnding: ''Oggy Van Winkle'' stands out in the general surrealism of season 1+2 for its ending just being plane weird. Following an episode worth of hijinks involving a [[TimeStandsStill time-freeze gun]] everyone is now far in the future as old and crippled versions of themselves and this feels like the perfect place to end the episode. But then Oggy [[DeusExMachina out of nowhere]] brings out a remote and seemingly [[RewindGag rewinds the episode]] to before he found the gun. Except this time the cockroaches are there with him and the ensuing fight over it causes it to go off and [[BabyMorphEpisode make them all into babies]]. Again perfect time to end? Nope. "Old" Oggie from before then suddenly walks in, smashes the baby cockroaches with his flyswatter, puts them in his pocket, pats his baby counterpart on the head and walks off with no explanation. And only now does the story end.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: The somewhat misleadingly named "Season 6" [[note]]as it actually aired alongside the [[{{Elseworld}} historical elseworlds]] of season 5[[/note]] consists entirely of widescreen remasters of season 1+2 episodes, often with a lot of censorship to make the show more re-run friendly. Season 7 would continue the trend, though now with at least some new episodes sprinkled in.

* LighterAndSofter: The "Next generation" reboot. Not only does it introduce a CheerfulChild as a main character in the form of Piya, but the slapstick has been heavily toned down and there is a lot of focus on ThePowerOfFriendship.

* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: The somewhat misleadingly named "Season 6" (as it actually aired alongside the [[{{Elseworld}} historical elseworlds]] of season 5) consists entirely of widescreen remasters of season 1+2 episodes. Often with a lot of censorship to make the show more re-run friendly. Season 7 would continue the trend though now with atleast some new episodes sprinkled in.

* LighterAndSofter: The "Next generation" reboot. Not only does it introduce a CheerfulChild as a main character in the form of Piya. But the slapstick has been heavily toned down and there is a lot of focus on ThePowerOfFriendship.

** The Next Generation brought back the black outlines not seen since season 4 [[ThickLineAnimation but now much thinker than before.]] It also simplified the character models and in general made everything look a loot flatter by dialing down on the shading and background details.
** ''[[SpinoffBabies Oggy Oggy]]'' just by its nature of being a CG show emulating foam cutouts.

* NegativeContinuity: Prior stories are never called back on. Oggy and Olivia are notable depicted as dating again during the season 7 original episodes despite them getting married in [[WeddingFinale the season 4 finale]].