History WesternAnimation / PacMan

** In the second season premiere, "Here's Super-Pac", the Ghost Monsters come after Pac-Man with a tank armed with a "goo gun". Pinky tells Inky to load it; when Inky asks "With what?" Pinky replies, "With ''goo'', what else?" while holding up a can of something labeled "Goo".

* ObligatoryGag: Super-Pac tended to get his chomper stuck a lot, requiring one of the other good guys to find a way to send him back home before he ate the whole city.

* SinisterSurveillance: Mezmeron has a device that lets him view any part of Pac Land and keep tabs on his five minions, much to his utter chagrin.

In 1982, Creator/HannaBarbera acquired the rights to produce a cartoon based on [[VideoGame/PacMan the eponymous game]] in America, as part of a 90-minute omnibus with ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'' and ''ComicBook/RichieRich''. Its characters are basically ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' and the plot is basically about an evil wizard named Mezmaron who orders the ghosts to get him the Power Forest, the forest where power pellets are grown.

* ChristmasSpecial

* MythologyGag: "Neander-Pac-Man" had Pac-Man be chased by the ghost-monsters through a maze that was identical to the one in the original arcade game, and the episode "The Bionic Pac-Woman" began with Pac-Man and Pepper at an outdoor hamburger stand, ordering two Wakka-Wakka Burgers, referencing the sound made when Pac-Man ate dots in the original game.

* NonActionBigBad: Mezmaron seems incapable of actually fighting (and has lost quite a few of his dark, scary robes after confronting Pac Man), although he has led a few schemes personally.

* SinisterSurveillance: Mezmeron has a device that lets him view any part of Pac Land and keep tabs on his five minion, much to his utter chagrin.

* FlintstoneTheming: Most of the landmarks, characters, etc. in the show had the word "Pac" or "chomp" in their names; for example, Pac-Land's movie capital was "Pac-Hollywood", and Pac-Man's dog was named "Chomp-Chomp".

* SpiritualSuccessor: Later games in the franchise take influence from this series. The games ''Pac-Land'' and ''Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures'' seem at least partly based on this cartoon.

* IdiotBall: How Mezmeron regards the ghost monsters.
** Inky has really shown this multiple times. For instance, in "Pac-Baby Panic," Pac-Baby -- who has been taken hostage by Mezmeron (only to wreak havoc at the Lava Lair) -- complains he's hungry, prompting "Uncle Inky" to sit him next to the sack of Super Power Pellets; Pac-Baby immediately eats his snack and it's not long before the ghosts and Mezmeron are running in terror.

** Dinky, the ghosts' bratty young cousin, needed Sue to help him get his spare suit when Pac-Baby chomped him.
** In one episode, Mezmaron has to change outfits after Pac-Man ruins his robes (see ClothingDamage above), revealing that he has an entire wardrobe full of identical ones.

In 1982, Creator/HannaBarbera acquired the rights to produce a cartoon based on [[VideoGame/PacMan the eponymous game]] in America, as part of a 90-minute omnibus with ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'' and ''ComicBook/RichieRich''. Its characters are basically ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' and the plot is basically ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs''.

* WouldHurtAChild and WouldHitAWoman: Always averted, but Mezmeron and the ghosts showed no qualms about putting Pepper and Pac-Baby into harm's way multiple times. Also, Pac-Man has chomped Sue in virtually every episode (although just as often, Pepper got the honors).

* CanonImmigrant: Pac-Baby (albeit gender-swapped, implying the original baby may have been a younger Jr. Pac-Man), Chomp-Chomp, and to a lesser extent Sourpuss would appear in later games. Same with the recolored purple Sue to differentiate her from the orange Cylde, the concept of a Power Pellet-growing tree, and Pac-Land itself.

** In the second season premiere, the Ghost Monsters come after Pac Man with a tank armed with a "goo gun". Pinky tells Inky to load it; when Pinky asks "with what", Pinky replies, "with ''goo'', what else?" while holding up a can of something labeled "Goo".

* ClothingDamage: Mezmeron wasn't harmed by Pac-Man's chomping, but his ''clothes'' sure could be. Pretty much every plot that involved a face-to-face confrontation with Pac-Man ended with them ruined.

* EscapedAnimalRampage: In "Goo-Goo at the Zoo", Pac-Baby takes the zookeeper's keys and unlocks all of the cages. The newly liberated animals wreak havoc throughout Pacland and end up at Pac-Man's home.

* FlintstoneTheming: Most of the landmarks, characters, etc. in the show had the word "Pac" or "chomp" in their names; for example, Pac-land's movie capital was "Pac-Hollywood", and Pac-Man's dog was named "Chomp-Chomp".

** In one episode, Mezmeron has to change outfits after Pac-Man ruins his robes (see ClothingDamage above) revealing that he has an entire wardrobe full of identical ones.

* NearVillainVictory: The episode "The Day the Forest Disappeared" had Mezmaron finally uproot the Power Forest, but Pac-Man defeated him at the last minute because the trees turned out to be "obedient" and Pac-Man told them to move to a new location where Mezmaron would never find them.

* ThisMeansWar: When Super-Pac came in on the second season, the ghosts would do something that would anger him (though not enough to make him pull out a [[DesperationAttack super power pellet]] yet). They would soon find out why they should [[BewaretheSuperman Beware the Super-Pac.]]

* Expy: In the second season, Super-Pac is obviously a reference to ''Super Pac-Man'', the Pac-Family's cousin P.J. is a reference to ''Jr. Pac-Man'' (Pac-Man even calls him "Pac-Jr." at one point), and, although technically introduced in an earlier episode, Dinky's reluctant friendship with Pac-Baby may be an allusion to Jr. Pac-Man and Yum-Yum's burgeoning romance.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Later games in the franchise take influence from this series. The game ''Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures'' seems at least partly based on this cartoon.

* BigBad: Mezmaron is the only human in Pac-Man's world. He wants to take over the Power Forest, and the ghosts work for him. It's never explained what he plans to do with all those power pellets. As the lone recurring human character, he's our lone reference point for scale. Several episodes have Mezmaron mention that by taking over the Power Forest, he'll control all the "pac-power" in Pac-Land, and thus easily conquer the populace.
* CanonForeigner: Mezmaron appears in the cartoon, but not in any of the games. Some have theorized that the Ghost Witch of Netor from ''VideoGame/PacMan2TheNewAdventures'' was an homage to Mezmaron.

* FiveBadBand: The ghost-monsters Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Clyde, and Sue.

** Dinky, the ghosts' nephew, needed Sue to help him get his spare suit when Pac-Baby chomped him.

* MassOhCrap: The ghost monsters when Pac-Man eats a power pellet. "P-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-Pac Power!"
** Later, when Super Pac-Man eats a [[DesperationAttack super power pellet]], Pac-Man realizes that as Super Pac-Man is a NighInvulnerable [[TheJuggernaut Eating Machine]] who can't control his Super-Chomping, the only way to negate that and give Super Pac-Man some control again is to get him into his time-warp space hole. Fortunately, Pac-Man can [[PortableHole grab it]] and use the hole to do just that.

* MyFavoriteShirt: Super Pac-Man ''[[BerserkButton really]]'' ''[[BerserkButton gets angry]] at the Ghost Monsters after their goo gun gets goo all over his superhero costume.

* NearVillainVictory: The episode "The Day the Forest Disappeared" had Mezmaron finally uproot the power forest, but Pac-Man defeated him at the last minute because the trees turned out to be sentient and Pac-Man told them to move to a new location where Mezmaron would never find them.

* PowerUpFood: The power pellets, of course. The second season added the "Super" power pellets for Super Pac-Man.

* ThisMeansWar: When Super Pac-Man came in on the second season, the ghosts would do something that would anger him (though not enough to make him pull out a [[DesperationAttack super power pellet]] yet). They would soon find out why they should [[BewaretheSuperman Beware the Super Pac-Man.]]

* TrouserSpace: Inky and Dinky (the ghosts' nephew) had this trait.

* YourCostumeNeedsWork: In "The Greatest Show in Pacland", Pac-Man sees the ghost-monsters disguised as clowns and assumes them to be clowns dressed as the ghost-monsters. He proceeds to laugh and say that they look even dumber than the real ghost-monsters.

* SpiritualSuccessor:
** The game ''Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures'' seems at least partly based on this cartoon.
** [[RecursiveAdaptation ''Pac-Land'' not only used the theme song from the cartoon, but the U.S. version designed the sprites of Pac-Man and the ghosts to resemble their cartoon counterparts.]]

** [[RecursiveAdaptation''Pac-Land'' not only used the theme song from the cartoon, but the U.S. version designed the sprites of Pac-Man and the ghosts to resemble their cartoon counterparts.]]

** [[RecursiveAdaption ''Pac-Land'' not only used the theme song from the cartoon, but the U.S. version designed the sprites of Pac-Man and the ghosts to resemble their cartoon counterparts.]]

** ''Pac-Land'' not only used the theme song from the cartoon, but the U.S. version redesigned the sprites of Pac-Man and the ghosts to resemble their cartoon counterparts.

* CaptainObvious: In "A Bad Case of the Chomps", Pac-Man shows Chomp-Chomp a wrench while dealing with a faulty bathroom sink, and says annoyed at him, [[LargeHam "THIS IS A WRENCH."]]

In 1982, Creator/HannaBarbera acquired the rights to produce a cartoon based on [[VideoGame/{{Pac-Man}} the eponymous game]] in America, as part of a 90-minute omnibus with ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'' and ''ComicBook/RichieRich''. Its characters are basically ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' and the plot is basically ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs''.

* BagOfHolding: Inky's pockets act like this, and he seems to [[CrazyPrepared have something in them for any occasion]] (along with a lot of worthless junk).

* PityTheKidnapper: When Mezmeron kidnaps Pac Baby in one episode and tries to ransom him, this scenario happens quickly. When Pac Man shows up to agree to his demands, the villain ''begs'' him to take his kid back.

* StupidEvil: A ''lot'' of the villains' plans fall under this. For example, in the pilot, Pinky lifts the whole Yellow House (Pac-Land's version of the White House) by turning into a hot-air balloon while Pac Man, the President, and the other Ghost Monsters are inside, while Clyde threatens to tell Pinky to let go of it unless Pac Man tells them where the Forest is. That's when Blinky realizes something... What would happen to ''them'' if Pinky did that? (Fortunately, Pac Man is able to bluff them by leading them to a fake Power Forest.)