History WesternAnimation / RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure

* ActionGirl:
** Well, more of a FauxActionGirl in Raggedy Ann's case, as she usually relies on the men around her to protect her -- but Ann ''is'' the one who insists on embarking on the quest to rescue Babette, and she can take care of herself if she absolutely has to.
** An even more surprising example is Babette, who is very much a DamselInDistress in the earlier parts of the story but by the climax [[spoiler: has taken over the pirate ship and is [[WhipItGood wielding a whip]]!]]
* AffablyEvil: The Greedy. He literally wants to eat Ann's heart, but he ''is'' polite to the heroes and bears them no ill will - at least at first.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: For starters, Looney Land has a purple knight and a salmon-pink king.
* AndIMustScream: A [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example with Captain Contagious. He's been trapped in a snow globe for ''thirty-seven years'', and while he's able to move around and talk, he's permanently isolated from the outside world (which he can still see and hear, just not fully experience), with only his other pirates and parrot for company. To make matters worse, the constant snow has left him with a head cold that never gets better (imagine sneezing and snuffling for nearly four decades).
** The robotic denizens of Looney Land are implied to be this--they used to be regular human beings (or perhaps toys) tasked with making King Koo Koo laugh, but when they stopped amusing him, they were reduced to giggling, mindless contraptions that now can do nothing but cackle.
* AnimatedMusical

* AnthropomorphicFood: The Greedy.

* ApologizesALot: The Greedy intersperses JabbaTableManners with this, constantly apologizing and going "excuse me" even in the middle of his song.

* BigEater: The Greedy: "I never get enough..."

* BitchInSheepsClothing: The Greedy. He initially presents himself as an affable TragicMonster who needs a "sweetheart" to cure his depression. When Raggedy Ann reveals that she has a candy heart, the Greedy gets very clingy and insists that she and her friends "have" to help him. When Raggedy Ann refuses, the Greedy goes into a full-on rage and chases them, seemingly trying to kill/eat them.

* BlobMonster: The Greedy.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Ann and Andy have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77vD_JIrAlw "Candy Hearts and Paper Flowers"]]. It was likely intended to be about '''sibling love''' but doesn't sound like one. At one point during "No Girl's Toy", Ann seems to be staring at Andy's butt.
* CaptainObvious: "You just kicked a knight!"

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Everyone in Looney Land essentially.
* ComedicSociopathy: King Koo Koo almost literally feeds on this.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The film's poster (shown above) depicts the cast as being in a whimsical and fun story, and the Greedy is shown as a dopey clownish figure. Although it is trying for whimsy, the movie ends up being a roller coaster of lucid imagery and frightening implications, with the Greedy coming off as an EldritchAbomination.
* CreepyTwins: The twin dolls, brr...

* UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation: Made during this era. It's worth mentioning, however, that very few projects from this time were this lavishly animated.
* TheDayTheMusicLied: The introductory fanfare in King Koo Koo's throne room.
* DeconstructedTrope: Possibly unintentional, but when the trio finds themselves in Looney Land, they meet Sir Leonard Loonie, who acts like your standard (if rather exaggerated) PluckyComicRelief. How do the kids react? By getting annoyed at his pranks, then scared because he won't leave them alone and finally running away.
* DerangedAnimation: A crowning example in animation; while the film starts out with bizarre yet friendly environments, it heads straight to lucid insanity with the constantly shifting Greedy, the insane residents of Looney Land (which by itself qualifies) and the utterly bonkers GainaxEnding
* DisneyAcidSequence: There's the Camel's hallucinations, the Greedy, Ann and Andy go to King Koo Koo's kingdom... OK, really every scene other than those at the toy's home is this.
* TheEeyore: The Camel With Wrinkled Knees. Barney Beanbag and Socko, two of Marcella's odder toys, also qualify; Barney in particular is falling apart and has a permanently stitched-on frown.
* EldritchAbomination: Some have called the Greedy a perfect example of what one would be like. Being a shapeshifting mass of sentient taffy lacking the ability to stay in a shape for longer than a few seconds, while eating candy that it constantly regurgitates. It is a perfect example of DerangedAnimation. Some might say the Greedy is really just a kid-friendly interpretation of [[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/File:Yog-sothoth.jpg Yog-Sothoth]]. He's more like Abhoth from "The Seven Geases" -- a pool of sludge that constantly devours itself. Except Abhoth is made of primordial ooze and devours its own floundering malformed offspring, and the Greedy is made of taffy and devours the candy inexplicably bubbling out of itself.
* EldritchLocation: Parts of Looney Land are pretty eldritchy even by its own surreal standards. Probably justified, though. After all, it has to be called "Looney Land" for a reason.

* EyepiecePrank: This is one of the jokes Sir Looney plays on Ann and Andy, offering Ann a peek through his "super optiscope" that leaves her with a fake black eye.

* FoodPorn: The moment with the Greedy. Given the way he acts around the food, it's a borderline ''literal'' example.
* FrenchJerk: Babette for a while, though she eventually softens up.

* GirlsVsBoysPlot: There's a brief bit of this in "No Girl's Toy"--Andy sings about how annoying it is being a boy in Marcella's feminine playroom. The other male toys back him up, while the female toys get together and mock him.

* HappyHarlequinHat: Topsy, the long-limbed harlequin doll, wears one.

* TheHyena: The aptly named Sir Leonard Looney, who can't go a few seconds without laughing his head off.

* IAmSong: Raggedy Andy sings "No Girl's Toy", while Raggedy Ann sings "Rag Dolly".

* IWantSong: Several.

* ItsAllAboutMe: This is Babette's major flaw--she only cares about getting back to Paris (despite the fact that she is now Marcella's toy), and will shun, abuse, or ignore anyone who refuses to help her with that goal. [[spoiler: She even takes over Captain Contagious's ship and locks him up to do it.]]
* JabbaTableManners: The Greedy.

* TheLostWoods: The Deep, Deep Woods.

* MsFanservice: Babette--she has more normal proportions than the other dolls and has a curvy figure. [[spoiler: It goes further when she becomes a pirate and wears more-form fitting clothing that exposes her cleavage.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Raggedy Ann, after realizing that her decision to free the pirates has led to Babette's kidnapping.
** Babette, after it becomes clear to her that her obsession with going to Paris has gotten everyone into terrible trouble.
* TheNapoleon: King Koo Koo. He even mentions Napoleon in his song, noting that Napoleon would look tall next to him.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In a literal example, Raggedy Ann, with help from Maxi-Fixit, breaks open the snow globe to let Captain Contagious and his crew out after the captain gives her an SOS message. Once freed, the Captain immediately seizes Babette and escapes the nursery.
* ObliviouslyEvil: The Greedy, who believes that eating Raggedy Ann's candy (sweet) heart is the key to saving himself from his life of constant hunger. Sir Leonard Looney seems to be this too, although with him it's more like "Obliviously Annoying and Creepy", since he's not exactly Villain of the Year.
* ObsessedWithFood: The Greedy, once again.

* PieInTheFace: A common gag in King Koo Koo's court. Raggedy Anne and Andy start a huge pie fight in order to distract the Looneylanders and make their escape.
* PirateGirl: [[spoiler:Babette after she takes over the Captain's ship.]]
* PirateParrot: The Captain has one, and it proves important to fight King Koo Koo at the end.
* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Well, except for kidnapping young women. It's also [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that the whole crew is trapped inside a snow globe--once they actually get out, they immediately start doing more "piratey" things and head for the open sea.

* RetroUniverse: With the exception of some contemporary clothes worn by Marcella in the film's opening sequence (and she quickly changes into [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl a more "girly" outfit]] for her birthday party), the film does not appear to be taking place in 1977. In fact, judging by the characers' sensibilities and the music and so on, this would most likely be taking place in the mid-1950s ''at the latest'' (and, in fact, these characters were created in 1914). Not only that, but Babette, King Koo Koo, and several other characters--including Topsy the Harlequin Doll and Grandpa, an elderly-looking wooden doll--look as if they were literally BornInTheWrongCentury.

* SchmuckBait: The "WELCOME" sign on the entrance to Sir Leonard Looney's funhouse.

* ShownTheirWork: Unique for any film, let alone an animated one, the lead animators are given big fanfare credits along with the characters they animated where the actors voicing them might usually be.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To Homer's ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''...really, to a great many famous stories, especially those written around the archetype of TheQuest.

* StockholmSyndrome: Played with. By the time our heroes catch up with the runaway pirate ship, Babette doesn't want to leave. But it's not because she's fallen for the captain, but because [[spoiler: she has seized control of the ship and persuaded the crew to sail to Paris, which is where she wanted to go in the first place]].
* SugarBowl: [[UnintentionalPun Pun aside,]] The Greedy himself is this, except it's nightmarish and disturbing rather than bright and cheery. The closest he comes to this is the fact that he's essentially [[GeniusLoci the Taffy Pit itself]], which happens to be filled with sweets and [[CaptainObvious taffy.]]
* SurroundedByIdiots: How the King describes life at his court, surrounded by Loonies who think nearly ''everything'' is funny.

* TickleTorture: The climax is based around this.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Anything and everything will set off a musical number.

* VillainSong:
** Quite a few, including "The Pirate Song," "I Never Get Enough," "Because I Love You" and "It's Not Easy Being King When You're Short." Of course, EVERYONE gets a song in this movie.
** "Never Get Enough" and "Because I Love You" are interesting examples because [[ObliviouslyEvil neither character who sings it seems to be aware that they're villains]].
* VillainousGlutton: The Greedy, a giant, terrifying BlobMonster that does nothing but eat the candy and other food constantly bubbling out of its own body.

* WackyWaysideTribe: There is a convincing argument to be made that the entire middle third of the movie (starting with the Greedy and ending when they finally get back to the business with the pirates) feels like an enormous side-quest, even though King Koo Koo shows up again for the climax.

* WhipItGood: [[spoiler: Babette]] wields one near the end.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Greedy could be seen as one.
-->''Without a sweetheart, I never get enough...''

* {{Blackground}}:
** Unlike the rest of the film, the scenes taking place in [[EldritchLocation the Taffy Pit and Looney Land]] have completely black backgrounds. This highlights how unsettling and uncomfortable they are.
** King Koo Koo, ruler of Looney Land, gets a black background with only a single spotlight on him during his VillainSong, "It's Not Easy Being King When You're Short."
* BlobMonster: The Greedy.

* RealityEnsues: Possibly unintentional, but when the trio finds themselves in Looney Land, they meet Sir Leonard Loonie, who acts like your standard (if rather exaggerated) PluckyComicRelief. How do the kids react? By getting annoyed at his pranks, then scared because he won't leave them alone and finally running away.

* AnthropomorphicFood: The Greedy
* AntiVillain: The pirate captain just wants a female companion for himself. Tellingly, ''Babette'' is more antagonistic toward the heroes than the captain is--when she takes over the ship and captures Raggedy Ann and Andy, the Captain is ''immediate'' to help them as they'd helped him before.

* BalloonBurstingBird: Queasy the PirateParrot pops [[spoiler:King Koo Koo, who has blown himself up to gigantic proportions. The explosion is so powerful it sends everyone back home]].
* BananaPeel: Sir Leonard Looney uses a banana skin to keep Raggedy Andy from escaping his prank-loving clutches.

* BigBadEnsemble: The pirate captain kickstarts the plot by kidnapping Babette, although [[spoiler:she ends up overthrowing him and becoming the new, even more antagonistic captain.]] Meanwhile, although he doesn't appear until later in the movie, King Koo Koo also provides a major antagonistic force by trying to use Raggedy Ann and Andy as pawns in his goal of becoming the biggest king in the world.

* BrotherSisterIncest: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77vD_JIrAlw Raggedy Ann and Andy have a love song.]] It was likely intended to be a song about sibling love. It just doesn't sound like one. At one poing in the song "No Girl's Toy", Ann seems to be staring at Andy's butt.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Raggedy Ann just can't resist trying to help anyone and everyone who's in trouble, whether it's taking direct action (as she does with the Captain, Babette, and the Camel) or simply listening to their troubles (as shown with the Greedy).

* DisneyAcidSequence: When Raggedy Ann and Andy go to King Koo Koo's kingdom. The Greedy sequence. The Camel's hallucinations could also apply... OK, really every scene other than those at the toy's home is this.

* EldritchLocation: Parts of Looney Land are pretty eldritchy even by the movies own surreal standards. Probably justified, though. After all, it has to be called "Looney Land" for a reason.

* EyepiecePrank: This is one of the jokes Sir Looney plays on Raggedy Ann and Andy, offering Ann a peek through his "super optiscope" that leaves her with a fake black eye.

* MsFanservice: Babette--she has more normal proportions than the other dolls and has a curvy figure. [[spoiler: It goes UpToEleven when she becomes a pirate and wears more-form fitting clothing that exposes her cleavage.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: The Greedy. He initially presents himself as an affable TragicMonster who needs a "sweetheart" to cure his depression. When Raggedy Ann reveals that she has a candy heart, the Greedy gets very clingy and insists that she "has" to help him. When she refuses, the Greedy goes into a full-on rage and chases them, seemingly trying to kill/eat her and her friends.

* OverlyLongGag: The Captain is so out of shape that it takes him what seems like several minutes to climb over the railing of the balcony on Babette's dollhouse. It's worth noting that Creator/RichardWilliams has [[AuthorAppeal a tendency to do this a lot]] just to have more animation for it's own sake.

** The robotic denizens of Looney Land are implied to be this--they used to be regular human beings (or perhaps toys) tasked with making King Koo Koo laugh, but when they stopped amusing him, they were reduced to the giggling, mindless contraptions that now can do nothing but cackle.

* TheEeyore: The Camel With Wrinkled Knees.

* MsFanservice: Babette, she has more normal proportions than the other dolls and has a curvy figure. [[spoiler: UpToEleven when she becomes a pirate and wears more form fitting clothing that exposes her cleavage.]]

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Well, except for kidnapping young women.

* RetroUniverse: With the exception of some contemporary clothes worn by Marcella in the film's opening sequence (and she quickly changes into [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl a more "girly" outfit]] for her birthday party), the film does not appear to be taking place in 1977. In fact, judging by the characers' sensibilities and the music and so on, this would most likely be taking place in the mid-1950s ''at the latest'' (and, in fact, these characters were created in 1914). Not only that, but Babette, King Koo Koo, and several other characters look as if they were literally BornInTheWrongCentury.

* WackyWaysideTribe: There is a convincing argument to be made that the entire middle third of the movie (starting with the Greedy and ending when they finally get back to the business with the pirates) feels like an enormous side-quest, even though King Koo Koo shows up again for the climax. It feels like TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot.

* TheEeyore: The Camel With Wrinkled Knees.

* HappyHarlequinHat: Topsy, the long limbed harlequin doll wears one.

* RetroUniverse: With the exception of some contemporary clothes worn by Marcella in the film's opening sequence (and she quickly changes into [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl a more "girly" outfit]] for her birthday party), the film does not appear to be taking place in 1977. In fact, judging by the characers' sensibilities and the music and so on, this would most likely be taking place in the mid-1950s ''at the latest'' (and, in fact, these characters were created in 1914). Not only that, but Babette and King Koo Koo and several other characters look as if they were literally BornInTheWrongCentury.

* LastOfHisKind: Implied. Sir Leonard the Loony is the only member of King Koo Koo's court who isn't a mindless robot. Koo Koo implies that the robots all used to be living beings until they could no longer make him laugh. This implies that Sir Leonard is the only one who Koo Koo still finds funny enough to spare... for now.

* BigBadEnsemble: The pirate captain kickstarts the plot by kidnapping Babette, although [[spoiler:she ends up overthrowing him and becoming the new, even more antagonistic captain.]] Meanwhile, King Koo Koo also provides a major antagonistic force with his plans to use Raggedy Ann and Andy as pawns for his personal goal of becoming the biggest king in the world.

* VillainsOutShopping: The scene where King Koo Koo contacts his minion Gazooks is played like a casual phone call, complete with Koo Koo having trouble working the phone, and Gazooks saying he hasn't seen Koo Koo in forever.

* VisualPun: The Camel With the Wrinkled Knees is literally "blue" [[DontExplainTheJoke because he's often sad]].

* VillainousGlutton: Who do you think?

* RealityEnsues: Possibly unintentional, but when the trio finds themselves in Looney Land, they meet Sir Leonard Loonie, who acts like your standard (if rather exaggerated) WackyGuy. How do the kids react? By getting annoyed at his pranks, then scared because he won't leave them alone and finally running away.

A book about the making of the film, ''The Animated Raggedy Ann & Andy'' by John Canemaker, can be read [[http://issuu.com/vinnierattolle/docs/the_animated_raggedy_ann___andy_by_john_canemaker?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Fcolor%2Flayout.xml&backgroundColor=000000&showFlipBtn=true here as well]]. [[http://madnessmonster.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/raggedy-anne-review/ You can read the the WordPress review of it here.]]

A book about the making of the film, ''The Animated Raggedy Ann & Andy'' by John Canemaker, can be read [[http://issuu.com/vinnierattolle/docs/the_animated_raggedy_ann___andy_by_john_canemaker?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Fcolor%2Flayout.xml&backgroundColor=000000&showFlipBtn=true here as well]]. You can read the [=WordPress=] [[http://madnessmonster.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/raggedy-anne-review/ review of it here.]]

A book about the making of the film, ''The Animated Raggedy Ann & Andy'' by John Canemaker, can be read [[http://issuu.com/vinnierattolle/docs/the_animated_raggedy_ann___andy_by_john_canemaker?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Fcolor%2Flayout.xml&backgroundColor=000000&showFlipBtn=true here as well]]. You can read the [=WordPress=] review of it [[http://madnessmonster.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/raggedy-anne-review/ here]].

* BalloonBurstingBird: Queasy the PirateParrot pops [[spoiler:King Koo Koo, who has blown himself up to gigantic proportions. The explosion is so powerful it sends everyone back home.]]

* BigRedButton: On the speedboat stolen by the twin dolls is a big lever with a hand at the end and the sign "Don't pull me". They do pull it, and it causes the speedboat to [[spoiler: go berzerk and fling its crew all the way to the pirate ship they were headed for]].

* WackyWaysideTribe: There is also a convincing argument to be made that the entire middle third of the movie (starting with the Greedy and ending when they finally get back to the business with the pirates) feels like an enormous side-quest, even though King Koo Koo shows up again for the climax. It feels like TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot.

* SugarBowl: The Greedy himself is this, except it's nightmarish and disturbing rather than bright and cheery. The closest he comes to this is the fact that he's essentially [[GeniusLoci the Taffy Pit itself]], which happens to be filled with sweets and [[CaptainObvious taffy.]]