History WesternAnimation / SaltysLighthouse

** The Zero Fleet in ''TUGS'' are Star Tug's unscrupulous business rivals, willing to resort to sabotage to get ahead of the Stars. Here, while they still compete with each other and the Zeros can be antagonist at times, their relationship is [[FriendlyRivalry much friendlier]] with the Zero Fleet fitting more under JerkWithAHeartOfGold in this version.

** While not necessarily evil, Bluenose is a lot more reasonable here and doesn’t use his authority to screw over the tugs. While his original counterpart tried to have Grampus blown up for target practice, his version here tries to save Grampus from the same fate.

** Nantucket's only notable act in the original show was trying to illegally get into port despite being marked for quarantine. Here, he's a friend of the Tugs with his villainous actions removed.

* DubInducedPlotlineChange: The storylines of the Tugs segments here bear little to no resemblance to the originals.

* {{Frankenslation}}: The Tugs segments regularly consisted of clips from different episodes edited together. This commonly leads to things like the weather or time of day switching between cuts, and Sunshine changing liveries.

* SeriesContinuityError: When Boomer first appeared via a flashback/story in the TUGS segment of "Banana Splits", his bad luck ended after he was built into a house boat like in Tugs. Later he reappeared in "Some Guys Have all the Luck" where it is instead stated that he lost his bad luck by successfully towing a schooner out to sea. Another problem is that the way Ten Cents tells his story he acts as if Zip and Zug don't know who Boomer is, however in his next appearance in "Some Guys Have all the Luck" they share a scene with him.

** The Fultan Ferry is an interesting example as it was referred to as a male and female, it was genderless in Tugs.

* UnreliableIllustrator: The Tugs look almost nothing like their physical models in the opening theme, with Top Hat missing his monocle, Sunshine being incredibly tiny (he, or she in this case, is the same size as Ten Cents in the actual ''TUGS'' footage), and everyone overall looking much lumpier and rounded around the faces. The rest of the animation doesn't fare much better thanks to the low budget, changing look from episode to episode. The clams suffer the worst of this.

-->'''Captain Star:''' [[LampshadeTheObscureReference Sorry, haven't seen too many movies lately]].

** The relationship between Zero Fleet and Star Tugs is [[FriendlyRivalry much more friendlier]], though the two still complete with eachother, however Zorran does act antagonistic on the occasion.
*** On the contrary Zorran does help out and is nice at times thereby making him more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in this version.

** While not necessarily evil, Bluenose is a lot more reasonable here and doesn’t use his authority to screw over the tugs.

** Nantucket became a friend of the Tugs.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Top Hat is a lot nicer here than he was in the original series.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Sea Rogue went from a tug who was [[ForcedIntoEvil forced into doing evil]], into a pirate who stole barges [[ItAmusedMe for kicks]]. [[spoiler:The episode was revealed to be AllJustADream, but still]].

* RecycledInSpace: ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' IN A LIGHTHOUSE.