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[[caption-width-right:350:The animal stereotype tables have turned in order to teach kids railroad safety...]]
[[caption-width-right:350:The animal stereotype tables have turned in order to teach kids railroad safety...]]
* DerangedAnimation: Happens with Sly Fox from time to time; most notable is when he is putting stuff on the tracks and says "When the old train comes roarin' by, it'll squash 'em to pieces!" crazed spirals appear in his eyes.
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* NeverSayDie: Being a railway safety video aimed at kids, it's averted, especially with how Birdie frequently says Sly Fox could "get hurt or killed." Also averted with Sly Fox's MediumAwareness quote above.
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* NeverSayDie: Being a railway safety video aimed at kids, it's averted, especially with how Birdie frequently says Sly Fox could "get hurt get "hurt or killed." Also averted with Sly Fox's MediumAwareness quote above.
* OhNoNotAgain: How Birdie often reacts to Sly Fox doing something dangerous involving trains again after setting him straight on one thing about them. She even says "Not again" when seeing Sly Fox ride his bicycle into a railroad tunnel just after teaching him how railroad bridges are not safe to walk on.
* RecycledAnimation: Quite a bit of animation gets reused, most notably a close-up shot of Birdie saying something while giving a DeclarativeFinger.
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* StockFootage: Quite a bit of animation gets reused, most notably a close-up shot of Birdie saying something while giving a DeclarativeFinger.
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* LazyArtist: Perhaps one of the more limited uses of Flash animation. A particularly notable example is when Sly Fox walks down a hill, his usual walk cycle is used but moving diagonally downward.
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* LazyArtist: Perhaps one of the more limited and low-budget uses of Flash animation. A particularly notable noticeable example is when Sly Fox walks down a hill, his usual walk cycle is used but moving diagonally downward.
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* SteamNeverDies: Although fairly modern-looking diesel trains are shown during Sly's {{Imagine Spot}}s (albeit using very old StockSoundEffects of early diesels with single-note "honker" horns), the "Stay Off, Stay Away and Stay Alive" rap does show some steam trains (all of which sound more like Lionel trains.)
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* SteamNeverDies: Although fairly modern-looking diesel trains are shown during Sly's {{Imagine Spot}}s (albeit using very old StockSoundEffects of early diesels with single-note "honker" horns), the "Stay Off, Stay Away and Stay Alive" rap does show some steam trains (all of which sound more like Lionel toy trains.)
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''Sly Fox and Birdie'' is an animated railway safety video aimed at kids, produced in 1992 by the Union Pacific Railroad and Operation Lifesaver. It stars a CloudCuckoolander fox that often finds himself in danger involving trains, and his avian friend Birdie that often has to tell him how dangerous what Sly's doing is.
A new version was produced in 2006 using UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash animation.
A new version was produced in 2006 using UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash animation.
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''Sly Fox and Birdie'' is an animated railway safety video aimed at kids, produced in 1992 by the Union Pacific Railroad and Operation Lifesaver. It stars a CloudCuckoolander fox that often finds himself in danger involving trains, and his avian friend Birdie that often has to tell him how dangerous what Sly's doing is. \n A new version was produced in 2006 using UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash animation.
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* DudeNotFunny: Birdie is basically like this when Sly Fox tells her how he's putting stuff on the tracks so a train can run over them.
* FurryReminder: Birdie lives in a nest, can fly, and [[StockAnimalDiet likes to eat worms]].
* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Even though Sly Fox and Birdie are {{Funny Animal}}s, some humans are still present, including children on a school playground Birdie flies over, a female train engineer, and a man driving by in his automobile when Sly Fox mentions that people in cars often get into train-related accidents.
* OhCrap: Sly Fox has a few moments of this when realizing he's in danger relating to trains. Birdie also gives this look when noticing a train is coming as Sly Fox is cycling in a railroad tunnel.
* SteamNeverDies: Being a railway safety video from TheNineties aimed at kids, it's averted; all trains depicted are modern freight trains with diesel locomotives.
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* TalkingWithSigns: During Sly Fox's ImagineSpot of being trapped on a railroad bridge with a speeding train approaching, he holds up an "Uh oh" sign ala WesternAnimation/WileECoyote before the train hits him.
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* TalkingWithSigns: During Sly Fox's ImagineSpot of being trapped on a railroad bridge with a speeding train approaching, he [[ThisIsGonnaSuck holds up an "Uh oh" sign sign]] ala WesternAnimation/WileECoyote before the train hits him.
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** Likewise with the crashing sound effect when Sly Fox on his bicycle is run over by a train, and again when his car is hit by a train at the railroad crossing; that crash sound is used ''heavily'' in the ''Series/ILoveToyTrains'' videos. [[note]]It originates from the now-defunct Hollywood Edge's The Premiere Edition Sound Effects Library, released on compact disc in 1990.[[/note]]
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* NeverSayDie: Being a railway safety video aimed at kids, it's averted, especially with how Birdie frequently says Sly Fox could say he could "get hurt or killed." Also averted with Sly Fox's MediumAwareness quote above.
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* NeverSayDie: Being a railway safety video aimed at kids, it's averted, especially with how Birdie frequently says Sly Fox could say he could "get hurt or killed." Also averted with Sly Fox's MediumAwareness quote above.
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** Another example is how the 1992 original compares small objects on the tracks being shot out from under the train wheels to bullets being fired, while the 2006 version compares it to being like a rocket. Sly even has an ImagineSpot of the lucky penny he placed on the track flying a rocket towards him and blowing him up.
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* TalkingWithSigns: During Sly Fox's ImagineSpot of being trapped on a railroad bridge with a speeding train approaching, he holds up an "Uh oh" sign ala WesternAnimation/WileECoyote before the train hits him.
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* StockFootage: Quite a bit of animation gets reused, most notably a close-up shot of Birdie saying something while giving a DeclarationFinger.
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* StockFootage: Quite a bit of animation gets reused, most notably a close-up shot of Birdie saying something while giving a DeclarationFinger.DeclarativeFinger.
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* AdobeFlash: The video is animated this way.
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* AdobeFlash: UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash: The video is animated this way.
* DeadpanSnarker: Birdie has a few of these moments.
* ImagineSpot: Sly Fox has one of the consequences that could happen if he does something dangerous involving trains or tracks, contrasting with them happening to him for real in the 1992 version.
* LazyArtist: Perhaps one of the more limited uses of Flash animation. A particularly notable example is when Sly Fox walks down a hill, his usual walk cycle is used but moving diagonally downward.
* LighterAndSofter: This version is much tamer than the 1992 original; it uses the NeverSayDie trope, and all the examples of what would happen to Sly Fox if he did something dangerous involving trains or tracks are just done as {{Imagine Spot}}s. Consequently, it wouldn't get the point across as well with how dangerous trains and railroad tracks can be.
* NeverSayDie: This time it's unusually played straight.
* SteamNeverDies: Although fairly modern-looking diesel trains are shown during Sly's {{Imagine Spot}}s (albeit using very old StockSoundEffects of early diesels with single-note "honker" horns), the "Stay Off, Stay Away and Stay Alive" rap does show some steam trains (all of which sound more like Lionel trains.)
* StockAnimalDiet: This time it's averted with Birdie; she gets disgusted by the expression "the early bird gets the worm," and says she'd rather have a stack of waffles over a worm.
* StockSoundEffects: This video mostly uses cartoonish sound effects from Creator/HannaBarbera, greatly contrasting with the realistic sound effects in the 1992 version.
* TotallyRadical: The "Stay Off, Stay Away and Stay Alive" rap number.
* TwoDecadesBehind: The "Stay Off, Stay Away and Stay Alive" rap number clearly sounds like something that would come out of TheNineties, even though the video was made in 2006.
* DeadpanSnarker: Birdie has a few of these moments.
* ImagineSpot: Sly Fox has one of the consequences that could happen if he does something dangerous involving trains or tracks, contrasting with them happening to him for real in the 1992 version.
* LazyArtist: Perhaps one of the more limited uses of Flash animation. A particularly notable example is when Sly Fox walks down a hill, his usual walk cycle is used but moving diagonally downward.
* LighterAndSofter: This version is much tamer than the 1992 original; it uses the NeverSayDie trope, and all the examples of what would happen to Sly Fox if he did something dangerous involving trains or tracks are just done as {{Imagine Spot}}s. Consequently, it wouldn't get the point across as well with how dangerous trains and railroad tracks can be.
* NeverSayDie: This time it's unusually played straight.
* SteamNeverDies: Although fairly modern-looking diesel trains are shown during Sly's {{Imagine Spot}}s (albeit using very old StockSoundEffects of early diesels with single-note "honker" horns), the "Stay Off, Stay Away and Stay Alive" rap does show some steam trains (all of which sound more like Lionel trains.)
* StockAnimalDiet: This time it's averted with Birdie; she gets disgusted by the expression "the early bird gets the worm," and says she'd rather have a stack of waffles over a worm.
* StockSoundEffects: This video mostly uses cartoonish sound effects from Creator/HannaBarbera, greatly contrasting with the realistic sound effects in the 1992 version.
* TotallyRadical: The "Stay Off, Stay Away and Stay Alive" rap number.
* TwoDecadesBehind: The "Stay Off, Stay Away and Stay Alive" rap number clearly sounds like something that would come out of TheNineties, even though the video was made in 2006.
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''Sly Fox and Birdie'' is an animated railway safety video aimed at kids, produced in 1992 by the Union Pacific Railroad and Operation Lifesaver. It stars a CloudCuckoolander fox that often finds himself in danger involving trains, and his avian friend Birdie that often has to tell him how dangerous what Sly's doing is.
A new version was produced in 2006 using UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash animation.
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!! The 1992 original provides examples of:
* AnimalStereotypes: Inverted with the lead characters; Sly Fox is dumb and Birdie is smart.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end, Birdie points out to Sly Fox that the audience watching has learned everything that Sly had in the video.
* CunningLikeAFox: Averted with Sly Fox, who's a major CloudCuckoolander. Birdie [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]]...
--> "This fox is not too foxy."
* TheDitz: Again, Sly Fox. Near the end when discussing railroad crossings, Sly even ''deliberately stops his car on the railroad tracks'' and lets the oncoming train smash it.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Sly Fox's car explodes when the train hits it at the railroad crossing. Of course, Sly Fox got out in time (when they were discussing what to do if your vehicle stalls on a crossing.)
* HeelFaceTurn: Of a sort. Near the end of the video, Sly becomes more well-aware of the dangers involving trains. He even answers a question Birdie gives him correctly involving railroad crossings, and Birdie [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]]...
--> "I thought you were going to say something like, it (the flashing crossing signal) means 'Hurry and get across,' or 'slow down' or something."
* MediumAwareness: After Sly Fox gets run over by the train when failing to get out of a railroad tunnel in time, he's still alive but scratched up quite a bit and he says "If I weren't a cartoon character, I'd be dead as a doornail."
* NeverSayDie: Being a railway safety video aimed at kids, it's averted, especially with how Birdie frequently says Sly Fox could say he could "get hurt or killed." Also averted with Sly Fox's MediumAwareness quote above.
* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Again, since it's a railway safety video, this happens quite a bit. Almost any time tracks are present (and Sly Fox is doing something dangerous relating to them in some way), a freight train will almost always show up.
* StockAnimalDiet: At one point in the video, Sly Fox manages to get rid of Birdie for a while by recommending she go find a worm to eat for breakfast.
* StockFootage: Quite a bit of animation gets reused, most notably a close-up shot of Birdie saying something while giving a DeclarationFinger.
* StockSoundEffects: Anyone who's familiar with the TV movie ''Film/AtomicTrain'' will recognize the diesel train horn sound effect used throughout the video. [[note]]It actually comes from the Series 1000 Sound Effects Library from Sound Ideas, originally released on reel-to-reel tape in 1979 and then on compact disc in 1983.[[/note]]
* TooDumbToLive: Sly Fox. He wises up by the end, though.
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!! The 2006 version provides examples of:
* AdobeFlash: The video is animated this way.
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A new version was produced in 2006 using UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash animation.
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!! The 1992 original provides examples of:
* AnimalStereotypes: Inverted with the lead characters; Sly Fox is dumb and Birdie is smart.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end, Birdie points out to Sly Fox that the audience watching has learned everything that Sly had in the video.
* CunningLikeAFox: Averted with Sly Fox, who's a major CloudCuckoolander. Birdie [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]]...
--> "This fox is not too foxy."
* TheDitz: Again, Sly Fox. Near the end when discussing railroad crossings, Sly even ''deliberately stops his car on the railroad tracks'' and lets the oncoming train smash it.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Sly Fox's car explodes when the train hits it at the railroad crossing. Of course, Sly Fox got out in time (when they were discussing what to do if your vehicle stalls on a crossing.)
* HeelFaceTurn: Of a sort. Near the end of the video, Sly becomes more well-aware of the dangers involving trains. He even answers a question Birdie gives him correctly involving railroad crossings, and Birdie [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it]]...
--> "I thought you were going to say something like, it (the flashing crossing signal) means 'Hurry and get across,' or 'slow down' or something."
* MediumAwareness: After Sly Fox gets run over by the train when failing to get out of a railroad tunnel in time, he's still alive but scratched up quite a bit and he says "If I weren't a cartoon character, I'd be dead as a doornail."
* NeverSayDie: Being a railway safety video aimed at kids, it's averted, especially with how Birdie frequently says Sly Fox could say he could "get hurt or killed." Also averted with Sly Fox's MediumAwareness quote above.
* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Again, since it's a railway safety video, this happens quite a bit. Almost any time tracks are present (and Sly Fox is doing something dangerous relating to them in some way), a freight train will almost always show up.
* StockAnimalDiet: At one point in the video, Sly Fox manages to get rid of Birdie for a while by recommending she go find a worm to eat for breakfast.
* StockFootage: Quite a bit of animation gets reused, most notably a close-up shot of Birdie saying something while giving a DeclarationFinger.
* StockSoundEffects: Anyone who's familiar with the TV movie ''Film/AtomicTrain'' will recognize the diesel train horn sound effect used throughout the video. [[note]]It actually comes from the Series 1000 Sound Effects Library from Sound Ideas, originally released on reel-to-reel tape in 1979 and then on compact disc in 1983.[[/note]]
* TooDumbToLive: Sly Fox. He wises up by the end, though.
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!! The 2006 version provides examples of:
* AdobeFlash: The video is animated this way.
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