History WesternAnimation / TheEmperorsNewGroove

'''Kuzco:''' ''(suddenly pauses)'' You wanna run that by me again?\\

'''Pacha:''' ''(with hesitation)'' I can't let you go back unless you change your mind and build your summer home somewhere else.\\
'''Kuzco:''' ''(beat)'' I have a little secret for you. Come here. No, closer. ''(Pacha leans in)'' ''[[SuddenlyShouting I DON'T MAKE DEALS WITH PEASANTS!!]]''

** Oh, so much (what's an American-style GreasySpoon--complete with HashHouseLingo and an {{Expy}} of the Big Boy (in the pre-Columbian Andes??). Most of it can be chalked up to RuleOfFunny.

It was released on December 15, 2000 and was a holiday blockbuster, though it got beaten out by ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas''

A direct-to-video sequel, ''WesternAnimation/KronksNewGroove'', was released on December 13, 2005. It eventually spawned [[VideoGame/TheEmperorsNewGroove a licensed video game]] and then a [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool TV series]], which ran from January 27, 2006 to November 20, 2008. The film and the production behind it is the subject of the infamous documentary ''Film/TheSweatbox''.

* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: Yzma and Kronk do this when the latter is forced to mix all the drinks together after losing track of which one has the potion in it. Yzma quickly dumps hers on a nearby cactus.Kronk pretends to drink his, using forced perspective to make it look like it's going in his mouth while he's actually spilling it on his shoulder. Kuzco is so oblivious and self-centered that he's not fooled - in fact, he doesn't even seem to notice.

* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: Yzma and Kronk do this when the latter is forced to mix all the drinks together after losing track of which one has the potion in it.

** Kronk is the biggest, most muscular character in the film. He's also the kindest.

--> '''Yzma:''' ''[after being fired]'' How could he do this to me? Why, I practically raised him!\\

-->'''Pacha:''' Uh oh.\\

'''Kuzco:''' ... Bring it on.

* AssPull: Yzma and Kronk getting to the lab before Pacha and Kuzco, especially after being hit with lightning and falling into a ravine. Like everything else this is invoked, complete with handy pull-down chart.

* ComplexityAddiction: Yzma's original plan to get rid of Kuzco involved turning him into a flea, putting that flea into a box, then putting that box inside another box and then mailing the box to herself upon which she'd smash that box with hammer. Even after she decides to go with a more straightforward plan, her main reasoning seems to be that it would save on postage.

!!''The Emperor's New Groove'' film provides examples of:

* {{Slapstick}}: Yzma is a great example of this trope, as she, much like the rest of the cast goes through ''constant'' screwball situations and physical abuse. Case in point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MNllfr6wVY there's a scene where she gets covered in grime, then attacked by bees]] (for no discernible reason) within a few seconds, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent running around in the background while Kronk in the foreground pays no attention]], and then she takes a pratfall into the mud ''again''. Then she gets tarred (well, "honeyed") and feathered and confused for a piñata.

* ToTheBatNoun: "To the secret lab!"

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Yzma is a great example of this trope, as she, much like the rest of the cast goes through ''constant'' screwball situations and physical abuse. Case in point, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MNllfr6wVY there's a scene where she gets covered in grime, then attacked by bees]] (for no discernible reason) within a few seconds, [[FunnyBackgroundEvent running around in the background while Kronk in the foreground pays no attention]], and then she takes a pratfall into the mud ''again''. Then she gets tarred (well, "honeyed") and feathered and confused for a piñata.

* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: Spoiled, vain Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama, has to endure a difficult journey to return home and makes friends with a peasant named Pacha, and becomes a better ruler in the end.

* CuteKitten: [[spoiler:Yzma is transformed into a harmless little cat in the end.]]

* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Kronk learned to speak Squirrel when he was a [[ScoutOut Junior Chipmunks]]. At the end of the film, he begins teaching the skill to the children from Pacha's village.