History WesternAnimation / TheNineLivesOfFritzTheCat

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Fritz tries and succeeds at having sex with pretty much every female character in the film.

* FlamingDevil: Fritz ends up in hell. Upon encountering the devil, who seems like a cross between [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Big Gay Al]] and Vincent Price, he lets out, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkJDIWLMWwc Oh, Jesus Christ, Lucifer is a faggot!]]"

%%* BarefootCartoonAnimals

%%* CatsHaveNineLives: [[CaptainObvious Obviously]].

%%* TheyKilledKenny

%%* BarbieDollAnatomy: Fritz is drawn with this.

%%* MatureAnimalStory

%%* NoSwastikas: Averted.

* AllMenArePerverts
* AllWomenAreLustful

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: The president of New Africa.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Fritz is drawn with this.
* BarefootCartoonAnimals

* CatsHaveNineLives: [[CaptainObvious Obviously]].
* DeathIsCheap: Fritz was actually killed in a final comic strip by Robert Crumb, but two years later this movie was released anyway.

* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex

* MatureAnimalStory

* NoSwastikas: Averted.

* ThePornomancer: Fritz.

* TheStoner: Fritz.
* ''SubvertedKidsShow''
* TheyKilledKenny
* UndergroundComics
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals

* CanonDiscontinuity: RobertCrumb doesn't even acknowledge the existence of this movie, except in the documentary ''The Confessions of Robert Crumb''.

The movie ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'', an adaptation of a [[ComicBook/FritzTheCat popular character]] created by [[UndergroundComics underground cartoonist]] RobertCrumb was really successful, both commercially and critically, even though it had quite a lot of things going against it, including a [[Creator/RalphBakshi first-time film director]], a creator who hated the adaptation, and the fact that it was given an X rating by the MPAA (although it would be rated R today). The film's producer, Steve Krantz, decided to produce a sequel. However, since original director Ralph Bakshi wanted nothing to do with this sequel, directorial duties were given to Robert Taylor, an animator who was working on some of Bakshi's other films.

* TheCameo: RichardNixon and HenryKissinger appear.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''GarfieldHis9Lives''. You read that right.

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}} Avatar]] is Fritz's agent. Juan's sister, Chita, is [[UpInSmoke Gloria]], the female cop in ''Up in Smoke''. (In real life, she's actually ''Cuban'', but she's supposed to be Puerto Rican in ''Nine Lives''.)

* FantasticRacism: Crows stand in for African-Americans.

* DeathIsOverrated: Fritz was actually killed in a final comic strip by Robert Crumb, but two years later this movie was released anyway.

* WastedSong: AIP was going to release a soundtrack to Nine Lives but the result of it being a box office bomb made them change their minds. Although there was a record that has "Jump Back" and "TCB in E", and Tom Scott's ''Smoking Section'' album has a live version of "TCB in E".

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''[[GarfieldHisNineLives The Nine Lives of Garfield]]''. You read that right.

The movie ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'', an adaptation of a [[ComicBook/FritzTheCat popular character]] created by [[UndergroundComics underground cartoonist]] RobertCrumb was really successful, both commercially and critically, even though it had quite a lot of things going against it, including a [[RalphBakshi first-time film director]], a creator who hated the adaptation, and the fact that it was given an X rating by the MPAA (although it would be rated R today). The film's producer, Steve Krantz, decided to produce a sequel. However, since original director Ralph Bakshi wanted nothing to do with this sequel, directorial duties were given to Robert Taylor, an animator who was working on some of Bakshi's other films.

--> RalphBakshi: "He didn’t bother to discuss the ''Nine Live of Fritz the Cat''. He would have to say, 'well, Ralph did do a better picture than ''Nine Lives''.' So to Robert Crumb, there is no Nine Lives. It doesn’t exist. The only ''Fritz the Cat'' he’s mad at is the one I did, because if he discussed ''Nine Lives'', he’d have to say, 'well, you know, for all of my bullshitting about Ralph, ''Nine Lives'' is even worse than what he did.'"

* HeyItsThatVoice: [[{{Wizards}} Avatar]] is Fritz's agent. Juan's sister, Chita, is [[UpInSmoke Gloria]], the female cop in ''Up in Smoke''. (In real life, she's actually ''Cuban'', but she's supposed to be Puerto Rican in ''Nine Lives''.)

* FlamingDevil: Fritz ends up in hell. Upon encountering the devil, who seems like a cross between [[SouthPark Big Gay Al]] and Vincent Price, he lets out, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkJDIWLMWwc Oh, Jesus Christ, Lucifer is a faggot!]]"
* FlippingTheBird: Fritz does this to a ''telephone'' after the operator hangs up on him. He is one of the few [[TheSimpsonsMovie four-fingered characters that can do this]].
* FunnyAnimal: The entire cast. Strangely enough, there is an entire sequence devoted to [[BreakingTheFourthWall stock footage of real-life humans]].

* NoSwastikas: Averted.

The results, as you might have gathered, [[YourMileageMayVary might be mixed]]. This one doesn't have as much of a coherent storyline as the first, instead taking a kind of AnthologyFilm approach in which the title character is killed off in various different ways, [[spoiler:in what is probably a reference to the comic strip, in which he was given an icepick to the back of the head by a psychotic ex-girlfriend]]. Whether this actually works or not can be left in the eye of the beholder, but most viewers agree that the music score by Tom Scott & The L.A. Express is pretty badass. Also, it was the first animated movie to compete in the Cannes Film Festival.

* ''{{Subverted Kids Show}}''

The movie ''[[Film/FritzTheCat Fritz the Cat]]'', an adaptation of a [[ComicBook/FritzTheCat popular character]] created by [[UndergroundComics underground cartoonist]] RobertCrumb was really successful, both commercially and critically, even though it had quite a lot of things going against it, including a [[RalphBakshi first-time film director]], a creator who hated the adaptation, and the fact that it was given an X rating by the MPAA (although it would be rated R today). The film's producer, Steve Krantz, decided to produce a sequel. However, since original director Ralph Bakshi wanted nothing to do with this sequel, directorial duties were given to Robert Taylor, an animator who was working on some of Bakshi's other films.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Fritz tries and succeeds at having sex with pretty much every female character in the film.

* BackFromTheDead: ''TheNineLivesOfFritzTheCat'' reverts the Crumb story "Fritz the Cat, Superstar" by having Fritz have "nine lives", resulting in a film mostly consisting of events where, someway or another, Fritz dies. (Crumb never drew another Fritz story following "Superstar".)

* [[SchrodingersCast Schrödinger's Cat]]: Literally! Crumb killed Fritz off in the comics after the first movie, but ''TheNineLivesOfFritzTheCat'' was made nevertheless.

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* WorldOfFunnyAnimals