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** '''Bill Weasel''': ... Or I'll skin ya!
** '''Bert Weasel:''' ''Very'' niiiiiice!
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* BrokenAesop: A couple of them here and there in a few episodes. Most notable in "The Grand Annual Show", which ends with Ratty, Mole and Badger chiding Toad not just for cheating at the competition for Best of Show, but for even entering to begin with, with Badger saying competitions "bring out the worst in all of us" despite all three of them not only entering themselves, but ''winning'' a grand prize each, and being good sports about it.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Or, more accurately, as Reggie inquired:
-->'''Reggie:''' I say, old bean. Where's my car?[[note]]While Toad was convicted on stealing Reggie's motorcar, there's no mention made of what happened to it after the police arrested him.[[/note]]

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* {{Catchphrase}}:ChandelierSwing: Parodied when Toad spends the battle at Toad Hall swinging uselessly back and forth on the chandelier, until he falls on top of the last weasel standing.
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* ChandelierSwing: Parodied when Toad spends the battle at Toad Hall swinging uselessly back and forth on the chandelier, until he falls on top of the last weasel standing.



* LetsGetDangerous: Rat, upon hearing that Moley has gone off to the Wild Wood to find Badger despite his warnings, drops his carefree and relaxed demeanor, arming himself with two flintlocks and a shillelagh before hurrying off after him.



* LetsGetDangerous: Rat, upon hearing that Moley has gone off to the Wild Wood to find Badger despite his warnings, drops his carefree and relaxed demeanor, arming himself with two flintlocks and a shillelagh before hurrying off after him.
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-->'''Badger:''' Work your evil, I'm sure you will. But not here! Not yet!
* DudeNotFunny: "Toad In Love" has Badger, Mole, and Rat telling Toad the truth about the actress he's fallen in love with. Rat gives Toad some lip about it, but while the others would've laughed at this in other episodes, they don't this time. Mole chides Rat for joking about it while Badger gives him a stern look, to which Rat sincerely apologizes to Toad.


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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: "The Complete Bungler" has Toad's latest obsession be fishing. While Mole and Rat go "Oh, Toad!" as usual to his fads, Badger - a usually stern and conservative character - surprisingly encourages Toad to pursue fishing. The others are shocked...even Toad, who asks Badger if he's feeling all right.


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* PapaWolf: Messing with children is one way to anger Mr. Badger. "The Weasels' Trap" has Badger stop the Weasels from robbing Billy Rabbit, daring them to take a sixpence from ''him'' instead.


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-->'''Badger:''' What can one say but...''[[PhraseCatcher oh, Toad]]''!
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* LetsGetDangerous: Rat, upon hearing that Moley has gone off to the Wild Wood to find Badger despite his warnings, drops his carefree and relaxed demeanor, arming himself with two flintlocks and a shillelagh before hurrying off after him.
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* {{Expy}}: Billy Rabbit. His voice and mannerisms are remarkably similar to Bluebottle from Radio/TheGoonShow.
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** "Patient: Toad" has Badger discover that Toad's supposed illnesses - ''armillaria mellea'', ''botrytis'' and ''ranunculus repens'' - are ''plant'' ailments. While amused by Toad's foolishness, he has to stifle laughter in front of the grief-stricken Mole and Rat to avoid hurting their feelings.

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** "Patient: Toad" has Badger discover that Toad's supposed illnesses - ''armillaria mellea'', ''botrytis'' mellea''[[note]]Honey fungus[[/note]], ''botrytis''[[note]]Grey mould[[/note]] and ''ranunculus repens'' repens''[[note]]Creeping buttercup[[/note]] - are ''plant'' ailments. While amused by Toad's foolishness, he has to stifle his laughter in front of the grief-stricken Mole and Rat to avoid hurting their feelings.
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** "Patient: Toad" has Badger discover that Toad's supposed illnesses - ''armillaria mellea'', ''botrytis'' and ''ranunculus repens'' - are ''plant'' ailments. While amused by Toad's foolishness, he has to stifle laughter in front of the grief-stricken Mole and Rat to avoid hurting their feelings.
** "Auberon's Return" has Toad, upon realizing that the main character of Auberon's new play "Oh, Jeremy!" is based on himself, laugh along with the others, who'd caught on much earlier.
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* GilliganCut: Rat objects to accompanying Toad on his caravan trip, confidently assuming that Mole will agree. Mole does…but then admits it could be fun. As “The Open Road” begins to play, we get a close up of Rat, arms folded, looking peeved.
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* AbsenteeActor:
** Toad and Badger don't appear in "The Great Steamer".
** Toad doesn't appear in "Buried Treasure" and "The Weasel's Trap".
** Badger doesn't appear in "Wayfarers All", as the book chapter occurs before he is properly introduced. He also doesn't appear in "The Open Road Again" and "The Rescue".
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* OneSteveLimit: Enforced by most characters being named after their animal species, unless there's more than one (E.g. Mole and his cousin Auberon Mole), but there are two characters named Billy: a field mouse and a rabbit. Billy Fieldmouse is a focus character in "The Great Steamer", but goes largely unnamed after that episode. Starting in "The Grand Annual Show" almost all references to a Billy are to Billy Rabbit.
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* PetTheDog: As horrible as they can get sometimes, the weasels sometimes help our heroes out, such as finding ingredients to cure Mole, looking for Portly and helping to foil the Stranger's attempt to take over Toad Hall.

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* PetTheDog: As horrible as they can get sometimes, the weasels sometimes help our heroes out, such as finding ingredients to cure Mole, looking for Portly and helping to foil the Stranger's attempt to take over Toad Hall. In "The Rescue", they even shelter a lost field mouse boy for a day, giving him food and teaching him to make bunnies out of napkins, though Ratty and Mole suspect they kidnapped him before they discover the truth.

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* BrokenAesop: A couple of them here and there in a few episodes. Most notable in "The Grand Annual Show", which ends with Ratty, Mole and Badger chiding Toad not just for cheating at the competition for Best of Show, but for even entering to begin with, with Badger saying competitions "bring out the worst in all of us" despite all three of them not only entering themselves, but ''winning'' a grand prize each, and being good sports about it.


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* BrokenAesop: A couple of them here and there in a few episodes. Most notable in "The Grand Annual Show", which ends with Ratty, Mole and Badger chiding Toad not just for cheating at the competition for Best of Show, but for even entering to begin with, with Badger saying competitions "bring out the worst in all of us" despite all three of them not only entering themselves, but ''winning'' a grand prize each, and being good sports about it.
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* BrokenAesop: A couple of them here and there in a few episodes. Most notable in "The Grand Annual Show", which ends with Ratty, Mole and Badger chiding Toad not just for cheating at the competition for Best of Show, but for even entering to begin with, despite all three of them not only entering themselves, but ''winning'' a grand prize each.

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* BrokenAesop: A couple of them here and there in a few episodes. Most notable in "The Grand Annual Show", which ends with Ratty, Mole and Badger chiding Toad not just for cheating at the competition for Best of Show, but for even entering to begin with, with Badger saying competitions "bring out the worst in all of us" despite all three of them not only entering themselves, but ''winning'' a grand prize each.each, and being good sports about it.
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* BrokenAesop: A couple of them here and there in a few episodes. Most notable in "The Grand Annual Show", which ends with Ratty, Mole and Badger chiding Toad not just for cheating at the competition for Best of Show, but for even entering to begin with, despite all three of them not only entering themselves, but ''winning'' a grand prize each.
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* AdaptedOut: The character Otter, and the chapters "The Further Adventures of Toad", "Wayfarers All" and "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" were all left out of the film, but subverted by the TV series in which Otter is a main character and all three chapters were adapted as episodes

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* AdaptedOut: The character Otter, and the chapters "The Further Adventures of Toad", "Wayfarers All" and "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" were all left out of the film, but subverted by the TV series in which Otter is a main recurring character and all three chapters were adapted as episodes
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** Likewise in ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'', the Chief Weasel offers the services of the Wild Wood animals to join in the search for a missing child, which is gratefully accepted by the Riverbankers. Except Toad.

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