History WesternAnimation / TheWuzzles

* BrokenAesop: [[http://www.scary-crayon.com/spectare/wuzzles1x03/ Surprisingly, a lot of it.]]

Ooh, they got originality\\

And when you add it up, you get a lotta laughs!
Ooh, they got originality
Livin' with a split personality!''"

->''"Here in the land of Wuz\\
They're havin' twice the fun\\
Cuz every single thing\\
Is really two-in-one!\\
A little bit of this,\\
A little bit of that\\
And when you add it up\\
You get a lotta laughs!"''

In 1985, the [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Company]] made its first foray into TV animation with the SaturdayMorningCartoon ''The Wuzzles'', their very first original animated series.

The show ran for only one season, making it Disney's shortest-running of their many shows from the late 80s (not counting the unsuccessful [[PilotMovie pilot special]], ''WesternAnimation/FluppyDogs''). Reruns would air on Creator/DisneyChannel and Creator/ToonDisney until the early 2000s. During it's original run, Disney released some episodes as theatrical shorts with their features in some European theaters.

* PunBasedCreature: One episode has a character named Tycoon, who aside from being a tycoon (that is, a very rich person), is also a combination of tiger and raccoon. He also invests in stox -- storks with ox horns. Another episode has the cast dealing with a Brahma bullfinch, a Brahma bull with bird wings.

* Tycoon (tiger/raccoon.)

* Flizard (frog/lizard... with a few monkey parts?)

* OffModel: Some examples can be seen [[http://babbletrish.blogspot.com/2009/07/re-wuzzle-wings.html here]].

* PyrrhicVillainVictory: At the end of "What's Up, Stox?" Crock is able to get away with the money tree but he tore it in half while fighting with the Wuzzles and it dropped a bunch of money while he was fleeing, so it won't last him very long.

Is really [[MixAndMatchCritters two-in-one]]!\\

* AbsenteeActor: Rhinokey does not appear in "Bumblelion and the Terrified Forest".
** Moosel does not appear in "What's Up, Stox?".

* BrokenAesop / MoralDissonance: [[http://www.scary-crayon.com/spectare/wuzzles1x03/ Surprisingly, a lot of it.]]

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero - Bumblelion
** TheLancer - Eleroo
** TheSmartGuy - Moosel
** TheBigGuy - Hoppo
** TheChick - Butterbear
** TheSixthRanger - Rhinokey

* NoFourthWall / MediumAwareness: In the course of thirteen episodes, Freberg manage to address the audience or the presence of the show every single time.

* SaturdayMorningCartoon

* WingsDoNothing: Discussed [[http://babbletrish.blogspot.com/2009/07/re-wuzzle-wings.html here]]. All the main Wuzzles have little fairy wings that do nothing aside from flapping rapidly when they are excited.
** Only Butterbear and occasionally Bumblelion can use them to hover, but they're part insect anyway, so they at least have that excuse.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: One episode revolves entirely around the rest of the gang mocking Moosel for being afraid of monsters. This is after it's been established that things like [[SeaMonster Sharkasaurus]] (half great white shark, half ''TyrannosaurusRex'') exist.

In 1985, the [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Company]] made it's first foray into TV animation with the SaturdayMorningCartoon ''The Wuzzles'', their very first original animated series.

In 1985, the [[{{Disney}} Walt Disney Company]] made it's first foray into TV animation with the SaturdayMorningCartoon ''The Wuzzles'', their very first original animated series.

''The Wuzzles'' was the first Creator/{{Disney}} original animated series. It debuted in 1985, and aired on broadcast television as a SaturdayMorningCartoon. It is also their shortest running series of TheEighties, at 13 episodes,[[note]]Unless you include the unsuccessful ''WesternAnimation/FluppyDogs'' [[PilotMovie pilot special]].[[/note]] though it went into reruns for quite a while.

Like many other shows of the 1980s, it had a plush line (which it [[strike: may have been]] was designed to sell) and each stuffed animal character came with a picture book that helped set up the world of the series.

It was a fun little cartoon and toy line that followed the great tradition of [[TheEighties 80’s]] cartoons and toys: It was colorful, had kind of a sci-fi/fantasy theme, and [[DerangedAnimation made you wonder what kinds of legal or illegal drugs the people who came up with it were taking at the time]].

All of the main characters were MixAndMatchCritters:

The plush line actually outlived the cartoon, and [[http://ghostofthedoll.co.uk/Toys_Wuzzles_Plush.htm involved several more characters who never got a chance to appear in the cartoon]]. Additionally, a few episodes of the television show were given theatrical runs in Europe, acting as animated shorts before Disney films.