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* {{Germans love David Hasselholf}}: This Anime Film by Hayao Miyazaki was apparently popular in Denmark enough due to the fact that It simply gave It's own {{official Website http://www.kino.dk/film/p/po/ponyo-paa-klippen-ved-havet}}.

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* {{Germans love David Hasselholf}}: This Anime Film by Hayao Miyazaki was apparently popular in Denmark enough due to the fact that It simply gave It's own {{official [[official Website http://www.kino.dk/film/p/po/ponyo-paa-klippen-ved-havet}}.dk/film/p/po/ponyo-paa-klippen-ved-havet]].

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* EarWorm: The theme song. Although the English version of the theme song is a definite YourMileageMayVary, partially due to the presence of certain siblings of certain controversial Disney personalities. But even if you hate the song, it's undeniably catchy... which makes it much more of an EarWorm if you do hate it.

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* EarWorm: The theme song. Although the English version of the theme song is a definite YourMileageMayVary, {{YourMileageMayVary}}, partially due to the presence of certain siblings of certain controversial Disney personalities. But even if you hate the song, it's undeniably catchy... which makes it much more of an EarWorm if you do hate it.


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* {{Germans love David Hasselholf}}: This Anime Film by Hayao Miyazaki was apparently popular in Denmark enough due to the fact that It simply gave It's own {{official Website http://www.kino.dk/film/p/po/ponyo-paa-klippen-ved-havet}}.
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* {{Cute but Cacophonic}}: Both Kumiko and The Baby have an annoying cry when They're upset.


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* {{Narm}}: Ponyo assaulting The Baby's Face, I know, but still, The Baby's Voice.
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* HilariousInHindsight: MattDamon & TinaFey's characters are a married couple, although are in separate distance from each other. In the new season of [[ThirtyRock 30 Rock]], Tina Fey & Matt Damon play characters who are dating each other.

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* HilariousInHindsight: MattDamon & TinaFey's characters are a married couple, although are in separate distance from each other. In the new season of [[ThirtyRock [[Series/ThirtyRock 30 Rock]], Tina Fey & Matt Damon play characters who are dating each other.
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** Makes it a FunnyAneurysmMoment in the film, too.
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** LiamNeeson playing a loving, extremely protective father in this movie...then playing an extremely violent version of the same archetype in Film/{{Taken}}.

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** LiamNeeson playing a loving, extremely protective father in this movie...then playing an extremely violent version of the same archetype in Film/{{Taken}}.''Film/{{Taken}}''.
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** Ponyo's sudden shifts from human to half goldfish form sometimes. Especially in the case where she tries to cheer up a baby by getting a little too up close in personal.
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* AngstWhatAngst: Every single character seems remarkably nonchalant about a catastrophic flood.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Ponyo's stare-off with the baby. It's random.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The 8.9 earthquake had the ocean sweeping over elevated roads in the same fashion as the film. Nobody dying, and everyone shrugging it off as a 2.0 earthquake? ....yeeeeeeeeeaah.... not really.

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* HarsherInHindsight: The 2011 8.9 earthquake had the ocean sweeping over elevated roads in the same fashion as the film. Nobody dying, and everyone shrugging it off as a 2.0 earthquake? ....yeeeeeeeeeaah.... not really.
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* FridgeBrilliance: Ponyo was told by her father that she can't work magic and stay human. Remember that when she casts spells, she takes on that weird appearance that looks like a tadpole or a chicken. Or a vaguely anthropomorphic [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik Tiktaalik]].
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* HarsherInHindsight: The 8.9 earthquake had the ocean sweeping over elevated roads in the same fashion as the film.

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* HarsherInHindsight: The 8.9 earthquake had the ocean sweeping over elevated roads in the same fashion as the film. Nobody dying, and everyone shrugging it off as a 2.0 earthquake? ....yeeeeeeeeeaah.... not really.
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** LiamNeeson playing a loving, extremely protective father in this movie...then playing an extremely violent version of the same archetype in Film/{{Taken}}. Lampshaded when TheNostalgiaCritic reviewed the film.

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** LiamNeeson playing a loving, extremely protective father in this movie...then playing an extremely violent version of the same archetype in Film/{{Taken}}. Lampshaded when TheNostalgiaCritic reviewed the film.
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** LiamNeeson playing a loving, extremely protective father in this movie...then playing an extremely violent version of the same archetype in Film/{{Taken}}.

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** LiamNeeson playing a loving, extremely protective father in this movie...then playing an extremely violent version of the same archetype in Film/{{Taken}}. Lampshaded when TheNostalgiaCritic reviewed the film.

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* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Those [[BuffySpeak dark-water-blob-things]] Fujimoto sends to get Ponyo back from Sosuke. They practically submerge him, and those EYES...
** Also, when the sea piled up...



* NightmareFuel: Those [[BuffySpeak dark-water-blob-things]] Fujimoto sends to get Ponyo back from Sosuke. They practically submerge him, and those EYES...
** Also, when the sea piled up...
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** ThisTroper thinks it's just that he can be creepy and adorkable at the same time (at least in the English dub, since some of it has to do with his voice). For instance: "Respect your father!" (said menacingly, the creeper part) -> essentially a pratfall (dorky) -> "Girls, I'm trying to save your sister!" (said pleadingly/worriedly, kinda cute as a protective dad thing).

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** ThisTroper thinks it's Or just that he can be creepy and adorkable at the same time (at least in the English dub, since some of it has to do with his voice). For instance: "Respect your father!" (said menacingly, the creeper part) -> essentially a pratfall (dorky) -> "Girls, I'm trying to save your sister!" (said pleadingly/worriedly, kinda cute as a protective dad thing).
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** LiamNeeson playing a loving, extremely protective father in Ponyo...then playing an extremely violent version of the same archetype in {{Taken}}.

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** LiamNeeson playing a loving, extremely protective father in Ponyo...this movie...then playing an extremely violent version of the same archetype in {{Taken}}.Film/{{Taken}}.
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** LiamNeeson playing a loving, extremely protective father in Ponyo...then playing an extremely violent version of the same archetype in {{Taken}}.
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* ToyShip: {{In-universe}} -- Ponyo and Sosuke, although[[spoiler:the ending seems to imply they'll grow up as brother and sister]]. They also sail a literal one!

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* ToyShip: {{In-universe}} -- Ponyo and Sosuke, although[[spoiler:the although [[spoiler:the ending seems to imply they'll grow up as brother and sister]]. They also sail a literal one!
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* ValuesDissonance: Leaving five-year-old children alone and unsupervised (in the middle of a typhoon, no less!) could be considered criminal neglect in some jurisdictions. Sill, it can be considered as Lisa choosing the lesser of two evils -- either bring them with her where they'd all easily be swept away by a particularly bad wave, or let them stay on high ground in the comparatively safe house.

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* ValuesDissonance: Leaving five-year-old children alone and unsupervised (in the middle of a typhoon, no less!) could be considered criminal neglect in some jurisdictions. Sill, Still, it can be considered as Lisa choosing the lesser of two evils -- either bring them with her where they'd all easily be swept away by a particularly bad wave, or let them stay on high ground in the comparatively safe house.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: "I'd let a fish lick me if it'd get me outta this wheelchair"
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* {{Narm}}: In the English dub, Fujimito screaming out "The Moon is getting bigger!!".
** "Fish with faces cause tsunamis!"
** The pop version of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WZklC69Kpw Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea]]" played during the credits of the English dub.
*** That or NarmCharm
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** Also, Ponyo's inbetween human-and-fish form.
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*** That or NarmCharm
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* {{Hatedom}}: Not directed towards StudioGhibli but ''{{Pokemon}}'' of all things for drawing away crowds by releasing [[PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior a competing movie]] at the same time. A relatively mild case nonetheless.
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** "''HAM!''"
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** The ToyShip having to [[PrincessMononoke choose between two worlds]].
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* ToyShip: {{In-universe}} -- Ponyo and Sosuke, although[[spoiler:the ending seems to imply they'll grow up as brother and sister]]. They also sail a literal one!
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* HarsherInHindsight: The 8.9 earthquake had the ocean sweeping over elevated roads in the same fashion as the film.


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* UncannyValley: Granmanmare evokes this due to her design being slightly more realistic than the traditionally Miyazaki-esque characters that surround her.

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome:
** The exact moment when you realize the animation is ''hand drawn''.
** As the ocean begins to engulf the land and Lisa and Sosuke try to escape the oncoming tsunami, [[spoiler:Ponyo is seen chasing them, ''running on the tops of waves shaped like giant fish'']] to a "Ride of the Valkyries"-esque version of the theme.
** Any time Ponyo turns human.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: When Lisa and Fujimoto first meet, she doesn't bat an eye when he tells her that he needs to constantly remain wet or he'll shrivel up - just as long as he isn't spraying pesticides.
** "I think I just saw the goddess of mercy!" followed by lots of frantic praying and bowing at the sea.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The whole movie is pretty heartwarming, but the scene when [[spoiler:the elderly women, who were previously in wheelchairs, can run and play again]] deserves special mention.
** Also see {{Reality Subtext}}.
* EarWorm: The theme song. Although the English version of the theme song is a definite YourMileageMayVary, partially due to the presence of certain siblings of certain controversial Disney personalities. But even if you hate the song, it's undeniably catchy... which makes it much more of an EarWorm if you do hate it.
** PainfulRhyme: "She's a little fish from the deep blue sea" / "She's a little girl with a round [[AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLAble tum-MY]]."



* HilariousInHindsight: MattDamon & TinaFey's characters are a married couple, although are in seperate distance from each other. In the new season of [[ThirtyRock 30 Rock]], Tina Fey & Matt Damon play characters who are dating each other.

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* {{Hatedom}}: Not directed towards StudioGhibli but ''{{Pokemon}}'' of all things for drawing away crowds by releasing [[PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior a competing movie]] at the same time. A relatively mild case nonetheless.
* HilariousInHindsight: MattDamon & TinaFey's characters are a married couple, although are in seperate separate distance from each other. In the new season of [[ThirtyRock 30 Rock]], Tina Fey & Matt Damon play characters who are dating each other.



* TearJerker: Well, not the movie itself, but the ''reason'' behind the movie. See RealitySubtext.

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* TearJerker: Well, not the movie itself, but the ''reason'' behind the movie. See RealitySubtext.RealitySubtext.
* ValuesDissonance: Leaving five-year-old children alone and unsupervised (in the middle of a typhoon, no less!) could be considered criminal neglect in some jurisdictions. Sill, it can be considered as Lisa choosing the lesser of two evils -- either bring them with her where they'd all easily be swept away by a particularly bad wave, or let them stay on high ground in the comparatively safe house.
* ViewerGenderConfusion:
** Ponyo, when we first see her. Look at the movie poster.
** Fujimoto. Some viewers weren't sure of his gender until he spoke his first lines.
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