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* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The special effects in the film are gorgeous.

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* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The Hiccups aside, the rest of the special effects in the film are gorgeous.

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* EvilIsSexy: Queen La is an EvilSorceress in a {{Stripperific}} outfit, with hypnotic powers, who lusts for Tarzan and attempts to seduce him.



** The CGI animals tend to look like they were made on a television budget. For example, the apes don't look realistic at times and pale in comparison to the ones in the modern ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' films.

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** The CGI animals tend to look like they were made on a television budget. For example, the apes don't look realistic at times and pale in comparison to the ones in the modern ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes'' ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' films.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: From the CompilationMovie, Tarzan and Jane, we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCzprhvyvtU "Singing to the Song of Life"]] sung by Music/MandyMoore.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: From the CompilationMovie, Tarzan ''Tarzan and Jane, Jane'', we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCzprhvyvtU "Singing to the Song of Life"]] sung by Music/MandyMoore.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: From the CompilationMovie, Tarzan and Jane, we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCzprhvyvtU Singing to the Song of Life]] sung by Mandy Moore.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: From the CompilationMovie, Tarzan and Jane, we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCzprhvyvtU Singing "Singing to the Song of Life]] Life"]] sung by Mandy Moore.Music/MandyMoore.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The opening of the episode "Tarzan and the Jungle Madness" begins with Professor Porter studying a new species of red flower in the jungle, only to be assaulted by a random woodpecker. In trying to flee from it, he falls among a group of flower-buds that slowly unfold themselves, each revealing a sleeping woodpecker inside that all proceed to attack him. The eerie scene feels like something out of a [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers pod people horror film]], though the plot then becomes a mystery to discover why the animals of the jungle are suddenly going into a mindless frenzy. Jane and Tarzan discovering Porter's diary as he chronicles the possibility of the new flower being the cause of the jungle madness seemingly ties the two plot points together. And then... it turns out the ''real'' cause behind the animals rampaging is due to radio waves from the trading post's new radio tower. In short, the flowers were a RedHerring, but it makes one wonder what the point of the bizarre woodpecker-flower scene even was.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The opening of the episode "Tarzan and the Jungle Madness" begins with Professor Porter studying a new species of red flower in the jungle, only to be assaulted by a random woodpecker. In trying to flee from it, he falls among a group of flower-buds that slowly unfold themselves, each revealing a sleeping woodpecker inside that all proceed to attack him. The eerie scene feels like something out of a [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers pod people horror film]], though the plot then becomes a mystery to discover why the animals of the jungle are suddenly going into a mindless frenzy. Jane and Tarzan discovering Porter's diary as he chronicles the possibility of the new flower being the cause of the jungle madness seemingly ties the two plot points together. And then... it turns out the ''real'' cause behind the animals rampaging is due to radio waves from the trading post's new radio tower. In short, the flowers were a RedHerring, but it makes one wonder what the point of the bizarre woodpecker-flower scene even was.was, especially since it's never explained ''why'' the birds were inside the blossoms to begin with.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The opening of the episode "Tarzan and the Jungle Madness" begins with Professor Porter studying a new species of red flower in the jungle, only to be assaulted by a random woodpecker. In trying to flee from it, he falls among a group of flower-buds that slowly unfold themselves, each revealing a sleeping woodpecker inside that all proceed to attack him. The eerie scene feels like something out of a [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers pod people horror film]], though the plot then becomes a mystery to discover why the animals of the jungle are suddenly going into a mindless frenzy. Jane and Tarzan discovering Porter's diary as he chronicles the possibility of the new flower being the cause of the jungle madness, seemingly tying the two plot points together. And then... it turns out the ''real'' cause behind the animals rampaging is due to radio waves from the trading post's new radio tower. In short, the flowers were a RedHerring, but it makes one wonder what the point of the bizarre woodpecker-flower scene even was.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The opening of the episode "Tarzan and the Jungle Madness" begins with Professor Porter studying a new species of red flower in the jungle, only to be assaulted by a random woodpecker. In trying to flee from it, he falls among a group of flower-buds that slowly unfold themselves, each revealing a sleeping woodpecker inside that all proceed to attack him. The eerie scene feels like something out of a [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers pod people horror film]], though the plot then becomes a mystery to discover why the animals of the jungle are suddenly going into a mindless frenzy. Jane and Tarzan discovering Porter's diary as he chronicles the possibility of the new flower being the cause of the jungle madness, madness seemingly tying ties the two plot points together. And then... it turns out the ''real'' cause behind the animals rampaging is due to radio waves from the trading post's new radio tower. In short, the flowers were a RedHerring, but it makes one wonder what the point of the bizarre woodpecker-flower scene even was.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The opening of the episode "Tarzan and the Jungle Madness" begins with Professor Porter studying a new species of red flower in the jungle, only to be assaulted by a random woodpecker. In trying to flee from it, he falls among a group of flower-buds that slowly unfold themselves, each revealing a sleeping woodpecker inside that all proceed to attack him. The eerie scene feels like something out of [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers]], though the plot then becomes a mystery to discover why the animals of the jungle are suddenly going into a mindless frenzy. Jane and Tarzan discovering Porter's diary as he chronicles the possibility of the new flower being the cause of the jungle madness, seemingly tying the two plot points together. And then... it turns out the *real* cause behind the animals rampaging is due to radio waves from the trading post's new radio tower. In short, the flowers were a RedHerring, but it makes one wonder what the point of the bizarre woodpecker-flower scene even was.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The opening of the episode "Tarzan and the Jungle Madness" begins with Professor Porter studying a new species of red flower in the jungle, only to be assaulted by a random woodpecker. In trying to flee from it, he falls among a group of flower-buds that slowly unfold themselves, each revealing a sleeping woodpecker inside that all proceed to attack him. The eerie scene feels like something out of [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers]], a [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers pod people horror film]], though the plot then becomes a mystery to discover why the animals of the jungle are suddenly going into a mindless frenzy. Jane and Tarzan discovering Porter's diary as he chronicles the possibility of the new flower being the cause of the jungle madness, seemingly tying the two plot points together. And then... it turns out the *real* ''real'' cause behind the animals rampaging is due to radio waves from the trading post's new radio tower. In short, the flowers were a RedHerring, but it makes one wonder what the point of the bizarre woodpecker-flower scene even was.

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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The opening of the episode "Tarzan and the Jungle Madness" begins with Professor Porter studying a new species of red flower in the jungle, only to be assaulted by a random woodpecker. In trying to flee from it, he falls among a group of flower-buds that slowly unfold themselves, each revealing a sleeping woodpecker inside that all proceed to attack him. The eerie scene feels like something out of [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers]], though the plot then becomes a mystery to discover why the animals of the jungle are suddenly going into a mindless frenzy. Jane and Tarzan discovering Porter's diary as he chronicles the possibility of the new flower being the cause of the jungle madness, seemingly tying the two plot points together. And then... it turns out the *real* cause behind the animals rampaging is due to radio waves from the trading post's new radio tower. In short, the flowers were a RedHerring, but it makes one wonder what the point of the bizarre woodpecker-flower scene even was.



** Zutho crosses it by blackmailing the young Tarzan, agreeing to keep the fact that he started a disastrous fire a secret in exchange for later repayment. Then when the mandrill comes to collect, aside from all the bullying he does, what does he want Tarzan to do? [[DisproportionateRetribution Kill a bunch of monkeys that had been keeping him awake]]

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** Zutho crosses it by blackmailing the young Tarzan, agreeing to keep the fact that he started a disastrous fire a secret in exchange for later repayment. Then when the mandrill comes to collect, aside from all the bullying he does, what does he want Tarzan to do? [[DisproportionateRetribution Kill a bunch of monkeys that had been keeping him awake]]awake.]]

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* NightmareFuel: Has its [[NightmareFuel/TheLegendOfTarzan own page]]..

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* NightmareFuel: Has its [[NightmareFuel/TheLegendOfTarzan own page]]..page]].
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** Creator/JeffBennett for the late Creator/NigelHawthorne. A ManOfAThousandVoices he might be, in theory as it seems closer to less than ten that just gets reused a lot, but a famed Shakespearean actor, he is not and his performance sounds more like a caricature of Hawthorne's than anything else.
** Likewise, Susanne Blakeslee for Creator/GlennClose. Her voice sounds similar, but in contrast to Bennett's in relation to Hawthorne's, Blakeslee's sounds closer to an imitation... One that is only semi-successful.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: As far as the villains went, Tublat was easily the most memorable, not only being one of Tarzan's most formidable opponent, if not the most formidable opponent period, but also being fantastically portrayed by Creator/KeithDavid, whose performance prevented him from becoming a rather one-note villain.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: As far as the villains went, Tublat was easily the most memorable, not only being one of Tarzan's most formidable opponent, opponents, if not the most formidable opponent period, but also being fantastically portrayed by Creator/KeithDavid, whose performance prevented him from becoming a rather one-note villain.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: As far as the villains went, Tublat was easily the most memorable, not only being one of Tarzan's most formidable opponent, if not the most formidable opponent period, but also being fantastically portrayed by Creator/KeithDavid, whose performance prevented him from becoming a rather one-note villain.



* GeniusBonus: The titular leopard cub of ''Tarzan and the Lost Cub'' is obviously supposed to be Jad-Bal-Ja, the Golden Lion. With Sabor having gone from lioness to leopard it makes a certain amount of sense.

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The titular leopard cub of ''Tarzan and the Lost Cub'' is obviously supposed to be Jad-Bal-Ja, the Golden Lion. With Sabor having gone from lioness to leopard it makes a certain amount of sense.
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* UnfortunateImplications: The film has been criticized as another example of the WhiteSavior trope, seeing as the film revolves around Tarzan saving an African tribe from slavery.
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* UnfortunateImplications: The film has been criticized as another example of the WhiteSavior trope, seeing as the film revolves around Tarzan saving an African tribe from slavery.
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* UnfortunateImplications: Tarzan saving a Congolese tribe from the colonists just REEKS of the white savior trope. Especially when you consider the original novels' [[ValuesDissonance questionable depictions of African cultures]].
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* UnfortunateImplications: Tarzan saving a Congolese tribe from the colonists just REEKS of the white savior trope. Especially when you consider the original novels' [[ValuesDiassonance questionable depictions of African cultures]].

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* UnfortunateImplications: Tarzan saving a Congolese tribe from the colonists just REEKS of the white savior trope. Especially when you consider the original novels' [[ValuesDiassonance [[ValuesDissonance questionable depictions of African cultures]].
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* UnfortunateImplications: Tarzan saving a Congolese tribe from the colonists just REEKS of the white savior trope. Especially when you consider the original novels' [[ValuesDiassonance questionable depictions of African cultures]].
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* CompleteMonster: [[EvilColonialist Captain Léon Rom]] is the [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] envoy to the colonialist King Leopold II of Belgium. Dispatched to steal the Congo's diamonds by his bankrupt king, Rom makes a deal with a local warlord who hates John Clayton III, aka Tarzan, to bring him Tarzan for the jewels. With 800 Congolese slaves forced to build a railway, Rom uses them to lay the ground to bring in a mercenary army, capturing another ten slaves along with Jane to lure out Tarzan. Taking the diamonds, Rom goes to make the payment for the mercenaries, motivated to enslave the whole nation for the {{glory|Hound}} for saving Leopold's economy.

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* CompleteMonster: [[EvilColonialist Captain Léon Rom]] is the [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] {{ambitio|nIsEvil}}us envoy to the colonialist King Leopold II of Belgium. Dispatched to steal the Congo's diamonds by his bankrupt king, Rom makes a deal with a local warlord who hates John Clayton III, aka Tarzan, to bring him Tarzan for the jewels. With 800 Congolese [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaves forced to build a railway, railway]], Rom uses them to lay the ground to bring in a mercenary army, capturing another ten slaves along with Jane to lure out Tarzan. Taking the diamonds, Rom goes to make the payment for the mercenaries, motivated to enslave the whole nation for the {{glory|Hound}} for saving Leopold's economy.
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*CompleteMonster: [[EvilColonialist Captain Léon Rom]] is the [[AmbitionIsEvil ambitious]] envoy to the colonialist King Leopold II of Belgium. Dispatched to steal the Congo's diamonds by his bankrupt king, Rom makes a deal with a local warlord who hates John Clayton III, aka Tarzan, to bring him Tarzan for the jewels. With 800 Congolese slaves forced to build a railway, Rom uses them to lay the ground to bring in a mercenary army, capturing another ten slaves along with Jane to lure out Tarzan. Taking the diamonds, Rom goes to make the payment for the mercenaries, motivated to enslave the whole nation for the {{glory|Hound}} for saving Leopold's economy.
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* IdiotBall: The gorilla tribe minus Kala and Terk grabs this pretty hard in “Tarzan and the Challenger”, questioning Tarzan’s leadership and loyalty to the family after he’s absent during Hista’s attack. Kala even [[WhatTheHellHero calls them out on this]], pointing out that Tarzan’s already done more than enough to prove how much he cares about the family.
** The ball gets thrown to Moyo later on when he stubbornly disregards Kala and Terk's concerns about the area they're travelling through. This bites him in the ass almost immediately, he leads the entire gorilla tribe right into a tar pit. After Tarzan saves everyone, Moyo himself lampshades how foolish he was and admits he is not ready to be a leader yet.
** Porter in “Tarzan and the Hidden World”. In response to a mocking remark from Philander, Porter steals a ''tyrannosaurus'' egg in the hope of bringing physical evidence of Pellucidar back to England. And then he wonders why the angry mother started chasing them. Thankfully, he returns the egg after the others [[WhatTheHellHero chew him out for it.]]
** Tantor in "Tarzan and The Rogue Elephant". When he’s showing Jabari how nutritious African Violets are, the little elephant warns him that the flowers make an elephant go rogue, claiming that Mabaya ate them just before his own SanitySlippage. Despite having eaten them for years with no ill effects, Tantor doesn't question this story and ends up worried that ''he's'' going rogue. Granted, Jabari himself was ill-informed and Tantor is nothing if not TerrifiedOfGerms, but he should have known better than to take the anecdotal story of a child at face value.
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** Tantor in "Tarzan and The Rogue Elephant". When he’s showing Jabari how nutritious African Violets are, the little elephant warns him that the flowers make an elephant go rogue, claiming that Mayaba ate them just before his own SanitySlippage. Despite having eaten them for years with no ill effects, Tantor doesn't question this story and ends up worried that ''he's'' going rogue. Granted, Jabari himself was ill-informed and Tantor is nothing if not TerrifiedOfGerms, but he should have known better than to take the anecdotal story of a child at face value.

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** Tantor in "Tarzan and The Rogue Elephant". When he’s showing Jabari how nutritious African Violets are, the little elephant warns him that the flowers make an elephant go rogue, claiming that Mayaba Mabaya ate them just before his own SanitySlippage. Despite having eaten them for years with no ill effects, Tantor doesn't question this story and ends up worried that ''he's'' going rogue. Granted, Jabari himself was ill-informed and Tantor is nothing if not TerrifiedOfGerms, but he should have known better than to take the anecdotal story of a child at face value.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: From the CompilationMovie, Tarzan and Jane we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCzprhvyvtU Singing to the Song of Life]] sung by Mandy Moore.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: From the CompilationMovie, Tarzan and Jane Jane, we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCzprhvyvtU Singing to the Song of Life]] sung by Mandy Moore.

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** The ball gets thrown to Moyo later on when he stubbornly disregards Kala and Terk's concerns about the area they're travelling through. This bites him in the ass almost immediately - he leads the entire gorilla tribe right into a tar pit.

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** The ball gets thrown to Moyo later on when he stubbornly disregards Kala and Terk's concerns about the area they're travelling through. This bites him in the ass almost immediately - immediately, he leads the entire gorilla tribe right into a tar pit.pit. After Tarzan saves everyone, Moyo himself lampshades how foolish he was and admits he is not ready to be a leader yet.



* UnintentionallySympathetic: On occasion.
** Dania from "Tarzan and the Rift". In that episode, Tantor gets the chance to ask Dania out on a date, but the evening gets ruined by Terk showing up, making noise with household items, and being oblivious to the other characters' feelings. At that point, Dania being alienated by Terk is justifiable. To make matters worse, this is all just a big misunderstanding. The whole conflict could've been avoided if Terk had just apologized to Dania for making such a bad first impression, or at least done something nice to make up for it. But instead, the episode acts like Terk's actions were automatically forgivable. The episode never acknowledges the misunderstanding and expects us to dislike Dania for believing that Tantor should stop hanging around with Terk, despite the fact that her belief is based on Terk making a bad first impression and doing nothing to make up for it. On the other hand, she meant well the whole time, until she thought she would lose a friend. Dania simply said Tantor had to choose between his best animal friend or her, when she could have said "Wherever we go, ''don't let her'' anywhere close to me!".
** Philander at the end of "Tarzan and the Missing Link". This is mostly because of Porter [[TookALevelInJerkass taking a level in jerkass]] by being unnecessarily harsh to Philander. Also, Philander only brought those two men to Africa because they were threatening his life. Porter should've at least been respectful while rejecting Philander's offer at the end, instead of literally roaring in his face. However, this is likely only to happen if you saw this episode with Philander first; Porter's attitude becomes much more forgivable if you know Philander has already been established as a deceitful and greedy scientist, especially in "Tarzan and the Silver Ape" before this episode, where Philander crossed the MoralEventHorizon by almost throwing Tarzan to his death... So Porter is understandably fed up with his antics.

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* UnintentionallySympathetic: On occasion.
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Dania from "Tarzan and the Rift". In that episode, Tantor gets the chance to ask Dania out on a date, but the evening gets ruined by Terk showing up, making noise with household items, and being oblivious to the other characters' feelings. At that point, Dania being alienated by Terk is justifiable. To make matters worse, this is all just a big misunderstanding. The whole conflict could've been avoided if Terk had just apologized to Dania for making such a bad first impression, or at least done something nice to make up for it. But instead, the episode acts like Terk's actions were automatically forgivable. The episode never acknowledges the misunderstanding and expects us to dislike Dania for believing that Tantor should stop hanging around with Terk, despite the fact that her belief is based on Terk making a bad first impression and doing nothing to make up for it. On the other hand, she meant well the whole time, until she thought she would lose a friend. Dania simply said Tantor had to choose between his best animal friend or her, when she could have said "Wherever we go, ''don't let her'' anywhere close to me!". \n** Philander at the end of "Tarzan and the Missing Link". This is mostly because of Porter [[TookALevelInJerkass taking a level in jerkass]] by being unnecessarily harsh to Philander. Also, Philander only brought those two men to Africa because they were threatening his life. Porter should've at least been respectful while rejecting Philander's offer at the end, instead of literally roaring in his face. However, this is likely only to happen if you saw this episode with Philander first; Porter's attitude becomes much more forgivable if you know Philander has already been established as a deceitful and greedy scientist, especially in "Tarzan and the Silver Ape" before this episode, where Philander crossed the MoralEventHorizon by almost throwing Tarzan to his death... So Porter is understandably fed up with his antics.
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** Mabaya's madness is not just an invention of the series' writers; periodically, bull elephants come into musth, a condition caused by a surge in testosterone levels, which makes them wildly unpredictable and more aggressive than usual.

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** Mabaya's madness is not just an invention of the series' writers; periodically, bull elephants come into musth, a condition caused by a surge in testosterone levels, which makes them wildly unpredictable and more aggressive than usual.usual (though it is not a permanent condition but a temporary one).
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** One episode has Tantor state that "they ought to put warning labels on [scary books]". Nowadays, certain books ''do'' have parental advisory stickers, and even [[UsefulNotes/EntertainmentSoftwareRatingsBoard ESRB]]-style breakdowns of objectionable content.

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** One episode has Tantor state that "they ought to put warning labels on [scary books]". Nowadays, certain books ''do'' have parental advisory stickers, and even [[UsefulNotes/EntertainmentSoftwareRatingsBoard [[UsefulNotes/EntertainmentSoftwareRatingBoard ESRB]]-style breakdowns of objectionable content.

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