Line #166 WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost


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2	[[caption-width-right:344:[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic One ghostie you should definitely giggle at.]]]]
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4	-> "''Casper, the friendly ghost\
5	The friendliest ghost you know!\
6	Though grownups might look at him with fright,\
7	The children all love him so!''"
8	-->-- The theme song
9
10	Casper, a ghost who [[IJustWantToHaveFriends wants to be friendly but scares people away]], debuted in a 1945 WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoon\|s}} released by Creator/FamousStudios for Paramount Pictures, [[AdaptationDisplacement adapted from a children's story]] co-created by Creator/JoeOriolo. Casper appeared in 55 animated shorts and became Paramount's most popular character after ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}. In 1958, Paramount sold the character to Creator/HarveyComics, where he frequently crossed over to ComicBook/RichieRich stories.
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12	The canonical reason ghosts in the Casper stories were designed as they are, is because they are all [[BedsheetGhost cartoon caricatures of burial shrouds]], a [[AluminumChristmasTrees once-common way of burying the dead]].
13
14	In the Harvey Comics line, Casper lives in the Enchanted Forest with The Ghostly Trio, and met many other supporting characters, such as Wendy the Good Little Witch, Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, and ComicBook/HotStuffTheLittleDevil.
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16	Casper's television debut was on the Creator/{{ABC}} AnimatedAnthology series ''Matty's Funday Funnies'', sponsored by Creator/{{Mattel}} Toys. The Casper shorts were syndicated during the 1962/63 season, after which they returned to ABC, accompanied by new supporting segments, in ''The New Casper Cartoon Show''. In 1979, Creator/HannaBarbera produced ''WesternAnimation/CasperAndTheAngels'' for Creator/{{NBC}} Saturday mornings, with the voices of Creator/JulieMcWhirter as Casper and Creator/JohnStephenson as Hairy Scary. Since 1995, Casper has been the star of a Fox AnimatedSeries (''WesternAnimation/TheSpooktacularNewAdventuresOfCasper''), an AllCGICartoon (''WesternAnimation/CaspersScareSchool: The Series''), and a series of live-action/CGI films (starting with [[Film/{{Casper}} a feature]]); one of the direct-to-video movies, ''Film/CasperMeetsWendy'', launched the career of Music/HilaryDuff and another, ''Film/CasperASpiritedBeginning'' that introduces the BigBad Kibosh. 2009 saw Casper and his two friends Wendy and Hot Stuff return in a DarkerAndEdgier reboot named ''ComicBook/CasperAndTheSpectrals''. In 2020, Casper had a guest role in an episode of the fourth and final season of ''WesternAnimation/HarveyStreetKids''.
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19	[[folder:Film Series]]
20
21	!!1945
22	* The Friendly Ghost: The first appearance of Casper, as part of the WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoons}} series. Notable for it being co-written by Creator/OttoMessmer. PublicDomain.
23
24	!!1948
25	* WesternAnimation/TheresGoodBoosTonight: Second appearance of Casper, as part of the Noveltoons series. PublicDomain.
26
27	!!1949
28	* A Haunting We Will Go: Third appearance of Casper, as part of the Noveltoons series. PublicDomain
29
30	!!1950
31	* Casper's Spree Under the Sea: The first short of the solo Casper series.
32	* Once upon a Rhyme
33
34	!!1951
35	* Boo Hoo Baby
36	* To Boo or Not to Boo
37	* Boo Scout
38	* Casper Comes to Clown
39	* Casper Takes a Bow-Wow
40
41	!!1952
42	* The Deep Boo Sea
43	* Ghost of the Town
44	* Spunky Skunky
45	* Cage Fright
46	* Pig-A-Boo
47	* True Boo
48
49	!!1953
50	* Frightday the 13th
51	* Spook No Evil
52	* North Pal
53	* By the Old Mill Scream
54	* Little Boo Peep
55	* Do or Diet
56	* Boos and Saddles
57
58	!!1954
59	* Zero the Hero
60	* Casper Genie
61	* Puss 'n Boos
62	* Boos and Arrows
63	* Boo Ribbon Winner
64	* [[ThreeDimensionalEpisode Boo Moon]] (one of two Paramount's cartoons to be filmed in 3D, the other one being ''[[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Popeye, the Ace of Space]]'')
65
66	!!1955
67	* Hide and Shriek
68	* Keep Your Grin Up
69	* Spooking with a Brogue
70	* Bull Fright
71	* Red White and Boo
72	* Boo Kind to Animals
73
74	!!1956
75	* Ground Hog Play
76	* Dutch Treat
77	* Penguin for your thoughts
78	* Line of Screammage
79	* Fright from Wrong
80
81	!!1957
82	* Spooking about Africa
83	* Hooky Spooky
84	* Peekaboo
85	* Ghost of Honor
86	* Ice Scream
87	* Boo Bop
88
89	!!1958
90	* Heir Restorer
91	* Spook and Span
92	* Ghost Writers
93	* Which is Witch: Wendy's first and only appearance in the theatrical cartoon series. Not her first appearance overall, however, as she debuted in the ''Casper'' comics four years earlier.
94	* Good Scream Fun
95
96	!!1959
97	* Doing What's Fright
98	* Down to Mirth
99	* Not Ghoulty
100	* Casper's Birthday Party: Last ''Casper'' theatrical cartoon.
101	[[/folder]]
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103
104	!! "The friendly tropes":
105	* AlternateUniverse: There are multiple universes in which Casper resides, thanks to ContinuityReboot and things of the like.
106	%%* AnimatedAnthology
107	* ArtEvolution: Casper's original design was a much chubbier duckpin like shape and had more resemblance to a bedsheet ghost, whereas his later Harveytoons redesign streamlined him into the simpler, big-headed ghost design that we recognize today.
108	* BedsheetGhost:
109	** While not exactly bedsheeted, the ghosts are invariably transparent, pale and not at all detailed.
110	** In at least one of the cartoons, many of the ghosts masquerade as sheets in a haunted house, going so far as to cover furniture and serve as pillowcases.
111	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Casper may be "The Friendliest Ghost You Know", but he can be the opposite if pushed enough. In one short, the Ghostly Trio force feed him some "Mean Pills" which should make him the opposite. Turning into a literal devil-child, Casper tortures his uncles with destructive pranks, sending them fleeing. After they leave, Casper reveals to the audience that he avoided taking the pills and was just doing that to teach them a lesson.
112	* BirthdayEpisode: "Casper's Birthday Party" has Casper going out to find people to invite to his birthday party. After failing at every chance due to people being afraid, Casper returns to find that the other ghosts have prepared a surprise party for him. Instead of "Happy Birthday", they sing Casper's theme song.
113	* BroughtDownToNormal: In "Not Ghoulty", Casper is tried in a ghost court for unghostly conduct (i.e. saving a baby from a burning building) and the judge removes his ghostly abilities until he scares someone again. This does not work out in Casper's favor, as his newfound friends, unaware of his powers being lost, get mad at him when he keeps screwing up good deeds he was a natural at before (i.e. a shopkeeper asks Casper to phase through a locked door to open it, but Casper can't, so he accidentally smashes through the shop window to unlock it). Fortunately, Casper turns the tables on the other ghosts--[[HorrifyingTheHorror he poses as a Ghost Exterminator and scares the crap out of them]], [[LoopholeAbuse restoring his powers.]]
114	* BrownNote: The word "Boo" seems to magically fill people with fear when said by a ghost.
115	* CaptainErsatz: Casper has inspired more than a few knockoff comics featuring friendly ghosts as the lead character, including Creator/CharltonComics' ''Timmy the Timid Ghost'', Fago Publications' ''Li'l Ghost (He's So Cute)'', Atlas Comics' ''Homer the Happy Ghost'', and Fawcett's downright plagiaristic ''Spunky the Smiling Spook'', who has the ''exact'' same design as Casper.
116	* CanonImmigrant: Wendy the Good Little Witch appeared in only one theatrical cartoon, but she became an established character in the comics that were being published at the same time. Likewise, the Ghostly Trio only appeared in a few of the theatricals, and they tended to vary in appearance and even in number (sometimes there were four or more of them), but they quickly evolved within the comics to their familiar likenesses. When an attempt by Famous to launch a series of made-for-tv Casper shorts came about in the 60's, they brought them over from the comics as main characters.
117	* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In early Casper comics, he actually scared people. But he eventually got bored and wants to make friends. Though in every other incarnations, Casper is apparently friendly from the start.
118	* ChekhovsSkill: Casper's informally scary appearance may have been a burden to him throughout the bulk of his debut, even scaring the mother of the kids he befriends--but this same flaw ends up scaring off a man from the mortgage company who dropped by to evict the family. The mother finally warms up to Casper because of this, and invites him to be part of their family.
119	* ChristmasSpecial: ''Casper's First Christmas'', a [[{{Crossover}} Cartoon Crossover]] which had Casper and Hairy Scary interacting with WesternAnimation/YogiBear and friends.
120	* ClamTrap: Discussed. In the episode "Ghost Writers", at the end the writing staff for Casper (it's a rather meta episode) spitball ideas for episodes, including "maybe a giant clam tries to swallow Casper!".
121	* ClipShow: "Ghost Writers" is a clip show, with the ideas the writers come up for Casper represented with clips of earlier Casper cartoons (specifically "Once Upon a Rhyme', 'To Boo or Not To Boo" and "Casper's Spree Under the Sea").
122	* ColorFailure: In the short, "There's Good Boos Tonight", a pair of horses turn ashen and slide to a stop in their tracks when they see Casper before them.
123	* {{Crossover}}:
124	** Spunky the Donkey, who originally appeared in several of the Creator/FleischerStudios ''WesternAnimation/ColorClassics'' and a Famous ''WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoon\|s}}'', appears (curiously, without his mother, Hunky) in at least two of Casper's shorts, over a decade after his previous roles.
125	** "Casper's First Christmas" has the ghost crossover with Creator/HannaBarbera characters like WesternAnimation/YogiBear.
126	* CuteWitch: Wendy, who later got her own comic series, ''ComicBook/WendyTheGoodLittleWitch''.
127	* DarkIsNotEvil: Oh sure, he looks harmless, but there must be something to make him so instantly terrifying. Needless to say, he's very kind and benevolent.
128	* DistaffCounterpart: Wendy is essentially Casper as a witch; she even lives with three wicked aunts. Borders on MenAreTheExpendableGender, though to be fair, she mostly appears in the 1960s cartoon, where ghosts are simply a type of TheFairFolk.
129	* DrivenToSuicide: In his very first short, "The Friendly Ghost", Casper is driven to despair at his inability to make friends, and willingly allows a train to run him over. Since he's a ghost, the train doesn't harm him--it just blows him away in the wind.
130	** In "Casper’s Spree Under The Sea" Casper tries to off himself again by tying a rock around his neck and throwing it in the ocean, which just makes him land on the sea floor and still able to breath. Strangely enough, Casper starts to choke as he walks away and the rope around his neck goes taut and tightens.
131	** In "Spunky Skunky", an outcast skunk attempts suicide by jumping off a cliff, but conveniently falls into a can of white paint--he lives, but he thinks he's become a ghost.
132	%%* DumbBlonde: Some versions of Pearl.
133	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In early shorts, before he was established to live with The Ghostly Trio, Casper was shown to have ghost parents.
134	* {{Expy}}: King Luna of "Boo Moon" is a ringer for King Bombo from ''WesternAnimation/GulliversTravels'' in both design and temperament. Fittingly, as the short itself is a sci-fi take on ''Gulliver's Travels''.
135	* FaunsAndSatyrs: Hot Stuff's devil race are a child-friendly version of these.
136	* FelonyMisdemeanor: From the way Casper treats it, you'd think scaring people was ''ax murder'' or something. Wendy's the same with her aunts, though sometimes they did go farther with their spells than harmless pranks and scares. (How does turning a butterfly - remember, all animals are sentient in this series - into a ''knothole'' in a plank of wood even work?)
137	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Casper can make friends with just about anyone of any species, after they aren't afraid of him anymore of course.
138	* FriendlyGhost: Casper is the TropeNamer and the TropeCodifier.
139	%%* FunctionalMagic
140	* GhostlyAnimals: The short ''There's Good Boos Tonight'' ends with the death of a fox that Casper befriends called Ferdie. Casper is initially upset, until Ferdie comes back as a ghost, much to Casper's joy.
141	* HappilyAdopted: Casper's debut short ends with him being adopted by the mother of the two kids he befriended.
142	* IJustWantToHaveFriends: This pretty much defines his whole character.
143	* {{Jerkass}}: The Ghostly Trio. There have even been instances where even Spooky was a little appalled at their schemes, and he idolizes them.
144	* JustEatGilligan: If Spooky would just lose the hat that never turns invisible with him, he'd have a much easier time. Of course, the one time he did try to ditch it, nobody recognized him without it, and neither human haunting victims nor other ghosts who wanted in on his territory were afraid of him.
145	* LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces: In the Harvey comics, many adventures involve meeting someone from an unknown magical species, most often [[AnimateInanimateObject a magically-alive species of animated inanimate objects]].
146	* MagicAIsMagicA: In the Harvey comics, at least, all ghosts have a very specific set of powers, and it is possible to make 'ghostproof' materials that they can't [[IntangibleMan phase through]].
147	* MonochromeApparition: The ghosts are transparent, pale and white-ish and not detailed.
148	* MorallyBankruptBanker: In his debut short, Casper unwittingly scares off a man from the mortgage company who was about to evict a mother and her kids. He tells them to just keep the mortgage and literally [[VisualPun burns a bridge]] as he hightails it.
149	* TheMovie: There's several movies, the most recent being ''Casper Scare School''.
150	* MrFixit: Pretty much the [[PlanetOfHats niche]] of the gnomes.
151	* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: One animated cartoon opens with Casper being exiled by his fellow ghosts for refusing to scare people.
152	* NaughtyIsGood: Spooky
153	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In "Not Ghoulty", Casper gets stripped of his powers by a ghostly court for doing good deeds like saving a baby from a burning building, and can only get them back when he scares someone again. Fortunately, he manages to turn the tables on them and get his powers back in the end.
154	* OnOneCondition: ''CasperAndFriends'' has several episodes not featuring Casper. One is about a [[PetHeir rich cat]] living large and being waited upon by her butler. It quickly changes as soon as the butler chances upon the will and learns he's the next to inherit. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption His several attempts to off the cat fail]] and the last one ends [[spoiler:with his own demise. The cat then phones asking for a new butler]].
155	* OncePerEpisode: The Famous shorts became increasingly formulaic as time went on. Casper feels lonely, Casper tries to find a friend but everyone runs away from him, Casper finally finds someone who will overlook the fact that he's a ghost and be friends with him usually after he helps them get out of some kind of trouble. The friend is then menaced by a large baddie, at which point Casper steps in and demands, "You leave my friend alone!" at which point the baddie runs off in fear. All ends well. Rinse and repeat. Famous Studios had a hard time coming up with original ideas for Popeye, too, incidentally. {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in an episode of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'':
156	-->'''Norm:''' I don't get it. Start of the cartoon, Casper has no friends. End of the cartoon, he has friends. Start of the next cartoon, he has no friends again. What happened?
157	-->'''Cliff:''' I think it's obvious what happened. Casper was quenching his thirst for blood.
158	** There is also the phrase ''"A G-G-G-GHOST!"'' in just about every short.
159	* OtherworldlyCommunicationFailure: Occurs frequently in both the original comics and the cartoon because Casper is a [[FriendToAllLivingThings friendly]], ReluctantMonster who [[IJustWantToHaveFriends just wants to befriend]] everyone and almost anything but accidentally terrifies almost every human he meets because, despite his friendliness, he's still an undead being trying to communicate with the living.
160	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Let's ''start'' with throwing the idea of ghosts being dead humans out the window (except for the movies).
161	** One early episode (possibly the first) actually did begin with Casper at his own grave.
162	** ''WesternAnimation/TheresGoodBoosTonight'' starts with a bunch of ghosts rising out of their graves, [[spoiler: and at the end a dead fox comes back as a ghost.]]
163	* OurMonstersAreDifferent: In ''Casper's Scare School'', ''many'' of the creatures that would normally be former fleshies were never fleshies. Mantha was always a zombie, Ra was always a mummy, ''etc''. The only characters that were confirmed to be formerly human were Fly Boy and his father.
164	* PublicDomainAnimation: His first three appearances have slipped into the PublicDomain, and as a result can be found on many dollar store DVD sets.
165	* PublicDomainSoundtrack: In "The Friendly Ghost", when the other ghosts are in the sky and about to fly into the buildings, the music playing is an excerpt of Felix Mendelssohn's "Rondo Capricioso, op. 14".
166	* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: ''Ghost of Honor'' has Casper getting a Walk of Fame star. There is a bit of a snag due to ghosts not having footprints though.
167	* RealityWarper: A number of times, Spooky has [[PlotDevice briefly discovered]] a way that his "Boo!" can alter reality, such as reversing time or changing something's size. Usually, he has to scream "Oob!" to reverse it.
168	** In addition to this, any ghost's "Boo!" seems to be able to make inanimate things jump up and run away, broken automobiles run again, barren trees bear fruit again, eggs hatch, and [[RuleOfFunny whatever alteration works for the panel artist]].
169	* ReluctantMonster: Casper has no interest in scaring anyone. He is willing to make rare exceptions in some incarnations, however, if it's to help any friends he has.
170	* TheRemake: "True Boo" is a remake of the [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Max Fleischer]] [[WesternAnimation/ColorClassics Color Classic]] "Christmas Comes But Once A Year", with Casper filling in for [[WesternAnimation/BettyBoop Betty Boop's]] Grampy.
171	* ReReleaseSoundtrack: When the Casper cartoons and many other Harveytoons shorts were packaged together for the syndicated ''Casper and Friends'' TV series in 1990, due to conflicting music rights with Winston Sharples (composer of the original shorts), the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXLtE8xw1s cartoons' soundtracks were completely redubbed]] with new voice actors, synthesized multi-purpose music tracks and more "modern" StockSoundEffects. Averted by the ''Casper and Friends'' episodes uploaded by the official Casper [=YouTube=] channel, which preserve the original soundtracks.
172	* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Wolfie the wolf, who had been the antagonist of Blackie the Sheep in earlier ''Noveltoons'' cartoons, appears as an antagonist to Casper in five cartoons: "Once Upon a Rhyme", "Pig A Boo", "Spunky Skunky", "Little Boo Peep" and "By The Old Mill Scream".
173	* SlaveToPR: Ghosts are ''supposed'' to be scary, so Casper is feared by humans for being a ghost and looked down upon by other ghosts for not being a "proper" ghost. Other ghosts enjoy scaring, but also take it very seriously and do it because it's a ghost's purpose in [[labelnote:death]] life[[/labelnote]]. There are even scaring experts that the Ghostly Trio have either consulted to improve their scaring, or gone up against to prove that they were the best (in a GoodOldFisticuffs sorta way: the others and their fancy techniques are no match for tried-and-true invisible playing with objects or yelling of "Boo!"). One of the cartoons even featured a ghost school that taught haunting. Spooky protects his reputation as the number one scarer at any cost.
174	* SmellySkunk: "Spunky Skunky" is centered around Casper befriending a skunk who is spurned from playing baseball with some local animals, prompting him to try to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, only to fall into a white can of paint and think he's become a ghost. Casper rolls with it just so he can have a friend, but the act is up when the skunk falls into water and washes off the paint--and realizes that Casper is a ghost and flees. Later on, the skunk tries to save his other friends from a hungry wolf by spraying him, but to no avail, as the wolf puts on a gas mask. Casper, of course, arrives to save the day, earning the skunks friendship back and also earning the respect of the others, who wear clothespins on their noses for the skunk's sake when they play baseball.
175	** "There's Good Boos Tonight" and "Boo Scout" have Casper getting sprayed by a skunk accidentally.
176	* StrictlyFormula: Most of the cartoons are virtually interchangable from each other save for some superficial settings and slightly different characters (who all serve identical purposes in the plot). One Creator/FamousStudios animator, Lee Mishkin, even had a quote about it:
177	-->''"With the Casper series, you never knew what picture you were working on, because they were all exactly the same."''
178	** However, there are several shorts in the series where they actually ''did'' try to get away from the formula. "Ghost of Honor" is an episode where Casper visits the Paramount Cartoon Studio and ends up [[ShowWithinAShow being the inspiration for his own cartoons in the first place]], and "Ghost Writers" is a very meta episode parodying the series, centered on two of the cartoons writers brainstorming typical ideas for Casper cartoons. "Not Ghoulty" has Casper robbed of his powers and his newfound friends turning on him due to them trying to have Casper help them, only for Casper to keep screwing up because he can't use his ghost abilities anymore. One of later shorts had the Ghostly Trio dosing Casper with something to make him more antagonistic (and thus more "ghostly" and interested in scaring people), but it [[GoneHorriblyRight works too well]] and Casper spends most of the short viciously pranking the Ghostly Trio[[note]]The end reveals that it didn't actually work, and Casper was teaching the Trio a lesson[[/note]].
179	* SweetSheep: In the 1953 cartoon "Little Boo Peep", the eponymous ghost befriends Little Bo Peep after getting kicked out of the Scare Force by the other ghosts. He promises to help her find her lost sheep as he travels across [[FairyTaleFreeForAll a world inhabited by famous nursery rhyme characters]]. After unintentionally scaring the inhabitants, he discovers that Bo Peep's three sheep had been kidnapped by Wolfie the Wolf, who prepares to have them for dinner. Once Casper rescues her sheep and scaring Wolfie, Bo Peep is seen giving each of her sheep a kiss before [[SmoochOfVictory finally giving Casper one for helping her]], which causes [[HighPressureEmotion Casper to turn red.]]
180	* TerribleTrio: The Ghostly Trio, in every incarnation they've ever been in.
181	* ThreeDimensionalEpisode: 1954's ''Boo Moon'', one of two Stereotoons by Paramount.
182	* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Cousins Spooky and Casper. Though not identical, they look similar enough to fool some.
183	* TheVerse: Frequent {{Crossover}}s with other Harvey comics, even ''ComicBook/RichieRich'' (though Richie is never sure he didn't [[AllJustADream dream]] his Casper encounters). Some arcs have brought together ''all'' Enchanted Forest characters.
184	* WildTake: The Casper series has some of the weirdest, sometimes outright grotesque, wild takes of the Golden Age cartoons, and the original shorts have them at least once per short. The over-the-top runaway gags or transformations after the takes (a whale scared by Casper runs off on its ''tailflukes'', a zookeeper hides - then runs away - ''inside'' a lion, another group of zoo staffers combine into a wheel when they see him, etc.) are the icing on the cake.
185	-->''"A GHOST!"''
186	* WillTheyOrWontThey: Casper and Wendy.
187	** Funnily enough, Wendy's first appearance had her and Casper on a date.
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190	!! "Comic Series":
191	* BrooklynRage: Spooky is much more "tuff" than spooky (since he looks about as cuddly as Casper), is somewhat of a hothead, and even his "Boos" look more like he is flipping out. He speaks with a Brooklyn-style FunetikAksent: his girlfriend Pearl is "Poil" and his derby hat is a "doiby".
192	* CostumeEvolution: In "Casper and the Spetrals" Wendy and Hot Stuff's outfits were totally redesigned, Wendy doesn't wear her pajama-like red robe, instead she is more of a modern goth witch, and Hot Stuff changed his classic asbestos diaper for a punk outfit.
193	* CrossOver: Casper had many encounters with other Harvey characters.
194	* FreakyFridayFlip: In Hot Stuff and Casper # 1 Casper, Wendy and Hot Stuff switched bodies due to a malfunction of Wendy's magic wand.
195	* HalloweenTown: Spooky Town, a city segregated into numerous boroughs for different supernatural beings that compete with each other to scare normal humans and ensure that the local SealedEvilInACan stays sealed.
196	* HornedHumanoid: The devils in the comics are a perfect example of this trope.
197	* InCaseOfXBreakGlass: In the short "Ghost Writers", there is a glass case at the Paramount cartoon studio reading "In Case If You're Fired--" [[BlackComedy and containing]] [[DrivenToSuicide a gun]].
198	* InterspeciesFriendship: Casper, Wendy, Hot Stuff, and Spooky are good friends despite being different creatures.
199	* OurDemonsAreDifferent: All the demons from Harvey Comics. ComicBook/HotStuffTheLittleDevil is the main example.
200	* PointyEars: Hot Stuff, along with every other devil.
201	* SharedUniverse: Most of the characters of Harvey, including Casper, Hot Stuff and Wendy, live in the same universe. In fact, all the supernatural characters live in a place called "The Enchanted Forest".
202	* WomenAreWiser: Pearl is generally more level-headed than her boyfriend Spooky.

Context WesternAnimation / CasperTheFriendlyGhost