Line #26 WesternAnimation/HenrysCat


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3	''Henry's Cat'' is a UK children's series broadcast from 1983-1986 and 1992-1993 starring Henry's Cat and his friends.
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6	!!The tropes are:
7	* ADayInTheLimelight: The final episode, "Valentine's Day", is one for Pansy Pig, with Henry's Cat's latest scheme to set her up with a Valentine's date after noticing she's lonely. Unfortunately, Pansy ends up picking Rum-Baa-Baa.
8	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Mosey Mouse, Douglas Dog, Denise Duck, Ted Tortoise, Sammy Snail, etc.
9	* AllJustADream: Many of the episodes take place in the hero's imagination, although there are are occasional instances of OrWasItADream (their real life world isn't much more mundane after all).
10	* AllThereInTheManual: Creator Stan Hayward explained that the reason for the title character's name is that his owner, Henry, had moved away. The cat's terrible memory meant he forgot to go with him, and even forgot his own name before Henry's, leading him to simply term himself "Henry's Cat".
11	* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit are yellow and blue, respectively.
12	* AnimationBump: The final {{Uncancelled}} season uses cel animation. While it still emulates the original marker style authentically, it leads to slightly more detailed animation. The backgrounds also tend to be more fully realised instead of the usual blank white backdrops (and sometimes even with ArtShift gags like photographs).
13	* BigBad: Rum Baa-Baa is a comic example.
14	* BigEater: The eponymous feline's gluttonous tendencies are frequently the [[AndYourRewardIsEdible motivation for the plot]].
15	* BritishBrevity: Subverted with the first two seasons, though seasons three to five consisted of 4-6 episodes. The show lasted 51 episodes over 10 years, a rarity back then given BBC's notorious reliance on re-runing their one-season animated shows rather than renewing them for more episodes.
16	* ChristmasEpisode: Two of them - "The Christmas Dinner" and "The Mystery of the Missing Santa".
17	* TheComicallySerious: Constable Bulldog.
18	* ConfusingMultipleNegatives: The theme song for Series 4 and 5 explains that Henry's Cat "knows everything about nothing, and not too much about that".
19	* DastardlyWhiplash: Rum-Baa-Baa may not have the moustache, but has everything else. The end credits for Series 5 even show him doing the old train track routine.
20	* DisproportionateRetribution:
21	** Having Henry's Cat sent to prison all for the sake of unwittingly kicking down Farmer Giles' wall was rather heavy handed. If Farmer Giles had any heart, he would have merely made Henry's Cat rebuild the wall instead.
22	** It's a RunningGag that Rum-Baa-Baa inexplicably serves multiple ''life sentences'' ("or perhaps longer") for every scheme he commits, no matter what severity. He's still always back an episode or two later.
23	* GruesomeGoat: Rum Baa Baa is a DastardlyWhiplash-type villain who happens to be a sheep.
24	* GrumpyOldMan: Farmer Giles.
25	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit.
26	* JerkassHasAPoint: While Farmer Giles may be angry towards Henry's Cat, he has got cause to be annoyed at him. The poor guy is a farmer after all, and has every right to be upset when his working life is disrupted by the antics of Henry's Cat.
27	* KingKongCopy: In the episode "The Lost World", Henry's Cat imagines himself as a Franchise/{{Tarzan}}-esque NatureHero defending the eponymous LostWorld's denizens, the largest and fiercest of which is a gigantic blue gorilla that the narrator calls "King Kongo" (though when the name appears on screen, it's spelled as "King Konga" instead). [[DastardlyWhiplash Rum Baa Baa]] plays a Carl Denham-esque role in the episode, trying to capture King Kongo to exhibit him in a theatre. In the climax of the episode, King Kongo [[KingKongClimb climbs a giant inflatable skyscraper]] while Rum Baa Baa fights him in a plane.
28	* MrViceGuy: Henry's Cat is a cheerful, friendly and good-natured character. His only vice is his insatiable appetite,
29	* RealAfterAll: Rum-Baa-Baa is usually a villain of Henry's Cat's many daydreams, though sometimes appears in real life misadventures as well.
30	* ReplacedTheThemeTune: The first two series used different synth instrumentals each, with the fourth series onwards settling for a vocal theme.
31	* SameLanguageDub: In the US, Creator/{{HBO}} aired a version of this series with the narration dubbed by Creator/DomDeLuise.
32	* VerbalTic:
33	** Henry's Cat often precedes his sentences with a nasal "Owwww". In the US dub he uses more feline-esque purrs and mews.
34	** Rum Baa-Baa often finishes his with a sheep bleat.
35	* YouAreFat: The main character.

Context WesternAnimation / HenrysCat