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3[[caption-width-right:350: The main trio.[[note]]From left to right: Walter, Flash and Mila.[[/note]]]]
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5''Rolling with the Ronks!'' (French: ''Bienvenue chez les Ronks !'') is a cartoon co-created by Olivier-Jean Marie and Charles Vaucelle, and produced by Creator/{{Xilam}} (of ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'', ''WesternAnimation/ShurikenSchool'' and ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' fame). It focuses on a sensitive alien named Flash, who is sent to the Ronk tribe on Earth to introduce them to various technology--but Darwin's ancestors don't seem ready to go to such a radical (re-)evolution. There, he befriends (and lives with) a cave girl named Mila and her uncle, Walter. Other notable characters include the chief of the Ronk tribe Mama, and the BigBad Mormagnon, with his pet lizard Godzi.
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8!!''Rolling with the Ronks!'' provides examples of:
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10* AccidentalTruth:
11** In "Humongorilla", the titular gigantic gorilla turns out to be real after Mormagnon claimed to have made the creature up to take advantage of the Ronks' superstitions.
12** In "Little Ronks of Horror", Flash entertains the Ronks with a story about a creature called a Croakadragon that later turns out to exist after Mormagnon disguised himself as the creature to mess with the Ronks. At the end of the episode, Flash makes up another story about a zombie werewolf that also turns out to be real in the final shot.
13* AnachronismStew: The presence of modern technology in a stone-age setting is {{Justified|Trope}}, as Flash is [[TechnologyUplift trying to shock the Ronk tribe to the future]].
14* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Flash and his rival Red are aliens, but already know and speak English. As a matter of fact, every alien who shows up in the show is introduced already fluent in English.
15* AllCavemenWereNeanderthals
16* AmbiguouslyHuman: Mormagnon without his costume.
17* BalloonBelly: In "Out to Lunch", Mormagnon gets a bloated belly from overeating.
18* AmbiguouslyBrown: Some of the characters have brownish skin with no clear indication that it is to indicate their ethnicity.
19* BananaInTheTailpipe: During the race in "The Ronk Race", Flash sabotages Rob's spaceship by putting a banana in one of the thrusters.
20* BananaPeel: "The Flying Dodo" ends with Walter slipping on a banana peel.
21* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Mila (beauty), Flash (brains) and Walter (brawn).
22* BirthdayEpisode: "Birthday Bashed" has Flash introduce the concept of birthdays to the Ronks, with the main plot concerning Mila's birthday celebration.
23* BrokenPedestal: In "Intergalactic Star", Flash becomes disillusioned after learning his idol Dazzle is a BitchInSheepsClothing who only puts on an amiable act to try and improve her show's ratings.
24* ButtBiter: A cat bites Mormagnon on the rear in "Stuck on You".
25* CartoonCreature: Just what the ''crud'' is Mormagnon meant to be? (at least, in his costume.)
26* ChainedHeat: In "Stuck on You", Mormagnon and Flash get into a squabble that results in them getting stuck together because of some paste Mama accidentally created by overcooking her fish stew.
27* DerangedAnimation: {{Downplayed|Trope}}, though it makes sense as Xilam also produced ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'', ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'', ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratz}}'', notable for having their own crazy animation.
28* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: The four-minute pilot "Welcome to the Ronks" depicts Mila with lighter skin, visible eyelashes, no necklace, blue eyes instead of green eyes, an orange dress instead of a yellow one and blonde hair worn in pigtails rather than black hair in a ponytail.
29* ElephantsAreScaredOfMice: "Hold Back the Night" has Flash power a generator by having a mammoth run frantically after being shown a mouse.
30* EvilLuddite: Mormagnon is the main antagonist and his goal is to undermine Flash's efforts to help the Ronks make technological advancements for purely selfish reasons.
31* ExposedExtraterrestrials: Flash and his rival Red are both aliens who don't wear clothes.
32* ExtremeOmnivore: {{Downplayed|Trope}} in one episode, as Mormagnon eats rotten food.
33* EyeOnAStalk: Flash has his eyes on stalks.
34* FalseTeethTomfoolery: "Stormy Weather" has a gag where Flash is shown to wear false teeth and his dentures come out trying to penetrate Mila's hair with his teeth after it's been hardened by rainwater.
35* FierySalamander: Godzi is a lizard who can sometimes breathe fire.
36* FreakyFridayFlip: "Body Swap" has Flash switch brains with Mormagnon, with things eventually escalating to everyone in the Ronk tribe exchanging minds.
37* GenkiGirl: Mila is frequently shown to be energetic, confident and hesitant to give up on anything.
38* GrossUpCloseUp: "Flash a Smile" features sickening close-ups of Walter, Lulu and the other Ronks' decaying teeth.
39* HandOrObjectUnderwear:
40** "I Smell a Hat" has Mormagnon cover his pelvic region with a huge leaf after his ceremonial costume has disappeared.
41** "Fashion Victims" shows some naked Ronks who have been stripped by Walter so their clothes could be used to tie up a saber-toothed tiger, who are [[SceneryCensor conveniently obscured by a bush, a rock and some huge leaves]] before they look down and cover themselves with their arms while smiling sheepishly before ducking out of view.
42* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Walter is the Huge Guy to Mila's Tiny Girl. This also applies to few other characters.
43* IAteWhat: In "Body Swap", Flash in Mormagnon's body is disgusted when Mila tells him the medicine she gave him is snail juice.
44* {{Jerkass}}: Mormagnon is a jerk who does everything he can to convince the Ronks to turn against Flash and reject his efforts to adapt technological advances.
45* LargeHam: Mormagnon, when he tells his made-up, believable stories to the Ronks.
46* MistookTheDominantLifeform: The four-minute pilot has Flash mistake a gnu for a human and try to shake hands with it before provoking the animal by grabbing its udders.
47* NakedPeopleAreFunny: "Fashion Victims" shows some Ronks winding up naked after Walter takes their clothes to tie them together and stop a saber-toothed tiger, with their humiliation at being left naked in public played for humor.
48* NapInducingSpeak: In "Go Your Own Way", Flash manages to save Walter, Mila, Mormagnon and Godzi when his rambling on the importance of his scientific lectures causes the monster endangering them to fall asleep.
49* NegativeContinuity: There are occasional continuity discrepancies, such as the numbering of Flash's personal logs being inconsistent or "The Flying Dodo" showing the Ronks to have a game called dodo ball when the previous episode "Game On" established that sports were a concept unknown to the Ronks and ended with Mama prohibiting sports.
50* {{NOT}}: In "The Ronk Race", Rob exclaims "Not!" after insincerely stating that it's a shame he'll make Flash look like a fool in front of the Ronks.
51* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: In "I Smell a Hat", Flash is sentenced to the punishment of "the double tickle" for allegedly stealing Mormagnon's ceremonial costume. Flash laughs this up before he sees that the punishment is that he'll go down a conveyor belt to be crushed between two spinning cylinders.
52* PorkyPigPronunciation: In "Turn Up The Heat", Flash stutters while trying to say "freezing" before settling on instead saying "chilly".
53* RightHandAttackDog: Godzi is Mormagnon's pet and assistant in his underhanded plots to discredit Flash's ideas.
54* SandInMyEyes: At the end of "Humongorilla", Walter claims he had a hair in his eyes after Flash and Mila catch him shedding tears at seeing the Humongorilla leave.
55* SceneryCensor: After Walter takes the other Ronks' clothes to tie them together and use them to stop a saber-toothed tiger in "Fashion Victims", we see three naked Ronks consisting of two men obscured by a bush and a rock and one woman obscured by huge leaves.
56* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Flash and Mormagnon are blue. {{Subverted|Trope}} with Mila and Mama, who are still identifiable as females with the lack of visible eyelashes.
57* ThinLineAnimation: Uses the colored outlines variant.
58* VillainousGlutton: Mormagnon is a manipulative jerk who likes to get the Ronks to provide food offerings to the gods just so he can devour all of it himself.
59* VoicesAreMental: "Body Swap" plays the trope of characters switching minds having each other's voices straight.
60* WeWantOurJerkBack: "No More Magnon" has Mormagnon banished by Mama after she finds that he only created the illusion of being allowed power over fire by the "flim-flamers" by having Godzi breathe fire while invisible. Flash ends up taking Mormagnon's place, but finds that the Ronk village is harder to manage without Mormagnon around to placate the masses with his fabricated tales.

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