Line #10 WesternAnimation/TheBlueRacer

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3	''The Blue Racer'' is a series of 17 theatrical cartoons about a fast blue snake having misadventures or trying to eat a Japanese Beetle.
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5	The studio that animated it is Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises, except for two done overseas: "Aches and Snakes" at Australia's Filmgraphics studio, and "Little Boa Peep" at Spain's Pegbar Productions.
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8	!!''The Blue Racer'' provides examples of:
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10	* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The pilot short had Blue Racer wearing a bowler hat and a bow-tie (complete with a collar). This was dropped in subsequent cartoons.
11	* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: The Blue Racer is a blue snake.
12	* BearsAreBadNews: An episode features a bear as an antagonist.
13	%%* BeeAfraid: "Snake Preview"
14	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The Japanese Beetle disappeared half-way through the series.
15	* FunnyAnimal: Crazy-Legs Crane
16	* IKnowKungFu: The Japanese Beetle.
17	* TheRival[=/=]SitcomArchNemesis: The Japanese Beetle and Crazy-Legs Crane.
18	* RoadRunnerVsCoyote: The basic plot is about the Blue racer attempting to catch and eat the Japanese Beetle. Interestingly, it's the hunter (a snake) who is the super-fast one, but this is still not enough for a significantly more intelligent prey (a beetle) who can do karate chops.
19	* SmallNameBigEgo: The Blue Racer has an impressive name that only literally corresponds to reality given that he may be very fast, but he is a failure in both his hunting and his family ways. It doesn't do a thing to diminish his smug attitude about being a great hunter, though.
20	* SpinOff: The characters spun off from ''WesternAnimation/TijuanaToads''.
21	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: The Racer has the not-so-sympathetic motivation of trying to eat the Japanese Beetle and only devoting all his time and effort into this, while being otherwise a dead-beat husband and father.
22	* VillainProtagonist: [[SapientEatSapient Devouring a very polite, (more) intelligent, fellow animal]] out of egotism is the whole goal of the series and establishes the Blue Racer as a villain.

Context WesternAnimation / TheBlueRacer