Basic Trope: Ferrets (including polecats) are highly energetic animals.
- Straight: Francine is a Talking Animal ferret, who is a highly energetic Genki Girl with a Motor Mouth.
- Exaggerated:
- Francine is always highly energetic, to the point where she never sleeps.
- All ferrets/polecats, even the elderly ones, are presented as hyperactive.
- Downplayed: Francine is easily excited, but doesn't always act hyperactive.
- Justified: Truth in Television; ferrets are known for having a lot of energy.
- Inverted: Francine the ferret is perpetually exhausted and low on energy.
- Subverted: Francine is initially high-energy, only to then crash from exhaustion at the end of the day...
- Double Subverted: ...Before proceeding to start a new day just as energetic as before.
- Parodied: Francine is extremely hyperactive to the point that it's distracting both to herself and others.
- Zig-Zagged: Francine is usually on-and-off, going from high energy to low energy.
- Averted:
- Ferrets are not portrayed as energetic.
- There are no ferrets.
- Enforced:
- The show used a real ferret to play Francine, and couldn't get it to hold still during filming, so the producers decided to make it a part of her character.
- "We need an animal to be the Genki Girl in the work, what should it be?" "How about a ferret? Ferrets have lots of energy."
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