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openNo Title Western Animation
Kinda worrisome edit here
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The edit reason is worrisome because it feels a bit possessive and doesn't seem to have any idea of what Knight of Cerebus actually is. I can't be certain because the edit itself is entirely without context. Plus they added a... banner? I don't know what to call it but a random hunk of text in irregular format telling people not to add any more (which is odd because I'm not even finding any entries in the history).
openNo Title Western Animation
I saw this description on Adventures of the Gummi Bears page and I was wondering if this should be allowed on this page:
At the most uncharitable, you could call this series Disney's late answer to The Littl' Bits (The Little Bits coming out in 1980; this came out in 1985), but it's more accurate to call it Disney's attempt to show how to do the premise right. Apart from obviously lavish animation, the series addressed the major complaints of Tatsunoko's series and the basic ideology of the 1980s; for instance, individuality is celebrated in proper proportion to the value of cooperation and the primary characters are far more nuanced with carefully considered flaws and strengths. Furthermore, the female characters avoid The Smurfette Principle, with multiple characters with strong well-defined personalities who bow to no one.
I brought this up because I'm not sure if this information really does pertain to the show exactly and it sounded it bit like a personal statement about the 1980s rather than the show itself. But, I was wondering if this should be removed or is it fine where it is?
Edited by RabbitearsblogopenNo Title Western Animation
Okay, major spoilers for The Legend of Korra. If you haven't seen the Grand Finale and think you might, just close the folder and move on.
Anyway, the series ended with Korra getting together with Asami, about as clearly as they could make a same-sex couple on Nickelodeon. The problem is, people keep adding that scene to the Ho Yay
page, when it was clearly intended by the creators to he very homoerotic from the getgo (thus Homoerotic Subtext, not Ho Yay). In fact, the example currently on there (I've deleted two different writeups and explained myself, but I don't want to delete another) specifically says it's "technically not an example."
I get the desire to put it on there, but given Ho Yay is chronically misused to mean "any gay stuff at all," I don't think it should be on the page. Also, I'd like to get a mod's okay to put a commented out notice not to mention the finale, since it's Homoerotic Subtext and not Ho Yay.
Edited by LarkmarnopenNo Title Western Animation
I asked a question in the Ed Edd n Eddy character's page discussion, but I never got an answer and I don't know where else to ask. Should we moved to Ship Tease trope in the 'all three Eds' folder, since it has to do with all three of them?
Also...I'll be blunt. In the E En E Ho Yay page should we make a folder in the page involving all three of the Eds(like they did with say the South Park Ho Yay page? I'd do it myself, but I wanted to play the safe side and ask.
Ah, while I'm here, I'll also ask this. Should we also put Single Woman Seeks Good Man in Nazz's character section, since she shown hints of liking Edd(May I have this Ed?) or should it remain in the Ship Tease example?
openFlim-Flam's Scrappy Status Western Animation
The Scooby-Doo character named Flim-Flam had a Scrappy status that was worse than the trope namer himself. Why did people hate him?
openDuplicate character folder on Zootopia character sheet Western Animation
I can only access the Internet on my phone right now, which is why I'm not fixing this myself. Somebody mistakenly added a "Mr. Otterton" folder to the Characters.Zootopia page when there was already an "Emmett Otterton" folder. Can someone who has access to a connection with a computer please merge any non-duplicated information from the "Mr. Otterton" folder to the "Emmett Otterton" folder?
open Is it okay to remove Awesome moments? Western Animation
There's an entry over in Popeye that sounds awesome at first- Popeye beating up a jerk and helping out a poor kid- until one realizes that it's a pure Designated Hero moment for Popeye himself as the guy was being a jerk but not being a criminal whereas Popeye himself considers committing multiple crimes (assault, destruction of property, theft) a "good deed." It feels like such a cringe-worthy moment for the legacy of such a great character that I brought it up in the Discussion page there but I'm not holding my breath for any replies. YMMV, of course. I just want to make sure it's okay to do so with good reason as I've had people remove things I've added to Awesome pages in the past since they edited based on their point of view.
openUgh...! Western Animation
Just look at this grammar!
From Making Fiends:
- Production Posse: Peter Merryman is the voice of Amy Winfrey's Big Bunny. Amy Winfrey herself, who has also done voices in her other cartoons.
I dealt with it via one of my usual manners: commented it out until a way could be found to salvage this mess.
open Copy-pasted description on Creator/VanBeurenStudios Western Animation
The description on Van Beuren Studios is taken from a blog post about the studio on another website. I was just randomly browsing articles and don't actually know anything about it, so I don't feel comfortable rewriting it myself. Can someone write an original description for the page?
open Improper Entry Western Animation
Steven Universe S3E20 "Bismuth" has a "Hate Dumb" entry despite the page itself specifically saying not to put them on a work's page.
openThemself or themselves? Western Animation
A few days ago, The Tropper created the Recap page for the Steven Universe episode "Jungle Moon". In the summary, they had used "themselves" for Stevonnie. I changed it to "themself" as that's what the official summary uses, and what I thought was the correct pronoun. Three days ago, Tropper changed it back. So what is it? When you refer to one person, is it themselves or themself?
Edited by Crossover-Enthusiastopen Kids show I watched as a toddler(I think) in early 2000 Western Animation
It's a little long and I'm sorry for that. But this is everything I remember and it bothers me immensely that I don't remember what the show was for some reason. The rest of this is a copy paste from a rather long text message I sent to a group chat with my friends because I'm tired and don't want to type it all out. They don't know anything either, probably because they all live in different areas than I do and I'm sure that this was a local station.
The TV I had in my room was a very small box TV. I think it had "bunny ears" as some people called them, but basically the antennae that were used to get signal or something along those lines. I rarely moved those I think, since I never used the tv to watch live television. Which brings me to how I wonder.... I would have my vcr/DVD player hooked up to it, obviously, because I have always needed light and noise to sleep for some reason. So I would put in one of my DV Ds of a movie or an episode of Angelina Ballerina (I watched that all the time back then) and I would press the repeat button on the remote to the player so it would repeat the whole thing on loop all night. But sometimes when I would wake up early on Sunday (or maybe Saturday, but I'm sure it was Sunday) mornings(like 6 am early) it would be playing this stop motion(I think) cartoon with animals and it had a male narrator who sounded like the same on on every other cartoon I watched. I can't remember if the animals had voices outside of random noises. I remember that the animation and film was low quality, even for early 2000s(more like especially for early 2000s). I checked— these didn't seem to be a part of any of the DV Ds I owned. I never caught the name of the show. My mom doesn't remember it at all, it seems. She remembers me having the TV (which I kept for about a year. I don't remember why we got rid of it, but I wanna say it stopped working since it was rather old) I also remember one morning I finally woke up and it was on again (for some reason I remember it only coming on every once in a while but it felt like forever back then) and I went to dragged my mom into my room so she could tell me the name of the show but it wasn't on anymore when we came back. Which might be a stretch, but I remember it that way, oddly. It's possible that that was one of the days she didn't want to get out of bed and took too long, so the show that had very short episodes was over. But I remember the TV being off or... something.
Okay I'm going to add something here because I don't wanna go through what I just pasted to see if I forgot or not. The show was stop motion/claymation. I think. Or it was extremely bad(especially for early 2000s) 3D animation. It depicted animals. I don't remember them talking, but there was a male narrator. I wanna say he was English, but that I'm not sure. The only specific scene/episode I remember is one where a character, who I think was an elephant, wanted to be special or was boring with who he was, or maybe he was only trying to find a talent for himself... yeah that's it I think. Anyway, he started talking to his friends about their talents and I don't remember all of them but I do remember him talking to a beaver then going home and putting mustard and/or ketchup on a tree and trying to eat the bark off of it, like the beaver does. And he got sad when it didn't go the way he planned. That's all I have, a few things in my memory might be fuzzy(like the story about the TV show seemingly just being off when I finally got my nana into the room, I could easily remember that one wrong) it I think I got the details of the show correct. I only described the TV because I think this channel was local or something. I grew up in Bullard, Texas. I want to say I was between 4-7 years old, but most likely 4 or 5 (2005-2006 area most likely.)
open 1990’s Easter Special Western Animation
I saw it only once when I was around 8 or 9. I remember watching it at Easter time sometime between 1993 and 1996. It was an Easter cartoon special, not reoccurring TV show with an Easter themed episode. I don’t think it was a full-length movie, although it could have been. If it was a movie, it was never in theaters. All I can remember is there we’re talking farm or woodland animals. One of those animals was a rabbit, he seemed to be the central/most memorable animal character. I want to say it took place on or near a farm. There was a boy on the farm. He was the protagonist along with the talking animals. I don’t know if the boy and animals talked to each other, but the animals talked to one another. The antagonist was a machine or robotic type being I remember. I remembered that the machine/robot somehow hurt the boy, or defeated him somehow. The boy was on the ground hurt, and I remembered how bad I felt and how much I hated that evil robot machine villain thing. The animals were devastated and were on the boy’s side when this happened. I don’t remember what happened at th end, or how everything turned out for the boy and the animals. I want to say that th annals somehow saved the boy from the machine villain but I can’t distinctly remember how that happened. I have always connected the memory of this animated TV special with Easter time, and Easter themed, though I have no memory of the show itself besides the taking rabbit to associate to Easter specifically. I’ve been struggling with this memory and wanting to know what it is I remembered after all these years. I know I remember the way it made me feel the most. Maybe that’s the reason I can’t let it go, and I need to know more. I’ve been struggling with this for 15+ years. Anything would help! Thank you!
open Late 1980’s or Early 1990’s Animated Easter Special Western Animation
I saw it only once when I was around 8 or 9. I remember watching it at Easter time sometime between 1993 and 1996. It was an Easter cartoon special, not reoccurring TV show with an Easter themed episode. I don’t think it was a full-length movie, although it could have been. If it was a movie, it was never in theaters. All I can remember is there we’re talking farm or woodland animals. One of those animals was a rabbit, he seemed to be the central/most memorable animal character. I want to say it took place on or near a farm. There was a boy on the farm. He was the protagonist along with the talking animals. I don’t know if the boy and animals talked to each other, but the animals talked to one another. The antagonist was a machine or robotic type being I remember. I remembered that the machine/robot somehow hurt the boy, or defeated him somehow. The boy was on the ground hurt, and I remembered how bad I felt and how much I hated that evil robot machine villain thing. The animals were devastated and were on the boy’s side when this happened. I don’t remember what happened at th end, or how everything turned out for the boy and the animals. I want to say that th annals somehow saved the boy from the machine villain but I can’t distinctly remember how that happened. I have always connected the memory of this animated TV special with Easter time, and Easter themed, though I have no memory of the show itself besides the taking rabbit to associate to Easter specifically. I’ve been struggling with this memory and wanting to know what it is I remembered after all these years. I know I remember the way it made me feel the most. Maybe that’s the reason I can’t let it go, and I need to know more. I’ve been struggling with this for 15+ years. Anything would help! Thank you!
Edited by Sugarcoated1102openLost Dr. Seuss films (censored) Western Animation
Hi Tropers! I'm an ELA teacher and secretly addicted to this site. Joined because I had a question:
My fifth graders are doing the Seussical and I'm trying to find copies of the Looney Tunes/Chuck Jones Dr. Seuss films, mainly "Horton Hatches the Egg" and "The Tail of Gertrude Mc Fuzz", since those are the subject of the play. I found some clips on Youtube but not the whole cartoons.
Also, it's been years since I've watched these classics, and while I'm not a big fan of censorship, I was wondering if anyone had seen them recently and had any advice about whether or not they'd still be "kosher" in a public school. I had a couple doubts...
1. I read online that "Horton Hatches the Egg" originally had a scene where a fish commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. I'd be in hot water if I showed that in class, so I need the censored version.
2. I remember the animated "Gertrude Mc Fuzz" has Gertrude the bird going to the doctor, who shaves off her tail feathers. I recall some off-color humor where the shave exposes Gertrude's bare fanny and the doctor is slapping her fanny with Calamine lotion, humiliating the bird. Funny in some respects, but fifth graders might get the wrong idea :P
Any advice where to find these cartoons and if school-friendly cuts exist? Thanks!
openNo Title Western Animation
I would like to introduce a new series and am a little unsure of how to put it on. The Series is called "Zula Patrol", which is -quoting from its website-:The Zula Patrol, a 3D/CG animated children's show, is designed to entertain while promoting an understanding of science and astronomy through engaging character-driven stories, which focus on specific educational science learning objectives. In every episode of The Zula Patrol, the characters demonstrate inquiry-based learning and critical thinking skills. They also model inquisitiveness, observation, self-reflection, and social experiences that encourage collaboration, teamwork, and an excitement for scientific exploration and problem solving.
The Zula Patrol television show is a part of Zula's Pre K - 3rd Grade curriculum titled Zula's Exploration Mission Modules and Afterschool Program titled Zula's Afterschool Discovery Program. Both the school and afterschool programs provide all materials needed for children to view and discuss an episode of The Zula Patrol, read a similarly themed book, complete a similarly themed hands-on activity, and go online to Zula World.com for a technology-based exploration of the program topics. "-www.zula.com/main.php
What the website does not mention is that for every new science principle that they introduce, they break at least one scientific principle.
open Unknown Cartoon needs to be found Western Animation
Hello, there's a cartoon that I saw as a random GIF on a random GIF site, there was a site full of GI Fs and I found it randomly because I wanted to find something else (You know how the internet is...) But I found something interesting there though:
There was a cool GIF (Seems to be from a cartoon, I am not sure too.) With a little cute boy about 10 or 14 years old wearing a patch on his cheek, he was blonde- albino with big eyelashed ocean-blue eyes, also he seemed to sit with his elbow on the table very bored near a fried chicken, but he was too bored to eat it. It seemed to be a Russian GIF because it's title was in Russian, I copy pasted it on Google Search and there was also Google Translate saying that the respective text's meaning was ,, boy", lol. I knew already that he's a boy, so obvious but i wanted to know at least his name to search the cartoon, I actually wanted the title of the cartoon itself but it was nowhere to be seen. By the way, there's a hint, he looked like Ciel Phantomhive from Black Butler but blonde and a bit more realistic but still very similar, same expression, feminine face, same hairstyle, thin female-like eyebrows, cat lips, big eyes and he was also blinking and his eyelashes were ,, dancing". Also it seemed to be an older cartoon, does anyone know? i really liked the design, I hope it's plot isn't a shit like Black Butler's one.
open Educational Inaccuracies Western Animation
In King of the Hill, substitute teachers like Peggy are often shown grading papers and performing major duties as subs. Having been a sub in Texas myself, I can say that subbing involved more babysitting of classrooms of various ages rather than actual teaching. What trope would this fall under?

This is the first time I'm actually snitching on myself, but I think it's best for a mod to show up on the discussions page for the character sheet for the movie Frozen because I got into a heated argument with a troper regarding abusive parents ,before things get ugly fast.