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A collaboration between [[Don Bluth]] and [[Steven Spielberg]], '''''An American Tail''''' starts off on Hanukkah in 1885, opening in a Russian schtetl. The camera pans past the house belonging to the human Moskowitz family to reveal a tiny duplicate house inhabited by the Mousekewitz family. They are Jewish-Russian mice who are forced to escape persecution after [[You Can't Go Home Again|their village is destroyed in a pogrom]] [[Cats Are Mean|by Cossack cats]].
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Tellingly, more people remember the song "[[Award Bait Song|Somewhere Out There]]" than, say, the immigrant struggle aspect.
Almost as well known is the [[Lighter and Softer]] [[Contested Sequel]], ''Fievel Goes West'', in which the Mousekewitz family leaves New York for the Wild West (made without Bluth's involvement, but with Spielberg still on board), but largely forgotten is the short-lived TV series in the same setting, and two additional [[Direct to Video
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== Series-Wide ==
* [[All Animation Is Disney]]: This is not helped by the fact that ''An American Tail'' and its sequels were regular showings on Toon Disney, or the fantastic [[Award Bait Song]] similar to the ones that Disney became so well-known for in subsequent years.
* [[American Dream]]
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* [[Weirdness Censor]]: Not once do the humans ever find it odd that they're surrounded by talking, clothed mice and cats. Not to mention no one notices the Giant Mouse of Minsk either. This continues in all other sequels and adaptations, stretched to even more ridiculous heights in all three sequels.
== ''An American Tail'' ==
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Complete with the hideout of the Mott Street Maulers (containing a piano, tables, and other odd things that don't belong in a sewer), a big room with discarded bird cages, and a weird...bug-eating..reptile...thing...
** [[Justified Trope|This is 1885 we're talking about.]] Sewers in New York were that big because they needed to be large enough for maintenance people to move around down there.
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** Not by that much if you look carefully.
== ''Fievel Goes West'' and ''Fievel's American Tails'' ==
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: Everyone from ''Fievel's American Tails'' has this condition, due to the fact that it hardly even acts like ''Fievel Goes West'' happened.
* [[All Animals Are Dogs]]: Played for laughs in when Wylie Burp teaches Tiger how to be a dog.
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== The Direct-to-Video Sequels ==
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: In ''The Treasure Of Manhattan Island'' as they reach the native village, Scuttlebutt becomes the target of an amorous, [[Big Beautiful Woman|huge female mouse]]. Later said mouse finds out that he's a bad guy and [[Beware the Nice Ones|promptly kick his ass]].
* [[American Dream]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed at length]] in ''The Treasure Of Manhattan Island'' though it is arguably a major theme in all of the movies...except maybe [[Non Sequitur Episode|the fourth one.]]
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