Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
213,518
edits
Adventures of the Gummi Bears: Difference between revisions
m
added Category:The Full Name Adventures using HotCat
No edit summary |
m (added Category:The Full Name Adventures using HotCat) |
||
| (13 intermediate revisions by 9 users not shown) | |||
Line 2:
[[File:GummiBears.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|''"Dashing and daring, courageous and caring,
''Faithful and friendly with stories to share,
''All through the forest they sing out in chorus,
''Marching along as their song fills the air..."''}}
'''''Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears''''' is a truly groundbreaking series by Walt Disney. Although ''[[The Wuzzles]]'' was Disney's first original animated TV series, that was really a trial run for this series, which almost immediately made the company a dominant force in television animation. Lasting from September, 1985 to February, 1991. A total of 94 episodes.
The show was actually a major gamble for Disney, as it was a very new idea. Disney reasoned that the costs of a high-quality animated show could be recovered in syndication. The gamble worked, and a new era of unprecedented quality in western television animation was born.
Line 16:
That threat comes in the form of Duke Igthorn of Drekmore and his army of really dumb ogres. He is out to conquer Dunwyn and upon discovering that the supposedly mythological Gummi Bears exist, he will stop at ''nothing'' to exploit their secrets, like their powerful magic and technology, for his own use. Furthermore, he is but the most frequent of a whole host of enemies that the Gummi Bears and their human allies must oppose.
At the most uncharitable, you could call this series [[
If you're wondering how they came up with a premise for, of all things, ''Gummi Bears'', as the story goes, Michael Eisner was inspired when
{{tropelist}}
* [[Affably Evil]]: Duke Igthorn.
* [[An Ice Person]]: Chillbeard the frost giant.
Line 27 ⟶ 26:
* [[Badass Princess]]: Calla is definitely working on this.
* [[Badbutt]]: Gruffi.
* [[Barefoot Cartoon
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: In an episode with a wishing stone, a young boy wished to be bigger, he ended up turning into a [[Our Giants Are Bigger|giant.]]
* [[Berserk Button]]/[[Insistent Terminology]]/[[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Duke Igthorn hates being called "Dukey" by his ogres. They call him "Dukey" nearly constantly.
** His brother, Sir Victor Igthorn, also has a [[Berserk Button]]: Never insult his horse.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: All of the gummi bears had their moments of this.
* [[Big Eater]]: As his name suggests, Tummi, so much that he doesn't really have a [[Trademark Favorite Food]] because he'll eat anything.
* [[Blind and the Beast]]: Tummi befriends a blind human woman.
** Given that [[Greg Weisman]] cited ''Gummi Bears'' as one of his sources for inspiration in ''[[Gargoyles]]'' (no, [http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=5597 really]), she may have inspired the Geoffrey Robbins character.
Line 50:
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Gruffi in particular, Grammi tends to repay him in kind.
* [[Diet Episode]]: In "The Oracle", Tummi Gummi gets put on a diet after sneaking a midnight snack.
* [[Disability Immunity]]:
** Duke Igthorn's ogres are as dumb as a box of hammers, but this can actually be a benefit for them sometimes. In one episode, Igthorn's plan involves [[Magic Music|using magical bagpipes that hypnotize people]], which only work on intelligent creatures. That leaves his men out, so they don't have to do anything while he uses them, the only precaution he has to take being stuffing cotton in his own ears. [[Hoist by His Own Petard|(Which of course, he eventually neglects to do.)]] In another episode, it's implied that a slumber sprite's spell might put Gruffi to sleep forever, but it only works on the ogres for about a minute, because as the sprite says, "they're so dumb!"
** In the aforementioned episode with the mind-control bagpipes, Grammi herself is immune to their effects when Igthorn first uses them, due to a loud clang from a metal pot leaving her temporarily deaf.
* [[Disney Princess]]: Calla isn't officially considered one by Disney, due to their conceit that they should not be promoting their past TV cartoons, but she ''is'' a princess in a Disney cartoon. She even dresses like Snow White sometimes.
** Princess Marie is also "a princess in a Disney cartoon".
Line 62 ⟶ 65:
* [[Evil Twin]]: Actually Igthorn ''is'' the evil twin, and a source of deep shame to his [[Sibling Yin-Yang|heroic knightly brother]] (whom Cavin idolizes).
* [[Expository Theme Tune]]: Quoted above.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Due to an unfortunately high number of [[Humans Are
* [[Feathered Fiend]]: Carpies.
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
Line 78 ⟶ 81:
* [[Grand Finale]]: "King Igthorn"... and how!
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: The Great Book of Gummi.
* [[Karma Houdini]]:
** The villain in "The Sinister Sculptor" really doesn't receive any punishment for heaven knows how long his cruelty to animals has been going on. He does lose his magic dust (ensuring he can't continue doing it) and is attacked by said animals while escaping after Gruffi and Grammi break the spell, but he does escape, and when you think about it, he probably got away with most of his ill-gotten gains.
** Flint Shrubwood, seems like this, as he is last seen taking away all the money and leaving. Although considering he was simply doing his job (he is a bounty hunter, after all) and was simply taking what was owed to him after being double-crossed and letting his intended target go, it can be considered a subversion.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Ursa.
* [[Hot Witch]]: Lady Bane.
** Also Marzipan, {{spoiler|until you see her true form}}.
* [[Humans Are
* [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]]: In Season 1, Gruffi was voiced by the late Bill Scott who voiced Bullwinkle in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''. Grammi was voiced by June Foray who voiced Rocky in that same series.
* [[I Was Beaten by a Girl]]: Calla, going undercover, defeats the squires in "Girl's Knight Out".
Line 90 ⟶ 96:
* [[Lost Technology]]: By the wagonload. Even the Gummis don't know what half of it does.
* [[Love Potion]]: One causes Tummi to fall for Lady Bane and Lady Bane to fall for Toadie.
* [[Mad Artist]]: Subverted with the eponymous villain in "The Sinister Sculptor". Not insane and has no artistic talent whatsoever, he's simply a greedy opportunist using magic powder (which he stole) to turn animals to stone and make easy money selling them as statuettes.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Grammi.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Sunni is the [[Cheerful Child]] (with yellow fur), Cubbi the [[Tagalong Kid]], Tummi the [[Big Eater]], Grammi the [[Apron Matron]], Gruffi is a [[Grumpy Bear]] where Gusto is [[Hot-Blooded]] and Zummi... um... [[Odd Name Out|we'll get back to you on that.]] It may have something to do with his [[Spoonerism]] tendencies, or to emphasize his "wizard-like" nature given that a lot of sound effect depictions have the letter Z, like Zap or Kazaam.
Line 135 ⟶ 142:
* [[Tickle Torture]]: Igthorn does it to Grammi in one episode.
* [[Title Theme Tune]]: Although it's a milder example than subsequent Disney animated shows.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Too Dumb To Live]]: All the ogres, except Toadie.
** Although, Toadie does have a few moments like this, like the time he stole a keg of Gummiberry Juice and then drank the whole keg at once; after Zummi wisely tells the others to run for cover, the results are rather... explosive.
* [[Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup]]
* [[Vanishing Village]]: "The Knights of Gummadoon".
Line 147 ⟶ 156:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:TMS Entertainment]]
[[Category:The Renaissance Age of Animation]]
Line 158 ⟶ 168:
[[Category:Western Animation]]
[[Category:Nobuo Tomizawa]]
[[Category:Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]▼
[[Category:The Disney Afternoon]]
[[Category:Western Animation of the 1990s]]
[[Category:The Full Name Adventures]]
| |||