An American Tail: Difference between revisions

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: {{spoiler|Fievel doesn't get his happy ending until he all but gives up on life.}}

** Pretty much applies to all the mice. They only get peace when they take the initiative to actually drive the cats away. {{spoiler|Using a giant mouse engine. Fortunately, [[Batman|cats are a superstitious and cowardly lot.]]}}

* [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: Gussie "Wewease ze Secwet Weapon" Mausheimer. Voiced by Madeline Kahn who recycled the voice from the character she played in ''[[Blazing Saddles]]''.

* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: Fievel and his family keep missing each other when they're nearby. Perhaps the most frustrating time is when Fievel is at the podium at a rally that all the mice in New York are at, and his sister Tanya can't see him because someone's hat is in the way.

* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]: On the more wealthy female characters.

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The mice manage to stop the Giant Mouse of Minsk robot from being released early... only to have to release it immediately after it stops.

* [[Gut Feeling]]: "I just have this feeling - like Fievel's alive!"

* [[Grass Is Greener]]: [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|In America!]]

* [[Take My Hand]]: Papa tries to grab Fievel's hand after he slips onto the deck of the ship. Sadly, Fievel's sleeve rips and he ends up washed overboard.

* [[Token Romance]]: Tony and Bridget

** Then of course there's the two humans at the park who walk right past the rather loud mouse rally taking place.

* [[Wasted Song]]: For some reason the jazzy background orchestration for Warren's first scene is completely absent from the soundtrack, and thus is impossible to find anywhere.

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Cat R. Waul, voiced by the extremely English [[John Cleese]], tries to fake a Texas accent when operating his mouse marionette, but despite the liberal use of "y'all" it's... less than convincing.

** ''[[Don't Explain the Joke|That's ze joke.]]''

** It's also how Tiger catches the train-briefly-while being chased by a dog.

* [[Parental Obliviousness]]: Fievel ''tried'' to tell his parents that Cat R. Waul was going to turn the mice of Green River into mouseburgers. [[Not Now, Kiddo|But did they listen?]]

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: How could the entire population of mice build an enormous fully functioning mouse trap and not have any single hint of suspicion?

** Plus, how could they not notice that the cats in Green River are the same ones who attacked them in New York? (Also add on how they fell for the obvious puppet ploy early in the film, including Car R. Waul even forgetting to control it whilst favourably describing himself.)

* [[Toon Physics]]: What Fievel's hat apparently runs on in this film, what with turning into a cowboy hat when pulled inside-out.

* [[Too Smart for Strangers]]: The ''Fievel's American Tails'' episode "A Case of the Hiccups" utterly averts this trope. When a strange [[Snake Oil Salesman|doctor named Travis T. Hippocrates]] comes to town offering free candy, Fievel's mother ''allows'' Fievel to become the doctor's assistant, and pass out free candy to everyone in town which gives mice hiccups so he can sell them a placebo "cure". After Fievel figures out what the candy is doing he tries to back out of his "partnership", but the doctor kidnaps Fievel and traps him in a jar. [[Fridge Horror]] ensues if you consider how the real life, non G-Rated-version of this scenario would likely play out.

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