Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation): Difference between revisions

=== ''Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers'' contains examples of: ===

 

* [[Accidental Kiss]]: Chip and Dale at the end of "Gadget Goes Hawaiian", [[Mooks|Mole and Wart]] in "Adventures in Squirrelsitting".

* [[Accordion Man]]: Monty in "To the Rescue, Part 3".

** Dale being turned into a frog in "Good Times, Bat Times" might count, too.

* [[Anthropomorphic Shift]]: Remember the classic [[Chip and Dale]]? (It could be argued the setting had an inverse shift, though. Instead of living alongside Donald Duck, they hide their [[Mouse World]] from the human civilization.)

* [[Aside Glance]]: Chip in "Piratsy Under the Seas" for example.

* [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever]]: "Fake Me to Your Leader".

* [[Badass Family]]: Monty and his parents (Cheddarhead Charlie and Camembert Kate).

* [[Badass Mustache]]: Monterey Jack is wearing one. It runs in the family, as he got it from his father Cheddarhead Charlie.

* [[Bald of Evil]]:

** The two most frequent villians (Prof. Nimnul and Fat Cat) seem to be examples.

** "Shell Shocked" does feature Gadget in a swimsuit, yes.

** "Gadget Goes Hawaiian" and "Chipwrecked Shipmunks" both have their beach scenes, too, but no swimsuits.

** "Should work with no problems."

** By the way, [[Shout Out|Dale says, "Beam me up, Scotty"]], in "Dale Beside Himself".

* [[Bull Seeing Red]]: Was impossible to avoid in "When Mice Were Men".

* [[Buried Alive]]: Gadget suggests the Pi-Rats bury them in the sand and wait for the tide to come. When Chip expresses his shock, she apologizes and says she couldn't resist the challenge.

* [[California Doubling]]: It's not quite clear where the Rangers are based, but that place looks a lot like Burbank and Hollywood. Although it is animated.

* [[The Cameo]]: The crocodile from ''[[Peter Pan (Disney)|Peter Pan]]'' chases Chip 'n Dale in "Kiwi's Big Adventure".

* [[Chained to A Railway]]: Twice. ("Out of Scale" has Dale in garb [[Chained to A Railway]] by Buffy and in "Last Train to Cashville" the whole gang, bar Dale, gets this treatment from Fat Cat). In "To the Rescue" Plato is chained to a train, although not the railway itself.

* [[Chain of People]]: "To the Rescue, Part 5". What's remarkable about this scene is that Gadget on top of the chain is able to yank up Chip to shout into his face and the other three Rangers with him with only one hand.

* [[Character Name and The Noun Phrase]]: Irweena and the Stingers in "Risky Beesness".

* [[Chaste Toons]]: [[Subverted]] by Gadget (who had a father), Monty (who still has both parents), Tammy (who has a mother), and Ignatz Ratskiwatski (who has a daughter), just to name a few. Played straight by Nimnul, though, who only has a nephew.

* [[Clothing Damage]]: Parodied. Whose dress is ripped in an action scene? {{spoiler|Dale's.}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Dale in many episodes.

* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]:

** An official series of 19 comic books, the first two of which retell "To the Rescue", and several stand-alone comics in various Disney publications, including quite a few in ''[[Disney Adventures]]'' and a compilation collection called "The Secret Casebook". Sadly, Disney has never reprinted any of these, so good luck finding 'em.

* [[Context Sensitive Button]]: Many controls of the Ranger Plane and the Ranger Wing.

* [[Convection Schmonvection]]: It's apparently not the slightest bit hot a pair of tongs' length above a barbecue grill ("Gadget Goes Hawaiian").

* [[Cool Garage]]: Gadget's old home in a World War II bomber plane wreck, complete with dozens of death traps against intruders and a dynamite-driven catapult for her father's plane.

* [[Cool Plane]]:

** Dale as "Tootsie" in "S.S. Drainpipe".

* [[Cross Dressing Voices]]: Chip and Gadget were both voiced by [[Tress MacNeille (Creator)|Tress MacNeille]] (though, for Chip, you wouldn't know it from hearing at first since Tress's voice was placed at a higher pitch to match the original voice actor for Chip from the old Donald Duck cartoons).

* [[Cult]]: The Cola Cult in "Case of the Cola Cult".

* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Foxglove. [[Justified]] by her being a bat, but nonetheless cute.

* [[Derailed for Details]]: Gadget frequently is.

* [[Deserted Island]]: "Chipwrecked Shipmunks".

* [[Diagonal Cut]]: Performed by Juice Lee in the pilot.

* [[Digging to China]]: What the two pandas try to do in "An Elephant Never Suspects".

* [[Disappeared Dad]]:

** Geegaw Hackwrench, who is only mentioned in the pilot episode(s) as having been absent for more than a year before Gadget met the other Rangers and, according to Gadget, not going to return.

* [[Ditzy Genius]]: Gadget is a [[Gadgeteer Genius]] who constructs incredible technology [[Bamboo Technology|out of junk]], but she can be pretty scattered.

* [[Dodge By Braking]]: This is how Gadget avoids the hawks in "Three Men and a Booby".

* [[Dog Stereotype]]: The Doberman and Frenchie in "To the Rescue, Part 4", for instance.

* [[Dope Slap]]:

** The episode "Dirty Rotten Diapers" redubbed Gadget's lines about hurting the midget criminal posing as a baby (i.e. "Trash the brat!" was changed to "Trash the bum!" and "Let's shake that baby 'til he rattles!" was changed to "Let's shake that bum 'til he rattles!") because the censors thought it would bring about complaints of child abuse. The Toon Disney run had the original lines.

** In the original version of "Puffed Rangers", the villains are [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|crooked Japanese auto executives]] who spoke in [[You No Take Candle|stereotypically Asian English]] and there were a lot of jokes about China and Chinese culture. In the reruns, the auto executives spoke clear, grammatically correct English and all of the China/Chinese jokes were altered or excised.

** Usually Monty, especially when he attempts to steal cheese or anything cheese-flavored from the police officers. In this case, it's less "Eek! A Mouse!" and more "Get that mouse!" or "Hey, it's that mouse!"

* [[Eighties Hair]]: Gadget. {{spoiler|Sort of lampshaded in ''[[Of Mice and Mayhem (Fanfic)|Of Mice and Mayhem]]'' when Gadget gets a more modern hairstyle since the story takes place in the 90s}}. And of course [[Evil Twin|Lahwhinie]].

* [[Einstein Hair]]: Dr. Hibbleman from "It's a Bird, It's Insane, It's Dale!", Dr. Whitebread from "Double 'O Dale".

* [[Everyone Looks Sexier If French]]: Désirée D'Allure from "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing".

* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: Gadget is loved by Chip, Dale, [[Furry Fandom|and most of the fans actually]].

* [[Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels]]: Tammy and Bink.

* [[Evil Redhead]]: Aldrin Klordane, Winifred, Nimnul...

* [[Evil Twin]]:

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Tammy and Queenie.

* [[Five Episode Pilot]]: "To the Rescue", Parts 1-5.

** [[Big Bad]] - Fat Cat

** [[The Dragon]]/[[Evil Genius]] - Wart

** [[The Brute|The Brutes]] - Mole and Snout

** [[Dark Chick]] - Mepps

** [[The Hero]] - Chip

** [[The Lancer]] - Dale

* [[Follow Your Nose]]: Played straight by Monty during his cheese attacks. Exaggerated on "Out of Scale", when Dale throws a chunk of Limburger cheese into a toy truck, commenting that Monty will love it. Of course, Monty smells it and goes into "cheese attack" mode -- until he finds the shrink ray gun and attempts to drag it back with him, only to have the smell of Limburger literally drag him away. Monty fights it -- until the smell taps him on the shoulder and goes up his nose.

* [[Fortune Teller]]: Cassandra. She's a Gypsy all right, and a light bulb serves as her crystal ball.

* [[Four Legged Insects]]: Not limited to Zipper. Actually, most insects in the show — the "good" ones in particular — have only four limbs, the bees from "Risky Beesness" for example. However, this doesn't apply to all insects. To give another example, the pill bugs from "Fake Me to Your Leader" have six limbs.

* [[Friendly Local Chinatown]]: "To the Rescue, Part 2", and "Adventures in Squirrelsitting".

*** Ditto the end to "Battle of the Bulge". Yes, Chip, Dale, and Gadget were wearing clothes when they jumped into the mini-bath, but the only thing Monty had on was that helmet with the goggles.

** How did a character named Maltese de Sade make it past the media watchdogs?

*** Not to mention her reaction to seeing Dale's head on her body. (Keep the hands off the body!)

** In "Shell Shocked", after the Rangers fall to the floor.

** Also Queenie.

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: The sphinx demon in "Throw Mummy From the Train".

* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: Happens to the spy at the end of "Double O'Chipmunk" when he realizes he's been defeated by a group of rodents.

* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]:

** Most of the time, Gadget wears her goggles upon her head as a [[Hair Decorations|decoration]]. She even wears them with her nightgown in "Double 'O Chipmunk". A very few times, however, she does use them.

** Monterey Jack has his own goggles. He is even seen once wearing his usual Goggles Doing Nothing in their usual place and a second pair of goggles covering his eyes.

* [[A Good Name for A Rock Band]]: Irweena and the Stingers. In fact, also Iron Goose.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: Gadget.

* [[GPS Evidence]]: Subverted in "It's a Bird, It's Insane, It's Dale!" in how Gadget finds where Seymour's hiding the monuments he's stealing. She takes a flyer from his travel agency, analyzes it chemically, and then tells the Rangers the exact address...which she read on the flyer.

* [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]: Gadget's suction-cup crossbow. She even uses a suction-cup ''pistol'' in "To the Rescue".

* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]: Lots of instances. The most famous example would be Dale and Foxglove's first scene together in "Good Times, Bat Times".

* [[Greasy Spoon]]: Ma's Diner in "Short Order Crooks".

* [[Hair Reboot]]: Queenie can do that within a second or so. Unless the plot requires otherwise.

* [[Hair Today Gone Tomorrow]]: Sort of parodied ''and quoted'' by Winifred when she steals the police chief's wig with her [[Flying Broomstick|flying hoover]].

** [[Lampshaded]] in "A Fly in the Ointment" when Gadget and Dale switch bodies and Gadget dons a small paper cup to cover her (that is, Dale's) lower half.

* [[Hammerspace]]:

** Heroes Are Wanted By Redheads: Tammy is attracted to Chip, and Foxglove is attracted to Dale.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Chip and Dale must have been spending an eternity together even before they became Rescue Rangers. (Though it has been hinted in comics before this series at that they're related, this is probably not canon to the show.)

* [[Hula and Luaus]]: "Gadget Goes Hawaiian", only little hula, but a big luau scene and tourists and surfing and volcanoes. Justified that the episode takes place behind a hotel, and the volcano is fake, a deliberate tourist attraction.

* [[Humanity Ensues]]: When Harry the wolf is turned into a human and Nimnul almost pulls a [[Wolf Man]] in "A Wolf in Cheap Clothing".

** Dev Ross stars as herself in a mini cameo as an aerobics trainer in "Battle of the Bulge".

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: "Chipmunks!"

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: All over the place:

** Chip and Dale (chipmunks) are both attracted to Gadget (a mouse), who shows varying degrees of interest in them as well.

** Tammy hearts Chipper - A squirrel and a chipmunk.

* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]: At least when Winifred turns Dale into a frog in "Good Times, Bat Times".

* [[Jerkass Genie]]: The episode "A Lad In His Lamp" has one.

* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: Applies to just about every foreign character in the show. Most prominently Monterey Jack.

** Professor Nimnul.

** Fat Cat. It kind of helps that both characters were voiced by [[Jim Cummings]].

* [[Laughing Mad]]: Professor Nimnul usually does this.

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Cheddarhead Charlie and often Monterey Jack.

* [[Lethal Chef]]: Dale mentioned in "Good Times, Bad Times" that Gadget's cooking tastes like motor oil.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Actually makes sense if you think about how many chipmunk-sized shirts could be cut out of one human-sized one.

* [[Love At First Sight]]:

** Chip and Dale fall for Gadget pretty much at first sight.

* [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: A crocodile in New Zealand in ''Kiwi's Big Adventure''.

* [[Moment Killer]]: Dale in "Good Times, Bat Times". Twice.

* [[More Dakka]]:

** The crank-operated, coffee-bean-shooting machine gun that Dale wields in "Le Purrfect Crime".

* [[New Old Flame]]: Désirée D'Allure in "Love Is a Many Splintered Thing", sort of.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Chip's fedora definitely qualifies.

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Steggy once more; a super-intelligent, high-tech-equipped dinosaur from outer space meets [[They Fight Crime|crimefighting]] rodents, one of whom is an [[Land Down Under|Australian]] bush fighter.

* [[Nobody Here but Us Statues]]: Chip and Dale in "Song of the Night 'n Dale", Steggy in "Prehysterical Pet".

* [[No Export for You]]: The Season 2 DVDs and most of the merch available in the USA can hardly be acquired anywhere in Europe (or anywhere else in the world) other than on eBay.

* [[No Matter How Much I Beg]]: Lahwhinie knew Gadget would try to escape when the dangerous challenges started, so she tells Shaka Baka that she's scared and might chicken out, but wants him to make sure she goes through with it.

* [[Non Dubbed Grunts]]: More than 95% of Zipper's dialogs in the German dub remained English.

* [[Non Singing Voice]]: Dale (usually [[Corey Burton]]) has Will Ryan as his singing voice actor. Chip is fortunate enough, for [[Tress MacNeille (Creator)|Tress MacNeille]] can sing.

* [[Noodle Incident]]:

** Monterey Jack and Gadget's father were once friends that broke up over something that happened in Zanzibar that involved cheesebread.

** It's never explained how Monterey Jack got those "cheese attacks" since it hasn't been implied that it's genetic (otherwise, the writers would have shown it on the two occasions where Monterey Jack's parents were shown).

** Nimnul's inventions.

** Gadget (partially) subverts this trope, by making blueprints for seemingly ''every''' invention, even if it was just an improvisation on the spot.

* [[Oblivious to Love]]: Gadget Hackwrench; not exactly oblivious, more like not ready for the advances she receives yet.

* [[Off Like a Shot]]

** After [[T Ms]] left the series, the animation became largely sub-par; it really went down the toilet when [[Sunwoo]] came aboard.

* [[Oireland]]: "The Last Leprechaun".

* [[Oktoberfest]]: Heinrich von Sugarbottom's choice of clothes.

* [[Ominous Pipe Organ]]: Not only does Captain Nemo's pipe organ (complete with ribbon and "N" seal) appear in "A Creep in the Deep", it is even played in that episode. Twice even: once by All Hands, once while misused by the Rangers as a pump. The same music is used as [[BGM]] in other episodes.

* [[One Head Taller]]: Queenie to Zipper. [[Your Size May Vary]], though (see the end of the list).

** Foxglove from "Good Times, Bat Times". Foxglove has an entire website devoted to her (and now dedicated to her voice actress, the late Deborah Walley).

** Tammy and Bink from "Adventures in Squirrelsitting".

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: Nimnul in "A Wolf in Cheap Clothing", for he uses [[Applied Phlebotinum|the Metamorphosizer]] to exchange species with a wolf who then turns into a human.

* [[Overclocking Attack]]: Nimnul's generator in "Pied Piper Power Play".

* [[Packed Hero]]: One episode has Fat Cat using a canning machine as a [[Death Trap]] for the Rescue Rangers, with every implication that the process would result in a bunch of finely-minced Rangers in a cat food can. Not only do the Rangers escape, but they also trick Fat Cat and his goons into throwing themselves into the machine: the end result is Fat Cat and his goons improbably stuffed into tiny cans, humiliated but apparently no worse for the wear.

* [[Pandaing to The Audience]]: Ming-Ting and Ting-A-Ling from "An Elephant Never Suspects".

* [[Panty Shot]]: Technically speaking, Winifred from "Good Times, Bat Times" has plenty of these. But she isn't attractive to start with, nor are her undergarments.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Gadget.

* [[Parental Bonus]]: The many, ''many'' movie and literature references in the show, some of which border on [[Genius Bonus]].

* [[Passing the Torch]]: From Plato to Chip and Dale.

* [[Perpetual Motion Machine]]: Gadget claims she once found a perpetual motion machine in the garbage can after a school science fair; of course, by then, it had stopped moving.

* [[Pinocchio Syndrome]]: "Robocat".

* [[Pirate Booty]]: "Chipwrecked Shipmunks".

* [[Reset Button]]: At the end of "A Lad in a Lamp".

* [[Revenge SVP]]: The bull who wasn't invited to a festival.

* [[Role Called]]: Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.

* [[Round Robin]]: Has become a tradition of sorts at [[Message Board|the Acorn Cafe]], just without a pre-defined posting order.

* [[Rubber Man]]: "It's a Bird, It's Insane, It's Dale!"

* [[Rule of Three]]: The three tests in "Gadget Goes Hawaiian" are only one example.

* [[Runaway Bride]]: [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]]. Monterey Jack missed out on his wedding to Desiree D'Allure in "Love is a Many Splintered Thing" because he was "seduced by his first love" (a truck conveniently stuck in traffic carrying cheese), though considering that Desiree only used Monty to help out her gang of criminals, this may have been a good thing.

* [[Running Gag]]: Monty's cheese attacks (it would be [[Once an Episode]], but there are a lot of episodes that don't have Monty's cheese attacks), some of Gadget's quirks, Chip and Dale fighting over Gadget.

* [[Species Surname]]: Mole, Rat Capone, Sugar Ray Lizard, Arnold Mousenegger, Conrad Cockatoo, Mr. Starfish, Canina LaFur.

** Now if Zsa Zsa Labrador were a Labrador Retriever...

** And for the record, the subtitles for the episode on the DVD spell her name "Lawhinie".

* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Buffy Ratskiwatski. Her being the daughter of a [[Big Bad]] doesn't really make things any better.

* [[Stalker With a Crush]]: Foxglove.

* [[Theme Naming]]: Monterey Jack's parents are named Cheddarhead Charlie and Camembert Kate.

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: The ''many'' death traps Gadget set up in the old bomber where she lived before the Rescue Rangers. [[Subverted]] by the other Rangers-to-be in that they trigger them all and survive.

* [[They Called Me Mad]]: Nimnul, so very, ''very'' much.

* [[They Fight Crime]]

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Rat Capone's henchmen Arnold Mousenegger and Sugay Ray Lizard.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Officers Kirby and Muldoon.

** The pineapple in "Battle of the Bulge".

* [[Tropey Come Home]]: Played not so very straight in "Zipper Come Home". Zipper doesn't really want to return to the Rangers after he has been made king of a bug tribe.

* [[True Companions]]

* [[Tunnel King]]: Ming-Ting and Ting-a-Ling, the pandas from "An Elephant Never Suspects". The moles from A Lean on the Property also count.

** It was also originally going to have Bernard and Bianca from ''[[The Rescuers (Disney)|The Rescuers]]'' too.

** CDRR was planned to be crossed over with ''[[Darkwing Duck (Animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'', but the crossover never came to pass.

** In the case of Monty, it's cats instead of snakes. Fat Cat and his feline crony Mepps don't seem to bother him too much, though.

** Flash the Wonder Dog has a fear of heights in which he needed a stunt dog.

* [[Wicked Witch]]: Why, Winifred from "Good Times, Bat Times" of course.

* [[Wild Take]]: Even villains do them, see Bubbles at the end of "Case of the Cola Cult".

* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://www.rangerwiki.net The Ranger Wiki]

* [[Write What You Know]]: Explains why certain locations in the show are clearly located in Hollywood or Burbank (Lankershim Blvd/Cahuenga Blvd are mentioned, Bob Hope Airport is shown).

* [[Wunza Plot]]

* [[Yodel Land]]: Where Heinrich von Sugarbottom comes from.

* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: "Seer No Evil".