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* [[Dog Food Diet]] Well, [[Dog Food Diet|Cat Food Diet]].
* [[Eat the Dog]]: It's a running gag. First, Mimi wants to eat Charlotte's cat, but [[Squick|he settles for the cat food instead]]. Then he kills a pigeon with an arrow and gives it to a homeless man to eat. Finally, he steals the Kempsters' exotic fish and roasts them over a campfire in the backyard.
* [[The Family for Thethe Whole Family]]: Subverted, then played straight. Jovanovic and his goons are more than sufficiently menacing (nearly slicing off Richard Kempster's fingers), but then they are humiliatingly trounced by Mimi-Siku and [[Let's Get Dangerous|the surprisingly competent Kempster family]].
* [[Foreign Remake]]: The original was French.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Hoo boy...
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* [[Literal Minded]]: Michael tells Mimi to pour milk on the [[Product Placement|Cap'n Crunch]] to make breakfast. But Michael neglects to tell Mimi that both should go into a bowl first...
* [[Mighty Whitey]]: Played with, but ultimately repudiated. Mimi-Siku ''is'' quite adept at tribal customs, but that is only because he has been explicitly raised as an native, and among native children. At one point the chief assigns him a task in order to "become a man," but due to Michael's refusal to cooperate it at first doesn't look as if Mimi will succeed. Michael himself is noticeably squeamish around the various jungle animals and Mimi's pets - as are other Anglo-American characters when Mimi is brought to New York.
* [[Raised Byby Natives]]: Mimi-Siku.
* [[Rite of Passage]]: In order to become a man, Mimi-Siku is tasked with bringing back fire from the Statue of Liberty.
** Plus there's the ceremony which both Mimi-Siku and Michael take, which involves grabbing a smoldering torch with your bare hand.