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''[[Men in Black (Animationanimation)|Men In Black: The Series]]'' was a cartoon made out of the first movie of ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]]''.
 
Filling the gap between the first and the second movie (5 years), this series is what fans were left. It was quite successful, and [[Ascended Extra|helped jump to popularity some very minor characters from the first movie]], such as ''Frank the Pug'' and ''The Worms'' (which would later [[Ascended Extra|appear as important characters]] in ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men In Black 2]]'').
 
It's worth noticing this series is actually an [[Alternate Continuity]] of the movies, even getting to the point that [[Show Within a Show|the "MIB movie" is a movie inside the series continuity]]!
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=== The Animated Series provides examples of: ===
* [[Action Girl]]: L is definitely no pushover.
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: The Twins were renamed to Areekareeyuket and Bob for the series. During a Christmas episode, the first's name was actually written as a series of mathematical concepts on his Christmas stocking, while the second one was simply written as "BOB".
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* [[Characterization Marches On]]: The Arquillians are established as pacifists in the series, whereas in the first film, they were willing to destroy Earth in order to stop the Bug from getting their galaxy if the MIB failed to get it back.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Jeebs. Every time he appears, count on a body part needing to be re-grown.
{{quote| "That ''really'' stings!"}}
* [[Christmas Episode]]: "The Black Christmas Syndrome," where MIB has to save [[Santa Claus]] from Drekk.
* [[Chronically Crashed Car]]: The LTD suffers from an unfortunate number of catastrophic accidents.
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* [[Clone Degeneration]]: The Quick Clones have a time limit. Once they run out of juice (or if you press the button behind their ear), they start babbling gibberish and quickly dissolve into coffee-colored gunk.
* [[Clothing Damage]]: "The Hots for Jay Syndrome" to J, twice. Having fire sprout from your skin tends to do that. The first time they quickly got him some heat-resistant clothing, but falling to Earth from orbit overwhelmed even that.
* [[Cursed Withwith Awesome]]: J was in a hurry to lose his agility superpowers for no conceivable reason.
* [[Cyborg]]: In the last season, Alpha makes himself one of these - reasoning that flesh ultimately decays.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: "The Back to School Syndrome" has J go undercover as a high school student.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Pretty much everyone.
* [[ET Gave Us Wi -Fi]]: A plot point in several episodes where advanced alien technology humans won't be ready for until several decades/centuries causes serious trouble, most notably the Cosmic Integrator that allows Alpha to [[Muggle Power|chop up alien parts and tack them onto himself]]. It is also implied that some familiar technologies, including the 8-track tape and the Clapper, were alien inventions.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Bob]]: Said half of [[The Twins]]. And he's a certified pilot, too.
* [[Evil Brit]]: Alpha, just like virtually anyone else voiced by [[David Warner]].
* [[Expendable Clone]]: The Quick Clones, as noted above.
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* [[Flanderization]]: The worms and their obsession with coffee, though it helps that the reason for that obsession is also explained (on their planet, only royalty is allowed to drink it).
** J also gets hit hard. The series stuck with the "new, inexperienced agent" role from the first movie, but J basically never grew out of it. There was a total of one episode where he seemed to actually become competent, which was forgotten by the next.
* [[For Halloween I Am Going Asas Myself]]: Or as a completely different alien species. Additionally, a good chunk of monsters in movies are actually alien actors in their birthday suits.
* [[Freeze Ray]]: The Icer, one of the more often-used weapons. Special notice should go to the fact that [[Beyond the Impossible|it can freeze fire]].
* [[Friend in Thethe Black Market]] / [[Honest John's Dealership]]: Jeebs. Which he is varies, depending on just what item he has in stock.
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: Jeebs provides this, as his race can regenerate from nearly anything (even being reduced to gelatinous goo!) as long as oxygen is available, though he can still survive just fine even if there isn't.
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: Season 1, episode 6: "Uh, Slim, you remember those Twin Towers? I don't they gonna be tall anymore..." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuP--PeqaA&t=15m19s Here]. Oh 1997.
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* [[Hive Mind]]: In the series the Bugs are an insectoid [[Hive Mind]] species, which the writers probably used as justification for having every male Bug played by Vincent D'Onofrio.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: L definitely fulfills this role.
* [[I Just Shot Marvin in Thethe Face]]: A variation happens when J, fumbling around trying to return K's neuralyzer, accidentally zaps off the last three or so decades of his memory.
* [[Informed Judaism]]: Frank
* [[I Say What I Say]]: When J meets his Quick Clone.
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** HUMAN fatalities, anyway. They're quite happy blowing up particularly monstrous-looking aliens in all sorts og gruesome ways.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Zeeltor.
{{quote| '''J:''' You can't just operate on people without their permission!<br />
'''Zeeltor:''' I'm pretty sure I can. I do it all the time. }}
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: In "The Back to School Syndrome," a pair of [[Jerk Jock|Jerk Jocks]] take to bullying an undercover J. They turn out to be aliens, but they're unaware that J is MIB.
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: One episode shows an in-universe ''Men In Black'' movie, with Agents Smith & Jones more closely resembling Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones than the cartoon's character designs. Earlier in the episode, a movie producer was talking about getting Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Rip Torn for a film.
** In "The "J" is for James Syndrome," the neuralyzed J is made an agent again. What follows is a montage of putting on the suit, followed by:
{{quote| '''J:''' Y'know the difference between you and me?<br />
'''K:''' You make this look good.<br />
'''J:''' How'd you know I was gonna say that? }}
** In "The Breaking News Syndrome," Zed summarizes MIB's mission as to "protect the Earth from the scum of the universe" (quoting the movie's tagline).
* [[The Needless]]: It's revealed that Jeebs (whose species can regenerate from being blown to pieces) and his [[Psycho for Hire]] brother don't need to eat. Then the former brags that they don't even need to breathe oxygen to live, {{spoiler|only to regenerate. Since they're in space at the time, J promptly opens the airlock and shoots said brother.}}
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: K constantly refers to J as "Slick." He [[Throw the Dog Aa Bone|throws him a bone]] a couple times, though.
* [[The Other Darrin]]:
** K's voice actor is replaced after the first season. L gets a new voice actress for the final season.
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* [[San Dimas Time]]: In one episode, they have to stop an out-of-control alien in the past before he destroys a city in the present.
** Another has a [[Conspiracy Theorist]] going back in time and kidnapping MIB founders. Nobody except J (who has a [[My Brain Is Big|intelligence bump]] due to an [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]) can remember them or how MIB is being affected by their disappearance. Oh, and [[You Have 48 Hours|he only has 24 hours before his intelligence bump kills him]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: In "The Inanimate Syndrome", an alien that can turn itself into any inanimate object tries to hide as a mannequin. The mannequin's head gets knocked off and proceeds to [[The Thing (Filmfilm)|sprout spider legs and crawl away]].
* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: All Bugs are the offspring of their Queen, and in "The Big Bad Bug Syndrome", they squabble over the bounty on L for killing Edgar.
* [[Spare Body Parts]]: Sintillians have two hearts, and are functionally immortal so long as both are working and "no-one drops a piano on them". K makes it clear to J that this doesn't make the [[Organ Theft]] any better. "You have ten toes. You woke up with one missing, how would you feel?"
* [[Super Speed]]: J gets this in one episode. See [[Taken for Granite]] for details.
* [[Surrounded Byby Idiots]]: Zed has this attitude in several episodes, most notably the Halloween episode.
* [[Take That]]: The end of "The Star System Syndrome" sees Hollywood making a rather accurate movie about the Men in Black.
{{quote| '''K:''' We'll neuralize the town. Wouldn't be the first time.<br />
'''J:''' So that's why they keep making the same movie. }}
* [[Taken for Granite]]: Agent K in one episode. As a result of exposure to an activated [[Amplifier Artifact|Alien Amplifier Device]]. Lampshaded by Agent L at the end, invoking the title pun no less. K was not amused.
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* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]
* [[Who Even Needs a Brain?]]: In one episode, Zed had his brain stolen. His body is able to keep functioning, albeit without any direction, because alien technology kept the two linked even at a distance.
* [[Who's Onon First?]]: Comes up whenever Agent U is needed. J got around it by figuring out U's real name, since there aren't that many names beginning with 'U' for men. Averted with K.
* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: Once per episode it seems. Granted it is a kid's show.
* [[Wreathed in Flames]]: The episode "The Hots for Jay Syndrome" has Jay gaining fire powers after eating alien food. Surprisingly, this was actually treated like a ''bad'' thing. All that energy has to come from somewhere, and in Jay's case was being leeched from every cell of his body. It would have killed him if it hadn't been reversed.
* [[You Hate What You Are]]: Alpha is a self-loathing human and has been forcibly grafting alien body parts onto himself in an effort to gradually remake himself as the ultimate Frankenstein monster of alien parts, and become functionally immortal. In one episode Alpha actually grumbles about how unhappy he is that he still has parts that are from his own "stupid" species.
* [[You Will Be Assimilated]]: Alpha.
 
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