Moville Mysteries
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"Here is where it gets weird." —Mo in the intro of every chapter
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Moville Mysteries is a Canadian animated TV series starring Frankie Muniz as the main character, Moville. The show is on YTV in Canada and Jetix in Latin America. It was originally an Oh Yeah! Cartoon on Nickelodeon, making it the only short to not be adapted into a series by Nickelodeon.
The series was about the short guy Mosley Moville, better known just as Mo, and his friends Hitch and Mimi living a normal and peaceful life in Ouigee Falls, if your definition of normal and peaceful includes chilling mysteries every day — including weekends — and ...well, I think that now you have the idea.
Tropes used in Moville Mysteries include:
- Absentee Actor: Hitch and Mimi don't appear in the episodes where Mo just appears as a narrator to isolated incidents that happened with other citizens of Ouigee Falls.
- Abusive Parents: The coach's dad was a total jerk.
- Agent Mulder: B.B. Boon. Mo is like this as well, though he is more normal and common-sensed than Boon.
- All Animals Are Dogs: In "Goo On You" with that blot-like green slime.
- It end up revelating that it was actually the pet of a bigger alien
- All Just a Dream: The episode "The Good Old Days" and "The Tell Tale Recliner".
- Well, both finals were Or Was It a Dream?.
- All Myths Are True: And you are only starting.
- Almighty Janitor: Mr. Cistern was some kind of former Indiana Jones in his ol' good days.
- It counts too as a case of Retired Badass since he left that life after his possesed foot kicked The Queen of England.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Even the main character was part of this one.
- Badass Family: Mo has a ancestor that was witch hunter and his gramdma makes her tea with roots of the cemetary and Mo himself fight monster or ghost every week, tell me that isn't badass?!
- Beware the Nice Ones: Matilda and probably the old lady of the garden gnomes.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In the episode "So You Sell Your Soul for... What?", we learn that Rodney's gifted and charismatic sister Matilda actually sold her soul for Satan so she could impress her father and make her brother jealous. Not bad enough? When Satan came to claim her soul, she tried to pull a Kansas City Shuffle on him and give her own brother's soul instead hers.
- The Chosen Mo: In "Follow That Mo"
- Cool Old Guy: Mr. Cistern
- Cool Old Lady: Mo's grandma is kinda interesting for an old lady.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: The viking boyfriend of Hitch's guardian angel in episode 15.
- A Day in the Limelight: Pretty much a lot of episodes were about mostly other people than Mo, Hitch and Mimi, showing sometimes Mo at the end only to probably exchange some words with the character.
- Deadpan Snarker: Mimi.
- Deal with the Devil: The main plot of the episode "So You Sold Your Soul For ... What?", with a small reference to the urban legend that famous blues guitarrist Robert Johnson had sold his soul to the Devil in exchange to become talented.
- Eldritch Abomination: Boon accidentally summons one in episode 21.
- Evil Chef: Boon thought in this in "How Green Was My Lunch Meat" with a lot of Conspiracy Kitchen Sink
- Expy: B.B. Boon seems like a less psychotic (but still highly paranoid) version of Dib from Invader Zim.
- The Fair Folk: The last episodes of the series featured a group of mean-spirited gnomes who schemed to turn all the humans in statues and a selfish leprechaun who tried to rid off of Mo and his friends from finding his gold.
- Freaky Friday Flip: In "Curse Of The Mommies" not directly body swap, but the moms act exactly like their daughters.
- Don't forget all the modern fashion that the moms were wearing.
- Free-Range Children: Mo and his friends. (always ending up at the cemetery is not normal for kids of their ages)
- Freudian Trio:
- Mo: idealistic, curious to the point to put himself in danger (Superego)
- Mimi: rational, the most common-sensed of the group (Ego)
- Hitch: impulsive, adventure lover, naive (Id)
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: The vampire family from the episode "The Creep Next Door".
- Not so friendly with the pizza guy.
- Future Badass: Boon.
- Headless Horseman: Episode 7 features Pumpkin Reaper, an urban legend that seemed to exist in Ouigee Falls when Mo's grandmother was younger. Mo comes face to face with the monster itself when he experiences a weird time travel phenomenon. However, it turns out the whole episode was a dream, until the Pumpkin Reaper pops in the last scene.
- Jerk Jock: Averted, Rico was maybe the best at sport in the entire city, but the guy was maybe the nicest boy too!
- Jimbo "Crazy Legs" Walker was really one and Hitch become in one in the same episode.
- Leprechaun: "Scarin' O' The" Green episode.
- Limited Wardrobe: There were rare occasions in where the characters din't use their normal clothes.
- The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday/Bazaar of the Bizarre: In "The Pet Shop Of No Return" with the title little shop of creepy pets
- The Men in Black: Hilariously subverted in episode 4 where they turn out to be men dressed in green suits.
- A MIB-like character appears in episode 21, though it is then revealed that he is actually an older Boon from the future who is trying to prevent Mo's death.
- It wasn't Mo's death, he was there to prevent Mo to become crazy for the situation's fault
- A MIB-like character appears in episode 21, though it is then revealed that he is actually an older Boon from the future who is trying to prevent Mo's death.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: In "How Now Meowing Cow?", with some cute killer wolverine-bunnies even there.
- Monster of the Week
- Occult Detective
- Only Sane Girl: Mimi.
- Our Vampires Are Different: The vampiric villain from episode 6 has traits of a blood-sucking mosquito.
- Parental Abandonment: If they let their kids running in the street at midnight, there is a problem with them.
- Actually Hitch's mom worries about him for hang out so much with his weird friend Mo.
- Tempting Fate: Kinda almost every episode.
- Time Travel: Hitch in episode 23.
- Unlimited Wardrobe: Showed in "Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall" with the girl.
- Weirdness Magnet: Ouigee Falls, of course.
- What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: A lot of people has this idea.