Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: Difference between revisions

** As stated above, [[Mickey Mouse]] is this to [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]].

** The ''[[House of Mouse]]'' character Dennis the Duck, from the [[Retraux]] episode of the same name, also seems to be one of [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]].

* [[Chair Reveal]]: In a cutscene in ''[[Disney Epic Mickey]]''.

* [[Chaste Toons]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in "Poor Papa," and again in ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' -- the old bunny is [[Explosive Breeder|quite the multiplier.]]

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: From "Oh Teacher" to "All Wet", [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]] had a rabbit girlfriend (Fracine "Fanny" Cottontail), but starting with "Rival Romeos", his love interest was a '''cat''' (Ortensia).

** And in "Rival Romeos", his two rivals for said cat's affection are ''dogs''.

* [[Leitmotif]]: The [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]] DVD set gives him one in the newly orchestrated scores.

** ''[[Epic Mickey]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhT6Rj2xacM also gives him one].

* [[Losing Your Head]]: A surprising variation of this [[Trope]]: In the short "Oh, What a Knight", [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]], to avoid having his head chopped off, [[Fridge Logic|has his head pop off of his body and fly into the air, but it lands back on his body a second later]].

** In "[[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Ozzie]] of the Mounted", [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald's]] head is knocked off by a spring that bursts loose from [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald's]] robot horse. But once again, he catches his head on his body.

* [[Older Than They Look]]

* [[Panty Shot]]: "The Mechanical Cow" and "Oh What a Knight".

** Walt Disney did use a few gags from the Oswald shorts and used them for some Mickey cartoons. For example, in Steamboat Willy, the gag where the goat ate the music sheets and the instrument and was turned into a phonograph, was used in the Oswald cartoon Rival Romeos.

* [[Rascally Rabbit]]

* [[Unbuilt Trope]]: Some of these cartoons seem downright postmodern.

* [[Visual Pun]]: In both ''Trolley Troubles'' and ''Oh Teacher'', [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]] pulls one of his feet off, kisses it, rubs it against something (his head in ''Trolley Troubles'', a brick in ''Oh Teacher''), and places it back on his leg. Think about it...

* [[Written Sound Effect]]: [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald's]] cartoons play with them a lot.

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* [[Deranged Animation]]: Any short that [[Bill Nolan]] worked on, especially "Hells Heels." Even more obvious when Nolan started directing some of the shorts himself, and allowed his animators (including a young [[Tex Avery]]) much more freedom than Lantz did.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Oswald tries to do this in "My Pal Paul", and its played for laughs.

* [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French]]: The duet Oswald and his cat girlfriend (here referred to as "Marie") sing in "Not So Quiet".

* [[Gainax Ending]]: The end of "Spooks", where Oswald is cornered by The Phantom, and he is asked a question: "What sound does a chicken make, when it lays a square egg?" He then slaps Oswald, who says "Ow!" "Correct!" And then the Phantom vanishes, leaving Oswald bewildered and victorious.

* [[Literal Ass-Kicking]]: In "Jungle Jingles" a squirrel does this to Oswald, [[Screwy Squirrel|for no particular reason]].

* [[Losing Your Head]]: A bizarre example that's [[Played for Laughs]] in "Hell's Heels": After the local sheriff chases [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]] out of town, he yells to [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]], "And if you ever come back, i'll—" and the Sheriff attempts to do a "finger crossing neck like blade" motion... but beheads himself! After getting bit trying to pick his head back up, the sheriff quickly puts his head back on backward, and proceeds to walk backward back to town.

* [[Mickey Mousing]]: Very frequent in some of these shorts.

* [[Missing Episode]]: Several of the 30s Lantz Oswald shorts have been lost, including:

* [[Please Shoot the Messenger]]: (General) Pegleg Pete does this to Oswald in "Not So Quiet".

* [[Roger Rabbit Effect]]: Briefly seen in the opening of the short "Puppet Show".

* [[Stock Footage]]: "The Unpopular Mechanic" reuses animation from "The Barnyard Five".

* [[Suddenly Voiced]]: After his cartoons went into sound.