Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: Difference between revisions

Or at least, that was how it seemed -- until 2006, when things finally got better; In exchange for trading a sportscaster to NBC Universal <ref> Al Michaels was traded to NBC's Sunday Night Football, as ABC lost the broadcast rights to [[Monday Night Football]] (which moved to [[ESPN]], replacing their version of Sunday Night Football in terms of prominence of games broadcast)</ref>, Disney acquired all of the rights to Oswald and his shorts (excluding the post-Disney Universal cartoons), and in 2007, they reintroduced the world to the character via a two-disc DVD collection called '''Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures of [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]]'''. A handful of the Lantz Oswalds were also included on the two [[Woody Woodpecker]] DVD sets released around the same time.

 

 

'''Note''': Belonging to Universal from the start (with Walt being unaware of this until the [[Just for Pun|ink hit the fan]], so to speak), Oswald, by pure technicality, is '''not''' part of the [[Classic Disney Shorts]] lineup and was technically not even a real [[Disney]] character until 2006, despite laying the groundwork for Walt and Ub's later work. It is argumentative if Oswald was really the first Disney animated hero because on one hand Disney and Iwerks did create the character, but on the other hand, Disney never had ownership of Oswald to begin with.

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=== [[Trope|Tropes]] Related to [[Disney]]-Made [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]] Shorts and Character: ===

* [[Animation Bump]]: When [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]] attempts to correct his flattening with a small boulder in "Tall Timber", we get a closeup of his face in what appears to be fish-eye vision.

* [[The Atoner]]

* [[Badass Adorable]]

* [[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.

* [[God Does Not Own This World]]: The major reason for their low quality.

* [[Leitmotif]]: [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit|Oswald]] has a leitmotif in this series in the form of a snippet of the song "Turkey in the Straw." Funny, considering that was the [[Steamboat Willie|same song played in the first hit]] [[Mickey Mouse|of his half-brother.]]

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

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: The Egyptian queen Oswald meets in "Africa". Strangely, when she runs after Oswald, her body turns into standard [[Rubber Hose Limbs]], probably because it would have been too hard to animate her semi-realistic figure.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Jazz legend Paul Whiteman appears in cartoon form in "My Pal Paul", obviously as a tie-in to the then-recently released film, "The King of Jazz".

* [[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".