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{{quote|''"What are you?"''
''"I'm an otter."''
''"And what do you do?"''
''"I swim around on my back and do cute little human things with my hands."''
''"You're free to go."''|'''[[Denis Leary]]'''}}
Otters are rather funny-looking animals, what with their long, slender bodies, cute faces, and the way they crack clamshells on their bellies. But makes them even more adorable, is their playful demeanor. Otters often wrestle, slide and play with their
When used in fiction, otter characters are usually [[Fun Personified]]. They are usually depicted as playful, energetic, kind-hearted, optimistic and laid-back, sometimes even mischievous. Otters spend a lot of time in water, so expect them to be good swimmers, who love to have fun in water. Sometimes this overlaps with [[Surfer Dude]] (but otters are usually much more clever, rarely [[The Ditz]]).
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== Literature ==
* When Mercer Mayer created the ''[[Little Critter]]'' [[Spin-Off]] ''LC and the Critter Kids'', one of the critter kids was a [[Surfer Dude]] otter named Slick Rick (no, not ''[[Rick Astley|that]]'' [[
* Every book in the ''[[Redwall]]'' series features several otters. Usually led by one named Skipper, they tend to dress and talk like local Seafaring People, and have a penchant for using ambushes and javelins. The Redwall wiki describes them as playful.
* In the ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' book ''Return to the Hundred Acre Wood'', the only new character is an otter named Lottie, who was described in a preview article as "feisty".
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Pip and Pop, the rather playful otter duo from ''[[Bear in
== Radio ==
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
* The animated series version of ''[[Little Bear]]'' has a group of playful otters that shows up occasionally.
* Marlene of the [[Dreamworks Animation]] ''[[Madagascar]]'' franchise (as well as the spin-off TV series, ''[[
== [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Otter]]... er, Other ==
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