Sapient All Along: Difference between revisions

* [[Pound Puppies The Legend Of Big Paw]] takes place in a world where dogs and humans gained the ability to communicate in the middle ages, and it seems to be common knowledge among humans. This gets a little disturbing when you realize that despite full knowledge that dogs are as intelligent as humans, they are still treated as pets.

* The PBS show [[Arthur]] eventually revealed that babies and animals are able to communicate, and both secretly sapient. Even insects were eventually shown to be sapient.

* Averted in [[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]. Flint develops an animal translator and places it on a monkey named Steve (voiced by [[Hey, It's That Voice!|Neil Patrick Harris]]). Steve is still depicted to have the intelligence of a monkey, being incapable of forming complete sentences and not being able to say more than his own name and whatever object is in front of him at the time.

* Subverted in [[Dexter's Laboratory]], where Dexter creates a device which allows a dog to talk, only for the dog to just repeat things like, "Look, there's the thing! It's a thing! Look! A thing! There it is!" Further demolished when the dog's owner shows up, and is just about as smart as the dog.

* [[Doctor Dolittle]], moreso The Remake than the original, where we actually hear the animals talk.

{{quote|Harry stared at Draco.

"You mean just ''magical'' snakes, right?"

...

"SNAKES ARE SENTIENT?" }}

{{quote|'''Woody''': (to Sid)[[Exorcist Head|We toys can see everything... (he spins his head around 360 degrees)]] [[Nightmare Face|...so PLAY NICE!!!]]}}

* Averted in [[Charlie Bone]]. One of the characters can talk to animals, who generally have less of an understanding of the world than the humans.

[[Category:Animal Tropes]]

[[Category:Intelligence Tropes]]