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{{quote|''"He puts the Taz in Taz-Mania
''Down in Taz-Mania
''Come to Taz-Mania
''We mean you!
''Wa waee weda whe spzzz!"''
|From the [[Expository Theme Tune]]}}
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* '''Jean''' - Taz's socially active homemaker mother, who is very friendly and kind.
* '''Hugh''' - Taz's laid-back [[
* '''Molly''' - Taz's sister who is embarrassed by Taz's behavior and constantly threatens him with baths ("Taz hate water").
* '''Jake''' - Taz's neurotic little brother.
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* '''Digeri Dingo''' - An egotistical bottlecap collector who sometimes cons Taz out of his. His ego often leads to his downfall. A notorious [[Fourth Wall Observer]] with a ton of deadpan snark in his system.
* '''Wendal T. Wolf''' - A neurotic Tasmanian wolf who believes himself to be last of his kind, and who pathetically tries to force Taz to befriend/protect him.
* '''Francis X. Bushlad''' - The son of the chief of the mudpeople, who hunts Taz to complete his passage into manhood but acts like an Ivy League rich kid.
* '''Bushwacker Bob''' - The irritable owner of the hotel Taz works at, thinks Taz is a slacker and a screw up.
* '''Mum''' - Bob's mother, treats Bob's workers (including Taz) with kindness while criticizing and insulting her son.
* '''Constance ''' - A heavy-set koala maid for Bob's hotel who has a crush on Taz.
* '''Mr. Thickley''' - A wallaby tour guide for Bob's hotel who doesn't really know anything.
* '''Bull Gator & Axl''' - Two hunters who want to capture Taz and send him to a zoo, for all the zoo-going children of the world. They usually fail because Axl "does something stupid", that tends to result in a knock upside the head for Axl, and/or the both of them getting mauled by Taz.
* '''Buddy Boar''' - Taz's best friend who acts like a Hollywood agent. By season 2, he's [[Put
* '''The Platypus Brothers''' - Timothy and Daniel, two genius inventors who use Taz as their guinea pig.
* '''The Kiwi''' - A tiny yellow bird that Taz can't seem to eat, because it easily outwits him. It makes the [[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner
* '''The Bushrats''' - Rats that attack people and speak in subtitles.
* '''Willie Wombat''' - A character added to the show later, who is good-natured, says hello to everything and everyone and complains about his role on the show which is a [[Bugs Bunny]] [[Expy]].
Have we left anyone out?
Oh yeah. Don't forget Taz.
So as not to create an entire family of Tazes, despite being the eldest child of three, Taz himself is portrayed as being somewhat backwards, with his family being (relatively) civilised and fully capable of speaking English. However, they too are also fully capable of causing carnage, though they have more self-control. His parents are especially patient and understanding with him... like they would be if he was... you know... ''special.''
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: There were a few video games made based on the show, but only Taz starred in them (indeed the first game is the only time we see any other characters from the series, which was Taz's family, and only for the opening cutscene. All of the other characters/enemies were generic alligators, carnivorous plants, rock monsters and others, culminating in a final boss battle with a gigantic seagull).
** The Super-NES version focused on Taz's efforts to catch the Kiwi on a busy highway. Some characters from the show would appear as obstacles, and occasionally Digeri Dingo would hand Taz a power-up.
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* [[Blah Blah Blah]]: Hugh, ending with Yakety Schmackity.
* [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce]]: In "Francis Takes a Stand", Francis switches Taz's lemonade recipe with a recipe for a [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce]]. Naturally, Francis ends up drinking more of the stuff than Taz does.
* [[Caught in
* [[Cheerful Child]]: Jake.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Played with in an episode where a large weight dangles precariously above the characters throughout. Later it's revealed that it was [[All Just a Dream]] of Francis Bushlad's. Bushlad berates the writers for the lame ending and for not using the weight. The writers retaliate by dropping it on him repeatedly.
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* [[Fourth Wall Observer]]: Digeri Dingo.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Just about any character, due to there being [[No Fourth Wall]], though notably Willie Wombat, who is all too aware that he's going through the motions of a predator-chases-prey cartoon, and grows increasingly resentful about it as the series goes on.
* [[Hammerspace]]: ''[[Taz
* [[Headphones Equal Isolation]]: Molly
* [[Hell Hotel]]: "A Midsummer Night's Scream"
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* [[It Was Here, I Swear]]: Taz's attempts to convince Bushwacker Bob that someone is trying to murder them in "A Midsummer Night's Scream".
* [[Jerkass]]: Bushwacker Bob.
* [[Jerk
* [[Knife Outline]]: Happens to Taz when he walks into the bathroom of the [[Inn of No Return]] in "A Midsummer Night's Scream".
* [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]]: Well-meaning and gregarious though he is, Mr. Thickley's assessment of his own expertise has absolutely no bearing on the reality of same.
* [[Last of His Kind]]: Wendell T. Wolf, the last Tasmanian wolf alive.
* [[Leitmotif]]: This show's theme music would later accompany Taz's cameos on ''[[
* [[Men Can't Keep House]]: "Boys Just Want To Have Fun"
* [[Nice Guy]]: Mr. Thickley, Hugh, Jean, The Platypus Brothers and Willie Wombat
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Hugh is [[Bing Crosby]], and Drew is [[Bob Hope]] (as his episodes are [[Whole-Plot Reference
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Any episode with Digeri Dingo.
* [[Not Even Bothering
* [[Noble Savage]]: The Bushrats, for the most part.
* [[Odd Name Out]]: Molly's favourite band is The New Chips off the Block; Donnie, Ronnie, Lonnie, Bonnie and Clyde.
* [[Overshadowed
* [[Plank Gag]]: Axl does it to Bull Gator. Bull's response is a [[Genre Savvy]] "I really should have seen that coming".
* [[A Real Man Is a Killer]]: A child-friendly parody with Francis X. Bushlad, whose father is more than willing to give a more modern and civilized initiation into manhood. He insists on forging his spirit in the tradition of his ancestors, and as such has vowed to hunt Taz.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Kiwi, the Bushrats.
* [[Rite of Passage]]: Francis X. Bushlad's tribe has three options: kill a dangerous animal (Francis' choice), successfully buy out a major corporation in a hostile takeover, or amass a stock portfolio worth $500,000.
* [[
* [[Superheroes Wear Capes]]: Taz-Man, Taz's makebelieve superhero persona, wears a cape (of the bath towel tied round your neck variety).
* [[Swallow the Key]]: Taz does this after he has cornered Francis X. Bushlad (who is disguised as an attractive female Tasmanian devil) in "A Young Taz's Fancy".
* [[The Television Talks Back]]: In "Ticket Taker Taz", Molly's radio appears to be directly answering the questions she puts to it.
* [[Theme Tune Roll Call]]
** [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]:
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Oh yeah, don't forget Taz. }}
* [[This Is My Side]]: In "Unhappy Together", an argument between the Platypus Brothers ends with them cutting their house in half.
* [[Tongue
* [[Too Clever
* [[Too Dumb to Fool]]: Taz may be noisy, short-tempered, impatient and always hungry, but he manages to wear out most people's attempts to trap him, and has outwitted Bull and Axl, and Wendall, on several occasions.
** He also outwitted Digeri Dingo in some time like in "A Dingo's Guide to Magic". Although we can say that had involuntarily.
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* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: "Taz hate water! '''TAZ HATE WATER!'''"
** "Taz hate bath!"
* [[Voodoo Shark]]: One episode had Taz and Wendel stuck on an island with nothing to eat but coconuts, which Taz didn't want to eat, so Wendel makes chicken prepared with coconut, which Taz eats until he learns what's in it. This raises the question of not only how did Taz not notice the taste of coconut, but where the poultry came from since coconuts being the only food on the island was a plot point.
* [[William Telling]]: According to "Unhappy Together", 'William Tell' is a
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