The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan: Difference between revisions

 

More importantly, the cartoon featured not only the Chinese detective himself, but his numerous progeny (plus dog Chu-Chu), who would make more — or sometimes very much less — effective efforts to help "Pop" out in his cases. This motif, which had figured slightly in the old films, was brought to the fore in line with H-B's other "[[Scooby Doo|meddling kids solving mysteries]]" series, and like many of them, featured the kids as a musical group, in this case called "[[Title Drop|The Chan Clan]]". Another added feature was the "Chan Van", which could disguise itself as another form of vehicle at the press of a button — this idea would be reused for [[Hong Kong Phooey]]'s "Phooeymobile".

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** [[Borrowed Catchphrase]]: Anne and Scooter both say "Wham bam, we're in a jam" in episode 5, Flip says it in episode 8. Henry uses it in episode 7, constituting a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The violin in episode 14

* [[Conflict Ball]]: Anne ''and'' Tom catch this in episode 12. Tom explicitly refuses to believe Anne's claim that Ms. Scarlet Avondale is the crook simply because she is "of the female gender"-not because it's her ring, not because they have no reason to believe it could be her, it's because she's a girl. Anne, being a feminist, naturally gets pissed off by this, and to make matters worse Alan and Suzie just tease her when she insists "a woman crook can be just as good as a man crook" as if it were an accomplishment to be proud of. Fortunately, the ball isn't carried for the whole episode and in the end it turns out Anne was right.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Suzie

* [[Expy]]: Suzie has often been compared to [[Scooby Doo|Daphne Blake]] in terms of appearance and temperament. The only difference is that Suzie is somewhat more savvy, so she isn't shoehorned into the [[Damsel in Distress]] role the way poor Daphne was.

* [[Face Palm]]: Henry in episode 9, Nancy in episode 13, Stanley twice in the comics.

* [[Five-Man Band]]: Literally.

** [[The Hero]]: Henry

'''Stanley''': Yeah? Well you ''look'' like a pizza! }}

* [[Not Now, Kiddo]]: Chu-Chu is often mistaken for trying to mess around anytime he tries to "tell" the younger kids something important.

** That's because after the first few episodes, Hanna-Barbera had the rest of the show farmed out to Eric Porter Studios in Australia. That studio was not known for quality animation even by TV standards, and their work the next year on ''Super Friends'' furthered that.

* [[Panty Shot]]: Suzie in "The White Elephant Caper."

* [[Tempting Fate]]: This is how some of the cases get started; usually Flip's the one to make a comment about how easy it'd be to steal something, but in "The Eye of the Idol", Henry's the one to ask whether Pop is sure the idol and its valuable jade eye are safe shortly before the eye is stolen.

* [[The Theorem of Narrow Interests]]: If it weren't for this show having its own ff.net section you wouldn't know there ''was'' any semblance of a fandom for it.

* [[Totem Pole Trench]]: Flip and Nancy do this in episode 3.

* [[Vague Age]]: Only Nancy, Mimi and Scooter are given concrete ages in canon. The others are listed as "in their teens" (or preteens, in Flip's case).

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Mimi and Scooter argue quite a bit, mainly due to the former's bossiness. But they're shown as being quite close regardless.

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