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A [[The Renaissance Age of Animation|modern day take]] on the classic ''[[Felix the Cat]]'' series, albeit an attempt to return the series back to its roots after decades of using the
▲A [[The Renaissance Age of Animation|modern day take]] on the classic [[Felix the Cat]] series, albeit an attempt to return the series back to its roots after decades of using the 1950's [[Flanderization|flanderized]] portrayal of Felix.
The series is very kooky, surreal and fast paced-as a whole, the series owes a lot to cartoons from [[The Silent Age of Animation]] and [[The Golden Age of Animation]], especially the surreal works of [[Max and Dave Fleischer]].
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Oh, and did we mention this series has [[Gargoyles|Lexington]], and then [[Cow and Chicken|Chicken]], [[Hey, It's That Voice!|doing the voice of Felix?]]
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* [[Airplane Arms]]: Felix goofing off at the end of "Felix in Nightdrop Land".
* [[All Deserts Have Cacti]]: And since [[Everything Talks]], they might end up ''[[Abhorrent Admirer|hitting on you]]''.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: The sphinx in "Petrified Cheese".
* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: Parodied at the end of "Black Magic Bag".
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The jail in "The Punderground".
{{quote|"I robbed twenty-seven banks and thirty-two gas stations."
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"Uh, I made a pun." }}
* [[Awesome Backpack]] / [[Bag of Holding]]: The "bag of tricks".
* [[A Boy and His X]]: A [[Funny Animal|boylike cat]] and his [[Empathic Weapon|empathic]] [[Bag of Holding]].
* [[Bill, Bill, Junk, Bill]]: In "Star Trash", Felix's talking mailbox does this for him.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]
* [[Beware My Stinger Tail]]: Felix's tail can turn into a mallet and smash things, unfortunately for his noisy sentient alarm clock.
* [[Brooklyn Rage]]: Sheba.
* [[By the Lights of Their Eyes]]
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Poindexter.
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* [[Conspicuous CG]]: In one part of the opening.
{{quote|'''Felix:''' Computer animation. Big deal!}}
* [[Chaotic Stupid]]: The Bermuda Triangle.
* [[Creator Backlash]]: Despite efforts to shift to script written episodes in Season 2, it was even more of a ratings disaster than the first season, and it was seen as a disaster in the eyes of everyone involved with it, according to Milton Knight.
* [[Crying Indian]]: Appears alongside with Woodsy Owl and Smokey the Bear in the [[Green Aesop]] parody.
* [[Deranged Animation]]: Oh yeah.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: In "The Punderground", Felix is thrown in a dungeon on a sentence of a thousand years because [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|he made a pun]].
* [[The Ditz]]: Roscoe.
** The Bermuda Triangle in "Manhattan Triangle".
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: When the magic bag gets stolen in "Viva Lost Wages", Felix acts as if he's lost his wife. (Complete with angst about having to sleep alone, a wallet full of romantic photos of Felix and the bag together, and the line, "I never should have taken it for granted!")
* [[Double Take]]: Felix does this in "Black Magic Bag" after Roscoe flies by with his hand stuck in a knockoff magic bag and they casually say "hi" to each other.
* [[Dream Sequence]]: Felix [[Genre Savvy|deliberately initiates]] one in "The Maltese Milkshake" by looking for a way to get knocked out, in a probable [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Great Piggy Bank Robbery]]''.
* [[Dream Weaver]]: Jeepers Creepers (a parody of [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddie Krueger]]). Actually, according to this universe's physics, pretty much everyone has this ability--just jump into the thought balloon of a dreaming person (or out of your own dream balloon and into theirs).
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: In "Shocking Story", a worn-out lightning bolt low on power stays in Felix's house and eats all of Felix's ([[Everything Talks|sentient]]) appliances, except for the TV, while Felix is out shopping. When Felix gets back, he simply hits the lightning bolt until it coughs everything up. Felix's TV is less than thrilled.
{{quote|"That's all he's gonna get is a ''whooping?'' [[No Indoor Voice|TENANT MEETING! RIGHT NOW]]!"}}
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* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: "Surreal Estate".
* [[Everything Talks]]: Literally. Borders on [[Nightmare Fuel]] in one particular episode.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Felix likes to end episodes with a vaguely evil variant.
* [[Expospeak Gag]]:
{{quote|'''Poindexter:''' It appears, Mr Felix, that an extraterrestrial expedition has designated our planetary body as a locale for jettisonable waste materials…Mr. Felix?
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'''Felix:''' Oh boy, ''freaks!'' }}
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: The episode "The Punderground" is about an island where puns are illegal and [[La Résistance]] is full of punsters.
* [[I Call
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Several examples in "The Punderground".
* [[Jerkass]]: Rat Matsion from "Felix's Gold Score"
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* [[Magic Skirt]]: In "Felix Breaks The Bank", when Candy is falling quickly, she comes to an abrupt stop for a moment, as a sudden draft up her skirt causes it to billow like a parachute. She manages to keep her skirt from rising any higher, as she looks at the camera and audience, giggles coyly and descends slowly, and safely.
* [[Mascot with Attitude]]: Felix (who, in fact, [[Older Than They Think|inspired]] the [[Sonic the Hedgehog|trope's inspiration]]).
* [[Mind Screw]]: The show's active ingredient.
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Ducktorate]]: Peking Duck and his goons.
* [[Must Have Caffeine]] / [[Never Sleep Again]]: Roscoe in "[[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Nightmare on Oak Street]]".
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{{quote|'''Felix:''' What a woman! Eyes like pies...}}
* [[The Prima Donna]]: Natasha Slinky.
* [[Private Eye Monologue]]: A trademark of Shamus Crow, also used by Felix in "The Maltese Milkshake".
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Felix had two voice actors in this series: Thom Adcox Hernandez (credited as Thomas Adcox at the time of the show's airing) and [[Charlie Adler]].
* [[Random Events Plot]]
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*** In a TV ad for the Fleischer school, a character is shown plummeting off a cliff, [[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner|Wile E. Coyote]]-style.
** In the two-part episode "The Fuzzy Bunny Show", Felix was mistaken for [[Garfield]] once per part.
** The episode "[[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Nightmare on Oak Street]]'' features a villain who goes after victims in their dreams and Roscoe [[Must Have Caffeine|drinking tons of coffee]] to avoid him.
** "[[The Maltese Falcon|The Maltese Milkshake]]'' has certain similarities with "[[The Great Piggy Bank Robbery]]", including a bit where Felix [[Genre Savvy|realizes he has a dream sequence coming up]] and searches for a way to get knocked out.
** The episode "Background Details", in which Felix and Roscoe search for a new background, is ''very'' reminiscent of "[[Duck Amuck]]".
** The smiling moon used in the series strongly resembles the one in ''[[Krazy Kat]]''.
* [[Sidekick]]: In one episode, Roscoe is referred to as such to Felix.
* [[Simpleton Voice]]: Roscoe; the Bermuda Triangle; Oscar.
* [[Souvenir Land]]: Played with. The carnival Felix goes to in "Step Right Up" is a pretty simple standard carnival, but it ''does'' contain a parody of the "Small World" ride.
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{{quote|'''Poindexter:''' Are you from a planet where people don't have any emotions?
'''Mr. Gleep:''' No, I'm just a bad actor. }}
* [[Thirty Minutes or It's Free]]: One episode had Felix charged with delivering a meatball in 5 minutes or it was free, complete with a continually running timer in the corner of the screen. When he just barely makes it in time, the customer's wife expresses her desire for a meatball of her own, and the countdown clock gives a nasty chuckle as it starts without even letting Felix get back to retrieve the meatball.
* [[Toon Physics]]
* [[Totally Radical]]: The surfer movie in "Felix in Nightdrop Land".
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* [[Troubled Production]]: Milton Knight, an animator and director on the series, claimed that a major problem during production was that they couldn't make up their mind what kind of cartoon this was supposed to be--there was one group who wanted a Felix like the [[Otto Messmer]] shorts, one group who wanted [[Fleischer Studios|Max Fleischer]] surreality, Don Oriolo who wanted the Trans-Lux Felix, one group who wanted the show to be [[Ren and Stimpy]]-esque, and one director who wanted a ''Robert Crumb'' influence! This resulted in the show being completely different between the two seasons--the first season was storyboarded and was absurdly surreal in its premises and animation, whearas the second season was more scripted and focused more on one-liners, provided by the writer of ''Garfield & Friends''.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Weirdness is so common in this world that nobody bats an eyelid.
* [[Villain Song]]: Jeepers Creepers gets one in "Nightmare on Oak Street".
* [[Visual Pun]]: In "Black Magic Bag", we see the designer of the knockoff bags ''literally'' laughing all the way to the bank.
* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: In "The Maltese Milkshake" Felix answers the phone by (unenthusiastically) saying, "[[Mythology Gag|Felix the cat, the wonderful wonderful cat]]..." Five minutes later, a dame struts into his office and the [[Private Eye Monologue]] states "My heart went pit-a-pat!"
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Felix. [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|Not that he finds any of it really weird]].
* [[Widget Series]]
* [[Word, Schmord]]: A hotel called the "Hotel Shmotel".
* [[Worst News Judgement Ever]]: In "News Blues", Felix reads a paper with the front page headline "MAN FINDS LOST SHOE!"
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