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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper

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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper	comment	Life on Gull Island is almost idyllic for a community of raccoons. The island's dump has no shortage of delicious trash thrown out by the wasteful human population, allowing the ringtails to thrive in luxury. All this changes when the island's new garbage collectors prove far more efficient and hardworking than their predecessors, leaving not a scrap behind. Faced with the prospect of losing access to their favorite foodstuffs, the raccoons put together a Badass Crew and embark on a plan to get back their easy lives by hijacking the garbage truck and going on a wild midnight trash run to claim the spoils for themselves.A children's novel written by Timothy Foote, the book was also adapted by Hanna-Barbera into an episode for CBS Storybreak.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: Arc Gesture? Much is made of the fact that humans and raccoons share having opposable thumbs. Thus it is that the "thumbs up" hand gesture is given any time any member of the heist team begins to doubt their ability to carry out the plan. A reminder of how capable they are as a species.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper is literally the name the raccoons give their plan.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_1b65eaf3	type	The Caper
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_1b65eaf3	comment	The Caper: Central to the plot is the raccoons' plan to hijack the garbage truck and use it to steal Gull Island's usable supply of trash.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_1eedb914	type	Avengers Assemble
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_1eedb914	comment	Avengers Assemble: Most of the heist team is hand picked by The Oldest Raccoon, with small blurbs given to a few members such as Big Ben and Fat Franky's status within the community.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_3f8ea5cc	type	Shorter Means Smarter
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_3f8ea5cc	comment	Shorter Means Smarter: Joshua is the smallest kit in the community, and most of his peers write him off as useless. He becomes integral to the raccoons' plans because he is the only one who figures out how to make a key work.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_46332d5a	type	Civilized Animal
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_46332d5a	comment	Civilized Animal: More pronounced in the Animated Adaptation which have the principle characters some clothing. In the original, no real mention is made of the raccoons adopting human habits or inventions, but much is made of them having favorite bits of trash they like to eat. This is actually part of what makes going back to foraging so distasteful.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Subverted. While Nip and Tuck's actions as the new garbage men lead unknowingly to the crisis the raccoons are suffering, the ringtails themselves actually understand the humans' actions and don't really see them as malicious, just annoying.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_5674af1a	type	The Famine
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_5674af1a	comment	The Famine: When first cut off from the dump, this is the initial fear of the community. Subverted in that the raccoons still all possess the necessary skills needed to forage and live off the land, so none will starve, but as human trash is much more abundant and what they're used to, this is seen as a distasteful choice. Especially since it implies the raccoons aren't smart enough to access the better choice.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: A rather sneaky one amid the hijinks when the Oldest Raccoon mentions that humans have become more environmentally aware and are looking for new ways to dispose of their trash, including turning it into fuel, meaning that the raccoons might still have to fend for themselves in the future.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_664347f9	type	Dinky Drivers
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_664347f9	comment	Dinky Drivers: The plan involves a crack team of raccoons stealing the local garbage truck so they can get first dibs on the trash.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: Each member of the Daring Dozen is the leading expert in a particular skill: Big Ben is the strongest raccoon on the island, Sailor Bill knows how to read street maps, while Greasy Gene lives above a garage and is familiar with mechanical devices. Get them together and they work like a single unit.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_a5c121ef	type	CoolLoser
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_a5c121ef	comment	Cool Loser: Joshua is much smaller than other kits his age and gets left out of their games. The skills he learns while amusing himself alone prove invaluable to the Caper.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: Was made into a thirty minute episode for CBS Storytime.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_bb36c953	type	Sliding Scale of Animal Cast
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_bb36c953	comment	Sliding Scale of Animal Cast: Type 3. The raccoons take center stage for most of the book, with the humans mostly just going about their business. Justified because the raccoons are trying to operate without the humans knowing what's going on.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_c4b0faae	type	Can't Hold His Liquor
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_c4b0faae	comment	Can't Hold His Liquor: Some of the raccoons get tipsy when celebrating the successful heist. The narrative can't help but wag a gentle finger for the benefit of its young readers to remind them that drinking a little is okay, but getting completely ripped is embarrassing and disgraceful.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_dd8deee1	type	Xenofiction
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: While we occasionally get to see the plot from the point of view of the garbage men, the bulk of the book is seen through the eyes of wild raccoons, albeit ones who have become acclimated to living near humans.
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The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: The description of the generous leavings the raccoons enjoy. Granted, it does lose a little appeal when you remember it's garbage, but the raccoons describe it in terms of a feast.
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