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Speech-Impaired Animal

272 statements
52 feature instances
68 referencing feature instances

Speech-Impaired Animal	type	FeatureClass
Speech-Impaired Animal	label	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal	page	SpeechImpairedAnimal
Speech-Impaired Animal	comment	A mandatory requirement for most cartoons since the 1960s — a Non-Human Sidekick that could almost, but not quite, speak English. Often they were smarter than anyone else in the cast. When they weren't, they were dumber than everyone else in the cast. The sounds that the Speech-Impaired Animal makes in place of actual dialogue can vary. Sometimes their dialogue is semi-intelligible but has a very heavy Animal Species Accent. At other times, they make sounds accurate (or inaccurate) for their species, or no sounds at all, but their gestures and body language indicate what they would be saying if they could talk. Like Talking Animals, they are still animals in almost every other way, particularly when it comes to instincts, priorities and motivations. They very rarely wear clothes, and they are often vocally proud of the fact they aren't human. Many SIAs lack hands and walk on all fours, negating the possibility of performing many human tasks and behavior, though a few examples are bipedal even if their species isn't naturally so. However, when required by a joke, the SIA can sometimes act like the mostly anthropomorphic Funny Animal (Scooby dressing up in a costume to aid one of Shaggy's elaborate deceptions) or the semi-anthropomorphic Civilized Animal (Astro walking with his arm around George). This trope is particularly associated with works by Hanna-Barbera.
Speech-Impaired Animal	fetched	2024-02-24T17:15:44Z
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Speech-Impaired Animal	isPartOf	DBTropes
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_10861ce9	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_10861ce9	comment	Azrael in The Smurfs is capable of some mildly intelligible phrasing but made of cat-like sounds. He can be understood sometimes as when Gargamel says: "How I hate Smurfs!" and Azrael says "Mew too".
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The Smurfs	hasFeature	Speech-Impaired Animal / int_10861ce9
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_1360882c	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_1360882c	comment	In Gone, Pack Leader, in a non-comedic way.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_1482fc09	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_1482fc09	comment	Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats: The dog Ratsputin speaks entirely in a thick growly voice (though none of the characters seem to have any issue understanding him).
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_158b0cbb	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_158b0cbb	comment	Henrietta Pussycat from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Lore SjÃ¶berg once noted: An earlier show featuring her had her only knowing three English words: "telephone", "wonderful", and "Misterogers" [sic].
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_16712475	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_16712475	comment	Astro from The Jetsons, who predates Scooby-Doo by seven years, complete with the same voice actor, Don Messick. He even writes the same way he speaks. The 80's episodes gave us Orbitty (also voiced by Welker).
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The Jetsons	hasFeature	Speech-Impaired Animal / int_16712475
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_1738f033	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_1738f033	comment	The angel dog in Little Angels: The Brightest Christmas begins half its words with an "r" sound.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_19ac53a9	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_19ac53a9	comment	The animal weapons of WE 3 communicate in a broken Leet Speak. As one of the researchers points out, "don't expect the sonnets of Shakespeare".
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_1e9bf504	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_1e9bf504	comment	Kids Praise: Blooper is Psalty's pet dog, and is a lot like Scooby-Doo, to the point where his barks at times are intelligible speech to the other characters.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_261c8d3f	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Played a few times with the Simpson's dog, Santa's Little Helper.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_2a4482ad	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_2a4482ad	comment	In The Secret of Monkey Island, you can talk to the dog in the SCUMM BAR. It mainly ruffs and growls but will occasionally speak story specific words in perfect English. It becomes Hilarious in Hindsight in the special edition with the dog being voiced by a human.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_2bbcacd9	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Played with in one Looney Tunes cartoon with Bob McKimson's hound - without Foghorn Leghorn around to bother him, he was getting bothered by Daffy Duck. As his master, Mrs. Elmer Fudd, hears the parson is visiting for supper and doesn't know what to cook, the dog starts playing Charades with her, pantomiming roast duck. She's not good at playing, and when she finally guesses "roast dog", he has enough and shouts "NO! Roast D-U-C-K, DUCK! Sheeeesh!!!"
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_32c541e6	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Shou Tucker created two chimeras that could understand and attempt to replicate human speech. They are not cute. They are Tear Jerking Nightmare Fuel creatures, especially once you realize what they're made out of. Poor Nina...
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_36887b1b	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_36887b1b	comment	As the animated counterpart, Azrael in The Smurfs (see Western Animation).
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_38220717	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_38220717	comment	Curious George: Frank Welker repeats Abu's mannerisms in his performances as George.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_426a7572	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_426a7572	comment	In Animaniacs, Chicken Boo (voiced by Frank Welker) can only make chicken noises, yet many human characters have entire conversations with him while remaining oblivious to the obvious fact that he's a giant chicken wearing a Paper-Thin Disguise.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld Averted with Gaspode the "Wonder Dog", who can talk just fine except most people only hear him on the subliminal level because few of them are prepared to believe a dog can talk. Also, in terms of the "speech impaired" part, it should be noted that Gaspode often, when humans expect him to act like a dog, says things like "bark" and "woof", which sometimes takes the human(s) in question quite a while to realize is not the same as an actual bark. The Librarian from the same series is a straight example. He's a human who turned into an orangutan due to a shape-shifting accident, and since then he communicates solely with "Ook" (and occasionally "Eek") sounds. However, he perfectly understands human speech, and his "ook"-s usually are meaningful in the context of the situation. The Death of Rats is an even more supernatural example: a rat skeleton in a black robe with a miniature scythe, he can vocalize "SQUEAK" and a few related rat noises, but Death and Death's granddaughter can nonetheless understand what he means, if not what he actually says. At one point, an ordinary rat's spirit squeaks inquisitively to him after being reaped, and the Death of Rats replies, both understanding the other. Played for Drama in Witches Abroad with the Big Bad Wolf. It was just a regular wolf enchanted by Lilith to think like a human, which means it tried to walk on its hind legs and operate doorknobs with a body that simply isn't designed for such things. When captured it is just barely able to vocalize its plea for "an ending" in a slurring voice. Granny obliges.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_48cf61a6	comment	Wonder Dog from the 1973-74 season of Superfriends. He couldn't really speak and had to regularly resort to Hand Signals and playing Charades in order to be understood.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_524e2e3b	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_524e2e3b	comment	(Very) occasionally, Donald Duck's speech impediment is mentioned in his comics. It usually involves him trying to find a way to get over it.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_55c5a085	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_55c5a085	comment	Bakarasu from Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger was a raven ("Bakarasu" roughly means "Dumb crow") Boss and his gang used as a lookout or a messenger. In return, Bakarasu mocked Boss, annoyed him and drove him mad. Bakarasu strangely could talk—and laugh, usually at Boss—and theoretically it worked alongside Boss, Nuke and Mucha, but in reality it did whatever it pleased. It only had one appearance in Mazinger Z (episode 69), but he showed up in several Great Mazinger episodes.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_56a4eeec	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_56a4eeec	comment	It's not the Raptor DNA; Elise is part human, so not only can she communicate through sign language, she has a larger understanding of human speech and grammar than other dinosaurs like Rexy and the Raptor Squad.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_5b6d347c	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_5b6d347c	comment	Subverted in a memorable gag in The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show where Scooby sees a sign written the way he normally speaks ("Rhird revel - rots of ruck") and reads it out loud in perfect English.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_607f6b7	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_607f6b7	comment	Brain from Inspector Gadget. During his cameo episode in the spinoff, he's given a voice collar. (revealing that he's understandably shell-shocked.)
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_77ff1111	comment	The mice from Cinderella.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_79328e7	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_79328e7	comment	Muttley from Wacky Races and Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_7b68eb70	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_7b68eb70	comment	Mega Man (Ruby-Spears): Rush in the Ruby-Spears cartoon spoke like Scooby-Doo. He was also responsible for all the non-quip comic-relief, which manifested at arbitrary and occasionally inappropriate moments.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_7ff3216c	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_7ff3216c	comment	Odie in Garfield and Friends.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_857f1873	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_857f1873	comment	Monster from the animated My Pet Monster series.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_87b4dc3c	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_87b4dc3c	comment	Donkey Kong makes human-sounding laughs and exclamations, not to mention the occasional recognizable word. In Donkey Kong 64 and Jungle Beat, he also chants his own name.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_8f06307a	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_8f06307a	comment	In A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Scooby's father has the impediment while his mother speaks normally.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_90a3a7f4	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Rufus from Kim Possible. He's clearly more intelligent than a real naked mole rat would be, but he typically communicates in squeaks and growls with only a few actual words thrown in.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_948b60da	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_948b60da	comment	Hit-Monkey: The protagonist mainly expresses himself through the usual monkey ways, which is to say growls, howls, gestures and violence, yet is surprisingly good at making his intentions clear to other people. His Spirit Advisor Bryce seems to understand him better than most (though that may be due to their spiritual bond) and he can communicate directly with other animals (shown through black dialog boxes) such as rats, dogs, cats and other monkeys.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_98156414	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_98156414	comment	Zunar, The Cat from Outer Space lost the power to speak, along with telekinesis, whenever his alien-tech collar was removed.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_9cc59f9c	comment	The Winslow, the indestructible, cute, toothy idol of the vast majority of religions in the galaxy from Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_a183d57f	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama gave us Nibbler (voiced by Frank Welker). Nibbler is intelligent, though usually Obfuscating Stupidity. He occasionally shows more intelligence by vocalizing rapidly and gesturing wildly to indicate danger. And then there's the fact that he's actually a member of an ancient race that can manipulate the minds of others to make it seem like he's speaking their language.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_a403454a	comment	Yumeria: Borderline case: Koneko, Neneko's kitten, who says only "Nono"; this is not the Japanese onomatopoeia for "meow" note That, in fact, is "nyan"..
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_a609791a	comment	Scooby-Doo is the archetypal example. He can speak English, but begins almost every word with an "r", which he rolls a tiny bit, and his voice is a bit growly. Later incarnations have downplayed the impediment, though, most notably Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. Weirdly, Scooby's nephew Scrappy doesn't have the same impediment. He is from a younger generation than Scooby is, so perhaps the Doos are evolving. In A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Scooby's father has the impediment while his mother speaks normally. Subverted in a memorable gag in The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show where Scooby sees a sign written the way he normally speaks ("Rhird revel - rots of ruck") and reads it out loud in perfect English. In the Courtroom Episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Billy summons Scooby-Doo to the courtroom to testify against Mandy - Scooby complains that Mandy apparently made fun of the way he talks.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_a80b5d61	comment	Enjuhneer: Tails is a pretty good example.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_af2a147e	comment	Enchanted has Pip the Chipmunk who is a full Talking Animal in Andalasia but is limited to Rufus style squeaks and gestures in our world. Once he gets back to Andalasia he publishes a book about his experience called Silence Isn't Golden.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_bc1dc95a	comment	Jack the Monkey from Pirates of the Caribbean. The best part? Those are spontaneous actions by the monkey! It wasn't supposed to turn around and return Barbossa's incredulous look...along with a bunch of the other Jack the Monkey moments.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_c00034c2	comment	Beetle Bailey: Sgt. Snorkel's dog Otto just barely manages it in a few individual strips, turning his growls into something resembling speech. Most of the time he sticks to using thought bubbles to comment on things, sort of like Garfield.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_c4282b71	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Angel, Fluttershy's pet(?) bunny communicates through easily-understood pantomime Ã la Gromit. Later it's shown that Fluttershy can also translate animal sounds; Angel being The Voiceless anyway is justified since rabbits don't make "animal sounds."
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_cabb7dd6	comment	In Yokoka's Quest, Tomo is a small critter who is mute. He still has speech bubbles (in forest language colours!), which have so far contained either a circle of dashes, or an exclamation mark.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_cd1550c5	comment	In The Dark Tower series, a strange creature called Oy can mimic human words, but usually leaves off the first consonant. His species is apparently fairly intelligent, as one was reported to be able to do basic arithmetic.
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Speech-Impaired Animal / int_cd1550c5	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dark Tower (Franchise)	hasFeature	Speech-Impaired Animal / int_cd1550c5
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_d010a732	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_d010a732	comment	Dexter the monkey from Night at the Museum is very similar to Abu (see Disney's Aladdin) in terms of this trope, only without the clothes.
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_d010a732	featureApplicability	1.0
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_d010a732	featureConfidence	1.0
Night at the Museum	hasFeature	Speech-Impaired Animal / int_d010a732
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_d4f9ccf	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Abu from Aladdin could not form any recognizable words (although he did say Aladdin's name on at least a couple occasions), but the sounds he made were close enough that if you listened closely you could usually tell what he was saying. Aladdin in particular has no difficulty understanding him, though others like Jasmine do not. The people in the movie treat him as a monkey, and his motives and capabilities reflect this. Contrast with Iago, a Talking Animal who speaks English with grating clarity, and even has a knack for mimicking voices, but still has no physical capabilities beyond that of a parrot. Apparently the idea is Iago lives in a world of speech-impaired animals, but as a parrot, his ability to speak makes him an animal without the speech impediment. In The Return of Jafar, Jafar implies that he taught Iago to speak, probably through training and/or magic: "If it weren't for me, you'd still be in a cage at the bazaar, squawking Polly wants a cracker!".
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_d4f9ccf	featureApplicability	1.0
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_d4f9ccf	featureConfidence	1.0
Aladdin	hasFeature	Speech-Impaired Animal / int_d4f9ccf
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_dae94b19	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_dae94b19	comment	Shag the sheepdog from Road Rovers.
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_dae94b19	featureApplicability	1.0
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_dae94b19	featureConfidence	1.0
Road Rovers	hasFeature	Speech-Impaired Animal / int_dae94b19
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_de48ce05	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_de48ce05	comment	All of the Happy Tree Friends characters seem to be Speaking Simlish, but if you listen closely you can make out a few words here and there, so they may be an extreme example of this trope.
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_de48ce05	featureApplicability	1.0
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_de48ce05	featureConfidence	1.0
Happy Tree Friends (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Speech-Impaired Animal / int_de48ce05
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_e381e71f	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_e381e71f	comment	In Digimon Tamers, Marine Angemon's dialogue is unique in that he speaks like he's underwater. Thankfully, his Tamer, Kenta, can understand him. The dub just has Marine Angemon speak short sentences.
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_e381e71f	featureApplicability	1.0
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_e381e71f	featureConfidence	1.0
Digimon Tamers	hasFeature	Speech-Impaired Animal / int_e381e71f
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_e3a34f94	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_e3a34f94	comment	Touch (1981): Minami's pet dog "Punch", though technically the closest thing she does to speech is snickering.
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_e3a34f94	featureApplicability	1.0
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_e3a34f94	featureConfidence	1.0
Touch (1981) (Manga)	hasFeature	Speech-Impaired Animal / int_e3a34f94
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f30b0715	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f30b0715	comment	Spot the cat from Hong Kong Phooey. Which is odd because Hong Kong Phooey himself is a fully anthropomorphic dog.
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f30b0715	featureApplicability	1.0
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f30b0715	featureConfidence	1.0
Hong Kong Phooey	hasFeature	Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f30b0715
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f655ed11	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f655ed11	comment	Eddie on Frasier. He's a regular dog, except he understands what's happening to a highly intelligent degree.
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f655ed11	featureApplicability	1.0
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f655ed11	featureConfidence	1.0
Frasier	hasFeature	Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f655ed11
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f90f1b9f	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f90f1b9f	comment	Zipper in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers is a fly unable to speak clearly with the other (also Talking Animal) characters. Even so other insects seem to be able to speak normally though.
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f90f1b9f	featureApplicability	1.0
Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f90f1b9f	featureConfidence	1.0
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers	hasFeature	Speech-Impaired Animal / int_f90f1b9f

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Speech-Impaired Animal	processingCategory2	Animal Anthropomorphism Tropes
Pangea – The Neverending World (Animation) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Great Mazinger / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Voltron / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Lucky Luke (Comic Book) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Mickey Mouse Comic Universe (Comic Book) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Spirou & Fantasio (Comic Book) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
WE 3 (Comic Book) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Beetle Bailey (Comic Strip) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Knights of the Dinner Table (Comic Strip) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Mutts (Comic Strip) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Dear Diary (Fanfic) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK (Fanfic) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Harry Is A Dragon, And That's Okay (Fanfic) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
The Ronless Factor (Fanfic) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Enchanted / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
The Smurfs / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
The Smurfs 2 / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Gone / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Half Magic / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Pippi Longstocking / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
The Night's Dawn Trilogy / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Goldfish Warning! (Manga) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Touch (1981) (Manga) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Kids Praise (Music) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
SeaQuest DSV / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
The Upside Down Show / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
AdventureQuest (Video Game) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Death Road to Canada (Video Game) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Sneaky Sasquatch (Video Game) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Yumeria (Visual Novel) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Two More Eggs (Web Animation) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Kid Time Storytime (Web Video) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Yokoka's Quest (Webcomic) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Centurions / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Denver the Last Dinosaur / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Dog City / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
DuckTales (2017) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Goof Troop / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Inspector Gadget / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Krypto the Superdog / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Little Angels: The Brightest Christmas / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
My Pet Monster / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Peg + Cat / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Pound Puppies (2010) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Richie Rich (1980) / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
SCOOB! / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Superfriends / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Tad, the Lost Explorer / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
The Nutshack / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
The Scooby-Doo Project / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
The Scooby-Doo Show / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
The Secret Files of The Spy Dogs / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
The Secret Saturdays / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Treehouse of Horror / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
T.U.F.F. Puppy / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Una pelÃcula de huevos / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Wacky Races / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Wallace & Gromit / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal

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