...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

An American Tail

992 statements
196 feature instances
279 referencing feature instances

An American Tail	type	TVTItem
An American Tail	label	An American Tail
An American Tail	page	AnAmericanTail
An American Tail	comment	A collaboration between Don Bluth and Steven Spielberg (and the latter's first animated production), An American Tail starts off on Hanukkah in 1885, opening in a schtetl in the Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine). The camera pans past the house belonging to the human Moskowitz family to reveal a tiny duplicate house inhabited by the Mousekewitz family. They are Jewish-Russian mice who are forced to escape persecution after their village is destroyed in a pogrom by Cossack cats.Believing in the American dream, they head to New York City by boat because "there are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese." The hero, a little mouse named Fievel, is washed overboard in a storm, and his search for his family, who believe he is dead and therefore aren't looking for him, forms the bulk of the film. Once arriving in America, all mice immediately discover that there are indeed cats in America. They begin living in a typical late 19th century immigrant manner: working in a sweatshop, living in horrible conditions, being extorted by gangs and living in constant fear of being eaten.note Okay, that last one is specific to immigrant mice, but you get the picture.Saw a sequel five years later with Fievel Goes West, a pastiche of classic westerns in which the Mousekewitz family, still dirt poor and at the mercy of ever-more-sophisticated cats, flee New York for a Wild Western town. The debut production of Spielberg's Amblimation studio (albeit featuring no involvement from Bluth), the film, unusually for its period, was a full-budgeted theatrical release boasting comparably fluid animation to its predecessor (despite its conspicuously Lighter and Softer tone). A short-lived TV series set within the same Western town (Fievel's American Tails) aired the following year; both instalments featured a Role Reprise from Phillip Glasser as Fievel. Years later, two additional DTV sequels (The Treasure of Manhattan Island and Mystery of the Night Monster) were produced; both films play fast and loose with the established continuity, and had no involvement from either Bluth or Spielberg. While the series (mostly) retains a surprisingly consistent cast by the standards of most '90s animated franchises, Dom De Luise (Tiger) and Nehemiah Persoff (Papa Mousekewitz) are the sole actors to feature in all four films
An American Tail	fetched	2024-03-15T17:32:08Z
An American Tail	parsed	2024-03-15T17:32:08Z
An American Tail	processingComment	Dropped link to FiddlerOnTheRoof: Not a Feature - ITEM
An American Tail	processingComment	Dropped link to MickeyMouse: Not a Feature - ITEM
An American Tail	processingComment	Dropped link to TheGodfatherPartII: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
An American Tail	processingUnknown	TheGodfatherPartII
An American Tail	isPartOf	DBTropes
An American Tail / int_11b2e74f	type	An Immigrant's Tale
An American Tail / int_11b2e74f	comment	An Immigrant's Tale: This film is about the Mousekewitz family's immigration from their native Russia to New York City.
An American Tail / int_11b2e74f	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_11b2e74f	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_11b2e74f
An American Tail / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
An American Tail / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Honest John is a pretty blatant parody of "Boss" Tweed.
An American Tail / int_1282bf4f	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_1282bf4f	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_1282bf4f
An American Tail / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
An American Tail / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: A mild one, but the Irish mouse sings this during "There Are No Cats In America: "A calico, he caught us by surprise!" Nearly every calico cat is female, so calico males are actually very rare. Then again, the calico he encountered may have been one of those rare male calicos.
An American Tail / int_18aff462	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_18aff462	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_18aff462
An American Tail / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
An American Tail / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The mice manage to stop the Giant Mouse of Minsk robot from being released early... only to have to release it immediately after it stops.
An American Tail / int_1994ba0b	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_1994ba0b	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_1994ba0b
An American Tail / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
An American Tail / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: Papa screaming out "FIIIIIEEEVEEEELLLL!!" at a couple different points, Fievel also shouts "Papa!!!" numerous times.
An American Tail / int_1a3a91dd	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_1a3a91dd	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_1a3a91dd
An American Tail / int_1b9079be	type	Snooping Little Kid
An American Tail / int_1b9079be	comment	Snooping Little Kid: Fievel was being a Snooping Little Kid when he snuck into the secret hideout of the cats and found out Warren T. Rat was really a cat in disguise.
An American Tail / int_1b9079be	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_1b9079be	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_1b9079be
An American Tail / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
An American Tail / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Warren tries to come off as this by playing the violin and quoting Shakespeare. He's not very good at either of those things, though.
An American Tail / int_1c6ded94	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_1c6ded94	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_1c6ded94
An American Tail / int_1fe36347	type	Take My Hand!
An American Tail / int_1fe36347	comment	Take My Hand!: Papa tries to grab Fievel's hand after he slips onto the deck of the ship. Sadly, Fievel's sleeve rips and he ends up washed overboard.
An American Tail / int_1fe36347	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_1fe36347	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_1fe36347
An American Tail / int_215f0830	type	Big Shadow, Little Creature
An American Tail / int_215f0830	comment	Big Shadow, Little Creature: Done while Fievel is aimlessly wandering through the city. Fievel's shadow takes up a whole wall.
An American Tail / int_215f0830	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_215f0830	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_215f0830
An American Tail / int_216c045b	type	The Scottish Trope
An American Tail / int_216c045b	comment	The Scottish Trope: For some reason the mice think the cats are more likely to come after them if they say the word 'cat' too loud.
An American Tail / int_216c045b	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_216c045b	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_216c045b
An American Tail / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
An American Tail / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Russia and New York are essentially portrayed as this for the mice, living under constant fear of cat attacks. New York gets worse in the sequel.
An American Tail / int_21d70919	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_21d70919	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_21d70919
An American Tail / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
An American Tail / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Fievel and his family keep missing each other when they're nearby. Perhaps the most frustrating time is when Fievel is at the podium at a rally that all the mice in New York are at, and his sister Tanya can't see him because someone's hat is in the way.
An American Tail / int_21e5b9c7	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_21e5b9c7	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_21e5b9c7
An American Tail / int_2251ac0a	type	Ode to Family
An American Tail / int_2251ac0a	comment	Ode to Family: "Somewhere Out There" was originally a song about siblings missing each other, but the Breakaway Pop Hit version warped it into a romance song.
An American Tail / int_2251ac0a	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_2251ac0a	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_2251ac0a
An American Tail / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
An American Tail / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Early in the film, when the Mouskewitzes first arrive at Ellis Island believing Fievel drowned at sea and is gone for good, Tanya's name is changed to "Tilly". At first it seems the only apparent reason for this was to educate kids about how immigration worked at the time. But later, when she hears Tony and Bridget calling "Philly!", this is how she realizes they're calling for Fievel. In the opening Hanukkah scene, Papa tells Fievel and Tanya the story of "the giant mouse of Minsk," who was "so big he frightened all the cats." Fievel's memory of that story inspires the giant mouse-shaped "secret weapon" used to drive away the cats in the film's climax.
An American Tail / int_22cf536c	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_22cf536c	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_22cf536c
An American Tail / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
An American Tail / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Some, despite the movie taking place in 1885-86. A group of children are shown reciting the Pledge of Allegiance which wouldn't be invented until 1892, and they add 'Under God', which wouldn't be added until 1951. And they have their hands over their hearts (They couldn't have had them using the original salute, which was co-opted by the Nazis in the 1930's and '40's). The phonograph was in its infancy at the time of the movie's setting, and wax cylinders were not commercially available until 1889. Also, "The Stars and Stripes Forever" is played by the phonograph, but the song wasn't published until 1897.
An American Tail / int_259d5879	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_259d5879	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_259d5879
An American Tail / int_27a58d30	type	Carnivore Confusion
An American Tail / int_27a58d30	comment	Carnivore Confusion: Of the "Predators Are Mean" and "they could become vegan if they really wanted" varieties. To be fair, at least some of the cats do human-like evil things to the mice such as terrorizing them into paying a protection racket or selling them to sweatshop labor factories rather then eating them.
An American Tail / int_27a58d30	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_27a58d30	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_27a58d30
An American Tail / int_29ee1e5b	type	Regional Riff
An American Tail / int_29ee1e5b	comment	Regional Riff: The Oriental Riff, when Hong Kong is mentioned. Both Times.
An American Tail / int_29ee1e5b	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_29ee1e5b	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_29ee1e5b
An American Tail / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
An American Tail / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Applies to most of the characters. Fievel's always got his red sweatshirt, blue pants and iconic hat. Granted, he turns it inside out and it becomes a cowboy hat (somehow) in Fievel Goes West and he wears a yellow neckerchief. Averted entirely with Tanya.
An American Tail / int_2a7e7af1	featureApplicability	-1.0
An American Tail / int_2a7e7af1	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_2a7e7af1
An American Tail / int_2b8a34a0	type	No Cartoon Fish
An American Tail / int_2b8a34a0	comment	No Cartoon Fish: The herring and "sewer shark" are drawn photo-realistically — but then again so are the humans.
An American Tail / int_2b8a34a0	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_2b8a34a0	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_2b8a34a0
An American Tail / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
An American Tail / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: The films aren't afraid to show New York's dark side, reflecting 'Gilded Age' New York. The first film shows a dirty New York run by cat gangs and filled with homeless orphans, Fievel Goes West portrays it as dirty, polluted, noisy and dangerous, and The Treasure of Manhattan even highlights Police Brutality, sweatshops and racism.
An American Tail / int_2bdb6280	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_2bdb6280	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_2bdb6280
An American Tail / int_2e528f4e	type	What Measure Is a Non-Cute?
An American Tail / int_2e528f4e	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Most of the cats are bullies, but Tiger is noticeably cute and looks like the Cowardly Lion and the cats who explicitly try to eat the protagonists are drawn as big, violent monsters. Digit the cockroach is just a pest and is kind of cute but the sewer roaches who menace Fievel are rendered as realistic Big Creepy-Crawlies. Goes West has Fievel menaced by a non-cute scorpion and hawk.
An American Tail / int_2e528f4e	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_2e528f4e	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_2e528f4e
An American Tail / int_2f1fa94c	type	Mysterious Middle Initial
An American Tail / int_2f1fa94c	comment	Mysterious Middle Initial: Warren T. Rat, and in the sequel, Cat R. Waul (John Cleese). Though the middle initials in both names are there to create a pun.
An American Tail / int_2f1fa94c	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_2f1fa94c	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_2f1fa94c
An American Tail / int_30c15c8f	type	Watching Troy Burn
An American Tail / int_30c15c8f	comment	Watching Troy Burn: At the beginning, the village of Shostka, Russia suffers a pogrom at the hands of Russian Cossacks, and their pet cats. They set fire to most of the buildings, and after the Mousekewitz family survives the attack, they watch from a distance as their village goes up in flames. Thus, they decide to go to America.
An American Tail / int_30c15c8f	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_30c15c8f	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_30c15c8f
An American Tail / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
An American Tail / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Sleazy Politician: "Honest" John. His sleaziness mainly consists of assigning "ghost votes" to deceased mice (votes which naturally automatically go to him), making sure his name is attached to the effort to exile the cats terrorizing New York when without Fievel and Gussie Mausheimer it would have never happened, and being drunk all the time. Played with elsewhere in the movie, as he plays a crucial role in the project by making sure the Giant Mouse of Minsk is not deployed prematurely, and gives Fievel full credit for it.
An American Tail / int_30ed4f7d	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_30ed4f7d	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_30ed4f7d
An American Tail / int_318bdacf	type	Elmuh Fudd Syndwome
An American Tail / int_318bdacf	comment	Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Gussie "Wewease da Secwet Weapon" Mausheimer. Voiced by Madeline Kahn who recycled the voice from the character she played in Blazing Saddles.
An American Tail / int_318bdacf	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_318bdacf	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_318bdacf
An American Tail / int_33981caf	type	Street Urchin
An American Tail / int_33981caf	comment	Street Urchin: There are quite a few in New York, and Fievel nearly becomes one himself.
An American Tail / int_33981caf	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_33981caf	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_33981caf
An American Tail / int_347f24ca	type	Birdcaged
An American Tail / int_347f24ca	comment	Birdcaged: Warren's gang puts Fievel in a bird cage when they capture him, but Tiger lets him out.
An American Tail / int_347f24ca	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_347f24ca	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_347f24ca
An American Tail / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
An American Tail / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: We know Warren is evil after he sells Fievel into a sweatshop for 50 cents.
An American Tail / int_34dcfc96	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_34dcfc96	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_34dcfc96
An American Tail / int_34e1ef45	type	Unnamed Parent
An American Tail / int_34e1ef45	comment	Unnamed Parent: Fievel's parents are known only as "Mama" and "Papa". An episode of Fievel's American Tails in which Fievel's Aunt Sophie comes to visit gives Papa the name Bernard.
An American Tail / int_34e1ef45	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_34e1ef45	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_34e1ef45
An American Tail / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
An American Tail / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: Henri the pigeon, who builds and lives in the Statue of Liberty. When you take into account that the statue is a gift to the United States from the people of France, it makes sense.
An American Tail / int_34f8042a	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_34f8042a	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_34f8042a
An American Tail / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
An American Tail / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Madeline Kahn plays Gussie Mouseheimer with the same Elmuh Fudd Syndwome she used for Lilly von Schtupp in Blazing Saddles.
An American Tail / int_392372f9	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_392372f9	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_392372f9
An American Tail / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
An American Tail / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: The film is an aggressive yet heartfelt movie about the expectations vs reality immigrants faced when moving from Russia to America in the late 19th century.
An American Tail / int_3ac583f4	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_3ac583f4	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_3ac583f4
An American Tail / int_3b4b7b79	type	Ass in a Lion Skin
An American Tail / int_3b4b7b79	comment	Ass in a Lion Skin: Warren T. Rat (actually a cat himself) dresses as a rat to fool the mice into buying into his protection racket against the cats.
An American Tail / int_3b4b7b79	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_3b4b7b79	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_3b4b7b79
An American Tail / int_3bd384bf	type	Parasol of Prettiness
An American Tail / int_3bd384bf	comment	Parasol of Prettiness: Bridget has one when Tony first meets her.
An American Tail / int_3bd384bf	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_3bd384bf	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_3bd384bf
An American Tail / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
An American Tail / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: "Tale". "Tail". Get it? Most of the overseas translations weren't able to incorporate this trope, but the German version, Feivel Der Mauswanderer, pulled it off (the word for emigrant is "auswanderer", so add an 'm' and it becomes a cute mouse pun).
An American Tail / int_3eb0f889	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_3eb0f889	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_3eb0f889
An American Tail / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
An American Tail / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: After Fievel escapes from Warren's gang just before the climax, the other cats demand that Tiger tell them how he got away; Tiger says that Fievel overpowered him.
An American Tail / int_40bb59d0	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_40bb59d0	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_40bb59d0
An American Tail / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
An American Tail / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Papa and Mama have vaguely Eastern European accents, but their children Fievel and Tanya don't; they have neutral American accents instead.
An American Tail / int_43b154c9	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_43b154c9	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_43b154c9
An American Tail / int_43d612b7	type	Disney Acid Sequence
An American Tail / int_43d612b7	comment	Disney Acid Sequence: "We're a Duo", Fievel and Tiger's ode to The Power of Friendship, vaguely resembles one of the music videos from Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall" album.
An American Tail / int_43d612b7	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_43d612b7	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_43d612b7
An American Tail / int_44109de3	type	Cat Stereotype
An American Tail / int_44109de3	comment	Cat Stereotype: Tiger (orange) is the one good cat. In the first sequel, his love interest is light grey.
An American Tail / int_44109de3	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_44109de3	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_44109de3
An American Tail / int_450d9b75	type	Scavenged Punk
An American Tail / int_450d9b75	comment	Scavenged Punk: As expected with such a large Mouse World, this trope is in full force with many scavenged materials coming from humans.
An American Tail / int_450d9b75	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_450d9b75	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_450d9b75
An American Tail / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
An American Tail / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Almost all of the friends Fievel makes in the movies are much older than he is.
An American Tail / int_47d35854	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_47d35854	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_47d35854
An American Tail / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
An American Tail / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Some of the cats are reused bits of Dragon from The Secret of NIMH, and they all appear to owe quite a bit to his terrifying "cats as seen by mice" design. Additionally, there are moments where both the Cossack Cats and the Maulers who raid the market are the same animated cats with wardrobe changes. The cats also reuse Dragon's monstrous growls.
An American Tail / int_4856ac40	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_4856ac40	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_4856ac40
An American Tail / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
An American Tail / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Come on, you weren't really fooled by Warren's fake nose, were you?
An American Tail / int_48b9731f	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_48b9731f	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_48b9731f
An American Tail / int_48dfb7e4	type	Stock Sound Effects
An American Tail / int_48dfb7e4	comment	Stock Sound Effects: The growls of the Cossack cats were lifted from Dragon in The Secret of NIMH, with one of them coming from the Balrog in 1978's The Lord of the Rings.
An American Tail / int_48dfb7e4	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_48dfb7e4	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_48dfb7e4
An American Tail / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
An American Tail / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Gussie Mouseheimer, the rich mouse who rallies the mice of New York City to stand up to the cats.
An American Tail / int_4a852458	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_4a852458	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_4a852458
An American Tail / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
An American Tail / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Fievel goes through a lot of trauma in the first film. He gets separated from his family as they flee the cats, nearly drowns in the Atlantic Ocean, gets abused by the cats of America when he manages to make it there, and has to release the Giant Mouse of Minsk while getting knocked out for it. The whole time, Fievel slowly gets less sure that he'll find his family in America, ultimately crossing the Despair Event Horizon when some kids on Orphan's Row tell Fievel that he's never going to find them again, because they're clearly not looking for him.
An American Tail / int_4b316d47	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_4b316d47	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_4b316d47
An American Tail / int_4c977bea	type	Humanoid Female Animal
An American Tail / int_4c977bea	comment	Humanoid Female Animal: Bridget is the best example in the first movie (even having very human-looking hands), the sequels do it more though. Female characters tend to have much smaller hands and feet in the series.
An American Tail / int_4c977bea	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_4c977bea	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_4c977bea
An American Tail / int_4cefd8a6	type	Long Song, Short Scene
An American Tail / int_4cefd8a6	comment	Long Song, Short Scene: For some reason the jazzy background orchestration for Warren's first scene is completely absent from the soundtrack, and thus is impossible to find anywhere.
An American Tail / int_4cefd8a6	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_4cefd8a6	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_4cefd8a6
An American Tail / int_4fe1aa4c	type	Gorgeous Period Dress
An American Tail / int_4fe1aa4c	comment	Gorgeous Period Dress: On the more wealthy female characters.
An American Tail / int_4fe1aa4c	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_4fe1aa4c	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_4fe1aa4c
An American Tail / int_505ec51b	type	Immigrant Patriotism
An American Tail / int_505ec51b	comment	Both Bridget and Mausheimer represent forms of Immigrant Patriotism, who after managing to achieve success, use their positions to advocate for immigrant rights and reform.
An American Tail / int_505ec51b	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_505ec51b	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_505ec51b
An American Tail / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
An American Tail / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Moe, the sweatshop owner, as well as Roc, one of the orphan bullies
An American Tail / int_51300dbf	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_51300dbf	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_51300dbf
An American Tail / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
An American Tail / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The film begins with Papa giving Fievel his hat as a Hanukkah present, with the hat being too big to fit him and Mama telling him he'll grow into it. The film ends with Papa giving it to him again after they're reunited and this time it fits him, signifying that he's grown from his experiences throughout the film.
An American Tail / int_53224e46	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_53224e46	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_53224e46
An American Tail / int_544b2bff	type	Signature Item Clue
An American Tail / int_544b2bff	comment	Signature Item Clue: Bridget and Tony are looking for Fievel, who got lost during the fire at the pier. Papa Mousekewitz, who had given up his son for dead, refuses to believe that it's the same Fievel Mousekewitz, until he is presented with the hat Papa gave Fievel earlier in the film.
An American Tail / int_544b2bff	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_544b2bff	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_544b2bff
An American Tail / int_546b3fc7	type	City of Gold
An American Tail / int_546b3fc7	comment	City of Gold: What the mice believe America must be like, described as a "City of Cheese". Unfortunately, once they get there, it's not what they imagined.
An American Tail / int_546b3fc7	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_546b3fc7	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_546b3fc7
An American Tail / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
An American Tail / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Applies to the sheer amount of cat attacks Fievel's been able to walk away from unharmed.
An American Tail / int_550754dc	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_550754dc	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_550754dc
An American Tail / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
An American Tail / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: When an immigration officer at Ellis Island asks one of them his surname, he replies with a long Slavic name, to which the officer replies, "Okay, Mr... Smith". Meanwhile, Tanya has her first name changed to "Tilly" by the mouse immigration officer. New immigrants have never had their names changed for them upon immigration to America. While name changes did occur after people immigrated, this was always done by the immigrants themselves voluntarily, and not until well after they had arrived.
An American Tail / int_56515a39	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_56515a39	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_56515a39
An American Tail / int_56ade6eb	type	Sapient Eat Sapient
An American Tail / int_56ade6eb	comment	Sapient Eat Sapient: Nearly every animal is shown to be wholly sapient, but that doesn't stop the food chain. Nearly every plot point is based in someone trying not to get eaten by someone else.
An American Tail / int_56ade6eb	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_56ade6eb	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_56ade6eb
An American Tail / int_56d0b84c	type	Buffoonish Tomcat
An American Tail / int_56d0b84c	comment	Buffoonish Tomcat: Tiger being seen as an not-so-bright Fat Comic Relief in the sequel and is the poster boy for this trope.
An American Tail / int_56d0b84c	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_56d0b84c	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_56d0b84c
An American Tail / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
An American Tail / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: The mice represent the disenfranchised of the world, and the cats represent their oppressors. In Fievel's Russian hometown, the cats are antisemitic Cossack raiders. In Sicily, they're gangsters. And in Ireland, they're the British. In America itself, they represent all the huddled masses who came to America to find a better life but were taken advantage of by the locals as represented by Warren T. Rat, who starts off his on-screen villainy by selling Fievel to a sweat shop for 25Â¢.
An American Tail / int_57b80b45	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_57b80b45	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_57b80b45
An American Tail / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
An American Tail / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: As stated elsewhere, Don Bluth is probably a dog person. Although Tiger is a nice guy, he seems to be the exception. Don Bluth said once in an interview that "We knew that if we were going to say "all cats are bad", we wanted to have at least one "good" one...and that's Tiger." But besides him, cats are the enemies of mice, and portrayed as such. The first movie sees cats regularly trying to eat the mice. A few of them are smart enough to engage in some Pragmatic Villainy to exploit the mice with the threat of being eaten over their heads, but just as many are brutish thugs who love torturing the mice and making them run in fear. The Mousekewitz family (along with many others) leave their home in Russia explicitly because of the promise that "there are no cats in America and the streets are paved with cheese", hoping to get away from the cats. The second movie sees the Big Bad, Cat R. Waul, trying to do much the same as the cats from the first movie, but he's a little more pragmatic and deceitful about it. Besides reining in the more brutish members of his gang, Cat R. Waul is a Villain with Good Publicity, acting like he wants to share a world where cat and mouse coexist peacefully. In private, he wants to lure all the mice into a false sense of security and kill them all in a giant mousetrap for mouse burgers, all while making the mice do the work for him under the pretense of a better life.
An American Tail / int_58e43f17	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_58e43f17	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_58e43f17
An American Tail / int_59605a46	type	Beast Fable
An American Tail / int_59605a46	comment	Beast Fable: They're not just mice. They're Russo-Jewish immigrants, trying to escape oppression in their home country by achieving the idealistic of The American Dream: If you work hard enough, you can be rich and successful!
An American Tail / int_59605a46	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_59605a46	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_59605a46
An American Tail / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
An American Tail / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Policemouse: "We've got to do something about those cats." Honest John: "Besides paying Warren T. Rat for no protection."
An American Tail / int_59907e4f	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_59907e4f	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_59907e4f
An American Tail / int_5a7b4065	type	Bedsheet Ladder
An American Tail / int_5a7b4065	comment	Bedsheet Ladder: Fievel uses this to escape a sweatshop, freeing the rest of the workers as well.
An American Tail / int_5a7b4065	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_5a7b4065	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_5a7b4065
An American Tail / int_5ac40681	type	Are We There Yet?
An American Tail / int_5ac40681	comment	Are We There Yet?: Fievel asks this on the boat ride to America in the first movie, and on the train ride out west in Fievel Goes West.
An American Tail / int_5ac40681	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_5ac40681	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_5ac40681
An American Tail / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
An American Tail / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Well, sort of. The cats fall, but it's onto a boat headed for Hong Kong, and they survive. Either way, they're no longer a threat.
An American Tail / int_5bdcc85a	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_5bdcc85a	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_5bdcc85a
An American Tail / int_5be919ae	type	Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario
An American Tail / int_5be919ae	comment	Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: At the point where Fievel actually gives up his search for his family, they find him shortly thereafter.
An American Tail / int_5be919ae	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_5be919ae	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_5be919ae
An American Tail / int_5ca04734	type	The Legend of Chekhov
An American Tail / int_5ca04734	comment	The Legend of Chekhov: "Did I ever tell you the story of the Giant Mouse of Minsk?"
An American Tail / int_5ca04734	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_5ca04734	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_5ca04734
An American Tail / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
An American Tail / int_5ca80293	comment	The first movie sees cats regularly trying to eat the mice. A few of them are smart enough to engage in some Pragmatic Villainy to exploit the mice with the threat of being eaten over their heads, but just as many are brutish thugs who love torturing the mice and making them run in fear. The Mousekewitz family (along with many others) leave their home in Russia explicitly because of the promise that "there are no cats in America and the streets are paved with cheese", hoping to get away from the cats.
An American Tail / int_5ca80293	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_5ca80293	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_5ca80293
An American Tail / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
An American Tail / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The film is an allegory on the idealistic expectations vs harsh reality of immigration for the Russians heading towards America.
An American Tail / int_5ce7dbb9	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_5ce7dbb9	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_5ce7dbb9
An American Tail / int_5d777251	type	That's All, Folks!
An American Tail / int_5d777251	comment	That's All, Folks!: Right before the credits, Fievel and Tanya wave to the audience and shout "Bye-bye!" as they fly away on Henri.
An American Tail / int_5d777251	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_5d777251	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_5d777251
An American Tail / int_5f45ab38	type	Space Jews
An American Tail / int_5f45ab38	comment	Space Jews: Well, Mouse Jews. And Mouse Italians and Mouse Irish. And French Pigeons. Persecuted by Cat Cossacks.
An American Tail / int_5f45ab38	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_5f45ab38	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_5f45ab38
An American Tail / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
An American Tail / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: In The Mystery of the Night Monster, we see Nellie Brie investigating the movie's conflict before Fievel gets involved and using disguises to infiltrate restricted areas.
An American Tail / int_5f52cfcf	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_5f52cfcf	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_5f52cfcf
An American Tail / int_60a9c83c	type	Costumes Change Your Size
An American Tail / int_60a9c83c	comment	Costumes Change Your Size: This is the only reasonable explanation for how Warren T. Rat was able to disguise himself as a rat when he's actually a cat.
An American Tail / int_60a9c83c	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_60a9c83c	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_60a9c83c
An American Tail / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
An American Tail / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: So blatant it was used in the trailer for its sequel Fievel Goes West; when Fievel points to the horizon and asks if he can go see more of America, his pigeon friend Henri answers "Someday, you will!"
An American Tail / int_6293c185	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6293c185	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6293c185
An American Tail / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
An American Tail / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Fievel is escaping the cat's mouth, you can see a worm in an apple slice the instant he climbs.
An American Tail / int_62f9d08e	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_62f9d08e	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_62f9d08e
An American Tail / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
An American Tail / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: The three kids Fievel meets in Orphan Alley convince Fievel that he'll never find his family, and then shove him into a puddle and throw hay at him so he can make a bed.
An American Tail / int_63389b0b	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_63389b0b	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_63389b0b
An American Tail / int_63cd6ccb	type	Image Song
An American Tail / int_63cd6ccb	comment	Image Song: The "Fievel and Friends" album is made up of these. Released around when Fievel Goes West came out, it's sung by characters from the movies, of which only Fievel is being voiced by his real voice actor.
An American Tail / int_63cd6ccb	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_63cd6ccb	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_63cd6ccb
An American Tail / int_642ec379	type	Vot Ocksent?
An American Tail / int_642ec379	comment	Vot Ocksent?: Gussie Mausheimer from An American Tail has Elmuh Fudd Syndwome, and pronounces the word "rally" as "wowie". After Honest John asks what a "wowie" is and she explains it to him, he figures out that she meant "rally". She replies irritably "Zats vhat I said! A wowie!"
An American Tail / int_642ec379	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_642ec379	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_642ec379
An American Tail / int_64e39841	type	Self-Soothing Song
An American Tail / int_64e39841	comment	Self-Soothing Song: "Somewhere Out There", which Tanya and Fievel sing separately but as a duet, with her still believing her little brother is alive somewhere, and him knowing his family is out there and he needs to find them.
An American Tail / int_64e39841	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_64e39841	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_64e39841
An American Tail / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
An American Tail / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Papa sheds them when he thinks Fievel is dead.
An American Tail / int_64e975cf	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_64e975cf	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_64e975cf
An American Tail / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
An American Tail / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: When Fievel learns that Warren T. is really a cat in disguise and the leader of the cats terrorizing New York, he immediately finds himself pursued by the gang.
An American Tail / int_65acf9db	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_65acf9db	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_65acf9db
An American Tail / int_6660aaf	type	Herbivores Are Friendly
An American Tail / int_6660aaf	comment	Herbivores Are Friendly: Tiger, a Vegetarian Carnivore, is the only nice cat in the film. He befriends Fievel after confessing that his favorite food is broccoli.
An American Tail / int_6660aaf	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6660aaf	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6660aaf
An American Tail / int_6732af17	type	Pep-Talk Song
An American Tail / int_6732af17	comment	Pep-Talk Song: "Never Say Never" is an owl who lives in the Statue of Liberty telling Fievel that he can't give up looking for his family or stop fighting against the cats.
An American Tail / int_6732af17	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6732af17	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6732af17
An American Tail / int_6965038d	type	Fatal Fireworks
An American Tail / int_6965038d	comment	Fatal Fireworks: At the end when the mice drive off the cats, the Giant Mouse of Minsk they build includes batteries of fireworks rockets that they fire at the fleeing cats to give them just that much more motivation to leave.
An American Tail / int_6965038d	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6965038d	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6965038d
An American Tail / int_69655022	type	Gigantic Moon
An American Tail / int_69655022	comment	Gigantic Moon: During "Somewhere Out There", Fievel is watching the moon rise over the horizon, dwarfing the New York skyline.
An American Tail / int_69655022	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_69655022	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_69655022
An American Tail / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
An American Tail / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Fievel, most notably in the first 5 minutes of the first movie.
An American Tail / int_69681e01	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_69681e01	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_69681e01
An American Tail / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
An American Tail / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: The cats can flip between this and Laughably Evil at will, but when the cats decide to be a threat, they hit somewhere around pants-crappingly terrifying (particularly the Russian sequence in the first movie). Justified, as they're natural predators of mice and are way, way bigger.
An American Tail / int_6a47a1e2	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6a47a1e2	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6a47a1e2
An American Tail / int_6a60948a	type	Expressive Ears
An American Tail / int_6a60948a	comment	Expressive Ears: Fievel's ears seem to move around the most, going down when he's sad and up when he's alert or listening for his Papa. At least when his hat doesn't get in the way.
An American Tail / int_6a60948a	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6a60948a	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6a60948a
An American Tail / int_6a9c9b41	type	Brats with Slingshots
An American Tail / int_6a9c9b41	comment	Brats with Slingshots: Tony Toponi, when he shoots Warren's disguise off.
An American Tail / int_6a9c9b41	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6a9c9b41	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6a9c9b41
An American Tail / int_6b146924	type	Species Surname
An American Tail / int_6b146924	comment	Species Surname: Though they get creative with it. Mousekewitz, Toponi, etc.
An American Tail / int_6b146924	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6b146924	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6b146924
An American Tail / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
An American Tail / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: "You're not a rat, you're a CAT!"
An American Tail / int_6b2b3b59	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6b2b3b59	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6b2b3b59
An American Tail / int_6b54b191	type	A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family
An American Tail / int_6b54b191	comment	A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family: The Mousekewitz's.
An American Tail / int_6b54b191	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6b54b191	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6b54b191
An American Tail / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
An American Tail / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: The villains Warren T. Rat (warranty) and Cat R. Waul (caterwaul). The fourth film had Reed Daley (read daily), a newspaper editor, and Nelly Brie (a cheese pun on real life Intrepid Reporter Nelly Bly).
An American Tail / int_6d7026fa	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6d7026fa	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6d7026fa
An American Tail / int_6e27397	type	Missed Him by That Much
An American Tail / int_6e27397	comment	Missed Him by That Much: Over and over, Fievel and the rest of his family come within centimeters of meeting back up again, but just miss each other every time. This is played for Dramatic Irony, as Fievel's whole goal is to find his family again. In several scenes, all he'd have to do is just tilt his head a certain direction, and he'd see his parents or his sister, but he doesn't. They only reunite right at the end of the movie, right after Fievel assumes that his family isn't coming to find him.
An American Tail / int_6e27397	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6e27397	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6e27397
An American Tail / int_6e60e40a	type	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey
An American Tail / int_6e60e40a	comment	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Par the course for just about every villain in the movies. Though in the case of Cat R. Waul's lackey Chula he only became laughable in the TV series, being Ax-Crazy in the film.
An American Tail / int_6e60e40a	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_6e60e40a	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_6e60e40a
An American Tail / int_72b6d765	type	Impossible Shadow Puppets
An American Tail / int_72b6d765	comment	Impossible Shadow Puppets: Papa is somehow able to pull off a convincing Giant Mouse of Minsk with his hands at the beginning of the film.
An American Tail / int_72b6d765	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_72b6d765	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_72b6d765
An American Tail / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
An American Tail / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The cover of the DVD release features Tanya as she appears in the sequel Fievel Goes West. Probably because she's prettier to look at.
An American Tail / int_7315fd38	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_7315fd38	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_7315fd38
An American Tail / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
An American Tail / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: The mice from various countries, fleeing oppression in their homelands at the hands of cats, in the belief that in America prosperity is plentiful and cats are scarce. Needless to say, their troubles don't end upon reaching the docks.
An American Tail / int_7870735b	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_7870735b	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_7870735b
An American Tail / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
An American Tail / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: An interesting mid-project case. When we first see the New Yorker cats, they are every bit as feral and terrifying as the Cossack cats in Russia. However when Fievel confronts them in Warren's lair, they are still menacing, but much more anthropomorphic and bumbling, and banter in human voices rather than monstrous grunts and roars they had before. This can be interpreted as Fievel's perspective of the cats being broadened, having only met them as invading menaces before, now he sees they are thinking and fallible creatures, and some like Tiger aren't even mean.
An American Tail / int_7bb844ec	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_7bb844ec	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_7bb844ec
An American Tail / int_7cf6df0e	type	Good Animals, Evil Animals
An American Tail / int_7cf6df0e	comment	Good Animals, Evil Animals: Mice are good, cats are generally evil; with a few exceptions for both (the aforementioned Tiger, plus the villains of the third movie are mice).
An American Tail / int_7cf6df0e	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_7cf6df0e	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_7cf6df0e
An American Tail / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
An American Tail / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: Tony doesn't seem that much older than Fievel, yet he is married in the first sequel. It may have all been a dream, anyway.
An American Tail / int_7f080f98	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_7f080f98	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_7f080f98
An American Tail / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
An American Tail / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Baby Yasha's existence is inconsistent. The bullying orphans are not there when Fievel is reunited with his family. It's not clear if they moved elsewhere or got scared off by Tiger's approach.
An American Tail / int_863fa679	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_863fa679	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_863fa679
An American Tail / int_86daf505	type	Parental Bonus
An American Tail / int_86daf505	comment	Parental Bonus: Warren T. Rat quotes Shakespeare (albeit in hilarious Malaproper fashion).
An American Tail / int_86daf505	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_86daf505	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_86daf505
An American Tail / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
An American Tail / int_875615dd	comment	That may just sadly be a case of Truth in Television, as emigrating in those days more often caused families to forget their old culture.
An American Tail / int_875615dd	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_875615dd	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_875615dd
An American Tail / int_878ddac8	type	Lineage Ladder
An American Tail / int_878ddac8	comment	Lineage Ladder: During the Hanukkah gifting, Papa Mousekewitz notes that the hat he wears once belonged to his father, and his father's father. With Fieval as the new hat owner, this effectively marks Papa as the third father to pass on the hat to his son in the family.
An American Tail / int_878ddac8	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_878ddac8	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_878ddac8
An American Tail / int_87e661e8	type	Absurdly Spacious Sewer
An American Tail / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Complete with the hideout of the Mott Street Maulers (containing a piano, tables, and other odd things that don't belong in a sewer), a big room with discarded bird cages, and a weird...bug-eating...reptile...thing...
An American Tail / int_87e661e8	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_87e661e8	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_87e661e8
An American Tail / int_88141a44	type	Heartwarming Orphan
An American Tail / int_88141a44	comment	Heartwarming Orphan: Though Fievel is not an orphan he plays the part well enough. Bridget and Tony are also this, to some extent.
An American Tail / int_88141a44	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_88141a44	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_88141a44
An American Tail / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
An American Tail / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name With An S: Fievel's name is listed as 'Feivel' in the beginning credits of the first movie, which is the correct Yiddish spelling. The spelling was changed to 'Fievel' to avoid confusing American audiences who might otherwise pronounce it as 'Fay-vel', but in other countries where the movie was released the 'Feivel' spelling was left intact.
An American Tail / int_89a17726	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_89a17726	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_89a17726
An American Tail / int_8bd26f34	type	Friendship Song
An American Tail / int_8bd26f34	comment	Friendship Song: "A Duo" is this for the film. It's a duet between Fievel and Tiger about how they'd make good friends because they have a lot in common.
An American Tail / int_8bd26f34	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_8bd26f34	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_8bd26f34
An American Tail / int_8c96ae78	type	No One Could Survive That!
An American Tail / int_8c96ae78	comment	No One Could Survive That!: Basically the reason Mama and Papa Mouskewitz don't bother to look for Fievel. Falling overboard into a stormy sea would most definitely mean certain death for anyone, especially a small child mouse like himself.
An American Tail / int_8c96ae78	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_8c96ae78	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_8c96ae78
An American Tail / int_8d25533e	type	Your Size May Vary
An American Tail / int_8d25533e	comment	Your Size May Vary: Taken to the extreme with Warren T. Rat, who at one point is dwarfed by the fat rat at the sweatshop, and later is shown the same size as the rest of the cats in his gang. (But not by that much if you look carefully.) Done on purpose in Fievel and Tiger's song, to show their friendship as equals.
An American Tail / int_8d25533e	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_8d25533e	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_8d25533e
An American Tail / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
An American Tail / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The Mouse of Minsk is noticeably rotoscoped. It gives an eerie and otherworldly feel to the scene that perfectly matches the tone of the moment.
An American Tail / int_912b24c4	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_912b24c4	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_912b24c4
An American Tail / int_927d9def	type	Scarecrow Solution
An American Tail / int_927d9def	comment	Scarecrow Solution: The Giant Mouse of Minsk sees the mice use a giant (well, to them, anyway) mechanical mouse to terrify the cats into leaving them alone. It's double subverted at the end of the movie when they actually try to use it. The subversion comes from them having to stop the release of the Giant Mouse before it's ready, and soon as they stop it, the mice now have to release it. When they do, it starts falling apart and making horrific mechanical noises. The double subversion comes in the fact that this terrifies the cats even further than the Giant Mouse if it had worked properly, and the cats book it as fast as they can.
An American Tail / int_927d9def	featureApplicability	-0.3
An American Tail / int_927d9def	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_927d9def
An American Tail / int_95df2bc3	type	Big Damn Reunion
An American Tail / int_95df2bc3	comment	Big Damn Reunion: At the very end of the first movie, Fievel had given up on ever finding his family, thanks to a bunch of orphans who told Fievel that if they hadn't found him by now, then they must not be looking for him. The next morning, Fievel does manage to find them after all, and the Mousekewitz family is reunited.
An American Tail / int_95df2bc3	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_95df2bc3	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_95df2bc3
An American Tail / int_96c26bf3	type	Armed with Canon
An American Tail / int_96c26bf3	comment	Armed with Canon: Fievel Goes West, the Lighter and Softer first sequel which Don Bluth wasn't involved with, seemed to take a few shots at the first movie (such as Tanya getting tomatoes thrown at her for singing "Somewhere Out There", and New York turning out to be a Crapsack World), and in general carried itself as if Lighter and Softer equaled better. Then the third movie came along, with yet another different team of writers. Fievel wasn't out west anymore, but in New York, and the writers decided to throw in a Wham Line about Fievel having a dream where he moved out west, implying that the second movie is now Canon Discontinuity. They then proceeded to erase the Love Interest of Tony Toponi from the first film and pair him with their new character (which didn't even work in-story).
An American Tail / int_96c26bf3	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_96c26bf3	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_96c26bf3
An American Tail / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
An American Tail / int_970c790a	comment	The second movie sees the Big Bad, Cat R. Waul, trying to do much the same as the cats from the first movie, but he's a little more pragmatic and deceitful about it. Besides reining in the more brutish members of his gang, Cat R. Waul is a Villain with Good Publicity, acting like he wants to share a world where cat and mouse coexist peacefully. In private, he wants to lure all the mice into a false sense of security and kill them all in a giant mousetrap for mouse burgers, all while making the mice do the work for him under the pretense of a better life.
An American Tail / int_970c790a	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_970c790a	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_970c790a
An American Tail / int_97928805	type	Barefoot Cartoon Animal
An American Tail / int_97928805	comment	Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Most of the mouse characters aren't wearing any shoes.
An American Tail / int_97928805	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_97928805	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_97928805
An American Tail / int_97a82530	type	Sewer Gator
An American Tail / int_97a82530	comment	Sewer Gator: Used proportionally with a regular lizard. It eats the cockroaches attacking Fievel, allowing him to escape. A large, creepy-looking fish is also seen in the sewer.
An American Tail / int_97a82530	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_97a82530	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_97a82530
An American Tail / int_9b3251b3	type	Heroic Russian Ã‰migrÃ©
An American Tail / int_9b3251b3	comment	Heroic Russian Ã‰migrÃ©: Fievel Mousekewitz and his family are the protagonist Jewish-Russian migrants who come to America to escape cat cossacks and find a better living.
An American Tail / int_9b3251b3	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_9b3251b3	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_9b3251b3
An American Tail / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
An American Tail / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Warren's solution to dealing with the mice after he's exposed as a cat. He sets the museum on fire.
An American Tail / int_9c1f758a	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_9c1f758a	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_9c1f758a
An American Tail / int_a236dd4c	type	Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
An American Tail / int_a236dd4c	comment	Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: The cat characters typically all wear shirts, tops, and coats, but no pants. The mice, meanwhile, are fully dressed.
An American Tail / int_a236dd4c	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_a236dd4c	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_a236dd4c
An American Tail / int_a293102a	type	Eek, a Mouse!!
An American Tail / int_a293102a	comment	Eek, a Mouse!!: One of the few times a human even notices the mice is when Fievel gets stuck in a woman's phonograph player, and she shrieks and throws things at him.
An American Tail / int_a293102a	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_a293102a	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_a293102a
An American Tail / int_a3dc4ab0	type	Worm in an Apple
An American Tail / int_a3dc4ab0	comment	Worm in an Apple: As Fievel escapes from the cat's throat, he passes by a worm in an apple slice that is about to be digested.
An American Tail / int_a3dc4ab0	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_a3dc4ab0	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_a3dc4ab0
An American Tail / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
An American Tail / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: "Somewhere Out There" is definitely one of the best-known examples, and probably the Trope Codifierâ€”especially the Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram duet.
An American Tail / int_a3eae597	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_a3eae597	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_a3eae597
An American Tail / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
An American Tail / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: "There are No Cats in America" has each character give the tragic story of what the cats did to them in their individual homelands, which is appropriately tragic and dramatic... but on each chorus, it instantly shifts to an upbeat tune about how the problems will all be gone once they get to America.
An American Tail / int_a4c37cbe	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_a4c37cbe	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_a4c37cbe
An American Tail / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
An American Tail / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The Cossack Cats and the three Orphan Alley bullies all receive no comeuppance for their foul actions. Though the three Orphan Alley bullies are presumed to be scared away by Gussie and Tiger when they tried to take Fievel away from his family, or they had already left by then.
An American Tail / int_a70223	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_a70223	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_a70223
An American Tail / int_a8298592	type	Mouse World
An American Tail / int_a8298592	comment	Mouse World: A world which even has its own equivalent of human legends; the "Giant Mouse of Minsk" is an obvious allusion to the Golem of Prague.
An American Tail / int_a8298592	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_a8298592	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_a8298592
An American Tail / int_a8982539	type	Gray Rain of Depression
An American Tail / int_a8982539	comment	Gray Rain of Depression: When Fievel cries during the scene when he's at Orphan Alley.
An American Tail / int_a8982539	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_a8982539	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_a8982539
An American Tail / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
An American Tail / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Tony and Bridget instantly falling in love.
An American Tail / int_a8dcb1d7	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_a8dcb1d7	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_a8dcb1d7
An American Tail / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
An American Tail / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Believing that no one could have survived being thrown off of a ship in the middle of the sea, the Mousekewitz family doesn't look for Fievel after he falls overboard. The audience knows that Fievel is alive, but they don't. For the climax of the movie, the mice just barely stop their Giant Mouse of Minsk from being released too early. However, they do this right before the cats show up. The moment the mice have got the Giant Mouse stopped, they get the call to release it. The audience knows that if they'd just let it go, things would have worked out just fine, but the mice don't know that.
An American Tail / int_ab5eea65	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_ab5eea65	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_ab5eea65
An American Tail / int_abdf7d09	type	Weirdness Censor
An American Tail / int_abdf7d09	comment	Weirdness Censor: Not once do the humans ever find it odd that they're surrounded by clothed mice and cats. No one notices the Giant Mouse of Minsk either. This continues in all other sequels and adaptations, stretched to even more ridiculous heights in all three sequels.
An American Tail / int_abdf7d09	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_abdf7d09	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_abdf7d09
An American Tail / int_ac5fa94	type	Rotoscoping
An American Tail / int_ac5fa94	comment	Rotoscoping: This was used to animate all of the humans appearing in the film, as well as the Giant Mouse of Minsk, while the mouse characters were drawn from scratch. It's actually used in many areas, including a basket elevator and Fievel's birdcage prison.
An American Tail / int_ac5fa94	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_ac5fa94	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_ac5fa94
An American Tail / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
An American Tail / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The entire Maulers gang gets an epic one when the Giant Mouse of Minsk busts through the museum door and starts rapid-firing fireworks at them.
An American Tail / int_ad1db87c	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_ad1db87c	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_ad1db87c
An American Tail / int_ae0bbe52	type	Living Statue
An American Tail / int_ae0bbe52	comment	Living Statue: Apparently the Statue of Liberty is alive. It winks at Fievel at the end.
An American Tail / int_ae0bbe52	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_ae0bbe52	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_ae0bbe52
An American Tail / int_ae4409d2	type	Gravity Is a Harsh Seamstress
An American Tail / int_ae4409d2	comment	Gravity Is a Harsh Seamstress: After being hurled out a window by a frightened lady, Fievel falls through a sock hanging on a clothesline that had a hole at the end, and then grabs onto a hanging head scarf, using it to parachute the rest of the way down.
An American Tail / int_ae4409d2	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_ae4409d2	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_ae4409d2
An American Tail / int_b02f21f	type	Digital Destruction
An American Tail / int_b02f21f	comment	Digital Destruction: The DVD release was horribly tampered with, as is discussed on this forum. Background music and sound effects were changed or added, new voice-overs were inserted, and the orphans who bully Fievel near the end have different voices (though at least the added/alternate dialogue was from the original recording sessions, even for the orphans - if you look at the lip sync of the animation, you can see that their mouth movements match the voices on the DVD version. It still doesn't excuse it, though).
An American Tail / int_b02f21f	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_b02f21f	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_b02f21f
An American Tail / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
An American Tail / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Accidental. When Fievel burns through the rope restraining the Giant Mouse of Minsk, the whiplash from the recoil sends him hurtling head-first into a metal vine-eye, knocking him unconscious. When he comes to a few minutes later, he is surrounded by flames and in crippling pain (if him cradling his head is anything to go by).
An American Tail / int_b1a7cd14	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_b1a7cd14	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_b1a7cd14
An American Tail / int_b1ff5bba	type	Offscreen Karma
An American Tail / int_b1ff5bba	comment	The bullying orphans are not there when Fievel is reunited with his family. It's not clear if they moved elsewhere or got scared off by Tiger's approach.
An American Tail / int_b1ff5bba	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_b1ff5bba	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_b1ff5bba
An American Tail / int_b2af79fb	type	Leave the Camera Running
An American Tail / int_b2af79fb	comment	Leave the Camera Running: Towards the end of the scene at the sweatshop with shots of the seamstresses just after Moe yells at the mice to get to work.
An American Tail / int_b2af79fb	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_b2af79fb	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_b2af79fb
An American Tail / int_b2e5a4f3	type	Virtuous Vegetarianism
An American Tail / int_b2e5a4f3	comment	Virtuous Vegetarianism: The cat Tiger frees the mouse Fievel Mousekewicz from his cage, explaining that he's a vegetarian that never eats mice. Tiger is the only feline character in this film to avert the Cats Are Mean trope, actually becoming Fievel's best friend and confidante.
An American Tail / int_b2e5a4f3	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_b2e5a4f3	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_b2e5a4f3
An American Tail / int_b3f77675	type	Grass Is Greener
An American Tail / int_b3f77675	comment	Grass is Greener: The mice immigrating to the United States believe that "there are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese". But once they get there, not only are the working conditions even worse than back in Eastern Europe, but things don't look to improve any time soon.
An American Tail / int_b3f77675	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_b3f77675	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_b3f77675
An American Tail / int_b475abfb	type	Gut Feeling
An American Tail / int_b475abfb	comment	Gut Feeling: "I just have this feeling - like Fievel's alive!" Tanya is the only one of the Mousekewitzes that believes that Fievel is still alive after they're separated. Mama and Papa believe that there's no way Fievel could have survived.
An American Tail / int_b475abfb	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_b475abfb	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_b475abfb
An American Tail / int_b5b7b872	type	Fell Asleep Crying
An American Tail / int_b5b7b872	comment	Fell Asleep Crying: Fievel cries himself to sleep after giving up on finding his lost family and taking up residence in a dark, rainy alley.
An American Tail / int_b5b7b872	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_b5b7b872	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_b5b7b872
An American Tail / int_b680713e	type	Melancholy Musical Number
An American Tail / int_b680713e	comment	Melancholy Musical Number: "Somewhere Out There", sung by Fievel and Tonya after Fievel is separated from his family.
An American Tail / int_b680713e	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_b680713e	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_b680713e
An American Tail / int_b6c81d97	type	Cue the Rain
An American Tail / int_b6c81d97	comment	Cue the Rain: As Fievel, all alone, curls up in Orphan Alley to cry, it starts to rain.
An American Tail / int_b6c81d97	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_b6c81d97	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_b6c81d97
An American Tail / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
An American Tail / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: Tiger bears a resemblance to his voice actor, Dom De Luise.
An American Tail / int_b8dbbc07	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_b8dbbc07	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_b8dbbc07
An American Tail / int_ba43b944	type	Avian Flute
An American Tail / int_ba43b944	comment	Avian Flute: After the confrontation with Warren T. Cat and his gang and a subsequent fire, Fievel finds himself at an orphanage where he begins to lose hope that he'll ever find his family. As the scene shifts from a dark, rainy night to morning, a light piccolo begins playing as a flock of small birds flies in and begins splashing around in the puddles left from the night before, while the sun rises in the background, symbolizing the dawn after the Darkest Hour.
An American Tail / int_ba43b944	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_ba43b944	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_ba43b944
An American Tail / int_bccf8613	type	Lost at Sea
An American Tail / int_bccf8613	comment	Lost at Sea: Fievel gets washed overboard the ship when the Mousekewitz family flees to America, and floats to New York in a bottle.
An American Tail / int_bccf8613	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_bccf8613	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_bccf8613
An American Tail / int_bd2116fd	type	Accidental Kiss
An American Tail / int_bd2116fd	comment	Accidental Kiss: Tony accidentally kisses Bridget as they stare at each other thanks to an accidental push by Fievel.
An American Tail / int_bd2116fd	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_bd2116fd	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_bd2116fd
An American Tail / int_bdee2fdb	type	The Kids Are American
An American Tail / int_bdee2fdb	comment	The Kids Are American: Mama and Papa have Russian accents, while Fievel and Tanya don't. This might be more believable if they didn't already have the American accents before moving to America.
An American Tail / int_bdee2fdb	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_bdee2fdb	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_bdee2fdb
An American Tail / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
An American Tail / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Most of the films are set in New York City. Fievel Goes West starts there, but transitions to way out west after the opening act.
An American Tail / int_beb932ca	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_beb932ca	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_beb932ca
An American Tail / int_bfa56de3	type	Allegorical Character
An American Tail / int_bfa56de3	comment	Allegorical Character: The mice broadly represent various oppressed demographic (Jews, Sicilians, Irish, etc.) with the cats representing those in power (Cossacks, Mafia, and English), but there are also some more specific examples that represent different facets of the immigrant experience in America. Warren T. Rat represents illicit businessmen who would watch for immigrants fresh off the boat (particularly those who didn't speak WASPs), and would lure them in with promises of work, only to end up selling them to labor shops. Honest John represents politicians (particularly those who operated out of Tammany Hall) who would skim votes from new immigrants with pro-immigrant policies and stances. Both Bridget and Mausheimer represent forms of Immigrant Patriotism, who after managing to achieve success, use their positions to advocate for immigrant rights and reform.
An American Tail / int_bfa56de3	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_bfa56de3	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_bfa56de3
An American Tail / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
An American Tail / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Yasha Mousekewitz, the baby who inexplicably disappears midway through the movie. (She comes back in the sequels however.) One could say that she's being watched by a nanny at the time of the climax in the original film.
An American Tail / int_c33ba0a8	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_c33ba0a8	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_c33ba0a8
An American Tail / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
An American Tail / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Fievel has these several times throughout the movie, only to have his hopes of finding his family dashed to pieces again and again. A special mention to each time Fievel hears a violin, believing it's his papa playing, only to discover it isn't the case.
An American Tail / int_c3c18143	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_c3c18143	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_c3c18143
An American Tail / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
An American Tail / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: Yes, there was a novelization. There were a few noticeable plot changes (Fievel is in the sweatshop for much longer, Fievel and Tony search for Fievel's parents a while before he meets Bridget, and other things that never made it into the movie.) Also this adaptation keeps the scrapped Framing Device where Fievel tells the story to his great-grandchildren in the present day. Excerpts from the novelization were given away at McDonald's.
An American Tail / int_c54d550d	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_c54d550d	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_c54d550d
An American Tail / int_c673210e	type	Informed Judaism
An American Tail / int_c673210e	comment	Informed Judaism: If you weren't paying attention, you might not even know that the Mousekewitz family is celebrating Hanukkah at the beginning of the first movie, or notice the Yiddish text on the briefly-seen memorial the family has for Fievel when they think he's dead. And their Jewish heritage is all but buried in the sequels. They live under a house in a Jewish district of Shostka (Russian empire, now in Ukraine). Cossacks (and their Cossack cats) raid the village for a pogrom. That may just sadly be a case of Truth in Television, as emigrating in those days more often caused families to forget their old culture. On the plus side, Papa is the mouse equivalent of Tevye.
An American Tail / int_c673210e	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_c673210e	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_c673210e
An American Tail / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
An American Tail / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The attack on the mouse village in Russia and a couple of background phrases overheard at Ellis Island are shout outs to Fiddler on the Roof. The Sicilian mouse's backstory (his mother was killed while pleading for leniency from the local mob boss) is pretty much the same as the prologue of The Godfather Part II. To Shakespeare: Warren T. Rat is fond of incorrectly quoting Shakespeare. His accountant Digit seems to know the quotes better than he does. The Giant Mouse of Minsk story is strongly reminiscent of the Golem of Prague story from Jewish folklore. The original script, when the Mousekewitzes arrive at Ellis Island, one of the mice preceeding them in the checkin line is a woman with a bundled baby with round ears named Mickey. It was probably dropped to avoid legal trouble from Disney.
An American Tail / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_c75df49a
An American Tail / int_c8bea4ec	type	My Species Doth Protest Too Much
An American Tail / int_c8bea4ec	comment	My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Tiger is the one cat among many who likes mice as people, not as food. He manages to convince Fievel that he's not going to eat him, and the two bond over being outcasts. In the second movie, Tiger also saves Fievel's life, and helps put a stop to the Big Bad Cat R. Waul's plans against the rest of the cats.
An American Tail / int_c8bea4ec	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_c8bea4ec	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_c8bea4ec
An American Tail / int_c96064c5	type	Flintstone Theming
An American Tail / int_c96064c5	comment	Flintstone Theming: The mice in the series all have names that are puns on mice or cheese. Mousekewitz, for example, is based on the real Russian-Jewish surname Moskowitz (seen at the start of the first movie).
An American Tail / int_c96064c5	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_c96064c5	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_c96064c5
An American Tail / int_ccb2a89c	type	Melancholy Moon
An American Tail / int_ccb2a89c	comment	Melancholy Moon: During "Somewhere Out There".
An American Tail / int_ccb2a89c	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_ccb2a89c	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_ccb2a89c
An American Tail / int_cf932498	type	The One Who Wears Shoes
An American Tail / int_cf932498	comment	The One Who Wears Shoes: Bridget in the first movie (though in a continuity error, she is barefoot in a couple scenes). Tanya also dons a pair of slippers in a few scenes of the sequel.
An American Tail / int_cf932498	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_cf932498	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_cf932498
An American Tail / int_d39771a4	type	Long Bus Trip
An American Tail / int_d39771a4	comment	Long Bus Trip: Or in Warren's case, a long ship trip, as he's shipped off to Hong Kong and never returns in the sequels. He realized that Hong Kong would have millions of mice waiting for them, so they were okay with being sent there.
An American Tail / int_d39771a4	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_d39771a4	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_d39771a4
An American Tail / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
An American Tail / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: Warren T. Rat plays a very cringe-worthy rendition of "Beautiful Dreamer" on his violin during the sewer scene. He claims it's because "his nose keeps getting in the way". Granted, this may be justified as he is wearing a fake rat nose.
An American Tail / int_d4e9de59	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_d4e9de59	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_d4e9de59
An American Tail / int_d567ce13	type	Who Will Bell the Cat?
An American Tail / int_d567ce13	comment	Who Will Bell the Cat?: Everyone at the rally wants the cats gone, but no one (save Fievel) has any idea how.
An American Tail / int_d567ce13	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_d567ce13	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_d567ce13
An American Tail / int_d83f3588	type	Depending on the Artist
An American Tail / int_d83f3588	comment	Depending on the Artist: The art style varied greatly in the sequels. The only two movies in the series with nearly the same animation style are the direct-to-video sequels (there are only subtle differences between the two since the third film was animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, while the fourth one was animated by Tama Productions). Even then, Tanya still somehow managed to look completely different in both movies (she's the character who goes through the most extreme design changes from movie to movie).
An American Tail / int_d83f3588	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_d83f3588	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_d83f3588
An American Tail / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
An American Tail / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Warren T., the main villain, smokes a cigar. So does Honest John.
An American Tail / int_dab2f3ee	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_dab2f3ee	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_dab2f3ee
An American Tail / int_dae3844e	type	Hidden Disdain Reveal
An American Tail / int_dae3844e	comment	Hidden Disdain Reveal: When Tiger gets fired by Warren for letting Fievel go, he says to him "I never liked you! And besides, your music stinks!"
An American Tail / int_dae3844e	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_dae3844e	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_dae3844e
An American Tail / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
An American Tail / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Fievel gets washed overboard in a raging storm in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Instead of drowning, he somehow ends up inside a floating glass bottle, which somehow ends up washing ashore right onto Ellis Island, which coincidentally is near New York, where Fievel's family was headed. Luck and the ocean currents were definitely on little Fievel's side, apparently.
An American Tail / int_dc579c91	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_dc579c91	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_dc579c91
An American Tail / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
An American Tail / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Gussie Mouseheimer and Honest John avert Not Now, Kiddo by hearing out, and then implementing, Fievel's plan for the Giant Mouse of Minsk.
An American Tail / int_dca70c44	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_dca70c44	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_dca70c44
An American Tail / int_defe4ffd	type	Container Cling
An American Tail / int_defe4ffd	comment	Container Cling: Fievel escapes the Cossack cats by clinging to the lid of a teapot. He narrowly avoids detection when a cat looks under the lid, but he moves to the other side just in time.
An American Tail / int_defe4ffd	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_defe4ffd	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_defe4ffd
An American Tail / int_df5b972a	type	Innocent Means Naïve
An American Tail / int_df5b972a	comment	Innocent Means NaÃ¯ve: The innocent mice of Europe that are persecuted by cats strongly believe there are no cats in America, for some reason.
An American Tail / int_df5b972a	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_df5b972a	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_df5b972a
An American Tail / int_df7154e0	type	Nice Mice
An American Tail / int_df7154e0	comment	Nice Mice: All the mice are good guys just trying to get a break. Cats and rats, not so much.
An American Tail / int_df7154e0	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_df7154e0	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_df7154e0
An American Tail / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
An American Tail / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: The signs above the Moskowitz and Mousekewitz homes are written in English, when logically they should be written in Russian. But then the pun wouldn't be recognizable to English speakers.
An American Tail / int_e11b003d	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_e11b003d	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_e11b003d
An American Tail / int_e30c7ae1	type	The Artful Dodger
An American Tail / int_e30c7ae1	comment	The Artful Dodger: Tony Toponi, a streetwise orphan mouse.
An American Tail / int_e30c7ae1	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_e30c7ae1	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_e30c7ae1
An American Tail / int_e329a741	type	Stock Animal Diet
An American Tail / int_e329a741	comment	Stock Animal Diet: Mice eating cheese, cats eating mice.
An American Tail / int_e329a741	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_e329a741	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_e329a741
An American Tail / int_e3ebcc2d	type	Animal Jingoism
An American Tail / int_e3ebcc2d	comment	Animal Jingoism: Done metaphorically, with the conflict between cats and mice standing in for the persecution of Jews by Cossacks and WASPs, playing off the historical use of vermin as Animal Motifs for Jews in antisemitic propaganda.
An American Tail / int_e3ebcc2d	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_e3ebcc2d	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_e3ebcc2d
An American Tail / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
An American Tail / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: Art devolution is present in the sequels, as lower budgets made the animation stiffer and the backgrounds much plainer. This is especially evident in the TV show.
An American Tail / int_e43c66bd	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_e43c66bd	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_e43c66bd
An American Tail / int_e5421161	type	Expy
An American Tail / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Though there somewhat in all the films, especially strong here. Honest John, for example, is one for the Tammany Hall politicians of that era, especially Boss Tweed.
An American Tail / int_e5421161	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_e5421161	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_e5421161
An American Tail / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
An American Tail / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The fact that the three orphan bullies, mock Fievel, briefly convince him to give up looking for his family, make him throw a tantrum and lose hope, push him into a mud puddle, throw straw at him so he can make a bed, move him to tears, and them getting away scot-free, makes it easy to despise them with a fiery passion.
An American Tail / int_e5fd8bc2	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_e5fd8bc2	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_e5fd8bc2
An American Tail / int_e6f18344	type	Humongous Mecha
An American Tail / int_e6f18344	comment	Humongous Mecha: The Giant Mouse Of Minsk is only about the size of a motorcycle, but that's still pretty damn big when you're a mouse or cat.
An American Tail / int_e6f18344	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_e6f18344	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_e6f18344
An American Tail / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
An American Tail / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: Honest John gives one of these when Gussie Mouseheimer complains that the cats don't distinguish between rich mice and poor mice.
An American Tail / int_e8e3807	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_e8e3807	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_e8e3807
An American Tail / int_ebfeb3d9	type	"Setting Off" Song
An American Tail / int_ebfeb3d9	comment	"Setting Off" Song: "Way Out West" from the second movie is a song sung by the mice about how much things will change for the better once they get out to their new lives.
An American Tail / int_ebfeb3d9	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_ebfeb3d9	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_ebfeb3d9
An American Tail / int_ed7817b2	type	Shrine to the Fallen
An American Tail / int_ed7817b2	comment	Shrine to the Fallen: Fievel's parents make a shrine to him in their new home because they think he's dead.
An American Tail / int_ed7817b2	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_ed7817b2	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_ed7817b2
An American Tail / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
An American Tail / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. The Italian/Sicilian mouse in the "No Cats in America" segment mentions having a brother named Tony, but there's no indication that this is the same Tony that Fievel meets in New York.
An American Tail / int_ee7a60e9	featureApplicability	-1.0
An American Tail / int_ee7a60e9	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_ee7a60e9
An American Tail / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
An American Tail / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Tony gets one when Fievel is first sold into a sweatshop, and later as the sweatshop employees are in bed one of the orphans who shows up much later in the movie can be seen.
An American Tail / int_f0089082	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_f0089082	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_f0089082
An American Tail / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
An American Tail / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Tony, the instant he catches a glimpse of Bridget.
An American Tail / int_f10d3363	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_f10d3363	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_f10d3363
An American Tail / int_f16f631d	type	Crowd Song
An American Tail / int_f16f631d	comment	Crowd Song: Three: "There Are No Cats in America", from the first movie, "Way Out West" from the second, and "We Live in Manhattan" from the third.
An American Tail / int_f16f631d	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_f16f631d	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_f16f631d
An American Tail / int_f38adaff	type	Fast Tunnelling
An American Tail / int_f38adaff	comment	Fast Tunnelling: Two of the Cossack cats start going after Fievel at the beginning, and they (and Fievel) rapidly dig under the snow while they're at it. The cats even emit a steam locomotive whistle sound as they do this.
An American Tail / int_f38adaff	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_f38adaff	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_f38adaff
An American Tail / int_f4a8b21c	type	No Song for the Wicked
An American Tail / int_f4a8b21c	comment	No Song for the Wicked: The first two movies have no Villain Song, though the DTV sequels have them.
An American Tail / int_f4a8b21c	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_f4a8b21c	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_f4a8b21c
An American Tail / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
An American Tail / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: It really doesn't get any sadder than THIS: Fievel doesn't get his happy ending until he all but gives up on life. Applies to all the mice. They only get peace when they take the initiative to actually drive the cats away. Using a giant mouse engine.
An American Tail / int_f64a9cf7	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_f64a9cf7	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_f64a9cf7
An American Tail / int_f6b1c9f3	type	"You!" Exclamation
An American Tail / int_f6b1c9f3	comment	"You!" Exclamation: Warren says this when he notices Fievel spying on him through his mirror.
An American Tail / int_f6b1c9f3	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_f6b1c9f3	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_f6b1c9f3
An American Tail / int_fa74c41c	type	Distant Duet
An American Tail / int_fa74c41c	comment	Distant Duet: "Somewhere Out There" is probably the Trope Codifier for this too.
An American Tail / int_fa74c41c	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_fa74c41c	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_fa74c41c
An American Tail / int_fb378c33	type	Oktoberfest
An American Tail / int_fb378c33	comment	Oktoberfest: When the Mousekewitz family are boarding a ship for America, a band is playing traditional Bavarian-style polka music in the background. Except they are sailing from Hamburg, which is in northern Germany.
An American Tail / int_fb378c33	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_fb378c33	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_fb378c33
An American Tail / int_fd1f1a63	type	Ridiculously Cute Critter
An American Tail / int_fd1f1a63	comment	Ridiculously Cute Critter: Fievel and Tanya. This is a Bluth film, after all.
An American Tail / int_fd1f1a63	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_fd1f1a63	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_fd1f1a63
An American Tail / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
An American Tail / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The Mousekewitz family is processed through the mouse version of Castle Garden, Ellis Island's lesser known nineteenth century predecessor. Also, they set sail from Hamburg, which was the departure point for more than four million immigrants from 1830 to 1914. The Statue of Liberty is a golden copper color. When the statue was first built, it really was that color slowly turning to the blue-green color it is today as a result of oxidation from weathering over subsequent decades.
An American Tail / int_ffad4e9f	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_ffad4e9f	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_ffad4e9f
An American Tail / int_name	type	ItemName
An American Tail / int_name	comment
An American Tail / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
An American Tail / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
An American Tail	hasFeature	An American Tail / int_name
An American Tail / int_name	itemName	An American Tail

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

AbigailAndTheRatsOfNIMH	seeAlso	An American Tail
Crossover / Fan Fic	seeAlso	An American Tail
An American Tail	hasFeature	A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Absurdly Spacious Sewer / int_c9280e49
AcademyAwardForBestOriginalSong	seeAlso	An American Tail
An American Tail	hasFeature	Accidental Kiss / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Adored by the Network / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Alcohol Hic / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Alliterative Name / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	American Title / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	An Immigrant's Tale / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Animal Facial Hair / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Animal Gender-Bender / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Animal Jingoism / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Animated Adaptation / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Animated Musical / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Are We There Yet? / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Armed with Canon / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Ass in a Lion Skin / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat! / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Avian Flute / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Award-Bait Song / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Badass Adorable / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Badly Battered Babysitter / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Banging Pots and Pans / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Barefoot Cartoon Animal / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Bedsheet Ladder / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Big Applesauce / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Big Damn Reunion / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Big Shadow, Little Creature / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Birdcaged / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Blowing a Raspberry / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Blowing Smoke Rings / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Brats with Slingshots / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Break the Cutie / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Breakaway Pop Hit / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Buffoonish Tomcat / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Canon Discontinuity / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Cat Stereotype / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Cats Are Mean / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Character Action Title / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Children Voicing Children / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Constantly Curious / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Container Cling / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Contrasting Sequel Setting / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Costumes Change Your Size / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Cowardly Lion / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Crapsaccharine World / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Crapsack World / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Credits-Brand Products / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Cross-Dressing Voices / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Crowd Song / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Cue the Rain / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Cute Oversized Sleeves / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Dastardly Dapper Derby / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Dead Hat Shot / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Death Course / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Depending on the Artist / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Digital Destruction / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Direct to Video / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Disney Villain Death / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Distant Duet / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Doomed Hometown / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Dreadful Musician / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Dry Docking / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Dude, Where's My Respect? / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Dueling Dubs / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Eat the Camera / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Eiffel Tower Effect / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Ending Fatigue / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Event Title / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Expressive Ears / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Facial Profiling / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Failed a Spot Check / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Fake Russian / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Fast Tunnelling / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Fat Best Friend / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Fatal Fireworks / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Fearless Infant / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Feline Fiction / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Fell Asleep Crying / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	First Installment Wins / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Floating Advice Reminder / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Floating in a Bubble / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Four Eyes, Zero Soul / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Four-Legged Insect / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Freeze Sneeze / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Friendship Song / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Fur Is Skin / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Furry Confusion / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Furry Ear Dissonance / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Furry Female Mane / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Gang of Bullies / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Giant Poofy Sleeves / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Gibberish of Love / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Gigantic Moon / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Golem / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Good Animals, Evil Animals / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Gorgeous Period Dress / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Got Me Doing It / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Grass Is Greener / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Gravity Is a Harsh Seamstress / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Gray Rain of Depression / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Green Around the Gills / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Gut Feeling / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Heroic Canines, Villainous Felines / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Heroic Russian Ã‰migrÃ© / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Hidden Disdain Reveal / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Historical Fiction / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Hollywood Acid / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Honest John's Dealership / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Hong Kong Dub / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Human Traffic Jam / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Humanoid Female Animal / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	I'll Kill You! / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	I Will Find You / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Iconic Character, Forgotten Title / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Implausible Deniability / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Improbable Infant Survival / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	In the Local Tongue / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Incest Subtext / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Inconsistent Spelling / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Incorrect Animal Noise / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Interscene Diegetic / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Interspecies Friendship / int_c9280e49
JamesHorner	seeAlso	An American Tail
An American Tail	hasFeature	Judaism and Jewish Culture in Media / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Just the Way You Are / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Knee-High Perspective / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Lineage Ladder / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Living Prop / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Living Statue / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Long Bus Trip / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Long-Lost Uncle Aesop / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Lost at Sea / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Mad Eye / int_c9280e49
MadelineKahn	seeAlso	An American Tail
An American Tail	hasFeature	Major Character, Mainstream Accent / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Massive Numbered Siblings / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Melancholy Moon / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Minion with an F in Evil / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Miss Kitty / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Missed Him by That Much / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Mookâ€“Face Turn / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	More Hateable Minor Villain / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Most Common Card Game / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Mouse World / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Mouth Cam / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Murder Water / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	My Species Doth Protest Too Much / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	National Animal Stereotypes / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Naturalized Name / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Nice Mice / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	No Budget / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	No Focus on Humans / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	No Full Name Given / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	No Name Given / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	No One Could Survive That! / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	No Song for the Wicked / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Non-Mammal Mammaries / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Non-Singing Voice / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Non-Humans Lack Attributes / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Odd Friendship / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Ode to Family / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Offscreen Breakup / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Oh God, with the Verbing! / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Oktoberfest / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Opening Chorus / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Orphan's Ordeal / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Out-of-Character Moment / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Pep-Talk Song / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Police Brutality / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Porky Pig Pronunciation / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Practical Effects / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Predator-Prey Friendship / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Predator Turned Protector / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Psycho Poodle / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Quest to the West / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Race-Name Basis / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Realistic Humans, Cartoony Animals / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Realistic Species, Cartoony Species / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Recycled: The Series / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Redubbing / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Reluctant Monster / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Retired Gunfighter / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Rewritten Pop Version / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Rollercoaster Mine / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Sapient Eat Sapient / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Say My Name / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Scarecrow Solution / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Scavenged Punk / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Secret Weapon / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Self-Soothing Song / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Separated from the Adults / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Sequel Hook / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	"Setting Off" Song / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Sewer Gator / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	She Cleans Up Nicely / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Shrine to the Fallen / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Signature Headgear / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Signature Item Clue / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Significant Green-Eyed Redhead / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Animal Cast / int_c9280e49
Sliding Scale Of Western Animation Obscurity	seeAlso	An American Tail
An American Tail	hasFeature	Snooping Little Kid / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	"Somewhere" Song / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Space Jews / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Species Surname / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Speech Impediment / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Stargazing Scene / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Stock Animal Diet / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Street Urchin / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Surprisingly Creepy Moment / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Swallowed Whole / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Take My Hand! / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	That's All, Folks! / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	The Artful Dodger / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	The Big Rotten Apple / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	The Kids Are American / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	The Legend of Chekhov / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	The Nicknamer / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	The One Who Wears Shoes / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	The Promised Land / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	The Scottish Trope / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	The Song Remains the Same / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Through a Face Full of Fur / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Thwarted Escape / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Token Enemy Minority / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Token Heroic Orc / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Token Romance / int_c9280e49
TonyJay	seeAlso	An American Tail
An American Tail	hasFeature	Training Montage / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Trope Codifier / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Truck Driver's Gear Change / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	True Blue Femininity / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Twisted Christmas / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Unbuilt Trope / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Underside Ride / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Unnamed Parent / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Vague Age / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Values Resonance / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Vapor Wear / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Vegetarian Carnivore / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Villainous Gold Tooth / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Vocal Evolution / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Vomit Discretion Shot / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Vot Ocksent? / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Vote Early, Vote Often / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Watching Troy Burn / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	We Will Meet Again / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	"Where? Where?" / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Who Will Bell the Cat? / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Wicked Pretentious / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Worm in an Apple / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	You Dirty Rat! / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	You Don't Look Like You / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	"You!" Exclamation / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Your Mom / int_c9280e49
All Dogs Go to Heaven	seeAlso	An American Tail
An American Tail	hasFeature	Beast Fable / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Elmuh Fudd Syndwome / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Parasol of Prettiness / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	Sad-Times Montage / int_c9280e49
An American Tail	hasFeature	The Migration / int_c9280e49

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.