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Dot and the Kangaroo

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128 feature instances
35 referencing feature instances

Dot and the Kangaroo	type	TVTItem
Dot and the Kangaroo	label	Dot and the Kangaroo
Dot and the Kangaroo	page	DotAndTheKangaroo
Dot and the Kangaroo	comment	The Dot series is an Australian film series featuring animation placed over live-action backgrounds. The first film, Dot and the Kangaroo, was released in 1977. It was based on the posthumous 1899 novel by Ethel C. Pedley. The first film was an early success for Yoram Gross' studio and led to a total of eight sequels (diverging further and further from the original source material), with the last (Dot in Space) being released in 1994. The original film tells the story of a little girl who gets lost in the forest, but is helped by a kindly mother kangaroo.Character sheet in progress.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: The civilised inhabitants of Pie-Arr-Squared (basically the Roundies and the Squaries) somehow speak English before Dot is able to properly communicate with them, as indicated by the Roundy Sergeant egging his troops on as they tie up Dot, ignoring everything she says until they gag her.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_116a941b	comment	In the book, Dot does after eating some berries the mother kangaroo offers her, which Dot had to keep eating in order to prolong the effects. In the movie, the berries were replaced by roots, and the effect was permanent— though the sequels offered several different explanations for Dot's ability to understand animals, and sometimes didn't even bother.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Downplayed but Funny-Bunny suffers no loss of mobility or any visible injury after his hind feet are bitten by crocodiles in Dot and the Bunny. Dot's foot just gets a poisonous barb stuck in it with no bleeding or lasting injury in Dot and the Whale.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_13cd498e	type	Kangaroo Pouch Ride
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_13cd498e	comment	Kangaroo Pouch Ride: There's even a song about it.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Dot and the Whale was noticeably more somber in overall tone and had fewer songs than most of the other sequels, and even has a point where Dot nearly dies after accidentally treading on poisonous live coral - though it could still be considered Lighter and Softer compared to the original. Dot in Space is the only sequel not to be an Animated Musical and certainly one of the darkest, given that Dot narrowly escapes being blown up in a rocket explosion while trying to rescue a Russian dog that was stranded on said rocket and ends up stuck on an alien planet that is best described as an extraterrestrial Nazi Germany.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The most likely reason Dot in Space is seldom seen outside its native country of Australia (and even there, it is hard to find) is due to heavy references to Nazi Germany, with the main villain of the film Papa Drop behaving in a similar manner to Adolf Hitler, one of the Roundy interrogators performing the Nazi salute, and the persecution of the Squaries under Papa Drop's regime being eerily similar to how the Jews were maltreated during the Holocaust. We should be thankful we never find out what Papa Drop's version of the Final Solution would be (It's implied to be nothing worse than simply working, starving and beating the Squaries to death from what we see in the movie but, for all we know, it could have been much worse like possible execution by laser gun firing squad for trying to escape for instance. This might, disturbingly, explain why hardly any male Squaries are seen in the movie.). This film would automatically be banned in Germany for the same reasons due to references to Hitler and Naziism being outlawed after World War II.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: A somewhat-downplayed example, but Dot definitely becomes this over time with her determination and the lengths she goes to in order to help her animal friends and protect the environment— especially considering she's a young girl who can't be any older than nine or ten. By the time of Dot in Space, she's seen switching places with a monkey in order to commandeer an American rocket and going into Space, all to rescue a Soviet space dog who's trapped in orbit.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The premise for Dot and the Koala is based on the controversy surrounding the damming of the Franklin River that lasted from 1978 to 1981.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_17058a90	type	No Biochemical Barriers
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_17058a90	comment	No Biochemical Barriers: Dot and Whyka are able to breathe and function as normal on the planet Pie-Arr-Squared in Dot in Space.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Alex and Owen in Dot and the Whale. Also the two boys from Dot and the Smugglers.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Listen carefully to the cockroaches during their Villain Song, they may be a reference to the Daleks from ''Doctor Who''.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_1e196d68	type	Animated Musical
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_1e196d68	comment	Dot in Space is the only sequel not to be an Animated Musical and certainly one of the darkest, given that Dot narrowly escapes being blown up in a rocket explosion while trying to rescue a Russian dog that was stranded on said rocket and ends up stuck on an alien planet that is best described as an extraterrestrial Nazi Germany.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_1ec7ea4a	type	Watch Out for That Tree!
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_1ec7ea4a	comment	Watch Out for That Tree!: While chasing a marsupial mouse, Dot trips and tumbles down the embankment and hits her head on a tree. Miraculously, she didn't suffer from any head traumas.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The planet Pie-Arr-Squared under Papa Drop's regime in Dot in Space. There are devastated villages and a dictatorship that bears a disturbing resemblance to Nazi Germany.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_2562da69	type	Great Escape
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_2562da69	comment	Great Escape: Dot breaking out of the Prison for Squares in Dot in Space.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_259d5879	comment	Dot, Gumley and Dozey-Face travel from Australia to America on a Qantas jet airliner which means the film would have to be set in 1959 at the earliest as Qantas acquired a Boeing 707-138 for the first time in June of that year. This sequence also adds to the Anachronism Stew of Dot in Space as it is reused in said movie.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_264a140b	type	Fat and Skinny
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: The fish store owners in Dot and the Whale. Dot and the Smugglers has the circus owners Mr. Spragg (fat) and Scarface (skinny). Also in Dot and the Smugglers, there's the two boys who are shown to be friends with Dot. The tall, bespectacled one who wears shoes (skinny) and the short one who Prefers Going Barefoot (fat).
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The Squares in Dot in Space aren't even square, they're actually pale blue (or light grey) aliens with Unusual Ears and Fog Feet.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Kangaroo never finds her joey (whereas in the book by strange coincidence he was found by Dot's parents). Dot searching for the joey drives the plots of both Around the World with Dot and Dot and the Bunny, although the films do not follow on from one another, with the latter explicitly mentioning he was sent to a zoo overseas. It is possible the latter is set up as an Alternate Continuity, see Snap Back below. Either that, or the events of Dot and the Bunny chronologically precede those of Around the World with Dot.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_33f1c576	comment	The barn animal townsfolk appear to be this towards the bush animals in Dot and the Koala. In fact, one of them can be clearly seen wearing a t-shirt saying "Marsupials Stink".
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: A near-fatal example in Dot and the Whale, Dot steps on live coral and gets a venomous sting lodged in the sole of her foot, an octopus has to pull it out to save her. In Dot and the Bunny, Funny-Bunny is bitten on his hind feet by crocodiles and Dot nearly steps on an echidna but this is averted when a numbat warns her at the last minute. A Bound and Gagged Dot stamps on Professor Globus' foot in Dot in Space. In the aforementioned movie, Whyka bites a Roundy soldier's foot when they're trying to recapture her and Dot.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Dot makes it home safely in the end, but she's clearly devastated at the sudden departure of the kangaroo. Dot even sobs as she cries out for the kangaroo to come back at the end credits roll. Also, the kangaroo doesn't find her joey (which became the jumping off point for the first two sequels).
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: At (what appears to be) night on the planet Pie-Arr-Squared in Dot in Space, multiple moons/planets can be seen in the sky.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_43d612b7	type	Disney Acid Sequence
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_43d612b7	comment	Disney Acid Sequence / "The Villain Sucks" Song : The Bunyip Song ("Bunyip Moon").
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_450c5a85	comment	At the end of Around the World with Dot she finds the kangaroo's missing joey and is ready to take him back to her. In Dot and the Bunny her joey is still gone — though the latter is set up as more of an Alternate Continuity, as a dream by a girl (likely another live-action version of Dot) who's just started reading the book.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_476d2edb	type	Snakes Are Sinister
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_476d2edb	comment	Snakes Are Sinister: A snake coils around Dot's legs and is prepared to bite her just before the kookaburra swoops down and saves her. Averted with the snakes Dot encounters in Dot and the Bunny but she still approaches them with caution, suggesting she learned from her encounter in the original film.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: In Dot and the Bunny, said bunny adopts a series of unconvincing disguises to convince Dot that he is the lost kangaroo joey she is looking for.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: In Pedley's original novel, the kangaroo stays to meet Dot's parents and be thanked for protecting her. As this is going on, a joey emerges from the cottage which was being looked after by Dot's mother during the time Dot was lost. The kangaroo is stunned but overjoyed upon recognising that it is her joey. And although Dot does gradually lose the ability to talk to animals, the kangaroo and her joey stay near the homestead and frequently visit Dot and her family who open an animal sanctuary.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_4a9c731e	type	When Trees Attack
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_4a9c731e	comment	When Trees Attack: Dot and Whyka encounter hostile (and seemingly possessed) trees while on the run in Dot in Space.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: In Dot And the Koala, the animal-like townspeople acted no different when they and their mayor wanted to build a hydro-electric dam over the native animal's homes. The two fishermen in Dot and the Whale, who wanted to sell the whale as food. How Funny-Bunny was orphaned in Dot and the Bunny. His parents were shot by hunters.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_4ad7bcca	type	Recycled with a Gimmick
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_4ad7bcca	comment	Recycled with a Gimmick: Dot in Space (1994), the last film in the series.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_50269bae	type	Blooper
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_50269bae	comment	The sequence of Dot, Dozey-Face and Gumley travelling to America in Dot Goes to Hollywood is reused in Dot in Space. (This results in a Blooper of sorts as Gumley is a character exclusive to the former movie)
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_50b05d30	comment	In the North American release, the scene where the boy's mother gets angry at him for accidentally making her spill coffee has been cut from the film possibly due to humorous depictions of child abuse, which is deemed too inappropriate for family viewing.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_51df4e54	type	Kids Driving Cars
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_51df4e54	comment	Kids Driving Cars: Played with in Dot and the Smugglers, Dot manages to rewire a submarine before it's even been launched. Dot is able to competently operate a rocket in Dot in Space, until she crash-lands on the planet Pie-Arr-Squared.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_535156bc	type	Christmas Special
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_535156bc	comment	A North American VHS cover for Around the World with Dot depicts Dot wearing a green dress, though this was probably meant to tie-in with the movie's Christmas theme.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_5369c081	type	Invisible Parents
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_5369c081	comment	Invisible Parents: We see Dot's mother in Dot and Keeto but that's about it.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_54bb502b	type	Nobody Poops
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_54bb502b	comment	Nobody Poops: Averted; Dot whispers to the kangaroo, which she responds with "Anywhere you like, dear", followed by Dot making a Potty Dance gesture.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_556a4e20	comment	The planet Pie-Arr-Squared under the regime of the main antagonist of Dot in Space Papa Drop and his son Roley's alter-ego The Party may both be references to 1984.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_57b80b45	comment	Practically all of the barn animal townsfolk in Dot and the Koala are prejudiced jerks to the bush animals and are dismissive of their concerns about losing their homes but what they don't realize is that if the dam had been completed, it would've resulted in negative consequences for not only the bush animals' side, but their own side as well, because the dam they're proposing is actually a wall to block the flow of the water, and by doing so, they'd be cutting off their own water supply. The townsfolk are even jerks to each other, as showcased when an elderly goat shoots off a Death Glare to a rooster who saved him from getting run over during Mayor Percy's road rage, and when Sherlock Bones makes a weight loss joke at Mayor Percy's expense when the latter gets stuck in an underground tunnel that the bush animals dug in an attempt to destroy the dam.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Averted with the British Lion Statue in Around the World with Dot though he does confess one of his kind (unintentionally) ate a Tea Lady. The insect-sized Dot is briefly terrorised by a cat in Dot and Keeto. Averted with Leo the former MGM lion in Dot Goes to Hollywood. Whyka is teased by a brown cat during her astronaut training in Dot in Space.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: One of the dingos falls into a chasm while chasing Dot and the kangaroo.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_5bdcc85a	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_5bdcc85a	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_5bdcc85a
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_5f930b19	type	Named After Somebody Famous
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: Whyka the Russian dog and the Roundy dictator Papa Drop after Laika and (possibly) former Haitian President Francois Duvalier (who was nicknamed Papa Doc) in Dot in Space.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_5f930b19	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_5f930b19	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_5f930b19
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_627264e0	comment	The townsfolk are even jerks to each other, as showcased when an elderly goat shoots off a Death Glare to a rooster who saved him from getting run over during Mayor Percy's road rage, and when Sherlock Bones makes a weight loss joke at Mayor Percy's expense when the latter gets stuck in an underground tunnel that the bush animals dug in an attempt to destroy the dam.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_627264e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_627264e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_627264e0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_63557923	type	Death World
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_63557923	comment	Death World: Crossing over with Crapsack World, the planet Pie-Arr-Squared in Dot in Space, aside from having devastated villages and a dictatorship influenced by Fantastic Racism, also has dangerous obstacles such as quicksand, hostile ''possessed'' trees, active volcanoes and geyser fields, all of which have deterred the Squaries from attempting to escape from prison, and they still have to live with such potential dangers, even without Papa Drop's regime.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_63557923	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_63557923	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_63557923
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: At the end of Dot and the Bunny the mommy kangaroo, who never did find her joey, adopts the orphaned bunny.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_643618e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_643618e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_643618e5
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Pie-Arr-Squared, the name of the planet Dot and Whyka crash-land on in Dot in Space, is a reference to Ï€ Ã— r2— the mathematical formula used to measure the area of a circle.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_6d7026fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_6d7026fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_6d7026fa
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_6e92a631	type	Four-Fingered Hands
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_6e92a631	comment	Four-Fingered Hands: Dot doesn't always have the right number of fingers and toes in the sequels. This also applies to other human characters on the rare occasion where they are depicted barefoot, most notably Alex and Owen in Dot and the Whale and the short fat boy who is shown to be friends with Dot in Dot and the Smugglers.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_6e92a631	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_6e92a631	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_6e92a631
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Dot's clothes are often depicted as completely yellow, her pinafore dress is always yellow but the sweater she appears to wear underneath is always either a different shade of yellow or white or cream. A DVD cover for the original film depicts Dot with blonde hair like her counterpart in the original novel. A German promotional poster for the original film depicts Dot in her Dot and Keeto/Dot and the Whale appearance as emphasized by her lacking visible lips. Promotional posters for Dot and Keeto, Dot and the Whale and Dot and the Smugglers depict Dot with visible lips. She no longer has them after Dot and the Koala. A North American VHS cover for Around the World with Dot depicts Dot wearing a green dress, though this was probably meant to tie-in with the movie's Christmas theme. Some DVD covers for Around the World with Dot/Dot and Santa Claus depict the perpetually barefoot Dot wearing shoes. She does wear shoes in live-action form in this film though. A DVD cover of Dot and the Bunny depicts Dot wearing a pink dress. A storybook adaptation of the same movie depicts Dot's dress as a single piece of clothing instead of her usual pinafore and sweater. A DVD cover of Dot and the Whale depicts the perpetually barefoot Dot wearing sandals. The anime-esque Dot of the last two sequels is depicted in story-on-tape book covers for Dot and the Koala and Dot and the Whale, as emphasized by her eyes and lack of visible lips, she still has the latter in the former movie. The Family Home Entertainment VHS release of Dot and the Smugglers lists the runtime as 75 minutes, even the actual runtime is 60 minutes. The VHS cover and a book adaptation of Dot in Space depict Dot in outer space with her helmet under one arm instead of on her head. It is possible she was supposed to be implied to be back on board her rocket, having successfully rescued Whyka who is under her other arm.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7315fd38	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7315fd38	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7315fd38
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_75a63013	type	Farmer's Daughter
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_75a63013	comment	Farmer's Daughter: Dot, since her grandfather is also known as Jack the Farmhand.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_75a63013	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_75a63013	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_75a63013
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_77738f2	type	Accidental Astronaut
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_77738f2	comment	Accidental Astronaut: Though Dot had to kind of orchestrate herself becoming this in order to rescue Whyka in Dot in Space.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_77738f2	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_77738f2	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_77738f2
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Dot's brother Ben in Around the World with Dot.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_77b03c0a	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_77b03c0a	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_77b03c0a
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_78e8eba5	type	"I Am" Song
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_78e8eba5	comment	"I Am" Song: "I'm a Frog" in the first film, with this trope becoming a recurring theme with most of the animals Dot meets.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_78e8eba5	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_78e8eba5	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_78e8eba5
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7ad2c23d	type	ShoutOutToShakespeare
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7ad2c23d	comment	A Shout-Out to Shakespeare in Dot Goes to Hollywood, where Dot attempts to recite lines from Romeo & Juliet, but without success. Speaking of Dot Goes to Hollywood, the film is riddled with references to classic Hollywood films. Dot briefly re-enacts the Signature Scene from The Seven Year Itch starring Marilyn Monroe in which she stands over the subway grate with her dress fluttering in the air. When Dot and Gumley get inside the taxi after arriving at Hollywood, the driver mentions he played the Mummy. Clips from films in the Public Domain such as The Flying Deuces and The Little Princess are used for the dance sequences with Dot dancing along. Also during the song "Idols of Hollywood", Kong the monkey can be seen reenacting the Signature Scene from King Kong where the titular ape climbs the Empire State Building swatting at an airplane. Leo mentions to Dot and Gumley that he co-starred in a movie with Tarzan called Guess Who's For Dinner?, an obvious take-off on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7ad2c23d	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7ad2c23d	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7ad2c23d
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7ccd3698	type	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7ccd3698	comment	Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Dot briefly turns into a giant before shrinking down to insect-size in Dot and Keeto.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7ccd3698	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7ccd3698	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_7ccd3698
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_816a4e80	comment	Dot in Space begins with an opening crawl in outer space, and later in the film, Dot asks a mustached stranger if he knows where she could find The Party to which the stranger replies that she's already found him, which may possibly be a reference to Luke asking Ben Kenobi if he knows where he could find Obi-Wan in Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope. Gorgo, the alien dinosaur feared by the inhabitants of Pie-Arr-Squared, may be this to the titular monster of the eponymous 1961 film. Dot and Whyka being attacked by hostile trees could be this to the scary forest sequence in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_816a4e80	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_816a4e80	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_816a4e80
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_83095fd9	type	Signature Scene
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_83095fd9	comment	Speaking of Dot Goes to Hollywood, the film is riddled with references to classic Hollywood films. Dot briefly re-enacts the Signature Scene from The Seven Year Itch starring Marilyn Monroe in which she stands over the subway grate with her dress fluttering in the air. When Dot and Gumley get inside the taxi after arriving at Hollywood, the driver mentions he played the Mummy. Clips from films in the Public Domain such as The Flying Deuces and The Little Princess are used for the dance sequences with Dot dancing along. Also during the song "Idols of Hollywood", Kong the monkey can be seen reenacting the Signature Scene from King Kong where the titular ape climbs the Empire State Building swatting at an airplane.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_83095fd9	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_83095fd9	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_83095fd9
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Dot Goes to Hollywood, ostensibly to raise funds for a life-saving operation for her increasingly ill koala friend Gumley.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8409a385	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8409a385	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8409a385
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: One of the two boys who are shown to be friends with Dot in Dot and the Smugglers. Specifically the one who wears shoes. In Dot Goes to Hollywood, Gumley has to wear these when he is inflicted with the koala eye disease.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84249fbc	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84249fbc	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84249fbc
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Dot is subjected to this in Dot and Keeto and Dot in Space, though she escapes in both instances. Anyone who isn't round in Dot in Space as long as Papa Drop is in charge.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8437cb10	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8437cb10	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8437cb10
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: Dot, even though she gets lost as a result here, she becomes increasingly so in the sequels.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84c5ec0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84c5ec0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84c5ec0b
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84de5c29	type	Inexplicable Language Fluency
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84de5c29	comment	Inexplicable Language Fluency: The civilised inhabitants of Pie-Arr-Squared (basically the Roundies and the Squaries) in Dot in Space.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84de5c29	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84de5c29	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_84de5c29
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Ben disappears after the Ingenuity song sequence in Around the World with Dot. The bat who is an Expy of Zorro is never seen again after he vandalizes the "Back the Dam" posters in Dot and the Koala. We don't even see him among the protesting bush animals. The brown cat that teased Whyka during her astronaut training in Dot in Space disappears after Whyka chases it onto a tightrope.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_863fa679	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_863fa679	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_863fa679
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_87d8ecf5	type	Literal Cliffhanger
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_87d8ecf5	comment	Literal Cliffhanger: The kangaroo does this after jumping a chasm.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_87d8ecf5	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_87d8ecf5	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_87d8ecf5
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_89370eaa	type	Completely Different Title
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_89370eaa	comment	Completely Different Title: Around the World with Dot is alternatively known as Dot and Santa Claus. In Spanish, the film's title translates to The Great Journey. To a lesser extent, Dot and the Smugglers is alternatively known as Dot and the Bunyip.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_89370eaa	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_89370eaa	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_89370eaa
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_89b71276	type	Mind Your Step
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_89b71276	comment	Mind Your Step: Dot is issued this warning in Dot and the Bunny while looking for numbats and echidnas, she becomes lost in her attempts to understand why and nearly steps on an echidna with her bare foot without realising it until a numbat stops her.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_89b71276	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_89b71276	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_89b71276
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8ddd2bb5	type	Earthy Barefoot Character
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8ddd2bb5	comment	Earthy Barefoot Character: Dot's perpetual lack of footwear helps to establish that she's closer to nature than most people.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8ddd2bb5	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8ddd2bb5	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_8ddd2bb5
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: During the Bunyip Song, the movie switches to more surreal character art based around Aboriginal-style depictions of the titular beast. The animation tended to vary a fair bit over the course of each film, with them generally using different variations of the same basic formula. Eventually, it completely changed to a mostly anime-influenced look.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_912b24c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_912b24c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_912b24c4
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_93168fb1	type	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_93168fb1	comment	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet: In Dot in Space, Dot crashlands on the planet Pie-Arr-Squared and naturally finds the surrounding area unfamiliar, as well as deserted and the nearest village destroyed. Cue Oh, Crap! moment from Dot followed by the Roundies springing up out of the bushes, tying her up, gagging her and taking her to their leader.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_93168fb1	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_93168fb1	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_93168fb1
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_93e0970a	type	Bowdlerized
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_93e0970a	comment	Bowdlerized: Around the World with Dot and Dot Goes to Hollywood seem to have went through this: In the North American release, the scene where the boy's mother gets angry at him for accidentally making her spill coffee has been cut from the film possibly due to humorous depictions of child abuse, which is deemed too inappropriate for family viewing. Most versions of the film have the man's face covered with a kabuki mask so the depiction wouldn't be seen as racist, though in the North American release, the man's face is shown. In Dot Goes to Hollywood, Gumley's condition is referred to as either the "koala sickness" or the "koala disease" and not by its scientific name chlamydia pecorum because chlamydia is also the name of a genus of pathogenic bacteria, a specified type of which causes sexually transmitted diseases, and referring to it by its scientific name would be too inappropriate for family viewing.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_93e0970a	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_93e0970a	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_93e0970a
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_966e313e	type	TimePortal
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_966e313e	comment	Time Portal: This might explain Dot's encounters with movie stars of the 1930s/40s/50s in Dot Goes to Hollywood (which was released in 1987 and has to be set in 1959 at the earliest, given the appearance of a Qantas jet airliner), that is, if Time Travel doesn't of course.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_966e313e	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_966e313e	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_966e313e
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_985d3ad0	type	Cross-Cast Role
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_985d3ad0	comment	Crosscast Role: The Kangaroo is clearly played by a male in the live action footage.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_985d3ad0	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_985d3ad0	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_985d3ad0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_99828ce6	type	Nature Hero
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_99828ce6	comment	Nature Hero: Dot becomes this in the sequels, with her frequently being able to communicate with animals like people and having much more of a connection to them than before, as well as being very proactive (see Badass Adorable) in helping or protecting them when she has to— among other feats, she ends up bringing down an international wildlife-smuggling ring in Dot and the Smugglers, and trades places with a monkey named Buster in order to commandeer an American space rocket to rescue a Russian space dog and helps to overthrow a tyrannical empire of Scary Dogmatic Aliens along the way in Dot in Space.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_99828ce6	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_99828ce6	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_99828ce6
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Dot's brother Simon is responsible for the events of Dot and Keeto; he bullies Dot's insect friends in various ways such as trying to drown a caterpillar in a watering can and stomping on an ant's nest, prompting her to stop him and apologize to the ants for his actions and while doing so, she gets the roots confused and eats the red one, shrinking herself down to bug-size, spending the rest of the day trying to find the green root that will restore her to her normal size while trying to avoid being crushed and eaten and finding whatever creepy-crawlies she can rely on like Keeto and Butterwalk. Worst of all, by destroying the ants' nest, he made Dot the scapegoat when she gets captured by the Queen Ant's soldiers and when she tries to apologize to the ants on his behalf, they reject it and subject her to a lifetime of slavery. If he had just left Dot's insect friends alone, none of the aforementioned events would have happened. The Russians (and, to a certain degree, the Americans) in Dot in Space. The Russians sending Whyka into space and being unable to rescue her (or possibly not being bothered) and the Americans nearly repeating the Russians' mistake by planning to send Buster to the Moon is what leads to Dot attempting to rescue Whyka only for the both of them to become stranded on an alien planet (one that is basically an extraterrestrial Nazi Germany to boot), because by blowing up Whyka's rocket, the Russians caused a shockwave that sent the rocket Dot used to rescue her off course.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_99ddfcec	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_99ddfcec	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_99ddfcec
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9abe931d	type	Quicksand Sucks
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9abe931d	comment	Quicksand Sucks: In Dot in Space, Dot nearly drowns in quicksand on her way to the Party's hideout on Gorgo Mountain. Thankfully, Whyka pulls her out.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9abe931d	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9abe931d	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9abe931d
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9c23f3a0	type	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9c23f3a0	comment	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: The nightmarish Bunyip mentioned in the first film finally appears near the end of Dot and the Smugglers, but it was designed to look like a typical wooly, tall, big and fat humanoid beast that can live underwater. It's kind of disappointing for those who expected the original terrifying, mysterious creature of the first film.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9c23f3a0	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9c23f3a0	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9c23f3a0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The frogs are attacked by crocodiles at the end of their "I Am" Song. In Dot and the Bunny, the crocodiles get an "I Am" Song of their own, right before attempting to eat Dot and Funny-Bunny. Also, at one point in the film, Dot is almost attacked by a snake. She obviously learns from this encounter as she approaches the snakes (and other reptiles) with caution in Dot and the Bunny. Around the World with Dot and Dot and the Bunny to Dot and the Whale. In Around the World with Dot, a whale transports Dot and her friends to as close to Japan as he dares to venture without attracting attention from whalers. Tonga lost her immediate family to whalers. In Dot and the Bunny, Dot narrowly avoids stepping on an echidna with her bare foot and a sea-turtle takes her and Funny-Bunny back to the mainland. In Dot and the Whale, Dot nearly dies from stepping on poisonous live coral and rides a sea-turtle. Also Around the World with Dot to Dot and the Smugglers and Dot Goes to Hollywood. Both Around the World with Dot and Dot and the Smugglers feature Dot and her friends infiltrating a circus, in the latter, Dot frees the imprisoned circus animals. In both Around the World with Dot and Dot Goes to Hollywood, Dot travels to America where she infiltrates a zoo to rescue one of her animal friends (Joey the kangaroo, Gumley the koala). In Dot and the Bunny, the first mishap Funny-Bunny has is falling off a log into a stream and Dot has to come and rescue him. He later falls into a raging torrent during a storm and is washed away before Dot can reach him.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9d12bbc1
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: It's certainly possible and may explain why the sequels are set in the mid 20th Century (at the earliest) as opposed to the late-19th Century setting of the original film yet Dot is still alive and still a child.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9d6427ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9d6427ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo	hasFeature	Dot and the Kangaroo / int_9d6427ec
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: This is possible for the following reasons. Dot appears to be an only child in the original film, in Around the World with Dot, she has a previously unknown brother named Ben. Dot (despite mentioning her father in Dot and the Bunny) appears to only have a mother and a different brother named Simon in Dot and Keeto. In Around the World with Dot, Dot finds the missing joey, (and it's implied in a storybook adaptation of Dot and Keeto that she returned him to his mother). In Dot and the Bunny, Dot is still searching for the missing joey. Dot is shown (or at least implied) to be still living at home with her family in the first five movies. She appears to be living with her animal friends from Dot and the Whale onwards. Not to mention the fact that Dot remains a child throughout the series despite the sequels clearly being set in a different time-period from that of the original film and quite possibly from each other.
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_a32334b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_a32334b4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: A, brief, upbeat ("Clickity-Click") song by Willy Wagtail... followed immediately by the unhappy ending! Also, a scene where Dot's parents are mourning her is sandwiched between "Clickity-Click" and its reprise. The Roaming Free song in Dot and the Bunny, followed soon after by Funny-Bunny slipping off a log into a stream and Dot having to come and rescue him. The insect-sized Dot singing about Little Things in Dot and Keeto, only to then get attacked by a crow and a cat. Dot and Gumley singing Happy Indisputably at the beginning of Dot Goes to Hollywood, only to dejectedly walk home after failing to make any money.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_a55ab01e	comment	Jerkass Realization: The bush animals. After hearing the Kangaroo's story of how she lost her joey and compared her situation to Dot getting lost in the woods, they have this after they initially refused to help her.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_a5f39a9c	type	Thunder = Downpour
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_a5f39a9c	comment	Thunder Equals Downpour: Not what you want when lost in the forest. Happens again in Dot and the Bunny. She has to take refuge in a wallaby cave. And again in Dot in Space when she escapes from the Prison for Squaries.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Human ones especially, with the odd exception (most obviously Danny the Swagman/Santa Claus in Around the World with Dot and Laurel and Hardy in Dot Goes to Hollywood). This is particularly emphasized in Dot and the Whale.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_ad03437f	type	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_ad03437f	comment	Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: Most of the later films are more lighthearted than the first three installments.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b0b8970e	type	Recycled Animation
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b0b8970e	comment	Recycled Animation: The Red Kangaroo sequence from the original film is reused in Around the World with Dot (during Dot's flashback) and Dot and the Smugglers. A sequence of Dot running from the original film is reused twice in Dot and the Bunny. The sequence of Dot, Dozey-Face and Gumley travelling to America in Dot Goes to Hollywood is reused in Dot in Space. (This results in a Blooper of sorts as Gumley is a character exclusive to the former movie)
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Implied with the mother and child travelling by plane in Around the World with Dot. Papa Drop in Dot in Space threatens to put his son Roley in prison for opposing his Fantastic Racism against Squaries, and even comes close to shooting him when he is disguised as ''The Party'' in the climax and shows no remorse for it when he finds out.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: The first movie appears to take place in the late-19th century but the sequels seem to take place in the mid-20th century at the earliest. In Dot and the Koala, Dot is the only human character, everyone else is an anthropomorphic animal. Dot's brother Ben is renamed Simon in Dot and Keeto.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b2463ea1	type	Intellectual Animal
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b2463ea1	comment	Intellectual Animal: Especially the platypus couple with their insistence on using their species' Latin name.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b578811d	type	Scary Dogmatic Aliens
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b578811d	comment	Scary Dogmatic Aliens: Papa Drop and the Roundies in Dot in Space. At least they would be to a little girl like Dot, especially when they get right in her face.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Dot doesn't appear in Dot and the Koala until the last half hour.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b9918c48	type	Nobody Here but Us Statues
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_b9918c48	comment	Nobody Here but Us Statues: Dot has to pose in front of a roadsign in order to infiltrate the Space Center in Dot in Space.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Dot, if you dare to get on the wrong side of her, Alex and Owen in Dot and the Whale find this out the hard way when she throws sand at them because they were doing the same to Tonga.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: The name of the circus in Dot and the Smugglers is "Amazing Aussie Animals".
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Dot's father and Jack the Farmhand. Dot's brother Ben from Around the World with Dot.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_c4368c26	type	Kangaroos Represent Australia
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_c4368c26	comment	Kangaroos Represent Australia: Though ironically enough, the Kangaroo's original voice actress, Joan Bruce, was British.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_c43f8b58	type	Chasing a Butterfly
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_c43f8b58	comment	Chasing a Butterfly: In this case, a marsupial mouse, this is how Dot gets lost in the book and film.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In the sequels, Dot could easily pass for an Australian child version of Daphne Blake (with shades of Velma Dinkley in terms of using her intellect) as both are redheaded and prone to danger, solve mysteries (or at the very least, problems caused mainly by adult characters) and have animals as sidekicks. To Goldilocks and the Three Bears with the Russian bears, and Mickey Mouse when Walter the mouse pulls his ears in Around the World with Dot. Speaking of Mickey Mouse, both him and Donald Duck are mentioned by Leo in Dot Goes to Hollywood when he and Kong sing about the good old days when they were stars in Hollywood. Walter has the same middle initial and last name as Timothy. Walter's claims about mice being agents working inside the United Nations may be a reference to The Rescuers (which, coincidentally, was released in the same year as the original film.) Sherlock Bones and Doctor Watson in Dot and the Koala. Dot and the Koala and Dot in Space may both be references to the works of George Orwell. Mayor Percy being a pig and the leader of the barn animals in Dot and the Koala and the Fantastic Racism towards the bush animals in said film and the Squaries in Dot in Space (not to mention Roley's last line being "Everyone is equal!" before sending Dot and Whyka back to Earth) may all be references to Animal Farm. The planet Pie-Arr-Squared under the regime of the main antagonist of Dot in Space Papa Drop and his son Roley's alter-ego The Party may both be references to 1984. Dot growing to a gigantic size and then shrinking to insect size after consuming the wrong root in Dot & Keeto may be a reference to Alice in Wonderland. Fittingly, Dot is renamed "Alice" in the Brazilian dub of the series. Also in Dot and Keeto, the insect-sized Dot refers to Lilliput during the Little Things song sequence. Listen carefully to the cockroaches during their Villain Song, they may be a reference to the Daleks from ''Doctor Who''. Dot pleads to Moby-Dick for help after reading about him in Dot and the Whale. In Dot and the Smugglers, one of the titular smugglers is called Scarface. The titular smugglers and the two boys who are shown to be friends with Dot build a submarine and paint it yellow. A Shout-Out to Shakespeare in Dot Goes to Hollywood, where Dot attempts to recite lines from Romeo & Juliet, but without success. Speaking of Dot Goes to Hollywood, the film is riddled with references to classic Hollywood films. Dot briefly re-enacts the Signature Scene from The Seven Year Itch starring Marilyn Monroe in which she stands over the subway grate with her dress fluttering in the air. When Dot and Gumley get inside the taxi after arriving at Hollywood, the driver mentions he played the Mummy. Clips from films in the Public Domain such as The Flying Deuces and The Little Princess are used for the dance sequences with Dot dancing along. Also during the song "Idols of Hollywood", Kong the monkey can be seen reenacting the Signature Scene from King Kong where the titular ape climbs the Empire State Building swatting at an airplane. Leo mentions to Dot and Gumley that he co-starred in a movie with Tarzan called Guess Who's For Dinner?, an obvious take-off on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Dot in Space begins with an opening crawl in outer space, and later in the film, Dot asks a mustached stranger if he knows where she could find The Party to which the stranger replies that she's already found him, which may possibly be a reference to Luke asking Ben Kenobi if he knows where he could find Obi-Wan in Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope. Gorgo, the alien dinosaur feared by the inhabitants of Pie-Arr-Squared, may be this to the titular monster of the eponymous 1961 film. Dot and Whyka being attacked by hostile trees could be this to the scary forest sequence in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_ccf6b1b0	type	Rock Monster
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_ccf6b1b0	comment	Rock Monster: Dot and Whyka encounter a whole cave full of these in Dot in Space. Thankfully, the creatures in question were resting, and one of them helped Dot and Whyka traverse the cave.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_ce6555f0	comment	Dot and the Whale was noticeably more somber in overall tone and had fewer songs than most of the other sequels, and even has a point where Dot nearly dies after accidentally treading on poisonous live coral - though it could still be considered Lighter and Softer compared to the original.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_d2a9f080	type	Opening Scroll
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_d2a9f080	comment	Opening Scroll: The opening credits of Dot in Space.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_d64c3cd4	type	Living MacGuffin
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_d64c3cd4	comment	Living MacGuffin: The Bunyip is this in Dot and the Smugglers, with the titular antagonists trying to capture it for a circus that Dot later discovers to be a front for an international wildlife-smuggling operation. Gorgo in Dot in Space is this to the Roundies, they question his existence until he scares them away while they're trying to recapture Dot.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_d6787152	type	Help, I'm Stuck!
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_d6787152	comment	Help, I'm Stuck!: Mayor Percy gets stuck in an underground tunnel in the climax of Dot and the Koala. It takes the sudden rush of water from the destruction of the dam to save him, despite the best efforts of Sherlock, Dot and Bruce. Dot gets her head stuck while trying to infiltrate the circus tent in Dot and the Smugglers. Burra the kookaburra manages to pull her out but this results in some crates being knocked over, almost blowing her cover.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_d7d588c8	type	Lethal Lava Land
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_d7d588c8	comment	Lethal Lava Land: Dot and Whyka encounter active volcanoes and geyser fields while on the run in Dot in Space.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_db08a39d	type	Animesque
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_db08a39d	comment	Animesque: For Dot Goes to Hollywood and Dot in Space, Dot was designed by Nobuko Yuasa (a.k.a Burnfield), a Japanese artist, who's previous work included the 1983 Barefoot Gen film adaptation, and gave her a very Tezuka-esque design, being slightly shorter with bigger eyes and a more expressive face.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_dcc35bb	type	Celebrity Cameo
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_dcc35bb	comment	Celebrity Cameo: Dot Goes to Hollywood has Dot meet such famous names as Laurel and Hardy, Shirley Temple, James Cagney, among others. Of course, Dot is either animated into clips of their films, or the stars themselves become animated.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e0d133d0	type	Insufficiently Advanced Alien
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e0d133d0	comment	Insufficiently Advanced Alien: The inhabitants of Pie-Arr-Squared in Dot in Space have perfected laser guns, claim to own cars and are aware of the vast Universe beyond their planet and creatures from space (including rabbits somehow, unless Dot crash-landing on their planet alerts them to the existence of creatures from space) but use ropes and duct tape to subdue prisoners. They don't even have a more efficient method of digging Dot's rocket out of the ground, other than forcing the Squaries (and Dot) to dig it out with shovels, it takes Gorgo to pull it out and right it. Though, to be fair, it may be likely due to Papa Drop's rise to power resulting in destroying Pie-Arr-Squared's economy. This would also explain why the Roundies' homes are so structurally unsound and easily destroyed by Gorgo. They have leaves for roofs after all! Not to mention they don't have a more efficient method of rebuilding the destroyed homes other than forcing the Squaries (and Dot) to rebuild them and even that inevitably fails when Papa Drop decides to prioritise digging Dot's rocket out above everything else.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e13156e1	comment	There's also the Kangaroo, who is the kindest out of all the bush creatures Dot meets, but she is also willing to protect her as if she were her own joey, and indirectly sends one of the dingoes chasing her falling to his death in the original film. She also battles a spider while insect-sized to rescue the titular duo in Dot and Keeto.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e21faf11	comment	Dot is a Friend to All Living Things and is all-in-all a kind-hearted and sweet-natured little girl, but as the sequels show, threatening and/or harming anyone she cares about is a good way to get on her bad side, especially if you're in her presence.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e280b250	type	Hard Head
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e280b250	comment	Hard Head: Dot's tumble down the embankment ends with her striking a tree headfirst but she suffers no ill effects whatsoever. Happens again when she lands on her head after falling off a wall, trying to rescue Gumley from the zoo, in Dot Goes to Hollywood.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e2f13529	type	World of Jerkass
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e2f13529	comment	World of Jerkass: Practically all of the barn animal townsfolk in Dot and the Koala are prejudiced jerks to the bush animals and are dismissive of their concerns about losing their homes but what they don't realize is that if the dam had been completed, it would've resulted in negative consequences for not only the bush animals' side, but their own side as well, because the dam they're proposing is actually a wall to block the flow of the water, and by doing so, they'd be cutting off their own water supply. The townsfolk are even jerks to each other, as showcased when an elderly goat shoots off a Death Glare to a rooster who saved him from getting run over during Mayor Percy's road rage, and when Sherlock Bones makes a weight loss joke at Mayor Percy's expense when the latter gets stuck in an underground tunnel that the bush animals dug in an attempt to destroy the dam. With a few exceptions such as Keeto the mosquito and Butterwalk the caterpillar, almost every insect Dot encounters in Dot and Keeto intend to eat her (i.e. Nasty the Wasp, the spider), enslave her (i.e. The Queen Ant and her soldiers), or are just plain haughty jerks in general (i.e. the cockroaches). The Roundies in Dot in Space (except Roley, of course), with Papa Drop and the Roundy Sergeant being the biggest jerks of them all. The Squaries (except for Poley and her mother) were this at first, as after Dot gets thrown into the Prison for Squaries by Papa Drop and the Roundies, they accuse her of being a Roundy spy before Poley's mother stands up for her. Of course, they change their tune after Dot helps the Party and the reformed Roundy army (with the possible exception for the Sergeant) free them from their imprisonment and dethrone Papa Drop, as they can be seen waving goodbye to Dot and Whyka as they prepare to leave for Earth.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e5421161	comment	The bat who is an Expy of Zorro is never seen again after he vandalizes the "Back the Dam" posters in Dot and the Koala. We don't even see him among the protesting bush animals.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e62bc4bb	type	Take Me to Your Leader
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_e62bc4bb	comment	Take Me to Your Leader: Inverted and forced in Dot in Space when Dot is captured by the Roundies.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: In Dot and the Koala, a family of wombats are just bound then after Dot and her animal friends rescue them, they do this to the dog-cops and stuff logs in their mouths. In Dot in Space, this is the Roundies' preferred method of capture as poor Dot finds out when they ambush her. This leads to a Painful Adhesive Removal for her when she is subjected to interrogation.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_eb99df21	type	Funny Animal
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_eb99df21	comment	In Dot And the Koala, the animal-like townspeople acted no different when they and their mayor wanted to build a hydro-electric dam over the native animal's homes.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_ec8290b6	type	Snap Back
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_ec8290b6	comment	Snap Back: At the end of Around the World with Dot she finds the kangaroo's missing joey and is ready to take him back to her. In Dot and the Bunny her joey is still gone — though the latter is set up as more of an Alternate Continuity, as a dream by a girl (likely another live-action version of Dot) who's just started reading the book.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_edac0624	type	Puzzling Platypus
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_edac0624	comment	Puzzling Platypus: Mr. and Mrs. Platypus singing about their peculiar qualities, as an "Ornithorhynchus paradoxus" (an outdated Latin name for the platypus).
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_ee2a3bfc	type	Prefers Going Barefoot
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_ee2a3bfc	comment	Prefers Going Barefoot: Dot is always barefoot in all the movies. Averted as she wears canvas shoes in live-action form in Around the World with Dot and she is forced to become an astronaut in order to rescue Whyka in Dot in Space. Dot's human friends in Dot and the Whale though, to a certain degree, this is to be expected as they were all playing on the beach until Alex, Owen and Dot alerted them to Tonga's plight. One of the two boys who are shown to be friends with Dot in Dot and the Smugglers. Specifically the one who doesn't wear glasses.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_f068cba	type	Oddball in the Series
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_f1356f5e	comment	Speaks Fluent Animal: In the book, Dot does after eating some berries the mother kangaroo offers her, which Dot had to keep eating in order to prolong the effects. In the movie, the berries were replaced by roots, and the effect was permanent— though the sequels offered several different explanations for Dot's ability to understand animals, and sometimes didn't even bother. It's implied that the roots aren't permanent either in the first film. When Willy Wagtail says "Kangaroo must have her freedom" to Dot when Kangaroo leaves at the end, the last word of his sentence echos until it becomes the sound of a bird chirping. Dot has to take the roots of understanding again in Dot and Keeto in order to talk to animals, further implying that they're not permanent, or at least not in this instance. Dot in Space implies that Dot is only able to communicate with animals native to Australia, yet somehow she can freely communicate with aliens on another planet, and understand Whyka's barking in Russian. Though to be fair, it's likely because in the series, some of the animals she encounters are portrayed as non-sapient (i.e. the dingos and the snake in the original film, the magpie and the cat in Dot and Keeto, and the seagulls in Dot and the Whale.)
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_f61cddc9	comment	Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: Dot and the Koala has animals acting and dressing more like humans and even having houses, jobs and their own city. Curiously, it was only for this instalment— with them reverted to being more like real ones and living in the outback again for the rest of the series.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_fb7bc4a8	type	Never Trust a Title
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_fb7bc4a8	comment	Never Trust a Title: Dot & the Koala has Dot with the first billing, yet she doesn't appear in the film until the last half-hour.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_fbcf2a18	type	Deadly Dingos
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Dot is a Friend to All Living Things and is all-in-all a kind-hearted and sweet-natured little girl, but as the sequels show, threatening and/or harming anyone she cares about is a good way to get on her bad side, especially if you're in her presence. There's also the Kangaroo, who is the kindest out of all the bush creatures Dot meets, but she is also willing to protect her as if she were her own joey, and indirectly sends one of the dingoes chasing her falling to his death in the original film. She also battles a spider while insect-sized to rescue the titular duo in Dot and Keeto.
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_fd1b902c	type	Non-Malicious Monster
Dot and the Kangaroo / int_fd1b902c	comment	Non-Malicious Monster: The Bunyip, when it makes its physical appearance in Dot and the Smugglers. It initially appears to be angry, roaring to the heavens as it pokes its head up out of the water but it all it does is walk over to Dot and her friends, animal and human alike, and thanks them for getting rid of the smugglers as it is both scared and tired of people hunting it. Gorgo the alien dinosaur in Dot in Space. He destroys the Roundies' homes and villages and scares off the Roundy Army but chooses to spare Dot and Whyka when they are at his mercy. To a lesser extent in Dot in Space, the Rock Monster that helps Dot and Whyka traverse through a cave, while searching for ''The Party" (Roley).
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Dot and the Kangaroo / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
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