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Fritz the Cat

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Fritz the Cat	comment	Ralph Bakshi's directorial debut, this 1972 feature film adaptation of Robert Crumb's comic strip Fritz the Cat is famous for being the first feature-length adult animated film in the United States, receiving an X rating upon its original release.note Equivalent to today's NC-17, though all home media re-releases go unrated due to stigma around the aforementioned rating. It streamlines three plotlines from the comic into a linear story, with more political and social commentary than what had previously been largely light entertainment.The film follows the adventures of a sex-crazed cat named Fritz who, after deciding he's had enough of the college life, drops out and roams New York City (later taking a roadtrip to San Francisco) in The '60s, ostensibly looking for a cause to join in, all the while anything that could go wrong does.Over the course of the story, Fritz spends time with stoners, talks to black people (represented by crows) in Harlem where he meets Duke, very briefly meets with some Rabbis, goes on a road trip with his girlfriend Winston Schwartz, and ultimately meets up with extremists who scheme to blow up a power plant. Unsurprisingly, he spends most of the movie running from the police (represented as, of course, pigs). Of course, his goal of finding himself always seems to take a back seat to more immediate gratification in the form of either carnal pleasures or good ol' fashioned weed.Having previously helmed several TV shows, Bakshi came across a Fritz comic in a Manhattan book store and went straight to author R. Crumb to ask for the rights to turn the comic into a film. Although Crumb gave Bakshi a sketchbook of his to help him learn to draw Fritz, he was highly doubtful of the film's potential for success, and never agreed to sign over the rights to greenlight the film. Producer Steve Krantz, however, struck a deal with Crumb's wife, allowing the film to begin production; Crumb was paid $50,000 for the film rights. Despite its limited release, it gained favorable critical response and great commercial success, remaining one of the highest-grossing independent films of all time. This enabled a sequel to be produced in 1974, titled The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat.
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Fritz the Cat / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
Fritz the Cat / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Especially Fritz, as every other scene is him ogling or sleeping with various women.
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Fritz the Cat / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Fritz the Cat / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Fritz sees Blue preparing to rape Harriet by hitting and tying her up her with metal chains. We don't see the rape; Fritz tries to stop him, only to get burned by the female lizard.
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Fritz the Cat / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Fritz the Cat / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Occasionally, Fritz will look at the camera to react to what's going on. He makes the talking motion with his hand while Winston chews him out.
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Fritz the Cat / int_1effdd6b	type	White Man's Burden
Fritz the Cat / int_1effdd6b	comment	White Man's Burden: How Fritz sees the race relations problem in America. He strolls into a bar in Harlem not knowing much more than what he learned in an NYU class and immediately assumes it's enough to be accepted by the black community, on which Duke makes no hesitation calling his bluff. Even after spending more time socializing with black characters, he doesn't grow sympathetic to their plights so much as offended on their behalf, encouraging them to express their anger towards racism with riots. It gets them all gruesomely gunned down, including Duke himself.
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Fritz the Cat / int_20d6f4ea	type	Photo Montage
Fritz the Cat / int_20d6f4ea	comment	Photo Montage: The film ends with pictures with many different location spots from New York City, including an area that was referenced in the beginning of the film.
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Fritz the Cat / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Fritz the Cat / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Granted, the rapist-looters in "Fritz the No-Good" were already highly villainous, but here, they're made significantly worse by being neo-Nazi anarchists who dynamite a power plant.
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Fritz the Cat / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Fritz the Cat / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: New York in the mid-late '60s. Not unusual for a Bakshi film, however.
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Fritz the Cat / int_220c23cb	type	Condescending Compassion
Fritz the Cat / int_220c23cb	comment	Condescending Compassion: The Establishing Character Moment for the three girls Fritz later has sex with shows them with good intentions, but the crow is clearly annoyed by their Soapbox Sadie antics.
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Fritz the Cat / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Fritz the Cat / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When Fritz is preaching for revolt on top of the car in Harlem, someone in the crowd yells "Get the fuck off my car!"
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Fritz the Cat / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Fritz the Cat / int_28a5213a	comment	The bulk of the plot is adapted from "Fritz Bugs Out" and only changes the beginning and the end. In the comic, Fritz's rant about wanting to see the world and live life to the fullest was the direct result of an encounter with a hippie girl he meets at a party, then goes back to her house and has sex with. Here, it begins in the dorm and his rant is depicted more as pretentious navel-gazing. Later, when he's stranded in the desert, he train-hops his way back to New York and his dorm, promptly getting mugged on the way.
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Fritz the Cat / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
Fritz the Cat / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: Bakshi has referred to Winston Schwartz as such. As if her name weren't indicative enough.
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Fritz the Cat / int_34960f22	type	Vapor Wear
Fritz the Cat / int_34960f22	comment	Vapor Wear: Bertha and Harriet both wear no underwear and skirts too short to cover their butts.
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Fritz the Cat / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Fritz the Cat / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: Deconstructed and Parodied. Fritz is a college dropout who has a naive and idealistic view of left-wing revolutions. After irresponsibly delivering a nonsensical pseudo-Marxist speech that causes a neighborhood of black people (portrayed as crows) to riot against the police and experience mass death and destruction, he cowardly flees as he witnesses the highly violent and unpleasant realities of an actual revolution.
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Fritz the Cat / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
Fritz the Cat / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: The film is a little inconsistent on when exactly in the sixties it takes place. Golda Meir is mentioned as the Prime Minister of Israel and one of the crows says "Who do you think I am? Geraldine?" (a character created by comedian Flip Wilson in September 1969). This might suggest that the film takes place in the fall of 1969. However, in the opening scene, a billboard advertising John Huston's film The Bible, released in September 1966, is visible. Given the lack of references to The Vietnam War or Martin Luther King Jr.'s death (which would be fairly common topics in the late '60s, especially in a movie about race relations and political revolution), and the fact that most of the comics by Crumb were written in the mid '60s, may suggest that the film takes place circa 1966.
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Fritz the Cat / int_38faf433	type	Animated Shock Comedy
Fritz the Cat / int_38faf433	comment	Animated Shock Comedy: The Ur-Example. While it was by no means the first adult animated film, it was the first to receive an X rating, and to market itself based on this fact.
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Fritz the Cat / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Fritz the Cat / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: When Fritz rallies the crows to overthrow the pig police force, the crows and pigs are engaged in battle. The pigs easily bulldoze over the crows with better technology (including Air Force fighter-jets) while the crows only manage to kill three pigs. Hundreds of crows die in the process, with Fritz having to run for it.
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Fritz the Cat / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Fritz the Cat / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In the original "Fritz the No-Good" comic, Fritz actually joins in on Harriet's gang-rape. Here, he's horrified and tries to help her.
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Fritz the Cat / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Fritz the Cat / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Fritz's response to what the revolution was about.
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Fritz the Cat / int_43d612b7	type	Disney Acid Sequence
Fritz the Cat / int_43d612b7	comment	Disney Acid Sequence: Both films contain one, though Nine Lives uses it to show one of the ways Fritz dies.
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Fritz the Cat / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Fritz the Cat / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Fritz is a self-righteous, self-serving, entitled, immature pervert who brings about trouble wherever he goes. He's still horrified by Harriet being gang-raped and actually tries to comfort her after it. He even delivers a "Reason You Suck" Speech to the neo-Nazis later on.
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Fritz the Cat / int_4aa24ad9	type	I Have a Family
Fritz the Cat / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: Ralph tries to save himself and his partner from getting ripped to pieces by an ensuing mob by showing them a photo of his kids.
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Fritz the Cat / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Fritz the Cat / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Somewhat. Crows stand in for black people, however the terms "crow" and "black/negro/colored" are used completely interchangeably. From a purely In-Universe standpoint, ignoring the Animal Metaphor, Fritz mentions to a crow that cats have historically oppressed crows, leaving him with (what he claims to be) a guilt complex.
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Fritz the Cat / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Fritz the Cat / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The two pig cops never successfully uphold the laws they intend to enforce.
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Fritz the Cat / int_5a852047	type	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification
Fritz the Cat / int_5a852047	comment	Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification: Somewhere between 3 and 4. It adapts three stories from the comic, the first two wholesale but the last only slightly, retrofitting it to make sense within the narrative, and is bookended by two completely original scenes. The opening scenes of Fritz and his friends in Washington Square Park leading up to the bathtub orgy is adapted from the comic simply called "Fritz the Cat", adding the girls' being Innocently Insensitive to the crow, who originally ran off because Fritz lied to him about where he could get some drugs rather than left of his own accord, and the ending scene in the synagogue. The bear cops are also changed to pigs. The bulk of the plot is adapted from "Fritz Bugs Out" and only changes the beginning and the end. In the comic, Fritz's rant about wanting to see the world and live life to the fullest was the direct result of an encounter with a hippie girl he meets at a party, then goes back to her house and has sex with. Here, it begins in the dorm and his rant is depicted more as pretentious navel-gazing. Later, when he's stranded in the desert, he train-hops his way back to New York and his dorm, promptly getting mugged on the way. The last act is the loosest adaptation, "Fritz the No-Good". Originally, Fritz was a deadbeat husband and father who hooked up with Winston and, later, a gang of small-time crooks after getting kicked out by his wife, eventually winding up in jail. The only aspect that remains is the gang, here neo-Nazi anarchists. Also rather than try and stop them from raping Harriet, Fritz originally joined in.
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Fritz the Cat / int_5e5f9204	type	Revolutionaries Who Don't Do Anything
Fritz the Cat / int_5e5f9204	comment	Revolutionaries Who Don't Do Anything: Applies to a few characters, notably Fritz has some moments where he is one. This was more so the case in the comics.
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Fritz the Cat / int_5f861d0f	type	Only Friend
Fritz the Cat / int_5f861d0f	comment	Only Friend: Duke is the only male character to show Fritz any empathy.
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Fritz the Cat / int_61d054a0	type	Animal Stereotypes
Fritz the Cat / int_61d054a0	comment	Animal Stereotypes: Feline Fritz is something of a coward, let alone a hypocritical coward. He rants about how much he hates college and that he could have spent his college years having fun before burning down his textbooks - ultimately regretting it in the end cause he was too afraid to rebel against and leave the education system like he had called for and then fears he'll end up without a good career or job and his parents will punish him harshly for this. Later on, he calls upon the crows to rise up against the police blaming the pig cops for keeping the wealthy in power, starting a riot and all-out war between the crows and pigs but when Fritz finds himself in the middle of the riot, he gets frightened and runs off from what he started.
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Fritz the Cat / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Fritz the Cat / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Duke dies saving Fritz by getting shot by a stray bullet. Not only is he one of the friendlier and more sympathetic characters, but he's also the only male character to care about Fritz's well-being.
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Fritz the Cat / int_65e9d9df	type	Fooled by the Sound
Fritz the Cat / int_65e9d9df	comment	Fooled by the Sound: Fritz is lying in a hospital bed, a victim of a bombing at the power substation. Three weeping furry female visitors come to see him, which leads the policeman outside his room to believe Fritz is a goner. When he hears some noises come through the door, the cop takes his hat off, certain that Fritz is in his death throes. Inside the room, Fritz isn't dying, nosiree, not even close.
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Fritz the Cat / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Fritz the Cat / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: A big reason that Crumb disliked the film was that Bakshi took what was ultimately apolitical light entertainment and used it as a basis for his own opinions of the hippie movement and race relations. There's also the many reflections on Bakshi's own Jewish upbringing, such as the scene in the synagogue invented for the adaptation and the gang of looters from "Fritz the No-Good" being changed to neo-Nazis.
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Fritz the Cat / int_665136e6	type	Animals Lack Attributes
Fritz the Cat / int_665136e6	comment	Animals Lack Attributes: Averted. When one of the pig cops is thrown through a church window (somehow lacking his pants and undergarments), you can clearly see his junk. Until he takes his shirt and coat off, Fritz is usually drawn with this.
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Fritz the Cat / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Fritz the Cat / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: The first crow to appear, who flamboyantly tells off the girls trying to flirt with him via positive discrimination.
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Fritz the Cat / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Fritz the Cat / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: While Fritz appears pretty much as depicted in posters◊, the female cat never appears or is mentioned in the film. Though she does resemble the bespectacled, feline member of three girls Fritz engages in sexcapades with, so it's possible it's her, with a prototypical character design.
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Fritz the Cat / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Fritz the Cat / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Fritz's girlfriend, Winston Schwartz, isn't even mentioned until her appearance in the last third. Her disappearance is just as abrupt. Supposedly this is why Bakshi gave the fox character in the female trio the same name, to try and pass off both characters as the same person so the real Winston's sudden and unexplained appearance wouldn't be so jarring. However, it's arguably more jarring this way, since the fun and easygoing "Winston" in the beginning suddenly becomes a nagging, hateful, abusive wench without explanation.
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Fritz the Cat / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Fritz the Cat / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Winston gives one to Fritz after he calls her a bitch:
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Fritz the Cat / int_7ee61bec	type	Mature Animal Story
Fritz the Cat / int_7ee61bec	comment	Mature Animal Story: One of the earliest animated films that feature a cast of anthropomorphic animals geared towards adults and deals with heavy subject matter.
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Fritz the Cat / int_8341ccb1	type	World of Funny Animals
Fritz the Cat / int_8341ccb1	comment	World of Funny Animals: The entire film mostly takes place in this setting, except for the chickens and seagulls.
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Fritz the Cat / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Fritz the Cat / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Fritz's girlfriend, Winston Schwartz, is a dog.
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Fritz the Cat / int_86e1653c	type	Working Through the Cold
Fritz the Cat / int_86e1653c	comment	Working Through the Cold: Real-life example. Animator Ted Bonnicksen, gravely ill with leukemia during production, was so dedicated that he took his work home with him and worked until his death.
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Fritz the Cat / int_8a3c406e	type	Hair-Raising Hare
Fritz the Cat / int_8a3c406e	comment	Hair-Raising Hare: Fritz later encounters a drug-addicted neo-Nazi rabbit, Blue, who isn't that friendly. The rabbit would later chain up, beat and rape a horse, his girlfriend, Harriet.
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Fritz the Cat / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Fritz the Cat / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Harriet getting raped by her boyfriend is the only scene in which a sex act is shown in a completely negative light (along with said sex act not being shown). Even Fritz is horrified and tries to stop him.
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Fritz the Cat / int_8aa8974b	type	Police Pig
Fritz the Cat / int_8aa8974b	comment	Police Pig: Police officers are portrayed as corrupt, incompetetent, anthropomorphic pigs. The film was a major reason why the 19th century usage of "pig" as an insult for cops made a big comeback in The '70s.
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Fritz the Cat / int_8e92e125	type	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
Fritz the Cat / int_8e92e125	comment	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: After Fritz ends up causing a riot between crows and pigs. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Daisy Duck (via silhouettes) are briefly seen cheering as airplane fighter jets fly across the city.
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Fritz the Cat / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Fritz the Cat / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Winston Schwartz, as evidenced by the song which introduces her:
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Fritz the Cat / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Fritz the Cat / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: When Fritz and Winston's car breaks down in the desert, a trucker stops by and tells them that the car simply ran out of gasoline. Winston berates Fritz for this and makes him walk to the nearest gas station with a bucket in hand as if the situation was his fault, even though she's the one who has been driving the car the entire trip.
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Fritz the Cat / int_97928805	type	Barefoot Cartoon Animal
Fritz the Cat / int_97928805	comment	Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Most of the cast.
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Fritz the Cat / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
Fritz the Cat / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: The power plant explosion is stock footage of a real one.
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Fritz the Cat / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Fritz the Cat / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Fritz attracts five different women throughout the plot.
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Fritz the Cat / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Fritz the Cat / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: A smooth jazz theme is used for Duke the Crow. Fritz the Cat himself has this electronic-rock theme performed by Ed Bogas. Bertha has a groovy jazz theme with an organ. During the car scene, Winston has a chase-sounding yet catchy theme performed by Ed Bogas.
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Fritz the Cat / int_a07afea2	type	Random Events Plot
Fritz the Cat / int_a07afea2	comment	Random Events Plot: The film opens with Fritz playing music at the park, then later visits Harlem where he starts a riot after getting drugged up by a female crow named Big Bertha, then finally encounters a neo-Nazi bunny named Blue.
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Fritz the Cat / int_a236dd4c	type	Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
Fritz the Cat / int_a236dd4c	comment	Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Pretty much everyone.
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Fritz the Cat / int_a33b90b2	type	Improv
Fritz the Cat / int_a33b90b2	comment	Improv: A few scenes, such as the opening on the construction site and the conversation among the patrons in the crow bar, were voiced by NYC pedestrians whom Bakshi would approach at random and interview, paying them $5 each and using audio of their candid conversations as dialogue.
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Fritz the Cat / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Fritz the Cat / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: A girl named Winston?
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Fritz the Cat / int_a621882	type	The Bad Guys Are Cops
Fritz the Cat / int_a621882	comment	The Bad Guys Are Cops: At least that's what Fritz thinks. He rallies up the black crows and gives a Karl Marx-esque speech towards them (he specifically uses the word "proletariat") that the police are enforcing the rule of the "bosses" (elite rich) and putting everyone else in a relatively weak position of power. But there is no evidence to support Fritz is telling the truth, at least not on-screen.
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Fritz the Cat / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Fritz the Cat / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The Sadistic Satanic Neo-Nazi Junkie Terrorists who made Fritz plant the bomb inside the power plant near the end of the movie and made it explode along with Fritz still in there, and beat poor Harriet pretty bad. We just never hear of them again.
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Fritz the Cat / int_b2463ea1	type	Intellectual Animal
Fritz the Cat / int_b2463ea1	comment	Intellectual Animal: Regardless of one's personal opinions on this matter, it's clear that Fritz only barely understands what he's talking about and is most likely just regurgitating words he's heard other people with more personal experience have told him.
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Fritz the Cat / int_b3198876	type	Simpleton Voice
Fritz the Cat / int_b3198876	comment	Simpleton Voice: The unnamed pig-cop partnered with Ralph. Ironically, he seems to be the smarter of the two.
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Fritz the Cat / int_b3c0ed0c	type	Spoof Aesop
Fritz the Cat / int_b3c0ed0c	comment	Spoof Aesop: The ending, in which Fritz concludes that he should stick to having sex with everyone he can and let the world take care of itself.
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Fritz the Cat / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Fritz the Cat / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Even a manipulative, perverted manchild like Fritz has zero tolerance for rape and is seen comforting Harriet after he fails to save her.
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Fritz the Cat / int_b532f68b	type	Everybody Has Lots of Sex
Fritz the Cat / int_b532f68b	comment	Everybody Has Lots of Sex: And not just Fritz. Nearly every scene has him or some other character either engaging in intercourse or getting felt/feeling someone up.
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Fritz the Cat / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Fritz the Cat / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Fritz refers to a black bartender as "boy" immediately after telling Duke how much he understands race relations.
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Fritz the Cat / int_ba26aa0d	type	Teeny Weenie
Fritz the Cat / int_ba26aa0d	comment	Teeny Weenie: Fritz is supposedly turned down for sex by Big Bertha (who he got high with) because of this (and is euphemistically described as "[not] black enough"), but as it turns out, she was just teasing.
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Fritz the Cat / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Fritz the Cat / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Discussed.
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Fritz the Cat / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
Fritz the Cat / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: EVERYONE, especially the titular Fritz the Cat qualifying as this since just about everyone is pretty goofy in this story.
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Fritz the Cat / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Fritz the Cat / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Fritz is a self-absorbed, manipulative and sex-loving jerkass. However, see Jerk with a Heart of Gold below.
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Fritz the Cat / int_c04550fe	type	The Pornomancer
Fritz the Cat / int_c04550fe	comment	The Pornomancer: Fritz is able to bed several strange women on charisma alone.
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Fritz the Cat / int_d1a37798	type	Sinister Swine
Fritz the Cat / int_d1a37798	comment	Sinister Swine: The incompetent, antagonistic police officers are pigs.
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Fritz the Cat / int_d83f3588	type	Depending on the Artist
Fritz the Cat / int_d83f3588	comment	Depending on the Artist: There is no attempt whatsoever at uniformity when it comes to animation styles; there wasn't a high enough budget for it. On the plus side, this gives the film quite a bit of variety and allows each artist's style to be showcased more easily.
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Fritz the Cat / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Fritz the Cat / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Poor, poor Harriet.
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Fritz the Cat / int_e201cc	type	The Bore
Fritz the Cat / int_e201cc	comment	The Bore: Winston Schwartz, in contrast to her more adventurous boyfriend Fritz. When the latter brings up going to a seedy truck stop to hear about truckers' experiences on the road, the former instead pulls into a Howard Johnson's, a former nationwide restaurant chain.note Still operating as a hotel chain.
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Fritz the Cat / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Fritz the Cat / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: Averted; once Fritz gets into trouble for inciting a riot, he hightails it out of New York and never looks back.
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Fritz the Cat / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Fritz the Cat / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted with two entirely different female companions of Fritz, both named Winston. The first is a fox who engages in the orgies at the beginning and the end. The other, a dog named Winston Schwartz, goes on a road trip with Fritz, but breaks up with him out of annoyance. Oddly, both these characters are similar enough in appearance that first-time viewers might just assume that a new voice actor was brought in. That Other Wiki says that Bakshi may have named both characters Winston as a haphazard way of making up for the fact that Fritz's girlfriend Winston suddenly pops up in the film with no introduction and he wanted to try and make it seem like both characters were the same person to remedy that.
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Fritz the Cat / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
Fritz the Cat / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Duke the Crow is one of the few genuinely nice characters who cares about Fritz's wellâ€“being. He gets killed by a stray bullet during a shootout which Fritz himself incited, trying to get him out of danger.
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Fritz the Cat / int_f0893a50	type	Jewish American Princess
Fritz the Cat / int_f0893a50	comment	Jewish American Princess: Winston Schwartz is abrasive, sharply-dressed (apart from her Not-So-Badass Longcoat), and Ambiguously Jewish. Despite being Fritz's girlfriend, she's never shown having sex with him or anyone else (in a film where Everyone Has Lots of Sex), and even chastises him for his own sex life.
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Fritz the Cat / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Fritz the Cat / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Fritz and Winston Schwartz at one point eat at Howard Johnson's.
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Fritz the Cat / int_f5d6b172	type	Underground Comics
Fritz the Cat / int_f5d6b172	comment	Underground Comics: The film is based on the Robert Crumb comic of the same name.
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Fritz the Cat / int_f844a17c	type	Blame Game
Fritz the Cat / int_f844a17c	comment	Blame Game: When Fritz rallies the crows to gang up on the pig cops, accusing them of keeping the bosses in power, the cops stupidly buy Fritz's speech themselves and blames the other one while denying that himself is to blame ("Fuck you!", "You first!")
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Fritz the Cat / int_f9375414	type	FacePalm
Fritz the Cat / int_f9375414	comment	Face Palm: Duke does this complete with "Aww MAN!" when Fritz calls the crow bartender "boy".
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Fritz the Cat / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
Fritz the Cat / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: Fritz when he and Duke steal a car.
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Fritz the Cat / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Fritz the Cat / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: In a surprisingly sudden and sad turn of events, Duke is shot by a stray bullet while attempting to keep Fritz safe from the gunfire. However, he appears as a ghost playing pool in the sequel.
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Fritz the Cat / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Fritz the Cat / int_ff17ccf1	comment	The opening scenes of Fritz and his friends in Washington Square Park leading up to the bathtub orgy is adapted from the comic simply called "Fritz the Cat", adding the girls' being Innocently Insensitive to the crow, who originally ran off because Fritz lied to him about where he could get some drugs rather than left of his own accord, and the ending scene in the synagogue. The bear cops are also changed to pigs.
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