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Salty's Lighthouse

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Salty's Lighthouse is a show about a young boy named Salty and his adventures with his seaside friends in a lighthouse.The show was created by Sunbow Entertainment and TLC in 1997. The show is often remembered for the dubbed TUGS segments.
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Picnic Episode
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Picnic Episode: In "Some Guys Have All the Luck", Salty and his friends want to have a picnic on the beach, but when rain spoils their plans, Aunt Chovie suggests they spend their picnic in the lighthouse.
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Adaptational Villainy
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Adaptational Villainy: Sea Rogue in the original show was forced to steal barges by two pirate tugs holding his uncle for ransom. The pirate tugs and Sea Rogue's uncle are Adapted Out, so Sea Rogue is played straight as a villainous pirate who stole barges for kicks. The episode was revealed to be All Just a Dream, but still.
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Unreliable Illustrator
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Unreliable Illustrator: The TUGS look almost nothing like their physical models in the opening theme, with Top Hat missing his monocle, Sunshine being incredibly tiny (he, or she in this case, is the same size as Ten Cents in the actual TUGS footage), and everyone overall looking much lumpier and rounded around the faces. The rest of the animation doesn't fare much better thanks to the low budget, changing look from episode to episode. The clams suffer the worst of this.
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Related in the Adaptation
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Related in the Adaptation: In addition to changing gender, Sunshine is reinterpreted as Ten Cents' little sister.
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I Just Want to Have Friends
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I Just Want to Have Friends: Steamer's reason for sneaking into the harbor in this version.
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Vocal Evolution
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Vocal Evolution: Boomer’s voice changes drastically from his first appearance, going from sounding like Zug to having a far more distinct voice in his second appearance.
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Adapted Out
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Adapted Out: A few characters don't have roles in Salty's Lighthouse, mostly inconsequential characters.
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Vocal Dissonance
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Sunshine, Captain Starr, and Little Ditcher all became female, most likely to appeal to a wider set of audience. The latter being a very jarring case of Vocal Dissonance as the last one's voice becomes that of a little girl.
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Adaptational Heroism
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Adaptational Heroism: Many characters get this in the series; The Zero Fleet in TUGS are the Star Tug's unscrupulous business rivals, willing to resort to sabotage to get ahead of the Stars. Here, while they still compete with each other and the Zeros can be antagonist at times, their relationship is much friendlier with the Zero Fleet fitting more under Jerk with a Heart of Gold in this version. Burke and Blair went from devious scrap merchants to movie producers who were looking for tugs to use for their next movie. While not necessarily evil, Bluenose is a lot more reasonable here and doesn’t use his authority to screw over the TUGS. While his original counterpart tried to have Grampus blown up for target practice, his version here tries to save Grampus from the same fate. Johnny Cuba went from an evil gangster to a lonely tanker who only wants friends. Nantucket's only notable act in the original show was trying to illegally get into port despite being marked for quarantine. Here, he's a friend of the TUGS with his villainous actions removed.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Zorran. He's not as nice as the rest of the Zero Fleet but he is shown to help out and be nice at times, examples include: Trying to cheer Izzy up with a joke when he was feeling glum about not being able to do his work due to him waiting for repairs. Giving Lillie her fuel immediately instead of trying to give it to Vienna like in the original Deep Freeze episode. After a disagreement with Hercules about bringing in the Princess Alice through the south entrance and refusing to help at first, he comes to assist after Sunshine gets blown off by the wind and crashes, apologizes about being stubborn and even decides to teach Ten Cents and Sunshine some tricks of how to tow in windy conditions.
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Dark Is Not Evil
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Dark Is Not Evil: Due to the above mentioned trope of the Z-Stacks in this version their black and red color scheme applies here.
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Funny Octopus
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Funny Octopus: Ocho is an octopus who is friends with Salty. He likes to paint and often uses his tentacles to squirt paint onto his canvas. He also likes to pretend to be a pirate named Captain Calamari.
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Injured Limb Episode
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Injured Limb Episode: In "Let's Wing It", Sadie sprains her wing and has it put in a sling. This makes it difficult for her to sponge-paint with the rest of her friends.
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Meaningful Name: Mr. Boffo And Mr. Socko are successful movie producers. Boffo and Socko both mean successful.
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Punny Name: Aunt Chovie.
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Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Sophie and Sadie both wear ribbons on their heads.
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Brooklyn Rage
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Brooklyn Rage: Zak And Z.B have Brooklyn accents.
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Talk Like a Pirate
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Talk Like a Pirate: Sea Rogue, due to actually being a pirate in this version.
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Adaptational Nice Guy
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Adaptational Nice Guy: Top Hat is a lot nicer here than he was in the original series, being much less snarky and pompous.
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Frankenslation: The TUGS segments regularly consisted of clips from different episodes edited together. This commonly leads to things like the weather or time of day switching between cuts, and Sunshine changing liveries.
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Theme Twin Naming
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Theme Twin Naming: The Seagull twins are named Sophie and Sadie.
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Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal
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Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Sophie and Sadie both wear ribbons in their hair. Sophie wears two, while Sadie wears one.
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She's a Man in Japan
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She's a Man in Japan: Sunshine, Captain Starr, and Little Ditcher all became female, most likely to appeal to a wider set of audience. The latter being a very jarring case of Vocal Dissonance as the last one's voice becomes that of a little girl. The Fultan Ferry is an interesting example as it was referred to as a male and female, it was genderless in TUGS.
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The Big Race
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The Big Race: The Star Fleet and Zero Fleet compete in a race in one episode.
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Take That!
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Take That!: In "Otis the Movie Star", when looking for an old boat to star in Rock the Boat, Mr. Boffo and Mr. Socko consider hiring Grampus, then decide against it because they don't want to remake Underwaterworld.
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Bothering by the Book: When Bluenose protests being towed to dry dock by Grampus, the latter points out that he's just following the rule book.
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Inconsistent Coloring: As mentioned above, Sunshine often switches between having yellow and white paintwork.
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Speak in Unison: The Clams almost always speak this way.
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Shout-Out: In "Otis the Movie Star", Mr. Boffo and Mr. Socko tell Captain Star about some of the movies they've made in the past. These include Beauty and the Boat, Jurassic Harbor, and Tugrats.
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Series Continuity Error: When Boomer first appeared via a flashback/story in the TUGS segment of "Banana Splits", his bad luck ended after he was built into a house boat like in TUGS. Later he reappeared in "Some Guys Have all the Luck" where it is instead stated that he lost his bad luck by successfully towing a schooner out to sea. Another problem is that the way Ten Cents tells his story he acts as if Zip and Zug don't know who Boomer is, however in his next appearance in "Some Guys Have all the Luck" they share a scene with him.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: A lot of the darker elements of the original TUGS series were removed. The segment loosely adapting "Munitions", for example, sees the fire being put out in short order, with almost all of the explosions and Big Mickey's death being tactfully edited out.
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Sea Rogue is only called Sea Rogue once, by Top Hat, everyone else just refers to him as "Pirate".
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Pulled from Your Day Off
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Pulled from Your Day Off: Happens to Grampus in "Bluenose Buds In".
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Composite Character
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Composite Character: The Coast Guard and his messenger were merged into the character Cappy.
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Dub-Induced Plotline Change: The storylines of the TUGS segments here bear little to no resemblance to the originals.
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All Just a Dream
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All Just a Dream: In the episode "Dream On", Sea Rogue is revealed to simply be a dream by Top Hat.
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Friendly Rivalry
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Friendly Rivalry: The Star Tugs and the Zero Fleet are still very much competing companies, though unlike the original TUGS, they seem to be on good terms with one another.
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Adaptational Nationality
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Adaptational Nationality: Every character in the show was changed to have an American accent, the most obvious example being Izzy Gomez.
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