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Scruffy
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A 1980s animated film, originally shown as a three-part series during ABC's "Weekend Specials." It was based on The Tuesday Dog by Jack Stoneley. It follows the life of Scruffy, an orphaned puppy left to fend for herself on the streets. Despite being made with children in mind, the film is often bleak and downbeat, and discusses the lives of stray animals without shying away from showing death. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: This was definitely one of Ruby-Spears darker works as Never Say "Die" and Frothy Mugs of Water are fully averted, the movie pulls no punches regarding how Dog Pounds were known for putting animals to sleep. Scruffy gets 3 parental figures in which the first two die and the third one nearly evades death twice. There is also Collie's backstory about her using a boot as a substitute for her dead puppy. | |
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Incurable Cough of Death | |
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Incurable Cough of Death: Tibbles has one. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The human villain Catlan and his dog Caesar were created just for the special. Also, Tibbles' mugging attempt was added in. | |
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May–December Romance | |
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May–December Romance: Scruffy and Butch. | |
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Parental Substitute | |
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Parental Substitute: After her puppy died, Collie finds a new child...a boot. In the book she is, for unexplained reasons, infertile, and her affection for the boot is partly due to her experiencing a false pregnancy. | |
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Broken Aesop | |
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Broken Aesop: There are unwanted pets living on the streets and being put to death every day, and it's up to us to think of ways to change this. Also, don't bother getting your pets spayed or neutered. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Caesar after his owner abandoned him. | |
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Plot Hole | |
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Plot Hole: A minor one in the book, wherein the collie is deaf which gets her non-fatally hit by a truck. At one point she hears Scruffy barking and rushes over to see what the trouble is.note And it's not ambiguous: the text specifically says "the collie heard" | |
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Animal Talk | |
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Animal Talk: The special has all non-human animals able to communicate with one another through words. This is not the case in the book, which as in real life has barking and body language serving as the dogs' only means of communication. | |
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All Dogs Are Purebred | |
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All Dogs Are Purebred: In the novel, at least. While Scruffy herself is an exception, the book otherwise displays this trope with all the other dogs she meets. The film seems to avert this. | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death: Poor, poor Tibbles. In the book, he died of natural causes. | |
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Pounds Are Animal Prisons | |
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Pounds Are Animal Prisons: Played with. The dog catchers do seem evil at first, but in reality, they're big-hearted dog lovers who would prefer to never euthanize another dog. It's just a deeply unfortunate part of their job. | |
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Gender Equals Breed | |
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Gender Equals Breed: Scruffy and Butch's puppies. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Scruffy and Butch bear a striking resemblance to Lady and the Tramp. Maybe even Rowf and Snitter from Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs in terms of personality and story. | |
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Undying Loyalty | |
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Undying Loyalty: Deconstructed with Scruffy's Mother, Duchess. Her owners decide to give her to their neighbor, but when she sneaks back into her old house, the neighbor ends up missing her. This causes her and her daughter a lot of trouble, especially when the house is set on fire by a demolition crew, yet they are noticed, saved and taken in. Since Duchess wants to find her original masters and go back to them, they leave the home to go look for them. Alas, this ends up getting Duchess killed. | |
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Canine Fiction / int_b71b7ada | |
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