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Sylvanian Families

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Sylvanian Families (1987) is an animated series produced by DiC Entertainment to cash in on the Sylvanian Families franchise which was reaching the peak of its popularity at the time. Each episode, a small child with a problem makes a wish about something that might cause a message to be delivered, and then meets a magic woodkeeper who opens a door to Sylvanian Forest and shrinks them. They enter and meet a few of the Sylvanian Families, after which they learn the Aesop of the episode, which usually has something to do with either how you should have been happy all along, or that you should quit being such a Jerkass.Based on a toy line created and originally released in Japan by Epoch Company in 1985, the 1987 series was of American origin, though 3 Japanese studios, K.K. DiC, Tokyo Movie Shinsha and Studio Mook, provided animation production, TMS & Mook being uncredited. After the success of the show in the UK, a short four-episode stop-motion series of UK origin, titled Stories Of The Sylvanian Families, followed in 1988. This was followed in 2007 in Japan by a three-episode 3DCG-animated OVA series, and in 2017 with a series of Netflix-exclusive OVAs and shorts.Compare to Mapletown, which aired on U.S. TV at the same time. On a fascinating side note, Haim Saban (yes, that Saban) and Shuki Levy were involved in both projects, although their involvement in Sylvanian Families is minimal.
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Canon Foreigner: The DiC series, again. The Woodkeeper, Gatorpossum, Packbat and the numerous one-off children don't exist in the official continuity.
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Annoying Younger Sibling
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Annoying Younger Sibling: Sandy and Coral Babblebrook cause their older sister Breezy no end of grief by being rambunctious and making a huge mess of the recently cooked sweet and potato pie. However, when the characters are all captured by Packbat, the twins are the ones who find the keys and help them escape. It teaches the child protagonist Katie that younger brothers might be annoying, but they aren't as bad as she thinks.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: The series in relation to the toyline as a whole. It had villains while the toyline was completely devoid of them. Not true for the OVAs and shorts, however, which are just as sweet and gentle as the toys themselves look.
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Ironic Name: Grace, who wishes she wasn't so clumsy.
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Short-Runners
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Short-Runners: The initial run was from September 1987 to December of the same year. The series ran for 13 episodes total.
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Binocular Shot
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Binocular Shot: In "Here Come the Brides", Packbat looks at Sylvanian Forest through binoculars, hoping that he will soon find Sylvanians panicking from a forest fire he tried to start. We get a shot of the Forest through his binoculars as he's looking.
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Adapted Out
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Adapted Out: The older siblings for the Evergreen, Wildwood, Babblebrook and Timbertop families are absent and in some cases, they're merged with the younger siblings. Some other prominent characters who were in the toyline at the time such as the Treefellow family, also don't appear.
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Ultraterrestrials
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Ultra Terrestrials:In "Founders Keepers", its revealed that the Sylvanians used to live on Earth, but were forced to seek out the Sylvanian forest with a young Woodkeeper's help due to human development.
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Title Theme Tune
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Title Theme Tune: The theme songnote Which is completely different from the jingle heard in the commercials for the toys. almost says the show's title verbatim:
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Credits Running Sequence
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Credits Running Sequence: The end credits show footage of one of the Sylvanian Forest kids, Ashley Evergreen, running to the right. At the end of the sequence, she reaches a hill where she gets a good view of the sun setting.
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Recycled Soundtrack
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Recycled Soundtrack:Some of the musical cues are reused from "Popples", another DiC series.
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Big Dam Plot
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Big Dam Plot: In "Dam Busters", Packbat's evil plan is to send Gatorpossum to destroy a dam to flood the Sylvanian Forest.
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Paper-Thin Disguise
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Paper-Thin Disguise: In "The Wheel Thing", Packbat plots to get through the Golden Door to get to the Woodkeeper. To do this, he disguises himself as the episode's human, a paraplegic girl named Chrissie. All he does is put on a wig and dress, doing nothing to hide his ratlike face, claws, feet and wingcape, yet thinks that all he needs to complete the disguise is Chrissie's wheelchair which he tries to steal. We never get to see if it would've worked as he fails to acquire said wheelchair. The main Sylvanians of the episode certainly aren't fooled, mainly as the real Chrissie is with them the whole time. In "Boy's Intuition", Packbat & Gatorpossum try to capture Buster's baby siblings to hold them in exchange for Buster's new spy kit (though obviously, Gatorpossum is more intrested in eating said babies). To do this, Gatorposssum disguises himself as a woman and claims to be a friend of the family. His disguise simply consists of a dress, wig and a pair of glasses yet all of the characters don't recognise him until one of the babies pulls the wig off. Later, Packbat, using a false orange beard that had fallen out of the spy kit, disguises himself as the Woodkeeper. He actually puts a bit more effort into this one, stuffing himself with straw to resemble the Woodkeeper's physique. Though again the disguise does little to hide his ratlike face, claws & feet. While the boys aren't entirely fooled (Mikey notes that the Woodkeeper never leaves his cabin), they only recognise him when one of the babies pulls his beard off.
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Bag of Kidnapping
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Bag of Kidnapping:Both Gatorpossum & Packbat kidnap Sylvanians this way in "Fraidy Cats" & "Double Trouble" respectively.
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Never Smile at a Crocodile
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Never Smile at a Crocodile: Gatorpossum is (at least partially) an alligator serving as a villain of the show.
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Today, X. Tomorrow, the World!
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Today, X. Tomorrow, the World!: In "Outfoxing the Foxes", Packbat breaks into the cellar of the carrot bank and gloats "Tonight, the carrots... tomorrow, all Sylvanianville!"
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show
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Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The original toyline is a pure Sugar Bowl and does not contain villains. The DiC series, on the other hand, features the villain Packbat and his minion Gatorpossum, and makes no attempts to hide the fact that they're legitimate threats. The latter tries to eat babies in a few episodes, for heaven's sake!
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Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: The Funny Animals are fully dressed. Well, except for shoes.
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "Here Come the Brides", after he starts a fire that the citizens promptly put out, Packbat is looking at Sylvanian Forest through a pair of binoculars and listing off some sinister sounds he expects to hear at any minute.
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Faking Another Person's Illness: In "Daddy's Little Girl", the Slydale family, to retrieve the black bag from the Sylvanian Forest's only doctor for Packbat, pretend their daughter is sick so that he'll come to take care of her condition.
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World of Funny Animals
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World of Funny Animals: Just like the toys the show is based on. All the animals in the Sylvanian Forest are anthropomorphic and act just like humans.
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Free-Range Children
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Free-Range Children:The Sylvanian adults don't seem to have much of a problem letting their children and their human friends roam the forest unsupervised despite there being a carnivorous monster with a taste for children and another monster who wouldn't hesitate to hold them hostage. In "Fool's Gold", Rusty, Grover & Penny decide to scope out Packbat's house for treasure, stating their plans in full earshot of Rusty's grandparents who do nothing to stop them. Predictably, one of them (Grover) gets captured and held hostage.
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Signing-Off Catchphrase: The Woodskeeper wraps up episodes by saying "And so ends another journey to the Sylvanian Forest to visit our best of friends, the Sylvanian Families! Goodbye, all, and may your wishes come true!"
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Cute Clumsy Girl
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Cute Clumsy Girl: Grace, one of the child visitors who wishes she wasn't this. Myrtle is this as well and the two bond over it quite quickly.
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Two Shorts: The 22-minute-long episodes consisted of two 11-minute shorts each.
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Barefoot Cartoon Animal: None of the Funny Animal characters wear shoes.
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Brought to You by the Letter "S"
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Brought to You by the Letter "S": Donny from the first episode, "Dam Busters", wears a shirt with a "D" on it.
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Merchandise-Driven
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Merchandise-Driven: Based on the Japanese toy line known today as Calico Critters in the U.S.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: In "Beauty and the Beast", Lisa, upon realizing that Packbat and Gatorpossum are right behind her, screams in panic.
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Accidental Misnaming
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Accidental Misnaming: Gatorpossum can never get Packbat's name right. He's called him "Mr Porkerbat" and "Pig food" among other names.
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Blended Family Drama: The child protagonists of the two wedding themed episodes had this as their problem. One was worried about all the changes that would take place while the other would get new siblings when he prefers being an only child.
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Cunning Like a Fox
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Cunning Like a Fox: The Slydale family consists of fox Sylvanians who work for Packbat and use all sorts of things to get their way. Their debut episode, "Outfoxing the Foxes", has Joey attempting to outwit them when they intend to steal carrots from the carrot bank.
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Non-Standard Character Design
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Non-Standard Character Design: Packbat and Gatorpossum, the villains, have more cartoony designs compared to the Animesque Sylvanian animals and humans.
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Edible Ammunition
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Edible Ammunition: In "Dam Busters", Donny has the Sylvanian animals use Grandpa Ernest's vacuum device to suck carrots out of a garden and shoot them at Packbat and Gatorpossum.
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The Catfish
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The Catfish: In "Hoppily Ever After", after Packbat & Gatorpossum steal the wedding feast of Hickory & Lily, Preston, Rusty & the episode's human Evan, go out to catch a large bass named "The Grandaddy Bass" to replace it. In a subverison of this trope, not only is the bass caught, but it isn't even caught by the main characters. Instead, Packbat & Gatorpossum catch it first to use in a trap and when that fails, the boys bring it back to be cooked (it also turns out to have swallowed the wedding rings Packbat had stolen & lost in "Here Come the Brides").
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Disguised in Drag
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Disguised in Drag: Gatorpossum dresses as a woman in the episode "Boy's Intuition" to get to the babies and try to eat them. In "The Wheel Thing" Packbat also tries to disguise himself as the episode's human girl so he can get to the Woodkeeper and attempts to steal her wheelchair to complete the disguise.
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Exact Words
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Exact Words: How Grace outwits Packbat. She says she will hand the mailbag over if he releases her friends from the hole trap he's set up (making sure he frees them first). She and Ashley then toss him the mailbag, causing him to fall into his own trap because she filled it with rocks. This exchange occurs.
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Malicious Misnaming
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Malicious Misnaming: Packbat frequently calls the Sylvanians "Silly-vanians".
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Mix-and-Match Critters
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Mix-and-Match Critters: Packrat is part pack rat, part bat. Similarly, Gatorpossum is... well, part gator, part possum.
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Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!
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Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: Human children visit the Funny Animal-populated Sylvanian Forest.
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