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The Family-Ness
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The Family-Ness (1984-1985) is a British children's cartoon revolving around the adventures of a brother and sister, Angus and Elspeth McToot, and their friends, a family of Loch Ness monsters collectively known as the Nessies.The children become friends with the Nessies after they save the clumsy Silly-Ness from a hole. The mother of the Nessies, Her High-Ness, made it a strict rule beforehand that Loch Ness monsters have nothing to do with humans, but she makes Elspeth and Angus the exceptions after they save Silly-Ness. To show her gratitude for the children's actions, Her High-Ness gives them "thistle whistles" that they can use to call on the Nessies at any time.Elspeth and Angus's dad, Mr. McToot, is the keeper of the Nessies' loch, but he dismisses anyone's claims of seeing a Loch Ness monster as nonsense. Similarily, the local policeman does not believe anyone who says they saw a Loch Ness monster. Professor Dumkopf, on the other hand, knows for sure that the Nessies are real and tries to prove their existence by making various inventions to use in and around the loch; his plans are usually foiled by the McToot children or the Nessies themselves, however.Not to be confused with a wholly separate other British (albeit French co-production) series which also featured the same "-Ness suffix denotes personalities of a group of Loch Ness monsters" concept a decade later Happy Ness: The Secret of the Loch. | |
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Sick Episode | |
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Sick Episode: "Baby-Ness Gets the Measles", where Baby-Ness gets... well, what the episode's title says. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: Professor Dumkopf. The word "dumkopf" is German for "stupid head". | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Professor Dumkopf is a mad scientist. | |
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Title Theme Tune | |
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Title Theme Tune: "Eyewit-Ness comes up for air, and taking notes without a care, returns with a crash and a bash and a splash to The Family-Ness!" | |
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The Smart Guy | |
| The Family-Ness / int_3946634e | comment |
The Smart Guy: Clever-Ness, as per his name again. | |
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Interspecies Friendship | |
| The Family-Ness / int_4f4bbeff | comment |
Interspecies Friendship: Between Angus and Elspeth, a pair of human children, and the Nessies. | |
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Big Eater | |
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Big Eater: Hungry-Ness. It's even in his name. | |
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British Brevity | |
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British Brevity: The show ran for a single season of 25 episodes. Since the episodes are only 5 minutes in length each this gives the entire series a total run time of just over 2 Hours. Despite this, the show retains an enduring popularity with many fans from its original run. | |
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Missing Mom | |
| The Family-Ness / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: The father of the McToot children is a commonly-seen character, but their mother is never even mentioned anywhere. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| The Family-Ness / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: The Nessies all have names reflecting what their personality is. For example, Eager-Ness is a very eager Nessie while Sporty-Ness likes to play sports. | |
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Punny Name | |
| The Family-Ness / int_6d7026fa | comment |
Punny Name: Most of the Nessies have names made to resemble words ending with the suffix "-ness" (e.g. Ferocious-Ness, Clever-Ness, Eyewit-Ness, etc.). | |
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Theme Tune Extended | |
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Theme Tune Extended: In the show, the theme song is just barely over 30 seconds long. An extended version exists which is almost two minutes and thirty seconds long. | |
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Literal Music Video | |
| The Family-Ness / int_7d920820 | comment |
Literal Music Video: The lyrics of the theme song describe exactly what's happening on screen. | |
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Animation Bump | |
| The Family-Ness / int_7ea2a915 | comment |
Animation Bump: A regular occurrence since the animation was shopped out to a ton of different British companies - including Biographic Films (of which The Family Ness appears to be its only credit), the U.K. division of Bill Meléndez Productions (better known for the Peanuts specials), and The Ness Company (probably an in-house studio run by the producers). | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
| The Family-Ness / int_85557b38 | comment |
Reality Is Unrealistic: Invoked in-universe. Ferocious-ness enters a parade pretending to be a float modelled after the Loch Ness Monster, but is annoyed when he only wins third place. It turns out that the judges were looking for a more stereotypical plesiosaur-type design of Loch Ness monster rather than Ferocious-ness’ Godzilla-like appearance. | |
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Stock Ness Monster | |
| The Family-Ness / int_9a7d4472 | comment |
Stock Ness Monster: The whole focus of the series is Loch Ness monsters, obviously. | |
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Brought to You by the Letter "S" | |
| The Family-Ness / int_9d1a935f | comment |
Brought to You by the Letter "S": Angus has a "T" on his shirt. | |
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Written Sound Effect | |
| The Family-Ness / int_a7faec8e | comment |
Written Sound Effect: These can be spotted throughout the show for split seconds at a time. | |
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Modesty Shorts | |
| The Family-Ness / int_b4e143c7 | comment |
Modesty Shorts: Elspeth wears red shorts with matching vest beneath her pleated skirt. | |
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| The Family-Ness / int_b8f5a02 | type |
Non-Standard Character Design | |
| The Family-Ness / int_b8f5a02 | comment |
Nonstandard Character Design: The Nessies tend to have pretty similar designs, but Ferocious-Ness and Her High-Ness look markedly different from the others. Ferocious-Ness has a more monstrous design, and Her High-Ness actually resembles a stereotypical Loch Ness monster to a greater degree. | |
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Floating in a Bubble | |
| The Family-Ness / int_b9dcebd | comment |
Floating in a Bubble: "Silly-Ness and the Bubble Machine" has Professor Dumkopf create a bubble machine using Mrs. Mc Toffee's sherbert fizz that captures Silly-Ness. Around the end, Professor Dumkopf falls into his machine and ends up being carried away in one of his own bubbles himself. | |
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Ending Theme | |
| The Family-Ness / int_d02585dd | comment |
Ending Theme: A song called "You'll Never Find a Nessie in the Zoo" is played over the end credits of every episode. The final episode, which shares its name with the song, features an extended version of this ending theme. | |
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Chameleon Camouflage | |
| The Family-Ness / int_e1b2070b | comment |
Chameleon Camouflage: It's revealed that Ferocious-Ness can change color at will in "Ferocious-Ness Changes his Colour". | |
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The Ditz | |
| The Family-Ness / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: Forgetful-Ness and Silly-Ness. Again, all in the names. | |
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Non-Malicious Monster | |
| The Family-Ness / int_fd1b902c | comment |
Non-Malicious Monster: None of the Nessies are even antagonistic or hostile to the children. | |
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Fell Off the Back of a Truck | |
| The Family-Ness / int_fd649e2 | comment |
Fell Off the Back of a Truck: This was how Elspeth and Angus got some honey and lemons to make medicine, and unlike how this trope normally goes, they weren't even joking. | |
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Brought to You by the Letter "S" / int_8990b0c0 | |
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Chameleon Camouflage / int_8990b0c0 | |
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Definite Article Title / int_8990b0c0 | |
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Family Title / int_8990b0c0 | |
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Interspecies Friendship / int_8990b0c0 | |
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Modesty Shorts / int_8990b0c0 | |
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Monster Media / int_8990b0c0 | |
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Preschool Show / int_8990b0c0 | |
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Stock Ness Monster / int_8990b0c0 | |
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Theme Tune Extended / int_8990b0c0 | |
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Your Costume Needs Work / int_8990b0c0 |
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