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The Thing

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The Thing	label	The Thing
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The Thing	comment	The Thing is a 1979 Marvel cartoon, produced by Hanna-Barbera, about Ben Grimm as a teenager. The story is different from the original Fantastic Four comics and focused solely on the Thing in his misadventures.The cartoon was part of Fred and Barney Meet the Thing. It has nothing to do with The Thing franchise, nor any of the films.
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The Thing / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
The Thing / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: Only Kelly Harkness and her father know that Benjy is the Thing. Her father is the reason he's a teenager in the first place rather than an adult.
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The Thing / int_1618ca18	type	Picnic Episode
The Thing / int_1618ca18	comment	Picnic Episode: "Picnic Panic" had Benjy and friends on a picnic that the Yancy Street Gang tried to ruin.
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The Thing / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
The Thing / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: The opening heavily implies (and several episodes later confirm) that this is the same adult Ben Grimm from the comics, but with a cure that had gone wrong, so he's unable to transform back into his normal adult self. Now he's stuck as either a scrawny geek or a monstrous pile of rocks, neither of which he likes (but he likes being the Thing less). To a lesser degree, the robot Clunk from "The Thing Meets The Clunk". It's a robot designed and programmed to help people, but in practice it combines strength equal to the Thing with absolutely no common sense, leading him to cause more disasters than he stops. "HELP? CLUNK HELP!" meant that a disaster was about to occur.
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The Thing / int_2027ffd7	type	Cryptid Episode
The Thing / int_2027ffd7	comment	Cryptid Episode: One of the first episodes is "Bigfoot Meets the Thing". Subverted in that Bigfoot is just one of the Yancy Street Gang in a costume. Double-subverted when the real Bigfoot falls in love with the guy in the (apparently-female) costume.
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The Thing / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Thing / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The other members of the Fantastic Four (Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, and the Human Torch) are completely omitted in this adaptation, with the Thing being portrayed as a solo hero.
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The Thing / int_356b1efb	type	Hammerspace
The Thing / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace: The orange rocks that turn Benjy into the Thing seem to appear out of nowhere. (Though that does seem to be at least partially for the audience's benefit; when transforming in an enclosed space, no rocks are shown flying into the space from the outside)
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The Thing / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Thing / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: The main character is, in reality, neither the scrawny geek Benjy nor the monstrous but popular Thing. He's the adult Ben Grimm, unable to change back to his normal self. The young audience is apparently supposed to see his condition as Cursed with Awesome, but Benjy clearly feels differently. As he says in "To Thing or Not To Thing":
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The Thing / int_44f6517d	type	Beach Episode
The Thing / int_44f6517d	comment	Beach Episode: "Beach Party Crashers", though most of the characters spend the episode in their normal outfits. Betty changes into a bikini for one scene, which she spends mostly underwater. (Though rich kid Ronald and the elderly Miss Twilly get more screen time in their respective swimsuits) "Lights, Action, Thing" starts with the characters on a yacht in swimwear, hewing closer to the trope in spirit if not literally.
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The Thing / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
The Thing / int_4b9a8e96	comment	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: "The Thing and the Captain's Ghost" is based around this, with Spike of the Yancy Street Gang pretending to be the ghost of the title to scare Ronald. They themselves then get scared off by the heroes pretending to be ghosts or, more specifically, by Betty, with her hair in curlers and her face in a mudpack.
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The Thing / int_55b1f9a1	type	Easy Amnesia
The Thing / int_55b1f9a1	comment	Easy Amnesia: "The Thing Blanks Out" has the Thing forget who he is after being hit on the head after lifting a bridge to prevent Ronald's yacht from crashing into it. He doesn't have his memory restored until an acorn hits him on the head.
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The Thing / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
The Thing / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: "To Thing Or Not To Thing" has Benjy transforming back and forth at random all day (with a shortened and rock-less version of his usual Transformation Sequence), while out with his friends. Somehow, nobody notices.
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The Thing / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
The Thing / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: The Yancy Street Gang's cat Roscoe in "The Thing Goes to the Dogs", who aids the gang in their plan to kidnap Ronald Radford's dog Countess.
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The Thing / int_5a59b3a1	type	Hulk Speak
The Thing / int_5a59b3a1	comment	To a lesser degree, the robot Clunk from "The Thing Meets The Clunk". It's a robot designed and programmed to help people, but in practice it combines strength equal to the Thing with absolutely no common sense, leading him to cause more disasters than he stops. "HELP? CLUNK HELP!" meant that a disaster was about to occur.
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The Thing / int_5e01640d	type	X-Ray Sparks
The Thing / int_5e01640d	comment	X-Ray Sparks: In "A Hot Air Affair at the Fair", the Thing catches a lightning bolt and throws it at Spike, causing his skeleton to become visible as he's being electrocuted.
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The Thing / int_9657fe0f	type	Transformation Sequence
The Thing / int_9657fe0f	comment	Transformation Sequence: A particularly elaborate one, and another one for reversion. While he normally only transforms two or three times per episode (plus maybe one reversion sequence), in "Decepto the Great", he transforms to or from the Thing seven times, the first four in the span of a minute and a half.
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The Thing / int_991af300	type	Poke the Poodle
The Thing / int_991af300	comment	Poke the Poodle: The Yancy Street Gang were pranksters who especially loved to torment spoiled rich kid Ronald, but basically harmless.
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The Thing / int_9c23f3a0	type	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti
The Thing / int_9c23f3a0	comment	Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Benjy and friends encounter Bigfoot in "The Thing Meets Bigfoot", both Stretch disguised as the hairy cryptid and the genuine article.
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The Thing / int_9d3f4777	type	My Nayme Is
The Thing / int_9d3f4777	comment	My Nayme Is: His name is Benjy Grimm, not Benji (probably to avoid confusion or legal issues involving another famous Benji.
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The Thing / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
The Thing / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Turkey of the Yancy Street Gang is a big guy and the dumbest of the group.
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The Thing / int_baa2bf80	type	Amplified Animal Aptitude
The Thing / int_baa2bf80	comment	Amplified Animal Aptitude: "The Thing Goes To The Dogs" features a supposedly-normal dog who, at one point, stands on her hind legs to play charades with the main characters, growing thumbs in the process.
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The Thing / int_bcc4b873	type	By the Power of Grayskull!
The Thing / int_bcc4b873	comment	By the Power of Grayskull!: To become the Thing, Benjy Grimm touches his rings together while intoning, "Thing Rings, do your thing!"
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The Thing / int_c6355c0a	type	Celebrity Lie
The Thing / int_c6355c0a	comment	Celebrity Lie: Used weirdly in "Decepto the Great". Benjy can't seem to produce the Thing for a school show, even though he is the Thing. (Every time he tries, he winds up scaring a comic-relief janitor character - seen only in this episode - and he changes back to try to calm him down instead of going on stage)
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The Thing / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Thing / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "The Thing Blanks Out" at one point shows a dog that looks similar to Scooby-Doo.
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The Thing / int_ca3ef034	type	Evil Knockoff
The Thing / int_ca3ef034	comment	Evil Knockoff: "Double Trouble for the Thing" features a robot duplicate of the Thing, programmed to commit crimes and frame the real deal.
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The Thing / int_d80a8085	type	Younger and Hipper
The Thing / int_d80a8085	comment	Younger and Hipper: Ben is stuck as a teenager in this series, and has to endure going back to high school a second time (but as a scrawnier and geekier version of his original self)
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The Thing / int_dd2fe8c3	type	Porky Pig Pronunciation
The Thing / int_dd2fe8c3	comment	Porky Pig Pronunciation: In the episode "The Thing Blanks Out", the Thing struggles to pronounce "ingenuity" before settling on "smarts".
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The Thing / int_f08f8f89	type	Comedic Underwear Exposure
The Thing / int_f08f8f89	comment	Comedic Underwear Exposure: In the episode "Circus Stampede" Turkey, the fat gangster from Yancy Street Gang, has his pants ripped off by a lion, leaving him embarrassed only in his white underwear with pink polka-dots.
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The Thing / int_fb2136ec	type	Big, Thin, Short Trio
The Thing / int_fb2136ec	comment	Big, Thin, Short Trio: This version of the Yancy Street Gang is this, with leader Spike being the "Short", Stretch being the "Thin", and Turkey being the "Big".
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The Thing / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Thing / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Snobby rich kid Ronald Radford demonstrates the trope in a somewhat literal manner in "The Thing Goes to the Dogs", where he is shown to genuinely care for his dog Countess.
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