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The Willoughbys

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The Willoughbys	comment	The Willoughbys is an American computer-animated Black Comedy film directed by Kris Pearn, and based on the book of the same name by Lois Lowry. The film is about four siblings who have had it with their parents constantly neglecting them, so they send them away on a potentially life-threatening vacation only to end up in the care of an eccentric nanny, and must hide away from the draconian Orphan Services.The film stars the voices of Will Forte, Martin Short, Alessia Cara, Maya Rudolph, Ricky Gervais, and Jane Krakowski.It debuted on Netflix on April 22, 2020.
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The Willoughbys / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Willoughbys / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: The book describes Jane as being the youngest of her siblings, but the movie makes her the second oldest, with the Barnabys taking the spot as the youngest children.
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The Willoughbys / int_15f76026	type	Inexplicably Identical Individuals
The Willoughbys / int_15f76026	comment	Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby's taxi driver and tour guides all look exactly alike, but considering how the couple's Too Dumb to Live antics keep getting the guides killed (like knocking them into a piranha-filled river or pushing them straight into a volcano), it's highly unlikely that they're the same individual. The Department of Orphan Services members almost all look exactly alike.
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The Willoughbys / int_1ce83c47	type	Marshmallow Hell
The Willoughbys / int_1ce83c47	comment	Marshmallow Hell: Nanny hugs Tim rather enthusiastically several times.
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The Willoughbys / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
The Willoughbys / int_1cf11f13	comment	No Sympathy: Tim's plight at the start isn't helped by the fact that Jane routinely makes him the Scapegoat if their parents get upset, earning him the brunt of their ire even when she was the reason they were angry.
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The Willoughbys / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
The Willoughbys / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: The Cat (voiced by Ricky Gervais) is the film's narrator. However, he only talks to the audience and doesn't appear to be able to communicate with the human characters.
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The Willoughbys / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Willoughbys / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The subject matter makes this undoubtedly one of the darker kids' films. It's still mostly humorous and slapstick heavy—even when showing the abuse.
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The Willoughbys / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
The Willoughbys / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: The discovery of Ruth sets her and the Willoughbys on the path to loving parents and a happy home. Commander Melanoff outright says that he grew fond of her company and needs incredibly quickly, and decided to not give her up. Subverted by Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby, who treat the birth of their children like disgusting ordeals that ruin the joy of their marriage.
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The Willoughbys / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Willoughbys / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Well, almost. The Willoughby family was a long line of explorers, inventors, royals, scientists, and knights...right up until Mr. Willoughby and his wife decided to do nothing with their lives but live off the family fortune. The children, on the other hand, are very much as brave and brilliant and resourceful as their ancestors had been.
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The Willoughbys / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Willoughbys / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Ruth, who had not been named yet, is first shown being abandoned by her natural parent at the Willoughby residence. Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby decide to do this when they realize during their "vacation" that they much prefer life without children, and then again when their children come to rescue them.
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The Willoughbys / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
The Willoughbys / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Tim wets his shorts after nearly being run over by a bus.
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The Willoughbys / int_2c576b5	type	Debating Names
The Willoughbys / int_2c576b5	comment	Debating Names: As the Willoughby children are about to leave an orphan baby girl on the doorstep of Commander Meleonhoff, Tim and Jane debate giving her a name. Jane suggests naming the baby "Taffeta", but Tim names her "Ruth" since he and his siblings are the ruthless Willoughbys.
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The Willoughbys / int_3403abfc	type	Mugged for Disguise
The Willoughbys / int_3403abfc	comment	Mugged for Disguise: Nanny steals a security guards uniform to rescue Tim.
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The Willoughbys / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Willoughbys / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The entirety of the Willoughby parent's Establishing Character Moment is this in the first few minutes of the movie. They're shown being extremely happy with each other right up until Tim's birth, whereupon Mr. Willoughby picks him up by the hair like he's a field doggie bag, takes him out into the hall, drops him onto the carpet, condescendingly pats his head with his shoes to stop him cooing and making baby noises, and says the following. The head of the Department of Orphan Services revealing that Linda the Nanny was an unwanted orphan right in front of the woman. Even after their children save them from death, confess to their trick, and make a heartfelt speech about being a family, Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby shove them out of the way to get inside the children's dirigible and abandon them again.
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The Willoughbys / int_38072b53	type	Wrong Assumption
The Willoughbys / int_38072b53	comment	Wrong Assumption: Upon first glance, Tim and the Barnabys assume that their nanny is a bad one and try to get rid of her, when in reality, she was doing all she could for them. It gets worse after he reads Linda's text response to the Willoughby's parents informing that they're selling the house (to stay on their vacation) and asking her to get rid of their children, with her replying that she would take care of him and his siblings. Tim immediately jumps to conclusions and assumes she's going to act on his parents' words, causing him to call the Orphan Services on her. As it turns out, she wasn't planning anything of the sort and was planning on adopting them, but by then, the Orphan Services had already arrived.
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The Willoughbys / int_38b48685	type	Born in the Wrong Century
The Willoughbys / int_38b48685	comment	Born in the Wrong Century: The Willoughby family as a whole has shades of this, especially with the way that they live in an old-fashioned home (surrounded by skyscrapers) that they apparently never leave. The parents don't even initially know what the internet is, the children have apparently never seen a television before, and Tim in particular wishes he could have been born into one of the earlier generations of Willoughbys, that were inventors, adventurers, etc.
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The Willoughbys / int_3b724476	type	Family Portrait of Characterization
The Willoughbys / int_3b724476	comment	Family Portrait of Characterization: There are portraits of Willoughbys of generations past. All of them are stiffly posing, and the men all have prominent mustaches. The ending shows a portrait of the Willoughby children with Ruth, Melanoff, and Nanny—a unique but happy and loving family.
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The Willoughbys / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
The Willoughbys / int_42215dce	comment	Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby kissing each other. First, in their ancestral home and then before they're (possibly) about to be eaten by a shark.
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The Willoughbys / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
The Willoughbys / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: The Willoughby parents through and through. When the Willoughby children confess that they were the ones that "orphaned" themselves and admit that they just want to be a proper loving family, it looks like Mother and Father have finally decided to change their selfish ways and be better parents towards their children. But, as it turns out, they didn't, and they end up leaving the children to a certain death just to get off the mountain.
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The Willoughbys / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Willoughbys / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: There's a short post-credits scene where the cat licks himself.
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The Willoughbys / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
The Willoughbys / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Linda's disguise as "Phil" is just her wearing a security uniform and arranging her hair to look like a beard.
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The Willoughbys / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
The Willoughbys / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Commander Melanoff adopts Ruth when he finds her on the doorstep of his factory. At the end of the story, he and Linda the Nanny adopt the Willoughby children, becoming a loving family in the process.
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The Willoughbys / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Willoughbys / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: There's an abundance of well-detailed scenes, especially the exterior shots of the Willoughby home.
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The Willoughbys / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Willoughbys / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: All the Willoughbys' hair is depicted as red yarn, and Mrs. Willoughby is wont to harvest her husband's hair to use as such for her knitting. The Cat, previously just a passive observer, directly intervenes in the plot halfway through at the viewer's (apparent) request.
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The Willoughbys / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Willoughbys / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Linda? Is that you?"
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The Willoughbys / int_4e90e76c	type	Be All My Sins Remembered
The Willoughbys / int_4e90e76c	comment	Be All My Sins Remembered: Tim believes he's unworthy of Linda coming to break him out of Orphan Services due to him being the one who got them and his siblings into the whole mess in the first place by calling the services on her. It's even more established by the numerous untouched bowls of oatmeal at his door, indicating his refusal to eat (though it may also be his hatred of oatmeal in general.
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The Willoughbys / int_50eb1d8	type	Adopting the Abused
The Willoughbys / int_50eb1d8	comment	Adopting the Abused: The Willoughby children have been neglected by their parents for years have been adopted by their nanny and Commander Meleonhoff in the end of the movie.
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The Willoughbys / int_51ba5dde	type	BannisterSlide
The Willoughbys / int_51ba5dde	comment	Bannister Slide: The Willoughby kids do this after their parents leave for vacation—though Tim can't quite get the hang of it and has to scoot down.
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The Willoughbys / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Willoughbys / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The Barnabys saying "Hi, mommy" in a creepy manner. The first to their abusive biological mother and the second to Nanny, who they (along with Tim and Jane) want to be their adoptive mother. Ruth showing her Big Eater tendencies before and after the Willoughby become her foster siblings. There's a close-up of Tim's "mustache". The first is in Tim's Imagine Spot of having one like his ancestors while the last one is a Bait-and-Switch moment, as it's Jane's mustache beginning to grow. Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby kissing each other. First, in their ancestral home and then before they're (possibly) about to be eaten by a shark. Family portraits being shown—The beginning showing whole walls of Willoughby ancestors; the ending shows one of the Willoughby children with their new family of them, Nanny, Melanoff, and Ruth. A baby's first word being "Willoughby".
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The Willoughbys / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
The Willoughbys / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: Played with. The Willoughby kids nearly freeze to death in a snowstorm on the Swiss Alps after their parents abandon them. However, they're promptly rescued by Nanny, the Colonel, and Ruth, upon which the snow turns light and unmenacing.
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The Willoughbys / int_5cd8680b	type	Doorstop Baby
The Willoughbys / int_5cd8680b	comment	Doorstop Baby: Early in the film, someone drops Ruth at the Willoughby residence's gate. Later on, Tim and his siblings do the exact same thing upon his parents' orders and leaves her at Commander Melanoff's doorstep.
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The Willoughbys / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Willoughbys / int_5fcedca	comment	Ruth showing her Big Eater tendencies before and after the Willoughby become her foster siblings.
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The Willoughbys / int_60c90bd5	type	Orphan's Ordeal
The Willoughbys / int_60c90bd5	comment	Orphan's Ordeal: The Willoughbys think this is preferable to their current situation (living with abusive parents) until it actually happens and they're separated in the foster system to neglectful homes. The Nanny is revealed to also be an orphan, and has painful memories of the same system after being rejected from home after home.
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The Willoughbys / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
The Willoughbys / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: During the credits, there's a brief shot of Tim's report card. From what can be seen, he has good grades in history but poor grades in mathematics. The kids briefly stop by a gas station named "The Gas Hole."
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The Willoughbys / int_6b491939	type	Stop Faux-tion
The Willoughbys / int_6b491939	comment	Stop Faux-tion: The movie is an All-CGI Cartoon, but the animation looks like it's been done in stop-motion.
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The Willoughbys / int_6b54b191	type	A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family
The Willoughbys / int_6b54b191	comment	A Boy, a Girl, and a Baby Family: Technically it's a "a boy, a girl, a pair of twins, and a baby" family after the Willoughbys and Ruth get adopted, but the same principle applies.
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The Willoughbys / int_6bf0887	type	Too Hungry to Be Polite
The Willoughbys / int_6bf0887	comment	Too Hungry to Be Polite: Jane eats an entire meatloaf in one bite when given the chance. Later, she and the Barnabys are seen wolfing downs Nanny's oats.
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The Willoughbys / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Willoughbys / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Ruth, the name Tim gives the baby, is in his words a play on the word â€œRuthlessâ€�. The kids also happen to leave her at a candy factory, so itâ€™s also Baby Ruth bars.
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The Willoughbys / int_700cff28	type	Kid Has a Point
The Willoughbys / int_700cff28	comment	Kid Has a Point: "Kids" in this case. While the Willoughby children are messed up to a certain extent, they are absolutely correct on how atrocious their biological parents are.
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The Willoughbys / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
The Willoughbys / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: The foster system is so terrible for the Willoughbys that Tim argues the only way for them to stay together is to try and get their parents back.
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The Willoughbys / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
The Willoughbys / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Implied and zigzagged with Tim. The cat narrator once refers to him as Timothy, his ancestor call him Timothy in his Imagine Spot, and he writes the name "Timothy" on his adoption certificate. But in the beginning, it's shown that his father had named him Tim, and that name was the only thing he ever gave him, implying that Timothy is technically his nickname instead of the other way around.
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The Willoughbys / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Willoughbys / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "What if..."
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The Willoughbys / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
The Willoughbys / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Even Linda describes the Willoughby children as "messed up kids".
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The Willoughbys / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
The Willoughbys / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Tired of their parents' neglect, the Willoughbys decide to indirectly make themselves orphans by sending their parents on a perilous vacation, assuming they'll be killed or go missing.
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The Willoughbys / int_7ae40f90	type	Manly Facial Hair
The Willoughbys / int_7ae40f90	comment	Manly Facial Hair: The Willoughby family contained a long line of bold adventurers that all had big bushy mustaches, even the women, until Father Willoughby and his wispy pencil 'stache put an end to it—though that might be partially because his knitting-obsessed wife harvests the hair to make yarn. Tim is obsessed with mustaches along with the rest of his heritage, and it's the first thing he notices and respects about Commander Melanoff.
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The Willoughbys / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Willoughbys / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After reading Linda's text to their father, Tim is convinced that she's in league with their parents, so he reports her to CPS. By the time he learns that Linda was going to actually take care of them, the services had already been informed, and they expose Tim's exact words to her, driving her away. As for the kids, they end up being taken away by the Orphan Services and put into separate homes, and Jane is left furious with Tim. Tim, after repeatedly running away from his foster homes, witnessing the sale and destruction of his family house, and being seemingly deemed "unplaceable" and confined to a cell at Orphan Services, is left wracked with overwhelming guilt over having inadvertently broken up his family.
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The Willoughbys / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Willoughbys / int_7febc23b	comment	The entirety of the Willoughby parent's Establishing Character Moment is this in the first few minutes of the movie. They're shown being extremely happy with each other right up until Tim's birth, whereupon Mr. Willoughby picks him up by the hair like he's a field doggie bag, takes him out into the hall, drops him onto the carpet, condescendingly pats his head with his shoes to stop him cooing and making baby noises, and says the following.
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The Willoughbys / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Willoughbys / int_83a30cd3	comment	Middle Child Syndrome: To extremes. While they're annoyed by Tim and creeped out by the Barnabys, the parents seem to be unaware that Jane even exists, up to not recognizing her name. Jane uses this to her advantage, though, making sure Tim takes the rap for her antics and possibly sneaking off to the city.
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The Willoughbys / int_84c5ec0b	type	Free-Range Children
The Willoughbys / int_84c5ec0b	comment	Free-Range Children: The Willoughby children become these after getting rid of their parents.
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The Willoughbys / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Willoughbys / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Tim asks Jane how the kids can rid themselves of their parents. Jane seemingly points to a butcher shop, then to a man pruning a tree with a chainsaw. Tim panics before Jane redirects him to the travel agency. A particularly cruel example occurs late in the film when the kids rescue their parents from the Swiss alps. For a while it seemed like Mr. and Mrs Willoughby had a Heel Realization in regards to their poor parenting and were vowing to do better going forward...only for them to cruelly push their kids aside and steal their blimp, leaving their children stranded to face a likely death as a result. The epilogue has a close-up on a face, with yarn strands as the beginning of a Willoughby mustache like Tim's always wanted.... only to reveal it's Jane's mustache, and Tim is now the only Willoughby without one.
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The Willoughbys / int_8841192a	type	Like Father, Unlike Son
The Willoughbys / int_8841192a	comment	Like Father, Unlike Son: All past Willoughbys parents, aside from being adventurous and creative, were good parents who valued raising their children. For some reason, those good qualities skip a generation with the current Mr. Willoughby (and by extension Mrs. Willoughby).
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The Willoughbys / int_8984e5d1	type	Commonality Connection
The Willoughbys / int_8984e5d1	comment	Commonality Connection: Jane is the first to bond with Linda the nanny because she also likes to sing.
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The Willoughbys / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Willoughbys / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of the Quirky Household. Visually, the Willoughbys' house feels like a callback to iconic families with strong visual aesthetics such as The Addams Family, but the heads of the Willoughby household are self-centered snobs that hold none of the warmth this archetype is known for. Their "quirkiness" and out-of-touch behavior is painted as negligence and stupidity, and their children suffer all the more for it. Strangely enough, it is reconstructed at the end of the film, as the Willoughby children, Baby Ruth, Captain Mel, and Linda all make a Quirky Household, albeit a loving and functional one. Also of the Orphan's Ordeal. The Willoughby kids think that being orphans will immediately free them of their parents neglect and allow them free reign to do as they like, even citing James and the Giant Peach and Oliver Twist. While it turns out that sending their parents' away did get them off their backs, it also turns out that the modern world the Willoughbys live in is much stricter than the worlds of those stories, and they are brought into child services as soon as they are discovered.
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The Willoughbys / int_8afadb7e	type	Department of Child Disservices
The Willoughbys / int_8afadb7e	comment	Department of Child Disservices: The Department of Orphan Services are feared by the Nanny, who says giving an orphan to them is like locking a puppy in a cage. When they show up, they're depicted as an intimidating group of gaunt, pale, near identical individuals that callously separate the Willoughby children and put them in less-than-loving households. After Tim repeatedly runs away from his homes, they end up detaining him in what's basically a holding cell with nothing to eat but oatmeal. Partly subverted at the same time; the head of the D.O.S. is shown to care about all the orphans and will always try to put them with appropriate foster parents. Tim and Linda end up in the orphanage because they were rejected (or escaping) their foster parent homes. Even the oatmeal is explained to be prepared in such a way that it can be safely consumed by children.
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The Willoughbys / int_8c96e3bc	type	Chandelier Swing
The Willoughbys / int_8c96e3bc	comment	Chandelier Swing: The Barnabys do this after Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby leave for vacation.
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The Willoughbys / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
The Willoughbys / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: The Barnabys are younger than Jane and Tim, presumably between the ages of 8-10, and are shown to be creative inventors.
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The Willoughbys / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Willoughbys / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Mr. & Mrs. Willoughby. Mortem a turpis.
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The Willoughbys / int_8f00b02a	type	Always Identical Twins
The Willoughbys / int_8f00b02a	comment	Always Identical Twins: The Barnabys. Same hairstyle, same hair colour, same name, all that's not the same about them is that they only have one sweater to share.
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The Willoughbys / int_906d5d1f	type	Quirky Household
The Willoughbys / int_906d5d1f	comment	Quirky Household: Linda, the Commander, Ruth, and the Willoughby kids are all this after the latter are formally adopted.
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The Willoughbys / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Willoughbys / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: After everything Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby put their children through, the last we see of them is the two adrift in the middle of the ocean, about to be eaten by a shark.
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The Willoughbys / int_916ecb1	type	But I Can't Be Pregnant!
The Willoughbys / int_916ecb1	comment	But I Can't Be Pregnant!: Mrs. Willoughby apparently didn't realize that she was pregnant until after she gave birth to Tim. And they didn't know how not to make it happen, hence the existence of his siblings.
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The Willoughbys / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Willoughbys / int_9591377d	comment	A particularly cruel example occurs late in the film when the kids rescue their parents from the Swiss alps. For a while it seemed like Mr. and Mrs Willoughby had a Heel Realization in regards to their poor parenting and were vowing to do better going forward...only for them to cruelly push their kids aside and steal their blimp, leaving their children stranded to face a likely death as a result.
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The Willoughbys / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Willoughbys / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Doubles as Foreshadowing for those who know the books in question. Pollyanna went to live with her Aunt Polly, James with Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge. Neither had a happy foster family, such that the main action of their stories is them dealing with that fact.
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The Willoughbys / int_9e09fbd7	type	New-Age Retro Hippie
The Willoughbys / int_9e09fbd7	comment	After being separated from their siblings, the younger Willoughbys end up in houses like this. The Barnabys are placed in a home where they're left plugged into media streaming from the internet 24/7, while the couple that is supposed to be looking after them remain oblivious using their VR headsets. Jane is put up with a family that "believes in the healing power of music" that spends all their time in a drum circle while ignoring her clear emotional suffering over Tim's betrayal, and having lost her brothers and the first adult who truly cared about any of them. Neither household notices or seems to care when Tim and Nanny come to collect them (although Jane's family does seem to briefly stall Orphan Services to allow them to get away).
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The Willoughbys / int_9e83f027	type	Amazing Technicolor Population
The Willoughbys / int_9e83f027	comment	Amazing Technicolor Population: Melanoff and Ruth have deep pink and lilac skin respectively. Oddly, in illustrations such as his advertisements, Melanoff is depicted with ordinary brown skin, but he's definitively magenta in his character model.
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The Willoughbys / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Willoughbys / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: There's a shift in orchestral arrangements. Scenes inside the Willoughby house use fewer instruments, whereas all scenes outside the Willoughby house uses a fuller orchestra. Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby have swing music during their scenes. The cat has jazz/blues. Nanny has an orchestra with a prominent brass. Commander Melanoff has techno. Jane sings the same tune with different lyrics numerous times throughout the movie. It's eventually incorporated into "I Choose."
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The Willoughbys / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Willoughbys / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Tim after he accuses Linda of being a terrible nanny to the Department of Orphan Services, outright saying that he doesn't want her, and ends up getting him and his siblings put in foster care.
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The Willoughbys / int_a2245a73	type	Henpecked Husband
The Willoughbys / int_a2245a73	comment	Hen Pecked Husband: Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby love each other deeply but that doesn't stop Mrs. Willoughby from making shrill demands of her husband that he complies to while barking like a dog. One particular example is her harvesting his hair to use as yarn for her knitting.
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The Willoughbys / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
The Willoughbys / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: "I Choose" sung by Alessia Cara.
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The Willoughbys / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
The Willoughbys / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Covers for the book depict the Willoughbys as brunette. In the movie they're all red headed.
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The Willoughbys / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
The Willoughbys / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: When Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby aren't being emotionally Abusive Parents to their kids, they're being this. The children are forced to eat leftovers (if their parents bother to leave any for them), they couldn't even be bothered with giving the Barnabys one sweater each or even individual names, and they apparently never enrolled the kids in school. The only reason they bothered to hire Linda was to make sure that the kids didn't break anything while they were gone. After being separated from their siblings, the younger Willoughbys end up in houses like this. The Barnabys are placed in a home where they're left plugged into media streaming from the internet 24/7, while the couple that is supposed to be looking after them remain oblivious using their VR headsets. Jane is put up with a family that "believes in the healing power of music" that spends all their time in a drum circle while ignoring her clear emotional suffering over Tim's betrayal, and having lost her brothers and the first adult who truly cared about any of them. Neither household notices or seems to care when Tim and Nanny come to collect them (although Jane's family does seem to briefly stall Orphan Services to allow them to get away).
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The Willoughbys / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
The Willoughbys / int_a7382a73	comment	There's a close-up of Tim's "mustache". The first is in Tim's Imagine Spot of having one like his ancestors while the last one is a Bait-and-Switch moment, as it's Jane's mustache beginning to grow.
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The Willoughbys / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
The Willoughbys / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: The Willoughby parents aren't the greatest in the book, of course, but the kids were at least taken to school, birthday parties, and the zoo. Here, they haven't been out of the house in their entire lives.
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The Willoughbys / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
The Willoughbys / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: The Willoughby parents are somewhere between this and Abusive Parents, as they do absolutely nothing to provide their children with clothes, food, and worst of all, love. They don't even know their own children's names!
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The Willoughbys / int_ac344349	type	Three-Month-Old Newborn
The Willoughbys / int_ac344349	comment	Three-Month-Old Newborn: Infant Tim was somehow born with a full head of hair, bowl cut and all.
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The Willoughbys / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Willoughbys / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: The Barnabys are established early on as having a hobby of constructing miniature dirigibles which comes to play in the climax when they lead a project to build a life sized version.
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The Willoughbys / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Willoughbys / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: All the Willoughby children wanted was their parents to be gone. And they succeeded. It worked so well that said parents decided to abandon them completely...leading to troubles with social services.
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The Willoughbys / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Willoughbys / int_b11ac9f5	comment	When Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby aren't being emotionally Abusive Parents to their kids, they're being this. The children are forced to eat leftovers (if their parents bother to leave any for them), they couldn't even be bothered with giving the Barnabys one sweater each or even individual names, and they apparently never enrolled the kids in school. The only reason they bothered to hire Linda was to make sure that the kids didn't break anything while they were gone.
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The Willoughbys / int_b41c411e	type	Toilet Humour
The Willoughbys / int_b41c411e	comment	The kids briefly stop by a gas station named "The Gas Hole."
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The Willoughbys / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
The Willoughbys / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: Colonel Melanoff is the only worker in his factory, which is a good thing because its automated production line has no safety railings and shut off switches are in the middle of wall sized control panels. The Nanny Lampshades this, remarking that it's not a good place to raise Ruth both because she can't eat candy for the rest of her life and it's not baby-proofed.
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The Willoughbys / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Willoughbys / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby's taxi driver and tour guides all look exactly alike, but considering how the couple's Too Dumb to Live antics keep getting the guides killed (like knocking them into a piranha-filled river or pushing them straight into a volcano), it's highly unlikely that they're the same individual.
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The Willoughbys / int_b79b7878	type	Fuzzball Spider
The Willoughbys / int_b79b7878	comment	Fuzzball Spider: While in the coal bin, Tim Willoughby encounters and shoos away a spider, stylized as a purple ball with eight eyes and eight legs.
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The Willoughbys / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
The Willoughbys / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: There is some subtle Ship Tease between Linda and Commander Melanoff when they properly meet. The ending doesn't confirm whether they end up dating/married, but also doesn't deny it since they become the adoptive parents of the Willoughby children and Ruth.
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The Willoughbys / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
The Willoughbys / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: Just because a family is related by blood doesn't mean that they will look out for you in the way that they should be, and it's better to have an unconventional family that treats you kindly than to have a blood-related yet neglectful one. This is compounded by the fact that in most animated children's films which portray Abusive Parents, the abusers tend to be step-parents, adoptive parents, or distant relatives, while biological parents are often put onto a pedestal or have their worst traits portrayed sympathetically. note This is likely to avoid pissing off Moral Guardians and parents in the audience who won't appreciate the notion that kids should disobey parents under any circumstances, even if the parents are portrayed as abusive, because they think it will encourage disobedience in their kids. Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby are the main characters' biological parents and are never given any reasonable justification for why they treat the kids the way that they do, and the Willoughbys being adopted by Nanny and Captain Mel is seen as an unambiguous Good Ending.
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The Willoughbys / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
The Willoughbys / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby are this, which makes them obliviously continuing to have children (which they then abuse and neglect) that much worse.
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The Willoughbys / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
The Willoughbys / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: Jane has every right to be mad at Tim for calling the CPA, accusing Linda of being a bad nanny, and getting them and their brothers taken away and separated from each other. Tim, on the other hand, calls Jane out for constantly getting him in trouble with their parents by leaving him to take the blame for her mischief and getting him thrown into their home's coal bin. Tim's point (the first time he's verbalized it to her) is enough to convince Jane to forgive him.
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The Willoughbys / int_c044f854	type	Speak in Unison
The Willoughbys / int_c044f854	comment	The Barnabys are first seen speaking in unison and switching their shared sweater. This sums up their characters for the rest of the movie.
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The Willoughbys / int_c1e6f5bd	type	Don't Split Us Up
The Willoughbys / int_c1e6f5bd	comment	Don't Split Us Up: While the Willoughby children couldn't care less about not having their birth parents around, they were crushed when Child Services arrived to take the siblings to foster homes upon finding out they were orphans. The Barnabys were allowed to remain together, but Jane and Tim were placed with two different families.
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The Willoughbys / int_c259861f	type	Accents Aren't Hereditary
The Willoughbys / int_c259861f	comment	Accents Aren't Hereditary: The Willoughby kids have American accents, but their parents sound vaguely English by contrast.
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The Willoughbys / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Willoughbys / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: It was the Willoughby children who sent their parents on a perilous vacation to die. And it is ultimately the same children who narrowly save their parents from said perilous vacation.
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The Willoughbys / int_c41a5bac	type	Neutral No Longer
The Willoughbys / int_c41a5bac	comment	The Cat, previously just a passive observer, directly intervenes in the plot halfway through at the viewer's (apparent) request.
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The Willoughbys / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
The Willoughbys / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: After rescuing their parents from freezing to death on top of the Unclimbable Alp, the Willoughby children confess their plans to get rid of them and ask their parents to come home. Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby walk towards Tim, Jane, and the Barnaby twins, leading to the children assuming that they'd seen the errors of their ways. That is until Mr. Willoughby pushed his children out of the way and took his wife to the blimp. When the couple got inside, Mr. Willoughby accidently popped the blimp and left their children stranded.
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The Willoughbys / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Willoughbys / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Despite having distinctly different features, the Willoughby siblings are immediately identifiable as family members by their red hair.
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The Willoughbys / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Jane cites Pollyanna and James as examples of orphans who had better lives after their parents perished horribly. Doubles as Foreshadowing for those who know the books in question. Pollyanna went to live with her Aunt Polly, James with Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge. Neither had a happy foster family, such that the main action of their stories is them dealing with that fact. Tim passes someone who strums a frighteningly familiar banjo tune. Linda with her umbrella is likely a nod to Mary Poppins. Ruth eats the candy in Commander Melanoff's factory like PAC-Man.
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The Willoughbys / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby aren't given first names. They are referred to only as Mother and Father, to the point that this is how they address each other. The cast listing calls them Helga and Walter, however. Nanny is only referred to as Nanny though it's revealed by Orphan Services that her real name is Linda. The Willoughbys' tabby cat who narrates the film is only referred to as "the cat."
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The Willoughbys / int_d1da2c36	comment	Jane changing the lyrics of her song, though it's Played for Drama at the end.
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The Willoughbys / int_d249fb0f	comment	Hair Color Dissonance: The Willoughby family have red hair but it looks pink.
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The Willoughbys / int_d2bc8b8b	comment	Indecisive Medium: The film is computer animated, but the overall style strongly resembles a stop-motion film.
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The Willoughbys / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Everyone's reactions when it's revealed that Tim called CPS to rat out Nanny.
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The Willoughbys / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
The Willoughbys / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: As Tim discovers after running away from his last foster family, the Willoughby house has been sold and demolished, thus dashing all his hopes of regaining any semblance of his old life. It's even more established when Orphan Services finds him at the lot where the house once stood and escorts him away from the scene.
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The Willoughbys / int_da6fe6c8	comment	Tally Marks on the Prison Wall: The wall of the coal bin is covered in tally marks, showing just how often Tim has been thrown down there. Nanny is understandably horrified when she sees it for the first time.
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The Willoughbys / int_dc47ceda	comment	Hairpin Lockpick: How Linda the Nanny escaped after the kids locked her up. She claims all nannies know this trick.
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The Willoughbys / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: After Jane is callously told to stop singing by her mother, the sky outside turns dark and threatening. When the Willoughby siblings are stranded on the Swiss mountain, the sky, sunlight, and severity of snowfall repeatedly change to reflect the emotional rollercoaster they go on throughout the scene, cultivating in a warm pink dawn when they're finally saved by Linda, Commander Melanoff, and Ruth.
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The Willoughbys / int_e9d6eff8	type	Cool Airship
The Willoughbys / int_e9d6eff8	comment	Cool Airship: The giant candy-powered dirigible that the Willoughbys fly to rescue their parents from the Alp.
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The Willoughbys / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The Alps are described as "unclimbable", but not "unflyable".
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The Willoughbys / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Linda, Ruth, and the Commander swoop in on a helicopter and rescue the Willoughbys.
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The Willoughbys / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The Willoughbys / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: You'd think saving Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby from certain death would finally earn the children love, or even help them see the light that their kids need them to be good parents for once. Nope! They only repay their children's act of love by stealing the blimp and abandoning them to freeze to death on a mountain peak.
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The Willoughbys / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Willoughbys / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted by the Barnaby twins, as Mother and Father couldn't be bothered to give them individual names.
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The Willoughbys / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
The Willoughbys / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: While not everything is shown, Orphan Services don't hold Linda technically kidnapping multiple children against her or seek to take any legal action. They also don't seem to have had any issue with Linda adopting them in the end.
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The Willoughbys / int_f4cc32ce	type	Creepy Twins
The Willoughbys / int_f4cc32ce	comment	Creepy Twins: The Barnabys are a downplayed version of this trope. While not overtly creepy like some other examples of the trope, they do have the occasional moment where they're both played as unsettling (notably when they speak in monotone at the same time, such as when they see a mother figure and go "hi, Mommy."
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The Willoughbys / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Willoughbys / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: After all of the hardships that the Willoughby children endured throughout the film, they are all adopted by Linda the Nanny, and Commander Melanoff.
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The Willoughbys / int_f7eda5d8	type	Snow Means Love
The Willoughbys / int_f7eda5d8	comment	Snow Means Love: Of the familial love variety. It's at the top of the snowy Swiss alps when the Willoughbys, Linda, Melanoff, and Ruth start to call each other family.
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The Willoughbys / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The Barnabys share a single sweater and will randomly switch it with one another. Sadly, doing this on the mountain destroys it. Mother will find something inconveniencing her, forcing her to declare, "I can't knit!" It gets to the point that the tardigrades in Father's mustache also repeat the phrase. The numerous car accidents in the background. Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby getting their guides killed. Jane changing the lyrics of her song, though it's Played for Drama at the end.
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The Willoughbys / int_fb9941df	comment	Platonic Co-Parenting: The movie ends with the Willoughbys, Nanny, Commander Melanoff, and Ruth becoming one big, happy blended family, all living under the same roof and the two adults working together to raise the children. There is some Ship Tease between them, but nothing's ever confirmed.
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