History WesternAnimation / BooBoomTheLongWayHome

* RunawayTrain: In Episode 26 Boo-Boom and his friends have to stop a train transporting prisoners, including Boo-Boom's parents. They do so by [[TrainEscape unhooking the carriages]] that contain the prisoners. Unfortunately, since the train was going up a mountain at the time, the now unhooked carriages immediately go back down again, straight for a blown up bridge, forcing the heroes to come up with a way to stop them before the carriages reach the ravine. They succeed by [[TankGoodness deploying the brakes of a tank]] that was also being transported by the same train.

* HumansAreBastards: The animals in the series have no high opinion about humans, especially not because they're the ones that started the war. Sevearl times the protagonists encounter other animals who wonder why in the world the 4 main characters are even assisting a human boy, citing this trope as the reason.

It's set in UsefulNotes/{{Italy}} circa [[TheForties 1944]], near the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. A young boy and his family are forced to flee their home when the fights between the Germans and the Allied forces reach central Italy. Due to an air attack on the truck transporting them, the boy is separated from his parents. The shock also renders him mostly mute. He is found by a group of animals consisting of the Sicilian horse Boldsteed (Leoncavallo), the Roman cat Aurelia, a talkative Tuscan rooster named Christopher (Cristoforo), an American military bulldog named Jack, and a bee named B-17. The five animals nickname the boy Boo-Boom, after the only 2 words he can still speak, and set out to try and find his parents, only helped by a photograph that Boo-Boom still carries.

* PreviouslyOn: Each episode starts with a recap of the previous episode.

* CainAndAbel: Mario and his identical twin Giovanni are like this, since Mario is a member of the Italian resistance while Giovanni is allied with the Germans. In episode 7, Giovanni shows up with 2 German soldiers at Rossellini’s school, where an injured Mario is being nursed to health, to arrest his brother. However, he pulls a HeelFaceTurn when he realizes the Germans want to execute Mario, rather than just arrest him.

* TwinSwitch: In Episode 7, when his twin brother Giovanni and 2 German soldiers show up at Mr. Rossellini’s school to arrest him, Mario attempts an escape by having Boo-Boom, Rossellini, and the animals lure Giovanni into the school and capture him, so Mario can take his clothes and pretend to be Giovanni. It almost works, but unfortunately, Giovanni escapes and gives the whole plan away.