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Converted two instances of "Pussy Cats" to "Pussycats," the rightful spelling.


* RightForTheWrongReasons: Josie and the Pussy Cats need to find their roadies, who were taken to the lab of the MadScientist to be fed to his [[BotanicalAbomination Plant Monsters]]. However, the 'Cats are unfamliar with the mansion's layout, and have no idea which way the greenhouse lies. Melody, who is TheDitz and a CloudCuckoolander, postulates this: "Plants have to kept warm, and it's always warmer in the South. Let's go south." Valerie rolls her eyes, but can't give a better choice, so they go south. This turns out to be the right direction when they encounter Alexandra, who is disguised as a plant-creature.

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Josie and the Pussy Cats Pussycats need to find their roadies, who were taken to the lab of the MadScientist to be fed to his [[BotanicalAbomination Plant Monsters]]. However, the 'Cats are unfamliar with the mansion's layout, and have no idea which way the greenhouse lies. Melody, who is TheDitz and a CloudCuckoolander, postulates this: "Plants have to kept warm, and it's always warmer in the South. Let's go south." Valerie rolls her eyes, but can't give a better choice, so they go south. This turns out to be the right direction when they encounter Alexandra, who is disguised as a plant-creature.



* ShrunkInTheWash: Subverted in the episode '"A Greenthumb Is Not a Goldfinger." All six protagonists have been captured by Amazon basin natives, who plan to shrink the Pussycats' heads in their potion cauldron. To prove that Pussy Cat magic is stronger than the natives' magic, Alexandra dunks her brother's shirt into the potion, which has no effect. Alexander's shirt was the only one guaranteed not to shrink.

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* ShrunkInTheWash: Subverted in the episode '"A Greenthumb Is Not a Goldfinger." All six protagonists have been captured by Amazon basin natives, who plan to shrink the Pussycats' heads in their potion cauldron. To prove that Pussy Cat Pussycat magic is stronger than the natives' magic, Alexandra dunks her brother's shirt into the potion, which has no effect. Alexander's shirt was the only one guaranteed not to shrink.
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Capitalization was fixed from WesternAnimation.Josie And The Pussy Cats to WesternAnimation.Josie And The Pussycats. Null edit to update page.
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YMMV Designated Hero is the wrong term; correct is Glory Hound.


* TheLoad: Alexandra, who stoops to subversion to undermine Josie, and insists upon being the DesignatedHero, which often sunders the effort to thwart the villain, though there were times when she actually managed to thwart the villain of the episode, mainly by accident.

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* TheLoad: Alexandra, who stoops to subversion to undermine Josie, and insists upon being the DesignatedHero, a GloryHound, which often sunders the effort to thwart the villain, though villain. However, there were are times when she actually managed manages to thwart the villain of the episode, mainly mostly by accident.happenstance.
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Five Man Band Concert requires five in the band; Josie Melody and Valerie total only three.


* FiveManBandConcert: It's more like a PowerTrio Concert but also has this trope as its premise. TheLeader Josie plays the guitar, TheSmartGal Valerie plays two tambourines, and TheDitz Melody plays the drums. All three girls provide the vocals.

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* %%* FiveManBandConcert: It's more like a PowerTrio Concert but also has this trope as its premise. TheLeader Josie plays the guitar, TheSmartGal Valerie plays two tambourines, and TheDitz Melody plays the drums. All three girls provide the vocals.
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* FiveManBandConcert: It's more like a PowerTrio Concert but also has this trope as its premise. TheLeader Josie plays the guitar, TheSmartGal Valerie plays two tambourines, and TheDitz Melody plays the drums. All three girls provide the vocals.
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* FaintInShock: The episode "The Secret Six Secret" has the villains loose a Bengal tiger in the girls' hotel room, because [[HeKnowsTooMuch they know too much]]. [[TheBigGuy Alan]] manages to trap the tiger in a Murphy bed. Upon hearing what the girls endured, [[LovableCoward Alexander]] faints. When his sister, Alexandra, tries to give Alan a SmoochOfVictory, she trips over Alex's inert form.

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* FaintInShock: The episode "The Secret Six Secret" has the villains let loose a Bengal tiger in the girls' hotel room, because [[HeKnowsTooMuch they know too much]]. [[TheBigGuy Alan]] manages to trap the tiger in a Murphy bed. Upon hearing what the girls endured, [[LovableCoward Alexander]] faints. When his sister, Alexandra, tries to give Alan a SmoochOfVictory, she trips over Alex's inert form.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Pussycats are just a band going from one place to another just to preform their music. But they have thwarted many villain's schemes who made the unfortunate choice in threating their lives, which spurs the gang to stop evil plan and get them caught.
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* AccidentalAstronaut:
** The titular cast are captured by Doctor Strangemoon, who believes the musical group and their roadies are spies sent by the government. For some reason, the Mad Scientist decides to put three of the six (Alexander, Melody and Alexandra) aboard his space capsule. These three are successfully launched into orbit, despite the added 300 pounds in the nose section.
** Its spin-off ''Josie and the Pussycats [[RecycledINSPACE in Outer Space]]'' begins with this trope. While posing for publicity stills in front of a space rocket, Alexandra decides that she doesn't want to be on the fringe, where she can easily be cropped out. Instead, she tries to move to the center, nudging the group behind her. Josie and company lose their balance, and tumble into the crew compartment, pulling Alexandra with them. A stumbling Josie pulls the launch lever by accident, and away they go.
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Added Pet Gets The Keys, where Sebastian the cat fetches keys to release the 'Cats.

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* PetGetsTheKeys: Josie and her five companions are trapped in prison capsules on the sea floor. TeamPet Sebastian the cat retrieves the keys from Captain Nemo's submarine, then plunks a FishbowlHelmet on his head before descending to the sea floor to free them. Thanks to ToonPhysics, this actually works.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Josie and the Pussy Cats need to find their roadies, who were taken to the lab of the MadScientist to be fed to his {{Plant Monster}}s. However, the 'Cats are unfamliar with the mansion's layout, and have no idea which way the greenhouse lies. Melody, who is TheDitz and a CloudCuckoolander, postulates this: "Plants have to kept warm, and it's always warmer in the South. Let's go south." Valerie rolls her eyes, but can't give a better choice, so they go south. This turns out to be the right direction when they encounter Alexandra, who is disguised as a plant-creature.

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Josie and the Pussy Cats need to find their roadies, who were taken to the lab of the MadScientist to be fed to his {{Plant Monster}}s.[[BotanicalAbomination Plant Monsters]]. However, the 'Cats are unfamliar with the mansion's layout, and have no idea which way the greenhouse lies. Melody, who is TheDitz and a CloudCuckoolander, postulates this: "Plants have to kept warm, and it's always warmer in the South. Let's go south." Valerie rolls her eyes, but can't give a better choice, so they go south. This turns out to be the right direction when they encounter Alexandra, who is disguised as a plant-creature.
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* InexplicablySpeaksFluentAlien: ''[[RecycledInSpace In Outer Space]]'' has Melody encounter an alien creature that looks like cotton candy with eyes and flippers. The critter speaks in a series of bleeps, and Melody names him Bleep. She can also understand him perfectly, and acts as translator for everyone else. Also, Bleep seems to understand English just fine.

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* InexplicablySpeaksFluentAlien: InexplicableLanguageFluency: ''[[RecycledInSpace In Outer Space]]'' has Melody encounter an alien creature that looks like cotton candy with eyes and flippers. The critter speaks in a series of bleeps, and Melody names him Bleep. [[InexplicablySpeaksFluentAlien She can also understand him perfectly, and acts as translator for everyone else.else]]. Also, Bleep seems to understand English just fine.
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* InexplicablySpeaksFluentAlien: ''[[RecycledInSpace In Outer Space]]'' has Melody encounter an alien creature that looks like cotton candy with eyes and flippers. The critter speaks in a series of bleeps, and Melody names him Bleep. She can also understand him perfectly, and acts as translator for everyone else. Also, Bleep seems to understand English just fine.
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* PantyShot: Melody and Alexandra in "Swap Plot Flot". In this moment that can only be caught as a still, before they and most of the others can stop a large pot from falling off the top of a building, they and the others end up falling over with it anyway, and there are rear views of their undies. Melody's undies match her mint green vest and Alexandra's match the red portions of her dress.
** All the girls in "The Secret Six Secret", when they're wearing their babydoll dresses and they're bouncing from bed to bed to escape a tiger.
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* ArtistAndTheBand
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* SmartDumbAndInBetween: Among the PowerTrio, Valerie is The SmartGuy, able to outwit the villain and engineer clever escapes. Melody is TheDitz, a classic DumbBlonde {{Malaproper}} full of giggles. Josie has average intellect, and tends to be a protagonist with not much to do.
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Expanded the Mad Scientist entry to name names.


* MadScientist: SEVERAL.

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* MadScientist: SEVERAL.Several, namely Doctor Greenthumb (plant monsters), Midas (gold dissolving microbes), The Scorpion (weather control), Doctor Strangemoon (comet attractor), The Countess (aging accelerant mist).

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* CatStereotype: Sebastian the cat is their TeamPet. He has mostly black fur, with white paws, muzzle, cheeks, and a white streak running along the crest of his head. Sebastian is often in the care of Alexandra, the troupe's TokenEvilTeammate, who has a SkunkStripe herself, and like Alexandra, Sebastian is guileful and subversive. Fortunately, Sebastian never slips into evil territory, remaining a LawfulNeutral by using his guile to subvert villains.

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* CatStereotype: Sebastian the cat is their TeamPet. He has mostly black fur, with white paws, muzzle, cheeks, and a white streak running along the crest of his head. Sebastian is often in the care of Alexandra, the troupe's TokenEvilTeammate, who has a SkunkStripe white streak herself, and like Alexandra, Sebastian is guileful and subversive. Fortunately, Sebastian never slips into evil territory, remaining a LawfulNeutral by using his guile to subvert villains.



* SkunkStripe: Alexandra has this to denote her TokenEvilTeammate role.
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* CatStereotype: Sebastian the cat is their TeamPet. He has mostly black fur, with white paws, muzzle, cheeks, and a SkunkStripe running along the crest of his head. Sebastian is often in the care of Alexandra, the troupe's TokenEvilTeammate, who has a SkunkStripe herself, and like Alexandra, Sebastian is guileful and subversive. Fortunately, Sebastian never slips into evil territory, remaining a LawfulNeutral by using his guile to subvert villains.

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* CatStereotype: Sebastian the cat is their TeamPet. He has mostly black fur, with white paws, muzzle, cheeks, and a SkunkStripe white streak running along the crest of his head. Sebastian is often in the care of Alexandra, the troupe's TokenEvilTeammate, who has a SkunkStripe herself, and like Alexandra, Sebastian is guileful and subversive. Fortunately, Sebastian never slips into evil territory, remaining a LawfulNeutral by using his guile to subvert villains.
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* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: In the Creator/ArchieComics, the early ''ComicBook/ShesJosie'' series has Alexandra Cabot as Josie's romantic rival. Alexandra is a brunette with a bobbed style similar to Josie's, and grown to shoulder length at most. When Creator/HannaBarbera leased the concept from Archie Comics, Alexandra was restyled into a raven ponytail with a SkunkStripe that extends to cover her thoracic vertebrae, and is tied with a big red bow. The success of the cartoon series prompted Archie Comics to RetCon Alexandra with the new design.

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* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: In the Creator/ArchieComics, the early ''ComicBook/ShesJosie'' series has Alexandra Cabot as Josie's romantic rival. Alexandra is a brunette with a bobbed style similar to Josie's, and grown to shoulder length at most. When Creator/HannaBarbera leased the concept from Archie Comics, Alexandra was restyled into a raven ponytail with a SkunkStripe skunk stripe that extends to cover her thoracic vertebrae, and is tied with a big red bow. The success of the cartoon series prompted Archie Comics to RetCon Alexandra with the new design.
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Added Right For The Wrong Reasons, when Melody deduces where their roadies are.

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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Josie and the Pussy Cats need to find their roadies, who were taken to the lab of the MadScientist to be fed to his {{Plant Monster}}s. However, the 'Cats are unfamliar with the mansion's layout, and have no idea which way the greenhouse lies. Melody, who is TheDitz and a CloudCuckoolander, postulates this: "Plants have to kept warm, and it's always warmer in the South. Let's go south." Valerie rolls her eyes, but can't give a better choice, so they go south. This turns out to be the right direction when they encounter Alexandra, who is disguised as a plant-creature.
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Added Adaptational Hairstyle Change, as A Lexandra in the comics is a bobbed brunette, while in the cartoon, she's a raven ponytail.

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* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: In the Creator/ArchieComics, the early ''ComicBook/ShesJosie'' series has Alexandra Cabot as Josie's romantic rival. Alexandra is a brunette with a bobbed style similar to Josie's, and grown to shoulder length at most. When Creator/HannaBarbera leased the concept from Archie Comics, Alexandra was restyled into a raven ponytail with a SkunkStripe that extends to cover her thoracic vertebrae, and is tied with a big red bow. The success of the cartoon series prompted Archie Comics to RetCon Alexandra with the new design.
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It's not perfect grammar, but Replaced With Replica works in the sentence; the superfluous pothole was adjusted.


* StealItToProtectIt: In "Never Mind a Master Mind", the heroes mistakenly receive a message warning of the villain Master Mind's plan to steal an anti-gravity gun from a science symposium in Amsterdam. The heroes decide to steal the device themselves, and have it [[ReplacedWithReplica replaced with a fake]] before Mastermind can get his hands on it. Unfortunately, three members of the group, including the one with the anti-gravity gun, are captured by Master Mind.

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* StealItToProtectIt: In "Never Mind a Master Mind", the heroes mistakenly receive a message warning of the villain Master Mind's plan to steal an anti-gravity gun from a science symposium in Amsterdam. The heroes decide to steal the device themselves, and have it [[ReplacedWithReplica replaced with a fake]] ReplacedWithReplica before Mastermind can get his hands on it. Unfortunately, three members of the group, including the one with the anti-gravity gun, are captured by Master Mind.
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* StealItToProtectIt: In "Never Mind a Master Mind", the heroes mistakenly receive a message warning of the villain Master Mind's plan to steal an anti-gravity gun from a science symposium in Amsterdam. The heroes decide to steal the device themselves, and have it [[ReplacedWithReplica replaced with a fake]] before Mastermind can get his hands on it. Unfortunately, three members of the group, including the one with the anti-gravity gun, are captured by Master Mind.
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** Alan being a Fred expy is lampshaded by Fred himself in a Cartoon Network bumper where he chastizes Velma for setting Daphne up for a date with Alan ("He's me with more muscles!").
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* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Josie.
** TheLancer: Alexander.
** TheSmartGuy: Valerie, though Alan is right up there with her.
** TheBigGuy: Alan. Also TheSmartGuy.
** TheChick: Melody.
** TokenEvilTeammate: Alexandra.
** TeamPet: Sebastian. Bleep joins when they go into space.
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* RedLiveLobster: The gang takes a break on a beach. Alexandra tries to seduce Alan with a hula dance, and grabs a nearby grass skirt. She somehow fails to notice a crimson crab on the leafy green skirt, and wears it around her hips. The crab dislikes all the motion, and pinches Alexandra's glutes to steady itself. She gets very wiggly with this impromptu prompting.
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-->- The theme song

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-->- The First verse of the theme song

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-> "''Josie and the Pussycats!\\
Long tails and ears for hats!\\
Guitars and sharps and flats!\\
Neat, sweet, a groovy song\\
You're invited, come along!''"
-->- The theme song
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* MeteorSummoningAttack: The main characters encounter TheVillain Doctor Strangemoon, whose EvilPlan is to launch a satellite that will attract fiery comets to Earth, raining havoc upon civilization. He launches the vehicle with three of [[YouMeddlingKids those meddling kids]] (Alexander, Alexandra and Melody) aboard. Fortunately, Alexandra pulls the capsule off course somehow, so the satellite never pulls a comet to Earth as intended.

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* MeteorSummoningAttack: The main characters encounter TheVillain the villain Doctor Strangemoon, whose EvilPlan is to launch a satellite that will attract fiery comets to Earth, raining havoc upon civilization. He launches the vehicle with three of [[YouMeddlingKids those meddling kids]] (Alexander, Alexandra and Melody) aboard. Fortunately, Alexandra pulls the capsule off course somehow, so the satellite never pulls a comet to Earth as intended.
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* MeteorSummoningAttack: The main characters encounter TheVillain Doctor Strangemoon, whose EvilPlan is to launch a satellite that will attract fiery comets to Earth, raining havoc upon civilization. He launches the vehicle with three of [[YouMeddlingKids those meddling kids]] (Alexander, Alexandra and Melody) aboard. Fortunately, Alexandra pulls the capsule off course somehow, so the satellite never pulls a comet to Earth as intended.

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