History WesternAnimation / OscarsOrchestra

* NeverSayDie: Typically, Thadius or his henchmen will use words like “destroyed” or “obliterated” instead of “kill”. {{Justified}} considering Thadius doesn’t just want Oscar and the other instruments [[{{Sadist}} dead]].

** Also averterted in the soundtrack.

** Lucius has green skin. This is lampshaded in the episode “Queen of Sheba”.

*** Rebecca is turned into a swan. Swan’s are thought of as pure. A good example of Rebecca embodying this as well is seen in the first episode, “The Battle Begins”. Due to events in the episode, Rebecca, who has zero knowledge of events happening in the world due to her grandfather shielding her from them, gets approached by both sides of the fight(individually) and chooses Oscar, Eric, and Trevor’s side, as she immidiately sees that Lucius and Tank are horrible people and the instruments didn’t do anything to warrant their behavior.
----> '''Oscar:''' I’m sorry Rebecca, but you’re with us now.
----> '''Rebecca:''' Too right!

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* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: A few episodes have these, most notably [[Film/BackToTheFuture "Bach To The Future"]], [[Franchise/StarWars "Star Tours"]], and [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk "Raiders Of The Lost Park"]].

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The series provides a particularly confusing example: ''Most'' of the orchestra has their voices credited, as do Thaddeus, Lucius, Goodtooth and Tank, guest characters ''sometimes'' have their voices credited and sometimes don't (and generally not more than one guest actor will ever be credited, even if the episode featured multiple) and, despite being part of the orchestra, Jan and Stan's voices are ''not'' credited.

''Oscar’s Orchestra'' was an animated British kids TV show that premiered on September 12, 1995 and ran for 3 seasons on Creator/{{CBBC}} in the UK. It is set in a dystopian future, in the year 735 squillion, 22 million, 381 thousand, 604, where the evil dictator Thadius Vent rules the world. Under his rule, music has been banned, and Oscar, a talking grand piano, leads the fight to bring music back to the world. Each episode follows the orchestra’s plans to bring music back to the world and Thadius' efforts to destroy the orchestra.

The show is based on an idea by Jan Younghusband, and was produced by Christopher O'Hare and directed by Tony Collingwood. The show was designed to introduce children to the wonders of classical music.

''Oscar’s Orchestra'' was an animated British kids TV show that premiered on September 12, 1995 and ran for 3 seasons on Creator/{{CBBC}} in the UK. It is set in a dystopian future, in the year 735 squillion, 22 million, 381 thousand, 604, where the evil dictator Thadius Vent rules the world. Under his rule, music has been banned, and Oscar, a talking grand piano, leads the fight to bring music back to the world. Each episode follows the orchestra’s plans to bring music back to the world and Thadius' efforts to destroy the orchestra.\\

** [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet “Star-Crossed”]] [[note]]The episode’s German dub is even more blatant, being literally named “Romeo Und Julia”[[/note]]

* DubNameChange: For some reason, Thadius was renamed to "Moderatus" in the Russian dub.

* ExcitedShowTitle: Not the show itself, but the season 1 episode "Viva Espana!"

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: A few episodes have these. Specifically…

* OffModel: The [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2022_11_20_at_22_39_29_oscars_orchestra_episodes.png show]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2022_11_20_at_22_39_44_oscars_orchestra_episodes.png does]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2022_11_20_at_22_39_54_oscars_orchestra_episodes.png this]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2022_11_20_at_22_40_06_oscars_orchestra_episodes.png CONSTANTLY]].

* WouldHurtAChild: All of the villains in the show have absolutely no hesitation about hurting Rebecca, who’s 10.

** Tank also became "Crin-Crin" in the French dub.

** [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet “Star-Crossed”]] [[note]]The episode’s German dub is even more blatant, being literally named “Romeo Und Julia” (For the uninitiated, “und” is German for “and”.)[[/note]]

** [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet “Star-Crossed”]] [note]]The episode’s German dub is even more blatant, being literally named “Romeo Und Julia” (For the uninitiated, “und” is German for “and”.)[[/note]]