History WesternAnimation / PuffTheMagicDragon

* SavingTheWorldWithArt: Or music. Kleftomania, the music kingdom, is under the control of a savage beast. Terry soothes the beast by playing a tune he wrote on a flute.

* ''Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody'' (1982): A boy named Terry gets Puff's help after his wild imagination and {{imaginary friend}}, Mr. Nobody, prevent him from living in reality.

* MisplacedRetribution: Early on, Sandy breaks her mother's lamp by throwing a ball, then blames her dog, Muggs, who wasn't anywhere near the lamp. Much to Sandy's dismay, her mother decides that Muggs is too big to keep around and decides to give him back to Aunt Clara.

First written in 1959 as a poem by filmmaker Leonard Lipton and [[Music/PuffTheMagicDragon set to music]] in 1963 by Peter Yarrow of Music/PeterPaulAndMary, "Puff, the Magic Dragon" tells the story of a boy who outgrows his childhood fantasies. The song also inspired a series of animated Creator/{{CBS}} TV specials that recast the eponymous dragon, voiced by Creator/BurgessMeredith, as a sort of fantastical child psychologist coming to the aid of some deeply troubled children. All three were written by Romeo Muller, who also wrote most of the work of Creator/RankinBassProductions.

First written in 1959 as a poem by filmmaker Leonard Lipton and [[Music/PuffTheMagicDragon set to music]] in 1963 by Peter Yarrow of Music/PeterPaulAndMary, "Puff, the Magic Dragon" tells the story of a boy who outgrows his childhood fantasies. The song also inspired a series of animated Creator/{{CBS}} TV specials that recast the eponymous dragon, voiced by Creator/BurgessMeredith, as a sort of fantastical child psychologist coming to the aid of some deeply troubled children.

* [[ADogAteMyHomework A Dragon Ate My Homework]]: Sandy lies to her teacher that a dragon stole her homework and ate it with ketchup and mustard. At the beginning of the special, Puff acts out this lie, before explaining that it ''was'' a lie.

* ItsAllMyFault: Sandy believes that she was the cause of her parents' divorce. Puff helps her to see that it wasn't her fault and that her mom and dad still love her.

* StrawVulcan: The tall, red-headed doctor and the bald, bearded doctor... who not only suffer from GenreBlindness, but are both {{Nay Theist}}s. They tell Jackie's parents that Jackie will never speak, nor relate in any way to the world around him.
* TheShrink: Puff is the Awesome variety.

* ''Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody'' (1982): A boy named Terry gets Puff's help after his wild imagination and {{imaginary friend}} prevent him from living in reality.

--> '''Very Long John:''' I'm a new man! No, no, no, I'm an old man with a new heart!

* StrawVulcan: The tall, red-headed doctor and the bald, bearded doctor... who not only suffer from GenreBlindness, but are both {{Nay Theist}}s.

* SavingTheWorldWithArt: Or music. Kleftomania, the music kingdom, is under the control of a savage beast. Terry soothes the beast by playing a tune he wrote.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The inhabitants of the Land of the Living Lies are the embodiments of all the various forms of lying (monstrous lies, little white lies, etc)

* SavingTheWorldWithArt: Or music. Kleftomania, the music kingdom, is under the control of a savage beast. Terry tames the beast by playing a tune he wrote.

* DeliciousDaydream: Terry imagines a landscape made of pasta, then paints a picture of it.

** In the Land of the Living Lies, when Sandy is falsely accused, she panics and blames Puff, who is arrested.

--> '''Very Long John''': I'm a new man! No, no, no, I'm an old man with a new heart!

* HeelFaceTurn: Very Long does this when [[spoiler:he becomes a chef]].

* SeeThruSpecs: Puff's smoke rings have this effect. Looking through them allows Puff and Jackie to see that Very Long secretly wants to be a baker.
* SoupIsMedicine: Seen in the first special, when [[spoiler: Jackie brings Very Long to Honalee to cure the Living Sneezes with chicken soup and restore Honalee to its former glory]].

* TimeMaster: Puff has the ability to temporarily stop time. He does so before taking Sandy to the Land of the Living Lies, then starts it again after taking her back to her home.

-->'''Prosecuting Attorney:''' Little girl, isn't it true you zipped the zapper when you snipped the snoo? Hmm?

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The inhabitants of the island of living lies are the embodiments of all the various forms of lying (monstrous lies, little white lies, etc)

* KangarooCourt: In the Land of the Living Lies, Sandy is put on trial on a false accusation of picking apples and eating flowers. The judge is the Monstrous Lie, the jurors include the Meaningless Lie and the Vicious Lie, and the prosecuting attorney is an intimidating SpeakingSimlish giant.