History WesternAnimation / RockADoodle

* [[FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit Fat Southern Fox In Striped Pants]]: Pinky. He even plays golf and chomps cigars.

* KickTheDog: The Duke's threatens [[AbusiveParents his own nephew]] that he will kill and eat him if he doesn't kill the good guys. One of Pinky's toad bodyguards kicks a grill for no reason.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Hunch has a swiss army knife with everything in it. This would make it seem like the heroes are doomed to death, but Hunch is as dim-witted as he is aggressive, coming to the Grand Duke's disadvantage.

* TheDogBitesBack: At the end when the Duke, now even smaller than a mouse, gets chased away by Hunch, who he's been threatening to kill if Edmond and the gang weren't killed.

* {{Adorkable}}: Peepers.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Sometimes the Duke does this, such as "But that is not why '''The Duke''' is going to eat you.", and "'''The Duke''' gives you one last chance!".
* ThisWasHisTrueForm: [[spoiler:When Edmond "dies," he returns to his live-action human form.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Inverted with Snipes. In the original Rostand play, the blackbird was a villainous character who conspired with the predators of the night against the farm animals, along with the farm's [[CatsAreMean cat]]. In the movie, his counterpart Snipes is a {{Jerkass}}, but is an ally of Chauntecleer and not an outright villain.

* AscendedExtra: In the Rostand play, the Grand Duke and Patou only appear briefly, although Patou does warn Chanticler about the treacherous Blackbird. The Blackbird and the rival rooster who fights Chauntecler are the main antagonists in the play.

* BecomingTheMask: Chanticleer, in his career as a rock star, gains a BrainlessBeauty of a chorus girl to be his girlfriend, on the orders of her boss who is working for the Duke to keep Chanticleer distracted and thus not crowing. However, as the narration helpfully informs us, she falls in love with him for real and brings him home.

* DisneyDeath: Edmund. And Peepers.

** When Goldie sullenly complains that she's too good to be just a chorus girl, Pinky snidely suggests that she could "give up show biz." Whether she's appalled at the general idea or at the, ah, [[TheOldestProfession ''other'']] implications of that suggestion, well...

* {{Jerkass}}: Snipes the magpie.

* SpellMyNameWithAThe: The Grand Duke of owls or sometimes just "The Duke".

* WouldHurtAChild: The Duke frequently threatens to kill and/or eat Edmund, who can't be much older than six (and that's being ''generous''). Oh and let's not forget [[spoiler:the fact that he actually strangles him nearly to death in the climax.]]

** The 'other way' Goldie can break out of being a chorus girl.

* NiceHat: Edmond's raccoon-fur hat. Although coupled with his long-sleeved baggy sweatshirt it makes him look like a {{Palette Swap}}ped [[AnAmericanTail Fievel]] sometimes.

* DuelingMovies: With ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', ''AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West'' and FelixTheCatTheMovie. Guess who placed third? [[spoiler: It's tragically ironic when a sequel to a Bluth movie without his involvement out-does an actual Bluth movie.]]

The disastrous box office failure of the film, thanks in no small part to the fact that it was up against three other animated films, one of them being ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', led to the bankruptcy of Creator/DonBluth's studio.

* SpeciesCodedForYourConvenience: Owls are evil, all other animals (except frogs/toads and foxes) are good.

The disastrous box office failure of the film, thanks in no small part to the fact that it was up against three other animated films, one of them being ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', led to the bankruptcy of DonBluth's studio.

* PettingZooPeople with a NonMammalMammaries chaser: Thanks to DonBluth's ''bizarre'' idea of attempting to mimic Jessica Rabbit's sex appeal.

-->"But you see, we creatures of the night have worked very hard to make absoLYUUTEly sure that that... BIRD does not return! And you... you, with no regards, for the feelings of OTHERS have the NERVE to call him BACK here by NAME! And besides, I positively LOATHE rock 'n' ROLL!"

** "But you see, we creatures of the night have worked very hard to make absoLYUUTEly sure that that... BIRD does not return! And you... you, with no regards, for the feelings of OTHERS have the NERVE to call him BACK here by NAME! And besides, I positively LOATHE rock 'n' ROLL!"

* KickTheDog: The Duke's threats [[AbusiveParents his own nephew]] that he will kill and eat him if he doesn't kill the good guys. One of Pinky's toad bodyguards kicks a grill for no reason.

** "But you see, we creatures of the night have worked very hard to make absoLYUUTEly sure that that..BIRD does not return!"

** Hilariously, Goldie's shoes reappear on her feet a couple shots later.

* DetailHoggingCover: Subverted, the DVD cover actually seems to have rather cheap flatly colored drawings on a sparse background.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: At one point, the Grand Duke gives Hunch sunglasses to go to the city because Hunch is an owl and therefore cannot stand the sun or any kind of light. Hunch is a pygmy owl. Pygmy owls are not nocturnal.
** Most owls aren't even consistently nocturnal anyway.

* FixItInPost: Almost all of the songs are completely covered up by narration and dialog, leaving it as muffled quiet background noise. Whether or not this is because they thought the songs were bad, or simply didn't make enough scenes for proper exposition and speech isn't clear.
** The way this troper heard, it was the latter, and the narration was added after test-screening the film.

** [[FridgeBrilliance He's a nocturnal creature, so they would prefer it being always night.]]
*** But wouldn't they need to sleep eventually?
** The light hurts the owls badly, limiting the amount of time they can be out and about. How would you feel if you could only leave your house 8-14 hours of the day without being in terrible pain? If it's always night, then the owls can go where they want, when they want.

Okay, stay with us here.

This is a very loose AdaptationExpansion of the tale of Chanticleer the rooster, who believed his crowing made the sun shine. It is also an equally loose adaptation of the play [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantecler_(play) ''Chanticler'']] by the French writer Edmond Rostand (also known for ''[[Main/CyranoDeBergerac Cyrano de Bergerac]]''), bearing little resemblance to it apart from some of the characters.

* AscendedExtra: In the Rostand play, the Grand Duke and Patou only appear briefly, although Patou does warn Chanticler about the treacherous Blackbird. The Blackbird and the rival rooster who fights Chauntecler are the main antagonists in the play.

** Since always. Large owls such as the Great Horned Owl and the Eagle Owl (which is also called the Grand Duke, btw), will hunt and eat anything from rats and rabbits to piglets, cats, small dogs and even small sheep and fawns. This, of course, doesn´t explain why the Duke and his owls are so friggin huge compared to the pig (which doesn´t seem to be a piglet anyways) and the other farm animals.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: At one point, the Grand Duke gives Hunch sunglasses to go to the city because Hunch is an owl and therefore cannot stand the sun or any kind of light. Hunch is a pygmy owl. Pygmy owls are not nocturnal.

* {{Expy}}: Goldie's design is very reminiscent of Princess Daphne from the {{DragonsLair}} games if she were a mutant bird thing.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Hunch has a swiss army knife with everything in it. This would make it seem like the heroes are doomed to death, but Hunch is as dim-witted as he is aggressive, coming to the Grand Duke's disadvantage.

** How about The Duke singing about how Patoo bit his leg? Complete with one of his henchmen standing behind him making the sad face.
*** To be fair Patoo got a pretty good chunk in the bite, which had to hurt, and likely would have broken the leg had the Duke not managed to shake him off. Still [[LargeHam hammy]] though.
*** It was bad enough that he had to have the wound dressed for most of the movie, and the movie had to take place over a minimum of three or four days.

* NoNameGiven: The Duke's owl henchmen (besides Hunch), the rabbit that warns Stewie the pig as the flashlight is going out, and all of the other farm animals that stay at Edmond's house and nearly get eaten by the Duke.

* TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation

* ShoutOut: When Edmund and co. are floating down the river on the way to the city, Hunch and the owls prepare to attack, while Hunch is humming [[PublicDomainSoundtrack "Ride of]] [[ApocalypseNow the Valkyries".]]

* YourSizeMayVary: Oh, ''God.'' Just check out the scene in Goldie's trailer. In a world with talking animals and no (non-live action) humans to speak of, ''why'' does she live in a room full of ridiculously large objects?
** [[FridgeBrilliance Because she just got out of the chorus and probably had no trailer before that, and Pinky most likely provided the accouterments.]] You know, Pinky, the giant fox/manager.
*** It ''is'' Pinky's trailer.

** This makes sense considering in real life that owls' eyes are extremely vulnerable to a decent amount of light.
** With the exception of the light fire gives off. The Duke is shown baking in front of an open fire and, later on, when the owls set up a picnic when they are about to eat the farm animals, they include candles. A question comes up as to why they aren't afraid of fire if they hate the sun.
*** [[FridgeLogic Because the sun is just a bright light as far as they're concerned. You don't need to know that the sun is a flaming ball of gas to know that it's really bright. Also, the light the fires give off is somewhat more muted, much like the light coming from the moon on a cloudy night]].

*** [[AWizardDidIt Meh, they're magic owls.]]

->''"Don Bluth's strangest creation...({{Beat}})...And that's saying a lot, Rock-a-Doodle."''
-->TheNostalgiaCritic