History WesternAnimation / RockADoodle

* BecomingTheMask: Goldie, a BrainlessBeauty of a chorus girl, is ordered by her boss Pinky (who is taking orders directly from the Duke), to act as a LoveInterest for Chanticleer, in order to keep him distracted and thus not crowing. As time goes by, however, she genuinely falls for him.

* LargeHam: The Grand Duke of Owls and Hunch.

* 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, and the knife seldom gives him what he needs.

* RogerRabbitEffect: The transitions between the Live-Action and Animated segments.

* SayMyName: Edmond, thinking of the parallels between the storm mentioned in the book and outside his family's house, believes that summoning Chanticleer will bring back the sun, so he yells out his name through the window. All this actually does is cause the Grand Duke of Owls to break into his bedroom.

** The Grand Duke, voiced by [[GentlemanSnarker Christopher Plummer]], enjoys baking and embroidery, and is a phone cord twiddler. Poor guy wasn't allowed to do anything ''really'' evil after the concerned parents in the preview audiences got through with him. Well, until the climax anyway, where he [[spoiler:almost ''strangles Edmond to death'' using his magic, to the point where it looked like Edmond ''had'' died, and attempts to drown Chanticleer with a waterspout.]]
** Hunch is even worse though. Oh, and BewareTheNiceOnes- the bakers/phone cord twiddlers are the true psychopaths.

''Rock-A-Doodle'' is a 1991 Creator/DonBluth film and 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 ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''), bearing little resemblance to it apart from some of the characters.

* DemotedToExtra: In the Rostand play, the rival rooster who fights Chauntecleer is one of the play's main antagonists. Here, he only appears very briefly.

* HighClassGlass: The Grand Duke of Owls had a monocle at first, but Edmnond somehow broke it when he touched the Duke's picture.

* LonelyAtTheTop: Discussed. When Pinky notices that "the King" is awfully depressed for a famous rooster who can have the world, Chantecleer explains he's feeling lonely. An amused Pinky can't believe someone with "twenty-thousand people screaming [his] name" could ''ever'' be "lonely", or miss former friends who laughed him out of town. Still, Chantecleer's homesickness is real enough that he has to convince Goldie to use her charm to keep him in the city.

* VillainSong: The Duke and his owls get three -- ''"Never Let Him Crow/We Hate the Sun"'', ''"No Batteries!"'' and ''"The Owl's Picnic"''.

* VillainsWantMercy: Of course when the Duke is rendered smaller than an animal he'd eat in one bite, he suddenly doesn't mind begging for forgiveness from animals he threatened and admiration from a nephew to which he'd never return (even referring himself by a nickname he loathes).

''Rock-A-Doodle'' is a 1991 Creator/DonBluth film and 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 ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''), bearing little resemblance to it apart from some of the characters.

%%* EvilUncle: "Uncle Dukie," the Grand Duke of Owls.

* TheFifties: A newspaper even gives the date as 1959.
* FixItInPost: Almost all of the songs are completely covered up by narration and dialog, leaving it as muffled quiet background noise. It was because it simply didn't make enough scenes for proper exposition gand speech isn't clear, and the narration was added after test-screening the film.

* VerbalTic: Hunch has a bizarre fondness for words that end in the "-ation" suffix, particularly when he's excited.
* ViewersAreMorons: Pateau's narration seems to explain everything, including plot points the characters already talked to death and scenes the viewer is watching at that very moment and thus can deduce for themselves. Apparently test audiences were confused on what was going on in test screenings, so they added Pateau's narration to make everything as clear as possible.

* VillainSong: The Duke and his owls get three -- ''"Never Let Him Crow/We Hate the Sun"'', ''"No Batteries!"'' and ''"The Owl's Picnic"''.

* WellDoneSonGuy: "Uncle Dukie" to Hunch, very much so. See PunchClockVillain, above.

In this version, Chanticleer (voiced by Glen Campbell) is an [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed affectionate caricature of Elvis Presley]]. After learning his singing doesn't raise the sun, he runs away to look for work in the city, and becomes a famous rock star. Wouldn't you know it, Chanticleer ''does'' raise the sun, so his friends run after him to try and convince him to come home and save the farm from the [[BigBad Grand Duke of Owls]] (Creator/ChristopherPlummer), an evil wizard owl who hates the sun and wants it to rain forever. Fortunately, [[CelebrityIsOverrated Chanticleer is disillusioned with his fame and fortune and fandom]], and agrees to return to the farm and save the day--unless his manager Pinky the fox (Sorrell Booke), who is secretly in league with the Grand Duke, has anything to say about it.

* 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.

%%* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Peepers in the CarChase , and Edmond in the finale.]]

* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Goldie loses her shoes while climbing the tower to Pinky's helicopter.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Goldie's voice calls to mind that of Creator/MarilynMonroe.

* OffModel: The illustration of the Grand Duke in Edmond's book changes between shots. The monocle he's wearing even switches eyes!

* AllJustADream: According to the BookEnds, the whole movie is supposedly a story told to a sick kid by his mother.

* FixItInPost: Almost all of the songs are completely covered up by narration and dialog, leaving it as muffled quiet background noise. It was because it simply didn't make enough scenes for proper exposition and speech isn't clear, and the narration was added after test-screening the film.

%%* SayMyName: "CHANTICLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!"

* ObliviousTransformation: Edmond is completely unaware that he's bee turned into a cat until he catches sight of his paws.

** OrWasItADream: Well, the closing sequence that incorporates the live-action Edmund into the animated farm certainly doesn't think so.

* BlandNameProduct: Edmund and the gang sailed through a flooded town which has a Dairy King restaurant, an obvious reference to Dairy Queen.[[note]]Dairy Queen actually had a kids' meal tie-in with the film in 1992, featuring figures of Chanticleer, Edmund, Patou, Peepers, the Grand Duke of Owls, and Snipes.[[/note]]

* GameOfChicken: While being chased by Pinky and his goons, Edmund turns the car he and the animals are in around, on direct course with Pinky's golf cart. Pinky turns off not because he's scared, but because the heroes were in ''his'' Cadilac.

* ObliviousTransformation: Edmund is completely unaware that he's bee turned into a cat until he catches sight of his paws.
--->'''Edmund:''' Jeepers! I'm all Furry!

* BlandNameProduct: Edmund and the gang sailed through a flooded town which has a Dairy King restaurant, an obvious reference to Dairy Queen.

** Subverted; when Edmond calls the animals trapped on the farm, Stuey the Pig hops on to a floating dress form making his way to the phone and accidentally fondles it; he quickly apologizes to the inanimate object.

* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: the scene where The Duke, the evil owl turns the live-action human boy Edmond into a cartoon kitten by way of a magic spell. (This particular scene pairs this trope with that of ToonTransformation and ForcedTransformation).