History WesternAnimation / SaltysLighthouse

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** On the contrary he does help out and is nice at times thereby making him more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in this version.

** On the contrary he does help out and is nice at times as shown in Blankety Blank, Strike Up The Band, Let's Wing It.

** The Zed Stacks go from rivals of the Stars to allies, however Zorran does act antagonistic on the occasion.

* ContinuitySnarl: When Boomer via a flashback/story in the [=TUGS=] segment of "Banana Splits", his ending was more in line with the official TUGS as it was stated that he lost all his bad luck by becoming a vacation boat. Later he reappeared in "Some Guys Have all the Luck" where it is instead stated that he lost his bad luck by successfully towing a schooner out to sea. Another problem is that the way Ten Cents tells his story he acts as if Zip and Zug don't know who Boomer is, however in his next appearance in "Some Guys Have all the Luck" they share a scene with him.

* ShoutOut: In "Otis the Movie Star", Mr. Boffo and Mr. Socco tell Captain Star about some of the movies they've made in the past. These include ''[[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Beauty and the Boat]]'', ''[[Franchise/JurassicPark Jurassic Harbor]]'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie Tugrats]]''.
* TakeThat: In "Otis the Movie Star", when looking for an old boat to star in ''Rock the Boat'', Mr. Boffo and Mr. Socco consider hiring Grampus, then decide against it because they don't want to remake ''[[Film/{{Waterworld}} Underwaterworld]]''.

** The Fultan Ferry is interesting example as it was referred to as a male and female, it was genderless in Tugs.

** The Fultan Ferry became a male, it was genderless in the original version.

** Bigg City Port was became Snug Boat Harbor.

* TakeThat: In "Otis the Movie Star", when looking for an old boat to star in ''Rock the Boat'', Mr. Boffo and Mr. Socco consider hiring Grampus, then decide against it because they don't want to remake ''[[Film/{{Waterworld}} Underwater World]]''.

** Jack the Grappler became Scoop.

** The Quarry Master became Stoney.

** Big Mickey became Basil.
** Nantucket became Steamer.

* RecycledScript: More like recycled clips, due to the fact that {{Tugs}} only had 13 episodes, a fair amount of clips are recycled.
** Played straight with Top Hat and Lord Stinker saving the Goods Engine from the collapsing bridge, they use this plot point three times in the series.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Sea Rogue is only called Sea Rogue once, by Top Hat, everyone else just refers to him as “Pirate”.

* AllJustaDream: Sea Rogue is revealed to simply be a dream of Top Hat.

* ShesaManInJapan:

* AdaptationalHeroism: Many characters get this in the series
** The Zed Stacks go from rivals of the Stars to allies, however Zorran does act antagonistic on the occasion
** Blurke and Blair became movie producers who were looking for tugs to use for their next movie
** While not necessarily evil, Bluenose is a lot more reasonable here and doesn’t use his authority to screw over the tugs
** Johnny Cuba went from an evil gangster to a lonely tanker who only wants friends
* AdaptationalNameChange: Quite a few in the series
** OJ becand Otis
** Big Mac became Big Stack
** The Zed Stacks became the Zero Fleet
** Zebedee became Z.B
** Jack the Grappler became Scoop
** Johnny Cuba became Steamer
** Blurke and Blair became Mr. Boffo and Mr. Socko
** The Coast Guard became Cappy
** The Quarry Master became Stoney
** Puffa became Chooch
** Big Mickey became Basil
** Nantucket became Steamer
** Bigg City Port was became Snug Boat Harbor

* AdaptationalVillainy: Sea Rogue went from a tug who was forced into doing evil, into a pirate who stole barges for kicks.
* AdaptedOut: A few characters don't have roles in Salty’s lighthouse, mostly inconsequential characters.
* AllJustaDream: Sea Rogue is revealed to simply be a dream of Top Hat
* CompositeCharacter: The Coast Guard and his messenger were merged into the character Cappy

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Steamer’s reason for sneaking into the harbor in this version
* LighterAndSofter: Removed a lot of the darker elements of the original TUGS series
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Sea Rogue is only called Sea Rogue once, by Top Hat, everyone else just refers to him as “Pirate”
* PulledFromYourDayOff: Happens to Grampus in Bluenose Buds In
* ShesaManInJapan: Sunshine, Captain Starr, and Little Ditcher all became female, most likely to appeal to a wider set of audience
** The Fultan Ferry became a male, it was genderless in the original version

Salty's Lighthouse is a show about a young boy named Salty and his adventures with his seaside friends in a lighthouse.

The show was created by Sunbow Entertainment and TLC in 1997. The show is often remembered for the dubbed Tugs segments.

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* LighterAndSofter