Line #33 WesternAnimation/TamagotchiVideoAdventures


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3	''Tamagotchi Video Adventures'' is a 1997 ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'' VHS by the American company [[Creator/SeventhLevel 7th Level]]. It consists of three segments.
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5	"Now Museum, Now You Don't" is a cartoon and the main feature. [[CanonForeigner Cosmotchi]] notices that his museum lacks an exhibit from Earth. He sends the Tamagotchis to Earth to find an exhibit for his museum. The Tamagotchis get into groups, collect objects, and leave behind golden eggs. They partake in human activities, such as golfing and watching TV. When the Tamagotchis return to Tamagotchi Planet, they show Cosmotchi what they found. Masktchi, the only Tamagotchi who didn't have a group, shows Cosmotchi a popsicle stick that a kind human gave him to cheer him up. Cosmotchi uses Masktchi's popsicle stick for the museum because it shows the selflessness of humans.
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7	"What's a Tamagotchi?" is a music video about the characters featured in the first segment. It's about 4 minutes long.
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9	"How to Draw Tamagotchi" is a segment where Dan and his HandPuppet friend Handy Warhol teach viewers how to draw ''Tamagotchi'' characters. Dan gives the viewers an easy step-by-step art lesson. Handy Warhol helps Dan and makes his own unique drawings.
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11	''Tamagotchi Video Adventures'' was a FailedPilotEpisode complete with series bible. Ultimately, it was never made into a full series, just one rare VHS that was never popular.
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14	!!''Tamagotchi Video Adventures'' provides examples of:
15	* ActorAllusion: Mimitchi and Potitchi referencing ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' is alluding to their voice actor, Creator/BillyWest, also voicing Ren and Stimpy themselves.
16	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Cosmotchi, thanks to the translator. However, we do get some GratuitousEnglish from some of the other Tamagotchis.
17	* AlliterativeTitle: ''Tamagotchi Toons''.
18	* BareHandedPuppetry: Handy Warhol is a hand with paint on his face and fake hair on his head.
19	* {{Bookends}}: The "camera" pans down to Tamagotchi Planet at the beginning of the cartoon and pans up to the sky at the end.
20	* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the beginning of the animated segment, Mimitchi appears, notices the viewers from across the screen, and recognizes they don't understand what Cosmotchi is saying, as he [[TranslatorMicrobes brings out a translation machine to translate his speech into English]].
21	* CanonForeigner: Cosmotchi is entirely unique to this VHS. He never appears in any Japanese material.
22	* CheekCopy: A variant. Tarakotchi and Zattchi demonstrate how to work the photo copier they've chosen to be Tamagotchi Museum's Earth exhibit by using it to copy Cosmotchi's face onto Tarakotchi's belly. Tarakotchi somehow gets the copied face to ''whistle''.
23	-->'''Cosmotchi:''' Not my best side... but I like it!
24	* CrowdChant: The Tamagotchis all cheer "Mask-tchi! Mask-tchi!" as they select Masktchi's popsicle stick to be the relic that represents Earth in the museum.
25	* ADogNamedDog: Close enough. A hand named Handy.
26	* DogsLoveFireHydrants: Alluded to. During the "What's a Tamagotchi?" song, Pochitchi, a dog Tamagotchi, is seen next to a fire hydrant for a second or so.
27	* ElvisImpersonator: Ginjrotchi, for some reason, has Elvis' hair and outfit as well as a penchant for dancing. He has the same deep voice, too... except he speaks the gibberish-sounding Tamagotchi language like most of the other characters.
28	* EpisodeTitleCard: It has one, despite not needing one.
29	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Guess what "How to Draw Tamagotchi" is about.
30	* FailedPilotEpisode: It's pretty clearly one for a show called ''Tamagotchi Toons'' that never got picked up. It even has an EpisodeTitleCard.
31	* TheFullNameAdventures: ''Tamagotchi Video Adventures''.
32	* GarageSale: Nyorotchi and Bill scour a garage sale to find Earth stuff for the museum. They come across a tape player and enjoy dancing to the music playing from it.
33	* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: After visiting Earth, Ginjirotchi becomes a full-fledged Elvis impersonator, taking on his deep voice and hairstyle and giving Cosmotchi a car similar to the one Elvis drove as a possible exhibit to complete the museum.
34	* LineBoil: The animation style used here utilizes line boils.
35	* LyricalColdOpen: The song "What's a Tamagotchi?" is introduced with a male announcer speaking rather than singing a set of lyrics, with noticeable build-up in the background instrumentation, before the main part of the song starts.
36	-->''This just in, a space news flash\
37	Fourteen small distant neighbors dropping in for a bash\
38	They've got hip technology and like a good snack\
39	But they'll need your assistance to find their way back\
40	They're here on a mission of a cultural sort\
41	To bring back an Earth object of great import\
42	If your mom can't find her slippers or your dad's lost his socks\
43	Don't be alarmed to find the house is full of rocks!\
44	They're not rocks at all, but eggs of purest gold\
45	And here's a big secret you're about to be told\
46	It's no fairytale goose that left them, you see\
47	But out-of-town critters known as Tamagotchi!\
48	[different vocalists take over from here]\
49	What's a Tamagotchi? (A Tamagotchi)\
50	Have you seen them go-tchi? (Go go go-tchi)''
51	* TheManInTheMoon: When the Tamagotchi travel through outer space in a spaceship, they pass by the moon, which is shown to have a face for whatever unexplained reason.
52	* NeverTrustATitle: The "s" in ''Tamagotchi Toons'' suggests there's more than one "toon". However, there's only one episode.
53	* OneShotCharacter: This is the only time Cosmotchi and Handy Warhol appear.
54	* PanFromTheSkyBeginning: The cartoon opens with a view of outer space that pans down, eventually reaching the surface of Tamagotchi Planet. A FlyingSaucer is then seen zooming by before the scene cuts to a panning shot of a town on the planet that slowly approaches Tamagotchi Museum, one of the video's main settings.
55	* PanUpToTheSkyEnding: Inverted at the beginning of the video, with the frame panning down to the surface of Tamagotchi Planet as the Bandai logo and opening titles appear on-screen. Played straight twice later on - the first time is at the end of the main cartoon segment with the frame panning up as Cosmotchi and the Tamagotchis ride a car proposed as a museum exhibit into space; the second time is at the end of the video after the credits, with the footage of the Tamagotchis riding the car [[StockFootage being reused]].
56	* PunBasedTitle: The title of the animated segment, "Now Museum, Now You Don't", is a pun on the phrase "now you see it, now you don't".
57	* QuestioningTitle: The song "What's a Tamagotchi?"
58	* RageQuit: The male of the golfing couple slams down his clubs after being outmatched by Zuccitchi and Kuchipatchi.
59	-->'''Male Golfer:''' THAT'S IT! I QUIT, I QUIT, I QUIT! I'LL NEVER PLAY GOLF AGAIN!
60	-->'''Female Golfer:''' Darling! It's just a game!
61	* RecursiveCanon: While in the flying saucer, a couple of the Tamagotchis are seen playing with the very virtual pets the video is adapted from.
62	* ShoutOut:
63	** Mimitchi and Pochitchi go inside a television and play the roles of [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]], respectively.
64	--->'''Pochitchi:''' Happy joy, happy joy!
65	--->'''Mimitchi:''' YOU EEDIOT!
66	--->'''Cosmotchi:''' Fascinating! Yet disturbing, somehow.
67	** Handy Warhol is a reference to Creator/AndyWarhol.
68	** Mametchi's contribution to the museum is a glove from the planet [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan]]. The glove is even shown making the Vulcan hand salute.
69	** Ginjirotchi's hair style, white suit, deep voice and dancing are references to Music/ElvisPresley. His verse in the "What's a Tamagotchi?" song mentions blue suede shoes, a reference to one of Elvis's most famous songs.
70	* SimpletonVoice: This version of Kuchipatchi has a very low-pitched voice, probably to fit his personality (he's described as "big and dumb" in the song segment).
71	* {{Tagline}}: "Enjoy the video based on the original virtual reality pet!"
72	* ThemeTuneRollCall: "What's a Tamagotchi?", which can be considered a theme song of sorts, introduces the characters and describes their personalities.
73	* TranslatorMicrobes: The cartoon starts with the Tamagotchis speaking an alien language before Mimitchi turns on a translation machine.

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