Basic Trope: A Company Making Everything that the main characters use.
- Straight: In the Zany Avenue cartoon series, Charlie the Cat buys all sorts of items to aid him in his schemes, all made by Anvil Industries.
- Exaggerated:
- Literally everything that ever appears on the show (and, according to the Word of God, everything that is left out of frame too) is made by Anvil Industries.
- In one episode, Charlie buys a Build-Your-Own-Starship kit from the Anvil catalog and goes on a tour of the Solar system - and even on The Moons of Saturn, Anvil Industries is the go-to company for the inhabitants' Zany Scheme needs.
- In another episode, it is revealed that the whole universe was created by Anvil Industries. Seeing as Anvil Industries was founded in 26xx, one can't help but wonder how Anvil Industries came to exist in the first place.
- Downplayed: The characters get their items from several different firms - Anvil Industries, General Suppliesnote , Mumpitz Enterprises, and Grayvale Market chain of stores - however, those are the only brands that ever appear.
- Justified: Anvil Industries are famous for Instant Home Delivery, huge assortment of items, and affordable prices, and Charlie, not being too smart, disregards the inevitable quality issues when he needs something for a Zany Scheme right this instant.
- Inverted: Every time Charlie or some other character needs something, they buy it from a different, overspecialized venture.
- Subverted:
- At first, it looks like Anvil Industries makes everything... but then it turns out they mainly deal in things like construction supplies and industrial equipment, and don't make things like consumer electronics, food products, or firearms.
- Charlie buys his stuff from Anvil Industries when he's conducting Zany Schemes in his home town - however, when he goes to visit his British cousin in Northeastern Westernshire, he has to buy stuff from a British mail-order company instead, and when he goes on vacation to the People's Republic of San Estupido, he gives up after seeing the delivery prices for Anvil products and heads to the local junkyard to do some improvisation instead.
- Double Subverted: However, it then turns out that they're a subsidiary of Trope Co., an umbrella corporation that owns dozens of other, smaller corporations that, together, do make absolutely everything.
- Parodied:
- Charlie and his friends react with genuine shock when they find out that there are, in fact, other companies that aren't Anvil Industries.
- The story of Zany Avenue is sometimes interrupted by Parody Commercials for Anvil Industries, trying to sell various improbable wares and gadgets to the audience.
- Zig Zagged:
- In some episodes, Anvil Industries is Charlie's one-stop-shop for everything he needs, and in others, he has to go hunt for gadget-of-the-day in small mom-and-pop stores.
- Whenever Charlie needs something, he buys it from a different overspecialized store... which are all run by the same person, Lizzie the Chameleon, who is a one-man multinational corporation in her own right.
- Averted: When Charlie needs something, he goes to buy it from a place that would be expected to hold it, or more likely, just makes it himself.
- Enforced: Zany Avenue is a throwback to classic hand-animated cartoons, so a single company that produces everything Charlie needs is required in order to complete the show's nostalgic atmosphere.
- Lampshaded: "Ah, the Anvil catalog... the bread and butter of a Zany Schemer!"
- Invoked: Charlie and his friends are extremely loyal to Anvil Industries.
- Exploited: Charlie, sick of being a Butt-Monkey, takes a crash course in MacGyvering, and that, combined with his access to Anvil catalog which offers him literally anything he could need, makes him truly a force to be reckoned with.
- Defied: Charlie buys his stuff from several different companies, refusing to stay loyal to only one of them.
- Discussed: "Um... Charlie? Where in the heck did you find Rocket Boots and a bucket of jellied eels?" "I bought them from the Anvil catalog, duh! They have everything a guy like me might ever need..." "And you never wondered how they became so prominent?" "Not really, no... oh look, there he comes! Stand aside, it's scheme-o-clock!"
- Conversed: "You noticed how in these cartoons, the characters always get their wares from a single company, no matter how improbable it would be?" "Rule of Funny, dude. Rule of Funny."
- Implied:
- When Charlie's rustbucket of a car breaks down in the middle of Poweshiek County, Iowa, he mutters: "Dang it... I really ought to get my wares from some other company...", prompting a quizzical look from his passenger, Henry the Fox: "What other company?"
- It's never brought up where Charlie gets his stuff from, but in a parodic Very Special Episode about Charlie doing his taxes, we get a look at his ledgers, and the majority of his transactions and possessions are related exclusively to Anvil Industries.
- Deconstructed: In a "What If?" storyline, the writer explores the way Anvil Industries would function in real life, and lists off all the unethical methods they would likely use to destroy the competition and make themselves a monopoly, as well as the myriad ramifications of a company being so huge that it literally makes everything.
- Reconstructed: Later, the same writer does a "canonical" take on how Anvil Industries operates: the company is not the only company in the world, just the most popular and largest mail-order company, it rose to the top simply by virtue of Instant Home Delivery, is run by Uncle Pennybags who is not greedy and bears no ill will towards the common man, and the bureaucracy is no more tangled than would be expected of its cartoon world.
- Plotted A Good Waste: Zany Avenue starts out as a Genre Throwback to the Golden Age cartoons, so the appearance of Anvil Industries as a company that sells everything to the main characters doesn't raise any eyebrows - but as continuity and setting details pile up, the astute viewers notice that Anvil Industries' products with oddly specific uses and employees willing to help out for a modest fee always seem to appear where they are needed...
- Played For Laughs: Fed up with endemic defects, Charlie pays a visit to Anvil Industries, and sees that it is the epitome of Incompetence, Inc., with employees no better off than he is in regards to reliability of their products.
- Played For Drama: Fed up with endemic defects, Charlie tries to switch to products from some other company, which won't result in as many painful failures - but he discovers that Anvil Industries is literally the only company out there and that he has no choice in the matter.
- Played For Horror: In a Halloween Episode, Anvil Industries accidentally mails out a batch of items that turn out to be severely cursed, and Lightmare Fuel abounds for Charlie and the main cast.
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