History WesternAnimation / AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog

* TheMusical: In 2008, a ''WillyFog'' [[http://willyfogelmusical.com/ stage musical]] (featuring actors in FunnyAnimal makeup) opened in Spain to commemorate the series' 25th anniversary.

* BarefootCartoonAnimals: The entire cast.

* ButtMonkey: Dix and Bully throughout the travels.

From the same stable as ''WesternAnimation/DogtanianAndTheThreeMuskehounds'', this Spanish cartoon (whose original title is ''La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog'') did for Jules Verne's ''AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' what its predecessor did for ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'', namely populated it with {{Funny Animal}}s and put it on at teatime.

In the 1990s, the series was followed by ''Willy Fog 2'' which has Willy, Romy (now his wife) and friends having new adventures directly adapted from Verne's most famous science fiction novels, ''JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'' and ''[[TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]''.
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* {{Prospector}}: The gang meet an old one in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco that has gone mad over the years and carries a bag of dirt thinking it's gold dust.

* {{Prospector}}: The gang meet an old one in SanFrancisco that has gone mad over the years and carries a bag of dirt thinking it's gold dust.

* TriggerHappy: Most of the population of 1872 SanFrancisco is pictured this way.

[[CluelessDetective Dix]] (Fix in the novel) and [[CluelessDeputy Bully]] (original character), canine detectives from Scotland Yard, believe that Willy Fog is a bank robber using an unlikely cover to flee from justice. They pursue Fog and his party unrelentingly and do their best to obstruct them. Fortunately for Fog they're a pretty incompetent pair, especially bulldog Bully.

* InspectorJavert: Dix and Bully. Their unusually determined efforts are {{lampshaded}} when a local police chief complains that they're blowing more of ScotlandYard's budget on this intercontinental chase than he makes in a year.

* AnimalStereotypes: Fog is a lion, appropriately for an English aristocrat, while determined but dim detectives Dix and Bully are both dogs and wily Transfer is a fox. Inverted with Rigadon, who does ''not'' follow the CatsAreMean stereotype; neither does the charming Princess Romy.

The basic plot of JulesVerne's novel remains intact: [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman dull, wealthy gentlelion]] Willy Fog (Phileas Fogg in the book) gives up his orderly lifestyle when he accepts a wager that he can travel around the world in eighty days. On his journey he faces opponents who have followed him from London, as well as the constant struggle to catch boats and trains on time and all the perils foreign countries, climates and people can throw at him.

Other characters include Rigadon (Passepartout in the novel), Tico their {{mascot}}-a, and Romy (Aouda in the novel), the gentle touch (they all love her so much).

* BigEater: Tico, despite his diminute size.
* CanonForeigner: Three very central ones, compared to the original novel -- Tico, Bully and Transfer.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Specifically, Princess Romy.

* InspectorJavert: Dix and Bully. Their unusually determined efforts are {{lampshaded}} when a local police chief complains that they're blowing more of ScotlandYard's budget on this intercontinental chase than he makes in a year.

* LighterAndSofter: Surprisingly, not as much as you'd think; on the whole this is a very faithful adaptaton of Jules Verne's novel, with good things and bad things happening to the characters throughout -- though there are a few aspects that have been softened a little.
** Most notably, there's Willy Fog himself, who compared to the Phileas Fogg of the novel is a far more jovial and friendly fellow (even if he is still obsessed with punctuality).

* TheMusical: In 2008, a ''WillyFog'' [[http://willyfogelmusical.com/ stage musical]] (featuring actors in FunnyAnimal makeup) opened in Spain to commemorate the series' 25th anniversary.

From the same stable as ''WesternAnimation/DogtanianAndTheThreeMuskehounds'', this Spanish cartoon (whose original title is ''La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog'') did for Jules Verne's ''AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' what its predecessor did for ''TheThreeMusketeers'', namely populated it with {{Funny Animal}}s and put it on at teatime.

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* SmallAnnoyingCreature[=/=]TeamPet: Tico.

From the same stable as ''WesternAnimation/DogtanianAndTheThreeMuskehounds'', this Spanish cartoon (which original title is ''La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog'') did for Jules Verne's ''AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' what its predecessor did for ''TheThreeMusketeers'', namely populated it with {{Funny Animal}}s and put it on at teatime.

From the same stable as ''WesternAnimation/DogtanianAndTheThreeMuskehounds'', this Spanish cartoon (which original title is ''La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog'') did for Jules Verne's''AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' what its predecessor did for ''TheThreeMusketeers'', namely populated it with {{Funny Animal}}s and put it on at teatime.

** Given the lack of a tail, this troper would guess he's a hamster.

** [[DarkerAndEdgier Subverted]] with the revelation of what happened to Romy's relatives, whose fate is far worse ([[TearJerker and sadder]]) in the cartoon.

* MemeticMutation: In Spain there is a slang idiom made after this show: "¡Tienes más peligro que Willy Fog con el abono transporte!". Which roughly translates to: "You're more dangerous than Willy Fog with a public transport pass!"

* [=~Chekhov's Gun~=]: Rigodon refuses to fix his grandfather's clock each time they enter a new time zone, but has the time right when they finally make it to London. This makes Fog realize that they have gained an extra day by travelling eastward.

** Tico and Bully seem to be included mainly for comedy relief, so that Rigodon and Dix can have someone to talk to, and -- in the case of Tico -- [[LocalReference include a Spanish character in the cast,]] given that there were none in the novel. Transfer, on the other hand, presents a recurring antagonist that's actually a threat (which can't really be said of Dix and Bully), as well as neatly taking over some of Phileas Fogg's more morally-questionable actions from the book, so that Willy Fog becomes more of an unquestioned hero.

* BarefootFunnyAnimals: The entire cast.

''"Fog: he's the one who made the bet, and he knows he'll be exactly right on time. Fog is his name and he can play with his life in many ways, that's what they say."''

From the same stable as ''DogtanianAndTheThreeMuskehounds'', this Spanish cartoon (which original title is ''La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog'') did for Jules Verne's''AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' what its predecessor did for ''TheThreeMusketeers'', namely populated it with {{Funny Animal}}s and put it on at teatime.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The original Spanish cast had some of the most important voice actors in the country. The best example is Willy Fog's voice, Claudio Rodríguez, who was famous for being CharltonHeston recurring voice actor in Spain and more recently was Dumbledore's voice in the HarryPotter movie series.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The original Spanish cast had some of the most important voice actors in the country. The best example is Willie Fog's voice, Claudio Rodríguez, who was famous for being CharltonHeston recurring voice actor in Spain and more recently was Dumbledore's voice in the HarryPotter movie series.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The original Spanish cast has some of the most important voice actors in the country. The best example is Willie Fog's voice, Claudio Rodríguez, was famous for being CharltonHeston recurring voice actor in Spain.

If the phrase "Round, all around the world, round, all around the world" is now going round, all around your head, you probably grew up in Europe in the 1980s.

From the same stable as ''DogtanianAndTheThreeMuskehounds'', this Spanish cartoon did for ''AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' (by JulesVerne) what its predecessor did for ''TheThreeMusketeers'', namely populated it with {{Funny Animal}}s and put it on at teatime.

The show's theme song was so popular that when the presenter of Children's BBC offered viewers a Willy Fog Song Sheet printed with the lyrics, demand was overwhelming.

!!''AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'' provides examples of:

* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Willy Fog of course. (And his species is even Britain's heraldic animal!)