What-a-Mess

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What-a-Mess is a shaggy dog with greenish fur and smudges of dirt and mud, a long nose and hair so messy and leafy that it has a few birds nesting on its head. He wears a red collar with a silver tag hanging from it. Dr. What-A-Mess: What-a-Mess and Felicia feed Trash some food with fertilizer, making him stiff as a board. The Faceless: An odd trope in this kind of series. The faces of human characters are always deliberately obscured by things like camera angles or objects and no human faces are ever seen. The one exception being Santa Claus in the Christmas Special. What-a-Mess Has a Brain Wave! / 1990.05.21 (Adapted from What-a-Mess has Breakfast and What-a-Mess Had a Brain Wave) Hates Baths: What-a-Mess. During the theme song for the show, he is shown running away during a bath.

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What-a-Mess and Cynthia the Hedgehog / 1981.05.14 (Adapted from What-a-Mess has Supper and What-a-Mess in Autumn) Small Name, Big Ego: Trash and Felica are both very arrogant and have an inflated sense of self-importance (What-A-Mess tends to humor them). Whenever they're pitted against each other, its ego versus ego. Trash's Wonderful Life: Trash goes through His history and learns what would happen if He never existed. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.What-A-Mess: 5 Hilarious Adventures VHS [1990] - What-a-Mess Goes to the Seaside, What-a-Mess Goes to School, Prince What-a-Mess, Super What-a-Mess, What-a-Mess Keeps Cool (Extra Episodes - What-a-Mess and Cynthia the Hedgehog, What-a-Mess Has a Brain Wave!) The Bully: Trash is a hotheaded bully and the neighborhood thief, particularly in his debut episode, "Talking Trash". He mellows into more of a frenemy to the gang over the course of the series. WAM appeared in a series of ABC's well-remembered "After These Messages" bumpers a year before and during it's initial run, the animation for which was also much cleaner and more fluid. Truth in Television: Afghan Hounds have notoriously high-maintenance coats. Any owner of an Afghan Hound who grooms their dog anything less than constantly will end up with a dog looking something like What-a-Mess. Frank Muir owned several Afghan Hounds when he wrote the series, which was probably an influence. My Teatime with Frank | Out With the Garbage | Dr What-A-Mess | Ultimate What-A-Mess | This Hydrant Is Mine | Trash’s Wonderful Life | Snowbound | The Thanksgiving Turkey

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How mean Trash is depends on the needs of the episode. Sometimes, he's a full-on Jerkass antagonist with little to no redeeming qualities. Other times, he's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Big Brother Bully type who's not that good of an influence on What-A-Mess, but has a soft spot for him nonetheless and will take the kid under his wing for a day of fun. As if onomastic uncertainty were not enough, What-a-mess is also plagued by philosophical anxiety of the deepest and most perturbing kind - not only does he not know who he is, he does not know what he is. His mother, a sleek, lovely, golden Afghan, "was kind as well as beautiful. She told him all sorts of things that a growing puppy should know ... But his mother did not tell him quite everything. She forgot to tell him that he was a puppy." Baldwin's Family Reunion: Baldwin turns to What-a-Mess to help arrange a reunion for the bird's family. An animated series was made in the UK in 1979 by Smallfilms. More episodes were made in the UK in 1990 by Central Independent Television, Link Licensing, and Bevanfield Films. A second, American version was made in 1995 by DIC Productions L.P. [3] and aired on ABC in the United States. [4] It aired on YTV from 1995 to 1999 in Canada, and aired on Spacetoon from 2006 to 2014 in the Arab world. Both versions were narrated by Muir. [3] Both animated series aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia. Ryvita – Appearing only in the books, Ryvita is a Ladybird that What-A-Mess and his friends befriended, and who first appeared in What-a-Mess Goes on Television She speaks so small that only Cynthia could understand her.Cynthia - A Hedgehog which What-A-Mess befriended in What-A-Mess Goes to School. Her character was redesigned to become a mole named Ramona in the US animated version, due to the fact that Hedgehogs aren't native to America. In the US animated version, she is voiced by Candi Milo. What-A-Mess At the Movies What-a-Mess goes to a movie theater in hopes of watching the Wonder Dog Movie. Pounds Are Animal Prisons: Since "What-A-Mess" is a talking animal series, it naturally has one of these episodes - "Pound Pals", in which, What-A-Mess and Trash are imprisoned in the pound with seemingly no escape until What-A-Mess springs them by tunneling his way out. What-a-Mess has a habit of not bathing and has a great passion for dirt and playing in the mud, even though he didn't want to, his owners always forced him to take a shower and that always makes What-a-Mess very upset. He loves to play with his friends and try new things even though sometimes it gets him and the other characters into a lot of trouble. What-a-Mess = What-a-Mess is sure he can't be the same creature as his slim, clean mother, so what is he?