Argosy Avenue/Tropes


 * Animated Actors: The Gussy and Fiona cartoons make use of this. Gussy eventually resorts to telling Fiona what she’s supposed to do, which Fiona refuses.
 * Genre Savvy: How Fiona outsmarts Gussy in every cartoon they’re teamed up in.
 * Identical Stranger: In several cartoons, Gandy goes to another country/continent/planet/region to escape Gussy Goat… only to be met by an “ethnic” version of Gussy.
 * Improbable Weapon User: Gussy Goat can use anything as a weapon.
 * Inexplicably Identical Individuals: One of the main gags associated with this series. Several cartoons have Gussy facing off against hordes of Gandy Geese.
 * Loads and Loads of Characters: There are a LOT of characters. The Wikipedia page only mentions 9 characters, followed by the vague phrase "and several other cartoon characters". This is mainly due to the fact that "Aldo Boomer" was a pseudonym for several contract animators hired by Argosy (Argosy did the same trick with "Erin Hunter" when they got into the YA novel business with an adaptation of their Warrior Cats toyline). This is even more remarkable when you remember that the only local competition to Argosy in the cartoon business in the old days was the AoFM, which relied exclusively on two characters.
 * Rules Lawyer: When teamed up with Fiona, Gussy becomes this. ”You’re supposed to ask what TNT stands for.”
 * Slice of Life: Most of Catnip and Fiona’s solo cartoons are like this: the difference is that Catnip’s cartoons are Denser and Wackier, while Fiona’s cartoons are Lighter and Softer. Both still have a lot of slapstick, though.
 * Too Dumb to Live: One of the Trope Makers was Gandy Goose, who is constantly falling for all of Gussy Goat’s traps, even the bleedingly-obvious ones. As shown in many cartoons, Gussy could place a bear trap, with a giant sign saying “WARNING: BEAR TRAP!”, and Gandy would still get caught in it. Even in his solo cartoons, Gandy is Too Dumb to Live: he tries to get rid of a rat infestation in his house, by eating rat poison.
 * Voice Changeling: In the Gussy/Fiona cartoons, Gussy is annoyed at Fiona going “off-script”, and tells her in a normal-sounding, unaccented voice what he excepts her to do. This is a stark contrast with his normal Irish-accented voice.
 * Wrong Genre Savvy: Gussy acts like everyone else is just as dumb as Gandy Goose, when Buzzy outsmarts him often, Catnip just ignores the elaborate traps and moves on, and Fiona is Genre Savvy herself.