Rover Dangerfield

A 1991 animated feature film produced by Hyperion Pictures and released by Warner Bros, starring the voice talents of comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who also wrote and co-produced the film. It is about a street dog named Rover, who is owned by Connie, a Las Vegas showgirl. However, Rover gets dumped off Hoover Dam by Connie's boyfriend, Rocky; however, rather than drowning, Rover ends up on a farm.

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Tropes used in Rover Dangerfield include:

• Babies Ever After
• Black Comedy Burst: The Turkey scene.
• Casanova Wannabe: Rover.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Rover.
• Dead Turkey Comedy: Averted. The turkey gets killed, but it ain't played for laughs.
  • Well, afterwards it isn't, but the goofy way Rover tries to revive said Turkey clearly was meant to.
• Epic Fail: Rover fails so badly at sheep herding that when he turns his back on them to be with Daisy they've somehow gotten stuck up a tree.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: Yes, children, the silly turkey dies, on camera, mouth agape, eyes wide in terror.
  • And broken neck swaying.
• Fan Service: There's a shot of Rover's owner in a very skimpy Las Vegas showgirl uniform at one point — it shows shocking skin considering it's in a movie for children.
• Fish Eyes: As is apparently common in cartoons of Rodney Dangerfield himself, Rover's eyes are often drawn slightly like this.
• Gender Equals Breed: Rover and Daisy's pups; 5 little Rovers and one little Daisy.
• Humanoid Female Animal: Inverted; the film provides a rare example of the opposite!
• Hurricane of Puns: In some scenes, the one-liners contain puns a lot.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: Basically the main source for humor.
• Ink Suit Actor: Rover to Rodney Dangerfield.
• Jerkass: Rocky, the nastiest dog-kicking classic "bad boy" you'll ever see. He totally deserved to see the Hoover Dam in the end.
• Long Bus Trip: Eddie, Rover's little buddy at the beginning. Whatever happened to him in the end?
• Mood Dissonance: Two characters are Killed Off for Real during the span of the movie, one on-screen and one off-screen, and both in rather dark ways.
• Nice Guy: Raffles.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed
• One-Liner
• Obviously Evil: Rocky.
• Of Corpse He's Alive: Rover attempts this with the turkey. The farmer isn't fooled.
• Shoot the Dog: Subverted.
• The Renaissance Age of Animation
• Viva Las Vegas: Though most of the film takes place on a farm, the shots in Vegas have lots of scenes of flashing lights, casinos, and sequin clad feathery showgirls.