Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The cast and background characters who are animals have this: The cats Oggy is blue, Jack is green.

Alliterative Title: 'Fishing Frolic', 'Party Pooper', etc.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: While on his knees, Jack flat-out begs the cockroaches to save his cousin in 'The World Underneath'.

Aerith and Bob: There are characters with names like Jack, Joey and.

Acrophobic Bird: Running on Rule of Funny, if Oggy is simply chasing the cockroaches, they won't fly to escape him, but if Oggy chases the cockroaches over a cliff, they will fly to laugh at Oggy's peril.

Absurdly Long Stairway: The staircase in Oggy's house usually appears to be not just long but full of twists and turns.

Absentee Actor: Marky and Joey don't appear in 'Happy Campers' and 'Safari, So Good', Joey and Dee Dee don't appear in 'Hip Hip Hip Hypnoses', Dee Dee and Marky don't appear in 'Perpetual Motion' and no cockroaches appear in 'The Pumpkin that Pretended to be a Ferrari'.

Factor in a burly neighborhood bulldog named Bob and a Love Interest named Olivia (introduced in later seasons), and you have a great slapstick set-up. Oggy is sometimes helped by his cousin Jack, a green cat with a knack for mechanics and a short fuse. Their sole purpose of existence is to have fun with Oggy by pulling a series of practical jokes. Each 7-minute short (there are at least 351 of them) follows the life of the rotund blue cat Oggy, who has the misfortune to share the same house with three cute but exceptionally mischievous roaches: Dee Dee, Marky and Joey. This time-honored formula, featured in many Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry shorts, gets a revival in the Gaumont (France's premier film studio) production Oggy and the Cockroaches ( Oggy et les Cafards- 1998-1999, 2008, 2013, 2017), believed to have debuted in Space Goofs episode 'Venus Junior'. Hilarity Ensues, until houses are leveled, forests are ravaged, cities are lain waste, and the world goes Kaboom!! Then they start it all over again in the next episode.

Both parties get caught up in an escalating spiral of cartoon violence.

You know the drill: some character pulls a mean one on another.

Oggy the cat