Circuses

The circuses are brightly colored shows usually performed under the big top and other tents. Occasionally, they are performed inside.
Traditional performers include clowns, trapeze artists, tightrope walkers, aerial dancers, acrobats, human cannonballs, jugglers, fire eaters, and until recently, animals. Some of the most famous circuses include the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey, as well as the Big Apple Circus and Cirque du Soleil.
Hanna-Barbera has featured circuses in most of their cartoons.
== The Ruff & Reddy Show ==
* "Pinky the Pint-Sized Pachyderm": The titular baby elephant escapes from a circus and requests Ruff and Reddy to take him home in Africa.
== The Huckleberry Hound Show ==
* The show's original opening and closing had a circus setting where Huck Hound is a showman.
* "Lion Tamer Huck": Huck attempts to tame a lion in a circus.
* "Huck Hound's Tale": Buffalo Huck serves as a hero for the Wild West Show circus.
* "Huck and Ladder": Firefighter Huck helps a circus owner to retrieve a gorilla on the loose.
== The Flintstones ==
* "Fred's Monkeyshiners": Fred Flintstone mistakenly takes Dr. Boulderdome's glasses and mistakes an escaped circus monkey for Pebbles. He takes his "daughter" to the circus, and chaos ensues.
* "Fred's New Job": When Mr. Slate fires Fred, he tries several jobs, and fails miserably until he lands a job as a circus roustabout, but then becomes their star attraction, a man in a bird costume.
* "Circus Business": Fred becomes the new owner of a carnival/circus, and the Flintstones and Rubbles become the performers when the regular acts quit.
* "Once Upon a Coward": After a holdup, one of the ways that Fred tries to prove to Wilma Flintstone that he's not a coward is to become a tiger tamer at the circus.
== The Yogi Bear Show ==
* "The Runaway Bear": Yogi Bear makes his escape from the circus by roller skating but ends up hiding in the colonel's house.
* "Hide and Go Peek": Yogi helps an escaped circus elephant hide from the ruthless guards.
* "Biggest Show-Off on Earth": After Yogi is mistaken for Elmo the circus bear, he and Boo Boo are taken to perform in a circus.
* "Acrobatty Bear": Yogi leaves Jellystone Park to join a circus and meets Cindy Bear for the first time.
== The Jetsons ==
* "Fugitive Fleas": The Jetsons go to Solareeni's flea circus at Pleasure Planet where they can see the fleas performing their acts. But the fleas take refuge on Astro to quit the circus.
== Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! ==
* In this feature film, Yogi and Boo Boo go looking for Cindy and find her at the Chizzling Brothers Circus.
== The Magilla Gorilla Show ==
* "Circus Ruckus": Magilla Gorilla runs away to join a circus after being scolded by Mr. Peebles until the cannon blasts him back to the pet shop.
== Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt ==
* "Circus Hi-Jinks": After an animal tamer at the circus is fired for acts of cruelty, he releases the gorilla Goliath, which forces Sinbad Jr. and Salty to take action.
== The Laurel & Hardy Show ==
* "Leaping Leprechaun": The leprechaun escapes from the circus to find a shelter.
* "Circus Run Aways": Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy work as truant officers in an attempt to capture a child who turns out to be Tim Thumb, one of the circus performers.
== The Impossibles ==
* "The Rascally Ringmaster": The Impossibles go after the title villain.
== Birdman ==
* "The Ruthless Ringmaster": When the Ringmaster, Jobo the strongman, and the Human Fly steal high tech weapons and an ultra serum for FEAR, Birdman and Avenger find them at a circus.
== Shazzan ==
* "The Circus of Zahran": Chuck, Nancy, and Kaboobie find out that a circus is a cover for a plot to overthrow a young caliph.
== Wacky Races ==
* "Whizzing to Washington": During the race, the Ant Hill Mob pose as a troupe of circus acrobats. Dick Dastardly assumes the character of a circus ringmaster.
== The Perils of Penelope Pitstop ==
* "Big Top Trap": The Hooded Claw threatens Penelope Pitstop when she joins the circus.
== Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines ==
* In the Magnificent Muttley short "The Big Topper", Muttley imagines himself and Dick Dastardly as rival circus performers.
== Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! ==
* "Bedlam in the Big Top": The Mystery Inc. gang arrives at Mr. Barnstorm's circus to solve the mystery of the Ghost Clown.
== The Harlem Globetrotters ==
* "The Great Ouch Doors": A camping trip leads to an encounter with a circus lion, and the team playing basketball against the performers.
== The Funky Phantom ==
* "Mudsy Joins the Circus": The gang sees Gigantua, the circus gorilla, carrying a bag of counterfeit money.
== The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan ==
* "The Fat Lady Caper": The Chan Clan solve the disappearance of a circus's fat lady.
== Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space ==
* "Anything You Can Zoo": The Pussycats discover that Throg and his frog people have their own circus and plan an elaborate escape.
== The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie ==
* "Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family": Tabitha and Adam Stevens try to stop Count Crumbley and Ronk from taking over a circus where their cousins perform as a rock group.
== Yogi's Gang ==
* "The Envy Brothers": Yogi and the gang meet the Envy Brothers, who try to make circus performers, and then some of the animals, green with envy.
== Super Friends ==
* "The Planet Splitter": Part of this episode takes place at a charity circus, where a diamond is stolen.
== The Addams Family (1973) ==
* "The Circus Story": The Addams Family helps out at a troubled circus.
== Speed Buggy ==
* "The Ringmaster": During a race down south, the gang discovers that the Ringmaster is using African animals to help him commit crime.
== Devlin ==
* This entire series takes place at a circus where the Devlin siblings perform as a motorcycle stunt team.
== The Tom & Jerry Show ==
* "Stay Awake or Else": While working at a circus, Tom Cat falls asleep on the job. The ringmaster threatens him with eviction if Tom doesn't stay awake. Jerry Mouse helps out by making Tom appear awake.
== Clue Club ==
* "The Circus Caper": A trapeze artist disappears during his act.
== Challenge of the Superfriends ==
* "The Incredible Space Circus": A pair of aliens capture Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the Wonder Twins, and turn them into animals for their space circus.
== The Little Rascals ==
* "Big Top Rascals": After being denied admission to a traveling circus, the Rascals put on their own circus. Unknown to them, the lion has escaped from its cage and is roaming through the city.
== The Flintstones Comedy Show ==
* "Fred's Big Top Flop": Fred Flintstone joins a circus.
== The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show ==
* "Scooby's Three Ding-a-Ling Circus": Scooby, Shaggy Rogers and Scrappy-Doo get jobs selling peanuts and hotdogs at a circus.
* "Mystery Mountain": Richie Rich, Dollar the Dog and Gloria Glad investigate the disappearances of animals that are stolen by the evil circus owner Barnup Bullwhip.
== Pac-Man ==
* "The Greatest Show in Pacland": Pac-Man and his wife Ms. Pac-Man treat Pac-Baby on his second birthday by taking him to a traveling circus. The Ghost Monsters take Dinky to the same circus.
== Smurfs ==
* "A Circus for Baby": The Smurfs decide to put on their own circus for Baby Smurf.
* "Dancing Bear": Wild Smurf and the Smurflings become an unwilling circus act along with a dancing bear.
* "I Was a Brainy Weresmurf": Brainy Smurf becomes a weresmurf, and is captured for Malakov's circus.
== Space Stars ==
* "The Greatest Show Off Earth": With help from the Teen Force, Space Ace and the Space Mutts pursue the Cosmic Clown, who has stolen a whole circus.
* "Endangered Spacies": Borox, an intergalactic circus owner, captures Zandor, Tara, and Space Ace for his Alien Country Safari. This was the only Space Stars Finale that had Space Ace, Astro, and the Space Mutts teaming up with another team of heroes.
== Shirt Tales ==
* "Crumpling's Circus Caper": Pammy Panda is captured by Crumpling's Circus while entertaining the others with stunts. The rest of the Shirt Tales have to rescue her.
== The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo ==
* "The Ghouliest Show on Earth": A visit to Dooville becomes a nightmare for the gang and the citizens of Dooville when Professor Phantasmo's Circus arrives.
== Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers ==
* In this telefilm, there is the Circus Ape that has escaped from a derailed circus train.
== The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound ==
* In this telefilm, the Two-Bit townspeople are forced to perform at Daltonville's circus.
== Wake, Rattle & Roll ==
* In the Fender Bender 500 episode "The Big Top 500", the racers compete in a race at a circus. Top Cat and Choo Choo win this race and are awarded with two red clown noses.
== The New Adventures of Captain Planet ==
* "Five-Ring Pandamonium": The Planeteers join the circus to save the animals there.
== Big Top Scooby-Doo! ==
* This direct-to-video film takes place in the Brancusi Circus where the gang solve a mystery of a werewolf that was stealing the jewelry and turning the performers into werewolves.
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