# Disney Movies (subliminal messages) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 6, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movies-subliminal-messages/9846 "2000-04-06T19:03:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gremmie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Gremmie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gremmie)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movies-subliminal-messages/9846/1 "2000-04-06T19:03:00Z")
I’ve heard some talk about subliminal messages and sexual inuendos worked into Disney movies. I just wondered if anyone else knows of any?? Gremmie ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movies-subliminal-messages/9846/2 "2000-04-06T19:33:00Z")
## [http://snopes.simplenet.com/](http://snopes.simplenet.com/) has a whole section on Disney. “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” - the White Queen ---
**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movies-subliminal-messages/9846/3 "2000-04-06T19:38:00Z")
Yeah, Snopes is wunnerful. They have a good page on the allegation that the word “SEX” appears in the clouds in a Disney movie (Aladdin? Lion King? can’t remember) and make the case that it actually says “SFX” - the special effects (or sound effects? can’t remember) people were celebrating themselves. Good teenagers! Take off your clothes! ---
**Author:** ![Keeves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f05b48/32.png) [@Keeves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeves)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movies-subliminal-messages/9846/4 "2000-04-06T19:58:00Z")
It is at [http://www.snopes.com/disney/films](http://www.snopes.com/disney/films) ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movies-subliminal-messages/9846/5 "2000-04-06T21:26:00Z")
Snopes doesn’t address the actual true subliminal message in Disney films. Imbedded in all the songs and in the background of the cartoons is this insidious message: “buy…more…disney…crap” ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movies-subliminal-messages/9846/6 "2000-04-08T00:02:00Z")
Just for the record, this is the official “gry” question at rec.arts.disney.animation. * * * Saint Eutychus _H.M.S.H._ _" ‘He is a prince’ , the minstrels sing. Among men, yes. Among fools he is a king."_ [Disney Shorts](http://www.disneyshorts.org) [The Eutychus Papers](http://members.aol.com/eutychus55) ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movies-subliminal-messages/9846/7 "2000-04-08T02:56:00Z")
Read the “Big Secrets” books by Poundstone for an almost cecilist treatment of subliminal images in film. Ps. Mr Poundstone, apparently a colleage of Cecil, states Cecil=Ed. Thanks for the link, guys!!! ---
**Author:** ![Stonecutter912](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Stonecutter912](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonecutter912)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-movies-subliminal-messages/9846/8 "2000-04-07T04:53:00Z")
I know someone who claims to have found the letters SEX in Lion King. Obviously this individual had a very boring day and a lot fo time to kill… As for the box covers, the later release of the Little Mermaid lacks the castle in the background. I guess someone thought they saw a penis in one of the towers… The fact that the new box has deleted this is proof that they may very well have been right! But animators are only human, and I was lucky enough to tape some XXX animation from the '20’s, done by Fleischer studio animators. They get tired of drawing cute cartoon animals over and over and sometimes they let loose! They’re called the Baby Blue Cartoons, and if they’re online I am not aware of it…