Lies Walt Disney Told Me

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Hands only have three fingers. And there’s quite an industry manufacturing three-fingered gloves.

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[QUOTE=RealityChuck]
Scorpions can square dance.
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Well, they can. Sort of ;). It’s called a pas de deux and is part of the courtship display. That one is actually true.

On the other hand one Disney “nature” film showed something like the “dance of the coral snake.” It was actually a coral snake on some sand in a studio under a lamp going into heat convulsions.

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Captain Hook and Mr. Smee don’t talk like ‘pirates’.
Donald Duck has anger issues. Pooh has eating issues.

So people who don’t wear pants have emotional problems.

Well, maybe he’s right about that.

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Yeah, Smee sounds more like a white rabbit than a pirate. And Hook sounds like an darling father.

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[QUOTE=garygnu]
Yeah, Smee sounds more like a white rabbit than a pirate.
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Actually, I thought he sounded more like a stone-faced basset hound.

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No, no, no! Smee sounds like a Park Ranger. Much more than that Hanna-Barbera “Ranger Smith” does.

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[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy]
Mice can talk.
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So can Chipmunks. And they are very polite.

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[QUOTE=BubbaDog]
So can Chipmunks. And they are very polite.
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Wrong chipmunks.

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[QUOTE=Eutychus]
Wrong chipmunks.
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Wrong Species the Polite ones were Goofy Gophers… Thaaank you!

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[QUOTE=kingpengvin]
Wrong Species the Polite ones were Goofy Gophers… Thaaank you!
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Wait a minute. Chip and Dale weren’t chipmunks?

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[QUOTE=saoirse]
Wait a minute. Chip and Dale weren’t chipmunks?
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Chip and Dale were chipmunks. Their character personality would be considered “rambunctious.” The Goofy Gophers, whose character personality would be considered “polite,” appeared in Warner Bros. cartoons.

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I, for one, was heartbroken and traumatized to find out that mermaids don’t actually exist.

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[QUOTE=Kythereia]
I, for one, was heartbroken and traumatized to find out that mermaids don’t actually exist.
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HUH?

Whatdyamean "don’t exist’???

:eek:

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[QUOTE=kaylasdad99]
Hercules’s mother was Hera.
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And the implication that he and Megara lived happily every after. I kept wanting to yell, “No! Meg! Stay away from him!” but it kept going with the inevitablilty of, well, a Greek tragedy.

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The Goofy Gophers, I feel I must insistently point out though apologetically for my presumptuousness and I beg your forgiveness, were Mac and Tosh.
Thenk you.

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[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
The Goofy Gophers, I feel I must insistently point out though apologetically for my presumptuousness and I beg your forgiveness, were Mac and Tosh.
Thenk you.
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Oh no no, thenk you.

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Actually, the point of H. C. Andersen’s The Little Mermaid was based in the morality of the day: your parents and elders are wiser than you are and know what’s best for you, and if you are rebellious and don’t pay attention to them, it will end in tragedy.

Disney’s version basically says just the opposite: it’s okay to disobey your parents because they are overbearing and don’t understand you, and everything will come out okay, even if you do.

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Any sufficiently urgent situation must be resolved by children (if not animals). Adults at best will blithely deny that any problems exist and at worst will actively thwart the efforts of the children to save the world.

Actually, I can think of many Disney counter-examples to this idea, but this is a cool thread and I wanted to participate.

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[QUOTE=DirkGntly]
Actually, the point of H. C. Andersen’s The Little Mermaid was based in the morality of the day: your parents and elders are wiser than you are and know what’s best for you, and if you are rebellious and don’t pay attention to them, it will end in tragedy.

Disney’s version basically says just the opposite: it’s okay to disobey your parents because they are overbearing and don’t understand you, and everything will come out okay, even if you do.
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Well, that’s a bit unfair. Actually, the message of TLM is that parents are fallible. They can be overbearing, but they are only being that way to protect you from very real dangers that exist. You ignore your parents edicts at your own peril.

However, I agree there is also the idea that parents will imprison you, and it takes willful disobedience for you to break free.

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[QUOTE=GuanoLad]
The “Arr, Matey” accent is from Cornwall, UK.
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looks around

I have an accent?