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''[[Dumbo]]'' is a [[The Golden Age of Animation|1941]] animated film, the fourth in the [[Disney Animated Canon]].
The movie opens with circus elephant Mrs. Jumbo receiving a new baby from the stork. A baby with freakishly huge ears. This causes [[All of the Other Reindeer|the other elephants]] and circus patrons to laugh at it, giving it the derogatory name of Dumbo. This enrages Mama Jumbo who eventually lashes out and attacks a group of children, getting her caged up and separated from Dumbo. Small Mouse Timothy stands up for Dumbo, however, and tries to get Dumbo to become a big star. Unfortunately Dumbo messes up, causing him to become a clown instead, something which he does not enjoy at all. When the two accidentally become drunk, they wake up the next morning in a tree, drawing the conclusion that Dumbo must have flown with his ears. Using this information, the duo now plan to use this skill in order to make Dumbo a star.
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On a side note, a direct to video sequel was planned (and a preview of it can be seen on the 2001 60th Anniversary DVD, or just [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEOs2zR6jD8 here]) but never got off the ground, [[Sequelitis|hopefully for the better]].
The original movie was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2017.
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* [[Absurd Altitude]]
* [[Alcohol Hic]]: Dumbo and Timothy become very cute versions of these.
* [[Marijuana Is LSD|Alcohol Is LSD]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944cPciN-kw Pink Elephants on Parade.]
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]:All the other elephants ostracize Dumbo on the account of his large ears.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The four Gossiping Elephants are unnamed in the film, but the model sheets label them as "Catty", "Giddy", "Prissy", and "Matriarch".
** The big-eared kid who teased Dumbo was named "Skinny".
* [[Animals Lack Attributes]]: Played straight to the point where all of the circus animals even have to rely entirely on Delivery Storks in order for them to have offspring.
* [[Animate Inanimate Object]]: Casey Jr, the train. At the end he has eyes too, moreover you can hear him talk during the mountain climbing ("I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...").
* [[Animal Talk]]: Played straight for the most part, but Timothy Mouse is able to communicate with a human who is sleeping. And he's seen acting as Dumbo's (apparently official) manager in the end, even signing contracts for him.
* [[Beef Bandage]]: One of the injured elephants is seen wearing one after the disastrous pyramid act.
* [[Black Bead Eyes]]: Ms. Jumbo, but only in a brief, [[Off
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Dumbo has big baby-blue eyes.
* [[Big Shadow, Little Creature]]
* [[Bratty Half
* [[Brick Joke]]: The crows sing about seeing everything if they ever saw an elephant fly. When Dumbo ''is'' flying, Jim Crows comments that now he ''has'' seen everything.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Dumbo, big time.
* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Dumbo to the extreme, since he's so young. He doesn't even understand when others are laughing at him.
* [[Cool Train]]: Casey Jr.
* [[Cute Mute]]: Dumbo never says a word in the entire film; he just looks mournful or happy when appropriate. Which is fitting, seeing as how he's, well, a baby.
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* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Dumbo is originally named after him, and his mother sounds wistful when she reveals this, but that's the extent we know of him.
* [[Disaster Dominoes]]: Dumbo does this to a gigantic tower of adult elephants which ends up ''collapsing the circus tent''!
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: "Pink Elephants On Parade", marking arguably the [[Ur Example|first]] ''Disney'' Acid Sequence. (A case could be made for much of ''[[
* [[Drunken Song]]: "We're Gonna Hit the Big Boss For a Raise"
* [[Early
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: After all the abuse Dumbo went through, having him become a worldwide sensation after buzzing his tormenters under the big top was so sweet.
* [[Ears
* [[Ear Wings]]
* [[Eek!
* [[Expy]]: Timothy is very similar to [[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Jiminy Cricket]], but far less iconic.
* [[Flanderization]]: The ringmaster in the movie wasn't necessarily an outright villain, just yet another human jerkass. But he's upgraded to being the main antagonist for Dumbo in Disney's ''Villains' Revenge.''
* [[Floating in A Bubble]]: Happens to Timothy during the drinking scene.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Timothy's initial reaction to the [[Pink Elephants]] is "That's some pretty sh... ''HEY!''"
* [[Gossipy Hens]]: Those other elephants.
* [[G
* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: "And now comes the climax!!!" The Ringmaster says this while undressing, too.<ref>
* [[Honorable Elephant]]: Dumbo is playful but never malicious. The Matriarch plays the trope more straight: "We elephants have always walked with dignity."
* [[Human Ladder]]
* [[Humans Are
** Damn Clowns.
** The kids that make fun of Dumbo surely fall under this.
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: A big-eared kid picks on Dumbo for having big ears.
* [[I Am What I Am]]: Nicely put by Timothy, "The very things that kept you down are gonna carry you up and up and up!"
* [[Jerkass
** [[Asshole Victim]]: One of the kids making fun of Dumbo gets grabbed and ''spanked'' by Mrs. Jumbo (though he is not killed).
** [[Jerk
* [[Large Ham]]: Timothy at times. The Ringmaster too.
* [[Literal Metaphor]]: The pink elephant parade, given that "pink elephant" was a decades-old expression for a drunken hallucination.
* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: At the very end of the film, one of the [[Spinning Paper]] newspapers announces that (the now famous) Dumbo's manager (Timothy Mouse) has struck a Hollywood deal.
* [[Magic Feather]]: [[Trope Namers]].
* [[Magical Negro]]: The crows, though initially every single one of them is a [[Jerkass]]. Or maybe every one is a [[Jerk
* [[Mama Bear]]: Really, those kids deserved what was coming to them.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: In a bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]], the mute main character is nicknamed Dumbo. Dumb used to mean "unable to speak."
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* [[Mushroom Samba]]: "Pink Elephants On Parade"
* [[Mysterious Middle Initial]]: We never learn what the Q in Timothy's name stands for.
* [[Nearly
* [[Off
** Ms. Jumbo has a moment of this during the "Roustabouts" sequence, when her eyes inexplicably became [[Black Bead Eyes]].
* [[One
* [[Only in Florida]]: ...would a flying elephant be born.
* [[Only Known
* [[Papa Wolf]]: He may not be a dad, and he may not be a wolf (since he's a mouse), Timothy sticks up for Dumbo by scaring the elephants tormenting him and yelling at the crows for constantly laughing at him...thus making them [[Jerk
* [[Pink Elephants]]: Featured in the most famous part of the film. And no, this film is not the [[Trope Namers]]
* [[Protest Song]]: Again, "We're Gonna Hit the Big Boss For a Raise".
* [[Ravens and Crows]]: Just the crows in this case.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Mrs. Jumbo's eyes turn red when defending Dumbo.
* [[Revenge]]: When the elephants blame all the trouble in the circus on Dumbo (even having the nerve to say that it was HIS fault his mother was in a separate cage), Timothy the mouse, although he just knew Dumbo, decides to scare them.
** When Dumbo reveals that he can fly, he ends up taking his own revenge by humiliating the clowns, the other elephants, and even ringmaster.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Dumbo.
* [[Separated
* [[Shadow Discretion Shot]]
* [[The Short Guy
* [[Shout
* [[The Speechless]]: Dumbo.
* [[Take That]]: The drunken clowns planning to hit up the boss for a raise is a dig aimed at the animators who [[TV Strikes|went on strike]]
* [[Totem Pole Trench]]: After the clowns perform their first performance with Dumbo when he was demoted to a clown, we see silhouettes of the clowns backstage getting out of their costumes. One of the clowns turns out to be two short people stacked on top of each other.
* [[Triumphant Reprise]]: "When I See an Elephant Fly" gets two reprises, both of which celebrate Dumbo's flight.
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* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Dumbo Jumbo.
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Both Dumbo and Mrs. Jumbo only communicate via typical elephant sounds.
** Also in the movie itself, Dumbo has no spoken dialogue at all, and Mrs. Jumbo only speaks
* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: Disney seems to consider ''Pink Elephants On Parade'' one, having included it on the ''Simply Sinister Songs'' CD.
* [[Visual Pun]]: A "pink elephant" was, at the time of this film, a decades-old expression for a drunken hallucination. During Timothy and Dumbo's hallucination sequence, they see a parade of ''literal'' pink elephants.
* [[What Song Was This Again?]]: The Spanish version of "Pink Elephants On Parade" isn't much like the original.
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Noteworthy Disney Staff]]
[[Category:Animated Films]]
[[Category:The Kiddie Ride]]
▲[[Category:Disney Animated Canon]]
[[Category:Fantasy Animated Films]]
[[Category:The Golden Age of Animation]]
[[Category:Films of the 1940s]]
[[Category:The Forties]]
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[[Category:Disney]]
[[Category:National Film Registry]]
[[Category:Western Animation of the 1940s]]
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