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{{quote|''"I'll be done seen about everything, when I see an elephant fly..."''}}
'''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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* [[Gossipy Hens]]: Those other elephants.
* [[G-Rated Sex]]: Delivery by the Stork, a persevering chap.
* [[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 with a Heart of Gold|Jerks With Hearts of Gold]]: The crows.
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* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Dumbo
* [[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 with a Heart of Gold|nicer.]]
* [[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.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Casey Jr. says "I think I can" going up a hill, from ''The Little Engine that Could''.
* [[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.
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