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* [[Animate Inanimate Object]]: Mickey enchants some brooms to help him out with his chores in ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' segment. It doesn't go according to plan.

** The toys in ''The Steadfast Tin Soldier''.

* [[Animation Bump]]: Both are considered this for Disney. The 1940 version included dynamic backgrounds, color shifts, changes in lighting, translucent paints and numerous effects shots that had simply never been done before (lightning, waves, stars, lava, earthquakes). The 2000 version had combination of traditional animation and CGI (that was actually started back before production on [[Toy Story]] began), as well as watercolor cells for the Carnival of Animals and pastel backgrounds in Beethoven's Fifth.

* [[Animation Bump]]: Both are considered this for Disney. The 1940 version included dynamic backgrounds, color shifts, changes in lighting, translucent paints and numerous effects shots that had simply never been done before (lightning, waves, stars, lava, earthquakes). The 2000 version had combination of traditional animation and CGI (that was actually started back before production on [[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] began), as well as watercolor cells for the Carnival of Animals and pastel backgrounds in Beethoven's Fifth.

* [[Arcadia]]: The "Pastoral Symphony"

* [[Asteroids Monster]]: Unfortunately for Mickey, splitting animated brooms to pieces is not a good idea.

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* [[Clothes Make the Legend]]: Mickey's Sorcerer appearance is almost as famous as him wearing his red shorts and oversized yellow shoes!

* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: The iconic hat in ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' gives Mickey magic powers, or at least amplifies them.

* [[~~Colour~~-Coded for Your Convenience]]: The female centaurs are paler shades of their male mates colors.

* [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience]]: The female centaurs are paler shades of their male mates colors.

* [[Conspicuous CG]]: The ''Symphony No. 5'' is the most obvious offender, but the ''Pines of Rome'' has several long shots that are incongruous to the close-ups.

** Granted, the Pines of Rome animatics actually were started several years before the film was released.

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* [[Dance of Romance]]: With hippos and gators.

* [[Dark Is Evil]] / [[Light Is Good]]: Played straight with ''Night on Bald Mountain'' and ''Ave Maria'' sequence - in the first piece everything connected with Evil and Death is portrayed by the darkness, fires of Hell etc etc. during a dark and gloomy night, while the second piece is more lightened with sunshines and glowing candles symbolizing that the powers of light are triumphant over the powers of Evil.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]] / [[Opposites Attract]]: The Pegasus mother and father. The father's coloration makes him look very gothic, almost sinister while his wife's coloration makes her look angelic.

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]

* [[Deranged Animation]]: ''Night on Bald Mountain''

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* [[Hat of Power]]: The sorcerer's wizard hat that Mickey borrows in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice".

* [[Hellish Horse]]: In ''Night on Bald Mountain'' sequence some of the skeleton knights rised by Chernabog ride some of these.

** One of them is [[The Black Cauldron|the Horned King]]! Funny enough...there was some recycled footage from Fantasia in Black Cauldron in ''[[The Black Cauldron]]''.

* [[Henpecked Husband]]: One of the characters in ''Rhapsody in Blue''

* [[Hero Stole My Bike]]: In ''Rhapsody in Blue'', Duke grabs a kid's scooter and immediately charges off on it, though at least he had the decency to give him some money.

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* [[Scare Chord]]: Built into some of the pieces, and taken full advantage of by the animators.

* [[Scenery Porn]]: Most of the sequences in both movies, with ''Firebird'' and ''Pines of Rome'' showing some particularly stunning backgrounds.

** Even for the 40s, many pieces, even the deleted Clair de Lune, had ''beautiful'' backgrounds.

* [[Science Marches On]]: The dinosaurs in the ''Rite of Spring'' sequence are hopelessly inaccurate today, but were fairly in-line with scientific thinking at the time.

* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: The sorcerer in ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' is officially named Yen Sid. Think about it.

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** The whole concept of Donald and Daisy narrowly missing one another in "Pomp and Circumstance" was partially inspired by ''[[Sleepless in Seattle]]''.

** Much of the text that makes its way into the animated sequences are shoutouts to the creators. In the "Steadfast Tin Soldier" sequence, "Ernst's Fish" is a reference to producer Don Ernst.

** ''Rhapsody in Blue'' for a 12 minute number, is nearly [[Reference Overdosed]]. Sequence director Eric Goldberg's name pops up very often, noticeably on the plaque for the "Goldberg Hotel". The "Ninas" that Al Hirschfeld (the artist whose style inspired the look for the number) added in his drawings are present in the animation as well. Hirschfeld, his daughter Nina, his wife Susan, and writer Brooks Atkinson are among some of the people rushing out of the Goldberg Hotel. The original song's composer, George Gershwin, shows up in the sequence as himself, playing the piano one floor above Rachel during her piano lesson.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: At the time Fantasia was made, the only well-known version of "Night on Bald Mountain" was the one streamlined and rearranged (the All Music Guide says "[[Bowdlerise|bowdlerized]]") by Rimsky-Korsakov. However it was the third version. The first version by Mussorgsky ("St. John's Eve at the Bald Mountain") was about a witches' sabbath on St. John's Eve<ref> June 23rd in the Western Calendar, July 6th in the Orthodox Calendar, and, like the Eve of All Saints (Hallowe'en) and the Eve of St. Walburga (''Walpurgisnacht''), a traditional time for the grand Sabbat of the witches</ref>, mentioned Satan explicitly and was rejected by the organizer of the festival for which it was written. The second and most obscure version of the music was heavily reworked, called "Dream of the Young Peasant Lad" and intended to be part of an opera which he never finished. According to the All Music Guide ''as a boy dreams on a hill, he is threatened by inhuman voices and finds himself mocked in the realm of shadows. The voices warn of the Devil and the "Black God" Chernobog; as the shadows fade, both appear. Chernobog is glorified, a Black Mass is sung, and a Witches' Sabbath breaks out. As a church bell intones, Chernobog disappears and the demons writhe in agony. A church choir sings, the demons fade away, awakening the boy.'' Sound familiar?

* [[Sorcerer's Apprentice Plot]]: The [[Trope Namer]].

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