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One day, several men came along looking for bulls for the bullring in Madrid. At that very moment, Ferdinand sat on a flower being visited by a foraging bee, which immediately stings him, causing him to go off on a wild rampage of destruction, which leaves an impression on the scouts, who take him away to the Great Bullring in Madrid.
Once there, it seems that everyone in Madrid came to watch the fight between Ferdinand and the matador. Once in the ring Ferdinand finally shows up and everyone acts scared of him, someone in the audience throws down a bouquet of flowers, and he comes charging out everybody runs from him, including the matador, but he stops in the middle of the ring to smell the flowers and nothing the
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* [[Gentle Giant]]: Ferdinand
* [[All Deserts Have Cacti]]: Although the story is set in the rather arid regions of Southern Spain, we obviously
* [[Easter Egg]]: In the Disney adaptation, one of the spectators entering the bullring is [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]]
* [[Face Palm]]: The matador delivers an ''epic'' one when Ferdinand refuses to fight.
* [[Fridge Horror]]: The old way of bullfighting involved the bull eventually being ''killed'', via being stabbed with spears from picadors then finished off by the matador with a sword.
* [[Spexico]] obvious in the dress of the bull scouts, and the
* [[Hitler Ate Sugar]]: Subverted, Hitler was known to detest this story and its morals.
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