History Film / BedknobsAndBroomsticks

* MakeMeWannaShout:
** At the end of the soccer game after King Leonidas sees the ball blowing into the air, he roars "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis STOP... THAT...]] '''''BALL!!!'''''" so loudly that he literally blows everyone away.
** Then after the game after Miss Price, Browne, and the children take the star and place the whistle around Leonidas' neck, and the Secretary Bird tries to tell him so:
-->'''Leonidas''': ''(to the Secretary Bird, laughing)'' Don't be ridiculous. What do you think ''this'' is? (''shows the whistle without noticing'')
-->'''Secretary Bird''': (''blows the whistle, making Leonidas realize he's been had'')
-->'''Leonidas''': (''roars'') '''''WHY! DIDN'T! YOU! SAY SO?!?!?!?!''''' (''blows the Secretary Bird away'')

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: The purpose of the journey to Naboombu was to find the royal star with the magic words on it, so Eglentine could perform the substitutiary locomotion spell. They fail to retrieve the star but then Charlie points out that one of his books already had a picture of the star, with the magic words clearly visible on it, from the very beginning.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Non-romantic example: Price initially doesn't really like kids and the fact that she has to take care of them, even saying they [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment won't get dinner if they don't wash up.]] After the kids learn about her being a witch and they all have to work together, [[FireForgedFriends she warms up to them,]] and when it's time for them to go back home, they decide they'd rather stay with her after all.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: After arriving back at Eglantine's house from refereeing a very violent soccer match, the island of Namboombu on a magical bed and finding out [[spoiler: the Star with the spell on it has distintegrated]], Professor Browne offers to take the children up to town to buy dinner, including that he wishes to stop by the pub for a stiff pint to settle his nerves.

* ThoseWackyNazis: Variation: the ''heroine'' is the Secret Project Leader looking to turn the tide in the war in favour of the British, and the Nazis are flummoxed by her abilities because they don't believe in magic.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: After arriving back at Eglantine's house from refereeing a very violent soccer match, the island of Namboombu on a magical bed and finding out [[spoiler: the Star with the spell on it has distintegrated]], Professor Brown offers to take the children up to town to buy dinner, including that he wishes to stop by the pub for a stiff pint to settle his nerves.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: After arriving back at Eglantine's house from the island of Namboombu on a magical bed and finding out [[spoiler: the Star with the spell on it has distintegrated]], he offers to take the children up to town to buy dinner, including that he wishes to stop by the pub for a stiff pint to settle his nerves.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: The purpose of the journey to Nabumbu was to find the royal star with the magic words on it, so Eglentine could perform the substitutiary locomotion spell. They fail to retrieve the star but then Charlie points out that one of his books already had a picture of the star, with the magic words clearly visible on it, from the very beginning.

* ScrewTheWarWerePartying: During the Portobello Road Song, both the London natives and the soldiers from all over the Empire stationed there put aside the fact that they're in the middle of the Battle Of Britain for a couple of minutes of ecstatic dance and merriment (in full uniform, with helmets still dangling on their kit belts). The party is ultimately broken up by the announcement of closing time (and likely the subsequent blackout).

** That the tiny village the Waffen SS choose to invade not only has a museum that contains hundreds of suits of armor and centuries old British military regalia, but the one person in the entire world who knows how to animate them.

* CoolOldGuy: General Sir Brian Teagler and his Old Home Guard all qualify. Old as they are, they have sworn to defend their nation to the very last, and are ready to take on the Nazis no matter what the cost.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Non-romantic example: Price initially doesn't really like kids and the fact that she has to take care of them, even saying they [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment won't get dinner if they show up late.]] After the kids learn about her being a witch and they all have to work together [[FireForgedFriends she warms up to them,]] and when it's time for them to go back home, they decide they'd rather stay with her after all.

* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: The army of AnimatedArmor which Miss Price summons during the climax happens to have a bagpipe-player with it (because the castle where they were imprisoned happened to include a museum which held military garb from various periods of English history).[[note]]Not only could said museum have included garb from British enemies, such as the Scots prior to the countries' unification, but after said unification, the Scottish divisions within the British army did indeed have bagpipe players among their ranks.[[/note]] When they start playing all of the other armor stops in place and looks around at each other in a confused "are those guys with you?" manner.

* FlatEarthAtheist: One night, Charlie sees Miss Price riding a broomstick. The next morning, she changes him into a rabbit. Minutes later in the film, Charlie refuses to believe that the traveling spell will work. After the traveling spell proves successful, Charlie claims he still isn't convinced because Emelius Browne has not appeared yet. His skepticism is given something of a HandWave when Miss Price explains 'The Age of Not Believing,' but by the time Charlie starts denying the existence of Naboombu, and claiming that 'fish don't talk,' it's almost facepalm-worthy.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Miss Price, Professor Emelius Browne, and the 3 children accidentally end up underwater in the ocean by the isle of Naboombu. There they see half-dressed fish underwater; when their bed gets pulled up by a fishing hook, they meet a sailor bear who wears a shirt but no pants or shoes on. They then go visit the Lion King Leonidas who has a soccer match; most of the animals at the game wear both a shirt and shorts, but only one doesn't wear shorts such as the alligator. Also the Cheetah's shorts fall down before he pulls them right back up. Some of the Animals sitting in the Bleachers only wear a shirt but no pants.

--> '''Paul:''' What's that got to do with my knob?

* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: The Nazis are, of course, bad guys. However, due to the nature of the movie, they aren't shown doing much real warfare or [[FinalSolution any of the other things]] they were infamous for. Even though, during the climax, a battalion of them is conducting a small-scale invasion / operation of sabotage on British soil, they almost never directly use their weapons on a human. The climactic battle is fought against possessed armors and furnitures.

* ImmuneToBullets: More "no body to be affected by them". Since there's no actual living body in the armor animated by Substitutiary Locomotion, being raked by machine guns is but a minor inconvenience, though the bullets do in fact penetrate the armor. Suits of armor which include greaves and boots do seem to be inconvenienced by the weight of collected rounds, to the point where they halt their advance to disconnect a boot and dump out the bullet fragments. This is a move that drives home the fact that there's no legs in the boots and no hands in the gloves, but there it is. Even hand grenades can't keep one down for long (though when the pieces jump back together, they're fairly mismatched, like a boot where the helmet should be - it's not any less effective, however).

* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: The human actors stick out quite a bit on the all FunnyAnimal Isle of Naboombu.

* MagicalForeignWords: Inverted. The incantation of the transformation spell, "Filigree Apogee Pedigree Perigee", is a series of fancy sounding English words.

* {{Calvinball}}: Soccer matches on the Island of Naboombu. "Don't they have no rules?" "'Course they do. King makes 'em up as he goes along." All that's really known about the rules is that there must be a referee, but said person doesn't have the authority to do anything other than end the game once somebody scores (As both sides ignored Mr Brown whenever he tried to call a penalty).
* CanisLatinicus: Most of the spells sound Latin, but are really just made up to sound Latin. The only real Latin used is a WordSalad to turn people into white rabbits "Filligree[[note]]ornamental work of fine wire made of gold or silver[[/note]] Apogee[[note]]the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is furthest from the earth[[/note]] Pedigree [[note]]a register recording a line of ancestors[[/note]] Perigee[[note]]the point in the orbit of the moon or satellite where it is closest to the earth[[/note]]."

* CirclingVultures: During the animals' soccer game, vultures serve as medics, waiting on the sidelines for the referee (Mr. Brown) to be trampled by the players. A RunningGag is made of them rushing into the field to "treat" Mr. Brown, only to be waved away after he turns out to be alive.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Mr. Browne can't use spells himself because, as far as he's concerned, "They're just nonsense words from an old book." [[spoiler:At least until near the end of the film when he manages to transform himself into a rabbit.]] That's not the whole story however; when the house with all its various magical nick-knacks is bombed all of the spells run down like their batteries died. The bedknob still sparkles at the end of the film, likely still powered by Paul's own belief.

* ConvenientDecoyCat: Cosmic Creepers acts as this for Professor Browne when he sneaks into Miss Price's cottage just before the climax--after first drawing the Nazis' attention by making angry growls and yowls at Emelius, he is found by the Nazis amongst the wreckage of the items Browne had knocked over and smashed. [[ItsProbablyNothing They dismiss the noise]] (until Browne makes more from the next room) and [[PetTheDog even show affection for the "naughty" cat]].
* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: Miss Price sees Mr. Brown about a spell book. She gets it and reads about the Substitutiary Locomotion spell, but the part where it talks about the incantation used to activate the spell is on a page that got torn out of the book. The group had to go to Portobello Road to look for it.

* EmbarrassingPyjamas: Ms. Price is very upset when Mr. Brown is dancing with her nightgown and again when it attacks and lands on top of the local Anglican priest. This is still a time, after all, when only closest family and friends would even see a woman's nightclothes, even if (as in this case) it's full length and completely opaque.

* FlatEarthAtheist: One night, Charlie sees Miss Price riding a broomstick. The next morning, she changes him into a rabbit. Minutes later in the film, Charlie refuses to believe that the traveling spell will work. After the traveling spell proves successful, Charlie claims he still isn't convinced because Emelius Brown has not appeared yet. His skepticism is given something of a HandWave when Miss Price explains 'The Age of Not Believing,' but by the time Charlie starts denying the existence of Naboombu, and claiming that 'fish don't talk,' it's almost facepalm worthy.

* ForcedTransformation: Miss Price's spells tend to turn people into rabbits instead of toads -- and in Mr. Brown's case, leaves a twitching of the nose after it wears off.

* HouseSquatting: Emelius Browne lives in a house abandoned because of an undetonated bomb in the front yard. Brown made himself at home and discovered books on magic in the library, which he used for his correspondence course.

-->'''Miss Price:''' I don't believe in giving animals ridiculous names. I call him Cosmic Creepers, because that's the name he came with.

* MagicalIncantation: This is how Miss Price casts spells, though Mr. Brown's difficulty in performing the comparatively simple "Rabbit" spell indicates there's at least some element of belief or will involved. Even she doesn't get it totally right, since according to the book it's a toad spell. Also see the rightfully famous "Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee."

** Then after the game after Miss Price, Brown and the children take the star and placed the whistle around Leonidas' neck, and the Secretary Bird tries to tell him so:

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Mr. Brown gives himself one as he's trying to sleep at the train station, berating himself for walking out on Ms. Price and the children because he's afraid of commitment.

* SilentSnarker: The cat Cosmic Creepers.

** Professor Brown, after having already been turned into a rabbit once before, continues to annoy Miss Price with his constant coaxing, after she warns him several times to stop. Let's just say, after she was done with him, he hopped back to helping her find the book.

* TwoHalvesMakeAPlot: Professor Brown has one half of the book that mentions the Substitutiary Locomotion spell, which appears to cut off just as it is about to mention the magic words that activate it. A bookseller has the other half, [[spoiler:and has been looking for Brown's half, thinking it has the spell. It turns out neither half has it and never did, with the wording which implied it did a complete accident. The assembled sentence says "...these words are [next page] written on the star pendant he wore...]].
* UnexpectedlyRealMagic: Miss Price isn't an example of this trope, she is a spinster who enrolled for mail-order witchcraft lessons so she can use the mailed spells to aid Britain's war efforts during WWII. However she receives a letter informing her that the remaining classes were canceled, just before she gets the one spell she really needs. She (along with some children assigned to her care) travel to London via a enchanted teleporting bed to confront Mr. Brown, the administrator of the classes, so she can get that spell. However it turns out that Mr. Brown is a fraud, who is an example of this trope because he doesn't think magic actually exists and was just selling transcripts of the spells he found in an incomplete 'spellbook', hoping that gullible individuals will pay for 'fake' magic spells from a faraway 'headmaster' they've never met. The idea that the spells would actually work for anyone, such as Miss Price, never occurred to him to be an actual possibility. After being convinced of the existence of magic by a temporary bout of ForcedTransformation, much of the plot afterwards is for the group to search for the other half of Brown's spellbook for clues for the one spell Miss Price seeks.

* VileVulture: During the soccer match in the Isle of Naboombu, vultures serve as medics, eager to carry off Prof. Brown (as the referee) whenever he gets trampled, only to walk away dejected when Brown turns to be still very much alive.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Professor Brown pulls this off, [[spoiler:when he turns himself into a rabbit, so that he may bypass the Nazis to rescue Miss Price and the children]].

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Mr. Brown gives one to himself, [[spoiler: when trying to turn himself into a rabbit to save Miss Price and the children.]]
-->'''Mr. Brown''': ''(to himself in the mirror, after initially failing the spell)'' Come on old boy, for once in your life, you have to believe in something... That's right, good lad. ''(concentrates and succeeds at the spell, [[spoiler: turning himself into a rabbit]])''

!!''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' provides examples of:

* SinisterSwitchblade: A switchblade serves as Swinburne's WeaponOfChoice.

* OhCrap: Col. Heller is visibly stunned to see animated suits of armor by the hundreds appearing on the horizon.

It's [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII August 1940]] in the British coastal village of Pepperinge Eye, and among the [[BlitzEvacuees children evacuated]] here from the ongoing Battle of Britain]] are three orphaned siblings: Charlie, Carrie, and Paul. They're reluctantly taken in by Miss Eglantine Price (Creator/AngelaLansbury), a spinster who's secretly taking mail-order witchcraft lessons in hopes of being able to aid the [[UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront war effort]] with magic. Miss Price doesn't want the kids and the kids don't want Miss Price, so they try to get rid of each other as quickly as possible. But when the children see her flying on a broom at night, they strike a bargain: in exchange for keeping her secret, the children get to live their lives at Miss Price's home any way they like. To seal the deal, Miss Price gives little Paul a transportation spell which enchants the big bed into a magical travelling bed.

''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' is a Creator/{{Disney}} film from 1971, based on [[Literature/BedknobAndBroomstick a pair of novels by Mary Norton]]. The film is often regarded as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/MaryPoppins'' -- a live action fantasy musical with a substantial segment incorporating animation, with the same production company, same director, same scriptwriters, same songwriters, [[Creator/DavidTomlinson one actor]] in common, etc.

It's August 1940 in the British coastal village of Pepperinge Eye, and among the children evacuated here from the ongoing [[UsefulNotes/TheHomeFront Battle of]] [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Britain]] are three orphaned siblings: Charlie, Carrie, and Paul. They're reluctantly taken in by Miss Eglantine Price (Creator/AngelaLansbury), a spinster who's secretly taking mail-order witchcraft lessons in hopes of being able to aid the war effort with magic. Miss Price doesn't want the kids and the kids don't want Miss Price, so they try to get rid of each other as quickly as possible. But when the children see her flying on a broom at night, they strike a bargain: in exchange for keeping her secret, the children get to live their lives at Miss Price's home any way they like. To seal the deal, Miss Price gives little Paul a transportation spell which enchants the big bed into a magical travelling bed.

* HaveAGayOldTime: The characters going on and on about Paul's knob is bound to inspire a few giggles nowadays.

--> '''Paul:''' What's that got to do with my knob?

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/MaryPoppins''.

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* BalefulPolymorph: Miss Price's spells tend to turn people into rabbits instead of toads -- and in Mr. Brown's case, leaves a twitching of the nose after it wears off.

* UnexpectedlyRealMagic: Miss Price isn't an example of this trope, she is a spinster who enrolled for mail-order witchcraft lessons so she can use the mailed spells to aid Britain's war efforts during WWII. However she receives a letter informing her that the remaining classes were canceled, just before she gets the one spell she really needs. She (along with some children assigned to her care) travel to London via a enchanted teleporting bed to confront Mr. Brown, the administrator of the classes, so she can get that spell. However it turns out that Mr. Brown is a fraud, who is an example of this trope because he doesn't think magic actually exists and was just selling transcripts of the spells he found in an incomplete 'spellbook', hoping that gullible individuals will pay for 'fake' magic spells from a faraway 'headmaster' they've never met. The idea that the spells would actually work for anyone, such as Miss Price, never occurred to him to be an actual possibility. After being convinced of the existence of magic by a temporary bout of BalefulPolymorph, much of the plot afterwards is for the group to search for the other half of Brown's spellbook for clues for the one spell Miss Price seeks.

* DancingPants: A whole wardrobe's worth of clothes dance in the "Substitutiary Locomotion" number.

* HeyYouHaymaker: With a pair of gloves during the aforementioned DancingPants sequence.

A Creator/{{Disney}} film from 1971, based on [[Literature/BedknobAndBroomstick a pair of novels by Mary Norton]]. The film is often regarded as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Film/MaryPoppins'' -- a live action fantasy musical with a substantial segment incorporating animation, with the same production company, same director, same scriptwriters, same songwriters, [[Creator/DavidTomlinson one actor]] in common, etc.

!!Tropes:

* AnimalReactionShot: During the "Substitutiary Locomotion" number, Cosmic Creepers gets several cutaway shots. At one point, he seems to do the cat version of headdesking.

* AllWitchesHaveCats: Miss Price, a witch in training, has a cat named Cosmic Creepers. She's also a spinster according to the old archetype.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The Secretary Bird. (He's also a VisualPun: the King's secretary is a literal secretary bird.)