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* In ''Film/{{K-PAX}}'', the [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane mental patient/possible extraterrestrial]] prōt(KevinSpacey) tasks his obsessive-compulsive fellow patient Howie with "finding the Bluebird of Happiness". Rather than his usual routines, Howie sits quietly in front of the windows for days, watching the trees. [[spoiler: When the Institute is unexpectedly visited by a blue jay, he erupts into an ecstatic frenzy, and his joy is contagious to the rest of the patients and even the staff.]]
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* In ''Film/{{K-PAX}}'', ''Film/KPax'', the [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane mental patient/possible extraterrestrial]] prōt(KevinSpacey) prōt (Creator/KevinSpacey) tasks his obsessive-compulsive fellow patient Howie with "finding the Bluebird of Happiness". Rather than his usual routines, Howie sits quietly in front of the windows for days, watching the trees. [[spoiler: When the Institute is unexpectedly visited by a blue jay, he erupts into an ecstatic frenzy, and his joy is contagious to the rest of the patients and even the staff.]]
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* In the book and movie of {{K-PAX}}, prot exhorts his fellow asylum inmates to find the "blue bird of happiness," and they eventually glimpse a literal one.
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* In ''Literature/KPax'' the book and movie of {{K-PAX}}, book, like in the movie, prot exhorts his fellow asylum inmates to find the "blue bird of happiness," and they eventually glimpse a literal one.
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* In ''VirtuesLastReward'', the optimistic Luna wears a bluebird necklace.
** The [[http://www.facebook.com/operationbluebirdze3 campaign]] to get ''VLR'' a sequel was called Operation Bluebird.
** The [[http://www.facebook.com/operationbluebirdze3 campaign]] to get ''VLR'' a sequel was called Operation Bluebird.
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* "Big Rock Candy Mountain" chiefly cites the charms directly -- lemonade streams and hens that lay soft-boiled eggs, but it does invoke the bluebird as symbolic:
-->''Where the bluebird sings\\
On the big rock candy mountain''
-->''Where the bluebird sings\\
On the big rock candy mountain''
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* ''TheFarSide'' had one strip where a man is abandoned by the Bluebird of Happiness, and is instead visited by the Chicken of Despair.
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* ''TheFarSide'' had one strip where a man is abandoned by the Bluebird of Happiness, and is instead visited by the Chicken of Despair.Depression.
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As true bluebirds are only native to North America, any of them showing up in Europe is MisplacedWildlife.
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* The English dub of Film/{{Sadko}} has "Sinbad" searching for the Bluebird of Happiness to bring joy to his homeland. He finds a magical bird, but it only brings sleep with its song, not happiness, resulting in the classic "happiness was home all along" ending.
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* The ''Film/{{Sadko}}'', in both the original Russian and the English dub of Film/{{Sadko}} dub, has "Sinbad" Sadko/"Sinbad" searching for the Bluebird of Happiness to bring joy to his homeland. He finds a magical bird, but it only brings sleep with its song, not happiness, resulting in the classic "happiness was home all along" ending.
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* ''HarvestMoon'' games have you propose to your spouse with a blue feather. While many games simply have you buy the feather from the store (apparently the grocer knows ''everyone's'' business and knows when he needs to start stocking feathers) or have the Mayor give it to you, some mention the bird by name and at least one makes you climb a mountain in order to find the bird and pick up [[PerpetualMoult a feather it's moulted]].
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* In Jennifer Crusie's ''Maybe This Time'', Andie's brother-in-law had given her hoop earrings with bluebirds -- bluebirds of happiness, he had told her.
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* Parodied in ''{{Hogfather}}'', when the Cheerful Fairy manifests with the Blue Bird of Happiness on her shoulder. It's a blue ''chicken''.
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* Parodied in ''{{Hogfather}}'', ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', when the Cheerful Fairy manifests with the Blue Bird of Happiness on her shoulder. It's a blue ''chicken''.
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* ''Somewhere Over The Rainbow'' from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' mentions bluebirds.
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* In ''FauxPas'', [[http://www.ozfoxes.net/cgi/pl-fp1.cgi?674 Myrtle gives "Princess Cindy" a bluebird in her fairy tale.]]
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* In ''{{Tangled}}'', the birds flitting about Rapunzel after her descent were bluebirds.
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* In ''{{Tangled}}'', ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', the birds flitting about Rapunzel after her descent were bluebirds.
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* In ''SquidRow'', [[http://squidrowcomics.com/?p=4265 Randie dreams of being]] helped by this and NiceMice while cleaning up the coffee place.
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[[caption-width-right:314:[-A king to marry and bluebirds to herald it.-] ]]
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* in Creator/SeananMcGuire's ''Literature/VelveteenVs The Junior Super Patriots'', the Princess unsurprisingly has bluebirds among her helpful animal companions.
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* In ''Film/{{K-PAX}}'', the [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane mental patient/possible extraterrestrial]] prōt(KevinSpacey) tasks his obsessive-compulsive fellow patient Howie with "finding the Bluebird of Happiness". Rather than his usual routines, Howie sits quietly in front of the windows for days, watching the trees. [[spoiler: When the Institute is unexpectedly visited by a blue jay, he erupts into an ecstatic frenzy, and his joy is contagious to the rest of the patients and even the staff.]]
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* In ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', Maid Marion encounters a "happy little bluebird" as she sings about finding her true love.
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* In ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', Maid Marion encounters a "happy "[[MisplacedWildlife happy little bluebird" bluebird]]" as she sings about finding her true love.
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* The {{Wings}} song "Bluebird" uses the bluebird to represent freedom. The singer refers to himself as a bluebird, and tells his love that if he kisses her, she'll turn into a bluebird, too, so that they can escape together across the sea.
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A valley will bloom again,\\
Jimmy will go to sleep in his own little room again\\
Jimmy will go to sleep in his own little room again\\
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[[HopeSpringsEternal A valley will bloom again,\\
again]],\\
[[BlitzEvacuees Jimmy will go to sleep in his own little roomagain\\again]]\\
[[BlitzEvacuees Jimmy will go to sleep in his own little room
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A common plot is to go on TheQuest for one only to return home empty-handed and find [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong it was already there]]. (Outlining the {{Aesop}} that [[HomeSweetHome home is where you will find happiness]] is optional.) Besides this MacGuffin status, they can also be local color, but because of the symbolism, they are seldom the LoyalAnimalCompanion.
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A common plot is to go on TheQuest for one only to return home empty-handed and find [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong it was already there]]. (Outlining Outlining the {{Aesop}} that [[HomeSweetHome home is where you will find happiness]] is optional.) optional. While they have learned to recognize it from the quest, it's usually not ItsTheJourneyThatCounts, because it is usually treated as something they should have recognized even before.
Besides this MacGuffin status, they can also be local color, but because of the symbolism, they are seldom the LoyalAnimalCompanion.
Besides this MacGuffin status, they can also be local color, but because of the symbolism, they are seldom the LoyalAnimalCompanion.
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-->''There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover tomorrow,\\
Just you wait and see\\
There'll be love and laughter and peace ever after tomorrow,\\
When the world is free,\\
[[{{Arcadia}} The shepherd will tend his sheep]],\\
A valley will bloom again,\\
Jimmy will go to sleep in his own little room again\\
There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover tomorrow,\\
Just you wait and see''
--->--'''(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover'''
Just you wait and see\\
There'll be love and laughter and peace ever after tomorrow,\\
When the world is free,\\
[[{{Arcadia}} The shepherd will tend his sheep]],\\
A valley will bloom again,\\
Jimmy will go to sleep in his own little room again\\
There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover tomorrow,\\
Just you wait and see''
--->--'''(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover'''
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* "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover": WorldWarII song urging hope.
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* Inverted nastily in ''VideoGame/{{Odin Sphere}}''. While the cruel bird that represents Gwendolyn's self-doubt is never named, it might as well be called the Bluebird of Unhappiness.
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* Parodied/subverted on ''Series/OnceUponATime'' to illustrate Snow White's amnesia-induced TookALevelInJerkass phase; she's sweeping and humming [[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs "With a Smile and a Song"]], invites a bluebird to land on her finger, sets it down, and [[MoodWhiplash starts swinging her broom at it]].
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* "[[Disney/SongOfTheSouth Mr. Bluebird is on my shoulder... It is the truth, it's actual, everything is satisfactual]]..."
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* * ''Franchise/TokimekiMemorial 2'' has, among its numerous {{Image Song}}s, one called "Aoi Tori" (Blue Bird). It's a [[BrokenBird Kaori Yae]] image song, in which the blue bird is the symbol of the main protagonist, who came into Kaori's wounded heart, telling her [[YouAreNotAlone she's not alone]], and bringing her happiness and love.
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* PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'', or rather in its ShowWithinAShow ''[[http://acecombat.wikia.com/wiki/A_Blue_Dove_for_the_Princess A Blue Dove for the Princess]]'': in this case, it's the Blue Dove who goes out on a quest to find a cure for the sick Princess, only to discover that he should have stayed with her all along upon return.
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Perhaps it's because they're a shade of HeavenlyBlue, but bluebirds are symbols of happiness -- and this indeed, covers several entirely different species of songbirds, as long as they have blue feathers.
A common plot is to go on TheQuest for one only to return home empty-handed and find [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong it was already there]]. (Outlining the {{Aesop}} that [[HomeSweetHome home is where you will find happiness]] is optional.) Besides this MacGuffin status, they can also be local color, but because of the symbolism, they are seldom the LoyalAnimalCompanion.
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* In ''{{Tangled}}'', the birds flitting about Rapunzel after her descent were bluebirds.
* "[[Disney/SongOfTheSouth Mr. Bluebird is on my shoulder... It is the truth, it's actual, everything is satisfactual]]..."
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', [[spoiler:the Chief Blue Meanie decides a HeelFaceTurn is natural for him because "my cousin is the Bluebird of Happiness."]]
* ''Disney/SnowWhite'' sings to one.
** ''Film/{{Shrek}}'' parodies this, having Fiona sing to one... causing it to ''explode''.
*A scene in "Disney/TheRescuers" uses the bluebird as a symbol of "faith ... you see from afar."
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* In ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', Maid Marion encounters a "happy little bluebird" as she sings about finding her true love.
--> "Oof! That happy little bluebird has left a happy little doo-doo on your hand."
* The Series/SesameStreet film ''Follow That Bird'' subverts this. The captured Big Bird, painted blue by the Sleaze Brothers, is anything but happy.
* The English dub of Film/{{Sadko}} has "Sinbad" searching for the Bluebird of Happiness to bring joy to his homeland. He finds a magical bird, but it only brings sleep with its song, not happiness, resulting in the classic "happiness was home all along" ending.
* ''Film/FiveHundredDaysOfSummer'' homages this during a (rather hilarious) scene where Tom is having a musical-like fantasy of victorious happiness after [[spoiler: the first time he has sex with Summer]]. People in the street smile and shake his hand as they congratulate him, dancing in joyous celebration, and a little animated bluebird lands on his finger.
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Eddie's return to the bright and cheerful Toontown has little bluebirds chirping greetings.
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* Parodied in ''{{Hogfather}}'', when the Cheerful Fairy manifests with the Blue Bird of Happiness on her shoulder. It's a blue ''chicken''.
* In the book and movie of {{K-PAX}}, prot exhorts his fellow asylum inmates to find the "blue bird of happiness," and they eventually glimpse a literal one.
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* Klinger from M*A*S*H once went for it in FloweryInsults: "May the Bluebird of Happiness leave a surprise in your orange juice!"
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* The vocaloid song "Desert Bluebird" by {{Mothy}} is about two sibling [[CaptainObvious going to search for a bluebird]] that can grant any wish, in a world AfterTheEnd, destroyed by (apparently) a nuclear war, [[spoiler: As it turns out they DO find the bluebird but it was in an old nuclear base, the radiation makes the older sister die, and the younger brother wishes to the bird to revive her, it does, and then dissapears]] the song end with the sibling saying that they should rebuild the world with their own hands
* There was a hit song in 1934 called "The Bluebird of Happiness" which, according to TheOtherWiki, is probably the origin of the American phrase (though the concept is much older in Europe).
* The lyrics of the TheyMightBeGiants song "Birdhouse in Your Soul", by John Linnell, include the phrase "blue bird of friendliness."
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* ''TheFarSide'' had one strip where a man is abandoned by the Bluebird of Happiness, and is instead visited by the Chicken of Despair.
* There was a ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' Sunday comic where Pig receives a visit from the Bluebird of Happiness, which makes Pig really happy since he never received a visit from such a bird. [[spoiler: Subverted afterwards, when it turns out that the Bluebird actually had the wrong address, because he held the directions upside-down, and was really looking for Joseph C. Skalabonsky, so he flies away, leaving Pig sad and alone once again.]]
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* Theatre/TheBlueBird revolves about the search for one.
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*There's a level with a "red bird of happiness" in ''SuperMarioSunshine''.
* * ''Franchise/TokimekiMemorial 2'' has, among its numerous {{Image Song}}s, one called "Aoi Tori" (Blue Bird). It's a [[BrokenBird Kaori Yae]] image song, in which the blue bird is the symbol of the main protagonist, who came into Kaori's wounded heart, telling her [[YouAreNotAlone she's not alone]], and bringing her happiness and love.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' theme song "[[ThePollyanna Pollyanna]]" has the following verse:
-->I believe there'll come a day
-->Maybe it will be tomorrow.
-->When the blue bird flies away
-->All we have to do is follow (it).
-->I believe a dream can still come true,
-->Why shouldn't I believe the same in you?
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