History Theatre / AnimalCrackers

Not to be confused with the [[WesternAnimation/AnimalCrackers long-running newspaper comic strip and animated show]], or the [[WesternAnimation/AnimalCrackers2017 2017 animated movie released on Netflix]] with [[NamesTheSame the same name]].

* {{Corpsing}}: You can see Margaret Dumont's expression slip a few times during Groucho's tusks speech.

* Corpsing: You can see Margaret Dumont's expression slip a few times during Groucho's tusks speech.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The stage version, has a scene in the second act that changes the time and place to Ancien Régime France, with Spaulding as Louis XV, Mrs. Rittenhouse as the Queen, Mrs. Whitehead as Du Barry, and John as the great painter Monsieur Jean Jacques Beaugard.

** In a borderline FunnyAneurysmMoment, he also said it was preferable to shoot elephants in Alabama, because [[{{Pun}} the Tuscaloosa]]. That same year, a sportswriter with flair for the dramatic, first referred to members of the University of Alabama, located in Tuscaloosa, as a herd of elephants, the birth of the Big Al mascot.

* {{Mondegreen}}: In-universe: Groucho asks Chico to play a song about Montreal: "I'm a dreamer, Montreal." This is a mangled reference to the De Sylva, Brown & Henderson song "Aren't We All?"

* YouMakeMeSic:
-->'''Jamison:''' ''[taking diction from Groucho]'' Gentlemen. Question mark.\\
'''Spaulding:''' "Gentlemen, question MARK?!" Put it on the penultimate, not on the dipthonic! You should brush up on your Greek, Jamison. Well, get a Greek and brush up on him.

** During the song "Hooray for Captain Spaulding", there is an obvious jump in the picture and soundtrack after Mrs. Rittenhouse's verse "He's the only white man who covered every acre". This is due to UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode cutting out Groucho's suggestive lyric "I think I'll try and make her" when the film was reissued in 1936, and the cut remains in all prints to this day.

** The original uncensored version was finally discovered and restored for a UsefulNotes/BluRay set in 2016.

Not to be confused with the [[WesternAnimation/AnimalCrackers long-running newspaper comic strip and animated adaptation]], or the [[WesternAnimation/AnimalCrackers2017 2017 animated movie released on Netflix]] with [[NamesTheSame the same name]].

Not to be confused with [[NamesTheSame the ongoing children's comic strip with the same name]], or the AnimatedAdaptation of said comic strip, [[WesternAnimation/AnimalCrackers that's here.]]

Not to be confused with [[NamesTheSame the ongoing children's comic strip with the same name]], or the AnimatedAdaptation of said comic strip.

[[TheOneWith The one with]] a party in honor of an explorer whose pajamas an elephant managed to get into... [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext somehow]].

** This probably also counts as BreakingTheFourthWall, since Chico was abou

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. But we're going back again in a couple of weeks!"

* OfficerOHara: One stage production had a black Irish officer.

-->'''Zeppo:''' ''[as Jamison, taking diction from Groucho]'' Gentlemen. Question mark.\\
'''Groucho:''' ''[as Captain Spaulding]'' Gentlemen, question MARK?! Put it on the penultimate, not on the dipthonic! You should brush up on your Greek, Jamison. Well, get a Greek and brush up on him.

* TheLawFirmOfPunPunAndWordplay: Captain Spaulding dictates a letter to the law firm of "Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger and [[OneOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers [=McCormick=]]]".

* BeamMeUpScotty: The punchline of the famous "elephant in my pajamas" joke (see AmbiguousSyntax) is "How he got in my pajamas I don't know," but it's frequently quoted as "How he got in my pajamas ''I'll never'' know."

* RevisedEnding: The Summation scene in the film is completely different from the original stage version. The bit where Harpo chloroforms everyone else and finally himself was taken from an earlier scene.

'''Chico:''' You gotta put in on da feet first.\\

* {{Mondegreen}}: Groucho asks Chico to play a song about Montreal: "I'm a dreamer, Montreal." This is a mangled reference to the De Sylva, Brown & Henderson song "Aren't We All?"

* TheLawFirmOfPunPunAndWordplay: Captain Spaulding dictates a letter to the law firm of "Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger and [[OneOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers McCormick]]".

* OddNameOut: Captain Spaulding dictates a letter to his lawyer, Charles H. Hungerdunger of Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, and McCormick.

** During the song "Hooray for Captain Spaulding", there is an obvious jump in the picture and soundtrack after Mrs. Rittenhouse's verse "He's the only white man who covered every acre". This is due to TheHaysCode cutting out Groucho's suggestive lyric "I think I'll try and make her" when the film was reissued in 1936, and the cut remains in all prints to this day.

* {{Fauxreigner}}: Ravelli recognizes a respected art dealer as "Abie the fish man":
-->'''Ravelli (Chico):''' How did you get to be Roscoe W. Chandler?
-->'''Chandler:''' How did you get to be Italian?
-->'''Ravelli:''' Never mind—whose confession is this?
* {{Filth}}: This bit of dialogue preceding Captain Spaulding's big speech, was probably removed from the movie even before it was edited after release to comply with the Production Code:
-->''[Spaulding and Mrs. Rittenhouse enter]''\\
'''Spaulding:''' So there was only one bedroom in the farm house and the farmer had three daughters and only one traveling salesman...\\
'''Mrs. Rittenhouse:''' Captain Spaulding, what kind of a story do you call that?