History WesternAnimation / LadyAndTheTramp

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Jim Dear goes over the calendar to figure out when the baby is due, which obviously depends on when Darling got pregnant, which depends on when they had sex. He just gives up and circles the whole month.

* ParentalBonus: Loads, and none are risque innuendos: expectant mothers, promiscuity, a lady's dishonor, newspaper headlines, Sundays.

* ThisIsMyHuman: It's told through a dog's eyes

* FurryConfusion: Dogs, cats, alligators, and beavers can talk, but birds, fish, and rats apparently can't.

* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: At first, there was going to be this, with The Tramp competing for Lady's affections with an early incantation of a rich family dog named Boris. Eventually, the neighbor roles were given to the characters of Jock and Trusty and Boris was moved to elsewhere in the film.

* RealityEnsues:
** Lady's first night home is a lesson to Jim Dear and Darling about how puppies aren't just sunshine and rainbows.
** Aunt Sarah treats Lady terribly and locks her up in the basement after assuming she and the Tramp were attacking the baby. Jim Dear and Darling know that Lady is elegant, trained, and emotive. So when Jim Dear and Darling return toward the end of the film, they release Lady immediately, tell off Aunt Sarah for not knowing their dog better, and follow Lady to the dead rat.

** The dogs at the pound include a cockney-accented English bulldog, a Mexican Chihuahua, and a Russian wolfhound.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Tramp introduces Lady to Tony and Joe, Tony comments on Tramp bringing in a ''new'' girl and suggests Tramp should settle down with "this one". When Lady asks what he means, Tramp quickly changes the subject. It foreshadows the scene where the dogs at the pound tell her that Tramp has had multiple girlfriends.

* TheFaceless: Since the film is seen from the dogs' point of view, there are very few shots that show Jim Dear and Darling's full bodies. We mostly see them from the neck down.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The song "Peace on Earth", which plays between the opening credits and Lady and the Darlings' introduction, is accompanied by an instrumental choir rendition of the {{Christmas carol}} "Silent Night".

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Si and Am.

* PetsAsAPresent: Lady was brought as a puppy by Jim for his wife's birthday.

Useless trivia: when the film originally premiered, the third featurette in Disney's ''People and Places'' documentary series, "Switzerland", was attached to it. The featurette was, incidentally, the first in the series to be produced in [=CinemaScope=].

** Lady does act quite refined and ladylike... [[SpoiledSweet most of the time]]. When she's not digging up the garden (to be fair, she ''tried'' to put the flower back) or chasing pigeons around.

* SpaghettiKiss: The dogs' AccidentalKiss during the "Bella Notte" scene provides the UrExample, if not {{Trope Maker|s}}.
* SpoiledSweet: Lady.

* OverlyLongSpanishName: The Chihuahua's sister, Rosita Chiquita Juanita Chihuahua.

* AlternateAnimalAffection: The famous SpaghettiKiss results in the pair accidentally smooching, despite this not being terribly anatomically practical for dogs. Also, even more improbably, Si and Am use their tails to "shake hands" with each other.
* AmIJustAToyToYou: Lady is ''distraught'' when she learns of the Tramp's history with dames, as she thinks she's just the latest in a long line of ladies he loves and leaves.

* AnachronisticAnimal: ''Lady and the Tramp'' features two "modern"-style Siamese in the 1890s. The modern Siamese style, with its elongated muzzle and triangle-shaped head, didn't begin development until the 1950s. Prior to that, all Siamese were rounder and less exaggerated looking.
* AnimalTalk: Except for the rat, and apparently monkeys (too closely related to humans).
* AppealToFamilialWisdom: A RunningGag where Trusty will go, "As my grandpappy Ol' Reliable used to say . . . Don't recollect if I ever mentioned Ol' Reliable before ... " The answer is always yes, and Trusty drops the subject. By the end he finally gets a chance to say what Ol' Reliable used to say, [[spoiler:only to forget what exactly he used to say.]]

** Additionally, leaving a muzzle that prevents a dog from biting on a dog for longer than 30 minutes can be extremely dangerous for the animal.
** [[invoked]] Swatting your dog because it's misbehaving is really not something you're supposed to do.[[note]]You may get results, but depending on the timing of the punishment and the individual dog you also run a high risk of confusing the animal and/or making it become afraid of you.[[/note]] In fact, this is what happens with Lady, because she thinks she's done something terrible. This one is a case of ValuesDissonance, because corporal punishment (for both dogs and human children) was perfectly acceptable at the time of the film's release (and especially in the time period of the film).

* BilingualAnimal: Dogs can both talk and bark, and cats can both talk and meow. For example, the first sentence of "We are Siamese" goes: "We are Siamese if you please, ''meow''".

* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: One of the first Disney films to pull one, after Tramp accidentally gets Lady sent to the pound and she learns about his womanizing while there.
* CatsAreMean: Si and Am, which is completely unlike RealLife; Siamese cats are among the most friendly and sociable of breeds (though they can be '''loud'''). Si and Am, were they like real Siamese, would be far more likely trying to make friends with Lady than anything else.

* DiabolicalDogcatcher: Zigzagged, in this case. The dogcatchers seem more like a metaphor, moving stray dogs and other 'undesirables' out of the nice part of town, but on the other hand the Tramp is a mischief maker and is caught in the apparent act of attacking a baby. While a guard in the pound lead a dog off to euthanasia as if taking a human to execution, they're also gentle with Lady and quickly contact her owners.

** [[spoiler:Trusty after the dog catcher's wagon accidentally hits him.]] Justified to a certain extent, as the original screenplay called for [[spoiler:Trusty's death to be real. But when the public reacted negatively to WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'s mom dying several years earlier, Trusty was ultimately spared]]. This was Disney's first use of this trope, which would become the norm for Disney until ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''.

* TheDrifter: Tramp.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Tramp introduces Lady to Tony and Joe, Tony comments on Tramp bringing in a ''new'' girlfriend and suggests Tramp should settle down with "this one". When Lady asks what he means, Tramp quickly changes the subject. It foreshadows the scene where the dogs at the pound tell her that Tramp has had multiple girlfriends.

** [[spoiler:Trusty after the dog catcher's wagon accidentally hits him.]] Justified to a certain extent, as the original screenplay called for [[spoiler:Trusty's death to be real. But when the public reacted negatively to Disney/{{Bambi}}'s mom dying several years earlier, Trusty was ultimately spared]]. This was Disney's first use of this trope, which would become the norm for Disney until ''Disney/TheLionKing''.

* EndOfAnAge: This was the last Disney animated film scored by Oliver Wallace. Starting with ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' through ''Disney/RobinHood'', George Bruns would replace him as composer.

** Plus, the baby looks a lot like Michael from ''Disney/PeterPan''.

The movie spawned a series of comics, starting with the newspaper strip ComicStrip/{{Scamp}}: [[SpinOffspring Son of Lady and the Tramp]], Scamp also stars in a direct-to-video sequel to the movie, ''Disney/LadyAndTheTrampIIScampsAdventure'', which was released in 2001.

* TheHyena: An actual one at the zoo. This laugh would later be used for the character of Ripper Roo in ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot''.

* DigitalDestruction: The 1998 Masterpiece Collection VHS and laserdisc releases lacked the audio of Aunt Sarah botching "Rock-a-Bye Baby" after shooing Lady out of the nursery. The restoration used for the 2006 Platinum Edition DVD, and those used for the later home video releases, put it back.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Jock saying to Tramp "We've no need for mongrels and their radical ideas!" Oh, Walt, you union-buster, you.

* FuryFueledFoolishness: Tramp is alerted by Lady's barking that there's a rat in the baby's room. Since Lady is chained and can't deal with the rat herself, Tramp goes in in her stead to kill the rat before it can harm the baby. Aunt Sarah doesn't see the rat and angrily calls the pound on Tramp, mistakenly thinking he was trying to harm the baby. Jim Dear, Darling and Lady find the dead rat, and from there, it's a race to try to exonerate Tramp before the pound euthanizes him.

* GentleGiant: Boris, the Russian dog Lady meets in the pound may look intimidating at first, but he’s actually a very friendly philosopher.
* GreaterScopeVillain: At first, it seems as if Si and Am would play a larger role against Lady in the film. However, they've only appeared for a short amount of time, never being seen again. The aunt, therefore, seemed to be the true bad person of the film. However, the rat had initially flown under the radar as the climatic antagonist of the film when Lady had merely chased him off at first. Towards the end of the film, however, the rat poses a bigger threat, in which Tramp ironically had a harder time defeating it than the stray dogs who Tramp himself had defeated easily.

** The policeman is Irish, has red hair, and speaks with an Irish accent.

* MoodWhiplash: The transition to the ending scene. [[spoiler: Old Trusty apparently dies, and then it's suddenly Christmas with him alive and well.]]