History WesternAnimation / LadyAndTheTramp

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The town where the movie takes place is somewhere in the United States. The architecture of the houses strongly suggests somewhere in upstate New York or New England. Walt Disney himself wanted a Midwestern setting, specifically modeled after his hometown of Marceline, Missouri.

** Tramp when he realizes that having an alligator bit Lady's muzzle off could get Lady killed.

* 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''". They also understand human speech, though humans can't understand them.

* 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 (though, to be fair, he did accidentally knock the baby's crib over in the struggle). 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. Fortunately, Jock and Trusty overhear what happened and manage to intercept the pound wagon before it gets there.

** Trusty after the dog catcher's wagon accidentally hits him. Justified to a certain extent, as the original screenplay called for his 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 until ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}''.

** When Tramp is warning Lady about the dangers of a baby in the family, he mentions barking at some random stranger would prompt the owners to stop their racket otherwise the baby will wake up. This foreshadows how Aunt Sarah will respond to Lady when she tries to warn her about the rat in the baby's room.

* RomanticCandlelitDinner:: The famous spaghetti dinner scene between the title characters is lit by candlelight.

* 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. The guests at the baby shower and the doctor's faces are also never shown.

** He's also this to his only son in the sequel.

** Additionally, leaving a muzzle on a dog for longer than 30 minutes can be extremely dangerous, especially if it keeps the dog from fully opening its jaws. Thus, they should ''only'' be used on ''aggressive'' dogs when out in ''public''. Muzzles are meant to prevent ''bites'', not ''suffocate'' the dog.

* LovableRogue: Tramp.

* MamaBear: Lady to the baby. See also: PapaWolf.

* OfficerOHara: The policeman at the entrance to the zoo.
* OldDog: Trusty.

* ThoseTwoGuys:
** Jock and Trusty.
** Also, Tony and Joe.

* ChristmasEpilogue: The final scene takes place at the Darling house on Christmas, revealing that Tramp now has become a house dog with his own collar, and he and Lady have four puppies. This is an echo of the film's first scene were Lady is received as a Christmas gift.

* WhatTheHellHero: Jim Dear and Darling call Aunt Sarah out for the way she treated Lady and she should know her better.

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

* AdultFear: Thanks to Aunt Sarah, a lot of this ensues:
** First, the cats when they appear trash the living room and plan to "borrow" some milk from the baby after hearing it crying. It's hard to blame Lady for going MamaBear on the baby's behalf.
** Lady runs away in a panic after Aunt Sarah muzzles her, due to not understanding the strange thing wrapped around her. She goes missing for at least a day, and if the dogcatcher hadn't found her license, or if Lady had taken the Tramp's offer to see the world, Jim Dear and Darling would have been asking Aunt Sarah what she did.
** "Rat. Upstairs. In the baby's room!" Tramp immediately goes to the rescue on hearing a frightened Lady barking and her words.
** Jim Dear and Darling come back from their vacation just in time to see the dogcatcher outside their house, tells them that a stray dog was caught attacking a baby, not realizing the house was theirs. Truly terrifying for any parent, especially when you weren't even there to protect them.
** Then after all this, Aunt Sarah is horrified when Jim Dear and Darling tell her off for how she treated Lady and she realizes that she was wrong when Lady reveals the dead rat.
** Outside of Aunt Sarah, if Jim Dear and Darling didn't get Lady her collar and license, the scene at the pound would have gone very differently.
*** Some ''government-run'' shelters ''euthanize'' strays kept pass the ''hold period'', set timespan for either finding the ''original'' owner or ''adopting out'' the animal,just to free up kennels for ''new'' rescues.

* It's generally not wise to serve spaghetti and meatballs to dogs either – especially because most recipes include onions and garlic, both of which are toxic to dogs.

* GreaterScopeVillain: At first, it seems as if Si and 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 not only Lady is chained to her doghouse and thus is in no position to chase it off again, but Tramp ironically had a harder time defeating it than the stray dogs who Tramp himself had defeated easily.

* BabiesEverAfter: And their puppies make for an adorable closing scene.

* 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 not only Lady is chained to her dog house and thus is in no position to chase it off again, but Tramp ironically had a harder time defeating it than the stray dogs who Tramp himself had defeated easily.

* HumansAreBastards: Tramp's attitude, though the only unlikable humans we actually meet are Aunt Sarah and the belligerent cop at the zoo.

** Additionally, leaving a muzzle on a dog for longer than 30 minutes can be extremely dangerous, especially if it keeps the dog from fully opening its jaws.

** Even if he ''was'' actually going to eat her, it's [[NonMaliciuosMonster only a predatory ''instinct'']].