History WesternAnimation / TheCookieCarnival

* AdaptationalJobChange: The cookie girl in the original cartoon is implied that she is unemployed, while in the 1935 comic adaptation she is the princess of the Cookieland since the beggining, and the 1949 comic adaptation she is still suffering from poverty, but is seen working as a muffin vendor.
* AdaptationalWealth: It only happens in the 1935 comic version of the short, where the cookie girl is really the princess of cookietown, who decides to dress as a maid in order to know better the suitors.

* BarefootPoverty: Both the cookie girl and the gingerbread man are seen without any footwear at the beggining of the story.

* TheWorstSeatInTheHouse: The hobo cookie and some of the cookietown residents have trouble watching the show due to the guards enormous hats. The hobo attempts to sneak behind the legs of one distracted guard, but ends up angering them whey they notice him and accidentally flips them.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: The gingerbread man could easily have ignored the poor crying cookie girl and continued his journey to cookie town without anyone knowing, yet he decides to boost her confidence and give her a makeover so she can participate.

* OffModel:
** Between shots, the jelly-roll carpet changes from red, to pink, then back to red.
** The gingerbread man isn't seen making shoes for Miss Bonbon, but she is later seen wearing a pair of black high heels.

-->We're the jolly rum cookies... ''(hic)''
-->Please pardon us if we intrude... ''(hic)''
-->Though all other cookies are baked in a pan,
-->A rum cookie always is stewed!

-->'''Judge 1:''' We've tried our very best to find a king for you.
-->'''Judge 2:''' But you've said no to everyone, what can we do?
-->'''The three Judges:''' What can we do? what can we do? what can we dooo?
-->'''Judge 1:''' My advice would be, marry me!
-->'''Judge 2:''' No, me!
-->'''Judge 3:''' No, me-e-e-e-e!
-->'''Judge 1:''' Perhaps you'd better marry all three!

-->We're the Old-Fashioned Cookies, like Mother used to bake!
-->You're the only girl we love; give one of us a break!

* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Both the gingerbread man and the cookie girl are on the outskirts of the town at the beginning of the short.

* GiantWaistRibbon: The gingerbread man adorns Miss Bonbon's new dress with a purple one.

* PoliceBrutality: The cookie guards angrily chase after the latter tries to get a better view on the show and beat the hobo cookie when he arrives at the top of the cake where the throne is situated. Luckily the cookie queen forces them to stop by declaring the hobo cookie king before they can do any more harm.

* DarkHorseVictory: In the end, the new Cookie Queen picks, not one of the many suitors offered to her by the judges, but the hobo who gave her the makeover that landed her the position.

* BeautyContest: The parade is one where three judges decide who will be the queen based on her beauty.

* TheBully: The Devil Food cakes, who are briefly seen pinching the angel food cakes and taking their spotlight the end. This is expanded on the two comic adaptations, where a sole one antagonizes both the cookie girl and the gingerbreand man.

** Averted in the comic with the Devil food cake, as he laments losing his chance to be with the queen over the Hobo Cookie, especially when it's revealed that the was actually her

* ArtShift: As a part of her makeover, the girl of this short is given a Fleischer-esque look, due to her being drawn by former Fleischer animator Creator/GrimNatwick.

** The gingerbread cookie concocts a wonderful dress for the poor cookie girl out of colored frosting, candy hearts, and cupcake wrappers, using a powdered marshmallow as a makeup applicator, some golden taffy as a wig, a candy heart as lipstick and cheek stain, and a shiny flat lollipop as a mirror.

[[caption-width-right:350:You're going to be the sweetest one of all!]]

* BarefootPoverty: Both the cookie girl and the gingerbread man.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: This is the main reason why the Cookie Queen chooses the gingerbread man as her King at the end of the short. He saw beauty in her, when no one else did.

* TheMakeover: The hobo gingerbread man asks Miss Bonbon not to cry as she'll not only get to be in the Cookie Carnival, but become the Queen, making a glamorous confectionary dress for her.

* ImprovisedClothes: Justified, since Cookieland is a LevelAte.
** The gingerbread cookie concocts a wonderful dress for the poor cookie girl out of colored frosting, candy hearts, and cupcake wrappers, using a powdered marshmallow as a makeup applicator, some golden taffy as a wig, a candy heart as lipstick and cheek stain, and a shiny flat lollipop as a mirror.
** Near the end, the gingerbread man gets some of his own when the guards chasing him broke his hat, making it look like a crown and accidentally broke the end of the jelly-roll carpet while reacting from the hit, making it look like a kingly robe, with the edges even resembling fur trim. Previously, just as he's going to help the cookie girl, he notices a green candy drop on a nearby cake and puts it on his Dickey like it's a button.

* AdaptationalWealth: In the comic version of the short, the cookie girl is really the princess of cookietown, who decides to dress as a maid in order to know better the suitors.

* TheBully: The Devil Food cakes, who are briefly seen pinching the angel food cakes and taking their spotlight the end. This is expanded on the comic adaptation, where a sole one antagonizes both the cookie girl and the gingerbreand man.

-->A rum cookie's always stewed!

The plot of this short is driven when the people from Cookietown celebrates a carnival in which numerous girls based on cakes, sweets and candies parades on the town so they can become the Cookie Queen. Far from there, on the railroad tracks, a gingerbread hobo man going to see parade hears the cries of a poor sugar cookie girl. Willing to help, he asks how he can help her, which she responds that despite wanting to participate in the parade she can't enter on it because she doesn't have any pretty clothes to wear. Quickly, he comforts the girl and remedies her problem with giving her a makeover, consisting on making a beautiful dress out of frosting and candy hearts decorated with a large violet bow and changing her brown hair with golden taffy ringlets. After liking the makeover, she sneaks at the ending of the parade as the final contestant in the parade: Miss Bonbon.

The judges, who have thus far been disappointed in the candidates, all promptly declare Miss Bonbon the Cookie Queen on sight. The gingerbread man is practically trampled in the sudden surge of the crowd as they carry Miss Bonbon to her throne, where they place a golden crown on her head. In the throne, the judges tell her that she needs a king and present a large layer cake which appears to be a carousel of different vaudeville acts full of candidates from those featured.

Meanwhile, the hobo cookie tries to get a better view of the show by sneaking up between the legs of a distracted guard but is quickly noticed by another one and is chased, forcing to the hobo cookie to hide behind the carousel but not for too long as he's discovered again.

Upon observing that the queen has rejected every candidate, the judges, with no other suitors to present to her, offer to have her marry one of them (or all three of them), only to be interrupted by the guards chasing and attacking the gingerbread man, destroying his hat and the end of a red carpet. The Cookie Queen calls the guards to stop the attack, and choosing the gingerbread man as the king, releasing him immediately and taking his place beside his beloved sugar cookie. Their closing kiss melts the lollipop intended to screen them from view.

* LevelAte: Everyone and everything in Cookieland is made out of confectionary materials.

* TheMakeover: The hobo cookie gives one to Miss Bonbon so she can enter in the parade.
* MarryThemAll: The judges suggest to marry all three to the Queen after she rejects every candidate.

-->'''Judge 2:''' But you've said no to every one, what can we do?

* RagsToRoyalty: Both the protagonists are introduced as being poor outcasts, the hobo cookie being homeless and the cookie girl living in a small house on the wrong side of the tracks. At the end of the short the two of them become royalty, the girl due to winning over the rest of the candidates and the hobo cookie being chosen out of gratitude for helping her earlier on.
* RockMeAsmodeus: The Devil's Food Cakes have a peppy jazz duet, in contrast the the Angel Food Cakes' twee little tune.

* RagsToRoyalty: Both the protagonists.

* KarmicJackpot: Help out a poor girl out of the goodness of your heart, and treat her like a queen? She'll return the favor and declare you queen of the proceedings!

* RagsToRoyalty: Both the protagonist.

* ImprovisedClothes:

* TheDandy: The Dandy Candy Kids

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Averted, as the cookie queen chooses the gingerbread man over the devil's food cakes.