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* IAmNotPretty: In "When He Looks at Me", Priscilla Mullins sings that, "I'm not a princess or a pretty girl." She may not be a princess, but she is quite pretty.

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* IAmNotPretty: In "When He Looks at Me", Priscilla Mullins sings that, "I'm not a princess or a pretty girl." She may not be a princess, but she is quite pretty. In fairness, in the uncut version, Alden sings a reprise of the song where ''he'' sings "I'm not a prince or a pretty boy."
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* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: The European villains Scave and Quizzler quickly form an alliance with the Native American villain Smiling Buzzard and his bear companion Big Wheeze. As they smoke a PeacePipe together, it's revealed that all four of them are performing a LyingFingerCross. Willum's narration notes, "it takes one to know one."

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* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: The European villains Scave and Quizzler quickly form an alliance with the Native American villain Smiling Buzzard and his bear companion Big Wheeze. As they smoke a PeacePipe together, it's revealed that all four of them (yes, including the bear) are performing a LyingFingerCross. Willum's narration notes, "it takes one to know one."
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''The Mouse on the Mayflower'' is an animated [[ThanksgivingEpisode Thanksgiving]] special produced by Creator/RankinBassProductions and originally aired on {{Creator/NBC}} in 1968. Music/TennesseeErnieFord narrates as Willum Mouse, a church mouse whose presence on the ''Mayflower'' has been hitherto overlooked by human historians. The animation was done by Creator/ToeiAnimation.

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!!''The Mouse on the Mayflower'' provides examples of:

* AnimalTalk: Willum's narration explains that he was able to communicate with the Native American mouse Little Big Thunder because they could both speak in, "mouse talk." Naturally, the special renders Little Big Thunder's "mouse talk" as TontoTalk.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: The special ends with Willum quoting Psalms 100.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Turns out it was Willum who directed the Pilgrims to the printing press that they used to reinforce that broken beam.
* CompositeCharacter: The special's William Bradford seems to be a combination of the historical William Bradford and William Brewster.
* DisneyAcidSequence: Priscilla Mullins' IWantSong "When He Looks at Me", in which she imagines herself as PrincessClassic and John Alden as PrinceCharming.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: The European villains Scave and Quizzler quickly form an alliance with the Native American villain Smiling Buzzard and his bear companion Big Wheeze. As they smoke a PeacePipe together, it's revealed that all four of them are performing a LyingFingerCross. Willum's narration notes, "it takes one to know one."
* FatAndSkinny: The villainous sailors Scave (skinny) and Quizzler (fat)
* HollywoodCostuming: Captain Jones wears a bicorn hat, an item from the Napoleonic era, which is over a century and a half after the ''Mayflower''.
* IAmNotPretty: In "When He Looks at Me", Priscilla Mullins sings that, "I'm not a princess or a pretty girl." She may not be a princess, but she is quite pretty.
* LoveTriangle: Miles Standish, John Alden, and Priscilla Mullins are naturally drifting through a loose remake of "Literature/TheCourtshipOfMilesStandish."
* StockAnimalDiet: Willum and Little Big Thunder are both very excited to see cheese being served at the first Thanksgiving. You know, 'cause they're mice.
* VillainExitStageLeft: The villains are chased off about two-thirds of the way through the special. Smiling Buzzard and Big Wheeze barely even got to be in it!

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