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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/WaltDisney loathed how WesternAnimation/TheGoldenTouch" turned out, so much that he never directed another short again, stepping aside to become a producer full time.
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* SweetDreamsFuel: "The Night Before Christmas", and "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" are full of this.

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* SweetDreamsFuel: "The Night Before Christmas", and "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" are full of this. The epitome is "Lullaby Land," thanks to the Sandman.
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** "Cannibal Capers", which features shamelessly exaggerated caricatures of stereotypical African natives, is very unpleasant to watch today.

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** The plethora of racist caricatures of Africans, most notably in "Broken Toys", "Cannibal Capers", which features shamelessly exaggerated caricatures of stereotypical African natives, is very unpleasant to watch today.Capers" and "Three Orphan Kittens".
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** The multiplane shots on "WesternAnimation/TheOldMill".

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** The multiplane shots on "WesternAnimation/TheOldMill"."Disney/TheOldMill".
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** Then again, their parents were jerkasses who made them work all the time and the children probably would have grown up to be as bad as them.
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* UncannyValley: "Goddess of Spring" was made to see if the animators could handle a realistic human character. When Persephone makes her entrance, dancing like she was made of rubber, it's made clear that they still weren't ready.


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** The multiplane shots on "WesternAnimation/TheOldMill".
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** The Stephen Fetchit-inspired bird in ''Who Killed Cock Robin?''
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* FollowTheLeader: This is hands down one of the most influential series of cartoons in the HistoryOfAnimation...and also one of the most ripped-off as a result. Almost ''every'' studio in the 1930's, sans Creator/{{Terrytoons}}, was trying to rip off of these cartoons--none of them were successful, however.
** The Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons, by virtue of improvement of the shorts, with [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny a certain Expy of Max Hare]], might be considered an exception.
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* JerkassWoobie: King Midas is a fat greedy AdiposeRex who thinks only about his gold. However when he realizes that with his newfound power turns into gold even his food, he fears to die of starvation and desperately begs Goldie to free him from his new curse. In that moment it's hard to not feel a little sorry for him.

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** Birds in the Spring: The python trying to eat the baby bird.

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** Birds "Birds in the Spring: Spring": The python trying to eat the baby bird.



* ValuesDissonance: "Cannibal Capers", which features shamelessly exaggerated caricatures of stereotypical African natives, is very unpleasant to watch today.

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"Cannibal Capers", which features shamelessly exaggerated caricatures of stereotypical African natives, is very unpleasant to watch today.today.
** In the ending to "Birds in the Spring", the baby bird who wandered off gets [[AbusiveParents spanked soundly by his mother]]. Standard parenting for 1933.

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* CreatorBacklash: WaltDisney loathed how "The Golden Touch" turned out, so much that he never directed another short again, stepping aside to become a producer full time.

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* CreatorBacklash: WaltDisney Creator/WaltDisney loathed how "The Golden Touch" WesternAnimation/TheGoldenTouch" turned out, so much that he never directed another short again, stepping aside to become a producer full time.



* EarWorm: ALL of the musical numbers from "The Cookie Carnival", especially the parade song.

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* EarWorm: ALL of the musical numbers from "The Cookie Carnival", "WesternAnimation/TheCookieCarnival", especially the parade song.



** "TheSkeletonDance . The entire short is creepy, but especially the two shots where the skeleton jumps at the camera and seems to devour it.

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** "TheSkeletonDance ."WesternAnimation/TheSkeletonDance . The entire short is creepy, but especially the two shots where the skeleton jumps at the camera and seems to devour it.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "[[DonaldDuck Don Donald]]" and "WesternAnimation/FerdinandTheBull" were initially planned as Silly Symphonies. The poster for "Donald's Golf Game" also mentions it as being a Silly Symphony as well.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "[[DonaldDuck "[[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Don Donald]]" and "WesternAnimation/FerdinandTheBull" were initially planned as Silly Symphonies. The poster for "Donald's Golf Game" also mentions it as being a Silly Symphony as well.



** The Ugly Duckling in both versions.

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** The Ugly Duckling in both versions.versions.
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* NightmareFuel: The witch in "Babes in the Wood" has a potion that can turn living things to stone. ''What is it made of?!''

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The witch in "Babes in the Wood" has a potion that can turn living things to stone. ''What is it made of?!''of?!''
** "TheSkeletonDance . The entire short is creepy, but especially the two shots where the skeleton jumps at the camera and seems to devour it.
** Birds in the Spring: The python trying to eat the baby bird.
** Hell's Bells: A 1929 cartoon about Hell. In the opening scenes a big fat spider with teeth swings back and forth and snaps at the viewer. Still pretty creepy...
** ''Disney/ThreeLittlePigs'': The Big Bad Wolf. In his 1st movie, his single desire is to murder and eat the pigs, and he has an awesome EvilLaugh. In his 2nd movie, he tries to murder and eat Literature/LittleRedRidingHood. And in his 3rd movie, he's training his kids to murder and eat the pigs to [[VillainSong a song about]] [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome what you can cook pigs into.]] Too bad his kids were {{Retcon}}ned into Lil Wolf. In the 3rd movie the Wolf came ''[[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt this close]]'' to eating the pigs, [[LetsMeetTheMeat having them tied down with apples in their mouths and everything]].
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "The Karioka" from "Cock o' the Walk".

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "The Karioka" Carioca" from "Cock o' the Walk".

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* NightmareFuel: The witch in "Babes in the Wood" has a potion that can turn living things to stone. ''What is it made of?!''


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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The second half of "Babes in the Wood". To save Hansel and Gretel from the witch, the elves pull off a flawless attack plan with arrows, pumpkins, trip wires, and pies, while the two kids easily free themselves ''and'' the other children. A vine lasso thrown by one of the elves knocks the witch off her broom, and the children get the cauldron with the [[TakenForGranite stone-potion]] and pull it outside, and she falls right into it, putting an end to her crimes -- forever. Brilliant.


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* NightmareFuel: The witch in "Babes in the Wood" has a potion that can turn living things to stone. ''What is it made of?!''
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* TastesLikeDiabetes: The shorts tend to have very juvenile, sentimental storylines with cutesy characters, which can either be seen as part of their appeal or a detriment.
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** How about "Hi-De-Hades", arguably the highlight number of "The Goddess of Spring".
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* TheWoobie: The cookie girl in "The Cookie Carnival".

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* TheWoobie: The cookie girl in "The Cookie Carnival".Carnival".
** The Ugly Duckling in both versions.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "[[DonaldDuck Don Donald]]" and "WesternAnimation/FerdinandTheBull" were initially planned as Silly Symphonies.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "[[DonaldDuck Don Donald]]" and "WesternAnimation/FerdinandTheBull" were initially planned as Silly Symphonies. The poster for "Donald's Golf Game" also mentions it as being a Silly Symphony as well.
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** Also the music in "Music Land", especially that used during the great battle between the Isle of Jazz and the Land of Symphony.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "[[DonaldDuck Don Donald]]" and "[[MiscellaneousDisneyShorts Ferdinand The Bull]]" were initially planned as Silly Symphonies.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "[[DonaldDuck Don Donald]]" and "[[MiscellaneousDisneyShorts Ferdinand The Bull]]" "WesternAnimation/FerdinandTheBull" were initially planned as Silly Symphonies.

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* ValuesDissonance: Cannibal Capers, which features shamelessly exaggerated caricatures of stereotypical african natives, is very unpleasant to watch today.

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* ValuesDissonance: Cannibal Capers, "Cannibal Capers", which features shamelessly exaggerated caricatures of stereotypical african African natives, is very unpleasant to watch today.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "[[DonaldDuck Don Donald]]" and "[[MiscellaneousDisneyShorts Ferdinand The Bull]]" were initially planned as Silly Symphonies.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "[[DonaldDuck Don Donald]]" and "[[MiscellaneousDisneyShorts Ferdinand The Bull]]" were initially planned as Silly Symphonies.Symphonies.
* TheWoobie: The cookie girl in "The Cookie Carnival".
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* {{Sequelitis}}: "ThreeLittlePigs" inspired three continuations, but no one reached the popularity levels accomplished by the original. Walt's quote on the matter opens the trope's page.

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* {{Sequelitis}}: "ThreeLittlePigs" "Disney/ThreeLittlePigs" inspired three continuations, but no one reached the popularity levels accomplished by the original. Walt's quote on the matter opens the trope's page.
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* EarWorm: ''All'' of the musical numbers from "The Cookie Carnival", especially the parade song.

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* EarWorm: ''All'' ALL of the musical numbers from "The Cookie Carnival", especially the parade song.
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* NightmareFuel: The witch in "Babes in the Wood" has a potion that can turn living things to stone. What is it made of?!

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* NightmareFuel: The witch in "Babes in the Wood" has a potion that can turn living things to stone. What ''What is it made of?!of?!''
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* NightmareFuel: The witch in "Babes in the Wood" has a potion that can turn living things to stone. Even worse, we never find out what it's made of.

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* NightmareFuel: The witch in "Babes in the Wood" has a potion that can turn living things to stone. Even worse, we never find out what it's What is it made of.of?!
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* NightmareFuel: The witch in "Babes in the Wood" has a potion that can turn living things to stone. Even worse, we never find out what it's made of.
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* EarWorm: All three musical numbers from "The Cookie Carnival", especially the parade song.

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* EarWorm: All three ''All'' of the musical numbers from "The Cookie Carnival", especially the parade song.
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* EarWorm: The parade song from "The Cookie Carnival". Not to mention the song the gingerbread man sings as he dresses up the cookie girl.

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* EarWorm: The parade song All three musical numbers from "The Cookie Carnival". Not to mention Carnival", especially the song the gingerbread man sings as he dresses up the cookie girl.parade song.
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* EarWorm: The parade song from "The Cookie Carnival".

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* EarWorm: The parade song from "The Cookie Carnival". Not to mention the song the gingerbread man sings as he dresses up the cookie girl.
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* EarWorm: The parade song from "The Cookie Carnival".

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