Morty the Magnificent was a former show on Disney Cruise Lines and a stage musical performed. It premiered in 2002 but has since been retired.
Morty is a failed magician, who wins audiences over by how terrible he is. His girlfriend and partner Daphne wants to help; she makes a wish on her birthday that he can do great tricks. Hilarity Ensues when the tricks start going right.
Tropes for this include:
- Acquired Situational Narcissism: Morty was Endearingly Dorky before but he grabs the Jerkass Ball when his tricks start going right. He snaps out of it when doing Houdini's water escape because Daphne said if he went through with it, she'd break up with him. Morty then goes to Daphne to apologize for prioritizing magic over her feelings.
- Anger Born of Worry: Daphne is furious that Morty wants to do the underwater escape trick, something that nearly drowned Houdini a few times because he has never rehearsed it. She tells him if he goes through with it and survives, their relationship is over.
- Deus ex Machina: Mickey Mouse shows up at the end to restore the formerly animated figures to their statue forms, and to fix everything that Morty messed up.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Morty at the end of the play doesn't care if he's no longer a great magician. He seeks out Daphne, apologizes to her, and says that she is more important than magic to him. Mickey Mouse then shows up to undo all of the tricks gone right and wrong, making the ending unequivocally happy.
- Epic Fail: At the start of the show, Morty tries to pull a rabbit out of a hat, but ends up with various fruits instead. It ends with a pineapple. Given the seamstress's nonchalance about asking if it was a pineapple again, it's happened before.
- From Bad to Worse: Morty brings a bunch of animated figures to life who start mucking around and causing trouble. Daphne tells him that they can't have this many people onstage for the long term and asks him to change them back. He seems to succeed with a printing press trick, but the animated figures use the press to summon more people from paintings.
- Gone Horribly Right: Daphne wishes for Morty to be a great magician on her birthday. It works, but soon the power goes to his head when the formerly animated figures tell him he doesn't need Daphne.
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes: The seamstress wears a frilly purple dress when asked to do the "sawed-in-half" trick. Morty even comments on it. asking where she got the outift.
- Make a Wish: The stagehands remind Daphne it's her birthday and surprise her with a cake. She selflessly blows out the candles while asking for Morty to become a great magician. Suffice to say, it works.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Daphne tells Morty her wish before he tries the underwater escape trick, which freaks out the stagehands because they're worried it will break the magic and Morty is in real danger of drowning. Despite this, Morty pulls off the trick flawlessly. It's unknown if the wish was never broken, or if Morty was able to focus during a dangerous stunt.
- Nice Guy: Guys rather. The stagehands remind Daphne that it's her birthday when even she and Morty forgot. They surprise her with a cake.
- Saw a Woman in Half: Daphne absolutely refuses to pull this trick. She has a point since it's potentially dangerous. Morty recruits the seamstress to do it instead, and she shows up in a puffy purple dress. The trick starts off fine, but then the seamstress's legs run off without her and become a Running Gag (no pun intended) for the rest of the show.
