Trivia / The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

• All-Star Cast: The English dub includes Leslie Nielsen, Eric Idle, Fred Willard, and Robert Hays.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: There is a bit of copypasta floating around the Internet claiming, among other things, that in E. T. A. Hoffmann's original story Marie lived in a loveless household, that she was depicted lying in a pool of her own blood after injuring herself, and that her parents punished her for it by locking her in her room until she admitted she'd been naughty. Only the second part is true: Marie breaks the glass in the front of her doll cabinet and slices her arm open, and her mother finds her lying there surrounded by her dolls and passed out from loss of blood. Her mother does mildly scold her for the accident, but only because she's been worried, and her parents don't confine her to her room as a punishment, but because she needs to recover from such an injury.^note It also could be confusing another scene; the battle between the Nutcracker and Mouse King is off-screen but when the Nutcracker returns depending on translation, it usually says that "the Mouse King has been bathed in his own blood."

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