YMMV / Adventures in Music Duology

• Awesome Music: Both of these shorts focus on music, so it's inevitable they'd give us memorable tunes. Among them are "The Bird and the Cricket and the Willow Tree", "Lemon Drop Moon", "The Old Iron Horse", "Motherhood", and "A Toot, and a Whistle, and a Plunk, and a Boom".
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In "Melody", Bertie Birdbrain pronounces Homo sapiens as "Homer Sappens", which sounds very similar to the name of a certain Bumbling Dad.
• More Popular Spin-Off: Footage from these shorts (as well as footage from Professor Owl's appearance from the Walt Disney Presents episode that carried the second short's title) was used in the 1980s and '90s Disney Sing-Along Songs video series, so that Professor Owl "hosted" the collections of Disney songs. Children of the '80s and '90s tend to remember Professor Owl and his students better from those videos than from the shorts themselves.
• Sequel Displacement: "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom" is more well-known than "Melody".
• Values Dissonance: Both shorts, but especially "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom", contain many racial caricatures, such as "Injuns" and even blackfaces at one point. These scenes are usually edited out in subsequent television airings, but were restored on DVD for preservation purposes.