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New Disney shorts coming soon! (re-re-revised again)

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Sorry to report that we made yet another in our long series of mistakes yesterday when we re-re-revised our announcement that Disney had announced a series of all-new short cartoons. We said that the titles of the shorts would be Disney feature film titles mashed up with famous movies, and this is not the case. In fact, it’s such a silly idea that because we didn’t question it in the first place, we’re going to go drown ourselves in the bathtub as soon as we’re done with this post. (Seriously, we’ve had about all we can take of this from us.)

Instead, the title of each of these parody shorts will be a "mashup" of a classic Disney film and a famous book title. For example, "Tangled" might be combined with Ray Bradbury’s "Something Wicked This Way Comes," giving us "Something Tangled This Way Comes."

Disney hopes that fans will enjoy trying to puzzle out what the original film and play were and what the parody will be like from the "mashup" title and then tune in to see what it’s like. Our at-this-point-obviously-completely-unreliable sources deep within Disney report that titles currently in production include:

  • The 7 Swords in the Stones of Highly Effective People
  • The Absent-Minded American Psycho
  • The Adventures of Oedipus and Mr. Rex
  • Aladdin of Green Gables
  • Angels in the Leaves of Grass
  • Are you there God? It’s Me, Squanto
  • The Aristocats Always Ring Twice
  • The Autobiography of Alice B. Wonderland
  • Beowulf and the Beast
  • Blackbeard’s Great Expectations
  • Blackboard Junglebook
  • The Bolt Report
  • A Brief History of Melody Time
  • The Call of the Wild Babes in Toyland
  • The Candleshoe Manifesto
  • Captain Underpants: Fully Loaded
  • Cars-22
  • The Cat in the Hat from Outer Space
  • Chicken Little Soup for the Soul
  • The Clan of the Country Bears
  • Curious George Goes Bananas
  • Cuthulu Wore Tennis Shoes
  • The Da Vinci Cauldron
  • Darby O’Gill and the Little Women
  • Davy Crockett, King of Flatland
  • The Descent of the Monkey’s Uncle
  • Diary of a Wimpy Princess
  • The Dinosaur in the Rye
  • Dumbo Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • Electraphobia
  • The Emperor’s Brave New Groove
  • Escape to My Side of the Mountain
  • Fantasia 1984
  • The Feminine Mystique, or Ten Weeks With a Circus
  • The Fox and the Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Fun and Fancy Fahrenheit 451
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel Ride Again
  • The Girl with the Reluctant Dragon Tattoo
  • Go Ask Ernest
  • Gone with the Song of the South
  • Good Morning Dune
  • Gulliver, I Shrunk the Kids
  • The Happiest Exorcist
  • Harry Potter and the Living Desert
  • Herbie Goes to Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Hercules Shrugged
  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Haunted Mansion
  • Homer on the Range
  • Hot War and Cold Peace
  • How to Win Friends and Influence the Apple Dumpling Gang
  • I Know Why the Little Mermaid Sings
  • The Island at the Top of the World According to Garp
  • James and the Giant Clockwork Orange
  • The Joy of Cooking Brother Bear
  • The Last of the Atlantians
  • The Late, Great Treasure Planet
  • Lolita & Stitch
  • Lord of the Bug’s Life
  • The Love Bible
  • Love in the Time of Cinderella
  • Make Mine Moby-Dick
  • Mars Needs Metamorphosis
  • Meet the Robinsons Livingston Seagull
  • Men are from Monsters, Inc., Women are from Fantasia
  • A Midsummer Nightmare Before Christmas
  • The Mighty Ravens
  • The Million Dollar Duck of Ivan Ilyich
  • A Modest Pinocchio
  • Mulan Quixote
  • The Muppet Masters
  • Native Son of Flubber
  • Of Bambi and Men
  • Oh Bedknobs! My Broomsticks!
  • The One and Only, Genuine, Original Faustian Band
  • One Hundred and One Years of Solitude
  • One Tron in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno: Best of Both Worlds Concert
  • Pete’s Decameron
  • Peyton Place Chihuahua
  • The Picture of Mary Poppins
  • The Pilgrim’s Incredible Progress
  • The Pirates of Madison County
  • Pocahontas and Prejudice
  • The Princess and the Pendulum
  • Rememberance of Titans Past
  • The Rescuers Down Under the Little House on the Prairie
  • The Rescuers’ Badge of Courage
  • Return to Ozymandias
  • Rhyme of the Gnome-Mobile
  • Saludos Ulysses
  • The Second Tex
  • The Shaggy Dog Whisperer
  • Silent Spring: Legacy
  • The Sister Act of the Traveling Pants
  • Snow White and the House of the Seven Gables
  • So Dear to My Sons and Lovers
  • Something Tangled This Way Comes
  • The Strongest Man in the War of the Worlds
  • Sweet Valley High School Musical
  • A Tale of Two Caballeros
  • That Darn Oedipus!
  • Their Eyes Were Watching Sleeping Beauty
  • Think and Grow Ratatouille
  • Thus Spoke Thomasina
  • Tin Drum Story
  • To Kill a Lion King
  • A Tree Grows in Treasure Island
  • Twilight and the Tramp
  • Uncle Tom’s Tarzan
  • Unidentified Flying Brothers Karamazov
  • Up Around the World in 80 Days
  • Valley of the Toy Story 2 Dolls
  • Victory Through Hobbit Power
  • Vindication of the Rights of Zorro
  • WALL-E and the Chocolate Factory
  • The Watcher in the Woods on a Snowy Evening
  • What to Expect When You’re Enchanted
  • Where the Black Hole Grows
  • Where’s Nemo?
  • Who Framed Hamlet’s Father
  • Wuthering Herbie

Did we miss any? If you’ve heard of any additional titles in this series (or if you hear that we got one wrong), be sure to immediately let us know in the comments! And if we got it completely wrong again this time — we give up!

New Disney shorts coming soon! (re-revised again)

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Sorry to report that we made yet another little mistake yesterday when we re-revised our announcement that Disney had announced a series of all-new short cartoons. We said that the titles of the shorts would be Disney feature film titles mashed up with famous stage productions, and this is not the case. In fact, it’s such a silly idea that we deserve to be brought up on charges for not having questioned it in the first place.

Instead, the title of each of these parody shorts will be a "mashup" of a classic Disney film and a famous non-Disney film. For example, "Tangled" might be combined with Troma’s "The Toxic Avenger," giving us "The Tangled Avenger."

Disney hopes that fans will enjoy trying to puzzle out what the original film and play were and what the parody will be like from the "mashup" title and then tune in to see what it’s like. Our yet-again-revised sources deep within Disney report that titles currently in production include:

  • 20,000 Showgirls Under the Sea
  • Abbot and Costello meet the Cat from Outer Space
  • The Absent-Minded Professor Goes to Washington
  • Ace Ventura: Great Mouse Detective
  • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mister Tibbs
  • Aladdin of Arabia
  • Aliens, Inc.
  • Apocalypse Nemo
  • Arachnaquadrophenia
  • Beauty and the Graduate
  • Bedknobs and the Birth of a Nation
  • Beverly Hills Caddyshack
  • Blackbeard’s Ghostbusters
  • The Blacula Cauldron
  • The Blade Runner’s Apprentice
  • Bolt-Hur
  • Bowling for Candleshoe
  • Brother Jazz Singer
  • Charlie’s Angels in the Outfield
  • Citizen Clause
  • Clerks on the Range
  • The Country Bears Chainsaw Massacre
  • Darby O’Gill or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Little People
  • Davy Crockett, King of the Crying Game
  • Dawn of the Enchanted
  • Dead Pocahontas’ Society
  • Deliverance in Wonderland
  • Dial M for Mulan
  • Dr. Up
  • The Emperor’s New Social Network
  • Ernest Goes Psycho
  • Escape from Fantasia
  • The Evil Dead Wore Tennis Shoes
  • Fantasia 2000: A Space Odyssey
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High School Musical
  • Faster, Aristocats! Kill! Kill!
  • Forrest Gump: A Warrior’s Tale
  • Freaky Friday the 13th
  • Fun and Fancy Fight Club
  • G-Force from Navarone
  • Good Morning Fargo
  • The Good, The Bad, and the Monkey’s Uncle
  • The Great Escape to Witch Mountain
  • The Happiest Slumdog Millionaire
  • Haunted Mansion Home Alone
  • Herbie Goes Commando
  • Herbie Rides Back to the Future
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Matrix
  • Hot Lead and Die Hard
  • The Incredible Shrinking Journey
  • The Island at the Top of Brazil
  • It’s a Wonderful Bug’s Life
  • The Jungle Book Fever
  • Lilo & Thelma & Louise
  • The Lion Sting
  • The Little Mermaid Poseidon Adventure
  • Living Desert of the Spotless Mind
  • The Logan Dumpling Gang Runs Again
  • Lost Weekend: Fully Loaded
  • Mad Max Goes Bananas
  • Make Mine Spinal Tap
  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Across the 8th Dimension
  • Mars Needs Napoleon Dynamite
  • Meet the Robinsons Who Knew Too Much
  • Melody Time Bandits
  • The Mighty Jaws
  • The Million Dollar Duck Soup
  • Monty Python and the Giant Peach
  • National Lampoon’s Shaggy Dog House
  • The National Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Night of the Living Dumbo
  • Nightmare on Elm Street Before Christmas
  • Old Yeller: Dead and Loving It
  • The Omen-Mobile
  • The One and Only, Genuine, Original Plan 9 from Outer Space
  • One Hundred and One Reservoir Dogs
  • One of Our Third Men is Missing
  • Operation Rocky Drop
  • The Passion of the Apple Dumpling Gang
  • Peter Pan’s Big Adventure
  • Pete’s Maltese Dragon
  • Predator vs. Hercules
  • Pride of the Incredibles
  • The Princess and the Breakfast Club
  • The Princess Bride Diaries
  • Raiders of the Lost Atlantis
  • The Ratatouille Horror Picture Show
  • Rebel Without a Cars
  • The Reluctant Godfather
  • Remember the Clash of the Titans
  • Return from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
  • The Road Warrior Down Under
  • Robin N da Hood
  • Robocop & Company
  • Rosemary’s Bambi
  • Saturday Night Flubber
  • Saving Private Pinocchio
  • The Saw in the Stone
  • Scream Story / Scream Story 2 / Scream Story 3
  • Se7en of the South
  • The Shaggy Dog Day Afternoon
  • The Sign of El Mariachi
  • Silence of the Poppins
  • Singin’ in the Black Hole
  • Sleepless Beauty in Seattle
  • Snow White and the Seven Samurai
  • Some Like It Hunchback
  • Star Wars and Star Trek: Best of Both Worlds Concert
  • Strangers on a Dinosaur
  • The Strongest Manchurian Candidate in the World
  • Swiss Family Rollerball
  • The Tangled Avenger
  • Tarzan and Maude
  • Taxi Driver Rides Again
  • Terminator of the Caribbean
  • That Darn Deer Hunter!
  • Three Days of the Condorman
  • Throw Cinderella from the Train
  • Titanic: Legacy
  • Toby or Not Toby Tyler
  • Tootsie and the Tramp
  • Treasure Planet of the Apes
  • The Tron Commandments
  • Twelve Angry Caballeros
  • Unidentified Flying Airplane!
  • Victory Through Avatar Power
  • WALL-E.T.
  • The Watchmen in the Woods
  • What Ever Happened to Babes in Toyland?
  • Who Framed JFK
  • The World’s Greatest Chinatown

Did we miss any? If you’ve heard of any additional titles in this series (or if you hear that we got one wrong), be sure to immediately let us know in the comments!

New Disney shorts coming soon! (revised again)

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Sorry to report that we made another little mistake yesterday when we revised our announcement that Disney had announced a series of all-new short cartoons. We said that the titles of the shorts would be Disney feature film titles with one letter changed, and this is not the case. In fact, it’s such a silly idea that we deserve to be slapped silly for not having questioned it in the first place.

Instead, the title of each of these parody shorts will be a "mashup" of a classic Disney film and a famous musical, play, or other stage production. For example, "Tangled" might be combined with Shakespeare’s "All’s Well That Ends Well," giving us "All’s Well that Ends Tangled."

Disney hopes that fans will enjoy trying to puzzle out what the original film and play were and what the parody will be like from the "mashup" title and then tune in to see what it’s like. Our again revised sources deep within Disney report that titles currently in production include:

  • The Absent-Minded Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • Alice Get Your Gun
  • All’s Well that Ends Tangled
  • Annie Poppins
  • Aristo-Cats
  • Arsenic and Old Yeller
  • Atlantis!
  • Beauty and the Chorus Line
  • Bedknobs and Magic Flutes
  • The Best Little Hunchback in Texas
  • Bring in ‘da Monsters, Bring in ‘da Inc.
  • The Brother Bear of Seville
  • Bye Bye Bambi
  • Cabaret on the Range
  • The Cat from Avenue Q
  • Cirque du Saludos Amigos
  • Death of a Condorman
  • Ernest Goes to Swan Lake
  • Flubber on the Roof
  • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered High School When the Musical is Enuf
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Black Hole
  • Guys and Cars
  • Gypsy-Force
  • H.M.S. Pocahontas
  • Hairspray: Fully Loaded
  • Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Characters in Search of an Author
  • Haunted Mansion of the August Moon
  • Hello, WALL-E!
  • Herbie and the Angry Inch
  • Honey, I’m Waiting for Godot
  • Hot Lead and Cold Grease
  • How to Succeed in the One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band Without Really Trying
  • The Importance of Being Enchanted
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Squanto
  • Kiss Me, Bolt
  • The Last of the Red Hot Little Mermaids
  • Les Incroyables
  • Lilo & Bess
  • The Lion King and I
  • Love Bug aux Falles
  • M. Bug’s Life
  • Make Mine the Music Man
  • The Many Adventures of Wagner’s Ring
  • The Marriage of Dumbo
  • Mars Needs Mama Mia!
  • Mikado O’Gill and the Little People
  • The Miracle Worker’s Apprentice
  • My Fair Lady and the Tramp
  • No Deposit, No Glass Menagerie
  • The Nutcracker Before Christmas
  • Oedipus Tex
  • Oh, Cinderella!
  • Oliver & Company Are Dead
  • Operation Elephant Man Drop
  • Our Town Chihuahua
  • Peter Pan Superstar
  • The Pinocchio of Second Avenue
  • Pirates of Penzance of the Caribbean
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Flying Dutchman
  • The Princess Deathtrap
  • The Producers Wore Tennis Shoes
  • Rent in Toyland
  • Rigoletto Down Under
  • The Rocketteers
  • Same Tron Next Year
  • Seven Brides for Seven Dwarves
  • Stop the Country Bears — I Want to Get Off
  • A Streetcar Named Dinosaur
  • Sunday in the Park with George of the Jungle
  • That Darn Cat on a Hot Tin Roof!
  • West Side Toy Story
  • Who’s Afraid of the Mighty Ducks?

Did we miss any? If you’ve heard of any additional titles in this series (or if you hear that we got one wrong), be sure to immediately let us know in the comments!

New Disney shorts coming soon! (revised)

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Sorry to report that we made a little mistake yesterday when we reported that Disney had announced a series of all-new short cartoons. We said that the titles of the shorts would be shortened versions of Disney feature film titles, and this is not the case. In fact, it’s such a silly idea that we’re embarrassed not to have questioned it in the first place.

Instead, each of these parody shorts will share the title of a Disney feature film, but with one letter changed. For example, the "a" in "Tangled" is changed to an "i", giving us "Tingled."

Disney hopes that fans will enjoy trying to puzzle out what the original film was and what the parody will be like from its "slightly modified" title and then tune in to see what it’s like. Our revised sources deep within Disney report that titles currently in production include:

  • Alive in Wonderland
  • The Apple Rumpling Gang
  • The Arestocats
  • Atlantis: The Lost Umpire
  • Babes in Boyland
  • Beauty and the Feast
  • The Black Hope
  • Bombi
  • Brother Beer
  • Cabs
  • Candorman
  • Catatouille
  • Chucken Little
  • The Commuter Wore Tennis Shoes
  • The Country Beers
  • Dambo
  • Dolt
  • Dome on the Range
  • Fartasia
  • Fun and Fancy Tree
  • Funding Nemo
  • G-Farce
  • Gong of the South
  • The Great Souse Detective
  • Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Pest of Both Worlds Concert
  • Herbie Rises Again
  • Herbie: Fully Loafed
  • The Honkey’s Uncle
  • Hot Lead and Gold Feet
  • James and the Giant Beach
  • The Jungle Cook
  • Lady and the Cramp
  • Lilo & Snitch
  • The Live Bug
  • The Loon King
  • The Loving Desert
  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Poof
  • Mars Feeds Moms
  • Mercules
  • The Mighty Docks
  • Milan
  • The Million Dollar Deck
  • Mobsters, Inc.
  • The Nightmaze Before Christmas
  • Old Teller
  • Operation Dumbo Drip
  • Pantasia 2000
  • The Parent Wrap
  • Pele’s Dragon
  • The Pocketeer
  • The Princess and the Grog
  • Punocchio
  • Robin Food
  • A Rug’s Life
  • Sandleshoe
  • The Sappiest Millionaire
  • The Shaggy Hog
  • The Sigh of Zorro
  • Sinderella
  • Sister Ace
  • Snow Whine and the Seven Dwarfs
  • The Strongest Fan in the World
  • Sweeping Beauty
  • That Yarn Cat!
  • The Three Limes of Thomasina
  • Tingled
  • Toe Story
  • Ton of Flubber
  • Toon: Legacy
  • Troy
  • Ug
  • Unidentified Frying Oddball
  • WALL-I
  • Wary Poppins

Did we miss any? If you’ve heard of any additional titles in this series (or if you hear that we got one wrong), be sure to immediately let us know in the comments!

New Disney shorts coming soon!

Monday, April 11th, 2011

To the joy of all, Disney has announced that beginning this summer it will be running all-new short cartoons between main features on the Disney Channel. Each of these shorts will be a parody of a Disney feature film with a "short-ened" name — that is, each short’s title will be the title of a Disney film with one or more characters removed. For example, "Tangled" loses its first letter and becomes "Angled."

Disney hopes that fans will enjoy trying to puzzle out what the original film was and what the parody will be like from its "short" title and then tune in to see what it’s like. Our sources deep within Disney report that titles currently in production include:

  • 20,000 Legs Under the Sea
  • Angled
  • The Apple Dumping Gag
  • Babs in Toyland
  • The Back Cauldron
  • Beauty and the Beat
  • Bedknobs and Boomsticks
  • The Black Hoe
  • Blackbard’s Ghost
  • Bot
  • Brother Ear
  • A Bug’s Lie
  • Chanted
  • Chick Lit
  • The Computer Wore Ten Shoes
  • Condoman
  • The County Bars
  • Darby O’Gill and the Little Pope
  • Davy Rockett, Kin of the Wild Frontier
  • Dumb
  • The Emperor’s New Grove
  • Escape to Itch Mountain
  • Fatasia
  • Fay Friday
  • Finding Emo
  • Fun and Fancy Fee
  • The Great Muse Detective
  • The Haggy Dog
  • Herbie Goes Baaa
  • Home on the Rage
  • Hot Lad and Old Feet
  • The Hunted Mason
  • The Incredible Joey
  • The Inedibles
  • The Ion King
  • The Island at the Top of the Word
  • James and the Giant Pea
  • The Jung Book
  • Lady and the Trap
  • Lice in Wonderland
  • The Lite Mermaid
  • Liver & Company
  • The Man Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
  • The Mare For Christ
  • Melody Tim
  • Met the Robinsons
  • The Million Doll Duck
  • The Money’s Uncle
  • Natal Treasure
  • The Nom-Mobile
  • The Ox and the Hound
  • Oy, I Shrunk the Kids
  • Pates of the Caribbean
  • Peter Pa
  • Pets Dragon
  • The Princess and the Fog
  • The Princess Dares
  • Rare Island
  • The Reluctant Rag
  • The Rent Rap
  • The Rocker
  • Ron
  • The Santa Case
  • The Sin of Zorro
  • Snow White and the Even Dwarfs
  • So Dear to My Heat
  • Son of Lubber
  • Song of the Sot
  • Squato: A Warrior’s Ale
  • The Strongest Ma in the World
  • The Tiger Movie
  • Treasure Plant
  • The Tree Caballeros
  • Tron: Lacy
  • U
  • Unidentified Lying Oddball
  • Urn from Itch Mountain
  • Victory Through AI Power
  • WALL
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbi
  • The Word in the Stone

Did we miss any? If you’ve heard of any additional titles in this series (or if you hear that we got one wrong), be sure to immediately let us know in the comments!

Another title change

Friday, March 19th, 2010

On the heels of the gigantic fiasco that arose recently when Disney, going against hundreds of years of tradition and the will of the people, decide to change the upcoming animated feature’s title from Rapunzel to Tangled, rumors have arisen that Pixar may be about to make the same kind of devastating unprecedented flip-flopping reversal.

According to someone who heard something on some blog somewhere, Pixar’s The Bear and the Bow (the touching story of a princess who wants to stop training with her Bowflex and just sit around watching Brother Bear) may instead be released with the title Brave. Scandalous as this may seem, there are actually some reasonable reasons for making such a change. For example, shorter titles are easier to remember and to spell, and don’t take up as much room on the Internet. The title also has some historical precedent — those of us who are Americans of a certain age can remember the days before the 28th amendment when we used to stand with our hands over our hearts at baseball games while someone sang about “the land of the free and the home of the bear and the bow.”

But the important thing to remember here is that Disney often creates films under working titles that were changed before final release. A few examples:

Release Title Original Title
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Snow White and Dopey, Doc, Sneezy, Sleepy, Grumpy, Happy, and Bashful
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (Highlights)
The Black Cauldron The Negro Cauldron
The Great Mouse Detective Basil Who Lives on the Same Block as Sherlock Holmes
Lilo & Stitch Lilo & Stitch & Ted & Alice
Home on the Range Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Who Censored Roger Rabbit?; Who Shot Roger Rabbit?; Who Strangled Roger Rabbit?; Who the Heck is Roger Rabbit?
James and the Giant Peach A Clockwork Orange
Tron Ron

A new plot for Rapunzel

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Disney’s upcoming Rapunzel animated feature has gone through a number of pre-production changes of late. Apparently, some of the creative forces behind the film were concerned that it was turning out to be too much of a “traditional princess tale,” and thought that a stronger, more modern main character would be more popular with audiences. The film was renamed Tangled and its story was completely reworked.

According to an official Disney press release that was channeled to us from a local astrologer, “Tangled will be the story of Rapunzel, a woman who took a nazarite vow at birth that has made her an amazing warrior. After an incident in her youth when she burned down an enemy’s field by setting local animals on fire, she was locked in a tower for fear that she would destroy the town if let free.

“As a teenager, Rapunzel is visited by a young man, Delilo, who speaks to her while standing at the base of the tower. Delilo is from Philistia, a town that is the historical enemy of Rapunzel’s town. Even so, they fall in love. But the inhabitants of Philistia are enraged when, at Delilo and Rapunzel’s wedding, she beats thirty of them to death for guessing the answer to her favorite riddle. They tie her up, intent on taking her back to her tower, but she breaks free and kills a thousand more, using the jawbone of her funny talking animal pall ‘Donkey’ as a weapon.

“Things go downhill from there. Delilo is upset by all the violence, and uses his manly wiles to get Rapunzel to tell him that the secret of her strength is in her hair. In the night, Delilo cuts Rapunzel’s hair and then lets in her enemies, who poke out her eyes with swords. Rapunzel, blind and powerless, is bound between two pillars on the steps of the capital of Philistia. Gathering her will, Rapunzel miraculously grows her hair out to its full length in an instant, pulls down the pillars of the capital (causing it to collapse and crush the elders of the town), and beats the living daylights out of everyone within reach.

“In the end, Delilo sees the horror brought by his treachery. He sings a happy love song to Rapunzel, who responds in kind. They renew their wedding vows in a lovely ceremony at the base of her tower, attended by all the creatures of the forest. Rapunzel opens a blacksmith shop, and they live happily ever after.”

New Pixar Short

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Pixar has announced that the short accompanying the highly anticipated Toy Story 3: Lost in New York will be titled “Day and Knight.” Said John Lasseter’s personal shirt architect, “This short will finally answer the Internet-hotbutton question, what would happen if Doris Day and Ted Knight had had a baby?”

Imitating film

Friday, March 12th, 2010

An article on AOL Health (“All The News That’s Fit for Hypochondriacs”) reports that children all around the country are being infected by salmonella, breaking out in warts, and hungering for flies after kissing frogs in imitation of Disney’s animated feature The Princess and the Frog. There have even been reports of children in France becoming so orally fixated on frogs that they are actually eating the things! The story seems ridiculous on its face (for example, not even a crazy person would eat a reptile, and everyone knows you get salmonella from salmon, not frogs), but it does have an echo of truth in it — over the years, there have been many cases of children doing silly things in imitation of Disney films.

For example:

  • In the 1950s, little boys all across the country, in imitation of their TV hero Davy Crockett, donned raccoon-skin caps and ran for Congress.
  • The popular Frisbee toy was invented to sate children yearning to imitate the disc-battling antics of their movie hero Tron.
  • After the release of Beauty and the Beast, little girls followed the movie heroine’s lead and began to read books for entertainment (much to the annoyance of film-based corporations, causing Disney to focus its next animated film, Aladdin, on a more commercial female role model — a marriage-obsessed princess in scanty clothes who hangs out with big, fluffy animals).
  • Many children who saw Toy Story subsequently wanted toys.

This is not to say that The Princess and the Frog has had no impact on children. Quit the contrary — although there are no reliable reports of children doing anything so ridiculous as kissing frogs, a number of youths in the southern U.S. have been devoured (whole or in part) while trying to teach alligators to play jazz music.

The Princess and the Frog

Monday, February 1st, 2010

We wanted to get a Princess and the Frog lies page up some time before the thing was out on DVD, so here it is!

DisneyLies.com: The Princess and the Frog

Beware, it’s full of spoilers that will completely ruin the film for those of you who foolishly haven’t seen it! After you read it, be sure to leave your comments in the comments.