

Jumbo, implied to be the mate of the aforementioned bull due to Dumbo's birth name being "Jumbo Junior", was waiting for a very long time or something funny was going on with the writers.
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Anachronism Stew: The real Jumbo died in a railway accident in 1885, the movie takes place in then present day 1941.Ambiguous Situation: For a posthumous character, in that we don't know if Jumbo's father is meant to be that Jumbo or simply a case of Named After Someone Famous.(Doubling as a Stealth Pun.) Now, it’s said to be Dandy. The leader crow's name was originally "Jim".The big-eared kid who teased Dumbo was named "Skinny".The four Gossiping Elephants are unnamed in the film, but the model sheets label them as "Catty", "Giddy", "Prissy", and "Matriarch".Then they cheer as it seems the clowns are even funnier when they're trying to avoid him. All Part of the Show: When Dumbo goes off-script in the climax and starts flying around the big top, the audience gasps at first.All of the Other Reindeer: All the other elephants ostracize Dumbo on the account of his large ears.Quite possibly the definitive example of this trope.

Alcohol Is LSD: " Pink Elephants on Parade ".Alcohol Hic: Dumbo and Timothy become very cute versions of these.Alpha Bitch: The Matriarch, who is the ringleader of the elephant clique that picks on Mrs.She was not implied to be the mate of the famous Jumbo, so rather than being an implied Dead Guy Junior, Dumbo was Named After Somebody Famous. Jumbo was named Ella in the original book. Actually Pretty Funny: At the end, when Dumbo knocks the clown on the ladder into the bucket of water he was supposed to land in, the other clowns are all grinning at his very annoyed face, despite being soaked by the splash.


Jumbo, who attempts to hide her son from the ridicule. This causes the other elephants and circus patrons to laugh at him, giving him the derogatory nickname of Dumbo. Jumbo receiving a new baby from the stork: a baby with incredibly large ears. The movie opens with circus elephant Mrs. Thanks to this and a re-release in 1949, Dumbo was the most profitable Disney film of the decade. Fortunately, it paid off and enough money was made to complete Bambi. After a short children's book about a flying circus elephant was brought to his attention, Disney made Dumbo on a pretty cheap budget (it cost less than half as much as Pinocchio or Fantasia). Production for the equally expensive Bambi was already well underway, and Disney had to quickly find a way to make some money in order to complete the movie. The previous year, Disney released two expensive animated features, Pinocchio and Fantasia, that both bombed at the box office. "I seen a peanut stand, heard a rubber bandĭumbo is a 1941 animated film, the fourth in the Disney Animated Canon.
