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The Rescuers / Disney
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Rescuers is the 23rd entry in the Disney Animated Canon. Two mice, Miss Bianca (Eva Gabor) and Bernard (Bob Newhart), travel around the world to "R - E - S - C - U - E" cute human children while dealing with their own Unresolved Sexual Tension. The film was based on a series of children's books by Margery Sharp. The main similarities are with the first two books, where an orphan girl called Patience is kidnapped and held as a cleaning slave by a cruel diamond-obsessed Duchess.The Rescuers was released in 1977. The flamboyantly evil Madame Medusa (Geraldine Page) is trying to get her hands on the world's largest diamond hidden in a gloomy swamp. Needing someone who will fit in a tiny grotto, she kidnaps a disconsolate orphan girl named Penny (Michelle Stacy). Penny sends out a Message in a Bottle asking for help, which is intercepted by the all-mouse Rescue Aid Society, who for some reason, do not put it somewhere the police might find it while they send out their own agents. Bianca (Eva Gabor) and Bernard (Bob Newhart) are then sent out to save her, with help from an albatross named Orville (Jim Jordan) and a dragonfly named Evinrude (James MacDonald).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })What makes the movie interesting in a Real Life sense is how it came during a time when Disney was facing changing fortunes. The film was almost a reflection of how the Disney company was facing up to the death of its founder — the late '70s Disney movies tended to be considerably darker than their forebears, reaching a nadir with the next movie, The Fox and the Hound. These movies both contained utterly gut-wrenching examples of Parental Abandonment. And Madame Medusa's casual nastiness towards Penny in the first movie ("What makes you think anyone would want a homely little girl like you?") comes up against the more outlandish behavior of any Disney villain in history simply because as a verbal shiv, to a freaking child, it has no equal (well, maybe one or two). On the technical side, this film was the first Disney animated film to move away from the hard scratchy outline look that was the norm for Disney animation since 101 Dalmatians thanks to improvements of xerography processing technology to allow a softer look. It was also one of the few box office successes for Disney in the post-Walt/pre-Renaissance era, being the highest grossing animated film of all time until one of its directors, Don Bluth, challenged Disney with An American Tail nearly a decade later. In addition, this helped give rise to Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers due to originally being a series based off the movie until Down Under was greenlit, at which point Tad Stones helped mold the series into what it was. Most importantly, it was the last film Walt Disney himself had even the smallest bit of involvement in whatsoever, as the earliest plans for it began two years before his death.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })It was followed up by a sequel in 1990. For tropes related to that film, please visit The Rescuers Down Under. | |
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Creator Cameo: Ollie Johnston modeled Rufus after himself. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Rescue Aid Society looks an awful lot like a rodent United Nations. Considering the Rescue Aid Society IS underneath the actual United Nations, this is probably not a coincidence. | |
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Losing a Shoe in the Struggle | |
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Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Bianca loses her hat as Brutus and Nero try to catch them in the organ. | |
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Misplaced Wildlife | |
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Misplaced Wildlife: Albatrosses aren't normally found north of the equator, although they were present in Bermuda in prehistoric times. What one of them doing in New York is anyone's guess. | |
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Artistic License – Geology | |
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Artistic License – Geology: As the mice and Penny try to salvage the diamond, they are nearly drowned by a rising tide, even though, during the film's production, one animator pointed out that there is hardly ever any tide in the bayou. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Recycled Animation of Bambi and his mother grazing in a field can be seen during "Someone's Waiting For You." Some of the birds seen in that film make an appearance as well. | |
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Smuggling with Dolls | |
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Smuggling with Dolls: Madam Medusa eventually steals orphan Penny's teddy bear, seemingly to use as a hostage, but ostensibly to use it to smuggle the Devil's Eye away. | |
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Talking Animal | |
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Talking Animal: Watching the movie, it would seem to be left uncertain whether anyone other than Penny can actually understand the animals in the series. However, Word of God ("Disney's Wonderful World of Reading", 1977) states that the only reason Rufus the cat never told another child or adult at the orphanage about what had happened to Penny was that nobody asked him. Notably, the crocodiles don't talk, though. | |
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Product Displacement | |
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Product Displacement: Every home release for Rescuers from 1999-2003 omits the first Buena Vista logo and replaces it for Disney's (by this time outdated) white castle Vanity Plate. The 35th Anniversary Edition Blu-Ray and DVD, released 2012, restore Buena Vista's name to the opening. | |
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Big Shadow, Little Creature | |
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Big Shadow, Little Creature: The opening scene shows the shadow of an adult figure cast on the door until we see little Penny walking through it. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Bianca's perfume. She and Bernard have an Oh, Crap! moment when Brutus and Nero follow the scent and find their hiding spot in Medusa's boat, but later on they realize that they can use it as bait to lure them in a cage, so that they won't chase after Penny for trying to escape. It works like a charm in the climax to take Brutus and Nero out of the fight. Penny's teddy bear; Medusa puts the Devil's Eye diamond in it to smuggle out of the bayou. Luke's potent "swamp juice" also proves to be strong enough to bump-start the "swampmobile". | |
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Parasol Parachute | |
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Parasol Parachute: Bernard and Bianca employ this after Orville gets shot at with fireworks and spirals out of control. | |
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Close-Call Haircut | |
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Close-Call Haircut: Madame Medusa accidentally gives Snoops a free haircut when hammering on her jammed shotgun. | |
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KickTheDog | |
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Kick the Dog: Madame Medusa's line "What makes you think anyone would want a homely little girl as you?" after pretty much saying she's not going to take Penny back to the orphanage, as she promised. It's a line almost shocking in its cruelty towards a young child, especially when you remember how Medusa throws it at Penny without even thinking about it. | |
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Minion with an F in Evil | |
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Minion with an F in Evil: Mr. Snoops is not willing to keep Penny down in the cave when the tide is rising. He also suggests to just make a fortune off the diamonds she has brought up. And unlike Medusa, who scares Penny, Penny knows that his threats are empty bluffs, and the worst he does is tell her not to sass him. | |
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Leaf Boat | |
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Leaf Boat: Bernard and Bianca use a large leaf propelled by Evinrude the dragonfly in order to find and rescue Penny. | |
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Skintone Sclerae | |
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Skin Tone Sclerae: Some of the characters, including Bernard and Bianca (less noticeable on her, since she's already white-furred) did not have the whites of their eyes colored in. | |
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On Second Thought | |
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On Second Thought: In the cave, Bernard goes to investigate the water hole as he assumes that is where the treasure must be hidden. Upon taking a closer look at the Bottomless Pit and taking a Loud Gulp, he decides that a pirate would probably not hide his treasure there. | |
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Ankle Drag | |
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Ankle Drag: When Snoops makes a run for the teddy bear with the diamond in it, Madame Medusa grabs him by his leg and he falls. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: Bianca as well as Medusa. | |
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Adult Fear | |
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Adult Fear: Penny's entire situation: Rufus tells the mice that Medusa offered Penny a ride, but Penny wouldn't have been foolish enough to take a ride from a "trashy lady" like her. Which likely means that Penny had to be taken by force and even though she is a Plucky Girl, she's also small enough for Snoops to drag her around by the arm. The police haven't found any leads and have closed the case, assuming Penny has run away. Then we find out that Medusa and Snoops kidnapped Penny so that she could go into a tide-filled cave, due to being small enough to fit, and seek a diamond. Penny is in danger of drowning or even being sucked out to sea through a hole in the cave, as well as running through a dangerous swamp on at least one occasion. | |
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Happily Adopted | |
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Happily Adopted: Penny at the film's end. | |
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PlankGag | |
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Plank Gag: Bernard is rather clumsy with the comb-ladder he carries into the R.A.S. meeting and nearly hits the Chairman with it, repeatedly. | |
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Interspecies Friendship | |
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Interspecies Friendship: Involves mice talking to and befriending humans. The film even has a cat talking to and befriending both humans AND mice. | |
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Angry Fist-Shake | |
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Angry Fist-Shake: The spider does this when Evinrude and the bats destroy its net. | |
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Umbrella of Togetherness | |
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Umbrella of Togetherness: Bernard and Bianca share an umbrella a couple of times while they are under the rain. | |
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Fantastic Fireworks | |
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Fantastic Fireworks: After Penny is recaptured following her escape attempt, Mr. Snoops sets off fireworks that spell out the message "GOT GIRL" to alert Madame Medusa. | |
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No Pronunciation Guide | |
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No Pronunciation Guide: The way Evinrude's name is pronounced depends on the character. Ellie Mae and Bernard say it with a long "e" sound as "Ee-vinrude," while Bianca uses the short "e" sound as "Eh-vinrude." | |
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PantyShot | |
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Panty Shot: Penny is seen in her underwear twice (played completely innocently in both cases). First, the alligators rip her panties by accident when catching her for Medusa, and second, she shows off said ripped panties to Bernard and Bianca as a demonstration of how nasty Medusa's alligators can be. Medusa has two: once when she's on the chair screaming about the mice and once when the fireworks are used as a diversion when Penny's starting up the swamp-mobile. | |
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Suddenly Shouting | |
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Suddenly SHOUTING!: Medusa demands of Penny after stealing her teddy bear, "You get down there and find the big diamond, or you will NEVER SEE THAT TEDDY AGAIN!!!" | |
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Pest Episode | |
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Pest Episode: Subverted — Medusa thinks she has an infestation aboard the ship, so she sends her crocodiles, Brutus and Nero, after Bianca and Bernard. | |
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Finger in a Barrel | |
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Finger in a Barrel: During the climax, an owl stuffs a lit rocket down Medusa's shotgun, leaving her with an Ash Face and tearing the gun to shreds. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Madame Medusa and her pet crocodiles, Brutus and Nero. | |
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I Have Your Wife | |
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I Have Your Wife: Madame Medusa eventually resorts to this with Penny's teddy bear to get her to retrieve the Devil's Eye. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
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Sequel Hook: The first movie ends with them setting off on another mission; however, an actual sequel had not been planned at the time. When one did finally come out, it featured an almost identical departure scene, from the weather to Wilbur's, er, vertical takeoff. | |
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Repeating So the Audience Can Hear | |
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Repeating so the Audience Can Hear: Madame Medusa does this when getting the phone call from Mr. Snoops in her pawn shop. It provides exposition for the audience as well as clues for our heroes who happen to be around at the right time. | |
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Expecting Someone Taller | |
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Expecting Someone Taller: Penny is surprised, to say the least, that her rescue party is a pair of mice. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: The R.A.S. take their cause very serious and summon mice from all over the world after a Message in a Bottle was found in New York. Lampshaded by the Chairman. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Evinrude, the name of the leaf-propelling dragonfly in the first movie, is a well-known manufacturer of boat engines. Could also be considered a Shout-Out. Same with Orville, the albatross, who is named after Orville of the Wright brothers, inventors of the first powered aircraft. It would be criminal to forget Madame Medusa's pet crocodiles Nero and Brutus. Medusa herself qualifies since she's ostensibly named for a malevolent Greek monster. | |
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Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_6e60e40a | comment |
Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Snoops, with his stammering speech, Unfortunate Name, softness relative to Medusa, and being the victim of physical comedy, is laughable. Medusa herself is cruel, greedy, intentional, emotionally manipulative, and has far fewer funny moments. | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
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And the Adventure Continues: Bernard and Bianca are deployed at the end of the movie. | |
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Convenient Cranny | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_728e34ab | comment |
Convenient Cranny: When Bernard and Miss Bianca are fleeing from the alligators, they find refuge in a system of organ pipes where the two big animals cannot follow. While being chased by the bats, Evinrude escapes into a bottle that gives him temporary safety. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: The 1989 theatrical re-release poster has Rufus in the motorboat. Not once does he set paw in Devil's Bayou. Same goes for the Rescue Aid Society members in the same poster. | |
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The Rescuers / Disney / int_7ea2a915 | type |
Animation Bump | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_7ea2a915 | comment |
Animation Bump: ANY scene with Medusa. She was a notoriously difficult character to draw and animate for anyone whose name wasn't Milt Kahl. | |
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AwesomeByAnalysis | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_7f514dd1 | comment |
Awesome by Analysis: Bianca looks at Penny's watered-down note from the battle, which has a lot of ocean water stains and bad spelling. She deduces that since it's a letter to Morningside Orphanage, that Penny must be a little girl, and that she's in "terrible trouble". Later on, when she and Bernard inspect Penny's box of items at the orphanage, they figure out that she isn't there because of the note that says "hold on until further notice" and that she wasn't adopted because she didn't take her stuff with her. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: They're all clear as day. Bernard politely greeting ambassadors and staying in his role as a janitor where people can see him but wistfully singing along with them when he's alone; Miss Bianca charming every male ambassador in the room and being so moved by a child's cry for help that she pleads to have the assignment despite the organization's sexist policies; Medusa answering her phone, not letting Mr. Snoops get a word in edgewise and going from squealing with glee when she thinks she's getting her way to screaming and making demands when a delay comes up... | |
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Rouge Angles of Satin | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_83ea0763 | comment |
Rouge Angles of Satin: In-Universe. Penny's letter is littered with spelling mistakes like "orfanage", "New Yorc" and "turible trubble." | |
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Truth in Television | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_875615dd | comment |
Truth in Television: The Devil's Eye ends up on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History - exactly where the Real Life Hope Diamond was donated and is displayed to this day. When Orville dives off the building, that's exactly how real-life albatrosses usually take off - they are too heavy to take off from the ground in normal circumstances. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_8ad43dc9 | comment |
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The rescue squad around Ellie Mae and Luke is made up of wacky characters. | |
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National Stereotypes | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_8f7f2c6a | comment |
National Stereotypes: All the mice in the Convention serves as this, except for Africa, who has a continental variety. | |
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Squish the Cheeks | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_8fc107b2 | comment |
Squish the Cheeks: Madame Medusa squishes Penny's face with both hands when telling her to find the big diamond. | |
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Children Are Innocent | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_91672d3e | comment |
Children Are Innocent: Penny is a sweet little girl, who doesn't understand the value of the diamond. She just wants to go back to the orphanage so she can get adopted. She also doesn't realize that adults can't hear mice when at the end she thanks Bernard and Bianca on live TV for helping her. | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_92d6af50 | comment |
Truck Driver's Gear Change: "Tomorrow Is Another Day", playing over the Flight of Romance, goes up in pitch towards the climax. | |
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Fluffy Tamer | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_94e17e7e | comment |
Fluffy Tamer: Madame Medusa keeps a pair of full-grown crocodiles as pets. They are probably the only living creatures that she treats with even a hint of respect and care. | |
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Sleep Cute | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_975ba595 | comment |
Sleep Cute: Bianca falls asleep on Bernard's shoulder. And heads right into a snuggle. | |
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Implied Trope | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_97b30203 | comment |
Implied with Bianca. When Bernard grumbles that they just went through a red light, Bianca replies that she does it all the time. | |
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Message in a Bottle | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_981d0040 | comment |
Message in a Bottle: When Medusa was doing business in New York, Penny would write letters asking for someone to come save her and send them off this way. The R.A.S. discovering one starts all the action. | |
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As You Know | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_9843be73 | comment |
As You Know: The viewers learn about the Rescue Aid Society's origin when their current head reminds the other members about it. He even starts with "As you know,". | |
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13 Is Unlucky | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_9a692ae9 | comment |
13 Is Unlucky: A reoccurring motif. Bernard is afraid of the number thirteen, especially when it came to the number of steps on a ladder or stairs. The movie also ended on a Friday the 13th if you look at the calendar shown. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: In Medusa's pawn shop there's a small sign that says 'NRA'. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_9dfb8296 | comment |
This Is Gonna Suck: Bernard gives this type of face right before Orville's takeoff on the flight to Devil's Bayou. | |
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Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_9fbf8969 | comment |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Snoops points out the many, smaller jewels Penny found in the cave and it's revealed there's even more in there. Snoops points out that those gems are worth a fortune, but Medusa is not interested in them. She only wants the Devil's Eye. | |
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Eek, a Mouse!! | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_a293102a | comment |
Eek, a Mouse!!: Madame Medusa is so terrified at the sight of Bernard and Bianca that she pulls a gun on them. This despite having two pet crocodiles. | |
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Bowdlerization | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_a49914aa | comment |
Bowdlerization: In two frames of the movie in its theatrical release, when Bernard and Bianca are riding Orville, going down from the building they were on, one building next to them has an image of a live-action naked woman in one of the windows. Disney found this out prior to the film's initial VHS release and had the images removed (all subsequent home video releases, except the early prints of the 1999 VHS and Laserdisc, feature the edited version). According to animator Tom Sito, on his Facebook page, the image was put in by background artist Annie Guenther. A late-70s/early-80s episode of The Wonderful World of Disney about flight featured an excerpt from the scene in question, complete with a topless woman. This episode aired when VCRs were starting to take off, and was rerun in syndication in the late-80s after VCRs became common, so the fact that it took nearly 20 years for the public to find this out is an oddity. | |
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StockSoundEffect | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_a783166f | comment |
Stock Sound Effect: Evinrude's buzzing "Charge" fanfare is reused from the Queen Bee in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. | |
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SeldomSeenSpecies | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_a8182b34 | comment |
Seldom-Seen Species: Or in this case, heard. When Bernard walks into the zoo and before he is startled by the "grumpy ol'lion", a deep hooting sound can be easily mistaken for an owl's call; in reality, it's an African Ground Hornbill. | |
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Mouse World | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_a8298592 | comment |
Mouse World: The movies have a secret society of intelligent mice who operate an international organization devoted to save people in trouble. | |
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RealLife | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_a8559a9f | comment |
The Devil's Eye ends up on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History - exactly where the Real Life Hope Diamond was donated and is displayed to this day. | |
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Brawn Hilda | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_aa55cd25 | comment |
Brawn Hilda: The German representative to Rescue Aid Society is broader and taller than the other mice, and also female. A bonus when she turns the R.A.S song into an aria… | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_acf33d00 | comment |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: When one of the alligators has Bernard in his mouth ready to swallow him down, Madame Medusa comes and unwittingly makes him spit Bernard out. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Bianca's perfume. She and Bernard have an Oh, Crap! moment when Brutus and Nero follow the scent and find their hiding spot in Medusa's boat, but later on they realize that they can use it as bait to lure them in a cage, so that they won't chase after Penny for trying to escape. It works like a charm in the climax to take Brutus and Nero out of the fight. | |
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What You Are in the Dark | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_afc6df04 | comment |
What You Are in the Dark: It's really subtle, Bernard singing the RAS anthem by himself just outside the meeting hall. When Bianca sees him doing that, that is enough proof for her of how deeply he values the organization's ideals. Bernard was merely the janitor at the time, and the other representatives/agents who were in the meeting hall were being far less reverent of the anthem. | |
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Mickey Mousing | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_b0218885 | comment |
Mickey Mousing: Bernard and Bianca's movements when they sneak around the riverboat. | |
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Recycled Animation | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_b0b8970e | comment |
Recycled Animation: The shots of Medusa driving may have used recycled cels from 101 Dalmatians given that she drives the exact same car as Cruella de Vil. Either that or they just recycled the rotoscope model. Several voice clips are repeated throughout the movie, two notable clips by Medusa and Bianca respectively being "Snoops? Snoops, get down here!" and "Help! Bernard!" Some shots of Penny running through the swamp during an unsuccessful escape attempt are re-used from a scene of Mowgli running through the jungle. Bambi can be seen grazing with his mother in the "Someone is Waiting for You" scene. The shot of Brutus holding Penny in his mouth with Penny angrily saying "Put me down, Brutus!" is reused twice within the film, but in different settings (first on the riverboat, and then near the Black Hole.) Some of the swamp animals' walk/run cycles when charging towards the riverboat, most notably Gramps the turtle, Deadeye the rabbit, and Luke (whose run cycle and position looks very Hanna-Barbera-esque.) | |
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Take That! | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: Milt Kahl based Madame Medusa on his ex-wife, who he particularly hated. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: Medusa, while driving recklessly down the streets of New York, Medusa calls an unseen diver a "road hog". | |
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Didn't Want an Adventure | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_b7ce5553 | comment |
Didn't Want an Adventure: Bernard. "Sure wish we'd taken the train!" | |
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Ink-Suit Actor | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_b8dbbc07 | comment |
Ink-Suit Actor: Michelle Stacy◊ does seem to bear at least some resemblance to Penny. | |
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Maybe Ever After | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_b97c2cfb | comment |
Maybe Ever After: Bernard and Bianca don't explicitly become a couple, but there are clear hints of an attraction between them and they stay working together, while also being very affectionate to each other. They get together in the sequel, although it's implied they have been dating for a while before getting engaged. | |
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Market-Based Title | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_b9c673a6 | comment |
Market-Based Title: Some international versions of both films either have "Bernard and Bianca" either replace "the Rescuers" or have it as a subtitle. You might also see the title preceded by "the Adventures of". | |
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Cool Boat | |
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Cool Boat: Madame Medusa's jet ski, or "swampmobile". | |
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Pain to the Ass | |
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Pain to the Ass: When the swamp animals seize the riverboat, Luke shoves his pitchfork into Madame Medusa's butt, who screams in agony. | |
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Hollywood CB | |
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Hollywood CB: When Bernard talks to Orville via CB, the communication happens without him pressing any call button. | |
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Weaksauce Weakness | |
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Weaksauce Weakness: Madame Medusa's fear of mice. Especially since she has pet crocodiles. | |
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Collapsing Lair | |
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Collapsing Lair: At the end, the riverboat explodes and sinks. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The alligators have a significant three-tone brass motif, used for dramatic effect. The theme is, in fact, snitched from The Rite of Spring, used in Fantasia at the dramatic victory of the Tyrannosaurus. A fitting Mythology Gag, come to think of it. | |
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Suggested by... | |
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Suggested by...: The Rescuers suggested by "The Rescuers" and "Miss Bianca" by Margery Sharp. | |
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Next Sunday A.D. | |
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Next Sunday A.D.: Implied, for the ending at any rate. The wall calendar at the Rescue Aid Society at the end of the film says "Friday 13 January". The movie was released on 22 June 1977 and there was indeed a Friday the 13th in January 1978. | |
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Big "SHUT UP!" | |
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Big "SHUT UP!": Medusa seems to be fond of yelling this at Snoops. | |
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Off Like a Shot | |
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Off Like a Shot: Bianca assumes this pose before rushing after Miss Medusa, who is leaving the pawn shop with Bernard in her suitcase. | |
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Nice Mice | |
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Nice Mice: In this world, mice are so nice that they run a planet-wide, clandestine search-and-rescue agency just so they can help people. Miss Bianca and Bernard stand out even in this company, risking life and limb for total strangers (who aren't even the same species as them!). | |
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The Cake Is a Lie | |
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The Cake Is a Lie: Madame Medusa never intended to hand the teddy bear back to Penny. | |
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Convenient Misfire | |
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Convenient Misfire: Madame Medusa's shotgun jams up, giving Bernard and Miss Bianca a chance to escape from the boat. | |
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Wiper Start | |
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Wiper Start: In the finale, when Penny tries to start up Madame Medusa's swampmobile, she activates the horn instead of the spark lever. Justified as she is actually too young to operate such a vehicle. | |
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Flight of Romance | |
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Flight of Romance: Flying on the back of an albatross brings Bernard and Bianca closer together, but it takes until the sequel for Bernard to confess his feelings. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_f96f188c | comment |
Drives Like Crazy: Madame Medusa. In Cruella De Vil's car, even. This is possibly an artifact of when she was originally intended to be Cruella De Vil. Implied with Bianca. When Bernard grumbles that they just went through a red light, Bianca replies that she does it all the time. | |
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TheDogBitesBack | |
The Rescuers / Disney / int_fb3576b2 | comment |
The Dog Bites Back: Brutus, Nero and Snoops eventually have had enough of Medusa and she is last seen being attacked by Brutus and Nero while Snoops paddles off without her, laughing. Though given the latter is paddling off on a flimsy wooden floorboard, with the clothes on his back virtually burned off, and in the middle of a dangerous swamp, it's dubious he'll get far... | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: The air pressure generated by the home organ would not suffice to catapult a mouse into the air. | |
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Bitch Alert | |
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Bitch Alert: The movie lets you know very quickly that you're not supposed to like Madame Medusa. | |
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