History Film / DrDolittle

* ToiletHumor: In the original film, Charisse wants to go the bathroom, but her father Dr. Dolittle stops her because there are ducks in a goat in the bathroom. He tells her that she's drinking too many liquids and needs to go back to bed, but she insists she has to go. He manages to hide the ducks in the bathroom and ''somehow'' manages to get off without her seeing any of what is going on, even though the house is filled with animals.

* PottyEmergency: Played with. In ''Dr. Dolittle 2'', Archie suddenly gets one of these in a bathroom cubicle after an episode of HeartbreakAndIceCream. A blessing for him, because he's able to use the toilet immediately, but definitely an emergency for John, who's in the cubicle with Archie to prevent anyone from seeing him, and he can't keep anyone from coming in because someone might see him and because Riley is outside. He has to breathe through a small gap in the window next to the toilet as Archie uses it.

[[caption-width-right:350:The Doctor is in! And he's talking to the animals!]]

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** In ''Dr. Dolittle 2'', "Everybody is meant to be loved." [[spoiler:The reason for it? Archie just said something similar and the WhamLine was spoken by Charisse. Dolittle then suddenly realizes she has inherited his ability to talk to animals because she understood what Archie said.]]

* AnimalTalk: At least they talk to Dolittle.

-->''Lucky barks next to Rodney.''\\

* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: In the original film, he tiger Jake is suffering from chronic headaches nausea and double vision. He heads to the top of a tall tower, prepared to end it all, but Dr. Dolittle is summoned to try to talk him down from it. At first it doesn't go so well, as he comes up empty when the tiger asks him to name any famous tigers and the dog Lucky's suggestion of "Tony the cereal tiger" (of Frosted Flakes fame) is decidedly unhelpful. Then he recalls the song "Eye of the Tiger" and how it inspired ''Film/RockyIII'', but his awful off-key rendition of the song causes Jake to say that he's jumping. Finally, he says it simply that he's a doctor and he might be able to help and if not, the tiger can eat both him and Lucky, and this finally convinces Jake.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Archer realized his mistake thinking his son's AnimalTalk is a disability, since he was afraid it would ruin his life. Now he sees it as a gift.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dr. Dolittle. He at first hates animals after he stops talking to them as a child and at times doesn't take Charisse and Maya seriously, but especially Maya, who wants him to like her as a person. In the second film, this continues when he becomes a bit of an OverprotectiveDad to Charisse and snaps at Archie out of frustration at his refusal to cooperate. He still loves his family, though, warms up to animals after a while when he embraces the fact that he can talk to them, convinces the tiger not to commit suicide, is willing to save a rat from what he thinks is death (it's just gas), tries to save an entire forest from being levelled by a logging company, and the reason he snaps at Archie is not only because he won't cooperate, but because Lisa and Charisse are mad at him, he's being pestered by Charisse's annoying boyfriend, Eric, and because if Archie doesn't cooperate, the entire population of the forest won't have anywhere to live, and when it looks like the animals seem to have giving up trying to save the forest, he rallies them to carry on.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Rodney the guinea pig does not appear and is never mentioned again after the first movie.

(For the 1967 film starring Rex Harrison, see ''Film/DoctorDolittle''.)

** When the doctor and Lucky the dog are trying to stop a tiger from leaping to his death, they note all of the great tigers. When asked to name one Lucky comes up with Tony the Tiger, while Dolittle points out how Film/{{Rocky}} beat up Creator/MrT after hearing "[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Eye of the Tiger]]".

** "Why don't you watch where you're going next time, you bonehead!" from the first film. This is the first time Dolittle has udnerstood something an animal has said since his childhood.

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive

* TooDumbToLive: Ms. Parkis, the woman who is deathly allergic to shellfish and yet won't stop eating it. She even thinks that it doesn't count as shellfish if she removes the fish from its shell before eating it. After the third time this has happened, [[note]] that we see. This has happened at least once before [[/note]] Dr.Dolittle asks her if she has a death wish.

* {{Jerkass}}: Mark Weller and Blaine Hammersmith
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dr. Dolittle

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* TooDumbToLive: Mis.Parkis, the woman who is deathly allergic to shellfish and yet she won't stop eating shellfish. She even thinks that it doesn't count as shellfish if she removes the fish from its shell before eating it. After the third time this has happened, [[note]] that we see. This has happened at least once before [[/note]] Dr.Dolittle asks her if she has a death wish.

* AssShove: A dog's anus swallows a thermometer during a veterinarian's examination. It has to be "retrieved manually".

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Archer realized his mistake thinking his son's AnimalTalk is a disability. Now he sees it as a gift.

** "[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Hasta la vista, baby!]]"