History Fridge / MaryPoppins

** It was definitely something unpleasant for those not "native" to the drawing. When the rain began, Mary not only ''said'' "Stay close" to the children, she pulled them in as tightly against her as possible -- implying they might have been washed away with the chalk (or trapped in a crumbling world like Vanellope in

''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'') if they weren't safely inside her magical aura.

** It was definitely something unpleasant for those not "native" to the drawing. When the rain began, Mary not only ''said'' "Stay close" to the children, she pulled them in as tightly against her as possible -- implying they might have been washed away with the chalk (or trapped in a crumbling world like Vanellope in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'') if they weren't safely inside her magical aura.

** It was definitely something unpleasant for those not "native" to the drawing. When the rain began, Mary not only ''said'' "Stay close" to the children, she pulled them in as tightly against her as possible -- implying they might have been washed away with the chalk (or trapped in a crumbling world like Vanellope in Disney/WreckItRalph) if they weren't safely inside her magical aura.

** I always assumed it was just about dusk/dawn, but I admit I hadn't seen the movie for years, only hearing the songs.

** So is Mr Banks.
** Mrs. Banks herself, due to her suffragette leanings, is precisely the sort of woman who might have volunteered to serve as a [=WAAC=], the better to prove females can serve their country too. Unless she'd learned nursing or cookery, that could have entailed working in a munitions factory and exposure to toxic levels of [=TNT=] and nitric acid, not to mention accidental explosions.

* When The Head Maid stumbles in on the Chimney Sweeps barging into the Banks' house, she screams "They're at it again!" This isn't the first time that ''dirty, grimy chimney sweeps have jumped into the house and dirtied everything with their dance parties?!''

[[AC:FridgeLogic]]
* No matter how greedy, you'd think a veteran financier like Dawes would have the common sense to ''let go'' of a measly tuppence immediately, rather than let some kid's hissy-fit provoke his bank's near-collapse.
** It shows how out of touch the bankers are, going on and on about imperialistic accomplishments ("Railways through Africa, dams across the Nile, fleets of ocean greyhounds, majestic self-amortizing canals, plantations of ripening tea."), things that mean absolutely nothing to an eight-year-old boy. If George or the other bankers tried to explain to Michael that by investing, he'd get more money for things ''he'd'' like to do, such as feeding the birds, maybe Michael would've been more open about it.
** Well, he is a pretty doddery old man. Maybe that's why he's not quick enough on the uptake to realise why it would be better not to cling onto that tuppence. Is it any more plausible that a riot in a bank could happen as easily as this? We're also talking about a film with flying nannies, people jumping into pavement drawings and a retired Admiral whose neighbours tolerate him firing a cannon off his rooftop several times a day.

** It shows how out of touch the bankers are, going on and on about imperialistic accomplishments ("Railways through Africa, dams across the Nile, fleets of ocean greyhounds, majestic self-advertising canals, plantations of ripening tea."), things that mean absolutely nothing to an eight-year-old boy. If George or the other bankers tried to explain to Michael that by investing, he'd get more money for things ''he'd'' like to do, such as feeding the birds, maybe Michael would've been more open about it.

* When I was a child, chapter 10 and the whole big deal with Mary's birthday, talking zoo animals and "We are all one" thingy seemed just a whimsical BigLippedAlligatorMoment to me. It was a fairy tale, after all; nonsence is supposed to take place, or so I thought. But now that I know about [[http://www.cesnur.org/testi/marypoppins.htm#Anchor-53283 Travers' interest]] [[http://www.gurdjieff.org/travers.htm in mythology and theosophy]], [[AuthorTract the whole thing]] [[WriterOnBoard starts to make sense.]]

* When I was a child, chapter 10 and the whole big deal with Mary's birthday, talking zoo animals and "We are all one" thingy seemed just a whimsical BigLippedAlligatorMoment to me. It was a fairy tale, after all; nonsence is supposed to take place, or so I thought. But now that I know about [[http://www.cesnur.org/testi/marypoppins.htm#Anchor-53283 Travers' interest]] [[http://www.gurdjieff.org/travers.htm in mythology and theosophy]], [[AuthorTract the whole thing]] [[WriterOnBoard starts to make sense.]] This, of course, raises a question whether it's good to sneak religious/occult propaganda into children books.
** Take that one up with Creator/CSLewis.

* Why does everyone in Bert's chalk drawing world love Mary so much? Because he does too.

[[AC:FridgeBrilliance]]
* Why did all the people and talking animals in the chalk-drawing world admire Mary Poppins so much? Because they were created by Bert, and therefore expressions of his own mind!
* When I was a child, chapter 10 and the whole big deal with Mary's birthday, talking zoo animals and "We are all one" thingy seemed just a whimsical BigLippedAlligatorMoment to me. It was a fairy tale, after all; nonsence is supposed to take place, or so I thought. But now that I know about [[http://www.cesnur.org/testi/marypoppins.htm#Anchor-53283 Travers' interest]] [[http://www.gurdjieff.org/travers.htm in mythology and theosophy]], [[AuthorTract the whole thing]] [[WriterOnBoard starts to make sense.]] This, of course, raises a question whether it's good to sneak religious/occult propaganda into children books.
** Take that one up with Creator/CSLewis.
* Maybe good luck ''did'' rub off when all those chimney sweeps shook hands with George Banks-It would help explain why the bank re-hired him so quickly near the end of the movie.
* Mr. Banks has a whole song about how he loves everything being just so, arriving home at six, with his slippers, sherry, and pipe ready at six oh two, and such. Why isn't he concerned by the [[HilarityEnsues antics]] caused by Admiral Boom's cannon salutes? Because ''that'' is [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight part of his routine as well]]. Admiral Boom is nothing if not famously punctual, after all. And the perspective is not at all unlike that held by people living in dangerous places, such as soldiers in a warzone who might treat enemy raids as just part of the nine to five, as it were. "Normal" is a matter of perspective.
** The Admiral fires at 8 AM, but earlier than 6 PM.
** Well, there's this, too: He's never home to deal with the falling objects, at least not in the evening. Notice how the song goes: "At 6:01, I march through my door!"

* Mr. Banks has a whole song about how he loves everything being just so, arriving home at six, with his tea ready at six oh two, and such. Why isn't he concerned by the [[HilarityEnsues antics]] caused by Admiral Boom's cannon salutes? Because ''that'' is [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight part of his routine as well]]. Admiral Boom is nothing if not famously punctual, after all. And the perspective is not at all unlike that held by people living in dangerous places, such as soldiers in a warzone who might treat enemy raids as just part of the nine to five, as it were. "Normal" is a matter of perspective.

* Watching the movie as an adult, it was shocking listening to Chim-Chim-Cheriee and realizing that it was a song glorifying pollution. No, seriously, listen to them sing about the glory of London covered in smoke "hardly no day and hardly no night". It ties back to Song of the South's Zippa-De-Doo-Da in finding the good in everything, but it's still shocking at the horrific pollution of the [[LighterAndSofter Disneyfied Edwardian London]], orders of magnitude worse than anything found in Europe or America today.
** The "Let's Go Fly A Kite" song makes it even HarsherInHindsight: ''up through the atmosphere / up where the air is clear'' along with the metaphorical desire to be lighter than air and flying around like the kite.

** It was definitely something unpleasant. When the rain began, Mary not only ''said'' "Stay close" to the children, she pulled them in as tightly against her as possible -- implying they might have been washed away with the chalk (or trapped in a crumbling world like Vanellope in Disney/WreckItRalph) if they weren't safely inside her magical aura.

*** The presumption that it is otherwise suggests that ''''Mary Poppins is God'''' and can create living worlds

* Mr. Banks has a whole song about how he loves everything being just so, arriving home at six, with his tea ready at six oh two, and such. Why isn't he concerned by the [[HilarityEnsues antics]] caused by Admiral Boom's cannon salutes? Because ''that'' is [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight part of his routine as well]]. Admiral Boom is nothing if not famously punctual, after all.