History FurryConfusion / DisneyAndPixar

* The most obvious [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Disney]] example, cited in the quote on the main page: WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse is an anthropomorphic mouse. His best friend WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} is an anthropomorphic dog-man who walks on two legs. Mickey's pet [[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup Pluto]] is a (relatively) normal dog that mostly behaves like a real dog.

* ''Franchise/DonaldDuck'': Regular ducks have been shown to exist alongside the anthropomorphic kind. Adding to the weirdness parade, in "Chef Donald", a 1941 theatrical cartoon, Donald once encountered a ''recipe for roast duck'' in a cookbook, which he angrily ripped up. In a different cartoon, he heard another recipe for it on a radio cooking show. His only comment was, "''Over my dead body''."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': Bronx and the other "gargoyle beasts" like him are kind of an odd, borderline case. At first glance, Bronx is a wingless Gargoyle, and isn't really any physically different from the talking Gargoyles aside from lacking wings. But he acts like, and is treated as, a non-talking, non-loincloth-wearing animal. A few episodes (such as the one that introduced Puck) explicitly pointed out that he was the other Gargoyles' "dog", while the show's creator described him as their equivalent of a non-human ape. And yet, when Puck swaps everyone's species in the city turning every human into gargoyle and every gargoyle into human Bronx is turn into a dog.

*** [[WesternAnimation/Cars1 The fist movie]] features Bessie, a non-anthro paving machine. There's also still a dinosaur on the logo for Dinoco, and one RV seen near the end of the film appears to be surrounded by plastic flamingos, while another has a {{jackalope}} tattoo on his rear end -- all this despite flesh-and-blood animals never appearing anywhere in the films.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' (and its [[WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder sequel]]) and ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' are odd examples. There are talking anthropomorphic mice and other small animals in both films, but there are also some animals that are non-sapient, in addition to non-talking creatures that display some degree of sapience. The former has the crocodiles (or alligators, it's [[InformedSpecies unclear]]) Brutus and Nero, Evinrude the dragonfly, some non-sapient bats and a zoo lion; and its sequel has Marahute the eagle and Joanna the Goanna (a type of lizard). The latter has the loyal BigFriendlyDog Toby, Ratigan's RightHandCat Felicia, and some wagons drawn by horses. What's more, humans are also present in all three of these films.

** Spoofed further in the 2010 ComicBook/DarkwingDuck comic book. Goslyn is at a pet store when she notices an area full of baby ducklings. "Okay," she says, "this is just creeping me out."

** This is parodied on ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', during a montage of hostage situations. One of those situations is Pluto holding a gun to Goofy's head screaming, "He's the only fucking dog who good enough to wear fucking pants? Well, I want to wear the fucking pants for once!" ([[BlackComedy before casually shooting Goofy and then himself]]).

** ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'' has had a few moments of this:

*** [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} The fist movie]] features Bessie, a non-anthro paving machine. There's also still a dinosaur on the logo for Dinoco, and one RV seen near the end of the film appears to be surrounded by plastic flamingos, while another has a {{jackalope}} tattoo on his rear end -- all this despite flesh-and-blood animals never appearing anywhere in the films.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|2014}}'':

* With all of this in mind, ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'' level in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' is just a carnival of Furry Confusion. Donald is temporarily a non-anthro bird who can ''fly'', Pete is a non-anthro cat (more specifically, a lion), while Goofy is, out of all animals, a tortoise. What makes it worse is the fact that Donald comments on Sora's transformation (into a lion) while avoiding any mention of Goofy's or his own. It should be mentioned that Donald's non-anthro form is identified in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' literature as "Bird Donald".

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'':

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'': During the "Les Poissons" song, realistically-drawn crabs are seen in Chef Louis's kitchen, contrasted with the much more anthropomorphic Sebastian.

* With all of this in mind, ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'' level in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' is just a carnival of Furry Confusion. Donald is temporarily a non-anthro bird who can ''fly'', Pete is a non-anthro cat (more specifically, a lion), while Goofy is, out of all animals, a [[TurtlePower tortoise]]. What makes it worse is the fact that Donald comments on Sora's transformation (into a lion) while avoiding any mention of Goofy's or his own. It should be mentioned that Donald's non-anthro form is identified in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' literature as "Bird Donald".

** ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' actually did this with furniture. Considering the fact that ''all'' of the Beast's servants were turned into furniture due to a magic spell, it's actually never explained what happened to the actual furniture inside the Beast's castle. The west wing of the castle has been more or less destroyed over the years by the Beast's various rampages. Now, was he simply vandalizing his own furniture, or outright attacking and even killing servants?

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'': All the protagonist dinos are treated as sapient and we can understand their speech. Background dinos of the same species tend to use grunts and roars like animals would, but it's assumed they're just not feeling talkative at the moment. None of the carnivore dinos speak, [[PredatorsAreMean because they're the villains]]. Where it gets ''really'' complicated is with Url, an ankylosaur who doesn't speak, pants like a dog, barks like a dog, carries a rock to be thrown and chased after like a stick, and is the pet of another dinosaur. So either ankylosaurs are not sapient, or Url is the equivalent of a mentally disabled person being kept as a pet.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'' Max the dog and Glut the Shark act like a normal dog and shark respectively, whereas the other animal characters (like Flounder, Scuttle, and Sebastian) can talk, sing, and dance, and Ariel can understand them. Even Flotsam and Jetsam, Ursula's moray eels, can talk. What's more, during the "Les Poissons" song, realistically-drawn crabs are seen in Chef Louis's kitchen, contrasted with the much more anthropomorphic Sebastian.

** ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'': The cast is made up entirely of [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic animals]]. It actually manages to avoid some of these issues (they pointedly [[TheUnreveal do not show who or what]] is pulling the carriage at the end), while bringing up entirely new ones (just [[Literature/{{Redwall}} what kind of Church]] do these animals have anyway?). How King Richard (a lion) could be the uncle of Maid Marian (a fox) [[ArtisticLicenseBiology remains unaddressed]], [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction with some nasty implications]].

** ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'' features talking non-avian dinosaurs, but also birds (including chickens with theropod hands) that are non-sapient and kept as pets or even livestock. Seeing as birds are classified as living dinosaurs, it seems odd that the birds in the movie wouldn't be alongside their non-avian relatives as sentient lifeforms. Even weirder, a group of pterosaurs--which, contrary to popular belief, are not dinosaurs--are also shown to be sapient and capable of speech (and insane).

*** Not to mention Bullseye, a toy horse who acts like a horse (and [[AllAnimalsAreDogs dog]]), despite the presence of other animal toys who speak and act normally.

** ''[=DuckTales=]'' also introduces a new sidekick for Scrooge's nemesis Magica De Spell; her brother Poe who was [[BalefulPolymorph turned into a raven]]. While he can still talk, he still wears clothes (a hat at least), still has functional FeatherFingers, and is for all intents and purposes the same character, just a different species, he views his fate as awful and wants to turn back into a duck, despite the fact that he merely seems to have gotten a bit shorter [[CursedWithAwesome and can now]] ''[[CursedWithAwesome fly]]'' (heck, ask an ornithologist and they will make a good argument that duck-to-corvid is an upgrade). He's just ''barely'' less anthro than the other characters.

*** Similarly, a Disney comic that's the page image for EekAMouse shows ''Minnie'' Mouse shrieking at a non-anthropomorphic mouse.

** A 1930s cartoon, ''[[WesternAnimation/MickeysGoodDeed Mickey's Good Deed]]'', has Mickey playing Santa Claus to a family of poor cats -- smaller than him. Pete is apparently the absentee father, as there's a picture of him, in prison stripes, on the wall. You can tell they're poor as their empty cupboard is overrun with tiny, non-anthro mice. And why the cats just don't eat them is never addressed. Not only that, but the butler, who is himself a dog, demands Mickey to sell Pluto, who is a smaller dog, to him.