History WesternAnimation / SpringtimeForPluto

* {{Cameo}}: The Spirit of Spring looks an awful lot like the [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs]] from Fantasia

The Spirit of Springtime brings spring with him as he frolics about, waking WesternAnimation/{{Pluto|ThePup}} to the joys of the season of life. Pluto wanders through the forest admiring songbirds and mimicking jumping lambs before landing into some brush and scaring a family of quails. As one of the quail chicks flees from him, Pluto mimics it as well by running after it in a caricaturizing fashion. The quail stops as it hears deep singing coming from an underground burrow, which reveals itself to be a caterpillar singing in a high-pitched falsetto. The quail attempts to eat the caterpillar, but the aid that Pluto offers the quail ultimately does more harm than good as it ends up causing the quail to get stuck in the burrow. The caterpillar kicks the quail out of the burrow and offscreen then digs another tunnel out behind Pluto where he proceeds to climb up Pluto's tail and start singing in a deep voice again. When the caterpillar reaches the tip of Pluto's tail, he lassos a silk strand to the end of the tail, jumps off, and rapidly spins himself into a cocoon. Pluto shakes the cocoon out of curiosity before it starts moving as the caterpillar emerges, but now as a humanoid, female butterfly. Pluto is enthralled by her beauty as she proceeds to entertain him with some sexy dancing, which inspires him to mimic her. In her dancing, she had used a water droplet as a ball, so Pluto finds instead a beehive. The bees get angry and attack Pluto, forcing him into a patch of poison ivy. As he scratches himself, he lands in a patch of goldenrods and starts sneezing. Then it starts to rain, and then to hail, followed by a lightning storm, causing the terrified Pluto to run back to his now dilapidated doghouse. When the Spirit of Spring comes by again, Pluto, in a vengeful rage, chases him down, thus ending the short.

* {{Cameo}}: The Spirit of Spring looks an awful lot like the [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs]] from ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}''

* GenderBender: Implied with the caterpillar, who has masculine appearance and voice pre-transformation, but looks very feminine post-transformation.

* SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: Two examples of this trope embodied in a single character; the caterpillar who is green, segmented, has four arms, at least four legs and a pair of antennae, also has a [[DogFaces dog-like humanoid face]] with big eyes and big lips, wears WhiteGloves on his FourFingeredHands and stereotypical round Disney shoes, turns into a [[FairySexy butterfly who is a perfectly humanoid (and jarringly beautiful)]] Latina-looking woman with five-fingered hands wearing a magenta dress and heels. The only features that show that she is a butterfly are her size, her wings, and her antennae. May also be an example of BizarreSexualDimorphism.

%%* HartmanHips: The butterfly girl.

* PantyShot: A few very brief ones of the Butterfly's.

* PantslessMalesFullyDressedFemales: A unique case in which this trope applies to a single character. The caterpillar that appears halfway through the short [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal wears only shoes and gloves]], but transforms into a fully clothed butterfly woman, with a pink dress and shoes.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The caterpillar comes up out of a burrow like an earthworm. Let that sink in a bit.

* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: An abashed Pluto's face is flushed red, after the Latina butterfly (who had just [[InsectGenderBender metamorphosed from a male caterpillar]] after spinning a cocoon at the tip of the dog's tail and emerging from it as the new form) catches him checking her out as she dances provocatively.

* [[HumanoidFemaleAnimal Humanoid Female Insect]]: The butterfly looks less like an insect and more like a human woman with wings and antennae.
%%* MsFanservice: The butterfly girl.

* [[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism Sliding Scale of Insect Anthropomorphism]]: Two examples of this trope embodied in a single character; the caterpillar who is green, segmented, has four arms, at least four legs and a pair of antennae, also has a [[DogFaces dog-like humanoid face]] with big eyes and big lips, wears WhiteGloves on his FourFingeredHands and stereotypical round Disney shoes, turns into a [[FairySexy butterfly who is a perfectly humanoid (and jarringly beautiful)]] Latina-looking woman with five-fingered hands wearing a magenta dress and heels. The only features that show that she is a butterfly are her size, her wings, and her antennae. May also be an example of BizarreSexualDimorphism.

* [[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism Sliding Scale of Insect Anthropomorphism]]: Two examples of this trope embodied in a single character; the caterpillar who is green, segmented, has four arms, at least four legs and a pair of antennae, also has a [[DogFaces dog-like humanoid face]] with big eyes and big lips, wears WhiteGloves on his FourFingeredHands and stereotypical round Disney shoes, turns into a [[FairySexy butterfly who is a perfectly humanoid]] (and jarringly beautiful) Latina-looking woman with five-fingered hands wearing a magenta dress and heels. The only features that show that she is a butterfly are her size, her wings, and her antennae. May also be an example of BizarreSexualDimorphism.

* AmbiguousGender: The caterpillar who first seems to sing with a deep voice, which is later revealed to be a gag because it was underground and its voice was echoing through the tunnel, because once it emerges, its voice is very high-pitched and falsetto. However, during its TransformationSequence, it again sings in a deep bass, though its mouth is never shown to move in sync with the words so its questionable whether the caterpillar is even singing the song at this point. However since when it finishes its metamorphosis and emerges as a [[PinUp very sexy]] [[SpicyLatina latina]] [[HumanoidFemaleAnimal butterfly]], this could be a case of [[GenderReveal female]] [[ViewerGenderConfusion all along]] or a GenderBender, in which case it is most certainly an AttractiveBentGender.

* PantslessMalesFullyDressedFemales: A unique case in which this trope applies to a single character. The caterpillar that appears halfway through the short wears only shoes and gloves, but transforms into a fully-clothed butterfly woman, with a pink dress and shoes.

* [[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism Sliding Scale of Insect Anthropomorphism]]: Two examples of this trope embodied in a single character; the caterpillar who is green, segmented, has four arms, at least four legs and a pair of antennae, also has a [[DogFaces dog-like humanoid face]] with big eyes and big lips, wears WhiteGloves on his FourFingeredHands and stereotypical round Disney shoes, turns into a [[OurFairiesAreDifferent butterfly who is a perfectly humanoid]] (and jarringly beautiful) Latina-looking woman with five-fingered hands wearing a magenta dress and heels. The only features that show that she is a butterfly are her size, her wings, and her antennae. May also be an example of BizarreSexualDimorphism.

* [[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism Sliding Scale of Insect Anthropomorphism]]: Two examples of this trope embodied in a single character; the caterpillar who is green, segmented, has four arms, at least four legs and a pair of antennae, also has a [[DogFaces dog-like humanoid face]] with big eyes and big lips, wears WhiteGloves on his FourFingeredHands and sterotypical round Disney shoes, turns into a [[OurFairiesAreDifferent butterfly who is a perfectly humanoid]] (and jarringly beautiful) Latina-looking woman with five-fingered hands wearing a magenta dress and heels. The only features that show that she is a butterfly are her size, her wings, and her antennae. May also be an example of BizarreSexualDimorphism.

* HartmanHips: The butterfly girl.

* MsFanservice: The butterfly girl.

* SynchronizedSwarming: [[BeeAfraid With bees.]]

* TransformationSequence: See above entry.

* BeeAfraid: Pluto inadvertently upsets the bees inside the StockBeehive he was playing with.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: At the end of the short, the narrator either sneezes because of hay fever (just like Pluto) or because he has caught a cold from the bad weather.