History YMMV / OneHundredAndOneDalmatians

* AccidentalAesop: At the beginning of the film, Pongo was dismissive of an Afghan hound and a poodle as "too strange" and "too fancy", respectively. But during the [[GondorCallsForAid Twilight Bark]], these two dogs show up again, eagerly passing on the message to help him find his lost pups. What's true for dogs is true for people, too: Never judge somebody's character from their ethnicity or their class. There is good and bad to be found in all stripes, and someone you might dismiss because you tarred them with the same brush [[WhatYouAreInTheDark could surprise you]].

* HarsherInHindsight: When Pongo and Perdita confront the two minions in Hell Hall, they're so aggressive Jasper mistakes them for spotted hyenas as they stand in front of the fireplace. Come 1993, and [[TheLionKing Scar is confronted by some very real spotted hyenas in the middle of a roaring fire]], and it doesn't end well for him.

* BrokenBase: Disney buffs can't decide if this film is the start of the Dark Age for the studio. On the one hand, it marked a huge downgrade from the animation of the previous film ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' thanks to the studio using xerography to photocopy the cells rather than hand-inking them to save money. On the other hand it was still one of the highest grossing Disney films, so some regard it as the final great Disney film before the Dark Age (although some give that to ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' - the last completed film Walt worked on).

** ''What's My Crime?'' is a parody of the classic game show ''Series/WhatsMyLine''. This is a reference that everyone would have gotten in 1961, but it's decidedly more obscure now except in the game show community.

** ''What's My Crime?'' is a parody of the 1960s game show ''Series/WhatsMyLine''. This is a reference that everyone would have gotten in 1961, but it's decidedly more obscure now except in the game show community.

** ''What's My Crime?'' is a parody of the 1960s game show ''Series/WhatsMyLine''. This is a reference that everyone would have gotten in 1961, but it's decidedly more obscure now.

** Roger, for giving us the song "Cruella De Vil" is almost universally liked, especially because how much he enjoys it hamming the song up
** Cruella De Vil is a {{Jerkass}} who doesn't get too much screentime but she has tons of fans. Reasons for this include her [[LargeHam hammy]] personality, her [[HairTriggerTemper bad temper]] leading to lots of funny moments and interesting motivations of wanting to kill Pongo and Perdita's puppies to make herself a fur coat. It helps that she often makes it high in quite a few fans' Disney villain rankings.

* ValuesDissonance: While Perdita's giving birth to her and Pongo's original fifteen puppies, Anita and Nanny are helping her while Pongo and Roger are waiting in another room, behind a closed door--it should be noted that during the time period the movie was made and came out in, it was typically frowned upon for men to present when their wives/female partners were in labor with their babies, and were basically flat-out banned from delivery rooms. However, in the modern-age western world, if a biological mother and biological father are still romantically involved at the time of birth of their child, it can be considered the norm that the father is present at the birth (though some may get squeamish, leading to the trope of them [[PanickyExpectantFather passing out during the birth of their child]])

** The final car chase is also up there as the main highlight of the film. Particularly for Cruella's [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c6/d1/a1/c6d1a1621fc8d10cc195d7ae064d1c43--disney-villains-movie-characters.jpg road rage]].

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: While the profession of writing songs for other artists to sing was quite thriving for decades, it would quickly start to be rendered obsolete just two years after the film's release thanks to the emergence of Music/TheBeatles and their popularization of artists writing their own songs, which remains the default model today. Consequently, Roger's dream of becoming a professional songwriter seems much less immediately relatable to a modern audience than it did in 1961.

* SignatureScene: The scene where Perdita leads the puppies where to get milk from the four cows is used in a ''lot'' of the film's promotional material.

** Cruella De Vil is a {{Jerkass}} who doesn't get too much screentime but she has tons of fans. Reasons for this include her [[LargeHam hammy]] personality, her [[HairTriggerTemper bad temper]] leading to lots of funny moments and interesting motivations of wanting to kill Pongeo and Perdita's puppies to make herself a fur coat. It helps that she often makes it high in quite a few fans' Disney villain rankings.

** "Blast this pen, blast this wretched, wretched ''pen!''"

** Cruella De Vil is a {{Jerkass}} who doesn't get too much screentime but she has tons of fans. Reasons for this include her {{LargeHam hammy}} personality, her {{HairTriggerTemper bad temper}} leading to lots of funny moments and interesting motivations of wanting to kill Pongeo and Perdita's puppies to make herself a fur coat. It helps that she often makes it high in quite a few fans' Disney villain rankings.

* HollywoodHomely: When Pongo is scouting out a mate for Roger (and himself), the first woman to walk by is a gangly brunette in glasses and a beret, carrying an easel and walking an Afghan hound. Pongo's quick to dismiss the pair, but they weren't at all bad looking, and the woman probably wouldn't have been the worst match for Roger, especially considering they're both artists.
* LoveToHate: Cruella--aside from the Dalmatian puppies, Cruella's easily the most popular/iconic from the movie.

** [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-s_cYccezMLo/T_y9LXs3scI/AAAAAAAABDo/LWg72afqtlw/s1600/2.jpg Sergeant Tibbs would like to know just what the hell is going on here.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: The Twilight Bark: [[{{Website/Twitter}} something that started out just as a trivial gossip chain but turned out to be a quick and efficient way to spread news?]]

* AdaptationDisplacement: That's right, there was a book. There was a book called ''Hundred and One Dalmatians'' (without the "one"). People only familiar with the story from the movie might be shocked to find out that Perdita was called 'Missis' (while there ''was'' a Perdita in the novel, she was a different character), Cruella had a husband and a pet cat, and a subplot contained Perdita's lost love who went missing. The book had a sequel too, but both the animated and live action sequels were original stories.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: With such fun side characters like Tibbs, Colonel, Nanny, Horace and Jasper - the puppies themselves are pretty underdeveloped. They're pretty much LivingMacGuffin characters with only a couple of traits to distinguish them. Notably the spin-off cartoon would flesh them out a lot more.

* AdaptationDisplacement: That's right, there was a book. There was a book called ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians''. People only familiar with the story from the movie might be shocked to find out that Perdita was called 'Missus' (while there ''was'' a Perdita in the novel, she was a different character), Cruella had a husband and a pet cat, and a subplot contained Perdita's lost love who went missing. The book had a sequel too, but both the animated and live action sequels were original stories.