Line #7 Fridge/CatsDontDance


1	'''FridgeBrilliance'''
2	* At the end it shows Darla working as a janitor, still as a child. Lax child labor laws, or is Darla ''OlderThanTheyLook''?
3	** Well, considering that many RealLife child stars [[TruthInTelevision pretend to be much younger than they are to keep working...]]
4	** Not to mention that when she mocks the Animal Jam, she's sounds more... adult like.
5	* In the last song, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now," Darla inadvertently makes their performance big AND loud--exactly what she was preaching to Danny a few scenes ago.
6	** Taking it a step further, Pudge's sax solo at the beginning is the "little bit jazzy" Darla was talking about.
7	* As pointed out multiple times, this film is a great big [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything metaphor]] for the hard times minorities faced when trying to get into film. This makes you wonder how minorities are treated in this universe. Then at the film premiere at the end, you can see plenty of black audience members. They're not being forced to sit in separate seats; they're sitting right alongside the white audience members with no trouble whatsoever. It's possible in this universe, the humans, being forced to live alongside anthropomorphic animals that are ''radically'' different from them, were able to get over their prejudice against their own species pretty quickly.
8	* It seems odd that Darla would still be associated with hearts during her VillainSong...but then again, where ''else'' have we seen an [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland evil, tyrannical girl who's heavily associated with hearts?]]
9	* Danny and Sawyer appearing as the main couple in Singing in the Rain and Beetlejuice at the end. [[OfficialCouple You know what]] [[TheBigDamnKiss this means...]]
10	* Why did the Hollywood Studios Bigwigs and Staff not fire/demote Darla Dimple until the end of the movie? Aside from her being their biggest star, it is possible the Hollywood Studios Bigwigs and Staff were afraid of angering her and getting hurt or possibly even killed by her butler Max. When Darla Dimple accidentally admits to her crimes, Max is already gone on the deflating Darla Dimple Balloon to who knows where, so since he is no longer around, the Hollywood Studio Bigwigs and Staff no longer fear being hurt or killed by Max.
11	* In-Universe, Darla's "Lil' Ark Angel" movie is pretty awful, especially when you know that she's really [[NiceCharacterMeanActor a terrible and cruel person]]. There are two perspectives that you could use to look at the in-universe movie, Christian and non-Christian, and either way, it's a complete failure:
12	** If you're not a Christian, the movie seems like a case of Christians being hypocrites, as Darla claims to be an angel despite how awful she really is.
13	** If you are Christian, you'll realize that the movie is a ''[[TheThemeParkVersion completely butchered]]'' version of the story of Noah, which is pretty messed up considering that, to Christians, it's more than just a story. Darla's claim that "The people, they were so bad / that the Lord made the rain come down" is a pretty gross understatement of the events that actually led to God allowing the flood.[[note]]The fact that God spared Noah and his family makes it clear that He did not want to just wipe out humanity in a blind rage, but the amount of corruption and evil in every other person gave Him little choice. [[https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/why-did-god-flood-the-world.html This source]] suggests that maybe the people were slowly destroying each other by their own evil acts, and God let the flood happen to give a quicker end to the people who were doomed anyway. Also, some claim that God did not necessarily "make" the flood, as in literally conjuring it up with the intent to kill, but rather that the flood was the natural result of God temporarily turning His back on the world.[[/note]] Not to mention that it completely omits Noah and his family and casts Darla, the "angel," as the one who builds the ark. Darla is taking a culturally and historically significant story and using it to boost her own ego.
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15	'''FridgeHorror'''
16	* Where exactly are [[EnfanteTerrible Darla's]] parents?
17	** Darla could probably be an orphan.
18	*** Or, as the above mentioned, she could really be older than what she looked and isn't living with her parents
19	*** Alternatively, Max could be her guardian hired by her parents, or (a la ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'') he's actually her father.
20	** [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries She fired them.]]
21	* As pointed out on the YMMV page, the flood Darla caused could have injured or killed several people, not to mention the damage costs to the studio.
22	** Maybe that's how she lost her money as well as her career. Perhaps she was forced to pay for the damage?
23	** It gets even more horrifying if you know that [[https://lostmediawiki.com/Noah%27s_Ark_(partially_lost_film_based_on_Bible_story;_1928) several extras were apparently drowned during the filming of a real-life Noah's Ark film in 1928.]]
24	** When Danny is confronted by the animals after it's found out that he enlisted Darla's help with the Noah's Ark thing, he tries to explain that Darla was trying to help then, only for Tillie to [[ArmorPiercingQuestion ask him]] in a [[WhatTheHellHero horrified and outraged whisper]], "And you BELIEVED her???" This quote alone implies that Danny isn't Darla's first sucker. It's no secret by this point that she's [[EnemyToAllLivingThings had it out]] for every one of the animal characters in the movie, something they're [[OpenSecret all very well aware of]]. And given the implications of Tillie asking that question to Danny, it's quite possible she's manipulated some of the other animals (if not ALL of them) the same way she played Danny like a fiddle and got them all in trouble with the studio previously in order to keep them from [[ItsAllAboutMe upstaging her]]. This gives you a pretty big eye-opener on how very cutthroat and dangerous Darla truly is as a spotlight-hogging spoiled brat.
25	* Before the ivory trade was banned, piano keys were made from elephant ivory. When Woolly plays the piano, he's pressing keys made from ''dead elephant tusks''. Or maybe in this universe, the poorest elephants are reduced to cutting off their own tusks and selling them to survive. Not much better.
26	** That might make some sense, considering how small Woolie's tusks are...is playing a piano with keys made ''from his own tusks?''
27	* What'll happen to Max once the Darla hot air balloon completely deflates? Will he fall to his death? Although… probably not. He seems pretty durable.
28	* It's all well and good that animals were able to break into larger film roles after the success of the show in the finale, but...the posters ''only'' show the animals who participated in that event. Were they the only ones who were memorable enough to make an impact on filmgoers' minds?[[note]]Most likely, they had the "star power" to immediately get top billing, plus they had been around for a while. So of course they would get the headline posters in the first bit of time, but still. Food for thought.[[/note]]
29	** A little bit of Fridge Brilliance might save it, though with some sadness that films the posters are from move farther and farther away from the type of performing you see them do in the movie. If you consider the movie to be a biopic in-universe, the posters are the equivalent of pictures shown of the real-life persons portrayed in the film, often helping tell what happened next in their lives. The posters tell us how the careers of Danny and his friends progress, not that no one else got their own roles.
30	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrjvifKXQy4 This video]] points out how unsettlingly pedophilic Creator/ShirleyTemple's films are [[ValuesDissonance by today's standards]]. Since Darla Dimple is a direct parody of Temple, could this be [[RapeLeadsToInsanity what turned her so psychotic]]?
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