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''Home on the Range'' is the 45th entry in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, released on April 2, 2004.

Chronologically the last [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_on_the_Range_(2004_film) traditionally animated feature]] of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon released until 2009's ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'', and third-to-last after that and ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011''.

[[TheWildWest In Ye Olde Wild West]], three cows named Maggie, Mrs. Calloway, and Grace live on a small, cozy farm named Patch of Heaven with other animals. When the farm is threatened with foreclosure, our heroines must act to save their home. They plan to achieve this by capturing a big-name cattle rustler named Alameda Slim for his bounty, which is the exact amount they need.

The cows are voiced by Creator/RoseanneBarr (Maggie), Creator/JudiDench (Mrs. Calloway), and Creator/JenniferTilly (Grace). Other notable voices include Creator/CubaGoodingJr, Creator/RandyQuaid and Creator/SteveBuscemi.

This film is not related to the Western mystery/comedy novel series ''Literature/HolmesOnTheRange''.

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!!''Home on the Range'' provides examples of:
* TheAce: Rico the Bounty Hunter, whom Buck idolizes and many people recognize as one of the greats.[[spoiler: [[TheMole Rico's eventually revealed to be a mercenary who's been working for Alameda Slim the entire time, covering up the BigBad's tracks so he doesn't get caught]]--when Buck discovers this (the hard way), he's absolutely heartbroken.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: The horse that Rico replaces Buck with is named Patrick, after his voice actor, Creator/PatrickWarburton.
* AnachronismStew: At one point, two of the Willy Brothers are seen playing with a paper cootie catcher. While taking place in 1889, the fortune telling device did not exist until the 1950s.
* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: While the cows are being led across a plain, they pass by a farm that's being auctioned. Grace asks what's going to happen to the cow that lived there; Maggie replies that she'll be okay.
-->'''Grace''': How do you know?
-->'''Maggie''': You're looking at her.
* AntiVillain: As Slim's bison steed, Junior is a VillainyFreeVillain--he's really only just doing his job and is shown to be very polite (such as complimenting Mrs. Calloway's hat in a rather flirtatious manner). In the end, he ends up coming to Pearl's farm to live happily ever after with her.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: It's a Disney film, this is inevitable.
* ArtShift: Only for the DVD features, such as the short "A Dairy Tale". All the characters are SuperDeformed and look like they came from a children's pop-up book, even though they still have their same voice actors.
* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: The movie got its PG rating from Maggie's line "Yeah, they're real. Quit staring!" accompanied by a closeup of her udders.
* BadCopIncompetentCop: Sheriff Sam Brown isn't exactly a competent sheriff. He spends most of his time lounging on his office porch. He is rather good friends with Pearl though and is genuinely remorseful about the farm's impending foreclosure. [[spoiler:When the cows expose Slim at the climax, Sheriff Sam promptly arrests the fiend.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: At the beginning of Slim’s VillainSong, one of the Willie Brothers tosses Slim an object that looks like a rifle and it seems that he will shoot a charging Maggie. It’s really his guitar, which he uses to hypnotize Maggie, Mrs. Calloway, and the herd of steers.
* BerserkButton:
** Mrs. Calloway is very protective of her hat. And losing it, even by accident, drives her to an anger frenzy attacking anyone in her way.
** Slim gets on an angry tirade and starts attacking his sidekicks just because their refer to his yodeling as "singing".
--->'''Slim''': ... My ''singing?'' Songbirds sing. Saloon gals sing. Little bitty snot-nosed children sing. I ''yodel''! And yodeling IS AN ''ART!''
* BicolorCowsSolidColorBulls: Of the cows, Maggie is brown-and-white, Mrs. Calloway is black-and-white, and Grace is yellow-and-brown. When they encounter bulls, all the bulls are brown.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Mrs. Calloway is mostly black; Maggie is a very reddish brown; Grace's color is a very light brown. Comparing these cows to humans, they'd respectively be a brunette, a redhead and a blonde (Grace is even troped as a Dumb Blonde, see Character page...).
* BreakTheHaughty: A very sad example for Buck when [[spoiler: it is revealed that his idol, Rico, is actually a mercenary who has been working for Slim all along. Seriously, as much of an obnoxious jerk he was to the cows, it's hard not to feel sorry for him.]]
-->'''Buck''': No, it can't be!
* BrightIsNotGood: Slim, whose psychedelic hypnosis offers a strong contrast to the usual dark themed Disney antagonist.
* BrutishBulls: Junior the buffalo, Slim's mount. He serves as a bouncer for Slim's base Echo Mine and proves to be the most durable of the villains as he falls down a mine shaft, weathers an explosion and crashes into a train and survives each of them without a scratch.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Mrs. Calloway's BerserkButton is weaponized by Maggie to break the cows out of a train car.
** During the Patch of Heaven song you can see a train in close proximity, and on Slim's map of property you can see the train tracks near the land. [[spoiler:Guess how the cows get back to the ranch in time.]]
* ChekhovsGunman:
** The rabbit seen at the very beginning later helps out the cows by showing them where Alameda Slim's hideout is.
** As the cows pass Maggie's old farm, we see a heavyset man known as Mr. O'Del buying it. After Slim and his gang return to their base after another rustling job, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Slim, in his disguise as Mr. O'Del, bought Maggie's farm]].
* ChekhovsSkill: Grace's tone deafness. [[spoiler:She is the only animal seen not mesmerized by Alameda's yodeling.]]
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheChewToy: The one-legged rabbit Lucky Jack, as hilariously demonstrated in the opening scene. Well, he did lose his lucky rabbit's foot...
* TheCon: Slim steals cattle from local ranchers, which is their main source of business. He then sells those cattle off and waits for the ranchers' farms to go bankrupt. He then goes in disguise to buy the bankrupted property. He has done this with many farms, with "Patch of Heaven" being his latest target.
* ContrivedCoincidence:
** Patch of Heaven is shaped the exact same way as one of the Willie Brothers' heads, and he always happens to sit in the same spot at their hideout in front of the map Slim uses to note the various properties he's acquired such that the farm is hidden from Slim's viewpoint, meaning that Slim consistently never noticed he'd yet to buy Patch of Heaven. Slim {{Lampshade}}s this upon finding out.
--> '''Slim''': Uh, Gil?\\
'''Gil''': Uh-huh?\\
'''Slim''': [[LetMeGetThisStraight Am I correct in assuming]] that each and every time we brought a herd back to this secret lair, you've managed to ''sit in the exact same spot, [[SuddenlyShouting BLOCKING THAT CHOICE-PIECE OF PROPERTY FROM MY VIEW?!]]''
-->'''Gil''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint This is my comfy place.]] [[DefensiveWhat What?]] (''Slim grabs him by the throat'')
** Slim's reward money is $750[[note]] Approximately $25,298 in 2024 [[/note]] the exact amount of money needed to pay off Pearl's debts and save the farm.
* CoolHorse: Buck. He's also the [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad fourth]] [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Disney Animated Canon]] [[WesternAnimation/TheAristocats horse]] to talk.
* DancePartyEnding: [[spoiler:The film's ending has the animals on Patch of Heaven (as well as additions like Buck, Lucky Jack, Junior, and the two bulls) dance to the song that introduced the farm, "Little Patch of Heaven".]]
* DisguisedInDrag: At the saloon the cows barge into, thinking it's the sheriff's office, they get into a fight with three call girls. One of the girls is thrown into the arms of another man and her wig falls off. The man "she" happened to be thrown into was his son. The son is equally confused.
* DisneyAcidSequence: The middle of Yodel-Adle-Eedle-Idle-Oo features one, with color-changing cows performing choreography in a black void as Slim directs them around.
* DisneyDeath: Junior presumably [[DisneyVillainDeath falls down a mine shaft]], but shows up later, trying to chase down the cows and Lucky Jack.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Rico turns out to be this to Slim.]]
* DroolHello: Lucky Jack is greeted by a coyote because of a rainstorm of drool.
* EndOfAnAge: This was the last Disney film to use the CAPS digital ink-and-paint system that had been in use since ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''. ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' used the more modern Toon Boom system.
* FalseUtopia: Pearl's farm is idyllic, charming, homey -- and extremely hard just to keep afloat. Pearl mentions that she's weathered blizzards and tornadoes and is constantly getting notices from the bank. This is compounded by the fact that she refuses to sell off any of her animals, whom she considers family.
* FeatherFingers: Downplayed. None are evident, and the cows almost never actually rear up on their back legs to use their hooves like hands. But their tail-tufts are apparently prehensile, to the point where Maggie can do sleight of hand with hers.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When we first meet Maggie after Slim manages to swipe her fellow cattle from her old home, her eyes look a little multi-colored and she looks dizzy inside her locked paddock before shaking them both off and there was some yodeling heard before the cattle was gone. This foreshadows that [[spoiler:Slim has hypnotic powers over cattle through [[MindControlMusic his yodelling]]]].
** When passing by the Dixon Ranch later on, the trio see it being sold to a heavy-set man named Yancy O'Dell. [[spoiler:Sharp-eyed viewers can see that he has Alameda Slim's characteristic red moustache and hair underneath his hat, and once Slim's modus operandi of using [[MindControlMusic yodelling to control cattle]] is revealed, it becomes clear that it's him in disguise]].
* HeelFaceTurn: Subverted as he wasn't really evil himself but rather a [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] {{jerkass}} who [[spoiler:was unknowingly working with someone in league with the BigBad]], but once Buck realizes that the guy he idolizes and had been working with [[spoiler:is a bad guy]], he helps the cows escape after they are captured.
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Grace. [[spoiler: This is what protects her from being hypnotized by Slim's MindControlMusic.]]
* HumiliationConga: This happens to Alameda Slim, especially at the climax.
--> '''Alameda Slim:''' ''(upon his defeat by barn animals)'' You think you've won?! It's ain't over till the fat man sings!
* ImmuneToMindControl: Grace, due to being tone-deaf, is the only cow who is not affected by Slim's MindControlMusic, and manages to snap her friends out so they can stop him.
* InformedLocation: Patch of Heaven is said to be a dairy farm. Before Maggie came along, it had exactly two cows.
* InkSuitActor:
** Steve Buscemi as Mr. Wesley.
** One might say the same about Roseanne Barr, Judi Dench, and Jennifer Tilly as actual cows.
** Randy Quaid as Alameda Slim; almost no difference.
** One can definitely see Cuba Gooding Jr. as a horse.
** Then there's former Governor Ann Richards as Annie, the owner of the saloon.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:Junior the Buffalo and Mrs. Calloway, at the end.]]
* InvoluntarySmileOfIncapacitation: PlayedForLaughs. All the cows who are susceptible to [[BigBad Slim's]] [[MindControlMusic hypnotic singing]] give a goofy grin when they fall under his control. Only Grace is unaffected.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Buck is initially annoying and selfish towards the cows, but close to the end, he joins their team and helps them escape.
** Also Mrs. Calloway, with her hotheadedness but still huge heart.
** And Jeb the grumpy goat, as proven in the climax. When Slim pulls out a pistol at the three bovines, Jeb is the first one to call for attack and he and the piggies launch several tin cans at Slim, knocking his pistol away.
** Maggie as well. She is a prize winning cow and can be headstrong and aggressive. She is also loyal to her new home and kind to her new family.
* KansasCityShuffle: In general, Alameda Slim's plan is this. He abducts all cattle from a farm and sells it on the black market. He then waits for said farm to go bankrupt after being deprived of its main source of income. He then swoops in, in disguise of course, and buys out the farm to take over the land.
* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Buck is a big fan of Rico, and is excited at the prospect of being his horse for the bounty hunt on Slim when first chosen.
* LaughablyEvil: Slim is commonly compared to [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Captain Hook]] in this regard by fans.
* LuckyRabbitsFoot: Lucky Jack is a jackrabbit with a peg-leg and incredibly bad luck, implying that someone took one of his feet, and with it all his good luck.
* LyricalDissonance: Alameda Slim's VillainSong, ''Yodel-Adle-Eedle-Idle-Oo'', starts off very ominously as the infamous cattle rustler shows up in the dark of the nighttime desert and exposits about how skilled and dangerous he is while seemingly unaware of Maggie's efforts to attack him, and for a moment it looks like he's about to shoot her with a rifle. [[MoodWhiplash And then he starts yodeling]], and the whole scene becomes more upbeat and colorful, even funny and loaded with self-deprecation about his IronicNickname.
* MaliciousMisnaming: Slim keeps referring Mr. Wesley as "Mr. Weasley" to annoy him.
* MindControlEyes: The cows get these when affected by Slim's MindControlMusic.
* MindControlMusic: Slim uses hypnotic yodeling to mind control cattle.
* NoSell: Slim's hypnotic yodeling has no effect on Grace, because she’s not on "[[HollywoodToneDeaf perfect pitch]]" like the rest of the cattle. It especially helps since she's the only one that doesn’t turn [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife multicolored]] during the [[DisneyAcidSequence Disney-acid]] VillainSong.
* PaperThinDisguise: Alameda Slim disguising himself as Yancy O'Del.
* ParentalBonus: Right in the first scene, when Maggie is introduced, the camera centers on her udders while she says to the viewer:
--> '''Maggie:''' Yeah, [[BigBreastPride they're real]]. Quit [[MyEyesAreUpHere staring]].
* PoliticianGuestStar: Ann Richards, then the Governor of Texas, portrayed Annie, the saloon owner.
* PowerTrio: Of the three cows, Maggie is Ego, Mrs. Calloway is Superego, and Grace is Id.
* PriceOnTheirHead: Alameda Slim has a $750 bounty on him, which is exactly enough money to save Patch of Heaven.
* RandomizedTitleScreen: The DVD menu has three different openings each time you start the disc.
* RealIsBrown: At least compared with most Disney cartoons. It takes place somewhere "West of Nebraska", so most of the scenery is made up of rocks, dirt, and sand.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mrs. Calloway seems to hold this position on Patch of Heaven. When Jeb and the piggies get into a dispute over the former taking a can from the latter and it escalates to both parties getting into a scuffle, Mrs. Calloway chastises the piggies for attacking Jeb yet allows them to have the can, pointing out that Jeb already has more than enough cans already.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The baby animals, especially the chicks.
* RightBehindMe: After fooling Rico's horse into running away, Buck remarks that he "must be takin' stupid lessons" from Slim's buffalo, Junior. Guess where we pan to after that statement...
* SarcasmBlind: Somewhat {{subverted}}; Maggie can completely understand Calloway's sarcasm, but when the former gets the idea of bringing Slim in to save the farm, she’s too eager about her idea to take Calloway's sarcastic remark seriously.
-->'''Maggie''': I got it! Why don't we go nab that Alameda Slim and use the reward money to save the farm?\\
'''Mrs. Calloway''': Oh, that is a ''sensible'' idea.\\
'''Maggie''': I knew you'd love it!\\
'''Mrs. Calloway''': [[LampshadeHanging Don't they have sarcasm where you come from?]]
* SceneryPorn: Say whatever you want about the story or the characters, but this film has some pretty impressive scenery. The use of faceting makes for some interesting lighting choices, and the color palette is just lovely.
* ShoutOut:
** At one point, Maggie refers to Buck as [[WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron "Stallion of the]] [[TakeThat Ci-MORON"]]
** "[[Film/LittleCaesar Mother of Mercy.]] Is this the end of [[spoiler: Rico]]?"
** Alameda Slim sells his stolen cattle to a guy named Wesley, but insists on calling him ''[[Literature/HarryPotter "Weasley"]]''.
** Slim's sequined outfit and singing is a reference to Music/RoyRogers, the Singing Cowboy.
** During Slim's villain song, one of the tunes he yodels is the [[Radio/TheLoneRanger The William Tell Overture]]. In fact, a lot of Slim's yodeling borrows tunes from other music, including from Wagner and Tchaikovsky's ''1812 Overture''.
* ShutUpHannibal: A near-literal example: when Slim is outed, he's not about to accept defeat and tries to yodel again to get the upper hand, but Grace kicks a cowbell into his mouth, silencing him for good.
* StockScream: Junior the bison lets out a Goofy holler after the cows accidentally push him down the mine shaft.
-->'''Grace''': Sorry!
* ThemeNaming: The Willie bros are named Bill (blue hat and blue bandanna), Phil (red hat and red bandanna) and Gil (green hat and green bandanna).
* TitleDrop: The very first spoken words of the movie, actually. Maggie opens with the movie's title "Home on the range..." to then explain she's between homes right now.
* VillainSong: ''"Yodel-Adle-Eedle-Idle-Oo"'' starts out as a typical villain song where the villain [[CardCarryingVillain brags about how mean he is]], but then the [[MindControlMusic yodeling]] starts, turning the scene into a goofy DisneyAcidSequence.
* WeakBossStrongUnderlings: Pearl Gesner has been a farmer her whole life, so she's rather fit for an old lady. Proof of this is that she has run a farm all on her own, which involves doing heavy labor such as raising animals and harvesting crops. She still manages to fall under this trope because, well, she owns a trio of very determined and loyal cows. Cows are way stronger than any human being.
* TheWildWest: The movie takes place out west, focusing on farm life and cattle rustling as the main issue.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain:
** Maggie's beloved home, the Dixon Ranch, was raided by Slim, leaving her the only remaining cow. She's sold to Patch of Heaven at the beginning of the film, along with all the issues one might expect to arise from this.
** This also applies to Lucky Jack, who, as he says, once lived in Echo Mine along with many other jackrabbits for generations, until Slim arrived and kicked 'em out.
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